In the sky, Du Wei alone blocked the way from going south. In the northern sky, several black dragons roared towards them. However, they were met by Du Wei's roar. The strong power of the dragons suddenly made these black dragon figures pause.
Then, several black dragons floated in the air far away, and pairs of eyes looked at the figure in front of them in astonishment...
They clearly felt the dragon aura coming from Du Wei. It was the purest and most majestic dragon power, and it was far stronger than their own! The purity of the dragon aura was probably even a dragon aura.
The royal golden dragon among them is nothing more than that.
There was a faint ancient and noble aura in this dragon's power, which made the chasing black dragons feel confused. It had been a long time since they had felt such an imposing manner from the same kind.
After Du Wei roared so suddenly, these black dragons immediately fell into confusion, and some even stared at Du Wei, as if they didn't know what to do.
Same kind? Could this aura be that of a golden dragon? But... he is obviously a human. Is he really a golden dragon?
Except for the Golden Dragon Clan, it is impossible for anyone to have such pure and noble dragon energy! Several black dragons, under the strong pressure of Du Wei, even involuntarily lowered their heads in the sky. This is the Dragon Clan.
The level difference among them is also deeply imprinted in the soul of every dragon clan with respect for the royal clan.
Du Wei stood proudly on top of the griffin. He held the griffin's neck tightly with one hand and kept stroking it gently to comfort the mount. Because of the powerful dragon power he emitted, the black beast under his crotch was
The gryphon also felt fear and uneasiness, as if it was shrinking and almost falling.
Du Wei's other hand crossed the spear in his hand. This spear was modeled after "Longinus". It was like a strangely long cross war spear. The spear was violently stirred in his hand, and the tip of the spear immediately
A storm like a whirlpool was swept out, and with a violent momentum, it immediately swept towards the rear.
The black dragon flying at the front suddenly collided head-on, as if it hit an iron wall, and was immediately hit by the whirlpool storm swept out by the spear tip and flew back on the spot!
Du Wei held up his spear with one hand. His face was full of evil spirits, and he stared coldly at the black dragons in the distance who seemed to be at a loss. He took a deep breath, raised his voice, and immediately let out a series of strange words from his mouth.
The difficult pronunciation, with some nasal transitional tremolos, is the standard language of the Dragon Clan!
"Go back! Does the low-level black dragon dare to challenge the authority of the noble royal family?!"
A loud shout made the black dragons start to retreat timidly. However, due to the strict orders of the elves, they did not dare to retreat directly, but they were also afraid of the dragon power coming from Du Wei, so they could only shrink their heads and look at each other.
Looking at Du Wei...
Several black dragons began to chat in low voices: "Are they really members of the royal family?"
"It's impossible... there is no longer a golden dragon clan in this world..."
"But this guy..."
"If it is really a golden dragon, our black dragon cannot be the opponent of the golden dragon."
After arguing for a while, a black dragon suddenly appeared and suddenly said: "Or... we should just leave with it now! I don't want to stay here and be enslaved by the elves."
This suggestion immediately silenced the other black dragons, and everyone seemed a little tempted.
"But... our tribe is still in the hands of the elves, and there are still a few young dragons..." A black dragon shook his head: "If we don't serve the elves, once the Elf King gets angry, then... don't forget, that terrifying...
Guys, even the golden dragon is no match for it."
"Then, we can only kill this guy in front of us? It's a golden dragon..."
"But... why does it look like a human?"
After some debate, these black dragons didn't seem to know what to do. Originally among the dragon clan, black dragons were a relatively low-level clan and were not known for their wisdom. After discussing for a while, a dragon finally came out.
He stretched his neck, faced Du Wei in the distance, and shouted in a buzzing voice: "Your Excellency, if you are really a dragon, please reveal your true identity! We don't want to be enemies with the golden dragon, but
But I don’t want to be deceived either.”
