Chapter 499 - 235: Assault on the Royal City (2)
Chapter 499: Chapter 235: Assault on the Royal City (2)
"Your Highness! Your Highness! The army is about to collapse! What do we do now?"
His Personal Guard asked anxiously.
Hearing this, Prince Trilman withdrew his gaze.
More terrifying to Prince Trilman than the Magic Crystal Cannon was the human army before him.
Prince Trilman had never seen such a terrifying army. Every single one of them had supreme combat will, formidable fighting ability, and impeccable coordination.
’Is this really an army that should exist in this world?’ Prince Trilman even began to doubt the military expertise he had honed over the past decade.
If it had only been a thousand or so men, Prince Trilman could have understood. But the human army had slowly grown to three thousand.
Prince Trilman had thought the quality of the later human soldiers would be lower. He wanted to use his inferior horses to pin down their superior horses, then use his superior horses to crush their inferior ones, maximizing his numerical advantage.
But the humans on the other side had used their actions to viciously slap Prince Trilman across the face.
As it turned out, the humans had no inferior horses—they were all superior.
The strength of the later human troops had indeed declined somewhat, but they were still able to viciously slaughter Prince Trilman’s army.
The humans continuously cast the Lighting Technique, and now all the Beastmen on the field could see the situation on the battlefield clearly.
Although the battlefield situation still looked like the Tiger Race People were surrounding and killing the humans, any discerning person could see that the humans were only stationary because the city gate ahead had not yet opened. If the humans wished it, the Tiger Race Warriors would be instantly routed and slaughtered.
Many Tiger Tribe Chiefs were already beating the retreat drum, wanting to withdraw.
Prince Trilman wanted to stop them, but unfortunately, the disadvantage of having no formation was now apparent. Without military formations, the basic military organization was in chaos, and orders could not be passed up or down the chain of command.
As a result, Prince Trilman could only watch as this group of humans wore down the Tiger Race’s Warriors. He didn’t even dare to order a retreat, knowing that under these circumstances, a retreat would undoubtedly turn into a rout.
Just as Prince Trilman was starting to resign himself to his fate, a rope was suddenly thrown down from the city wall.
Prince Trilman looked up in confusion.
’It’s the City Guard!’
’My brother!’
"His Highness the Regent King has given an order! Prince Trilman is to command the legions," a defender on the wall shouted.
A flash of joy went through Prince Trilman’s heart, but it was quickly washed away.
’Given the state of that human army outside the city, can the Tiger Race City Guard really defeat them?’
’Still, with reinforcements, there’s hope!’
Prince Trilman took the rope, then looked at his last few hundred Personal Guards.
"Organize yourselves. Pick out the tribes on the battlefield and find the right moment to let them into the city."
Without waiting for his personal soldiers to reply, Prince Trilman climbed the rope onto the city wall.
Several City Guard commanders immediately pledged their loyalty to Prince Trilman and recounted Regent King Tailuo’s recent deeds.
Hearing this, Prince Trilman looked out at the Tiger Race Royal City, its lights stretching for miles like a sea of stars, and listened to the soaring fighting spirit coming from the residents. His heart, which had been on the verge of collapse from the slaughter by the human army, finally recovered a little.
’In the end, the Tiger Race still has benevolent and determined people. And my own brother is reliable.’
’No matter how strong that group of humans is, there are still only three thousand of them.’
’There’s a chance! There must be a chance!’
....
At this moment, Prince Trilman’s personal soldiers outside the city were following his previous orders, finding the tribes whose strength was still intact and telling them to retreat into the Royal City.
"The Kante Tribe fled!"
"The Wilian Tribe fled too!"
Soon, the Warriors on the battlefield noticed this movement.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
At the same time, the third volley from the Magic Crystal Cannons arrived. Ten blasts streaked through the sky, leaving dazzling trails as they slammed directly into the gate of the Tiger Race Royal City.
BANG!
The gate, which was not very sturdy to begin with, finally couldn’t withstand such a high-density bombardment from the humans.
The final Magic Crystal Cannon blast was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back, crushing the city gate.
