The combat detachment forces that the Holy Tree Knight Order sent as reinforcements were led by 10 Holy Tree Knights of the fifth rank, supplemented by 100 Holy Tree Cavalry of the fourth rank, 500 Holy Tree Spearmen of the third rank, 200 Holy Tree Swordsmen of the third rank, and 200 Holy Tree Archers of the second rank.
The total number of people was 1010.
This was indeed considered a combat detachment force that the Holy Tree Knight Order placed significant importance on.
"Lord Shen Mu, look over there, on the western city wall, our reinforcements have arrived." On the 3rd floor balcony of the castle's main building, the five Holy Tree Knights responsible for protecting Shen Mu's safety excitedly pointed towards the west gate.
At the west gate, the first to charge in were the 10 Holy Tree Knights and one hundred Holy Tree Cavalry.
At the same time, an even larger number of infantry followed closely behind.
They arrived in the Town Area of Deherim.
"Yes, I see them, they are reinforcements from the Holy Tree Knight Order." Shen Mu nodded. He only glanced in the direction the Holy Tree Knight pointed, then withdrew his gaze.
Because he knew very well that these were the troops of the Holy Tree Knights he had summoned through the system.
They were also his mission reward.
At this critical moment, their appearance was indeed very timely.
Especially when his gaze once again fell on the castle's central courtyard, where an even larger number of Wood Elves were still continuously pouring out of the library, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "It seems our friends don't want to give up just like that."
Because at this very moment, on the surrounding city walls and in the castle's main building, the arrows in the quivers and arrow containers of the faster-firing archers were almost depleted.
After all, for archers, their short-term arrow barrages and concentrated fire were quite lethal.
But once the enemy endured that moment.
With consumables like arrows almost depleted, these archers could only stare blankly, helpless.
Only the Crossbowmen, with their slower firing rate, still had a good number of crossbow bolts to shoot.
However, the Crossbowmen's firing frequency was very low. Even if their accuracy and lethality were stronger, at this moment, without the arrow barrages and concentrated fire from the archers beside them, the remaining Crossbowmen could not cause much damage to the rapidly moving Wood Elves.
As if they had seized this opportunity.
The speed of the Wood Elves' charge from the library also grew faster and faster, and their numbers increased.
The Wood Elves, having dealt with arrows extensively, clearly sensed the reason for the sparse arrow barrages on the surrounding city walls and in the castle's main building.
It must be that their arrows were almost used up, almost depleted, and they could no longer form attacks as dense and torrential as they did at the beginning.
Therefore, these Wood Elves were very clear that now was the critical moment for them to quickly rush into the castle's main building.
Otherwise, if those human archers and Crossbowmen once again transported reserve arrows to the city walls for distribution, what they would face then would be another torrential downpour of concentrated fire.
"Hurry, hurry, don't dawdle, run quickly!"
"This is our chance now. If we don't seize this opportunity, we will definitely be shot into porcupines!"
"Everyone, pay attention and start rapidly pushing into the castle's main building. Seize this opportunity!"
At this point, Zhang Song and Yang Di didn't even need to shout and command. After seeing the current situation, the Wood Elves spontaneously rushed forward, gritting their teeth, even ignoring the Crossbowmen who were still shooting. Even if they were severely wounded, they wanted to reach the castle's main building in the shortest possible time.
They had no idea what kind of tragic situation awaited them inside the castle's main building, but they clearly understood that if they couldn't rush into the castle's main building, they would only become living targets in the open castle courtyard and open outer courtyard.
They would gain no merit and would be miserably shot into porcupines by the long-range archers positioned on the city walls or in the castle's main building, who had no blind spots for shooting them.
To avoid this situation, they had to rush into the castle's main building first.
At least in their view, the inside of the castle's main building should be an area where their fellow Wood Elves were located. Otherwise, if so many Wood Elves had rushed in before, could they all have died?
All the Wood Elves had placed all their hopes on the castle's main building.
But they didn't know.
Inside the castle's main building.
That already opened meat grinder.
It was now rapidly churning.
Mercilessly grinding the lives of those Wood Elves into oblivion.
Any Wood Elf who charged up could not last 5 seconds against the Rodok Sergeant, who were heavy, heavily armored pikemen, known as the strongest shield on the Calradia continent.
That's right, they really couldn't last 5 seconds.
The reason they could last 5 seconds was because the large number of corpses that had already appeared on the platform had accumulated to over two meters high.
And they were still accumulating upwards towards three meters.
The Wood Elves who charged up even had to step on the corpses of their own kin before they could approach the heavily armored human infantry holding long halberds.
But before they could truly get close and fiercely stab through those heavily armored human infantry with their flexible and exquisite Wood Elf longswords, in vital areas not covered by armor such as eye sockets or armpits, with one or two long halberds piercing out like venomous snakes, they would be deeply impaled in mid-air.
They couldn't even let out a single groan.
Then, like a discarded rag doll, more long halberds would pierce out and deeply impale them, throwing them heavily onto the platform, landing on the corpses of their fellow Wood Elves with a splatting sound.
Their bodies were covered in blood and wounds, all of them fatal. Even if they weren't dead yet, they were already on their last breath, about to die.
"How foolish, they are still continuously charging the pike square formed by the Rodok Sergeant." Manid stood behind these Rodok Sergeant at this moment, watching the Wood Elves charging the pike square as if in a death-defying charge. His eyes grew increasingly filled with mockery.
It now seemed as if the Wood Elves were using their lives to make the Rodok Sergeant feel guilty for the slaughter.
