Vol 6 Chapter 130: City Break

Eboden's offensive and defensive battle, 20th day.
City break.
After not knowing how many times to repel the enemy ’s attack, Loren finally ordered to abandon the city wall, and the whole army withdrew from the underground passage into the city fortress to stay on guard; the Hussars continued to swim outside the city, on the one hand contacting reinforcements, on the one hand continued to attack The enemy's rear troops.
Although it is a long-planned tactical arrangement, it is even more helpless; in the face of opponents with more than twice the strength, who are completely crushed, Eboden defenders should not say that they are fighting in the city, even if they stick to the city walls!
The battle in front of the port wall not only caused heavy losses for the defenders, but also suffered more than one-third of the casualties of the wizard tower; many wizards had no time to retreat when the fortress and stronghold were broken, and they were hacked to death by swarming elves and warriors. .
The projectile weapon position under the city wall is even more tragic-because it is not protected by the ice barrier, the elven warship that broke through the chain of the sea directly passed the target across the city wall and directed a burst of fire at the rear.
Among the flames, the alchemist who stayed behind, the pharmacist who was responsible for the treatment of the wounded, and the conscripts of women and children who were conscripted ... All the people, together with the trebuchet and the fire oil tanks and the ignition agent piled up on the hill, turned into a sea of ​​fire .
Amidst the flames of fire and smoke, Eboden's projection army was completely annihilated.
The fire destroyed Ebden ’s last counterattack, but also created a natural isolation zone, which temporarily prevented the elven army from attacking the inner city from the port, and won a short rest and retreat time for the defenders.
After a whole day and night, the fire was completely extinguished; after being burned by the fire and being continuously bombarded by the elf fleet, the crumbling port wall finally collapsed and collapsed into a ruin.
The elves, who could not have predicted this, had more than a thousand outposts buried alive by the collapsing walls; the little prince who was "annoyed and angry" could only dispatch troops to rescue one side while attacking the other three sides around the port walls.
On one side, all warships were ordered to set up launchers, and indiscriminately bombarded Eboden before attacking across the board.
But the defenders who retreated to the fortresses in the city, especially the Nine-Mounted Star Wizard Tower, reduced the protection area, and the remaining wizards were also able to support enough ice barriers to protect the strongholds from damage.
In the cold and gloomy wind, the elf warriors wielding Azor's sword rushed into a fiery sea in Ebden; with the nine-pointed star wizard tower as the core stronghold, the defenders occupying the nine fortresses launched defenses along the streets and squares , Forming a phalanx to intercept the elves' offensive momentum.
The fierce white-blade battle is staged in every street and every corner of the city!
The blade hits, the shield ruptures, the spear pierces, the sword hacks ... The broken limbs are soaked in the blood of the submerged boots, flowing freely in the burning fire; the screams that follow one another are accompanied by the roar of elves and humans.
Although the Eboden defenders are hardly able to compete with the trained elf warriors, the formation of phalanx battles in a narrow space has always been the strength of the Imperial Army.
Especially after the reinforcements with Rotel and Elleman joined, the advantages of "multi-arms cooperation" on this small-scale battlefield are most vividly displayed.
The Eboden defenders and mercenaries are responsible for blocking the enemy with shield walls and gun arrays, and the Lothal war bow shooter is responsible for uninterrupted harassment.
When the enemy decides to retreat, wielding two weapons-usually a tomahawk and heavy machete, the Elmans knights prefer to use short swords-the Elmans light infantry rushed out of the shield wall and the street roof, taking advantage of The elf hacked and killed before reacting.
Ebden is a port city, a free city full of "commercial atmosphere"; "commercial atmosphere" means that although she has spacious streets and beautiful and neat houses, more of them are intricate alleys and Narrow buildings that are erroneously built and desperately piled up to save money.
The intricate streets and streets combined with the reckless bombing of the elf fleet turned Ebden into a huge maze. The elf warriors fought like exploring in the jungle. During the period, they continued to bump into the traps already set by the defenders. He hit his head and broke the blood.