With a final ROAR, all the Magic Runes on the surface of the tall gate were blasted away. Then, the entire gate was struck directly by the Magic Crystal Cannon blast, revealing a large, dark hole in its center.
Moments later, the power of the Magic Crystal blast fully dispersed, and the gate, now devoid of its Magic, shattered completely!
"The gate! The gate is broken!"
The Tiger Race Warriors cried out in astonishment.
Robson, of course, also noticed this development.
’I’ve been holding back for so long. Wasn’t it all for this moment?’
Robson took out another Magic Scroll and threw it into the sky.
When they had discussed tactics earlier, they had determined that the Tiger Race’s city gate would likely shatter after about three volleys. Robson was now giving a signal to the rear to cease fire and prevent friendly fire.
The Magic Scroll broke apart, erupting with immense Magic Energy, and then flashed into a beautiful blue firework in the sky.
"The first squad to establish a foothold in the Tiger Race Royal City will have their entire squad’s military merit increased by one level!"
This time, Robson didn’t shout any slogans. Just five words: "Military merit up one level!"
One must understand that the Soldiers charging at the very front already had high military merit levels—Fifth-level Military Merit at the minimum. At this rank, advancing even one more level was as difficult as ascending to the heavens.
Hearing about the increase in military merit, the eyes of every Soldier lit up with a golden glint.
"For the Lord!"
"Victory to the Lord!"
The young Soldiers were eager to earn merits.
With such a rich reward, the Soldiers immediately shouted for victory. They stopped playing combat games with the Tiger Race grunts before them, picked up their swords, and wished they could grow two more legs.
Nearly every squad wanted to be the first to claim the honor of entering the city.
The Tiger Race Warriors fighting the humans soon realized something was wrong.
The human army, which had been fighting them on even terms and was even being suppressed by their numerical advantage at times, had suddenly changed. Each and every one of them was now incomparably fierce.
At first, some skeptical Tiger Race Warriors tried to block them forcefully, only to be cut down like melons and vegetables.
"Monsters! Monsters!"
Watching their comrades dwindle, the Tiger Race Warriors could finally hold on no longer. Shouting "monsters," they all fled toward the rear.
The human Soldiers couldn’t be bothered with them. Right now, in the eyes of the human army at the front, the only thing that mattered was being first!
.....
"Form ranks! Form ranks!"
At this moment, Prince Trilman was at the foot of the East City Gate, commanding the newly arrived troops.
However, Prince Trilman didn’t have the Tiger Race Warriors remain at the gate. Instead, he learned from Prince Feiseli’s mistake and planned to let the enemy in to be killed.
But Prince Trilman, being a man of some military talent, naturally had a different mindset from Prince Feiseli.
The situations the two faced were completely different.
Prince Feiseli hadn’t faced Robson’s three thousand monstrous Tier Six Soldiers!
Now that the city gate was breached, the basic terrain advantage was gone.
Prince Trilman was certain that if he dared to have his army confront the humans in the gate tunnel, that elite group of human warriors would beat him so badly his own mother wouldn’t recognize him.
That wasn’t three hundred elites; it was three thousand! When elites numbered in the thousands, it was a qualitative transformation.
The best method, conversely, was to let the enemy charge in and then use the home-field advantage of the Tiger Race Royal City to fight a war of attrition in the streets.
Meanwhile, Robson was still charging at the very front of the human formation.
Seeing the empty gate tunnel, Robson understood his opponent’s idea.
’However...’
Robson glanced behind him at the Gnolls who were about to catch up with the main force.
’A human wave tactic? Interesting. There was someone just as interesting back at the Centaur King City.’
’After resting for so long and feasting on meat every day, the bloodlust cooldown for the five thousand Tier Five Gnoll army is long over. They’re even quite a bit stronger than before.’
’After all, those whose foundations were damaged by the bloodlust have already gone to meet a truly great power.’
’Last time, with two thousand Tier Five Gnolls plus ten thousand-odd assorted troops, I was able to overturn the Centaur King City with its population of one hundred thousand.’