Chapter 232: Decisive Battle (4)
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The tree man blocked the mammoth's charge in front, but the narrow attack surface made it impossible for the tree man and the mammoth to all join the battle, especially for the mammoth, the size of the mammoth limited their movements, and the mammoth in the back in addition to constantly raising their noses and yelling, they could only rely on those bows and arrows and small heavy weapons on the back of the fortress to attack, but this attack may have a role in front of the tree man, but it is really harmless, and on the back of the mammoth in front, the few orc soldiers in the fortress have been shot and dare not raise their heads。
Their fortress was originally designed to defend against ground attacks, with almost no frontal attack and top defense, which was the best target in front of the elves, but at this time, the treemen did not have the same trouble as the mammoth, and behind the frontline treemen, the waiting treemen were not idle, and they took the black cannonballs that they didn't know where to hide the branches on their bodies and threw them at the dense mammoth brigade behind the mammoth.
This scene made the eyes of the orc soldiers who thought they were temporarily safe widen for a moment, and they didn't think about placing trebuchets on the mammoth fortress, but this weapon really didn't seem to have bows and arrows in previous use, after all, there was no situation that would make them need to use a trebuchet behind the mammoth to fight, but today, this situation has shown them how useful this "high-altitude trebuchet" is.
The huge black cannonball drew a perfect parabola and fell into the dense mammoth team behind, and the orcs who saw the huge cannonball hurriedly hid wherever they could, but the huge explosion they imagined did not happen, they waited for a while and did not react before slowly poking their heads out and looking outside, it didn't matter, almost all the orcs who saw the cannonball was now magnificent and shouted in fear.
The black cannonball would be broken like fragile porcelain, but it was originally designed to be extremely fragile, but this was not the reason for the orcs to be afraid, what was really afraid was what was exposed inside the fragile crockpot after it was broken, black and slippery fire oil!
How do you feel when you see the black oil that represents the flames flowing everywhere in front of you? And that's not enough, now the orcs want to pour this oil on themselves, because all this oil is now poured on the mammoth beast, which is a beast, so it is easy to tame, but the mammoth is four beasts, so when the bone-piercing flames burn on him, his mania is more violent than that of their higher "species".
"Run!"
The orcs only had time to roar, except for a few orcs at the very edge who didn't care if they would fall to their deaths if they jumped off the mammoth, the rest of the orcs only saw a small and accurate rocket shot from the treeman, the rocket was so small in front of the mammoth, but in front of all the orcs, it was a life-threatening charm.
Lelouch had also thought about using rockets when he faced the mammoth for the first time, but the huge height made it difficult for the rocket to hit the fortress on the back of the mammoth, and it was impossible for the orcs on the fortress to watch these small flames slowly spread.
If a small flame is not enough, then there will be a fierce fire directly, a fire that cannot be extinguished, these fragile fire oil canisters were originally prepared for trebuchets, but when Estelle brought these ancient war trees out of the Forest of Angres, Lelouch knew that he had the pitcher he needed most, and the artillery made Lelouch no longer afraid of mammoths, but with these ancient war trees carrying fire oil bombs, Lelouch was able to make Mordor's mammoth the object of his own hanging.
In the eyes of the orcs, the rocket slowly slid down, and finally landed in front of their eyes, the huge mammoth's head, in the past, this kind of attack orcs would not even look at it, this attack could not even be nailed to the mammoth's rough skin, but now, this rocket ignited a huge flame in an instant, the cannonball brought the oil has covered a huge part of the mammoth's body at this time, and now the flame covered the entire huge head of the mammoth in an instant, the flame came so fierce, so violent that the mammoth even had a moment of doubt, and then suddenly raised his front hooves and stood high, roared a huge roar with the strength of his whole body.
In the taming of the mammoth, this high-flying action is absolutely eliminated, unless the mammoth goes berserk, otherwise this will never happen, and now, the mammoth is going berserk, and there is more than one, if you were to ask me what would be more terrifying than a mammoth, then it must be a mad mammoth.
The frenzied mammoth was deeply affected by the terrifying burning sensation coming from his body, he was like every creature covered in flames, he frantically slammed left and turned on the ground, not caring what was in front of him, even if it was in front of them, the army of Mordor front line was constantly attacking, the huge mammoth rushed towards the crowd of Mordor with the spreading flames, they were not so obedient, mainly because the mammoth in front of them blocked their access, and in their subconscious, they chose to rush towards what looked wider.
So, Mordor suffered, this scene even the reckless Mordor orcs were terrified, when you saw a behemoth rushing towards you with a body of flames, did you react to think that the piece of meat on his body was more delicious?
