Chapter 223: Counterattack (1)

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In the early morning of the next day, almost all the front-line troops were ready for battle, and the troops responsible for the encirclement yesterday were put into the rear line to rest and recuperate, and the reserve troops of the rear line were mobilized to ensure the strongest fighting spirit of the front-line troops.

Elby also knew very well that the coalition army would definitely launch a counteroffensive, so the 200,000 Mordor army prepared early in the morning, and in the past few days, it has been building a defensive line all the time, Elbi believes that even with the combat strength of the coalition army, if you want to capture such a fortress, you need to pay no less than the same number of 250,000 Mordor soldiers.

This is already a very good data, the number of attackers in the field is generally more than double that of the enemy, and the battle to defend the city is even more than five times the gap, Elby's estimation of the coalition army is already very face-saving, but in fact, the battlefield will never be done according to the ideas of others, just like yesterday Elbi chose to bombard and did not choose to march, Lelouch did not choose to march, but chose to bombard.

Today's artillery positions are ready to go, the densely arranged artillery points forward, the thick muzzles are daunting, and around them, there are a large number of trebuchets and crossbows, they also have fierce firepower, although the accuracy cannot be guaranteed because the coordinate axis is not set up in advance, but a huge target of 250,000 people is enough to solve the problem of accuracy.

It is worth mentioning that the original 500 cannons have now increased to 550, yes, in the period between the coalition forces leaving Fort Clarion until now, the factories in the rear have been working at full capacity day and night, and during this time 50 artillery pieces have been replenished to the front line, at this rate, Lelouch will only get bigger and stronger, and Mordor will be bigger and weaker, after all, the supply line Lelouch is much closer than Mordor, and in terms of productivity, Lelouch is also developing much faster than Mordor.

It is believed that it will not be long before Lelouch alone relies on the Heaven-Sent Land to completely surpass Mordor, which occupies almost the entire Middle-earth, in terms of productivity.

"Your Majesty, the time has come!"

Libert looked at the sky and reminded Lelouch on the side, who looked at the 250,000 Mordo salient in the distance and waved his arms ambitiously:

"Fire!"

Rumble!!!

Once again, the deafening sound of five hundred and fifty artillery salvos shook the whole world, and the loud noise made everyone feel as if they were in the middle of a huge sound wave, which caused a brief gust of wind to blow the corners of Lelouch's clothes, and then, in the distance, the salient camp of Mordor fell into a sea of bursts.

Dense shells hit Mordor's position, although the prepared Mordor soldiers had already built a large number of solid defenses, but under the heavy artillery fire, unless the use of the bomb craters that ended in the future, these ground defenses worked together, no matter how solid they were built, they were just a fixed coffin that would be coaxed sooner or later.

Sure enough, those sturdy and tall defenses may be able to withstand the first, second, or even third attacks, but at the fourth and fifth shots, they will collapse and the Mordor soldiers who are dodging inside will also become the nourishment of Mother Earth.

The fierce artillery attack surprised Elby, he almost immediately thought of what Lelouch wanted to do, and then after estimating the actual situation, he found that Lelouch was really likely to bombard these 250,000 people alive, at this time, Mordor's artillery fire lost the assistance of the coordinate axis, and returned to the original low attack accuracy, so it is almost impossible to say that it is almost impossible to bombard, and now Mordor has almost no way except to be passively beaten, unless...

"Unless you send out the Wyvern troops!"

"Elbi Great Shaman, what are you waiting for? Now we need to send out the Wyvern Sacrifice immediately, or we will leave and withdraw the people, and we don't need to speak of glory to these lowly rats! ”

The high priests whose own troops were trapped in the salient were almost simultaneously under pressure on Elby, no one wanted their people to be wasted like this, and with Lelouch in front of them yesterday, they didn't care if their actions were in line with Mordor's traditions, he only cared about the troops in his hands, no way, the civil war made these great shamans each extremely self-preservation.

