Chapter 204: Charge
The vanguard of the Elven Expeditionary Force lost more than 11,000 men after a night of tossing. This was not a small loss for the vanguard, consisting of two corps with a total number of about 120,000 troops, but it was not great either.
What really annoyed Spencer was that all of their baggage had been wiped out, and now the elven warriors under his command had nothing to replenish except for the standard two-day rations.
Even because of the chaos of the night, some elven warriors' armed equipment had suffered a certain loss.
A standard elven warrior is more than just a weapon.
Take the Blood Elf Warriors as an example, as the main combat power of the Elven Race, they are good at battlefield strangulation and fast fighting, so each regular army Blood Elf Warrior will be equipped with a crossbow and twelve crossbow arrows in addition to their own double knives.
In addition, according to the difference in troops, it will also be equipped with hand shields, spears, halberds, etc.
In addition to the standard longbow, the Wood Elf warrior may also be equipped with a second bow, or a heavy crossbow, and the elven longsword used in melee combat is also definitely available.
Night Elves are the least armed, most of them are ranged attacks, but there are always crossbows for fire support and medium-range defense.
Elves are good at long-range attacks, so bows and crossbows are available to every class.
But after the chaos of last night, many elven warriors' hand crossbows have been lost or damaged. There were also elven warriors who had been rescued from the siege by their comrades, and those warriors had lost even their armor.
After all, the situation at that time was a night attack on the camp, and it started from the middle of the main camp. Many of the elven warriors who were resting in the middle of the camp were unarmoured.
Sleeping in armor sounds great, but in fact it is definitely not a good way to rest, and under normal circumstances, even if there is an attack on the camp, it will start from the outskirts of the camp. Therefore, only the troops on the periphery of the battalion, which originally served as the outer defense, would sleep in armor.
And the warriors who were being protected in the middle of the camp were unarmoured.
After all, there is no such concept as air raids in the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm.
This is also the reason why Tang Dou chose to start from the middle of the camp.
Playing conspiracy with poor concepts has become Tang Dou's forte.
Spencer was furious at being attacked, vowing to slaughter the log oasis after resting until the afternoon, but not long after his order to rest the elven warriors in place, a long horn sounded.
In the east, a large cavalry has appeared in the sight of the elven army. They suddenly appeared from the sand dunes at the end of their sight, and the previous march seemed to be completely invisible, so directly in the sight of everyone in the elven vanguard.
Three thousand sand scorpions rode heavily and suppressed the black pressure in the lead, and the six thousand cavalry with different rideable demon beasts as light cavalry lined up behind.
"Damn, how did they get there? What about scouts? What about scouts in that direction? "Spencer is also a famous general among the elves, and of course he will not forget the importance of his surroundings at any time, even during the great retreat, he still sent his scouts to monitor the situation around the army.
But......
Just like last night, no news came out of the scouts, but the enemy suddenly appeared.
"Just like last night, the enemy suddenly appeared!" Xue asked, and there was already a conjecture in her heart. He watched Lin Xiao disappear in front of him yesterday.
It's just that he definitely won't say anything at this time, it will only cause completely unnecessary trouble, and it will not do him or the vanguard any good.
"Hurry up and defend, quick!"
Spencer didn't have time to ask the scouts why they didn't notice such a large number of cavalry approaching, so he quickly ordered the elven warriors to organize a defensive line.
But is it too late?
You must know that these nearly 10,000 cavalry appeared directly from a kilometer away.
A thousand meters, for a cavalry, that's a distance that can be reached in the blink of an eye.
Gulden rode on the back of a particularly strong sand scorpion, and the heavy armor on his body made a slight grinding sound against the sand scorpion's back armor.
Gulden liked the sound very much, and it made his blood boil.
Even Tang Dou himself didn't expect that under the catalysis of Avalon's rich life energy, people hadn't shown anything for the time being, but those low-level demon beasts had already reproduced too quickly.
