Chapter 172: Tentative

Chapter One Hundred and Seventy Two
Thunder City is located on the edge of Thunder Strait, and the city wall is only a few kilometers away from the beach-it can only be said that this is a natural and wonderful outpost fortress.
If the Roland people in the north want to land on the southern continent, then the most suitable place on the northern coastline of the Bright Empire is this beach outside Thunder City.
Perhaps when God created this world, God deliberately left Guangming Continent with an excellent topography. On the shoreline of Guangming Continent leaning on Thunder Strait, most of the coastline is steep vortex reefs, steep cliffs, and flat sandy beaches. There are relatively few beaches, and there are even fewer beaches that can accommodate large-scale landings. The beach outside Thunder City is flat and wide, which is the best place for landing.
The walls of Thunder City were built in accordance with the first-level fortresses of the Empire—it was completely a military fortress and few civilians lived in the city. The city wall is constructed entirely of boulders produced in the north. It is tall and strong, twelve meters high and four meters wide, showing a circular arc shape.
Thunder City is not big, and the largest limit can only accommodate 200,000 people garrisoned-at this moment, there are fifty thousand sect flame warriors, fifty thousand thunder whips, and fifty thousand elite heavy armored infantry from the northern legion.
Tiger looked at the information in front of him coldly, then walked out of the cabin, standing on the deck and looking up, under the morning sun, Thunder City was faintly visible on the shore.
"Thunder City must be taken first." Tiger sighed slightly as the commander of the Roland Continent's southern expedition. Regardless of all aspects, the first plan of this holy war must be to win Thunder City!
First of all, the coalition forces on the Roland mainland need a strong stronghold after they come ashore to rectify the army and serve as a solid transit point for further southern expeditions! In the footsteps of the war when the army went south, with this solid stronghold close to the coastline, the supply from the mainland of Roland could continuously be sent to the front line through this transfer station!
Taking a step back, Tiger is deeply jealous of the fighting power of the Bright Empire on land-especially their Tulip Duke, almost every generation of that family is a natural military commander. The Bright Empire has a large and elite army. After your own army is ashore, you must immediately obtain a solid military stronghold. In case the other party mobilizes heavy troops to fight back wildly, you only need a solid military fortress to breathe and repair. .
He didn't want his army to fight field battles with the opposing large cavalry corps right away as soon as he landed ashore-it would take some time to fix it. Ten days of crossing the strait and the turbulent sea made the soldiers very tired.
It is also very important. There are quite sufficient food, grass, weapons and other military materials in Thunder City. The occupation of Thunder City can provide a lot of supplies to the army.
Of course, there is another reason, Tiger did not say...
He himself is not optimistic about this holy war-but the dignity and honor of the knight forced him to be loyal to His Majesty and the temple. But he was always a little uneasy in his heart-fighting hard with the army of the Bright Continent on land? Although the number of Roland's coalition forces is large enough, can it work with a mixed army of more than a dozen countries?
Occupy Thunder City! Because this stronghold is closest to the coastline, if the future war fails and the army is defeated, Thunder City can be used to gather the defeated army and block the pursuit of the Bright Empire. You can rely on the protection of this strong military fortress to withdraw the army to the sea with maximum safety!
It’s just that Tiger knows very well that these truths are understood by himself and the other party also understands. Therefore, the other party has deployed a critically ill handle in Thunder City, and it is the "Thunder God Whip" led by the Empire's Duke Tulip!
Tiger looked at Thunder City from a distance, and there seemed to be a flag flying high. Although it was too far away to see too clearly, Tiger knew that it was a tulip banner!
Taking a deep breath, the top commander of the Roland coalition army gave the command in short words: "Land!"
The morning sun was graciously sprinkled on the sea. On the vast sea, thousands of huge black warships lined up densely-half of them were the kind of Roland people mentioned by Milo. A first-class warship that can accommodate more than a thousand people! !
Countless small boats, densely packed like ants, were put down, like large swaths of locusts pouring up the coast...
The imperial defenders above the city wall were dumbfounded...After all, there has not been a large-scale war with the Roland mainland for a hundred years. Although it has always been known that the Roland people are extremely powerful at sea-but at this moment, I saw such a huge sea of ​​the other party. Legion, it also made the eyes of these imperial soldiers stare out!
The beach was noisy, countless Roland soldiers rushed to the coast, carrying a large amount of supplies and equipment, and then flooding into the huge barracks. From the city wall, they looked like a group of busy worker ants.
