Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 454 Riding on the Back of a Bone Dragon

The fall of Tumubao, which took place on March [-], [-] in the imperial calendar, is an undisputed fact.

It may take many, many years for Haiwen people to sort out the whole process of this fact;

And it will take them more and more years to clearly realize how this fact has affected the history of Haven Continent...

However, on the day of March [-]th, [-] in the imperial calendar, for the most important person in the whole incident—that is, the Empire’s President Southern Military Affairs, Lord Elliot Igor, Duke of Frost Maple Ridge—to explain……

He really just wanted to scold his mother.

When "Xindagosa" glided over the civil fortress, Xiahou Daguan was sitting on the back of this undead bone dragon, and had a panoramic view of the entire battlefield on the ground from a height of hundreds of meters :

On the west side of the Burning Crystal Canyon, countless forts and towers are connected by a long border city wall, forming a pearl necklace stretching from north to south for hundreds of miles;

The imperial civil fort located in the middle of the defense line is undoubtedly the largest, roundest and brightest oval opal hanging on this necklace.

But at this moment, the opal has been chiselled with an irreparable gap.

On Xindagosa's back, Xia Houyan could see through the lens of the dark moon glazed windshield that the east wall of the front of the Tumu Fort had been broken in the center.

The federal army rushing across the Burning Crystal Canyon, like a swarm of flies discovering rot, is frantically pouring into the inner city of the civil castle through this gap.

Due to the small gap and the large number of attackers, it is only a small number of federal vanguards represented by the Wolf Cavalry Wing who have actually entered the civil fortress and raised their butcher knives against the imperial defenders;

But this didn't stop the rest of the federal army from swarming around the east side of the civil fort, using long-range weapons such as slings and crossbows to hunt down the chaotic imperial soldiers at the top of the city like wild ducks, while waiting to follow. Behind the wolf cavalry, they continued to enter the city and sipped their soup.

What's more, just behind the federal army, twenty or thirty "flesh and blood" chariots set up in the west of the canyon and east of the civil fort, are still tirelessly pouring firepower on the other walls of the castle——

——Thinking about it, once they successfully opened another gap in the wall of the civil fort, the number of federal soldiers who were able to enter the castle will definitely increase exponentially!
"His grandma! Are the Marquis Grant and the Grand Duke Rosario blind? How did they allow the federal siege weapons to press down to this position?!" In the gust of wind caused by Sindragosa's dragon wings, Xiahou Yan clutched his Soviet-style aviation leather cap and questioned loudly.

"I don't make it..." Eldridge has been in a state of confusion in the wind since riding a dragon to the sky with the lord, and it is difficult to even open his mouth to answer.

Xia Houyan glanced contemptuously at his worthless horse, and cursed silently.

In his opinion, the reason why the civil fort was breached by the orcs this time was entirely because of the location of the federal siege weapons!
Since the establishment of the Burning Crystal Canyon, this natural barrier that divides the east and west plains has become the biggest reliance of the imperial army to defend the civil fortress!The imperial sentry in the tower of the civil fortress can completely see all the movements in the canyon, which also leads to the fact that once the Federation wants to push their strongest siege weapon, that is, the "blood and blood disaster" chariot to the west side of the canyon , Within the range of being able to attack the civil fort, these big guys who are slowly crossing the canyon will be targeted by the empire's long-range firepower in the first place and return without success.

If there is no heavy fire support from the "Flesh and Blood Disaster", if the federal orcs want to capture the civil fort on the Ardennes Heights, they can only rely on the ice demon mammoth swarm to rush, and rely on the lives of infantry to fill it.

However, in Xia Houyan's field of vision, the current situation is clearly that a large number of "Flesh and Flesh" chariots have already driven to the edge of the Ardennes Heights, enough to use their destructive incendiary bombs to tear down the fortifications of the civil fortress. It's cracked!

How did these federal tanks with extremely obvious targets push forward to such a deadly tactical position without being noticed and attacked by the imperial defenders?
Xia Houyan couldn't figure out this question even if he tried to scratch his head.

Now he can only secretly rejoice, fortunately, he used "Hercules" to clean up the "Dragon Flame Legion"'s previous "Flesh and Flesh" inventory in one fell swoop, forcing them to spend time to transfer the new batch from the rear "The plague of flesh and blood";
If not, then the lineup of chariots that the federal orcs can use to output siege firepower today will only be more terrifying than reality!
Xia Houyan was still observing the enemy's situation, and Master Laurie shouted loudly behind him:

"My lord! Look below! The imperial army can't hold it anymore!"

——Perhaps due to being a wind mage in the early days and having a natural affinity for air elements, Master Laurie's performance on the back of the dragon is much better than that of Eldridge: this old bastard is now sitting on the lord Behind him, his body was tightly tied to the seat with two cross belts, with a calm and calm demeanor.

