Chapter 162 Attack
Go back to the previous day.

Norton Duchy, near the Fallen Leaf Trail.

"Go, the master is watching you!"

"This is the will of the great red dragon!"

"For the Burning Kingdom!"

Doro is leading hundreds of hobgoblins and bugbears to march rapidly along a special route. Their mission is to capture the capital of the Principality of Norton, Kenyaza, as quickly as possible.

Although it is called a principality, the territory of the Principality of Norton is not even as large as some powerful principalities. There are only three cities in the whole country, and three quarters of the country's population is concentrated in the city established with the assistance of the Principality of Bosk - the city of Kenyaza. The name means "the place of rise" in Scandinavian, which implies the earnest expectations of the Principality of Norton.

There were nearly 20,000 people in this city. Once it was captured, the entire Principality of Norton would basically be destroyed. The strategy of the Burning Embers Kingdom was to use a "blitzkrieg" to attack the capital of the Principality of Norton and capture it directly.

To this end, they brought with them ten cannons, which were powerful siege weapons built by the players of the Storm Arsenal working overtime.

Fortunately, the power of the Dragon Vein Earth Elves is strong enough that they can march quickly even with artillery and not be dragged down by it.

The bugbears following Doro were somewhat puzzled:
"Sir, are these broken iron pipes really useful? I feel like they are not as good as the big stick in my hand."

"What an ignorant fellow."

"Hehe, you'll see it soon."

"This is a real symbol of blood and fire."

Dolo grinned and sounded quite excited.

After experiencing many large-scale wars and tasting the sweetness of firearms, this earth elf who is well versed in warfare has become a thorough "reformist" and even became friends with Iron Tide, the president of the Mechanicus.

The defenders, who had never experienced this kind of war, had no idea of ​​the danger coming, and had not even discovered the well-hidden, blind-spotted army of the Burning Kingdom.

The well-trained hobgoblin soldiers set up their artillery positions, performed calibrations, and quickly completed their preparations.

The hobgoblin skirmishers wait in anticipation of their opportunity, ready to march.

Doro wiped the blood-fire battle axe in his hand, tore off a piece of flesh stuck on it, and then shouted loudly:

"fire!"

The hobgoblins followed orders and placed the shells inside.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The cannons roared, sending bursts of thunder across the earth.

The bugbear was so frightened that he covered his ears and collapsed to the ground, muttering, "What a powerful iron pipe."

"Humph, coward."

"You don't need to be a valet anymore."

Doro glanced at him with disdain and spoke in a contemptuous tone.

The bear goblin who is afraid of even artillery fire is not worthy of being the bodyguard of his general, the Burning Cinders Kingdom!

"Hahahaha!"

"That's it! Blow them up!"

Dolo laughed heartily, feeling the wonderful smell of gunpowder in the air. Even the loud gunfire could not cover up his laughter.

The Principality of Norton had previously sent most of its troops to join the coalition, and now there are only less than a thousand defenders on the city walls.

The defenders on the city wall had never seen such a scene before, with the sound of cannons and flames flying everywhere.

They only saw blurry shadows passing across the sky, and then their vision was filled with the flames of explosions.

Many soldiers on the city walls were killed in the explosion, while most of the rest were still in a state of panic, not even realizing that war was coming.

"Oh, gods... Is this divine punishment?"

"What exactly is this?"

"what!"

"Where is the enemy?"

After hundreds of years of "assimilation" and "taming" by the Principality of Bosk, these former barbarians have lost the bravery, fighting skills and fearlessness of death in their ancestors' blood.

Artillery shells poured down on the city walls indiscriminately. Under the baptism of artillery fire, the city walls that had stood for hundreds of years collapsed, leaving a gap several meters wide.

This is enough.

"Charge!" Duo Luo picked up the blood-fire battle axe with one hand and shouted sternly: "Follow me to attack the city! Crush them!"

He rushed to the front of the team and leaped into the gap with a big leap. He swung the giant axe and turned it around, and more than a dozen defenders blocking the way were cut in half.

"monster!"

"Help!"

"Oh my god, it's the jealous war maniac Doro!"

"It's the army of the Burning Cinders Kingdom!"

When Dolo heard this ridiculous title, he became even more angry. He jumped dozens of meters to catch up with him and smashed the rude human into a meat patty with the axe.

"I'm Doro!"

"The most powerful general under the great Red Dragon!"

"It will also be your eternal nightmare!"

Doro swung his battle axe and roared in frustration.

The earth elf sword and shield soldiers followed closely behind, hacking and killing the defenders on the city wall, wantonly venting their long-suppressed desire for killing.

"Damn, these monsters!"

"I can't kill them at all!"

"Is that a scale?"

Under the lightning attack of the Burning Kingdom, the defenders on the city wall collapsed and fled in panic.

The hobgoblin skirmishers behind him raised their spears, and following the sergeant's order of "free fire", they opened fire one after another, shooting at the heads exposed on the city wall, causing many defenders to fall off the wall.

Soon, the nearly 1,000 defenders were completely wiped out.

Until now, this battle can no longer be called a battle, it is simply a one-sided massacre.

And this took just an hour.

To put it in more common terms, it might take more than an hour to kill a thousand pigs, but the army of the Burning Kingdom managed to kill all the defenders in one hour.

Among them, Duo Luo turned into a killing machine and killed at least a hundred people with his own hands.

"There's a problem on the city wall!"

"What happened outside?"

"It seems there is an enemy!"

"I thought I heard thunder."

"Damn it, what happened?"

The residents in the city hadn't even realized what was happening and were still in panic. They didn't know that the city had been broken.

But soon, they understood this.

A loud dragon roar was heard in the sky.

"Roar--"

A ferocious flaming illusion of a red dragon appeared above the city. Its golden pupils overlooked the earth, and its wings were like a leaping sea of ​​flames, ready to burn the entire city to ashes.

"Gods above..."

"What kind of monster is this!"

"I, I know what that is..."

“Is that the legendary purgatory disaster?
People were frightened by the giant dragon shadow in the sky, and fell into panic and fear, and the crowd was in an uproar.

“Hello, residents of Kenyaza.”

The monster in the air actually spoke slowly, its voice was heavy and majestic, and extremely oppressive.

"I'm here to inform you."

"From now on, there will no longer be any so-called Principality of Norton, only the Kingdom of Burning Embers."

"Everyone, welcome to the Burning Kingdom."

(End of this chapter)