Chapter 113: The Enemy of the "Immortal".
The sky collapsed, like an avalanche.
Standing on the front line of the Bairboi coalition army, the tense Lusen couldn't help but hold his breath as he looked at the billowing smoke and dust coming in the distance, like an avalanche of the northern ice field, and like a pouring tide.
An army of tens of thousands of centaurs swept in like a black shadow covering the sky.
It's overwhelming and unstoppable!
Feel the movement coming from the soles of your feet, the sound of shaking the earth, the violent resonance of your chest... No matter how confident Lu Sien was, he didn't feel that he could resist such a force.
That's right, it's impossible to stop......
If the Boi army had been in good shape, and if the Byrne army had been energetic and not a tired army, there might have been a chance, but now......
Don't say it's yourself, it's impossible to resist it if it were Lord Loren, it's not a battle anymore, centaurs... They are not enemies at all, they are not barbarians, they are not armies......
They are natural disasters, the same natural disasters as the evil gods!
The dull thunderous vibration instantly eclipsed all the sounds, and the sweeping black tide became clearer and clearer in the field of vision.
"It's coming, those brutes are coming——!"
A panicked cry came from behind him, pulling the trance-like gray-eyed boy back to reality.
"Steady, hold your ground, don't panic......" The centurion shouted amidst the roaring hooves, but his pale face and hoarse roar were not convincing.
"Run, run, or you're dead!"
"What nonsense, it's all in front of you, where else can you escape?!"
"We're dead, we're dead!"
The warriors were in a panic and shouted in panic.
Hoofs roared, and the earthquake trembled.
The enemy in the distance is already clearly discerning.
The sound of shaking in the sky, the panicked shouts of the soldiers... Breathing heavily, Lusen felt like he was back in the Broken Mountain Fortress.
The same terrifying and vicious enemy, the same battlefield on the verge of death......
"On the battlefield, soldiers obey commands, not because they think that as long as they listen to orders, they can survive......" In his mind, the indifferent face of Crown Prince Conod suddenly appeared:
"It's those slogans, the actions... As early as training and escaping death on the battlefield, it was carved into their bones, and when they heard the voice, they instinctively knew what they should do. ”
"On the battlefield, the soldiers don't know what they have to do; It's your responsibility!"
Lusen jerked his head up, his silver-gray pupils turning gray-blue again.
"Five Hundred Steps——!!!!
The sudden shout caused the surrounding soldiers to turn their heads and look at the figure that was even shorter than the shortest soldier.
"Five hundred steps, the spear phalanx is ready to ——!" Lu Sien snatched the black and gold lion flag in the hand of the flag bearer with one hand, and shouted hoarsely:
"The enemy will be the first to attack our front, line up and defend!"
"Front array, shields, guns, ——!"
The roar echoed among the soldiers, and the soldiers, who had just been at a loss, looked at each other, and subconsciously began to gather under the banners of the various hundreds, and organized the formation according to the instructions and requirements.
"Hurry up, get moving, don't rub around!"
"Hold the gun steady, and press the rear end into the dirt!"
"Come closer, get closer, do you want to die?!"
"Stand firm! If you want to live, your shield rests on your shoulder!"
Amid the noisy shouts, the coalition soldiers, under the orders of officers and veterans, quickly reorganized their formations, no longer disturbed by the scene in front of them, and organized a defensive front.
"Three Hundred Steps——!!!!
The gray-eyed young man with a solemn face shouted loudly again, and tried his best to raise the gold lion flag on a black background in his hand:
"Raise your shield to defend!" crossbowmen, prepare to counterattack ——!"
This time, the coalition soldiers didn't hesitate for a moment... With the sound of the bowstring crumbling, a rain of arrows rose into the air, whistling towards the charging centaur line.
Three hundred and fifty steps... Even if it is thrown, the bow and arrow will not have any effect, but even if it hits, it will not cause any hindrance to the enemy, and it is only a means to stabilize the morale of the army.
With the roaring sound of horses' hooves, what appeared in the eyes of the gray-eyed boy was a "heavily armored centaur" who was shouting and fighting wildly and wearing armor all over his body... After crushing the counterattack of the coalition forces, he once again took the lead in rushing to the front.
