Chapter 7 Three Walls Broken

Three of the seven city walls had already been breached, and Fang Senyan and his forces were now charging towards the fourth.

A person's character might allow them to endure, retreat repeatedly, or even give up, and call it bearing humiliation for a greater purpose. However, the Human Alliance, having already retreated to the fifth city wall, could retreat no further. Another step back meant preparing for their own graves.

At this distance, both sides were within firing range. After Aziz, who had been lying in ambush, shot and killed seven ordinary soldiers in a row, the Human Alliance had no choice but to order a halt to normal patrols, replacing them with elite forces.

They were already in a desperate situation and couldn't afford any more losses. Each fallen soldier not only weakened their own strength but also turned into contribution points for the enemy, further increasing the enemy's power in a vicious cycle.

Faced with Fang Senyan's aggressive attacks, the Human Alliance had no better option than to urgently repair the walls. After all, the walls of Minas Tirith, except for the first, were riddled with huge holes that hadn't been properly filled in centuries. Would this last-minute effort be useful? Of course, it would! But how useful was difficult to say.

At this moment, Oliphaunt was once again covered from head to toe in thick armor, lumbering forward. Although using flesh and blood to impact a solid city wall was a very "damaging" act, Oliphaunt had done such things before. Moreover, they had at least three MTs (Main Tanks) buffing him before each impact.

So, after about an hour of recovery, and with the alluring power of "being able to court females even outside of mating season," Oliphaunt made a spirited comeback and arrived at the foot of the fourth city wall, ready to start his run-up.

The fourth city wall was covered with mottled marks and even traces of smoke and fire. These were left by the people who had lived in Minas Tirith for hundreds of years. The clear cracks were even more obvious.

Under the protection of the first city wall, the peace here had been too long. The people living here treated the inner walls as the walls of their houses, a support for their furniture, stone barriers against sewage and cold... Thus, the damage caused by time and the residents to this wall had accumulated for hundreds of years, and now it was time for them to pay the price.

Oliphaunt's heavy footsteps shook the earth. Another fierce impact caused the fourth city wall to emit a terrifying groan. Then, broken stones tumbled down. The building materials might have been indestructible hundreds of years ago, but now, after being relentlessly weathered by time and space, they could no longer withstand the onslaught of metal and brute force.

The Human Alliance couldn't stand idly by as this happened, and they began to pour fire toward the wall. If the fourth wall were to fall, it would mean the enemy was at the city gates!

In fact, if they succeeded, the path from the first wall to the fifth wall would be a quick passage of only four hundred meters. If the walls were intact, they would have to travel several kilometers along a bow-shaped road to achieve the same goal.

At this point, it was a contest of endurance. Umbar pirates and the half-orcs that had been exchanged for served as the best fillers, protecting the flanks and absorbing the enemy's attacks. Oliphaunt charged six times to break through the fourth wall, taking half an hour. To achieve this, Fang Senyan and his men paid a huge price: two hundred Umbar pirates, one hundred and eighty half-orcs, and four trolls were killed.

What followed was a familiar night battle. Darkness might have no effect on freaks like Legolas, but for most archers, darkness was still an unavoidable enemy.

The first to attack was none other than Fang Senyan, who had somehow sneaked under the city wall. Although he lacked ranged attack abilities, the spreading Type-V virus had successfully infected a large number of defenders on the wall. Coughing and cries of pain could be heard everywhere. In addition, the remaining two Ringwraiths continued to dive from the air, using their terrifying howls to harass the defenders. The combination of these two factors suppressed at least a third of the enemy's combat power!

While the defenders were in disarray, the terrifying Oliphaunt suddenly charged out and crashed heavily into the fifth city wall!

The decisive battle for Minas Tirith had begun.

Without a doubt, this was a bloody battle, a battle in which neither side had much room to retreat.

The intensity of the battle could be seen from the fact that Fang Senyan was beaten to the brink of death three times! However, each time he narrowly escaped thanks to the Life Link with Reef.

