my age of magic

Chapter 498. 296. Victory Stained Red With Blood

This war, which was doomed from the beginning to the ultimate defeat of the barbarians, finally came to an end when the first warm southeast trade winds blew into the province of Sluyte in early spring.

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This war started on the eve of a dawn, maybe it was a coincidence, maybe God favored those who were prepared. At the very beginning of this battle, Senior Benjamin established his first merit in his military career.

On the night when he was on duty in the Knights of the Guard Battalion, he first discovered the barbarians who had touched the city and were about to attack the city before dawn.

The reason was that before falling asleep last night, he asked his companions to tie himself down the city wall, and set up ten warning magic traps in front of the position near the moat on this side of the city wall.

Unexpectedly, there were seven traps that were stepped on by the barbarians who sneaked up in the dark. Ordinary 'frost scrolls' couldn't bring a little bit of damage to the barbarians. Even the feeling of cold was so weak, but the frost scrolls A large piece of icy fog exploded, and the icy fog burst from the seven 'Frost' magic scrolls spread across the city. The icy fog not only blocked the sight of the barbarians, but the sound of ice explosions also awakened the person in charge of the city wall who was sleeping soundly. Warriors on guard.

Because of the icy fog, the scenery below the city suddenly shattered like a mirror, and the originally peaceful night scene suddenly turned into a frozen moat filled with barbarians who were creeping over slowly—a whole team of barbarians!
The soldiers crawled out of the sleeping bags at the top of the city with pale faces, and watched nearly a thousand barbarian warriors swarming in the icy fog below the city, stepping across the moat like a bunch of locusts.

Benjamin shouted loudly to the messenger who was in charge of blowing the battle horn: "Blow the horn quickly, the barbarians below the city have begun to attack the city!"

"Woooooooo..."

The horn made of the long rhinoceros horn of the one-horned buffalo sounded a dull buzzing sound. In an instant, the entire north city wall was lit up with swords and soldiers. The guards crawled out of their sleeping bags in a panic, watching that the city was about to approach the city. The savages hurriedly moved huge stones from the material pile behind the city wall to the city wall.

"What's the matter, sentinel?" A knight in heavy armor strode up and asked the soldier in charge of guarding the sentry loudly, "Why didn't you report it to so many barbarians?"

The soldier guarding the sentry replied with a look of panic: "Sir, everything in the city was normal before, but these barbarians suddenly appeared!"

He looked at the knight with a guilty conscience, and felt a little ridiculous about his reason for seemingly getting rid of guilt, but in fact it was like this.

The knight cursed fiercely: "Absurd!"

If it weren't for the front of the battle, maybe the soldier in charge of guarding the post would have been whipped.

General Willie Mom came over and said, "Don't say it, it's the 'group camouflage' technique of the great barbarian wizard, hurry up and get ready to fight! Orderer, find the armor-piercing arrows, we want to suppress this charge! "

The orderly at the side secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and replied in response: "Of course, General!"

Seeing a large number of barbarians approaching from the other side of the moat under the mist, Willie Mom, the general on duty to defend the city, decisively ordered the guards to directly mount the armor-piercing arrows, very strongly blocking the barbarians' first attack. The arrows of iron armor-piercing arrows with triangular barbs are made by mixing magic black iron powder. With a strong bow, they can pierce a one-centimeter-thick shield within twenty steps. With only a piece of heart armor on the heart, wearing stiff bearskin shorts and wolfskin boots, he dared to attack the city with an ax in his hand.

The barbarians, who are nearly 250 centimeters tall, have very broad chests, and their strong chest muscles allow them not to be afraid of ordinary arrows. At this time, the huge power of armor-piercing arrows is undoubtedly demonstrated, and the tip of a sword nearly three inches long can easily penetrate The barbarian's chest is thick, and this kind of arrow is shot into the muscle, it is difficult to pull it out quickly. If it is pulled out recklessly, the triangular barb on the tip of the arrow will damage the muscle fiber and cause irreparable trauma.

