What did you do with the dice?

"Mambo~"

"Who knew a disaster would happen at any moment? That golden fox launched a sneak attack~wu↑↓~"

"Look at our civil war, we're so proud of it, we're beating the hell out of you! Yeah~"

"Duang~"

After singing, he let out a strange cry, swung the pipa and smashed the head of the last ratman who was struggling to climb up the wall. He threw away the pipa in his hand and drew out the huge black sword.

"I! Rusalka, the greatest of the Holy Knights, have now arrived at the southern wall of Alice as scheduled! I declare that all water tribes will now be safe from destruction by battle!"

At the same time, the magic circle of the wizard tower unfolded in the sky, and the hobbits who entered the magic area of ​​[No Fly] fell like dumplings. Even if they unfolded the gliders on their backs, after the concept of "air buoyancy" was eliminated, even if they were as light as feathers, they would still fall freely at a high speed and smash into a pile of mud when they hit the ground. Even if they were lucky enough to land on the city wall, they would soon be commanded by the trembling recruits under the command of the veterans who followed them and stomped on their heads.

Although this is extremely cruel, killing is indeed the most direct and effective way to demystify new recruits. There has always been a saying in Sinidi's border army: after vomiting out the contents of the stomach on the battlefield, cowardice will also be expelled from the body along with the vomit.

The remaining hobbits who were not under the spell's effect flapped their wings and floated in the air, not daring to come any closer.

A large group of wolves rushed into the rat army and began to gnaw on the corpses wantonly. Following them was a large group of wolf cavalry who entered the battlefield from the ground. However, they did not blindly rush into the battlefield immediately to face the baptism of magic cannons and city defenses. Instead, they quietly waited for an opportunity to come in the rear.

That opportunity came soon, just as the commander of the orc army expected.

"Tsk, except for the East, South, West, and North Mage Towers, the other two Mage Towers need to temporarily close the No-Flying Array due to a lack of mana supply."

Yes, the endless core that was blown up is non-renewable, and the magic consumption rate of the wide-area magic circle can drain a wizard who has just finished his apprenticeship in just ten seconds. Even if all the human mages under the command of Lord Zhulei/armorers with high magic power in their bodies, and some priests of Esdi are in the tower to serve as power banks for the Sani Iron Tower, it is still too thin for the wizard tower of that time, which not only had several cores but also housed several great wizards and hundreds of other wizards.

As the magic circles on the two wizard towers were closed, a gap was revealed in the airspace protection. The hobbits instantly split into two groups under the command of the flute, and quickly dived in from the areas not covered by the magic circles. It didn't matter if they were occasionally affected by the edge and fell. It didn't matter if they couldn't see the range of the magic circle. The huge number was enough for them to have countless opportunities for trial and error!

It took about 20 minutes to recharge. Sanita's voice echoed throughout the battlefield: "Now, all longbowmen, shoot! Shoot!"

The non-commissioned officers roared, "Watch out in the air!"

Their voices were soon drowned out by the fluttering of wings and the sounds of battle.

Claws and wings rushed into the city wall, blades and beaks clanged, and several hobbits flapped their wings and rushed forward to hit a human male. Even though they were small, light and not very strong, they were able to knock the soldiers off balance due to their numerical advantage, and they could not focus on attacking below.

woo-

The wolf riders moved in response to the horn sound, a mixture of saliva, blood and corpse residue dripping from their mouths. The wargs ran on the blood, plasma splattered, and dyed all four legs of the wargs a bright red.

The Wolfs drew their long swords from their waists, which were as cold as their eyes. The blades gleamed in the afterglow of the setting sun, and a wave of golden light surged towards the city wall.

Sanita: (The El Empire is launching an all-out attack this time, hoping to quickly defeat us within a day or two.)

Rusalka: (This is truly underestimated.)

The soldiers were in a panic. Occasionally, those who managed to break free from the harpy's entanglement looked down at the wolf cavalrymen approaching quickly, stepping on a flesh ladder made of rat-men corpses. Their faces turned pale and their arms trembled slightly.

