"You mean, there will be mercenaries coming to help?" asked Tallulah.

"Well, after all, one is rich and the other is short of money. They're a perfect match," Wang Chong said. "But don't underestimate those mercenaries. Among them are experts in Originium manipulation like W, Inès, and Hedley. If we're not careful, we could be pinned down. If our high-powered personnel are restrained, they can unscrupulously devote all their forces to destroying our soldiers. We can't afford such a loss."

"Then Chong, is your plan tonight...?" Tallulah asked involuntarily.

"Tonight. After five days of deception, I think it's about time... huh?" Just as Wang Chong was making a decision, the ground suddenly shook and there seemed to be a huge explosion.

"What's going on? What happened on the front line?" Talulah immediately began to contact the front-line shield guard combat commander.

"Talulah... those Ursus soldiers have started a general attack. This time their attack is different from the past. The five war sorcerers and the mage group are all attacking together. Especially those from the artillery battalion, they have driven up a large number of mortars, howitzers and mine throwers. The targets of their firepower attacks are all the people in the secret passages on the cliffs." The shield guard team leader immediately passed on the information from the front line.

"Why would those people from Ursus launch a general attack at this time? Their support will not arrive until tomorrow, right? Even if they suffered a heavy loss at the cliff firepower point deployed by our side yesterday, there is no need to waste gunpowder and take the risk of putting all the mage group and artillery battalion into bombing the cliff. Do they still think they can blow through the entire mountain?" Tallulah couldn't help but say.

"No, they want to completely collapse the passage across the cliff!" However, after Wang Chong carefully listened to the sounds and patterns of the explosions outside for a long time, he immediately understood the plan of the Ursus people.

"Collapse the passage? But didn't you say, Chong, that even if the enemy's firepower was twice as strong, it would take several days to blow up the outer layer of the mountain? How can the passage be collapsed?" Tallulah asked doubtfully.

"It's resonance. Those artillery groups, under the coordinated control of the warlock group, are bombarding the wall with regular volleys at a certain frequency." Wang Chong shook his head.

"Resonance?"

"It's a bit complicated to explain. You just need to know that this method can ignore a certain distance and successfully cause the tunnel to collapse without completely destroying the mountain." Wang Chong said.

"This... a passage collapsed across the mountain, is this really possible?" Tallulah said with a changed expression.

"The situation isn't that bad. I considered this when I first designed the tunnel. I had them use flexible materials for connections and adopt a segmented structure to proactively avoid this resonance risk. Although the tunnel is intact, I'm afraid the firing points we dug, which can fire from the inside out, are about to collapse." Wang Chong couldn't help but shake his head.

"While the people in the secret passage may be safe, the flank firepower point is likely to be destroyed because of this incident. I didn't expect that there would be such a capable person in the Ursus Legion, who could use such a method to cripple one of our arms."

"This can't be helped. It's a reminder that we shouldn't underestimate any opponent. Even if they're rotten, even if they're all show and no substance," Talulah said. "Achung, since they're risking their lives to sever our ties, we can't let them reap the rewards so easily."

"Well, notify the team in the secret passage, Frost Star on the side of the snow mountain, and the Patriots in charge of the front battlefield. Since they have arranged the artillery battalion and the warlock group to such a front-line position, it's time to close the net!" Wang Chong said in a deep voice.

Chapter 194: Frost Star War War Mage

"General, it seems to have been successful. After we bombarded them for three minutes at the frequency specified by the artillery battalion commander, the bandits hiding in the cliffs really stopped attacking. I'm afraid they were all buried alive."

The commander in charge of the front line reported the current front-line intelligence and the results achieved in accordance with the order to Ulrich.

"Very good, immediately execute the next plan and escort most of the warlock groups, war warlocks and artillery battalions off the battlefield as quickly as possible. We must not let those in the Integration Movement react and infiltrate us and cut off our retreat. Order the Seventh Regiment guarding outside to immediately enter the mountain road behind the second pass and be alert to any possible corners where the enemy may emerge. We must hold on!" Ulrich immediately gave the order after receiving the intelligence.

