Chapter 591 How Many Lives Do They Have? (8000)
Clang!
The sharp sword chopped fiercely on the shield, and she felt a stinging pain from her wrist.
Aini resisted the urge to retreat, gritted her teeth, held the shield tightly, and resisted without retreating.
She still remembered the teachings of Instructor Arnold during the close combat training.
No matter what, she could not retreat.
Even if her bones were broken and her hands were broken, she had to maintain the defense line.
The attack of the extraordinary elf ranger was swift and fierce, making it very difficult for Aini to resist.
However, although she was very uncomfortable, she still led her guards to block the attack of the extraordinary elf troops.
The support from the long-range firepower of the high-level adventurers made the extraordinary elf ranger dare not attack rashly.
The faster you rush, the more you will be killed by concentrated fire.
Although the Cole elf is strong, he is not the kind of dead man who can risk his life without hesitation.
Especially the extraordinary rangers whose status, position, lifespan and enjoyment far surpassed those of other Kor elves, would not casually sacrifice themselves in a battle with an uncertain future.
Therefore, the Kor elves withstood the fierce attack of the Scarlet Moon and were forcibly held back by the El elves.
The elite troops that were highly expected suffered a lot of losses without knowing it.
Their attack gradually became weak and failed to open a larger gap in the city wall.
Seeing that the offensive was stagnant, the commander of the Kor elves, Tegris, silently raised his eyebrows and said solemnly:
"They have lost at least 25,000 people, how can they still hold on!"
The legendary ranger Charis remained silent.
But he had a hunch in his heart that the culprit who stopped the Kor elves' army from advancing was most likely the Gulf Leader troops that suddenly appeared.
Even if it was just a glimpse, the opponent's powerful strength and luxurious equipment did not reach the legendary level, but it was extremely terrifying. The sense of oppression.
This made Charles, who had never encountered failure, extremely humiliated.
Even though Charles was not in his prime, he did not change the most suitable equipment for close combat, and did not bring his most beloved fighting partner.
But failure is failure!
Councillor Caledo, who was silently flipping through the information, recalled the disastrous defeat on the eastern coast in his mind, and replied in a solemn tone:
"The Gulf Territory likes to use tactics centered on the teleportation array, and has a very strong melee force."
"Even if we release the war curtain, with the support of the Great Archmage of Kno-Norman, they can penetrate the protection of the war curtain."
Achaen, who followed him, silently glanced at Iris, who was also very unlucky, and did not feel gloating, but licked the corner of his mouth silently.
He recalled Matthew's terrible power and felt a headache for no reason.
Teclis glanced at Caledor and could tell he was serious. He asked in a tone of disbelief:
"You mean, they helped the El Elves withstand our offensive with a maximum of 3,000 people teleported once a day?"
When he said this, although Teclis was reluctant to admit it, he had already agreed with Caledor's words in his heart.
However, Teclis quickly reacted, with a cold determination in his eyes, and gave the order to continue the attack without hesitation:
"Phase 3 reserve team, start attacking!"
With his order, a light mist began to cover the entire battlefield.
The well-trained elite troops of the Cole Elves, with the cover of the fog spell, quickly ran towards the city wall.
Watching their backs disappearing in the mist, Teclis turned his head and said to Caledo beside him:
"It is precisely because of their outstanding abilities that we have to leave them all in this tomb."
Facing Teclis's young and handsome face, Caledo naturally understood what he meant. He shrugged his shoulders and said:
"I owe you a favor. Besides, the Gulf Territory will not be solved so easily. They must have a backup plan. You must be prepared to fight one more round!"
After hearing Caledo's words, Teclis nodded silently, glanced at the bloody sky outside, and said without hesitation:
"Maintain the fog of war and get the griffin troops ready!"
Caledo did not mean to speak. He believed that Teclis had his own plans, but he really did not want to get involved.
The stimulation and trauma brought to him by the Gulf Territory will take a longer time to make up.
He is also preparing a deeper, farther, and more hidden plan to bring a fatal disaster to the Gulf Territory.
