Chapter 275 Dragon Rider, Tide Caller

"Instructions are given for the archers to conduct covering fire. All crossbows should be aimed at that big guy, and they will shoot as soon as they enter the range!

Then tell the rescuers to hurry up and close the city gate immediately!"

Wearing a suit of rune armor, Duke Anda stood on the second line of defense wall and loudly issued orders to the messengers beside him.

At this moment, through the many tents ignited by the flames of the exploding fruits in the first line of defense city wall, one can clearly see the army of ghouls coming over the city wall like a tide, among which the huge giant ghoul is particularly conspicuous.

After the rescue force sent by Anda protected Edmure and others and successfully evacuated into the second line of defense wall, they began to rescue other surrounding guards who were closer to the city wall.

In fact, rescue in this situation is very risky. If it is too late to close the city gate, the second line of defense wall will fall in an instant.

But there is no way, if we don't try our best to rescue, the remaining guards will eventually join the army of zombies.

Under this situation, the living party will suffer double losses.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Boom, boom!

In the camp where flames were burning everywhere, the continuous rain of arrows continued to kill ordinary ghouls. The last giant ghoul walked out of the attack range of the arrow rain and bed crossbow and stopped.

It bent down and grabbed a self-destructing ghoul that was following closely beside it, covered in explosive fruits, and threw it hard towards the second line of defense wall.

Bang!

The self-exploding ghoul thrown into the air by the giant ghoul hit an invisible wall in the air before it even got close to the defense wall.

The huge impact force immediately caused the self-exploding ghoul to fall into pieces, and the explosive fruits on its body also fell from the air.

Boom, boom, boom!

The explosive fruits that fell from the air into the army of ghouls below exploded one after another, and the orange-red flames instantly swallowed up a large number of ghouls.

call!

There was a ripple above the giant ghoul's head, and Ella had unknowingly used air magic to become invisible and fly to the top of its head.

The self-destructing corpse just now also hit the air barrier magic she cast, so it did not threaten the second line of defense wall.

Ella, who was standing in the air, pressed her hands toward the middle, and the oxygen concentration near the giant ghoul suddenly rose. But because the ghoul didn't need to breathe at all, it didn't react abnormally.

Oops!

After casting the spell, Ella took out a flint from her arms, opened the front cover and threw it directly.

As soon as the flint with sparks fell on the head of the giant ghoul, a fierce tongue of fire ignited and swallowed it up instantly. A huge human-shaped torch appeared on the battlefield.

"Close the city gate!"

Seeing that Ella had eliminated the giant ghoul that could attack from a distance, and that the guards near the second line of defense had almost rescued them, Duke Anda immediately gave an order loudly.

Squeak, squeak!

The two gates under the city wall of the second line of defense began to close. The rescue troops who received the order turned their backs to the city gates and occupied and retreated in the face of the corpses.

The rescue troops who originally fought in a roughly fan-shaped formation at the city gate shrank into a circle and slowly retreated toward the city gate.

Tear!

A wight that rushed towards him was instantly beheaded by the heavily armed Gendry with his obsidian battle ax.

He looked at the more and more corpses being killed and the fewer and fewer comrades who had retreated into the defensive walls. He turned around and shouted: "Put down the dragon crystal fence!"

Whoosh!

On the defensive wall, the guards who heard the roar below put down the iron chains in their hands, and the two mesh-like iron fences, which were made entirely of steel and with the bottom covered with obsidian spikes, were smashed vertically from the city wall.

Bah!

Bang bang!

The obsidian spikes instantly penetrated the rotting heads of the corpses below, turning them into real corpses.

Moreover, even without obsidian spikes, these ghouls can be killed by this extremely heavy steel fence.

As the two dragon crystal fences fell, the army of ghouls at the city gate was directly divided into two. Most of the ghouls were blocked by the dragon crystal fences, while a small number of ghouls were quickly dealt with by Gendry and others.

boom!

Taking advantage of this golden moment, Gendry and others successfully entered the defensive wall, and the city gate was closed.

When designing the second line of defense wall, Robb considered what would happen if the first line of defense wall was lost, the friendly forces retreated, and the ghoul army would pursue them.

Therefore, two huge dragon crystal fences were set up near the city gate, which can not only block the rear, but also strengthen the defense of the blind spot below the city gate.

It is precisely because of this insurance that Duke Anda can safely let Gendry lead his troops out for rescue.

They failed to take the opportunity to break into the second line of defense wall, and also lost the giant ghoul that could threaten the city wall. The remaining ghoul army seemed to have lost its previous sense of threat again.

