Chapter 982 Race Against Time

The situation at hand can only be described as bad.

At this time, Zhang Lue could only hope that the infantry troops would be able to enter the city gate passage again after taking a breath, and clean up the goblin corpses stuck at the city gate, so that the city gate would fall down completely.

Until then, he had to buy rest time for his soldiers.

Cannons, goblin crossbowmen, and mage troops fired one after another, making the entire city gate passage very lively.

After a few rounds of firing, watching the corpses piled up in the city gate passage, Zhang Lue's eyes twitched slightly, and he always felt that things were getting more and more troublesome.

Before things became irreversible, he felt that he had to deal with the problem of the city gate quickly.

After quickly confirming the status of the infantry troops, Zhang Lue decisively ordered again, ordering the earth mages at the city gate to use the second-order earth magic earth wall technique to block the gap.

Then let the infantry take this opportunity to rush to clean up those goblin corpses.

Obviously, the earth wall technique that was displayed was not a long-term solution.

The earth wall technique is, in the final analysis, a spell. After the mana is exhausted, it will naturally dissipate, and it does not mean that a wall has really been created out of thin air.

At the same time, due to the limited cultivation level of junior mages, the earth wall technique they displayed was relatively average in effect and defense. It was estimated that they could not stop those crazy goblin slave soldiers for too long, and they had to race against time.

The soldiers who rushed into the city gate passage were clearly aware of the stakes involved. At this time, they did not care whether the corpses whose flesh and blood had been splattered all over the floor were disgusting.

Anyway, you have to dig hard.

If it is said that the part of the corpse outside can still be seen as a corpse, then the inside has basically become muddy.

After all, the weight of the gate of their Hot Sand City is not light. Under the heavy pressure, it is not uncommon for so many corpses to be crushed into flesh.

Digging with weapons is not easy, and soldiers who have no choice can only get started.

The strange touch of the palms of the ten fingers digging into the flesh made them feel numb in their scalps.

A pile of meat mud was dug out continuously.

Combined with the almost suffocating stench.

At this moment, even the veterans on the battlefield all turned pale.

However, with the mentality that they will be relieved as soon as they finish digging, none of them stopped their movements.

I don't know how long it took to maintain this nightmare-like job.

At this moment, a hand suddenly stretched out from the mud and grabbed one of the soldiers.

The sudden situation startled the soldier a lot, and the whole person screamed and bounced directly behind him.

Looking down the hand that was holding onto him, a goblin slave soldier covered in mud and viscera rushed directly onto him.

In the next second, before he could return to his senses, the sharp teeth of the goblin slave soldier had already bitten his neck!

It all happened so fast that the soldiers who were still enduring this hellish working environment a moment ago were a little unresponsive.

Goblin? Why are there goblins here? Could it be that this goblin survived by being pinned down?

With the rise of this thought, the next second, more goblins climbed out of it.

At this moment, the soldiers fully reacted...

"No, that's not right, these goblins dug through the dirt wall responsible for blocking the breach! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

There was no time to escape.

The goblin slave soldiers, covered in flesh and internal organs, seemed to be more violent than before.

The physically and mentally exhausted soldiers were completely powerless to resist such an attack at this time, and several people were bitten to death by the goblins on the spot.

Aware of the situation in the city gate passage, Zhang Lue's expression suddenly changed as he stood outside.

"Earth wall, quickly repair the earth wall!"

While shouting, Zhang Lue quickly looked at the elementary earth mages behind him.

As a result, it was discovered that the earth-type mages were all pale and scary at this time.

Among them, the mage who is the captain has a hoarse voice...

"No, no, General, it's going to die soon! Our mana can't hold it anymore!"

It is a little different from other spells. If the earth wall spell needs to be maintained for a long time, then the earth mages must continuously inject mana.

At the same time as they injected mana, the goblin slave soldiers outside were frantically destroying the earth wall.

This made the earth mages have to allocate another part of the mana to repair the damaged part.

Maintaining a double consumption, until now, they are obviously approaching the limit!

Zhang Lue, who was also aware of this, felt a surge of pressure in his heart.

Before he could think about it, he immediately issued a new order.

"All soldiers, quickly withdraw from the city gate passage!"

But it's too late!

The city gate failed to fall, and the meat mud dug up by the soldiers made it easier for the goblin slave soldiers who were blocking the city to get in.

In just a few breaths, a large number of goblin slave soldiers filled the entire city gate passage.

In the passage of the city gate, the soldiers who were caught off guard immediately touched their weapons and tried to counterattack. The whole scene can be said to be extremely chaotic.

At this moment, Zhang Lue's face turned pale.

Subconsciously, he looked back at the soldiers behind him, and then found that the artillerymen operating the cannons, the goblin crossbowmen holding hand crossbows, and the mages of the mage army were also looking at themselves at a loss.

Obviously, they don't know what to do either!

"What should I do? Difficult, do you just shoot like this?"

Under this circumstance, once the cannon is fired, it is not just those goblin slave soldiers who will be killed! It is equivalent to killing even the soldiers under his command...

How can he issue such an order?

The problem in front of him almost forced Zhang Lue into a desperate situation.

Just then, a voice made a decision for him.

"Evacuate! Everyone is evacuated!!"

While shouting this sentence, Liu Meng, who was holding a sword, rushed into the city gate passage area with a troop of sword and shield soldiers.

After a slash and slash, he rescued the infantry unit and issued an evacuation order again!

There is no doubt that Liu Meng is here, which means that the wall has fallen.

In such a short time, a large number of goblin slave soldiers rushed down the stone steps of the city wall.

Several soldiers guarding near the gate of the city died in an instant.

"Withdraw! Quickly withdraw!!"

He didn't even have time to destroy the city gate. Liu Meng shouted and ordered to retreat. With a group of infantry under his command, he quickly followed the main street of Hot Sand City and retreated towards the city gate on the other side!