"Master Duke, shall we continue to wait?" Zieg couldn't help frowning.
Roddy looked at the sun in the sky and said faintly: "Wait! This batch of only more than 100,000 people have come ashore. I will wait for hundreds of thousands of them to come ashore and let them leave the ocean where they came to survive. On land, every drop of blood drained under our walls!"
So, on the second day of the war, a strange scene formed...
The huge Roland coalition army landing on the coast and beach was busy, but the imperial army in the thunderous city from far away completely regarded them as air. The two sides occasionally looked at each other from a distance, and both continued to do their own things, not to mention a single shot. Yes, not even an arrow has ever been placed...
The only thing that surprised Roddy was that a larger fleet of opponents appeared on the sea next. The densely packed warships almost completely blocked the entire sea surface. The army was transported from the sea to the shore, the number from one hundred thousand. To two hundred thousand, then three hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, six hundred thousand...
The seemingly huge military camp on the coast is almost no longer enough. People shouting and neighing filled the entire beach, even in the thunderous city far away.
For three whole days, the other party transported a huge army to the shore. The huge military camp looked like a dense forest. The only thing Roddy did every day was to stand on the wall and watch. The opponent landed, and then secretly calculated how many troops the opponent had come this time...
The results of the statistics surprised him slightly: 800,000! At least 800,000 people! This number is only a lot more!
Is Roland crazy? They sent all the armies of almost half of the continent-they really thought that this kind of miscellaneous army of a dozen countries' armies could defeat the army of the Bright Empire that swept the continent?
Roddy's eyes are already very sharp at the moment. After three days of observation, his evaluation of the strength of the Roland coalition is quite pertinent.
Among these 800,000 people, only a maximum of less than 200,000 people reached the standards of the elite army of the empire. Two of the knights looked very good, and they must be the strongest knights in the legendary Roland continent. I just don't know if there are any holy knights of the Roland mainland temple inside.
As for the other armies, Roddy didn't bother to look at them-those were almost miscellaneous, with relatively few cavalry, mostly infantry, but those infantry were completely inadequate compared with the elite heavy armored infantry of the Bright Empire.
They lack equipment, or even good armor. Some armies don't even have uniform uniforms. The so-called armor of many infantrymen is simply a few pieces of rotten iron covering the chest and shoulders and other vital parts. The weapons in hand are also various, including swords, broadswords, short spears, long spears...
There is also a strange army that surprised Roddy-it is really a very strange army, it should be the legendary Roland battle convoy-thousands of two-wheeled carriages, each with a carriage A war horse, three soldiers, a coachman, and two spearmen. On the two wheels of the carriage, two long sharp knives were tied-Roddy saw the terrible army of this kind of army at a glance, this is a special unit specially used to slaughter the opponent's infantry!
However, the shortcomings of this tank are also very obvious, Roddy just sneered twice, then ignored it.
In addition to the unexpectedly large number of the opposing army, Roddy has no worries in his heart these days. Every day just patrol the barracks as usual, and then drag Zieg to discuss some things, and even the commanding officers under him are rare.
The only one who was worried was the bishop elder of the religious cult.
This sect elder walked up the city wall one day, and after seeing the huge army camp of the enemy far in front of the beach, he exclaimed, his face turned pale immediately.
He immediately strongly suggested that the Duke Tulip ask for reinforcements from His Majesty!
Need to talk? The entire northern theater has only 400,000 troops, but the opponent's number is twice as much as his own! !
You should immediately request the emperor's large-scale law-rectification reserve soldiers, and it is even necessary to recruit civilians!
Roddy just glanced at him coldly, and then said lightly: "Got it."
Zieg watched the reluctant bishop and elder leave, and sneered: "Idiot! Can't he see that although the opponent's army is huge, there are very few real elite soldiers among them, and most of them wear armors and weapons. , But from the way they walk, they are just a group of farmers who have just put down their hoes...huh."
Milo said indifferently: "It goes without saying that the rubbish, but their two knights look really good. Just pay attention to those people. But the cavalry can't attack the city, we can completely kill them! "
Roddy smiled slightly: "To kill them? It seems unnecessary, I have no plans to fight in Thunder City..."
He smiled slowly: "I have decided. We will stay here for ten days. After ten days, we will abandon Thunder City and retreat to the northern provinces!"
