Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 521 Chapter The Battle of Thorn City (VI)

In many senses, it was really unfair for the orc defenders to encounter an unexpected fire.

The Imperials' propaganda campaign of dropping leaflets in Thorn City had been going on for about a month, so the federal defenders at Aurelian's Gate didn't take the hundreds of thousands of leaflets that Frost Maple Ridge fired at the city walls using the Dora cannon seriously.

Normally, with such a large number of leaflets, the federal army should have followed the usual practice and cleaned up the piles of white paper covering the top of the city in a timely manner. However, the sudden ultimatum of surrender given by the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge completely disrupted the pace of the federal defenders - everyone was busy preparing for the general attack that Frost Maple Ridge was about to launch in half an hour, so no one had the time to clean up the waste paper on the ground.

In fact, because these leaflets were filled with pornographic pictures that were not suitable for children, the orc officers strictly ordered the soldiers not to pick up and read these dirty and obscene pieces of paper. The federal soldiers, who had a strong sense of honor, almost all stayed away from these insulting garbage leaflets.

This meant that no one noticed that these leaflets had been soaked in a modified version of vine fuel by the people of Frost Maple Ridge before being launched.

Thus, at the Aurelian Gate in the City of Thorns, which was built purely of moonstone and originally had no need to worry about fire problems, the first major fire in any siege in recorded history broke out.

The raging fire completely engulfed the top of the white high wall. Under the cover of the dark red flames and billowing black smoke, Xiahou Yan could not even observe the situation on the top of the city from the Frost Maple Ridge position. He could only see it from afar through the Dark Moon Glazed Telescope. From time to time, a few orc soldiers whose bodies were burned like candle heads would jump down from the wall of Aurelian Gate because they could not bear the flames wrapped around their bodies, and then fall to the ground and be smashed to pieces.

This scene reminded Xiahou Yan of an incident in which a plane crashed into a building in a certain country on Earth.

He began to think, when Frost Maple Ridge goes to war in the future, should he also find the best zombie pilot in Frost Maple Ridge to ride a zombie griffin loaded with explosives to crash into the enemy headquarters?

While the lord was enthusiastically thinking about the art of war, the Frost Maple Ridge armed forces behind him were not idle either.

In the battle plan drawn up by Sean Mountbatten and the Chief of Staff, the shameless double burst of leaflet incendiaries and incendiary bombs fired by the Dora cannon was originally just an appetizer for the defenders of Aurelian's Gate!

As the top of Aurelian Gate was engulfed in flames, the Frost Maple Ridge "Liberator" Air Force Wing, which had been ready for action, quickly took off, took off within ten seconds, and rushed straight into the sky above Aurelian Gate.

The pilots of the "Liberator" Air Force were riding zombie griffins camouflaged with thin iron armor. Compared with the live griffins ridden by the "Lancaster" and "Stuka" Air Forces of the Empire, the zombie griffins with rotting flesh wings were not only equally capable of flying, but also had much stronger speed and sustained combat capabilities due to the reduction of their own weight and loss of pain sensation.

Mounted on the claws of these zombie griffins are the special fuel bombs made by Frost Maple Ridge. These fuel bombs are special products developed by the wasteland thugs for the Aurelian's Gate. They have reduced the explosive content and replaced it with a large amount of ignition fuel.

The Griffin Knights of the "Liberator" Air Force paid no attention to the Aurelian Gate tower that had been engulfed by flames, but dived towards the east and west sides of the tower, which had not yet been covered by the flames. This was the edge of the fire, and was currently crowded with federal soldiers who were hurriedly putting out the fire and screaming as they fled. No one could take care of the Griffin Air Cavalry who suddenly appeared in the air.

Therefore, the "Liberator" Air Force Wing dropped its specially formulated bombs almost without any hindrance, which was a real act of adding fuel to the fire - the large dose of ignition fuel in the bombs guided the fire that was originally confined to the vicinity of the city wall to spread outward as soon as it landed, instantly turning the entire city wall into a long curtain of burning fire.

Behind the city wall, the federal anti-aircraft firepower that was not affected by the fire did want to retaliate against the zombie griffins of Frost Maple Ridge, but the hastily fired shells and crossbows could not reach the rapidly ascending Frost Maple Ridge air cavalry. They could only watch the group of griffin knights fly away, and then sigh at Sindragosa who was still cruising in the sky and did not hastily join the air battle.

