Chapter 7 Elves have the benefits of elves
"Woo woo" Herold blew the horn of attack, and at the same time, the knight holding the flag pulled the flag of the Knights of the Holy Light from the ground, the heavy iron rod was raised, and the large flag blown by the wind gradually accelerated with the start of the small broken steps of the war horse to the galloping legs and fully unfolded.
It is a pale blue banner embroidered on a thick silk cloth, and the golden light in the center symbolizes the holy light, and the coat of arms of the silver knight holding the spear on top of it in the prancing horse posture symbolizes that this is the organization that inherits the Order of the Silver Hand.
In fact, this is also Edlan directly changed from the name of the Lordaeron Knights, after all, there are blood elves now, and there are very few dwarves joining here, so it is not suitable to use the name of the country as a name, so he simply gave a new name in the name of the Holy Light.
At this moment, a man and a horse wrapped in holy light led the cavalry troops that had formed a cone formation early, all the war horses began to take heavy steps, and gradually the speed of the war horses began to increase, and the frequency of the horses' hoof movement also began to increase, at this moment, at the end of the front formation, the 100 idle sentinel archers rushed back in the direction of the left flank first, and at this time their task changed to act at the opportunistic, whether to directly withdraw to the high ground position or reorganize with the mixed long-range troops that had been engaged for more than ten minutes immediately after retreating, and stubbornly entangled the undead in the advance of the left flank。
Soon, the mixed forces of the rangers and magisters began to disperse and retreat like a wave, they made way of the slightly wider road on the right for the assault cavalry to play, and in the process of retreating, the blood elves who hated the bone marrow did not forget to give the pursuing undead a few blows, and continued to decorate a few flowers of death in the advance of the dark tide.
"Boom, boom, boom...... The thunderous sound emitted by the 2,500 horses as they accelerated to their maximum made everyone feel that there was no other sound in the world except such voices and the enthusiastic cries of their comrades on the left and right! Just as fear is contagious, so is courage and morale.
In the process of increasing the speed of the cavalry, the slogans of the officers, the dull pace of the horses' hooves, and the angry roars of their comrades in the eyes of death, all of them could quickly put the whole army into a state of relative fanaticism.
Strictly speaking, getting into this frenzy is very helpful for the rest of the fight, but in terms of details, it also has drawbacks. Too much fanaticism will first lose cool, the rider is not very good at conserving physical strength, originally only need a flat-end saber or clamp the rifle with the help of horsepower to sprint to take away a string of enemies, but in the state of fanaticism, the rider will always have extra movements, or in the process of charging, slashing, stabbing, which is extremely easy to follow-up weakness.
In the same way, the most common problem for an uncalm rider is that he constantly slaps and stimulates the war horse under his crotch, which is extremely harmful to the delicate creature of the war horse! Including the 1,500 cavalry of the paladin and Lordaeron, they are all heavy cavalry, and the acceleration distance is enough, and now they have reached the maximum speed, and they have to keep whipping the war horse to make it speed up, which is undoubtedly destroying the war horse and overdrawing its life!
And there will be advantages and disadvantages of creatures, some war horses have good bloodlines, or good appetite, or are trained or better maintained on weekdays, etc., as soon as they charge, whether it is its acceleration or durability will exceed other war horses, which will cause riders to need to control their speed a lot to maintain the overall formation, but not calm frenzy, how many riders can notice this?
Edlan didn't want to think too much, although he didn't follow the training of these paladins and cavalry 100% on weekdays, but by watching their drills, he knew that they were all good players, even if they were fanatical, they wouldn't poke out too big a basket, and what he had to do was to narrow the hole out of the basket to an acceptable level.
For a moment, the dazzling holy light burst out from Edlan's body, and with the help of the amplification of the Holy Pact, under the strength of the heroic paladin, the blessing, the aura and the priest's spell completely strengthened the entire army "from head to toe"! The huntress who charged behind the human cavalry also enjoyed the protection from the Holy Light, but before they could think about it, the ranged attack of the undead troops who had lost their long-range suppression had already attacked!
The knights with Edlan as the arrow, like the traditional heavy cavalry charge, had pushed the speed of their horses to the maximum, and if you looked down from the sky, you could see very clearly that the seemingly thin assault formation of the living and the tidal army of the dead were simply the same number, and the distance between the two sides was only 100 yards!