Just because so many barbarians have suffered enough from the armor-piercing arrows, it can be said that the barbarians hate the armor-piercing arrows of the human race very much.Due to various reasons, armor-piercing arrows cannot be popularized in the military. There are many reasons. The main factors are high cost, low output, and tight military expenditure.Therefore, on the battlefield, once a human warrior uses armor-piercing arrows, the barbarians will be the first to be sniped.

In such a life-and-death siege battle, the city defenders have no way out, and being a deserter is more terrifying than dying. Therefore, it is the wisest choice to use thunder to defeat the enemy from the very beginning.The soldiers of these guard battalions had all learned the art of archery. After a while, armor-piercing arrows rained down from the top of the city. Senior Benjamin also stood in the team defending the city. An armor-piercing arrow shot out.

All of a sudden, the armor-piercing arrows killed those barbarian warriors without armor. The barbarians who rushed to the front were shot to death in an instant. Instead of retreating, he became fierce and ran down the city more quickly.

A dozen or so barbarian warriors were mixed in the attacking crowd. When they approached the city, they ran up in the rain of arrows and stepped on the scaffolding of two barbarians. With this huge momentum, he jumped up high and landed directly on the city wall which was more than [-] meters high. Holding a huge mountain axe, he performed the 'whirlwind' at the same time, like a dozen minced meat Like a machine, a bloody storm blew up on the city wall.

These barbarian warriors, whose strength is comparable to that of level [-] warriors, slaughtered wantonly on the city wall, strangled all the warriors on the city wall in an instant, and quickly advanced along the two sides of the city wall. Benjamin happened to be in this section Standing on the city wall, he and several soldiers were forced to retreat to the arrow stack. They leaned against the high arrow stack behind them and held halberds in their hands, desperately resisting the attack of a barbarian warrior.

The barbarian warrior with the mountain ax in his hand had a ferocious grin on his face, and surrounded his body with a giant ax in his hand. He spun wildly and rushed towards Benjamin. Benjamin and his companions looked almost desperately at the barbarian warrior approaching like a meat grinder...

A huge two-handed sword held the mountain ax that fell from the barbarian warrior, and a large knight in full armor stood in front of Benjamin, resisting the violent blow for him, But the bluestone slab under the foot of the big knight was crushed by him. The barbarian warrior looked at the big knight who suddenly appeared in front of him in astonishment, raised the mountain ax with a fierce look on his face, and slammed heavily on the big knight before it was too late. Withdraw the two-handed sword.

The big knight took a step back by the huge force, and hit Benjamin's chest with his back. The huge force hit Benjamin's throat sweetly, and he spurted out a mouthful of warm blood.

The great knight in full armor took another difficult step forward, and he found that he could not retreat, nor could he avoid the barbarian warrior's attack.

The strength of the great knight was slightly inferior to that of the barbarian warrior. The barbarian's continuous slashing made him overwhelmed for a while. At this time, any moves and combat skills seemed so weak in the face of strength. He blocked the barbarian's fifth slashing in a row When he slashed, the big knight's arms were completely numb, and he couldn't lift the giant two-handed sword in his hand no matter what.

The barbarian warrior on the opposite side suddenly jumped up...

"jump cut"

The great knight sighed helplessly. After all, he was slightly inferior in strength to the barbarian warrior on the ice and snow tundra, but even though he knew he was dead, he did not take a step back.

This may be the so-called chivalry. Standing behind the great knight, Benjamin seemed to have a warm current passing through his body. He suddenly remembered the pistol hanging on his waist, and touched it involuntarily.

With a "bang", a pool of blood gushed out of the barbarian's eye sockets, and the heart-piercing roar was accompanied by a mountain axe. Unfortunately, he lost his vision in one eye at this time, and he was wearing a full-coverage armor. In fact, how could he miss such an opportunity? He rolled sideways on the ground to avoid the fatal axe. The giant two-handed sword in his hand was inserted under the barbarian warrior's left rib like a poisonous snake, and cut off directly. Blood mist spurted out of the artery above the heart.

