Chapter 709: Chariot Strikes

With just one blow, the balance of forces between the two sides on the ground battlefield has changed radically.

The Erathia Army, which originally had the absolute upper hand with 60,000 troops, lost more than 24,000 troops at once due to the super trap of the Entagri army, plus 6,000 heavy cavalry were placed in the rear by Stewart on standby, and for a while, only 30,000 troops were left to be divided into the left and right flanks.

On the side of the Entagrean army, the 35,000-strong army was unscathed, and due to the success of their own battle plan, morale was unprecedentedly high.

This situation made Stewart angry and almost vomited blood.

Because although his previous plan was to outflank the enemy, he put the elite main force in the Chinese army, which also included most of the long-range forces in his hands, because he wanted to disrupt the enemy's formation with strong long-range firepower, and then send heavy cavalry to crush the enemy's Chinese army in one fell swoop, and go around behind the enemy's formation to encircle the enemy in all directions.

As a result, as soon as the Entagre army was messed up, Stewart lost most of his crossbowmen and priests at once, not to mention the heavy losses of the ranged troops, and was accompanied by nearly two-thirds of the magic power, and the overall battle plan was disrupted, and the strength advantage was lost.

Stewart's side was still annoyed, but the Entagrean Army took the initiative to attack.

The Entagre Army, which had originally been divided into three directions for defense, all began to move in the direction of the right flank cluster of the Erathia Army.

The distance between the two sides was already not far away, and although the Erathia army had some confusion due to the collapse of the Chinese army, and the speed of advance had slowed down, the Ntagrean army suddenly let the two sides enter the combat distance.

As soon as the magicians of the Entagrean Army, who had been ready to attack for a long time, entered the effective firing range, they launched a fierce attack on the enemy, and all kinds of magic were cast in an instant, and the originally gloomy sky became colorful and gorgeous at this moment because of the sparkle of magical light.

With mental calculation or unintentional, the right flank of the Erathia Army was immediately overwhelmed by the enemy in this magic battle.

Because their opponents are all the mages in the ground forces of the Entagrean Army.

The mages of the Entagrean Army, who had been scattered in the Entagre army in order to confuse the enemy and defend in three directions, had already concentrated on the first line of the battle formation in the process of moving the army.

And the reason why these mages can move so quickly is because they all ride poisonous manticores.

At Jian Chen's behest, the Entageri Army's magician troops have always been unique in that they attach great importance to physical training and must learn some simple fighting skills, and after adopting Christine's proposal, riding has become one of the skills that these magicians must master.

On the continent of Erathia, there is no mage army that can be as strong as the mages of the Entagre Army, dressed in leather armor and wearing light swords at their waists, and straddle war horses or poisonous scorpion lions as needed.

And each person has a magic wand that can emit powerful magic just by infusing magic power, and every magician in this magician army has the strength to use master-level magic, and the casting speed is ridiculously fast.

This is a magician light cavalry unit with amazing mobility and attack power, and their appearance has further exerted the role of magicians in the war, and has also greatly enriched the strategy and tactics of the Entagri army.

This use of the mage army, which goes beyond the tradition, is shown to be powerful when it appears on the battlefield on a large scale for the first time.

Nearly six hundred magicians of the Entagre Army took turns wielding their magic wands and launched an impenetrable magical attack on the right flank of the Erathia Empire.

The right flank of the Erathian Army was completely suppressed.

In fact, in terms of the number of magicians alone, the right wing of the Erathian army was no worse than the Entagre army, and in this elasia army of 15,000 people, the strength of the priest army was actually as many as a thousand.

It's just that although the quantity has gone up, the quality is completely incomparable.

The magic power of the Erathia Empire has always been far inferior to that of a mage country like the Bracada Mage Kingdom, and even inferior to the Elven Kingdom, but due to the population base, although the magicians of the Erathia Empire are generally not of a high level, there are quite a few of them.

In this case, the number of priest troops in the Erathia Empire has always been very impressive, but the magic level of these priests is not so outstanding, and most of them are just mediocre expert magicians.

In fact, the Priest Troops of the Erathian Empire are far more significant as ranged attack units than they were when they were first established as magical auxiliary units, and they often need to win by quantity if they have a magical confrontation with enemy mages.

If the warring sides are not far apart in numbers, they tend to be quite passive.

That's the case now.

The six hundred mages of the Entagre Army were all the elite carefully selected from the wizard troops of Bairders for this battle, and because of their equipment, they had the upper hand in both the speed of spell casting and the power of magic.

The 1,000 priests of the Erathian Army, but more than 90% of them are only expert-level magicians, not to mention their strength, and they can't even use a few large-scale lethal magics, just intercepting the opponent's indiscriminate bombardment is already a mess, and it is impossible to launch an effective counterattack at all.

One by one, the magic fell on the right flank of the Erathia Army, causing a large number of casualties to this force, and completely disrupting the good formation that the army had maintained.

