Lord Chronicle

Chapter 186 The Appearance of the Undead
The Black Armored Cavalry Regiment and the Kungfu stronghold dealt two heavy blows in a row, completely crushing the confidence of the Lulin people.They huddled in the fortress and never launched any form of counterattack.

Originally, the best way at this time was to besiege the city and trap him for a month. If the people in the fortress had nothing to eat or drink, they would naturally surrender.

However, the main force of Lulin's army is still gathered in Overland, defeating the enemy in the fortress and cutting off the southern avenue will completely cut off the opponent's logistics supply.This is very important for Dinarfang who is in a disadvantageous situation.

Moreover, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and when the front line is tight, there is no time to play tricks of besieging the city.Otherwise, if one is not good, the current good situation may be lost.

So Pintat couldn't wait any longer and had to make a quick decision.

After three days of preparations, the Dinar army had completely surrounded the entire fortress, and at the same time, all kinds of equipment for attacking the city were also ready.

Thus, the final battle against the enemy forces in the fortress finally started.

This time Thor was invited by Pintat to watch the battle on a hillside, Vihir got his wish and went to the battlefield, and Kress was borrowed by Das again, and only Kip was by his side.

The battle started quickly, using the advantage of numbers, the attack started from four directions simultaneously.The unfinished part of the fortress wall was the main point of attack, and the other three sides were to disperse Lulin's defenders.

Since the outer fortifications have been cleared, the Dinard army in a square formation approached directly under the fortress.Following the crashes, siege ladders, hooks and other objects took turns, the battle quickly entered a fierce stage.

Dinar's side was so imposing that the entire outer wall of the fortress was covered with soldiers.The siege ladders full of people were erected one after another, leaning against the top of the high wall, and then the siege fighters rushed up the ladders.

The Lulin people used wooden sticks with hooks to push the ladder back into the air. The overturned long ladder fell into the dense crowd below like a felled giant tree, but at the same time, more ladders were erected.Several destroyed crash cars were burning under the city gate, and thick smoke enveloped the fortress.

Perhaps knowing that this was the last battle, the Lulin army in the fortress also put up a desperate posture.They desperately resisted the attack of Dinar's soldiers on the top of the wall. There were even several times when death squads rushed out of the fortress and directly attacked the siege troops.

However, everything was in vain. The Lu Lin army, whose morale was shaken and had lost their way of retreat, had already lost their momentum.Although with their own bravery and good training, they tried their best to resist, but the fortress still inevitably fell a little bit.

The first turning point in the situation was the section of the unfinished outer wall where the attack was strongest.The heroic Dinar soldiers successfully widened the gap with a heavy hammer, and with a loud bang, the section of the city wall collapsed under a chain reaction, creating a hole more than ten meters long.

"Okay!" In this formation, Pintat, who had been watching the battle calmly, saw it and yelled excitedly.

"Quickly, call up all the reserves, I want to establish a solid stronghold in this fortress before dark!" He ordered immediately.

The battle for the other three walls of the fort immediately became irrelevant.The attention of the commanders on both sides was put on this gap at the same time.

Soon, the Dinar army that was left in reserve swarmed up, and at the same time, from the fortress, a large number of Lulin's army also rushed to the same place.As soon as the two sides came into contact, a frenzied fight immediately started.

The two armies with clear banners are like tides colliding with each other, one after another, trying to squeeze each other away.Because they all know that whoever can occupy this gap will be able to finally maintain control of this fortress.

The two armies were so bloodthirsty that there were tens of thousands of troops gathered in the gap of only a dozen meters. The killing sound at the gap was loud, and the speed at which the corpses piled up was almost geometrically increasing.Behind is a large area of ​​human heads that can't be seen, and backups are constantly being added.

But the gap in strength was there after all. The fierce fight lasted for an unknown period of time, and the tide representing Dinar's side finally began to squeeze into the gap little by little.

The battle situation has reached the most critical stage.

Pintat and his commanders all involuntarily walked to the front of the hillside, watching the development of the battle nervously, and even Sol was infected by the tense atmosphere.

Unexpectedly, just when the Dinar army was about to attack the fortress, something unexpected happened suddenly.

Ga!

In mid-air, there was an unpleasant cry, and at the same time, hundreds of huge vultures swooped down towards the battlefield on the ground like falling black clouds.

These vultures appeared very strangely, without any warning beforehand, they clung to the ground and passed over the crowd on Dinard's side, their huge wings brought a gust of wind, and their huge claws kept sweeping down the soldiers under them.

The sudden situation surprised everyone. Although the vultures did not cause much damage, the soldiers quickly rioted in panic.

"What is that?" On the hillside, Pintat and the others were also surprised.

