Chapter 347: Multi-Front Battlefield (6)
When the enemy's line appeared in the distance, the floating corpse dragon saw the heavily armed knights, the heavily armored horses raising their hooves from time to time, and the arc of metal reflection piercing the undead legions.
Obviously, the other party discovered them in advance and had made preparations in advance.
Angelamo shook her head, and couldn't help but get excited, as an undead, both low-level and high-level have a natural hatred for the living, but under the suppression of the Emperor, she and her subordinates had to suppress their nature and disappear into bones in the soil of the Northlands.
Now, she can finally release her desires - to face these human aliens.
She looked up at the sky with her hollow eye sockets, and at the end of the horizon, many black dots were circling, and if you didn't look at it, you would only think that they were a few crows that occasionally flew across, but in fact they were her little pets.
Skeleton birds, these smaller and faster than normal birds have an unrivaled advantage in the air, allowing them to condescendingly observe the movements of their enemies.
Skeleton birds are so weak that they can be easily wiped out by an unarmed human, but it is precisely for this reason that as long as they do not land in the visible area, it is difficult to spot the birds that are located in the sky with only the naked eye and magic detection.
Through the sharing of vision and soul links, Angelamo learned that more than 4,000 soldiers had gathered here, and that the heavily armed knights were only cover, and behind them were crossbowmen and spellcasters in full gear, who would be subjected to the most ferocious sniper if the undead legions were close enough to reach a certain distance.
Although most of the undead have been wiped out by humans or fled to the underground world, the peaceful and prosperous world has not made all races forget how to deal with the undead, these obscure creatures are almost inexhaustible every time they appear, but it is not without a target, as long as the high and middle undead who are in charge of the command are wiped out one by one, the so-called undead army will be self-defeating, and the unintelligent skeletons are chaotic scum that are disorderless and rely on instinct, and they do not pose a threat to the army at all.
In the dark ages of the First Age, the power of the undead reached its peak, unlike demons, gods and demons, the existence of the undead was not rejected by the main material realm, the epic of Eladia records that the nameless dead evoke an unyielding army of the dead, the wings of the bone dragon obscured the sunlight of the sky, the dead danced on the battlefield, the mad black knights engaged in a race to hunt the living, and the sea of skeletons spread to every corner of the continent, and the long dark night came.
The Undead King, Lord of the Night, is a name that has shrouded Eladia for three hundred years and has become a nightmare for the living.
Under the undead catastrophe, orcs, humans, elves, and dwarves have swept away the garbage heap in the kingdom that was just beginning to sprout in the First Age, and even the ruler of the continent at that time, the dragon, had to avoid it.
But eventually, the age of the undead came to an end, and the unrivaled King of the Night, who was able to exert his near-god power in the main material realm, suddenly disappeared, and the empire of the dead fell apart, turning into the dust of history with the roar of the dragons.
But there are some things that still remain to this day—artifacts, scepters of eternal night, symbols of the kingship of the undead. It is said to be the possession of the King of the Eternal Night, and holds the most powerful secret of the Undead Monarch, but it has not appeared on the stage of history since the annihilation of the King of the Eternal Night.
It's a memory engraved in Angramore's reincarnation as a corpse dragon, and even the half-lich Wren often talks about it.
The reasons for the collapse of the Empire of the Dead have been studied by every ruler, and the living have found a way to deal with the undead, and now, more than half of the powerful crossbows, enchanted guns, and magic are aimed at the corpse dragon floating in the air.
But with the experience of the Lord of the Eternal Night, it is naturally impossible for Angramo to send a human head to the face to kill the other party, the strength of the Kohor army is not weak, they are from the central trade city-state, they can fight the Elven Forest can not be defeated, and there are also legendary humans in the town, and if they rush forward without a plan, they will only die in an instant.
The distance is getting closer, the array of the undead army begins to move, and the rambling reinforced skeleton soldiers are on the front line, these are the cannon fodder of Angelamore, and it is best to use it to move the battle line.
The long-range means of the Kohor army are even more fierce than imagined, those enchanted arrows easily pierce the skulls of skeleton soldiers, and the whistling magic orbs and flames explode in the sea of bones, the time when the undead army is approaching is the most efficient and labor-saving time to kill them, and the commander of Kohor is not a stupid pig, so he will naturally not let it go.
Although the Undead Legion also has long-range means, the Skeleton Archer, the Corpse Witch and the Weeping Banshee are casting spells with all their might, but because of the difference in equipment and energy levels, the effect is worrying, and after half an hour of indiscriminate bombardment, the Undead Legion has only advanced less than two thousand meters, with countless casualties.
But for Angramo, having earned it, she began to switch her means of attack.
"Knights of the Dead, charge."