But no one was intimidated!The leading Edlan even saw that the other side's ranged troops of the exposed Crypt Demons and Necromancers had begun to attack in the direction of the cavalry's charge due to the heavy losses of the front's melee troops.
"Hum" a spell barrier like a golden crystal wall unfolded in front, this is the holy light barrier cast by Edlan, after someone's strength grows, after using it again this time, almost all those spells full of viciousness and countless poisonous insect spitting are blocked, and the scorching nature of the holy light makes the long-range attacks sent by this round of undead completely invalid!
The other party could only launch one round of attacks, because Adlane and the human paladins who followed him immediately followed him regarded death as if they were at home, and they had already crashed headlong into the dark wave! The paladins continued to scorch the undead along the way under the guidance of the arrowhead Edlan, and continued to penetrate all the way, leaving a trail of ashes behind.
And behind them are 800 hateful blood elf paladins, they are not expanding the range of damage for the "wounds" torn by the arrows, and finally there are the Lordaeron cavalry whose weapons and armor and even war horses are smeared with a high concentration of holy water, their killing and damage may not be as crazy as those paladins who are like cutting butter, but their unforgettable hatred for the undead scourge is no weaker than those blood elves!
For a moment, the two-digit and three-digit undead were like drops of water falling into the thirsty desert, and they were instantly evaporated, as if they had never come to the world. But at the same time, there were also a few paladins who either stumbled or were pulled out of the queue by the Abomination Hook and completely disappeared into the black sea of the dead......
The indomitable spirit of this vengeful heavy cavalry force made the Night Elves feel ashamed, and their momentum was also infected by the momentum of the overwhelming charge!
"Sisters, for Kalimdor!"
Tyrande roared angrily and shot a special arrow of light into the sky, and soon, the faint light of the light arrow was swallowed up by the gloomy clouds, but immediately the originally gloomy afternoon sky instantly became as transparent as the pure night sky, and the beautiful and charming white and purple color blocks began to fall from the sky from far and near, which was the starfall launched by Tyrande's prayer through the grace of Elune's divine magic! Countless beams of light shining with the brilliance of the stars fell, hitting the undead targets she considered to be dangerous!
Immediately afterward, the Frostblade Leopard and the Nightblade Leopard, whose dexterity and explosiveness were far superior to those of the war horses, began to show that they were no less than those paladins who dared to fight and rush under the command of the huntresses.
I have to say that those veterans who survived the ancient war are really too tacit and too good at finding the enemy's loopholes, even if this is the first time they have dealt with these undead armies on the scale of legions, they can quickly figure out the command and operation of the opponent's army in actual combat after obtaining the intelligence of Edlan and others before the war.
The huntress rode the black night blade leopard and began to speed up, even if they were carrying two night elves, they burst out faster than the war horse sprint, allowing them to quickly penetrate from the back of the gradually loose formation to the front, dotted on the edge of the formation of the 800 blood elves paladins, and immediately, the huntress quickly threw the three-edged moon blade that was very difficult to control from the gap of their own team to the enemy formation!
"Brush, brush!"
The triangular crescent blade was a cruel weapon that sliced the heads of two ghouls in succession with the help of the height difference like cutting a watermelon, and its third ejection silently passed through the defense line composed of several abominations, and when everyone thought that this triangular crescent blade was no longer threatening, it stabbed into the body of a necromancer who was tightly protected by abomination in the front, but very relaxed in the back!
This kind of flanking and diffuse targeted strikes further accelerated the loss of grassroots command in pieces of the undead army, and thus fell into chaos! The undead who lose control can only instinctively attack the living, without a bit of discipline, this is like a game idiot, must be operated little by little according to the manual or detailed strategy to continue the game, take abomination as an example, the flying hook in their hands is the biggest threat to the stormtroopers, but after losing the grassroots commander, they will not even move, they will only use brute force to slash at the units close to them, and will also block the pace of their own troops and cause greater chaos! This greatly reduces unnecessary losses caused by flank attacks during the charge.
This was the weakness of the enemy that the Night Elf veterans had quickly summed up with only the information they had and the first head-on battle against the undead. It is true that the undead are not afraid of death, have no fear, and are forbidden, but they control the high and low through a pyramid-like spiritual network, which is not much different from the command system of the living.
