Chapter 857

War is never changed by individual will.

The fundamental thing that can really determine the behavior of war is interest.

Only when the interests reach a sufficient height, then the war that follows is a natural thing. Perhaps some unnecessary troubles can be solved through diplomatic means, but Sean's enemies obviously do not intend to use diplomatic means to solve these troubles, so it is obvious that there are great interests in the void duchy that his enemies do not hesitate to start a war.

Of course, judging from the fact that the enemy is only a small-scale invasion and infiltration, it is clear that the other party does not really want to start a war.

Probably just not sure.

William was still wondering what the enemy's goal was, but he thought for a long time, but still didn't get any answer, so his eyes could only fall back to the small town that had been transformed into a military defense stronghold.

A small-scale conflict war, even if it is close to attacking a city and pulling out a stronghold, will not take much time. The war can be ended in one day and one night at most. The only thing William needs to guard against is that these enemies will flee in the dark, and their destructive power may bring long-term trouble to the void duchy. Therefore, after allowing the steel wings to attack, William also mobilized the surrounding local garrison to form a huge siege network to prevent these enemies from dispersing and fleeing.

At this time, the battle has started for several hours, but the progress is not very optimistic. On the contrary, the casualties have become a little heavy.

As everyone knows, the real way to deal with this narrow regional defensive war, which makes full use of all available places, is either a comprehensive siege or a fight for every inch of land. The iron and steel wings, which used the fighting method of fighting for every inch of land, naturally faced a great threat of death. In these few hours, the iron and steel wings had left more than 500 bodies, of which hundreds were injured and lost the ability to fight again, and as for others with minor injuries, there were as many as 300 or 400.

As their enemy, this mysterious elite army of unknown origin, although many people were killed, it was only three or four hundred. And in this process as like as two peas of war, William is also a bit shocked by the army's response to the army's army, because the nature of the army is exactly the same as that of the Cecilia guards, as if death were a very holy thing for them.

The slightly wounded will immediately return to the battlefield after being slightly bandaged. On the premise of knowing that it is impossible for the seriously injured to survive, they will immediately burst out fierce and fearless of death. It seems that they want to kill another enemy together. Under this completely suicidal counterattack, it is natural to imagine how difficult it is for steel wings to completely open the situation.

This almost reached a war damage ratio of one to two. Since the establishment of steel wing for so long, it only appeared once during the war with dabion.

William's brow was almost straight.

This war also made William finally find another disadvantage of the impact shield.

Although the impact shield is an artifact level killing weapon when dealing with cavalry in wartime, it can't be lifted with one arm because of the abnormal weight of the impact shield in the face of the enemy's condescending attack. In this way, the value of the impact shield is completely powerless in the face of the enemy's projectile attack, which is also the fundamental reason for the heavy loss of steel wings.

Perhaps orcs such as Tauren and bear can easily lift the impact shield weighing hundreds of kilograms, but it is obviously impossible for the northern barbarians.

So, when another wave of arrow rain fell, more than ten northern barbarians fell on the spot.

However, the fall of these northern barbarians does not mean that they have done nothing.

The throwing of short guns also killed more than a dozen archers who had to show their heads for the same attack. Even if they are hiding behind the bunker, the strength and quality of these short guns trained by the barbarians in the north for a long time can't stop the puncture attack of these short guns as long as they are not Tower Shield.

After fighting for so long, the steel wings are not as unbearable as they first rushed into the town. In this battle, they are also learning and growing rapidly. Maybe the impact shield can't make them deal with the attacks standing on the roof, tower and sentry, but their counterattack is no longer weak. If they want to kill them, they must pay the same price.

All these are the changes brought by anno and Abaza.

If it were not for the thoughtful and sharp Abaza, it would not be so easy to give a counterattack to these enemies who occupy the geographical advantage and human harmony. Of course, if it were not for the presence of an Nuo, a commander with steel wings, who suffered a tragic number of nearly 100 deaths at the first time when he invaded the town, I'm afraid his morale would also be underestimated.

It can be said that these two people are the soul and mind of the whole steel wing.

But even so, it is still not easy to wipe out the enemy.

The town gate of the town extends within 100 meters. All buildings have been demolished. Only countless bodies belonging to the enemy - bodies from the steel wing side - lie on the ground. No matter what the battle situation is, when Abaza orders to retreat, people will always take the bodies and the impact shield away at the first time. This is the death order issued by William before the war, so even if more casualties of northern barbarians may be paid for this, Abaza and anno still carry out it without hesitation.

Because of the fierce war, the dense corpses of the enemy were almost spread on the ground, and the flowing blood dyed the whole ground red. When you step on it, you can feel a very strong sense of viscosity. However, no matter how uncomfortable it is, the steel wing is still fearless to launch another round of attack, but because the entrance of the town is too small. Even if it destroys a lot of town walls during the attack, only hundreds of people can really enter the town to launch an attack.

