Volume 2: The Shadow of the Wailing Cave (Remastered) Chapter 25: A Sudden War (3)
Yu Bin had expected that the undead would continue to accumulate forces and not start attacking until they gained a numerical advantage, but after only two days, the situation changed dramatically. Keldilla, who happened to be on duty, called to say that the war between the undead and the centaurs was about to break out, which made Yu Bin scramble for a while, and after hurriedly preparing dinner for Shen Tianyi, he appeared on the mountainside where he was hiding.
Alan and Thunderlight were clearly ahead of him, and the two mages were lying on a platform with a good view, looking at the Velociraptor Plains at the foot of the mountain. At this time, it was more than two o'clock in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day in the barren land, but despite this, Yu Bin still ignored the hot ground that was roasted, and also lay down.
"Where's Alan?"
"I went to investigate, and I could only see the north side of the Velociraptor Plain here, and he was worried that there would be something wrong in other directions." It was Keldila who had obviously made some preparations in advance for a better observation, at least the things underneath him would allow him to better insulate himself from the hot heat from the ground.
Yu Bin didn't care, the iron armor could block the heat in a short time: "Why did it suddenly erupt?" Have the undead gathered enough troops? ”
"In less than two days, unless the god of death Jego personally takes action, those necromancers who are tired of death will not be able to explode enough troops, you think it is a hen laying eggs, and your life is a litter!" As a necromancer, Lei Guang is the most vocal here, "According to my estimates, unless these undead have more than five hundred necromancers, the number of sustained deaths can only increase by about five thousand." ”
"Actually, the centaurs were the ones who did it first!" Keldila answered Yu Bin's question, "Since about ten o'clock in the morning, there have been sporadic centaurs who have begun to attack those undead, and ten minutes ago, those undead who don't know what to hide in that corner have begun to attack in an all-round way, and it seems that they are ready to do a big job!" ”
Following the direction of Keldilla's finger, Yu Bin could see the black-brown patch in the distance of the horizon, he had thought it was some kind of shrub or shadow, but after Keldila explained, he realized that it was actually a large number of centaurs gathered together to form an army formation.
On the other hand, a large number of undead creatures are pouring out from all corners of the Velociraptor Plain, gathering in the center of the plain, arranged in a phalanx according to different types of troops, including skeletons, zombies, ghouls, ghosts, and even undead creatures transformed from beasts such as undead velociraptors, undead wolves, and undead lions.
"Strange, this doesn't look like the style of the undead!" Yu Bin said to himself.
"The style of the undead?"
"How tactical do you think those skeletons can be? The vast majority of undead battles belong to a wave, whether it is skeletons or bone dragons, whether it is gargoyles or corpse witches, they are used to the whole family together, drowning the enemy with numbers, instead of forming a phalanx like now! ”
"Maybe they think it's easy to command like this?" Lei Guang and Keldila are players after all, and they don't understand the style of the undead, so they have never felt that there is anything wrong with this situation, but Yu Bin didn't know how much he dealt with the undead in his last life, and he knew the characteristics of these undead creatures deeply, maybe the high-level troops would have a certain level of tactics, but for the cannon fodder classes such as skeletons, zombies and ghouls, it was completely a wave of past operations.
Yu Bin glanced at the two rookie mages: "Easy to command?" With that spare time, it is better to transform more skeletons! And those who are qualified to command these cannon fodder are either mid-to-high-level troops such as corpse witches or undead knights, or necromancers, the former can't surrender their identities to do this kind of thing, and the latter, which necromancer do you think will learn to arrange troops? ”
Lei Guang and Keldila were speechless, as Yu Bin said, it is almost impossible for this to happen in the simple and rough brains of the undead, not that the undead will not use their brains, but they believe in absolute strength, when facing problems, the first consideration of the undead is to run over with quantity, if they can't grind, then these rotten brains will consider other ways.
In Yu Bin's opinion, even if this sudden outbreak of war was started by centaurs, the most reasonable way for those undead to deal with it should be to leave the Velociraptor Plains and move to other places to continue to accumulate troops, until they are enough to crush these centaurs, and then they will flood the two oases like a sea and a sandy beach.