"Humph." Du Wei sneered. He couldn't shed tears until he saw the Yellow River.
Du Wei couldn't reveal his dragon body, but...
He laughed a few times and simply stood up on the back of the griffin. At this moment, he held a spear in one hand. Then, he frowned and slowly sang a series of simple and weird notes in his mouth!
And when this string of notes came out of Du Wei's mouth, those black dragons really changed their colors!
After an exclamation, the two black dragons at the front shrank up and quickly ran to the back.
"Dragon language magic! It is really a golden dragon! If it is a human, it is impossible to speak dragon language magic!"
With a bang, several black dragons were extremely shocked. They turned their heads and fled in the direction of the fortress. The last black dragon, who was slightly older, still looked at Du Wei hesitantly from a distance, and his body was moving in the direction of the fortress.
In the middle of the air, he made a kneeling gesture, and a deep and humming voice came over:
"Your Excellency, the noble Golden Dragon! We don't dare to be enemies with you. But are we being coerced by the evil elves? We really didn't expect that there are actually golden dragons in this world. If possible, please save us.
.It’s just that the evil elf is too powerful. Our clan leader was subdued by it... So, I beg you to come and save our entire clan!"
After saying that, it bowed its head and saluted from a distance, then turned around and flew away quickly.
Du Wei was halfway through reciting a string of dragon language magic spells. When he saw the other party retreating, he shut up and stopped talking. If he continued to recite it, his fox's tail would be revealed. Although he could speak dragon language with the help of the tear crystal pendant,
But he can't use the magic of Dragon Language now.
Fortunately, it seemed that fear of the royal family had formed the habit of the dragons. After these dragons were scared away, Du Wei breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"No wonder the fortress fell suddenly. That guy Luoxue sent all the dragons up as vanguard."
Du Wei's group of gryphon knights happened to find a few barrels of kerosene in a warehouse when they set the fire. Some griffin knights simply carried the kerosene barrels and flew around the warehouse, pouring a
all over.
After igniting the kerosene, it was difficult to extinguish the fire. Under the strict orders of the leader, the orcs could only find various rakes or brooms nearby to put out the fire. The most hateful thing was that during the fierce battle, the orcs near the warehouse
Several wells were also blocked, and the orcs had to go back and forth to fetch water from the aqueduct dock east of the fortress.
The raging fire caused many orcs who were fighting the fire to be burned, and the fur of many orcs was scorched by the flames.
Several elder mages from the elves have rushed back and tried to cast water magic. However, the effect of water magic was also limited on the fire after the oil was poured on it. Watering the oil on the fire would even make the fire more fierce.
In desperation, the leader of the orcs issued a death order, and groups of death squads rushed forward. The orc leader personally ran to about two hundred steps in front of the warehouse, stood on the spot, picked up a long knife and slashed
A trace was drawn on the ground, and he shouted wildly: "Send the order. If the fire continues to spread to this line, then all the death squads who put out the fire will have their heads chopped off!"
Those death squads were originally criminals among the orcs. When they were attacking the city, the role of these death squads was to be responsible for the first wave of climbing the city wall or filling in the trenches, which had the highest mortality rate. But this attack
Fortress, because of the dragon clan's raid, the death squads suffered few casualties. But unexpectedly, many people were killed in the fire.
The leader of the orcs even sent a supervising team up.
There was a blazing fire in front of them. Behind them were the shining blades in the hands of the supervising team. These orc death squads could only grit their teeth, close their eyes, and dive into the fire desperately.
"What? Slytherin?" When Luoxue heard the news and rushed back to the city, the fire in the warehouse had been controlled. After hearing the report, it was shocked at first, but then asked the people who had escaped back.
The black dragon, Luoxue, finally looked at the warehouse in front of him where the fire was fierce and there was thick smoke everywhere. A strange smile suddenly appeared on his face.
