Ninety-one, The Fall of Zhentil Castle (Part 2)
In the eyes of the defenders of Santilbor, their commander, Queen Storm Xinbu, is still as awesome as the legendary. Although most of her legendary stories happened hundreds of years ago, the voter still seems to be radiant and can create new miracles at any time.
However, when Queen Xinbu finally finished her inspection of the last important position and returned to her office in the fortress, she immediately "wow" to spit out a large mouthful of black blood clots and fell on the desk weakly.
"…………………………………………Commander!” After seeing this, several personal guards all rushed over in horror.
"...Ahem! Let's go down! I'm fine. Cough, let Xibei stay..." Queen Xinbu coughed violently while repelling everyone, leaving only her female reporter. Then she opened the drawer tremblingly, mopped out a large bottle of blue healing potion, opened her mouth and bit the cork, and poured it down.
She closed her eyes in pain, leaned on the chair, and gasped for a moment, then she felt the severe stinging pain spreading along her blood vessels to her body, and it began to gradually disappear, and a feeling of sourness, softness and numbness slowly emerged from her limbs, making her unable to exert any strength.
Feeling the pain and weakness all over his body, Queen Xinbu had the urge to cry for a moment.
If her physical condition was still as healthy as before, even if she was alone, how could she have feared a million troops?
When Samust carried out the largest terrorist attack in the imperial capital, manipulating the CEO of Baruth to send out the signal of Miser's nuclear self-destruction and launch this doomsday catastrophe, Queen Xinbu's floating city was indeed not detonated due to precautions.
But the problem is that at that time, the other two great arcanes were docked together. The two great arcanes were both from the valley and their political tendencies were shaking. The Miser energy core in the floating city was naturally the same... The reason why they appeared in front of Xinbu was that they were the negotiators of the valley to have preliminary contact with Queen Xinbu, discussing the valley's departure from the Southern Army camp, and praying for the Northern Army to forgive the price. And they asked Queen Xinbu to send troops south as soon as possible, sweep the Tukan barbarians and Dragon Witch Cult wizards who invaded the valley, rescue the residents of the valley who were being massacred, and prevent them from turning them into flesh and blood on the skeleton tower...............
However, at this moment, the catastrophe came.
What's even more terrible is that due to the explosion of these two floating cities, Queen Xinbu's floating city also unfortunately crashed in the air waves of jidàng.
The only thing that is thankful is that the meeting place at that time was in Xinbu's own floating city, not the explosive barrels of the two unlucky guys. So relying on the powerful bloodline of the magic goddess, Queen Xinbu still has the ability to use space teleportation to get herself out of the disaster scene.
But also because of the disturbance of the Mither energy nuclear explosion on the magic net, this thing was inserted directly into the depths of the magic net to extract energy. Suddenly pulling it out would definitely cause problems. Her space spell was distorted and disturbed to a certain extent, which caused a little accident in Queen Xinbu's teleportation. Her body and spiritual Hun were almost torn apart. Due to the hasty time, the coordinates were not set. The location she teleported out was too close to the floating city. As a result, the gravel rubble falling from the sky made Xinbu's injury even worse.
Of course, the legendary Queen Xinbu's body is so strong that even if she suffers such a severe blow, she will naturally recover if she has just a little recuperation for two or three months. But now it is the time when the war is in danger, so where can she get the leisure to take a rest?
What's more, her most elite guards and mages, as well as the entire staff, have been destroyed by her floating city.
As a result, her health worsened even more after working hard for days and responding to the war without sleep.
Now she has no way to fight with thousands of troops alone like when she was in adventure and traveling in the past.
After gasping for a while like a bellows, Queen Xinbu finally felt a little bit energetic, so she attracted the newly appointed reporter Xibeier, a quiet girl with mushroom head and round glasses, to ask for the latest information collected.
"…Temur Khan set up his golden tent in Phlan Port, and had 300,000 troops under his command. The strong men from all over the country who were pulled to fill the trenches were filled with the beaches of the Moon Sea. It was roughly estimated that it should be no less than one.2 million, and this number was still increasing..." Xibeier raised her hand and held her glasses. The god said haggardly, "... According to the information, on the route of the Tukan army, all the villages and towns passed by were burned down, and the people there were all driven into the army. The strong man was forced to be conscripted to the frontier battlefield as cannon fodder, and the family of Furu was taken in the back formation like hostages, sewing clothes and washing items for the Tukan coalition forces. If we count the strong men collected by the countries in the Near East for the Tukan people, we might face a huge torrent of millions of people..."
