Riding and Slashing

Chapter 334
Sir Boris Crow's fighting power is indeed very strong, with hundreds of troops he just withstood the siege of countless fallen people.

This burly giant led his Ravenspear Knight and Raven Realm Rogue Knight to charge left and right among the fallen people. Although he was caught in the melee, he still persisted for a whole day.

He even managed to rush to the east wall of Lion Lake City, and built a crude fortification against the wall.

But building fortifications on the edge of Lion Lake City actually meant that he couldn't escape...

It was quite normal for Boris not to break out of the siege. He chased Sigismund all the way and ran for seven or eight hundred miles, and basically exhausted his energy, especially the energy of the horse.

Although the horse he himself was riding looked special, the knights of the Ravencrows under him were just ordinary northern horses.

Horses in the northern border have some notable characteristics, such as thick fat and long hair, which are relatively cold-resistant; and the horseshoes are wide, suitable for snow.

But this kind of northern horse is quite unacclimatized in the southwest of Jiatu Grassland and around Shihu City. Horses quickly run out of horsepower in this terrain.

This is also the main reason why Boris couldn't catch up with Sigismund with his cavalry. If it was a Jatu, he would have hacked Sigismund to death on the grassland.

The Fieldsville people in Lion Lake City did not attack Boris' troops. After all, the main enemy now is the Fallen, so Boris was allowed to organize defenses on the edge of the city wall.

Of course, the people of Fieldsway did not let Boris enter the city, because he looked too tall, and the horse he rode was very similar to the demon horse of Egreme the Devourer. The people of Fieldsway were not sure whether this guy was People are ghosts.

In addition, Vidis was about to take this opportunity to break out to the west, and he wished that Boris would attract more firepower to the east.

However, on the west side of Lion Lake City, the breakout battle launched by the Fierzwei people and the Dawn Knights was still suppressed by Egrem.

In this battle, Egreme showed a very high level of scheduling.

In other words, it showed the unique command method of this kind of spirit body.

There are hundreds of "ghosts of the fallen" in its army of the fallen, probably the knights whose souls were devoured by it in the mouth of the prophetess Midea.

These people may have once been members of the Lion Lake City Banner Guard, but after losing their souls and skins, they became a strange kind of 'leader puppets'.

Each ghost of the fallen will lead hundreds of fallen, which can be regarded as a combat unit.

And Egrem seems to be able to directly control these ghosts of the fallen, and it is similar to remote control, and use the ghosts of the fallen to control all other fallen people.

This allows all fallen people to respond in a very short time. These puppets who have lost their souls and do not have any thinking ability are like fingers in the hands of Egrem.

After Sigismund returned, Li Ang spent the whole day looking for suitable terrain and opportunities, and he witnessed the breakout battle to the west of Lion Lake City with his own eyes.

In fact, King Vidis, Earl Edin, and the Dawn Knights are all elite troops with strong combat effectiveness, with a total of more than 3000 people.

These troops teamed up to break out of the city with all their strength, and when the battle broke out in the east of Lion Lake City, it stands to reason that it should be easy to succeed.

But those ghosts of the fallen are like opening the eyes of the sky, they can always lead a team of fallen people to accurately block in front of King Vidis and others - just like when Klose brought the Silver Hand to reinforce Fox Town The situation is the same.

Li Ang has been peeping from a distance from the periphery, and now he understands that the level of reaction shown by the Three Prophets in Changhe Town was probably similar to that of Egreme at this time.

It is no wonder that the Three Prophets faced the chaos caused by the fire, but they were still able to sort out some troops to meet the coalition forces in just 3 minutes.

The blood-sworn witches of the Three Prophets are probably equivalent to the ghosts of the Fallen in Egrem, but the Three Prophets cannot continue to control more Fallen people with the ghosts of the Fallen like Egrem.

Egrem's ability is equivalent to being able to control its troops with only thoughts without giving orders, and all of its troops can be executed in place.

Therefore, as a result of this breakout battle, the Fierzwei people and the Dawn Knights suffered heavy casualties, leaving behind hundreds of corpses and hundreds of 'captives' before returning to Lion Lake City.

These hundreds of corpses did not turn into fallen people, but those 'captives' all became Egrem's troops without exception.

Especially those 'captured' Dawn Knights, most of them have become 'ghosts of the fallen'. It seems that the people of the Dawn Knights have more evil thoughts in their hearts than the pirates of Fieldsway...

