Chapter 593: The Shadow Appears
With heavy steps, Alfonso returned to the expeditionary force.
One last glance at the top of the hill, he put his helmet back on and gave the order to everyone: "Attack." ”
Joonella grabbed Randle, who wanted to come forward, and whispered, "It's us who are playing in the front this time." ”
Under the latter's astonished gaze, Joonella and dozens of beast control envoys commanded their giant wolves to advance to the top of the mountain.
Ackerman watched as hundreds of giant wolves approached the top of the mountain in a scattered formation, and worriedly he walked to Alfonso's side and whispered: "There are at least two thousand enemy troops stationed there, muskets and cannons, and these war beasts cannot break through the enemy's defenses at all. ”
Alfonso looked intently ahead and replied, "If you take a closer look at the army, do you find that something is missing?"
Ackerman looked back at the army behind him, then back at the battlefield, and after a few seconds, he frowned and asked, "Are there fewer war beasts? What about those who look like big lizards?"
Alfonso didn't speak, just stretched out the index finger of his right hand and pointed it to his feet.
Seeing the other party's movements, Ackerman was confused.
Hundreds of giant wolves, approaching the limits of the enemy's guns, began to lie down and prostrate on the ground.
In the enemy camp at the top of the mountain, the nervous shouts of the enemy were heard.
In the face of these vicious and huge wolves, some timid soldiers ignored the commander's orders and began to shoot blindly.
One person's panic, like a deadly plague, instantly spread to the entire enemy position.
At first, it was just a sparse sound of gunfire, but in the end, it turned into a continuous stream of shooting.
However, due to the range and power, the enemy's fire did not cause any substantial casualties to the beasts.
Occasionally, one or two unlucky wolves were hit in the body by muskets, and at most they only roared in pain, and under the control of the beast control envoy, they still lay on the spot, motionless.
Looking at the increasingly thick smoke in the air, and listening to the increasingly chaotic noise on the battlefield, Alfonso nodded and said, "It's almost time." ”
Ackerman was completely confused: "Is it time? What is the time to do it?"
Alfonso spoke to one of the beast control envoys beside him, "Let's get started. ”
As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden confusion in the enemy defense line on the top of the Far Ember Hill.
Trenches, bunkers, tunnels...... In these fortifications, the originally solid walls were suddenly broken by a huge force, and one by one sharp monster claws stretched out from the holes in the rock wall, tearing many enemy soldiers who were caught off guard to pieces in an instant.
"Yes...... Something is coming out of the dirt!"
A gunner in the bunker looked at the five-meter-long mutant monitor lizard in front of him, with two horns on its head and covered with iron scales, and was suddenly frightened and paralyzed.
The Bunker Wing Commander sat down on the ground, watching the huge monster he had never seen before crawl closer and closer, and roared with his teeth chattering, "It's still ...... What are you doing in a daze?!Shoot!Shoot!"
The defenders in the bunker picked up their muskets and attacked the monitor lizard.
The musket struck the monitor lizard's body, and with the sound of metal crashing, the bullets were ricocheted in all directions in a burst of brilliant and dazzling sparks.
Enraged by the musket attack, the monitor lizard opened its huge mouth, and a gray-green fog instantly filled the entire small space.
A soldier standing in front of the monitor lizard, closest to the poisonous mist, was sprayed all over his body.
The grayish-green poisonous mist looked like a gas, but when it was contaminated with armor, clothing, and skin, it was as thick as oil.
With a puff of white smoke rising up, all the objects contaminated by the poisonous mist seemed to have encountered strong acid, and they were corroded into shapeless in an instant.
The soldiers watched as their bodies were corroded by the poisonous mist, and in the end, only the dark and fragile bones remained, and the screams of fear resounded throughout the battlefield in an instant.
"Retreat! Retreat to the ......"
The commander who fled to the exit of the bunker only had time to say a few words, and after inhaling a little poisonous mist, he began to bleed from the seven holes, and could no longer stand up, and fell to the ground softly, and his body began to emit the stench and smoke of rotting flesh.
