Chapter 381 Betrayal! Strategic Failure
No one expected that Shanatar, who had abundant supplies and sufficient defenders, would be defeated.
In fact, this underground city was not forcibly breached from the outside by the army of the Dark Alliance, but fell from the inside of the city.
No one expected that the current chief's grandson, Dungeon diplomat Doru, would collude with the forces of the Dark Alliance.
While the chief on the sickbed was sleeping, he stole the authority key of the core of the dungeon held by the other party, thus bypassing the defensive magic barrier of the Sanatar city state, and privately established a teleportation array connecting the outside and inside the city...
So, without everyone reacting, a large number of undead suddenly appeared in the city.
They destroyed the ultra-long-distance teleportation array in the city-state and destroyed the statue of the Death God in the Temple of Death.
The statue of Death God is the core that provides the source of power for the defense magic. Once the statue is destroyed, the entire Shanatar's defensive magic will collapse.
The remote teleportation array was destroyed, and the supporting elves could no longer support them through teleportation...
Therefore, the defenders and elves of the entire city were immediately in isolation.
So, the dark army that had been prepared outside the city cooperated with the internal and external forces in the city, and easily opened the city gate that had not been broken for several months.
The supposedly vigorous siege did not happen. The Dark Alliance quickly occupied the walls of Shanatar, while the original defenders left behind the bodies of the ground in the attack on both sides and retreated into the city with difficulty.
The war quickly turned into a tragic street battle, with the defenders in the city and the Dark Alliance troops that invaded the city fighting fiercely in the city.
However, the army of the Dark Alliance has already made sufficient preparations.
They gathered a total of 150,000 undead army and 80,000 ordinary troops, which are the strongest forces in the western part of the underground world.
In contrast, the strength of the Seizure Alliance army of Shanatar is too weak.
The city-state defenders had a total of less than 20,000 people, and even the number of elves still in the city was limited, with a total of less than 3,000.
During the attack of the Dark Alliance army, the army composed of dark dwarves and underground dwarves suffered heavy losses, and the elves died in battle, and the entire city's streets were stained with blood.
The remaining power of the Youji Alliance was also forced into the deepest mine cave in the city step by step by step by step, and it was difficult to support it with some solid fortifications...
In just less than two days, the Dark Alliance army occupied most of the area of Shanatar, leaving only some mines deep in the city occupied by dark dwarves, underground gnomes and elves mercenaries.
It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is scarce. As long as the Dark Alliance locks them there, they can only choose to surrender and starve to death...
It can be said that by this time, the Dark Alliance had actually occupied the entire Shanatar.
The original city residents were forcibly detained at home, and the rebels were killed. Chief Katra was killed by the betrayer Doru himself, while Doruru was appointed as the new chief by the Dark City Confederacy Alliance, and announced that the Dark and Shadow Church would become the new official belief of the city-state.
At the same time, the army of the Dark Alliance also connected the statue of the Lord of Darkness and Shadows that had been prepared into the original Temple of Death, and once again activated the city's defense magic barrier.
But this time, the target of the magic defense barrier has been reversed.
At this point, Shanatar declared his fall.
When this news spread throughout the Yanshi City Confederacy Alliance, the city-states were in an uproar.
No one expected that Shanatar would fall so suddenly...
And after the uproar, panic soon happened.
Doruru of the city-state of Shanatar betrayed, and his betrayal directly led to the fall of the city. So... have other cities also been infiltrated by the forces of the Dark Alliance like this city?
In addition, Sanatal and the City of Blade are both the gateways of the Serenity Confederacy Alliance to the Dark Confederacy Alliance, and their geographical location is too sensitive.
Judging from the map of the West District of the Underground World, the overall landform of the West District of the Underground is like a gourd facing north.
The gourd mouth is the passage to the deep-slit cave. The Serenity Confederate Alliance occupies the upper half of the gourd, while the Dark City Confederate Alliance occupies the lower half. The two dungeon states are located in the center of the gourd, and they are also the entrance to the second floor of the dark area...
In this case, the defensive battle between Sanatar and the Blade City is the key to the entire war. The situation here can even determine the direction of the war in the entire underground world, and the decisive battle is likely to happen here.
If you have good defense, as long as you continue to waste, the victory in secular war will definitely belong to the Secret Alliance.
But if any city-state is compromised, it will lead to the opening of the portal of the Youli City-Constitution Alliance, and the army of the Dark Alliance will be able to drive in, and the situation will be very bad in an instant...
However, now, a city-state has been really broken!
In a sense, it can be said that the Dark Alliance side has achieved a decisive victory in this war.
After all, based on the strength of both sides, perhaps if you defend against a single city, the Youji Alliance can rely on the support of the elves to persevere, but when multiple city-states are attacked at the same time, it is dangerous.
Not every city-state has tens of thousands of defenders like these two cities, and more underground cities have less than 10,000 troops.
Of course, this is also because the Dark Alliance has special means to cause normal undead to fall and corrupt, thus making the Serenity Alliance unable to use the undead army in the war with the Dark Alliance.
In this case, the army of the Dark Alliance can easily siege at least five underground cities at the same time with its numerical advantage, and it is highly likely to easily break through.
It is worth mentioning that considering the cost of establishing an ultra-long-distance teleportation array, although the Youji Alliance decided to establish an ultra-long-distance teleportation array in various cities when seeking support, this is not the case.
The real situation is that only the two key locations of Blade City and Sanatal, and the already surplus city chose to establish an ultra-long-distance teleportation array connecting Black Rock City.
Although the closer the other Youji Alliance cities are to Hulu's mouth, the closer they are to Black Rock City, the lower the cost of establishing an ultra-long-distance teleportation array and maintaining the magic array operation... But the more remote they are, the poorer they are, and even if the cost is low, they cannot afford it. At most, they are just building ordinary teleportation arrays between each other.
Of course, this is also because the Youji Alliance is at most just a loose city-confederation alliance, and it is impossible to effectively allocate and utilize the resources of each city-state.
In this case, it is difficult for players to provide effective support.
Of course, theoretically, players can also teleport to two key city-states, and then teleport to other city-states through ordinary teleportation arrays.
But, the key to the problem is also here.
The City of Blade and Sanatar do have teleportation arrays connecting other dungeon states, but this kind of teleportation array is concentrated in the City of Sanatar. The City of Blade only has one teleportation array connecting Sanatar city.
This led to the fact that once the city-state of Sanatar was captured, the City of Blades was cut off from other city-states of the Youji Alliance.
The reason why the Youji Alliance will establish a teleportation array like this is because although both city-states are at the critical position, in comparison, the City of Blade is closer to the sphere of influence of the Dark City-Confederacy Alliance, and there are enemies on all sides. It is too risky to establish a teleportation array connecting other city-states here to a large-scale connection...
After all, in everyone's estimate, if one of the two cities must be broken, it will definitely be a city of sharp blades. If a teleportation array is established for support, it will be enough to have the Sanatar city-state.
Who knew that Shanatar was first captured.
Having said so much, in fact, to sum up, it is just one thing.
That is Shanatar's loss, which has strategically declared the failure of the Youji Alliance. If you still want to win this war, you cannot rely solely on secular power.
Chapter completed!