Of course, Li Ang also knew that it was impossible for anyone to surrender to Egrem as a prisoner. Those 'captured' people were obviously attracted by Egrem's spell and offered their souls to Egrem.

In Lion Lake City, after Vidis suffered a huge loss in the breakout battle, he put the crow Sir Boris into Lion Lake City.

But when Boris entered the city, there were only more than 200 people around him.

Fortunately, Egrem didn't come to him, otherwise this guy would definitely become a powerful ghost of the fallen.

After that, it was completely unclear what the situation in the city was like. Li Ang could no longer get in touch with Vidis, and Egrem tightened the encirclement of Lion Lake City again.

Now, Li Ang has a comprehensive understanding of Agram's ability.

Egrem is not a necromancer, it cannot turn dead bodies into fallen ones, so soldiers who died in battle will not turn back to attack their own people.

The strongest ability of the Devourer is not reflected in personal force, but in the ability to control the battlefield - it is actually a 'soul controller'.

Every Ghost of the Fallen whose soul was devoured by him is equivalent to its clone, even if it leads an army of tens of thousands, it is equivalent to directly commanding every small team-this is an extremely huge advantage when commanding on the battlefield.

In addition, its 'soldiers' are all fallen, powerful and fearless, they don't need military pay, they don't need to worry about logistics, and they don't feel bad when they die...

That alone is terrifying enough, but it can also transform the Fallen directly from among its opponents—some Dawn Knights have turned into mindless walking corpses the moment they get close to Agrime.

It's just that they weren't turned into fallen people before the battle was over, probably because attraction and transformation were two different spells that couldn't be used at the same time.

But most of those who dare to get close to Egrem on the battlefield are powerful knights, which makes it easy to swallow more souls of the strong and create more ghosts of the fallen...

If it cannot be completely wiped out at once, its troops will fight more and more, and the more they fight, the stronger they will become.

Such a monster is indeed difficult to deal with.

Sneak attack or run attack will not have much effect on Egrem, because its troops will not be chaotic.

If you want to use conventional means to deal with it, you really can only push hard from the front, oppressing its tactical space a little bit, until you kill all the ghosts of the fallen, and then kill it before it can devour more souls.

However, it would be a bottomless pit to fight head-on with such a monster!
Li Ang felt that his little force might not be enough to fill it here.

Therefore, Li Ang began to pray for the first time, praying for God's strength, and a thunderstorm came quickly, otherwise, when Lion Lake City was captured by Egreme, the army of the fallen would probably double again...

In late July, Li Ang found the most suitable battlefield.

This is a hilly land between Payne Village and Lion Lake City.

This place is a gentle slope, not high, and the drop from the flat ground below is only tens of meters.

In fact, this is where Gondor found it - Li Ang asked everyone to look for nearby places that are easy to be struck by lightning.

Although Gondor the Doomseeker doesn't understand physics, the captain who has been committing crimes at sea for many years does know better than most people what kind of situation is easy to attract thunder.

The reason why Gondor found this place is because there are many towering trees on the top of the slope, but the surroundings of the hillside are bare. It looks like a huge ship with several huge towering masts.

There are several ancient giant trees on the hillside, which are somewhat similar to redwoods. They are estimated to be at least 800 years old. The height of the crown must be more than 80 meters, and the diameter of the bottom is at least six to seven meters.

It is only in this era that there are so many giant trees...

There are many scars on the trunks of these giant trees-Gondor said that they were all traces of being struck by lightning.

The root systems of these giant trees occupy most of the land on the hillside, and it is difficult for other trees of the same kind to survive, so the hillside appears to be sparsely populated.

The huge tree trunk is close to the height of a [-]-story building, but it happens to be on the top of the slope, and the surrounding area is wasteland.

In this case, as long as there is a lightning strike, it will usually hit these giant trees.

Li Ang can even see some patterns from the tree trunk...

The tallest tree has an obvious twist in the middle of the trunk about forty meters above the ground. It was obviously broken by lightning before and then re-growth.

As for the other trees, the traces of lightning strikes are all above 50 meters - obviously, this belongs to whoever grows the tallest gets chopped, and after being chopped off, the upper half is burned down, shorter than the other trees, and the other one is taller I was hacked again...

The latest trace of a lightning strike was on a broken giant tree, almost cutting the entire tree in half.

