The first to attack wasn't Tarim Khan and his Chaos army. Instead, it was the Nur garrison.
Hundreds of mortar cannons, heavy cannons, and dozens of Hellstorm rocket cannons fired simultaneously. The entire sky was covered by dense rocket cannons and cannons. As the Chaos army advanced, the long-range firepower of the Nur army bombarded the Chaos army. The continuous artillery fire didn't conserve any ammunition, and the Chaos army suffered huge losses. Many Chaos warriors and Orcs were torn to pieces, and their exploded limbs flew all over the sky.
But Chaos wouldn't stop because of this reason. Savior Ludovic's city, Nur, appeared in front of them. The Throne of Chaos was within reach. Almost all the Kurgan warriors, Orcs, and Behemoths that followed Tarim Khan endured the terrifying artillery fire of Nur and charged forward. After two rounds of artillery fire, every square formation of the Empire garrison gradually saw the appearance of the evil creatures in front of them.
The tall and mighty Kurgan warriors, the Chaos Eggs that had completely transformed into monsters, the Orcs that emitted a foul odor, and the Chaos warriors that were dripping pus all over their bodies. As Nur soldiers who had been at peace for decades, even though they had experience fighting the Orcs and the Green Skin Tribe, they couldn't help but tremble when they saw these terrifying enemies. Some of them started trembling involuntarily, and some of them were so terrified that their hands trembled. Their minds were filled with thoughts of retreating.
But the Empire's army didn't collapse.
"Fight to the death!"
"Fight to the end!"
"For this city, for the homeland of the Savior, for the Countess, for the Empire, for Charlemagne!"
A general of the Empire rode an elite warhorse produced by Ivy Hill and ran between the Empire's formations. He was the city's oldest veteran, Grand Marshal Nur, Urstein.
The veteran held his head high and his chest out. His long beard and black cape moved constantly between the formations. Grand Marshal Nur held his head high and said, "Fight to the end! We have no way out! "
It was as if a flame had been thrown into a pile of firewood. Seeing Marshal Nur appear in front of the formation, the soldiers of the Empire felt their blood boiling, and the fighting spirit of the entire army gradually rose. Countless people shouted the holy names of Emperor Charlemagne and Ludwig the Savior, and military songs and roars rose and fell one after another.
The Empire had persisted for two thousand years despite being besieged from all sides. Countless human soldiers had sacrificed themselves to protect their land, their compatriots, and their homeland. Today was no exception. The soldiers of Nur swore to let the scumbags of Chaos know the power of Nur!
The forest of spears, the locust-like arrows, and the dense barrage of the Nur musketeers. Something beyond Tarim Khan's expectations had happened. The Empire's army had withstood the first wave of attacks from the Army of Chaos!
The first wave of attack by the Army of Chaos came to a halt after losing more than 3,000 people.
But it did not matter. Tarim Khan knew that his first wave of attack was just a probe.
The defensive line of the Empire's army was very long. It formed a line outside the city of Nur and occupied the advantage of high ground. They relied on the Wesson River and the Ivy River as a natural defensive barrier to snipe the entire Army of Chaos.
This arrangement could form a deep defense, but Tarim Khan did not believe that this line of defense had no weaknesses.
After the first wave of attack, the champion of Nurgle immediately found a place where the Empire's defense was weak.
It was the Empire's camp against a dam on the Ivy River. There was an entire regiment of defenders and an entire artillery battalion. But Tarim Khan soon found that this army called the Blood Dance Infantry was just a motley crew made up of many children of Nur's nobles, Empire's militia, and outdated ordinary cannons. So Tarim Khan immediately shouted to the Faithless Sayl, "Sayl! Take your men and attack there! "
The bugle horn sounded, and tens of thousands of Doegan's cavalry moved out.
The storm-like sound of hooves announced that the first wave of the Plague Army had arrived. The Faithless Sayl sat on his own Doegan Chaos Mammoth and laughed maniacally. He raised the staff in his hand and pointed at the target. "Deal with it!"
The tens of thousands of Kurgan cavalry and tribal warriors of the Doegan Empire charged toward the camp in front of the dam. They endured the attacks of the muskets and cannons as they jumped over the barbed wire and barbed wire. The Kurgan riders swung their battle axes and blades, cutting down wave after wave of pikemen and halberds as if they were cutting grass. How could this army of nobles and militia withstand the assault of tens of thousands of Kurgan cavalry?
The first row of soldiers quickly crumbled. They screamed as they retreated, surrendering their position to Sayel the Faithless and his Doegan army. The hurricane of death tore a small hole in the frontline, followed by the collapse of the entire regiment. The militia soldiers fled in panic. Occasionally, a few brave warriors would charge forward to face the Kurgan riders, but the outcome was just as they wished. The heads, arms, and bodies of these soldiers were soon separated from their bodies.
