Your war hammer is too fake

The proud imperial knights could not accept such an argument, and the two sides argued endlessly, and finally brought the matter to An Jiyue and Prince Hertwig. The governor, who was overwhelmed by the quarrel, could only smooth things over and let the imperial cavalry escort the subsequent supply convoy from Essen, which was barely enough to fool the matter.

After all, she couldn't say that the dead forest was full of walking points, and it would be a serious waste to let the imperial cavalry clear out the enemy, right?

While passing through the dead forest, the Zhendan cavalry encountered and eliminated all kinds of chaotic opponents, from mutant gangs that had mutated beyond recognition, small groups of beastmen, cultists who believed in Chaos, to ratmen who tried to ambush the Zhendan people but were attacked in return. There were so many types that it could almost write a book "The Complete Collection of Chaos Creatures". Of course, although the enemy's variety was rich, their combat effectiveness was not very good, and even their number was not large - at least not in the eyes of the Zhendan people.

An Jiyue believed that the enemy must have realized the arrival of the coalition forces, and chose to retreat in the face of the coalition forces' superior forces. The Eagle Guard conducted several aerial reconnaissances of Mordheim, and fought an air battle with a group of harpies, or a one-sided massacre. They confirmed that there were more than 4,000 chaotic creatures with a messy composition, entrenched in the ruins of Mordheim, nearly half of whom were ratmen, and the rest were Chaos believers and mutants. There were no beastmen, but there were some forest goblins riding spiders.

Orcs generally do not cooperate with Chaos cubs. Rather than joining forces to deal with other enemies, orcs are more willing to use machetes to deal with Chaos believers. However, some goblins with unique ideas think that cooperation with Chaos is profitable, although this kind of cooperation is closer to the little greenskins using Chaos forces to achieve their own goals.

As for the Beastmen, the children of Chaos hate all civilized creations equally, especially those that come from humans. In the eyes of the Split-Toed, even the Norsemen are too "civilized". Rather than huddling in a damn stone tent with the object of scorn, passively waiting for the humans outside to knock on the door, the Beastmen are more willing to solve the current predicament in their own way.

They were not stupid enough to confront the coalition forces head-on. Their numbers and nature did not allow them to do so. Under the call of the Beast King and the Screaming Shaman, thousands of beastmen gathered from all corners of the Dead Forest. They bypassed the main force of the coalition forces on the march and tried to go around the rear of the humans to cut off the coalition's supply line.

Then the beastmen ran head-on into the imperial cavalry that was escorting a supply convoy... The beastmen thought their actions were covert, but in fact they were under Lei Zhenzi's surveillance the entire time. When four hundred imperial knights in shining armor launched a charge, all the resistance of the beastmen was just a dying struggle.

The split-toed people who fell into the trap couldn't even escape. The Zhendan people completed the troop mobilization while passing the military intelligence to the supply convoy. The Ugor horse archers and pioneer cavalry temporarily took over the task of covering the flank of the army. The liberated Zhendan cavalry marched overnight and ran to the rear of the herd before the battle began.

When the Imperial Knights launched their charge, the Zhendan cavalry behind the Beastmen started to move simultaneously. The Gun Cavalry deployed to both wings to block the Beastmen's possible escape routes, while the 500 Yu Lin Iron Cavalry rode straight to the center.

The sound of horse hooves, the rustling of dead trees, and the gurgling of streams. The emerald green chrysanthemums swayed behind the guards, and the red or white helmet feathers were blown back by the airflow caused by running, and the black lacquered armor emitted a cold light. At the moment before contact with the enemy, the guards pulled out the flintlock pistols with their right hands wearing bird wing rings and pulled the triggers at the roaring and barking beastmen. Then, without looking at the results of the battle, they quickly put the pistols back into the belt, and then pulled over the horse lances that were ringed in the middle with bird wing rings and supported by the victory hook at the bottom.

Five hundred horse lances were laid flat in unison, and the sharp spear tips, using the momentum of the mechanical horses' charge, pierced through the rough skin and knotted muscles, and pierced through the beastmen's backs continuously.