In fact, even if these great shamans don't say anything, Elby is also ready to send the Wyvern troops immediately, he is worried about taking down the musketeers and elven archers at most, but Elby can completely let the Wyvern Sacrifice bring the oil to the artillery position, and then just set the fire on it, Elbi believes that the gunpowder will blow up all those cannons.

Eh, how did Elby know about gunpowder?!

Elby, who made up his mind, issued an order for the Flying Dragon Sacrifice to prepare to dispatch 300,000, because the distance was high enough, all safety was guaranteed, and the area of the artillery position was very large, Elby needed a lot of fire oil, so Elbi directly sent almost all the Flying Dragon Sacrifice that he could use in one go, a full hundred!

In the rear, in a huge camp, countless wyverns were getting ready to go, and after the serving goblin goblins confirmed the wyverns' equipment again, they finally invited the priests.

The sacrifice is a high-level scientific and technological unit in the Mordor system, and the sacrifice is not necessarily a person who has mastered magic, but it must be a person who has mastered certain technical abilities, in other words, it can be understood as a technical soldier, at this time the priests are wearing a black robe, their heads are wrapped in a completely shrouded hood, only a pair of eyes are exposed, they sit on the dragon's back along the wings of the dragon, and behind them is a wooden frame made of rattan, which is a large number of fire oil bombs.

The equipment of the Flying Dragon Sacrifice can almost be said to be unequipped, they don't have to worry about the enemies in the air at all, and the enemies on the ground can also hurt themselves through the huge body of the Flying Dragon, plus in order to reduce the weight, the Flying Dragon Sacrifice has nothing but this robe.

The Wyvern Priests were as confident as ever and began to ride the Wyvern into the air, in the air, they did not have any enemies, in their opinion, as long as they did not take the initiative to attack the infantry brigade on the ground, they would hardly be shot down, and there would be no danger at all.

One by one, the wyverns continued to rise into the air, until the top of the entire camp was occupied by the figures of the wyverns, a hundred huge wyverns formed a terrifying dark cloud in the air, the sound of the huge wings beating the ground caused gusts of wind, and the Mordor soldiers who saw this scene below cheered with high momentum, and Elbi was witnessing these unique air forces in Middle-earth, heading towards the artillery position, in the eyes of Elby and other great shamans, the artillery of the coalition army was about to become a thing of the past!

After maintaining a relative height, the Wyvern Sacrifice leisurely passed through the entire war zone, they flew over their own ocean army covering the land, flew over the prominent troops that fell into a sea of fire, and finally entered the formation of the coalition army, the artillery position was about to arrive, and the whole distance from the Wyvern Sacrifice was even less than ten minutes.

They looked down at the air, their attention was not fixed on the air at all, the scene that kept repeating itself in their eyes had long since lost its attractiveness, so they could not see that behind the clouds, an equally dense flying procession was rapidly approaching, their size was much smaller than the Wyvern Sacrifice, and their speed was not comparable to that of the Wyvern, but their agility in the air was incomparable to that of Wyverns in any way, and, most importantly, they flew in the air.

This scene is beautiful and moving, in the blue sky, the dragon sacrifices are lined up in a neat queue and fly slowly on the side of the huge clouds, the flying dragons roar loudly from time to time, bringing a different kind of beautiful sound, gentle wind, surrounding, and on the other side of the clouds, the dragon vulture knights are close to the clouds, they are like a group of knights living in mythology, silver shining, spears towering.

There were a little more of them than the Wyvern Priest, there were one hundred and thirty dragon vulture knights, their size was smaller, plus they hid behind the clouds, so the Wyvern Sacrifice didn't notice that a group of enemies was approaching at all, until, the dragon vulture knights, suddenly climbed, and then began to dive, the roar of the muskets, resounding in the sky.

The sudden trajectory shot down from the air, and the Wyvern Sacrifice below was hit one after another before it could react, although most of the ammunition was borne by the Wyvern, but there were still several unlucky eggs who were shot from the top of their heads by a bullet and became a headless sacrifice.