"Kill...!"
The loud roar continued to echo on the battlefield.
Ji Fan charged forward, wielding his spear to sweep away the elf warriors who jumped over.
He could clearly feel that the pressure around him was getting greater and greater.
The number of Elf warriors was decreasing, so he had to take care of a wider range of defense lines.
Fortunately, most of the combat troops of the Cole elves were rangers, and a small number were warriors.
The transformed warriors of the Bay Territory are best at dealing with such enemies!
Although they seem to be flexible and light, the cramped battlefield of the city wall greatly limits their active attacks.
They can fight in close combat or at a distance, and their attack methods are quite comprehensive.
However, they do not have the top penetration attack effect and can hardly break the magic armor of the transformed warriors.
Their combat skills are indeed very outstanding. Every elf professional has very skilled and excellent combat skills and expertise.
However, their gorgeous combat skills are not very strong against the powerful attacks and sweeps of the transformed warriors holding long spears.
"No matter how gorgeous your body movements are and how skilled your skills are, you are not even qualified to get one meter close to me. What can you use to fight me?"
After a brief thought, Ji Fan held the long spear with his right hand and swept it across the rushing elf warrior.
They tried to duck to avoid it, but Ji Fan's palm shook lightly, and the originally floating long spear suddenly accelerated.
The elf warriors who couldn't dodge in time tried to raise their round shields to block.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The silver-white metal round shield was shattered into pieces, and the elf warriors behind the shield broke their bones and muscles, and their whole bodies flew out one after another, screaming and falling off the wall.
As long as no one casts the Light Body Technique for them!
They are dead!
Gently turning the spear, forcing the elf warriors who were afraid to retreat, Ji Fan took advantage of the situation and pressed forward step by step.
The spear was simply swung left and right.
With the swiftness of the wind, the extraordinary power of up to 27 points.
It formed an indestructible death line on the battlefield.
The elf warriors in a dilemma tried to run to both sides.
The El elves who came over with shields, used simple spears to stab them, and trapped them here.
"Ah...!"
"Kill...!"
"Charge!!"
"Don't hesitate!"
"Let's go together..."
"..."
The noisy shouting soon fell into silence.
Ji Fan glanced at the broken corpse and signaled the Elf warrior to repair it quickly.
The wooden barrel flew over his head and hit the outside of the city.
Several crossbow arrows covered it and soon lit a ball of flames that shot up into the sky.
The blazing flames dispelled part of the war fog, revealing the Cole elves rushing below.
Ji Fan looked at the war fog that almost blocked most of the bloody moonlight, and a little thought appeared in his eyes.
This seemingly inconspicuous war fog has many benefits for the attacker.
Blocking the line of sight, defending against long-range attacks, and concealing one's real offensive target.
This alone weakened the two strongest advantages of the defender by half.
The former is the main offensive means for the defender to kill the enemy in number and momentum, which can give the defender a considerable psychological advantage.
Unless it can be like now, completely ignoring consumption and cost, and continuously aiming at the bottom for firepower coverage.
Even so, the killing efficiency will be greatly reduced.
The elf warriors who don't need to rush to get close to the city wall can use various protective gear to strengthen their defensive capabilities.
The latter even reversed the situation.
The defenders could have waited for the enemy to attack and deployed superior forces for defense according to the focus of the enemy's attack.
Now they can only maintain high-intensity defensive forces across the board, because the enemy can launch the main attack from any position.
This is why, even with 50,000 troops defending the Icewind Castle, the troops are still somewhat stretched.
"However, maintaining such a high-intensity, long-term, and large-scale fog of war will inevitably consume the mana and spell slots of many spellcasters..."
"This is something that the Gulf Territory cannot afford, and it is also extremely inefficient..."
Even now, Ji Fan can think of using the magic props and alchemical items that the Gulf Territory is researching and experimenting to achieve similar effects.
And the saved manpower of spellcasters can allow them to produce thousands of times such items.
Therefore, even if the enemy is numerous and powerful, Ji Fan and his transformed warriors still have sufficient confidence.
