Players generally understood one rule: before fighting a boss, you should clear out the mobs around them.
Even if those mobs were pathetic in combat, their very presence was a nuisance. They would interfere with the players' attempts to take down the boss, so they had to be eliminated.
When the players discovered the boss Alanka, they devised a very simple yet extremely effective battle plan... lure the boss onto the city wall, then use the terrain to cut him off from the Holy War Army.
The plan proved highly successful. The players barely needed to bait him before Alanka charged onto the wall himself. When the Holy War Army behind him followed him up, the players used their lives to keep the boss occupied.
Next, several players slipped past the boss to block the stairs occupied by the Holy War Army, using heavy armor to crush lightly armored opponents in a slaughter. At the same time, the NPC soldiers who had previously been "routed" and fled along either side of the wall returned.
Led by Ye Ao Nai He, they attacked the Holy War Army soldiers who had yet to reach the stairs.
At that same moment, the Captain, who had infiltrated the city through an underground drainage channel, led his hundred-odd soldiers in a surprise attack on the Holy War Army's rear.
Attacked from three directions, the Holy War Army did not collapse immediately. They continued to resist stubbornly.
Even cut off and surrounded, even attacked from front and rear, the ragged soldiers of the Holy War Army still swung their weapons like madmen, every pair of eyes filled with a hunger for victory and a fearless disregard for death.
But the Holy War Army's resistance was meaningless, because their bodies had long since reached their limits... their