334, Xuanyuan broke the formation (1)
The Longhorn horde did not engage the Templars after breaking through the Templar lines, but instead charged straight at the Coalition front. At this point, if the Templars and the coalition were to attack back and forth, they would be able to quickly annihilate the longhorn monster horde.
However, just as the longhorned monsters broke through the Templar troops' defenses, the two heavily armed legions that had been sitting in the rear of the demon army also pressed at the same time. The Templars could only concentrate on dealing with these two demonic heavy legions, and had no time to flank the longhorn monster hordes with the coalition.
"Hey, hey, those heavily armored demons don't look easy to deal with." Li Xiang looked at the heavily armed demons in the demon legion that were fighting with the Templar forces in front of him, grinning and muttering in a worried tone. "I think it's better to deal with those Sinking Demons (the official name of the long-horned monster, and the attribute data was obtained by everyone when they were engaged with the Crossing Crowd) first."
"These Sinking Demons have Han Shan, they are enough to deal with." Yang Qianyu said: "Later, when Fu Bin recovers, they can also participate in the battle to further strengthen the defensive line." If you add us, these monsters are obviously not enough to kill. So it's better to go to the Templar front. Since those heavily equipped demons seem to be strong enough, the rank should be high enough, and the experience points gained from killing them are much richer than dealing with these low-level demons - as for the degree of danger, as long as you see a good thing, you can accept it, and it is relatively safe to use a one-and-go tactic that does not go too deep into the demon's line. ”
"'If you don't go into the tiger's den, you can get the tiger'? All right. Li Xiang took a deep breath and spit it out, calming down the uneasiness in his heart and continuing: "But it's not easy to break through the group of sinking demons in front of the position. I don't think these monsters will give way to the reloaded demons. ”
"It's not that hard to do." Yang Qianyu smiled slightly when he heard this, turned his head and greeted Mi Zhansong behind him: "Hey! Big Song! It's up to you whether we can rush out or not - you said that swordsmen are not good at rushing into battle, so I arranged for you to be a soldier, you have to behave well. ”
"Okay." Mi Zhansong responded with a look of eagerness to try.
Just as Li Xiang and the others were gathering their entire team to prepare for the attack, the battle between the Templar forces and the Demon Legion was in full swing.
Faced with the two demon legions attacking in a group, the Templar forces did not form a line of defense like the ragtag demon armies before them, but quickly gathered together. 12,000 Templars formed a phalanx to face the Demon Relegion on the left flank, a mixed phalanx of 6,000 Templar Rangers and 2,000 Templar Guards to meet the Demon Rearmed Legion on the right flank, and a mage group of 200 Templars placed at the junction between the two Templar phalanxes, presumably in response to the subsequent development of the situation.
In terms of numbers, the Demon Heavy and Templar forces were about the same number (even when the Horned Horde broke through the Templar defenses, there were few casualties among the Templar forces), but there was a big difference in the composition of the troops. The Demon Heavy Legion is an all-20,000 melee force, while the Templar force has only 14,000 melee troops, but 6,000 ranged troops to assist and 200 mage troops to help.
Due to the differences in the classes, the Demon Legion and the Templar Forces have different tactics for fighting each other. The two 10,000-strong legions on the demon side are pressed in one go, and they want to use their own class advantage to fight with the opponent in close combat. On the Templar side, the Templar troops took the initiative to meet the Demon Legion on the left flank, while the Templar Guard-Templar Ranger mixed forces put on a blocking front to stop the Demon Legion on the right flank.
In detail, there was not much difference in the number of troops and individual strength of the two forces, but the actual battle situation was that the Templar forces were at a disadvantage.
Although the Templars had the upper hand against the Ragtag Demon Army, and had eliminated a large number of Ragtag Demons without losing their own numbers, many Templars were also injured by the counterattack of some demons before they died, and their combat effectiveness was relatively reduced. After starting to fight with the heavily armed demon legion that is almost the same strength as his own but in good condition, he is obviously struggling.
The Templar Warrior Phalanx Vanguard Hundred, who were the first to engage the enemy, were all wiped out under the onslaught of the Demon Legion, and the heavily armed demons of the Demon Legion also fell, almost seventy or eighty. The casualty ratio between the two sides was about five to four, and if this ratio of battle losses had been followed, the 12,000-strong phalanx of Templars would have been able to defeat the Left Wing Demon Legion to less than 500 men, but in reality it was impossible to do so. As the battle continued, the losses of the Templar phalanx were soon approaching two thousand, while the Demon Legion's losses were just over a thousand, and the battle loss ratio between the two sides was already close to two to one.
On the other side, the mixed phalanx of the Templar Guards against another heavily armed demon legion was not going well. While the dense bolts of light fired by the Templars made it difficult for the Demon Legion to move forward, the damage dealt to the Heavy Demons was minimal. Moreover, the heavily armored demons often take advantage of the gap between the Templars' bolts of light (the Templars' bolts of light are not capable of firing non-stop, there will be a break of tens of seconds after about every ten rounds of fire) to charge in small teams of 100 people. Fortunately, there are Templar guards who provide melee protection for the Templars, otherwise the consequences of being attacked by these Heavy Demons at close range would be much worse than being attacked by a group of longhorned monsters.
Now that the Templars needed support on both fronts, the Templar forces were in a dilemma. At present, the troops that are fighting against the two demon legions, one (Praetorian Guard + Ranger mixed phalanx) is stalemate with the opponent, and the other (warrior phalanx) is beginning to show disadvantage. If you support the mixed phalanx, it will take a long time to gain an advantage, and I am afraid that the warrior phalanx will not last that long. And if you support the warrior phalanx, you can save the disadvantage at most, but it is impossible to gain an advantage, and in the end it is still a general stalemate. As for dividing the troops into two ways to support, it is even more impossible, this will not play a big role in supporting the two phalanxes, and the overall situation is still exactly the same as it is now.
At this moment, there was a sudden uproar in the coalition camp behind the Templar forces, and immediately after, there was a great chaos in the group of longhorned monsters gathered in front of a certain section of the coalition defense line, and countless long-horned monsters began to scatter indiscriminately, and then a human team rushed out of the group of longhorned monsters and crashed headlong into the flank of the demon heavy army fighting against the phalanx of the Templars!