Vol 8 Chapter 356: Poison of power

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Volume Two [Dark Tide] Chapter 356 The Poison of Power
"They are coming!"
"Ready to fight ... Hurry! Get your weapons!"
"Commander! I can't hold on to the left! We need support!"
The rain was pouring down, mixed with a mess of shouts, and the commander Kurka, wearing silver armor, was tense, his hands resting on the hilt slightly shaking.
After continuously expanding and killing five noble lords, the total number of "Rebels" now exceeds 20,000-sounds like a lot, in fact, more than 90% of them are civilians swept and controlled. It is too difficult for the Rebels to choose among the available soldiers.
In the absence of a large-scale undead counterattack, Kurka's attack was quite smooth, and it can be said that there was no obstacle at all. However, the current situation made him soberly aware that ... this reluctantly condensed army finally hit the iron plate that couldn't stand it.
The unprofessional scouts ran back and forth on their horses, reporting the news of "eight hundred undead army attacking the flanks." The undead cavalry and undead mage on horseback easily destroyed the 2,000-strong vanguard. Less than a thousand people have fled one after another, and the look of the beard has shaken the farmers who are always fighting "windbreaker" ...
Kulka understands the gap between the two sides and knows that throwing 3,000 or 4,000 troops, who are barely armed, into the battlefield is tantamount to death, so for this hard bone, he wisely chose "strategic retreat".
"Matching orders! Let the vanguard retreat. We return to Talon Hill City to defend!"
He didn't know any warfare. After organizing such a rebellion, countless military knowledge has been learned and practiced passively. Kulka now commands the team as "likely."
Behind the main force he is currently in is "Talun Hill City", so the large troops moving forward quickly turned back, hurriedly rushed back to the city with the city walls, and then pulled up the suspension bridge and closed the gate. One by one stood on the wall.
Human lords have never stopped fighting over the years, so fortress-type cities with such walled walls also exist in the territory of the Lambs. In the past fifteen years, the city has conducted a total of five defensive battles of various sizes, with the result that the defenders have won. Now, in the face of menacing undead offensives, Kulka thinks he can also block their offense.
But Kulka also knew that the number of "eight hundred" undead was not literally that simple. Hidden in the dark, Dascoe told him that the forces of the undead army must be calculated more than three times when siege. And when he and the soldiers saw these attacking undead on the city wall, they realized in their hearts how terrible the oppression of such numbers ...
Among the 800 attacking undead soldiers, there were two hundred light armored knights, and the rest were infantry. However, there were seven low-level undead mages and one medium-dead mages. The result was that they were in the army. There are about 2,000 extra low-level skeletons, zombies and puppets.
The black skulls and skulls rushed up, but each person moved a stone or wood, and filled a road in the moat stiffly!
The subsequent siege battle made Kurka cold sweat.
These undead are very difficult to kill directly. The arrows shot out are basically ineffective. The falling rocks broke their arms, but they could not stop them from continuing to climb upwards—they did not need the help of the ladder. After the siege began, he climbed the city wall the second hour. If it wasn't for Kurka to force the three reserve teams to rush over to suppress it, the city wall would almost fall short!
This can't be blamed for the enemy being too strong. In fact, the skeleton soldiers have no advantage except to climb fast. Kulka can kill a team by himself ... However, he can't expect these farmers who have just gathered to have enough combat literacy: some people Now watching the zombies are still swinging their legs, can you expect such troops to fight against the undead army?
"This should be the vanguard ..."
When Kulka frowned, a shout came from the city wall. He glanced over and found that the army of undead soldiers under the city had been attacked by another group of people-what surprised people was that the attack They have more than two thousand troops, and the leader is even the undead!
"Dasco has also shot."
Of course, Kulka understands that this is a Dahiko hiding in the dark, but their presence means that the current crisis is more difficult: when the real army of the undead comes over, even the "awakening" undead of Dasco are counted. How long can they resist?
The exclamation on the wall gradually subsided, followed by a burst of cheers. Apparently, Dasco's troops unexpectedly repelled the attacking undead and calmed down the crisis. Kulka breathed a sigh of relief, and returned to the lord's mansion in the inner city late in the evening, then saw Dasco, who had returned after the battle, in the conference hall after dinner.
The pale expression on the latter's face was also not good. Although the "Awakener" also expanded to 4,000 or 5,000 people because of its occupation of a large number of territories, the battle in the afternoon immediately revealed many problems.
Dacco's headaches were caused by floating hearts, uneven equipment, poor overall combat capabilities, and poor discipline.
"This is Augustine's vanguard, which can only be counted as scouts. If there were not enough of me today, I am afraid that I would not be able to repel them so smoothly. But I will come back later than this ... It is possible to produce 30,000 to 50,000. "
Dasco is familiar with the set of undead battles, but the battle in the afternoon still annoys him abnormally: the undead fights with the undead is "tragic", because everyone can only confirm the death of the opponent when they cut off their heads, otherwise they lack arms and legs It is still possible to continue fighting, although although there are not many "deaths" on the battlefield, many subordinates have become "disabled" after the battle. When they enter the battlefield again, the combat power will definitely decrease sharply ...
This is only 800 enemies. What if tens of thousands of undead come?
Dasco sighed, not optimistic.
"It seems that there is no way to continue to expand our advantages. Now we can only fight and retreat. It is unrealistic to flee. So many of us ca n’t even take food. I ’m afraid that the Gondola Mountains ca n’t go out ...

