lizard lord

Chapter 192 Surrounding
There was no problem with Tang Zhao's communication with Erwin's family, but there were some conflicts between the mayor and the Losander Church.

It's not a big deal, but it's mainly a matter of command authority. There are many forces involved in it. In matters like war, it's unreliable to express one's own opinions and go one's own way. It is necessary to choose a reliable commander-in-chief.

For specific candidates, several parties have their own ideas. Relatively speaking, they definitely hope that their own people will go up, and they don't trust the abilities of others so much.

The mayor thinks that he is the most familiar with the situation in Silverwater City, the Losander Church thinks that he knows how to deal with demons best, and the Heim Church also thinks that his military accomplishment is the most outstanding among several parties. Each has its own reasons. At first glance, it does make sense.

To put it bluntly, no one has enough prestige to serve as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. Fortunately, the number of people participating in this operation is not so large, and several forces are relatively reliable in nature. The officials and others gained the upper hand, and they were responsible for coordinating all parties and acting as the commander-in-chief.

They did show good qualities, and arranged the dispatch of various personnel and weapons and materials in a short period of time, and the operation officially started three days later.
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In the early morning of that day, more than a dozen warships came near the outlet of the sewer, and dozens of lizardmen warriors in scale armor jumped from above. They entered the sea water, quickly swam into the main channel of the sewer, and began to guard there. Keep a close eye on this theoretically the only passage that allows Berserkers to pass through.

At the same time, Tang Zhao and several other fourth-order humans entered the sewer through another relatively narrow passage.

It is quite tragic to say that the remaining warriors and spellcasters were all cast with magic that blocks sewage and turbid air, but because of the anti-magic scales on his body, Tang Zhao was not blessed to enjoy this kind of humanized magic, so he could only fight hard. Scalp dripping water suffocating the past.

Before Tang Zhao came to the sewer to investigate the situation almost every day, he had already figured out the general range of activities of the demons. Generally speaking, they did not gather together with more than a dozen of them, but moved freely independently. Groups of three and four gather together, but this is clearly not their special time.

Several people had rehearsed in advance, and under the leadership of Tang Zhao, they skillfully groped in the dark to find the lonely Berserker Demon. The sewer system of Yintao City was not complicated. Found the first target.

The mage is responsible for arranging sound-proof magic, and by the way, applying various debuffing negative magic to the Berserk. Several soldiers are divided into two teams. One team is responsible for vigilance of the surrounding environment, and the other team uses javelins and other weapons to attack the Berserker. .

Tang Zhao was in charge of close hand-to-hand combat and a fatal blow to the Berserk Demon. This was much easier than when he was fighting alone before. His strength itself was much greater than that of the Berserk Demon. The method has been weakened in turn, he fell to the ground and then bit off his cervical spine. Tang Zhao has fought against the Berserker Demon several times, and he knows how to deal with this creature more properly, and his movements are done in one go.

With the mage's detection magic opening the way, they can take the lead in the encounter. It may only take two to three minutes from the encounter to the killing of the enemy.

After feeling that the other party had lost his breath, Tang Zhao silently let go of his mouth, and the surrounding soldiers stepped forward in tacit understanding, took out the short knife carried at his waist, and cut out the important materials and organs of the Berserker Demon, which are quite precious props in Oran , both spellcasting and alchemy can be used, it is not so easy to kill a fourth-order berserker.

At the same time, something happened at the mansion of Earl Stirling.

The carrier pigeon flew into Earl Erwin's other courtyard, and the other party started to act immediately after receiving the signal, commanding the few guards under him, and took several other people who wanted to leave early, and evacuated directly outside the Earl's mansion , The army controlled by other forces is also somewhat prepared for this, and a large number of soldiers immediately went to the gate of the mansion to confront Erwin.

At this moment, a large number of guards belonging to the governor of Yintao City surrounded the entire Earl's mansion. The two sides did not communicate with each other, but they were in a state of complete tension. The crossbow arrows of the two sides were all on the string, and there was a possibility of an explosion at any time. conflict.

