From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 273 Gambling and jumping over the wall

Twenty-seven versus five hundred, the first head-to-head confrontation came under the huge numerical difference between the two sides.

Screaming into the sky, barely an inch of skin was exposed under the metal armor, and the thick figures of the mammoths made the entire encounter area look like it was filled with black giant war beasts;

They were covered in heavy armor and held large shields. The semi-automatic hard crossbow made by the patrons on the arm armor was the long-range main weapon, and the hammer swinging on the proboscis was the medium-range secondary weapon;

As a result, hammers fell from the sky, arrows flew in the sky, and the mammoths rushed like a great tide, howling angrily. With only five hundred of them, they created a far greater sense of oppression than those in the three directions of east, west, and south.

But this kind of momentum, in the following time, was like being hit by a ball of cotton without any force;

On the attack level, for the elves who have turned on the totem protection, the mid- and long-distance attacks of the mammoth species seem to be out of reach, and only the chain ball causes limited interference in the combination of gravity and speed;

As for the action of 'rushing' itself, the elves who were too few in number chose to fight and retreat, maintaining a distance of 200 to 500 meters between the two sides, always sticking to them at a distance and following them, and

In the next two to three kilometers of the operation range, the wind blade was used to repeatedly harvest.

In short, the elves will never stick close unless necessary, because it is too inefficient, and it is easy for defensive loopholes to appear, and lead to the failure of the interception operation.

And when such a fighting concept was implemented, the mammoth species finally realized the embarrassment of being unable to use their strength. The embarrassment at other times might only cause embarrassment, but now this is a battlefield.

The screams were hoarse, but the endless cyan wind blades roared towards them like a heavy rain. Large shields were constantly being broken, and the sound of heavy armor shattering was heard, followed by 'giant beasts' running one after another.

Falling down one after another on the way;

Their bodies fell to the ground, and the heavy helmets on their bodies made heavy roars again and again.

But the mammoths showed no fear, and there seemed to be a sense of courage in their eyes. Even though their compatriots continued to die in a pool of blood, the latecomers continued to attack with their hammers covered in blood.

Unilateral killings and unilateral roars resounded throughout the world. The elves retreated in an orderly manner amidst the coldness and silence, maintaining the intensity of the attack in silence;

In the following time, the opponent's road to breakout almost turned into a dead end, and eventually led to the annihilation of all 500 mammoth warriors;

As for the elves, even if we include the besiegers who arrived during the process, the number has only reached 36.

The charge ended, and the roar of the wind blade finally stopped. Sporadic low moans of pain floated up from the bloody battlefield. The head and body were soaked in blood. There seemed to be unwilling souls roaring in the haze-filled air;

This is a road of blood that is more than one kilometer long, with corpses strewn across the field and blood flowing into rivers. The smell of blood floating in the air is like the smoke of gunpowder on battlefields in later generations, and the material is coated with a layer of blood under its rendering;

In the red haze, there seemed to be a pair of blood-red eyes flashing with ferocity and hatred even in death.

"Refill the gun."

Under the cold orders, one war machine after another drove into the hell on earth. They did not feel uncomfortable because of the bloody smell in the air. Perhaps they could not smell it, or they were accustomed to it. They always carried out the orders silently and coldly.

The order given by Feng.

Suddenly, there was a loud shout in Mammoth language from the front, and a bloody warrior jumped out of the pile of corpses.

A wild beast-like roar rang out from his throat, his thick proboscis curled around the war hammer, and he swung it without hesitation at an armored warrior who happened to be walking next to him.

He raised his arms to block, raised his gun to counterattack, and then there was a "whoosh" sound, and debris accompanied by blood was seen, and a small firework exploded in front of him.

'No problem?'

'No problem.'

'Okay, continue executing the order.'