The poisonous smoke from dozens of poisonous lizards slowly spread along bunkers, trenches and tunnels, and from a distance, it looked like someone had lit a pyre in an enemy position.
More and more enemy soldiers climbed out of the trenches, abandoned their original positions, and began to hide from the poison gas higher up in the hills.
Along the way, hundreds of people, because of a little poisonous gas, collapsed on the way to escape.
By the time the Church army regrouped, at least a third of the soldiers had died in the tunnels where the gas had accumulated.
Ackerman, who saw this scene at the bottom of the mountain, was stunned and unable to say anything.
Alfonso sat down on the stone pier, put his two-handed sword on his lap, and ordered the beast control envoy beside him: "The wolves attack. ”
The impatient wolves, who had been waiting for a long time, got up from the ground excitedly after receiving the instructions of the beast control envoy, and used the speed of the wind and lightning to bypass the bunkers full of poisonous gas, and pounced directly on the fleeing enemy troops on the mountain from both sides.
As long as it is a lone soldier or squad, it often only takes one face to be bitten into pieces by the giant wolves.
However, in the face of those enemy forces with more than 100 people, the giant wolf maintained a relatively safe distance, only closing in close to the rear of the enemy army, driving them away in a specific direction.
Randall, who was waiting at the bottom of the mountain, looked up at the battle on the mountain, and the more he looked at it, the more confused he became.
He approached Alfonso and asked, "My lord, those beasts seem to want to drive the enemy together?"
Alfonso didn't speak, just nodded.
Randall frowned and said: "According to the normal tactical arrangement, the war beast has the advantage of speed and team, and it should focus its attack on gathering and dispersing the enemy's army, forcing the enemy to be unable to organize an effective resistance force, and then break through each and expand the results." ”
"But to drive all the scattered enemy forces together now is to give the enemy a chance to form a whole group. Once the enemy, under the leadership of the commander, completes the construction of the defensive formation, it will have an extremely negative impact on our army. ”
Ackerman also leaned over at this time and asked, "Can the Holy Cult Army attack?"
Alfonso glanced up at the top of the hill and shook his head slightly.
Puzzled, Randall and Ackerman followed Alfonso's line of sight towards the top of the mountain.
The Church soldiers, who had fled from the defensive line, had gradually gained a foothold and began to shoot at the approaching wolves, using the earth and rocks on the top of the hill as a natural cover.
After launching a tentative attack, the wolves found that the enemy firepower was too strong, and after leaving behind four or five wolf corpses, they hurried down the mountain.
Randall opened his mouth at this time to persuade: "My lord, let's attack, if we delay any longer, the enemy's rout will meet at the top of the mountain, and they can rely on the terrain advantage to form a defensive line again, and it will be very difficult to defeat them at that time." ”
Alfonso raised his chin towards the top of the mountain: "Look up. ”
Randall looked again, above a boulder at the top of the Far Ember Hills, two blurred shadows that made him squint.
"I see something moving in the air, but what ...... is that?"
As soon as Randall's words were finished, the two vague shadows on the top of the mountain slowly revealed their true faces.
It was a creature he had never seen before.
The organism is over ten meters long, and its stinging tail resembling a steel whip takes up half of its length.
It is pale gray all over, with a strange layer of slime on its surface, and when it comes into contact with light, it creates a strange visual illusion that allows the creature to become one with its surroundings.
With explosive limbs and a streamlined body suitable for swift and stealthy movements, it looks like a leopard but is much larger.
The upward part of its torso bears no resemblance to any other creature in this world.
On its long neck, it has a large fleshy sac that is usually constricted into the abdominal cavity, and is only exposed from the surface of the body when needed.
And the appearance of its head can only find a similar origin in horror legends.
A pair of oval-shaped eyes with no pupils visible in complete darkness, two pairs of strange mouthparts that resemble insect jaws, and dozens of tentacles hanging from the top of the head, make up the most terrifying aspect of this monster.