Even Arthas, who is as strong as Arthas, cannot spread his consciousness into the control of millions of undead, and he cannot do subtle control, so elite units with a certain amount of intelligence, such as death knights and necromancers, and even some high-level abominations, crypt demons, ghouls, gargoyles, etc., are given a certain amount of command.
The greater the number of undead armies, the more grassroots officers are needed, which is no different from the living, so those night elves have keenly discovered this, and they don't compete with the heavy cavalry for that heroic, blood-boiling charge, that is not their forte, they are more suitable to find the weakness of their prey and launch a fatal blow like now!
The few huntress who participated in this group charge for the first time did so in their own way, while the watchmen who rode with them used their skillful flicker assassination and shadow assassination techniques to easily weave back and forth between their mounts and the back of their enemies, and the rewards were very rewarding!
These watchmen were like the sharpest blades in the chaos, but wherever they appeared, the scene of severed limbs flying was inevitable! A ghostly flash of dark light, and Edran could clearly see a watcher-like black shadow cut in half the abomination that stood in his way 10 yards away and could be burned to ashes by his own holy energy with a single breath......
It was a great help, and although I didn't know who it was, Edran thanked him in his heart.
Originally, the paladin's charge should bypass the abomination of this kind of thick-skinned units to kill and injure the enemy's vulnerable units as much as possible, and Adelan did take the lead in this way, but as time went by, the depth of the charge had become closer and closer to the goal of their trip, and Adelan led the troops almost in a big circle, like a whirlpool to draw a "9" in the undead army formation, and failed to find the gap where the commander of the undead army was located in the center.
That's right, the defensive counterattacks that this tactic had arranged before were all prepared for this decapitation operation that was like a thunderous blow in the design of Edlan. Use multi-stage retreat shooting to use tactical depth to eliminate, pull, and drive the number of undead troops, the density of marches, and the direction of attack to a greater extent.
This did a good job of exposing the fragile units of the undead, paving the way for the assault of the heavy cavalry, and then, those units acting as archers still held back a group of undead troops, distracting the enemy's resistance for the main assault. The heavy cavalry units that had achieved so many early strikes lived up to expectations, and under the devastating charge of the paladins who turned into dinner knives to cut butter, the army of the undead was almost penetrated!
It's just that Adlane knows that if the undead don't kill the commander-in-chief at the top of the pyramid, it will be useless to kill as many miscellaneous soldiers, and he must first disintegrate the opponent's command center before he can attack those undead who have lost their general direction.
So now, when Edlan led the cavalry around the central area of the dense circle of withered intestines that stood like a wall, he felt that he could not go on like this, and that he had to keep the strength of his soldiers in the fight, so that it would not be fun to suffer a lot of battle damage under the threat of the flank-hating flying hooks.
Edlan hadn't used the combination of Vengeful Fury and Fountain of Light, and he had also beckoned Tyrande to use Starfall to focus on attacking the blighted bowels of this round array, but it was obvious that the other party was prepared, and there were several death knights and necromancers inside these withered bowels, and they didn't know what spells they used, strengthening the dark green and crimson shields, and bombarding Edlan and Tyrande's spells
withstands, even if there is a penetration, it has no effect on those monsters who are in the same mold as the withered intestines.
Then you have to take risks!
"Herod! Liadline!" Edlan swept forward, blasting out of holy energy, colliding and neutralizing the evil spells unleashed by several necromancers hiding behind the Abomination.
"General!"/"...... I'm here!"
"You guys continue to look for weaknesses with your troops!"
"Eh, yes!"/"Sindori lives up to his mission!"
"Boom" was like welcoming the impact of holy light falling from the sky, and Edlan's body surged with even more fiery holy energy! The pair of light wings became more and more obvious from the translucent appearance, as if they were filled with countless holy lights, like a pair of real wings.
The two bonuses of Vengeful Fury and the Holy Avenger put Adlane once again in the realm of epic. This scene made all the Night Elves present look sideways, how could such a young human be use this technique to achieve an epic level?
"Illidan, are you interested in going hunting with me?" After speaking, without waiting for Illidan's answer, Edlan had already risen into the air, and the holy light he burst out directly burned several eyeless gargoyles into ashes in the air, and dispersed with the wind...... Then, after Edlan, who was as dazzling as a small sun, confirmed the target, he plunged headlong into the circle that was protected by thick withered intestines!
