"Chapter 521: The Might of the Battle Mastiff"
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- Socrates (famous ancient Greek thinker, philosopher, and educator)
The difference between a war mastiff and an ordinary hound lies in its strong aggression and unparalleled combat effectiveness; Filled with a desire to fight and a bloodthirsty impulse, the mastiff will always let out a provocative roar to release its inner tyranny and mania.
When thousands of war mastiffs with their fangs spread rushed towards the armies of the Rimon tribe, the warriors of the Rimon tribe were only slightly panicked, but they did not fall into the panic that Calabes imagined, and they did not even disrupt their formation.
Karabes, however, did not show a look of disappointment; As a person who has seen the power of war mastiffs with his own eyes, he naturally knows how strong the combat power of these more than 6,000 war mastiffs can burst out, and he also knows that the reason why these Gallic barbarian warriors in front of him have fearless expressions is only because they treat these war mastiffs as ordinary hunting dogs.
Hound dogs are only hounds after all, even if they are more than 6,000 hounds, in front of the brave and warlike Gallic warriors, they are only prey; Naturally, they would not be afraid of the charging horde of these hounds, let alone fall into the panic that Karabes had expected.
In fact, none of the soldiers present in the Aquitani region knew about these mastiff troops with incredible combat effectiveness, except for Aminos, who was the heir to the leader of the Rimon tribe; Aminos, the only one who recognized the war mastiff troops, was completely speechless in shock after the appearance of such a huge scale of war mastiffs!
Before Aminos could react from the shock, more than 6,000 war mastiffs had already bypassed the soldiers of the war mastiff legion and rushed directly to the soldiers of the Rimon tribe; A Gallic warrior of the Third Legion, when he spotted a mastiff charging towards him, immediately raised his weapon and tried to kill the mastiff, which he regarded as a hound.
But when the weapon he raised was stabbing the mastiff in the head, the mastiff was extremely sharp and turned its head to dodge the fatal blow; While dodging the attack, the mastiff did not forget to leap forward, accelerating towards the Gallic warrior whose attack failed.
It was too late, and the Gallic warrior, whose right hand attack had failed, had no time to stop the leaping mastiff with his weapon; So, he could only helplessly put his left hand across his chest, which was used to block the attack of this mastiff on the vital part of his chest.
It turns out that the Gallic barbarians still belong to the category of humans, and the sharp teeth of the war mastiff are extremely capable of biting human bodies; The left hand of this Gallic warrior was immediately bitten into the mouth by this war mastiff.
The Gallic warrior was immediately in agony at the sharp pain in his left hand, and he threw away the weapon in his right hand and used all his strength to break free from the mastiff's bite, and one man and one mastiff fell to the ground and rolled and fought; The battle between the Gallic warriors and the mastiffs was won by the ferocity of the Gallic warriors.
At the last moment of the fight, the Gallic warrior used all his strength to bite the mastiff's neck; In the end, the mastiff was bitten to death by the Gallic warriors. As the Gallic warrior tried his best to push away the mastiff's carcass and try to get up with the sharp pain in his left hand, another mastiff rushed over and bit him by the neck.
With the exception of the ace legion under the command of Vaktisza himself, the other four legions were made up of ordinary Gallic infantry and a small number of Gallic warriors; In fact, the number of Gallic warriors in each legion did not exceed 3,000, and they were all mainly Gallic warriors of the Rimon tribe, and there were very few Gallic warriors among the warriors of other tribes.
By the time the mastiff troops had attacked, the number of Gallic warriors in the remaining 14,000-mile Mongol tribe army was less than 4,000; You know, the reason why the Gallic warriors have a more respected status than the Gallic infantry is not only because of their strong combat effectiveness and weaponry, but also because of their admirable example.
It is because they have been at the forefront of the army as pioneers in the previous battles; Therefore, when they were attacked by the forest hunters' rain of arrows, they also paid a considerable number of casualties, and the death toll was as high as one-third.
Compared with ordinary Gallic infantry, the Gallic warriors had more powerful combat effectiveness and a stronger will to fight, coupled with more sophisticated weapons and equipment; The combat effectiveness of the Gallic warriors was not at all comparable to that of the Gallic infantry.
