Water, the element with the lowest attack power, had become a nightmare for the barbarians. The clumsy barbarians couldn't swim at all, nor did they know how to lighten their bodies. Wearing heavy armor, they sank to the bottom and couldn't breathe. This wasn't a problem that could be solved by eating recovery pills. What awaited them was only death. The terrain between Will City and Lan Ling Highlands was low. The flood directly submerged a large piece of land outside the city. The barbarians who couldn't evacuate in time all became water ghosts. The main force attacking the city suffered another large loss. This was undoubtedly another blow to the head after the bean tactic. The blow was so heavy that the Northwest Alliance Army wanted to go crazy. They originally thought that they could easily take down the city, but now it was extremely troublesome. All the generals were a little disappointed by the opponent's wretched tactics. It was beans, rolling stones, burning, and flooding again. What would happen next?
If it was a direct confrontation, even if they had more casualties, they wouldn't be as useless as they were now. The other side didn't lose a single soldier, but a large number of barbarians were summoned by the Lord. Will City, which was as docile as a lamb, suddenly turned into a vicious wolf. In the current situation, it was unknown who would emerge victorious.
And the initiator of all this, Reynolds, was lying tiredly in the tent. He couldn't stop yawning, but he warned himself not to fall asleep.
After this series of commands, no matter how strong Reynolds' spiritual power was, after a few days and nights without sleep, he couldn't hold on any longer.
Hearing someone knock on the door, he answered in a daze and saw Avina hurriedly walk in.
Reynolds said in a daze, "Linger, come and lie with me for a while. I'm about to die from exhaustion."
Avina choked and rolled her eyes. "Commander Reynolds, please meet Battalion Commander Shijun. There's something important to report!"
Hearing Avina's voice, Reynolds crawled up and touched his nose awkwardly. He asked, "What's the matter? Tell me quickly."
Avina didn't know if it was out of helplessness or something else. She said, "Come with me and you'll know."
…
When Reynolds stood on the wall, he found that the flood below the city had subsided a lot. He then saw the soldiers of the Alliance Army digging canals to divert water. If the city was always flooded like this, their attack wouldn't have been launched.
Reynolds laughed and said, "These guys have some tricks up their sleeves. They even learned from Yu the Great!"
Although Avina did not know who Da Yu was, she still said angrily, "You're still laughing! Although you've dealt a heavy blow to their knights and barbarians, it's said that the enemy has a large number of earth mages, at least a thousand of them. Even though we drowned a large number of Barbarians and greatly delayed the siege, with such a large number of Earth Mages, it would only take a day for them to work together and use the "Earth Manipulation Spell" to control the earth and rocks below the city walls and build a small slope that could reach the top of the city walls. By then, we would be in trouble.
Vashlaki nodded. "Not bad indeed. I didn't expect them to have so many earth Mages. This is going to be troublesome. Commander Reynold, do you have any suggestions?"
Reynolds said unconcernedly, "Then why don't we just get rid of them?"
Vashlaki smiled awkwardly and said nothing.
Avina rolled her eyes at him. "Commander Reynold, it's easy for you to say. Everyone knows the importance of mages. They have the knights and a group of barrier masters to protect them. Also, they can cast spells from afar from sixty to seventy meters away. Even our archers wouldn't be able to do anything to them at such a distance. Knights and Boundary Masters would be able to nullify almost all of their attacks, unless it was close combat. But we wouldn't do something so stupid, right? " If the same element was used as the medium, many mages would be able to cast spells from afar, and the Earth Mages were undoubtedly the most convenient.
Reynold said casually, "Sixty to seventy meters? No problem. Adviser Avina, Adviser Vashlaki, just wait for a good show. Leave these people to me. Tell the archers to be ready. They'll have a chance at any time. "
Avina and Vashlaki were a bit confused by Reynold's confidence. Although they did not know what Reynold had in mind, they were relieved. Avina knew that Reynold's Storm Kill was very powerful, but it was impossible for it to kill thousands of mages. Even if Randolph came in person, it would take him a lot of effort to kill thousands of mages in one go. Reynold's Storm Kill was just a half-baked skill.
Just as Avina and Vashlaki guessed, after the water was drained, the earth mages under the protection of the knights and the barrier masters started casting spells from sixty to seventy meters away. At first, there were only six hundred of them, but soon, there were eight hundred of them. Due to the strange tactics of the other side, many unexpected incidents had occurred, causing the progress of the siege to be much slower than expected. The Northwestern Alliance Army felt the urgency of the situation and could not wait any longer. Moreover, they could not think of any other dangers that could come their way.
However, an unexpected danger was no longer a danger. Just when the number of magicians reached eight hundred, a sudden change occurred. It wasn't the threat of the enemy's archers, nor was it the fire, rolling rocks, or flooding. These tactics were now useless.
The explosion happened almost without any warning, and it was a series of explosions. Sixty to seventy meters away from the city wall, it was right under the feet of the magicians. Although the knights and boundary masters with strong defensive abilities suffered light injuries, the weak bodies of the magicians could not withstand such a heavy blow. They were blown up into the sky like paper harriers. Out of the eight hundred people, five hundred were immediately killed or injured. The archers on the city wall who were already prepared took the opportunity to fish in troubled waters. After a flurry of arrows, at least three to five meters away from the city wall were blown up. The magicians who did not die but did not receive the timely protection of the knights and boundary masters became hedgehogs.
The soldiers of the Northwestern Alliance Army stared at each other in shock. Their minds were filled with question marks. What kind of strange and terrifying skill was this? To be able to bury it underground and then detonate it from afar, wasn't it too miraculous?
If Reynold knew what they were thinking, he would laugh out loud. Let alone Landmine Warfare, they probably didn't even know what landmines were.
They were buried underground with magic elements. After a certain amount of time, they would be detonated when the mental strength was exhausted. This was what Reynold had arranged for the mages in advance.
Raising the Apocalypse Bracelet, Reynold condensed his mental strength and shouted —
"Storm Kill!"
In an instant, a thick tornado swept toward the Northwest Alliance's troops in the distance.
The Northwest Alliance's troops, who did not know what the hell it was, hurriedly raised their shields to block, but this time, not to mention the mages, even the heavily armored knights were blown up into the sky with their mounts. In addition to the few who bore the brunt of the attack, dozens of knights a few meters away from them also met the same fate. They were sent flying high and then fell to the ground. It was unknown whether they were dead or alive.
Seeing that the remaining survivors were scared out of their wits and were running further and further away, Reynolds did not use Maelstrom Kill again. First, the distance was not enough. If the storm could not reach the enemy, it would automatically dissipate. Second, using this skill consumed a lot of mental strength.
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After another three days, the Northwest Alliance's cautious and steady troops finally took down Will City with great difficulty. But what they found was an empty city. The so-called empty city meant that there was not a single person in sight. All the food and other useful supplies had been burned to the ground. The raging fire soared into the sky, blooming with a mocking light. The entire sky above Will City was shrouded in thick smoke.
After painstakingly scheming, the destruction of their food supplies, the fire, flooding, rolling rocks, explosions, and other hardships, the casualties that were several times greater than the enemy's, they finally got a ruined city? The Northwest Alliance's commander was about to cry. Meanwhile, Renault, who had successfully resisted for four days and managed to get all the citizens of the city to evacuate, had long since led the warriors of his 376th Regiment to embark on the path of retreat in high spirits.
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