#795 - Suicide Attack (asking for monthly ticket recommendation)

【Welcome to the Battlefield - Battle of Hastings, you have joined the attacking side, 'Duke William of Normandy'!】

【Please change your equipment within 5 minutes and follow the commander's instructions!】

When Harry woke up from the dizziness of the portal, he heard a prompt in his ear.

After looking around, he found himself in a classical military tent. A knight in medieval armor was standing in the center of the tent, surrounded by classmates who had entered together.

After a careful search, Harry saw familiar faces like Neville, Ginny, Cedric, and Percy, but Ron and Hermione were not among them.

"All hired wizards, listen up!" The knight in the center of the tent raised his visor and shouted, "Change your equipment as quickly as possible. Boys to the left changing room, girls to the right, then gather in front of me."

Everyone present immediately took action. It wasn't their first time entering a副本(fùběn), instance, dungeon), and the knight in the middle was obviously an NPC, maybe not even a real person.

Before long, everyone had changed their clothes. The so-called equipment was actually a full set of tactical gear, with a rough cloth robe embroidered with the Conqueror William's coat of arms on top. Besides their wands, they couldn't carry anything else.

Once everyone was assembled, the scene immediately took on a strong medieval atmosphere.

The knight at the head of the group then spoke indifferently, "According to the oath of King Harald of Norway, after he seized England, he would offer the throne to our monarch, Duke William. But Harald has broken his promise..."

"Wow, there's even a pre-battle mobilization and background introduction. This is much more interesting than the ruins instance," Ginny muttered excitedly, approaching Harry and Neville while the knight was talking on and on.

"It's my first time seeing this too," Harry said with a sense of novelty. "We're enemies as soon as we enter the instance together, that's really interesting."

"But listening to him talk so eloquently, could this battle we're about to participate in actually exist in reality?" Neville couldn't help but mutter in a low voice.

"Who cares about so much?" Ginny curled her lips in displeasure. "This guy is so long-winded. Wouldn't it be better if he just told us what to do?"

Harry and Neville exchanged wry smiles. Ginny seemed more like a violent maniac than they were.

After more than five minutes of rambling, everyone had a general understanding of the background and main purpose of the battle.

In short, King Edward of England died, and he had no children. King Harald of Norway and Duke William of Normandy both had the right to inherit the throne.

As a result, King Harald of Norway took the lead and occupied England. Now, Duke William is sending troops to seize the throne. The upcoming battle is the most crucial Battle of Hastings. Winning this battle will open the way to London.

Harry and his team joined Duke William's camp, which was the attacking side, while the opposing side was the defending side of Harald's camp.

What they had to do now was to seize the three strongholds in front of them, then capture the valley pass in the rear, and finally attack the enemy fortress. As long as they killed the defending general, they would win.

In addition, each stronghold they occupied could serve as their respawn point, and the initial respawn point was only the command post in front of them.

At the same time, the whole battle had a time limit. The initial time was one hour, and each completed stage task would add half an hour, so they only had two hours at most.

The mission of the opposing defenders was to stop them and drag out the time.

That is to say, in the first stage, if the attacking side failed to capture the three strongholds within an hour, they would lose directly!

At the same time, in addition to the initial tactical gear, the camp also provided them with some initial equipment, including a tactical map that could cover the entire battlefield, 14 simple walkie-talkie-like communicators, and 14 binoculars.

Moreover, as long as they killed enemies on the battlefield, they could accumulate public merit points, and occupying strongholds could also continuously provide them with merit points.

Using these merit points, they could exchange for items and hire mercenaries to assist in the battle from the knight, who was their attacking general.

After the knight finished introducing the rules along with the background information, he drew his sword from his waist and shouted 'Attack!' outside the tent!

However, to everyone's surprise, the crowd, including Ginny, didn't rush out with their equipment as expected. Instead, they all looked at Percy at the front of the team.

These wizards who entered the instance in the first batch were not rookies. With Anduin's teachings in the usual tactical training class, they all knew the importance of command.

So the most important thing now was not to rush to the front line to fight, but to determine the command and specific tactics.

"Percy, you have the most experience among us, so please take on the role of commander," Cedric noticed everyone's reaction and knew that everyone's thoughts were the same as his, so he took the initiative to suggest to Percy.

The others nodded in agreement, basically approving of this decision.

"Okay!" Percy didn't decline and turned to face everyone directly. "Everyone, come closer."

After everyone gathered, Percy continued, "I'll share some information first. You can directly see the data of all your teammates in the silver amulet, including their current survival status, number of deaths, and kill data."

"I've also counted our current personnel composition. There are 8 students above the 5th grade, 37 students in the 3rd-5th grade, and 5 students below the 3rd grade."

"So the first thing we need to do is to divide into teams. Starting now, everyone will form 4-person teams, which can form 12 complete teams. Each team will be assigned a communicator, a pair of binoculars, and I will use the tactical map to command from the center."

After hearing Percy's order, everyone immediately took action and quickly formed 12 tactical teams. At the same time, each team was assigned an upperclassman or a 5th-grade student as the captain.

Harry, Neville, Cedric, and Ginny formed a team, with Cedric as the captain.

As for the two who were left out, they were Percy and a first-year student. They sat in the rear to command and served as reserves.

"Very good, so the next thing is the tactical problem," Percy spread out the map and said, "According to the content displayed on the map, the three strongholds in the first stage are Stronghold No. 1, which is closest to the command post, Stronghold No. 2, which is located on the high ground, and Stronghold No. 3, which is the farthest away."

"Except for Stronghold No. 2, the remaining strongholds and battlefields are located in the jungle area, so I suggest adopting a strategy of defeating them one by one."

