Section 23 Loss

The one who did this was a magician. William Daly realized that it was the magician who used flame magic to ignite the powder knives that the knights carried at any time, causing such a great damage. This was not an accident, because the purple mist wrapped the magician's body, leaving him standing at the core of the explosion without any damage.

"I'm still alive, I'm really a long life." The magician sneered. William Daly raised his axe and rushed towards the magician, but the latter was unmoved.

William Daly's battle axe swung toward the magician. However, just as the blade was only a little distance from the mage's chest, the mage made a gesture to stop William Daly's attack.

William Daly roared angrily. He pushed forward hard, but could not overwhelm the opponent's magical power. His eyes captured several invisible shadows. Several cross-bow arrows shot through his body, penetrated the armor and reached the flesh and blood. He roared wildly, and his body burst out with amazing power, and even broke free from the shackles of magic. The magician only enjoyed the pleasure of winning for a moment and ushered in his own doomsday. The axe suddenly stretched forward and split the mage into two with one blow.

The mage was chopped into two halves and fell to the left and right respectively.

The remaining knights rushed over. Someone brought a horse for William Daly. So many robes were killed here, but they had no time to mourn.

There are challenges ahead waiting for them.

At this time, on the front battlefield, the explosions behind him caused uneasiness to the Paro army. Many of them looked back and hesitated. At the top of the city, bows, arrows, muskets, and cannons did not stop for a second. Solid shells rolled through the crowd, and everywhere they went, the bones and tendons broke, and no one was spared.

"William Daly succeeded!" Ashu Rufate shouted, encouraging his morale and fighting hard. William Daly, you must come back alive! I will forget the fact that you lied to me!

He waved his sword and guarded a siege ladder by himself. All the Paro people who climbed up from here died under his sword, and none of them survived. But elsewhere, the Paro people braved the rain of arrows and bullets, and continued to climb up the city and fought fiercely with the defenders. However, due to the impact of the explosion, the number of these people climbed up was greatly reduced.

From time to time, a siege ladder was ignited or a magic was thrown into the crowd, causing huge casualties.

It was not only the troops in front of the siege. Rudolph did not realize at first what the enemy's raiding troops would do, but now he knew it clearly. He also understood how unwise it would be for him to let the light cavalry entangle the opponent. The light cavalry could only entangle the knights, but not really stop the knights. Although the light cavalry would gain enough time for the infantry to line up to fight. However, the continuous explosions mean that the infantry could not block the enemy.

Damn it, it's the suicide squad again!

...

It was already the last tunnel entrance. William Daly gasped and threw the last four powder barrels into the tunnel. Paro people from all directions surrounded him. There were too many, and they could not be killed. He raised the torch and lit the fuse.

Have those tunnels collapsed? Where are his subordinates? Maybe they are all dead. Blood flowed from his ears, and he could no longer hear anything.

The Paro people did not rush up directly, and the officer in the lead opened and closed his mouth, as if he was saying something.

William Daly smiled. "Stop talking nonsense, start fighting!" He shouted loudly, raising his axe.

Can't rush out, haha. What else does that guy Ashu Rufate plan to retreat... It seems that he doesn't need to retreat at all... Facing the enemy rushing towards him, William Daly burst into laughter. They can't defeat the Knights of St. Gene, and they will compensate with their lives.

The eleventh explosion sounded. The continuous explosions sounded from behind made the city cheer and made the Paro soldiers under the city hesitate. No one knew what happened, but the explosions behind could not be concealed. The soldiers finally started to riot and began to retreat in surprise. The officers did not know what happened. They were waiting for the guidance of the flags and horns of the main formation, but the flags and horns there did not respond.

Paro's army retreated in a mess, leaving behind corpses and wounded people on the ground.

The soldiers on the city wall, especially Ashu Rufat, eagerly hoped that the raid team would appear again. But in fact, there was no movement there. Until dark, there was no movement there.

Leo came to Ashu Rufate, who still refused to leave at the top of the city wall and stubbornly looked at the location of the tunnel entrance. But the miracle did not happen. Everyone knew that the raid team had completed the mission, but it was also in danger.

"Ashu Rufate." Leo patted Aeshu Rufate on the back. "Go down and have something to eat. William Daly..."

"He will come back again, right?" Ashu Rufate said in a daze.

"He has fulfilled his last duty as a knight." Leo replied in a low voice. "He told me yesterday. He said he would continue to guard this place. You are much more important than him. Without you, I and him will not be able to defend it."

