Heart of the Castle

Chapter 387

All the fire-throwing monsters in the demon army lay down on the north bank of the Black River, and none of them could pose a threat to the defenders on the Ice Wall. However, because the archers on the watchtower shifted their attack targets, a large number of little demons and horned demons had already moved along. Crossed the Heihe River in iron chains and reached the south bank.However, eager to tear apart the bodies of human guards, the demons bathed in warm blood were embarrassed to find that what stood in front of them was a huge ice wall as high as ten meters.

The ice wall went straight up and down, without any bulges on the surface for climbing. Even the little devil's excellent jumping ability couldn't jump to the top of the wall. While the ice shards were flying, their screams were heard, and drops of dark purple blood splashed on the surface of the ice wall.

"Damn it, these ice cubes are harder than steel!" Seeing the shallow dents on the ice wall under the full blow of the Horned Demon Warlord, a Winged Demon blurted out. "If you smash it like this, don't even think about smashing through it for a day!"

The demon army blocked by the ice wall certainly didn't have a day, they didn't even have a minute.Soon, heavily armed soldiers and militiamen appeared at the top of the city, all holding heavy "gifts" ready to be given to these "guests"-including stones, ice, and several people who needed to work together to lift them. thick logs nailed with iron nails.

Seeing this scene, the little devil under the ice wall immediately let out a terrified cry, and subconsciously blocked the steel fork in front of him. The demons were pressed down together, and the miserable screams and the sound of bones breaking suddenly rang out.

"Keep attacking, don't stop!" a voice shouted. "Smash them to death, smash them to death!" Another voice hoarse.Yet more voices shouted the same voice, "Fight for the Griffon Lord! Fight for the North!"

The shouts echoed over the Great Wall of Ice and the Black River, and the flames of the beacon continued to burn. Most of the knights around Li Wei rushed to the battlefields. Only Gavin Knight, the flag bearer, stood behind him holding the Griffon banner.The other was Glenn Worm, who had just been qualified as a knight a few days ago. The young man held a dagger stabbed in one hand, and pressed the other hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, with a calm expression on his face. , but the veined back of his hand fully revealed his agitation.

A big crow flew down from the sky screaming, "Victory, victory, repel! Repel!" The black-feathered emissary pointed its wings in the direction it was coming from, followed by more flapping sounds of wings. Almost all the information brought by the crows was good news. Although there were still fierce battles in some places and the defenders suffered some casualties, overall, there was no possibility of the Great Wall of Ice being breached.

"Order the reserve team to support, and the archers will shoot with all their strength!" Li Wei said in a deep voice, "This is just the outpost of the demon army, hit them head-on, and defeat them!"

The Griffin flag fluttered again, and then sent signals along the left and right watchtowers to the entire Great Wall. The militiamen gathered behind the Great Wall of Ice immediately climbed to the top of the city with various throwing weapons, and the battle became more intense.Up and down the Great Wall of Ice Wall, which stretches for thousands of miles along the south bank of the Heihe River, the sound of shouting and killing is shaking the sky. Able to climb the stairs at the top of the city.The human defenders took advantage of their condescending position and smashed hard. Stones and logs fell on the demon's head like raindrops.

The demon army fought tenaciously enough. Right in front of Li Wei's eyes, a few sturdy horned demon warlords howled, picked up stones and threw them at the top of the city, smashing some militiamen who were too proud and protruding too much. Injury, but this is the limit of what they can do.The banner continued to unfurl, and the archers on the watchtower quickly climbed up the ice wall through wooden ladders. The silver armor-piercing arrows sent out sharp whistles that tore through the air, and each arrow caused a horned demon warlord to fall to the ground screaming.

"Scatter, spread out to both sides!" Seeing that the demons under him were unable to fight back, the leader of the demon army roared angrily.The demons immediately spread out along the ice wall to both sides according to the order, trying to find loopholes in the defense line.However, the two ends of the Great Wall of Ice have been extending to the distance, and there are neither broken gaps nor doors for easy entry and exit. The demons braved the stones and logs on their heads and persisted for a while, and finally their morale collapsed. The demons, winged demons and horned demons all scrambled towards the iron chains, and then retreated towards the opposite bank.