"...This is simply a madman's tactic. He has collected so many cannon fodder men. Where did Timur get so much food to feed them?"
Xinbu Nushan roared and knocked on the table, her face full of confusion.
"…Temur Khan did not intend to provide these poor people with a piece of bread, allowing them to fight for a carrot and a handful of wild vegetables, or eat the bodies of their fellow citizens," Xibeier said with a little grief, obviously not yet trained by the war.
"…In fact, it is usually difficult for them to live until they starve to death. Before that, they either died of artillery fire and bullets from our army, or were killed by the sabers of the Tukan people. Their bodies can also be used to cook broth or feed horses. According to the spies' reconnaissance, some of the war horses of the Tukan people all had red eyes with blood and specialized in feeding human corpses. It is probably the evil method of the Dragon Witch Cult........." At this moment, the female reporter's face was a little pale, as if she was afraid of the bloody practice of this cult. "Your Majesty, I am forgiving, Santilburg can no longer hold on.
We still have a lot of food and grass, but only two bases of ammunition are left. Many soldiers did not sleep for seven days and seven nights, and were almost exhausted. The new reinforcements and supplies were unknown. The supply convoy behind was no longer visible!
However, the enemy's troops are twenty times that of ours, and there are countless cannon fodder, which can consume our army's ammunition and physical strength. In recent days of siege, the Tukan barbarians have no lu-face at all, 1 Wucong'ao.
We just supervised the battle behind us and drove a bobo civilian to die. At the same time, we were submerged Santil Castle with countless bone dragons and gargoyles. We were pressed and beaten from the air by bone dragons and gargoyles, and we could not leave the fortress and take the initiative to attack..."
"...Damn it, how could the Neserels in the eastern region be so cowardly? Let the barbarians drive like cattle and horses, and slaughter like pigs and dogs?"
Queen Storm Queen Xinbu said angrily, as a super strong woman with a very popular xing style, what she hates most in her life is a coward, and she is even far above a strong enemy, and often declares to those who accuse her of tough style: "Oh? Why do you want to be a strong woman? Haha, wasn't it forced out by you guys who are getting weaker and weaker?"
It is conceivable that she would not have any good face for these cannon fodder men who would rather be driven into mortal enemies than resist.
"...Because most of them are not brave and arrogant Nairel people, Your Majesty." The female book reporter who also came from the eastern border of the empire said, "The eastern border of the empire was only at Santil Castle, and the nearby residents had already fled. The imperial citizens who really fell into the clutches of the Tukan Khanate were no more than 20,000 to 30,000, and it is said that they were deceived by the propagandists of the Southern Army. After the incident, they also fought fiercely and killed at least a few hundred Tukan cavalry. The problem was that from the endless wilderness to the Sea of Moon, there were villages and towns that were available for the captives of the Tukan army, as well as cowardly, ignorant and ignorant people.
What's more, the Red-robed Mage was still recruiting strong men from the Ser Plateau and sent them to the Khan's army to wait for the call. There were hundreds of thousands of people in front and behind..."
"…The Sel people escorted by the Red Robe Mage?" The Queen of Storm could not believe her ears for a moment. "Take her people to the Tukan barbarians and kill them? Is the Red Robe Mage crazy or stupid? When did the human resources on the Sel Plateau be so surplus?"
"…The red robed wizards are not crazy or stupid." The female 〖Book〗 reporter replied, "But the years of severe drought have made them unable to provide food to feed so many people. Instead of letting these people starve to death or rebel in their hometown, it is better to send them here as cannon fodder.
Master Hongpao has never been a philanthropist!" "………………” Xinbu was speechless for a moment. No one knew the style of Master Hongpao better than her. They could do such a thing!
"…In addition, according to some unconfirmed information, the Tukans have sent troops to the upper reaches of the Thies River to find the ferry. Once they successfully cross the Thies River and detour to our rear, the gladiator army, which had only more than 10,000 people, would be really surrounded!"
Xibeier then added, “…
What's more, Santilburg was not designed to deal with the human sea tactics..." Queen Xinbu had nothing to say for a moment for this unquestionable reason.
Before the revival of the Nesèrel Empire, Santilburg was once the headquarters of the evil organization Santillin Society, an ancient medieval castle. After the castle was controlled by the empire, given that it could control the superior geographical location of the entire eastern part of the empire, Santilburg was established as the headquarters of the Imperial Eastern Army, and has invested and renovated it many times, renovating it into a new type of castle that is more adaptable to modern wars.