Generally speaking, a municipal officer is an assistant to the local lord. He only has the real power in the people's livelihood. At most, he has a guard with a relatively average number of people and equipment. The real command of the army is in the hands of the lord, but because Yin Tao The situation in the city is quite special. The situation here is reversed. The command of the city army belongs to the city magistrate.

In terms of army quantity and quality, the city magistrate has an absolute advantage, not to mention that there are many guards controlled by Erwin in the mansion. Once an armed conflict breaks out, they will be caught between two sides.

Due to various considerations, these guards finally did not dare to tear themselves apart with the army of Yintao City, and silently watched Erwin and others leave the mansion.

After that, the army under the mayor's command did not choose to leave, but continued to surround the earl's mansion. The people in the mansion sent envoys to try to communicate with the army, but they did not receive any effective reply, and the two sides remained in a stalemate.

The army did not enter the earl's mansion, and at the same time, no one was allowed to enter it. In fact, the entire mansion was besieged.

Not only the ground, but even several secret passages underground were dug up by kobolds. Erwin had already told Tang Zhao the location of all the secret passages before, so it was very easy to manipulate.

Everyone is sure that there are demon believers in the mansion, and now they cannot be allowed to escape, and at the same time try to limit the spread of their information.

After several waves of envoys ran into a wall, there was no movement in the Earl's Mansion for a while, and it was unknown what they were planning.

Where the army could not notice, in the secret place of the Earl's Mansion, several carrier pigeons slowly flapped their wings and flew towards the coastline. It was obvious that they were going to inform, but it was unknown who it was for.

Although both magic and psychic energy can communicate with each other thousands of miles away like modern technology, not everyone can use this level of magic. It is estimated that only two or three humans in Oran can use it. People obviously can't, and they can only use the traditional method passed down from generation to generation.

It stands to reason that this must work, because facing the flying pigeons, once they take off into the air, it is difficult to be tracked and even more difficult to be hit.

But Tang Zhao has already prepared for it. There are a large number of raptors circling in the sky. They are basically peregrine falcons or gyrfalcons, which are extremely fast and flexible species. Facing prey on land like lambs and rabbits, they Maybe not as strong as golden eagles and horned eagles, but facing the birds flying in the sky, they have an advantage.

Although the carrier pigeons have been selected and trained, their flying speed and agility are far inferior to the falcons that specialize in hunting birds. After a while, all the carrier pigeons in the sky were hunted by these birds of prey, and the two or three that survived were also covered with scars. Don't even think about taking off for a short time.

There are birds of prey hovering in the sky all the time, and there are elf rangers with sharp vision watching on all sides. They all have falcons on their shoulders, and they seem to be ready to strike at any time.

Tang Zhao himself likes to use birds to send messages, and he often takes advantage of this. He will naturally be on guard against similar methods, because there are raptors in Sula and Yongwang Mountains that can be domesticated, and fairies are naturally more interested in these creatures. Get close, and it's not particularly difficult to train.

At the same time, the goblins will also use their magic power to nourish the bodies of these creatures. Although they will not turn them into magical beasts that can use magic, things such as stronger bodies and sharper five senses can still be achieved.

Undoubtedly, it is impossible to rely on birds to send messages, unless it is at night, and you may be able to fish in troubled waters at night, but it is early morning, with a cloudless sky, and everything will be settled by night.

When the people in the Earl's Mansion were at a loss, several raptors flapped their wings and came to the ground, holding the dead body of the carrier pigeon in their paws.There was also a small tube tied to the corpse's leg, which contained letters.

Andre patted the backs of these raptors, then took out a few pieces of meat from his pocket, and fed them into the mouths of these raptors one by one.

After doing all this, Andre took off the letter box from the carrier pigeon's feet, turned around and went to the temporary headquarters of the mayor and others.
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Turning their gaze back to the underground where Tang Zhao and the others were, after they dealt with the four Berserkers who were alone, those Berserkers seemed to have sensed something, they no longer acted alone, and began to take the initiative to find Tang Zhao and the others .

Facing five Berserkers at the same time, everyone's pressure increased greatly. Tang Zhao took the initiative to deal with two of them, and the rest of them dealt with the remaining three, barely gaining an advantage, but the speed of dealing with the enemies was greatly slowed down.

