Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

Then who can rely on, isn't it only Aragorn?

"That's it. Before Aragon's reinforcements arrive, I hope you can stick to the city walls and don't let those dirty undead step into Naples." The Queen looked at Sergian in disappointment and shook her head. Returned to his room.

She is getting old, and she can only spare a little time every day to deal with political affairs.

"Obey, my queen. I won't let the enemy disturb you." Caciola bowed slightly to the back of Jeanne II, and then looked at Sergian with a proud face, "During the war, the supplies on the front line Supplies depend on you, Your Excellency Sergian. If I hear soldiers complaining that they are not getting enough supplies and wages, don't blame me for charging Her Majesty the Queen with malfeasance!"

Cacciola's attitude caused a surge of anger in Sergian's heart.However, no matter how angry he was, he could only swallow his anger at this time.Even, he is still considering how to ease the relationship with Cacciola, and then build a relationship with Alfonso V.

After all, Naples will usher in its new king, and this person is likely to be Alfonso V.

Cacciola, who won a big political victory in the court, stepped onto the battlefield with confidence and began to command the defense of Naples.

He believed that the undead pirates only came to plunder the coast, and would not really attack well-defended cities.When the opponent realizes that the city's resistance is fierce and the loss is greater than the gain, they will retreat on their own.

But even if the undead pirates dared to attack the city, Kaziola believed that he could defend the city, and when Aragorn's reinforcements arrived, they could join forces to drive the undead away.

At that time, this big victory will bring him unparalleled prestige, maybe after Alfonso V becomes the king of Naples, he can still be a governor.

However, Cacciola's sweet dream was quickly shattered under the ferocious attack of the undead pirates.

This time, Count Noctis seems to be determined to win Naples, the largest city in southern Italy with a population of tens of thousands.

In the army he sent, in addition to a large number of zombie sailors, there are also a large number of troops that can play a role in siege warfare.For example, he dispatched all the remaining two Necromancer Colossi.In addition to this, there are hundreds of dire bats.

These air units can not only attack the defenders on the city wall from top to bottom.If the flight distance is less than three kilometers, they can also grab the zombie sailors and carry out surprise attacks, projecting troops directly into the city walls.

Moreover, this time Earl Noctis deliberately let the fleet sail into the port, and then supported the siege with naval guns.

Under the fierce artillery fire and the enemy's open-air offensive, the Naples defenders were miserable.In just the first day of fighting, more than 500 people were killed or injured, and the city wall actually missed three times.If it hadn't been for Cacciola to organize professionals who have mastered extraordinary powers, and with the divine support of the priests, launched several counterattacks and took back the city wall, maybe Jeanna II would have already taken advantage of it at this time. Get into the carriage and turn south.

The next morning, Cacciola, who had only slept for a few hours, came to the palace to report the battle situation to Jeanne II.

His cloak was badly torn, and the shiny armor was damaged in several places, and his face was covered with blood and black ash.After the other nobles saw his appearance, they stepped forward to inquire, feeling worried.

Caciola ignored the nobles, bowed to Jeanne II, and said, "Good morning, Your Royal Highness. After a day and night of hard work, we have repelled the cursed army of the dead. The defense line is still intact, and Naples is still safe. Now, the peasants are rushing to repair the city wall, the soldiers are hurrying to rest, and the artisans are working overtime to produce weapons. Everything is in order. Please rest assured that your army will be able to hold on to Aragon Reinforcements are coming."

King Jeanne II was well aware of Cacciola's character of reporting good things but not bad ones, and asked, "My military chief, is the battle going as smoothly as you said? Looking at you, the front line does not seem to be easy."

Cacciola was about to answer when Sergian, his mortal enemy, immediately interjected: "Your Highness, Cacciola is lying! I am in charge of supplying supplies to the front line. Three hundred body bags have been used up, and a quarter of the herbal medicine has been consumed. Churches and monasteries in various places in the city have accommodated more than 250 wounded soldiers. How could the battle go smoothly with such a heavy loss? In this situation, how many more days can we hold on? Your Highness, I suggest you evacuate Naples immediately. Those cruel undead will not accept surrender, they will only kill all the living, and then transform the flesh and blood into undead magic power It's too dangerous for you to stay in Naples!"

Jeanne II looked at Rakiola: "Military Chief, is what Sergian said true?"

