A skeleton stood against the walls of the fortress, its whole body bent against the wall, and then raised its shield against its skull. Immediately afterward, a very unique bony material erupted from its body and stuck to the walls around the walls, forming a solid bony layer that looked like bones stuck to the walls.

Immediately after, a second and third skeletons quickly followed.

They were very close to the first, and the log shields in their hands were stacked on top of each other to avoid revealing gaps.

As more and more skeleton soldiers approached the wall, a wooden shield staircase was quickly erected along the edge of the wall.

And as more and more skeleton soldiers poured into the city walls, the scale of the staircase became faster and faster. And with the gradual formation of the first ladder, more skeletons began to be satisfied with the construction of the first ladder, but began to build the second ladder.

A skeleton soldier jumped onto a wooden shield, repeated the previous action and pressed his body against the wall, and then began to stick to the wall. However, compared to the "staircase" at the bottom, the height of the second skeleton is obviously not high, and it seems to be squatting, but its sturdiness is not much inferior.

And as the second layer of stairs gradually formed, the new batch of skeleton soldiers who rushed over no longer climbed to the position of the third layer, but approached the position of the first layer, and then pierced the rusty sword in their hands through the body of the first skeleton soldier, directly following the entire arm through the ribs. The wooden shield in their hands was placed on the wooden shield in front of them, not simply on top of it, so that the wooden shields of the second row of skeletons would not create a gap because of this.

As the two skeleton soldiers in front and back approached, some kind of powdery substance secreted by the bones on their bodies quickly stuck together.

The area of the stairs was enlarged.

The person standing on the city wall can see this scene clearly almost as soon as he lowers his head slightly.

This is the art of war that belongs to the undead clan - the ladder of bones.

With the expansion of the stepped area. Soon new skeletons climbed to the position of the third level, and then began to build the staircase of the third level.

In this way, every time a floor is erected, the staircase below will immediately follow suit.

It was only ten minutes, and a white bone staircase with a height of six stories had been erected under the entire fortress wall. The range that stretches out is as far as 20 to 30 meters. And this is not the end, there is still a steady stream of skeleton soldiers quickly charging towards the city wall. The skeleton archers were still hiding in the formation of skeleton archers and shooting those white bone arrows at the city wall, but those skeleton mages did not dare to step forward at this moment because one of them was accidentally killed.

Compared to those that can be sacrificed and consumed, even if the skeleton mage is only of the third order, it is very difficult to summon materials - not all of the undead's summoning magic can summon a skeleton mage, and a certain auxiliary material must be required, and the deceased must have a certain magical talent during his lifetime.

Otherwise, even if it's an apprentice magician, or a magician who has already stepped into the Silver Realm. It can only be ordinary skeletons or corpses.

This vanguard force was able to gather so many skeleton mages, and even many bone mages among them, probably already accounted for a quarter of the entire southern undead army. And such a huge scale, just used as cannon fodder consumption, is simply an unbelievable thing. If it is combined with the troops of the undead regular army sequence, it is enough to destroy the entire first-class kingdom.

No one knows what these undead creatures are thinking.

The only one who can know. It is that the speed of building the white bone ladder is getting faster and faster, and it only relies on less than 20,000 steel wings - although there are 50,000 regular army formations with steel wings. But there were less than 20,000 people who specialized in the art of bow shooting, and it was okay for the rest of the people or cameo archers to be responsible for blind shooting of covering blows, but it was obviously impossible to shoot accurately - it was impossible to control the speed at which the ladder could be built.

"They've picked up speed." Abazar wiped the blood from the left side of his face.

He had just leaned out a little because he was going to pay attention to the speed of the construction of the White Bone Cloud Ladder. As a result, a stray arrow grazed his cheek, leaving a bloody mark. Although the injury was not very serious, the white bone arrow shot by the bone archer carried a certain trace amount of toxin, and despite the emergency treatment measures, Abazar still felt some numbness in his cheeks.

"Keep losing like this. They're going to use the skeletal class. Levi glanced through the gap in the blast shield before speaking, "Are we just going to let them build the Bone Staircase?" ”

All eyes were on William.

saw a fascinated smile appear on William's face again: "Let it go? How could it be. …… It's just that it hasn't had much effect yet, so let's wait. Let the main force of the war bow force be put on those archers, whether it is bones or skeletons, all of them will be volleyed for me. ”

Although Abazar didn't understand why, he nodded anyway and began to order.