Under the pincer attack from the front and back of the Yulin Cavalry and the Imperial Knights, the Beastmen were defeated quite easily. The strongest and bravest Split-Toed Ones were soon strangled to death, and even the powerful Minotaur could not withstand the barrage of dozens of muskets. The Beast King who led these Beastmen kept slashing and killing the deserters, roaring and trying to reorganize his army, and thus attracted the attention of the Zhendan people.

The leader of the Yulin Clan, riding a unicorn, descended from the sky, carrying a lance on his shoulder and hooking his hand at the Beast King. Such a contemptuous attitude immediately angered the Beast King. The tall and burly leader of the beast group pushed aside the big horned beast blocking the way and stepped out of the crowd, roaring and accepting the duel. The imperial knights who arrived a step late could only rein in their horses and watch from the sidelines.

Under the gaze of the onlookers, the Yu Lin Clan leader jumped off the Qilin. He handed his lance to a Yu Lin cavalryman, and then drew a mace from his waist. The Beast King rushed over with his axe in both hands, and the Yu Lin Clan leader responded with a tricky iron mace. At the moment the two weapons collided, the Yu Lin Clan leader stood still, while the Beast King, who was a head taller than the Yu Lin Clan leader, staggered back a few steps, and the broken tiger's mouth made it almost impossible for it to hold the axe.

Without giving the beast king any chance to adjust his stance, the Yu Lin Clan leader rushed forward and tapped the beast's throat with the front end of his mace. All the onlookers clearly heard the crisp sound of bones breaking. The beast king tilted his head and his strong body fell heavily to the ground.

The scene was completely silent. After a deep breath, the Imperial Knights and Imperial Guards cheered together.

……

On the sixth day from Essen, the light cavalry reported that they had seen the walls of Modheim.

After dealing with the beastmen, the coalition forces were able to reach the city of Hell without any obstacles. The defenders did not do nothing during this period, but watched the humans approach Mordheim. While the coalition cavalry was busy dealing with the beastmen running around, a group of night rats sneaked into the coalition camp and tried to poison the food and water.

Unfortunately, An Jiyue had been prepared for this. Jinyiwei were secretly on duty at all key locations 24 hours a day, and the place where food and grass were stored was the most important. As soon as the rats touched the side of the material storage area, they were chopped into pieces by the Jinyiwei who rushed over. In fact, if the rats had not sneaked in from the defense area under the charge of the imperial people, they would not be able to enter the camp and would have been shot to death by the sentries on duty.

In the open space north of the city of Mordheim, the defenders who had been put together temporarily under the huge pressure of the enemy put up a futile resistance. This battle was smoother than the encirclement and suppression of the beastmen. Although a considerable number of the coalition's opponents could cause tons of mental damage to the coalition soldiers just by their arbitrary appearance, their desperate resistance was ultimately no match for the coalition's artillery fire, let alone the betrayal of the shameless ratmen.

- When they realized that the battle was over, the Skaven betrayed their Chaos allies without hesitation, even though they were the ones who had proposed an alliance against the human army. The Skaven warlords pretended to fight to the bitter end, but once the battle began, they abandoned their allies and fled with the warpstone they had looted in Mordheim over the years.

They didn't escape in the end. When there were still mutants resisting on the front battlefield, the rats who were about to run away found in despair that a group of humans had occupied the central bridge at some point. This bridge was the only bridge in the city of Modheim, connecting the north and south of the city.

The assault on the central bridge soon proved to be a suicide mission, because An Jiyue herself was in the team that attacked the rats. The dancing thunder announced that this place was forbidden to pass, and the rats were behind and on both wings. The only direction without the coalition was the west, and the rats knew very well why the human stuff did not appear near the west city gate (Note 1). When the fastest coalition army passed through the city and appeared behind the rats, these large rodents could only take off their armor and weapons in despair, and jump into the Styr River to gamble their luck.

In response, An Jiyue used the water control technique to create huge waves that normally only appeared in the sea. When the waves swept over the river full of rat people struggling, the whole world became quiet.

……

Note 1: There is a hundred-foot-tall super-tree-man in Mordheim called The-Great-Oak. Compared to this thing, Durthu is just a stunted dwarf.