The barbarian warrior grasped the giant two-handed sword in both hands, knelt on the ground and died angrily and unwillingly.

The great knight picked up the mountain ax thrown on the ground by the barbarian warrior, stood up and made a gesture of victory and glory to Benjamin, and rushed to the most stalemate place of the battle without hesitation, where the heavy armor that had just been supported from the rear The infantry was defeated by three barbarian warriors on the city wall.

Benjamin instinctively looked to the left, only to find that the most elite hoplites in the guard battalion, armed with heavy spears, rushed towards here along the passages on both sides of the city wall, colliding with the dozens of barbarian warriors. Together, even the most elite heavy infantry of the El City Guard Battalion are still far inferior to the barbarian warriors in terms of strength. They need three to five people to fight a tie with a barbarian, but in This is not a very wide city wall, and it is impossible to arrange an army formation at all. At this time, the barbarian warriors with few people and strong individual strength have the upper hand, and the heavy infantry of the guard battalion suffered heavy losses for a while.

The soldier companion beside him sat down pale and paralyzed. It seemed that the 'death has come' had frightened him just now, and his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand up.

Benjamin ignored his companions, but touched the alloy bow beside him, pulled out an armor-piercing arrow from the quiver, and shot at the barbarian warriors on the city wall.

The barbarians on the other side of the moat drove the human slaves and pushed the heavy siege vehicles across the ice of the moat. Amid the desperate cries, the 40-meter-high siege vehicles turned huge wooden wheels, slowly Moving forward, several barbarians holding short spears kept waving their arms and threw the short spears made of pure iron. The flying spears that fell from the sky pierced the chests of several archers on the city wall.

There were also barbarian warriors throwing short spears on the siege vehicles who were constantly hit by arrows and fell from the siege vehicles tens of meters high.

The cries of the Griffin came from a distance, and the Griffin Knights stationed here by the North Wind Legion finally rushed into the battlefield. For the barbarians, these Griffin Knights flying high in the sky can only use throwing axes Confrontation, but as long as the Griffin Knights maintain a certain height, the barbarians have nothing to do with those Griffin Knights. Every Gryphon Knight is very powerful in combat and is good at throwing spears. They can even snipe at high altitude. The big witches in the barbarian team, as expected, those big witches disappeared after the appearance of Gryphon Knight.

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In just a quarter of an hour, the northern city wall was nearly a hundred meters long captured by those barbarians. At this time, on the arrow tower tens of meters away, there was the creaking and creaking sound of the reeds being tightened. The ballista in the tower Finally adjusted the shooting angle, after the bowstring made a loud 'hum', a five-meter-long giant crossbow arrow turned into a phantom, with a sharp humming sound piercing the air, and directly hit the barbarian warrior on the city wall .

The barbarian warrior heard a strange sound behind him, and instinctively swung his huge ax to slash back. When he turned around completely, he was shocked to find that a super-large crossbow arrow three times thicker than his thigh was approaching. In front of him, the sharp conical arrow tip was only one meter long, and it directly hit the mountain ax in the hands of the barbarian warrior. The entire giant crossbow arrow penetrated the barbarian warrior's body, leaving a hole on the barbarian warrior's chest. A blood hole the size of a sea bowl.

At this moment, the defenders of the El City Guard Battalion blew the horn of counterattack.

The ballistas on several arrow towers pointed their heads at a dozen barbarian warriors on the city wall. With the cooperation of archers and hoplites, the [-]-meter-long city wall that was captured by the barbarian warriors lost ground. They were constantly taken back by the soldiers of the guard battalion.

At the same time, a huge siege vehicle had successfully crossed the ice of the moat, and when it hit the city wall, it made a huge roar.