They can only rely on their terrifying numbers to continuously consume the energy and obsidian weapons of the guards on the defensive wall.

The battle started in the middle of the night and lasted until dawn, seemingly deliberately to allow the guards on the defensive wall to see clearly.

It wasn't until it was completely dark that the thousands of dead guards on the first line of defense wall stood up again and joined the army of ghouls besieging the second line of defense wall.

The guards, who had been fighting for most of the day and were already exhausted, saw this scene and their hearts were shocked again.

After all, these are all their comrades-in-arms, and even their acquaintances, relatives and friends. When they think that they might become like that, the morale of the guards becomes even lower.

Duke Anda also saw this situation and immediately ordered the waiting guards from the Twin River City Bridge to start replacing.

On the first day of the attack, the army of corpses captured the first wall of the Twins' defense line. In the following three days of fighting, the army of the dead showed their terror to the living people.

First of all, during these four days of fighting, hundreds of thousands of corpses and bones were piled under the defensive walls.

In order to prevent these corpses and skeletons from forming steps for siege, the defenders would light green flames every time they reached a certain height and burn them up.

However, after losing such a large number of corpses, the army of zombies still attacks without sleep, and their densely packed numbers seem to never decrease.

Then, as the fighting time prolonged, even if they took turns to rest every day, most of the guards were extremely tired and their mental state was obviously poor.

On the night of the fourth day, a handful of guards with weak hearts even used obsidian weapons to end this nightmare battle.

Finally, the reserves of obsidian weapons gradually bottomed out. Because nearly half of the obsidian weapons were stored within the first line of defense city walls.

Before the war started, no one could have imagined that the first line of defense wall, which in their eyes was impregnable, could not hold on even for a day.

On the morning of the fifth day, the battle on the second line of defense was still going on as before.

The archers on the city wall looked numb and weakly drew their bows to shoot. They didn't need to aim at all. They could hit the ghouls anyway with their eyes closed.

The spearmen below the city wall did the same thing, mechanically thrusting out the obsidian spears in their hands, withdrawing them, and thrusting them out again.

They just hope that time will pass quickly, until other guards come to replace them, and they can close their eyes and sleep early.

The mental state of the soldiers under his command declined, and Anda and Gendry were completely helpless. Because His Majesty did not station all the soldiers from the Seven Kingdoms in the Twins for unknown reasons.

Although the existing troops in Twin River City are enough to resist the army of zombies.

But the ghoul army attacks so sleeplessly that even if the guards take turns to rest, the negative impact of the gradually accumulated fatigue has become more and more obvious.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Ice crystal spears were thrown out from the army of zombies, drawing a beautiful parabola and falling on the top of the second line of defense wall.

One of the ice crystal spears fell not far from Duke Anda, and Ella and him immediately looked at it.

I saw a ring-shaped fruit pouch made of vines and grass velvet at the end of the ice crystal spear, which contained several fruits with strange patterns on the surface.

Ella's pupils under the mask shrank violently, and the magic power surged in her body, immediately creating an air barrier between the ice crystal spear and Anda.

Bang bang bang!

The orange-red flames struck Duke Anda along with the explosive impact, and the air barrier created by Ella in a hurry was not strong.

It was torn apart by the explosion in an instant, and the huge impact knocked Anda and Ella flying several meters.

The rune armor on Anda suddenly lit up, protecting him with invisible power. So, after falling to the ground, Anda quickly got up.

But then he discovered that Ella, who had not had time to use magic to protect herself, was lying on the ground, unconscious.

"Ella, are you okay?"

Upon seeing this, Duke Anda immediately stepped forward and hugged Ella into his arms.

The mask she had been wearing on her face was blown away by the explosion, her eyes were closed tightly, and a stream of bright red blood overflowed from her mouth.

At this time, Duke Anda could not care about commanding the battle. He picked up Ella and walked under the city wall, completely ignoring the looks of the guards around him.

"Duke Anda, where are you going?"

There was a clear division of labor with Anda, and Gendry, who had been responsible for the defense tasks under the city wall, immediately asked when he saw him.

"Ella was injured by the exploding fruit. I want to take her to the Twins City to seek medical treatment from a maester!"

"What about the defense on the city wall?"

Hearing Anda's answer, Gendry immediately frowned.

"Leave it to you! In my eyes, nothing is as important as Ella right now!"

After giving Gendry another answer, Anda hugged Ella and returned to the castle on the south bank of the Twins to look for the bachelor.
To be continued...