The 5th and 6th Regiments began to move, covering the Warlock Group and the Artillery Battalion as they prepared to evacuate. However, just as they made their move, heavy artillery fire suddenly erupted from the front lines. Countless mortar shells flew directly from the back of the hillside, directly bombarding the shield guards guarding the front lines.

"Boom boom boom!"

The sounds of bombings rang out one after another, blowing the Ursus shield guards on the front line into pieces. The defense line they built was completely shattered under the cover of this powerful firepower.

"Charge!" At this moment, the nightmare of the Ursus people in these days - the Patriot took action again. Holding a giant halberd, he charged directly towards the army. The shield guards who had already been scattered could not stop the Patriot, let alone the guards holding spears and the vanguards holding spikes.

"It's... it's the Patriot!" Terrified voices rang out. The surviving Ursus soldiers had witnessed the Patriot's monstrous killings over the past few days. Now, seeing the enemy charging, some simply dropped their weapons and knelt in surrender.

However, the patriots and the guerrillas he led did not care about these things. They had only one goal, that is, those sorcerers and artillery battalion guys. They were the sharpest spears of the entire Ursus army.

The war sorcerers over there had also noticed this, and they suggested to the commander, "If we retreat at this speed, we'll be caught up by the Patriots before we even get out of the mountain road. Fire in the same way, directly and continuously attack the Patriots! We can even collapse the mountain. If you cooperate with our attack, we might be able to slaughter this person!"

Hearing that the War Warlock not only had no intention of retreating, but was instead planning to confront the Patriot head-on, the commander couldn't help but sweat. But in the end, the commander nodded in agreement, immediately ordering the artillery battalion to prepare, with the others responsible for coordinated support.

He also knew that if the frontline shield guards were still there, they could have relied on their strength to hold off the Patriots. But now, those shield guards were suddenly hit by the enemy's massive firepower, leaving only one in ten alive. With the Patriots' current breakthrough speed, they couldn't turn back. Therefore, he had no choice but to give it a try.

But just as the artillery battalion loaded its artillery and prepared to attack the patriots, suddenly a loud noise was heard from their right wing, and then the mountain began to shake.

"It's an avalanche! They're coming again!" The soldiers on the right wing were the first to react, shouting loudly. The same trick was repeated, this time at an awkward time, forcing them to divert their attention to deal with the impact of the avalanche.

"Leave those avalanches to the two of us, and you three will be responsible for dealing with the patriots! We will come to support you after we have dealt with the avalanches!" The two war sorcerers, who were good at fire and ice respectively, began to turn towards the right wing. Facing the avalanche that was sweeping like a wave, the two war sorcerers also muttered to themselves and began to chant spells.

"Rise!" The warlock wielding the frost source stone technique took the lead, thrusting his hands upward. The avalanche that was about to crash into the Ursus Legion suddenly defied gravity and soared into the sky, forming a vast curtain of snow. At this moment, the warlock wielding the flames also finished his chant. Crimson flames rose from his sleeves, and he urged these flames to incinerate the entire curtain of snow, completely transforming the snow into steam.

The avalanche crisis was indeed easily resolved by the two of them working together. The War Warlock's ability to defy nature was a testament to his immense strength.

"Ugh!" Suddenly, the warlock controlling the snow curtain shuddered, his entire body moving as if he was trying to endure something. Even the snow curtain he was controlling collapsed. If the snow hadn't already evaporated, the piles of snow formed by the collapse would have been enough to bury some of the troops on the right.

"What's wrong with you? Ugh--!" The war sorcerer who was responsible for evaporating the snow water saw that something was wrong with his colleague. He was about to check the situation, but suddenly felt a life-threatening crisis coming. He dodged to the side in an instant, only to see a black ice cone directly cut the war sorcerer's shoulder, causing him pain.

After dodging the attack, the warlock was about to search for the enemy when he suddenly felt a piercing pain in his shoulder. It was then that he noticed a dark, cold ice crystal had grown from his shoulder. At the same time, the fire-controlling warlock discovered that his colleague's legs, like his own, had also grown dark, cold ice crystals, deeply piercing their flesh.