The orcs dodged the rushing mammoth beasts uncontrollably, and the originally tight military formation now became messy, which greatly reduced the impact of Mordor, and they couldn't even rush in front of the coalition array, but the coalition army was also fighting for the current situation, and the artillery stopped firing, just to leave the cannonballs to be able to gather fire for the first time, and a certain uncontrollable mammoth rushed towards the coalition army.
There were eight mad mammoths, and although this only accounted for nearly a tenth of the entire mammoth brigade, they still chose to drive the mammoth backwards in the first place, and Elby even loudly agreed with this kind of escape, because there was no reason for the coalition forces to let the Treants only carry one fire bomb!
The mad mammoth crashed into a path in the team, and even hit an intact mammoth, and it was quite troublesome for the fallen mammoth to stand up again, but no one cared about this anymore, because they were turning in a dense team so the speed was extremely slow, so that they could be lucky enough to see the second wave of fire oil bombs falling into the sky, and the tree people tacitly did not attack the mammoth in front of them, they needed these mammoths to resist the mad mammoth, and the orc soldiers on the mammoth fortress at the front were still lamenting how they were so unlucky to rush to the front, but now after witnessing the situation behind, they felt how lucky they were in an instant。
Because of the first wave of attacks, the current mammoth team has become more crowded and messy, so the second wave of fire bombs covered a full twelve mammoths, the mammoth beasts hit by the fire oil bombs looked at these black liquids they had just seen, and there was a huge panic in their eyes, mammoths or giant elephants are actually very smart, their IQ is close to that of human three-year-old children, and their memory is even more than that, they can now understand what these black liquids are for, the experience and tragedy of those companions just now have already frightened them, although they don't understand how those black flames suddenly burned, but they know that as long as they get out of here, you may be able to avoid burning.
So, the twelve mammoths that were not burned by the flames, but were only splashed with fire oil, also went berserk, and they rushed out without hesitation, like the last madness of a dying man, and the rest of the mammoths went berserk with them.
Yes, those intact mammoths that were not burned by the flames and were not splashed with fire oil also collapsed, and Elby, who looked at the rear in this situation, was dumbfounded, but Lelouch waved his arm at the high level:
"Sure enough!"
It is true that Lelouch has never seen a mammoth, but Lelouch has seen elephants, and has seen many records of the use of elephants in ancient times on the earth, and in the process Lelouch found a very interesting phenomenon, or he saw an imagination summed up by the historians of the earth, that is, all countries that have used elephants have never won in foreign wars, and they may have won one or two battles, but the whole war has never been lost.
There may be various other reasons for this defeat that cannot be entirely attributed to the elephants, but it is an indisputable fact that the side with the elephants has never won, and the earth attributes part of the cause to the elephants' developed intelligence.
The mammoth's movements seem incredible to the natives, but if they think about it from a different angle, they may find that this is not just a chain rout effect of the army after a battle failure, which is sparse and ordinary in the battle of intelligent creatures is now just happening to the mammoth, perhaps no one present except Lelouch has never thought that the mammoth would also collapse in fear.
"How is this possible? How can they all go crazy in an instant?!"
A big shaman was shocked to grow his mouth, and that mouth was even big enough to put down two large eggs, eh, the orc's mouth was bigger!
Elby's vigorous team of one hundred mammoths even accounted for more than half of the entire Mammoth team, and now it is not an exaggeration to say that it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a national force to launch a blow, but this national blow has not even killed a single enemy, so it is so defeated, uh, the few elves who were accidentally shot to death cannot be counted as any effective damage of this level.
The mammoths all ran back in a frenzy, and the first eight mammoths could no longer stand the fierce flames and fell to the ground and convulsed, the huge body slowly fell into the continuous flames, the mammoths in front of the tree people have long lost any fighting spirit, although they can't see what is happening behind, but they can still feel the magnificence of all their companions fleeing, the fear in their hearts may be greater than the companions behind, after all, the companions behind can still know why they escaped, but they can only guess by themselves。
Maybe it was the distraction that made them unable to use all their strength, a mammoth suddenly stumbled, and was held by the tree man holding the tusks and fell to the side, the mammoth to the end, the fortress on the back also began to disintegrate, the orcs on it screamed and fell, this seemed to be a signal, the mammoths in front of them all began to run back frantically, they didn't care about the tree people in front of them, the original fierce mammoth brigade is now completely in vain.
This scene completely boosted the morale of the coalition forces, and Qiyan even found that the right wing of Mordor, which was originally going to find a way to break down, had been rushed by their own mammoth brigade, although it had not collapsed yet, but Qiyan had been hindered a lot less by their next impact.
"Coalition cavalry, charge!"