Groups of Kor elf warriors launched a fierce attack on the foggy city wall.
They would retreat when the casualties of the team approached 1/3 and replace them with new combat troops.
This would ensure that the combat troops would be able to regain their combat effectiveness after a week or two of rest.
They could also maintain a continuous offensive suppression of the enemy's defense line.
Even the tallest defensive castle of the El Elves was taken down by them using this tactic.
Therefore, they were very confident!
Tegris attached great importance to the warriors of the Gulf Territory and had been calculating the number of casualties of the El Elves.
Two hours had passed.
The Elf Senior Mage had already replaced the fourth batch, and there were still five teams preparing.
Tegris counted the data of the 26th withdrawn combat unit, silently calculating and saying:
"Although the 9 troops that attacked at night lost 24,000 combat effectiveness."
"But it also caused casualties of about 9,300 Elf warriors, and more than 200 special warriors were injured..."
"The Elf troops that can fight are less than 20,000..."
"To maintain the entire defense line of Icewind Castle, at least 18,000 warriors are needed..."
He could clearly feel that the addition of 3,000 warriors from the Gulf Territory did increase the strength of the Elf defense line by at least two levels.
This can be seen from the casualty ratio of both sides.
It has increased from the original 1:1.7 to 1:2.5.
Tegris was somewhat fortunate that he had never relaxed his offensive and had always maintained the suppression of the defense line.
He had made up his mind to completely defeat the Elf before the second batch of reinforcements from the Gulf Territory arrived.
At that time, Tegris even wanted to occupy the walls of Icewind Castle and regain the favorable terrain to attract the remnants of the El Elves and the Gulf Territory warriors to attack!
Even because of the difficult offensive operations, the current combat forces of the Cole Elves have lost more than nearly 80,000.
The number of casualties is as high as 50,000.
Therefore, Tegris wants to take revenge and severely weaken the elite forces of the Gulf Territory and the El Elves.
Wait until the El Elves are seriously injured and cannot gather truly combat-capable elite troops in a short time.
He can march eastward and take down the El Elves in one fell swoop!
After digesting the gains of the El Elves, he can completely free up his hands and start with the stagnant Gulf Territory.
It must be said that Tegris's ideas are very rigorous and he has made relatively long-term plans.
However, all he thought of was based on the fact that the number of El Elves warriors was decreasing.
Huh!
Dense crossbow arrows fell continuously under the city wall like continuous drizzle.
The elf warriors holding up their shields prayed silently in their hearts.
"It must be ordinary crossbow arrows!"
Puff!
The sharp arrowheads easily pierced the shields and tore the elves' bodies apart with overwhelming force.
The fatal trajectory from top to bottom instantly took away the lives of the Cole elf warriors.
More and more enchanted armor-piercing arrows joined the battlefield silently.
In silence, a large number of elf warriors were killed and injured.
The Cole elf warriors, who were not prepared, still launched a fierce attack on the El elves' defense line as before.
However, they encountered terrible danger this time.
Three times more crossbows than before covered the Cole elves who climbed up the city wall.
They didn't even have time to react before they were instantly pierced through the body by the enchanted arrows.
The Elf even formed a shield-holding formation on the city wall to provide solid protection for the Elf archers in the rear.
The crossbow arrows flew away, and groups of Cole Elf warriors fell down.
Aini, who was recovering, looked at the scene in front of her with a daze.
Unknowingly, hundreds of commanders from the Gulf Territory have transformed the Elf warriors into their appearance.
However, this is a good thing!
Only by surviving can there be a future!
Noticing that the Elf warriors walked out of the bunker with heavy shields, the Cole Elf warrior who had just climbed up the city wall changed his face.
Before he could react, his companions in the back were already urging him.
The Elf warrior gritted his teeth and climbed up the city wall, looking at the opponent two or three meters away, with deep fear in his eyes.
How to fight this?
Is this a formation that can be broken by a short sword or a long knife?
What a joke!
The Elf warriors in heavy armor watched the enemies climbing up nervously.