Cacciola couldn't help bragging at this time, so he could only nod his head.But then he said again: "Your Highness, although we have suffered heavy losses, so have the enemy. The offensive of the undead has weakened today. Doesn't this explain the problem? Although the loss of personnel is a bit large, as long as the city council starts to mobilize Militia, we will soon make up for the loss. As long as you are still in Naples, the soldiers know that they are fighting for the queen, and they still have the courage to face those terrible undead."

"You are making fun of Your Highness's life!" Sergian scolded angrily, and then said, "My queen, you should retreat inland and go to the castle of Benevento, which is not far from Naples. You can let the soldiers and civilians in the city know that you are still supporting them from the rear. If you are really worried about the morale of the army, it is better to publicize the brutality and ruthlessness of the undead pirates. As long as the people know that there is no possibility of survival after the city falls, they will definitely fight bravely fighting!"

The two started arguing again.

It's just that the place of dispute today is no longer whether to ask for help from Aragon, or to ask for help from the French.Sergian had given up on the Provence faction, and was only devoted to earning a performance in front of the Queen.

Just when the two lovers were quarreling, there was suddenly a blue light shining outside the window on the sea side of the hall.

"Look, what's going on?" A group of nobles ran to the window one after another and set up a pergola to look towards the port.

I saw that the black fortress moored far away in the open sea suddenly began to emit a strange blue light, illuminating most of the city.

The Queen of Naples looked solemn, and suddenly noticed that Cacciola's face was pale and her lips were trembling.

She hurriedly asked: "Military advisor, you know the situation of undead pirates best, what does that blue light mean?"

Cacciola replied tremblingly: "I heard from the people of Provence that there is an extremely terrifying magic weapon placed on the Necromancer Black Fort, which can destroy a thousand-ton giant ship with one blow. Blowing through the city wall is no problem at all... Unexpectedly, the enemy would use this kind of weapon to attack Naples."

"Napoli can't hold it anymore, Your Highness, please evacuate immediately!" Sergian shouted immediately.

It was good that he didn't speak, but when he opened his mouth, it immediately caused a chaos.

The Naples nobles screamed and ran towards the exit, and soon there was a stampede.When the disaster is imminent, they fly separately, and no one cares about the queen's safety.

Sergian also knew that he had said the wrong thing.In order to earn performance, he immediately ran in front of Jeanne II, lifted the queen's arm, and rushed out to protect her.

Just when there was chaos in the hall, and the voices of crying father and mother came one after another, the blue light outside the window gradually disappeared.

Not long after, an attendant who reported the message squeezed into the hall from the crowded doorway, looked at the surrounding nobles who had lost their dignity with a strange expression, and then said a piece of news that made people puzzled: "Your Highness, my lords! , According to the news from the front, the undead are withdrawing their troops."

"what?"

Cacciola, who has personally experienced how powerful the undead attack is on the front line and how large the number of enemy troops are, finds it hard to believe this news.

Looking at the enemy's formation, it is obvious that they are coming out in force and want to capture Naples in one go. Why do they give up everything at the moment when Fort Black is about to destroy the city wall?

He still didn't believe it. He lay down in front of the window and observed the port, until he found huge corrupted demon crabs diving back into the sea, and then swam to the undead fleet moored in the distance. Then he accepted this reality.

The crisis that the kingdom's capital is about to fall is resolved like this?

Not only the nobles, but even Her Majesty the Queen was dizzy at this time, unable to figure out the situation.

Suddenly, Sergian, who was holding her arm, suddenly said loudly: "I understand! This must be the work of the Marquis of La Manche! Do you all remember his reply yesterday? His Excellency Cacciola reprimanded the Marquis for his reply. Just a joke, what about now? As the Marquis said, after only one day, the Undead Fleet withdrew!"

Sergian, who just regarded Alfonso V as the only savior of Naples, has now become a staunch Provencal faction and a supporter of the Marquis of La Manche.

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"Sir, the retreat of the undead pirate fleet is really due to the Sirisians?" Jeanne II asked doubtfully.

"Sure!" Sergian nodded resolutely, "Don't forget, Corsica, the home of those undead pirates, is very close to Provence. The Marquis of La Manche must have sent troops to attack while the undead pirate fleet was heading south. Corsica. After the undead pirates got the news, they had to give up their plan to attack Naples."

"really?"

"Of course. This kind of clever strategy to help us escape without sending reinforcements must be derived from the wisdom of the mysterious East. Isn't the Marquis of La Manche's method a hundred times better than Alfonso V? Your Royal Highness, Now you should see clearly, who is the best decision to choose as the heir, right?"