Although this musket hit the priest directly on the sacrificial body and killed the priests, but when it hit the wyvern, it was just a painful wail for them, although the flesh and blood were splashed everywhere, but it was not enough to completely destroy the huge wyvern, but it didn't matter, because Lelouch had already thought of this.

There is no doubt that it is impossible to reload in the air, so Lelouch equipped the Vulture Knights with large-caliber long-barreled revolver muskets, which are very large in size and extremely troublesome to load, but after loading one ammunition, they can be fired seven times in a short period of time, and the ammunition fired is much more powerful than ordinary rifles on the ground.

Only the ammunition fired by such a musket can resist the gale in the air, and cause actual damage to the dragon, shooting from top to bottom can undoubtedly bring a great improvement in accuracy, the dragon vulture knights are not willing to give up such an opportunity, they have to constantly pull the trigger on their target, dense ammunition continues to fall from the sky, hitting the dragon without any protection on the back, arousing a lot of blood, after four rounds of guns in a row, finally the dragon can not withstand this terrifying attack, began to wail and fall, They were located in the middle of the gap between the Mordor Bulge and the Coalition, so the dropped oil was not dropped on either the Coalition side or the Bulge.

However, at this time, the Wyvern Priests obviously no longer paid attention to such a problem, they were concerned about these dragon vulture knights who suddenly appeared in front of them, wrapped in slim silver and white steel armor, and the huge musket they were holding!

There was silence for a moment, and then there was a fierce fight!

The Wyvern Sacrifice drove the Wyvern roaring, they didn't have long-range weapons, but their big mouth and claws were the best weapons, the Wyvern rushed over with a huge mouth, and the bloody mouth was directly bitten at a Vulture Knight, but the Vulture Knight's excellent flexibility at this time was reflected.

The vulture knights only need to move their position slightly, they can quickly dodge the huge mouth of the wyvern, the straight-line speed of the vulture knights can not compare to the wyvern, but in the short-distance mobility, the wyvern is far less than the vulture, the vulture knights did not run into the distance, but moved to the left and right sides of the wyvern, and then at close range, with the residual ammunition in the musket in their hands to attack their target, the close range of sprays made the power of the musket to a higher level.

The huge size of the Wyvern made them the most obvious target, and the first confrontation between the Wyvern and the Dragon Vulture Knight began!

Fighting in the sky doesn't make them notice the ground, but the ground can clearly notice the air.

After the flying dragon flew past Elby and the others, Elbi and the others confidently looked at the coalition artillery position in the distance, waiting to see how they fell into a sea of fire, so they didn't see that the huge flying dragon formation was surrounded by a group of half-sized dots, and then with a little astigmatism and white mist, the flying dragon fell!

When Elby and his entourage noticed this scene and reminded Elby in disbelief, the expressions on the faces of Elbi and the others were so wonderful and exciting!

"How is this possible?!"

"Coalition forces, there are also air units?"

Elby and the others looked at the dragon vulture knights and the flying dragon sacrifice who were fiercely strangled together at this time, they never thought that it would be like this, and judging from the battle situation, the flying dragon sacrifice was almost pressed and beaten.

This is not to say that the Flying Dragon Sacrifice is not enough in combat, this is entirely because the starting point of the arms established by both sides is different, Leluxiu's Dragon Vulture Knight exists to seize air supremacy, so all his battles exist to destroy the enemy in the air, and the Flying Dragon Sacrifice is a heavy all-round unit, and because of the long-term dominance, it has almost completely given up the ability to fight the air, no, it should be said that there is no at all.

This led to a huge gap in this battle, coupled with the sudden attack, it was almost impossible for the Wyvern Sacrifice to defeat the Dragon Vulture Knight, continue to fight, and the only thing waiting for them is to be completely destroyed!

"Retreat, return the Wyvern Sacrifice!"

Elby yelled in pain, but the heralds around him looked at each other a few times, because Mordor, there was no horn sound to inform the Wyvern Sacrifice to return, and even if there was, how could the horn blow here could reach the ears of the Wyvern Sacrifice far away in the sky?

"Ride my Wyvern up and inform them so they all come back, quick!"

(End of chapter)

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