"Haha. It seems that my old friend is here." Luoxue twitched the corner of her mouth and murmured in a low voice: "Tulip Duke, Duwei! You have created a lot of surprises! Slater
Lin, have you even created such a legendary unit... This is really annoying."
After saying that, Luoxue actually stopped looking at the warehouse in front of them where the fire was being put out. She turned around and headed back out of the city with a group of personal elf warriors around her.
At this time, the leader of the Orc army on the eastern front ran over. This white rhinoceros was a close confidant of Rockland. After coming to see Luoxue, his tone was respectful and frightened: "Elf King, this fire is really too big, please ask me
We can send more mages from the clan to help put out the fire."
Luoxue glanced at the orc leader in front of him. The white rhinoceros skin on his body had been smoked to a smoky color, and the hair on his head was burnt. His face was covered with black ash, and he looked quite embarrassed.
"No need." Luoxue glanced at the warehouse: "With such a big fire, the food cannot be saved. Moreover, now I am worried that the enemy will counterattack at any time, and I cannot waste the energy of the mages."
"But, those grains..." The orc leader was a little reluctant to part with them.
"We are not short of food now." Luoxue shook his head: "The farmland in the rear will be harvested in two months. What we need is more iron tools, whether it is armor and weapons for the soldiers, or hoes for working in the farmland.
and shovels. There are a lot of armors and weapons left by humans in this warehouse. Those iron items will not be burned easily anyway. Moreover, when we move back, we will have to refining them. Let your people seize the time to put the weapons warehouse on fire.
Put it out. As for other warehouses, just control the fire and prevent it from spreading... Don't waste the lives of your soldiers in vain."
The orc leader watched helplessly as Luoxue left after saying these words, and couldn't help but be stunned.
"Be careful, the smoke from such a big fire can be seen more than ten miles away. Be careful that the human army takes the opportunity to counterattack." Luoxue then gave instructions to the leader of the elven warriors around him, and he calmly left the fortress.
He walked directly onto the city wall and looked south from a distance...
Du Wei, are you here? Well... we are finally going to fight again!
Du Wei rushed all the way back to a small town about four hundred miles south of the fortress: Yajin.
Yajin City was originally a small city south of the Eastern Fortress. After some expansion before the war, the scale of the city was expanded in accordance with the requirements for a second-class city in the empire, including the storage warehouses in the city and the height and width of the city walls.
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Since the war, this city south of the defense line has become a transit hub for transporting materials and baggage from the rear of the empire to the front. There are nearly 20,000 troops stationed in the city, but most of them are logistics personnel.
After the war started, more than half of the residents in the city had already moved away in order to avoid the war. The remaining half were unwilling to leave their hometown. When Du Wei came to Yajin City, he and his
The "Archangel" reunited and then arrived at Yajin City, only to find that there was a tense atmosphere here.
The fortress on the front line fell last night. At dawn, some defeated cavalry from the front army finally arrived here. Seeing those defeated front line soldiers fleeing in embarrassment and not even equipped with armor, they immediately brought to the city.
A great shock.
The garrison commander responsible for guarding Yajin City immediately ordered the city gates to be closed and began first-level combat preparations. However, despite this, the news of the collapse of hundreds of thousands of troops in the frontline fortress still caused low morale in Yajin City. Both the soldiers and civilians and the generals,
They are all filled with fear and uneasiness.
In the fortress on the front line, more than 100,000 troops collapsed, and the defeated troops who escaped back brought news that the front line was severely defeated. It seems that even the commander of the front line, General Dominguez, could not escape!
People were in panic, and there were several corpses hanging outside the city wall. It was said that the garrison commander of Yajin City, in order to calm the morale of the army, beheaded a few defeated soldiers who spread the news of the defeat indiscriminately.
When Du Wei arrived, the city was on alert. Fortunately, Du Wei's battleship had hoisted the flag. Otherwise, these human soldiers who had never seen a flying battleship might have thought that those monster races were coming to kill them.