Seeing these familiar vultures, Sol suddenly felt a strong anxiety.He couldn't help trembling: "It's hard...could it be..."

"That's right, it's a necromancer." Chip behind him said calmly.

As if to confirm his words, there was a loud booming sound in the air, and the ground trembled slightly.Nine huge bone beasts that had appeared in Lowell's territory lined up in a single file and charged towards the right side of the Dinard army.

At the same time, there was a hissing sound in the air, and hundreds of green air masses dragging their long tails covered the sky and smashed into the Dinar army over the head of the bone beast.

As soon as the soldiers on the side facing the bone beast took up the posture to attack, large groups of poisonous mist exploded in the dense crowd.Hundreds of green mist bloomed instantly on the battlefield, and the surrounding soldiers immediately fell down.

At this time, bone beasts like hills crashed into Dinar's side, and unprepared warriors couldn't resist these giant beasts at all.They trampled wantonly in the crowd, rampaging, messing up the formation.

The vultures that kept raging above their heads, the bone beasts charging wildly, and the poisonous green mist... These things that should not have appeared on the battlefield immediately caused quite a commotion in the Dinar army.

At this time, Pintat on the hillside finally reacted.He quickly issued an order to clean up the situation before the undead army caused even greater chaos.

It's too late to find out where these things came from. The most important thing right now is to take Lulin Fortress immediately.After all, the Dinar army has 10 people. With these undead, it is still impossible to shake the foundation of this army.

However, something even more amazing is yet to come.

Just as Dinar stabilized his position and gradually brought the chaos under control.In everyone's ears, a strange drumming sound suddenly sounded.

This kind of drumbeat is similar to war drums, but it doesn't have a bit of majesty that makes people's blood boil, but is extremely cold.To the human ears, it seems to be in harmony with one's own heartbeat, which makes people feel sick and dizzy involuntarily.

When people were looking for the source of this drumbeat, they suddenly discovered that a huge army appeared in the wilderness on the right side of Dinar's army, slowly moving towards this side.

It is not accurate to say that it is an army, because there is not a single living thing in this army.

The main body of the team is composed of countless slow-moving zombies.However, unlike the zombies that Sol has been in contact with, they are not naked or wearing tattered civilian clothes, but are uniformly dressed in standard and sophisticated armor, holding weapons, giving people a well-organized feeling.

In the group of zombies, nearly a thousand tall ghouls walked among them, and behind the group of corpses were rows of skeleton archers and hundreds of corpses.These Lichs walked slowly while using the scepters in their hands to spray poisonous mist.

What is even more astonishing is that in this huge army of undead, there are still many resentful spirits floating around in mid-air.There were even more than a dozen ghost knights riding succubi, holding Sen Leng's long knives, urging the group of corpses to move forward like commanders.

Except for the bone dragon, the necromancer dispatched almost all the undead arms.

Pintat looked at the other side approaching in amazement: "What's the matter, why did the army of undead appear here?"

Sol couldn't help but said, "They seem to be here to help the Lulin people."

"What?" Pintat paled in shock. "How is this possible?"

Sol said in a deep voice: "It's no secret that the necromancers colluded with the Lulin Empire. Do you still remember the rumor that has been circulating on the battlefield for a long time? Now it can be confirmed."

As he spoke, he pointed to the crowd of zombies that were getting closer.

At this distance, the armor on them can already be seen clearly.That turned out to be... the standard armor of the Dinar Army!

"That's ours..." The faces of all the officers changed drastically.

Sol also turned pale: "Damn it, the Necromancer keeps collecting the dead Dinar soldiers, and now he is finally willing to take them out."

An officer couldn't help but asked: "What are our scouts doing? Why have these undead appeared so close and no one has reported yet?"

Pintat snorted: "They are obviously coming prepared, and it is not difficult to quietly clean up our scouts."

But this is not the time to pursue responsibility. Unlike those bone beasts and vultures, the huge army of undead in front of them has already constituted a real threat to them.

Pintat issued a series of orders before the opponent closed in.Soon, the Dinar army besieging the fortress, except for those who were still fighting for the broken city, the other three directions immediately gathered to the right to prepare for the impact of the undead.

At the same time, the troops took advantage of their numbers and began to besiege the bone beasts that rushed into the formation.Soon, two bone beasts crashed to the ground, and were smashed into a pile of broken bones by the soldiers rushing up.

As for the poisonous mist of the vultures and Lich, there is no way to resist it for the time being, but compared to the huge army, the damage they cause is extremely limited.

At this time, the undead army was still advancing unhurriedly, but as they gradually approached, the air on the battlefield was filled with an uncomfortable gloomy atmosphere, and it seemed that even the sky became gloomy.

After seeing the military uniforms on the zombies, there was another commotion in Dinar's army.

The situation is getting worse!

