Chapter 57
This is a standard quick sneak attack!
First, a large group of high-level knights will quickly charge along the main road, trying to break through the city gate in a short period of time. Behind them will be a team of mages under the cover of soldiers. These relatively slow mixed arms will follow up after the knights have captured the city gate to clear the area and suppress the fire.
This slightly despicable sneak attack is simple and practical, and can achieve the greatest results with the least sacrifice and time. For human knights who lack archers, most of them like to use this trick first when attacking a city. As for the Liuyun Knights who are good at stealing, they are the best at it.
Although liking sneak attacks may sound a bit unethical, one has to admit that the organization and tactical arrangements of the Flowing Cloud Knights during sneak attacks are perfect and can be called classic. This time, the South Gate of the Rose Garden didn't even have time to close before the fast-moving Cloud Knights rushed in. Judging from past experience, they are almost halfway to success. As long as they can reach the Lord's Mansion without any accidents, they can basically take over this second-tier city. But hehe, sometimes I really love this...
No accidents in the Rose Garden? This was an accident in itself. Our own members were often knocked down by strange things in this city, not to mention those outsiders. Therefore, the clouds who succeeded in their attack soon realized that the Rose Garden was "different".
Due to our stingy lord's strange obsession with NPC guards, the number, quality and type of NPC guards in the Rose Garden have increased to an outrageous level since the upgrade. The NPC hiring costs for the entire city account for about 85% of the daily expenses of the Rose Territory. The political officer, Sister Butterfly, who is in charge of the money, has not yet fought with that violent beauty. This is simply a miracle in my opinion.
But this time, thanks to the "warmongering" Lord A Zi, the high density of NPC guards really opened the eyes of the clouds that attacked the Rose Garden. When the jubilant knights rushed into the city gate, the first thing they saw was a team of heavy infantry that had already posed. These tall guards were very diligent and blocked their way forward.
Although they had anticipated encountering this kind of "accessories of the city gate", the number of them was too large. Others would only put out a dozen or so NPCs to guard the city gate, but our lord had put out a full 108 of them in a perverted way, almost making the Flowing Cloud Knights, who saw so many heavy infantry at once, think that they were attacking Reedpath.
The area near the city gate was not designed to be wide, and the blocked Flowing Cloud Knights could only attack these NPCs that looked even more like cans than they were packaged. Although no one was a match for these heavily-armored NPCs in a one-on-one fight, the sheer number of Flowing Cloud Knights made up for the quality, and the overwhelming number of Flowing Cloud Knights quickly "flooded" these hard "roadblocks". Facing the continuous flow of Flowing Cloud Knights, these expensive NPC cans were obviously worth the money, with a ratio of one to nine, and thousands of clouds went home for free.
Just entering the city gate, they lost one third of their knights. Was this a sneak attack or a violent assault? It was too tragic, wasn't it?
In any case, these clouds, following the white light scattered by their companions, cleared out these tough turtle guards. Then, the reorganized attack force naturally began to sprint towards the magnificently decorated avenue defended by the heavy infantry. They did not notice the problem with the direction of this road at all, until the hundreds of knights in the front began to "jump into the river" collectively, and many of the Cloud Knights were surprised to find that the end of this "main road" was not the lord's mansion as they had imagined, but a wide artificial lake.
It's no wonder they misunderstood. In general, the roads leading directly to the lord's mansion in a city are the widest and most magnificent. Who wouldn't build a wide and beautiful main road in their city? But now they happened to encounter such a freak design - the main road is not as wide as the side road, the side road ends at the lake, and so many heavy infantrymen don't guard the main road, but come to guard this side road that makes people misunderstand jump into the river...
Actually, the original design of Rose Garden was quite normal, with the main part being the main part and the auxiliary part being the auxiliary part, and the whole design was straight and level. But a while ago, the beautiful female cadres, led by the Lord, had a sudden impulse to imitate the Champs Elysees and build a street with Rose Garden characteristics that could satisfy their shopping desires. So, in response to their "strong request", the architect Tiechui changed the main road of Rose Garden into a winding commercial pedestrian street. Almost all places related to buying and selling were concentrated on the main road. Various bizarre advertising decorations and street stalls "occupying the road for business" naturally narrowed the originally wide road.
Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, compared with the spacious and magnificent avenue on the side, this "pedestrian street" is just like the entrance of a busy alley. Few people can tell at a glance that it is the closest road to the lord's mansion. And the avenue that caused many knights to jump into the river to commit suicide is not as evil as Yun Yun imagined. Before the strange Rose Lake appeared, it was a complete ring road around the city.
By the time the clouds realized they had taken the wrong path and began to return, more than 200 knights who could not stop had already rushed into the Rose Lake. As there was no dock, they could not go ashore. These "water lotuses" could only struggle to get out of the city under the shooting of NPC archers on both sides of the city walls and the hot kisses of the big-mouthed crocodiles in the water. I believe they will be happier after swimming to the shore alive and tasting my mines.
The members of the Liuyun Group who turned back to the city gate were not having an easy time either. This group of knights who had inexplicably circled half of the city had not even had time to catch their breath when, accompanied by the shaking of the ground, a bigger surprise came towards them with a glittering golden light along the "pedestrian street" and several paths leading to the lord's mansion!
Cuirassiers, a second-level NPC assault unit, are a "luxury item" that costs 55 gold coins per set, and my lovely sister bought 1,700 of them. She only used less than 200 of them for patrols, and the rest were placed in the lord's mansion as terracotta warriors. When they encountered an ambush today, the lord's first reaction was to use them to plug the holes. As for why I know the number so well, it's because these cavalrymen were exchanged for sacred gems, and the sacred gems came from a human wallet named Yan.
So, thanks to me, the unlucky assassin, the Cloud Knights, who had been unlucky in this year, are now very "surprised" to see a total of 82,500 gold coins, and are charging towards them excitedly.
According to the rules of the game, the system will force the activation of war mode after five minutes for this kind of undeclared war. For the attackers and defenders in a sneak attack, victory or defeat is a matter of these five minutes. If the attackers fail to reach the lord's mansion in time, they will have to face the defense mode preset by the defenders. At that time, the sneak attack will turn into a strong attack, which is not just a change in the method of attack.
The attacking clouds lacked elven archers and had no way to deal with the famous "mine village" in front of them. Since no one was willing to be a human minesweeper, everyone had to line up and attack hand in hand from the safer avenue. So while the knights who were attacking bravely in the front were being knocked off their horses by the cuirassier cavalry, the flowing cloud infantry crowded in the back were also enjoying the rain of arrows from the NPC archers on the city wall. The dense NPC archers generously cared for all the unprotected "mixed clouds" below. People were constantly being repaired and turned into white light like a vase. At this time, the disadvantages of squeezing into the main road were also revealed. Once the attack in front was blocked, the team behind was stuck there due to traffic jams. A quick sneak attack was unexpectedly blocked at the city gate. Today was the busiest day for the gate of the Rose Garden since it was built.
Just when this sneak attack was becoming more and more inexplicable , a melodious music suddenly sounded all around.
"When I was still! An ignorant girl... I met love! I didn't understand love! From the past to now... until he! left too! Leaving me wandering in the sea of clouds... I know no one can replace! The trust he once gave me... See me fly."
Along with the sweet, melodious war alarm of the cat, which was totally out of tune with the siege, dozens of beautiful rose flags slowly rose on the city wall. All the Liuyun team members who were waiting in line to enter the city under the rain of arrows were depressed to find that the war mode of the Rose Garden was activated on time. They were about to face the defensive counterattack of the defenders.
The war mode of the Rose Garden was approved after collective discussion and processed and manufactured by Mr. Hammer. It fully demonstrated the collective "wisdom" of the Rose Group. Therefore, when this very "individual" mode was activated, not only the Flowing Cloud Knights, but all the people who participated in the siege were "refreshed".
After the unique war alarm sounded, the first thing to be activated was the city gate's sluice gate. Comrade Gao Lin had foresight and took into account the situation of today's crowded guests. In order to force the sluice gate to fall so as not to crush the guests attacking the city and cause "accidental" casualties, he arranged for hundreds of directional bombs to detonate in the gate before the gate fell. Therefore, when the Hello Kitty-shaped gate designed by Jianjia Cangcang fell, the entire area within 20 meters around the city gate was quite bright, and there was no living thing, all were blown to death.
Well, it seems that for the first time, Comrade Gao Lin seemed to have placed too many bombs, and when he cleared the area, he also cleared the door frame of the city gate. The direct consequence of this accident was that the Hello Kitty gate fell to the outside after it landed. Then, accompanied by the system prompt that "the city gate has been breached", the Hello Kitty, weighing over a thousand pounds, knocked down a large number of clouds that rushed up again.
