Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Chapter 240: City Ablaze - The End of the War

As the war progressed, by late at night, the progress on each defense line showed significant differences.

Although the Green Dragon Elyria personally attacked the north, the Black Forest Fort's defense line was the most solid. A large number of forest monsters were found dead under the city. Facing the castle's three layers of defensive fortifications, only the Green Dragon rampaged to the top layer. Its huge body destroyed several towers, and even two Ballista Trebuchets were destroyed by its dragon breath. However, its isolated advance did not affect the situation in the north.

The most tragic was the western defense line. Human soldiers were already besieged by a large number of monsters, and the Chimera personally participated in the siege. It repeatedly used terrible Chaos magic and breath to destroy the human soldiers' lines. A large number of soldiers' morale collapsed, and they fled the defense line in panic.

When the fierce battle between the two sides reached late at night, Priest Ron, who was in charge of the western front, had to send messengers to Su Li for help again and again: "Lord, if you don't send reinforcements to the western front, the western front will not be able to hold!"

Reinforcements!

Reinforcements!

Su Li had to have reinforcements. He clearly remembered that he had heard this sentence from Ron two or three times.

Su Li even disregarded his safety and transferred two squads of Blood Pine Forest Beast Butchers from Black Forest Fort to support the western front.

However, the battle on the western front was simply a tactic of adding oil. Hundreds and thousands of defeated soldiers retreated from the front line, and dense monsters roared into the city and streets. Every time Su Li filled in a squad, their morale would be shaken before long.

Humans had continuously retreated from four defense lines, losing three districts. Ron repeatedly reorganized the defense line in the rear, but it seemed that the entire western district could not be defended, and even the entire Black Forest Town seemed to be unable to be defended.

The departure of the elite human knight order not only drew away an elite mobile force, but also drew away the most combat-effective soldiers in the territory.

This resulted in the human garrison being unable to hold the position as firmly as before, or even defeat the monster's offensive.

If this continues to consume, the last mobile force in Su Li's hand will also be exhausted.

So Su Li angrily roared at the messenger who was asking for help: "Go back and tell Ron, there are no more reinforcements! He must guard the passage in front of the Carnival Square. I am watching him here in the castle. If the Carnival Square is lost and threatens the southern defense line, he can come and see me with his head!"

In theory, a lord cannot threaten a territory's patriarch like this, and it is even possible that such disrespectful words could lead to conflicts and estrangement between the lord and the church.

But in the current situation, even the messenger didn't think there was any problem, and immediately turned around and ran back in a panic to report to Ron.

But even if Ron really guarded the Carnival Square, it basically meant that the western district would be turned into ruins, which was already a de facto bottom line.

At the same time, Su Li also took a deep breath and shouted to the surroundings: "Come on! Go and inform Steward Hilde, immediately execute the tactics, we have no more capital to delay."

A long silence fell in the empty castle, and then a weak female voice came: "I'll go, young master. There are no other idlers in the castle."

Su Li's heart trembled, and he turned his head to look over. The one who answered him was indeed Avril, who had put on her armor. In the entire Black Forest Territory, only she still habitually called Su Li young master.

This was the little girl who had followed Su Li the longest. It could be said that she had used her body to soothe Su Li's panic, anxiety, and loneliness when he first transmigrated to this strange world, little by little.

The knight's training, in the final analysis, was just a means for Su Li to intimately flirt with the female courtiers, and there was no way to increase the speed of cultivation. Except for Hilde taking Su Li to fly, the other female courtiers' cultivation was just so-so.

Avril had been training for half a year, and had only been promoted from a beginner trainee knight to an intermediate trainee knight. Although this speed was not slow, and was similar to most elite knights, it was indeed true that there had been no qualitative change until now, and she was still stuck in the trainee knight stage.

Now the Green Dragon is rampaging in the city, and monsters may flow from the western district to the southern district at any time. She is taking a life risk to deliver the message.