"Very cool skill in controlling ice source stone... But how does it compare to mine?" At this time, a figure slowly walked out from the snow pile. Everything on the path she walked on condensed into black ice crystals. If nothing unexpected happened, the attack these two war sorcerers encountered came from the other side.

"Stop playing tricks! Come on!" The fire-controlling war wizard ordered the warriors on the right wing to attack Carters with white rabbit ears. He also began to chant, manipulating huge flames to prepare to attack the opponent.

“……?——?——?——” Seeing a large number of troops rushing towards him, Frost Star calmly chanted his Originium skill ballad. Black ice crystals spread out in all directions like spores, freezing the invading Ursus soldiers one after another.

"Big sis, don't just try to look cool by yourself, there are also us! Yohoo——!"

At this moment, a cheerful voice echoed behind Froststar. A strange group of men, dressed in thick white clothing and hats—the Snow Monster Squad—came swiftly, slicing through the snow from the path Froststar had blazed. Armed with ice picks and ice blades, they charged at the frozen Ursus. Their weapons effortlessly shattered the frozen black ice, severing their limbs and armor along with them.

Those Ursus soldiers who were cut directly in the waist were relatively safe, dying in seconds. But those whose limbs were severed were the worst off. Unable to die, they had to endure the pain of severed limbs in despair. For a moment, the entire area was filled with the sound of agonizing wails.

"Sister, I'm here to help you!" At this time, Petrova, the only female in the snow monster team, held a staff and used the frost source stone technique to freeze and clear all the Ursus soldiers who were still rushing here, and used ice cones to continuously pierce their bodies.

"Be careful," Froststar warned, locking her sights on the two warlocks. As the two warlocks finished their chants, a massive fireball and icy blades launched directly at Froststar.

"Come on--" Frost Star's eyes condensed, and several huge ice cones appeared around him and floated around him. Then Frost Star charged directly towards the two incoming attacks.

The ice blades first reached Froststar, but Froststar manipulated the massive ice cones around her, thrusting them forward like fans, sweeping away the incoming icicles. Then, as the massive fireball barreled toward her face, Froststar combined the cones into a cross-shaped spike, spinning it continuously like a pitch-black drill, striking the massive fireball.

"Chong-"

"Click-click-"

The imagined explosion did not occur. On the contrary, after the two collided, the fireball was pushed into the inside by the ice cone, and then the entire fireball was frozen from the inside out, becoming a black ice ball.

"Ice rain all over the sky!!" At this moment, Frost Star squeezed the ice ball with all her might, and the entire ball shattered with a loud shattering sound. Then, the ice ball completely shattered, shattering into countless black ice cones that began to shoot towards the army ahead, including the warlocks in Neusus. The scene seemed to sweep away all the enemies in sight, ending them all under this pitch-black ice rain.

Chapter 195: Infiltration and Encirclement

"Ice rain all over the sky!"

As the Frost Star sang, the black ice rained down on Ursus' army, instantly freezing all the halberd soldiers and shield guards who had no time to resist. They were then defeated one by one by the Snow Monster Squad.

"Damn it! How can there be such a powerful warlock!" Seeing that his fireball not only failed to destroy the opponent, but was instead used by the opponent and turned into a tactic to attack them, the Fire War Warlock was angry and shocked. If this continued, he was afraid that he and his colleague would not be able to withstand it and would all die here.

"Let the warlock team send some people over! Otherwise, we'll just have to wait for death!" The warlock who controlled ice and snow said gritting his teeth, enduring the pain of his frozen legs.

"But they're also doing their best to resist the Patriots' charge. If we withdraw our manpower and wait for them to rush over, we'll be finished!" said the Flame War Mage. "You and I have to hold on a little longer. The Seventh Regiment's reinforcements are already on their way. For an Infected like her, no matter how strong she is, we both know the consequences of overusing such a powerful Originium technique!"

In reality, what the War Warlock said was true. The Infected did possess far more powerful Originium Skills than ordinary humans, but the price they paid was that intensive use of Originium Skills would accelerate the onset of Ore Sickness. To put it bluntly, the Infected's large-scale use of powerful Originium Skills was a life-or-death gamble. Even Patriots were no exception to this.