Ten minutes later, the entire infantry regiment had completely collapsed. Seeing that the situation was irreversible, the commander of the infantry regiment and the lesser nobles decided to launch a desperate counterattack. They formed a small tide of heavy-armored knights and directly attacked the army of Chaos. But it was no different from a mantis trying to stop a chariot in front of the tens of thousands of Kurgan riders. In just a few minutes, the shining spots on the knights' armor gradually disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye under the attacks of the Chaos cavalry.
Faithless Sayl raised his staff, and countless lightning bolts and evil spells poured out from his throne. Behind him, the eager Orcs and Chaos Eggs were about to push the terrifying atmosphere of the massacre to its peak.
In the end, the Doegan army successfully crossed the Asher Dam and completely annihilated the entire Empire infantry regiment. Behind them was a sea of corpses and blood. Now, a small hole had been opened in the Empire's seemingly indestructible defense line.
Nur Grand Marshal Erstein immediately noticed the change in the battle situation. In the rapidly changing battle situation, he immediately realized what he had to do.
"Graves! Take your men and block that group of cavalry for me! "Grand Marshal Nour immediately gave the order:" Immediately! "
An Empire general ran over and roared, "Understood! How long do you need me to hold them off? "
"Hold them off for as long as you can!" Erstein roared.
"Yes!" Empire General Graves immediately led the Nur Gray-Clothed Men to the front line. The addition of fresh troops stabilized the battle situation. Faithless Sayl snorted coldly and ordered the entire Horde army to continue advancing.
Laing and the others led a large group of Empire and Brittany Knights to watch the battle closely. The battle had just begun, and it wasn't time to mobilize the Knights. Suria was fully armed and stayed beside Laing. Seeing the tragic battle situation, she was a little moved. Laing immediately shook his head.
It wasn't time yet.
At this moment, the Empire's central army turned into hell. Tarim Khan's Chaos army and the Empire's army began an intense exchange of fire along the entire front line. The Empire's army didn't budge an inch. The musketeers and crossbowmen opened fire crazily. The story of blood and slaughter played out outside the towering walls of Nur City.
"Boom!" At this time, a loud muffled sound rang out from the Army of Chaos. Almost everyone on the battlefield looked up instinctively. A huge dark red fireball rose from the Chaos army's formation. The blazing light was like the rise of a second sun. The sparks on the surface of the fireball bathed the entire Empire's army in a rain of fire. Then the artificial sun rushed straight to the ground. When it hit the ground, the intense explosion and flames made the entire battlefield feel the huge impact.
The Chaos Dwarves appeared. The Ashen Prophet Drazhoss rode on the Blazing Taurus and soared into the sky, leaving a large cloud of black smoke behind him. A sea of Chaos Dwarves marched into the battlefield. Behind them were seven to eight demonic steam-armored trains filled with Chaos Dwarves' war machines.
"For Zar-Naglund! For Hasuth! "
"For Hasuth!" The Chaos Dwarves roared like a tsunami, praising their god Hasuth.
Tamu Khagan and Sayel the Faithless felt extreme disgust and contempt for the Chaos Dwarves' actions, especially Tamu Khagan. The champion of Nurgle's Chosen of Gods knew why the Chaos Dwarves were late.
The Ashen Prophet used them as cannon fodder! The Chaos Dwarves waited until they were in close combat with the Empire to reduce their losses!
But when they thought of the siege weapons of the Chaos Dwarves, both Sayel and Tarim Khan knew that they could not turn hostile at this time. They could only suppress their anger and order Drazhoss to attack as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the shooting range of the war machines of the Chaos dwarfs was obviously shorter than that of the cannons of the entire Nuer Empire. After the balls of flames rose into the sky and fell down, the explosions were so loud that even the womenfolk in the palace of the Nuer Kurfürst could hear them clearly. However, the enormous fireballs launched by the hellish cannon stopped when they were dozens of meters away from the position of the Imperium. Not only did they fail to hit the artillerymen of the Imperium, they even blew up a dozen Kurgan men and a few Chaos warriors into ashes.
The same went for the other cannons. The Chaos Dwarves' first volley did not hit anything. Instead, they killed hundreds of Kurgan Marauders and many Chaos Warriors.
"Motherf * cker, damn it!" The Ashen Prophet Drazhoss cursed in a low voice. The four Chaos Inferno Cannons were damaged to varying degrees. Even after emergency repairs, they could not be fully restored. The range, power, and accuracy were all affected.
"… Counterattack! Cannons! Use your weapons and fire at the enemy! " The Nur General immediately realized what a great opportunity this was. He loudly ordered the Empire's cannons and Nur's engineers, "Destroy the war machines of the Chaos Dwarves! For Charlemagne, for Ludwig, for the Empire! "
"For the Empire!" When the Empire's cannons saw the power of the Chaos Dwarves' war machines, they were scared out of their wits and turned to run. But when they saw that the range of the Chaos Dwarves' war machines was not enough, they immediately realized what a great opportunity this was. The cannons immediately returned to their posts and reloaded.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Nur's cannons and mortars fired at full force. Countless shells whizzed across the sky with smoke rising and then smashed into the heads of the Chaos Dwarves.