Zieg and Milo looked at each other, a strange look flashed in Milo's eyes, coldly said: "Site, you are really cunning, you are afraid they will run away, do you want to lure the enemy deeper?"
Roddy nodded: "Thunder City is too close to the seaside, they can escape at any time, but as long as they lure them to the depths of the mainland... Hmph, I want to let their 800,000 army touch all of them on the Bright Continent! "
With a sigh, Rody whispered: "In that case, at least you can exchange peace for the empire for decades..."
The calm broke on the eighth day of the opponent's landing.
General Tiger, the commander of the Roland Continental Alliance, wrote a war note to the Duke of Tulip, the commander of the Thunder City Empire, and the two parties agreed to a decisive battle under Thunder City in the afternoon of the next day.
After seeing this battle book, Roddy and Zieg looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.
Milo also looked a little weird: "This group of Roland pagans will fight as soon as they are hit. Let them attack the city. What are they going to do?"
Roddy thought for a while and said, "Fight, let's fight. Our army hasn't fought Roland in a hundred years. It's okay to try their strength first. Let me and General Milo lead people out of the city tomorrow. Let's play with them under the city!"
Just as Zieg wanted to say something, Roddy shook his head and said, "The Thor's Whip is now our trump card. It can't be revealed for the first time. Tomorrow, General Zieg, you can watch it on the wall!"
The war begins...
The afternoon sun was particularly dazzling. With the dull and dense drums, a group of soldiers from the Roland coalition barracks slowly walked out, and a huge army formation was opened in the wilderness under the city, with a few infantry in the middle. The phalanx was lined with cavalry on both sides, but the strange convoy did not appear.
The gates of Thunder City opened, and fifty thousand heavy armored infantry in solid armor lined up in neat steps, holding solid shields and big swords in their hands, and dense and neat square formations lined up under the wall.
The air was full of moisture from the sea breeze and a bit of salty smell. The afternoon sun caused sweat to flow out of the soldiers' foreheads. Roddy and Milo stood in the middle of the army, staring coldly at the Roland coalition on the opposite side.
"It seems that the other party's commander is also very cautious... these people are just a test." Milo whispered, but he glanced at Roddy from the corner of his eye.
Roddy didn't speak, his eyes were sharp, and he pouted and looked at the enemy far away.
A giant man with a height of more than two meters and a figure similar to the rand ran out of the opposing army formation, holding a huge horn in his hand and placing it beside his mouth...
Oh oh...
"For honor!" A knight drew the sword.
"For honor!!!" Numerous voices burst into the sky, and then the front row of the Roland people began to move. Numerous soldiers began to advance slowly, first trotting, then faster and faster, and finally running in front of them. The soldier raised the weapon in his hand, and after a wild roar, quickly rushed towards the Bright Empire army.
On the city wall, Zieg sighed and shook his head: "A miscellaneous brand is a miscellaneous brand." He gave an order, and the archer on the wall immediately opened his bow, and launched a round of shooting at the sky at a 45-degree angle!
As soon as the first batch of infantrymen of the Roland people ran halfway, they heard a whistling sound from the sky, and then sharp swords fell from the sky all over the sky. Although the soldiers of screamed their arrows in the face of the dense rain of arrows, even though they were holding their shields. But most of the Roland soldiers still screamed and ran forward!
"Vertical shield!" Milo raised his voice and shouted loudly!
The soldiers at the forefront of the Bright Empire left and inserted huge shields on the ground. The sharp shields were inserted into the soft sand, and a solid shield wall was immediately erected in front of the army!
"ready……"
"Prepare... press the back row forward..."
"ready……"
The officer shouted loudly, seeing the enemy getting closer, the intensive footsteps were like urging shouts.
Then, just on this battlefield, the Roland army half of the billowing torrent slammed into the shield wall!
With endless bangs, the two forces slammed together, and some shield walls were immediately knocked through a gap, but after the gap was opened, the Roland soldiers who had just rushed in from behind found out in despair and greeted them. He is countless sharp swords, and the Roland soldiers who rushed into the gap were chopped into pieces immediately after leaving! The first wave of attacks all hit the shield wall, hitting the head and bleeding, not only failed to break through, but blocked the people behind.
"Remove the shield!!" Milo yelled, only to hear the clicking sound, the shield wall suddenly broke in the middle...The huge shields of the Bright Empire army were all connected by two pieces, as long as the inside One of the chains broke open, and the shield was immediately divided into two pieces!
