Chapter 427: The First Battle of the Northern Expedition
On the next road, it made Levi want to doze off a little, because except for some scattered beastman wandering squads, they hardly encountered any decent enemies, whether it was all kinds of fierce beasts common in the wild, or the green skins who were looking for people to fight all day long, when facing their elite army of tens of thousands of people, they ran as far as they could in the first place, and they didn't even dare to take a look, and the successive battles that Levi expected did not happen at all.
Levi was just a little bored, but Reinhardt was a little anxious, the hardcore henchmen of the Northern Eagles had already set off one step ahead of her, and they already had a certain advantage, if they didn't have any enemies here, then she would definitely lose very badly in the end!
Levi just wanted to comfort the other party, but after inadvertently seeing the sky in the distance, his eyes instantly lit up: "Calm, Reinhardt, the show is about to begin." ”
Reinhardt suddenly turned his head, "What do you mean?" ”
Levi didn't say much, just pointed to the sky in the distance, and Reinhardt looked in the direction, because the distance was so far away, she could only barely see that there seemed to be a small dark cloud there, approaching here.
"What's that?"
Levi raised his eyebrows, it seems that Reinhardt's eyesight is not as good as his own, speaking of which, with the continuous strengthening of his fighting spirit, in addition to the continuous improvement of strength and agility, his hearing and eyesight are also growing rapidly, this is what happened after the goddess of the lake gave him the primary chalice imprint, he always felt that what was indicated on the attribute did not seem to be all its effects...
"It's a harpy, at least a thousand harpies. The whole army stopped, fished, the reconnaissance troops did not stop, and at the same time immediately sent people to pass information to the rear, Sienna, immediately adjust the war base and prepare for battle! ”
After hearing Levi's order, Reinhardt immediately commanded her troops with a little excitement, because she knew that this number of harpies would never fight alone, and the ordinary harpy tribe was only one or two hundred at most, and there must be more beastmen behind it!
Watching Reinhardt's movements, Levi also nodded slightly, and then ordered his subordinates to say a few words to let them better cooperate with each other.
Probably in pursuit of speed, Reinhardt's troops this time were all cavalry, numbering 1,500 people, most of them were pioneer horsemen with long-range weapons, there were thousands, including those who used shotguns, pistols and grenade launchers, and the remaining small part included Imperial Knights, Golden Lion Knights, and Goshawk Knights unique to their sect, and Cheetah Knights who could be recruited in almost all provinces in the Empire.
Although their names and appearances are different, after in-depth understanding, Levi found that these guys are not much different in nature, they are just a little more in a certain attribute, or some small skills, and their biggest difference should be their appearance.
As for the last four squads, they were all Rank 5 Rick's Praetorian Cavalry, who were Reinhardt's personal guards and her most powerful men.
At this time, under the command of Reinhardt, all the pioneer horsemen raised their weapons, ready to attack the enemy. Thousands of pioneer attendants, plus the troops commanded by Sienna, even if there are a lot of these harpies, there are some colorful and obviously high-level troops who have comprehended the magic power, but they can't last a few minutes under their firepower, so everyone seems very calm, which is also just an appetizer.
Reinhardt was about to send his men to inform the main forces behind them and remind them of the news of the arrival of the beastmen, but Levi was already shocked, "Reinhardt, I suddenly feel that things are a little serious!" ”
Reinhardt hadn't reacted yet, but her herald knight Hero, Kent, had already shouted, "My lord, the same clouds are gathering on all sides!" ”
Reinhardt immediately looked over with a serious face, and sure enough, there were several large clouds of colorful clouds in the originally cloudless sky, gray, red, blue, white, cyan...
Each eye color represents a kind of harpy, except for the lowest level of gray, the other colors of wings represent that they have been initially exposed to the power of magic, and there are also a lot of black spots that are several times larger, as the other party quickly approached, Levi and the others quickly saw their true faces, they were some manticores, and roughly estimated, the number was at least more than three hundred!