And this was despite the fact that most of the enemy's attacks were ranged, and Fang Senyan had the added bonus of the freakish Porcupine title. Even so, it couldn't stop the enemy from focusing their fire on Fang Senyan.

Because once he approached the city wall, the terrifying virus aura had such a painful impact on the archers that they couldn't bear it. If Fang Senyan couldn't be driven away in time, the resulting impact on combat power would be impossible to ignore.

Initially, it was because of their carelessness that the powerful Oliphaunt crashed into the wall three times in a row, creating huge breaches. If it were to happen again, the wall would definitely be breached.

So, they had to take countermeasures in advance, using an ancient magic scroll to seal Oliphaunt. The seal, disturbed by Sauron's fury, would only last for less than two hours, and after being released, Oliphaunt would be at his strongest.

This act of drinking poison to quench thirst meant that the defenders had to repel the enemy's attack within two hours and inflict heavy damage on them. Otherwise, the enraged Oliphaunt would cause devastating damage, and they would have no choice but to retreat to the sixth wall! But this retreat would mean that the morale they had worked so hard to build would be completely lost. More importantly, if they couldn't hold the fifth wall for even half a day, how could they hold the sixth wall for long?

Therefore, both sides threw all their forces into the ensuing bloody battle, fighting fiercely. Often, at least five or six soldiers would fall on the way to charge the wall, but if they succeeded in climbing the wall, a single Dark Alliance soldier could kill at least three archers who lacked close combat skills.

The bloody battle continued until dawn. The Human Alliance reached a consensus: the key to this battle was the magicized mammoth Oliphaunt, the only thing capable of threatening the city walls. So, after the fifth city wall was collapsed by Oliphaunt's impact, the Human Alliance, which had been building up its strength for a long time, launched a counterattack, determined to concentrate its forces and kill this behemoth at all costs!

At Fang Senyan's behest, the Dark Alliance became even more aggressive, launching a head-on attack. In the end, no one had expected the entire battle to unfold as it did!

Oliphaunt was successfully killed by the Human Alliance, and more importantly, none of the Human Alliance's main storyline heroes were lost. Even the casualties among the contractors were few. On the contrary, they also hunted down a Ringwraith, and several of Besivin's subordinates were killed.

The reason the Human Alliance achieved such results was not because the Dark Alliance suddenly had a brain malfunction, but because they, in turn, used Oliphaunt as bait, concentrating their efforts on targeting the ordinary soldiers. From the very beginning of the attack plan, the Human Alliance had intended to use these soldiers as cannon fodder!

So, in the early stages of the battle, they were complacent, thinking that the Dark Alliance had been caught off guard. But in the later stages of the battle, even if they clearly understood the other side's intentions, the Human Alliance couldn't stop! Could they abandon the half-dead Oliphaunt and retreat when the battle was so stalemated? Could they leave the Ringwraith with a broken leg and leave decisively?

Therefore, when dawn broke again over the city of Minas Tirith, blood had stained the top of the fifth city wall like a river. There was only one word to describe it: corpses everywhere.

The Human Alliance could be said to have succeeded. They not only achieved the victory they had planned in advance, killing Oliphaunt, who posed the greatest threat to the city walls, but also reaped additional benefits. In data terms, they had completed 130% of their planned objectives.

However, the price they paid was unbearable! At least two thousand five hundred ordinary city guards were killed in this raid! Their deaths were not without value, as they bought a lot of time for the main force's attack. However, if they could do it all over again, the Human Alliance would rather Legolas and Gimli die together than lose these two thousand five hundred men!

Because the total number of remaining defenders... was only three thousand!

The relationship between strong individuals and soldiers is like the relationship between a tree trunk and its leaves. Losing a few hundred leaves doesn't matter; the trunk is the foundation of support. But if a tree's leaves all fall off, it doesn't matter how intact the trunk and branches are; there is only one fate: death!

Fang Senyan's thinking remained very clear: to trade, and to implement it so thoroughly that he was even willing to do seemingly unprofitable things like using his elite units to exchange for the opponent's ordinary units.

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