The first round of arrows wiped out thousands of skeleton soldiers on the spot.

But this number is simply an insignificant number for more than 300,000 undead cannon fodder. It can even be said that it is simply a number that can be ignored, especially since these skeletons that were shattered into bone fragments on the spot are just the most ordinary skeleton warriors.

Although there is a more detailed division of skeleton warriors, they can basically be classified into three types: skeleton swordsmen with swords, skeleton spearmen with spears, and skeleton archers with bows and arrows, which can be summarized into three types: close, medium, and long-range. Because it is a resurrected undead in a unified form, it has a relatively consistent configuration in body size and weapons, and it is rare that there will be too special situations, after all, it is only a second-order undead creature, and it is not worth the waste of those necromancers.

However, at this time, only skeleton swordsmen and skeleton archers appeared on the battlefield, perhaps because they knew that the city was going to be attacked, so they did not see skeleton spearmen.

In the field, the lethality of spearmen is much higher than that of swordsmen, but in siege warfare, unless you have already entered the battle for the occupation of the city walls, the pikemen are not suitable for the environment of siege warfare.

After the first round of overlay blows from the rain of arrows, it was not long before more undead creatures continued to charge on the corpses of their companions.

And this time, it was the real beginning of the war.

The undead army stretched out over the length of the entire fortress wall, but unlike the walls, they were much thicker. And after suffering the loss of the first wave of arrow-covered blows, the Undead Vanguard underwent some subtle changes - this change did not seem to be anything special, but it was no longer the Skeleton Swordsman who rushed to the forefront. Rather, it's a lower-tier skeleton soldier.

This is a first-order skeleton creature with a somewhat gray and yellowish body skeleton. It's like a serious calcium deficiency, and there are even cracks in some places. Even the weapons in his hands were rusty, and it looked like he couldn't cut people at all. But on the other hand, they have a shield that other undead creatures don't have, and this log shield that doesn't even have iron may not be able to block a powerful arrow shot from the steel-winged soldiers, but it is enough to weaken the power of the arrow-covered blow.

"Leave those skeleton soldiers alone!" Although Abazar had not yet entered the Golden Realm, he was no longer the stunned young man he had been, and he could see at a glance that these skeleton soldiers were not any threat at all, if it weren't for the position of the undead creatures of the skeleton system. He didn't even want to waste his precious arrows on those skeleton warriors.

"Nope." This time, it was Lévy who spoke out against it.

He returned the bow and arrow in his hand to the abazar and explained, "In other places, we may be able to ignore these skeleton soldiers, but not in the city defense. Because these guys are the siege ladders of the undead army, once these guys are allowed to build a road against the city wall, those skeleton cavalry behind can make a charge. ”

"Charge?" Abaza was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "Then let them come." ”

And then. The entire steel-winged soldiers laughed.

Lévi was a newcomer to the Void Principality, so he didn't know that Iron Wing's most famous feats that year were to block the charge of one of the most famous cavalry regiments in the Kingdom of Dabion. Perhaps the other enemies will make the steel wings throw the rat into the trap, but only the cavalry charge that has changed the color of countless infantry armies. But it's the last thing they need to worry about.

Lévy didn't understand why these people were smiling so heartily.

Alfred stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "Steel wings, called steel. You think it's just nice to say? The last thing they are afraid of in this army is to charge. Both cavalry and knights. None of them make any difference. ”

While Alfred and Levi were talking, the steel-winged archers had already fired two more rounds of arrows. But after all, the skeleton soldiers were not completely spared. Instead, they began to limit the pace of their attacks in a targeted manner, but the main force of the attack was still slightly rear, and those undead creatures were the real main force of this vanguard army.

"Two-thirds of the benchmark!" A scout issued a warning.

The vanguard of the army of the undead is already close to the position of two-thirds of the benchmark.

"The second and third columns of the war bow troops alternately cover and shoot!"

With a flick of his right hand, the archers standing in the second column no longer fired at full strength, but began to alternate with the archers in the third column to cover and strike the undead creatures that were close to the second line. Only the archers who stood at the forefront still maintained a continuous shooting at full force against the farthest undead creatures, but because the second column, which was supposed to shoot alternately, gave up the farthest shots, it was naturally inferior to the previous in terms of combat efficiency.

But this time, all the steel-winged archers standing on the city walls began to shoot, covering a wider striking surface, and the threat to the undead army naturally increased a lot. Almost every moment, thousands of undead were struck into bone fragments by powerful arrows, and most of them were directly shot through their skulls by an arrow, extinguishing the soul fire.

But even so, for this army of the undead, it is still completely impossible to shake it.

And as more undead troops poured into the battle line, the skeleton archers began to appear in the sight of the steelwinged soldiers.

