Chapter 159: Mammoth Behemoth
A hundred mountain-like mammoths.
They carried a light wooden castle on their backs, and the huge ivory tusks were full of maligned barbs, and at this moment they rushed towards the strangled battlefield under the pilots of the riders, and the two wings of the Mordor orcs quickly bypassed on both sides, and they dodged behind the mammoth, leaving the Terran and Centaur forces in place.
The Terrans and Centaurs did not dare to pursue them, and the huge mammoth gave endless fear to everyone present, and they did not dare to rush forward to face such a terrifying beast.
"Blow the rallying trumpet, blow the rallying trumpet, and let the centaurs assemble!"
Beggar shouted over and over again, he asked the stunned centaur army to regroup, and he couldn't retreat at this time, except for the centaurs and knights, no one had ever run past the mammoth beast that was advancing at full speed, and at this time he escaped, and there were only no more than 20,000 elite soldiers who could return to Fort Horn, so everyone knew that they couldn't retreat at this time!
"We can't go back, we can't move forward, we're all ready to move forward!"
Lelouch also stood up and shouted loudly, although it was incredible, but the Terrans and Centaurs were left with only one way to defend the mammoth beast!
The infantry were dazed and frightened, the centaur knights began to assemble in front of the infantry, although their faces were also frightened, but they were still filled with fighting spirit, a centaur gasped for breath, he held a spare riding spear, staring intently at the mammoth that kept running, but in his corner, he suddenly found a knight who did not belong to the centaur.
The few remaining Terran knights are also mixed into the centaur team, the centaur knights will charge with the Terran knights, Frank is responsible for leading the team, he is standing beside the beggar Yan, holding the imperial flag in his hand, the knights know the danger of going, but they have no intention of retreating, they can't retreat anymore, behind them is the Horn Fort!
Qi Yan personally picked up the horn, and with his lung capacity, which was not weaker than that of a dwarf, the horn sounded throughout the battlefield, and Frank rode on his horse and pressed down the general's flag slightly:
"Forward!"
The cavalry, began to slowly accelerate, they first slowly advanced, adjusted the team to the same rhythm, and then continued to make their running speed faster, from slow to fast, from fast to canter, until finally full running, 20,000 knights finally reflected the momentum that was not weaker than the mammoth's advance.
Behind the knights, the infantry of the more than 200,000 people alliance roared forward, and they followed behind the knights as much as possible, although the knights rushed in front of them, and also created a powerful momentum, but the terrifying beast that far exceeded the knight's head still made the infantry unable to raise much fighting spirit.
The reason why they were still able to hold on to the battle at this time was because it was Lelouch who rushed to the front!
Lelouch knew that he couldn't retreat at this time, not only those in power, but every soldier on the battlefield couldn't retreat, so Lelouch stood up again, he had to be at the forefront, he had to let every timid human see his existence, he had to take the lead in the charge.
To retreat is to die!
The soldiers looked at Lelouch who was at the front, and they finally understood why the soldiers in the garrison were able to withstand such huge casualties without being defeated, and also understood the reason why the soldiers in the garrison were really strong, because at this time, there was only Lelouch in front, only Lelouch!
Richard didn't know where he was on the battlefield, but Decres looked at Lelouch who entered the battlefield in disbelief, he didn't understand why Lelouch wanted to put himself in danger, or even death, Decres looked at the unnatural gaze of the knights around him, he was very annoyed:
"Even if you do this to make everyone love you, as long as people die, there is nothing!"
Declan looked at the mammoths that were getting closer and closer in the distance, and the regrouped Third Legion behind them, and he finally gritted his teeth:
"Retreat, we retreat, the battle below is over, let's go back to Hornfort, we may be able to bargain with Mordor!"
Decres flinched, although the knights around him looked at the countless charging comrades in front of them, feeling endless shame and helplessness, but the desire for life occupied the hearts of almost every one of them, he was like a defeated rout, although he had not experienced any battle, but he had been defeated!
At the moment when Decres and his party turned around, the mammoth crashed into the knight's ocean!
Screams, endless screams, and corpses in the sky!
The battle picture of the heavy trolls striking the flying peasants, at this time in the scene of the knight's ocean and the mammoth beast hedging, it seems so simple and low-level, the mammoth only needs to shake his huge head, he can knock the countless knights into the air by his ivory, and the huge heavy body of the centaur wearing armor is like a toy at this time.
In the small castle overhead, the orc archers rained arrows at the dense knightly army at their feet, and the centaur nomadic knights fought back mercilessly, the dense arrows constantly attacking the orc soldiers on the castle and the huge mammoth beast.
The mammoth beast did not wear too much other armor after carrying the castle, which was neither convenient nor necessary, and if it was an attack that the mammoth's own skin could not stop, then there was no great need to spend a lot of money on an extra pair of armor.
So at this time, although the mammoth beast's body seems to be full of dense arrows, in fact, it is only slightly nailed into a little skin, and the actual damage caused by the mammoth can be said to be minimal.
Only those knights who were lucky enough to avoid the tusks that were scurrying around, and the knights who were whistling with arrows overhead, could inflict some actual damage on the mammoth when they immediately pierced the mammoth's soft feet with their whole bodies, and the knights seemed to be able to do only that, relying on this constant weak attack, to slowly accumulate damage to the mammoth, hoping to abolish a certain leg of a certain mammoth.
After the knight rushed into the mammoth phalanx, between the four huge thighs of the mammoth, which was like a small square, a large number of orc soldiers followed behind and prepared to counterattack the Terrans, but they collided head-on with the knights who rushed in, they had no time to retreat, they could only rush up, and then were cut down to the ground by these elite centaur knights and human knights, after all, under the mammoth, the orcs could not line up a phalanx.