The Iron Dragon Sindragosa is the true air combat ace of Frost Maple Ridge, but he did not participate in the bombing with the zombie griffins. Rather than diving down to drop a few bombs, his most important task is to serve as a reconnaissance satellite in the sky: all the movements of the federal forces behind the Aurelian Gate cannot escape his empty eye sockets with ghostly fire rising from them - relying on the unique bond between the necromancer and the undead creatures, all the information collected by Sindragosa will be sent to the brain of the lord of Frost Maple Ridge without any error.

Of course, Xiahou Yan did not assign Sindragosa to participate in the battle, partly out of safety considerations: although Sindragosa, wearing steel armor, has stronger defense than a genuine dragon, this does not mean that it will not fall to the song of see you again - in the several battles around Thorn City in Haven's history, more than one dragon lost its life under the powerful firepower of the defenders. Sindragosa is Xiahou Yan's baby, and he does not want this steel dragon that he worked so hard to create to die in the artillery fire of the Federation Orcs due to negligence.

Compared to the Iron Nether Dragon, there are other candidates in the Frost Maple Ridge formation who are more suitable for firepower output.

After firing a giant incendiary bomb, the Dora Cannon did not stop. The craftsmen and engineers of Frost Maple Ridge immediately pulled a pointed armor-piercing bomb and loaded it into the barrel of the Dora Cannon. With a piercing roar, the cannon turned its muzzle under the guidance of the engineer and aimed at the iron and wooden gate of the Gate of Aurelian.

Xiahou Yan had long been unhappy with this gate - the combined attack of oil-soaked leaflets and incendiary bombs could certainly turn the tower of Aurelian's Gate into a living hell, but as long as this sturdy iron and wooden gate remained standing, the northern part of Thorn City would still be under the control of the Federation Orcs.

The first two shells from Dora's cannon were intended to overwhelm the federal defenders on the city wall - the orcs, who were now busy putting out the fire, had no chance to deal with Frost Maple Ridge's direct attack on the city gates.

Then, a huge bright yellow flame shot out from the muzzle of the Dora Cannon. Before the deafening sound of the cannon could even reach the ears of the crowd, the pointed armor-piercing shell engraved with the rune of Annihilation had already flown towards the Aurelian Gate at full speed.

——Then suddenly disappeared into the void.

  Xiahou Yan, who had been waiting to observe the effect of the bullet, was almost too frightened and accidentally dropped the Dark Moon Glazed Telescope in his hand to the ground:

He saw with his own eyes that at the moment when the armor-piercing shell was about to touch the ironwood door, the thorn patterns that were originally all over the door surface suddenly twisted violently like the muscles and blood vessels of some creature. Therefore, when the armor-piercing shell touched the thorns surging on the surface of the ironwood, it not only failed to cause any damage, but sank into the wood board like a drop in the ocean, disappearing without a trace, as if it had never appeared in this world.

Xiahou Yan was really shocked by this incredible and bizarre scene:

This armor-piercing projectile was specially developed by Frost Maple Ridge to break through the Aurelian Gate. It has extremely strong armor-piercing performance, and is even enough to break through the defensive effect of the Wind Protection Rune and penetrate the armor plate of the Apocalypse Chariot. The magic runes engraved on the armor-piercing projectile can offset the effectiveness of a large amount of defensive magic, ensuring that the warhead can hit the target head-on. The cost of such a powerful armor-piercing projectile is naturally astronomical. If Frost Maple Ridge is not now rich, just making such an armor-piercing projectile is enough to force the Igor family to sell their butts.

But what Xiahou Yan could never have expected was that this awesome armor-piercing shell couldn't even create a decent crack, and was directly "swallowed" by the thorns on the surface of the Aurelian Gate!

He really couldn't figure it out. What the hell were these strange thorn patterns?

——When the Igor family just moved into the north wing of Aurelian Gate, Xiahou Yan had already noticed these strange thorns on the door panels of the city gate, and he also knew that no similar strange phenomena had occurred at other gates of Thorn City.

