Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 400 Night Attack
"Hey, wake up. Wake up!"

A giant on the sentry tower pushed his companion's shoulder. Seeing that he was still snoring loudly, he couldn't help but kick him to the ground, "Fuck it, wake up!"

"Ah!" The giant who was kicked awake was dazed for two seconds, then became furious, clenched his fists and was about to start fighting, but was stopped by his companions in a stern voice.

"Don't be so stubborn, listen carefully! Is there something over there? Idiot, it's to the north - over at the South Pass!"

The giant stood up unsteadily, leaning on the fence of the sentry tower and yelling, "Have you gone mad from keeping watch all night?"

"The general arranged us here to prevent the group of fire monks from breaking out to the north. What's in the north? Snow, rocks, or more than 3,000 miles of mountain roads? It's still thousands of miles after the ridge line to Guntherfred. There are tens of thousands of people from the Eastern Regiment guarding there. How can we two little shrimps worry about it?"

"I, burp..." The giant burped with a strong smell of alcohol, "If those monks can bypass the dozen or so checkpoints in the south and slip away from under our noses, I will treat you to a month's worth of drinks!"

hum-

The sudden sharp roar caused a sharp pain in the eardrum of the giant sitting on the ground, and at the same time, an intense burning sensation came from his retina!
A bright red trail cut through the air in front of him, passing through the guardrail of the watchtower, the chest of his companion, the baffle of the roof, and disappeared into the night sky, entwined with countless tiny black space cracks!

boom!
It was not until this moment that he heard the loud noise of the checkpoint wall behind him being hit by the beam of light. The flesh and blood of his companion's upper body also exploded at the same time, like a blooming scarlet flower!
"Uh"

The giant who was shot tried hard to turn around, and several arms connected by flesh and skin barely touched his chest. However, the flesh and blood with a diameter of three meters, including the heart, were completely evaporated by the light beam, leaving only a horrible hole.

The next second, he collapsed like a piece of rotten meat with bones pulled out.

Thousands of steps away, Hilbert put down the bow in his hand, raised his right palm and swung it forward.

Led by the half-wolf Blaze, three hundred lightly armed knights in black light armor flashed out from the night, taking advantage of the chaos in the enemy checkpoints to surge across the snowfield like a tide, throwing out grappling hooks to leap onto the city walls, pulling out all kinds of weapons and starting a massacre.

These 300 lightly-armored knights were the vanguards that Lucia had selected again from the 10,000 troops heading south. They were called "Night Blades". In addition to the standard black dragon-scale light armor, everyone could freely match the weapons and equipment that they were best at.

The Night Blade exists for only one purpose - to cause the most effective damage in the shortest time and in the quietest way, to be the first to attack in battle and to open up a path for the army.

The checkpoint before them was a small fortress temporarily renovated by the Giant Sanctuary Regiment based on the fortress left by Duoris. It was used to prevent the Fire Monks of the Watcher Fortress from breaking out to the north. There were only 140th-generation giants and 400 lower-level giants stationed inside and outside.

Hilbert's arrow not only destroyed the outer sentry tower, but also penetrated into the camp, piercing through six giants and causing great chaos.

Therefore, as soon as the battle broke out, the giants inside the camp were unable to organize effective resistance in the first place. Facing the 300 cold and silent killing machines of Night Blade, they suffered heavy casualties as soon as they came into contact.

Blaze took the lead, dancing the royal giant sword weighing hundreds of kilograms into a silver hurricane, and with his vigorous and fierce thrusting steps, he immediately enveloped the area within a hundred meters in strong wind and sword light!
Wherever the sword light passed, the giants who were several times or even dozens of times taller than him had their weapons and bodies shattered by the hurricane, turning into blood waves that soared into the sky, making his dark and violent figure look like a ferocious god.

"Kill it!" Several giants who had reacted screamed in shock and anger, "Kill the monster first!"