When Avril saw that Su Li was hesitant and had not said anything, she took the initiative to say: "Young master, we really can't find any other idlers in a short time, let me go. I often go out to purchase goods, and I am very familiar with the city routes. And I have a war horse, so even if I encounter monsters, I can get rid of them. Otherwise, you can't go, you have to be in the command center here. Once your banner moves, the army's morale will be shaken."

Su Li embraced Avril and hugged her delicate body tightly, and said: "You are right, be careful when you go, and deliver the message as soon as possible."

Avril's strength was beyond Su Li's imagination. Perhaps people's resilience really has infinite potential. As long as they are not defeated, they can always burst out with amazing willpower.

After saying goodbye to Su Li, Avril decisively rode her horse out of the smoke-filled castle. At this time, the sky above the castle was covered by acid-corroded smog and raging flames. Groups of Harpy harpies were flying around the castle, trying to find any exposed flaws in the dwarf musketeers.

Although they may not be able to defeat a Thunder Rifleman unit in close combat, lone dwarves are easily torn apart by them.

This fatal risk is the same for Avril. After she lowered her head and rushed out of the castle, she lay on the horse's back and galloped madly towards the south of the city.

Fortunately, the south of the city did not experience a large-scale defeat like the west of the city. Even when Avril was ambushed by a Gnoll hunter, she was timely assisted by a wounded troop. They cooperated and easily killed this small group of Gnolls that had infiltrated.

When the battle ended, Avril immediately asked the captain holding the warhammer: "I am the lord's maid, ordered to deliver military intelligence to Steward Hilde, which unit are you from?"

This captain gave Avril an extremely deep impression. In the battle just now, he dragged his injured right leg and easily crushed two muscular, strong-legged tall Gnolls.

It was as if he could grab the Gnoll's neck with his eyes closed, and could easily predict the direction of the monster's next attack, so in the battle, it was as if the Gnolls took the initiative to bump into his warhammer again and again.

Even if his strength was far inferior to Avril, his killing efficiency was much higher than Avril!

Avril was almost certain that if this captain could survive, he would become a remarkable, named elite knight in the future.

This strong armed attendant glanced at the young female knight sitting on the horse, grinned, and smiled and said: "I know, I have seen you by the lord's side, so I took the initiative to help you as soon as possible."

"But you don't need to remember our names, we will soon be put into the next round of counterattack, so what you see now is just a group of souls destined to die."

"Steward Hilde is in the second block going south, not far from here. But if you have any news to convey to her, you must hurry, because she may lead the Black Forest Guard Knights to launch a counterattack immediately. If you are late, you will not have the opportunity to pass through the fierce battlefield and heavy encirclement to convey orders to her."

Avril was overjoyed when she heard this. Steward Hilde is about to decide to counterattack on her own?

That's great! Even if she died on the road, she would have fulfilled her mission.

However, she still thanked these young people as soon as possible, and then rushed to the front line without hesitation. Now time is life! It is not only related to the life and death of the territory, but also to saving more soldiers and residents.

The sooner she transmit the news of the immediate attack and promote Hilde's launch of the attack as soon as possible, the more she could increase the chances of human victory. After all, humans really have no time to delay. The devastated situation on the western battlefield is probably far beyond Hilde's imagination.

Under the guidance of the soldiers, Avril quickly crossed the remaining blocks. On the road, she saw a large number of soldiers who were fully armed and ready to depart. It could be seen that they had all been effectively rested. The orderly formation was a perfect demonstration of this situation. But they still carried a lot of scars and blood stains on their bodies.

It can be said that the human state has really reached its limit. If this battle cannot repel the enemy, then the loss of the outer city is already inevitable.

So many free people who were still waiting and watching also actively formed various brotherhoods and war gangs, and actively participated in the attack on monsters in the occupied areas and around the front lines.

But this effect is minimal, because the scale of the monster army is larger than the entire population of Black Forest Town. It is almost impossible to resist these monsters with the power of civilians.

