Chapter 757 The end of the war
It is now at 3 pm on December 13, and the afternoon tea time after school is about to enter. The battle, which later called the "Seventh Battle of Lantilio" by later generations, has finally come to an end.↗, of course, if the previous outpost battles were added, the duration of the battle has exceeded one week. The two sides have assembled hundreds of thousands of troops here, and it is not surprising that the battle will last for such a long time, but it is still useless. Such a large-scale and extremely long-lasting decisive battle, the weight to determine the balance of victory or defeat is only more than 30,000 dwarves who arrived at the battlefield at the last moment, and it took only half a day to truly decide the victory or defeat.
With Canterre's death, Baterre escaped, and a large number of large monsters that were considered a barrier to war were concentrated. The first army that collapsed on Minas' side was the elite troops that were arranged on the north bank of Jingxi and claimed to be the most capable of fighting.
The crypt lords spent a huge price to successfully contract the eleven nine-headed sea monsters, Xudra, all left their lives here. These giant monsters with ancient divine blood are also creatures like treasures that are full of heavenly treasures and can be called walking treasures. They are destined to be the spoils of the Dwarf and Drow Elves coalition, and even the corpses are not left. The scorpion tail lions who are invincible in gliding and sprinting have become rakes in front of the dwarf gunners;
After nearly half of the corpses of his companions, the rest were also dragged with scarred bodies and fled in panic. It is estimated that their psychological shadow surface was so large that they would not appear on large-scale battlefields. As for those eye demons whose tentacles could not run, no matter how strong the dead light rays were, they were far inferior to the cannon, and their range and accuracy were far less than that of the crossbow A type used by the hunters, and they were shot and killed one by one; their eyes were dug down by the dwarf warriors and placed on the shield and became trophy.
The eye demons on the tentacle legs couldn't run away, and the same embarrassing situation as them were those "powerful" spirit-sucking monsters. You know, although this creature is at the top of the food chain in the dark area, their "power" is just a relative word after all. Their army is already in chaos. Even the guards who are directly responsible for protecting them have joined the escape group. The spirit-sucking monsters who are not diligent in their four bodies and grains may not even be beaten by skeleton soldiers, have to choose to face the sharp blade battle axe with thin and weak flesh and blood, and the results are also destined.
Moordanley, who claimed to be the king of spirit sucking monsters, cleverly asked his subordinates to raise a white flag. He expressed his desire to have a good talk with the leader of the dwarf or the drow elves, but he did not wait for the other party to respond, but was discovered by some sharp-eyed dwarf gunners. In the dark environment, the white flag was shining red under the guidance of fire and blood, and there was a bit of enthusiasm and tragic blood. The dwarfs did not think it was surrender. Instead, they believed that the enemy had produced a few heroic guys, who wanted to reorganize the defeated soldiers and boost morale and fight again. The gunners, who had been bombing for more than half a day, felt that they really needed to pay tribute to the enemy's courage, and immediately used artillery fire to baptize the area near the white flag without interruption.
Moordanley and his friends were blown into pieces on the spot, and the corpse was gone. From then on, the creatures living in the dark areas of the Spirit Sucking Monster will definitely rise from cherishing creatures to endangered protected animals. In a sense, this may be considered a harvest.
The werewolf Wolfgang was preparing to lead his relatives and friends to escape from the battlefield. Although these powerful monsters were brave, they were not the kind of stubborn bravery of the Taurus, and they still had their own little plan. In Wolfgang's view, he had fought for the crypt lords for a long time and lost thousands of tribe members, which was considered to be the ultimate righteousness. After that, he had to consider the survival and development of the tribe... Although this kind of plan was not honest, it was at least very realistic. Unfortunately, the malice of the world and destiny was more realistic than imagined. The werewolf collided with the cold-blooded cavalry who were killing. After being blocked by the other party's charge, only two or three survived. The huge wolf head of His Highness the Grand Duke was also taken off and nailed to the flagpole to show the public.
