Chapter 204 Cruelty and Tragedy
The 80,000 to 90,000 Dragon City troops left behind were quickly overwhelmed by the million-strong Alliance army, but they managed to hold out until the main force retreated.
Next, Long Luo divided the troops into several parts, set up checkpoints along the way to intercept them, and continuously delay the enemy's marching speed.
Although they were completely unstoppable, every time the forty or fifty thousand troops intercepted them, the coalition forces would stop and fight.
Fifty thousand troops is a very delicate number. With the sophisticated equipment of the Dragon Kingdom, they can easily be regarded as a coalition force of hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. If ignored, the threat posed will still be very great.
In particular, the logistics troops with little combat effectiveness could not withstand the attack of tens of thousands of elite soldiers.
In addition, dozens of space dragons were also sent out to disrupt the coalition's logistics, forcing the coalition to allocate a large number of troops to defend the logistics, including a legendary flying behemoth.
Intercept and interfere using every possible means.
But under the tactics of the coalition commander, apart from slowing down the battle, there were no major results.
The three coalition forces advanced in parallel and fought their way to within a hundred kilometers of the Dragon Kingdom's main city. They then set up camp here, waiting for the other two coalition forces to capture other Dragon Kingdom territories and meet up here.
It was already half a year after the first battle.
There are less than 300,000 defenders left in the Dragon Kingdom, and more than a dozen space dragons have died in the past six months.
The morale in the Dragon Kingdom is extremely low, but those who have retreated until now and have not fled are at least true believers. Most of them are devout believers. Having witnessed the existence of the totem of the Dragon Kingdom, their faith is still very firm and they have not fled because of depression and fear.
As time passed, city-state strongholds were breached one after another. Two months later, the three alliances joined together, and more than two million troops besieged the capital of the Dragon Kingdom.
Looking from high above, outside the city was an endless expanse of dinosaur people, so vast that ordinary people could not imagine it, with human heads extending all the way to the horizon at the end of the naked eye.
Murderous aura rose to the sky, and the void inside and outside the city seemed to be slightly distorted.
If there is a true god with the priesthood of war in this plane, he will definitely pay attention to this battle at the first time, and even send a war incarnation to experience this war personally.
The priesthood of war, also known as the god of war, worships war the most.
This deity can draw divine power from war. The larger the scale of the war, the more divine power it can draw.
The God of War improves his godhood level, and war is the best catalyst.
In theory, the most suitable priesthood for a war lord is war, but in reality, none of the true gods or war lords are willing to choose the priesthood of war.
The reason lies in the conflict between priests. Priests also repel each other and are naturally hostile to each other.
Not only are there relative exclusions among war lords and priests, but the exclusion is even stronger for the indigenous true gods.
If there is a war on the indigenous plane, once a war lord with the priesthood of war descends on the plane, the induction between the priesthoods will immediately make the indigenous true gods of the plane feel it, and then they will be the first to discover the descending war lord.
Of course, some people will say that there are limited priesthoods in the world, and with so many indigenous true gods, other priesthoods will also overlap.
That is true, but the other priesthoods are not as exclusive as war.
Among all the priesthoods, the most mutually exclusive one is war, which ranks first.
Then there are various professional priesthoods and various racial priesthoods, such as warriors, mages, knights and other professions, elves, orcs, dinosaurs, dwarves and other races.
Next are the various powerful priesthoods, such as magic, nature, light, darkness, fear, killing, chaos and so on.
The exclusion of various other secondary priesthoods is relatively low. For example, many true gods have minor priesthoods such as purification, jungle, plant, travel, etc. These are secondary priesthoods of powerful priesthoods and can be combined with other priesthoods to form more powerful priesthoods.
This kind of priesthood has the lowest degree of exclusion, but no matter how low it is, the relationship with the true gods with the same priesthood will definitely not be good.
Although the priesthood of war is powerful, there is too much competition. Generally, a single true god will not choose this priesthood. Only true gods in the pantheon will choose the priesthood of war to be responsible for the pantheon's external wars.
Outside the Dragon City, totems appeared around the Dragon City, surrounding the city.
The four legendary giant beast totems each occupied a direction, and the mysterious demigod totem slowly descended after the encirclement was fully formed. It was a... humanoid creature that did not look very tall.
"A velociraptor demigod?"
Xie Heng hesitated for a moment, turned around and looked at Long Luo, who had transformed from a velociraptor, and was not very sure.
At this time, the demigod slowly flew up, and the distortion surrounding itself in the air slowly calmed down, and then a .