The gray-eyed boy stared at his foe.
These centaurs are like Byrne knights, sharp knives that the enemy uses to tear through the line... If it can't be stopped, the entire defensive front will collapse in an instant, and there will be no room for a counterattack.
On the contrary, if you can stop it, even if you still lose, you can still buy time... Let Lord Loren and Ain evacuate with the wounded and the main force......
"Two hundred steps ——!!!!"
With his left hand, he pulled out the mottled dragon knight's spear at his waist, and Lusen shouted with all his strength:
"Stop them ——!!!!"
There were no words or shouts, and what responded to the gray-eyed boy was the uniform movements of the soldiers.
Spears like a forest!
The heavily armed centaurs raised their axes in their hands, and the black and tattered armor on their burly and strong bodies was murderous.
At the sound of the order, the soldiers behind the shield wall held their shields one after another, and their whole body strength was pressed on the barrel of the gun, waiting for the last moment to meet them.
Don't dodge, don't dodge, don't dodge, don't escape;
Face to face, hard to face!
"One Hundred Steps ——!!!!"
Bang——!
At the same time as the gray-eyed boy roared, the surging "Black Tide" had already knocked down the front of the spear phalanx.
People turn on their backs!
Shocked, Luceen's eyes widened... He saw with his own eyes the heavily armored centaurs, not inferior to the charge of the Byrne Knights.
In the terrifying loud noise, the frontal defensive front, the phalanx infantry in the first three rows collapsed instantly, the spears were broken, the shields were broken, the screams of dying were dying, and the roars of bravery were fighting......
Everything was completely overwhelmed by those pitch-black centaurs!
In the face of the enemy's powerful wave charge, the sturdy shields and gun arrays were like a thin layer of paper, torn apart, and there was no room for resistance;
Even the barely surviving warriors, after losing the protection of their shields, did not have time to hide in the next layer of defense, and were trampled to the ground by the terrifying figure, turning into broken flesh under the iron hooves.
But that was the end of their charge......
The armor and speed of the heavily armed centaurs give them unmatched impact, but such power is also a double-edged sword, breaking the line of infantry and making their armor weaker than paper.
"Poof——!
With the help of the centaur charge, the heavy spears in the hands of the phalanx infantry instantly pierced its neck, and the huge impact instantly shattered his neck bone, and his head fell in response.
Even if they survived, they would have no other fate than to be pierced through the chest and stabbed to pieces and die in the face of the Rulin spear stabbed from the front and left and right.
The second platoon of the charge came as scheduled, and even though the centaurs in the front row were almost completely wiped out, they still pounced on the front of the spear phalanx at unabated speed... In this way, almost as if paving the way with corpses, it kept tearing one gap after another in the front.
Seeing that the gap was getting bigger and bigger, the gray-eyed boy did not hesitate to throw the heraldic banner to the flag officer beside him, drew the second sharp blade from the saddle, and rushed straight to the battlefield.
The Byrne knights who came with him followed suit, sword in both hands, and attacked from the gap between the phalanxes.
After the Knights of Byrne entered the battle, the defensive front, which had begun to waver, immediately began to stabilize;
The heavily armed centaurs, or "undead warriors", who had halted the momentum of the charge, could no longer tear through the coalition defenses with great force, and even their special constitution, which had been corrupted by the Holy Blood Elixir, could not exert its due effect in front of the prepared Byrne knights.
Looking at the battle situation that was gradually stabilized, even knowing that this was only the enemy's first charge, Lu Sien couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Perhaps, he can really hold off the army of centaurs......
Perhaps, this battle ... Can you really win?
Just when some kind of almost extravagant thought suddenly came to the mind of the gray-eyed boy......
"Ahhh——!!!!hhh
Suddenly startled, the stunned Lusen froze in place.
The situation changed dramatically.
The centaur who had been fighting him just now..."Undead Warrior" suddenly threw down his weapon and strangled his throat, screaming heartbreakingly.
