Chapter 179 I'll Stay!
At 5:30 in the afternoon, most of the players were already online and ready.
Most of the 300,000 participating players from the Second Legion, the Third Legion, and the Fourth Legion have gathered. Although there are still vacancies of tens of thousands of players, it is not a big deal.
The Undead Lord players gathered together to form an independent Undead Lord Legion. The legion warriors were all Undead soldiers, totaling 100,000!
It has to be said that the rich are the rich. They can develop a legion of undead soldiers with a strength of 100,000 in such a short period of time.
In addition, there is an army of 100,000 magic puppets, and the army of NPC forces in the Northern City has also been prepared.
It is worth mentioning that the Thorn Flower Magic Academy has been contacting the Magicians' Guilds in various cities through its own appeal, and is working hard to recruit magicians to participate in the battle.
Although it is impossible to assemble a complete magic army in a short period of time, if the battle situation is really unfavorable to the player's camp, this magician army may help the players turn the situation around in the later stages of the war.
According to the information provided by the old dean, although the new king dislikes the Magic Academy, he is unable and dares not to provide a large number of soldiers to the Temple of Light because he has just come to power and lacks popularity.
The old dean estimated that the number of soldiers from the Lion Empire participating in the war would definitely not be more than five million.
The main reason was the lack of food and fodder for the Lion Empire’s army.
This is good news for players.
"it's dark……"
Bai Xiaosheng raised his head, looked at the sky, and then exchanged glances with Xu Ercong.
The sun has set, and a layer of red clouds has dyed the sky, which is gradually fading away, and night is approaching.
"Attention all players! I am Xu Ercong from the Paradise of the Dead Club. I am commanding the voice channel to be divided into 1234 rooms, corresponding to the temporarily organized player legion numbers."
"Players of the Second Legion, enter Room 2. I will be in charge of the battle. All players in Room 2 will be teleported to the designated location in ten minutes!"
Xu Ercong entered voice room No. 2 and began to direct the operations.
His style is completely different from Long Aotian, he is calm, orderly, and has the demeanor of a great general. Although he is not as passionate, he gives people a solemn atmosphere of an impending war, which makes people excited.
"Players of the Third Legion, under my command, will set off to the prepared location in ten minutes!"
Bai Xiaosheng entered the voice room No. 3 and led the players of Legion No. 3 to set off.
“Brats of the Fourth Legion! You didn’t expect that I’m back! Hahahaha, let’s go! Let’s go kill some people with brother!”
Legion No. 4 is commanded by Long Aotian. Most of the players of Legion No. 1 are now offline to rest because the battle was too intense last night.
Other combat readiness forces will remain in place for the time being, awaiting new command orders.
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7:30pm.
The night has completely enveloped all areas of the Lion Empire. The allied forces of the Lion Empire and the Temple of Light, which are traveling at night, are not slow. Due to the effects of the divine spells released by the high priests in turn, even the soldiers on foot can run as fast as riding horses.
Moreover, their physical strength is always sufficient and their morale is always high.
This time, the Lord of the Hall of Light was determined to clear all obstacles. He knew very well that even a lion would use all its strength to fight a rabbit. Not only did he go into battle himself, he also brought ten high priests and twenty paladins.
With such quality and scale, there is no way they can lose.
However, due to the large number of coalition forces, when passing through some terrains, the team was stretched out very long and spread out for a long distance.
Just as the team was passing through a forest avenue.
When the team had safely advanced halfway, the head of the team including the high priest and the temple master had left the forest avenue, and there were only two million remaining soldiers.
The players showed up!
"kill!!"
At Xu Ercong's command, 100,000 players of the Second Legion suddenly rushed out from their hidden ambush locations, and strangled the coalition soldiers from both sides of the forest like ferocious tigers pouncing on their prey.
It has to be said that the large invisibility scroll made by Xu Xiaofan was indeed very effective. Even the Lord of the Hall of Light himself did not notice anything unusual.
However, only large-scale invisibility scrolls have such an effect, and they are expensive. Except when they are needed in large-scale ambushes, using them in small-scale combat will only waste a lot of points.
"Revenge for our brothers in the First Legion!"
The philosopher led the legion of undead knights and launched a roaring charge. The defeated skeleton horses stepped on the moonlight and dead leaves and pierced into the united army with the momentum that had been accumulated for a long time!
"I am invincible, brothers, follow me and kill to your heart's content!"
Wang Dali's job was changed to a giant skeleton soldier. As soon as he appeared with the giant skeleton soldiers, the imperial soldiers were shocked and stunned.
My God of Light!
It turns out that the colleagues who participated in last night’s war were not joking. There really are such big skeleton soldiers in the world!
What did this person eat to grow up?
Following closely behind were the overwhelming bone arrows and one after another black curse light that shot out from the depths of the forest and entangled every soldier.
Weakness, increased damage, bloody plague, disease... a large number of curse effects were triggered. The first wave of curse effects offset the energy of divine blessings. The second and third waves of curses were successful and greatly weakened the soldiers' combat effectiveness.