However, this new prism consisting of low xiong walls, thick fortresses and complex trenches abandons the high walls and spires. Although it is better to resist artillery bombardment and has the ability to withstand air bombing, it is not very suitable for the ancient sea of people... If the enemy is willing to pay a million lives for this fortress, plus a hundred thousand bone dragons, to exhaust the defending ammunition inventory.
What's more, the hard battle that has been sleepless for several days has not only gradually consumed all the ammunition in stock in the fortress, but also drained the last bit of energy of the soldiers. However, the new forces that should have been replaced as soon as possible and the combat materials transported over were nowhere to be seen.
The only thing that is thankful is that because of the cruel style of the Dragon Witch Cult, it is difficult for it to find allies in the Nairer Empire, so there is no need to worry about the dagger coming from behind... Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile with a self-deprecating bitter smile.
When will the Queen of Storm place all hope for victory on the opponent's incompetence?
For thousands of years, the countries on the Feren continent have been conquered and the causes of each war are different, but the main goals should be the same: conquer and dominate, gain more wealth, and gain greater power. Destruction is just a last resort.
Most of the time, the victorious conquerors are only satisfied with the rule of the conquered and collect tributes and taxes, and rarely carry out large-scale genocides. Unless the indigenous people resist too strongly after the conquest and cannot implement effective rule, large-scale ethnic cleansing or migration will be carried out to control the land. Although this method seems to be once and for all, the cost is terrible. Whether it is to clean up the conquered nations or move into a new nation, it will cost a lot. Moreover, even if a large number of people of the tribe are moved, as long as the government rule is angry and resentful, they will still rebel when it is time to rebel. In contrast, if political and economic benefits are obtained by winning over and buying the upper classes of the indigenous people, the cost will be smaller and effective for the rulers.
In short, for the political tyrants, war and destruction are just means, and rule and interests are the eternal goals.
But the goal pursued by the Dragon Witch Cult is to completely destroy everyone, razor every town, destroy all civilization products, and destroy everything in the world, and let the dead dragon (dragon lich) rule everything... Of course, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. This crazy style of targeting destruction not only makes the Dragon Witch Cult famous, but also makes it difficult for this organization to find any allies, except that it has also entered the demon path and becomes a harpist alliance of anti-civilized extreme environmental protection organizations.
The reason is very simple. No matter how evil people are, they are hard to be interested in burning their own castle and slaughtering their own subjects, maybe even their relatives and children. Then they take off their children with these madmen and become savages. Of course, most of the time, the members of the Dragon Witch Cult themselves also do one thing, saying, "Everything in the world will eventually be destroyed, and the dragon of death will rule everything" and call on everyone to burn and kill, but secretly build the nest into golden green.
The glorious mansion also hides beauties and wine to enjoy themselves, and lives a very high life. For allies who want to win over, the Dragon Witch Cult usually refuses to use interests to buy them, but uses spiritual spells such as commanding techniques and hunting techniques to control them... This kind of opportunistic method seems to be cheap and good, and can make allies bow down without paying any price. But once this spiritual spell is cracked, the allies will immediately turn against each other, and then they will be betrayal and turn against each other on a large scale.
On the other hand, it is easy to find traitors from within the Dragon Witch Cult because the essence of the Dragon Witch Cult is to use a set of beliefs that you don’t believe in. If you don’t fool others, you will use spiritual magic to turn others into puppets, similar to the pyramid scheme ten hypnosis. Therefore, except for Samust, the crazy leader of the crazy leader, there are basically no loyal and loyal believers.
For example, another founder of the Dragon Witch Cult, Agason Nassere, who translated the Dragon Witch Cult scriptures with Samust, was the first apostate of the Dragon Witch Cult. Not only did he immediately turn against others after he gained power, he also secretly joined forces with the Losanda Church in the Justice camp to send this good brother who was not a lich at that time to the death.
As the interview said, "The broader the heart is, the great career is." As a person who fell into depravity due to greed and paranoia, Samust's heart has always been ridiculed as narrow as a needle tip. The career and achievements he achieved in leading the Dragon Witch Cult are naturally like an apple pierced on the needle tip. The heavier the weight of the apple, the faster the falling speed will fall.
For example, this time, by instigating Sel's Red Robe Mage, the Dragon Witch Cult obtained more than 100,000 dragons in the elves' dragon farm. Originally, relying solely on air superiority, Santilborg and the Gladiator Legion could be crushed into cream.