Even when Tang Zhao was facing the enemy, he was a little inattentive. He had to pay attention to the movements in other places. Maybe the opponent would get more reinforcements from the Berserker Demons. After all, no one knew the exact location and number of Berserker Demons. .

It didn't take long for the worry to become a reality, and five Berserkers gushed out from the other side of the sewer again.

In addition to Tang Zhao, there are three fighters and three mages on the field, and they are absolutely inferior in terms of numbers.

[I will deal with two of them, and the rest of you will have to hold on for a while. If one link collapses, it will be a chain reaction. We will all die here. Let alone, this operation will fail completely. Not far from falling. 】

All the people present were experienced veterans, and it took just a few seconds to regroup their emotions and put them into the battle against the Berserker. Tang Zhao did exactly as he said, dealing with four Berserkers at the same time.

During this period of time, he did not use long-range methods such as tail stabs or venom, nor did he use precious spiritual energy, just to guard against this kind of moment.

The claws popped out completely, the scales on Tang Zhao's body exploded, and regardless of other things, he directly slammed into one of the Berserker Demons.

The opponent staggered, he opened his mouth and sprayed a large amount of corrosive venom at the Berserker's head, then slammed into the Berserker again, forcing it back a few steps, and he himself took this opportunity to retreat, Pull out a small safe distance.

The four berserk demons were about to surround them, Tang Zhao flicked his tail towards them, and shot out a series of bone spurs, they blocked the vitals with their wide arms sideways, and then attacked him.

Using his psychic energy, he held one of the Berserker Demons for a short period of time. Tang Zhao kicked his hind legs to the ground, jumped a few meters away, and threw himself directly onto the Berserker Demon. His claws left deep visible bones on his chest. scars.

Flicking his tail again to shoot the opponent out, Tang Zhao fought back against the scratching, biting and biting of the remaining two Berserkers, opened his mouth to bite the arm of one of the Berserkers, dragged the opponent into the wall of the sewer forcefully, and then After measuring his body and rolling in a circle, he also knocked the last Berserker to the ground, and finally made a vicious paw towards the opponent's abdomen.

After doing all this, Tang Zhao observed the situation of the enemy in front of him and himself again—there were many wounds on both sides, especially the demon, which was put on the body of an ordinary creature. The demon whose head was sprayed with venom was half dead But he just shook his head, yelled twice in pain, and then continued to participate in the battle alive and well.

He was also bleeding in many places all over his body, and he felt that several bones in his ribs were broken, and his scales and armor were damaged a lot, but overall, he was still able to continue fighting.

【In any case, they are still seriously injured, so they will be unable to hold on sooner or later, I hope so.】

While Tang Zhao was in a bitter battle, new discoveries were made on the warship outside Yintao City.

The pearls contributed by Nymph are slowly glowing, which can only mean one thing - the sahuagin are approaching, and they are already very close to the coastline.

Iniesta, the commander of the Church of Heim, blew the horn without hesitation. The melodious and low-pitched sound of the horn resounded throughout. After a few seconds of pause, the clock tower in the center of the city rang the alarm like crazy.

The expressions of the surrounding residents were dazed at first, and then quickly turned into disbelief and horror. Fortunately, the situation did not get out of control. A large number of fighters from the Church of Helm and the Church of Lathander rushed out of the church and began to maintain order on the street. Head towards the direction of the port.

The sahuagin directly ignored the warships on the sea, chose to go ashore, and then prepared to attack the city, but they encountered church soldiers unexpectedly, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides at the port.

There are a lot of sahuagin, and the fighters of the church are well-equipped and stronger than the murlocs who went ashore. After all, there is only a small area in the port. If you want to go ashore, the terrain is very narrow. At this time, the quality advantage can be brought into play to a greater extent. come out.

In addition to the shouts of killing and the sound of cold weapons breaking through the air, there was also a thunderous sound on the battlefield—the gunpowder weapon created by the dwarves was put into use on a large scale for the first time. Although the morale blow effect was not as exaggerated as in the previous life, it was The lethality of gunpowder itself cannot be underestimated.

(End of this chapter)