Levi and Reinhardt suddenly changed color, thousands of harpy banshees may sound terrifying, but their strength is not high, it can only be said that the enemy has a large number of cannon fodder troops, and it can't make Levi and the others nervous, but the appearance of so many manticores at the same time represents a completely different meaning, the enemy must have a very powerful leader, so that the manticore lions who are aggressive by nature and don't like to live in groups can gather so many numbers!
The terrible sound of the horn sounded suddenly in the distance, and Levi immediately looked back, only to see that the Talabek River, which had been relatively calm, was now rolling in turbid waves, and countless humanoids dressed in carapaces and scales, armed with cold weapons, rushed out and rushed towards Emperor Karl's fleet like a frenzy.
What's more, they directly raised their weapons and began to chisel the boat, among which were not only the various fishmen, sharks and Nagas that Levi had seen, but also some strange-looking guys that even Levi couldn't recognize, but there was no doubt that they were all monsters of the evil camp.
All kinds of war machines, archers, crossbowmen, musketeers, and mage units on the warship have begun to fight back, showing quite professional military literacy, the clear river water is instantly painted with a dirty color by blood and various dirty liquids, but the monsters in the river seem to be endless, every time one is killed, there are always two or even three monsters out of it, and there are many of them just looking at the head, it obviously does not belong to the river, but should be a giant monster in the sea, they must have been planned for a long time, So start an ambush here in advance!
At the same time, the ground began to tremble slightly, as if swept by a hurricane, the smoke and dust that rushed to the sky swelled, countless strange roars resounded through the field, and the beastmen with no end in sight rushed out of the woods on both sides, and for a time the inferior horned beasts, chaos war dogs, horned beasts, centaurs, great horned beasts, razor beasts, minotaurs, chaos eggs, and so on rushed wildly.
Since most of the territory of the empire is covered by forests, it is naturally the soil for the survival of evil races such as beastmen, but it is impossible for such a large number of beastmen to breed in this forest in front of you, this is an ambush arranged in advance!
The whole battlefield is like a military parade of the beastmen, almost all the beastmen appear here, they directly attack the emperor's expeditionary force, and in the process of their charge, there are magic brilliance bursting out from time to time, obviously there are also many legal units.
At the back of the battlefield, some behemoths several stories high are also moving rapidly step by step and several meters, it is the barbarian giant that Levi has encountered several times, as the recognized most barge of the 6th order of the army, maybe the three or two barbarian giants Levi can not care, but at the same time there are more than a dozen barbarian giants, Levi has to pay attention to it, and in the middle of the savage giants, there are two giants with only one big one eye in the middle of the forehead, it seems that they are either variants of the savage giants, Either that, or a whole new kind of enemy, but there is no doubt that their ultimate target is the Emperor himself.
Even Levi had no idea that the first wave of decent enemies they encountered on the Northern Expedition would be organized by the famously brainless Beastmen, who he had thought would be greenskins or undead or something.
However, the number of French units in these beastmen is inevitably a little too much, and in the original beastman troops, except for some harpies who may have comprehended the power of magic, the rest is basically only the screaming shaman of the beastmen who can use the power of magic.
But now, as Levi sensed alone, there were at least three or four hundred legal units, so they couldn't all be screaming shamans, right? Even when they besieged their feuding wood elves, they didn't dispatch so many screaming shamans!
Wait, Levi seems to have suddenly thought of something, he only counted the aborigines, but did not count the Chosen Heroes, although the Beastmen have always been the enemy of the world, everyone shouts and fights, but it does not mean that there are really no Beastmen Chosen Heroes, and they also have an advantage, that is, all creatures are their enemies, even killing their own beastmen, will gain experience and gold coins, etc., if there are really Chosen Heroes can persevere, then their strength will not be weak!
But it doesn't matter, whether it's a Chosen Hero or an Aborigine, as a Beastman, they will eventually turn into their own honor and exploits!
