Shadow monk of online game

Chapter 178 Betrayal
Mo Shi and Bill arrived in front of the Levan Fortress with their troops, but the defenders inside did not allow them to enter. When they were anxious, Lu Ping flew over on a firebird, and there was a muffled sound of "rumbling" in the distance, and the army of the Griffin Empire also came.

Mo Shi flew over alone and met Lu Ping: "Master, your subordinates seem to be a little rude, so we won't let us in."

Lu Ping hummed: "Didn't you leave me and run away first, why are you still here?"

Mo Shi has no shame, so he is also shameless: "This is a strategic shift. Come back here and wait for you. You have returned safely, haven't you? But your subordinates may disappoint you!"

"I don't believe they dare not let me in, you all come with me!"

Lu Ping rode the Firebird and flew towards the fortress, feeling a little apprehensive. If the people inside attacked him, it would be over.

500 meters...400 meters...300 meters...

The people at the head of the city did not attack, so Lu Ping became more courageous and shouted loudly: "Open the door and let us in!"

The guards in the city looked at each other, the soldiers looked at the squad leader, and the squad leader looked at the team leader... Finally, the senior generals all turned their attention to the main general, Jean Gao Wen.

There are many players outside the city who want to enter the city. Seeing the soldiers and horses of the Griffin Empire coming from a distance, they are a little flustered, and then shouted: "Open the door, open the door, let us in!"

Jean stood on the top of the city with a straight face, and said loudly: "The enemy army is approaching. During this special period, in order to prevent the enemy from sneaking in, no one is allowed to enter or leave the city gate."

Lu Ping was furious: "Open your eyes and see clearly, I am here, I am the lord of Harmondale, and I am your master!"

Gene said: "My lord, please fly in directly. The army of dark forces is speculative, so you are not allowed to enter!"

"Bold, they are my guards, they will go wherever I go!"

Jean Gao Wen said coldly: "Now I have the final say here, anyone approaching without permission will be shot to death!"

Why didn't Jean let the dark knight and necromancer enter?The reason is simple, he is ready to rebel, if Lu Ping enters alone, even if he doesn't kill him, he will control him as he likes.

Lu Ping was furious, but it was not easy to explode. The situation was delicate at this time. He might not rebel immediately if Jinn was not forced.Unexpectedly, Huo Niao couldn't stand it any longer, and the childish voice was very loud: "You bastard, how dare you disobey the order, do you want to rebel?"

Even a bird can see that he is going to rebel, can others not see it?Just dare not say it.

Jean Gawain was stunned, and laughed up to the sky: "Haha, hahaha... what rebellion, Harmondale was originally part of the territory of Erasia, you wild boy tricked me and made a bluff The name of the acting lord is all fake! Brothers, we can’t give our lives to this fake lord. The number of troops in the Griffin Empire exceeds ours by twenty times, and they are all elites. For the sake of many children not to lose their fathers, and many women not to lose their husbands, we turn to the Griffon Empire, and from now on Harmondale belongs to the great Erathia, to the glorious Griffin Empire!"

Some soldiers began to boo: "Go to the Griffon Empire, go to the Griffin Empire!"

Some soldiers shouted in panic: "How could this be, surrender before fighting?"

"We are soldiers, we would rather die in battle than surrender!"

"Harmondale is an independent area, how could it belong to Erasia? We are all citizens of Harmondale!"

Although there were many people who opposed it, they did not dare to speak out because there was no one to take the lead. Those who supported the general's surrender were "righteous", and their voices were loud, suppressing the voices of opposition, and the city seemed a little chaotic.

Lieutenant General Clive Brayton raised his sword and shouted: "Soldiers take obedience to orders as their bounden duty, and those who disobey orders will be killed on the spot!"

Those voices of opposition became smaller, and the restlessness gradually subsided.Lu Ping secretly cried out that it is not good, the general situation is over, what should we do?Whatever it is, there's nothing to worry about now, let's just yell a few times.

"Clive, what you said is very good. It is the duty of soldiers to obey orders, so you must obey my orders! Now, as the lord, I order you to open the door. Anyone who does not obey orders is a bastard, a traitor, everyone I can punish him!

Clive was even more ruthless, pointing the sword to this side: "Shoot, kill him!"

No one did anything. After all, this acting lord was real. Surrendering to the enemy was already too much, and they had to hesitate to kill the lord in front of so many people. Everyone was afraid of being charged with killing the lord.

Clive was furious, took down a big bow from his back, put on an arrow and aimed at Lu Ping.

Seeing that the soldiers did not dare to do anything, Lu Ping raised a little hope and shouted: "Whoever kills the two rebels, Jean Gawain and Clive Brayton, will be rewarded with [-] gold coins and become the chief general of Fortress Levin!" ..."