Now, although the troops on the right wing had hundreds of people eliminated by the Frost Star and Snow Monster Squad, this number was not an unbearable price compared to the two legions of thousands of people. The right wing was soon replenished, and the reduction in personnel even facilitated the retreat of the core central army's magician group and artillery battalion.

At that moment, two secret doors opened in the rear, and out emerged a team led by Talulah and Wang Chong, respectively. Talulah, just like before, utilized her Fire Originium skills to easily rip through the enemy's defenses. Wang Chong, on the other hand, didn't need to be the main force; Albion and Elquet were sufficient to lead the front line.

After all, Wang Chong discovered that he didn't receive any reputation points for killing soldiers, even when using Originium skills. On the other hand, the number of kills by Albion and Elquet did count towards the reputation points, so Wang Chong simply acted as a pure commander, leading the team to encircle the rear.

However, this time, due to the timely deployment of the Seventh Regiment on the Ursus side, they used their numbers to hold back the two teams of Talulah and Wang Chong for half a moment, dragging them until the Magician Regiment evacuated to the battlefield where the Seventh Regiment was located.

"Shadow Entanglement!"

"The earth shook!"

"Iron Forest!"

Since they had left the front line where the Patriots were, the Ursus Warlock Group and Artillery Battalion no longer needed to point their spearheads at the Patriots. Instead, they began to attack Tallulah, who was fighting the Seventh Regiment, and the two ambushes led by Wang Chong.

The ground began to tremble, forcing everyone on the battlefield to pause in order to regain their balance. At this moment, black shadows appeared over the Reunion members, binding them all. Finally, metal spikes emerged from the ground, intending to kill all the bound Reunion members.

"Chong-"

"boom--"

While the War Warlock's spells might have been effective against ordinary Reunion warriors, they couldn't stop Tallulah and her elite warriors. Elquite and Albion, leveraging their immense strength, shattered the spikes that emerged from the ground. Wang Chong wielded his greatsword, slicing away the shadows from his bound troops. Tallulah, on her part, relied on her Flame Originium skills to dispel the spikes and shadows.

However, the soldiers of the Seventh Regiment seized the opportunity and surrounded them again. While the sorcerer group's firepower couldn't effectively strike Tallulah and the others, the other Reunion fighters were forced into a passive position, forcing their respective captains to return to rescue them.

"Talulah, the Warlocks are now free to fight. Together with the troops deployed outside, the Reunion fighters can't resist. And there are a steady stream of Ursus troops coming in. We can't be dragged here, we have to fight our way out first." Wang Chong used the black fog to remotely transmit information to Talulah.

"Okay, let me try to detonate the heavy weapons of their artillery battalion. Let's see if I can create a commotion. We can't just take nothing away!" After Tallulah replied, she used all her strength this time, and everything around her turned into scorched earth. Even the members of the Reunion Movement had to keep their distance from Tallulah.

"咻咻咻咻——"

The flying crossbow arrows and spells wanted to hurt Tallulah, but before they could hit her, they were sucked into the pillar of fire in front of her and turned into molten iron.

"Hah!" Tallulah swung her sword, and the pillar of fire rushed towards the artillery battalion with unstoppable force. Even though more shield guards put up shields to form a line of defense and weaken the power of the pillar of fire, the flames eventually reached the position of the artillery battalion.

"boom!!!"

A massive explosion resounded, blasting the entire structure apart. Needless to say, the artillery battalion was completely swept up in the Originium blast and the blast of flames, their fate uncertain. The nearest warlock group wasn't much better off. They rushed to provide protection for the artillery battalion, but before they could build their own, they were struck by the blast, sending everyone tumbling to the ground.

Even a war sorcerer was unfortunately hit in the shoulder by a flying shrapnel, which directly tore a big hole in his shoulder, causing him to scream sharply and lose his combat capability.

However, Tallulah and Wang Chong didn't take advantage of this opportunity to continue fighting. The Eighth Regiment had already begun entering the battlefield, and while the Seventh Regiment was preoccupied with protecting the Warlocks and Artillery Battalion, they immediately led their respective teams to evacuate in the direction of the Patriots.