This time, Wolfgang brought four sons, but only one escaped. However, if this newly promoted werewolf, the scoundrel, would never have thought of avenging this irreconcilable revenge for the father-killing. Even in order to give himself and his tribe a place to reproduce, he must honestly kneel in front of his father-killing enemy, beg for forgiveness.
Of course, he also had the choice to follow the first path of the Crypt Lord to the black, and not to give up or sing a loyal hymn. However, as long as the person with a little brain is aware that in the seventh Battle of Rantilio, the Minas Cave will have no chance of winning. Even if the Spider Queen Rose or even the King of Ice Hidden led tens of thousands of reinforcements to the front line, it would not change this sad fact.
In particular, when the angry drow elves of the Marasa Federation were suppressed and beaten for dozens of hours, and now they finally found an opportunity to fight back, it was like a spring that had been pressed for a long time. As long as it was not completely crushed, it would naturally burst out with destructive power of more than 9 times more than usual when rebounded.
Mantis is the youngest member of the Four Heavenly Kings among the crypt lords, and is also said to be the most favored and educated one. Because of this, he seems to have become the most responsible bug. When the base camp on the top of the fog mountain was bombarded, the guards persuaded him to retreat, but they were rejected. When the gray dwarf army on the front battlefield was defeated as if the mountain was crazy attack by the Drow elves, it not only did not retreat, but even went down the mountain to supervise the battle himself. He knew that the army responsible for the front attack, in addition to the nearly 40,000 gray dwarf army from the thirteen gray dwarf tribes, also included more than 10,000 taurens and crypt snake men, as well as more than 30 crypt lords responsible for supervising and leading the charge.
Mantis's idea is ideal and pragmatic. Since failure is inevitable, we must at least try our best to preserve the troops under our command. Things like cavemen, goblins, fishmen, etc. are ultimately a group of low-level natives with stronger reproductive capabilities than mice. They don't feel sorry for the death of cannon fodder, but the gray dwarves and the Taurus tribes under Minas mobilized almost all the young and middle-aged people who can fight; while the snake people are originally a minority with a small population and cannot afford to suffer a lot of losses.
It is conceivable that once the army fighting in the plains is annihilated, the Minas Demon Cave will never be able to build an army of this size within decades, and it is possible to fight. The Snake Man may even exterminate the clan in the near future.
The brothers of Mantis must not lose too much. The biggest reliance of the Minas Cave can establish a complete and strict rule in the vast dark area is these big bugs who are proficient in brute force, physical strength, body and magic. Occasionally, one or two crypt lords die in the battlefield. This can only be called inevitable in an accident, but if the loss reaches double digits, not only will the strength of the Minas Cave be greatly damaged, but the deterrent power of the Rock Hidden King and his insect grandsons in the minds of the natives will also be greatly damaged.
It will inevitably be a disaster that shakes the foundation of rule.
"At least all the brothers must be gathered together. Then find a way to reorganize 20,000 to 30,000 troops with fighting spirit. Then you will be sure to break through." Mantis thought.
He is really an amazing crypt lord. Anyway, it is said that in later history books compiled by some "scholars of the different schools of thought", the crypt lord who was very "tragic hero" inexplicably gave a high evaluation of this crypt lord who was very "tragic hero".
In that book, he was called one of the top ten famous generals in the history of the dark region, and was ranked far above his brothers who had great achievements in many battles (of course, those who died one after another in the thousand-year-old war with the Drow elves, so Mantis finally filled the vacancy and entered the sequence of the Four Heavenly Kings).
Although, strictly speaking, this young bug could not produce any great record, there were always people who had taken the record of his deceased brothers on him, even though he was just a deputy general or even a staff officer at that time.
Although from the perspective of the lord, he had also had problems with improper employment, and even made a stubborn and self-righteous spirit-sucking monster become the second leader, and eventually ruined most of his troops before the war. Of course, this loss is naturally not painful and itchy compared to the Battle of Rantilio, and it is difficult to become a focus after the war.