Yes, today's Sindragosa has been transformed into a standard four-seat bomber... er, bombing "Dragon".

At this time, in the eyes of an outsider, Sindragosa's whole body has no characteristics at all, and it can be related to such abominable creatures as "Undead Bone Dragon":

Its white bare bones have been covered with thin and hard alloy plates one after another, and even the movable joints are all equipped with bearings and hinges.

All these metal decorations make it look like some kind of huge mechanical creature, rather than an elemental life form driven by ghost magic power.

In particular, right in the middle of Sindragosa's back, there are two rows and two rows of four flying seats with safety devices—except for Jahouyan sitting in the front left, Eldridge sitting in the front right, and Besides Master Laurie at the back, sitting on the right back seat is a bearded dwarf wearing exaggerated glass goggles with a proud face.

The mechanical transformation that Sindragosa experienced was thanks to this master dwarf craftsman named "Ernst Heinkel".

Three months ago, after resurrecting Sindragosa as a bone dragon and bringing it back to Elm Castle, Xia Houyan immediately sent a letter to Ernst Henk from the Cold Bone Mountains in the far north of the empire. Master Er called all the way to Elm Castle.

It wasn't until Master Henkel arrived at Elm Castle with a whole convoy of apprentices and engineering materials that no one in Frost Maple in the castle knew that since the Frost Maple Labor Army Art Troupe arrived at the front line of the Burning Crystal Canyon, the lord had already been fighting with the then Master Henkel, the royal craftsman of the Free State of the Dwarves in the Cold Bone Mountains, has passed on his letters for thousands of miles and secretly communicated the music. It was the Eastern Army's "White Death" dwarf musketeers who made the bridge.

After arriving at Elm Castle, Master Henkel, who had trial-produced the "Snow Mountain Glider" in the Chilling Mountains, plunged into the work arranged by the lord:
Master Henkel used the light magical metal alloy "Dwarven Snow Steel" brought from the extreme north to cover the whole body of the bone dragon Sindragosa with a thin layer of steel to conceal the unlucky dragon's identity as an undead— —Due to the extremely low density of dwarf snow steel, Sindragosa covered with steel armor can fly, move, and fight as usual without any restrictions.

And the aviation seat that Master Henkel installed on Sindragosa's back turned it into a gorgeous flying vehicle, from now on he could take the lord to soar into the sky.

Xia Houyan, Eldridge, Master Laurie, and Master Henkel, the four of them, just after getting the information, rode a steel-painted version of Sindragosa from Elm Castle to the Tumu Castle for rescue. of.

However, Xia Houyan was quite skeptical about whether the regular imperial army at this time was worth saving:
As Master Laurie said, the Imperial Central Army and Imperial Eastern Army, which were in charge of guarding the civil fortress, were on the verge of collapse under the rapid offensive of the federal orcs:

The position where the Civil Fortress was breached by the Federation happened to be the midpoint of its eastern wall—the huge gap created by the incendiary bombs and the Ice Demon Mammoth completely cut off the imperial soldiers stationed on the north and south walls, and made them fall into a trap. A chaotic state of no command and independent fighting.

Without the unified dispatch of the commander, all the imperial long-range armed and siege weapons on the city wall can only blindly pour firepower on the nearest enemy in sight like a chicken without a head, and then be attacked one by one by the federal archers with shaman protection below the city. Roll call, or be directly chopped off by the orc infantry who ascended the city.

Compared with the long-distance troops on the city wall, the imperial infantry inside the civil fort is in a slightly better condition.

After the civil fort was broken, the imperial infantry guarding the city started an organized counterattack almost immediately: relying on the west wing of the city wall behind them, they quickly organized a formation under the command of the grassroots non-commissioned officers, and tried their best to resist the federal vanguard. like onslaught;
Xia Houyan even saw that there was a group of imperial mages gathered in the northwest corner of the inner city of the civil castle, and they jointly summoned an extremely conspicuous "Evans protective barrier"!The cursed halo of the federal shaman crossed the battlefield like a crucian carp crossing the river, and then smashed magic ripples one after another on the egg-shaped sky of the protective barrier, which is really beautiful from the high altitude;

With the shelter of the "Evans Protective Barrier", the imperial army mages also boldly began to attack the invading enemies under the leadership of a fire archmage: whenever the crimson elemental flames appeared in the field of vision, In a flash, there will be a large number of orc wolf cavalry trying to approach this elemental field, and they will be blown away by the surging mentor-level flame spell.