The author says:

Author's words: PS: The low-grade fever has gone away, but I still have no strength.

Chapter 190: Burning Trees

The big oak tree is the largest and most powerful monster in all of Mordheim and even in the entire Dead Forest, bar none.

This giant, standing 30 meters tall, was originally just an ordinary oak tree in the city garden. When the double-tailed comet came, the residents of the city, unless they were already insane, panicked and tried to escape before the disaster hit them in the face. At this moment, the big oak tree turned from an oak tree into a violent and bloodthirsty tree man.

This thing is completely different from the wooden man of Athel Loren. Whether it is a dryad, a tree spirit or a tree man, they are essentially spirits that live in this magical forest. Under certain circumstances, they attach themselves to a certain tree to form a supernatural species (Note 1). The specific reason for the birth of the Great Oak Tree is unknown (Note 2). The only thing that can be confirmed is that this thing is cruel and crazy. On the day when the comet descended, it waved its branches to slaughter countless citizens, and relied on its own size to withstand the destructive impact when the comet landed.

Today, the Great Oak has taken root near the west gate of Mordheim. All those who come to Mordheim to seek treasure, regardless of race, faction, or position, as long as they have reason, will try to avoid the west gate. Anyway, those who do not believe in evil have all disappeared. Some outsiders want to unite with others to kill the Great Oak, because there are rumors that the Great Oak guards many treasures and warpstone. But so far, the Great Oak has remained there.

When making the plan to retake Modheim, An Jiyue had already considered how to deal with this thing. It was unrealistic to rely on artillery. The material of oak combined with the size of this thing, and the inevitable supernatural power bonus, field artillery would definitely not be able to hit this thing. The Jiedushi was ready to go out personally until she saw the new product of the arsenal.

A total of two hundred incendiary bombs, each weighing fifty kilograms.

This is a supporting research and development project for the Grasshopper-class flying gunship. As a flying ship with a tactical orientation that is biased towards ground attack, the Grasshopper-class can carry thirty tons of aerial bombs. If necessary, this number can be increased to fifty tons, but it is generally not recommended.

In the background setting written by An Jiyue himself, An's Aurora sometimes lets flying units drop explosives and other goodies, but they don't have specially designed aerial bombs, they just modify the bombs used by the army and use them - mainly because An's Aurora itself rarely plays bombing, the positioning of the air force is professional air control, part-time fixed point elimination of the opponent's high-value targets. This is exactly the opposite of the official Aurora. The official Aurora air force is specialized in cleaning the ground, and is relatively weak in air defense, so it has to rely on the Tianzhou to carry Si Tiancheng to counter the Chaos Air Force.

The Grasshopper-class gunboat naturally cannot make do with outdated stuff like the Sky-shaking Bomb and the Ten Thousand Enemies. When designing this ship, An Jiuyue issued an order requiring the technical masters of the Xuanshui Arsenal to develop special aerial bombs, including both high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs. The research and development of other types of ammunition may be added in the future.

In order to ensure the development progress, An Jiyue specially purchased a batch of "enemy killer" bombs used on rotary bombers from Haimenguan for the Mohists to refer to. The Xuanshui Arsenal, which had just been severely punished for the Lingshi incident and several leaders were almost sent to the mines to start a new life, produced the first sample with amazing efficiency.

There is nothing much to say about high-explosive bombs. The Mohists designed three levels of bombs, 25 kg, 50 kg and 100 kg, with a uniform charge coefficient of 40%. Limited by the temporary availability of only black powder, the power of these bombs is actually just that, relying purely on the amount of charge to ensure lethality; incendiary bombs are also in the above three weight levels, and the contents are replaced with crude petroleum mixed with sulfide and some alchemy products used in fierce fire oil tanks.

In An Jiuyue's opinion, the safety of this kind of liquid-charge incendiary bomb is extremely poor. However, the chemical engineering level of An Zhendan does not allow them to use napalm bombs, let alone thermite.

The mediocre high-explosive bomb was transferred to small-scale trial production after several tests. Once the first Grasshopper-class gunboat became combat-ready, it would be almost ready to pass acceptance and be officially finalized. However, the incendiary bomb was stuck in reliability testing and was unable to enter the next stage.

