Chapter 1296: A Doomed Ending
The deafening sound of explosions and roars blended with a deafening vibration that almost completely and completely dominated all of the five senses of the Storm Clan Khan. He didn't understand what was happening, but for a moment he felt that the air in front of him had turned into a rushing wind pressure, and it was clearly the situation of a huge weight whizzing in - but if it was just a boulder thrown at him, he wouldn't have even noticed it.
Then, a blinding flash of fire and a blazing air rose around him, and the furious heat swept him off the wolf's back on the spot. He slammed into the ground, losing the ability to think for a moment.
Although Thur Khan is not a spellcaster, he is not exactly an outsider to the concept of magic. He could feel the blazing wind exploding around him, and through a thick layer of steel plate armor, it still burned half of his body as if it were on fire. Generally speaking, arcane magic is only effective if it is a high-ring plastic system. However, if it was really the high-ring sculpting magic, how could it be so easy for the traditional shamans to unfold the storm shield with all their might?
He couldn't even feel his own hearing for a while, and even couldn't feel everything around him for a long time. It took him a long time to get up slowly, looking around blankly, looking at the situation in the distance, and for a moment, his mind almost lost the ability to think, just stood numbly, walked numbly, like a walking corpse without a soul. In his auditory senses, the paralyzing "humming" sound continued, and it could not be dispersed for a long time. It took a moment, as if it had been a full century, for Thor to finally recover from this confusion. Then, the sound of burning flames, the wails of warriors, the cheers of enemies, and the incessant sound of sharp blades tearing through their bodies surged their eardrums like a rushing avalanche. At this moment, he felt the pain on his body for the first time, and his body was dizzy. He fell to one knee and hurriedly slammed his hammer on the ground so that he would not be paralyzed on the spot. A painful pale flashed across his face, and for a moment the qi and blood in his body surged, and then he vomited blood uncontrollably.
"Thor! Searle! A familiar voice sounded beside Khan. Then, he felt a slender but powerful arm dragging him under his armpit and standing on his feet.
"You can't fall! Now you must not fall! Thor listened to this voice, turned sideways, and the first thing that caught his eye was the anxious gaze of his wife, Tanrush.
He gritted his teeth, struggled to straighten up, and said in a deep voice, "What's that, Tanrush?" What is it? Crystal Cannon? No, no, even if it's a magic crystal cannon, it's technically an application of magic torrents. However, in order to counter the arcane superiority of the Federation, isn't the storm shield you use improved? Theoretically, any kind of arcane composition is concrete, and after penetrating this layer of shield, the power will be greatly reduced! β
"It's more likely that it will directly disintegrate under the effect of the storm shield, and it will no longer be a concept of magic." The shaman gritted his teeth and said, "But that's not magic!" There is no such thing as a surgical structure that needs to be dismantled! β
ββ¦β¦ In other words, the most important achievement of the Shamanic Order in the past two decades has now become an outdated joke just after its birth? "There was a bit of anger in the Khan for a while, but more of it was a sense of extreme absurdity and unreality. He felt that since the beginning of this battle, he had been provoking his common sense bottom line.
However, this is not the time to complain about people. At this time, if you are desperate, then the army under your command will no longer have the ability to continue fighting. He lifted his hammer and rushed to his mount's side in three steps and two steps. Fang Cai's explosion appeared in the middle of five meters beside him, overturning himself and of course his own wolf. The Storm Wolf, who had almost evolved into a phantom beast, had several shocking wounds on his waist and abdomen, and several sharp shards of steel were stuck in it. Thorl didn't know that the scientific name of this thing was "shrapnel", but he also knew in an instant, and the reason why his wolf suddenly stood up and overturned himself was clearly to protect himself.
"I'm sorry!" Thorr stroked the wolf's head, "But I have to get you up." β
The wolf let out a low whimper, arched his head at Archer, struggled for a moment, and still stood up. At that moment, the beast was like a loyal warrior who would never die, willing to follow its master until the end of the world, even if it had only its last breath left.
Thor Khan rolled over and jumped onto his wolf again, and the latter's body sank slightly, as if he had been burdened with a heavy burden, something that had been almost impossible before. But then, the loyal wolf quickly stood up and tried to hold his master as high as possible, so that more orcs could see him.
Tanrush stood aside and looked at her husband worriedly. She is very aware of the other party's current physical condition, and she may pass out at any time. As a wife, she should have put Thor on a stretcher and brought in the last witch doctor to take care of her. However, as a warrior of the Storm Clan, she knew better that she really had no position to organize Thor to fulfill the duties of a khan.
