Chapter 113: A Sudden Pursuit Battle
The Death Knight, generally at around level 70, is one of the most difficult monsters to mess with among the high-level undead monsters.
The Death Knight's own powerful attributes and the mobility provided by the Bone Horse are certainly one of the reasons, but another important reason is that all Death Knights, whether they are elites and bosses or ordinary monsters, have a passive skill "Death Servant", which allows it to control undead monsters that are lower than their own level or the same level as themselves but have a lower level than themselves to become their own subordinates, and fight with it.
The group of plague raiders they saw at the beginning of the Rococo seemed to be the men of the Death Knight who appeared later, and after hearing the call of the Death Knight, these Plague Raiders who seemed to be about to rush towards the Federation Army in the last second changed their direction and began to retreat to the side with the Death Knight.
Although the death knight is a more cerebral kind among monsters because of its own commander characteristics, it can't normally violate the hostile setting of hatred in the system setting, but the death knight in front of him obviously violates the nature of the monster in the game, and after seeing the NPC army and the player, he didn't rush up as soon as possible, but summoned the little brother to escape with himself.
Seeing this scene, Rococo's first reaction was that there was something wrong with this, almost all of the undead scattered in this land were under Bekaz's command, and any abnormality shown by the undead monsters would naturally be associated with Bekaz's conspiracy by Rococo.
The Death Knights, who retreated as soon as they met, had the obvious intention of inducing the discoverers to go after them, and Rococo immediately wanted to stop his friends from acting rashly, and at the same time turned his head to dissuade the lieutenants of the fortress who came here with them from pursuing these undead who were likely to have a conspiracy behind Bekaz.
But the next moment, she realized that her thoughts were superfluous from any point of view.
After this period of team cooperation, the plant team and Chu Jiajia have already developed the habit of obeying Rococo's arrangement in case of emergencies, not to mention that the monsters that appear in front of them are either level 70 death knights or level 60 plague raiders, which are not something that they level 30 players can deal with, so even if they don't need Rococo's reminder, they don't mean to rush to chase after them.
On the other side, after seeing these undead, the adjutant of the fortress didn't even think about it, and directly announced that the cavalry troops at the forefront of the reinforcements had begun to charge, even if he saw the Death Knights' unusual evacuation behavior, the adjutant did not have any suspicions at all, but just let the team change the direction of the charge...... The upright NPC officer didn't give Rococo any room to persuade him to stop the pursuit.
Seeing the Death Knights and Plague Raiders retreat as fast as they could, and behind them the Federation Forward Cavalry was closely pursued under the leadership of the fortress adjutant, the Ice Shooter and the others who were left behind by the large army were a little confused, and turned their heads to look at Rococo.
"Coco, should we keep up?"
Rococo gritted his teeth and resisted the desire to shoot the lieutenant lieutenant from his horse with the line "I will take the lead in the charge" with a concussive arrow. Wang, reluctantly spoke.
"Well, we chased after it, and it looked like something was ...... It's going to happen. ”
Although I don't know why Rococo is a little dissatisfied, everyone is still very happy to be able to encounter this kind of special plot that is not simple at first glance in the mission, because from the player's point of view, this obviously means that you can receive a special mission and get a special mission reward.
Everyone turned their horses' heads and chased after them, but the ice archer, who was not good at riding, and the star fruit and sunflower who rode a horse quickly fell behind, and Rococo surprised everyone, obviously with a Chu Jiajia behind him, but the speed of Rococo was not lost to the steel thorn and high nut, and even slightly exceeded.
"Jiajia, hurry up!"
"Hmmm! Rest assured, Coco! ”
This time, although the body was tighter than before, neither Rococo nor Chu Jiajia felt the same strange feelings as before, Rococo frowned and thought about whether this was a trick arranged by Bekaz, and Chu Jiajia felt Rococo's nervousness and depression at the moment, and the swordsman girl who didn't know what to do to help Rococo just hugged her tightly, hoping to share her own strength or wisdom...... If only they could be separated.