But in the face of these skeleton archers, no one took them seriously.

The Void Principality may not be particularly familiar with the intelligence of the undead, but it still has some understanding of the most conventional knowledge of the undead: skeleton archers, second-order undead creatures, with an effective shooting distance of less than 100 meters, and the best killing distance is between 30 meters and 60 meters. In other words, the so-called skeleton archers are not much more threatening than a hunter with a hunting bow.

And standing on the wall of the city at a height of thirty meters, it is the defender of the city, and the skeleton archers are even three hundred meters away from the city wall. In the eyes of the steel-winged archers, these skeleton archers are no different from living targets. So it's almost tacit. The arrows of all the Iron Feather War Archers avoided these skeleton archers. Because all the Void Barbarians, including the Abbazar, thought it was the problem of the commander of the undead army, and they actually put the skeleton archers to use so quickly.

If the undead army were to attack the city walls, and then let these skeleton archers advance under the walls, then it might pose a certain threat to the defenders.

As for now?

No one bothered at all.

The distance between two-thirds of the pole and the half-chord pole is only about 100 meters.

Therefore, when the army of the undead crossed two-thirds of the benchmark, it naturally quickly advanced the front to the position of the half-string benchmark, which was only about two hundred meters away from the city wall. If it's a real siege, then the attacker will generally start to rush forward desperately after reaching this position. Then try to start climbing the walls and fighting the defenders - all who have fought the battle well know that the closer you get to the walls, especially at the last hundred meters, the bloodier and more tragic the battle between the two sides will be.

But when facing the army of unconscious undead, the situation naturally seems extremely weird.

None of the undead creatures made any final frantic charges, but continued to advance slowly at their tepid pace. Naturally, the defenders of Iron Wings would be eager for the undead army to continue doing so, as they had more time to shoot. This may not actually wipe out the besieging undead creatures, but it can at least reduce the number of these undead armies to some extent.

In the face of these undead armies that had already entered the half-string benchmark, Abazar did not say anything. Just made a tactical gesture.

Soon, several heralds began waving the command flag.

The next moment, the other third of the steel-winged soldiers who did not climb the city wall also began to take off their bows and arrows. Then take the arrow. With a single wave of the command banner, all the Void Barbarians immediately released their right hands and threw the arrows from their bows.

Dense arrows cut a parabola from inside the fortress. Then shoot at all the armies of the undead who cross the half-string bar. Under the dual force, the undead soldiers were soon dealt a much more deadly blow than on the walls of the fortress - albeit with much less coverage in this rain of arrows. Even the accuracy is much worse, but in terms of penetration. But it was far beyond the attack of the defenders of the city walls.

The continuous rain of arrows, under normal circumstances, would have been enough to bring the enemy's morale to the brink of collapse. Even if it is an ordinary war of death, or a war of invasion of corpses, it is enough to let the undead commander know how difficult the fortress is, and it is definitely not so easy for a single cannon fodder army to be able to swallow it, and the best option is to retreat and reformulate the strategy: or attack in another place, or mobilize the sequence of the undead regular army.

However, the cannon fodder army in front of him seemed to not understand the truth of war at all, and it was still just an attack, completely ignoring the casualties and consequences.

In just over ten minutes, from the beginning of the advance of the undead army's front to the present, although the skeleton troops at the forefront are only a hundred meters away from the city wall, the casualties of this undead cannon fodder army have also increased from thousands of skeletons at the beginning to more than 30,000 injuries now.

Even the entire Sea of Skulls could feel its obvious weakening and reduction.

"That's not right." William's brow furrowed slightly.

"The cannon fodder of the undead army, it is impossible to be so insanely aggressive." Lévi also found a problem, "We have used up tens of thousands of arrows, and even if we can only solve one skeleton for every three arrows, the enemy army will at least lose more than 30,000 casualties." ”

"This is not an ordinary temptation, but a drain on our strategic supplies!" William said in a deep voice, "If that's the case......

"Whoosh!"

A sharp arrow made from the polished arm bones suddenly struck at William!

A silver light suddenly lit up in the air—Levi reacted immediately, swinging his sword to intercept the arrow.

But the next moment, the sharp sound of breaking the air sounded one after another.

In an instant, the steel-winged soldiers at the forefront quickly fell like wheat that had been harvested. Many of the more unlucky ones were planted directly from the 30-meter-high city wall to the ground; Most of the soldiers were directly hit in vital parts, such as throats, eyes, etc., and only a very small number of steel-winged soldiers were lucky enough to escape this sudden disaster. It was only a minor injury.

"Bone archers!" Lay defended William and quickly retreated to the rear.

