#91 - Chapter 91 Reluctance and Surprise

Ten hours before Wu Wei's retreat.

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“Thump!” “Thump!” “Thump!”

Hearing the huge footsteps coming from behind, Li Sinuo said with some despair.

“Oh my god, Su Yingxue, Wu Wei's demon army is catching up again!”

“My Silver Radiance Knights can't hold on anymore, please save us!”

“Hurry, hurry, hurry!”

Hearing Li Sinuo's words, Su Yingxue, who was in the rear dispatching other troops, felt completely helpless.

“Li Sinuo, didn't you say you wanted to compete with Wu Wei? Why are you collapsing after only two hours!”

“Stop talking nonsense, quickly let your Holy Knight Legion save my Silver Radiance Knights!” Li Sinuo almost cried out, “If this continues, not only will the city be breached, but my Knights will be wiped out!”

When Wu Wei's army first arrived in Su Yingxue's territory, Li Sinuo was indeed full of confidence.

At that time, she couldn't even be described as confident, but rather arrogant to the extreme.

She not only strongly rejected Su Yingxue's proposal to hold firm, but even after Su Yingxue explicitly told her not to leave the city, she still sent her Silver Radiance Knights to actively hinder Wu Wei's advance towards Ruhr City.

In Li Sinuo's view, her Silver Radiance Knights were very effective against Wu Wei's army, which was mainly composed of foot soldiers.

After all, the Silver Radiance Knights, an advanced variant of heavy cavalry, had special warrior status with both movement speed and armor bonuses, and Wu Wei's army was advancing on a plain suitable for cavalry charges.

As long as the heavy cavalry charged, Wu Wei's army would be scattered!

So no matter how you looked at it, Wu Wei's demon army could not possibly gain any advantage from Li Sinuo.

But when Li Sinuo actually engaged with Wu Wei's demon army, everything changed.

Because Wu Wei's battle formations and strategies were not only incomprehensible to Li Sinuo,

but even Wu Wei's soldiers puzzled her.

Clearly, these demons appeared chaotic under Li Sinuo's observation.

But under Wu Wei's forced orders, they displayed a combat instinct even stronger than professional soldiers.

In the very first contact, Li Sinuo discovered that these warriors lacked the feeling of fear.

Even when the Silver Radiance Knights' charge was right in front of them, the demons remained in a state of extreme excitement.

Even when the Silver Radiance Knights had crushed the first wave of demons, the subsequent demons ignored the casualties in the front row and continued to charge with their flesh and blood towards the unstoppable Silver Radiance Knights.

Even during this process, it was not uncommon for the demons in front to be used as demonic meat shields by the demons behind, pushed forward to resist the charge from the Knights.

Wu Wei's warriors, like their lord, were inhuman monsters.

Even more terrifying was that the weapons of these demon warriors led by the Plague Twins were also somewhat different from common weapons.

Their weapons were all "plague enchanted"!

These weapons, which in Li Sinuo's eyes were worse than scrap metal, could actually kill a Silver Radiance Knight in his prime with only a tiny wound.

Moreover, the Silver Radiance Knights who were injured by these weapons were basically beyond the reach of even battlefield priests!

Because unlike the plagues actively released by Wu Wei, the demons led by the Plague Twins were basically walking pathogen.

The number of plague variants they possessed on their bodies and in their vicinity had reached a level that mortals could not even imagine.

While relieving the torment of one disease, countless other plagues ravaged these mortals' bodies.

So when Li Sinuo realized this, she immediately ordered her Silver Radiance Knights to retreat, trying to distance themselves from the enemy as much as possible.

But at this moment, Wu Wei's counterattack had already arrived.

At the moment the Silver Radiance Knights charged, the entire army's formation had already begun to develop into a U-shape.

In other words, although Li Sinuo believed that her army's charge had not penetrated deeply, in reality, these Knights had already stepped half a foot into Wu Wei's encirclement.

If they lingered for a moment longer, they would be caught in a real hard battle.

However, Li Sinuo was also excellent in battle command. Compared to Li Mengmeng back then, her greatest strength was decisiveness.

Seeing that her retreat route was constantly shrinking, she no longer demanded an attack. Instead, she personally led her Silver Radiance Knights to turn around on the spot and directly counter-charge in the direction they came from.

This time, even if Wu Wei wanted to carry out an encirclement operation, it would be futile.

After all, this area was a plain, not a swamp, so after a charge, Li Sinuo led her Silver Radiance Knights out of Wu Wei's army.

But this was not the end.

Because Wu Wei was about to begin his pursuit!

First were the Trent Demons.

These cunning demons flying in the sky, under Wu Wei's command, swooped down in a near-suicidal manner, dragging one Silver Radiance Knight after another off their horses.

