262【Broken City】
262【Broken City】
"hiss"
The battle in the air was fierce, with hundreds of magic bats and hippogryphs fighting together.Facing the prepared night elf air power, the demon side initially suffered heavy casualties.
The screams were endless, and every second passed, a large amount of minced meat and corrosive evil blood was poured down, covering the defenders on the ground.
But for the number of magic bats that cover the sky, this casualty is nothing.
One wave is thwarted, and another wave rushes in regardless of casualties.
The high speed brought by long-distance sprinting, coupled with the relatively large body size, each magic bat has an extremely terrifying impact. There is no need to distinguish between friend and foe. It collides with the place where the hippogryphs and magic bats gather. At least he could drag the hippogryphs twice his size to death together.
After the first few confrontations, the aerial battle entered a messy, chaotic, dog-fighting stage.
Although their size is far smaller than that of a mephit, the hippogryphs are even more agile, and they coordinate extremely well with each other. They often attack a mephit in small groups, peck at it with their beaks, and tear them apart with their claws. Tear it apart.
Hiding among the friendly forces, grabbing the fel bomb and preparing to throw it into the city wall, the mephit received the key care of the hippogryph.As a result, most of the bombs fell outside the city wall, and the few that fell towards the city wall were basically shot down by the casters in advance.
For a while, although the air defense line showed a retreating trend as a whole, with the support of long-range ground firepower, it seemed that it would not be broken in a short time.
On the frontal battlefield, the frightening density of long-range firepower was all concentrated at the mouth of the valley, which was no more than ten meters wide.
A dozen human heavy ship-borne artillery on the city wall, an equal number of blade-throwing vehicles, and no less than [-] archers, plus thousands of night elf sentries arrayed behind the city wall and taking turns to shoot, woven together into a A web of death.
The artillery fire roared and the sound of strings continued. Under the alternating blows of spells and siege weapons, the entire valley mouth was filled with smoke, earth and rocks flew everywhere, and nothing could be seen.
Suddenly, a gigantic hellfire, even twice as high as the city wall, broke through the smoke. Even though its body was embedded with cannonballs and giant moon blades, it still walked unknowingly with rumbling and earth-shaking footsteps, as if it was about to conquer the city. The momentum of breaking through the hastily built walls of mankind.
The archers immediately turned around to focus on the giant hellfire, but the weak arrows were unable to cause damage to it at all. They only scratched out sparks on the hard magic stone surface of the giant hellfire.
"Turn the muzzle and fire immediately"
Lorena's hoarse voice was almost completely drowned out by the noisy sounds on the battlefield.Even if the artillerymen can hear it, it is not easy to deflect the multi-ton artillery in an instant.
At the critical moment, a light purple magic missile was like a magic firework that was harmless to humans and animals, dragging a gorgeous tail across a distance of tens of meters, and accurately sank into the chest of Hellfire.
Hellfire still maintained its forward sprinting posture and seemed not to have been harmed at all.
But the next second, this terrifying evil creature suddenly froze. Centered on the hit point, cracks bursting with violet flames appeared on its body.
When cracks crawled all over the body, there was only a "boom" sound, and the giant hellfire dissipated in a violent explosion.
The fragments accelerated by the explosion wave remained intact after penetrating the parapet, and even continued to pierce several soldiers behind who were trying to duck to avoid it.
Even in front of the city wall, the lines of humans, orcs, and tauren suffered considerable losses.
Jaina frowned, her eyes full of annoyance.
"Don't attack their chests. That seems to be their energy core. Once they are fatally injured, they will explode."
She shouts to alert nearby spellcasters.
But when the second giant hellfire broke through the smoke and came closer, no matter what the frightened mages did, due to the limited spell strength, the ice rising from the ground could not restrain an enemy of such a size, including fireball and ice arrows. It is also difficult to cause effective damage to Hellfire's limbs.
Even the Pyroblast technique released by Jaina herself only blew up half of Hellfire's arm.
Thrall, who joined forces with Drek'Thar to summon a lightning storm to block the entrance of the valley, trembled violently with his arms, as if he were bearing a load of tens of thousands of tons. He slowly pressed his arms, and the dense lightning immediately split into half and struck from behind. The burning energy core in Hellfire's chest.