He wasn't even the only one, the centaur warriors around him all suddenly wailed and collapsed to the ground, like drowning people, twitching wildly and twistedly.
What's going on... Are they poisoned?
Some inexplicable gray-eyed teenagers stood in place at a loss, looking at this very sudden and strange scene in front of them... Not only him, but even the surrounding coalition soldiers stopped one after another, with different expressions.
For a while, the battlefield suddenly "quieted" ... All you can hear is the screams of the collapsed centaur warriors in succession, and then they are trampled to death by the centaurs charging in the back.
But even those who rushed up from behind didn't "hold on" for long, and before they even had a confrontation with the coalition forces, they had already collapsed to the ground in pain, convulsions and wailing...... Like a tumbling "black wave", it fell one after another on the battlefield, silently.
Looking at the sudden scene in front of him, no one dared to step forward, but just watched dumbfounded.
"Lord Luceen?"
A Byrne knight plucked up his courage and came up to him tentatively and asked, "What should we do, to..."
The Byrne Knight wanted to say "kill them", but it seemed that there was no need to bother with the situation.
"No, don't act rashly just yet. Holding back the doubts in his heart, the gray-eyed young man who frowned waved his hand: "The whole army retreats, regroup the front, and then send someone to tell the duke about this, maybe ......"
Before he finished speaking, Lu Sien, who had inadvertently caught a glimpse of something, suddenly turned his head back, and his pupils shrank!
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Corpses, stumps, blood plasma everywhere... As if he had heard some "order", he moved quickly on the ground, converging towards the defensive positions attacked by the centaur army in the distance.
The coalition soldiers, who had never seen such a strange scene, froze in place, stunned as the blood on the ground "rushed and tumbled", like dark red streams flowing among the grass and piles of bones, speeding through their feet and around them.
There were even the dead warriors who had just been "killed" by them again, and the robes who had just died tragically, and the wreckage of the broken arms seemed to have "come back from the dead" one by one, and the jumping was disgusting and weird to the extreme.
Even if it is decapitated, smashed, torn into pieces, piece by piece, the broken bones, the intestines and organs that drip on the ground... I can jump flexibly, too. Even if it is pierced by a spear and nailed to the ground, it will "tear itself apart" and move it in a chaotic and rapid manner.
None of the soldiers tried to do anything during the whole process, and even the Boi warriors and the Byrne Knights, who were not afraid to face the dead soldiers, stood in place like frightened children at this moment, not daring to even move.
They looked at all this in astonishment and horror, at what was beyond their comprehension.
"Loren, is this—this exactly the same as Eberden......"
The pale-faced little wizard suddenly remembered something, and his blue eyes looked at the black-haired wizard in horror.
"yes. Loren gritted his teeth and frowned: "This should be ......"
"Blood Sacrifice ——!"
With a voice of fear and consternation, Master Haringvan Ashamai walked forward quickly: "I heard Corona talk about it before, but I didn't expect that this ritual of forcibly breaking through the barrier of the material world and summoning evil gods really existed......"
"None of this matters!" said Loren, interrupting him abruptly, with some urgency:
"At the moment there are more than 50,000 of our troops, of which more than 30,000 are wounded soldiers of the Boi army, and Lusen is still buying us time with the last bit of troops;
If these 30,000 people are not allowed to evacuate the battlefield before the centaurs break the line, before the blood sacrifice is completed, all the sacrifices will be completely wasted, and all of us will die here!
"Okay, I'll go!"
Haringvan Ashamai, who had a serious expression, did not hesitate, and immediately turned to the flag bearer to give the order and personally direct the retreat, and the soldiers of the guard who had just been stunned in place also moved, and immediately followed behind Master Ashamai and sounded the horn of assembly.
But in the next moment, a mutation struck.
At that moment, Loren only felt a familiar chill, and immediately looked back in shock.
Damn, it didn't seem that fast last time, right?!
But reality is always cruel - a huge shadow appeared so abruptly on the endless prairie, like the roar of a wild beast, like the wail of a dying man, with a deafening, thunderous sound.
"Loren... ————!!!! Turin"