Volume 4 The First Kuroshio War Chapter 97 A Fire in the Backyard
Early the next morning, the knights began to pack up their camp and prepare to retreat. Franz and Rivers took the griffin into the air early and headed for yesterday's battlefield.
The knights remained mostly silent, putting on a posture that no one should enter. Several of them were arrogant and even more stern, and directly wrote "I am very unhappy" on their faces.
It has been the fifteenth day since we set out from Huquan Town and arrived on the south shore of Mist Lake. Over the course of fifteen days, the knights first broke into pieces, strangled small forces of the undead, and constantly compressed the space for the undead to move. Eventually, the undead commander concentrated his forces and a battle took place on a sloping field.
The results of the battle were gratifying, but the acting lord gave the order to retreat, which caused widespread dissatisfaction among the knights.
After fifteen days of marching and fighting, the knights themselves may not have noticed it, but Fang Qiuling had a very intuitive feeling.
In the beginning, the knights performed slightly better than the militia. When you see the hordes of skeleton soldiers, they will have weak legs and feet and sweat profusely. Now, they have the courage to charge the undead in formation. The knights' faces had receded from fear and had become confident.
When Fang Qiuling and Ms. Mogre made their battle plans, they deliberately asked the knights to practice their hands with small undead troops that infested the battlefield, and then gradually contact more undead in a planned way to gradually increase the intensity of the battlefield.
Under the leadership and protection of Lady Mogre, Marlowe, Tom Sr., and several other senior professionals, the knights with the Foggy Evening Cavalry as the core grew up rapidly, like a sponge absorbing water. At this moment, whether it is strength or temperament, they and the regular soldiers of the Seventh Knights are no less than them.
But it was precisely because of the succession of victories in a series of battles that the knights became somewhat proud. This made Fang Qiuling shout loudly: You are the worst class I have ever led!
The retreat was quickly completed, and the knights began to march eastward in an orderly manner. However, before noon, three dusty visitors appeared from the front and joined the retreating procession.
Steward Garras hurried in with Alina and Ronald. They not only brought emergency contact from Lakespring Town, but also news from Wuxi Castle.
The north shore of the misty lake has become a mess. The army of the undead besieged Wuxi Fort day and night, regardless of consumption, and brought a lot of damage to Wuxi Castle. Count DeHarus also fought back unceremoniously, killing a number of high-level necromancers one after another. The two sides launched a continuous offensive and defensive battle in the Fog Castle, and the offensive of the undead army became more and more fierce. Not only did large stitching monsters begin to appear on the battlefield, but banshees and ghosts completely dominated the sky.
Not to be outdone, the human legions are no less to be outdone. The magic cannons erected on the city wall fired one after another, and for a time they were so pressed that the stitching monster could not raise its head; The massive use of magic bows and arrows is enough for each archer to deal damage to imaginary creatures such as banshees and ghosts; The brave knight is even more fearless of sacrifice and fights to the death against the skeleton.
The line from Wuxi Fort to Fallen Leaf Pass has become a huge meat grinder. Wuxi Fort can still be held for the time being, but it is foreseeable that the destruction of the city is only a matter of time. In particular, the shadow of the dark canopy has gradually enveloped the sky in the misty lake area, and the light of the sun has become rare......
In order to redeem the disadvantage, Count DeHarus had to lead the Seventh Knights to take the initiative and formulate a battle plan to "drive the undead to the sea". The Seventh Knights fought a number of large-scale battles with the army of the undead west of Fog Castle, and the result of the battles was a great victory for the Knights at a slight cost. The front advanced all the way to the west, and even Port Op came into view for a time. The scales of victory seem to be beginning to tilt on the side of humanity.
But the truth is brutal. The victory in the battle is undoubted, and the great number of victories is also well documented. But every time a battle is over, it doesn't take long for another army of the undead to stop in front of the Knights. The soldiers had to wonder if their previous efforts and fights were illusions or reality. In particular, the undead in Opple Harbor are like an ocean, densely packed with uncountable spirits, which makes the soldiers have to wonder if their efforts and bloodshed are really meaningful......
Just like Fang Qiuling said, without sufficient purification power, the army of the undead is inexhaustible and cannot be exterminated!
Count DeHarus was apparently aware of this, but it was useless to realize it. Because the scale of the army of the undead is too large, even if all the priests and paladins in the entire Mist Lake region are gathered, they do not have enough strength to carry out such a large-scale purification. Unless a cleric who has stepped into the realm of legends makes a move.
In response, Count Diharus took a more direct measure - burn! Directly crush the bones and scatter ashes! Then the undead will not be able to resuscitate the corpses!
The sky of the misty lake was now full of smoke and dust, and the air was full of the stench of burning corpses.
