Chapter 128: Collapse (Part II)
With Jian Chen's shout, the female magician, who had been concentrating for a long time, made a move.
The fire elemental in the air fluctuated violently, gathering together rapidly, and then huge stones formed by the fire elemental burning with blazing magical flames appeared one after another in the sky.
Fire magic "Meteor Shower"!
Under the control of the all-out sorceress, these huge flints landed on the heads of the bandit archers at the behest of the lord.
In a series of earth-shattering loud noises, the terrifying power of master magic was revealed, and the powerful explosion formed by the magic elements caused countless bandits to shatter in an instant, and the magic flames then raged in the crowd, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh.
The bandit archers, who were densely formed and had no mage to support them, lost more than half of them in this terrible magical blow, hundreds of them died on the spot, and many more were slightly or seriously wounded, and fell to the ground screaming.
After the effect of the magic disappeared, the flames and smoke that rose into the sky, the dozen or so huge craters on the ground due to the explosion, and the screams one after another, made the area under attack look like hell on earth.
This sudden blow became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
For some time now, the dwarven armies have been a lingering shadow of death in the hearts of the bandits.
And the scene of the inexplicable collapse of the reserve in the rear and the faint exclamation of the dwarves in the wind made this shadow infinitely expanded.
The dwarven army has arrived, so what's the point of fighting yourself and the enemy in front of you?
What's more, Lord Philip, who was regarded as the backbone by them, disappeared without a trace at this time with the collapse of the rear army, and his life and death were unknownRead the full text of the great cause of Jiansui.
Without Philip, who cohesively united the bandits, without unified command and mobilization, the robbers knew that they were just a rabble.
"The dwarves are coming! Run away, everyone! ”
I don't know which guy couldn't stand the pressure yelled, and then the entire bandit infantry group began to mess up.
Rumors that the dwarven army had been killed spread rapidly among the bandits, and panic spread at an alarming rate.
They were originally just robbers, although now after a short period of training have begun to have a bit of an army, but in essence they are still far from the formal army with military discipline, to take care of the overall situation at a critical moment is more difficult than driving pigs and trees, when the disaster is coming, everyone is scattered, and their own escape is their true color.
And the terrifying magic blow from the Imperial army made the bandits' fear reach the extreme in an instant.
"Master magician! There is a master magician on the other side! "Some visionary bandits recognized the level of this terrible magic that fell from the sky.
There are even some people who think they are clever and think they have seen through the truth of the matter: "We have been fooled!" This Imperial army must have been invited by the dwarves to intercept us! They've been stalling for time! ”
All kinds of rumors circulated among the robber soldiers, more and more soldiers threw away their weapons and joined the ranks of the escape, they fled from both sides of the battlefield as fast as they could, and the ownerless horses scattered on the battlefield because of the loss of their owners became the treasures that everyone fought for, and some fierce robbers even aimed their swords at their former companions.
At this time, having a fast horse can undoubtedly greatly increase the hope of escape, and the robbers, who are not good people in the first place, show the inferiority of their character at the moment of life and death, and when they wave the weapon in their hands at the head of their companion, there is no hesitation in their eyes.
The scarcity of horses made the remaining robber cavalry the object of prying eyes of the robber infantry, and some of the slow-moving cavalry were surrounded by people, and then dragged off their horses, and a fierce battle for horses ensued.
The sudden outbreak of chaos and fratricidal fighting among the enemy puzzled everyone except Jian Chen, and everyone couldn't understand why the enemy had suddenly flown in a full-blown rout when they had the upper hand.
When Jian Chen said those bold words before, everyone was still skeptical, but everything that happened in front of them at this moment showed that what Jian Chen said was true.
And Chen Jian can be so confident, but because he found that two groups of men and horses on the other side have fled from the battlefield, and the enemy's flying troops are also behaving abnormally.
Although he didn't know what the specific reason was that these enemies chose to flee when they still had a big advantage, this did not prevent Chen Jian from seizing the opportunity to defeat the enemy, especially when he found that the enemy's reserves had also collapsed with the escape of these two groups of enemies, Chen Jian was even more overjoyed, and the original fear of what the enemy was playing with some kind of conspiracy disappeared completely.
He keenly noticed that there must have been a big problem with the enemy's chain of command, and there may even be no command system anymore.
This is a great opportunity!