Of course, no matter whether he is a parallel or a "famous general" born at the wrong time. When the brothers of Mantis of the same level fled one by one, the rest of the crypt lords were as anxious as a dog. He was indeed the only one among all the big bugs who had the fighting spirit and believed that he had the opportunity to fight back. With such extraordinary courage and sense of responsibility, he really convinced a group of brothers who were determined to escape, and worked hard to gather some of the troops at the mouth of the Red Mushroom Gorge to maintain a shaky front. He hoped to establish a line of defense at this intersection, which would inspire the morale of the chaotic soldiers, and on the other hand, he could serve as a dead soldier who was cut off when he had no choice.
He was really a very brave guy. He had persisted for several hours and almost succeeded... But then, more Drow and Dwarf troops Lu Xi arrived, and drove away the defeated soldiers who had completely lost their fighting spirit, and began to concentrate firepower to bombard the gorge. The defense line established by Mantis collapsed again, and countless subordinates were trampled to death by the defeated soldiers. There were even a large number of crypt lords among them.
The crypt lords who were fooled by Mantis and decided to stay and fight were suddenly sad and desperate, thinking, "Everyone said that you are very educated, but when you are here, you still have only such a trick of passion and roots? If you had known that you would be beaten up or even trampled to death by these inferior things, wouldn't it be enough that you ran away just now?"
In short, Mantis' efforts also had a counterproductive effect in a sense. The sudden attack of Zoer and the dwarves not only caused him to die on the spot. He also made more than twenty crypt lords to make dumplings. This is a good news that is worthy of cheering than annihilation of a 100,000 army.
From the perspective of the military history community, the seventh Battle of Rantilio ended with the death of Mantis. It was almost 4 p.m. on December 13. The pursuit and extermination battle after this would require a lot of effort from the coalition soldiers, but after all, it was a very innocuous finishing work.
In this battle, the monster legions in Minas's Demon Cave left behind more than 200,000 corpses, ranging from Hydra to Hudra to Fishman and Caveman, and there were many people. Of course, in addition to the miscellaneous soldiers, everyone's list of Walts hunting is also very valuable. Nearly thirty crypt lords, including two members of the Four Heavenly Kings, plus a series of famous names such as Wolfgang, the werewolf king, the sucking monster king Moordanley, the fishman king Xiakui and others.
The corpses of nearly 10,000 snake people who sucked the corpses of nearly 10,000 snake people are likely to destroy these two races from then on. In addition to the thirteen dwarf tribes and seven tauren tribes who sent troops, in addition to the death of most of their young and middle-aged men, there are also heads of ten tribe leaders.
If these existences that have been rampant in dark areas for thousands of years, if you still want to survive, you should make some smart choices, right?
In this battle alone, the gold medal thugs under the command of the King of Iwaken went 70% to 80%.
Of course, for such a brilliant victory, the Drow elves also paid an extremely heavy price. Afterwards, there were 3,000 Drow elves, 4,000 Taurus and nearly 10,000 Blue Mans who died in battle, and the injured were more than twice the number. As for those vassal races, the dead were even more uncountable. It should be noted that even human mercenaries and dwarf engineers who knew martial arts had casualties of about 2,000.
It can be said that if these dwarf troops with new weapons that subverted the era arrived at the battlefield in time, the seventh Battle of Rantilio would have ended with another result.
"In fact, we did win very hard." Kyleliana said so afterwards: "If it weren't for that little guy who tried to weaken the enemy's vitality before the war, I would probably not even be able to hold on to the reinforcements."
"If you praise this, that little guy will definitely be more proud." Orusero said so authentically, but his pride and pride were not concealed in his eyebrows: "Anyway, the matter here is over. But the matter over there is the big deal. We have to set off quickly. The little guy doesn't know how long he can hold on."
Chapter completed!