Sand scorpion and sand devouring scorpion are just one word, but the former is a demon beast, and the latter is a beast. The former is large, powerful, and hideous and terrifying in appearance, but has an unexpectedly gentle personality, and is still a vegetarian who eats sand and grassroots. The latter's crimson shell is like some kind of crystal, and the shiny appearance looks quite artistic, but they are desperate creatures, a group of masters who eat wherever they go.
Although the sand scorpion is a demon beast, the level is different, and occasionally there will be some silver-level leader collectives, but most of the sand scorpions are bronze-level. Coupled with its gentle personality, it has always been used as a domesticated monster by people living in the desert.
The people of the Sea Sand Desert used the sand scorpion as a pack beast, and the people of Arsa used the sand scorpion as a war horse.
In fact, in the desert environment, the sand scorpion is indeed the best war horse. They are no less than a horse at full speed when sprinting at full strength. And although the situation is mild, the combat effectiveness is not low if it is properly trained. Coupled with a hard shell and a pair of large tongs, it is a pretty powerful mount no matter how you look at it.
There were less than 300 sand scorpions in Avalon at the beginning, all of which were robbed by Tang Dou when he destroyed the sand thieves, and originally according to the fertility of the sand scorpions, it would take several years to develop to 3,000 before it was feasible.
Who knew that Avalon's life energy made these sand scorpions like taking stimulants, and in just a few months, the population had more than tenfold increased.
Now there are more than 30,000 sand scorpions in the desert area of southern Avalon, and it is almost a disaster.
Gulden's Qingfeng Wei Heavy Armor Sand Cavalry is only about a thousand people so far, and the remaining two thousand people are found from other forces, but according to Tang Dou's door-picking character, it can be imagined that he has received a lot of benefits from providing these sand scorpions.
And he also has a good idea that these sand scorpions of his are a special breed, stronger, faster, and more powerful. And he also provides heavy armor.
Although these heavy armors are rented, and after they are damaged, they have to be compensated by the people who rent them.
But Tang Dou was so shameless to order this "deal".
Now that the enemy is outside, Tang Dou is almost a word in the entire inner ring, and who is the rest of the countries who has enough to eat at this time and cares about these things with him? As long as he didn't overdo it, they all nodded directly.
So there are these three thousand heavy armor sand horses. And those light horses in the back, the situation is similar, most of the riding beasts are provided by Tang Dou, Avalon's living environment is too good, and the demon beasts are far more sensitive than humans, so under the catalysis of life energy, Tang Dou is a little engaged in demon beast animal husbandry in the Thousand Souls Spirit Realm.
Seeing that the elven troops thousands of kilometers away were hurriedly organizing the defensive line, Gulden smiled disdainfully, turned his head and saw that the troops behind him were ready, so he laughed: "Brothers, charge, let these invaders know how powerful we are in Arsa!" ”
Phew!
The Elven Expeditionary Force is going all the way to kill all the way this time, and the news that they are ready to kill everyone in Arsa has been transmitted back, everyone is the same enemy, and no one will have a different mind at this time, that is to find death.
Moreover, the environment of Arsa has created a strong folk here, and there may be people in the outer ring and the middle ring who want to surrender, but the people in the inner ring will not think about this at all.
All the heavily armored sand horsemen were equipped with long riding spears, and Gulsa pressed down on the cavalry in his hand and gave the order to charge.
All the sand scorpions began to charge at the same time, don't look at the people as arthropods, but when they run with all their strength, the speed is not slower than that of ordinary horses, and these guys are about one and a half times larger than ordinary horses, and the posture is not much more than that of the heavy knights of the demon clan.
Sand scorpions are tame, which means they are particularly easy to train, so these trained sand scorpions press in the direction of the elven vanguard in the form of a wall at a uniform speed.
The Third Legion of the State and the First Legion of the Tribes are worthy of being elite troops, although they are in a panic, but they also have a group of shield players in place.
Under the loud orders of the front-line commander, row after row of shields were raised, and thousands of heavy shields two people high were lined up in a neat defensive formation, forming a strong long wall.
The night elves in the back immediately began to summon sand and stone golems, which were placed behind these heavy shields, making the wall of inverted heavy shields even stronger.
