The leader of the rebels, the war horse under Peyton Redfield's crotch jumped back twice like a frightened rabbit. He himself opened his eyes wide, and his two bloodshot eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets. However, with him
The difference in his facial expression is that the emotions revealed in his eyes are not surprise, but fear and anger - in fact, when he sees this black knight and the various types of skeletons gradually illuminated by the light of the torch,
At that time, he finally understood what happened.
What frightened and angered him was not the Black Knight, but the significance of the Black Knight appearing here at this moment.
He found the wrong opponent, not just the undead creatures hiding in the Noland military camp, but he should not have gone against Alanza Tulip from the beginning. Even if this young man who can still be described as a newborn calf abandoned him
He took the surname Lane, but he still has the blood of the Lane family in his body, and among the generations of descendants of the Lane family, there is a special name, the King of Heroes, Hercules Lane.
Aranza is his child, the seed left by a legend, Peyton Redfield. Perhaps he is not qualified to prevent this seed from developing into another magnificent legend.
What's even more ridiculous is that he is probably just a stepping stone in this legend.
But these may not be the worst situations. The worst thing is that Payton's son, Pierce Redfield, a guy who speaks without thinking, actually hurriedly answered his father's words at this time, saying: "These are undead creatures.
Father! Damn it, why are they in a place like this?!"
"Shut up!"
Payton's face turned completely gloomy. He was very distressed. As the most outstanding and eldest of his many children, Pierce's current talents were not as satisfactory as Payton's. In comparison, Aranza
·Tulip seems to be younger than Payton, but now she has become Payton’s enemy. Are the descendants of legends destined to be legends, while the descendants of stepping stones will always be stepping stones?
Thinking of this, Payton sighed quietly in his heart, but his thoughts calmed down.
At this time, the undead creatures who arrived at the army seemed to understand that they were outnumbered. Purple magic arrays appeared at the feet of each skeleton, and in a blink of an eye, these undead creatures were returned to their original space.
"We've fallen into a trap."
Payton almost gritted his teeth and said these words. He could guess that the disappearance of these undead creatures meant that the necromancer hiding in Noland Fortress had escaped through magic teleportation, and there was no need for the necromancer to stay.
Here, because the rebels had been successfully held back. Payton quickly organized his thoughts, and then ordered a small team to be left to search the Noland barracks and clear a place to place the wounded who had just been shot by the skeleton archers.
The remaining rebel warriors were divided into three parts. The part made up of archers followed Paton on the city wall, the part made up of heavy armored infantry guarded the city gate under the leadership of the adjutant, and the last part made up of cavalry quickly searched the entire Norland.
city, and mobilize all the recruits to the city gate. If these recruits disobey - Payton is a smart man, then let these recruits stay where they are. If they cannot use a certain recruit camp, then they cannot be allowed to
Become trouble. You must know that any trouble now is enough to change the entire situation of the war.
And when Payton and his useless son climbed onto the city wall, the scene outside the city wall was exactly what Payton had imagined - this was a deviant tactic, but Payton did not expect that Aranza would really choose this tactic.
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Noland City is a city built on a mountain, which means that it has only one city gate. At this moment, outside Noland City, the Noland Army has built a camp around this city gate.
A team of five hundred heavily armored knights formed a solid phalanx and blocked the only suspension bridge leading to the city gate. Behind the phalanx, an attack team composed of two hundred mages deployed their magic shields one after another.
The magic wand shines with magical light without any scruples.
What makes Payton even more crazy is that there is a small box next to each magician on the other side. There are magic potions and magic crystals on top of the box. It can be imagined that these magicians need to cast magic.
The source of magic comes only from the magic crystal. They only need to mobilize a little weak magic to cast attack magic that they could only cast once or twice at a time in the past. Even if they consume all the magic in their bodies, they can continue after taking a sip of magic potion.
A long war of attrition.
These few small boxes brought Payton an unquestionable fact. Under the restrictions of the suspension bridge, the contact area between the two armies was reduced. His army could only break through the Norland Army through a war of attrition.
On the defense line, Payton originally planned to sacrifice a small number of troops to drain the magic power of the enemy magicians, and then forcefully break through the heavy infantry phalanx, but now it seems that even if all their soldiers are sacrificed, they may not be able to fight against those few.
It's a small box. But if the hostile magician group is always in operation, it is unexpected that no matter how many troops Peyton blocks and breaks through, he will face an undiminished magic bombardment.
This is clearly a war to show off wealth!
"Archer..."