Rusalka leaned against the city wall and looked down at the scene of corpses and blood. Like a tourist, he smiled with ease, letting the rocks and other things hit his helmet and make a tinkling sound. He even grabbed a few hobbits by the legs and slapped them to death on the city wall like mosquitoes. He said leisurely:

"Alice has been the site of over fifty large-scale wars throughout history. The merits and demerits are difficult to determine."

"I forgot in the middle."

"I don't understand why everyone keeps talking about the horrors of the El Empire, as if this ancient battlefield of Alice is destined for disaster. Five years ago, I set out from the Pearl Tear Territory, beginning the first Western Expedition and unifying the border. Wherever the Pearl Tear Army went, the people of Snidi welcomed us wholeheartedly. It was truly a perfect time. I can still remember that vibrant, thriving scene. And just five short years later, this place has transformed into my burial place?"

Sanita: (I really did it. Can you please say something auspicious?)

Looking at the first wolf rider leaping high and jumping over the city wall towards him, Rusalka slowly drew out the greatsword behind him, and with one sword, cut it and the wolf under his crotch into two halves, bringing down a rain of blood.

The enormous force even accidentally split the battlements he was standing on. He deliberately did not use the Holy Slash in order to experience this ultimate feeling of numerical crushing.

"Alright, alright, no matter what, how many troops will be fighting?"

Sani Iron Tower: (30 with one-third of the logistics, against at least 200 million full-type troops.)

Rusalka: "......"

This...this numerical gap makes it seem like the sentence "The advantage is mine" is stuck in my throat and I can't spit it out.

Damn it, let’s fast forward to the last sentence. A bad ending is still an ending, which is better than an abrupt end: “This is a pot of half-cooked rice. Even if it’s half-cooked, I, Yu Yu, will eat it too.”

"The Iron Beast Front? They are nothing but ordinary people who were born in an era without my Pearly Tears Lament!"

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When the first wolf rider stepped on the highest point of the ratman's corpse, jumped in and climbed onto the city wall, the walls along the entire line began to face the unprecedented huge close combat pressure in the history of modern human warfare.

They were different from the soldiers in Zhulei Territory who were influenced by the "legendary" stories that were repeatedly described and exaggerated by the veterans who had seen the Wolf Riders in Mingyue City every day. They were also different from the Oaks family army that had often fought with the El Empire in the North in recent years. The soldiers in the army of the Guardian Knights of the East and West Walls and the Grand Duke Delai's family had almost never seen a type of soldier like the Wolf Riders, where the man and the mount were integrated into one, and the power of 1+1 far exceeded 3.

At the beginning of the battle, the human soldiers rushed forward and hacked to death the cavalrymen who climbed the wall first. However, when the first gap was opened and the wolf's limbs stood firmly on the ground of the tower, the combined height of more than three meters and the integrated attack instantly reversed the situation.

"Hold on! Hold on even if it means death! Several people will fight together in small groups and kill the mount first!"

"Ugh! Monster!"

The wolf's sharp teeth can bite through the thin leg armor, and can bite the leg bones off and tear them off completely. The scimitars they carry are all fierce weapons soaked in the blood of ancient beasts. Ordinary armor can only block them once if they are lucky enough before being cut through.

A large amount of blood dyed the entire city wall red.

"Hold on! Behind us is the last knight pride of Sneidi. We will never retreat in protecting the knight family!"

The Great Duke Gode personally commanded the Knights to fight, and lost a wolf head in his hand. Although his thighs were covered with hideous blood holes, those giant wolves that could bite through steel could only do so much. Even so, his body had not healed the old wounds, and he had countless new wounds.

His body was shaky, but there seemed to be a fire in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, please remove the city wall! You are the pillar of our family, and you must not fall!"

Despite the petitions of countless knights, he was forced to retreat to the rear.

But looking at those knights who were roaring and charging towards the scimitars and wolves' mouths without hesitation in order to cover his retreat, even when he retreated like this, he did not forget to pull out another wolf's fang, cut his face, and let the blood drip.

"God of Law and Contract, I, Gao Dewei, swear an oath to abide by the law in all matters of life. But once, blood debt must be repaid with blood!"

After saying that, he turned around and rushed down the city wall. Several shield guards quickly raised their shields to block behind him, and used their shields to push away the wolf cavalry who wanted to rush over, and drew out their short spears to stab them.