However, the limited resistance organized by the imperial army in the city is destined to be a drop in the bucket:

The Federation took the lead in breaking into the inner city of the civil castle. They were not temporary recruits like the Servant Division, but the Ice Demon Mammoth and Frostwolf Cavalry, two world-leading elite armed forces!
After encountering the initial blockade and heavy losses, the federal troops entering the city quickly adjusted their mentality and redeployed the battle order—the fanatical Frostwolf cavalry regiment finally no longer enthusiastic about fighting alone, but began to disperse in groups, They launched a charge in the city in the way they were most familiar with, dividing the imperial defenders into fragmented battle groups, waiting for the final killing of the main federal force that would enter the city later.

And the six ice demon mammoths who broke into the inner city of the civil castle turned their elephant heads in unison, and rushed towards the mage gathering area in the northwest-although the lethality of imperial mages against ordinary soldiers is amazing, but with these magic resistance There is really no good way for the ancient species that exceed the standard.

For a moment, Xia Houyan on the dragon's back could only see countless tragedies and deaths taking place.

Of course, at the same time that Sindragosa brought the Duke of Frost Maple Ridge to the Civil Fortress, many people on the ground noticed this huge monster that suddenly appeared and blocked the sky.

What's funny is that in the huge civil fortress, no matter whether it's the empire or the federation, no one can recognize what this giant steel beast is, not even the magic speaker on Sindragosa's back. The melody of "Lord Lord Lord Yumaqian" was completely unrecognizable by these Central Plains barbarians even in the raging flames of war.

Therefore, the soldiers of the empire thought it was the reinforcements of the Federation, and the orcs of the Federation thought it was the reserve force of the Empire.

The appearance of Sindragosa really changed the chaotic civil castle: after a short pause, countless imperial arrows, federal artillery shells, human magic, and shaman auras all headed towards the sky. A monster of unknown origin rushed over.

Master Laurie clearly saw that the Lord Lord's face turned pale at that time...

Fortunately, Sindragosa just waved his wings lightly, and the steel dragon wings wrapped in gray ghostly magic power easily blocked all attacks from the ground, like water drops falling on a lotus leaf.

Only then did Xia Houyan finally understand why ancient necromancers were proud of summoning an undead bone dragon:
With the giant dragon's stalwart physique, coupled with the unreasonable ghostly magic power, the difference in combat effectiveness between this top undead creature and ordinary dragons may be even greater than the gap between death knights and ordinary human knights!

But just to be on the safe side, he hurriedly drove Sindragosa to a higher altitude, and escaped from the attack range of the gang of aliens on the ground.

"My lord, what do you say?" Master Laurie hissed in the wind while bearing the huge inertial force load of the Iron Skeleton Dragon's ascent, "We want to help the brothers of the empire, or watch the show in the air just go?"

"Don't worry!" Xia Houyan poked his head from behind Xindagosa, continuing to observe the battle situation on the ground.

It can be seen with the naked eye that the imperial defenders in the civil fortress are exhausted:
After Sindragosa flew away, the federal army once again pointed the finger at the imperial defenders, and a large number of main federal troops continued to pour into the inner city through the gap in the city wall-soon, the forces of both sides in the city Contrast breaks the breaking point.

When a group of orc shamans also entered the civil castle under the cover of the infantry, the "Evans protective barrier" supported by the imperial mages was finally overloaded and broken: the round egg-shaped sky, under the shaman halo Under the violent suppression, it exploded in an instant into bright meteors all over the sky.

"It's time!" Xia Houyan gritted his teeth and roared loudly on the dragon's back, "Start attacking!"

Master Henkel, who was sitting in the back seat, hurriedly picked up a signal firework that had been prepared, and pulled the fuse on the air.

With a sound of "whoosh", a little spark suddenly rose from Sindragosa's back, and rushed straight into the sky with a piercing scream.

Eight tiny black phantoms suddenly appeared on the horizon in the north of the Tumu Castle.

The "Astrakhan", "Kirov", and "Saratov", as well as the "Orel", "Tula", which had just been rushed out in the past three months and arrived at Elmburg ", "Roslavl", "Ryazan" and "Novgorod", a total of eight Shuangfengling Type [-] "Apocalypse" chariots, driven by magic engines, headed towards the civil fort Coming at a gallop.

They are arrogant, they look down on the world.

The imperial army struggling in the fort didn't even have time to notice, and the federal orcs who roared into the fort didn't even have time to stop them. These eight black high-end cars running side by side were already on the east line of the fort, pressing from north to south A dead man's belt of blood and flesh flew out, and it also completely separated the federal troops who had already entered the city from the friendly troops behind them who had not yet entered the city.

Then Sindragosa swooped down.

This gigantic beast of steel and iron, the darling of magic and machinery, dashed down from a height of thousands of meters almost in a vertical posture, so that all humans and orcs in the civil castle could only survive under the severe wind pressure. I can barely see the ghostly ice brewing violently in its huge steel mouth, and the two extremely huge "flame sandwich" incendiary bombs held in its sharp claws——

Frost swallowed half of the Tumubao;
The other half was consumed by flames.

(End of this chapter)