Soon, they heard the commander's order.
"Raise your shield! Hold your spear! Go ahead!"
Long spears came out from behind the shields one after another, just like a big hedgehog with iron armor.
But this seemingly heavy formation made the Cole elf warriors who kept rushing up the city wall feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.
Dense crossbow arrows flew over, suppressing their forward figures.
The long spears that kept stabbing forward stabbed with deadly chill.
Puff!
Crack!
Rows of Cole elf warriors fell.
They used various methods, but they were completely unable to break through the thick shields and dense spears.
The time left for them was too short, and they couldn't think of any way to deal with it.
They paid the price of their lives for failing to solve this problem!
"Retreat, form a formation!"
The clear voice echoed on the city wall.
The warriors who suddenly came to their senses looked at the fallen Cole elf warriors with a little bit of disbelief in their eyes.
The soldiers holding shields felt that they had done nothing.
The soldiers thrusting with spears felt that their work was very mechanical.
The crossbowmen felt "bored" even more. They raised their crossbows and pulled the triggers according to the angles.
The whole battle process was very simple and was repeated all the time.
The effect shown was extremely amazing.
They only suffered more than a dozen casualties, but killed more than 300 Cole elf warriors.
No prisoners, no survivors!
The commander quickly arranged for the wounded to retreat and replenish the Elf soldiers who had just completed training.
The wounded who were carried to the rear on stretchers would first arrive at the emergency treatment camp.
The emergency doctors here would first treat their wounds urgently and classify the urgency of the wounded.
According to the severity of the wounded, the wounded would be classified and treated differently.
The wounded soldiers with less serious injuries will be sutured and bandaged by medical staff, and will be given a bottle of blood-activating potion and physical potion.
In about half an hour, they will be able to fully recover and rejoin the battlefield.
The lightly injured soldiers account for 2/3 of the total wounded.
They can return to the battlefield as quickly as possible, ensuring the number of soldiers fighting on the overall defense line.
The moderately injured soldiers account for 1/4 of the total wounded soldiers, and will be quickly treated and treated according to the different parts of the injuries.
They can usually enjoy the rapid treatment of healing spells, replenish physical strength, and re-assign combat positions.
They will return to the battlefield after 8 hours and join the long-range shooting team.
The life-threatening wounded will be sent to the safer seriously injured camp in the rear.
They will receive emergency treatment there, unless the brain is injured, the heart is damaged, or the internal organs are bleeding and fatal.
The vast majority of seriously injured soldiers can survive again under the treatment of priests, druids, and doctors of the Gulf Leader.
If they have no physical injuries, they can basically recover their combat effectiveness within 5 to 7 days.
As for those soldiers who are disabled or seriously injured, they will enter the next process.
Because the relationship between the Gulf Territory and the El Elves is not so close that they are indistinguishable from each other.
This is Aini's own decision!
These elf warriors will also be kept secret.
As she got to know more, Aini also had a better understanding of the support that the Gulf Territory would give her this time.
Although there were not many Gulf Territory warriors, they were all powerful transformed warriors, and they were the most outstanding first batch.
They all wore magic armor worth millions of gold coins, mastered many powerful combat skills, and had extremely rich combat experience.
Under the leadership of Matthew, they maintained the ability to suppress the extraordinary forces of the Cole Elves and prevented the other side from killing through the defense line of the El Elves.
1,500 high-level adventurers not only have excellent combat capabilities, but also are proficient in command and combat skills.
They helped the Elf army to quickly change the battle formation and method, giving them stronger lethality and defense.
Of course, change is not achieved by issuing orders.
Various materials worth more than 5 million gold coins were also brought by adventurers.
Many materials prepared for this war half a year ago showed very practical effects at this moment.
What moved Annie the most was that in addition to some extremely precious priests, druids, and doctors in the Gulf Territory.
Matthew brought a tree of life!
To be precise, what Matthew brought was the clone of Quanquan, the largest tree of life in the Gulf Territory!
Under the guidance of Yaya and the "help" of Matthew's power of destiny, the very smart Quanquan mastered a very practical and magical phantom clone.
