lizard lord

Chapter 204 Attack

The city defenses of the cities that had been broken through before were in a mediocre state, and most of them didn't even have complete and reliable walls, let alone regular troops and spellcasters.

Advancing to this position, Kolo's army basically reacted. They organized a good line of defense in the provincial capital, Deep Water City, and prepared to confront Nairn's regular army head-on.

If they can pierce through Waterdeep City, they will be able to approach the core area of ​​Keluo and directly threaten the enemy's capital. The strategic position of Waterdeep City is very important.

In this case, the first round of tentative attacks by both sides begins.

Waterdeep City is a city built on an estuary, and there is a lake not far away, hence the name of the city.There are not many regular troops defending Waterdeep City, and their quality is not that high. They are at the level of normal city defense troops. But in contrast, they have other means, such as the undead army.

Under Tang Zhao's claws was a rotten humanoid creature. This creature was trying to bite Tang Zhao's scales with its mouth, but it had no effect. Instead, it was held down by Tang Zhao's claws, unable to move at all.

In his opinion, this is similar to the zombies in the previous life. The combat effectiveness is very average. It is difficult to win against the regular army of human cold weapons equipped with weapons, but the endurance seems to be pretty good, and they can fight with the advantage of numbers.

[What does this thing rely on to provide energy?The mage's function should have a limited range, and a low-level mage can't maintain much, and it feels a little bit worth the loss to use the precious magic power of a high-level mage to maintain these cannon fodder. 】

Lynn knows his enemies well: "In fact, most of the undead are low-level magic apprentices. Don't underestimate their number. It is easy to maintain a large army. Besides, there are also many undead. Use the blood core to supply energy, such as the one under your feet, you can try to cut open his chest, there are things you are interested in."

With a light swipe of Tang Zhao's paw, he disemboweled the living dead under his feet. He searched with the tip of his claws in disgust. He found a blood nucleus, the color of which was much lighter than what Tang Zhao had seen before.

"It is said that the people here made a deal with the devil in exchange for the initial technology of using the blood core, but this technology is still very rough, and the efficiency of using the energy in the blood core is very low. A blood core of a third-order creature, It’s actually only enough for a living dead person to last for a week.”

[The low-level creatures can't be used or what? 】

Lin En nodded and admitted: "It really can't be used, the lower limit is the third level, which leads to a small number of free living dead, and most of the time there are still necromancer apprentices behind the scenes. A first-level necromancer can Control dozens or hundreds of undead, and the number of mages of the second and third ranks has skyrocketed, so if you want to maintain an army of undead, you only need a small team of people."

[You said that this creature has the ability to infect humans, what is the effect? 】

"Humans who are directly scratched and bitten may be infected, and severe cases may be fatal, and the corpse will become a new material for necromancers, which is very troublesome. This is one of the reasons why I asked the elves to help."

The virus is not unsolvable, it can be treated with medicine and magic. The elves are very good at these two aspects, so Lynn wants to bring them in.

[I probably understand, what should I do next?Let the eagle throw me from the sky into the city to cause chaos, and then you wait for the opportunity? 】

"That's not necessary. It's too dangerous for you, and the efficiency is not high enough. I heard that your ability to dig holes is very strong, right?"

【clear.】
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The task assigned to Tang Zhao is actually not difficult, that is, to dig a hole - the lowest goal is to dig through the city wall so that Nairn's soldiers can enter the city, and the highest goal is to dig down a section of the city wall, which depends on Tang Zhao's digging speed.

Tang Zhao is familiar with this kind of task. He has accumulated a considerable degree of experience when he was in Karak Solmar before, and now it is no problem at all.

When digging a hole, the ground will vibrate. Experienced defenders will be equipped with specialists to monitor the vibration. Not to mention there are spellcasters in this world who can use spells to achieve their goals.

The soil here is very good for excavation. At the same time, the city walls of Waterdeep City are different from those of Karak Solmar. Because they are built on the plains, the defense area is large, and no one can threaten this place at ordinary times, so the city walls The construction is not considered generous, only three meters, and the height is also about six or seven meters. It is not difficult to dig and collapse.

In order to interfere with the enemy's detection and buy time for Tang Zhao, the Nairn people also organized an attack accordingly, disturbing the defenders with the sound and vibration caused by the attack.