To win this battle, we must rely on the knights to create miracles!

When Avril saw Hilde, she realized that this brave Chosen Knight was almost unrecognizable. Her body was bathed in layers of blood, and the golden and glittering gilded armor was dyed red and black. Her once fair cheeks were splattered with blood.

At this moment, she was covered in blood, looked like a madman, only the golden rare-grade weapon in her hand was still dazzling, helping her to maintain clarity.

Avril hurriedly stepped forward and said to Hilde: "Steward Hilde, the battle in the west of the city has been completely devastated. Priest Ron is about to be unable to resist the monster's offensive. The lord ordered you to launch an attack immediately."

Hilde distantly looked at the west of the city. big fire and raging flames were burning everywhere in the city, which meant that at least large areas of the human garrison had failed to hold the defense line. Otherwise, with human military discipline, they would never allow such a big fire to burn in their defense zone.

"I have observed it. The bloody battle in the south of the city has made the monsters lose their spirit. In the fierce losses, their morale has become low. At this time, attacking the monsters, as long as we can behead Gail Leigon, the Treant army has the possibility of a complete collapse."

After saying that, Hilde awe-inspiring gazed at Avril with a serious expression: "But all of this takes time! You came just in time, you need to go to the west of the city again, in the name of the lord, order Lord Ron to immediately burn the city!"

" burn the city!?" Avril exclaimed, this was a tactic she had never considered.

"That's right! I don't know how Lord Ron is commanding, but it is obvious that the line he is responsible for has almost collapsed. At this time, it is meaningless to put more reinforcements into it. Only by using flames to block the retreat of both the enemy and us can we stabilize the situation. Go and give the order immediately, and I will go to the lord to take responsibility for any problems in the future!"

Avril bit her lip, decisively jumped on the horse again and said: "I know! I will transmit this order to Lord Ron as soon as possible."

It goes without saying what tragic consequences will result from burning the city in such a chaotic situation.

Hilde could only pray to the Sun Goddess that Avril could safely reach the west of the city again.

Before this maid came out, she never thought that this message would be so full of twists and turns. Not only did she have to guard against monsters that might appear at any time, but she also had to run all over half the city! He ran from the castle to the south of the city, then circled around, and ran from the south of the city to the west of the city. There was no opportunity to retreat back to the castle to hide.

Perhaps Hilde's prayers worked. Not long after Avril left, a large number of flames quickly burned in the west of the city, and the flames spread rapidly, lit a large area of the city into a sea of fire.

The speed of burning so fast means that the garrison in the west of the city must not have had time to evacuate the front-line troops. A large number of remnant troops of humans may have been directly swallowed by the sea of fire, and were buried in the raging flames together with the monsters.

The towering flames jumped in Hilde's crystal-clear eyes. She only remained silent for a moment, then clenched the rare-grade sword in her hand, and shouted to the knights who were fully armed and ready to depart behind her: "Light the fire, we will also charge towards the outside of the city!"

As she gave an order, the dwarves in this area lit the reserves of gunpowder and charcoal, and a wall of fire burned behind all the knights.

This blazing fire wall separated Hilde and the Black Forest Guard Knights from the armed attendants behind, through the constantly jumping flames, all the armed attendants were filled with sorrow, with tears in their eyes looking at the human guard cavalry on the opposite side of the fire wall.

No one had a trace of complaint about Hilde's arson and city burning, because she was not the kind of cruel commander who hid behind and burned and slaughtered the front-line soldiers with a fire. On the contrary, she also personally led the troops into the burning sea of fire!

She was worthy of the title of the Sun Goddess's chosen one. All considerations were only for the victory of the battle, and she treated everyone fairly, including herself!

Hilde raised her head stared at the ongoing spreading flames, then raised sword and loudly shouted: "Our retreat has been sealed by flames, but this does not mean that we are doomed to die!"