Quanquan's phantom clone is naturally not as strong as the original body.
But even so, the life aura he carried with him still showed an extremely powerful strategic effect.
Legendary Specialty - Life Aura: Restore 3 health points to all friendly units within a 500-meter range per second.
Most professional players' health points do not exceed 100 points.
That is to say, when the injuries are removed.
Every 30 seconds, the spring can completely restore their lost health points.
This is why the recovery speed of all wounded soldiers is so fast.
The spring, which Matthew called the spring, covered most of the battlefield and continued to exert force silently.
Although she heard Matthew's explanation, Annie was still deeply moved.
After this war, she has been very clear.
Even if they are close relatives, they may not help each other at the critical moment of life and death.
The seemingly united El elves, each family and force has its own little calculations.
Even the royal family who called on everyone to resist together was firmly remembered by Annie after they decisively abandoned the western defense line.
These guys are completely unreliable!
Either rely on yourself or rely on the Gulf Territory!
The Gulf Territory never disappoints!
Looking at the increasingly fierce offensive of the Kor elves, Annie's eyes flashed with a little surprise, staring at the enemies falling in groups, and asked hesitantly:
"What's going on?"
Matthew, who was replacing several armor parts on his chest, looked calmly at the Kor elf elite troops who were climbing up the city wall in the distance and attacking the defense line, and said in a cold and deadly tone:
"The Kor elves are betting on whether we can hold on and calculating the soldiers we have lost!"
"Even if the casualties increase greatly now, he will only think that we have taken out a dying backhand..."
Annie noticed that Ji Fan was directing the battle and ordered the defense troops that were too far forward to retreat backwards to make room for the Kor elves to climb up.
She can already "see".
The Cole elf warriors who had worked hard to climb the city wall were hit by deadly crossbows before they could be happy.
Without considering retreat, in order to avoid being covered by crossbows.
They had to take the initiative to attack the El elves who had arranged their formations!
So, they stepped into a deadly death cycle.
The space that Ji Fan specially made way for was the death space that the Cole elves took the initiative to step into!
At this time, Aini had completely put aside her worries about the city wall defense line.
With the support of the Gulf Territory's super logistics system and the cover of the Quanquan Life Aura.
In addition to the 11,000 dead El elf warriors and 2,000 seriously injured soldiers.
The remaining 37,000 El elves will repeatedly go to the battlefield in a steady stream of injuries and recovery.
Among them, there are more than 60,000 records of El elves being injured.
If the Gulf Territory had not arrived in time.
Under the attack of the Cole elves regardless of casualties, all the Elf warriors in the entire Icewind Castle might have been killed.
Thinking of this, Annie's eyes showed unspeakable expectations.
She was looking forward to how long it would take for the Cole elves to discover this secret.
By that time, how much price would the Cole elves have paid?
Putting the high-level element crystal worth 100,000 gold coins into his chest, the Thunder Magic Armor on Matthew's body once again lit up the familiar azure light.
He waved to the repaired transformed warriors, and then rushed towards the Cole elves' extraordinary elite troops.
Noticing Matthew's arrival, the Cole elves' extraordinary elite rangers, whose faces changed drastically, immediately began to retreat quickly.
Compared with those ordinary Cole elf warriors who could only attack with their heads held high, the extraordinary elite rangers have greater battlefield autonomy.
At present, it is reflected in the aspect of retreating quickly!
Except for the two extraordinary rangers left behind by Matthew's control of Thunder, the others retreated decisively to the bottom of the city.
They were going to regroup and pick out the weak points of the defense line that could be torn open before Matthew arrived.
Of course, the ordinary Kor elf warriors who followed them to launch the attack became the victims of "voluntary cover" for their retreat.
Under the threat of magic artillery and dragon hunting crossbows, the spellcaster troops did not dare to approach the walls of Icewind Castle.
The extraordinary elite troops, which were highly expected, also fell behind the transformed warriors led by Matthew and Ji Fan.
