The Amber Sword

At the first moment, the fortress on the cliff trail off the port of Fatan was declared defenceless, the guards of the city were nailed to death on the walls of the city by arrows of underwater steel fired in darkness, and the blood was frozen before it could flow in the future. The skeleton, under the command of the corpse witch, hit the car door with a siege weapon. The soldiers in the barracks realized that something was wrong, but they were caught in the siege. The resistance in the fortress only lasted for a moment and disappeared. Together with more than 30 Port Guard soldiers in the barracks, they were all declared dead.

The port of Fatan was built as a fortress with a fleet stationed at a location between cliffs, with only two narrow mountain paths connecting the harbour to the outside. The Imperial Navy built a cliff fortress on those two paths, facing the valley leading to the cliffs, on the one hand close to the walls, on the other side to the sea, it is almost impossible for a man to open a cliff, and 500 metres after the fortress, the main wall of the port of Fatan, still painted between the hills and the beaches, but the terrain is still much slower and more peaceful than in the previous section.

At this moment, Baron Ludwig and Delphine are on the main wall 500 meters after the cliff fortress, already filled with White Lion Guard and Harbor Guard troops, but by order of Prime Minister Kim, they put out all the torches, hold their breath and make no sound. The walls of the city were pitch-black, and several wizards opened their magic boundaries to shield the breath of the living, and the spells covered the entire wall.

Looking at the sound of resistance in the fortress hundreds of meters away, the baron finally stopped and returned to the darkness, turning very angrily to the indifferent Delphine, he said: "If you already knew about the attack by the dead, why didn't you let them prepare themselves well enough to arch the fortress? I know you have an old gap with those Elouins, but you can't pull us all together. ”

He sounded terrible, but he couldn't have asked Delphine to wrinkle her eyebrows ten times worse, except that she couldn't stand the silly noise and replied coldly: "As the military commander of this fortress, please bring up some basic military skills and don't laugh in front of people. I didn't want to remind you, but I fear you will lose the face of the Empire in front of your guests. ”

“What are you talking about! ”

Baron Ludwig was just about to seize, and Count Olkons on his side hurried him aside, knowing that Ludwig, although the owner of the port of Fatan, was in fact the commander of the fleet stationed in the port during the weekdays to maintain the port's operations and manage the fleet. Baron Ludwig did not really possess much military literacy, he was just a local lord, but he himself had seen the attempts of the Prime Minister, Kim, to put these dead spirits in so that the clergy could have a deadly blow.

This narrow, rugged cliff trail of more than 500 metres beneath the main walls of Port Fatan cannot be easily retreated once it has entered, ensuring that their 'bottom card' works best.

Only the main walls of the port of Fatan are not high, only a little over eight metres, not enough to be seen in the fantastic world, because the cliff fortress outside the port is too strong, and the architect did not continue to raise the wall because of the weight of the sand in the port. The Count of Alcons now regrets in his heart the insinuation that the original designer builder stole from him to reduce the material. In any case, it would not be more daunting for an imperial fortress to magically inject sand underground to build a fortress wall of more than 13 metres or a general city main wall of 10 metres if it were not helpful.

Moreover, while most of the distance outside the main wall of Fatan to the cliff fortress is a narrow cliff mountain path, the proximity to the main wall, especially under the gate, is an open sandy terrain, which is very conducive to the deployment of the dead spirit, while the port of Fatan does not leave many troops, of which there are still more than a thousand, about hundreds of the SS of the Eruin mission, once the 'base card' cannot be seen, this point relying on the low main wall and the unfavourable terrain is simply unable to guard the port, even if the 'base card' may not be able to move into position, the line of defense is already in a hurry.

However, he did not dare to speak out his deep concerns, but explained them to Baron Ludwig, who calmed down and stopped talking. But Enid next to Oenie seemed a little impatient, questioning: “Even so, you should tell the people in front to pull back. That's more than 40 lives. How can you let them die in vain? ”

Delphine glanced at her coldly: "The benevolence of women. ”

“You...”