"Treants have a weakness of fearing flames. As long as we bravely move forward and defeat the Treants, the exit ahead is our way out! Everyone, follow me and trample the enemy!"

" for honor!" The knights shouted, immediately raised their arms raised halberd and lance, and rode followed Hilde to launch a fierce charge.

In front of their hooves, the already exhausted Treants immediately fell like wheat being cut. Wherever the iron cavalry went, they were invincible!

It was not only because the Black Forest Guard Knights had the most elite soldiers and the most well-equipped armor, but more importantly, the constantly spreading city-burning fire greatly triggered the fear of these monsters.

Tree demons have a natural fear of fire. In the course of the intense battle, Hilde discovered that fire-attribute knights inflict greater damage on tree demons and easily trigger fear.

Once the tree demons are on fire, their already low courage value will directly become negative, and they will scream and flee the battlefield.

Hilde has been hiding this trump card of burning the city to wait for this moment.

Especially after several hours of fierce fighting, the morale of the tree demon army has long been low. They do not have the strong will of humans, and they are also trapped in the raging flames. As long as the knights charge once with the death masks, it will immediately cause them a double fear of dying in the fire.

Therefore, the cavalry led by Hilde is simply invincible, and has even rushed to the front of the routed soldiers of the tree demon army, surrounded by monsters.

This made the Black Forest Guard knights who followed Hilde couldn't help but feel frightened. It can be said that at this time, as long as the monsters stabilize their positions slightly and launch a fierce attack on the Black Forest Guard knights, this knight army will only be torn to pieces.

But Hilde's attitude was very firm, and she encouraged in a heroic female knight's voice: "All you need to do is follow me forward! The tree demons behind us will be dealt with by the flames! Don't look back, rush forward, break through the enemy's formation, and rush to victory! The Sun Goddess will bless us with a great victory!"

As her voice fell, a burst of surprise came from the knight's ranks behind: "Look, it's dawn! The light of the sun is rising!"

Now it is autumn and winter, and the sun rises in the southeast. Now the knights have launched a fierce attack towards the south of the city, which can be said to be rushing towards the direction where the sun rises.

This greatly boosted the morale of the knights and even dispelled the fatigue on their bodies.

In the Black Forest, a land of devout believers of the Sun Goddess, the rising of the sun is a symbol of the Sun Goddess bestowing divine grace!

When the light of dawn shone on the knights, all the knights shone with golden light, and they felt as if the solidified divine grace was flowing through their bodies.

Soon a knight exclaimed in surprise: "I feel the blessing of the goddess, my strength has become stronger!"

"The goddess is blessing us, helping us to wipe out evil!"

"Charge, in the name of Violet, purify all the evil monsters with the fire of flames!"

As the knights burst into shouts, the knights who were already exhausted felt a powerful force gushing out from their bodies, and the momentum of the charge increased again.

All the knights shouted the name of the Sun Goddess and slaughtered hundreds of monsters along the way. The monsters were invincible before their soldiers.

Finally, when approaching the city gate, Hilde saw the huge figure of Gahlreigon. The terrible treant's face was full of shock and disbelief!

Obviously, it couldn't understand the state of humans at this moment. The golden light on their bodies was so bright that it seemed to blind all enemies' sight, and their aura was so powerful that it seemed that everyone had a champion-level powerful Dharma Appearance Manifestation.

This made it terrified. Could it be that humans were hiding a champion knight with a scale of dozens of people?

It frantically reminded itself that this was absolutely impossible. It was absolutely impossible for a small border principality to have dozens of champion knights. If there were so many champion knights, why would the human lord have to defend the castle to the death? He would have already entered the forest and swept the court!

But if this was not the case, it really couldn't figure out how dozens of knights killed through the defense lines composed of countless tree demons! How could the aura of these knights be so powerful at this moment, as if they were about to crush everything!

But Hilde didn't give it any time to think. When it was still in shock, Hilde decisively turned on the God General state. When the 30-meter-tall God General suddenly appeared in the middle of the battlefield, the 40-meter-long brilliant sword light directly illuminated the entire dawn.