"Haha..." Gene Gawain looked up to the sky and laughed wildly: "Who dares to kill me!"

"I dare!" Someone yelled a few steps behind Gene, a bright white light flashed, and the big head flew out, rolling on the ground with a stream of blood for a long distance, the head still opened its mouth and laughed. However, there is infinite fear in the eyes, and the light is gradually dimming.

There were more than a dozen people on the top of the city attacking the people around them at the same time. Most of them were killed with a single knife and their heads fell to the ground. Before Clive's arrow was shot, the head also moved. The long arrow lost its aim and flew into the sky.

The person who killed Jean turned out to be another lieutenant, Al Brown!

Lu Ping had been with him for more than ten minutes, and he didn't like this slightly pudgy old guy with a hideous scar on his face. Jean, the people he arranged also killed several of Jean's cronies.

Al Brown yelled: "The chief culprit has been eliminated, and the others will ignore it. Born as a Harmondale man, die as a Harmondale ghost, and anyone who dares to surrender is the fate of Jean Gawain!" "

There was another commotion at the stairway in the city, but a group of dwarves rushed up shouting and shouting: "Whoever betrays and hacks to death!"

Probably Al Brown is quite prestigious here, and the dwarves also came to support, many people who had just shouted to surrender fell silent, and the turmoil quickly subsided.

In just one or two minutes, great ups and downs took place in the city, which was really unexpected, and Lu Ping was naturally surprised and delighted.

The gate of the city opened quickly, and many players who stayed outside the city rushed in. Lu Ping and the necromancer flew directly into the city, and the dark knight entered last. At this time, the vanguard of the Griffin Empire was only 5000 meters away from the city.

Al Brown walked up to Lu Ping and bowed to salute: "Fortress Levin's chief general, Gene Gawain, and his deputy, Clive Brayton, have attempted to rebel and have already been killed. Please command the defense of the city on behalf of the lord!"

Lu Ping said: "I am not familiar with the situation here, now I appoint you as the new general in the capacity of acting lord, with full power to command the battle!"

Al was also polite, straightened his body and said loudly: "Yes, my lord!"

Lu Ping asked immediately, "Can you hold on for three days?"

Al's rigid face covered with scars is not only not ugly at this time, it also looks particularly brave and resolute against the armor and helmet, and said sonorously: "The city is here and the people are here!"

Lu Ping shook his head: "No, what I mean is that you must hold on, and you must live. Can you hold on for three days?"

Al's expressionless face finally showed a little surprise: "Do we have reinforcements?"

Lu Ping nodded very positively: "As long as you can defend for three days, I can call in reinforcements and defeat them!"

Al didn't ask where the reinforcements were coming from, and there was no joy on his face. He just said: "We will do our best!" After speaking, he immediately said to the guards around him: "Destroy the bridge and open the magic shield!"

"Yes, General!"

The messenger immediately went to give the order, and many catapults and giant ballistas on the top of the city started to launch, and projected on the wooden bridge on the river outside the city.

Liwen Fortress is located in a narrow valley between two high mountains. The city wall is about 20 meters high and more than 100 meters long. It is all made of hard granite boulders and traverses the entire canyon.On both sides are treacherous mountains and steep mountains, which cannot be crossed.There is a large river outside the city wall on the side of Erasia, 60 meters wide, and the current is turbulent. If the bridge on the river is destroyed, it will be difficult for the enemy's ground troops to approach the city.

There are a large number of giant ballistas, trebuchets, and many magical anti-aircraft forts like giant pillars on the top of the city. Lu Ping has personally experienced the power of this thing when he was in Dense Fog Town. It has a long range, powerful power, and a large killing area. It's a rocket launcher.At that time, he only saw one or two rounds fired. No one in the entire game world has ever seen how terrifying it is to launch a full-scale launch, because from the server launch to now, NPCs are just playing around, and there has been no real siege battle. .

"Boom, boom..."

Huge stone balls soared into the air one after another, flew out of a beautiful parabola, and fell on the bridge deck one after another. The wooden bridge began to break and shatter.

How effective is it to take down a wooden bridge?The enemy has a lot of flying troops and long-range magic troops, and they have an absolute advantage in numbers. With a large number of people across the river, they can kill the people on the top of the city, right?So Lu Ping was not very optimistic.

Lu Ping walked in front of the dwarves: "My friends, I hope you can build the things on the blueprint as quickly as possible. That is our only hope. The lives of these people in the city and the future of the entire Harmondale It's all up to you!"

Nunu said: "Nunu understands, everyone works hard!"

"Try, try..." cried the dwarves, glad that they were finally being valued.

