Chapter 342: Defeat
One is to gamble everything.
One is hesitation.
Victory or defeat is a foregone conclusion.
Fortunately, the Eternal Night Army leader hesitated to fight to the death, but there was no hesitation in retreating, after all, there was an experienced veteran like Dicron in charge, and the military staff led by Kelman to fill in the gaps.
found that nothing could be done, and the retreat was clean and neat, and there was no hedge with the army organized by the Kingsley family, and when the rout was about to be slaughtered by both sides, there was an organized and orderly retreat.
"Rush, keep rushing, kill them all! Kill them all! Drive them all into the water!"
"Rush, you fools, do you want to die? Kill! Kill all these fools who block our route!"
After this situation appeared, there was no need for Akmesser to order, and those elite veterans of the Kingsley family were red with excitement as if they were beaten one by one.
In such a large-scale battle of more than 100,000 people, it is simply whimsical that the Eternal Night Commander still wants to retreat with his whole body.
No matter how organized and orderly you are, don't think about it so easily, unless their enemies are fools and just watch them flee in a daze.
Those recruits were stupid and didn't know what to do, but the low-level officers who were veterans knew it, and excitedly shouted for their comrades-in-arms who they knew or didn't know, and pushed forward one by one.
I want to reverse the retreat of the Eternal Night Army into a rout on all fronts.
Don't look at the difference between the two adjectives by only one word, but no matter the situation and the end result, they are worlds apart.
Boom! Boom!
The Kingsley soldiers, following closely behind the retreating forces of the Eternal Night Army, had barely taken a few steps out of the wall.
A series of explosions erupted out of thin air.
Black smoke billowed and flesh flew everywhere, and earth and rocks were scattered.
The scene on the wall of Brother Port is recreated.
To be more precise, the explosion was much less powerful, but the scene was infinitely more shocking.
Because the collective blasting on the wall of Brother Harbor was too powerful, and the people who bore the brunt of it basically did not survive, and the elite army that had been gathering strength for a long time under the leadership of the Eternal Night Army counterattacked, and there was no time for those Kingsley soldiers to taste the unique lethality of this primary firearm.
Now it was different, there were far more wounded than dead, and those who lacked arms and legs abounded, lying on the ground one by one, tossing and moaning in pain.
"My legs, my legs ......"
"My arm, my arm, who saw my arm?"
"Help me, help me, who saves me, I don't want to die, I don't want to die......"
Large swathes of land were stained red with blood, and that desperate scene was very demoralizing.
"What the hell is going on, where did the attack come from?"
"Does anyone see how the attack happened?"
"Don't squeeze, don't keep rushing, do you want to die?"
Many Kingsley soldiers looked at each other, confused as they stared at the empty flatland.
The explosion just now did not come from an overhead trebuchet bombardment, but out of thin air.
More precisely, it should come from underground, and among the wounded soldiers lying on the ground groaning, far more have lost their legs than their hands.
But the problem is, they rushed forward with the pace of the soldiers of the Eternal Night Army, and when they left, they were safe, and they were only a few steps behind, and they exploded when they stepped on them, how did they become traps?
Kingsley soldiers were unaware of a weapon called a mine, a mine made of black powder.
"Drive the cannon fodder up!"
Akmaiser was certainly not willing to sit idly by and watch this great opportunity slip away, and with a wave of his hand, he sent the few remaining cannon fodder to a dead end.
"Don't do it, please, don't do it. ”
"I don't want to die, I don't want to die, spare me, please, spare me, I've done my best for you!"
"Go forward, hurry up and move forward, otherwise there will be no forgiveness!"
Boom! Boom!
As you can imagine, these cannon fodder didn't take a few steps before they were sent into the sky by black powder mines.
It didn't make any sense other than to increase the number of soldiers lying on the ground wailing.
And the main force of the Eternal Night Army Leader has taken this opportunity to get rid of the entanglement of the Kingsley family and is regrouping hundreds of meters away.
In the eyes of the Kingsley soldiers, the clearing between the two sides became more dangerous than the walls of Brother Harbor.
At least the threat on the walls, they knew where, and in the face of this clearing, they simply couldn't figure out the situation.
The Kingsley family has the hole card of the Eternal Night Commander, the Golden Armor, and has turned the tide of the war that is about to collapse.
The Eternal Night Warlord also has a hole card that the Kingsley family doesn't have—a variety of original cross-era weapons.
The Kingsley family became the first victims of this weapon.
Many of these weapons have broken the traditional war, beyond their understanding, let alone be vigilant, and it is normal to suffer a big loss as soon as they come into contact.