If it wasn't for the big oak tree, An Jiyue would never have asked the arsenal to make this thing. In order to avoid accidents, this batch of incendiary bombs were supervised by alchemists during production, and the production line was surrounded by sandbags. The workers even prepared fire shelters and sand for firefighting... Fortunately, nothing happened in the end.

Under the order of the Jiedushi, the three teams of Yingyang Guards were ready to attack in a temporarily cleared area. The ground crew dug fifty neatly arranged pits in the open area, each of which contained an incendiary bomb, so that even if an incendiary bomb exploded due to some accident, it would avoid a chain reaction.

This batch of specially produced incendiary bombs has a movable iron ring at the tail of the bomb body, which is convenient for the mechanical bird to hook it with its steel claws. When the mechanical bird, which deliberately did not mount a tracking rocket to reduce the load, flaps its wings and takes off from the spot, the mechanical bird can hook the incendiary bomb with its claws as soon as it stretches its legs, and then gradually lifts the thing up.

The well-trained Eagle Guards formed a group in mid-air and then flew westward. As soon as the air knights left, the ground crew came over with incendiary bombs and put new incendiary bombs into the pit. They worked in groups of two, and only one group would appear on the open ground at a time. The next group would enter the field only after the previous group finished their work and continue this dangerous work that they jokingly called "burying ancestors."

An Jiyue was hovering in the air on a cloud, watching the entire attack from above; Prince Hertwig found a bell tower that had not collapsed, and he ran to the top of the building with a few bodyguards and advisors, holding a monocular telescope and looking towards the west gate. He didn't have to wait too long, and the three teams of Eagle Guards in the telescope began to dive. When they were less than a hundred meters above the ground, the mechanical bird released its claws.

The accuracy of this round of bombing was not high. After all, the Eagle Guards' daily training subjects obviously did not include "dive bombing". Nevertheless, the number still made up for the lack of accuracy. Balls of fire exploded with a bang, and thick black smoke rose up. The explosion of incendiary bombs was obviously different from that of high-explosive bombs. It sounded a little weak and not as strong as the latter. However, for the big oak tree, the flames were far more deadly than the shock waves and fragments.

The monster, which should not have appeared, wailed as it pulled up its roots, bringing out large tracts of soil and gravel, as well as bones that had fallen from its roots and were scattered all over the ground. The crude petroleum that had been added to the fuel was very viscous, and it slowly flowed through the body of the great oak tree as it burned. The dead leaves and twigs turned to ash first, followed by the thicker parts. The huge body of the great oak tree was covered with rising flames, and the monster waved its branches around in an attempt to extinguish the surrounding sea of ​​fire, but ended up getting more fuel.

The Eagle Guards, which had returned immediately after the first round of bombing, soon flew back. The big oak tree roared horribly toward the sky, but this did not stop the Eagle Guards from dropping the second round of incendiary bombs. Amid a series of explosions, the big oak tree burned even more vigorously. It dragged its burning body and began to move in the direction of the Eagle Guards' return.

This was the right approach, but unfortunately it was meaningless. The third round of attacks came soon, and the Eagle Guards, who had gradually mastered the trick, threw more incendiary bombs near the big oak tree, and even directly hit it. The big oak tree was almost engulfed in flames, and the raging fire burned its bark and scorched its trunk. Its movement speed became slower and slower, and under An Jiyue's repeated strict orders, the Eagle Guards would rather sacrifice the accuracy of their bombings than get close.

The fourth and final round of incendiary bombs fell from the sky, and the sea of ​​fire covered every inch of the bark of the big oak tree. This thing stopped completely, and the huge body of ten stories high fell down with a bang. However, although this ghost thing fell down, it did not die. The whole tree burned from noon to dusk, and An Jiyue finally heard the prompt sound of the points being credited - of course, this thing is also a kind of pan-chaotic creature.

The destruction of the great oak meant that there was no more resistance in Mordheim. Now, the coalition forces could finally carry out the most important step of the entire operation.