Suddenly, the undead, who had been moving slowly, suddenly moved.

The skeleton archers behind the zombies all set up their arrows and began to throw bone arrows at the Dinar army, and the frequency of the corpse witch's spraying of poisonous mist was also significantly accelerated.

At the same time, the dozen or so undead knights who were second only to the bone dragon among the undead units, jumped out of the group of corpses like swordfish jumping out of the water, turned into black shadows, and rushed towards them. come over.

As they galloped, the dream monster under their crotch left a long scorched black mark on the ground.

At the same time, the wraiths circling in mid-air, with their disturbing screams, swam around like fishes and followed closely behind the Necromancer Knight, flocking towards Dinard's army.

The necromancer finally intervened in the human war.

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As soon as the Necromancer lifted the reins, the Dream Beast made a long leap and crashed directly into the waiting Dinard army formation.

Their heroic postures drew a long trajectory in mid-air, and at the same time as they landed, the soldiers around them fell to the ground with ashen faces as if they had been beheaded by something invisible.

Then, countless weapons attacked them from all directions.

However, human weapons can't do any harm to these high-level undead at all, and the undead knights waved their long knives self-consciously.Wherever the blade passed by, there was not a single wound, nor a drop of blood, but the people who were affected all fell silently.

Soon, more than a dozen huge gaps appeared in the dense formation.

The dead knights didn't linger, and after clearing out the enemies around them, they immediately pulled up their horses and continued to charge forward.Such a terrifying scene could be seen if someone were on a high place.

More than a dozen black dots began to draw winding curves in the entire Dinar army.As the dots move, a clear trail of their path appears behind them.If you look more carefully, it is a road built purely from dead bodies!

When the necromantic knights wreaked havoc, the wraiths followed. They were translucent, like half-length skeletons wearing a tattered cloak, making ugly screams, and swimming in the crowd like fish more than.

They can pass directly through the human body, but human weapons cannot harm them.Those who are attacked by them will not die immediately, but will become powerless, or cover their ears and yell frantically. In the area where the wraiths are raging, almost no one is spared.

These undead alone have already caused chaos in the forward position of Dinar's troops.

And the main force of the undead composed of the dead soldiers is getting closer...

On the hillside, Thor stared dumbfounded at the one-sided battle situation below.

In the two battles with the undead, the little Lovell won both. In particular, he also killed a lich, which made Sol subconsciously think that they were not difficult to deal with.

Whether it's zombies, bone beasts or ghouls, they all move slowly.The Lich and Skeleton Archer are very vulnerable and can only do some long-range attacks.The only advantage of this kind of army is its quantity, it's nothing special.

It was only then that he saw the true horror of the undead.

Perhaps those necromancers think that a small territory like Lovell is not worth using high-level undead at all.Therefore, the highest types of troops they carried were bone beasts and corpse witches.

If there were dead knights or wraiths participating in those two battles, even if it was just a dead knight, the Lowell people would not be able to have the last laugh.

On one side Sol was lamenting his luck, on the other side, Pintat was already anxious.

Different from the composition of Lulin's pure military force, the Dinar Army will recruit some priests or magicians along with the army.But after this army was broken up, Pintat managed to gather again. Apart from a lot of recruits, priests and other magic professions were scarce.

Originally, it was not a problem to fight the Lulin army who were also human beings.However, the ghost knows that he will encounter a necromancer who will interfere?

The only few spell-based professions now were transferred to the vicinity of the hillside when the undead first appeared, and a concealment barrier was set up to prevent the necromancer from discovering the headquarters.

Therefore, in the face of these high-level undead who are not afraid of physical attacks, the Dinar army is almost at a complete disadvantage.

The only good news is that compared to the 10 troops, no matter how strong the Necromancer Knights are, they are only a minority.But the chaos they caused was far greater than the actual loss.

The most terrible thing is that now is the critical moment of attacking Lulin Fortress. If these undead are disturbed, the war will inevitably be affected.

Fortunately, Pintat has been dealing with orcs for a long time, and has long been used to fighting in adversity.No matter how weird the undead were, it couldn't affect his determination as a professional soldier.

Slowly taking a deep breath to suppress his impatience, Pintat ordered: "Immediately order the second team and the third team to press up. Since you can't stop it, don't worry about those undead knights, let me block the large army of zombies!"

"Order the troops attacking the fortress to attack me no matter what. Then destroy, set fire to, and do everything possible to destroy the fortress for me."

Seeing his officers rushing to carry out the order, Pintat shook the hilt of his sword fiercely: "Hmph, as long as we destroy this fortress, we will win. Damn undead, I will never let you succeed."

Because of the intervention of the undead, the situation of the battle began to slide towards an unpredictable place.

(End of this chapter)