"But the target is not Stronghold No. 1, which is closest to us, but Stronghold No. 2, which has a wider field of vision and is more difficult to be ambushed!" Percy pointed on the map while explaining in detail.

"Going for the far one instead of the close one?" Ron asked with some doubt. "But looking at the map, the road to Stronghold No. 2 is far away from Stronghold No. 1. If the enemy deploys defenses in Stronghold No. 1, wouldn't it be easy to ambush us?"

"So we can't simply allocate all our forces to attack Stronghold No. 2," Percy drew two curved lines on the map with his finger.

"Next, we will divide our troops into two groups. Two teams will feint an attack on Stronghold No. 1 to distract the enemy's attention. Remember not to kill them, and don't think about taking down the stronghold directly. Your task is just to prevent them from interfering with the main attack force."

"The remaining 10 teams will concentrate their superior forces and take down Stronghold No. 2 in one fell swoop. From there, they can overlook the other two strongholds. It is also downhill to support both sides as a respawn point, so its strategic position is very important."

Percy's aura was very strong after these two years of experience. He was very energetic when issuing orders decisively.

"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison, and then walked out in an orderly manner.

During this period, Percy tried to check the exchange list with the knight. After he saw the content clearly, his heart couldn't help but tighten. This battle might not be as simple as he thought.

The exchange list mainly included two major blocks: military supplies and hiring.

In the military supply column, there were boxes of consumables, including a set of 20 smoke bombs, flashbangs, incendiary bombs, and demolition bombs, which could be taken at will after being exchanged.

There was also a set of 5 flying brooms, which could heal friendly forces within the range, that is, restore the armor value of tactical clothing, horns, and deployment devices that could be used as temporary respawn points, etc., all of which were strategic materials with extremely strong functions.

But the most speechless thing was the mercenaries that could be exchanged, no, it should be said, the hired beasts.

Among them were griffins and pegasus that could fly, giants and venomous hornets that could directly participate in the battle, etc.

And the one that cost the most merit points... was actually a Norwegian Ridgeback!

It required a full 1000 merit points to exchange!

"This is too exaggerated!" Percy couldn't help but swallow. He could imagine that if the attacking side had so many weapons, the defending side's military supplies would probably not be simple either.

Just as he was sighing, he suddenly heard the information from the two teams attacking Stronghold No. 1.

"Report! No enemies were found in Stronghold No. 1! We are occupying the stronghold!"

"What? Encountered enemies..."

Percy frowned in confusion, then suddenly felt a sense of urgency and secretly shouted that something was wrong!

Then he rushed out without looking back, while constantly shouting to the main attack force, "Be careful, there is an ambush over there!"

"Bang!"

Before Percy could finish speaking, a loud noise erupted on the way to Stronghold No. 2, and the communicator was filled with gunfire and shouts.

On the other side, the main force was originally advancing towards Stronghold No. 2 in a staggered manner, constantly using trees as cover, according to the established plan.

As a result, before they could walk out of that jungle and reach the rocky hilltop where Stronghold No. 2 was located, a pile of people suddenly popped up from diagonally above and around them.

"Haha, I knew you were going to take the high ground first! We've been waiting for a long time!"

Ron, wearing the defender's uniform, shouted arrogantly at the attacking side.

Hermione next to him muttered unhappily, "It wasn't your idea, what's there to be proud of?"

Then Hermione took out an amulet from her arms and threw it violently at the crowd below, while shouting loudly, "Kill! Explosive Lava!"

With her spell, a fiery red lava projectile drew an arc with scorching flames and hit the foremost attacking team directly, blasting out a loud noise and instantly turning two wizards into white light.

At the same time, the landed amulet burst into a large cloud of black mist, completely blocking the attacking side's view.

Immediately afterwards, a fierce battle broke out on the mountainside!

For a time, dozens or hundreds of spells flew across the air, hitting trees or splashing on rocks and the ground, setting off pieces of debris and roars.

During this period, those wizards who were hit were either knocked away or killed on the spot, which made the scene extremely tragic in an instant.

"Damn it!"

Harry and the others hid behind a rock as tall as a person, unable to lift their heads from the dense spells.

"That bastard Hermione actually exchanged for a 'Lightless Amulet' without saying a word! That's too insidious," Harry slapped the floor angrily.

"Isn't this the time to think about such things?" Cedric also curled up. "I just roughly saw that they should have abandoned all the other strongholds and deployed all their people in Stronghold No. 2!"

"We can't win by fighting head-on!" Neville shouted loudly, enduring the noisy roar around him. "We were already attacking uphill, and now we are half-surrounded by them. If we continue to stalemate like this, I'm afraid we will all be wiped out!"

"But if we retreat! Wouldn't we leave our backs to them? Then everyone's losses would probably be even greater!" Harry thought for a while and felt that retreating was not a good idea.

At this moment, Percy's roar also came from the headset, "Don't retreat! Don't retreat even if everyone is killed! Try to set fire to the trees to destroy the terrain and pave the way for the next wave of attacks."

"In addition, never be afraid of fighting. It's better to use suicidal attacks to die back sooner than to be dragged in place by them! After being killed, all choose Stronghold No. 1 to respawn!"

Reminded by Percy, the attacking wizards in the ambush suddenly woke up.

That's right! They're not really dead even if they're killed, what's there to be afraid of?

Instead of being held in place and wasting time by those defenders, it's better to die back sooner to escape the encirclement.

After thinking clearly, those wizards who were suppressed behind the cover by dense firepower immediately cast spells as if they didn't want to live.

Some of them counterattacked those more conspicuous enemies, trying to exchange one life for another, while others set fire on the spot, using the Flame Burning Curse to burn all the trees that hindered their vision.

But this behavior that completely disregarded defense also turned them into living targets. All the attacking members, including Harry's team, were wiped out in just 3 minutes.