On the night of the evil moon, Morslieb slowly emerged from the dark clouds. Like the shadow of the god of death, it spread evil green light to the earth. The entire forest was covered with a layer of dark green. It looked weird and strange.
peaceful.
What's even more weird is the endless howling in the dark forest. Obviously, the scale of the beastmen who invaded Blackhammer Castle this time far exceeds the scale when the evil moon came last year.
However, compared to a year ago, the strength of Blackhammer Castle has been greatly improved. The cement wall surrounds the town, with fully armed archers, crossbowmen, and musketeers. There are also hundreds of soldiers sharpening their swords and waiting for danger.
Norscan warrior.
Kerosene, iron claw barbs and rolling wooden hammers have been prepared, and the defensive crossbow carriage is set up above the castle. Everything is waiting for the enemy to come to the door.
In the town, although the people still felt uneasy and fearful, what was gratifying was that when the evil moon came, not a single civilian escaped. After seeing the strength of the defenders of Blackhammer Castle and the strength of the high wall, all the people
They all chose to stay... Of course, they actually had no way to go. There was a riot in Erlengrad. In the cold winter, human beings in the wild were seeking death. If they did not evacuate in the autumn, they would not be able to evacuate all winter.
Will evacuate.
Looking at the civilians in the city, Rhodes felt the pressure on his shoulders increase again.
He must be responsible for their lives, and this year, there will be no reinforcements from Iron Ring City and Heidelberg. At this time, they have already set off to Erengrad to join the Snow Queen's troops.
"Check the ropes and kerosene barrels to make sure they don't leak!"
Before the battle, Rhodes took Lawrence and Celta to patrol the city wall and ordered the soldiers to check again, because every oversight and omission may affect the entire battle situation. When fighting against a huge beast army, a gap may be fatal.
Because fighting alone, humans are no match for these chaotic beasts.
"What are you doing?"
Patrolling down from the city wall, Rhodes met Priestess Lyanna who was taking care of the children at the gate of Sarlacc Monastery. She had changed into casual clothes, no longer the white robes she had seen in the past. Through the linen, Rhodes could vaguely see the woman.
The priest must have a dagger stuck in his waist. It can be guessed that even the weak priestess is ready to fight the savage and bloodthirsty beastmen when the city is breached.
"Take care of the children, they are afraid, Lord." Lyanna said, "I must calm them as much as possible and pray to the goddess Sarlacc to give them peace and dispel the fear in their hearts."
The evening wind blew over the priestess's face, blowing up the broken hair on her forehead. What surprised Rhodes was that at this dark moment, the priestess didn't feel afraid at all, her face was as calm as usual.
Ru Shui. You can feel how firm she is in her belief.
In a dark world, how important faith is to human beings. Just like these people in front of us, those with firm faith only see tenacity and courage, while those who have no faith in the gods only see
fear……
"You can do it. The goddess Sarlacc and the bear god Esun will protect us."
Rhodes said.
The night is getting darker and the coming darkness is coming. Everyone is in their room, praying. Under the weak candlelight, there are thin and hungry faces.
Woo~~~~
Finally, half an hour later, the beastman army blew the first siege horn.
Different from last year's Battle of the Evil Moon, this time, under the evil green moonlight, the beastman army was like a mad dog, attacking the castle from all directions.
The beasts roared, and the world became dark. In the distant sky, hundreds of beastmen rushed under the moonlight, like billowing green waves, heading towards the snow-white city wall.
In the biting cold wind, Rhodes stood above the city gate, his eyes full of dense beastmen. In the small town, children were crying, and on the city walls, human soldiers clenched their bows, arrows and muskets.
"Hold still and listen to my orders!"
Under the billowing green waves, Rhodes suppressed the anger in his heart and ordered the musketeers and crossbowmen around him to prepare to fire. The first wave of arrow rain and barrage were crucial and must exert maximum lethality. There were lighting torches on the ground.
It is a signal light used to measure distance. However, the brainless beastmen do not understand the use of this thing. They just charge, mindlessly charging under the call of the screaming shaman, with only one thought in their mind, tearing apart the city wall.
Those weak humans in armor.
The first heavy crossbow arrow flew out from the launch platform above the castle, roaring through the sky with flames, and flew into the crowd of beastmen. Like a meteor falling into the black ocean, it hit a running man.
Beastmen warriors, dense waves of beastmen, almost no need to aim, they can hit... The hornless beast that was unfortunately hit by a heavy crossbow fell on its back, and the crossbow as long as a person pierced its body,
It was firmly nailed to the ground.
However, this is trivial.
As the Beastman army approached, the ground seemed to begin to tremble. Rhodes' eyes were fixed on the ground, and the second torch was stamped out. Soon, he reached the position of the third torch, which was the effective range of the crossbow.
However, at this moment, a creature that was much taller than other beastmen appeared in the line of sight. It was bulky and huge, approaching the city wall at an extremely fast speed.
Finally, when the giant beast entered the range of the ballista, Rhodes saw it clearly. It was a Cyclops! At this moment, Rhodes couldn't believe his eyes. There were indeed many Cyclops scattered across the vast land of the old world.
Monsters, but super units like Cyclops are generally only found near the Demonic Rock, which is the core of the beastmen, their belief and gathering place. It is simply unbelievable that such a monster appears here. However,
That's how he appeared.
Without enough time to think about the reason, Rhodes gave the order for everyone to open fire.
"Aim for the giant!"
Rhodes yelled.
It was the only Beastman unit that could cause a devastating blow to the concrete city wall. Arrows shot out, with a whooshing gliding sound, and fell into the huge Beastman battle group.
Sharp arrows in the darkness. In an instant, more than twenty hornless beasts, razor beasts, and chaos war mastiffs were shot through the body by the crossbow arrows of the human defenders. The running body rolled and fell to the ground the moment it was hit by the arrow.
If they fall aside, they will either be trampled by the same kind behind them, or they will fall to the ground, leaving a pool of blood.
After a round of shooting, there were scattered low-level beastmen who fell to the ground on the ground in the distance, while more beastman troops continued to charge against the rain of arrows.
The black herd of beasts approached the human town covered in snow.
However, just when Rhodes was about to issue an order for the soldiers to conduct a second round of shooting, countless terrifying screams suddenly came from the dark sky! Like shrill evil ghosts, with greed for fresh flesh and blood,
Countless harpies descended from the sky.
These timid and bloodthirsty creatures will never take the initiative to attack opponents who are larger than them unless they have an absolute numerical advantage. At this moment, Rhodes knew that what he faced tonight would be an army several times larger than them.
For his own army of beastmen... yes, Chaos is rising, becoming more powerful every year...
Facing the swarming beastman army, Rhodes raised his thunder ax——
"Brothers of Blackhammer Castle, follow me and fight together!"
The White Bear Lord roared loudly at the top of his voice.