An Jiyue didn't need to personally take care of trivial matters such as arranging defense zones, deploying troops, and communicating and coordinating with friendly forces. All such work was now handled by Feng Xizhao, and An Jiyue was only responsible for marking "read" on the report. The Jiedushi had to conserve his energy for the next ceremony... if Dustan hadn't suddenly @ed her in the chat group.

[Dustan Falcon: @安朁月# is there? Damn, something big has happened. <Video>]

What big thing could happen in the Border Prince Territory? The girl picked up the teacup and clicked on the video sent by Dustan.

"……puff!"

An Jiyue spat out all the tea in her mouth.

……

Note 1: Dryads and tree men all came from this. Some dryads are spirits that ascend to trees, but some are transformed from dead wood elves.

Note 2: After a certain update of Hammer III, Mordheim added a landmark that is exclusive to the Vampire Counts, called "The Hanged Oak", which refers to this thing. In the text description of the Hanged Oak, it is mentioned that the birth of this thing is the result of Bilak's trouble, but the author has not seen this statement in other materials.

Chapter 191: Unexpected Harvest (Part 1)

In the central part of the Border Prince's Territory, in a remote corner not far from the Black Mountains.

William, the chief technical priest of the Paradis Cult, stood silently in front of the ruins with smoke rising from them, looking at the battlefield after the fierce battle. Two Netos stood behind him, one on each side, and farther away, a crowd of people knelt on the ground. They pressed their foreheads tightly against the ground, and many of them were still bleeding from the bandages on their bodies.

“Sir!” The middle-aged man in the front knelt on the ground and shouted in Nipeng: “I am incompetent and failed to protect the things entrusted by the lord. Please chop off my head.”

"I don't need my subordinates to take the blame for me yet," William said without any emotion in his tone. "It was my decision not to transfer the mind engine for the time being. All the consequences arising from this are my responsibility."

The Chaos Warlock turned around. "Everyone, pack up and prepare to retreat as soon as possible," William looked at the leader of the Ghosts. From his angle, he could only see the back of his head and back. "Only take the necessary supplies and throw away the rest. We can't stay here anymore."

"My lord!" The jonin raised his head suddenly: "Please give me another chance, we will definitely take back your treasure!"

"Follow orders. Don't make me say it again." After saying that, William turned back and stared at the pile of things that used to be his laboratory.

"...Hi."

The kneeling ninjas helped each other to stand up. They all bowed to William's back and then walked backwards to their families hiding not far away. These Nibon ninjas who came from afar to the old world looked at the village they built with their own hands reluctantly. They knew in their hearts that they probably would never have the chance to come back here in this lifetime.

While the ninjas were busy packing up and preparing to move, a combat-type Nieto quickly walked up behind William. "Master," Nieto bowed his head respectfully, "the commando team is a step late, and the mind engine has already arrived in Akendorf."

The light and shadow around William's body twisted a few times. "This is an unforgivable mistake," the Chaos Warlock said calmly, "Try to collect all the information about Akendorf. I want to know everything about that city."

"Your will, Master."

William finally stopped suppressing his emotions until the only two maid-like Nieto who had been with him the longest were left. His handsome features were twisted into a ball due to anger, and the nails of his hands pierced the skin of his palms, but the Chaos Warlock was completely unaware of it. He looked at this Nibon-style village and wished he could tear off his face.

Everything was going well, he had successfully concealed what was probably the last working Mind Engine in the world. This ancient device was crucial to his plan to revive his sister. Only with the help of the Faceless Man's technology could he create a perfect blank body, then draw his sister's soul into this body and revive her.

William didn't understand why the high elves would come to such a barren land as the Border Princes to establish a colony, and he didn't understand why the dwarves would tolerate these old enemies setting up a nest at their doorstep. William was very clear about one thing, he couldn't conquer Akendorf by himself, even with the help of the entire cult.

Due to the tragic failure of the Order's operation in Altdorf, some of the Order's former sponsors have wavered. Those who left the Order without saying a word are still the best, while some even tried to inform the Imperial High Command. In order to protect the Order's secrets, Oberstein has been busy recently silencing the traitors forever.