After a shout, the heavy armored infantry of the empire rushed up and quickly fought with the opposing soldiers!
The heavy armored infantry of the Empire are all professional soldiers who have undergone rigorous training. Their killing skills, as well as the skills of three or five people teaming up to fight in battle, far surpass the soldiers put together by the Roland people.
Often the sword of a Roland soldier had just opened the weapon cut by the opponent, but his neck was cold, and his head had been cut off by another imperial soldier!
As soon as they touched, countless people screamed and fell down in an instant!
Roddy's Dragon Tooth Sword had already been swung, and a group of golden vindictiveness burst out from his sword. All the Roland soldiers who rushed to his side were immediately torn apart under the golden vindictiveness and turned into a group of flesh and blood.
Milo's swordsmanship is much more elegant in comparison, his swordsmanship is like a real dance, every stroke and every stab can immediately take away a life!
The excellent equipment and proficient fighting skills of the heavy-armored infantry caused the Roland to lose a lot! Many Roland soldiers found that they had worked so hard to cut down the opponent, but were unable to break through the opponent's hard armor, but with such a daze, the opponent's sword had already pierced them...
"Your Excellency Tiger, please let us go!" Seeing that the people on one's side were slaughtered by the other side in front, the other side's heavy armored infantry was like an impenetrable metal wall. A tall knight shouted at General Tiger next to him in a deep voice: "Let my knights charge, no matter how powerful the opponent is, they are only infantry! I am sure to kill them!"
Tiger glanced at the knight beside him indifferently, and said indifferently, "No." After a pause, he slowly said, "Did you see the other side's gate? Their Thor's Whip must be behind the gate. Wait! I said, today is not the time for a decisive battle! Today is just a test! I just want those guys in the army who arrogantly think the Light Empire is vulnerable to know what kind of enemy we are facing!"
After a pause, his tone became a little milder, looking at the tall knight, and whispered: "Your Excellency, your knights are an indispensable power in my hand, and I want you to deal with Thor's whip. Please bear with me for a while!"
Tiger immediately issued orders one by one, and the second and third waves continued to rush up, violently assaulting the heavy armored infantry formation of the Bright Empire like a tide, but he knew that the opponent was no more than 50,000 people, but These troops just couldn't break through the past, waves of offensive like waves all hit the wall, and groups of infantrymen went up as if they were dying.
"Gordon Infantry Regiment, Sylt Infantry Regiment, Slav Infantry Regiment..." The knight frowned: "Can't all three infantry regiments rush through? The opponent is only 50,000 people..."
Tiger sneered: "Didn't the people of the Gordon Kingdom and the Slavic Kingdom were crazy in the camp last night? Then let them try their own swords and how strong their armors are today!" He glanced at the knight who was about to move next to him, and said lightly: "I don't want any disobedient people in my barracks. I know you want to go up, but the opponent is relying on the battlefield below the wall. Could you let your knights rush to be Are the live targets of the archers on the wall? Didn't you see the stones on the wall? Do you use the armor of the knight to resist the stones that fell?!"
The armor on Roddy's body has been dyed red with blood-of course, these are all the blood of the enemy, after smearing the blood of the dragon, the weapons of ordinary soldiers can't cause any harm to him at all!
A golden brilliance swept across, and another head flew up. That golden light also split the body of a Roland soldier in half diagonally!
Seeing the enemy who had collapsed and receded like a tide, Roddy had a grim expression and cold-blooded gaze in his eyes.
Although the heavy-armored infantry next to him is stronger than the miscellaneous army sent by the opponent, they have lost a lot after this tide of attack, and the soldiers are even more exhausted. Roddy glanced at Zieg on the city wall, then looked at the opponent's army that was slowly withdrawing, and said coldly: "In the first battle, it seems that the opponent is also testing."
In the evening, the soldiers reported that there was another reinforcement on the sea!
Roddy immediately took Zieg and Milo up the city wall, looking through the moonlight, a white medium-sized warship slowly approached...
Milo looked at the banner on the opponent's warship, frowned, and whispered: "It's the Magician Guard of the Roland Continent! Their magician is here!"
Roddy shrugged, looked at the barracks of the Flame Warriors under the city wall behind him, and said lightly: "Magic? Then it seems that the people of the gods will be able to come in handy soon."