Soon, the center of gravity of the counterattack from the steel wings was adjusted. Originally, the bow and arrow shooting of the war bow troops was to find the skeleton archers as much as possible, and then several people next to them worked together to solve it directly with a powerful shot, but now, because they no longer care about which bone archers are among the pile of skeleton archers, the dense rain of arrows covered the blows, and soon made these skeleton archers suffer.

For a while, the undead army that had already suppressed the rain of arrows at the head of the city was suddenly suppressed again.

But what everyone didn't expect was that after this group of undead in charge of long-range combat were suppressed from attacking, even the construction speed of the ladder with white bones was much slower. In the previous ten minutes, a six-story staircase was built, but after more than twenty minutes, only two floors were built again.

Alyssa's eyes lit up, and she looked at William with a radiant look.

"This is, suppression tactics, right?" Levi asked in a whisper.

"Yes." Alyssa nodded, "And it's a very precise strategic propulsion suppression." …… I've been observing the key nodes in the construction of the opponent's Bone Ladder before, and I originally thought that the key should be those skeleton mages, as long as they can limit their summoning speed. The construction speed of this bone ladder will be slowed down, but I didn't expect that the most critical place is not here. ”

Levi nodded, already understanding what was going on.

But Abazar didn't understand, touched his head, and asked very humbly: "Your Highness Levi, why is this?" ”

A powerhouse of the Legendary Realm. They are all referred to as His Highness to distinguish the huge gap between the Sanctuary and the Legendary.

Of course, this is also because they are not very familiar with each other.

Like Rena and Shephaneo, although they are also true legendary powerhouses, no one generally calls them His Highness. Dwight's group of people from the cavalry regiment still called them Commander and Divine Envoy or Holy Maiden, while Alfred and other old men called them Rena and Shephanian.

"Because of the offensive." Lévy spoke, "The previous offensive was suppressed, so those skeleton soldiers could charge without fear. But now the opponent's offensive is being suppressed by us. As a result, they take more damage. However, those skeleton mages did not dare to continue to move forward, so once the skeleton soldiers at the front of the battle line were lost, they could not continue to summon because of the cast distance. ”

"To put it simply, it's the trend of the times." Alyssa added.

Abaza nodded as if he didn't understand, he really didn't understand the key to this, but it didn't matter. As the smartest and quickest of the Void Barbarian Clan, Abazar has always loved to think, so when he has free time, he will go back and think about the key to this.

"So. Can we hold on? Abazar asked again.

"I can't hold it." This time, it was Alfred who answered the question. Even he could see the crux of the matter clearly.

Maybe the speed of building the Bone Ladder is limited now, but it's only a limit. The number of 300,000 undead troops is not a joke, maybe others don't know, but Alfred, as a senior commander, is very clear, the current strategic reserves in the fortress are not particularly sufficient, although the rear has been urgently mobilized and transported. However, before these logistics troops actually arrived, there were only about 500,000 steel arrows in the fortress after all, which was still the number of materials counted after the gathering of many troops.

However, war is not a numbers game, it is impossible to say that a single steel arrow can solve a skeleton, and it also has to take into account the physical exertion and muscle strain of soldiers. A combination of factors. Even if these 500,000 steel arrows can really be consumed in this battle, as long as they can destroy 100,000 skeletons, it can already be regarded as a major victory.

"Ten floors." In just such a moment of communication, the construction speed of the White Bone Cloud Ladder suddenly became much faster.

After more than an hour of continuous shooting, no matter how high the endurance of the Void Barbarians was, the strain on the arm muscles was almost reaching the limit. The fingers of many Void Barbarians were even bloodstained by the bowstring, and the forearms of a larger part of the Void Barbarians were already swollen and red.

"When will Heatley's priestly troops arrive?" William also saw a problem.

"I guess there will be at least a week or more to go." Alfred replied, "But when the war broke out, Dwight had already led the Crimson Knights out of the city to meet them, and it is estimated that the travel time can be shortened to about three days." ”

"Can't wait." William shook his head, "Abaza, let the steel wings stop firing, if you continue to fight like this, your army will be completely destroyed." ”

Abazar gritted his teeth, his face a little ugly: "Stop shooting!" ”

"Master William, we can still hold on!" A steel-winged soldier roared, but instead of putting down his bow and arrow, he fired another arrow.