All the core institutions of the Order and the members who needed to be evacuated due to their exposed identities have now been moved to Marienburg. Even after the failure of Altdorf, the Order's most important sponsor, the richest man in the Old World (only for the human faction), and the uncrowned king of Marienburg, Jan van der Kuipers, still stood firmly on their side.

The remaining enhanced human army moved to the [Frame] to wait. Of course, Oberstein took back the scepter that could enter and exit the frame.

The current situation within the Order is so chaotic that even William did not do anything deliberately, many high-ranking members of the Order openly questioned whether Oberstein should continue to serve as the Archbishop. Seeing that the time was ripe, William proposed a plan at a recent internal meeting. The Chaos Warlock believed that the Order was now in a state of panic, and if nothing was done, the Order might be in danger of disbanding. The most urgent task was to reunite the people through an unquestionable victory. More specifically, William proposed to attack Sardenberg.

Sadenburg is a port city located on the west coast of the Southland. It is also the largest colony of the Old World residents in the Southland. Its history can be traced back to the Arabi Jihad thousands of years ago. In theory, Sadenburg is a colony of the Empire, but in practice, it is even more chaotic and ownerless than the American West during the westward movement.

As long as they take over Sardenburg, the Order will truly have a kingdom of their own. As a port city, this place can develop maritime trade, and it is far from the Old World but not too far away. Most importantly, the local defense force is just at the level that the Order can take over with a little effort - this is thanks to the Tomb King. In 2498 of the Imperial Calendar, four years ago, Sardenburg fought a battle with the Tomb King's army. Although the defenders eventually repelled those ribs, they also paid a heavy price in casualties.

William's proposal was unanimously approved by the top leaders of the cult. Oberstein seemed to have his own ideas, but someone had to be held responsible for the failure of Altdorf. General Carter, who was originally in charge of the on-site command, was the best candidate to take the blame, but General Carter died inexplicably during the operation due to some unknown witchcraft. As the leader of the cult, Oberstein could only save himself.

Eventually, the Chaos Warlock's beloved father had to make concessions and gave up many of the powers that he had always held tightly in his hands and did not allow anyone to get involved. William got everything he wanted as he wished, and was appointed as the acting commander of the Order's army, fully responsible for the next operation against Sardenberg.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly, so smoothly that the Chaos Warlock felt unreal. As long as he finished analyzing the psychic technology used in the God Engine, William could immediately start to resurrect his sister Lunicia... It was not until William finished the most important tasks at hand and finally had time to find an excuse to come to the Border Prince Territory to check his most important gains in the Battle of Altdorf that he realized that he was too happy too early.

The mind engine was stolen.

……

[Group leader #An Jiyue: So, where did you get this thing from? ]

[Dustan Falcon: ←_←That’s a long story…]

About a month ago, a group of refugees from the central part of the Border Prince Territory took the initiative to go to Akendorf, hoping to become residents under the rule of the wizard (see Chapter 182). They brought some strange rumors, and out of caution, the mayor of Akendorf appointed by Dustan proposed to send someone to investigate.

Dustan approved the proposal.

A team of Arion raiders, with extra horses and a month's worth of supplies, headed to the scene to conduct a reconnaissance mission. Although the Border Prince Territory was full of hidden talents, there weren't many tough ones. One hundred fully armed Asur cavalrymen were enough to deal with potential threats... at least that's what Dustan originally thought.

The Arion raiders traveled lightly and soon arrived near their destination. They checked the destroyed "principalities". After the unknown force defeated all resistance, they looted everything they thought was valuable and set fire to the towns, making these gathering places that were already in ruins even more dilapidated.

The elves found the remains of many civilians who were systematically massacred in the town, which explained why the residents fled. Generally speaking, in a place like the Border Princes, where there are "outstanding people and beautiful scenery", the local residents have very low requirements for the rulers. As long as you don't kill people too frequently, they can tolerate it.

Further search made the vanguard (the junior officer of the Arion Plunderers) frown. The enemy was quite professional in this regard, and almost all traces were wiped out. This was not the quality of the local residents. Combined with the refugees' statement that the enemy was "new", the cavalry believed that there must be an external force secretly setting up a secret base in the border prince's territory.

From their perspective, this potential threat must be identified as soon as possible, and then it will be up to Dustan to decide what to do.