The number of Wood Elf corpses on the platform had definitely exceeded four or five hundred.
But for the Rodok Sergeant still arrayed in their original positions, they had not lost a single person, not even a minor injury, including slight injuries. If one were to insist on calling it an injury, it would be muscle strain from their right arm rapidly thrusting out, retracting, thrusting out again, and retracting again.
It was that simple, that easy.
Therefore, the mockery in Manid's eyes grew stronger. He truly felt as if these Wood Elves were using their deaths to provoke a sense of guilt in the Rodok Sergeant for the slaughter they were carrying out.
Otherwise.
Why were these Wood Elves still using their lightly armored, light unit soldiers to charge his perfectly formed and unassailable formation, in this confined space, a seemingly seamless location, pointlessly wasting their lives and pointlessly dying?
These Rodok Sergeant were composed of Rodok people whose character was as resilient as stone.
The barren and harsh mountain life had long since tempered the character of all Rodok people to be as hard as stone. And the Rodok Sergeant, this 5th-tier elite infantry, was even more like a stone in a latrine pit, both smelly and hard.
No matter how many Wood Elves charged up and were deeply impaled and killed on the spot, these Rodok Sergeant simply did not care.
Moreover, they were also from the Calradia continent, a chaotic world that had been plagued by war for hundreds of years.
They had seen countless deaths.
They had seen countless battles.
They had also seen countless massacres.
Furthermore, because they had suffered attacks from the Swadia Kingdom at that time, a catastrophic event where they would have been annihilated if they hadn't gritted their teeth and persevered.
This had long made every Rodok person understand that if, during a united fight, the opponent did not die, then they themselves would surely die.
Therefore, they had no mercy whatsoever.
They only mechanically thrust out their halberds, then retracted them, then thrust them out again, like waves, endlessly and continuously, maximizing the defensive counterattack capabilities of the pike square.
And when it came to using pike squares, these elite soldiers from the Rodok Kingdom were the epitome of excellence.
They were invincible.
However, for the Wood Elves who had rushed into the castle's main building from outside and were still in the Lord's Hall, organizing their troops to continue their death-defying charge, the current situation was one of utter despair.
They could not retreat, and it was even impossible for them to flee, because the reason they were called the elite of the Green Leaf Group, the elite of the Wood Elf Plane.
The reason was that their current lives, fortunes, and futures, including their future, were already tied to the Green Leaf Group, and now the Green Leaf Group's future prospects and fortunes were also completely tied to this grand plan, this operation.
They all knew very well that if they couldn't take this castle's main building, then everything would be completely over for them.
Even if they escaped back.
Even if they escaped back and weren't punished.
Then when the forces of Deherim gathered and attacked their Green Leaf Group, attacked their Wood Elf Village, would they still have any chance of survival?
It was definitely impossible.
Therefore, they had strengthened their resolve, even knowing they were going to their deaths, they gritted their teeth and went to their deaths, using their lives to break through the pike square on the platform in front of them, perhaps then there might be a glimmer of hope.
And returning the view once again to the 3rd floor of the castle's main building.
Zhang Bo was trembling all over at this moment, looking at the ground covered with Wood Elf corpses and the castle courtyard, which looked like it was overgrown with weeds. His eyes were already filled with despair.
He didn't know why things had turned out this way, nor did he understand why a plan that was clearly completely under control, when finally executed, had turned into such a pathetic and messy scene.
This was too wrong, too abnormal, too impossible, and too unbelievable for him.
"Why did it turn out this way? Why did it become like this? Why, why, why?" Zhang Bo's lips moved slightly at this moment, and faint murmurs continuously emerged from his mouth.
Indicating that his mental state was now almost on the verge of collapse.
That's right, it was collapse.
Zhang Bo had now also seen the support forces of the Holy Tree Knight Order's combat detachment arriving from outside. He had also seen that the elite troops had reached the Town Area, and the infantry and archers had orderly ascended the city walls, beginning to support the defenders on the east city wall.
And the cavalry had already gathered in the central avenue of the Town Area, forming up with the human cavalry that had previously gathered.
Overall, it seemed that the Deherim forces in the Town Area alone had already gathered over a thousand cavalry.
This number was quite terrifying.
And they were heavy cavalry.
Most of them were cavalry with both rider and horse wearing armor. In Zhang Bo's impression, this was simply too terrifying.
If there were an open field battle in the wilderness, then all the forces of the Wood Elf Villages combined from the entire Green Leaf Group would probably have no way to contend with Deherim's heavy cavalry cluster.
And even though the main forces of the Wood Elf faction, the Green Leaf Group, were currently in the Castle District.
But Zhang Bo had already seen that the downfall of the Green Leaf Group was inevitable.
It was only a matter of time.
From the beginning until now, the sounds of battle from the 1st floor of the castle's main building had already reached the 3rd floor balcony via the stairs. He already knew what the desperate cries of those Wood Elves represented: those Wood Elves had fallen into an ambush inside the castle's main building.
Thinking about the newly appeared human forces outside, and the long-range archers that had inexplicably appeared on the castle's main building and the surrounding city walls.
Even if Zhang Bo thought about it with his toes now, he could understand that there must have been other troops actually lurking inside the castle's main building all along, and it was precisely because of this lurking human force that those Wood Elves were desperately launching death-defying charges, yet still unable to reach the 3rd floor of the castle's main building.
"How did it turn out like this?" Zhang Bo stood dejectedly behind the railing. He even had a fleeting thought of directly flipping over the railing and jumping out to fall to his death.
He was truly too desperate.