King Griffith, who had this kind of fluke mentality, did not listen to the dissuasion of Haywood beside him at all. Now he was eager to rescue Viruga.
Haywood, who originally wanted to stop King Graves, was helpless as he watched King Graves gradually step into the forbidden land of the god of death.
Just as Greifus led the army into the valley, a burst of rocks suddenly rolled down from the mountain. These rocks were extremely hard. With the energy of rolling down from the mountain, each rock could kill a soldier. King Greifus looked at the Nord soldiers who suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain in horror. He knew that he should listen to the painting that harmed me, and should not move forward blindly.
On the top of the mountain, a familiar figure appeared in front of Grief Shiguang. That person was none other than Hott, who went to the position to command in person.
For some reason, King Griffus' heart suddenly trembled. He remembered the scene when he led the army to attack Su Luo. Wals led dozens of Swadian knights and rushed into his camp. The aura of wanting to live out his own life appeared in Griffus' mind again.
“Retreat! Retreat!”
That was all King Gryphus could say, but things were not that simple. When the Nord Time ended, a group of Nord warriors suddenly appeared at the foot of the mountain. What was even more surprising was that the ones rushing in the front were actually Swadian knights.
Originally, after this attack, King Gryphus' army had already lost its position. The Battleship was originally powerful enough to deal with the cavalry, and there was no time to drive it up. When facing the charge of the Swadian knights, this group of Rhodok soldiers could only flee in panic, and the sound of spears and the neighing of horses filled the battlefield.
Although King Graves wanted to resist, he knew that he could not accomplish this task. If he took another step forward, it would be his hell. In this case, he could not take another step forward. The Swadian Knights' spear formation was facing it, just like when Wals led his troops to capture him alive.
King Griffus left with fear and reluctance. Heywood and hundreds of Rhodok soldiers followed him. It was because King Griffus decisively chose to retreat that more Rhodok soldiers were saved. Most of the remaining Rhodok soldiers either died in battle or fled the army. They ran around in the wilderness. There were only two outcomes waiting for them. One was to meet King Griffus's troops again and reorganize and return to the team. The other was to meet Vols' soldiers and be captured in the dungeon.
There was a world of difference between the two results. There were only a few Rhodok soldiers left at this time. The Rhodok soldiers who were really able to fight had been killed by Wals's troops. When the Swadian knights charged with their spears, these Rhodok soldiers who had not formed a good formation were torn into pieces like thin paper.
This failure means that King Gryphus has no extra energy to save Viruga, so the next battle plan is very clear. Walls will lead his troops to attack Viruga. If Viruga is conquered, it will be the beginning of the conquest of the Kingdom of Rhodok.
King Gryphus, who fled in panic, had already thought of the subsequent battle plan while he was escaping. If Viruga was breached, he would still have to gather troops from all over the country to retake this important town of Viruga.
However, his adviser, Heywood, suggested that King Gryfus continue to hold on to the town and defend the rest of the territory, because Viruga is on the plain and is easy for the enemy to capture, while other castles are built on the top of the mountain. Such terrain is not conducive to attack, so it is easy to defend. Since it is easy to defend, it means that it is easier to defend these castles on the top of the mountain than to defend Viruga.
But if King Griffith lost Viruga, it would mean that he had lost something as well. The foundation of his rule would suffer a fatal blow and his prestige would plummet. Lords from all over the country handed over their troops to King Griffith for command, but King Griffith failed to defend Viruga. In this case, how many people in the kingdom would still listen to him?
These are things to be discussed later. Walls commanded his men to clean up the battlefield, and soon they returned with a full load. The weapons and equipment left behind by these Rhodok soldiers could be recycled very well.
Idenyar and Rudyar had already completed the siege equipment long ago, and there were still 1,500 defenders in Viruga. After several major battles, Wals had a total of more than 2,000 troops.