As they spoke, the undead had already completed their formation on the plain, with zombies in front and skeletons behind, interspersed between the phalanx were ghouls and ghosts with high mobility, nearly a hundred gargoyles and skeleton birds were hovering in the sky, and in front of the undead soldiers who were solemnly arrayed, there were a large number of undead beasts that had just been transformed.
"How does this look more like a human thing!" Yu Bin was confused, but this did not prevent him from watching a good show.
As if unwilling to give these undead more time, the black and brown in the distance began to move, slowly approaching the undead in array, and as the distance was pulled, the centaurs gathered together quickly pulled into an impact front, and slowly increased their speed, obviously wanting to use their proud impact power to give the undead a dismount.
The undead side also quickly responded, and the undead beasts that were haphazardly arranged in front of the phalanx took the first step and launched a wave of counter-charge towards the centaurs.
From the halfway up the mountainside where Yu Bin is located, it can be seen that the centaurs who rush to the front are basically centaur warriors wearing heavy leather armor, their strong bodies allow them to burst out with great impact, and the two-handed battle axes in their hands can bring fatal damage to their enemies, these guys with both speed and strength are generally the main combat force in the centaur tribe, have a high status, and are also one of the most relied on members of the centaurs.
The undead beasts that launched a counter-charge were dwarfed by comparison, and even those undead velociraptors were only on par with those centaur warriors, let alone the undead wolves and undead deer that were obviously used to replenish them.
The distance of thousands of meters was quickly crossed by the two sides rushing in the opposite direction, but the first to reap the results was neither the battle axe of the centaur warrior nor the claws of the undead beasts, but a wave of arrows from the back of the centaur warriors, the bows and arrows of the centaur archers, centaur wanderers and centaur scouts were like a wall, causing the undead beasts to roll on their backs, and there were even some bursting fires, which were attacks from the centaur flame walkers, These centaur archers, who can initially exploit the fire element, are able to shoot burst arrows, which are more threatening to the undead.
But this wave of arrows that was enough to cause great damage to the human army could only be regarded as a painless obstacle for the undead beasts who were undead, except for some small undead beasts who were pinned to the spot and kept struggling, most of the undead beasts continued to rush towards those centaur warriors with their arrow shafts. For the undead, as long as the soul fire is not extinguished, no matter how great the physical damage is, it will not be fatal.
This is one of the reasons why the undead are a headache for the Orderly camp, whether it is a human or an elf, the long-range attack based on bows and arrows is their most important means of killing, compared to the magic of the mage, the rain of arrows that only needs enough arrows to launch continuously is their most reliable helper, but the constitution of the undead is almost fundamentally immune to this means of attack.
Of course, the centaurs obviously don't put all their hopes on a rain of arrows, and as the rain of arrows ends, dozens or hundreds of fireballs and lightning bolts follow, and these magical attacks from the centaur priest and centaur shaman seem to be far less than a tenth of the rain of arrows, but they do far more damage than the previous wave of arrows.
Even the undead velociraptors couldn't eat two fireballs in a row, and under the deliberate control of the centaurs, these magic attacks were aimed at the undead beasts that seemed to be the largest, and these large undead creatures that were enough to cause a backlash against the centaur warriors turned into corpses again under this wave of magical attacks, and the flames and lightning destroyed the little soul power in their bodies, causing them to fall on the way forward.
This is the centaurs' last resort before engaging the enemy, and the next step is to rely on their tomahawks and machetes to see if the centaurs are more brave or the undead are more ruthless.
The collision of the front line and the front line, the hammering of flesh and flesh, the intersection of life and life, the dull impact sound seemed to be in the ears, so that Yu Bin's heart, which had already stopped beating, was almost shaken to the ground.
At the moment of impact, the winner is already decided!
The tall centaur warriors became the victors, and countless undead beasts were knocked out of the air, turning into piles of rotten flesh in mid-air and falling apart, and occasionally the lucky ones escaped the impact of the centaurs, and also turned into pieces of meat under the tomahawks of those centaur warriors, and more than two thousand undead beasts did not even let the centaurs' charging speed drop by half a point.