"Yes! Lord William! ”

"Let's get on!"

The steel-winged archers shouted, but no one was willing to put down their bows.

"Your value is not just in this remote suppression." William said in a deep voice, "The enemy will soon finish building the Bone Staircase, and they will definitely attack the walls when the time comes." The only ones who can engage in hand-to-hand combat on the walls are you, the Black Wings, the Thunder Lion, and the Cecilia Guard. Oh, and by the way, Miss Angel's Frost Legion can too. But...... Are you going to have a bunch of women protect you? ”

"No!" Many voices of rejection have been voiced.

"Our Void Principality does have a strong military appearance, but our founding time is too short, so the legions are not enough." William said lightly, not ignoring his shortcomings, "The troops gathered in the fortress now are indeed the pride of our Void Duchy, but after all, how many people are there?" Not counting Miss Angel's Frost Legion. We don't even have 100,000 people. But in front of us is just a cannon fodder army of the undead, there are already more than 300,000 people, are we a lot of people? ”

Everyone was silent.

"So, I have to use one of you as three, or even five or ten people." William said in a deep voice, his tone calm, but the content of the words once again made everyone's hearts seem to be uplifted, "The only thing I can think of to use you so vividly is to keep you all in the best condition." …… Now let you lay down your bows and arrows. Not to stop fighting, but to prepare you for the next battle to the death. ”

"I've said it before, we don't have reinforcements." William said in a deep voice, "Why? Because the barbarian tribes haven't been put in order yet, Hela is still sitting there, and there are even many scumbags who are planning to make trouble while our elites gather on the front lines. …… I am here, and I can only tell you that since you are all the pride of my Void Principality. Then even if you all die here, keep your pride! ”

Soldiers with steel wings. Finally, he slowly lowered his bow.

But their morale did not decline in the slightest, but was like a volcano about to erupt.

When he thought of those people in the savage tribe, William also had an evil fire in his heart.

After feeling Sean's danger before, William and Shefanio dealt with a large number of people ruthlessly, which really shocked many people. But they didn't expect it to be. By the time the troops began to set out, the people of these wild tribes began to make trouble again. As a last resort, William had no choice but to have Hela rush over from the Canyon Fortress, and leave Noro and the Silver Temples behind to keep Hela safe.

And Alexis is going on a killing spree, William is naturally clear. And these inner circle elders who have followed Sean for a long time are equally clear.

But it is precisely because they know that they all know that even if Hela really finishes rectifying the barbarian tribe, they must beware of careerists from other forces who do not care about the overall situation. The most typical idea of these madmen is that they can defend against this invasion of bones even if there is no Void Principality, so they should take advantage of the Void Principality's weakest time to divide the interests of the Void Principality, and bring the entire Wild Land back into their control, once again becoming their backyard for what they want.

That's why William said they wouldn't have reinforcements.

Being able to arrange for Heatley, the holy daughter of the Temple of Life, to come to the Savage Fortress is already the greatest effort to fight for it.

What's more, even if Hela really ignored the rear and forcibly let all the legions of the Barbarian Tribe rush to the Barbarian Fortress to support, it would be close to a month at the earliest. If he was really overwhelmed and had to abandon the Savage Fortress, William would certainly not be so brainless to defend it. He chose to stick to it now because they and Sean had been out of touch for a long time. Although I don't know where Sean went, it is certain that Sean finally returned to the Savage Fortress.

Therefore, regardless of the reason, William had to defend the Savage Fortress for at least a month.

But he also knew very well that these troops in the fortress were the real strength of the Void Principality, so even if the Void Empire was greatly damaged because of this, it would be impossible for all of these troops to die here. As long as these forces are still there, then the Void Principality will eventually be able to become an empire one day. But if all the confidence and strength are buried here, then the Void Empire plan is really just a joke.

If the undead army's offensive continues unabated, it can only hold out for a month.

William already had a plan in his heart: if he gave up the big rear, let Hela immediately send reinforcements, maybe it could last for three months. But if you are caught between the front and back, I am afraid that it will really fall.

Alas, I hope Sean will come back soon. (To be continued.) )