If they forcefully attack the city, there will inevitably be losses, but Wals couldn't think of any good way to break through the city for the time being. The last time they broke through Suno, they used a traitor. King Yarogerk, who defeated Kulau, and Khan Sega also used a traitor. This time, they were in a hurry to fight and there were really no traitors to send into Viruga, and the interior of Viruga was also tightly guarded. King Gryfus had seen through this strategy of using traitors to cooperate internally and externally, and he controlled the high-level officials in his kingdom, making his traits completely useless.
At this moment, apart from forcibly attacking the city, there is really no other good way to capture this city.
The lords gathered in Viruga accounted for half of the Rhodok Kingdom, led by Earl Rayland and Earl Mateas. They were both older lords of the Rhodok Kingdom and had high prestige within the kingdom, so the highest command here belonged to Earl Mateas. In addition, Earl Rayland had a great general, Death Scythe Drewry, under his command, and Earl Materas, as a prestigious lord of the Rock Kingdom, still had many powerful generals under his command.
Although Idenjar and Rudjar suffered many powerful subordinates when the Nord Kingdom was strong, it is still unknown who will win and who will lose when the two countries collide.
It was in this situation that Wals realized that it would be difficult for him to attack such a city. He wondered whether King Graves would regroup his troops and come to rescue Viruga. This time the ambush must not be set in Qiza, because King Graves had seen through this plan.
Before King Grace can bring in reinforcements, Wals must conquer Viruga.
Perhaps, King Gryphus would ask the Sarande Sultanate for help, but when the messenger told him a piece of news, Wals also dispelled this worry. It turned out that the Sarande Sultanate had put all its national strength into fighting the Khergit Khanate. The Khergit Khanate already owned part of the territory of the Kingdom of Swadia, plus half of the territory of the Kingdom of Home. In this way, the strong national strength made it not at all inferior to the powerful country of the Sarande Sultanate. In fact, it stands to reason that the suspense of this battle is actually very small, and the Khergit Khanate should have suppressed the Sarande Sultanate. But things seem to be taking a turn for the better.
As for what kind of turn of events will happen? This is not something that Wals said he would worry about. Fortunately, if the Sarand Sultanate and the Khergit Khanate were to go to war, King Graves would not ask for help from the Sarand Sultanate. Even if he sent an envoy, the Sarand Sultanate would ignore it.
In a short time, Wals knew that King Graves would either have to use money to buy a mercenary army or recruit the old, weak, sick and disabled farmers in his fields. Apart from these methods, he had no other way to assemble a large army.
On the evening of that day, Walls decided to launch a tentative attack on the city of Viruga to test the city's defense level and the generals under the commander-in-chief.
Wals watched the battle in person, Airen Jack and others climbed up the city wall, and Idenjar and Rudjar also sent their own people to build a city by hand. Count Matras and Count Leland took this attack very seriously. Their originally tense nerves told them to be careful and guard against every enemy, so they sent out all their trump cards that night, and this time Wals just ordered his Nord archers to shoot arrows at the city wall. Most of the Nord warriors raised their shields to protect the Nord archers from the crossbow arrows on the city wall.
On top of the city wall is Count Matias' general. Count Matias is a very powerful lord, which also means that the people under him are all very powerful.
That is, from this moment on, Wals saw with his own eyes the ten generals under Count Matthaas. These ten generals were all powerful figures. All ten generals used code names instead of their real names.
But if he wants to capture Viruga, Walls must defeat these ten people.
Time is running out, and King Gryphus might have a chance to bring in reinforcements to rescue Viruga.
The attack of the troops sent tonight was actually a feint. Wals also saw the ten generals who appeared on the city wall one by one.
According to intelligence, five of the generals were holding a kind of knight sword. Their knight swords had different shapes. They were Jueying, Zhuifeng, Duanren, Huanbian, and Muyi. The weapons used by these five people were ordinary, so Wals didn't take them seriously. On the city wall, the knight swords used by these five people were perfect. One look at their martial arts showed that they were masters. It can be said that they were just ordinary people who kept honing themselves and improved their martial arts.