"Why don't you tell me?!" Asu Ruffat suddenly grabbed Leo in anger.

"Because I agree with him," Leo replied.

Ashurufat looked back at the camp of the Paro people under the city and heard music coming from there. Someone was playing on a trumpet. It was a very sad tune, a sad song to mourn the dead.

"Don't tell Lord Thomas about William Daly!" Leo said heavy.

At this time, in the Paro camp, today's failure had already covered everyone's heads. In addition to the losses on the front battlefield, a total of 5,000 soldiers and some engineers were lost in the tunnel, including a large number of knights. Rudolph threw the elite knights into the tunnel raid. The original plan was to catch them off guard, but unexpectedly, they were sent all into the living coffin.

All the raid troops of the expeditionary forces were killed in battle, just like the previous night attack. Damn death squad! Damn Thomas!

The casualties have reached the limit that the entire army can tolerate. Today alone, there were eight thousand casualties. Especially the losses of these five thousand people today, these are the elite reserve forces that Rudolph has painstakingly preserved!

"This is the loss of our army. It is killed, injured and sick..." The deputy general said in a voice that cannot be more light. "We have lost 30,000 people... half..."

"What about the enemy?" Rudolf asked in a horrifyingly calm voice.

"It's not lower than us. I'll probably lose about half of it."

Rudolph suddenly let out a low and terrifying laugh. Thomas, you are really amazing! You really calculated the combat power of the two armies just right. It was completely unscrupulous! I now understand why my father was defeated in front of you and died.

"What should we do next?" the deputy general asked in a low voice.

"Continue the attack." Rudolph's face twisted. "There is no second choice. If we give up, the border castle defense line will not last the summer. The enemy's army will conquer all the castles effortlessly and meet with Thomas! Think about it, if this Thomas has an army of equal numbers as ours, then do we still have hope?!!! The life and death of Paro is in this battle!"

"But the soldiers... are no longer willing..."

"Organize a supervision team! Starting tomorrow, all the knights will also go to the battlefield. You can no longer save any strength! Even if you shed the last drop of blood, you must take down Drek City!"

"But, even if we capture the castle, what will we do in the future?"

"If we fail, we don't need to consider the future issues at all! Send the current situation to His Majesty the King, and we must ask for reinforcements. It is difficult for us to suppress Casillos with our existing troops." He threw a letter aside - that was another bad news. Saint Gene's main force had conquered a border castle. They defeated the defenses of the defenders with the strong attack of Pegasus Knights.

"General," a guard interrupted the conversation. "Master Konig asked for a visit."

Soon, Master Corniger appeared in the tent.

"General, I heard that the plan for the authentic siege was not going well." Master Konig asked with a smile. The scar on his face looked particularly ferocious. "So I think it might be time for us to take out the trump card."

"Ace?" Rudolph looked at the other party in surprise. They still have aces? What tricks do magicians have?

"Do you remember the battle we broke the city of Casillos?" said Master Corniger. "I happen to have a scroll of that kind."

In an instant, everyone was excited, and the others looked at each other, making it difficult to hide the joy on their faces.

Rudolph's face was also filled with surprise, red and white. Damn, are these guys from the True God Church? Why don't you take out such a good thing directly?! You must wait until the current situation!

"Of course, it's not as powerful as that one, but it's enough for us to destroy the walls. The better news is that we can use it tomorrow."

"Why didn't you take it out earlier?" Finally, a man couldn't help but jump up. How many soldiers have been killed in battle these days! If there is such a thing, he should take it out on the first day he arrived at the city! "You church people..."

Rudolph forced his subordinates to keep his mouth shut with his majestic eyes. It was stupid to offend Master Konig at this time. Although he had not taken out the things until now, he took them out after all, right? At the moment, this was almost the only hope. He made a gesture to signal the subordinate who didn't know how to keep his mouth in mind and get out.

"So Master Corniger, what are your plans?" Rudolph asked after that subordinate left.

"Today I will notify the entire army of this matter. After breakfast tomorrow, we will arrange the array. Launch a few waves of symbolic attacks, and then you can choose the target yourself. I will release the power of the scroll. The rest...it doesn't seem to be a particularly big problem."

"Very good!" Rudolph replied. "I will do it as you plan right away."

"Break the city tomorrow!" He remembered the five thousand elite soldiers who died in the tunnel today, "Tell the soldiers what they are tomorrow and prepare them. Before dinner tomorrow, we will put the flag in Derek City!"
Chapter completed!