The barbarian warriors like the tide climbed up the wooden steps behind the siege vehicle, trying to support the dozen or so barbarian warriors fighting alone on the top of the city. The heroes in the hearts of the soldiers, they are using their lives to block all the pressure on the city wall, so that these barbarian soldiers can climb up smoothly.

There was a loud "boom", and another huge siege vehicle hit the city wall, but this giant siege vehicle was too heavy and not too strong, and the moment it touched the city wall, it was already It collapsed.Although the siege engine collapsed, the wooden steps remained, waiting for the barbarians holding the huge door panels to swarm up.

The soldiers stationed on the city wall gathered together, holding hard bows in their hands, and followed behind the heavy infantry, trying to drive the dozen or so barbarian warriors who were defending the city from the city wall.

The current situation is not optimistic. If there is no way to force the barbarian warriors down the city wall before those barbarian warriors climb up the city wall, then half of the battle will be lost.

Benjamin was among the crowd, shooting arrows continuously, naturally anxious.

However, those crazy barbarian warriors, even if their bodies are full of armor-piercing arrows like hedgehogs, as long as they have a breath, they will swear to the death.

A magician wearing a silver magic robe stood on a magic broom and galloped from the air.

Benjamin looked over carefully, and it turned out to be Teacher Ethan from the School of Magic. He found that black magic runes were embroidered on his gorgeous robe, and his whole body was covered with a layer of transparent air. He landed flexibly on the top of the city, Only a few meters away from the barbarians on the siege vehicles, he suddenly stood on the magic broom and pushed his hands forward.

"Gas Explosion"

A huge and irresistible thrust suddenly appeared in the air, and it actually directly blew all the barbarian soldiers on the entire siege vehicle down to the city!
Immediately, he stood on the magic broom and flew high. As he slowly twisted the spell, hundreds of 'wind blades' appeared around his body, and under his precise control, they flew towards the city walls one after another The barbarian warriors on the ground, the "wind blade" with unrivaled wind power quickly strangled those few wind blade barbarians who had become the last of their strength.

As the magicians from the Academy of Magic joined the battle group, the balance of victory finally quickly shifted to El City's side.

As the second batch of rescuers from the Academy of Magic to support the war zone on the northern city wall, I rushed to the battlefield early in the morning to treat the wounded soldiers brought down from the city wall with 'hydrotherapy'...

At this time, I happened to see Senior Benjamin among the personnel transporting the wounded soldiers. He seemed to have suffered some minor injuries, but he seemed to be in good spirits, and we didn't even have time to say hello.

After the magicians from the magic academy joined in the battle situation, a qualitative change took place. The city wall that was about to be breached was recaptured by the soldiers of the guard battalion.

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It will be half a month until this battle is completely won.

When I saw Senior Benjamin again, it was on the day of the big counterattack, and I was on duty in the aid station.

Senior Benjamin ran in in a panic. At that time, I saw his haggard face. He was so thin that I could barely recognize him. There was an unpleasant sour smell on his body. I'm afraid he hasn't taken a bath in a while. , he pulled me desperately from the rescue station to the bottom of the north city wall. A big knight in full armor was lying on the ground covered in blood. He had several very serious wounds on his body and fell into a deep coma. among.

Senior Benjamin said to me in a hoarse voice: "Jijia, save him quickly, you must help me revive him!"

I rolled my eyes speechlessly, and without any hesitation, I quickly unfolded a magic scroll of 'hydrotherapy', at least before treating the wound, I couldn't let him die.

I asked the servants of the big knight to help me untie his armor, quickly inspected the wound, and said to Senior Benjamin: "If there is Senior Mia, I can be more confident. The only thing we can do is to sew up his wound as much as possible, his injury is too serious, he lost too much blood, whether he can wake up depends on his willpower and desire to survive."

"She's trapped at the temple and can't come back!" he said weakly

Benjamin looked at the stone wall and sat down on the ground, looking very tired...

(End of this chapter)