The ordinary elf warriors who were originally used to exchange with the El elves have now lost more than 100,000.
With multiple trump cards blocked, the offensive of the Kor elves fell into a stalemate.
More than an hour later, the elf commander Tegris, who knew the situation, looked through the data that had just been counted with a grim face.
More than three thousand-man battalions were all killed, and no one was left alive.
This is very likely to lead to the disappearance of the organization, and will also cause him to suffer a lot of blame and punishment.
If he is not careful, the Gulf Territory will give him a big surprise.
Looking at these shocking statistics, flames burst out of Tegris' chest.
However, he did not get angry with the messenger and the soldiers in battle.
He stared at the battlefield where the shouts of killing shook the sky.
He gave the order of multi-line attack without hesitation.
"The enemy has lost 38,000 people. Even if the remaining combat power is strong, it is impossible to withstand our fierce offensive!"
"Try to capture one or two special warriors of the Gulf Territory as much as possible. If it doesn't work, snatching back the bodies is also a great achievement."
Tegris's ability to cause trouble has changed from disbelief at the beginning to deep hatred now.
But he never dreamed that the ones who really caused him big trouble were precisely those Elf warriors he looked down upon.
Two hours later.
The bloody moon had begun to fall towards the east.
Judging the number of enemies, Tegris, who had lost more than 42,000, issued an order for a full-scale attack.
"All troops attack!"
In addition to ordinary Kor elf warriors, he also mobilized several ace troops including Griffin Knights, Iron Golem Legion, High-level Combat Puppet Legion, and Battle Mage Legion.
Together launched a general attack on Icewind Castle!
Matthew's sight passed through the fog of war and keenly noticed these ace troops of the Kor elves.
He reminded Ji Fan without hesitation and rushed to the most central city wall at the fastest speed.
Wherever there is danger, they need to temporarily block the gap.
Ji Fan, who had long been on guard against this move of the Kor elves, marked the drawings of the routes of several ace troops, and immediately told the relevant data to the long-range troops.
Ji Fan was not surprised that the lord had obtained these materials. He had long been accustomed to the power and mystery of the lord.
After all the artillery units were ready, Ji Fan decisively issued the order "All magic artillery members open fire".
The 300 hidden magic artillery pieces, at the moment the order was issued, gushed out shocking sparks and sounds.
The rotating shells whistled through the fog of war!
They brought a flash of flames and stirred up the already very thick fog of war.
An elf warrior with rich combat experience was smiling and saying to his frightened companion next to him:
"Don't worry, with the fog of war covering us, the enemy's attacks will not fall on us. What you should think about is..."
Puff!
His head disappeared in an instant, and the splashing blood instantly dyed the elf warrior next to him red.
The elf warrior who was studying hard stared blankly at his broken body with the upper body destroyed, and fear and madness instantly entered his mind.
"Ah...!"
Crack!
Boom!
"Scatter quickly..."
"How can it be so accurate?"
"This is wrong!"
"Run quickly...!"
"..."
The golems and siege equipment that posed the greatest threat to the walls of Icewind Castle suffered considerable losses in this round of rapid artillery coverage.
In just one round of bombing, four steel golems went on strike and seven or eight ranged equipment were destroyed.
These large, slow-moving targets became targets for the Elf artillerymen's actual combat and training.
They only needed to input the given coordinates, adjust the shooting parameters, and then ignite and shoot.
After every three rounds of shooting, they would get new coordinates.
These two ace troops were being ravaged by magic artillery.
Several other ace troops of the Cole elves had already entered the Elf's defense line.
But they never expected that the defense line, which they imagined should be very thin, was filled with many fully armed Elf warriors.
The commanders of the various troops, with faces changed drastically, noticed the Elf warriors surrounding them and immediately passed the information to the rear.
"Too many enemies, request to retreat!"
After summarizing the data, it was found that the number of Elf warriors exceeded 30,000. The commander of the Cole Elf, Tegris, had a little bit of collapse in his eyes and shouted in disbelief:
"This is impossible! They should all be dead! How many lives do they have?"
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