β¦β¦ Perhaps, the Khan of the Orcs is destined to have a heroic end.
Sure enough, when Thor stood up again, the orcs, who had been thrown into confusion by the first round of artillery fire, seemed to calm down a little. At least quite a few orcs cheered, and then attacked the Federation soldiers in front of them even more frantically.
From this point of view, it is not surprising at all to call orcs a fighting race.
"It's very heroic, but it's also a typical hysterical dying throes." Lu Xi smiled slightly, and said to the deputy commander beside him: "I think, Lord Aemon, you can prepare to fight back and harvest the heads with all your might." β
Aemon? Wilanbart was slightly stunned. In his opinion, although Fang Cai's artillery fire directly stunned the other party, the orcs of the battle race reacted quickly, and they fought back like a madman, no matter how they looked at it, it didn't look like they would collapse immediately.
However, this old fritter may not be a military genius, but he must be an excellent politician Lao fritter, and he also knows how to read words and feelings. He saw the undoubted firmness and confidence in Lu Xi's eyes, and immediately smiled heartily and owed slightly: "Xiaguan understands!" Don't worry! β
He then left the Chinese army and strode to the front line, shouting: "My mount! β
His retainers brought him a mount, a tall red-maned unicorn - a bloodthirsty and aggressive species that is rare among unicorns, and a phantom beast that the Wilambat family had signed a contract with many years ago.
Behind him, there were about fifty or so battle mages riding various types of phantom beast mounts, all of whom were elite battle mages born in famous families. Although there are not many people, they are all strong, and they are all masters who can ride horses and charge into battle while still casting magic. Again, although the class of the gate lord aristocracy is very rotten, it really does not mean that everyone is a waste, even if 90% is a waste of firewood, but as long as there is 10% of the elite, there is still the power to maintain its rule.
Although Lu Xi didn't like them, he didn't have any revolutionary cleanliness habits, and he didn't hesitate to work closely with them. Anyway, after so much time of training by him, this group of people behaved quite deferentially, and it was enough to put them on the battlefield.
Fifty elite battle mages born from the gate valve seem to be just a small wave on the battlefield of tens of thousands of people, but the power they represent is certainly not just themselves.
"Iron Fleet! Open up! Someone shouted.
Then, I only saw that in the phalanx behind the front-line infantry formation, the iron lumps placed on the ground spread their limbs and blades one by one, and they all stood up with a "bang", and it was clearly a steel golem that was nearly three meters high. Their arrays were as tight as if they had been measured with a ruler, and they stood motionless and invulnerable. This is a full 500 units of the latest model of the Federation 18-type construction puppet, made of stainless steel. Different from the previous construction puppets, this puppet not only moves by running on foot, but also adds a special pulley set and a new power mode under the soles of the feet, once the foot and neck devices are deployed, a group of skateboard devices that can move autonomously...... Uh, is it associated with some bespectacled Grim Reaper schoolboy? In fact, the setting is closer to the one in a certain story about the second middle school disease who cheats by his eyes and his good friend who loves and kills his virgin X rape.
Of course, no matter which one it is, it does make Lu Xi a little dramatic.
However, it must be noted that the appearance of this puppet land has greatly compensated for the lack of sufficient mobile forces of the Federal Army. The magic circuit in their body, charged at one time, can allow them to move at the speed of a war horse for more than 30 minutes, and can fully perform tactical goals such as outflanking, pursuit, and charging. The main weapons are two fist-bladed knives reinforced with strong military skills, a repeating crossbow with a thirty-round arrow box, plus three thunderstorm javelins, and the outer shield is equivalent to the plate armor that solidifies a certain amount of magical defense.
As long as you look at the configuration of these equipment, you will know its combat effectiveness, and of course, its cost. So far, the Federation has only just procured a total of 1,000 units for its reorganized 6st, 2nd, and most elite 6th Legions. But now these 500 ...... Of course, it was not Lu Xi who bought it out of his own pocket, but the officer corps who were born from these gate lords carried it by themselves.
These tentacles of power have penetrated into all aspects of the federation and sucked up almost all the nutrients of this country, but they have been perfectly embodied from these aspects.
And at this time, in the sky, the steel dragon that almost covered the entire battlefield also appeared from the clouds for the first time. Like a hurricane, he swept through the sky, and his armament began to roar at the same moment. The line of fire of the magic crystal cannon and the guide machine cannon swept through the sky, tearing the orc's flying cavalry to pieces in the first place. A minute ago, they were like a flock of vultures pounced on the flock, but now they are frightened turkeys, flapping their wings and running away.