'clear.'

~~~~~

This became 034 City's last attempt before nightfall. In the next ten or so hours, no decent breakout operation was launched.

Time passed slowly, and at about 18:00 in the afternoon, all the supporters of the nine base stations finally arrived.

At this time, the number of troops that can be directly mobilized by Cynthia increased to 232, including 78 combat armored soldiers and 123 reconnaissance armored soldiers. The 67 hunting and killing groups they formed were also the commanders of the nine base stations at this time.

'The sharpest knife in your hand;

Moreover, when the command base was completed through the efforts of Agatha and three engineers, a unified and powerful surveillance system covering a 2,000-kilometer radius area was established;

Although there is a delay due to distance, and although Cynthia as a warrior cannot fully exert its maximum effect, at least in the range of 300, 200, and 100 kilometers, any questionable upright unit will be in 30 light minutes and 20 light minutes.

, was mastered by her within 10 minutes, and then was unable to escape from the pursuit of the armored hunting group;

Of course, City 034, which is only ten kilometers away from the command base, is also completely included in the surveillance.

"Agatha, can you build some heavy cannons?"

"You! Okay. I'll work hard. If I do it all by hand, I should be able to build four doors before nightfall."

"Great! You are really good!"

"Humph~ Idiot, there are still cannonballs to make."

"The three doors?"

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20 o'clock on the day;

The Republic airship formation arrived in the airspace 2,000 kilometers away from City 034 and officially entered the perception field of the command center.

22:30 on Sunday;

The sound signal reflection of the airship formation at 2,000 kilometers was captured by the command center, but the formation had continued forward and reached about 1,400 kilometers.

24:00 day and 0:00 night;

The formation is still 1,050 kilometers away from here.

Night 1:00-2:00;

The command center has thwarted several attempts from the city, but the scale of each sporadic breakout also made Cynthia wary. She believed that this was the enemy's plan to weaken the enemy, so she devoted more energy to monitoring the city.

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Night 2:00-4:00;

The calm that lasted for two lights was just an appearance. Weapons were being distributed in the city and troops were being prepared. It seemed that the largest breakout operation was about to be launched.

4 o'clock at night;

The preparations in the city seemed to be about to be completed, and they seemed to be really preparing to concentrate all their forces and carry out a general breakout regardless of the situation;

In order to maintain a certain degree of mystery, our side has always maintained an ultra-long-distance blockade. This indeed delayed the opponent's reaction, but it also resulted in a relatively large defensive perimeter;

But now, facing City 034 who was ready to "fight", Cynthia had to order her subordinates to shrink inward.

As a result, 67 hunting groups began to gradually advance towards the city from an area ten kilometers away to reduce the defensive pressure in all directions.

Nine kilometers. Eight kilometers.

With the help of the Ancestral Altar, the higher-ups in 034 intuitively sensed the enemy for the second time, and for the first time for a long time, and misunderstood that the opponent was about to attack, so they temporarily gave up on breaking out directly and planned to rely on the altar to defend the wave.

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Seven kilometers. Five kilometers. One kilometer.

The night gave the elves the best cover, and even the outlines of the armor on their bodies were obscured by darkness;

Under the command of Cynthia, the hunting group always controlled the speed of their own progress. They created and maintained deterrence while delaying as much time as possible;

Cynthia knew that at the moment when the airship formation was approaching rapidly, the longer time delayed, the more beneficial it would be to her side;

Relatively speaking, facing the enemy's mindless charge without hesitation is full of the possibility of accidents.

4:25 p.m.;

The delay seems to have reached its limit, the speed at which the hunting team closed the net, and the too coincidental start time of the operation made 034's top management finally aware of the enemy's purpose.

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As a result, the suspended breakout operation started again, but due to the need for rearrangement and other reasons, some time was once again 'bought' for the elves.

Around 4:30 p.m.;

When the hunting team had advanced to one kilometer outside the wall, the two city lords finally officially issued the order of "general breakout" in frustration.