While speaking, there was a loud "buzzing" sound, and a huge pale yellow light shot up into the sky in the center of the city, like a huge umbrella opened, and then hung down around, forming a semicircular light shield to cover the entire fortress up.

"This is the magic shield?" Lu Ping was a little surprised, he had never seen this thing before.

Nunu smiled all over his face, and said with some pride: "Yes, the strongest protection, the great magic mechanism left over from the Age of Miracles, was already damaged, and the previous lord asked us to repair it."

Lu Ping asked: "What function does it have?"

Nunu's eloquence is not good, and he explained with some difficulty: "Very good, very powerful, magic can't penetrate, weapons can penetrate, and people can penetrate..."

Lu Ping understood that this protective shield has no effect on people and physical things, but only blocks magic energy, so the besiegers cannot get in with magic, and the people inside may not be able to get out with magic, but trebuchets, giant crossbows, bows and arrows , Rolling logs and the like are still effective, which is beneficial to the defenders.Moreover, the top of the magic turret in the city is just exposed outside the protective cover, and can be attacked from the outside. The attacker does not have a magic turret, and it cannot be blown in if there is one. This is the most troublesome thing for the enemy.

With the magic shield, the enemy's mages and bishops can't attack the city, and can only attack the city close to the troops and archers, so demolishing the wooden bridge will have a great effect.

"Nunu, will this shield be consumed by enemy attacks?"

Nunubi scratched: "It needs magical energy. Put crystal ore or gems in it, and the energy will come out. If the attack is too strong, it will be broken and can't be used anymore. It can be repaired."

"Okay, I see, you go and build that thing, how long will it take you at your fastest speed?"

Nunu blinked, thought for a while and said, "Two days plus six hours."

Alice said it would take about three days to complete, so the time Nunu said was within Lu Ping's expectations. "Well, thank you for your efforts, I hope you will be as fast as possible!"

Nunu nodded vigorously, and led his companion down the stairs of the city wall with short legs.

Lu Ping looked outside the city, and saw that the vanguard of the Griffin Empire hadn't advanced any further. The people in the sky had already fallen to the ground, and the army on the ground was also slowly stopping, more than 3000 meters away from the city wall of the fortress.

The arranged interior is gone. The fortress is full of soldiers and horses, and they are fully prepared for battle. It probably surprised the people of the Griffin Empire, right?But how long can it last?Lu Ping was really worried, so he went to Al Brown again.

Al Brown was watching the enemy with a long telescope, and Scar had no expression on his face, so Lupin couldn't see anything from his face.

"General Brown, they see that we are prepared, so they won't attack immediately?"

Al looked at it for a while before putting down the binoculars: "They are waiting for large equipment to attack the city."

Lu Ping was a little surprised. It turns out that the enemy still has siege equipment. It seems that the city is not easy to defend: "How long are you sure you can hold it?"

Al turned to look at him, his eyes seemed a little uneasy: "When the number of the attacking party is less than ten times that of the defending party, they can hold out for a longer time; when the number of the attacking party is more than ten times that of the defending party, . . . it's hard to hold on to."

It doesn't take him much to say that Lu Ping knows that the number of enemies now exceeds them by ten times.

"They are Erathia's most elite army!" Al added.

"You have a lot of experience, Liwen Fortress is very strong, we are united, we should be able to hold it for three days?" Lu Ping flattered a little, Al didn't say how long he could hold it, his heart was always hanging I can't put it down.

There was a smile in Al's eyes: "I came to Fort Leven when I was 20 years old, and I never left a step. Now I am 50 years old. No one knows this place better than me. No matter who Harmondale belongs to, I am loyal to the lord , what I hate the most are shameless rebels!"

"What about your family?"

Al shook his head and said that he had no family members: "Fort Levin has been conquered many times, but every time there was an internal response, or the defense facilities were destroyed, or someone poisoned the water..."

Lu Ping was really curious: "You know that Jean Gao Wen is going to rebel, and you are ready to kill him?"

Al sneered: "He is originally from Erasia, and my eyes are not blind, so why can't I see it!"

"Uh, it's really thanks to you this time. What I said counts. From now on, you will be the main general of the fortress, and I will reward you with a thousand gold coins."

Al shook his head: "I didn't do it for this, I just did what I should do."

It seems that he has a good character and should be reused in the future.At this time, a soldier hurried over: "General, it's bad, the crystals in the warehouse are gone, and there are only 25 boxes left!"

"What?" Al, who had always been calm, changed his face, and Lu Ping's heart sank.

"Damn it, it must have been smuggled away by that bastard Jean Gawain!" Al said bitterly.

Lu Ping asked: "How long can the shield last for 25 boxes?"

Al's face was serious: "The stronger the enemy's attack, the faster the consumption. If there are only 25 boxes, I'm afraid it won't last a day."

(End of this chapter)