Sergian, who has cultivated his repeated horizontal jumping skills to the master level, became the number one horse blower in Naples at this time, and gave a hype preaching, leaving a "Marquis of Lamanche" to the nobles of Naples, including Jeanne II. omnipotent" impression.

And Sergian's deadly enemy, Cacciola, kept silent at this time, but his eyes were rolling around, and he was thinking about his future plans: "Aragorn is dead. It's not that Alfonso V is incompetent." , but the Serisians are too powerful. It seems that I have to change my position and join the Provence faction again. Moreover, I must be more active than Sergian in order to win the favor of the future king..."

"Send a letter to Tarascon Castle in a while, asking if it is true that, as Sergian speculated, because the Marquis of La Manche launched an attack on Corsica, the Dead Souls pirates had to retreat. If it is true, then after the situation settles down, arrange for me to meet the Marquis of La Manche. By the way, let the Duchess of Anjou come with her, and it is best to bring René's eldest son, John." Jeanne II said.

The queen's words can be said to be the final conclusion of Anjou's dispute over the succession of Aragon.After realizing the changes in the situation, even the other nobles whose repeated horizontal jumping skills were not as good as Sergian and Cacciola began to think about how to please the future master of the kingdom.

Not to mention the Neapolitan nobles who are thinking about how to be a qualified licking dog.In the Black Castle of the Undead, which was returning north, the tall Earl Noctis was passing through the crystal ball with a gloomy face, receiving the battle report from Corsica.

The magic communication system on the earth is still quite backward, expensive and complicated, and it can only transmit text.And the magic communication system brought by Earl Noctis from another world is not only more convenient, but also transmits images and sounds at the same time, which is far more advanced.

Isn't it natural for such an advanced civilization to conquer these backward aborigines on the earth?

However, when he first came to Earth, the confidence in Earl Noctos's heart has almost diminished now.

After the failure of Scipio Port, he changed his strategy. Instead of attacking and harassing the human coast, he concentrated on managing the territory on Corsica Island and looking for local allies everywhere.

In the past few months, both goals have actually been accomplished very well.In terms of allies, Count Noctos has the support of the Sons of Salt Mist Pirates.Although the opponent's fleet is not strong enough, the Son of Salt Mist himself has the power to control the sea, which has provided great help to Earl Noctis.

On the other hand, the coastal towns on the island of Corsica have all fallen.The remaining human beings all evacuated to the mountains in the interior of the island, lingering on their last legs.

The undead army, which does not need supplies and is not affected by morale, is not afraid of guerrilla warfare.No matter how stubbornly human beings resist, there will only be an ending of complete annihilation and transformation into undead.

After destroying several large towns on the island, Earl Noctos built tombs, corpse pits, bone burial grounds, howling towers, devil crab hatching nests and other buildings, and began to use the magic power of the undead accumulated after the massacre, Transform corpses into various undead to enrich the army.

The effect of this farming is still very good.Except for the undead colossus, which is a top undead war machine that cannot be manufactured, Earl Noctos' undead army has expanded a lot in scale.

Originally there were 5 residents on the island of Corsica, but now half of them have been massacred by the undead.And the [-] dead humans, according to Earl Noctos' estimation, can be transformed into about [-] undead.The size of this army is already comparable to that of European powers.In addition, Earl Noctis is still vigorously salvaging the human ships that were sunk in the waters around Corsica before, and using necromantic magic to transform them into undead warships.He even purchased more than a dozen human ships as raw materials through the relationship of the Son of Salt Mist.

Therefore, when attacking Naples in the south, the size of the Undead Fleet will expand to hundreds of ships.

It will take about a month to convert the remaining corpses on hand into undead.However, Earl Noctis took precautions. Looking at the ever-shrinking corpse pit, he decided to get a large number of corpses for storage first, so as to avoid the situation of "lack of raw materials leading to the shutdown of the production line".

If Ma Youfu knew what Earl Noctos was thinking, he would definitely "praise" him: he is really an old capitalist.

The reason why Count Noctis chose Naples as his target is also because the kingdom is far away from the densely populated and wealthy North Italy region that can receive support from neighboring powers at any time.Its land passage to the north was blocked by the Papal State, which had a bad relationship, and it was quite difficult to obtain external support.