An even more shocking explosion occurred just a few steps away from the city wall, and even the city wall was shaking.Fortunately, Jaina and her mages reacted quickly enough and raised a magic barrier to weaken the impact of the explosion. Otherwise, countless ordinary soldiers would have died.
"We have no choice, only their chests are their weak point," Thrall said loudly, turned his mind, and continued to cast spells with the blind shaman to attack Taniguchi.
Jaina gritted her teeth and nodded slowly.
Under the concentrated fire, the entrance to the second staircase of Mount Hyjal has completely turned into a death zone.Except for the occasional huge giant hellfire that rushes in and is killed by spellcasters who are waiting for work, no demon can get close.
The addition of several two-headed chimeras greatly reduced the pressure on Jaina, Thrall and others.
These natural creatures, which have the strength to compete with epic heroes when they reach adulthood, are extremely powerful. The corrosive liquid they spit out can cause extremely effective damage to Hellfire. A slightly smaller giant Hellfire died in the Chimera Collection. Fire attack.
The mages were freed to support the hippogryph forces in the air.
It seems that the situation on the battlefield has completely stabilized.
The demons are simply unable to break through the human base that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. However, the demon's spell casters and Archimonde should never be so weak.
But not long after this idea came up, Jaina's heart suddenly stopped and she looked into the sky thoughtfully.
A touch of green appeared in the thundercloud summoned by Thrall and Drek'Thar.
"Be careful." Thrall was the first to notice the anomaly. A hellfire meteorite had just passed through the dark clouds, and he loudly warned nearby allies.
As soon as I finished speaking, one, two, ten, a hundred
Countless meteorites fell towards the human base.
"Cover, find cover!" Lorena shouted, taking three steps in a row and leaping towards the bunker reserved on the city wall.
Jaina stared blankly at the meteorites approaching quickly, counted their numbers, and then gave up on the idea of summoning a defensive barrier.
No defensive spell can resist such a density of Hellfire bombardment.
The number of hellfire meteorites, I’m afraid
There are hundreds.
She looked around, gritted her teeth, overdrawn more than half of her mana, and forced herself to weave an unprecedented group teleportation spell, transferring all nearby soldiers, including Thrall and Drek'Thar, to behind the city wall
Except for a few shot down by the casters, the meteorites hit the city wall one after another, falling into the lines of the three tribes guarding the valley entrance in front of the city wall, and into the night elf archers holding bows behind the city wall.
Many mephits and hippogryphs fighting in mid-air were also smashed into pieces indiscriminately.
"Boom"
Explosions continued one after another, the shock wave spread far away, and soldiers were thrown away one after another, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.Those who are unlucky may even be smashed directly into the ground, ending up with a tragic end without any body parts.
The evil flames swept across, the city walls shook, and the buildings collapsed.
This wall, which was a hundred meters long, more than seven meters high, and five meters thick at the bottom, was in pieces.
Dozens of hits broke more than one gap in the city wall, exposing the root vines planted inside by the night elf druids to strengthen the city wall.On the city wall, no matter the forts or the parked blade-throwing vehicles, few escaped the first wave of bombing.
In just half a minute, the impregnable human base became densely covered with craters.
The "meteorites" stretched out and turned into hellfires burning with evil flames, climbing out of them and massacring nearby soldiers without explanation.
One punch can send a dozen soldiers flying, and one charge can send a hundred-man battalion fleeing.In a very short period of time, the coalition front suffered heavy casualties.The human base suddenly fell into chaos. Powder barrels and ammunition depots exploded one after another, and wails and screams came one after another.
When hundreds of hellfires were killing all around, ordinary soldiers, even the most elite night elf sentries, were helpless against the invulnerable hellfires due to the lack of effective means of killing.
The soldiers of the three tribes fighting outside the city wall quickly retreated into the city wall under successive bombings. They were surrounded by the hellfire inside and were unable to retreat safely.
"Drek'Thar, are you okay?"
Thrall, who appeared in the radiance of the teleportation spell, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, trying hard to adapt to the discomfort after passive teleportation, and walked aside to check the blind shaman's injuries.