Qi Yan excitedly raised the banner of the coalition army, and rushed out first, the orcs on the right flank had just recovered from the mess of being impacted by their own mammoths, and saw a scene that made them unable to have the slightest will to fight, and the knight frenzy came out, where the frenzy, countless huge tree people walked in it, they took the flame bomb and threw it while walking, in the words of Lelouch, behind Lao Tzu is the entire heaven-sent land, not bad money!
The Mordor troops on the right flank collapsed in an instant under this terrifying offensive, countless orcs turned their heads and fled, where did they still have the courage to face such an army, the knightly frenzy was dotted with huge tree men, this scene was no worse than their countless infantry and a sea of mammoths dotted with behemoths.
"I lost!"
Seeing the rout of the right flank, Elby already felt powerless, this time as they thought, the flank on that side was the first to rout, and the other side was about to suffer the bitter consequences of defeat, not only Elby, almost all the great shamans around him were in disbelief, they had also failed before, but that was because they had never used all their strength, even if the troops they sent here for a decisive battle were not their army in their heyday, or even the army that had just fought a terrible civil war.
But they never thought they would lose, and any battle they had fought seriously for hundreds of years would only be won, without any exceptions, and at this time almost all the great shamans were thinking in their hearts: how good it would have been if they had devoted themselves to it earlier?
When they win, no one thinks about their efforts, and only when they fail and fall into trouble, they think of their own lack of effort.
"Mordor's defeat is decided, gentlemen, the new era of Middle-earth is just around the corner!"
Around Lelouch was also speechless with excitement at this time, his body danced restlessly, he suddenly pulled out his 'Holy White Radiance' and walked towards the platform:
"Come on, prepare a horse for me, I will personally lead the charge of the team, the success or failure of the empire, in one fell swoop!"
Leluxiu's war horse was already waiting below, and he stepped on the war horse and pointed directly at the front of the sword: "Blow the trumpet of the charge, and the whole army will charge!"
Not only Lelouch, but also Olaf and Estelle walked towards their mounts non-stop, they all understood the current situation, and they also understood the meaning of Lelouch's phrase 'New Era of Middle-earth', after today, Mordor will become a thing of the past, a powerful force that has pressed the whole of Middle-earth for hundreds of years, will be sent into the dust of history by their own hands on this day, how can they not be excited?
"Charge !!"
The coalition troops that had been on the defensive suddenly withdrew their shields, and the musketeers shot out the ammunition in their hands with full fire in front of them, and the rain of arrows of the elven archers finally disappeared, and before the orcs in front could react to what was going on, they saw countless Terran soldiers surging like a pouring flood, and they only had time to raise their shields before they were cut down to the ground by countless coalition elf soldiers who jumped out from behind the Terran soldiers.
The entire middle formation broke through, and the left and right flanks also launched a general attack together, although the dwarves on the left flank were surrounded and almost lost half of their lives, but they still had a strong attack power with the support of almost all the mobile troops of the coalition army, and now the three lines attacked at the same time, and the Mordor soldiers, who were already fluctuating in morale because of the madness of the mammoth, finally couldn't control the fear in their hearts and retreated.
They may have just retreated a certain distance at the beginning to reorganize and engage the enemy, even as soldiers, they never thought that they would fail, they only thought that this was just a not very glorious retreat, but the coalition army is different, every soldier in the coalition army knows exactly what is happening on the battlefield, and they also know what the point of the general offensive is now.
The offensive of the coalition forces has never been more intense.
"Knight, split attack!"
Qi Yan almost effortlessly completely defeated the right flank of Mordor, looking at the orc soldiers who were defeated all over the mountains in front of him, Qi Yan was high-spirited, he seemed to have seen the bright future of the centaur, and he gave the order for the cavalry team to split the attack for the first time, now it is time to let the other orcs on both sides know what is happening on the battlefield, after all, there is no faster way for them to understand than the attack from behind!
The rout of Mordor began to gather and spread from the right flank, and the continuous battle had exhausted their strength, and the sudden rout of the mammoth made them even more unbelievable, the huge tree man was like a moving terror battery, with a dense rain of arrows and fire bombs on it, and the soft flanks and backs of the Mordor orcs were exposed in front of the coalition knight brigade and the tree people, and they couldn't even organize any strong resistance!
"Maharaja, the great shamans have been defeated!"
Karui hurried to Mordor, trembling as he recounted the tragic news.
Mordor, however, looked at the black rout figures that covered the mountains in front of him, and behind them were countless pursuing coalition soldiers.
Mordor finally sighed, probably the only sound he had made on the battlefield, and spoke:
"It's time for the end too!"
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