The leader of the demon army who directed the attack on the ice wall defense line where Li Wei was located was a particularly burly and huge horned demon commander. His bronze armor looks almost the same as the image of Lord Demon that appeared in the last disaster.In fact, the melee ability of the commander of the horned demon is indeed comparable to that of the demon lord, but he is a complete idiot in the use of magic, so looking at the impenetrable Great Wall of Ice, it can only brandish its giant ax and roar and curse, and then The arrows rained by the archers retreated in embarrassment.

At this moment, Flandara's golden face had risen to the dome, and the demon army along the Black River either retreated to the north bank to rest, or all died at the foot of the Great Wall of Ice.The shouts of killing gradually subsided, and the flames of the beacon fire gradually extinguished, and only the bell that marked the victory sounded solemnly.

"Your Excellency Li Wei, we have won!" Riat Knight climbed up the wooden ladder from under the ice wall, and shouted excitedly when he saw Li Weiston standing under the banner of the Griffon. "This is really a beautiful battle. I saw at least hundreds of demon corpses at the foot of the ice wall, not counting those who were washed away by the river and died on the north bank. There are no fewer than ten battlefields like the Great Wall of Ice!"

"Lord Liat said that when the disaster came ten years ago, the northern border had never fought such a happy battle. I dare say that even if you count the bloody battle of King Arthur VIII 120 years ago in the Green Castle That battle was not as exciting and beautiful as it is today!" The old knights of the Sherwood family climbed up the ice wall, and then the knights dispatched everywhere, everyone's faces were filled with the joy of victory.

"Knights of Riat, and everyone, let's put aside the celebration. We only won the first battle, not the whole war." Li Wei's face didn't change much because of the victory, as before. As grim as a statue. "This time, not only the demons, but even the dead are participating. If we are complacent because we repelled the outpost of the demon army, then the next party to celebrate the victory may be the demons!"

The delighted knights were suddenly stunned, and some of them even showed aggrieved expressions on their faces. However, after the excitement of achieving a brilliant victory with the help of the Great Wall of Ice gradually faded, they had to admit that Li Wei's words made sense.The demon army that was defeated at the foot of the Great Wall of Ice was nothing more than some outpost troops. Although these troops were even larger than the scale of the demon disaster ten years ago, there were no real demon nobles among them. Even the demon leader who attacked Li Wei's position was nothing more than a horned demon commander.

"Your Excellency is right, we still have a lot of tough battles to fight." Wilps' figure appeared behind the crowd, his voice was as hard as a stone. "If it is an enemy of this scale, even without the protection of the Great Wall of Ice, we can easily win, but the demon army I have seen is more than ten times larger than this!"

Wilps' words made the knights completely wake up from the feeling of swelling after the easy victory. They wiped the cold sweat from their heads, regretting the smugness just now.However, Li Wei didn't care about that. After someone called Master Sugard and the leaders of the aborigines of the Rotten Swamp, they held a temporary military meeting at the top of the Great Wall of Ice.

"From east to west, there are four places in the Black River where the water flow is relatively gentle. The demons are likely to swim over with their strong bodies. There are also three places where the river is narrow, which is convenient for them to build a chain bridge." Master Sujiad brought a copy of the northern border. On the map, several key marks were made along the Heihe River. Everyone gathered around and watched the old red-robed scholar pointing on it.

"So many places?" Sir Chirawala, who wears a burning volcano as his family crest, said in surprise, "Then how should we determine the main attack direction of the devil? Could it be that we have to divide our forces to guard it?"

"Dividing troops is the worst option, and they will only be defeated by the demon army one by one." Wilps said, "I am afraid this is the reason why the outpost troops of the demon army scattered and attacked several places this time. On the one hand, they want to use this to test On the other hand, it also confuses us, so that we don't know where they choose as the main attack direction."

"Lord Wilps' words are reasonable, so my plan is to disperse part of the troops to defend the Great Wall of Ice, including all the archers under Baron Levi's command, the lizardmen of the Rotten Swamp, and the support troops of the Sherwood family. Master Sugard said, pointing to everyone on the map, "Then the main forces will be assembled, forming three groups here, here and here, equipped with all the horses and carts, so that the troops can reach the defense as soon as possible. Once the demons attack, the archer units can delay their actions, and the nearest troops will arrive within an hour or two."

