Corpses were piled all over the ground, and there were even four or five corpses stacked on top of each other at the highest point. Because the battle was too fierce, neither side had time to clean up the battlefield, so they could only let the corpses of the soldiers scatter around for the time being.
Fortunately, the climate in the snowfield is cold, and corpses generally do not rot or stink. Even if a large number of corpses accumulate, it will not cause any diseases. There is no scene of rivers of blood in the snowfield, because the blood of soldiers will be frozen into ice soon after it flows out.
The originally snow-white ground was now glowing with red light under the sun, which should be ice formed by blood.
The fortifications outside Snowfield City have become extremely fragmented. The snow giants have filled them with a large number of corpses, direct traps and ground thorns. Even if the human soldiers guarding the city want to rearrange the fortifications, it will be difficult to clear the snow in a short time.
The giant's corpse could only watch the snow giant stepping on the corpses of his own people and attacking the city wall directly. Most of the human soldiers had been recalled to the city, and only a few elites were still causing trouble for the snow giant with the remaining peripheral fortifications.
Now, taking advantage of the snow giant's retreat, they were frantically repairing their positions.
At this point in the battle, the casualty rate of peripheral soldiers has reached 50%. Tens of thousands of soldiers can no longer return to their homeland in the North. Many soldiers who harbor the dream of being a general can no longer stand up. If they are lucky,
Some of them may be able to obtain the Knight's Blessing Potion based on their military exploits in this battle, become an official knight, or even obtain a more advanced potion to become a Grand Knight...
The first step to becoming a general is to survive...
After suffering huge casualties, although the soldiers in the outer positions were still tenacious in fighting, their faces no longer looked as cheerful as before. Instead, they always remained silent, and their actions to repair the fortifications were more like numb movements.
Move out of habit.
Although humans have suffered huge casualties, the snow giants are also having a hard time. The war started a few days ago. Soldiers from various tribes were sent in turns to attack the city. Although Wang Ting no longer only supervises the battle as before, but
It was only a symbolic sending of troops. In addition to the tribes who were originally on the wrong side and were constantly asked to send troops, even the tribes that had remained neutral or even supported Severo were forced to send troops to fight. Severo, who was already torn apart, had already been forced to send troops.
No longer caring about whether it looks ugly or not, he wants to target the entire tribe.
The tribes were forced by Severo to attack Snowfield City, and their morale could be imagined. Naturally, they suffered successive defeats. After the failures, they were forced to attack again. After several days of repeated attempts, Severo seemed to feel that they were weakened.
The tribe's goal has basically been achieved. Each tribe has lost more than one-third of its warriors or leaders who died directly under the Snowfield City.
Although they failed to capture Snowfield City, there were so many tribal warriors after all, and the peripheral fortifications had been almost destroyed by these tribal warriors.
After the tribal warriors used corpses to wade through the two fortifications outside Snowfield City, no matter how the tribes gnashed their teeth, Severo finally felt that the time was ripe and sent his general Ge Ur to lead the royal court warriors to launch the final attack.
General attack.
Royal court warriors are different from tribal warriors. In comparison, tribal warriors' fighting methods and tactical thinking are relatively primitive, especially those from small tribes. They only know how to rush forward in battle, and they don't know any tactics.
That is to say, the advantages in size and individual strength are too great, which makes up for the shortcomings in all aspects. If they are reduced to the same strength size as humans, they will be a group of rabble. Let alone the elites of the Dragon Army, they will be the militia of the North.
You can teach them how to behave.
But the elites of the Royal Court are different. They can overwhelm the snowy plains and make the tribes bow their heads. In addition to the blood of Tate, they rely more on the elite warriors of the Royal Court. Compared with the warriors of various tribes, the elites of the Royal Court are already considered
It has evolved from the tribal armed forces to the level of the feudal army. It is still the elite of the feudal army, able to execute orders and prohibitions, and also able to withstand high casualties.
Moreover, compared to the tribal armed forces, they do not hinder each other and their cooperation is relatively tacit. Although the amount invested at one time is equivalent to that of the previous tribal coalition, the pressure they put on Snowfield City is not of the same level.
The soldiers of the Snow Giant Royal Court do have two brushes. Especially after most of the fortifications outside Snowfield City have been destroyed by the previous tribal warriors, the soldiers of the Royal Court can drive straight in and really pose a threat to Snowfield City. This
At this time, Richard no longer hid, and almost all the system troops climbed up the city wall. After fighting fiercely for a long time, Richard finally seized the opportunity, quickly activated the special effects of the Snowfield City Energy Tower, and raised the energy shield.
, dividing the more than a thousand attacking Snow Giant Royal Court soldiers from the main force outside.
Finally, the city gate was opened immediately, and the entire army mobilized three saints to attack at the same time, annihilating all the snow giant warriors trapped in the energy shield in a short period of time.
At this time, Richard, who was standing on the city wall, had just completed a fight. It was not easy to eliminate these more than a thousand royal court warriors, and all his high-level system warriors were damaged.
After the last battle, this time the Snow Giant was more mentally prepared for the sudden rise of the energy shield. When the energy shield rose, the snow giant trapped on the inside did not waste his efforts against the energy shield like last time.
Instead, he quickly made a defensive posture against the energy shield, preparing to defend until the protective shield disappeared automatically. These elites of the royal court with a firm will to fight allowed Richard to turn this annihilation battle into a critical battle. Even outstanding swordsmen appeared in the attack.