However, almost everything in the city was under Cynthia's "sight", so she naturally noticed the movement inside at the first time;

Later, with more effort, he further mastered the specific deployment in all directions, which resulted in almost no secrecy in the mobilization of 034's troops.

To the west, there are 300 foreign warriors and 3,000 foreign old and weak, a multi-racial mixed force;

To the east, there are 200 foreign warriors and 3,000 old and weak, also a multi-racial mixed formation;

To the south, there are 500 mammoths, 2,000 foreign warriors, and more than 10,000 old, weak, and young. Judging from the scale, it seems to be a large force responsible for confusing the public;

To the north, there are 3,500 mammoths and 5,000 foreign warriors, none of whom are old or weak;

The point of his military attack seems to be extremely clear

So, while Cynthia ordered the hunting team to prepare more strength on the north and south lines, she also asked the soldiers to compress the distance to 800 meters for the last time, thereby continuing to reduce the defensive perimeter to prevent being attacked by the enemy at this last moment.

breakthrough.

4:33 p.m.;

The enemy left the city, and their layout in each direction did not change significantly in these few minutes;

Based on feedback from the formation's racial composition, reserve strength and other information, Cynthia once again confirmed her breakout strategy of "mainly in the north, auxiliary in the south, and enchanted in the east and west", and thus officially ordered the hunting group, which was moving slowly at half speed, to carry out the previous execution at full speed.

preparations for mobilization.

At this time, the perimeter of the blockade had been reduced to 15 kilometers, and this distance was nothing compared to the instantaneous advance capability of the armored forces;

Therefore, each hunting group that was halfway through the journey only took a very short time to complete their deployment before the battle even started.

On the northern front, 46 hunting groups gathered in a short period of time, while the southern front was maintained at 15 groups, and the east and west fronts were reduced to only 3 groups each.

At the same time, since the mission of the early warning circle has ended, 28 investigators were also dispatched;

They will provide long-distance continuous fire support to armored units in the east-west direction to help them complete their mission as quickly as possible, and then move to the south.

The time has come to 4:35 at night, and the airship formation in the sky is only the last 60 kilometers away from City 034. It will take about 13 minutes to arrive, and after that, it will take additional time to land, deploy force, etc.

time.

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At this moment, the encirclement has been compressed to an area about 800 meters outside the wall, and the prelude to the confrontation between the two sides also occurred at this point in time.

Strong light, extremely strong light shines from the altar to the north, and there are also unknown interferences, which are also centered on it and fluctuate towards all areas within a radius of three kilometers;

Under the illumination of the former, the elves in the outer armor of the North City felt a sting in their eyes;

In the ensuing unknown fluctuations, not only was the invisibility effect of all armor on all sides broken, but it was also mixed with extremely complex weakening chaos spell effects;

At this time, the elves intuitively felt the weakening of themselves by the chaos spell. They were far from having the physique of the advanced salamanders, so they were naturally unable to exempt themselves from the curse from the ancestral altar;

Moreover, external armor also belongs to the "hostile force" and also has biological properties, so its material properties and other aspects are also affected;

Fortunately, the functionality of the totem is no longer in the category of "can be weakened", at least it is no longer within the weakening range of the attack on the Ancestral Altar, so it does not directly lose its combat ability;

The 'invisibility breaking' effect has nothing to do with the totem, but is more caused by interference on the physical level.

Putting aside the rest for now, before the elves could adapt to this kind of 'blinding' and 'curse', hundreds more fireballs rose from the central altar;

Among them, a small half bombarded away in the other three directions, and the other half, with more than 200 fireballs, all flew towards the northern area of ​​the city.

At present, although the elves have changed their external windows to brown with the help of the plexus organs, the vision of their eyes has not yet been restored.

The speed of the fireballs is unusually fast, and each one has a diameter of about 1 meter;