Delphine thought about it and realized that he was still on the side of the Eluynes, sighing and explaining: “Even if I sent someone to inform them, the order would have kept them dead until the end, but I knew that they would not do so, and that they had fled back under the sword of a military judge, so why not make them a hero without knowing, which would be better for their families at least. ”

Enid's glaring eyes turned incredibly to ask, "Is that so, Chiara? ”

The little girl nodded helplessly: "Almost.” But she immediately stared at Delphine and asked, “But more importantly, you're trying to make them more realistic, aren't you? ”

“Almost,” Delphine replied, equally indifferently: "They are soldiers, and I have the right to choose how to let them die, as long as victory is achieved, there are only foolish and wise orders in war, without cruel and kind orders. ”

There was snow and rain in the sky, it fell in the face of several girls present, Enid and O'Neill frowned, the elf and her fake dragon lay on the walls of the city to see what was happening outside - but because the man was too short, she could only stick her forehead out of the city if she stood so desperately on her toes, Chiara's face didn't matter, Delphine's face was calm, a light face, the rain beads slipped along her clean face and fell along her ugly, uneven scar.

Count Olkons, on the other hand, agrees more with this statement than with the woman who calls the flower of the Empire, after all, a notorious fighter.

At this time there was a slight noise in the darkness in the distance, and all present knew that the dead had opened the door on the other side of the fortress and were ready to attack the port of Fatan. Delphine stopped arguing and turned back and gave an order to the Harbor Guard officer beside her: "Chief Sheraton! ”

“Yes!”

“I command you to lead your men out of the city immediately, engage with the dead, attack the cliff fortress, and make sure to reclaim the southern section of the fortress wall! ”

“What!” Baron Ludwig jumped in shock, almost shouting from his throat: “Vicious woman, you can't be so messed up, how dare you let my men out of town to attack hundreds of times as many dead spirits as they are, you crazy, we only have so many people, do you really want to arch the port of Fatan? ”

Olkons also frowned and persuaded: "Miss Delphine, we are seriously understaffed. If it's at the Cliff Fortress, it's okay, but if we leave town, we attack backwards, which is extremely detrimental to us both in terms of strength and terrain. ”

Delphine, unaffected, answered indifferently, "Am I the commander or are you the commanders? I would like to remind you that my command is doubly conferred upon me by the Crown Prince and Count Tonigle. I have the highest command here, and you must obey my command unconditionally. Why, do you want to disobey my orders or do you want to defeat me? ”

“You -” Baron Ludwig blued: “Do you want us to die and we must obey unconditionally? ”

“First of all, I want to correct your mistake, I can't let my soldiers die for nothing, and secondly, you're right, even if I'm going to let you die, you have to obey unconditionally -” Delphine replied, sitting in a wheelchair in the rain, word for word: "Of course, you can disagree, I welcome you to ask His Royal Highness for advice to lift me off the position of commander, it only takes a moment from here to where the Royal Highness is, and I expect that until the battle begins, it will be almost the same time that you have left. ”

Baron Ludwig's lips were shaking and Marjorie frowned, one step ahead: "Miss Delphine, let's go first, the White Lion Guard is ready. ”

The Prime Minister swept him cold: “Shut up, did I tell you to say something? Go back! Sergeant Macquarie, I don't think I need to tell you what a soldier of his own should do. My orders are not negotiable! ”

A lightning bolt plunges from the dark clouds and brings a white, stunned, angry, or intriguing look to the faces of all present, only Delphine has never changed color.