Xie Heng looked at the figure in surprise and shouted:
"Are you Xia Yuanqing's protector?"
That person was also stunned for a moment:
"You ever met me?"
"Oh, right, you are Li Qing's subordinate, so of course you have seen me, and perhaps participated in that battle. It just so happens that you should take revenge if you have a grudge, and you should take a grudge if you have a grudge. Since you participated in that battle, let me take your life first and collect a cent of interest."
Xie Heng was a little panicked, but it soon disappeared completely, and he said loudly:
"You are such a defeated general, and you dare to speak so arrogantly. If you have the guts, wait for my boss to come and still be so arrogant."
The Demigod Totem said coldly:
"Don't lie to me. If he showed up earlier, I would kill you and destroy this city, and then I would be able to unify all the tribes in the south of the plane. Then I would move the army north, destroy Savage City, and bring this plane under my control."
"You're dreaming. Are you relying on these natives?"
"I will not argue with you. You will never see whether I can do it or not. You will die in this battle!"
The demigod totem Xia Zhi no longer paid attention to Xie Heng, turned around and disappeared.
Then the leader of the Tyrannosaurus Alliance stood up and roared loudly:
"In the name of the Dragon God, attack!"
The next second, a deafening roar was heard outside the city, and a large number of dinosaur people shouted and rushed towards the city wall following various siege weapons.
The defenders on the city wall immediately launched a counterattack. Dinosaur javelin throwers and archers stood on countless arrow towers. A large number of stones flew from the air into the crowd, leaving behind bloody paths.
After so many years of accumulation, the dinosaur people have trained professional archers and cavalry with the help of Xie Heng.
However, in this kind of siege warfare, the cavalry had basically no room to play and could only leave their mounts and fight on the city walls.
More than two thousand space dragons were distributed around the city walls, and the remaining thirty-odd giant dragons were hovering behind the city walls, occasionally spitting out dragon breath to prevent totems from entering the city.
The coalition forces prepared a lot of siege equipment, and with many totems personally participating in the battle, their huge bodies would cause violent vibrations every time they hit the city walls.
More than a hundred totems are equivalent to more than a hundred war beasts of at least level nine or ten, and they play a very, very important role on the battlefield.
Fortunately, the city wall of the Dragon Kingdom is a composite wall with a complex internal structure and thick steel bars. It is not as hard but brittle as ordinary city walls.
But this situation cannot last long, after all, there are so many totems impacting.
Looking from the sky, the coalition forces outside the city had already reached the foot of the city and were firing at the defenders on the city wall, and the inside and outside of the city were connected into one.
epic!
Spectacular!
bloody!
It was like a huge meat grinder, with hundreds or even thousands of dinosaur people being killed or injured every minute. It was extremely tragic.
As the war continued, some city walls were cracked by the totem beast's enormous force, but the thick internal steel bars prevented them from breaking directly. However, the city gates were affected by the cracks and began to shake and loosen.
"boom!"
Less than an hour into the siege, one of the city gates was knocked open by a Tyrannosaurus totem. The huge Tyrannosaurus skull was stuck in the gate. A giant steel crossbow as thick as a thigh and ten meters long was shot out, piercing the hard skull of the Tyrannosaurus totem.
The Tyrannosaurus Totem roared in pain, but its head was stuck and couldn't get free, and was killed by the second crossbow.
Soon, another larger Tyrannosaurus totem arrived, bit the corpse and threw it open to reveal the open city gate. A large number of dinosaur people shouted and rushed in from the city gate, fighting with the dense Dragon Kingdom defenders guarding the gate.
Compared with the battlefield on the Dragon City side, the scale of the dinosaur cannon fodder brought by the mind sucking monsters is not much different from that of the coalition forces, but the mind sucking monsters do not have so many totems to serve as cannon fodder, so it is difficult to break into the door by force, and they can only consume the manpower in the city first.
Fortunately, the city gate is only this big and there are enough defenders in the city. The opening of the city gate is not fatal. It is just equivalent to adding another siege point that must be defended.
The crazy fighting lasted from morning to night. Both sides divided their troops into several rounds and took turns to fight.
At the end of the day, more than 100,000 coalition soldiers were killed, and more than 50,000 defenders in the city were killed.
Although a two-to-one result was considered good, the coalition was so large that it could withstand even a three-to-one death rate.
"The difference in strength is too great!"
In the City Lord's Mansion, Xie Heng took the battle damage statistics with a frown, pinched his brows, and looked a little worried.
"If the casualty rate continues at this rate, we won't last a week."