They flew about 2.3 kilometers in the blink of an eye, carrying the roar of the strong wind, roaring at the 'impact point', and creating huge craters with high-temperature flames;

This is not over yet. The fireball has completed a direct attack on the landing point. From the inside, a large amount of grease is shot out to the outer edge, and it hits a rectangular area of ​​15 meters in front with a base of 15 meters and a length of 30 meters.

It caused strong high-temperature splash damage, and incidentally also expanded the flame coverage area to an extreme.

Before the elves could adapt to the bright light and their weakened bodies, they smashed down in a panic, drowning them all in the surprised sight of the breakouts six or seven hundred meters away.

"Go ahead!!"

Excited birds chirping sounded, and the five thousand strongest shelter warriors, with 3,500 mammoths as the core, suddenly accelerated their speed, preparing to complete the breakthrough in one go.

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In the area covered by the fireball attack, the elves and their respective armors were not damaged at all in the fire;

However, in order to pursue the maximum killing effect, those fireballs were deliberately guided by the altar to have a high degree of overlap with each other at the impact point, and thus generated a powerful shock wave;

Therefore, the elves were blown to pieces at least, and their heads are still dizzy. If they continue like this, their lives may be safe, but the blockade mission will definitely fail.

Of course, the situation will not develop in that direction. The totem with the 'awakening' function is activated in the stress and quickly wakes up the driver's slightly groggy brain;

Subsequently, the totem that eliminates negative effects was also activated under the control of the plexus organ;

Whether it was a weakening of strength or agility, when they were unclear about what kind of negative effects they had suffered, and how many negative effects they had suffered, the warriors chose to activate them all regardless, and adjusted them to a cycle-on mode;

Then, with a sense of relief as if a heavy shell had been shed, they roughly restored their bodies and armor material properties.

'Damn barbarians, it's our turn now, right?'

The direction in which the ‘Mammoth Species’ is located must be the main breakout area, so the receiving frequency band of the acoustic reconnaissance is fixed to the beating frequency range of its heart;

Then, the soldiers changed the direction of their weapons according to the "radar" displayed in their minds. They did not wait for the flames to extinguish, nor did they rush out immediately. They got up from the ground and immediately launched a counterattack on the spot.

The reconnaissance armor raised its left and right arms, and the deformed assault gun barrels on both sides continuously fired wind blades outward;

Combat armor is different

They did not activate the 'machine gun' style strafing mode. Instead, they deformed two thick and short pipes on the left and right on the shoulder armor, forming an elevation angle diagonally forward. Then as the internal totem took effect, an internal totem was created.

strange spheres;

In the mouth of the tube, the sphere made a dense 'wind sound', and was shot diagonally forward in a sharp whistling sound.

Afterwards, the totem in the free nozzle was activated again, and a second round of offensive was brewing in less than three seconds.

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Outside the wall of flames, warriors of various races with hope in their eyes were advancing rapidly, but just when they developed an optimistic attitude, something unexpected happened, and an unexpected tragedy ensued.

‘Whoosh whoosh!!!!’

It's still the familiar voice, still the familiar rhythm. Countless wind blades emerge from the fire that has not been extinguished. They form a dense and terrifying barrage, allowing those at the front and even several rows inward to break through.

They fell in large pieces like harvested wheat;

The cluster of wind blades briefly dispersed the raging fire, but from the cracked gap, an unharmed elven armored warrior stepped out.

Seeing that the expected success did not happen, the eyes of the protected warriors who were cowardly by nature showed disbelief;

They looked six hundred meters away, looking at the purgatory-like scenery, and the elves covered in armor were like demons crawling out of them, strongly arousing fear in the hearts of the soldiers.

But before the fear could brew for a long time, one short roar after another rose into the air, and in an instant it fell to the middle of the breakout troops and exploded;

At the explosion point, countless fine wind blades rapidly spread outward. In a dense array, they created empty areas one after another filled with broken limbs.

Fear fermented, and the soldiers at the front began to flee backwards, and the collision caused chaos further behind.

"Death to the fugitive!"

