Dense drumming filled the sky, and the two sides began to assemble in the middle of the two cities, across the river, on a summer day.

There are elves, dwarves and humans who have lived in this land, as well as trolls and ogres from the Ural Mountains, and you can even see minotaurs that only live on some islands in the northern Mediterranean.

The battle on both sides was lined up in a neat formation, and then the sound of drums remained in the whole field, and the soldiers on both sides held the weapons in their hands vigorously, and many of them had sweat on their foreheads.

Every soldier is listening, they are waiting for orders from the commanders of the Chinese army, waiting for the beginning of this war, especially the army of the Baltic Empire, in today's war, they will be the attacking side.

Because the Attila Empire would not take the initiative to attack, the river that straddled the two cities had already been occupied by the Baltic Empire's Sea Clan, and they would have to cross it if they wanted to attack.

Obviously, the two knights still knew the story of the half-crossing attack, and they also knew that when attacking to cross the river, they would need to face attacks from both sides, and fall into absolute skimming.

As for why they didn't cower in the city, relying on the city's defenses and tall and strong walls to hold on, the reason is also very simple, they don't want to see themselves surrounded by enemies.

Judging from the previous history, there has never been a besieged city that can hold out for a long time without foreign aid, and they are also worried that after being surrounded, the Baltic Empire will adopt the tactics of encirclement and reinforcement to consume the empire's living force.

The army of the Attila Empire seems to have a big gap with the United Kingdom, almost all the soldiers have armor for defense, and the weapons in their hands are also made of metal, although many of them are inferior bronze, but this is a very rare progress for the Attila Empire.

At the front of the whole formation is a front army composed of heavy infantry, ogres and trolls and some giants and half-giants are here, there are cavalry on the left and right of the front army to defend and respond, these cavalry are not elite, but they can still do it if they can simply contain the enemy, and in the back there are ranged troops composed of jackals and trolls, who will be responsible for pouring ammunition during the battle.

As for the spellcasters, they are located further away in the middle army, and they will participate in this battle as appropriate, this battle is not a decisive battle now, and the Attila Empire needs to preserve these valuable spellcasters so that they can play a more important role in future battles.

The whole force set up a defensive formation, and at the front of the position were placed a large number of traps, which they had prepared beforehand, including traps and spikes, although they could not do much damage during the battle, but they were enough to disrupt the enemy's formation and slow down the enemy's advance.

On the other side of this army is the rushing river, and the Sea Clan has long erected pontoon bridges, and now they are cruising beneath the water, looking for an opportunity to intervene in the battlefield.

Unfortunately, they were not able to go on land, which doomed them to have no way to participate in the war, and they could only do so in solidarity with their comrades.

On the other side, at the forefront, the forward army of various races, also a heavy infantry unit, each soldier wearing heavy armor and holding a metal weapon in his hands, glowing in the cold sunlight.

There are no trolls and ogres in this team, more giants and half-giants, because there are many rules within the empire, and trolls and ogres cannot adapt to these rules very well, unlike giants and half-giants, who can be well integrated into the empire after education.

Giants and half-giants are also wearing armor, which is the only Baltic Empire in the entire Northland that has the money and technology to create such armor.

Heavily armed giants and half-giants are an absolute nightmare for all enemies on the battlefield, and every step they take can inflict huge casualties on the enemy, and even the mere mere look at their tall bodies can make people lose the courage to fight.

The flanks were guarded by cavalry, but the Baltic Empire's cavalry was more evenly divided, consisting of rhinoceros, heavy cavalry, centaur rangers, while the Gnolils and Werewolves, dressed in light leather armor and armed with scimitars, were near the cavalry.

They will be responsible for attacking the enemy's cavalry, and their barking and wolf howls can panic horses that have not been trained much and can disrupt the rhythm of the opposing cavalry.

Moreover, the gnolls and werewolves are good at speeding in such flat land, and they are good at fighting enemies moving at high speeds, like wolves hunting reindeer.

As for the long-range troops of the Baltic Empire, they are served by elves, and these elves are basically elves who originally lived in the Rus' steppes and lived in Karelia and Finland.

Although they were forced to join the Baltic Empire because of existential problems, they soon discovered the benefits of being in the Empire, as long as they could follow the laws and regulations of the Empire, they could be free enough in other respects.

In the desolate trumpet, the Baltic Empire's armies began to advance slowly, and the Attila Empire was ready to attack, as soon as the other side began to cross the river.

Attacking halfway means that the enemy starts to attack halfway through the river crossing, and attacks at this time, because part of the enemy's army has already gone ashore, and part of the army is still crossing the river, and it is difficult to spread out the formation.

If the army ashore is routed and retreats to the rear, then the conflict with each other will make the army completely crushed.

Unfortunately, the Attila Empire's plan was not successfully realized, and as they were about to cross the river, the hoplites in front stopped their advance, and the elves in the rear began to shoot.

The elves held longbows, about two meters long, and the back of the bow was bent from a whole piece of wood, which was the harder wood of the forest, and the bowstring was made of ox tendon, which had plenty of toughness.

This longbow has a faster rate of fire, longer range, and more penetration than other ranged weapons, whether it is the daggling used by centaurs, the slings of jackals, the throwing axes and javelins of Scandinavians, or the crossbow arrows used by harpys.

