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Chapter 163: Siege of Tiprano City
The Blood Moon Cult rejected the Duke of Lionheart's plea without hesitation, and it was not just because of Sister Cheng's intervention.
In fact, in the eyes of the Blood Moon Cult, the Duke of Lionheart had already fallen into an irreparable defeat.
Moreover, drawing lessons from the previous battle of Jinhou Town, it can be said that it was not Zhang Wei who requested the Blood Moon Cult to send troops to attack Tiprano City. Instead, it was more like the Blood Moon Cult funded and hired Zhang Wei's troops to attack the city.
After all, Zhang Wei's side received monetary rewards, while the Blood Moon Cult gained land benefits.
In order to prevent the Lionheart Duke from sending a large number of reinforcements from Antiphis City to the north to reinforce Tiprano City, the Blood Moon Cult made an exception and dispatched troops from the royal capital to the north to attack the villages around Antiphis City.
Through this continuous harassment tactic, the Duke of Lionheart became fearful and did not dare to send troops out of the city to the north for rescue.
For this expedition, Zhang Wei still sent Gao Lan, Tian Feng and Qu Yi to lead the army.
Faced with such a situation, the Duke of Lionheart took targeted measures and specially used the teleportation array to transfer officers with actual combat defense experience from Lionheart Castle to Tiprano City to be responsible for defense matters.
The siege equipment carefully prepared by Zhang Wei's side did not initially show the expected power.
The boulders they threw were easily blocked by the city's solid defense magic shield. However, Tian Feng was not discouraged. He actively communicated with the magicians in the army and studied the operating mechanism of the city's defense magic shield in depth.
After some effort, Tian Feng finally found a breakthrough.
He cleverly adjusted the strategy of using siege equipment, replacing the original large and heavy stones with countless small pieces of gravel.
These seemingly insignificant pieces of gravel have become powerful weapons of attack.
They continuously poured into the magic circle, as dense as raindrops, greatly consuming the magic power of the magic circle.
Faced with such a protracted battle, the defenders gradually felt overwhelmed.
In order to save precious magic resources, they had to choose to temporarily close the magic circle. However, this was exactly the opportunity that Tian Feng had been waiting for!
At the moment the magic circle was closed, those huge rocks with amazing destructive power came roaring like meteorites, smashing hard into the defending soldiers and city walls, causing huge casualties and damage to the city.
The defenders will naturally not sit idly by and wait for death. They know very well that passive defense will only make the situation more unfavorable.
Therefore, the general defending the city decisively gave the order and dispatched an elite force, who took advantage of the nightfall and quietly descended from the city wall using a hanging basket rope to the outside of the city. The reason for using a hanging basket was to save precious magic power. After all, this was a surprise attack and they would not have time to meditate and recover their mana.
The mission of this special force is to destroy Gao Lan’s army’s siege equipment in order to weaken the enemy’s attack power.
Under the cover of pitch-black night, the defenders took quick action.
They slid down the ropes nimbly out of the city and approached Gao Lan's army's position silently.
Once they arrived at the target area, they immediately launched a surprise attack and engaged in a fierce battle with the officers and soldiers responsible for guarding the siege equipment.
The two sides engaged in close combat, swords flashed, magic was exchanged, arrows flew, and the battle was extremely brutal.
On the night of the night attack, Qu Yi could not calm down.
Although on the surface there seemed to be no problem with the defense deployed by Gao Lan, Qu Yi still felt a little uneasy.
So he decided to personally lead his trusted men on an impromptu night patrol.
Just as they were patrolling near the siege equipment, they suddenly heard a cry of killing, followed by the dazzling light of fire shooting into the sky and magic bombarding each other.
Qu Yi immediately realized that the situation was not good. When he was about to lead everyone to check it out, he found that the siege equipment had been attacked.
He acted decisively. On the one hand, he ordered his trusted followers to go and raise the alarm and request support. On the other hand, he took the rest of his personal soldiers and rushed to the scene of the accident to carry out rescue operations.
I saw Qu Yi holding a big knife, bravely leading the way, and he was unstoppable all the way, as if he was entering an empty land.
Since he is a heroic spirit, although he cannot use magic, he has been blessed by the goddess and possesses sufficiently strong warrior attributes.
However, after successfully burning most of the siege equipment, the defending surprise attack force chose to retreat without hesitation.
By the time Gao Lan led his troops to reinforce, it was already too late.
"General, why don't we just attack the city directly? It might have unexpected results." Qu Yi quickly suggested. Facing the current situation, he planned to take advantage of the situation.
"No!" Tian Feng, who arrived right after him, hurriedly stopped him and said, "The city's magic shield has not been broken yet. If we can't hold on to the enemy and rush into the city together, then we will be trapped under the city and passively take the beating."
"Okay! In that case, I will go and give chase now!" Qu Yi shouted loudly, waving the big knife in his hand, calling on his troops to act quickly and keep close to the night attack troops guarding the city in front.
"General, wait a minute! If the enemy passes by the city, we must not continue to pursue them!" Tian Feng on the side shouted anxiously. He knew that Qu Yi was very brave, but he was also worried that he would fall into the trap set by the enemy because of his greed for military merit.
Qu Yi turned to look at Tian Feng, nodded slightly, and waved the sword in his hand, indicating that he understood what the other party meant.
Soon, Qu Yi led the army and successfully caught up with the night attack troops of the defenders.
However, seeing that they could not escape Qu Yi's pursuit, this elite night attack team decisively chose to go around the city and head straight south towards the city of Antiphis.
Qu Yi pondered in his heart and remembered Tian Feng's previous warning, so he immediately ordered to stop the pursuit and led the troops back to the camp.
At the same time, the army defending the city, which had been lying in ambush outside to ambush Qu Yi, saw that their plan had failed. Their generals could no longer hold back their temper and decided to lead their troops to attack in an attempt to hunt down Qu Yi.
Who would have thought that this move would play into Qu Yi's hands. After being reminded by Tian Feng, he had already anticipated that the other party might use this trick and had made full preparations in advance.
After a fierce battle, the ambush troops defending the city suffered a crushing defeat and had to retreat in embarrassment.
"General, do you want to press on and pursue the victory?" a deputy general asked excitedly.
Qu Yi calmly shook his head and said, "No need, let's go back to the city for now."
Although he still had a desire for military merit in his heart, he tried hard to restrain his greed and recklessness and withdrew his troops back to the camp.
As a result of the night attack by the defenders, most of the siege equipment of Gao Lan's army was severely damaged.
Faced with such a dilemma, Gao Lan had no choice but to use local materials and rush to rebuild siege equipment in preparation for subsequent battles.
When the city defenders saw that Gao Lan's army could actually build siege equipment on the spot, the city was filled with haze and people were in panic.