Following the activation of the sluice gate was the defensive pit, which was supposed to be a very traditional large trap arranged along the city wall. However, our "deviant" lord and defense officer once again moved them all to the main road leading to the city gate. So when this very unethical design was activated, a large number of clouds crowded on the avenue disappeared immediately. But the really exciting thing was that those disappeared people were soon sprayed out again like a volcanic eruption.
At the request of the two cats, the serious weapons officer laid three layers of high-explosive bombs at the bottom of all the pits .
The sight of thousands of people flying in the sky almost at the same time was indeed very shocking. People who saw this spectacular scene were stunned and called it perverted. The assassin who found that his qualifications and experience points were rising rapidly almost laughed out of his body.
"Seriously, this bastard!" Mr. Saint, who was standing on a distant hill, slapped his forehead in annoyance, then turned around and glared at the female elf knight next to him: "Is this the little trap you mentioned?"
"Traps are never a problem for us elves." The expressionless knight raised his hand and pointed at the wall in front of him. "Sir, instead of getting angry at me, why don't you think about how to deal with those things?"
"My God, is that a catapult?" Poor Captain Liuyun looked at the wooden frames that were constantly being erected on the city wall in despair.
Engineers are special NPC soldiers. Their basic function is construction. In war mode, they can be used as city-defending grenadiers or artillery. This is why I tried every possible way to get the engineer recruitment order. Rose Garden has mechanics, so building a trebuchet is not a problem. The key is the lack of operators. There are not many level 35 thieves, and it is even rarer to reach this level and have clean financial resources to enter the city. Although engineers cannot operate trebuchets to attack the city, they can be used for defense.
"Holy, we underestimated this Rose Lord. It's no different from sending people to die to attack." Zero Degree Boiling Point, with a playful look on his face, raised his right hand that was folded in front of his chest and touched his chin and said, "This is a sneak attack. Not many players participated in the defense, but it's already defeated. If it's a positional battle, it will probably take 30,000 to 40,000 good people to take down this city."
"Do we need to organize more people?" A thief who was wrapped tightly turned his head and asked.
"It's too late to say this. The brothers below have all started to run away. Damn it, they only lasted 23 minutes. How could they have so many catapults?" Painkillers looked at the disintegrating Flowing Cloud Knights and shook his head with a wry smile. "God knows what other strange things the thorny lord has not released yet. Otherwise, how about your group give it a try?"
The thief did not reply, but raised his middle finger to the wizard very seriously, making a standard international gesture.
The salvo fire from hundreds of catapults had a pretty good effect. The stone bullets used by the NPC engineers were not the magic ones that Ye Liuli had thrown around at the beginning, but round stone bullets the size of washbasins. Anyone hit by this thing would be 100% killed instantly. The round stone bullets also had the characteristic of rolling, so the damage caused by each stone bullet was not a one-size-fits-all problem.
The road is now full of deep pits, making it impossible to walk. Passing through the thunder arrays on both sides of the road is no different from suicide. After the clouds that were circling in place were smashed by the volleys of catapults, they immediately started to run away. No one is a fool. Who would die without hope?
"Hmm! Weird!" An elven warrior standing behind the elven female knight looked at the "gifts" that kept flying over his head and frowned and said, "Tian Ma, is it my illusion? Why do I feel that those catapults are aiming at us?"
"It's not an illusion! They found our location!" Shengjie dodged a whistling stone bullet and shouted quickly: "Run! There are Rose's scouts nearby!"
"Damn it! It's probably a serious situation!" Although the hill was in full view and there were only some monsters around them except for their own people, the fourth brother, who knew Yan's "habits" very well, reacted quickly.
Unfortunately, Mr. Painkillers' reminder was still a step too late. A sudden attack of extremely accurate stone bullets knocked down almost half of the people. Before Zero Degree Boiling Point, who had dodged the catapult, could stand firm, a dagger pierced his back. Green blood spurted out, and the berserker who was successfully attacked froze, and then he was blown away by a bomb after being poisoned.
"Good afternoon." I turned around and dodged Vivian's wind wall, and greeted everyone present politely. Behind me, with this small hill as the center, hundreds of blue lights kept flashing.
"Everyone from the Divine Might Prison..." As the white rose robe with red edges came into view, the Lord's cold voice came:
"Welcome to the realm of roses!"