The defender can use Ebden ’s sewers to
fast maneuver
in every corner of the city, continually harassing the advancing speed of the blocking elves, concentrating local superior forces to wipe out the enemy; injured soldiers can immediately Retreat to various fortresses to rest, and then continue to fight.
However, no matter how it is reversed, the disadvantage of the overall strength is still irreparable. The elite defenders are also gradually exhausted in the "fast maneuver" time after time, or exhausted to the point that they can no longer fight.
By the time the sun rises on the twentieth day, in addition to Lucien's still clenching his teeth, all the surviving demon hunters have fallen overwhelmed-exhaustion is still second, the most important thing is the power of the void Erosion and mental load.
According to Isaac-"If this group of stink boys go on like this, they have to consider whether they should be killed first in case they become monsters."
The rest of the defenders were already overwhelmed. Lothal's bow shooter ran out of arrows, and the swordsman of Elmans cut the weapon. In the end, almost all the survivors in the city were issued weapons and gathered in In the fortress and stronghold, make final preparations.
The material reserve has bottomed out, and the exhausted defender has nothing but morale; even the last morale is gradually lost as the urban areas are abandoned one by one, gradually becoming desperate.
According to the city's death guard, it is the worst result and the result of no choice-this means that the enemy can attack from any direction, and the defending army can't even fight out of the city.
The sturdy fortress and the stone walls are no longer an umbrella for the defenders, but a tomb; the only thing they can do is bury them alive with themselves at the moment the enemy breaks through the gate of this tomb.
In the early morning of the 20th day, most of the city of Eboden was lost; the streets burned by the fire and the squares soaked in blood had raised the banner of the eagle king in the shape of the Yangtze River Delta. Star Wizard Tower and the three remaining outer fortresses.
As the city gradually fell, the elves finally found the sewer entrance, and launched attacks on the wizard tower and fortress along a few channels.
Whether it was the little prince's decision or not, the elf warriors who had killed their red eyes obviously had no idea of ​​letting go of their last enemies.
On the early morning of the twentieth day, the sound of a horn resounded like a long roar of an eagle, bloodthirsty and ruthless as always.
To hold back is to postpone the day of breaking the city by one day;
Unable to hold on is the death of Eboden.
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"boom------!!!!"
With the roar of the explosion, the entire Jiumanxing Wizard Tower can feel a fierce tremor; the gap between the rubble and dust can clearly hear the wailing of the fortress.
In the center of the Nine Stars Magic Array in front of the wizard tower hall, an old man with bandages on his head and staggering footsteps stood proudly with his wand.
The magnificent wizard's robe had turned into a rag, and there was one finger missing from both the left and right hands. There was no trace of blood on the cheeks, and a pair of dark and deep eye sockets.
The only surviving veteran of the nine-man star wizard tower, the leader of the history department, Raymond Banderke-this standard "ivory tower wizard", a kindly elder who has not even touched the sword, in the attack and defense of Ebden However, he has become a leading figure and has repeatedly shouldered the important task of maintaining the ice barrier and ensuring the defense line.
After retreating to the wizard tower, because of the heavy casualties of the mentor-level wizard, he took the initiative to ask the shoulder to bear the ice barrier of the wizard tower. He insisted on it alone for twenty days and never allowed any apprentice to come to assist himself.
Of course, at this moment, anyone can see that the veteran is already the end of the crossbow; even if he falls next second, no one will be surprised.
Master Corona had tried to replace him more than once, and every time he was rejected by him for the same reason.
"Whether it is my Bandelke school or the history department of the Wizarding Tower is the smallest branch of the whole system. It has always been in danger of dying since the day I inherited my father."
"So I beg you, Corona, to leave this opportunity for my devotion to me-I know your vision of the wizards' future, but I only hope that my school and history department can continue in this future."
"Even if it died because of me, it can be remembered because of my death, and it will be inherited by an inspired wizard in the future."
After several attempts to dissuade all useless, Corona can only default this result.