But never underestimate the insidiousness and cunning of the undead, these undead creatures have no mercy and mercy, and even if they are turned into corpses, they cannot be taken lightly.
Just as the centaurs penetrated the undead beasts that stood in the way and rushed towards the phalanx of undead soldiers, the dark mages standing at the end of the phalanx raised their staff in unison, and wisps of black gas came out of the rudimentary staff, which seemed to be a signal, and the corpses that died again suddenly swelled up and then burst open.
Corpse explosion! One of the spells that the undead use corpses to the extreme!
By detonating the death force in the corpse, these dead corpses will be turned into bombs, and the explosion of death power will not only erode the life species within a certain range of the surrounding area, but also the bones of the corpse will become shrapnel due to the impact force, causing a certain amount of damage, and when fighting the undead, the more wounds there are, the more susceptible they are to the influence of the death force, and even eventually eroded into a member of the undead.
The sudden explosion of the corpse just allowed the centaur warrior who was at the forefront of the charge, and hit the centaur shooter and centaur priest who followed closely, causing a lot of confusion to the centaurs, Yu Bin had to applaud the undead commander, and the timing of those dark mages using the corpse explosion was simply wonderful. The chaos caused by this attack caused the other centaurs who were charging in front of them to become disjointed, which was simply fatal to the cavalry.
Yu Bin almost thought that the undead would win for this reason, once these centaur warriors were besieged by the undead because they were disconnected from the rear, and the centaurs, who had lost their main melee power, faced the swarming undead, they could not resist the undead with bows and shamans alone.
But the facts made Yu Bin see the charm of the world of Entagri again, and the reaction of those centaurs made Yu Bin can't help but applaud it.
The exploding corpses and rising forces of death caused only a brief period of chaos among the centaurs, and soon patches of white light emanated from the hands of the centaur priests, which not only dispelled the aura of death that filled the air, but also allowed the centaurs who had been wounded by shrunnel to receive some healing. The white glow was followed by a light red glow triggered by the centaur shamans, and as the centaur shamans spewed large expanses of powder of unknown herbs into the air, the bodies of the centaur archers who were slightly out of touch with the centaur warriors began to glow red, their eyes widened, they put away their bows and arrows, and instead took a short axe from their backs, howling loudly to increase their speed, and quickly caught up with the centaur warriors.
It was the effect of Bloodlust, and with the help of magical power and some herbs, those centaur shamans detonated the war intent and anger in their bodies, although doing so would make these centaur archers temporarily lose some of their self-control and control the aiming of their bows and arrows, but in this case, it has to be said that it is a good move.
The Centaur Shaman's bloodlust not only made up for the disconnect, but also increased the impact of the entire centaur army again, and Yu Bin could almost imagine what would happen to the undead made up of cannon fodder when the angry centaurs rushed into the formation of the undead soldiers.
"It looks so exciting! This is war! Lei Guang and Keldila lay on the ground and watched it, for them, when did they experience this kind of scene in person, it was completely different from watching those war movies, the sound of fighting, roars, heavy blood and wails before death, fearless soldiers and death-defying charges, all of which made them deeply shocked, "It seems that those centaurs are going to win!" Those undead can't fight against it at all, cannon fodder is cannon fodder, and there is too much difference in strength! ”
In terms of the comparison of the strength of the two sides, Lei Guang's words are not wrong, the undead soldiers are generally low-level soldiers, only gargoyles and ghosts have a certain strength, but the number is not much, and although the number of centaurs is small (there are less than 5,000 centaurs participating in the war, after all, it is impossible for old centaurs and cubs to participate, and they must leave enough troops to protect the tribe), but the individual strength is much higher than that of the undead, even if it is the lowest level of centaur scouts, It was at least a second-order existence with the ghost.
"Not necessarily!" Yu Bin shook his head, indicating that he was not optimistic about the centaur, "The means of the undead are more than this!" ”