Seven watch towers sent out signals at the same time, five watch towers sent white signals, and two watch towers sent out red signals.
Chris is anxious, but he cannot easily dispatch the army. According to the guidelines he and Roland discussed together, after receiving the signal, they will activate a forty-minute hourglass (more than half an hour). Before the sand in the hourglass runs out,
, they cannot take any action.
Facts have proved that the tactical standard was very effective. Just after the hourglass was halfway through, three sentry towers fired green signals, and the enemy retreated.
Before the hourglass was completely gone, another sentry tower sent back a signal, and the enemy troops retreated.
There are still three watch towers that have not sent out signals, and it is time to take action.
Chris divided the army into three groups, giving one to himself, another to Roland, and one to Natalie.
Natalie does not need many troops, she only needs a dozen brave warriors. She will go to the sentry tower closest to the west. This sentry tower is the farthest, closest to the Lost Mountain, and the road is the most difficult to walk.
And Natalie didn't need to consider the road conditions. She didn't need to walk, she was flying.
In this split operation, the most critical choice was Natalie. She had the advantage of being crushed in the air, but she also had weaknesses that were easily targeted. It turned out that Chris's choice was a bit reckless. He should have dispatched an airship, but
Not a hot air balloon.
The westernmost guard tower guarded the most remote road. Varya believed that Reggie would ignore the defense of this road, so he personally led the cavalry and orc troops to launch a surprise attack on this road.
The powerful orcs withstood the attack on the guard tower and launched a counterattack towards the guard tower under the leadership of Varya.
This was the most brutal battle. It took Natalie more than an hour to rush to the battlefield. Including the previous hourglass time, the sentry tower experienced a total of two hours of fierce fighting.
For two hours, both warring parties went through hell.
Varya lost at least 300 cavalry and 100 orcs, leaving only three warriors guarding the outpost. They had exhausted all their weapons, and even the hydrogen balloons were shot down.
But the remaining two soldiers were still making their final resistance under the command of the sentry commander.
"Load! Shoot! Eject the shell! Load..."
The sentry commander's voice was hoarse to the point of being unrecognizable. He was holding a musket and making a final resistance with the last two soldiers. They had very few bullets left. They even hoped that this would end soon. Even death would be better than this kind of suffering.
many.
Seeing the hot air balloon flying in the sky, the whistle commander suddenly became more awake. He wanted to send a signal, but he couldn't find the tools to ignite it.
The grenades have long been used up, the bombs under the sentry tower have been detonated, and the white phosphorus for ignition has been thrown away as useless, but now he must launch a signal flare. He wants to give Natalie a warning, because the enemy
There is a dragon-slaying crossbow. The hydrogen balloon was shot down by the dragon-slaying crossbow. Hot air balloons cannot get close to this place.
The whistle commander yelled at the top of his hoarse throat, but unfortunately Natalie couldn't hear him at all. By the time she discovered something was abnormal, it was too late.
The enemy's dragon-slaying crossbow aimed at a hot air balloon and shot it down easily. Another hot air balloon had just dropped a bomb and was also shot down.
Now there was only one balloon left that Natalie was riding in. She tried her best to raise the height of the balloon. She tried her best to avoid the range of the dragon-slaying crossbow, but she also lost the chance to attack the enemy.
The reinforcements, which had been waiting for two hours, only dropped one bomb and then disappeared. This result caused the soldiers in the guard tower to completely collapse.
All this happened so fast that Natalie had no time to react. She watched helplessly as the enemy rushed towards the guard tower, and watched as the three soldiers used up their last bullets.
In the hot air balloon, a soldier took out a flare and said to Natalie: "Send out the airship, we can't stop them."
"Airship?" Natalie looked at the soldier with red eyes, "What's the use? If I'm not near the airship, it will take at least half a day for that thing to fly here."
This road is about to be lost. Even if Natalie turns back to the watchtower and launches the airship again, by the time the airship catches up with the enemy, the territory outside Broken Snow City may have turned into a living hell.