But these hundreds of people are facing the siege from almost all the surrounding spaces.

If the impact shield is not strong enough, it is almost impossible for a strong attack from the front to break through the steel wings sheltered by the impact shield. I'm afraid the casualties of the steel wings will be greater. At this time, the war situation was obviously in a short stalemate. But whether it is steel wing or William, or this mysterious enemy, everyone knows that this stalemate will not last long, and a new round of death battle will soon break out.

And whenever such a deadly war breaks out, it will cause a new round of impact on both sides.

Since the war, the two sides have officially entered the white hot war situation from the beginning, and a round of dead war will break out after each brief stalemate. The reason why the two sides left so many bodies is that there have been two rounds of dead fighting - which has become the practice of tacit understanding between the two sides in this battle.

So at this time, this round of arrows and short guns attacked each other. After each side left more than ten lives, both sides had a tacit understanding and did not continue to throw short guns or shoot arrows again. A roar of footsteps from afar seemed to confirm the tacit understanding between the two sides. A new force was entering the battlefield. At this time, a horn sounded outside the town. The steel wings already in the town also began to retreat orderly, and a new batch of steel wings began to enter slowly at this time.

However, this batch of new steel wings is not much different from the previous number, and still has a scale of nearly 200 people.

It's not that William doesn't want to put all 4000 steel wings in one breath, but this difficult battlefield can't accommodate so many people.

As for opening up a new entry point to attack with the potential of double attack, William didn't even think about it.

The reason is simple.

The whole town has been completely rebuilt, and even many outposts that did not exist originally have been added. The enemy stood on it and attacked from a commanding position. If you want to deal with these sentry towers, you can only kill them by force and push them down completely. So just by opening up such a vacuum zone within 200 meters at the gate of the town, the steel wing will pay the casualty standard of nearly 1000 people. If another battlefield is opened up, I'm afraid it will also be thousands of casualties.

With only 4000 steel wings and opening up two battlefields at the same time, the military strength will be reduced by half. However, the death threat they face will not be reduced because of the two battlefields, because the tactics of the multi-layer defense array structure have many battlefield environments that completely overlap. Therefore, unless we can surround the whole town and launch a comprehensive attack, the more battlefields we open up, the greater the casualties on the attacking side.

At this time, William frowned when he heard the sound of the horn in the temporary command post about 100 meters outside the town.

"What's the matter?" Rotica bass saw William frown and asked, "is there anything wrong?"

At this time, there are several scars on roticabas, although not fatal, but it looks quite embarrassed, and it also has a little impact on the exertion of strength. At the beginning, he participated in a round of battle. In fact, if it weren't for him, the war wouldn't be opened so soon. However, he was also taken care of by the enemy at that time. Even three strong gold men cooperated with the battle array to attack rotikabas. As a result, although all three strong gold men were killed, But rotikabas also had to withdraw from the war for a rest.

"The other party and we have spent several hours here. Even if I don't want to admit it, they still have the upper hand." William didn't look back, but still stared at the town. "At this time, they still have a residual force of nearly 1500 people. Although we all know that in the end, once the other party's arrows run out, it's not a problem for us to annihilate them all, but according to my assessment, they can last for at least another four hours."

"What do you mean?" Rotikabas doesn't quite understand.

"It means that they can last at least another four hours, and the only thing I can do during this period is to fight each other's consumption with human life. They will not start the final decisive battle with us until all the other party's strategic materials are used up." William said in a deep voice, "in this situation of fighting and consumption, I estimate that at least one or two thousand more people have to die, but now the other party has directly launched a decisive battle, which is very unreasonable."

"Isn't it a good thing that one or two thousand people can die less?" Rotikabas couldn't help saying.

"The other party has spent so long with us, and the casualties caused to us are obvious to all. All this proves that the other party's commander is obviously a very calm and excellent general." William finally looked back at Rorty cabas this time, but his eyes were unusually cold, "so do you think such a good general will make mistakes at this critical moment? You know, once you really fight with steel wings without taking advantage of the geographical advantages of this town, the other party does not have any advantages. You can say... The other party is looking for death! "

"You mean... Things have changed?"

"Unless the other party has reached the strategic goal they want, so..." a glimmer of light flashed in William's eyes. "This is destroying the evidence. Of course, another possibility is that the other party has prepared a conspiracy that can cause us more casualties. "

Rotikabas's face became gloomy and said in a deep voice after a moment: "hum, no matter what conspiracy the other party has, as long as it is not in that small town, the other party has no advantage of defensive formation I'll kill them like chopping melons and vegetables! Let me continue to fight! "

William pondered a little, then nodded and agreed, "then be careful!"