When Du Wei's tulip flag arrived in the city, it finally injected a shot in the arm into this frightened city!
The name Tulip Duke is really loud and prestigious, and it can also bring people a sense of security.
There had been an order before, and the city had prepared barracks and the commander's mansion to welcome Du Wei's reinforcements from the north. Du Wei's battleship landed in the commander's mansion. Naturally, the soldiers and civilians in the city were extremely surprised by the battleship, but when
After learning that there were hundreds of magicians in this flying battleship, Du Wei deliberately let it out, and everyone in the city immediately felt at ease!
Now that's good! Hundreds of magicians! With so many magicians here, you don't have to worry about those monsters coming!
The Griffin Knight was placed in a separate military camp by Du Weian, and he also sent 300 of his own guards to guard the perimeter. No casualties were allowed in or out.
Later, Du Wei ordered all the two thousand cavalry in the city to be sent out, in teams of ten, carrying the imperial flag and his own tulip flag, out of Yajin City, and searching all the way to the north and east and west sides.
Their mission was to collect the defeated armies that had collapsed after the fall of the frontline fortress. Du Wei's order was very simple: anyone who escaped from the frontline, no matter which army they belonged to, whether they were from the Storm Legion or the local garrison,
Or from the Navy... If you see anyone, bring them all back!
In order to worry that some defeated soldiers would run away in fear of punishment. After all, the empire's military laws are still very strict on the punishment of defeat. Soldiers are not counted. If you are a general or above, if you have the responsibility of defending the city, once the city is lost,
, those who lead a fight to the death but are defeated will, depending on the seriousness of the case, be severely punished and even be beheaded directly!
The news Du Wei sent out was an order issued in the name of his own Duke Tulip: No matter the military rank, no matter which unit they belong to, as long as they return to Yajin City, they will not be held responsible for the defeat!
Two thousand cavalrymen set off separately, and in less than a day, they slowly brought back a large number of deserters.
Sitting in Yajin City, Du Wei ordered the 20,000 reserve logistics troops in the city to distribute weapons and go up to the city wall to prepare for war. On the other hand, he also prepared a military camp to accommodate the defeated army and a supply of food and supplies.
He also sent several griffon knights to patrol and guard around Yajin City.
This chaotic scene lasted for two full days. Yajin City was too close to the front line. It was less than four hundred miles away. With a fast horse, it could be reached in a day and a night. During these two days, one after another
Groups of defeated armies regrouped here. These armies had different numbers and formations. Some soldiers could not find their commanders, and some officers could not find their troops.
In this situation, Du Wei simply did not stop and reorganized the defeated troops who were arriving one after another.
Although this defeat was tragic, the actual situation was that the loss of hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line was not as tragic as imagined. The main reason for this defeat was the sudden surprise attack of a large number of dragons, which blinded the humans. Then the dragons took the opportunity to attack
Chaos was caused everywhere in the city. Taking advantage of the chaos, the city gate was opened, plunging the army that had been tired for many days into complete chaos.
When the orcs entered the city, the defenders lost the advantage of the city wall and were helpless in the street fighting.
It can be said that this was a rout, but it was not a battle of annihilation. The hundreds of thousands of troops were not really in the city, but only 20,000 or 30,000. Most of them were broken into the city by the enemy while they were resting in the middle of the night.
I was panicked by the news. After resisting randomly for a while, I saw that the sky was full of behemoth dragons, the city was on fire, and the orcs were pouring into the city. This chaotic scene triggered the bombing of the camp, and as a result, they collapsed and fled.
Du Wei knew that in the wars of the Cold Weapon Age, such incidents of bombing camps or inexplicable retreats were not too rare. He could not blame the Storm Legion for being too useless. After all, on the battlefield, such inexplicable incidents were unprecedented.
If what I saw happened suddenly, whoever it was would probably be stunned.