"Bang"
The crash of the "Meteor of Light" almost drowned out the cries of battle on the battlefield, the galloping horses, and the puffs of smoke and dust, making it impossible for outsiders to determine what was going on.
After the sword of the Brotherhood collided with the green shield formed by several rune swords, Adlane blasted a holy light with his backhand and exploded one of the shields, then took a slight leap and took a few steps back to stand firmly on the ground.
"Uh-huh-hmm...... You're here......"
Although Edlan was very vigilant and prepared to be attacked next, the attack he expected did not come immediately, but the few death knights who resisted him slowly retreated while repairing their injuries.
"Gavin Rad! it's your ......" Adelan saw the person who came, that was the deputy head of the Silver Hand Knights, the old paladin Gavinrad who was second only to Uther in strength, and he had taught Edlan some knowledge of the art of war with Uther. Although I was mentally prepared, I didn't expect to meet this guy here, who has now become one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
"Look at you, Edlan, I taught you this kind of scripted tactical arrangement, I didn't expect my strategy to be so smooth. Hmph, I have long seen that you are the kind of young man who has always suppressed his impulses in his heart, and no matter how you suppress them, now your impulses still bring you to me. Look around you, you are already surrounded, I advise you to die honestly, lest your body be a mess, and then we will make up for you with other things, with your strength, the master will definitely make you one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, so, embrace death, you will feel the true meaning of this world!
"You're very shy, you're the Death Knight in command of this army, right?" Illidan sneered and walked out from the side, no one knew when and how he arrived, but all the intelligent undead creatures felt the demonic aura from this blind night elf, it was a breath that represented strength and invincibility.
"Rub it!" Two crescent-shaped blades were released from Illidan's storage space, he held it with both hands, and the blade of Aeginos quickly "burned" with a raging evil flame, and the demonic power quickly increased, Illidan smiled evilly and said: "Human boy, the weight of this prey is big enough, I have taken it, this time I owe you, next time I will pay you a bigger one!"
After being transformed into one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Gavinrad had long since lost his sense of fear, but now, in the face of this Night Elf who had put him under great pressure, his soul fire made him feel fear for the first time in a long time......
Who are you?
Before Gavin Rad could finish his words, Illidan shot like a cannonball!
"Bell!" the blade of Aeginos collided violently with the rune sword.
Although Gavin Rader's temporary strength was far less than the swift blow that Illidan had gathered, with the blessing of the death knights around him, his protective shield absorbed Illidan's fierce blow! But before he could react, Illidan kicked the skeletal war horse under his crotch with a thunderous kick! Gavinrad, who lost his balance, was also knocked to the ground, which made him lose control of his power in an instant, and was suppressed by Illidan to death!
The surrounding Death Knights and Necromancers were also surprised, no one could have expected that with just one face, the Night Elves would directly drop their commander to the ground in a very violent way!
All the Death Knights and Necromancers immediately launched their attacks or defenses, some to keep Gavinrad at bay or some to protect him, but the dazzling Light Barrier unfurled, isolating Illidan and Gavinrad, blocking out all spells and attacks.
"I'm sorry, but your opponent is me...... Uh...... "Edlan wanted to pretend to be a good force, but before he could finish speaking, Illidan's next continuous action resisted the freezing gas emitted by the other party, sending the blade of Aesinos into Gavinrad's chest on one side, and cutting off the opponent's head along with the rune sword on the other side!
"It's really a no-......brainer," Illidan shook his hands covered with hoarfrost-like freezing air, shook off the ice slag, and said, "Hey, human boy, turn off this shield of yours, there are a lot of prey here, I have to enjoy my first hunt in 10,000 years......"
The corners of Adelan's eyes twitched as he suppressed the withering of death that emerged from beneath his feet, dodging a withering entanglement and unlocking the maintenance of the barrier of light, and then reached out and gushed out the light of the martyr, burning a death knight who tried to sneak up on him.
Faced with Illidan's domineering and very relaxed appearance, Edlan secretly scolded himself in his heart, are you sure that you are Illidan Fury and not Illidan Dragon Proud Fury?