"Don't act rashly, fix it in place. ”
Even if he didn't want to, he could only watch as the Eternal Night Army leader swaggered away in front of them.
Until he found out how many of these traps the Eternal Night Leader had prepared, his elite army could not act rashly.
"Regroup your army and establish strongholds. ”
"Drive the slaves, go to the front to find out the situation, and prepare to rob the catapults along the river. ”
"Send a message to Captain Stark, tell them to intercept on the water, and tell them to be careful, beware of deception!"
Akmaiser's order was conveyed in an orderly manner.
Three commands were carried out at the same time.
The first order, naturally, was to prevent the Eternal Night Army Leader from counterattacking again.
Although Akmether had just relied on the miraculous effect of the golden armor, he had stubbornly pieced together the Kingsley family's expedition to the Eastern Army.
In fact, from top to bottom, they have become a mess, and the soldiers will be mixed together, and they will keep rushing forward for the same goal.
But no matter how much energy the golden armor has, it is also limited, and the consumption just now is really a bit terrifying, even if Akmesser is not sensitive to the energy of spells, he can feel that the energy on the golden armor is only a thin layer.
What used to be a lake is now a small pond that is about to dry up.
At this time, Akmesser finally had the mood to remember its preciousness, and cut it off as soon as possible, and the rest of the battle situation needed to be maintained by someone again.
No sooner had he cut it off, and Akmesser was already nostalgic for that feeling.
Compared to manpower, just now he used the golden armor to control the army, which was like opening the perspective of the gods.
The whole situation is under his control, and his control of the entire army is like his own arm.
Let him have the illusion that he is the master of this war.
It is no wonder that the ancient artifact is also called a battle artifact and a war artifact.
They do have an unimaginable role in warfare.
If I had known that it was so powerful, why would I have waited until now?
Akmaiser himself had already gone out and led his men to storm down the walls of the brother port.
Unfortunately, there are not so many people in the world who know about it early.
The energy accumulation of the battle artifact was too difficult, and if he hadn't been forced to do it just now, he wouldn't have dared to consume the magic energy of the golden armor like this.
In the final analysis, it is caused by this era of the end of the law.
It's just that after experiencing this kind of high-end battle situation, how can he command that kind of artificial war situation with inefficient actions in the future?
The second order was to attack.
Akmesser obviously did not give up, he didn't want to let the Eternal Night Leader and the Crocodile Clan's city guards slip away so easily, and wanted to delay the retreat of the Eternal Night Leader as much as possible, unite with the fleet of the Cummins family, and keep them here.
The results were not ideal, and those who were trembling and cannon fodder were greeted by a series of explosions, with severed limbs and broken flesh flying sideways, and there were not even corpses.
The cannon fodder in the back was directly frightened, no matter how intimidated the Kingsley soldiers, they refused to move forward, even if the heads of the people who were cut off were rolling, they were unwilling.
Fang Zheng rushing forward is a death, not rushing is also a death, they would rather choose the latter, at least a whole corpse.
They were lucky to be blown up by a black powder mine and die on the spot, but they were afraid that they were half-dead, their intestines were blown away, but they didn't die, they moaned and wailed there, and they didn't know how long it would take to be freed - death was their only relief.
Just seeing that kind of situation makes people's scalps tingle and shiver, let alone experience it personally.
"Send them on their way. Akmaiser waved his men to order the execution, not only unwilling to listen to their wails, but also unwilling to see them demoralize his army.
A flurry of arrows shot at the soldiers who were struggling on the ground was a mercy in this case.
It is said that the cold weapon battle array is more tragic than the firearm war, and that is because they have not witnessed the battlefield destroyed by the firearms war.
If you had seen it with your own eyes, you would never have said such a thing.
There is no such thing as a tragic one on both sides, and each has its own ruthlessness.
The ferocity of cold weapons lies in the fact that they are close to each other, and the knife is more likely to cause a large number of internal and external wounded.
The brutality of firearms warfare lies in the fact that while killing people is more efficient, the damage caused is also more diverse and more ferocious.
Burns, scalds, explosions, broken arms, missing legs, etc., very challenging the limits of human brains.
Kingsley family soldiers are all new to large-scale firearms warfare.
They may have adapted to the brutality of cold-weapon warfare, but they have not adapted to the characteristics of firearms warfare.
There is no contradiction at all.
"Drive the cattle on. "Akmesser was much quicker to adapt than they did, and quickly came up with new tricks.
A large number of cattle, driven into the black powder minefield, trampled frantically, and swept a road as soon as possible.
