Chapter 216: Attack and Defense of the Stronghold
Although there was a well-trained Grayze Corps blocking in front, Richard's soldiers still broke through it and began to attack the stronghold. As expected, this battle was extremely fierce from the beginning.
Richard's troops attacked Freya's garrison corps head-on in corps units. The number of soldiers in Freya's garrison corps was also more than any place Richard attacked, but they did not take advantage of their own military strength and adopt radical strategies, but instead used chariot warfare to take turns to use energetic soldiers to guard the stronghold.
After breaking through the Grayze Corps, Freya, who had been releasing divine power, disappeared again. Richard rode Onyxia to search for her traces in the sky to prevent her from finding an opportunity to seduce his large-scale corps again.
On the ground, Primathis was directing the soldiers to fight: "Keep moving! Don't let the archers aim at you!" After
the close combat between the two sides, Primathis was surprised to find that the arrows used by the ordinary archers of the garrison were the same as the arrows used by Freya's charm arrows. He didn't know whether this was for the purpose of confusion or if they were really charm arrows. Regardless of whether it was true or not, Primathis asked the soldiers to keep moving as much as possible and not be shot.
But in the midst of a tough battle, it was so difficult to keep moving all the time. Suddenly, a rain of arrows fell from the sky, shooting at Super Richard's army. The vanguard tried their best to dodge, but many soldiers were still hit by arrows, and it turned out that these arrows all had a charm effect. Some arrows failed to penetrate the soldiers' armor due to the angle and force, while some arrows were so sharp that the soldiers' eyes went black and they turned into enemy soldiers in a few seconds. Some soldiers who reacted quickly immediately knocked out their charmed companions, while those who reacted slowly were knocked down by their companions who turned into enemies. After these companions who turned into enemies remembered their teammates, they immediately stood in front of the Fluke soldiers and fought against Richard's army. Fluke soldiers took this opportunity to launch a counterattack, and Richard's vanguard was forced to retreat down the hillside.
"Oh! These hateful demons have become our companions in the blink of an eye, fighting with us. Lady Freya is so amazing!"
"Good! We've repelled them! If they dare to come up again, we'll let them have a taste of our power!"
Before Freya's soldiers could breathe a sigh of relief, a commotion broke out in the ranks. The soldiers who had just switched sides suddenly swung their swords at them. Before they could react, the vanguard troops who had just retreated rushed up again. The defense line suddenly became precarious. The commander of the stronghold immediately assigned the reserve troops to come forward to put out the fire and barely maintain the situation.
Primatis at the bottom of the slope smiled. It seemed that this potion was still valuable. Although the soldiers who were shot would still be charmed, the time of being charmed had been greatly shortened.
Before the general attack, Primathis took out the medicine he had developed to fight against Freya's charm and gave it to every vanguard soldier. Now it really achieved unexpected results. It seems that he can order the alchemists to prepare the medicine with more confidence. He should thank the goddess Thor for being able to refine these medicines. Without her divine power, the effect of this medicine would be much lower. As for Thor himself, he is still being held somewhere in Richard's field base. There are several tentacles left by Richard. The tentacles are entangled with special devices. The special devices store divine power. Primathis's most trusted female alchemist is responsible for transferring divine power for the alchemists and apprentices to refine medicines.
Freya's charm arrows did not work as expected. Fluke's army did not dare to trust the charmed soldiers and did not dare to let them get close to them. This gave the frustrated troops space and time. Primadis took this opportunity to order the soldiers to put the greatest pressure on them.
Primadis's face was very cold. Manipulating people's consciousness was indeed an effective means, but it was a big mistake to rely on this technology to decide the situation, because manipulation always had hidden dangers. It was unknown when accidents would occur, not to mention controlling the enemy...
Richard, who was observing in the sky, nodded in approval. The battle below had been proceeding according to the established trajectory, but Freya had not been seen so far. Now that the charm arrows were not as effective as before, what would Freya do? Why hasn't he appeared yet? Richard decided to put more pressure on him. Tentacles waved a red flag, and the dragons following Onyxia rushed past, spraying dragon breath bombs of various attributes at the Fluke base on the ground.
Fluke's soldiers outside the base saw the air raid and hid in the tunnels that had been dug long ago. These tunnels were specially dug to prevent dragons. They were narrow and deep. The damage caused by dragon breath was not high, but it was enough to disgust people. The deep pit was easy to enter but difficult to exit. One could only climb up from a specific passage. Richard's soldiers could advance forward with the power of artillery fire. Some of the larger ones even carried baskets of soil to fill in the deep pits with people.
Richard waited in the sky for a while, but Freya still didn't show up. Richard shook his head and ordered Onyxia to fly towards the capital of Fluke. Freya would definitely not ignore the capital even if she ignored the troops.
I don't know if Richard's thinking was correct or Freya had originally planned to do so. Not long after flying, many small black dots appeared in the gradually darkening sky. Richard and Onyxia were ready for battle. When the black dots got closer, Richard found that they were the martyrs! These martyrs were tied to paragliders. It was unknown where they flew down from. Everyone had a crossbow in their hands. After entering the range, they shot arrows one after another. Richard twisted his body on Onyxia's back. Onyxia did not dodge or avoid and directly launched a counterattack. The fireballs she shot directly burned several martyrs into ashes. The other martyrs were not afraid at all. They took advantage of the speed of the paraglider and jumped onto Onyxia's back, then took out a dagger to attack Richard. Richard jumped high and fought with the martyrs. Compared with the martyrs' hiding ability, their fighting ability was really insignificant. Richard defeated the martyrs easily. However, before he turned around, a beam of golden light pierced Richard's body. This was Freya's attack. The huge impact took him down. Onyxia quickly flew down and grabbed Richard with her hind claws. The remaining martyrs controlled the paragliders and kept harassing Onyxia. The angry Onyxia roared and flapped her wings vigorously, disturbing the air flow and blowing away the annoying flies. However, at this time, a golden light came over...