Compared with the west city wall, the situation of the Delai family on the east city wall is even worse. Since the wolf cavalry climbed the wall, their casualty rate has skyrocketed. Too many miscellaneous armies have been united together, and the lack of an ultimate brain like Sani Iron Tower, or a spiritual leader like the Great Duke Gode, has been completely exposed when facing a powerful enemy stronger than their own. Almost everyone chooses to fight on their own, and cannot organize effective distribution work at all. The crossbows and city defenses are almost completely shut down. The soldiers in the front want to escape down the wall, but the officers below keep commanding reinforcements to climb the wall. The army is blocked on the stairs, and the situation is extremely chaotic.

"Damn it! The family's cavalry support won't arrive for a week at the earliest!"

"Report to Lord Bloom, if this continues, I'm afraid the city wall will fall in half an hour at most!"

"Lord Bloom, the Walster family's team has suffered heavy casualties. They need to retreat to the rear. Who will be sent to take over the garrison area?"

"Sir, the armor of those wolf cavalrymen is too thick! Commander Kendi urgently needs more armor-piercing arrows!"

"Our family's soldiers are about to be wiped out, we need support!"

The messenger's footsteps were about to crush the threshold, and urgent war reports were delivered to Bloom's desk. The latter felt extremely anxious, as if the entire city wall was a huge vegetable market with no supervision and no order. Because every family hoped that they could get support as soon as possible, all the reports were described as the worst situation. Just by listening to the war reports, it felt like the city wall had been lost.

But in fact, looking at the image on the projection crystal, Bloom felt that according to his experience as the top graduate of the military academy and having commanded at least a dozen wars in his life, although the situation was chaotic and the casualties were heavy, in fact, every part of the city wall was still in a small advantage. The wolf cavalry seemed to have poured in a large number in the short term to tie down the city defense, but since they could not open the city gate and break the city wall, it would be useless for them even if they took the top of the city wall without support and supplies.

They were unable to form an army and launch a large-scale charge towards the military camp below the city, and they would eventually lose the platform due to their advantage in climbing the wall and the repeated pulling of human wave tactics.

But this is the experience of fighting with others. Should we blow the retreat horn and abandon the city wall, deploy the army and shooting array in the open space below to hinder the enemy's downward rush, and then wait for the support of the mage tower, or continue to grit our teeth and invest a large amount of manpower to support this flesh and blood grinding wheel?

"Commander-in-Chief, we can choose to retreat. We will send people to the Mage Tower to inform them to use magic cannons and spells to clear the enemy troops on the city wall. In this way, we only need to wait until the enemy is completely cleared out before we can regain control of the city wall."

Yes, he is right.

But the problem is that this is not just the defense of a city wall, there are other friendly forces on both sides.

All the friendly forces are still defending the city walls. If our side chooses to retreat first in order to preserve its manpower, then the wolf cavalry are not fools who will just stay where they are and wait to be bombed by magic. Even if they do not rush down and kill some more enemies and die together, they will definitely gallop along the city walls and immediately turn to attack the city wall defense lines of the friendly forces on the left and right.

Even if they were notified, even if they were willing to follow me and execute the retreat order, they would always be slower than me.

This way... it can indeed allow them to share a lot of pressure with him. If he is sure that he can win the war against the El Empire, such operation will undoubtedly be successful in terms of results. After all, this is only a temporary alliance. After the war, the number of main forces of various forces left in the city is likely to determine whether the direction of the situation will change.

The first command lesson in the military academy is to remind everyone that to be a commander, one must be ruthless.

Be ruthless to the enemy and to your own people. If you cannot treat the lives of soldiers on the battlefield as chess pieces, then your command will inevitably become full of loopholes and contradictions due to emotional fluctuations.

The best commander should consider how to achieve the greatest results with the least losses for his side, and things like friendly forces... are not within the scope of his responsibilities.

Bloom crumpled the letter into a ball in his palms and took a deep breath.

"Indeed, from a commander's perspective, retreat is the best decision, but... we can't do that."

Another staff member asked, "Why? Lord Bloom, these are all our family's soldiers! Don't you want our family to win the final victory?"