Chen Jian, who made a quick decision, immediately rearranged his defensive line, believing that as long as he could hold out for a while, the enemy would definitely collapse on his own.
As a result, the situation was just as he expected, and the enemy's reserves had just been completely disintegrated from his side.
This discovery made Chen Jian firm his judgment.
The next thing was much faster than Jian Chen had imagined, and the bitter battle he expected did not happen, and the enemy was already in chaos.
And in order to speed up the process of the enemy's collapse, he even asked the female magician to use the extremely deterrent master-level magic "Meteor Fire Rain" The latest chapter in the happy life of the minor officials in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The robbers' behavior of scrambling for horses at this time made Chen Jianqi, who was paying full attention to the battle situation, angry.
In Jian Chen's opinion, these war horses are all his rare trophies, and they are absolutely not allowed to be touched by others.
With these horses, plus the wild boars purchased earlier, there is hope for the cavalry of the Hammondale Guard!
"Bremer! Rush forward with the cavalry! Polly, inform the griffon knights to attack as well, the enemy is already in disarray, what we need now is to break them up as much as possible, and we must not let them regroup! ”
"Pete, let's go up too, let the three phalanxes keep pace and start to cooperate with the advance! Rush to a crowded place! I'll follow with the monks! Hurry up, hurry up! ”
With Jian Chen's orders, the Imperial soldiers and the Hammondale Defense Force began to launch a Jedi counterattack.
Under the command of the griffin knights, the fierce griffons launched a dive again and again towards the relatively concentrated bandit soldiers, they viciously pounced from the air, grabbed an enemy with sharp talons like an eagle catching a chicken, and then flew back into the air, and then let go of their claws to let these unlucky guys scream and turn into dancing trapeze, and finally fell into a mess of flesh on the ground with a thud.
This rather visually striking death shocked the robbers who were fleeing in all directions, making them move their legs faster and faster.
The performance of the Imperial cavalry was not bad, and under the leadership of Bremer, these cavalrymen, who had not had time to change their equipment and use their spears, used their knightly swords to cut down one robber soldier after another from behind.
For this kind of one-sided battle, the knight's sword was enough to deal with it, and the powerful momentum generated by the tall war horses under the cavalry when they ran at full speed and the hooves raised from time to time also made the robbers suffer, as long as these horses were bumped into or came to such hooves, the robbers would be seriously injured even if they did not die.
In this way, more than a hundred cavalrymen rushed back and forth in the panicked bandit group, invincible, and no one could stop them.
The Hammondale soldiers, marching in a neat line, were depressed, and as they appeared on the battlefield with their extra-long spears in hand, the robbers who had already seen the tragic encounters of the cavalry under such strange spears fled in despair.
In the direction of the three phalanxes, no matter how many people had gathered there, the robbers would immediately scatter like ants that had blown up their nests, and everyone also had two legs, although the Hammondale soldiers were in good physical condition, but they could only helpless in the face of desperate fleeing opponents.
However, the monks who followed behind the Hammondale soldiers could finally kill, because Jian Chen no longer restricted them from using magic to attack the enemy, so the monks under the protection of the three phalanxes could throw magic light balls one by one to the enemy's body, this kind of lethal "limb damage" magic made many bandits with slower feet have a good understanding of the fundamental reason why a famous magic ranged unit of the empire can shock the continent.
It's a pity that the monks' attacks didn't last long because they had already spent too much mana before, which was also the biggest problem of magicians - when they used up their mana, they were no different from ordinary people, and they would even be inferior because of their physique.
The female magician, who had also exhausted her magic power, discovered the reason why Jian Chen didn't let herself use magic indiscriminately before - although she could use powerful magic to cause serious losses to the enemy, it was very likely that this approach would not play a decisive role in the battle situation, but it was Chen Jian's seemingly calculating, but in fact it was quite efficient to use it, which could cause the most damage to the enemy with the least amount of magic power, and thus change the direction of the entire battle.
From the beginning to the end, the bandits who had long been in turmoil did not organize a decent counterattack, and the long-range troops, which were still quite numerous, were also divided and collapsed, and more than 3,000 bandits who had a good hope of defeating their opponents were driven and killed by their opponents who were already less than 800 in number on the plains of Baildes, and the defeat was like a mountain, and the words of falling flowers and flowing water and discarding armor were not enough to describe their tragic situation at this time.
In this battle, the Hammondale Defense Force and the Imperial Army led by Chen Jian won a complete victory.