And she looked at Schrutter beside her, and she said, "Knight chief, is the honor of your knight making you hesitate and afraid at this moment? ”

Sherudt's face changed and he glanced at the direction of a pitch-black cliff fortress outside the city and finally nodded heavily: "I see, Madam Commander. ”

……

The process of taking down the cliff fortress was smoother than imagined, and the plan seemed to achieve the desired results. The residents of Port Fatan and the Eruins stationed there were certainly not at all prepared. They must have been busy with the sudden eclipse hand and were unaware that the Empire was attacking at this moment. Sork was walking along a staircase to the southern section of the wall of the cliff fortress, and then he looked up to the port of Fatan, where the starlit was lit, and it seemed that because of the sudden solar eclipse, many people were gathered in the street for film admiration.

He is part of the White Legion's Doraemon Cavalry Regiment, and Harden, the great knight, has always been the pioneer of the Legion. This time around, Sork and several other Chiefs of Cavalry are primarily responsible for coordinating and observing the attacks of the Dead Spirits on the front line: it is expected that the Dead Spirits will form the first wave of this sneak attack, because in the event of an eclipse their abilities will be maximized, while the Human Legion will be severely weakened, with the advantage that the Dead Spirit will break through the outer walls of the cliff fortress and the port of France and enter into an alley battle, even if it is a meat fight, they can afford it.

And the main enemy of the White Legion is the fleet of the Bukas stationed in the port of Fatan - the Duke of Ambnar has determined that the fleet stationed in the port of Fatan was manipulated by the Bukas, and how could the Eruins have such a strong fleet when the Eruins were merely a cover?

So far, Sork observed a very good situation on the front line, and he saw the bone skeletons opening the south gate of the cliff fortress at the behest of the corpse witch, releasing skeletons for probing attacks, and the lights reflected in the distance were shining in Sensen's white light, in a tight formation, and the steel sword thread in his hand was not shining, precisely as a tool for night raids.

The skeletons descended along the hillside, and further afield, the direction of the main wall of Port Fatan was pitch-black, with no light or movement, and the message from the dead witches in front that there were only stars on the walls that lit the breath of a few living people, which also met expectations, seemed to be an unprotected port - at least for the moment.

But somehow, Sork's mind hid a little uneasiness. He had previously told several colleagues about this uneasiness and was laughed at as being too cautious - in the cavalry mouth of Harden the Bull, caution actually means cowardice. Naturally, he could not accept this assessment. He came to the southern section of the walls of the Cliff Fortress just to testify to his thoughts.

But at least for now, it does look too suspicious.

Though Sork couldn't help but think that perhaps it was because the battle was too easy to fight and it was too easy to believe. However, the twenty or thirty Hong Kong Guard soldiers killed by the former spirits did not seem to be knowledgeable. It seems that there should not be any traps in it. He stood on the wall and finally took a look at the direction of the port of Fatan. The intention was to go down the wall. It was too cold outside. Several of his colleagues were reluctant to stay in the ghost weather and had already found a place in the barracks to hide in what looked like a warm place.

And it was at this time that Sherut, a knight from Port Fatan, led a small group of his own men and touched not far from the walls of the southern section of the cliff fortress, who, according to Delphine's instructions, brought with them a wizard, a Toniguer, who was not well acquainted with the others, but merely silently maintained the spell of a dead man's breath in the line.

Schrutter, who walked in front of him, made a gesture, stopping the whole team. Not far ahead was the ‘one team’ of dead spirits coming out of the fortress. In the cold light, a section of White Forest, like a forest of skeletons, was full of hundreds of them - there was no way, for dead spirits, this was the 'one team’ skeleton.

Schrutter frowned. The Harbor Guard was not a first-line Krutz army. He and his men could barely reach silver standards, but faced more than a hundred bone skeletons or some headaches, not to mention how much was left behind the fortress. He looked up and found a sudden shadow on the southern section of the wall of the Cliff Fortress not far away. He hurried back and whispered to his men:

“See, that's a corpse witch, and these low-level bone skeletons are actually commanded by corpse witches, and as long as we kill the corpse witch who commands them, they're not very threatening. David, you take out the holy water you get, you drain the arrow, and we'll blow that guy off with an arrow! ”

“Just dry it down and I'll give you credit! ”

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