It can be confirmed that this line of thinking of Count Diharus must be correct. However, as more undead reinforcements arrived by sea, elite undead legions with special names began to appear. At the same time, high-level necromancers also appeared. This completely shattered Count DeHarus's intention to "drive the dead to the sea".
The ensuing battle was still won by the Seventh Knights. However, after each victory, the Order had to retreat. Slowly, but without any change, the battle line began to retreat in the direction of Fog Castle. In the process, the attrition of the Seventh Knights became more and more severe. The already difficult situation has become even more difficult.
Alina and Ronald are in good spirits, but there are obvious tear stains on their little faces. Gallas's face was solemn, although he was not out of order, but the whole person showed an old state, and his spirit seemed to be poor.
House Deharus was a vassal of the western frontier of the kingdom. The old butler imagined that the family was demoted because of the power struggle between the nobles, and he also imagined that the family was ruined by participating in the succession struggle for the throne, even if the orcs in the north suddenly broke through the Fallen Leaves Pass and slaughtered all the family members. However, none of the families involved will die from the invasion of the undead. This made the old butler feel extremely unreal, but it was imminent......
After hearing the bad news, Yuna and Yuya should have some good news, right? Unfortunately, the same bad news is that the twins are in emergency contact for help.
A group of bandits poured out of the mountain forest, mainly ugly green-skinned monsters and small monsters - orcs and goblins, followed by gray-skinned gnolls. They first attacked the town of Jinhe in the north of Huquan Town, ransacking the entire town and then heading south along the main road. Then it was Heluo Town and Lakeside Town that suffered. Their vanguard had now appeared in the north of Huquan Town, completely cutting off the land communication between Huquan Town and Wuxi Town.
Fortunately, most of the residents of Jinhe Town and other towns responded to the "Great Evacuation", and many of them were already on their way to the Rift Fortress, so the casualties were not serious. Huquan Town is also quite stable at the moment.
Yuna and Yuya's emergency contact devotes half of the page to the scene of ugly green-skinned monsters and small monsters attacking the lords, and estimates the number of monsters large and small - more than five hundred, and counting!
Fang Qiuling was a little dazed when she received the emergency contact letter, and she was a little caught off guard. All his thoughts were on delaying the march of the undead army, and he didn't expect the greenskins to stab them in the back! In just a few days, all the orcs and goblins came out in one go, and they also captured several towns! This is absolutely unbearable!
Those towns...... If you lose it, you will lose it, even if you don't have a green skin, the undead will come soon, and you won't be thinking about recovering it at this stage. However, the unscrupulous momentum of the greenskins must be suppressed. The usual green skin is like a weed, and it will "grow again in the spring breeze" at any time, and it will flood if you are not careful. There are endless things such as occupying mountains and blocking roads and robbing. Now is a special period, and we can't let the green skin go unchecked. God knows how many goblins and orcs are hidden in the mountains and forests. If you give them time to form cliques, their numbers will definitely swell to a jaw-dropping level. And once they tasted the sweetness, they began to surround the town of Lakesprings...... There is no need to surround Huquan Town, as long as the east of Huquan Town is blocked to the Rift Fortress, the consequences will be unimaginable!
Fang Qiuling only thought for a moment, and immediately decided to speed up his retreat, leaving only the griffon knight to keep the detectives in this area, while being cut off by the undead.
After the knights learned the relevant news, they even asked for battle. The Acting Lord won't let them rush to deal with the undead, but it's no problem to deal with the Greenskins!
After experiencing the battle with the undead, the knights no longer looked down on the greenskins, and said: Let's go, we can fight ten at a time! We are men who have fought with the undead, and the big green skin and the little green skin are fighting in a group, which is simply pediatrics!
For the confident knights, Fang Qiuling immediately scolded them one by one, and also picked on the clumsy performance of the knights who had just encountered the undead:
- It's only been a few days, and I don't know what my last name is! I remember the first time you saw a ghoul, I was scared to pee!
- You, don't look to the side, it's you! Now you know how to swing your sword? Are you sure you won't hurt yourself again? Go, get out of the way and practice again!
- And you, don't laugh either! I say it again! Military appearance is morale, untidy and morale! Are you wearing your pants? Let me see things I shouldn't see again, and be careful that I castrate you directly!
Scolding and scolding, the current situation still needs to be countermeasured.
Fang Qiuling discussed with Ms. Mogree for a while, and soon decided to abandon the stationing in Dongliuhe and return to Huquan Town as soon as possible. In contrast, the Greenskins are a greater threat to Lakesprings at the moment, and the army of the undead on the south shore of Lake Mist can only be put on hold for the time being.