The Empire's cannons were far more numerous and faster than the Chaos Dwarves. Their artillery bombardment caused the Chaos Dwarves' cannons to suffer heavy losses. At the same time, the Chaos Dwarves' war machines were designed to be used in sieges. They were at a disadvantage in terms of firing speed and attack range. Many of the mortars and demonic cannons were destroyed by the Nur's cannons before they could enter effective firing range.
However, the war machines of the Chaos Dwarves also had an advantage. With the enhancement of vicious alchemy and demonic power, as long as their cannons could hit their targets, they could blast the heavy cannons or mortar cannons of the Nuer Military Factory into a pile of molten iron. On the contrary, the war machines of the Chaos Dwarves were more sturdy and wouldn't easily lose their combat ability unless they were hit multiple times.
Just like that, after paying a huge price, the Chaos Dwarves finally turned the tables and launched a thrilling artillery battle with the Empire's cannons.
The pressure on the Chaos Army's attack was greatly reduced. Seeing that the Nur's cannons and mortars were busy in the artillery battle with the Chaos Dwarves' war machines, Tarim Khan issued another order.
He ordered his rotten knights led by the Nurgle Champion Kazik and the Chaos Air Force led by the Chaos Dragon Knight Auerbach Poison Gut to attack. At the same time, he ordered the entire Plague Ogre Tribe and the Plague Trolls to attack the human position as the Mountain Breaker!
Seeing that the Chaos Army was about to launch an all-out attack, the Empire's army began to fall into chaos. However, Marshal Nur kept shouting loud slogans in the army, praising the names of Charlemagne and Ludwig the Savior. Under his encouragement, the Nur Empire's army had become a group of lunatics. In the face of the fierce attack of the Chaos Army, the Empire's army did not give up. They stepped forward one after another and used their bodies to resist the oncoming Chaos Warriors.
The Iron Cross Skull War Flag symbolizing the Empire, the Black Scale Golden Lion War Flag symbolizing the Nur, and the Golden Griffin War Flag symbolizing Ludwig the Savior never fell!
The minions of Chaos burst into terrifying battle cries from time to time, and the bravest soldiers responded with loud curses. Thousands of flintlocks fired collectively as the Chaos Knights approached. The first row of Chaos Knights fell to the ground, and more than half of the second row of Chaos Knights were shot and fell to the muddy ground full of craters. The Plague Ogres and Chaos Trolls also fell to the ground in such a dense rain of bullets.
However, in the end, the Chaos Knights led by the rotten knights led by Kazik the Defiler approached the Empire's position. The Empire's generals issued orders loudly, and the halberds and pikemen lined up in several rows. They planned to use their bodies to resist the attack of the Chaos Knights.
"Heh, little worms!" Kazik the Defiler, the champion of Nurgle, let out a mocking laugh. He swung the huge scythe in his hand and instantly reaped the lives of three Empire halberds. The boiling blood and splashing limbs were the best sacrifices to the Chaos Malevolent God.
Just as he said, the seemingly indestructible Empire's formation could not withstand a single blow from the Chaos Knights' charge. The pitiful infantry were instantly crushed under the iron hooves. The knights whistled and pierced the bodies of the Chaos Knights with their lances, while the Chaos Mounts opened their skeletal jaws and chewed on the fresh spoils of war as venom splattered from their mouths.
The Empire's first line of defense began to falter.
Tarim Khan immediately seized the opportunity. He immediately ordered Sayel, who was still engaged in a chaotic battle with the defenders of the dam, to send in all forces to crush the Empire's right wing and occupy the entire dam!
At the same time, Laing also began to move.
"Kalad! Theodore! "
"Yes, sir!"
"Go and reinforce the central army immediately! Bring me the head of that Nurgle champion! "
"Yes, sir!" Kalad replied loudly. He immediately led a large group of knights to reinforce the Empire's central army.
"Littlebald!" Laing was expressionless as he continued to give the order.
"Yes, sir!" Reppu led the free cavalry in response to Laing's order.
"Follow our previous plan!"
"Yes, sir!" Reppu immediately accepted the order and led more than a thousand free cavalry out of the battlefield.
"Suria!" Laing turned his target to his wife.
"Yes, sir!" The female knight replied coldly. She could not wait to join the battle.
"Now, let's go to Raven Dam and meet the Kurgan cavalry of the Dawe Tribe!"
"Yes, sir!" More than three thousand knights and pistol-wielding cavalrymen rolled toward Raven Dam.
The battle had begun to heat up.
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