Chapter three hundred and eighty fifth: defending the city
Baron Leon was very scared. He didn't think that Marquis Asra was lying, because it would be very easy for the other party to seize command and could do it without having foreign enemies.
A distance of dozens of miles, the undead army can reach it in just two hours.
Who would tell a lie that can reveal it in two hours?
"Marquis, I have no experience. Come and command the army!" Baron Leon immediately wanted to hand over the military power.
"No, you will give the order, I will always be with you."
Baron Leon originally wanted to refuse, but Xia He said again: "As the commander, I will protect your safety."
"Yes, thank you, Lord Marquis." Leon quickly changed his words.
He is just a level 19 magician with good qualifications. The family’s expectation for him is to try to become an epic mage, live for two or three hundred years, and enhance the family’s status.
However, for him, the Great Magician was a hurdle. He had been in this realm for more than two years. He was already thirty-five years old. If he didn't advance to the master realm, there would definitely be no hope for epics.
If you die, your family's previous investment will be wasted, and your children will no longer have any resources beyond normal support.
Xiahedao: "Can there be bunkers and other things in the city?"
"Yes, the rebels built it before and originally wanted to resist stubbornly."
"Women, the elderly and the children were sent to the bunker. They organized women to be responsible for cooking and boiling water for soldiers. They organized a second line of defense near the bunker."
"Sir, it's too late to enter now. Moreover, there are not many elderly people in Baiyan City. Why don't we let the women take their children to slowly transfer, let the young and strong men take their weapons to the city to defend, and to withstand the undead attack first?"
Xiahedao: "Does Baiyan City have large-scale equipment?"
"A medium-sized airship, a small airship, has a magic cannon, but something went wrong and could only shoot four times an hour. There are only more than 200 magic guns newly invented by the Empire, most of which are in the hands of magicians. There are not many puppets and other things, so it is better to throw them to guard the bunker."
Xia He felt that Baron Leon was not a fool and spoke in a well-organized manner, so he said, "The city wall is only ten meters high and cannot stop the undead for a long time. The city defense of Baiyan City is too poor."
"The bunker is in the old city. The old city has been renovated by the rebels. It is less than 500 meters long and wide. We just need to block it outside and let someone retreat into the old city first. How about it?" Leon was very active. Fighting does not necessarily require many enemies to be killed. If he could save ordinary people from Baiyan City, it would be a great achievement.
If the enemy is a rebel, there is no such benefit. When facing the undead, the calculation methods of military achievements are different.
How many people have you saved is to avoid the common people becoming dead.
"Go immediately and take the magician and the people with magic guns to the east wall. By the way, are you sufficient magical ammunition?"
"It can last for a long time, but we don't have an alchemy factory. After this thing is consumed, it will be useless."
Xia He felt satisfied. Baron Leon didn't think about running away, he was just a good person.
"That's good. I'll send someone to ask for help from the nearby legion. There are more than 100,000 civilians in Baiyan City. The legion will not give up just like that. If we support it for a day or two, things will pass."
Baron Leon thought to himself that he hoped that would be the case. Seeing the Marquis bringing people to the east wall, he immediately urged his subordinates to do things separately. Because it was late at night, he had to release the alarm from the whole city, and then sent people to inform him from the door to the old city, and an army of undead appeared.
On the side of Xiahe, he asked nervously: "Abigail, is the undead here?"
"It's fifty miles away, it's already very close, the speed has slowed down, but the direction has not changed."
The speed decreases, and the vanguard will always be faster when the army behind them. However, the undead will never use the vanguard to attack human cities.
If I had faced the countryside without aristocratic castles, the undead would have accelerated.
"What weapons do medium-sized airships have?"
"No, there are only two miniature magic cannons, which are used for defense when flying. Small airships don't even have this one. Originally, this is an old model for transporting heavy infantry, and they can't even carry a mount." Baron Leon quickly answered.
Xia He thought for a while and said, "Let the small magic airship take off. I have flash dust that can be thrown here. It can be used after bottled. Let's stop the army of undead first."
"I'll take people there." Abigail took the initiative to ask for his order. She was afraid that there would be some flying undead, so if the airship was to throw weapons with his hands, it would only fly two or three hundred meters high.
Xia He nodded and distributed his flash dust to ten divine weapons. These flash dust were originally used to fill bullets, but Woods Fortress was later defended, and a large number of weapons to deal with the undead were not used up. Xia He loaded a lot of them on him.
As for containers such as glass bottles, it doesn't matter. This kind of dust can be sprayed out as long as the container cracks.
