Chapter 813: The Christmas War

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The war never ends.

For the sun never sets, Christmas should be regarded as the most important holiday in this country every year, on December 24 every year, it is the soldiers of the Sun Never Setting Empire, whether it is on the battlefield or in the barracks, whether it is the pure sun never sets people, or the aborigines of the king continent who surrender to the Sun Never Set Empire, will symbolically celebrate.

Even last year, when the Maginot War began, the logistics department of the military department squeezed out some money from the small amount of money, so that the soldiers of the empire on which the sun never set could have a good meal on that day.

But the people of the empire did not seem to know that the army stationed on the Red Coast, hundreds of kilometers farther away than the New Delhi peninsula, at the northwestern tip of the empire's territory, hundreds of kilometers farther away than the New Delhi peninsula, was stationed in the farthest reaches of the empire's territory, with the richest minerals and the largest number of slaves, and that there was no time for Christmas.

The tall yellow city walls, the Arabic architecture of the arrow tower standing under the blood-colored sky, and countless Arabic civil buildings, including even several huge mosques, here, once just a giant wooden fort made of rubble and wood, when now, this giant city called Antioch by the local Arab blood of the Sun does not set, in fact, in the eyes of the people who know this place, it has the strength to be called New London.

Since the system brought Arabs into this world, although Sun Lin is not worried, even now, about what chaos these people with a population of less than one million will cause in the empire, after all, there are some irreconcilable factors between Christianity and Islam, and if one is not handled well, there will be many problems.

And Sun Lin obviously won't give up the powerful fighting race of Arabia: don't underestimate these warriors who are not as physical as the imperial orcs. These people who believed in Allah were in some ways more terrifying than the Templars, who prayed before battle and then swung their swords into the enemy's army. And these warriors of Allah are madmen who join the battle with the Bible in their right hand and a scimitar in their left hand, even the warriors of Xiyi have to admit it. Compared to the warriors of Xiyi, these Arabs are real madmen.

Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Sun Lin summoned the leader of the Arabs, the man known as Saladin, to his death, and gave him the right to go to the depths of the ancient continent to explore the territory, in fact, it means that after the empire gave this Saladin the right to explore, it treated him as if it were those alien races within the empire.

Sun Lin will provide funds and supplies, and at the same time transfer all the territories controlled by the empire around the Red Fortress to Saladin, who will lead the Arabs within the empire to take root in the Red Fortress. Then with the funds and materials given by the empire, he raised his own army, and expanded with the red fortress as the core, while capturing the indigenous orcs living in the ancient continent, and at the same time finding the mineral veins hidden along the coast of the red fortress for the empire.

The agreement between Sun Lin and Saladin had been signed several years earlier, and by that time, the Arabs outside the Twin Forts on the New Delhi Peninsula had moved to the Red Fortress on Imperial transports, forming the mega-city that is now built along the coast.

Of course, despite being called a city, the city is even stronger in terms of defense than many fortresses in the empire.

Although the Empire has sold many obsolete goods to other forces to make money in the process of constantly updating its equipment, a small number of freshly produced and well-made war equipment have been shipped to the Red Fortress. Assigned to the Arab warriors, even the Empire's weapons research department when testing new types of weapons, they were pulled to the side of the Red Fortress for testing, as for the test subjects. For the Crimson Fortress, there will never be a shortage of test subjects for new weapons and equipment.

"Hoku! Hoku! Hoku! Hoku" On the battlefield where the yellow sand flies, the battle cry belonging to the orc tribe resounded throughout the sky here, and it was directly in front of the orcs. It is a huge city wall, and tens of thousands of silver-armored and white-clothed soldiers standing on the city wall.

Ninety percent of these scimitar-wielding crossbow warriors were covered in heavy, tough Arabian armor. The inside of the body is wearing a white cloth coat and a layer of fish scale armor with a layer of defensive weapons, and no one can know whether these guys wrapped in layers of armor are people or what. But there was only one thing, even for the orcs standing outside the walls, and that was when the eyes of these silver-armored warriors glowed bloodthirsty, and that was when they opened the killing ring.