At this time, a huge Tyrannosaurus Dragonborn looked at Long Luo and asked:
"Your Majesty, can we abandon our local foundation and withdraw our main forces back to Dragon City? Wait for Father God to wake up, and then fight back."
Long Luo shook his head and said:
"No, the place where the Father God is sleeping is nearby, we can't leave."
"Besides, I can feel that Father God will wake up at any time, so we can't leave."
Long Luo and Xie Heng looked up at each other and could see the sadness and firm will in each other's eyes.
Their feeling was correct. After eight years of transformation, Li Qing had finally reached the end and was about to complete the transformation and become a legend.
In the underground space, a huge cocoon of light was shrinking regularly. Inside the cocoon, a giant dragon that was much larger than before was sleeping. It spewed out a stream of chaotic air every once in a while, and the space was slightly distorted when the chaotic air passed through.
As time goes by, every time a chaotic airflow accumulates in the light cocoon, the light cocoon will slowly expand, and the size of the dragon will also increase accordingly.
"boom!"
An extremely thick beam of golden lightning traveled across several kilometers and hit a giant space dragon that was circling in the air. The powerful divine lightning turned the dragon .
It was only noon on the second day of the siege, and nearly 300,000 coalition soldiers had been killed, with less than 100,000 defenders left in the city.
This does not mean that only 200,000 defenders were killed, but that nearly 500,000 were killed.
The casualty ratio was 1 to 2.5, 1 for the Allied forces and 2.5 for the defenders.
A large part of the extra garrison were residents of Dragon City. When the war became tense, they were distributed weapons and sent to the battlefield.
After only one day of fighting, Xia Zhihe lost his patience the next day and ordered all totems and the four legendary totems to join the battle.
The entry of the legendary behemoth over 200 meters tall into the battlefield was a disaster for the defenders.
The thirty or forty-meter-high city walls were completely unable to stop this giant beast. Even though the space dragons and the remaining three thousand dragonborn of the seventh and eighth ranks put up a great resistance, they only managed to hold out for half a day.
At this time, most of the city walls had been forcibly smashed open by the legendary beasts, and a large number of coalition forces poured into the city.
There were only a dozen or so wounded dragons left in the sky resisting the siege of pterosaurs. A wind pterosaur with a wingspan of several hundred meters was hovering in the air, swooping down from time to time to knock down a dragon and send it flying.
It's playing, it's killing.
But before that, it had torn apart more than ten space dragons.
Defeat is inevitable!
But the central temple of the Dragon Kingdom was as peaceful as ever. The priests and high-ranking officials inside were not panicked, and the guards were still standing guard faithfully.
Long Luo and Xie Heng stood on the top of the temple, looking in a certain direction.
Outside the city, a huge arch appeared at some point.
No one knew when this arch appeared, and it rose very slowly, so no one noticed it. The totems were killing frantically and did not notice it. Even the demigod totem Xia Zhihe focused his main attention in the city and did not notice the changes far outside the city.
But as rulers of the Dragon Kingdom, Long Luo and Xie Heng both knew that there was no such hill there.
“Father God is about to awaken!”
"Yes, my Lord will wake up any moment!"
Xie Heng looked up at the demigod totem that had appeared above the city wall and was slowly approaching the central temple of the city. He said with a firm look in his eyes:
"Let me go first and delay the last bit of time for the adults."
It slowly rose into the air, and its body expanded rapidly, transforming into a giant dragon that was extremely similar to the original ancient dragon, but with a wingspan of only about 150 meters.
At this time, Xie Heng had already been promoted to the tenth level. His superior dragon bloodline gave him strength far beyond his peers, but he still seemed powerless in the face of the legendary behemoth that had undergone a qualitative change.
The upper space dragon leaped up and breathed out space dragon breath at the coalition forces that had already invaded the city in front.
The next second, a golden lightning struck, and his figure disappeared in a flash. When he appeared again, he was several thousand meters in the sky. His dragon mouth opened, and the ups and downs of dragon language came out of his mouth.
The demigod totem Xia Zhihe snorted coldly:
"You're courting death!"
He stretched out his right hand and grabbed into the air. His arm quickly turned golden and a surge of divine power burst out. The space centered on the giant dragon in the upper space quickly lit up. Rays of golden light crisscrossed back and forth, quickly weaving out a huge net of light. As the golden arm grasped the net, the net of light shrank.
The upper dragon disappeared again in a flash, but this time it did not teleport far, but appeared at the edge of the light network.
The divine light net shrank the instant it touched, and trapped the upper dragon.