"Shield!" And Abaza's voice also sounded at the same time as Levi's shouting.

There was no hesitation. Therefore, the steel-winged soldier standing at the forefront directly gave up and continued shooting, and then quickly manipulated the impact shield next to him. Protected in front of him. This unhesitating response to the order saved the steel-winged soldiers from the calamity that followed—a clanging collision that rang out at a speed not inferior to the rain of arrows that preceded the steelwings.

"Damn it!" The Abbazar let out an exasperated roar, "When did the undead become so cunning!" Those skeleton archers are actually hidden among the skeleton archers, and there must be at least 20,000 of them! ”

If the Skeleton Archer is just the most common kind of archer in the human army, then the Skeleton Archer can be regarded as a strong archer for the Archer class upgrade, whether in terms of shooting power, penetration or range, the Skeleton Archer is far stronger than the Skeleton Archer. This undead creature that has reached the fourth order. They already have a shooting range of more than 200 meters, and the arrows they use are specially crafted bone arrows, which allows them to enjoy a certain amount of damage bonus.

If William hadn't had Levy by his side just now, it was likely that that wave of conspiracy attacks would have deprived the entire fortress of its supreme commander.

However, the current situation is not too favorable for the steel wings.

More than 20,000, perhaps more, skeleton archers, began to launch a fierce counterattack when they reached the half-string pole position two hundred meters from the fortress walls. And in the midst of this counterattack, they did not stop. Instead, they continued to advance towards the front of the line, and as these skeleton archers advanced, their attacks became more and more aggressive, and it could even be said that they completely suppressed the steel winged fire on the city walls.

They weren't afraid to trade lives with the Iron Winged Soldiers. But the Abazar could not give such a brainless order that was essentially an act of death. He could only take advantage of the slight pause in the momentum of these skeleton archers, and ordered the second and third columns of war archers to launch a counterattack. Although he had long known that they simply could not stop the advance of this army of the undead, regardless of losses. But when they were too suppressed to slow down the undead's progress, the Bazaar was still very angry.

And while the skeleton archers launched a counterattack. It also seems to be a signal of attack for the entire army of the undead.

The skeleton mage, who had stayed in the distance at all at all, finally began to move forward again at this time. Every time their staff landed on the ground. There would be a black ball of light shooting out of the ground in front of them, and then soon, the skeletons that were not very badly damaged would be reassembled again.

Although this spell was very flawed, and it could only turn these skeletons into the lowest skeleton soldiers, everyone on the city wall still felt a pang of depression when they saw these skeletons that had been destroyed once before rise up again.

Alfred clenched the battle axe in his hand, and his face was very gloomy: "These damn bone scum. …… William, let me strike! ”

"To die?" William sneered mercilessly, "At this scale, even if you and Clov and the Abazaar all rush up, it won't help." The enemy is just forcing us out of the city, why should we be satisfied with the other side's tactics? No matter how many of these skeletons there are, they can't play any battlefield role at all, and if they really attack the city wall, they will be shattered with a casual shot, so they are just consumables for materials. ”

"Summoning skeleton soldiers in front of the battle is only to weaken our confidence and morale." Lévy also opened his mouth to add that when it comes to dealing with the undead army, Lévy from Floating Island can definitely be regarded as a professional professional, "They are just materials used to build ladder paths." …… The real trouble is still those skeleton mages. I bet there's a bone mage mixed in there. ”

"Abaza, order all the steel wings, except for the reserves to maintain a covering strike, the warbow troops on the city walls do not care about the other undead, they want to build a ladder and let them build it, as long as you find the opportunity, you can give the other party's skeleton mage a hard blow." William said lightly, there was not the slightest eagerness on his face, some were just calm and calm, if it weren't for the blush on his face that hadn't completely subsided, I'm afraid no one would have believed that he was still in a state of excitement now, "Since these skeleton mages dare to enter our attack range, then there is no need to be polite to them." ”

"I see!" There was a little excitement in Abaza's voice.

He couldn't figure out much, but he knew that skeleton warriors and skeleton soldiers were worthless, and that it would be worth a lot if he could shoot arrows at those damn skeleton mages. However, for the bone archers who have killed many of their brothers, if there is a chance, he does not intend to let it go.

Soon, Abazar found an opportunity to shoot a skeleton mage who was too far forward on the spot.

This immediately caused a flurry in the entire group of skeleton mages, and many skeleton mages retreated one after another, not daring to step forward again. And such a move undoubtedly annoyed those skeleton archers, and their attacks suddenly became more ferocious.

But this time, no one was worried, but let out a burst of laughter.

The morale, which had been slightly low, was quickly restored again.

However, the skeleton soldiers who rushed to the front finally arrived under the city walls. (To be continued.) )