The upper half of the tree was scorched black, broke and fell to the ground, forming a huge obstacle, like a wall.

The black charcoal burned from the bark of the tree trunk that fell on the ground has not yet peeled off, and there is not much moss on the tree body, obviously it has just been broken by lightning not long ago.

In this world, no matter whether it is a human or a plant, accidents are prone to happen to those who take the lead...

Of course, the most important thing is that the scene here shows that lightning strikes often occur in this area, which is a natural lightning-inducing area.

After finding the battlefield, Li Ang also prepared the iron chains and other things, and asked the Noldor elves to climb up the tree to make careful preparations, and sent fast horses to observe the 'celestial phenomenon' in all directions.

It's not really about astronomy, it's mainly to see which direction there are dark clouds. Once you find that there are clouds gathering nearby, you have to hook Egrem over immediately.

Everything is ready only owes Dongfeng, but this Dongfeng cannot be determined by manpower.

Can only wait.

However, there is still some good news. Wendy Erfu brought a large number of Noldor warriors to reinforce them.

Wendy has been touring various territories of Leon during this time, on the one hand to deliver orders, and on the other hand to check whether there are any problems in various places, and is also responsible for responding to Fawcett and Eric.

Fawcett worked as an undercover heretic in Ermine, and Eric led troops to encircle and suppress Changhe Town. The heretical supplicants were wiped out.

Speaking of which, Fawcett made a great contribution this time - if he hadn't been an undercover agent in time, Changhe Town would probably have a situation similar to that of Lion Lake City.

However, Fawcett was as ruthless as ever. Except for a few heretic leaders who were kept alive by him, he killed all the followers of heresy on the spot, and then burned their bodies to ashes.

During this time, more than 300 heretics were captured and killed by him.

There must be some innocent people who were blinded by heresy, but both Fawcett and Eric chose to kill the wrong rather than let the wrong go--Eric is the administrator of Changhe Town, and when Li Ang is away As an agent of government affairs, Fawcett actually needs his consent to kill heretics without trial.

Today's Fawcett already has the title of 'The Butcher', but whether it's a butcher or a murderer, at least he and Eric didn't put Changhe Town in danger.

After confirming that most of the eastern part was safe and sound, Wendy brought the Noldo troops to Lion Lake City to help in the battle. At the same time, she mentioned to Li Ang about the small situation of Kewen Village and Fletcher Village.

Dalyon organized an unnamed knight order in Kewen, originally protecting the villagers with chivalry.

However, this chivalrous knights suddenly disappeared recently.

Charles returned to Fletcher Village some time ago and organized a troop of archers. He had been waiting for Li Ang's order, but he suddenly disappeared recently.

Kewen Village is Leofric's territory, so Wendy certainly won't take care of it.But Charles is Li Ang's subordinate, so it is natural to tell Li Ang about the mysterious disappearance of the lord.

However, Charles was in good condition in the system list, so Li Ang didn't care too much—the knights who were sealed off were all independent individuals, and Charles might have his own affairs, so it was understandable if he wasn't in the territory. Do you also run around all day...

Anyway, Li Ang didn't plan to recruit Charles for the time being.

The arrival of Wendy gave Leon more room for maneuver and security. She brought more than 400 Noldor warriors, half of them were 'new residents' from White Hart Castle and other places, and half were mercenaries. Except, all the Noldo respected Wendy and Leon extremely.

This is probably due to the credit of Wenda Dier and Aldalian - Wendy's "exploding Eagle Claw Fort with one arrow" was described by Wen Dadier as "the awakening of magic power", and Ardalian saw the white deer with his own eyes. Fort saw that Li Ang asked three ordinary soldiers to use the 'thunderstorm technique', and for some reason, Felgasian, the Elven King of the Fenway family, also insisted that Wendy was about to awaken...

So now most of the Noldor elves basically believe that Leon is the magister. They think that Wendy will fully awaken sooner or later and become the first Sindarui elf in thousands of years...

If it wasn't because Wendy was underage, she would probably have an extra crown on her head now.

Egrem had also discovered the camp set up by Leon in Payne Village, but it did not allow the army of the Fallen to attack.

Maybe it still wants to swallow the army and residents in Lion Lake City first—after all, it has been besieged for so long, and it has been building siege equipment. At this time, it turns to attack Payne Village, which may cause the people in Lion Lake City to die. Successfully broke through.

(End of this chapter)