Volume 5: Protracted War Chapter 121: Destroy One First (1)
Graveson and Douglas, two old cowards who were afraid of death, not only retreated at the slightest sign of trouble, but also gathered thousands of corpse wizard kings and elite blood wizards around them to protect them. It can be said that they were heavily guarded and there was no opportunity to take advantage of them. As a result, Shaman, the blood bat couple, Daxiu and Guben and other small flying troops could only monitor from high above, and could not implement the airborne surprise attack that was one of the planned plans to kill the enemy chief in one fell swoop. Only by taking the traditional tactics, using the Terror Knight Corps to break through the blockade of the corpse wizard army and launch a fierce ground attack to disrupt the enemy's deployment, could Shaman and his team be given the opportunity to launch a surprise attack from the air and resolve the battle.
However, everything was as expected. As the Bat Demon Tika reminded me, as soon as the crisis appeared and the outcome was uncertain, the two bosses chose to retreat and returned to their own nests for safety. With my current strength, I am not strong enough to fight both of them at the same time, so I have to adjust the main attack route and kill one of them first. The first target to be attacked is the fourth wizard king Graveson, who is the landlord.
The reason why I chose Graveson is not only because it and its Corpse Witch King Guard Corps are relatively weak and easier to deal with, but also because it is to reduce the loss of my Terror Knights. As long as Graveson is alive, under its coordination and command, the Corpse Witch Army will organize resistance and bring me more troubles. Moreover, we are in the Corpse Witch territory, and more Corpse Witch Corpses may be dispatched to participate in the siege at any time. The longer we delay, the more casualties we will suffer, and even more variables may arise. On the other hand, it is to leave a way out. We are alone in the enemy's territory, surrounded by enemies, and there is no guarantee of safety. As long as we can kill or subdue Graveson, even if we cannot eliminate Douglas, we can at least guarantee a safe evacuation and not sacrifice ourselves under the siege of the Corpse Witch Army.
More importantly, gaining control of the corpse wizard has far-reaching implications for me, and it is a move that I am determined to achieve - killing the blood lich Douglas is more in response to the request of the bat demon Tika, and it involves the life and death of the vampire bat clan. It is not very urgent for me, nor is it the only option, but possessing the control of the corpse wizard can not only further expand power, or kill Graveson to obtain the equipment of the emperor-level NPC monster to enhance personal strength, but also is related to opening the portal to the second forbidden area "Bottomless Abyss" to lift the first seal of the artifact "Dead Scepter". What's worse, they may serve as the main combat forces in the future "Undead War" launched to compete with the ghost banshee Wu Zetian for the ruling right of "Yinfeng Valley" - Xiaobai has been deprived of his status as a ghost royal family, and has lost the qualifications to challenge each other among royal families. If he wants to return to "Yinfeng Valley" and regain his lost rights and status, he can only launch a large-scale "Undead War". Facing the possibility of millions or even tens of millions of devouring ghosts, the blood witches are indeed strong individually, but their numbers are too small, and they may not be able to withstand the impact of human wave tactics.
Through the "Supreme Corpse Crown", we urgently contacted the Heart Higher Than Sky and Moonlight Box on both wings. The Moonlight Box on the right continued to make large-scale roundabout movements, not confronting Douglas head-on, but taking every step carefully, intercepting at every level, at all costs - of course, mainly with the Terror Knights under my command, trying to delay its escape back to the "Blood Pool" lair, waiting for my army to arrive, and then start a decisive battle with it. The Heart Higher Than Sky on the left quickly moved towards me after arriving at the predetermined interception point, and we sandwiched them from both sides and launched a joint siege on Graveson, striving to resolve it in the shortest possible time. I adjusted the attack direction of the Terror Knights Legion, ignoring Douglas on the other side, and all of them attacked Graveson's escape route.
As soon as they entered the range, countless "death cloud bombs" flew over, and the horror knights at the forefront were thrown to the ground. The group attack of the corpse witches was indeed terrifying. Fortunately, all my subordinates were horror knights with strong assault capabilities. After several rounds of volleys from the corpse witches, they quickly rushed into the enemy camp and played their strengths in close combat. They were very skillful in killing them with a quick move, and quickly defeated the current large group of corpse witches and broke through the first line of defense.
The second line of defense was still the same. The distance of 100 meters was the attack radius of the corpse witches. Countless horror knights fell on the way of the charge. Once they got close, it became the world of the horror knights. The thin corpse witches had no power to fight back and endured the bloody slaughter. However, as I worried, the organized army would bring a greater threat. Obviously, Graveson was also paying attention to the battle situation here during the retreat. He adjusted the deployment in time according to our offensive. The army of corpse witches deployed outside the battlefield quickly moved to the battle circle, increasing the pressure on the horror knight corps. At the same time, more people were mobilized to guard in the direction of its retreat, intentionally strengthening the defense in this area. The corpse witches that were broken through the first line of defense did not collapse. They soon gathered outside the battle circle, regrouped, and launched a siege against us.
Being the fourth wizard king, he is definitely not a person who gets the title in vain. Graveson obviously has strong actual combat command ability . Everything is arranged in an orderly manner. The army of corpse wizards did not flee even though they were defeated, and they did not disperse even though they were in chaos. They constantly regrouped and reorganized, and never relaxed their attack on the Terror Knights. I was struggling to chase Graveson who was fleeing. I couldn't fight with these irrelevant pawns, and I couldn't kill them all and eradicate the trouble. I could only withstand the "layers of exploitation" of the army of corpse wizards, and broke through five lines of defense in a row, killing my way out, and approached Graveson's team.
They cooperated with the 5,000 Terror Knights I left on the left and carried out an effective interception as planned. Although they suffered considerable losses under the desperate attacks of the corpse witches, they finally succeeded in slowing down Graveson's escape speed, forcing it to retreat to its own lair in a roundabout way, and thus unable to escape my pursuit. However, according to the reports from the secret spies arranged in advance, the surrounding corpse witches have shown signs of large-scale assembly and may join the siege on us at any time. We must get rid of Graveson as soon as possible, otherwise it may bring greater trouble.