As for the secret passage, it had already been blown up on the way out. They couldn't let the Ursus soldiers discover it, enter it, and then circumvent their base camp. Therefore, Talulah, Wang Chong, and the others had no choice but to rush in the direction of the Patriots and reunite with them and Frost Star to escape their current predicament.

"They are determined to protect these magicians and the artillery battalion members with their lives. Haha, that's good. By exchanging them in this way, it won't make the other side too suspicious." Wang Chong estimated the mutual losses in the battle situation, and then continued to command the troops to completely break through the defense line.

On the Frost Star battlefield, with the Patriots leading the guerrilla charge and the Warlocks withdrawing, the Fifth and Sixth Mixed Regiments had become complete pawns, left to be slaughtered. However, two War Warlocks remained.

They were all frozen by Frost Star's black ice while defending the right flank. Pinned down by Frost Star's firepower, they couldn't escape. They had hoped for reinforcements from the main force in the rear, but seeing the current situation, even avoiding a counterattack was a good thing.

Now they can only wait to be slaughtered, watching themselves getting closer and closer to death.

"kill!"

But at this moment, they heard the sound of heavy fighting coming from behind them. They were stunned at first, then surprised. Could it be that their own troops had already eliminated the troops that had infiltrated from behind and had successfully begun to return to support them?

But before their joy could last long, disappointment and despair returned to their eyes. They realized the troops rushing over with their accents were not their own. They noticed the armbands on their arms, and those armbands were precisely what symbolized the Reunion Movement.

Therefore, what awaited them was not reinforcements, but another massacre. Leading the charge, Dragon Lady Tallulah wielded her flaming sword, severing the halberd-wielding soldiers who came to intercept them. Meanwhile, Wang Chong's team, two women with extraordinary strength, easily ripped through the bodies of the Ursus soldiers, carving a bloody path through their ranks.

"I... We surrender! Stop killing! Stop killing!" Many Ursus soldiers were completely frightened by this brutality. They dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground.

"What are you still looking around for?" At that moment, a cold voice rang out. The two warlocks were startled, and they tried to strike the person before them with their spells, but found their hands were completely immobilized. Black ice pierced deeply into their bodies, engulfed by the black ice, and the remaining life within them gradually faded into silence.

"I... can't accept this..." The two war sorcerers were eventually frozen into solid black ice. The Ursus soldiers around them either surrendered or died, leaving them with almost no resistance.

Chapter 196: Each Suffers Injury

"Cough... cough cough cough..." Looking at the two war sorcerers who were frozen into ice sculptures, Frost Star couldn't help but start coughing dryly after breathing a sigh of relief.

However, before Froststar could cough for long, a gentle force struck directly from her back. After stabilizing Froststar's body, which had begun to activate the mineral disease, a voice came from behind: "Open your mouth."

Frost Star opened her mouth, and two blood pills were stuffed into her mouth. After consuming Wang Chong's blood, Frost Star's mineral sickness began to improve.

"Let's move first, the war is far from over." Wang Chong supported Shuangxing and took her to follow his team to meet up with the Snow Monster Team, and then led them to move towards the Patriots.

After successfully reuniting with the Patriots, they were able to stabilize their position and begin to count their casualties. The Reunion Movement had completely annihilated the Fifth and Sixth Mixed Regiments, capturing over 200 surrendered soldiers and bringing them back to their base camp for guarding.

However, the Reunion Movement also paid a heavy price. As they moved from a defensive position to an active offensive, over 230 men were killed, and the wounded accounted for nearly half of the total combat personnel. It can be said that virtually everyone on the front lines was injured.

Fortunately, this time, two war sorcerers were killed and one was incapacitated. The artillery battalion also suffered a certain degree of damage. Perhaps they had been completely wiped out by Tallulah's sword. This was already the best news of the match.

If the Ursus Legion did not have the 10,000 reinforcements tomorrow, as long as it consumed a few more days, even if the patriots launched a forced attack, it would be enough to completely defeat the entire Ursus Legion, and victory would be within reach.