These demons, like the demons on the ground, were all pathogens infected by the Plague Twins.

Their purpose was not to directly kill the Silver Radiance Knights.

On the contrary, their purpose was very simple, to drag them off their horses.

Because during the march, the Knights who were dragged down by the Laurent Demons would be caught up by the demons behind and then cruelly killed.

Even more deadly was that these Laurent Demons, under Wu Wei's instructions, specifically targeted high-value targets hidden in the army.

Such as accompanying priests, rare mages, and leaders of various squads.

This was a constant bleeding process, and also a very cruel process.

When Li Sinuo gritted her teeth and finally pulled her Knights to a safe distance, preparing to formally eliminate the Laurent Demons, the Laurent Demons flew away.

Flew away!

Li Sinuo, gnashing her teeth, looked at the laughing Laurent Demons in the sky, almost grinding her teeth to pieces.

However, the situation of her warriors was not optimistic either.

Because many of the Silver Radiance warriors had fallen into various diseases.

Originally, the evacuation point she should have gone to was another small town behind Ruhr City.

That was the safe area given by Su Yingxue.

But considering the distance between Ruhr City and the other small town, many of the Silver Radiance Knights might not be able to survive the distance.

So Li Sinuo chose to enter this city, first gathering a large number of priests and apothecaries to heal her Silver Radiance Knights.

But what she did not expect was.

Shortly after she entered the city, Wu Wei actually began to besiege the city.

Even though Wu Wei's army was also damaged, he still chose to forcibly attack the city!

Moreover, during this process, in order to ensure higher stamina, Wu Wei actually chose to have his warriors devour each other before attacking the city.

This terrifying scene shocked the warriors belonging to Su Yingxue and Li Sinuo's side in the city.

Even they who had seen the cruelty of war had never thought that they would one day see such a hellish situation.

Countless foul-smelling demons were torn to pieces by their demon compatriots in front of their eyes, and then swallowed into their stomachs.

And the remaining foul-smelling organs and offal were not wasted at all.

Because Wu Wei actually established an Abyssal Portal outside the city gate in front of Li Sinuo!

The siege engines that walked out of this indestructible portal were built by demon artisans.

Although the stones thrown by these siege engines could not break through the walls of Ruhr City at all, Wu Wei's purpose was never the city walls.

His real goal was to use siege engines to throw those foul-smelling organs and offal carrying various plagues into Ruhr City!

At the same time, plague flies parasitic on these organs and offal also arrived.

In just a few hours, Ruhr City, which had finally emerged from the plague, once again felt the power of the plague.

And this time, the types of plagues that attacked may have exceeded the city's population itself.....

Just as Li Sinuo was preparing to defend the city to the death, trying to block Wu Wei's attack as much as possible, waiting for Su Yingxue's reinforcements.

The most devastating scene appeared before her eyes.

Five or six newly manufactured Giant Demons walked out of the portal.

These super-era demons with armor thicker than the Silver Radiance Knights, ignored a large number of archers, and began to slowly pierce through the defense of Ruhr City like machines.

The armor that grew together with their bodies and flesh was no longer something that weapons of this era could easily destroy, and even the steam cannons of the next era could only injure them....

So, the increasingly desperate Li Sinuo finally began to call for Su Yingxue's help.

Having messed up once, she didn't want to completely mess up everything.

After all, from the beginning, the task Su Yingxue gave her was not to confront Wu Wei head-on.

Su Yingxue's task for her was to have her send the Silver Radiance Knights to follow behind Wu Wei's army.

Because once Wu Wei had the idea of attacking the city, Li Sinuo could successfully use her Knights to contain this army and prevent his attack.

This was the true purpose of this powerful heavy cavalry in Su Yingxue's eyes.

However, due to Li Sinuo's unwillingness to accept, the current situation was somewhat different.

Not only did the Silver Radiance Knights suffer casualties too early, but their current situation was also somewhat bad.

Wu Wei's demon army had surrounded the Silver Radiance Knights' garrison.

These Knights, who could have exerted their full strength on the plains, could only watch the demons outside the city shivering.

“Sigh...”

Su Yingxue was also speechless at this best friend's recklessness.

However, she could still understand Li Sinuo, after all, the other party had never fought Wu Wei before, and it was normal to have unwilling thoughts.

But just as Su Yingxue had mobilized her army, preparing for a rescue.

The message from Li Sinuo stunned her.

“Um, dear Xiaoxue, you don't need to come to support~”

At first, when Su Yingxue heard this sentence, she thought that Ruhr City had been breached, and there was no need to save the Silver Radiance Knights.

However, Li Sinuo's words that followed made Su Yingxue think she had misheard for a moment.

“That... Wu Wei's side has retreated!”