Natalie fired the red flares one after another. She hoped that Chris and Roland would receive her signal and desperately hold off the enemy before reinforcements arrived. This was the only way Natalie could think of.
Unfortunately, Roland couldn't see Natalie's signal flare. He had just arrived near the guard tower and was engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy.
Only Chris's situation is more embarrassing. He encountered an extreme event, which is a small probability event where the criterion fails.
Several enemy soldiers were guarding under the marker. The marker was a stone. This stone was chosen by Kress himself. He had no problem with it as a marker, but the stone was so big that it became
A natural shelter.
The enemy troops were hiding behind the rocks. They did not leave or come out to fight. This put the sentry commander in a difficult situation. They could not hit the enemy, nor could they send a signal that the enemy had fled. They could only wait in the sentry tower.
With.
Annoyed, Chris asked the soldiers of the Third Army to blow up the enemy troops behind the rocks with grenades. Only then did he see the signal from the sky.
Such dense signals came from the west, and the flares were much higher than before. It seemed that a terrible battle was taking place in the west, and it was a battle that Natalie could not handle.
Chris led the soldiers to rush to support immediately. At this time, another weakness of the Third Army was exposed.
There are no cavalry among them because most of them cannot ride horses. Most of their opponents are cavalry. In terms of mobility, there is really a huge disparity between the two sides.
"Run faster, faster!" Chris was roaring crazily. According to his speculation, it would take at least four hours to reach the westernmost sentry tower. By the time he got there, the enemy would be gone.
Even if the enemy troops are still there, it is still unknown whether the exhausted soldiers can immediately join the battle.
All support was too far away. The soldiers in the guard tower fired their last bullets, and all their hope was gone.
The soldiers of the Benlang Kingdom were hitting the gate of the sentry tower. They would soon break through the sentry tower. The sentry commander found a grenade. He knew how cruel the soldiers of the Benlang Kingdom were. He wanted to die with dignity, but he still found a grenade.
No tools for starting a fire.
He looked at the two soldiers beside him. One was born a slave and the other was a Bayer.
He first asked the slave; "Do you regret joining the army?"
The slave cried and nodded: "I regret it. I should have listened to my family and farmed at home."
The Bayer man shook his head and said: "I don't regret it. The lord promised that he would get thirty gold coins after his death. He would leave the gold coins to my wife. At least she can still think of me."
The commander finally found a wooden stick with sparks in the corner. He took it over and prepared to light the fuse of the grenade.
The slave cried out: "Please, please don't do this. Let's surrender. At least we can survive."
"It's useless," the Bayer man shook his head. "Just light it. At least you can die happily. We killed hundreds of them, and they will definitely skin us alive."
The commander lit the fuse, and the three people hugged each other tightly.
The captain was praying when he was interrupted by the sound of drums.
It seems to be the sound of war drums, but it is neither the war drums of Benlang Kingdom nor the war drums of Shattering Snow City. War drums should not be played so fancy.
Where does this sound come from?
The sentry commander looked along the lookout and saw a group of sturdy figures appearing on the Lost Mountain.
It's a mountain monster. Mountain monsters won't interfere in human wars, but today is an exception.
This sentry tower was too close to the Lost Mountain. The soldiers of the Benlang Kingdom did not understand the rules of getting along with the mountain monsters, because the Benlang Kingdom had no mountains and no mountain monsters. They only focused on charging, but inadvertently crossed the mountain monster.
At the boundary of the Mountain of Death, they did not realize that a very serious matter had occurred. The mountain monsters standing near the foot of the mountain had reached the point where they could no longer bear it.
The sentry commander laughed and threw the grenade under the sentry tower. The grenade killed two cavalrymen.
The angry werewolves attacked the sentry tower even more frantically, completely ignoring the mountain demon's war drum.
Laduca, who was riding on the back of a bear, raised his warhammer and shouted: "Isana is bigger! A hook is bigger than Casa!" (Warriors, attack!)