"Yelena...how is it?" Patriot asked Wang Chong.

"Her condition has stabilized and she has been taken away to rest. She's fine, but how are you now, Patriot?" Wang Chong looked at the black mist emanating from Patriot's body and knew that Patriot was serious this time.

"It doesn't matter... As long as they believe... that tonight will be successful... That's enough." The Patriot spoke intermittently. It was obvious that the Patriot's mineralogy had become more serious because he had used the Wendigo's witchcraft again.

"Take this. We still have the whole afternoon and the first half of the night, and it's up to you, Mr. Patriot, to hold on. Even if we are just putting on a show for the other side, you'd better take care of yourself." Wang Chong threw the blood pill to Patriot and said.

"Hmm..." The Patriot nodded. This time, he didn't try to resist as he usually did. Instead, he swallowed the blood pill. Soon, he felt the Originium crystals blocking his throat weaken slightly, and his throat finally felt less painful.

"It's amazing..." Even Patriot couldn't help but exclaim in admiration after personally experiencing the effects of Wang Chong's blood.

"After this first time, you don't have to be so pretentious anymore, Mr. Patriot. From now on, you will be considered one of my cured patients. Only when you get better soon can I feel more at ease to do other things I want to do." Wang Chong said.

After hearing this, the Patriot said nothing more. However, Wang Chong knew the Patriot's character well, so this was considered a tacit agreement.

"Okay, I won't say any more. I should go gather my special forces members. Mr. Patriot, you and Tallulah, hold this place. When they advance to this side of the hillside, you will use those artillery to support them." After Wang Chong finished speaking, he walked into the trench, began to enter the secret passage, and headed towards the Reunion Movement headquarters.

……

In the Ursus military camp, Ulrich waited for the statistics and situation of casualties on the front lines. Not long after, the intelligence officer received the battle report from the frontline commander and explained it to the commanders present.

"More than 6700 people died...more than 200 people surrendered...two war sorcerers died, and half of the artillery battalion lost its people." Ulrich took a deep breath after hearing these numbers.

"I didn't expect that those bandits were so combat-effective. I thought it was terrifying enough that the patriot wiped out two mixed regiments. But I didn't expect that the two interspersed troops were so brutal. Even under the protection of the Seventh Regiment, they were able to destroy half of my artillery battalion and blow up all the firearms brought to the front line. Unfortunately, they even severely injured one of my war sorcerers, making him lose his combat capability." Oleg couldn't help but say.

"That's why after passing the third pass, I would rather let ordinary soldiers slowly push the front line than let the warlocks and artillery battalion fight together again. It's to prevent them from infiltrating and then directly annihilating them. If that happens, we will completely lose the ability to restrain those high-end combat forces. Sure enough, this time the guys who used fire to attack the camp showed up the next night." Ulrich said.

"Now, the Reunion Movement's bandits have basically used up all their cards. According to the situation on the front line, although the infiltration troops almost slaughtered the Seventh Regiment and completely blocked the Warlock Group's retreat. However, with the support of the Warlocks, the Seventh Regiment, and the Eighth Regiment that arrived, they almost completely stopped the two infiltration troops." A commander said.

"Also, according to eyewitnesses on the front lines, both the Patriot and the warlock who wielded the powerful Black Ice ability were infected. After prolonged use of Originium techniques, they both experienced adverse reactions. The Patriot, in particular, didn't continue advancing as he had just done. Instead, he stationed himself at the fifth pass to offer resistance."

"It's obvious that when the Patriot goes crazy, it's really scary... But the oripathy... hehe, this is a fatal disease that no one can get rid of. He can't hold on for much longer, and has even entered the weak stage early." Ulrich sneered and said.

"Although we paid a heavy price, we destroyed the firepower on the cliffs and tricked out their ambushed penetration. Even the Patriots were weakened and unable to launch the same charge as before. Unfortunately, they blew up the secret passage leading to the rear, making it impossible for us to use it. But they themselves can no longer sneak through and attack our rear rank like before. As a result, our warlock group and the only remaining artillery battalion can advance with confidence."

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