Twenty days of perseverance made this old man a banner for all the wizards in the garrison; under his encouragement, the "ivory tower wizards" who had collapsed before stood up one by one, exploding and collapsing. In the rubble, the wounded soldiers were bandaged.
Looking at the back of Master Bandelke's still gritted teeth, the dark-haired wizard glanced silently at the parchment book on hand-"On the Inevitable Link between the Reform of the Handicraft Industry of the Sacrament Empire and Alchemy."
After chatting with the "historic master" for one night, Isaac put the book in his luggage.
Shaking his head, a shuddering Loren calmed his breath slightly, staring at the hourglass on the book.
The bombing of the elves has gradually stopped, which means that they will attack immediately, and they have at most a quarter of a rest time.
Calculating the time, the dark-haired wizard stretched his right hand to the side of the "dawn" sword.
Just the moment before, he was stopped by another rough palm.
"Something?"
Turning his head, Loren raised his gaze and calmly looked at Master Corona behind him.
Extremely tired, he has already begun to be too lazy to talk.
Corona nodded, his expression dignified.
"Twenty days, Loren, twenty days."
"Your Majesty Connor's reinforcements still have no sign."
Looking at the serious look of the old man, Loren chuckled indifferently.
"Of course, I know that the first thing I said was to keep for thirty days-but the total number of Connor ’s legions was 200,000. Such a large army was promoted to enter the army. It is normal for ten days and twenty days to appear. It should be dispatched in advance. "
Corona couldn't restrain the emotion in her tone: "But until now, we haven't even seen a reinforcement, let alone His Majesty's news, so go on ..."
"Master Corona, what the do you want to say?"
Glancing at the hourglass, Loren asked impatiently.
"What I want to say is ... If the reinforcements don't come, Ebden will have no meaning to continue to defend."
Corona's expression was also slightly trembling at the moment when this sentence was spoken.
The expression of the dark-haired wizard was very stunned.
How much courage and determination does it take for a person who is determined to open the future for the wizarding world to take the initiative to abandon the nine-pointed star wizarding tower and the base camp of the wizarding world?
"It was a very difficult decision, but in fact it was not as difficult as imagined." Just a blink of an eye, Master Corona restored his previous calmness and calmness:
"Because the future of the wizarding world is not a city and college at all, it is not a pile of books-but the environment, atmosphere, and the acceptance of wizards by the entire empire."
"The future of the wizarding world is not in the remote seaside city of Ebden, but in the prosperous and rich town of knights." Corona stared silently at the dark-haired wizard:
"Even if you sacrifice all the people in this city to get back to your safety, I am willing-only you, with one or two generations of time, reverse the world's conception of wizards and make Bain a place for wizards. , We have a future. "
"Emperor Connor ... Although I admit that he will be an excellent emperor, he is too prejudiced about wizards; give up Ebden and make you the commander of Ebden-I really ca n’t doubt it. Doing so has the idea of ​​weakening the wizard's power, so ... "
Corona, who wanted to continue, was stopped by Loren with a smile and raised her hand, the complex expression stopped talking.
"I understand what you mean, Master Corona, don't worry." The dark-haired wizard squeezed his mouth tightly, a smile on his tired face barely squeezed;
"But from that day on, I knew what Connor's idea was."
"So the reinforcements I waited for-I mean the reinforcements that really determined the victory or defeat of this attack-defense-not him ~ EbookFREE.me ~ bang !!!!!!
There was another loud noise, the turbulent wizard tower barely blocked the elf's round of bombardment, but Master Benderke, whose lamp was dry, completely exhausted the last trace of reason. The center of the magic circle.
There was a cry of excitement in the hall, and the shamanic apprentices of the wizards hugged, and the desolate crying accompanied the horn of the elves marching outside the gate.
Watching his old friend fall for many years, Master Corona couldn't help closing his eyes, his eyebrows trembling.
After the bombing, the enemy is about to attack.
"The whole army is ready--"
Clapping his hands, the dark-haired wizard with a dull expression stood up and turned to stare at his eyes:
"Revenge Master Bandelk, fight them back!"