But the problem is that due to Sammast's previous series of wrong decisions, the military power accumulated by the Dragon Witch Cult has been destroyed by centuries. Most of them first destroyed the most elite group of warriors in the port of Tongbes in Mazka continent. Then, in the melee of the Japanese archipelago, the second-rate reserve team of the Dragon Witch Cult was squandered a lot, but the only one who got the benefits was Tukan Khanate: some third-rate members of the Dragon Witch Cult were left. At this moment, most of them followed the Tukan Khanate's rangers and scattered into small groups in the valley and Sambiya, and they could not be collected for the time being: After a series of heavy damage, the Dragon Witch Cult organization in the Feren continent finally searched the bottom of the box and found a group of more capable guys, but was forced to sneak into the imperial capital with Sammast to launch a catastrophe, and basically died together in the catastrophe.
Finally, after Samust once again exploded, there were only some low-level mages who were not as good as a living, and they were still following the main force of Timur Khan. After they barely brought these bone dragons and gargoyles to the battlefield, they began to exhaust themselves and failed to operate. Due to the insufficient number of mages and the level was too smelly, so many bone dragons could not take off at once, forming an overwhelming advantage. The gargoyles bound to the explosives seemed to be drunk, and they fry their own people more times than they hit Santilborburg...
However, no matter how frustrated the Dragon Witch Cult's mages were in this battle, and how unpopular their political goals were, at least Xinbu is unable to defeat them in Santilborough, especially when the support is undesirable and the ammunition is about to be exhausted.
“…Kuilu has led his troops out of Yin Shadow Valley, and reinforcements may not be able to come up for the time being.
No one came to find supplies for us in the rear. It seemed that we could only give up Santilburg, exchange space for time, retreat along the Moon Sea Highway to Yin Shadow Valley, and try to meet with the Giant Bear Legion.
After considering for a long time, Queen Xinbu finally bit her finger and sighed reluctantly, reluctantly accepting the advice of retreating, "...How long ago was it the last time she fought against the Dragon Witch Cult Army in Yin Shadow Valley and Ilminster? Alas, time is like a edge! I wonder who will be standing side by side with me this time in front of the enemy? Our young silver-haired candidate junior?"
However, although Queen Xinbu felt that the situation was bad, the subsequent developments were even more cruel than she thought.
Late that night, according to Queen Xinbu's order, the remnants of the Gladiator Army and the family of the accompanying army began to pack up, preparing to give up the Santil Fort that had been in stagnant for many days, cross the River Thes behind the fort, head south along the Yuehai Highway to yin Shadow Valley for rest, and wait for reinforcements from the Giant Bear Army.
However, this army, which had been almost broken up by hard battles for several days, had extremely disordered internal order and could not be enforced. The various noises made during evacuation were soon discovered by the sentries of the Tukan people, thus leaking information.
Timur Khan, who received the information, immediately dispatched the most elite 12,000 Qiexue guards and rode their horses to attack Santiel Castle at night. Near the ferry outside Santiel Castle, he successfully intercepted the gladiator army with his family, and then slashed and slashed with a grim smile.
What's even more terrifying is that when he was hastily resisting the raid of Tukan cavalry, Queen Xinbu, who had already been physically exhausted, unfortunately suffered injuries and vomited blood and fainted. The entire gladiator army quickly fell into command paralysis. First, it changed from retreat to a defeat, and then from defeat to a massacre... The blood flowing from thousands of corpses dyed the surging River of Thes into red.
One reason was that another Tukan cavalry who had set out earlier had crossed the River Thes from the upper reaches before and went to the south bank to block the retreating fortress defenders, only a very small number of the Second Legion's "Gladiators" escaped from the battlefield.
Upon receiving the bad news that Queen Xinbu was defeated by Santilburg and the Second Legion was almost destroyed, there was naturally chaos in Feili's "temporary central government". But then, before Feili could hold a meeting to discuss countermeasures, he was hit again with an almost equally heavy blow: the eight thousand advance team he had sent to Yin Shadow Valley to take over the defense, unfortunately encountered the elves rebels in the Komanso Forest on the way, or the joint ambush of the "miSchono**" and the harpist alliance, almost wiped out the entire army. The former commander of the 12th Legion, General Vladimir Quelsa, and the former commander of the Third Legion, were all unfortunately killed in the battlefield. The remaining bombing camps were disintegrated, with less than 200 people returning to the team.
In just a few days, nearly half of the military power left by the Naiserel Empire after the Momie Catastrophe was wiped out (to be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (Bamnm) to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support is my greatest motivation.)
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