In Baiyan City, there are many abandoned bottles, which are used by adventurers to drink water, and are piled up like mountains. The magician went to the garbage dump to collect thousands of them, filling them with soil, leaving some space for flashing dust. Xia He asked the magic weapon to go on the airship to fill it up, and he brought the Iron Cavalry of Doom and the Ninety Soldiers from the Academy, standing at the top of the city and waiting patiently.
He arranged for lecturers from four colleges to go to the old city area to check the environment and draw temporary maps.
What does the bunker look like? Xia He not only sent the four of them to see, but also let the little devil go out.
Although Baron Leon was afraid of death, he felt safe with Marquis Asra. He insisted on standing on the top of the city. If he knew that Xia He would lead every time he fought, he would probably be so scared that he would pee.
When the undead appeared in the distance, white light was neatly shot out from the twenty magic pillars arranged by Xia He, covering the earth in the distance. This white light would only make the undead feel uncomfortable. It was so dispersed that it had no lethality.
A dozen miles away, the small airship was suspended at a height of 300 meters. Abigail commanded the magical weapon and slowly threw flash dust down. The porcelain bottle fell to the ground, cracked, and flash dust sprayed out, instantly emitting dazzling light. The nearby undead suddenly wailed.
However, there are no undead, and the undead spell casters on the ground have a casting height of about a hundred meters, so they can only watch the airship throw things down.
Fortunately, the flash dust is not fatal to the higher undead.
The undead army was a little confused, so slow down and adjust its formation, and try to use the undead archers and spellcasters to stop the porcelain bottles from falling to the ground.
Abigail secretly took out a gold coin and shot it downwards. The gold coin accurately penetrated the sky spirit cover of a corpse witch, and the corpse witch was killed instantly.
Abigail secretly stuck out his tongue. The magic technique is still easy to use here. As long as it can be used, don't be useless when you run away, it will be embarrassing. After she came over, she was cautious and did not test until she was in the place where the undead army was infested. There were monsters around her who came from Storm Corner.
The small airship was pushed down by Abigail by a hundred meters, trying to confuse the breath of the undead.
Then Abigail took out some silver coins to attack the casters in the undead. She was also stingy and couldn't bear to use the gold coins. She felt that the silver coins were OK, so she popped up silver lights with her fingers.
However, the undead was endless, and the airship was just creating chaos, and Abigail dared not go too far.
Xia He watched the undead striker approaching at the top of the city, as if he was about to come to the city to test, so he ordered his subordinates to raise their guns. Many of these undead were skeleton soldiers, which was much worse than the legion that attacked Woods Fortress. The undead in that army, even the skeletons, were huge in shape, unlike these sick people.
"It is best to aim at targets above level 5, or at level 10." Xia He didn't want to say much, magic bullets were not cheap either.
However, the undead forward stopped at a position of five hundred meters.
There is a commander. Although the soldier's magic gun can attack a distance of 500 meters, it usually starts to adjust the shooting posture for 400 meters, increase the shooting rate by 300 meters, and shoot accurately for 200 meters. At the position of 500 meters, there are too many unknown factors, and a breeze is enough to prevent the magic bullet from hitting the vital points of the undead.
Magic muskets are different from technological weapons. They rely on powerful power and precise shooting to win. Scientific and technological weapons are cheap, and a bullet may not be worth a copper coin.
"Magic, accurate shooting." Xia He ordered his own people.
Twenty auxiliary mages listened to Xia He's order and began to look for the target. The undead stopped and aimed more easily. A magician took the lead and heard a loud bang, and a high-level zombie was blasted into his face.
"The wind speed is ignored, and the magic bullets are floating upwards. Please make sure to correct them. I am aiming at my neck."
Twenty magic guns began to roar continuously, and among the undead in the front row, there were only a few more than thirty, and they were all cleared in less than two rounds of shooting. The magician began to look for the targets in the back row.
Some sword shield skeletons raised their shields to try to resist the attack, but the magician's guns were much more powerful than soldiers. The low-level bone shield could explode with just two shots.
Baron Leon looked at it for a while and thought to himself that no wonder Woods Fortress was defended. It is said that the sea of undead appeared at the beginning, which was even more terrifying than the natural disaster of undead. There were countless advanced undeads, but in the end, they failed to get a single fortress.
Soldiers kept coming to the top of the city to report that the people in the city were retreating very quickly. In fact, there were less than 100,000 people here, and many people left Baiyan City. The last anti-rebellion war caused Baiyan City to lose a lot of young and strong people, and before that, there were even a deceased.
There are more than 120,000 people on the level, but in fact there is less than half of the population.
Leon said to Xia He, and Xia He listened carefully.
Chapter completed!