"Warriors! Kill all these devils who enslave us, and our ancestors will protect us in war! "With the encouragement of several orc patriarchs, the orc army, which may have numbered 100,000, pressed forward like a tidal wave, carrying all kinds of war equipment cobbled together by goblins, and even among these conventional war equipment, in addition to siege engines and ladders, there were hundreds of long-range weapons of different shapes.

The orcs don't have the ability to line up their forces, but the problem is that they are obviously several times more numerous than the Arab warriors in the city, and the orcs besieging the city are not just orcs.

At the forefront of the huge army of orcs, there are tens of thousands of green-skinned humanoids with short stature, these guys called goblins are even stronger than the ratmen, and they only use some sharpened stone rods and slings, but these guys are cheaper than the orcs, and they are intellectually higher than the ratmen and can use some simple equipment, so the orcs, who are the mainstream of the orc army, sent some overseers to drive these goblins to the forefront of the orcs to set up siege equipment.

And after the goblin are all kinds of orcs, but basically these orcs are either trolls or strong orcs, and there are a small number of ogres, of course, a small number of these huge ogres are relative to the orc side, in addition, there are many beasts enslaved by the orc tribe, dog beasts, Kodo beasts, etc. are relatively common, and even in the team of orcs, there are some giant monsters with huge statures, which are a bit similar to the Behemoths secretly cultivated within the empire but are obviously much smaller.

"Shoot the arrows!" In the face of the tide of orcs, the Arab warriors from Antioch seemed very calm, or you can think that for the army of the empire on which the sun never sets, facing an army that is several times larger than their own can be said to be a matter of course, at this time, whether it is a warrior with a compound bow or a warrior with a Mo forging crossbow, in the sound of the centurion of his own team, they have shot a rain of arrows that bring death to the incoming enemy.

On the huge arrow tower, the long-barreled artillery and all kinds of war equipment that have already been erected have already been activated, and the loaders put a black cannonball capable of exploding into the improved second gun, and then fire it into the orc army, and at the same time, behind the city wall, the temporary counterweight trebuchet that has been eliminated in the regular army of the sun never sets is also joining the battle by constantly throwing ignited fireballs, and as for the tall city wall, hundreds of scorpion crossbows have already been erected.

From the very beginning of the battle, the Antiochus side did not think of staying behind, and almost as soon as the goblins and orcs rushed into range of the war machines and crossbowmen, the Arab warriors defending the city met the invading enemy with the most saturated long-range firepower they could do.

And as the goblins moved under the walls with siege engines, hot oil and flaming Greek fire flew down on the dwarf, ugly subhumanoid creatures under the manipulation of Arab warriors.

Goblins were afraid of the orc Overseers who drove them away with whips and rattans, but even the Orc Overseers who drove them turned around and ran away? The result was self-evident, when the orc overseers at the forefront of the orc army turned to run, the weak goblins immediately turned around and ran, and they didn't know where they had been thrown away.

However, when they turned around, they were not met by orc warriors who followed them, but by those thick-skinned war beasts and countless boulders that fell rapidly from the sky.

"Roar!" The huge walls may be an unclimbable barrier in front of orcs and goblins, but not for those war behemoths that are already more than 3 meters tall, and not for the trolls and ogres in the orc ranks, these guys with thick skin and strong wound healing, although the falling stones can hurt them, but only injuries.

As for the self-shearling stones flying from behind, sorry the level of irresponsibility of goblin products is known throughout the world.

In the case of trolls constantly climbing the city wall, and constantly demolishing the city wall with ogres and boulders, although the warriors defending the city want to kill these guys in front of them, but the sharp weapon in their hands is not omnipotent, and the compound bow cannot effectively kill and injure the trolls.

Soon, without the siege equipment, thousands of trolls climbed the city wall one after another after paying the price of a thousand people, and the entire city wall defense system was also knocked by flying stones and ogres, there were several gaps, and dozens of arrow towers became ruins.

Outside the city, the orc warriors rushed to the exposed gap in front of them amid cheers, and inside the city, where the orc warriors could not see, groups of silver-armored warriors armed with Greek jets began to assemble in the streets, and brutal street fighting was about to break out. (To be continued......)