"Good!" Rorty cabas smiled, then raised the heavy gun and rushed up.

The distance of 100 meters is just a breath or two for strong people such as Rorty cabas. But when he arrived at the door of the town, he saw the two sides who had completely started fighting.

In front of the scene, it seems that as predicted by William, the other party no longer launched a death battle like the previous two rounds, but launched a final charge as if to determine the outcome of the first war. The hateful steel wing was unprepared for a moment. Instead, it was bitten by the other party who had already been prepared and slowly withdrew from the town. As a result, in this case, it was taken by surprise and directly left hundreds of bodies.

The enemy's attack did not stop there.

Hundreds of people in front are still risking their lives to launch an assault, regardless of whether they can break the impact shield of the array. The only thing they know is to rush forward desperately, and then smash the weapons in their hands into the body of the northern barbarians. At this moment, the battlefield is completely chaotic, and there is no fighting situation as an elite soldier.

The archers behind the enemy, regardless of whether there were their own people in the enemy array, all of them did not hesitate to throw their bows and arrows round after round into the iron wing camp. Perhaps it is because it lacks the advantage of shooting arrows from a commanding position. For the rough and fleshy northern barbarians, it is difficult to shoot with one arrow directly, because the threat is naturally much smaller.

However, the amount of a little makes a lot can still not be ignored.

Under this impact, the town gate of the town soon fell into chaos: the steel wing can not be as unreasonable as the enemy, and even in the face of its own people can attack without hesitation. Therefore, the attack method of short gun throwing naturally seems meaningless - short gun throwing is no better than bow and arrow. Even if it is thrown by throwing, the foot point will not be too far. In the end, it is very likely to hurt your own people.

It is precisely because of the taboo, so in this obviously win-win situation, it is steel wings that suffer heavy losses and even faint signs of collapse.

When rotikabas arrived, what he saw was that the steel wings were about to fail to resist the impact of the enemy, and there were faint signs of collapse in the front line.

Without the slightest hesitation, rotikabas immediately roared and directly expanded his power as a strong man in the field, then rose in the air, swept directly into the town and fell into the rear of the enemy. He fell in like a shell, and a strong impact burst out from him, directly shaking dozens of enemy troops within the range of his landing point.

Then his knight's gun swung suddenly, and the whole man turned into Shura and launched a massacre behind the enemy.

Seeing Rorty cabas, a powerful man in the holy land, raised his long gun for the first time. This time, he simply gave up his impact shield, and then shot into the body of an enemy standing in front of him. After a roar, he began to rush forward with strong brute force. The long gun immediately penetrated the enemy's body, and then penetrated into the second and third people's bodies. After the three people were strung into sugar gourd, they still couldn't stop Ann Nuo's charge. They were hit back, causing confusion in the enemy's formation.

"Steel wings! Let's fight with the patriarch! " Abaza, who has been standing side by side with anno, saw that anno broke away from the formation and rushed out, just like Alfred's habitual way of fighting. Even if Abaza roared, he also abandoned the impact shield, rushed out behind anno with a long gun and assassinated several enemies trying to sneak into anno for anno.

As the soul and mind of this legion of steel wings, when both anno and Abaza launched an assault fearlessly, all steel wings gave up the impact shield without hesitation and rushed up with a long gun. The strength of the barbarians in the north can fight on the battlefield with the impact shield. Now, after abandoning the impact shield, their powerful power belonging to the barbarians has been fully demonstrated.

Such a crazy army also launched a counterattack in a fierce and fearless manner, which seemed completely unexpected to the enemy.

So for a time, instead, the enemy was completely in chaos.

In a split second, in this kind of war situation, which can be said to have formed a front and back attack, even if it was a desperate decisive battle, if you wanted to win or lose the enemy in the first battle, naturally you couldn't get any benefit. Therefore, the formation was quickly completely cut. In addition, the terrain in the town was not very abundant. Such a crowded street battle situation occupied an advantage for the northern barbarians who left their impact shields and long guns and began to fight with their bare hands.

Therefore, the situation soon began to produce subversive development.

When rotikabas and anno, Abaza and others completed the confluence, the mysterious enemy occupying the town had begun to evolve into a great defeat. However, even if they knew that the general situation was over, the enemy from unknown origin did not even have the idea of surrender. They were still fighting back with their lives. As long as they didn't really kill them completely, they would try their best to fight back. Therefore, Abaza simply ordered that no one be left alive.

The last fight lasted for a whole afternoon until night began to fall.

The whole town was full of corpses, piled up in a dense pile, many of which could not even tell which side they belonged to. It can be said that the whole town was completely submerged by the sea of corpses, just like a picture of human purgatory. In this suicidal fight, the steel wing naturally pays the cost of hundreds of casualties again, which is still dominated by rotikabas, a powerful man in the holy land.