For example, the "Battle of Feishui" in the history of previous lives, etc., wars in the cold weapon era, such examples are not uncommon.
After a few busy days, the rebel army was gathered in one by one. The number of troops stationed in the city gradually increased from the original 20,000 to nearly 100,000.
These days, what makes Rang finally feel relieved is that he is worried that those criminal monster races will take the opportunity to march in. After all, there are not many troops in Yajin City, and they are all second-line logistics reserve troops. Although the defeated troops were gradually gathered in later, those who had just experienced
After a rout, even the organization was completely broken up, and the chaotic troops had to be reorganized for a period of time before they could regain their combat effectiveness.
If the criminals continued to go south at this time, even Du Wei had to admit in private: If things really happened like that, then he would probably have no choice but to flee south with his troops.
After all, he is not a god. He only has the fighting power of five hundred cavalry and several hundred magicians who can be trusted. He can rely on such a small number of people to stop the army of sinners from going south, unless he is really determined to fight to the death and gather a few
A strong Saint-level man, fighting desperately in Yajin City, might have a slight chance of holding on.
But if it develops into a holy-level battlefield, then the holy-level strength among the sinners may not be something that I can compete with now. At least, I will never be able to stop Luo Xue alone, even if I put Hussein and Rodrigo
Even with all Si's efforts, they couldn't beat Luoxue.
It's a pity... I don't know where that guy Bai Hechou has gone. That guy seems to have no interest in such a great and noble mission as "protecting the human world".
Fortunately, the crime seemed satisfied with capturing the fortress and had no intention of going south.
When the griffin knights were patrolling, they would occasionally encounter orc wolf cavalry in the wild from a distance. However, those wolf cavalry seemed to have received strict orders from the orcs. When they saw the gryphon knights in the sky from a distance, they immediately retreated and never refused.
near.
In a few days, Du Wei was busy in the dark, and he hurriedly reorganized the 70,000 to 80,000 defeated troops who had gathered back. However, there was an extreme lack of senior officers at the general level. In the fierce battle that destroyed the city, senior generals were
Officers are the only force capable of resisting the Dragon Clan's surprise attack. A large number of high-ranking generals died in battle while relying on their strong personal force to fight the Dragon Clan to the death. The reason why these armies were defeated was also due to the fact that too many officers were killed at the end of the battle.
, related to the lack of strong command.
Almost counting the days with his fingers, Du Wei sent out gryphon knights to patrol around every day, while waiting nervously.
Finally, on the sixth day, reinforcements arrived.
When he was the commander's reinforcements heading north, local garrison troops from the northern region gradually came to Yajin City to assemble, and 14,000 reinforcements from the waterway also arrived.
Finally, on the tenth day, Yaluoer and others from the Military Academy Department also arrived at Yajin City with 16,000 reinforcements. This was because they got the news of the defeat of the front line halfway. Yaluoer was in desperation.
He forcibly increased the marching speed, even discarding a large amount of baggage and rushing on to get there ahead of time.
Du Wei was very satisfied with Yalor's decisive decision: At this time, the baggage is no longer important, we must rush to the front line as soon as possible, otherwise, if even Yajin City falls, then the south of the defense line, all the way to the central and inner hinterland of the empire
The large territory will no longer be defended! The criminals can even drive straight in and drink in the Lancang Canal!
Reinforcements from all walks of life arrived, and more than 150,000 troops were gathered in the small Yajin City. The number of people was overwhelming. Seeing that the imperial troops were stationed outside the city, the people in the city gradually settled down.
Come to your senses.
But at this time, the biggest mystery in Du Wei's mind was: Since they had conquered the eastern fortress, why didn't the criminals immediately go south? Why did they give up such a good opportunity?!
This victory on the eastern front was obviously directly commanded by Luo Xue of the Elf tribe! With Luo Xue’s wisdom, he would not fail to see such a good opportunity!!
It...is sitting so quietly and waiting...what on earth is it waiting for?!