However, it will be difficult to complete for a while, and in order to buy more time for the retreat, the Eternal Night Warlord has laid a terrifying number of black powder mines, which are likely to be spread all over the roads of Brother Harbor.
Akmesser could see clearly that the main force of the retreating Eternal Night Army not far away was planting this kind of headache bomb in the middle of the road as he retreated.
This is blatant delay.
But they couldn't help it.
For the Kingsley family, these black powder mines are out-and-out high-tech products, and there is no way to clear them through technology, and they can only be detonated by artificially and little by little.
As for the third, before the arrival of the Arkmeiser messenger eagle and messenger, the fleet of the Commins family had already taken action.
The Cummins family has been paying close attention to the situation in Brother Port, not only when the situation is favorable to them, they can attack at the first time, but if there is an unfavorable situation, they can also retreat strategically at the first time, and do not put themselves in it.
Although the siege of Brother Port was repeated, and their allies were almost crushed, the final result slipped to their advantage, and the rest was their business, driving the Eternal Night Army back to their hometown and blocking the shipping lanes.
When that time comes, the Swamp of Despair will be at their mercy.
They can't help in land warfare, but in water warfare, they have plenty of confidence.
As usual, Stubbin, the supreme commander of the Third Fleet of the Cummins family, stood barefoot on the bow of his flagship dragon wreck battleship, and waved his command knife with a wave of his commanding knife and said, "The whole army is attacking." ”
Every time Steubin chooses to stand here, it's not to look cool and handsome.
In addition to the relatively wide perspective of this high dragon head, it is also because of this position, it can use some unconventional means.
Sean's observation of the dragon wreck battleship is not wrong, although it is not an ancient artifact, but it has the same work as it, although it will not provide persistence to other warships, but like the golden armor, using magic energy, long-range sound transmission, it can still be done.
It can be said that the entire Cummins family fleet is under Stubbin's control.
"Yunxiao No. 1 is ready, and the enemy is still three hundred meters away from the predetermined position...... 200 meters...... 100 meters...... Thirty meters...... 10 meters ...... Now is it, put!"
Click!
With the counterweight ball at the other end of the cloud catapult, it landed under the action of gravity, and under the principle of leverage, the boulder at the other end buzzed and rose into the air under the traction of the rope.
This 130-kilogram boulder, with sharp edges and corners, has been carefully carved and soared into the air, and then enters a state of high-speed rotation.
With a sharp roar, it smashed into one of the Wavebreaker-class battleships of the Cummins family.
The captain of this battleship, who is also a veteran of the storm, reacted immediately and ordered in a loud voice: "Left full rudder, evade, evade!"
The massive hull began to tilt.
However, the evasive actions taken in this case are mostly a kind of self-comfort.
In the third fleet of the Cummins family, although the Breaking Wave class battleship is the smallest and has a length of more than 20 meters, it cannot do any effective evasion action in just a dozen seconds.
Rumble!
The tumbling boulder clung to the battleship's hull and smashed into the water, making a splash and a burst of cheers from the battleship.
The Cummins family's warships are not easy to dodge, and the Sky Catapults of the Eternal Night Army are not 100% successful, and even against these sea ships, most of the time depends on luck.
At this moment, Lady Luck is undoubtedly on the side of the Cummins family.
But this was just the beginning, as the Armada of the Cummins family moved, and the river defense catapults in the port of Brother Port were all in motion, and all that was heard was the sound of mechanical gears turning and the shouts of field commanders.
"Yunxiao No. 2 is ready, let's go!"
"Yunxiao 3 is ready, release!"
The scene of countless boulders rising into the air at the same time stalled the attack momentum of the high-spirited Third Fleet of the Cummins family.
Standing on the bow of the dragon wreck, Stubin jumped to his feet angrily and scolded: "What the hell is that bastard of Axmeither? Didn't he already take the brother port? Why are these hellish catapults still operating? Is he trying to betray his allies? Stop attacking, stop attacking......"
Stubbin's questioning was immediately passed on to Acmeiser through the summons of the mountain eagle.
"Idiot!" Akmaiser pursed the corners of his lips and smiled disdainfully.
Stubin didn't wait for the exact news to arrive on his side, and he couldn't wait to act, obviously grabbing the same credit as last time.
Just now, why didn't the Eternal Night Commander smash and sink a few of their warships, let them suffer a little, and see if they dare to jump casually in the future.
Although the Eternal Night Warlord and the Crocodile began to retreat in a planned manner, it did not mean that they would scatter in a hurry, and just like that, they would lose Brother Harbor to the Kingsley family and the Commins family.