But according to intelligence, there should be five other people on the wall. The first thing that impressed Wals was the broadsword. This was a general under Count Matras, known as the Fire Knife. This general used a broadsword, which was a weapon often used by Rhodok soldiers. Now he used the broadsword like a fire god. He used the broadsword to bounce off the arrows that tried to hit him. At the same time, the Nord warriors who came up were also chopped down by him.
This is also to test the true strength of the Viruga defenders by sending out the death squad. The sacrifice of these ordinary Nord warriors is worthwhile.
In addition to these people who used weapons normally, there was also a general called the Poison Hook. He used a curved poison hook with toxins on it. Wals didn't know how poisonous the toxins were, but according to the Nord warriors who fought with him, the damage caused by these hooks was not too deep, but its toxins could slow down all the warriors. Wals also knew that it took a lot of time to make a highly toxic product, so there couldn't be too much toxin on the hook, because after each attack, the toxins on the hook would be lost. After those toxins entered the soldiers' bodies, the lost toxins had to be quickly reapplied on the hooks, so cheap toxins were the most ideal substances for poison hooks.
At the same time, under the moonlight, a giant white crossbow appeared in Wals's eyes. Yes, this was also a general under Count Matthaas. This general was called the White Crossbow. Beside him were two double killers using two one-handed swords. In Wals's view, these nine generals were all people with high martial arts skills and there was nothing special about them.
But the last one, called Hellfire, was extremely mysterious. Wals didn't know the weapon he used. According to the intelligence, he seemed to have used a special fire bomb, which should have been made of some special material. However, the method of making this cremation seemed to be known only by Hellfire himself.
This makes him the most mysterious person among the ten.
Afterwards, Walls ordered his troops to retreat, only to realize that tonight's attack was just a feint and they did not really want to capture the city. It was simply that Count Matthaas and Count Leland were too sensitive, and Death Scythe Drewry was bound to be an indispensable figure. But then again, it seemed that Drewry was the only one under Count Leland's command.
Therefore, after Wals learned of this information, he quickly ordered his troops to retreat. Earl Leland only had one Drewry, but Earl Matras had ten generals. Tomorrow, Wals would be ready to launch a frontal attack, and his generals would then have a fierce battle with these enemy generals.
Count Mateas, who was sitting on the city wall to defend it, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He saw that the army had left his city and returned to the camp of the Nordic Kingdom. This meant that they would not attack again tonight.
Count Matras sat down on the ground on the city wall without caring about his image.
"Count As at the dock, why did you let me appear this time?"
A faint voice suddenly appeared behind Count Matias. When Count Matias heard the strange voice, he knew who the person was. He was the last of his ten most proud generals, the one called Karma Fire.
"You are my secret weapon. I can't let you expose your fighting style so easily. Wals is an extremely smart man. He will definitely launch an attack when the situation is tense. When I was halfway through the battle, I suddenly realized that Wals's attack was just a feint. I guess he was most likely testing the strength of our defenders. I really regret sending out the nine generals, but fortunately I chose to leave you behind. When the nine generals are defeated, you will come out to attack me. I bet that if the Nord Kingdom's army launches a general attack tomorrow, Wals will be the first to climb the city wall. You must firmly grasp Wals's position and wait for the opportunity to attack him to death."
"Okay, Count Matthias, I understand what you mean. If you are hit by my fire bullet, your whole body will be burning with flames. It will be difficult for Wals to survive."
A strange laugh came out of Yehuo's mouth. He was wearing a mask, a red mask. No one knew what he had been through. From his arms exposed from his wide robe, one could see that his upper hands were covered with burn marks. It seemed that he had experienced unknown pain when using the fire bomb.
