Chapter 526: Western Expedition (28) Thunderbird
The gnolls and centaurs had not yet reorganized their formations, they had been frightened by the fire just now, and from their dull eyes, they could not be expected to play any role in this war in the short term.
The White Bears will definitely not be dispatched, no matter what kind of war it is, they exist as the Praetorian Guards to defend Attila, and let the heavy infantry attack the city, using these precious White Bear People's lives to consume Upland City, is a choice that normal people will not choose.
Who else is left? It is not called out that the flying force flying in the sky, mainly dragons, and the combination of mammoth and mammoth giants, whether the former or the latter, or the two together, is the question that Siegmund needs to consider.
The best situation is for the two troops to go up one by one, let them solve and stalemate one by one, reduce the burden on the soldiers, and let the changes in the situation be controlled within the plan and become bearable.
However, even Siegmund himself, and even the ordinary soldiers below, felt that the Attila army would not make such a mentally retarded decision, and that there was no need to spend too much time and energy and pay so much price if they could solve the problem in one go.
The Scandinavian army thinks this way and thinks so, but they get one thing wrong at this point, that is, it is impossible to guess with the thinking of ordinary people and predict the movements of the Atila army.
Sacrifice is never a problem, in the opinion of the Atila army, as long as these sacrifices can achieve their goals and complete their strategic goals, then it doesn't matter how many sacrifices they make, anyway, they are just data on paper, anyway, they are just simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The flying troops, represented by the dragons, began to advance, surrounded by Thunderbirds and Wyverns as their escorts, and the pomp and circumstance looked very gorgeous.
The previous flames had gradually extinguished, and the firewood composed of corpses below had turned into ashes in the fierce burning and disappeared with the wind, and under the violent blizzard, the black smoke that spread across the sky quickly dispersed, revealing a gray sky.
Without the black smoke, the Thunderbird and the Wyvern can attack Upland City on the ground from the sky, especially the Thunderbird, who once again began to gather the thunder and lightning in the dark clouds in the sky to increase the power of their magic.
Thunderbirds, these magical beasts that live in the mountains, will often fight with the wyverns for air supremacy in the sky, and the only reason they can fight the wurms is their fast flight speed and the thunder and lightning condensed on their feathers.
The plumage of a normal ptarmigan is brown, but when a ptarmigan is bathed in thunder and lightning all year round and lives in a place full of thunderclouds like the high mountains, their feathers will turn golden like thunder and lightning.
In the Thunderbird unit of the Atila Army, the number of Thunderbirds with golden feathers is not small, and there are one-tenth of the number in the entire Thunderbird Army.
The results of their previous attacks also show that these thunderbirds are terrible on the battlefield, and they can launch powerful magic from far away, and no matter what kind of enemy they are, they will feel a headache.
However, the Thunderbirds are not without their shortcomings, and their prominence in terms of speed and magic cannot hide the fact that they are not as good as the creatures of the Wyvern in terms of body and defense.
It looks like an elf, and although it can be used in close combat, the best way to use it is to use it as a turret or arrow turret, and aim at the target to cast magic and destroy the target when it is outside the enemy's attack range.
The Thunderbird, which had been used as a magic turret, began to prepare for magic, and the arcs of electricity in the dark clouds converged on their bodies one by one, cheering and jumping around them, as if they were children who had been separated from their parents for a long time, returning to the arms of their families.
Wyverns and dragons are like warriors who can perform some magic in this regard, and there is no way, who told them that the range of their dragon breath is only a little.
The dragon forces that continued forward (in the absence of the Thunderbird, there were only dragons and wyverns in the army, and it was not inappropriate to call this army a dragon army), and soon met the attack of the Scandinavians.
Before entering the airspace of Upland, they were attacked before the Scandinavian spellcasters placed a large number of prohibitions, protections, etc.
At such a distance, the only thing that could attack them and inflict damage to them was the javelins thrown by the berserkers.
Berserkers can not only throw axes, they are also very good at throwing javelins, javelins are subject to many factors when flying, and they can throw much farther than axes, so in terms of hit rate, Scandinavian javelin hit rate has always been a problem.
However, the situation is different today, the dragons and the dragons are close together, forming a dense dark cloud, as long as the javelin throwing target is bounded in this dark cloud, the hit will become very simple.
However, whether they hit or not is a question, whether they can deal damage is another question, even if the javelins thrown by the berserkers this time are heavy javelins made of hard wood, they still need to break through the dragon skin and scales on the wyvern and dragon after crossing that long distance.
Even if these two layers of defense were broken, the strong muscles of the dragon's body would block the javelin's advance, and the most that would pierce their bodies was the level of skin wounds that had just flowed.
This wave of attacks, like the previous attacks of the Scandinavians, only one or two really achieved results, and they were all small wyverns, and it could be seen from the slightly younger faces that none of them were adults, and there was no way to survive in such a dangerous world on their own.
Several slightly larger wyverns flew out of the ranks and landed on the ground, gently rubbing their necks against the corpse of the little wyvern, who had lost their breath of life, hoping to get him back on his feet in this way.
Although the Wyvern has a very bad evaluation in the outside world, it is the same color as a cockroach by many creatures, and there is nothing commendable at all, only plundering and destroying.
But in fact, unlike dragons who live alone, Wyverns mostly live in small family units because of their strength, and they attach great importance to their relatives in the same family, and they have unbelievable feelings for each other.
