Chapter 440 Bloody Battle of Lonely Rock City (11)
"I'm not dreaming, am I?!"
Garcia, who was standing on the top of the mountain, looked at the black dragon slowly falling in the sky. His legs became weak. He knelt down on the ground and murmured: "This is the messenger of God!"
Eleanor gently pressed her chest, her face flushed, and whispered: "What a beautiful creature, this is my dream!"
On the plain behind Lone Rock City, Cumberland, who was riding on a war horse, slowly lifted the mask on his head, pointed the bloody lance at the ground, and let the body hanging on it fall to the ground.
Seeing the figure in the sky spreading its dragon wings, and listening to the thunderous roar in his ears, he opened his mouth wide and said to himself: "My God!"
The dragon swung its tail and hit the watchtower of the royal city. The towering building broke apart and fell towards the imperial army below.
The soldiers, who had just woken up from a dream, cried and dropped their weapons, desperately avoiding the collapsed buildings, and fled out of the royal city in a swarm, running towards the inner city on the mountainside.
The pale-faced Elim took out the musket from his waist and shouted at the deserters: "Don't run away! Come back here!"
No one obeyed his orders, even the most loyal soldiers, faced with the behemoth in front of them, the only choice they made was to survive.
The giant black dragon flapped its wings and flew from the top of the royal city into the air, then swooped down and began to circle along the edge of the city.
There was a boom of cannon.
A solid cannonball suddenly flew into the air, drawing a trajectory in the sky.
The uninjured black dragon looked at the direction in which the cannonball was fired, tilted its body slightly, spread its wings, and flew quickly towards the direction of the cannon.
The Ayub Empire established an artillery position outside the inner city wall. An imperial artillery captain who had just fired the gun looked at the huge black shadow getting closer and closer in the sky. His whole body trembled like chaff. He hurriedly dropped the gun in his hand.
Torch wanted to turn around and run away, but found that his legs seemed to be growing on the ground and he couldn't move forward.
The black dragon's golden pupils reflected the frightened face of the offender.
The dragon's mouth opened, and a pillar of white flame, one meter thick, streaked across the sky and directly bombarded the artillery position.
Human bodies were instantly burned into black charcoal in the flames; the piled gunpowder was burned, causing an earth-shattering explosion.
The empire's artillery position turned into a hell on earth in the blink of an eye. The flying debris and soaring flames brought death to hundreds of surrounding soldiers. The towering city walls finally could no longer support themselves under the continuous blows.
The weight completely collapsed.
The black dragon took a moment to rest and turned his attention to the other enemies in sight.
Pillars of fire spewed out from its mouth one after another, hitting any enemy with weapons in the city. The entire Lone Rock City suddenly turned into a sea of fire.
Under the protection of the royal guards, Saladin, hiding in the ruins, looked at the dusty Elem staggering towards him, and said to him with a wry smile: "Bring your troops, we are afraid we have to give up this
It’s a city.”
Elem still seemed unwilling to believe what he was seeing: "How could a giant dragon appear here?!"
Saladin seemed much calmer: "On the battlefield, everything is possible. However, no one would have expected what happened today..."
Ilem nodded bitterly: "Caliph, this is not the place to talk anyway. You can ride away first. Don't go through the city gate. It has become a sea of fire."
"The horse cannot be ridden." Saladin smiled bitterly and looked at the trembling war horse lying on the ground not far away, and said, "We must find another way to retreat."
Watching the giant dragon passing above his head flying away, Elim lowered his body, got into the shadow of the building, and crawled back carefully.
He looked into the distance through the gap in the building, and later climbed back and said: "There is a collapsed city wall in the southwest. I will organize the remaining troops and leave Lone Rock City from there."
Saladin nodded and responded: "Go, may Allah protect you and me."
Elim walked out of the ruins and took one last look at the huge black figure flying wantonly in the sky. He gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "One day, one day I will let you fall at my feet!"
The fire in Lone Rock City burned for a whole day and night. When the last flames in the city turned into light curls of white smoke, it marked that the war initiated by the Southern Empire had officially come to an end.
In just a few days, more than 30,000 people lost their lives in Lone Rock City, a small place.
As for the Ayyubid Empire, there were more than 12,000 troops on the expedition, but less than 2,000 troops on the return trip.
Among them, the imperial troops who landed in the northern plains totaled 4,000 troops. After losing their leader and the siege of the city was frustrated, their rear formation was suddenly attacked by the Muxi Knights. Their positions were in chaos, and the battle was locked within an hour.
The defeat resulted in the entire army being annihilated. The imperial fleet, which consisted of thirteen warships of various types, was sunk by six, and the commander-in-chief Latib's life and death was unknown.
Among the subordinates led by Emperor Saladin, only a few hundred soldiers actually died due to the battle. The direct cause of death of the remaining 5,000 soldiers was the fire that burned the city, but the real cause can be said to be the sudden appearance of the black dragon.
In Lone Rock City, there were more than 20,000 casualties.
Among them, the three thousand reinforcements stationed on the Yuexi Plain were defeated by Saladin's encirclement and reinforcement tactics, and less than one tenth survived; the eight hundred defenders in the city, including the kingdom's regent Zhan Ning
Si, in the battle with the imperial army, chose to break the jade, and no one survived; in addition, there were more than 20,000 people in the city, and after experiencing the war, only a thousand people actually escaped.
In Twilight City, there were two troops that actually participated in the battle, namely the "Theater Guards" led by Knight Commander Horn, with a total of twenty knights and one hundred and fifty soldiers;
Led the main force of the knights responsible for lifting the siege of Lone Rock City, a total of 300 alien knights.
The former faced dozens of times the enemy force on the mountain road behind Guyan City and persisted for two full days and two nights. At the end of the war, 17 of the 150 soldiers survived, while the 20 knights only survived.
There were three people who survived, and Knight Commander Horn... was not among them.
The main force of the knights mentioned in the latter also suffered the death of nine knights when faced with the attack of imperial guns and artillery.
In addition to the casualties mentioned above, there are two key players.
One is the guard of the Golden Skylark Troupe - Randall.
The knights led by Cumberland waited for the fire to extinguish. With the cooperation of the surviving people, they entered Lone Rock City and searched for several days. However, they never found the whereabouts of this man. In desperation, they could only announce the death of Randall.
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As for the other character, it's the mysterious black dragon.
After suddenly appearing and inflicting a devastating blow to the imperial army, the black dragon hovered over the city for half a day, then flew into the clouds and disappeared without a trace, leaving only endless imagination and various rumors to those who followed.