The wizard did not explain what happened next, and An Jiyue felt that Dustan himself was not very clear about the details. In short, although the process was very difficult, the Arion plunderers still caught the opponent's clues. As a result, when searching for the opponent's lair, the elf cavalry encountered a carefully planned ambush.

At that time, they were tracking near a forest, and all the traces showed that the enemy's lair should be deep in the forest. The vanguard decided to leave five people to look after the horses, and the rest of the people dismounted with full equipment and walked into the forest to search. After all, they were Asur, not Asrai, and they could not gallop on horseback in the undeveloped primeval forest.

This soon proved to be a wrong decision. In the forest, the Arion Plunderers encountered a surprise attack from the enemy. Various strange throwing objects that the residents of the Old World had never heard of flew all over the sky. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen elves fell. The remaining elves immediately gathered together, waving their spears to block the hidden weapons thrown, while some of them took out bows and arrows and began to fight back.

The enemy clearly underestimated the combat quality of the elves, especially their archery skills. The attackers hiding in the trees were shot and fell one after another, and their camouflage was useless. Seeing this, the commander of the attackers quickly changed his strategy and began to throw round black powder bombs at the elves.

[Group leader #An Jiyue: If I am not mistaken, this thing should be the Nipeng people's baked jade. How come they appear in the border prince's territory? ]

[Dustan Falcon: ←_←I also want to know this question. 】

The appearance of explosives caused the situation to take a sharp turn for the worse. The attackers brought out a large shield that required two people to lift, and the others took the opportunity to hide behind the shield and throw branded jade. The shield was very thick, and the high elves' bows and arrows could not shoot it at all, and every branded jade that fell to the ground could make several elves lose their fighting ability.

After a series of dense explosions, the attackers drew their melee weapons and rushed up from all directions in silence. The Arion plunderers, whose formation was broken up by the baked jade, put up a tenacious resistance, and people kept falling in the fierce battle. Generally speaking, as immortal elf warriors, they always have more exquisite martial arts than human soldiers, but this group of attackers' skills in using swords are no less than those of the elves, and they are more numerous than the elves.

When the vanguard was killed, the elves who took over the command issued an order to retreat. Some people took the initiative to stay behind to cover the retreat, and the remaining less than 40 survivors fought desperately to break through the siege and found their comrades who had been left outside the forest...

Corpse.

Chapter 192: Unexpected Gains (Part 2)

Dustan was extremely angry.

None of the 100 Elion raiders survived. The enemy had originally captured a few high elves to interrogate them, but after bringing them back to the village, they discovered that the two sides could not speak the same language - only the vanguard who died in the battle knew a little bit of Zhendan, and the rest knew nothing about the language of the Eastern Kingdom.

The Ghost Ninjas' Rexpert language is only understood by themselves. After all, you can't expect a group of people who pronounce Dragon as "Doragong" to master the correct pronunciation. In the end, several captives were tied to the rack and used as "courage training" for several young ninjas who looked obviously underage, both men and women.

Originally, Dustan did not pay attention to the situation here. It was not until he was handling government affairs that the mayor of Akendorf mentioned casually that he had sent people to the west to investigate the situation. Dustan then remembered this.

Opening the War Codex and switching to the system unit management interface, Dustan flipped down and found a soldier card flashing red, which was a warning signal that the unit was about to be completely wiped out. The archmage quickly connected with the few remaining survivors, and then watched from the first person perspective how his subordinates were slaughtered.

At this point, any words are pale and powerless. The only special card left in Dustan's hand turned into a team of shadow warriors, quietly appearing in the corner of the city's military camp. Together with the team of Hoeth Swordmasters he brought back from Fort Kork and went to Lothern, and five teams of Sea Guards, 700 fully armed Asur warriors gathered together and followed the furious lord to go to war, ready to crush the enemies who dared to provoke them into powder.

Including Dustan himself, everyone rode on the elven horses, and galloped towards the destination. This is also a significant difference between reality and the game. In the game, these units are all pure infantry, and in reality, although they certainly cannot fight on horseback like professional cavalry, if they just want to travel on horseback, there is no pressure.