The people of Frost Maple Ridge, who were busy preparing for the offensive at the time, did not pay much attention to this. However, they did not expect that the armor-piercing projectile offensive that had been brewing for a long time would suffer a heavy loss on these seemingly inconspicuous thorn patterns!

"What on earth is this?" Xiahou Yan tightly grasped the tube of the Dark Moon Glazed Telescope, gritting his teeth like a poor peasant who had met a class enemy. "Why doesn't the armor-piercing shell of the Dora Cannon work?"

  Master Lowry stared at the Aurelian Gate, which looked like the entrance to hell under the light of the fire, and after a long pause he finally blurted out:

"…It looks like some kind of defensive magic…"

Everyone rolled their eyes.

Master Lowry really said some useless nonsense: these thorns crawling on the surface of the door are not normal physical phenomena at all. Even a Spine-Hunted Arrowhead can guess that this is some kind of elemental force exerted on the city gate by the Federation Orcs.

  But the key question is, what kind of magic is this?

The runes engraved on the Frost Maple Ridge armor-piercing bullets were enough to deal with most common protective magic, from the most basic elemental shields to high-end holy protection. But even so, the power of the bullet was still swallowed up by these elemental thorns without any suspense.

  If we can't find out the true identity of these thorn magics and deal with them, will the Dora cannon in Frost Maple Ridge and the remaining dozen or so armor-piercing shells be misfired in vain?

“My Lord…” Master Moliere glanced at the top of the city wall and saw that the fire was raging. The orcs could not spare any time in a short time, so he made a decisive decision, “Please give me five minutes. I need to set up a magic circle to detect the properties of these thorns on the surface of the city gate… It’s really strange. I have never seen anything like this—”

Before Master Moliere could finish his words, they were stuck in his throat and turned into a meaningless hoarse sound.

  The master saw with his own eyes that the fire on top of the Aurelian Gate, which he had just determined would not be extinguished in a short time, suddenly suffered a Waterloo:

A howling hurricane seemed to descend from the sky, pressing down on the top of the Aurelian Gate, which was ablaze with flames.

Under the suppression of the huge wind force, the arrogant Xianyang fire died down instantly, and then gradually died down amid the sound of the federal soldiers putting out the fire. In just two minutes, the fire that had just swept the entire high wall was reduced to only a few scattered embers.

After the flames subsided, the Moonstone Tower of the Aurelian Gate reappeared: it had been completely blackened by the flames, but the overall structure was not damaged at all. Amid the renewed passionate war songs, a large number of federal soldiers climbed up the tower and replaced their burned colleagues.

Everyone in Frost Maple Ridge looked at each other in bewilderment.

Although we didn't expect to defeat the federal defenders in one battle with this fire, wasn't it a little too quick to put out the fire?

  Several high-level magicians, led by Xia Houyan, Master Moliere, and Master Laurie, had already frowned and stared at the direction in the sky:

They clearly felt the violent elemental fluctuations surging in the air - the hurricane that suddenly appeared and put out the fire at Aurelian's Gate was obviously not a natural phenomenon, but an artificial wind controlled by an elemental power user from the Federation.

Master Moliere silently took out a small bag of spices from his bosom:

Only when casting the highest-level and most complex magic spells, and only when facing the most dangerous and difficult battles, do magicians need to scatter spices while chanting spells. Although no one spoke, everyone quickly realized that the user of elemental power in the enemy camp who could summon such strong wind was obviously not a good person.

Xiahou Yan had a lot of magic power, but he didn't have the elemental skills to chant high-level magic. So, he didn't prepare to chant spells to ward off the enemy like Master Moliere did, but pulled out his iconic command knife from his waist.

According to the custom of Frost Maple Ridge, when the lord commanded his sword to chop down in the air, all the firepower deployed in the Frost Maple Ridge position, including a full twelve "Bofors" magic cannons, would burst out in the direction he indicated.

  Then, an old voice amplified by the elements rang out above the two armies facing each other:

"This is Kane Thunder, the chief shaman of the Blood Council of the Glorious Federation, speaking."

The voice didn't seem loud, but it seemed to have penetrating power, reaching the ears of every human and orc without any interference. The speaker paused as if he was a little tired, and then continued:

"Excuse me, in the name of a Dragon Flame Shaman, can I speak directly to His Excellency Duke Elliot Igor?"