Bloom looked at him and said in a resounding voice, "Because we are humans, not those orcs who use the corpses of their own kind as ladders. This is the biggest difference between humans and orcs, and it is also the reason why orcs, who live for war and feed on war, can never defeat weak humans like us."

Everyone present was stunned, and an inexplicable sense of identity and mission rose from their hearts. At this moment, Bloom's image was extremely great in their eyes.

"Our defenders can hold out for at least another hour. Immediately send a messenger to both city walls and the Mage Tower for help."

At this moment, what he hoped to get more was a response from the other party that simply refused to support. Of course, it could also be a vague refusal, such as saying that he was busy and asked to wait a moment, which was a delaying tactic commonly used by nobles.

In that case, I would have done my best and could retreat in a natural way.

But for some reason, he still had a glimmer of hope that they would send people to support him when they themselves were in trouble.

Maybe that's human nature.

Chapter 312: Prison Iron Wall Alice Royal City (5)

Unlike the East and West, the Oaks family of the North Wall has rich experience in fighting against wolf cavalry, and they have their own special team of "trappers".

Sanitta once introduced this type of soldier to Rusalka, and the evaluation he received was: the name was not sharp enough, and it was suggested to change it to "Horse Hunting Expert".

The daily routines of other soldiers in all armies may be similar, including physical training through running, extreme competition in winter swimming, simple military marches, cultural classes, and then learning their own military fighting styles based on close combat and long-range combat.

But these people are different. After they enlisted in the army at a young age, they did not learn weapons, tactics, or combat skills. They did not learn any skills against people. They only needed to learn two things every day: how to use a lasso and how to stabilize their lower body.

Doing squats for at least four to six hours a day makes their thighs look three times thicker than those of ordinary people, and each one looks like a split tree stump.

The training starts from the most basic lassoing wooden men, and goes all the way to catching wild beasts of all sizes on the ground. The requirement is to hit the target and hold it tightly. The most powerful trappers can throw out the lasso from more than ten meters away at the moment an eagle is released from the cage, and accurately pull it from the air to the ground.

When the rat army climbed the wall, they were not on the wall. When the other side sent out the wolf cavalry, they walked to the wall with two steps at a time, which was very heavy due to their thick legs, and stood still. Their hands were covered with scars and calluses, and they had no fingerprints or nails as if they were made of steel. They quickly pulled out the barbed spikes wrapped around the iron waist guards at their waists.

The moment the wolf jumped into the city wall, lassoes flew out from almost every section of the wall. No matter how fast they ran, the lassoes seemed to have eyes and hooked the wolf's head accurately, then suddenly pulled the rope and dragged it. The whole wolf instantly fell into an unbalanced state and fell forward, falling together with the wolf riders above, and was pierced like a hedgehog by the surrounding short spearmen.

If this lock were put on a person, the latter might use a sword to break the chain when he reacted, but the wolf could not use a weapon, and there was no place to cut the spiked rope, so it could only be put around the neck.

Loosen the rope, retract it, spin in the air, and then release it again. Every move can accurately knock over a wolf.

Some people like to show off their skills. They turn the noose into a rope, then wrap it directly around the wolf's short legs and pull it, then cut its legs into pieces with the blade, causing it to fall down.

Ox's soldiers were born northern warriors, and they were very skilled in coordinating this set of tactics. Moreover, they had no fear of the wolf cavalry, and they attacked quickly, steadily, accurately and ruthlessly. Although the wolf cavalry who dismounted were still powerful Wolf warriors, they could not withstand the short spear stabs from at least three or four directions, and could only die on the spot with hatred.

Perhaps because they had detected that this was an old rival, the El Empire did not deploy too many wolf cavalry on this side of the city wall, as if it was just a test to confirm the strength of the opponent. When the vanguard wolf cavalry had almost no results, they did not bother to send subsequent troops to climb the city wall.

As a result, the northern wall, the most frontal part of the El Empire, was the area with the lowest attack intensity. They even seemed to have given up the intention of continuing the attack, giving the Oaks family's army a precious opportunity to breathe and make arrangements right from the start on this battlefield.

"Your Majesty, the East City Wall has sent a request for assistance. Do you want to go and provide support?"