Under the moonlight, if Ye Huo took off his mask, one could imagine that he would reveal an ugly face. He used fire bombs to attack the enemy, and sometimes he would hurt himself. I wonder what kind of miraculous effects he would be able to perform when facing Wals tomorrow?
No one stopped the passage of time. After Count Matthias ordered some Rhodok soldiers to be on duty, most of the remaining soldiers fell asleep peacefully. They were really scared by the sudden arrival of the enemy tonight.
That night, Walls also checked his own personnel.
Rudyaar and Edenyaar are both very prestigious lords in the Nord Kingdom. They are all experienced men and must have some powerful people under their command. Fortunately, at this time today, Edenyaar and Rudyaar have brought all of their men to the battlefield.
There is Salinger, known as the Axe Demon, who is a subordinate of Edenjar. At the same time, there is Erwin, who wields a battle axe, and Embleton, whose weapon is a giant sword.
On the other hand, Rudjaar also has three generals, the first of which is Fideon, known as the Silver Sword, Sils, who uses a longbow and a dagger, and Sachison, who uses a sword and a shield.
And Wals also has his own subordinates, namely Mathilde, Aileyen, Resarit, Bolcha, James, Niza, Bestul, Atiman, Fatis, Desevi, Jack, Jenks, Hogarth, and Aimirida.
Among them, Bolcha, James, and Atiman are all intellectual figures and are not suitable for fighting on the battlefield. Therefore, there are 11 left, plus myself, there are 12 people who can fight. Edenyar and Rudyaar are both veterans on the battlefield. This battle is extremely dangerous, and they will not go to the battlefield personally. In other words, only these 18 people can be used.
Some other small lords also had other generals, but Wals did not have much time to check the real roles of these generals one by one. Therefore, Wals temporarily formulated a battle plan and sent 18 generals led by himself to fight against the 11 generals under Count Matras and Count Leland.
Soon the battle plan was drawn up, and the next day, the Nord Kingdom's army began to attack Viruga. Wals planned to capture Viruga in one battle.
Count Matras and Count Leland personally commanded the battlefield. Beside them were ten characters, Double Kill, White Crossbow, Poison Hook, Fire Knife, Wooden Clothes, Broken Blade, Jueying, Illusion, Chasing Wind, and Death Scythe Drewry.
As for the mysterious Hellfire, she did not appear here. Although according to the intelligence, she was wearing a wide robe and a red mask, Wals searched for such features on the city wall but could not find them. There were 17 generals around him. Rudyaar and Edenyaar did not go to the battlefield in person. He must have handed over their generals to Wals for command.
Count Matthaas did not disclose the names of his ten generals to the public. He only called these generals by unique code names, making them mysterious. These were just his names, not his titles, unlike those of Death Scythe, Cold Wind Knight, etc.
Needless to say, the first person to be taken out is the one using the crossbow, a long-range weapon.
The white giant crossbow has powerful attack power and can quickly kill middle and lower-level non-commissioned officers in long-range combat. This is extremely disadvantageous for commanding and coordinating his own troops. Therefore, Walls plans to send Desevi and Sears to kill the white crossbow.
At the beginning of the battle, Desevi and Sears stood among the ranks of Nord archers, aiming at the white crossbows on the city wall.
Both of them were using longbows, and they looked a good match together. There was a whooshing sound in the air, and it went without saying that it was the sound of the Nord archers starting to shoot. The reputation of the Nord archers was not very loud on the continent, and their combat power was limited. Although they shot a large number of arrows, they were responded with ruthless crossbow arrows from the Rhodok crossbowmen on the city wall.
That's right, the Rhodok Kingdom has the most powerful crossbowmen on the continent, and there is no telling how many Rhodok archers there are on Viruga.
The role of the Nord archers was to cover Desevi and Sears. Their target was the white crossbows on the city wall. The Rhodok crossbowmen had strong long-range combat capabilities, and in the first wave of attack, the careless Nord archers were hit by arrows one after another.
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