Blaze's body, which was originally rushing forward, suddenly stopped. He dodged the giant warhammer that was coming down on him with his wolf body. He immediately exerted force from his waist and swung the giant sword horizontally. It was launched like a high-speed spinning silver gyroscope and cut the first giant in half!
Amidst the spurting blood, he suddenly leaped forward, drew a high arc, and pounced on the shoulder of the second giant. He swung his sharp claws to tear open the opponent's throat, then leaped up again, twisted his body in the air, and split the last giant in half with one sword!
"Monster, it's really a monster - run! Run!!!"

The first few fourth-generation giants were the targets of the Night Blade Army. After they fell, the remaining mob only put up a tentative resistance, but were soon frightened by the cold and efficient slaughter and began to flee. But once they left the camp and went to the vast snowy plains, how could the giants escape the iron hoofs of the elite cavalry of the Northern Expedition?
In the rising snow mist, the Storm Knights in silver armor and the Scorching Sun Knights in golden armor mixed together. With just one charge, they crushed more than 400 giants into mud under their horses' hooves.

"Keep moving forward." In the middle of the queue, Lucia didn't care about the results of the battle at all, but calmly gave the next order.

The Arctic ice field is too vast. The huge territory means that the distance between any two strongholds on this land is extremely far. Even the news of tens of thousands of troops marching out can only be heard over a dozen miles. But in the north, the distance between any two outposts is often hundreds of miles.

Moreover, after the army passed by, the traces left behind would be wiped out by the wind and snow in just a few hours. Even if the Giant King's Court wanted to send out scouts to capture their whereabouts, it would be powerless.

These conditions made it extremely convenient for Lucia to conceal the movement tracks of the army. The secret march that was difficult to achieve even for a small force of a few hundred people in Asia was not a difficult task for an army of tens of thousands here.

But on the other hand, this also meant that it was difficult for him to split up his troops, mobilize them, respond remotely, and coordinate their actions.

Once a small group of troops separated from the main force, they would face the dilemma of lack of food and supplies within three days. If the troops were split into teams of about 3,000 people and led by several heroes, it would be difficult for them to provide timely assistance to each other when encountering the main force of the enemy.

Even he himself, facing those star beasts in the Star Shattering War that had power but no reason, could use royal combat skills combined with various powerful spells to treat thousands of troops as grass, but that was the result of direct suppression by 300,000 main forces.

When he arrived in the north, he was alone and deep in the enemy's territory without supplies. As long as the Giant King's Court sent out a few Founding Titans and tens of thousands of elite troops, it would be enough to threaten his life.

Therefore, under the existing conditions, leading hundreds of elite troops to fight small-scale battles on the local battlefield, such as outflanking and beheading the generals, is the limit of what he can do with his personal strength. Breaking into the royal court alone and chopping down the Giant King against the ten ancestors is only something he can dream about. Even if the Black Sword and the War King in his prime came, there would be no chance of that happening.

"It would be great if we could build some kind of long-distance communication network based on mental connection, just like the Memory Battlefield."

This thought only flashed through Lucia's mind and was quickly stuffed into the pile of "to-do items".

There is already a spiritual connection channel in the memory battlefield to contact the descendants of Xingyue, but that is probably the black technology completed by the cooperation of his parents and Sanyue Shen at their peak. Although he will be able to master this powerful power comparable to that of the gods sooner or later, it is impossible to achieve it in the short term.

This war can only be won by him fairly and honorably under the existing conditions.

With the strategy and tactics already determined, the iron hooves advance faster than the thoughts.

In just one night, with the Night Blade troops as their blade, the 10,000-strong army heading south conquered twelve Giant checkpoints in a row and approached the Watcher Fortress 30 miles north before dawn.

At this distance, it was like putting a knife to the throat of the 7,000 giant troops in the south.

No matter how swift and covert the movement was, if we took one more step forward, the movement of the battle would be quickly discovered by the main enemy force, so the opportunity for a night attack ended here.

Whether to raid the enemy camp or find an opportunity to bypass the fortress and use the fire monks to contain the 7,000 enemy troops and continue forward was the decision Lucia had to make at this moment.

ps. Happy 400th chapter! Although there are still n chapters to be completed, I would like to ask for your support and votes for the author's bravery in updating for a month! Let the good atmosphere of society blow in with the votes! I want to challenge my weakness and see if I can write faster!
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