Chapter 575: The Power of the Punisher
What is a Punisher?
As one of the top forces in the continent, the Church of Light has many elite forces, either like the Knights of Light directly under the Church of Light, who can charge into battle on the battlefield, or like the judges in the Inquisition, they belong to a short and concise super squad, and the Punisher is one of them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Unlike the adjudicators, the chasers were not subordinate to the jurisdiction of the Inquisition, nor were they under the authority of Pope Enhill, but were under the command of some other great figure in the Church, the Cardinals.
Since the accession of Pope Enshel, the Cardinal Conference has been in decline and unable to compete with the authority of the Pope, so the punishers have been in decline.
So much so that after Bishop Gavin took control of the bishopric with the anti-papal voice a while ago, and then took over and reorganized the punishers, there were only about 20 people left in this institution of hundreds of people at its peak.
But even with a small number, these punishers still have their own strengths.
If the Adjudicators are assassins hidden in the dark, spies who plot plots, then the Punishers are thugs who walk in the sun, and the greatest strength of these Punishers is the combined attack formation that they have passed down for hundreds of years.
The research of the punishers on the formation is well-known in the world, and the hundreds of years of study and the huge resources provided by the church have allowed these punishers to master many formations on the mainland, and have made many optimizations and improvements to these formations to extract their essence and eliminate their dross, forming the unique formation techniques of the punishers.
If you want to form a formation, you can't do it alone, so when the punisher goes out to perform a mission, at least two people are needed.
Of course, if you want to exert the power of the formation, the more people you have, the better, so Bishop Gavin simply sent all the punishers to Ridmar City in one go, so that they can maximize the power of the punishers' formation and thus play the greatest role.
There is no doubt that Bishop Gavin made the right decision.
The strength of these more than twenty punishers is high and low, the high ones are already high-level cultivators, and the low ones have just broken through to the realm of middle-level cultivators.
If he had faced the forty volleys from the Scarlet Knights' marksmen alone, there would have been some casualties among the more than twenty punishers of uneven strength.
However, thanks to the sophisticated formation techniques that have been passed down and improved from generation to generation, the Punishers blocked all the arrows, leaving everyone unscathed, and completely unaffected the speed of the Vanguard's charge.
This has to be said to be a very huge success, and this success comes entirely from their combined attack formation.
Duke Lean frowned, the vanguard of the Silver Wing Knights where the punishers were located was about to come into contact with the first line of defense of the Scarlet Knights, the infantry shield array, and at this time, even if there were really any hole cards, Duke Lian would not have time to play.
But the Duke still made a dispatch very calmly: "Pass my order, immediately mobilize another 5,000 infantry to support the shield array, no matter what the cost, you must stop the enemy's cavalry charge for me!" ”
No matter what tricks these punishers had, as long as they could be firmly dragged in the shield array, Duke Li'an would still be able to win with the counter-charge of the thousands of Scarlet Knights behind him!
"You must resist it!" Duke Lean stared at the Scarlet Knights' infantry shield array in front of him, and unconsciously clenched his fists.
At this time, the "tricks" of the punishers came again.
Another whistle rang out from the mouth of the tall punisher who gave the order: "All in formation, burst spear!" ”
More than twenty rays of light converged in the sky again to form a huge ball of light, but this time it was no longer a shield of light formed by countless rays of light, but a super spear that was completely condensed with holy power, at least the thickness of an arm, and a length of nearly five meters!
The moment the spear converged, it fell from the sky with incredible speed, and the target was the shield-wielding soldiers at the front row of the Scarlet Knights' shield array!
"Not good!" Feeling the rolling power carried in this holy light lance, Duke Lean couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, but the time left for him to react at this moment was too short, even if this Lord Sbanney Imperial Marshal had always been resourceful on the battlefield, he could only watch this spear smash into his infantry shield array at this time.
A bang suddenly exploded in Duke Li'an's ears, and the spear that gathered the power of more than twenty punishers hit a large shield in the front row, penetrating the large shield and the soldiers holding the large shield almost without hindrance, and then continued to fly forward several meters without stopping, penetrating the chests of several soldiers before piercing to the ground.
But this did not mean the end, at the moment when the spear of the Broken Army pierced into the ground, this giant spear suddenly burst like a cannonball that had fallen to the ground, and countless holy powers splattered everywhere like fragments of cannonballs, completely harvesting the lives of hundreds of nearby soldiers in an instant.
What's more, since this burst came from behind the shield-wielding soldiers, the shields in the hands of many shield-wielding soldiers did not play any role, and were directly taken away by the exploding fragments of holy power, causing a vacuum of nearly twenty meters to appear in the entire position at once!
For this battle of thousands of troops, twenty meters is not such an exaggerated distance, but it is this twenty-meter distance that makes the Scarlet Knights Shield Array, which was originally tightly seamless, without the slightest loophole, appear a huge breakthrough before the battle starts!
"Rush!" Hundreds of Silverwing Knights swarmed in from this twenty-meter breakthrough without the slightest hesitation, and their sabers danced in the dark night, carrying large stumps and severed arms and many great human heads.
The entire shield array was suddenly rushed into chaos, and hundreds of meters of cavalry continued to advance non-stop, wanting to break through the shield array's defenses in one fell swoop.
But the problem was that the Silver Wing Knights who rushed in were only a few hundred, which was not much for this shield array of 8,000 infantry, and the threat posed was not that great.
Therefore, although the entire shield array was a little chaotic at the beginning, it still slowly began to return to normal, and more shield soldiers ran wildly with large shields in hand, trying to completely block this twenty-meter gap before the arrival of the Silverwing Knights' army, and at the same time catch the hundreds of Silverwing Knights who had rushed into the shield array in an urn.
However, it wasn't only the Scarlet Knights who noticed this, more than twenty punishers had already stood guard at the gap, and it seemed that they had obviously made up their minds and vowed to live and die with this gap!
Duke Li'an took a deep breath and issued an order: "Golden Lion guards, give it to me!" Be sure to destroy these damned punishers before the enemy cavalry arrives! ”
Due to the appearance of these punishers, the whole battle situation has undergone subtle changes, and this change is quite unfavorable for the side of Duke Lean.
Time is running out for the Duke!