In the evening, the attack officially began.

The body structure is similar to that of a cow, but the creature is as huge as an African elephant, dragging ballistas and catapults to the battlefield, and there are even a few cannons bought from the dwarf kingdom, plus the endless magic spells of the casters. All kinds of long-range attacks concentrated on a section of the city wall, and at the same time, a small number of human fighters on both sides of the city were feigning attacks.

In the sky, Nairn's vultures and elves' giant eagles attacked together. The Kolos fought back with their giant bats and manticores, but they were undoubtedly at a disadvantage in terms of numbers and failed to hold the air supremacy. A large number of stones Even magic fell from the sky, hitting various key locations in the city.

This posture feels like a general attack. The Keluo people were also fooled, and they deployed a large number of troops on Tang Zhao's side. Many mages were sent to deal with the enemies in the air. No one seemed to notice Tang Zhao's side. Case.

The eyes turned back to him. In fact, the Keluo people obviously put a lot of effort into building the city.There are huge rocks generated by magic below the city, as well as complex detection magic, which will sound an alarm once touched.

This kind of defense is more than enough to deal with the average level of tunnel soldiers, but Tang Zhao's magic immunity can solve the detection magic, and the claws can quickly smash those stones.

When the mages in charge of detection and maintenance touch the magic circle again, they will definitely find something is wrong, but now that they are in war, they will definitely not be able to find it tonight, and this time is enough.

Smashing rocks little by little, Tang Zhao came to the city wall and began to figure out how to attack the city wall.

The safest way must be to completely hollow out the bottom of the city wall, but this is too time-consuming and requires more digging ability, otherwise it is easy to bury himself alive, so he is going to use a simpler and more direct method.

Tang Zhao dug directly above, quickly breaking down the bricks and stones, preparing to collapse the city wall due to lack of support.

Some soldiers will definitely notice it, but the city is not small. The time lag between the soldiers discovering it and notifying their superiors, and finally the superiors sending a powerful enough spellcaster to stabilize the situation will be long enough for Tang Zhao to take action.

Not all city walls will be made of marble and metal, and not all city walls will be filled with a large number of dwarf rune stones. The walls of Heishui City are not very strong, and claws can bring down a large piece of broken bricks.

After paddling for a while, the inside is even made of rammed earth, which is a helpless move to save costs, which makes it easier to dig.

You can vaguely hear shouts from the ground, presumably the soldiers on the ground have already noticed something is wrong, but it will take some time for the other party to react, so don't worry at all.

After his unremitting efforts, he basically hollowed out the lower part of this small section of the city wall from the inside, leaving only the masonry with a relatively solid appearance.

Not wanting to be buried alive by the city wall, Tang Zhao hurriedly ran back to the outside of the city from the tunnel, calling the human army hidden nearby to proceed to the next step.

Several dwarven cannons were pushed out from the hidden bunker, aimed at the foundation of the city wall, and the human soldiers fired.

The accuracy of the artillery is not satisfactory, but the target such as the city wall is too conspicuous, so it can be hit no matter what.

Amid the cheers of the Nairn soldiers, the city wall was blown down. Although there was no direct gap, it formed a slope that could be climbed, and the soldiers could climb the city wall from there.

[Send a message to your commander, he knows what to do. 】

After leaving this sentence, Tang Zhao returned to his maximum size and ran towards the collapsed city wall.

Broken masonry is not a hindrance to him. With the help of developed muscles, he can stand on two feet for a short time. The city wall is only six or seven meters high. Go inside the city.

A large group of human soldiers looked at him in horror, facing a giant predatory creature more than ten meters long in the dark night, most people would still be terrified.

[Drop your weapon and get out, or die. 】

War is a matter of life and death. Tang Zhao didn't have any kindness to say during the battle. After leaving a word, he rushed into the crowd of soldiers. He didn't even use claws and teeth.

While killing among the soldiers, he paid attention to the movements of the spellcasters around him.Keluo is a country completely centered on mages, and everything revolves around mages, and it is the same in wars. These city defense forces are at best high-level cannon fodder and security forces.

Ke Luo's reaction speed was not too slow. A few minutes later, a low-level mage led a large group of undead to surround Tang Zhao, trying to drown him with crowd tactics.