"Wait a minute, human old man." Si'er, the leader of the little elves, was wearing his patchwork armor, and said with difficulty on tiptoe, "According to your plan, the only troops defending the Great Wall and meeting the demon army at the beginning are those archers. Isn't the number too small?"

"The number of people is indeed a little less." Master Sujiad admitted, "But through the battle this morning, we can see a fatal weakness of the magic army, that is, their long-range troops have a limited range and can be attacked by archers with a high degree of superiority." oppressed by..."

"Sorry, Master Sugard, you may have made a mistake." The old knight of the Sherwood family interrupted suddenly, "Our Sherwood family has always been famous for bows and arrows in the northern borders, but I want to say that the whole family I can't find many people who can reach the level of Lord Baron Levi's subordinates. They are almost at the level of quasi-knights. Even with the advantage of the height of the Great Wall of Ice, the range of those demons throwing fireballs is farther than that of ordinary archers. Much more."

"The range of the lizardman archers is also insufficient." The leader of Gala admitted reluctantly, "Maybe only Miss Raslin and I can compete with the Griffin chief's subordinates."

"Well, if that's the case, then the plan needs to be modified, and more militiamen should be left to assist in the defense." Master Sugard said, twirling his white beard.

"This plan is good, but it is also very dangerous." Wilps narrowed his eyes and looked at the map and said, "All links must be coordinated. If there is a problem in one link, the entire plan will completely collapse. And we I don’t know how many winged demons and winged demon destroyers will be in the demon army this time, these guys are very dangerous aerial enemies, and the height of the Great Wall is not worth mentioning to them.”

"Winged Demons are not difficult to deal with. In front of a sufficient number of archers, they are good targets." Knight Templeton said with a blood-red scar on his forehead.

"Don't take it lightly! When I led the light cavalry patrol, I once fought against a winged patrol. Although I killed them all in the end, I also understand how difficult those guys are." Wilps said seriously. Said, "Ordinary winged demons fly very fast, dive faster, and their claws are as sharp as steel swords. Archers don't have much melee combat ability. Once they cross the blockade line, it is very dangerous. The winged demon annihilator is the winged demon The advanced demon has the ability to cast the evil magic of darkness, which can create a dark area with a radius of 40 meters, which cannot be penetrated by ordinary light."

Li Wei's expression changed slightly, and he remembered the sudden magic darkness when he fought against the Demon Slave Knights and Sir Lorshaw. "It turns out that it is the Winged Demon Annihilator. The magic dark area they create is really troublesome, and it is even more deadly for archers."

"Griffins should be able to overwhelm those Winged Demons one-on-one," Dragonson suggested.

"But I'm afraid there is no one-on-one chance. The winged demons we are facing are not thirty or fifty, but hundreds." Wilps said.

The temporary military meeting fell into silence. The uncertainty of the direction of the demon army's attack and the terrifying number made everyone feel helpless, and the confidence brought by relying on the Great Wall of Ice was greatly wiped out.

"Father God, if... I mean... if... this place can't be defended, should we withdraw to the Green Castle? The defense of the city wall there is no worse than here, and the part that needs to be guarded is not so wide." Babru Pa cautiously made a suggestion.

"It's too late, then we will give up all the villages and people in this territory, and the Great Wall of Ice Wall that took a lot of time to build will become a joke." Master Sujiad said with a sigh.

"There is another way." Li Wei, who had been meditating, suddenly raised his head and said, "We don't need to think about where the main attack direction of the demons is. Let them come to us, isn't it enough?"

"Let the devil find us?" Several knights blurted out in surprise, "How is it possible?"

"That's right, why would the demons come to us? They are not stupid, they should choose the weak points in our defense to attack."

"If we fight this war according to the devil's will, even if we can hold it in the end, the casualties will be very heavy, so we can only let them follow our plan." Li Wei's eyes flickered, and his hands pointed to the map. With a heavy slap, "This is the battlefield I chose for the demon army. As for how to get them to come...it's very simple, because demons are violent and bloodthirsty opponents, and this is especially true for the demon nobles who lead the army. Arrogant and conceited character!"

　The first update, there is another chapter around twelve o'clock.

　　
　
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