This bright sword light was so bright that it could be witnessed by all the fighting soldiers and monsters in the city. Even Su Li on the castle and the green dragon in the sky saw this fleeting brilliant sword light in the sky over the southern battlefield for the first time.

Gahlreigon lost all face and dignity, and rolled desperately, crushing more than a dozen tree demons on the road into meat patties, before barely dodging this terrible blow in embarrassment.

Before it could breathe a sigh of relief, behind the position where it had just stood, the huge city wall and gate collapsed, a large area of buildings slid down on the smooth cut, setting off countless smoke and dust, and the entire battlefield was shaking!

With just this one blow, Hilde created a terrible effect of the earth collapsing and the earth cracking.

The power of the God-chosen God General was finally fully demonstrated in this battle. The tree demon squadron next to Gahlreigon was only hit by Hilde once, and its courage was on the verge of collapse, and the morale of the entire squadron was crumbling!

In the past, the powerful dwarf mountain shield formation could only withstand three or four attacks against the God-chosen demons before the morale became unstable. The tree demon army is not as good as the elite dwarf mountain shield formation in terms of strength or courage. I am afraid that they will collapse and disperse after only two or three attacks.

Even Gahlreigon, the God-chosen treant, had a strong look of shock and anger on his face: "Rare-level weapon? How can you have a rare-level weapon! How can you hide it? Is this a trap specially prepared for me?!"

Hilde replied sternly: "You guessed it, today is your death date! This battlefield is your grave!"

The deafening sound echoed in the clouds, and Hilde resolutely launched another attack.

Gahlreigon was still embarrassed and unable to get up, so he could only desperately shoot out vines in order to stop this terrible human woman.

But the next moment, the sharp edge of the rare-level weapon directly cut off the monster's vines, and then the momentum remained undiminished, and it actually cut off Gahlreigon's blocking right arm with one sword! Its huge wrist was instantly cut open, leaving an incomparably smooth cut.

Its painful roar and the blood that spilled all over the sky made this place like a hell where blood rain fell.

Even the green dragon who planned to aid hesitated, because it clearly remembered that humans had another trump card that had not been used!

In this battle, humans can also summon a powerful peak God-chosen dwarf. The perfect-level thunder battle axe in his hand can also easily cut off the green dragon's neck!

It can't put itself in to rescue Gahlreigon. Otherwise, it will attract these two terrible God-chosen enemies, but Gahlreigon will turn around and run away.

The infighting of the monsters greatly weakened their combat effectiveness. The green dragon was not deliberately indifferent, but it did not rush up in the first time. During the delay, Hilde had already launched a fierce offensive again. The sacred guiding arrow's brilliant golden light directly pierced the monster's chest, and once again knocked the monster who wanted to turn over staggeringly to the ground.

But Hilde was not fighting alone. When the monster put all its energy on her, the huge cavalry behind Hilde had launched a fierce charge.

In this battle, time is life, and the knights have disregarded casualties! Under the light of the Sun Goddess's divine grace, they frantically launched attacks on the monsters again and again.

In fact, it was too late for the green dragon to come down to help at this time. Not only were there a large number of knights who were not afraid of death beside Gahlreigon, but also raging flames had already surrounded him.

The green dragon does not have the ability to fight in the flames. On the contrary, they extremely hate the flames, just like they hate the red dragon.

So the green dragon can only watch these crazy humans not retreat at all in the flames, frantically besieging the wailing and rolling Gahlreigon.

When the sun rose, the once invincible God-chosen treant had completely fallen in the raging flames. It used its hands and feet and had struggled to climb out of the city wall, but in the end it failed to leave this blood-stained battlefield and knelt down under the city wall.

In the distance that it longed for incomparable, there were tree demons fleeing all over the mountains and plains. They were shrouded in fear and collapsed in a panic.