The only Kingdom of Aragon capable of supporting Naples nearby, its navy is not an opponent of the Undead Fleet.

As long as the densely populated city of Naples is captured quickly and a large number of corpses are obtained, Earl Noctis' military strength will be able to usher in another leap forward in the near future.

At that time, maybe he will be able to gather an army of over 6 undead.That is a number that any European country will tremble when it sees it.

But what Earl Noctos didn't expect was that after he had devoted himself to the development for a few months, the enemy stole his home when he attacked for the first time.

The defense of Naples was stronger than he expected. In order to capture the city as soon as possible and return with a full load before the Seven Saints reacted, Earl Noctis decided to use the precious prism magic cannon to blast away Naples. city ​​walls.

Unexpectedly, at this critical moment, he received an urgent report from Ajaccio, which has become a stronghold of the undead: the human army is landing on Corsica on a large scale under the cover of the fleet's artillery fire!

Before, Earl Noctis used necromantic magic to create two black knights and a corpse.These three high-level undead with intelligence and independent will can serve as assistants to Earl Noctis, helping him control the army and manage the territory.

Earl Noctis left them in Corsica, intending for these newly born subordinates to slowly accumulate experience and increase wisdom.

Perhaps in time, these high-level undead can grow into their capable subordinates.But now, they are as immature as chicks.

The human troops that landed in Corsica were crusaders who were about to participate in the Southern Expedition, and their morale, equipment, and training were higher than ordinary human troops.And leading this army is the saint of France, as well as veteran generals such as La Haile who grew up in the Hundred Years War.

Ajaccio fell in a day.The various undead buildings built by Earl Noctis with great effort were destroyed one by one, and the breath of undead in the city was purified one by one by the priests of the Seven Saints.The corpses that Earl Noctos regarded as precious raw materials were also burned clean by the raging fire.

Of the [-] crusaders who landed on Corsica, Joan left [-] stationed in Ajaccio, and then led the rest of the army northward, preparing to clean up the coastline ravaged by the undead one by one in a counterclockwise direction.

Earl Noctis couldn't just sit back and watch his base camp be destroyed. He could only give up the attack on Naples at the most critical moment unwillingly, and led the army of undead back to help.

After Earl Noctis learned about the battle on Corsica last night through the crystal ball, he sat down on the sofa with a gloomy face, poured himself a glass of bloody wine, and drank it all in one gulp.

The situation was worse than I thought. The so-called saint was really powerful. She led the army to march northward overnight, and arrived in Karges at five o'clock in the morning. After only one hour, she captured two thousand undead The guarded town destroyed the Black Stone Soul Tower in the city.

The Black Stone Soul Tower is an important building used by Earl Noctos to refine the soul and collect the magic power of the undead!

But Earl Noctis, who was distressed, also received good news.The black knight Vann under his command is gathering troops at Monticello at the northern tip of Corsica to build a defense line.

"Van En is very smart. He did not choose to fight head-on with the fiercely attacking enemy, but chose to stand by and wait for reinforcements. He is very talented. Maybe in the future, when he grows up, he can become an outstanding general..."

After praising his subordinates, Earl Noctis also made a decision.He was going to lead the fleet to land west of Monticello, and the time was chosen when the human army launched an attack on Monticello.

Then flank back and forth to wipe out all the enemies!

Just as Count Noctis was considering the battle plan, Strozzi walked in.

"Oh, Mr. Strozzi, good morning. Have you got any useful information?"

"Of course." Strozzi sat down in front of Count Noctis, poured himself a glass of wine specially provided by vampires, and drank it without changing his face.

"Haha, you are really bold. Human beings who can drink this kind of wine without shyness are rare. It seems that deep down in your heart, you are also a noble vampire."

"No, I am a descendant of a god who is superior to the undead and humans..." Strozzi secretly said.

Chapter 410 Monte Cristo

After drinking, Strozzi chatted with Earl Noctis about the business: "The Celestian fleet is patrolling the waters east of Corsica. They hope to stop us on the way back, and we cannot return. Help Monticello."

Glancing at the place pointed by Strozzi on the map, the vampire lord laughed disdainfully: "The human fleet actually tried to stop me? It seems that they have forgotten how terrible my black castle is."

He didn't doubt the authenticity of the information provided by Strozzi, he just laughed at the other party for being too cowardly.

Strozzi also noticed this, and smiled inwardly: "I finally gained the trust of this undead."