In addition to the losses, if there were not three saints who cut into the snow giant's formation, this critical battle might not be over yet.
The soldiers who stayed outside the snowfield city took advantage of the short time bought by the energy shield to repair the damaged fortifications as much as possible, hoping to continue to fight against the snow giant in the next battle. The teleportation array in the city was even more busy, and various supplies were constantly being supplied.
After being transported to Snowfield City, some of the divine crossbows that were damaged in the battle were either replaced with parts and repaired, or they were taken out of the battle position and replaced with a new one.
The soldiers who had no mission for the time being simply sat down and rested, enjoying this hard-earned opportunity to rest and recuperate.
"The next battle will be even harder to fight."
"Maybe it's time to use it."
Richard looked at the Snow Giant Royal Court warriors outside the energy shield who were preparing to attack, and then looked at the Ice and Snow Key in his hand.
"I don't know how much of the Ice and Snow Key's ability to control the Ice Giant has left over the Snow Giant."
"Barbarian Bones, do you think it is traditional for a snow giant to challenge the Snow Giant King?"
"Yes, sir, in the tribe, if you are stronger than the leader, you can challenge the original leader. Any snow giant is qualified to challenge the snow giant king."
Mangu stood behind Richard, his huge body almost accounting for a quarter of the width of the city wall. At the fiercest moment of the battle, the Snow Giants of the Ice Flame Tribe who had deserted the Royal Court also joined the battle. Hundreds of Ice Flame Tribes
The snow giants fight alongside humans.
Although there are not many Snow Giants in the Ice Flame Division, their equipment is far better than that of their kind. Due to the environmental impact on the snowfield, the Snow Giants do not have the alchemy technology tree, and the tools they use are still ground stone tools.
Lord.
The Snow Giant warriors of the Ice Flame Department are supported by the production capacity of the entire Northland. Not only are their weapons replaced with metal products, but the crazy Northland Ordnance Factory also customized helmets and breastplates for them, making them much more armed.
promote.
They had a lot of advantages when fighting with their own kind, and not only did they not feel any discomfort when fighting with their own kind, but they worked extra hard because they knew very well that if Snowfield City fell, a very tragic end would definitely be waiting for them.
Barbarian, whose strength has just entered the sky level and is fully capable of taking on the role of a medium-sized tribal leader. In the battle just now, he relied on his equipment to resist a snow giant general who was taller than him. The other Ice Flame Tribes
Basically, the warriors each have their own achievements, and these snow giant traitors have become an important force in Snowfield City.
At this time, Richard was continuing to learn about some of the strange traditions of the Snow Giant from Man Gu.
"However, such challenges all come from the same tribe, and I have never heard of challenging the Snow Giant King in hundreds of years..."
The Snow Giant King itself is not low in strength, and with the addition of a Snow and Ice Key to enhance his strength, no snow giant in his right mind would think of challenging the Snow Giant King.
"Tell me, if I challenge the Snow Giant King, will the Snow Giant King accept the challenge?"
"Sir, you are not a snow giant. The king will not accept the challenge."
"What if I am?"
"ah?"
Richard asked about Mangu in one sentence. This assumption is really ridiculous.
But no matter what, the person who asked the question was Richard. The man who was asked thought about it carefully and finally came up with the answer.
"I'm afraid the Snow Giant King may not necessarily accept your challenge. The royal court is different from the tribe. The king's authority can order the soldiers to attack you directly. After all, you do not belong to the royal court."
"Ah."
After hearing Mangu's answer, Richard laughed to himself. He was still a little whimsical. Snow giants have a tradition of dueling, but the higher they are, the less likely they will abide by this tradition. It is hard for him to expect the Snow Giant King to do so.
Challenge him to a duel for the sake of tradition.
"It's just that if you refuse this challenge, it will have a certain impact on the king's prestige."
Richard nodded and had already prepared two plans in his mind. It would be best if he could use the Ice and Snow Key to transform into the Ice Giant King and directly challenge the Snow Giant King in the subsequent battle. This would at least resolve the battle quickly and reduce a large number of casualties.
If the plan doesn't work, then we can only defend with all our strength. A lot of reinforcements have come from Miracle City. The steam crossbows that were previously studied by the ordnance factory have been moved to Snowfield City. Regardless of casualties, Richard can still defend Snowfield City.
confident.
…
On the other side, outside the energy shield, Severo watched with a livid face as the more than a thousand Royal Court soldiers trapped on the other side were wiped out. Adding to the previous losses, more than two thousand Royal Court warriors died in the battle.
The loss rate has reached an astonishing 20%. Although the morale of the Royal Court soldiers is still good, this kind of casualties really makes Severo heartbroken.
"King, according to the last observation, this layer of white light should disappear at noon tomorrow."
"Um."
After listening to Gul's report, Severo hummed absentmindedly, already thinking about how to reduce the casualties in the next siege.
"Gur, together with General Kawei, ask the tribes to cooperate with the royal court in sending troops. If there are any who do not cooperate."
"We are facing a formidable enemy. Those who do not cooperate will be treated as traitors and may be executed on the spot."
"good!"
…
The soldiers of each tribe had suffered considerable losses. They had just withdrawn to lick their wounds. Under Severo's threatening order, thousands of tribal soldiers were again mobilized. In order to ensure that the tribes did not take old soldiers
The weak, sick and disabled are the ones to deal with him, and the tribal leader must lead the team himself.
Soon, the snow giant launched another attack on human cities...