At the same time, many mage apprentices who practiced magic in other directions used magic to attack him from a distance, but it was drizzle in front of the strong immunity, and Tang Zhao didn't feel much about their magic.

The living dead did cause him trouble, because this kind of thing would not die even if its bones were broken. As long as the control core in the body was not dug out, it could still maintain the control state.

The strength is not strong, not to the extent of killing an elephant, but it is also very annoying. Tang Zhao thinks that if he is delayed, he will be surrounded by people who will seize the opportunity, and it will be difficult at that time.

Spit out the poison one after another to the undead in front of him, and flicked a few undead with his tail, Tang Zhao seized the opportunity while creating a small vacuum zone, smashed through the siege of the undead with brute force, and rushed straight The caster in the distance moved away.

The speed of the living dead is not fast, just the level of ordinary people trotting, and they can't catch up with Tang Zhao at all. By the time the casters realize that something is wrong, it is too late to run, and they can only watch Tang Zhao approaching them.

Jumping into the mage, Tang Zhao threw out a circle of thorns, and made up for a few fish that slipped through the net. This small group of spellcasters was successfully eliminated, and the living dead soon lost their vitality. Paralyzed to the ground and become a corpse again.

At this time, the guards of the city basically lost their morale and retreated without a fight. Tang Zhao was not interested in pursuing the unfamiliar and complicated environment, so he turned his head to observe the situation of Nairn's army.

The reserve team that had been prepared for a long time had already climbed over the city wall and began to gradually occupy the city.

Their goal is to occupy any gate, respond to external troops, and let them enter the city. The air force will cooperate with their actions to a certain extent.

After a brief exchange, Tang Zhao decided to attack a feigned gate together with the human commander.

In this way, the enemy's vitality can be consumed as much as possible. Anyway, there are only so many spellcasters in total. If one dies, one less. If they are dragged into the city and entered into street fighting, it will be very complicated to deal with, and the loss will not be small.

The plan is confirmed, Tang Zhao and others start to attack, Tang Zhao will open the way in front, if they encounter the human city defense army, they will disperse directly, and if they encounter the caster team, they will find a way to behead them.

The biggest problem in Waterdeep City is the lack of high-level combat power. They have enough cannon fodder, and there are quite a few spellcasters who can be used as the mainstay, but the number of high-level mages is not as good as that of Tang Zhao.

After all, this is a surprise attack, and Nairn has gathered high-level forces from several provinces, forming a local advantage.

Now their high-level combat power has been assigned to the side of the main battlefield, and there is no way to spare the reserve team to stop Tang Zhao and them. The result is very serious.Facing beheading tactics, they have no countermeasures, and they may be killed directly if they are discovered.

Tang Zhao and the others received air support shortly thereafter—illumination magic irradiated and marked the enemy from the sky, allowing them to spot the enemy from a distance, and at the same time know the location of the opponent's spellcaster, making it easier to decapitate.

The speed of information acquisition in the ancient battlefield was basically fast, maintaining a high-speed breakthrough all the way. Tang Zhao and others came to the gate of the city, where they encountered their first difficult enemy.

It was a fifth-tier warrior, wearing thick plate armor, and holding an exaggeratedly large giant sword in his hand.The two-handed sword of the ancients on Earth weighed ten catties, and Tang Zhao felt that the opponent's weapon might weigh hundreds of catties.

He hurriedly ordered his soldiers to step back and be careful, Tang Zhao looked at him solemnly.

【This is a country of spellcasters. Warriors are outsiders after all. Now that the city has been breached, you still have the right to sit down and talk. Can you think about it? 】

The soldier said coldly: "I don't need monsters to deal with my affairs, you just need to die."

Tang Zhao didn't talk nonsense next, and suddenly accelerated, ready to fight head-on with the opponent. After killing him, the gate was unimpeded, and no one could stop Tang Zhao.

Despite holding such a heavy weapon, the warrior's speed is still exaggerated, he can dodge Tang Zhao's dash lightly, and then slash heavily with his backhand.

The knife slashed on Tang Zhao's scales, cutting long cracks. Tang Zhao felt as if he had been hit by a hammer, and it was very painful.

He opened his mouth to try to bite the opponent, but was nimbly dodged, and Tang Zhao sprayed out another cloud of venom, which caught the opponent off guard and injured him.

(End of this chapter)