The flying troops in the sky will not stop advancing, and continue to fly in the direction of Upplan, with a faster speed to reduce the number of stops on the road and reduce the number of attacks.
The wyverns on the ground, after confirming that their children could not be resurrected, gathered their grief and fluttered their wings to chase after the team ahead, their eyes burning with anger and hatred, eager to tear apart the murderers of their children.
As for the orders of the Attila army, the orders given by the Attila and the knights were always only orders to set a goal, and once that goal was accomplished, other minor matters never mattered.
Therefore, killing the enemies who killed their children is not at all in conflict with taking the city and killing the enemy, and besides, no commander can find fault in killing the enemy on the battlefield.
The dragons in the sky had begun to brew dragon breath in their mouths, and traces of fire, acid, and cold air peeked out from between their teeth, making their appearance even more hideous.
Yesterday, they were all ready to enter the battlefield, but they had to give up because of their own legendary magic, and the final ending turned out to be that Siegmund turned over a hole card and ended the first day of battle with an attack that could absolutely split the legendary magic.
Now the dragons don't need to think too much about things, Siegmund's hole cards have been used, and even if there are new hole cards, it is something that knights who have prepared emergency measures need to consider.
So all the dragons had to do was fly over the city of Uppland and turn the city into ruins with fire, acid, cold, and lightning, making the already ruined city even more ruined.
"It's not close yet, and we'll have to wait a little longer to calm them down. ”
At the top of the city wall, Zygmund looked at the dark clouds of wyverns and dragons that were flying from here, and commanded the herald next to him.
The reason why I said it loudly was because there was a lot of noise around him, and the chaotic sounds were mixed together, so that if Siegmund didn't scream loudly, there was no way to speak clearly.
The ballistae and catapults on the walls, and the ballistae and catapults below the walls are constantly attacking the giant forces of the Atilas, forcing them to move and not be able to fight back.
However, the bed crossbows on the walls did not join the attack on the giants, and when the previous battle with the giants was at a stalemate, the next opponent was the mammoth and the flying troops, and Siegmund guessed that it would be the latter that Attila would attack.
Therefore, Siegmund asked the warriors operating the bed crossbow in advance to adjust the angle and direction of the bed crossbow to the direction of the sky, and when the dragons and wyverns entered the optimal range, they would attack.
In order to achieve maximum efficiency, waiting is essential, otherwise the effect achieved by the bed crossbow will be like that, not much different from the heavy javelins thrown by the berserkers before.
And Siegmund was also afraid that if he attacked in advance, he would not be able to achieve much success, and it would be bad to make the dragons vigilant, and it would be bad to put the first target of the attack on these equipment, just like the giants.
Of course, when the first wave of attacks has achieved results, and the dragon is injured or killed, after the attrition, whether or not it will be targeted is another matter.
After being beaten, the dragons put the target on their bodies, and the pre-resolution will cause damage to themselves, and the bed crossbow that is threatening will seem very natural.
However, at this time, the berserker was ready for a second wave of attacks, and from a distance, it seemed that black rain was flying towards black clouds, and hurricanes, flames, and lightning turned into barriers in the air, blocking the javelin attacks.
Even the javelins made of wood, which were as hard as metal in the northern continent, could not resist the dragon's breath, and only a few javelins with slightly tricky angles broke through the dragon's breath's barrier and successfully hit the enemies behind.
However, this time, compared to the results of the previous attack, it was much inferior, not a single wyvern or dragon died in this attack, only one wyvern with pierced wings had to choose to make a forced landing and walked back to Atira's army on foot.
There were already healers and shamans waiting, ready with herbs and magic to heal the wyvern, the hole in the wings healing rapidly at a speed that could be seen by the eye, and after a few minutes, the wyvern tried to flap its wings and make a high-pitched sound as it soared into the sky.
Before the wyvern flapped its wings frantically and joined the warband, the battle had begun again, to be precise, the attack of the Thunderbirds had been prepared.
Lightning flickered in the dark clouds in the sky, bringing a glimmer of light to the slightly gloomy blizzard world, and the sound of electricity clearly reached the ears, followed by an explosive roar.
Pillars of thunder fell from the sky with the thickness of their forearms, targeting the berserkers who could pose a threat to them, and the heavy javelins thrown by the berserkers could damage them with weak defenses.
Why didn't they choose the bed crossbows as targets? partly because the Thunderbirds didn't think they could be threatened with the range of those bed crossbows, and partly because they didn't have any hope that the bed crossbows would make some gains and kill some wyverns and dragons.
Although they both belong to Attila's flying legion, the relationship between the Thunderbird and the dragon Wyvern is not harmonious at all, not to mention the bad relationship with the Wyvern, they have too many places to compete, and the dragon ...... No creature would have a crush on a man of great strength but even a very proud person, especially since the dragons like to use their strength to plunder the resources of the Thunderbirds, and support the Wyverns and Thunderbirds with whom they are sparsely related to compete for the resources of the Atila Army.
The Thunderbird's attack was a remarkable success, with at least ten or more berserkers lying on the ground in charcoal, and dozens of others suffering injuries of varying degrees and temporarily losing their combat effectiveness.
This really has to be said, Thunderbird, this kind of attack method that only I can hit you, but you can't attack me, is really very Laipi...... The Scandinavians were furious, but they couldn't do anything about the ptarmigans.