The soldiers of the Federation were briefly stunned, after all, anyone would have a sense of physical fear when they saw such a steel giant over a hundred meters long appear above their heads. But soon they realized that this mighty and domineering steel giant was clearly a friendly army, and their morale was immediately boosted. Let's go back to the orcs...... By this time, there were finally orc wolf cavalrymen who began to turn their heads and flee uncontrollably. Well, no matter how strong the fighting race is, it is still a living person after all, so there must be fear, and there must be an upper limit to bear.
However, the Federation Flying Cavalry, who followed behind the steel dragon, did not pay special attention to the orc air force that had already scattered and fled, and flew to the rear of the battlefield. They began to rapidly descend to a distance of only ten meters from the ground, and began their first spell on the ground, and the first group cast by the mages of the Fourth Legionβit was only then that the wolf cavalry belatedly noticed that a full third of the horned eagles were on their backs, including a mage in addition to their riders.
Ground subsidence, fire wall technique, swamp transformation technique, freezing technique, wind resistance technique, earth wall technique, all kinds of spells that can change the terrain in a short time and block people's movements, do not need to spend money on the road that the wolf cavalry must pass through to retreat. After all, they are only qualified spellcasters of the "ordinary" level, and it is difficult to cooperate with them to cast strategic spells on an unstable casting platform such as a flying mount. However, this is enough. Lu Xi didn't give them the task of long-range output in the first place, as long as he could limit the escape route of the wolf cavalry.
These sparse traps, swamps, and supernatural phenomena within the walls of fire appeared in a haphazard manner behind the orc army. Compared to the battlefield against demons at the beginning, those succubi and enchanted magicians easily opened a kilometer-long wall of fire, and this group of battle mages of the Federation is really not enough...... However, on such a battlefield, this is enough. Or rather, better. Because the cluttered obstacles will definitely leave a gap for escape, and most of the orcs will feel that they can rescue it, such as hacking their companions next to them to cut the queue or something, maybe they can really escape. If the back road is really blocked, and they are really forced to fight like trapped beasts, then the loss will be great.
At that moment, 20,000 wolf cavalry and centaurs (including the dead) were thus compressed into a battlefield that was confined to death. On the front are the infantry-in-command of the Federation Array, squeezing their space little by little; The outflanked spearmen on both flanks were reaping the lives of their uninterrupted fire; High in the sky was a huge thing of steel that covered the battlefield, and deep shadows pressed over it, and it was creepy just to look at; Behind it, there are all kinds of barricades formed by chaotic walls of fire swamps and traps, although these magical phenomena can only last for about ten minutes or even a few minutes, but this is enough for the Federation soldiers to do a lot of things.
Then, the real reaper of life on the battlefield, the cannons, began another round of roaring. The orcs and centaurs who were squeezed into a dense formation achieved the reputation of the king of war.
Lu Xi stood up from his seat, glanced at the experience pool of the skyrocketing numbers, clapped his hands contentedly, and then looked at Lim beside him. From the beginning of the war, the loyal three-no-four sword-flowing doll Jianhao has been standing behind Lu Xi like a shadow, with an awe-inspiring face, quite like the feeling of standing behind the second master Zhou Cang...... Well, although the painting style is really too different.
"You can also take the opportunity to chop the heads of some big fish and have some fun. Pick up some loot or something. Orcs are poor, but big people also have good goods on them. Lu Xi said.
Lim nodded, but shook her head again, and said, "I'm a bodyguard." β
The implication is that when Lu Xi is there, her post should be there.
Do I need your protection now? Although Lu Xi thought so, of course he wouldn't say this kind of stupid thing that lost his favorability, so he immediately said, "Well, then, let's go down and do it too." After a war of tens of thousands of people, I didn't take a single head, which doesn't seem to fit my style. β
"Oh!" Lim's voice was not loud, and her expression did not change much, but she should have been very happy. Well, although it is such a harmless three-no baby face for humans and animals, as long as it is a person who learns swords, theoretically he will enjoy the battle very much, right?
β¦β¦ Or is it true that the members of my Crystal Palace are essentially violent sociopaths? Look at Lao Pa over there, once he swept through the sky, the pillar of light formed by the magic crystal cannon dragon breath directly pulled a death trajectory in the orc's military array. With such a carnage, Nicole and Sehireu, who were sitting on its back, seemed to be quite excited!.