Chapter 165: Arrows and Spells
At a distance of more than 100 meters, the rangers shot the arrows in their hands. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
At this distance, even an elite ranger could hardly guarantee a high level of accuracy when shooting at high-speed wolf cavalry. But the Elite Ranger is an Elite Ranger after all, and one round of shooting, sixty or seventy arrows, still makes more than twenty wolf cavalry fall off their mounts.
Some of the wolf cavalry were hit by arrows and fell off their horses; Yes, it was a wolf who was shot and fell half dead with the cavalry on his back. But no matter what, the charging formation of sixty wolf cavalry was about to enter the flank and rear of the Pure Sword Mercenary Group, and it was hit by such a round of heavy losses, and the result was simply tragic.
In the midst of a high-speed charge, if you drop your mount, even if you have a generally strong body with an orc, you must either be killed or injured, and you will definitely lose your combat effectiveness. The loss of twenty wolf cavalry directly made the sharp wedge-shaped charge formation of these wolf cavalry become scattered, and due to the sudden fall of the companions on the left and right, the charging speed of the wolf cavalry was also slowed down.
However, this is only a prelude. The spells of the mages who followed up caused the wolf cavalry's charging formation to suffer a devastating blow.
Twelve greasy spells were released on the charging path of these wolf cavalry. The ground suddenly became slippery, and a dozen or so of the wolf cavalry who were not hit by the elven arrows fell to pieces, and the rest of the guys who relied on superb riding skills, or who did not fall because of pure luck, had to slow down the charge. There were even some wolf cavalrymen who had not yet entered the range of the greasy technique, and they strangled their mounts under their crotches in horror, not daring to step into it.
The double arrival of the rain of arrows and greasy spells caused most of the deadly charge of the wolf cavalry to be disintegrated. In the end, among the sixty wolf cavalry, only Miao Miao was in his early teens who could really enter the battle formation of the Pure Sword Mercenary Group, and even the orc commander did not get rid of it, and he was still struggling cautiously within the scope of the greasy technique.
A dozen wolf cavalry, the impact is much smaller than sixty. Although there were still some white-robed swordsmen who were hacked to death by the scimitars of the wolf cavalry who rushed in, at least the formation of the entire team was not torn apart. After cutting down a few swordsmen, the wolf cavalry quickly lost their impact and were surrounded by more swordsmen and could not move.
It has to be said that the wolf cavalry still has its own advantages. With the exception of heavy cavalry, which is inferior to humans in terms of impact, they are superior to traditional human cavalry in several ways. For example, super maneuverability. Although the speed of the wolf charge is not as good as that of the war horse, the endurance is much stronger, and they can continue to maintain a certain speed of movement, which is more mobile than the human cavalry.
Another advantage is the ability to get caught up in the melee.
The human cavalry was embarrassed in the middle of the melee. The cavalry sat on a tall horse, dealing with swords from all directions, which was quite inconvenient. And when the war horse itself is not rushing, the threat is not high. But the wolf cavalry is different, in the melee, these wolves are almost a man tall, with sharp claws and teeth, which are very threatening things for human soldiers.
But the number of wolf cavalry was simply too small. If there were sixty, the formation of the pure sword would have been torn to pieces from the rear. But ten......
The wolf cavalry that rushed into the pure swordsmen, still relying on their scimitars and the fangs and claws of the wolf, killed almost the same number of swordsmen in an instant, but they were immediately blocked by the mercenaries who surrounded them. A sword and a wolf, they have to face the slashing of several two-handed swords in front and back, left and right at the same time, and they are not powerful samurai with one enemy and hundred, so they can easily be hacked to death by random swords.
What's more, the second round of blows from the rangers and mages has struck again. This time, the rangers, who had approached a few steps closer, shot more accurate arrows. They aimed at the dozen or so wolf cavalry who had fallen behind during the charge and had not stepped into the range of the greasy technique, and the intensive shooting directly buried them all. And the mages also threw out the magic missiles in their hands and blasted at the wolf cavalry who had entered the military formation of the pure sword mercenary group, and cooperated with the pure swordsmen to wipe out all the wolf cavalry that had caused some casualties but failed to tear apart the formation.
After this round of blows, more than sixty wolf cavalrymen, only more than twenty and less than thirty were still alive, and all of them were trapped in the range of the greasy technique and could not extricate themselves, some fell to the ground, and some were still cautiously trying to get out of the slippery range. However, they were not able to survive the third round of blows, and in the end they all died within the scope of the greasy technique, and none of them escaped.
The rangers and mages are amazing in this battle! Under the combined power of spells and arrows, in just three rounds of attacks, in less than a minute, the pure sword mercenary group that was originally on the edge of the cliff and was about to fall into the bottomless abyss was fished back by them, and by the way, they also wiped out the most elite part of the orc army, and none of them were missed.
Three rounds of spell casting made the mage's spell slots a little more depleted. After all, in this mage team, except for the three apprentices who had followed Easterling from another world when the mage tower was just established, the other eight or nine were all little ones that Dane had just brought out from Orinedu. It's only been a little over a month since they've entered the door of magic. Although, with the bonus of the mage tower training, they completed the level from tabula rasa to apprentice in one month, but the release of three one-ring spells in a row has basically reached the limit.
So, led by three mage apprentices in Easterling, the mage squad began to retreat. Peshinth also has a sentry team to protect these noble ones - if a mage dies here, Dain will be furious when he returns. And herself, with the rest of the rangers, began to move on, aiming at the orc army that was fighting the human forces and began to shoot.
In the midst of chaotic combat, it is not easy to shoot an enemy who is fighting hand-to-hand face, and it is very easy to get injured by mistake. But the elite rangers were not afraid of this at all, and they shot arrows as much as they could, some of them missed the enemy, and most of them hit. But in any case, there was not a single accidental injury.
The strength of the elite ranger squadron from the Nancy royal court that survived a hundred battles can be seen!
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