Angry shouts rang out from the mammoth troops, and the war supervisors naturally killed the chickens to scare the monkeys. In a short time, they used crossbow arrows and the power they had accumulated over a long period of time to contain the first wave of retreat.

At this moment, there was another movement at the central altar. When the elves looked there vigilantly, they found some special purple halos in the sky;

This time, the altar was no longer covered, and the purple light with unknown effects only appeared rich on the north side.

'Enable the armor at maximum power! Avoid immediately!'

‘Bang!’ ‘Bang!’ ‘Bang!’

When Cynthia's voice came from inside the armor, there was also a familiar roar from behind, which seemed to be the sound of heavy artillery. It seemed that the little witch doctor had not really been idle after finishing the construction of the command center.

The enemy's attack was successful before our own heavy artillery. It seemed to be a kind of "light" that condensed power, and it almost reached the attack point the moment it was activated;

Although the 138 armored warriors activated their foot reaction chambers as quickly as possible and completed the displacement in an instant, they were still each struck by 1-2 rays of light, and the attacks occurred quickly and accurately, without any

A shot misses the target or misses the mark.

The area where the armor was hit instantly formed a melted point as thick as a thumb and several centimeters deep;

Judging from its effect alone, if the totem had not enhanced its protective properties, the strength of the material itself would be almost impossible to resist its penetration.

However, most of the rays were aimed at the forehead of the armor.

'Idiots! Move! Move! Are you going to use your stance as a target? Keep an irregular evasive trajectory!'

Cynthia's somewhat annoyed voice came, and the three heavy artillery rounds belonging to her own side also traveled an unknown distance of many kilometers and hit the altar in the city with great accuracy;

'If you disturb the altar for the time being, you will have a period of time where you can attack freely. I will remind you again when the shaman resets.'

'clear!'

This gap only lasted less than three seconds, and the enemy force also took advantage of this to move forward more than ten meters. There was still a gap of nearly 600 meters between the two sides.

On the Elf side, the armored warriors no longer stood still, but began to move more flexibly, and the firepower that had been interrupted by the previous attack was resumed again, and life was harvested again;

On the side of the mammoths, two emotions arose. The morale of the shelter warriors rose slightly, but the mammoth warriors who understood what the previous attack meant actually felt deep sorrow in their hearts.

The city's most powerful attack method has only achieved so little effect. They are no longer optimistic about the future of this trip;

Among them, some senior officials had doubts about the order to break out of the city and felt that it was not a good idea;

But as a strong clan known for their obedience and cohesion, they still instinctively carried out the breakout.

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At this time, the movement on the east and west sides had stopped with the victory of the elves. Whether it was the cannon fodder warriors or the abandoned old and weak, the numerical advantage could not be transformed into victory, and the vast majority of them fell to the guns.

After hearing this, only a handful of people staggered and fled back to the city.

Just as the armored elves and unarmored scouts were preparing to go south for support, Cynthia's new order came

She asked the unarmored soldiers to detour to the south for long-range support, while the armored soldiers broke into the city directly and launched a feint attack at the central altar;

The buffering speed of our own heavy artillery is too slow, and the central altar is about to regain its containment ability, so it must have the power to threaten it.

This was undoubtedly a dangerous mission, but there was no objection among the executors, and they immediately followed the order and began to advance towards the city gate.

On the other side, the southern front was in a panic, but countless hunting groups still relied on powerful firepower to stick to their mission and did not let go of any enemy individuals.

In the command center, Cynthia was paying attention to the battlefield while urging the only three heavy artillery pieces to complete the attack buffer as soon as possible. In addition, she was always paying attention to the situation in the airspace and calculating the arrival time of headquarters support.

At 4:39 at night, only about three minutes have passed since the battle began. The airship formation is still about 45 kilometers away from City 034, a 10-minute journey.

(End of chapter)