Another Entagri army unit joined the fray after the mages.

Three hundred steel chariots rolled up snowflakes and dust all the way, formed a long snake formation, broke away from the large army, and charged neatly towards the Erathian army.

The long-range crossbows on the vehicles first gave the soldiers of the Erathian Army a taste of the power of one of these otherworldly tanks.

Three hundred giant crossbow arrows with the thickness of arms roared and tore through the cold air of the Igni region and flew into the Elasia military formation.

With their astonishing strength, these weapons pierced through the bodies of many enemies with ease, even some Crusaders in steel armor were not spared, and their steel armor and shields were as fragile as papier-mâché in the face of such powerful weapons.

Strictly speaking, the number of kills caused by these crossbow arrows is not large, not even comparable to the number of kills and injuries caused by a high-powered magic, but the visual impact and psychological deterrence brought by this attack method are quite good, and can effectively hit the enemy's morale together with magic.

The chariot's crossbow was followed by a ranged attack by the Entageri archers and crossbowmen.

At this time, the right flank of the Erathia Army, which was completely disrupted, finally decided to make a desperate bet.

Since the mage troops of the Entagre Army focused their attacks on the long-range troops of the Elassian Army, the right flank of the Erathian Army at this time was unable to launch an organized and large-scale counterattack against the enemy due to the large number of casualties among the priests and crossbowmen.

The commander of this unit knew that if the situation continued like this, his own troops might have begun to collapse before the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and it was better to simply give it a go than to continue to be beaten passively.

So she ordered to abandon the confrontation between the long-range troops, and began to direct the right flank troops to suppress the enemy's fire and launch a charge.

"It's not okay to retreat, that will only give the enemy more time to destroy our living forces, but if we can take the initiative to drag the enemy into a melee situation, we still have hope of victory" In the chaos, the female knight of the Erathian Empire named Larry made this judgment, "As long as the two sides are strangled together, the enemy's magical advantage will disappear, and the ranged troops will also lose their effect, and the troops on the left flank of our army are bypassing that big trap and outflanking the enemy's rear road, as long as they can hold the enemy for a short time, If the enemy is unable to maneuver effectively, our army will be able to complete the front and rear flanking attacks on the enemy, and the only remaining heavy cavalry of the Chinese army has already rushed over, not to mention, Lord Stewart still has 10,000 reserves on his side, and this battle is still to be fought."

It has to be said that Larry's ability is indeed good, and he has an accurate grasp of the battle situation, and the Erathian Army is worthy of the name of a strong army, although it is under the onslaught of the enemy, but before the enemy can inflict more casualties on them, they still successfully regroup.

With thousands of cavalry as the front, the right flank of the Erathian Army began to move forward again.

It is a pity that although the ideal is beautiful, the reality is extremely cruel.

In order to save time, Larry led his cavalry in a straight line towards the enemy, and in front of them were three hundred self-propelled chariots of the Entagri army, which, due to their high speed, were already a large distance away from their main force and were advancing alone.

Larry didn't know what these self-propelled chariots were, all she knew was that the strange ballistae sent by the enemy that would advance on their own, although they formed a long snake formation, left some gaps between each other, and these gaps were enough for her cavalry to pass.

Leave these monsters to the infantry behind, and now the priority is to charge into the enemy line and use the melee to break the enemy's magical advantage.

Thinking so, Larry kept urging the horses under him, trying to speed up a little faster, to Larry's delight, due to the close distance to the enemy's strange ballista, the enemy's magic attack on his own cavalry was significantly weakened, apparently afraid of accidental injury.

However, even so, the large number of arrows fired by the enemy archers still caused considerable casualties to this cavalry unit, and the self-propelled chariots of the Entagri army were not afraid of such attacks, so they did not have to worry about accidental injuries at all.

With the cavalry shields on their hands and the chain mail on their bodies, the Elasia cavalry may not be afraid of these enemy attacks, but the unarmored horses under them cannot withstand it.

From time to time, horses neighed and fell to the ground, but these could not stop the gallant Elasia cavalry from charging, and soon they met the chariot units of the Entagre.

When she got closer, Larry, who had been leading the way in front of the team, couldn't help but be secretly surprised when she saw the ramming angles in front of the strange ballista and the sharp blades on both sides, and she could imagine what the bleak consequences would be if she crashed into these steel monsters.

But at this time, she was only surprised, because the distance between these strange ballistas was enough for three horses to pass at the same time, so that these seemingly hideous murder weapons completely lost their threat to the skilled Elasia cavalry.

But Larry immediately realized that he was wrong, completely wrong, and that this mistake had quite serious consequences.

The voids left by those workshops were deadly traps set by the enemy.

Just as the Elasia cavalry was about to pass through the gaps, past these strange ballistas, and continue in the direction of the enemy's large forces in front of them, the traps were set off.

In a humming sound similar to the vibration of a bowstring, two meniscus-shaped blades suddenly popped out on both sides of the body of each self-propelled chariot, one up and one down, and the sharp blades that were originally contained in a groove on both sides of the body.