When he was first teleported, Drek'Thar was the furthest away from Jaina and was also the last one to be teleported away. He inevitably received some explosion damage.All the clothes on the back were burned away, exposing the charred black skin on the back.
Such injuries are not fatal, but for this old orc in his twilight years, they cannot be ignored.
Drek'Thar waved his hand, then pushed Thrall, "I can heal myself and continue fighting. Go quickly."
Thrall looked at the city wall covered with hellfire. The hellfire above was removing the stones with hands and feet, and soon widened the gap.
He said in a deep voice: "We must take back the city wall."
Jaina knelt down on one knee, trying hard not to fall down. She was still feeling dizzy from overdraft of mana. Although she had already half-stepped into the realm of legend, in the end she was not yet a legendary powerhouse.Without the slightest preparation for the teleportation target, hundreds of people were forcibly teleported at once. Even if it was just a short distance teleportation, Jaina almost fainted.
Normally, teleportation on this scale must go through a magic circle.
Not to mention her, even her mentor, Antonidas, who stands at the pinnacle of human mage, would not be easy to do this.
"Aim for those hellfires"
As the world was spinning, Jaina suddenly heard Lorena's voice, and couldn't help but wake up. She saw the artillerymen on the second line of defense behind her, all under command, aiming their artillery at the base where they were entangled with many Theramore soldiers. The hellfires who were fighting together were immediately startled and wanted to stop them.
"Lorena, what are you doing, stop it?"
Lorena, who had blood dripping from her forehead, ignored her, her eyes full of determination, and shouted: "Fire, fire immediately."
Boom, boom, boom
Dozens of ship-based artillery lined up in a row spit out long tongues of fire, like the god of death, harvesting lives in front of them regardless of friend or foe.
After a round of shelling, half of the Hellfires either fell down crookedly, or were beaten to pieces and lost the ability to move.Half of the evil creations that were killing everyone in the base and creating chaos for the coalition forces were suddenly reduced.
There were at least hundreds of Theramore soldiers who could be buried with him.
"Your Highness, we are soldiers, and it is our bounden duty to sacrifice in battle."
As if to respond to Jaina's question, Lorena spoke loudly, then casually wiped the blood from her heroic face, drew her sword, and led the soldiers on the second line of defense to charge.
"Reclaim the Wall"
Judging from the back tightly wrapped in thick plate armor, it was difficult to recognize that Lorena was a woman.
At this time, facing the blood and flames, this sonorous rose that was not inferior to men took an extremely determined step.
Encouraged by the commander, one team and two teams
Whether it was Theramore's elite or the defeated soldiers of Lordaeron who were originally afraid of death and fighting, they all picked up their weapons and fearlessly rushed towards victory or their own death.
Every minute and second of delay, when the density of firepower is not enough to suppress the demons at the entrance of the valley, and when the best terrain is occupied by the demons, the entire battle will inevitably be defeated.
Lorena carries the burden of being the supreme commander on the battlefield.The battle was defeated. When the demons marched straight in and broke through the defenses of Mount Hyjal, how could we talk about the number of casualties?
Sometimes, no matter how heavy the decision is, choosing one of them only takes a moment.
The chaotic situation finally showed signs of control under the measures taken regardless of casualties.
Possible
Without the blockade of long-range firepower, the smoke at Taniguchi gradually cleared.Revealing the army of demons filling the mountains and plains in the distance
Hordes of Felguard, Wrathguard Undead Ghouls, and Stitches swarm the valley, eager to bring destruction to the world.
In a roar that sounded like an order, hundreds of doomsday guards rose into the sky and passed by at low altitude. They did not care about the air power of the two sides fighting in the air. They flapped their huge flesh wings and flew towards the human base, suddenly becoming a shield. sky.The leader is a particularly huge Doom Lord, holding a huge sword burning with red flames.
The footsteps shook the sky and the ground shook.
"crash"
The middle section of the city wall was suddenly broken by something huge, turning into a rain of rocks.Earth, rocks, bricks, and the corpses of soldiers on the city wall were all thrown high and fell into the distance.
An extremely terrifying abyss lord still kept his wings in front of him to protect him. After breaking up the city wall, he faced the human soldiers who vowed to take back the city wall unabated.
A tidal wave of demonic army followed closely behind and poured into the human base.
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