The first wave of offensive prepared by the players was extremely fierce. As soon as they made contact, the NPC coalition lost at least thousands of people, and the number of casualties continued to rise.
Just ten minutes after the war broke out, the hall master who was far away on the way to the coalition forces received the news.
"Sure enough, they started the sneak attack."
The hall master was not surprised, but laughed: "These lowly evil creatures can only attack by surprise."
"Master Palace Master, do you want to go to the rear of the team to provide support?"
"Need not."
The temple master shook his head and said, "I have arranged five paladins and two high priests to stay at the end of the team. They will lead the troops in battle. We will continue to move forward."
"The reason why the undead attacked is simply because they are not as strong as us. Their purpose is to stop us from moving forward."
The hall master chuckled: "But I want to get to the Northern City as quickly as possible! I guess the old dean and Andrew should be in the Northern City, otherwise these undead spirits wouldn't try so hard to stop us from moving forward."
Although the Palace Master did not notice the ambushing undead players, he had already guessed that the players would launch a surprise attack on the army.
There was no way. The most commonly used tactics by players were sneak attacks and night attacks. The Palace Master was not stupid, so he was naturally on guard.
The Palace Master knew very well that even with the blessing of divine power, the coalition forces of four million people could not march faster, and it was also easy for the enemy to split the troops and launch a surprise attack during the march.
Therefore, the temple master placed the Knights Templar in the front of the team, gathered half of the power of the high priests and paladins, and took charge personally, just to tell the ambushing undead that if they wanted to fight, they should attack the people behind them, and also launch sneak attacks from the front.
The soldiers in the rear were basically the empire's soldiers, mostly heavy infantry, light infantry, archers and a small number of cavalry.
In addition to the large number of people, the journey was also slow.
The temple master deliberately exposed the most vulnerable part of the team at the back of the team. After the undead attacked, he decisively led the temple knights to leave the team and rushed to the northern city at full speed, leaving only a few imperial commanders, paladins and high priests to command the battle.
If there are too few undead, then we will surround and wipe them out completely, and after resting, we will try our best to rush to the Northern City and catch up with the vanguards.
If there are too many undead, then we will take advantage of the heavy infantry's field combat advantages, rely on the power of the high priests, station there and fight a war of attrition, and do our best to hold back the undead.
As long as a large number of undead are held back, the defense force of the Northern City will be seriously insufficient, and the vanguard army led by the temple will surely be able to successfully capture the Northern City!
When the Palace Master was not aware of the players' resurrection, from his perspective, his arrangements were very sound.
There is no way, because the undead basically look the same. Even if the undead are resurrected, the NPCs can't tell who is who.
"Brother Cong, something happened! The Palace Master has divided his forces!"
The reconnaissance team led by Chen Danshen saw in the front that the Knights Templar had left the team and were heading towards the Northern City at a faster speed.
Chen Danshen's team consisted of less than two thousand people, responsible for monitoring the intelligence information , and was completely unable to stop the palace master from leaving.
"Divided the troops?"
Xu Ercong was stunned, and suddenly his heart skipped a beat: "Oh no!"
If the Knights Temple were not stopped , with the divine power of the high priests and the speed of the cavalry, they would definitely reach the Northern City in the shortest time possible.
Now two-thirds of the players in the entire server are playing in groups here. Most of the remaining players in the Northern City are new players, and they cannot withstand the attack of one million Temple Knights.
If the Northern City is captured, the players who have lost their support of the city can still return to the Kingdom of God to rest and revive, but the old dean, Andrew and other magicians in the City of Thorns will lose their support!
If the support of the magicians and the power of the alliance are lost, the situation will be back in the hands of the Temple of Light.
If Xu Ercong and others led the players to fight to the death and then resurrected and returned to the city, although they would be able to catch up in time to resist the Knights Temple, no one would be able to take care of the 300 soldiers of the Lion Empire.
By then, these three million soldiers will join forces with the Knights Temple and continue to attack the Northern City.
Then the strategic significance of attacking the coalition forces at night, delaying the marching speed of the NPC army and consuming the strength of the NPC army would be lost!
In a frontal siege battle, there are not so many fancy things. Even if players can be resurrected, they will definitely suffer a loss in the number of troops.
After all, 400,000 versus 4 million is not as simple as letting each player fight ten.
"We must find a way!"
"Are we going to send the Northern NPC Legion and the magic puppets to the battlefield now? But they may not be able to defeat a million Temple Knights."
"The magic army called by the Magicians' Guild has not yet been assembled. We must delay!"
Xu Ercong's mind raced, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Bai Xiaosheng, Long Aotian, take the players from the third and fourth legions to chase the Knights Templar!"
Bai Xiaosheng was shocked: "Brother Cong, what about you?"
"I'll stay."
Xu Ercong looked at the three million imperial soldiers in front of him, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "I will be responsible for destroying this group of NPCs!"
As he spoke, Xu Ercong clenched the black scroll in his hand.
It seems that he can only use this trump card!