The length of these blades just sealed the gap between the chariots.

The height of these blades slashed the cavalry upwards and the legs of the horses downwards.

This sudden turn of events caused all the Erathian cavalry who were trying to cross the gap to suffer a large number of casualties in an instant.

Larry watched as one of the cavalrymen rushing in front of him was sliced in two by the sudden appearance of the blades.

She clearly saw that because of the suddenness of the incident, the cavalryman who was not as good as the horse had time to raise the cavalry shield in his hand and rushed straight at these blades.

The tremendous impact of the high speed of the horses and chariots made these sharp blades cut through the shields of the cavalry with ease as if they were slicing butter, and cut off the arms of the cavalrymen holding the shields, and finally cut the cavalry who did not even have time to scream in two.

At the same time, the horses under the cavalry were also cut off by the blades below.

People look up, horses turn over.

At the cost of turning into corpses, the cavalry and horses passed through the gap between the chariots, and the human corpses and horse corpses continued to roll forward for a while due to inertia in the dust raised by the chariots as they advanced, and then finally came to a stop.

Larry, who was following closely behind the cavalry, was doused with oncoming blood.

Larry had wanted to rein in the horse, and with her riding skills, it wasn't hard to do that.

But she didn't do it in the end, because she knew very well that behind her, there were countless cavalry who didn't know what was going on and were charging with all their might, and she suddenly stopped without warning, and she had no room to dodge, she was likely to die on the spot because of the collision of her own people, and the enemy's strange ballista was also continuing to advance, and if she stopped, she would be attacked by those sharp blades, even if she was not hit by herself.

In the midst of this lightning, Larry made a bold decision, she fell on her horse, discarded her shield and spear, and let the horse continue to charge straight ahead.

To her surprise, her horse was also met with its front leg severed, but Larry herself was unscathed by the timely dodge, releasing the reins of her horse, kicking off the horses, and flying away from the horse before she neighed and fell to the ground.

After rolling a few laps on the ground, Larry, who had rolled behind the enemy chariot, sat up gasping for breath, and the female knight, choked by the dust and tears, coughed and tried to get up, reaching for the long sword at her waist.

Between the tears and hazy eyes, the female knight could not see clearly the situation around her and the situation of her own cavalry troops at this time, but the sound of people shouting horses neighing in her ears, as well as the dull sound of sharp blades constantly cutting through armor and flesh, the crisp sound of steel breaking occasionally, and the heavy, obviously the crashing sound of the cavalry crashing headlong into the enemy's strange ballista because of the confusion, all made her understand that the situation was not optimistic, the enemy's move was too ruthless, and the unprepared Erathia cavalry fell into the enemy's trap solidly, Not only was the charge completely blocked by the enemy, but the losses were certainly devastating.

Larry could imagine what the enemy would do next to attack his cavalry, losing speed and being blocked by the enemy's strange ballista, and the Erathian cavalry was a live target for the enemy's archers.

But the knight didn't last long.

While blocking the enemy's cavalry charge, the vehicles of the Entagrean army also stopped because they lost speed.

Prepared for the collision in advance, the soldiers of the Entagre Army in the chariot reacted faster than the enemy, and the crossbow operators loaded the crossbow as fast as they could, ready to give the enemy's cavalry a blow at close range, and the evil eye shooters in the chariot also opened the firing hole and began to look for fighters.

Larry, who had just survived but was trapped in the enemy's chariot array, was finally doomed this time, because she wanted to turn with her own troops, the imperial female knight who ran between the two chariots soon fell to the ground because she was attacked by more than a dozen evil eye rays at close range left and right, and the poor female knight only cared about dodging the random arrows shot by the enemy in the distance, as well as the blades on both sides of those strange ballistas, but she didn't notice that the biggest danger was around her.

The defeat of the cavalry forces caused the counterattack of the right flank of the Erathia Army to fail, and not only did the cavalry troops suffer heavy losses and fall into confusion again, but then the infantry group that was rapidly advancing was demoralized by the defeat of the friendly forces, and a new round of commotion also occurred.

The Entageri Army's mage units and ranged units are taking advantage of the rare opportunity that this chariot unit has won for their own side, desperately carrying out fire output, in order to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy in the shortest possible time.

At this time, on the other side of the battlefield, the cavalry of the left flank of the Erathia Army, after meeting with the only remaining heavy cavalry unit of the Chinese army, bypassed the super big pit located in the center of the battlefield, and with the strength of tens of thousands of cavalry, they slaughtered towards the rank of Ntagre.

Behind these cavalry, there were also infantry clusters of the left flank of the Erathian Army.

In the other direction, Stewart personally led his reserves, a group of tens of thousands of infantry, which was also hurrying in the direction of the Entagre army.

In the sky, the battle between the flying units of the two sides has also officially begun.

Heaven and earth, the battle is chaotic.

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