The knight sea composed of 20,000 knights quickly washed over the mammoth's phalanx, just a charge, the knights lost at least more than 2,000 people, and the mammoth, almost unfell, only a few mammoth beasts were slowed down a lot, and began to move forward slowly, and their steps were a little staggering.
The effect of the first wave of attacks made everyone present feel a little bold, but they didn't have time to be stunned, only to see them turn around and rush behind them, and the nomadic knights were constantly wandering around, shooting their own arrows, the mammoth beasts did not care about the knights who were wandering around them, but continued to rush straight towards the surging sea of people, and the orc soldiers on their backs were responsible for dealing with these knights.
After the mammoth beast withstood a wave of attacks from the knights, it swaggered towards the sea of people, Lelouch walked in the front, looking at the approaching terrifying beasts, it was impossible to say that he was not afraid, but Lelouch only gritted his teeth and insisted, Lelouch felt that he had not fought on foot for many years, and the last time he fought on foot was when he faced the goblin army for the first time.
I didn't expect that the second time I fought on foot, I was facing these terrifying monsters that were almost nearly 100 meters tall, that is, slaying dragons, and the size of the dragon was not so big!
Finally, at the insistence of Lelouch, not a single person in the entire coalition team escaped, although they were all extremely frightened, they all gritted their teeth and persevered, and then summoned their little courage and crashed into it!
If the impact of the knight's ocean is still a little deterrent to the mammoth, then these infantry are completely stress-free, and the mammoth even needs to bow his head slightly to be able to let his tusks attack those low infantry, and under their terrifying big feet, they can trample to death at least a dozen ordinary soldiers with one foot, and the only role of these soldiers is to stab the spear in their hands into the busy foot before they die.
The feeling of a barefoot without boots suddenly stepping into a dozen nails was the pain of these mammoths, who let out a howl that the knights had not let out just now, and rubbed their big feet on the ground frantically, but in this way, it made those spears pierce deeper.
Think about it, the feeling of a dozen long nails completely piercing your flesh, how that feeling will make you feel, and how that feeling will make you feel when you have four feet at the same time!
The situation suddenly changed when the mammoth faced the infantry, the mammoth beast that could be said to be invincible, did not seem to have the terrifying combat power he showed in front of the infantry, the short bodies of the infantrymen allowed them to dodge the mammoth's attack, and the bow and arrow of the orcs on top became a bigger threat to them.
After Lelouch dodged the attack of a mammoth, he soon found a large number of orc infantry mixed under the mammoth, they howled and pounced, but they were often killed by Lelouch with a sword, Lelouch was surrounded by guards knights and warriors, they protected Lelouxiu, protecting the fighting spirit of all the Terran soldiers on the battlefield, the mammoth quickly rushed over from the front team where Lelouch was, thinking about the Terran troops rushing behind, but with the experience of the first wave, everyone behind knew how the situation would develop, the first actual combat of these mammoths did not completely reach what Mordor expected。
It is difficult for the Terrans and Centaurs to kill the mammoth, but the mammoth is also difficult to cause overwhelming damage to the enemy, and most of the damage after the mammoth enters the battlefield at this time is caused by the orc soldiers on his back, as long as the enemy does not hold together, the mammoth has almost no great effect.
Kakar was sitting on the mammoth beast at the front at this time, he looked at the Terran soldiers scattered under his feet, the mammoth could only trample on one or two people from time to time, this kind of killing made him very annoyed, but Kakar did not have much regret, he quickly realized the true purpose of the mammoth, after rushing through the first wave of knights, Kakar had already given an order to the back, followed by the orc infantry, at this time had completed the formation, they continued to press up with the advantage of the formation, and the Mammoth impact under the loss of the formation of the Terran and centaur coalition, where will be the Mordor opponent with the advantage of the formation?
As mentioned countless times before, when all the conditions are equal between having a formation and not having a formation, the side with the formation will defeat the other side in a completely crushing situation, and this situation appears on the battlefield between Mordor and the Terrans.
Kakar is worthy of being a great shaman, he clearly discovered the true purpose of the mammoth, at least the real use of the current situation, that is, after using the mammoth to disperse the enemy formation in front of him, let the formation troops behind his own side create massacres, this function is the same as the previous chariot and heavy cavalry, but the mammoth is an infinite number of magnified horror existence, and it has its own morale strike effect and absolute charge success effect.
It is impossible for a mammoth to rush to Fort Clarion after rushing over, even if the ramp is not detected, it is not completely unable to bear the huge weight of the mammoth, and even if the mammoth is really sent up, what is the use of the huge mammoth in such narrow terrain?
So technically, after the mammoth rushed through this time, it was useless, unless it was planned to use the mammoth to completely ram around the crowd in the first place, but that was not possible, because the spear would definitely pierce the soft soles of the mammoth's feet, which would not do them any good.
But these are of no use to Kakar, he has already got what he wants most, the centaurs and humans have been gathered together, the defeated legions have been regrouped, the strict phalanx is constantly squeezing, the chaotic coalition is not Mordor's opponent at all, this time, the situation is completely back in the hands of Mordor, Kakar has turned the tables!
Lelouch slew a strong orc who came through the layers of barriers, he looked around, the mammoth was in the rear enduring the pain of the spear rolling in the flesh under his feet, limping from the wings and withdrawing from the battlefield, but the knights and soldiers around him were constantly retreating, they were retreating while resisting the Mordor army that came in a tight formation, and the flying dragon was also hovering in the sky at this time, they did not seek much damage, but they must have ensured the threat that the coalition soldiers could not gather.
Retreat, and it will soon turn into a rout!