Calmness no longer gave Payton the confidence to speak, and his voice seemed tired and weak at this time. But the commander next to him still heard his order clearly, so a wave of powerful arrows fell, and the result was
It was even more desperate. The arrows had no intuitive effect on the heavy armored infantry, and the magician's protective shield was even more effective in resisting the rain of arrows. Therefore, this tentative attack,
Payton didn't even hear a cry from the city, not even a short groan of pain.
At this time, a figure in red armor appeared under the eyes of Payton and others. He was consistent with the intelligence they received. He had striking white hair and was none other than Aranza Tulip.
Aranza rolled her eyes and said with a playful smile: "Well, I heard that someone betrayed Duke Kim Gates. Do you know who the people on the wall are?"
Aranza's words instantly angered Pierce next to Payton. Pierce, who was wearing a gorgeous armor, immediately said to Payton: "Father, let me go down and deal with this kid!"
Payton's face turned cold, and without looking at Pierce, he asked: "Are you a strong man in the sanctuary?"
Hearing this, Pierce's heart skipped a beat. He almost forgot about Aranza's strength, so he could only answer hesitantly: "...No."
"There is an unwritten rule among the major families, that is, the strong ones from the Saint Realm can only participate in the battles with the participation of the strong ones from the Sanctuary Realm... Haha, what a joke, but, Pierce, you have to remember that this joke is exactly
It worked. Aranza used his Sanctuary strength to massacre a battlefield. Although those big families let him go once, they will never let him go a second time... We must be careful not to attack him first. If we let him go,
If he finds an excuse to use the strength of the Holy Domain to deal with us, then there is really no hope."
Pierce didn't understand his father's words at all. Unwritten rules are often full of loopholes. Not only are they not very convincing, but they also seem absurd. But there is no denying that they are real and effective. But Pierce was still worried, so he asked cautiously.
Said: "But, father... wouldn't we have no chance of winning? We can't ignore him..."
"We're just fighting a reasonable war, Pierce."
Payton seemed unwilling to spend time explaining to his son. This is actually not difficult to understand, as Aranza said, they betrayed Duke Kim Gates, not Aranza. In fact, although Aranza said
Sakai is the real ruler of Kaye State, but its nominal ruler is still Kim Gates. As long as he holds on to this nominal name, Payton can stand on his own in some respects.
He suddenly grinned and said to the white-haired figure under the city wall: "So this is the son of the famous Hero King. I am the lord of Enkara City, Peyton Redfield. As you said, I betrayed Jin...
Duke Gates, I think he is depriving me of the benefits of being a noble..."
"Well, put away your nonsense!"
Aranza interrupted Peyton's words. He pointed his middle finger in the direction of the city wall and said: "Old guy, you are so smart, but so what, you want Norland City, I will give it to you."
That’s it for you, I want to see how you get out of here!”
At this time, another part of the rebel army had set up a formation on the main road at the city gate, and the adjutant in golden armor was stationed in front of the army. The city gate that Pierce had knocked open had lost the ability to close, and there was only one person between the two armies.
Across the bridge, everyone looked at each other. The adjutant obviously understood the situation at this time. Although he had set up his formation, he knew in his heart that rushing across the suspension bridge could only mean something.
"Ha ha!"
Facing Aranza's provocation, Payton squeezed out a laugh that seemed indifferent and responded: "The son of the great hero king! Even if we can't get out from here..." He captured his words well, "...
...Don’t even think about Duke King Gates’ Norland Army coming in through here! I want to see how long the Norland Army can stay here!”
After saying that, Payton turned around without hesitation and ordered to the adjutant behind the city gate: "Put down the iron bars of the city gate and put up the drawbridge!"
The situation of the war seems to have changed. The offensive side has become the defensive side, and the defensive side has become the offensive side. The difference is that the new offensive side is obviously much better prepared than the new defensive side.
Aranza raised the corner of her mouth and smiled at the sullen Payton on the wall: "Well, Your Excellency Payton Redfield, I have to tell you some bad news. The grain storage in the Norland camp was stolen by a soldier.
Accidentally burned it... Oh, there is still some food in the recruit camp, but I don't mind if you rob them. Maybe it's good to collect the residents' food. Oh... It's winter already, I hope your collection behavior is not bad.
It will cause a backlash... Of course, I hope you won't starve to death, haha, haha!"
Faced with the facts Aranza said, Payton just gave a thick cold snort. He felt that there was no need for him to stay on the city wall and listen to the nonsense of the so-called son of the King of Heroes. He turned around and led Pierce and others down the city wall.
At the same time, orders were passed from his mouth one after another.
When he walked down the city wall, the suspension bridge in front of the city gate also swayed and retracted, isolating the armies of both sides.