The Black Knight Naldero has long since died, his bones have turned to ashes, the undead knights have no command, and now they are all directly controlled by Angelamo, the corpse dragon only needs to communicate a little through the soul connection, and the large legion array is like an arm, separating a path from each other in the middle, and the undead knights are ready to attack and begin to charge.
"The caster stops, there is no need to provide cover for the undead knight, the corpse witch prepares to disturb the spell, and the banshee prepares to energetically intercept and dissociate."
The corpse dragon continued to order, the undead have no emotions, as long as they can win, even if all these subordinates die, she will not hesitate in the slightest.
In fact, when she laid out her tactics this way, she actually let them die.
The twenty-four-pounder cannon was pushed to the front line, and the task of loading and adjusting the angle of fire was quickly completed, and the undead were familiar with these things faster than the living creatures, and they were able to complete the details with precise commands.
The muzzle angle of fire has been adjusted to the third gear, the gunpowder and solid cannonballs have been filled into the barrel, and the dark golden rune carvings on the black cannon body are shining, and at the same time, the undead knights have begun to charge with the blue soul fire.
In the face of the charge of the medium undead, the casters of the Kohor army could no longer spare the strength to start striking as much as possible, the cavalry charge was full of pressure for any defender, and they could not just let the other side rush in, otherwise their own line would be torn apart as they tore through the Elven Forest, and they would inevitably be surrounded by endless bones.
The cannons continued to move forward under the cover of the abominations' massive bodies, and when the undead knights were struck by the first wave of deadly spells, fifty twenty-four-pounder cannons arrived at their positions.
"Fire."
Angelamo ordered lightly, she was still a little resistant to these weapons, the high undead preferred to trust their own power rather than rely on external objects, and in the eyes of the corpse dragon, these weapons had no room to grow and could not go far.
But there is no way, she is not only responsible for protecting the Elven Forest this time, but also tasked with testing the Empire's new weapons.
The twenty-four-pounder cannon at Angelamo's side was the first to roar.
The large amount of gas generated by the deflagration of gunpowder pushed the solid bullet outward, and when it flew out of the muzzle, the speed changed to 500 meters per second, and in just two breaths, the cannonball had already surpassed the undead knight charging in front, and smashed into the enemy formation with a whistling sound, and the hit rate in the dense array was amazing, crashing into a knight, the enchanted armor was useless under such a huge impact, and the iron ball was smashed at the same time with the armor and people, and then it broke the waist and abdomen of a war horse in the rear, and the blood of the internal organs flowed all over the ground.
The cannonballs fell into the hills, and the flying dirt and gravel rattled against the armor, and even the trained horses ran in fear and uneasiness.
The undead were unaware of this, and after a volley of twenty-four pounderers, they completed the reloading process as quickly as possible, and the second salvo began again.
The fragility and softness of the flesh and blood under the hot weapon are exposed, once the iron ball is brushed by, it is an instant loss of combat effectiveness, irreparable heavy damage, the soldiers who were directly hit in addition to the broken limbs, there are also clusters of flesh and blood splashed, only the second ejection after the cannonball landed, the soldiers can see what that thing is - a vague black ghost, wantonly plundering life in the crowd.
After two rounds of artillery bombardment, Baifu, who was the commander of the front line, finally reacted: "Magic cannon, damn it!" How could there be such a thing in the Northland!? ”
"Caster, Defense!"
Because of the training mode and the intensity of the war, the armies of most of the countries of Eladia can be called elite, even if they suffer such a roar and heavy losses, the Kohor army still did not mess up, the knights quickly retracted to the rear, let the big shield guard top the front line of the formation, and the spellcasters also reacted, and quickly gave up the blow to the undead knight and turned to apply defensive magic.
Angelamo didn't know the other party's tactical intentions, but she still roughly figured out the mentality of dealing with the commander and the execution of the army, and took the risk to predict in advance in order to maximize the results of the battle, so the order she gave to the third round of the undead legion was like this - "Disturb the spell, dissociate, fire!" ”
The banshee's howl sounded first, and after a millisecond difference, the roar of the artillery was deafening, and the undead legion emitted the highest decibel noise, if someone looked down from the battlefield at this time, they could find that the solid cannonballs fired from the undead array were almost chasing the energy-activated banshee swarming forward.
In the next moment, the enemy array raised a defensive spell that was urgently activated, but before it could be completely formed, it was instantly turned into dust by the corpse witch's long-prepared disturbance spell and the banshee's dissociation with life energy, and the third round of artillery bombardment smashed into the enemy array again!
Looking at the flying flesh and viscera, Bai Fu couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle, instantly eroding the defense spell, how could this be possible?
At this moment, the undead knight, who had been blocked all along, finally arrived.