Levi immediately slammed his halberd: "Array, prepare to fight back, let these stupid beastmen taste our awesomeness!" ”
Reinhardt also immediately commanded his troops to move closer to Levi's position, although most of the beastmen who appeared rushed in the direction of Emperor Karl himself, but the number of the other party was too terrifying, even if the other party divided one-tenth, I am afraid that there were tens of thousands, which was too dangerous for her own cavalry, she also wanted to defeat the Northern Eagle in the battle, she didn't want to lose a lot in the first battle!
As the army of beastmen continued to approach, the neatly arranged war equipment took the lead, and every shell that fell into the opponent's position could often blow up pieces of low-level beastmen, even if it was a high-level soldier such as the Minotaur, after taking a blow head-on, it would be seriously injured if it did not die.
Then there are various ranged troops and mage units led by Mina, since Levi came to the Aldolph Imperial City, he has also purchased a considerable number of magic skill books, because there are 7 magic academies located here, providing him with a very rich choice, so all his mage-type subordinates, the strength has been improved to varying degrees, and colorful magic has emerged in an endless stream for a while.
It's just that in the face of the hordes of beastmen, the difference in the attack intensity of different types of magic quickly became prominent, except for Mina, whose strength is obviously stronger than others, not counting, the other mages are basically the most lethal fire mages, and the sky mages who are good at using the wind element have the greatest results, and then because they are close to the Talabek River, they can use a part of the power of the water and ice mages, and then the earth mages, as for the remaining beast mages, light and nature mages, etc., The results are quite small, there is no way, they are really not very good mages at dealing with large-scale enemies.
After a few consecutive series of lightning bolts, a large number of blackened harpy banshees fell from the sky and fell into flesh and blood all over the ground, but unfortunately their number was too many, and nearly a thousand survived, Levi let Sienna continue to shoot, and let the horned eagle beast knight Davy lead the flying troops to meet the enemy, although their number is not large, but with the advantage of strength, it is okay to delay enough time to let the mages and archers below destroy the harpy, The real highlight is from the Beastmen on the ground.
The minotaurs and razormons, which are relatively rare in ordinary times, are here as if they don't want money, and four or five squads appear in a bunch at every turn, and those chaotic eggs that are like a large number of twisted arms inserted into the meat ball also emerge in groups on the battlefield, and at the same time, some special beastmen that Levi has not seen, such as fox people, rabbit people, cat people, rhinoceros people, etc., have also appeared on the stage and participated in this battle, all of which shows that the commander behind it must not be an ordinary beastman!
The only thing that made Levi a little puzzled was that although all the beastmen were transformed from beasts, or were affected by the Chaos ability, so they had the appearance of beasts, why did those fishmen and Naga also participate in this battle?
Isn't it possible that fishmen are also a type of beastmen? Are fish beasts?
Levi didn't find the answer for a while, and he didn't have this time now, he was directing the troops to resist the attack of the beastmen, while searching for suspicious objects everywhere, although there was no big discovery for the time being, but he confirmed a previous guess, that is, this battle was really a lot of beastmen Chosen Heroes involved.
Maybe it doesn't look like it looks like it looks like a human being, after all, the Beastmen are not much different from humans, but after a little observation, Levi found at least fifty or sixty Chosen Heroes in the Beastmen battle group to the east alone.
And the reason for discovering them is also very simple, that is, through the way of speaking.
With the brains and intelligence of the beastmen, even in the midst of extreme anger, they scold people over and over again with just a few tricks, what damn, hateful and the like, they can scold people in a fancy way, all kinds of fragrant mouths, who else can there be except the chosen hero?
It's just that these Beastmen's Chosen Heroes are also smarter, after seeing that Levi's firepower here is very fierce, they took the initiative to keep their distance, anyway, their most important target is Emperor Karl, not an ordinary army, not to mention that there are better options next to them, and they don't need to pick this hard stubble!