Of course, these longbows are not without weaknesses, the use of these longbows must have a strong body, a certain amount of shooting skills and long-term training and practice, these conditions can be met by the elves, especially after joining the Baltic Empire, the sufficient nutrition brought by sufficient food makes these elves become stronger, and the strong muscles underneath can be faintly seen through the clothes.

The elves began to shoot in a projectile manner, they drew their bowstrings, placed their slender arrows, and aimed them at an angle to the sky, just waiting for the order to be given.

Without the slightest hesitation, the first moment they saw the enemy's movements, the army of the Attila Empire began to defend, they put their shields on their heads, showed a certain inclination, and then rained down like a rain of arrows.

The dull sound continued to sound, and even ordinary arrows with no magic attached could easily penetrate the defenses of the Attila Imperial soldiers and penetrate their bodies.

In thirty seconds, three waves of arrows rained down on their backs, and even the gnolls behind them were affected to a certain extent, and the formation was briefly disrupted.

Taking advantage of the rain of arrows in the Atila Empire, the heavy infantry in front began to cross the river quickly, because with the help of the sea tribes below, they marched very fast.

However, sporadic attacks from the enemy also took their toll on them, the gnolls' slings could not break through their defenses, and the trolls' javelins had not yet reached the best distance, but the bed crossbows hidden in the front army became the best killers.

The heavy armor produced by the Baltic Empire is indeed very strong, but it is not strong enough to completely ignore the bed crossbow, even if the wooden crossbow arrows used in the bed crossbow cannot penetrate this layer of armor, but the impact carried by it can still easily kill the soldiers in the armor.

In addition, catapults also began to attack, and their targets were pontoon bridges erected over the river, as long as they could break them, then they could slow down the enemy's movement.

And each pontoon bridge destroyed can cause a string of enemies to fall into the water, and although the sea tribes are underneath to meet them, the heavy armor still puts these soldiers at risk of drowning.

If those heavy heavy armored cavalry fell into the river, even if the sea tribe wanted to help, they couldn't help, after all, the depth of this river was very limited, and it could not support the activities of large sea beasts such as the dragon, and the sea tribe like the fish people did not have the strength to carry the heavy armored cavalry, especially the rhinoceros and rhinoceros people wearing heavy armor.

There was no real hand-to-hand combat between the two sides, and the brutal white-knuckle battle had not yet begun, but the battle had entered a brutal phase from the beginning, and the centaur rangers did not choose to cross the river, and they began to attack the trolls along the river.

Trolls also use javelins to return colors, and for tall, resilient trolls, the centaur attack does not achieve fatal results, and many trolls are full of five or six arrows, and they are still jumping and screaming.

Trolls' javelins are still difficult to hit centaurs, as centaurs move fast and are located at a distance from the river.

However, the centaurs soon switched their attacks to gnolls, and they found that they could achieve more by attacking gnolls than by attacking trolls, as they were the best ones to defeat in the Attila Empire's army.

If the gnolls are defeated, then it will definitely seriously affect the formation of the Attila Empire, and will impact other troops, if the rout can be allowed to impact the Chinese army, then this battle will end in a very short time.

It's just this battle that ends, famine and plague are not so easy to kill, they can gather the remnants of their troops and prepare for the next battle, the Attila Empire is very different from the United Kingdom, and it will not collapse because of the defeat of one or two battles.

The heavy infantry of the Baltic Empire had partially crossed the river, and they began to push forward with their shields in hand, opening up a place for their comrades behind them to stand.

However, the soldiers of the Attila Empire are also very tenacious, although they are slightly inferior in equipment, they are indeed very firm in their will, and there is no retreat.

The two sides fought fiercely on the shoals, and no one could have imagined that there would be such a stalemate in this battle, and they originally attached great importance to the enemy, but they did not expect that the enemy would be much more troublesome than it actually was.

This stalemate was essentially beneficial to the Attila Empire, as the bed crossbows and catapults had been gaining ground, and the casualties of the Baltic Empire were constantly increasing.

Despite the fact that the fighting was turning unfavorable and casualties were increasing, the offensive of the Baltic Empire did not slow down, and the soldiers continued to move forward in good order.

At this time, after a little rest, the elves who had regained their strength joined the battle, and the Empire needed these elves to break the current deadlock and reverse the disadvantage.

The elves took out the arrows carved with a flame motif from the quiver, which were magically inflicted arrows that could cause fireballs to explode similar to them, and the Attila Empire had suffered from them in the previous skirmishes.

In the entire Northland, only the wealthy Baltic Empire used magical items as one-time consumables, and only the industrialization of the Baltic Empire could produce such consumables on a large scale, so that the production could keep up with the consumption.

The arrows that had already flown into the sky formed a red cloud of fire and fell towards the ground, and the Attila Imperial soldiers below began to exclaim, and they raised their shields high, even though they all knew that the shields in their hands could not achieve much effect in the face of such flaming arrows.

Just when the soldiers were in despair, a strong wind from nowhere blew the arrows above the river, and then a dense explosion was heard on the pontoon.

A large number of pontoon bridges were reduced to ashes in the raging flames, and a large number of heavily armored soldiers jumped into the water in flames, and then sank to the bottom of the river, suffocating and losing consciousness.

The things that were produced by the factories of the Baltic Empire and used by their own people were all high-quality products, but now this high-quality products are being used on their own people, and to be honest, this is definitely not a pleasant thing.