"If we don't help, they'll just withdraw from the city walls and put the wolf cubs on both sides. We're not afraid of these wolf cubs. If they want to help, just let the people from the south city wall go. The Ai'er Empire has plenty of means, and we must preserve our manpower."

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The Pearl Tears Army on the south city wall has no way of dealing with the wolf cavalry. Just because they have heard of it doesn't mean they can fight it. There were only a handful of soldiers who survived on the walls of Mingyue City back then. If they were asked to do it again, they wouldn't dare to say they could survive.

Therefore, Zhu Lei Ling has its own special solution.

Sanita: "The elite troops of the El Empire are on their way, and the garrison areas are beginning to rotate!"

Different from the chaotic replacement of troops on the east wall, the replacement of troops on the south wall was very rapid. Even the troops brought by those miscellaneous nobles, even though their people were crowded together and scrambling to retreat, only retreated slowly and did not hinder the troops below from coming up at all.

The reason is very simple. Sunny Tower only asked the soldiers to use red ink to draw a barely straight line on the ground and the stairs, and then issued an order that even a fool could follow, accomplishing the feat of maintaining order among strangers: walk on the stairs to the right, stand on the right when queuing, and you will lose your head if you cross the line.

Of course, some nobles had questioned Rusalka. According to Archmage Sanita's orders, if the troops climbing the wall to support and those retreating down the wall all stayed to the right, wouldn't they collide? "Lord Pearl Tear, what do you think?"

Rusalka slapped him - he couldn't accept that someone was the same type of substitute as himself, and even the clear eyes made him smile.

Now, he chopped off a wolf's head with a single blow and shouted to the trembling soldiers around him, who had barely managed to kill a wolf cavalryman after two or three of them were injured, "Next season, change players! But I won't change. I'm the star player, and I want to play the whole game."

Indeed, although they don't have any good means to deal with these wolf cavalrymen whose combat effectiveness far exceeds that of ordinary human soldiers, but, if ordinary humans can't do it, then can't I just use special humans?

Rusalka: Tian Ji's Horse Racing - But I am the trainer of King Wei of Qi, and I have a skilled horse racing girl

Just as Sanita said, not only did they have Esdi's most elite Paladin Corps on the wall to help guard it, the power of Holy Light made it enough for them to fight against the Wolf Cavalry alone, and it was not a problem for them to defend the city gate area in the middle, which was also the most vulnerable to attack.

Those elves who were good at shooting accurately hid behind the tower shields of the human heavy infantry, and specifically targeted the heads of the Wolf riders and Wargs who could not move when jumping into the air, killing them and killing them as soon as they landed.

The believers of the Church of the Seven Sins are quite evil, and there are all kinds of bad guys among them. This is the first time that they have gathered together openly for an academic exchange meeting. First, they drive the soldiers in the area they are responsible for into a frenzy and summon the corpses to continue fighting. Some of them drink blood to directly activate the blood blade magic. There is also a simple ceremony that makes everyone kill with red eyes, not afraid of injuries and pain, and even hacking everywhere without distinguishing between friend and foe.

High Priest Seyu was even more amazing. She even summoned several demons on the spot to help guard the place.

After the blood is sucked out, they turn into undead. When the undead dies, their corpses explode. After the corpses explode, they are sacrificed to summon demons. They can even give super buffs to friendly forces. Even Sanita was impressed that this group of cultists are really efficient!

Alas, if the world could accept such an army, how efficient would it be to maintain one of our own? Not only would their combat effectiveness be exceptional, but we wouldn't even have to deal with the corpses after the battle!

Fortunately, Sani Tieta arranged them to guard the tenth area. Except for those who were already involved and could not escape, all the other soldiers there volunteered to support the 9th area or retreat before they climbed the wall. They ran away in a flash. This is too scary. It feels like the friendly forces have much greater lethality than the enemy.

Some nobles protested against Rusalka using the cultists of the Church of the Seven Sins to defend the city, which led to their indiscriminate sacrifice of friendly lives. However, Rusalka said that the enemy's wolf cavalry also disregarded the lives of their friends. Then why don't you blame the enemy? You rush over to protest to the big fox in the sky and ask her to withdraw. What kind of person is it to only scold your own people?

Secondly, this is the decision of Grand Master Sanita. Can you be smarter than the Grand Master?