Otherwise, even if the enemy is hot headed and makes such a battle that is meaningless and advantageous to himself, the steel wing will have to pay the price of thousands of people at least before it is possible to wipe out all the enemy.

But even so, there were only more than 2000 of the 4000 steel wings brought by William, and the number of casualties exceeded 1500. Even if they survived, hundreds of them completely lost their ability to fight again, and thousands of others were seriously and slightly injured. It can be said that in this battle, the steel wings brought by William can not be regarded as a complete victory, but only a tragic victory.

This is the third battle with such huge casualties since the establishment of steel wing.

But until now, William still doesn't know the real purpose of the war. He was still wondering why the enemy commander, who had not made any mistakes since the beginning of the war, would make such a completely idiotic move at this final stage? As long as the other side continues to stick to it for more than four hours, William is sure that the steel wing force that can eventually survive is absolutely less than 500.

But the other side did not choose this fight to the end, but ended this completely unpredictable war with a suicidal charge.

William was very confused.

So after the war, he immediately ordered a thorough investigation into whether the town was hidden, and even himself went deep into it to participate in the investigation.

But the result is still nothing.

He rubbed his tired eyebrows. William knew that he would never know the answer. However, he was even more annoyed because he couldn't know the answer and result. He was put forward so inexplicably. It's conceivable how much anger William's heart was. He had decided that he would find out exactly who was targeting the void principality and what the purpose of the war was anyway.

Because according to the information from the rear, the strange tactics that William regarded as a foreshadowing did not appear, and everything was so calm that he felt incredible.

"Pick out your own body and send it back for burial." Glancing at the environment of the whole town again, William looked tired and said, "as for the town, just burn it directly. There's no need to leave anything."

"Yes." A dark winged soldier in charge of William's Herald nodded, then turned and left quickly.

"Let's go, too." With a helpless sigh, William also turned away and walked towards the door of the town.

But when William came to the area where the final death battle broke out in the afternoon, several fallen bodies were suddenly lifted. Several figures hiding under the bodies immediately burst out a terrible force, and then attacked William!

"Protect adults!" Three dark winged soldiers beside William shouted immediately.

But there are only three of them, but there are five of them!

And the strength of each of these five people at this time is a real golden realm!

Five shadow assassins in the golden realm!

At this moment, Willington understood all the conspiracies of the enemy!

Sneaking into void County secretly, William thought the enemy's goal was void city at the beginning, but with their strength, how could they attack the city? Therefore, their targets are military research institutes and military workshops. For a long time, William thought that was the main goal of the other party, but now he finally realized that those two places were the enemy's goals, but they were only the second goal to follow the trend.

It doesn't matter to them whether they can succeed or not.

The real goal is William!

In this way, it can explain why the strange soldier William was deeply wary of did not appear?

Because the strange soldier prepared by the other party is not a strange soldier attacking the city and plundering the stronghold, but the five shadow assassins in front of him!

Their goal is themselves!

As for the suicidal showdown that seems to be made by the enemy commander with a hot head, it has finally been proved at this moment that it is not a hot head, but the other party's premeditated means to provide an excellent hiding place for the five shadow assassins! As for why it is the strong in the golden realm rather than the strong in the holy land, the reason is even simpler, because no matter how the breath of the strong in the holy land is hidden, as long as there is a slight change, it will be captured by other strong in the holy land.

And if he knew that the enemy had a strong saint, would William walk around the battlefield with only a few guards?

The answer is obvious.

At this moment, William thought through the enemy's actions.

However, even if you have a thorough understanding, what can you do?

Even at the moment when these shadow assassins moved, a large number of soldiers came around, and even rotikabas rose up and flew over at the first time. But William still can only watch these shadow assassins easily kill their guards, break through the defense circle, and then get closer and closer to himself!

There was never a moment when William felt that death was so close to him.

But in the face of this death, William was surprisingly not afraid or afraid, but became extremely calm. He knows that today's void principality is too strong for the outside world: whether it is a famous general, or the strength of the Legion, or the strong class, it has far exceeded the inside information and level of a principality, which has reached the level of a kingdom.

And the Kingdom, even if it is only a third rate Kingdom, that is, the kingdom.

Therefore, there are absolutely no few people who want him to die. Because as long as he dies, the void principality will fall into short-term chaos because of the loss of famous generals, and at least the military system that has not been easily established will surely collapse. Once in this dilemma, the void principality will soon reveal its flaws. It is not surprising that there will even be division and civil strife at that time.

It's just that these are the enemy's guesses.

Facing the attack of death, William smiled and smiled very calmly: "a group of waste, who knows that even if I die, the growth of emptiness will not stop."

"Protect Lord William!" The guards roared one after another.