After the shield array, the elven warriors stretched out their spears through the small holes specially opened in the shields, which instantly turned the shield array into a jungle of thorns, and whoever dared to approach had to be strung on the head of the spear first.
Beside these gunmen stood shieldmen, and their job was to stand beside them with shields and use shields to form a canopy to protect the personnel underneath, and this was used to fend off the arrows.
It can be said that the battle formation of the elven warriors is quite perfect. The coordination is in place, and the deployment is also very reasonable, if the sand scorpion really crashes into it like this, it is really difficult to say whether it can break through the defense line.
Elite is elite, even in a hurry, they still quickly completed the defense. Although this line of defense was too narrow for the entire army, they chose a good position, and the other troops had already begun to move behind the defense line, and the Sand Scorpion troops' charge could only attack the shield array if they wanted to maintain the strongest attack power.
The Scorpion Troop ran faster and faster, and these Sand Scorpions from Avalon were faster than their counterparts outside, and when they accelerated to their maximum, they were as fast as the Light Cavalry.
The speed of the three thousand heavy cavalry running out of the light cavalry, coupled with the weight of the sand scorpion itself, the next impact can be imagined.
Although the elven warriors were brave and fearless, they still unconsciously began to breathe rapidly when they saw this, which was not fear, it was completely an instinctive reaction.
The distance was shortened in the rush, one thousand meters, five hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters. Seeing that he was about to collide, he suddenly appeared in front of the Sand Scorpion Heavy Rider.
The twists were so abrupt that they looked like the air had turned into water, and then something had rushed out from beneath the water.
Then, in the midst of the stunned gazes of the elven warriors, something really rushed out.
Two giant sand turtles.
The speed of the two heads has rushed to the fastest, it is like a ghost chasing behind the stone sand turtle - don't think that just a turtle is slow, the stone sand turtle is definitely the best among the turtles, not only will be rewarded, but also fierce temperament, coupled with insidious cunning, it is definitely a harm in the inner ring of Alsa. And they also have a strange ability, which is that these guys can run at an incredible speed at all their might.
Although the full strength of the stone sand turtle can only last for a short time, the turtle that can directly run at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour in an explosive state was also an eye-opener for Tang Dou at the beginning.
The two stone armor sand turtles in the state of full charge were like two heavy trucks at full speed, and they directly crashed into the heavy shield array of the elven warriors.
Of course, it is no problem for the heavy shield array to block the cavalry, even if it is a sand scorpion heavy cavalry, if you want to break through this layer of heavy shield, you have to pay a heavy price.
But the stone armor sand turtle is different, the defense of this product is surprisingly high, and it is only a single defense power, this silver-level demon beast has a defense power above the gold level.
And these two goods were directly scared out of Avalon by Elucie with dragon power, and they had already lost their minds, and they crashed into them with their lives in the form of escaping.
The next picture can be described as "indescribable".
It is impossible for the heavy shield of the elven warrior to block the power of a thing like a stone armor sand turtle with a weight of more than four or five tons at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour. And it was a dead hard thing that hit it.
The shield array was lifted like a thin piece of paper, and the front shield and sand golem were thrown backwards. Flying directly over the positions of the pikemen and the sword and shield men, fell on the heavy infantry positions behind.
The spear team behind the shield hand was all swept out by the air wave and collided with their own people behind them and fell into a heap, and the elven striker was in chaos in an instant.
"Kill!" At this time, Gulden had already rushed to the front of the defense line of the elven vanguard with the sand scorpion heavy horse.
The shield array of the elven warriors no longer existed, and the spear team used for support also collided with the sword and shield behind them, and they were trying to get up in a mess.
Although the two stone armor sand turtles were knocked half dead, they were not dead, and they struggled desperately there, so more elven warriors were slapped to the ground by the struggling stone armor sand turtles.
At this moment, the sand scorpion heavy cavalry was like a huge awl, fiercely entering the chaotic elven army's forward formation.
Spencer closed his eyes: "Longbow team, cover the blow, target the forward line!" ”