The vanguard of the Union reinforcements were all formally trained cavalry units, and although the Rococo tried their best to pursue, they were quickly left behind by the team, but fortunately they could always see the shadow of the team in front of them, at least they did not lose their target.
I don't know how long they ran, but finally they saw that the cavalry team in front of them seemed to start to slow down, and then suddenly it was neatly split in two from the middle, and it became two detachments from the left and right to the front.
"Stop! The front should have caught up with the undead and started to prepare for battle. ”
With that, Rococo stopped his horse first, and sure enough, they soon saw the Death Knight in front of the cavalry and the dozen or so irascible plague raiders beside it through the gap in the middle of the gradually parting cavalry.
The lieutenant was clearly a man of great skill in cavalry warfare, and when he noticed that the Death Knights and Plague Raiders in front of him had stopped running away and turned to fight them head-on, he immediately ordered the cavalry to change formation. The entire vanguard cavalry team was divided into two, the cavalry team on the left side rushed straight towards the opponent under his leadership, while the cavalry team on the right seemed to be scattered for a moment after separation, but soon Rococo and the others found that the cavalry team on the right was actually divided into several compact but independent detachments during the run, and rushed towards the undead after being a little later than the left.
Although these elite Federation border soldiers are only level 50 on average, their clever formation and numerical superiority more than make up for their disadvantage against the Plague Raiders and Death Knights. The cavalry group on the left was like a hammer to break up the small group of plague raiders and death knights that had been together, and then before the undead could regroup, they were directly divided into several small areas by the scattered cavalry team on the right, and almost all the undead were besieged alone.
The battle between the Federation army and the undead officially began, and the level 60 plague raiders were under the only attack of a group of level 50 soldiers, and their flexible movement speed could not be used at all and could only become targets, while the level 70 death knights were suppressed by the same level 70 adjutant who returned in time with a group of elite soldiers, and they couldn't turn over any wind and waves at all.
Only more than 30 levels of Rococo, they couldn't intervene in the battle in front of them at all, although the first to arrive in the steel floor thorn with a fluke to try it out and hit the nearest plague raider with a dart a few times, but in the end, the plague raider killed by the soldiers still did not explode anything, apparently the system judged that the player did not contribute much in the killing process.
Due to the proper organization, except for a dozen soldiers on the side of the Federation army who were dragged off their horses by the nimble plague raiders, who were not lightly injured in terms of blood volume, there was no combat attrition, and the plague raiders who were surrounded and divided by them in formation fell to the ground one after another and were killed, and in the end, the only remaining death knight also fell under the sword of the fortress adjutant after a lonely battle.
After briefly confirming the battle damage, the adjutant began to arrange for the cavalry team to clean up the battlefield and settle the wounded, and by the way, he sent a herald to find the large army behind to report the news to the vanguard, so as not to panic the Chinese army because of the sudden loss of the forward unit and the commander. Taking advantage of this time, Rococo and the others finally found an opportunity to come to the adjutant's side.
"My lord, did you find anything?"
The intelligence of the NPC adjutant is obviously much worse than that of the top commander of the fortress with a level of 85, and in the face of Rococo's questioning, the NPC adjutant was stunned for a moment, and then spoke very dullly.
"Don't worry about it, it's just a small force of the undead."
Although there is a feeling that the answer is not what is asked, but since the adjutant does not show any special plot mode being triggered, it means that this battle is really just a simple annihilation battle.
So along the way, I was worried that this would be a conspiracy set up by Bekaz or something...... Is this all her thinking too much?
Although there was a sense of detachment from the punch in the air for a moment, but soon Rococo changed his mood, no matter what, it is of course a good thing that there is no conspiracy.
But after all, she was too happy too early, and just as she was thinking this, she suddenly saw a reconnaissance team from the woods on the side, which had been arranged by the adjutant to investigate the surrounding situation, hurriedly returned on horseback and came to the adjutant.
"My lord, I found a village not far away, and the villagers in the village seem to have been spiritualized by the plague of Bekaz, and it has now become an undead stronghold."