Kurka frowned. After all, mankind wants to eat, even if his tens of thousands of troops now have more than a dozen villages to provide food, but it is not a long-term plan to do things without production and all the people.
"Go head-to-head with Augustine's troops, even if he assembles the army to invade the country, he certainly doesn't spend much time on us. So ... try to choose defense to delay time, timely strategic retreat, after they pay a certain price, they should Will choose to retire ... "
This is a consensus that Dasco and Kulka have long had. The strength gap is in front of us. Anyone who wants to win by weak and win by less wants to do more, but also depends on objective conditions. Right now the "Rebel Army" has no choice: being able to retreat and dodge with most of its main force is already a strategic success.
The two talked a few words, knowing that the war situation was severe and there was no turning point, they will not say more. As they were about to end the conversation, an undead mage came out in the shadows, ignored Kulka, and went straight to Dashco. An urgent message was reported: about a hundred undead troops, led by an undead mage, bypassed the line of defense and ran straight towards the village in the rear ...
"food!"
Dasco and Kulka thought subconsciously about this problem: If the food in the villages behind is now contaminated by the "Plague", then the human soldiers will have no morale at all.
Humans can't stand it, and it's not good for Dasco and the "Awakeners" he leads. Therefore, the leader of the undead rebels greeted Kulka, and immediately led an elite army to chase him away!
Kurka frowned slightly and stood silent in the conference room.
He knew that these undead were essentially their own bosses, but no one would feel comfortable being squeezed out of the "decision circle". He narrowed his eyes, waved to his confidant, and whispered: "Take people to Inform the rest of the villages, and keep an eye on the actions of these undeads. "
"Yes, sir!"
Kurka felt the handle of the sword, knowing that he had been poisoned with the name "power" and ... couldn't help himself.
In the early morning, Nora woke up in the noise of heavy rain.
Open your eyes, there is no rain shed in the field of vision, and the back is not a hard tree trunk. She sat up, the linen quilt slipped down, and the warm and dry room made Nora stupid for a while.
Raising her hand and touching her arm, her delicate skin was not as wet and slippery as the past with dew condensation, and she remembered that she went to a room with a tribe and took a "bath" yesterday-well, Nora I have not taken a bath since I was young, including most Teflins, and have not cleaned my body thoroughly since birth.
The feeling of hot water soaking all over her body made Nora feel more relaxed than ever before, so she oversleeped unknowingly ... This should be the first time in her life that she has slept for more than six hours.
Putting on that linen robe without holes, Nora simply put it on her body, then picked up the rice bowl on the windowsill and went out the door. After walking out of dozens of meters, she lined up to the mill door to receive a large bowl of meat. Porridge. And as the young man ranked as the top 20 in Teflin ’s strength selection ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Nora also received an extra piece of freshly baked bread.
She squeezed her hot bread and ran to the "old man's area" where her mother lived. She broke open a piece and sat with the mother in front of the stove to eat.
"It's delicious, it's delicious ... if it's earlier, hey ..."
Nora's mother burst into tears as she ate and ate, apparently thinking of the premature child. This sentiment Nora has seen in the faces of many of his kinsmen-since Elder Luther agreed to submit the whole family to Rodi, they are no longer held in custody. After following the procession to a new village yesterday, everyone also allocated temporary accommodation. After eating three hot porridge meals a day, changing to warm clothes, and taking the first bath in years, the Teflins were all dazed and felt like they were in heaven.
Now when they look at Roddy again, their eyes have long been half hostile, and they are more awed and curious. For Teflin, who had no news at all, they didn't know what the outside world was like, and Roddy and the soldiers became their first window into the world ...

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