Chapter 1316

Perhaps by then, they would all be wiped out!

Not long after, the Holy Kingdom's army surged forward again like a black tide, with cavalry leading the charge, followed by shielded spearmen, archers, and even the mage corps all deployed.

"Loose arrows!"

On the city wall, the Eternal Night Legion's archers were even more numerous this time than before, almost shoulder to shoulder. Facing the incoming cavalry, the archers began firing almost simultaneously; arrows rained down, and the Holy Kingdom's cavalrymen were thrown from their Ma Pi and tumbled to the ground. Still, this was only a small portion—several lucky ones broke through the rain of arrows and reached the shield wall, then leapt up.

More cavalry behind them leapt in as well, hooves slamming heavily into the backs of the cavalry ahead, knocking them down. The crisp sound of snapping spines rang out, accompanied by the cavalry's screams.

One cavalryman's scream could not stop this chain reaction like dominoes; one after another the cavalry threw themselves forward, the hooves behind trampling the fallen cavalry ahead without mercy, even as the corpses gradually piled higher and higher, stacking forward.

It could not be stopped. Even if the cavalry at the front did not die on the spot, the Eternal Night soldiers hiding behind the second row of shield walls would, without hesitation, thrust their spears through and send the heavily wounded cavalrymen on their way.

Seeing that the cavalry's death toll was about right!

"Prepare!"

Yan Liu stood atop the city wall, taking in the situation and shouting.

Because of the archers, the number of cavalry who could cross the first shield wall was not large, and since the first shield wall had not been destroyed by the cavalry that crossed it, the shielded spearmen and archers behind continued to arrive in succession, further compressing the cavalry's space.

Soon, the cavalry received the order to retreat.

What the cavalry could not accomplish, leave it to the shielded spearmen to do.

As the enemy drew closer step by step, the mages' fireballs and ice bolts poured in an endless stream, striking the front row of shield walls. The soldiers holding the front-row shields gritted their teeth and held on steadfastly, but fatigue soon showed on their faces.

The shield walls had no magic-resistant properties, so the soldiers behind were under tremendous pressure. Whether it was the heat from the fireballs' explosions conducting through the shields until they were too hot to hold, or the ice arrows making the shields freezing to the touch, the soldiers behind could only rely on their bare hands to brace them with all their might.

Watching the shields trembling ceaselessly up ahead, the Holy Kingdom captain continued to issue advance orders, a faint sinister grin on his face. He knew that with the mage corps' attack, these shield walls would be unable to withstand a single blow.

Soon, the soldiers behind these shield walls would be forced into the dilemma of retreat—holding their ground meant certain death by magic, while retreating meant losing the position.

Either way, it was exactly what the Holy Kingdom wanted to see!

"Throw the bombs!"

The Holy Kingdom's shielded spearmen slowly closed in. The sound from above made the captain puzzled, but he paid it no mind and continued ordering the mage corps to attack. Just then, a black object fell from the sky and landed right on the captain's head.

What the hell hit my head?

The next second!

Boom!

The explosion erupted with a roar!

Including the Holy Kingdom captain, more than a dozen people clustered around him were instantly hurled up by the blast and died a gruesome death on the spot. The shields of the front-row shielded spearmen were even knocked from their hands, exposing the wounded Holy Kingdom soldiers behind them.

"Coordinated thrust!"

The Eternal Night soldiers behind the second shield wall rushed up with their shields and pressed them against the backs of the first-row shield bearers, while the soldiers behind the first shield wall immediately thrust their spears out swiftly through the gaps in the shield wall.

Hiss!

The spears ruthlessly pierced the chests of those soldiers with no shield protection, killing them in a single strike!

"Keep throwing the bombs!"

From above, black gunpowder was ignited in an endless stream, falling into the densely packed Holy Kingdom soldier formations below—around the shielded spearmen, the archers, and even the mages. Explosions erupted one after another without pause; severed limbs, blood spraying, smoke filling the air.......

In an instant, the Holy Kingdom suffered devastating casualties—the denser the explosives themselves, the greater the blast!

The completely unprepared Holy Kingdom soldiers got to experience firsthand exactly how the Eternal Night soldiers had felt when bombarded by magical artillery.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions kept ringing in their ears, accompanied by the Holy Kingdom soldiers' screams rising and falling one after another!

"Ahhh… my hand… my hand… help… Holy King…"

Watching the Holy Kingdom's miserable state below, the Eternal Night soldiers on the city wall expressed that they felt very comfortable, and the bombs in their hands were thrown ever more frequently, and farther with each toss.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The sound of explosions continued unabated. Compared with the terrifying power of the earlier magical artillery shells, although the bombs in hand fell somewhat short, they could still serve as a decent area-clearing effect. As the bombs were tossed into the crowd, in an instant they could blast open an empty zone with a radius of one meter.

As for the soldiers closer to the edge, although they would not depart from death, the force of the explosives still left the lightly wounded scared to the ground, while the heavily wounded were sent flying outright, wishing they were dead.

Where had the Holy Kingdom's soldiers ever seen such a scene? In the past, it was always them bullying other small nations—now it was their turn to be bombarded like this. One by one, the soldiers froze in place, mechanically pressing forward.

But the soldiers behind did not know what was happening up front. They only heard the familiar booms one after another, and saw corpses being flung up from the formation, thinking some powerful expert must be putting up resistance.