And the current situation is that even the powerful Gallic warriors are difficult to fight back under the impact of the mastiff troops; Like that Gallic warrior, it was already rare to be able to kill a mastiff and then be killed, and many more Gallic warriors were quickly bitten and dismembered under the siege of several mastiffs.
As for the Gallic infantry, whose combat effectiveness was mediocre and their weapons and equipment were even more rudimentary, they showed far less will to fight than those Gallic warriors when faced with the attack of the war mastiff; After just one round of fighting, the Gallic infantry in the front line of the Rimon tribe's army quickly collapsed.
This was also expected by Calabes, the way the mastiffs attacked was too bloody; Every Gallic warrior killed by the mastiff was bitten beyond recognition, and even more so was directly dismembered on the spot by several mastiffs.
Such a bloody scene was a hell on earth for the Gallic infantrymen who were not strong enough to fight and not experienced enough to fight; Even, even the battle-hardened Karabes, looking at the bloody scene in front of him, was churning in his stomach!
However, Carabes, after all, was the commander of the army, and no matter what, he still held back the vomit in his stomach and pretended to be calm and stable; And the ordinary soldiers of the war mastiff army are not good, they took the opportunity to withdraw from the battle after the war mastiff army launched an attack, and now they are even more spitting up the battlefield in front of them!
Although the 4,000 soldiers of the Mastiff Legion are all warriors and fanatical warriors of the Grace tribe, they have also seen the blood and cruelty of the Mastiff troops attacking the enemy; However, it was the first time in their lives that such a large-scale mastiff force had been put into battle, and with the ground stained red by blood and broken limbs at the scene, these soldiers could not bear it.
Even the attacking side could not bear to look directly at the blood and cruelty on the battlefield, and the warriors of the Rimon tribe who were attacked by the war mastiff were even more frightened and completely collapsed; Even with the desperate resistance of the Gallic warriors, the Third and Fourth Legions of the Rimon tribe did not last long, and soon the armies of the two legions of the Rimon tribe completely collapsed.
The warriors of the Rimon tribe army, which numbered less than 10,000 people, scattered and fled to the meadow behind them desperately, while the war mastiffs of nearly 3,000 people were biting them to the death, and they had no intention of giving up the attack; This is also a major disadvantage of the mastiff army, once they are in battle, they will not stop to die, there is no way to stop their madness.
If it weren't for the Grace tribe concocting an elixir that would allow these mastiffs to identify themselves, Carabes would not have dared to put these mastiff troops into actual combat; After all, the destructive power of these mastiffs is simply too terrifying.
As long as the mastiffs are given the order to attack, they will not stop attacking until they have killed all creatures in their field of vision; Only those who have been smeared with the special potion of the Grace tribe can survive.
Needless to say, all the soldiers under the command of Carabis were smeared with this special potion; Before this big battle, Carabess had everyone wipe it again to avoid any possible accidental injuries.
After the completely collapsed army of the Rimon tribe and the frantically pursuing war mastiffs disappeared from the battlefield, Karabes did not send people to clean up the meaningless battlefield, but led the infantry and forest hunters of the war mastiff legion, as well as the cavalry of Itami's army, around the bloody battlefield, and walked towards the meadow outside the forest without hurrying.
Aminos reacted in horror before the army collapsed; Unfortunately, the battle had already begun, and he didn't have time to explain anything to Anelin, let alone change the outcome of the battle.
In a place like the forest, in the face of such a huge mastiff army's attack, one's own army has no chance of victory; It's not that 14,000 Gallic troops can't win more than 6,000 mastiffs, it's just that the people of the Gallic barbarians are also people, and if they are people, they will have fear, and the cruel attack methods of the war mastiffs will completely collapse their own army.
Aminos, who didn't have time to explain, immediately let the personal guards around him protect him and Anelin to retreat outside the forest; Anerin was also completely shocked by the combat effectiveness of this special unit in front of him, but he would not abandon the soldiers of his legion and flee the battlefield alone, this is the act of cowards, not what a Gallic warrior should do!
Aminos really didn't have time to explain anything to the brainless Anelin, so he directly ordered his guards to force Anelin to withdraw outside the meadow; He himself hurried outside in order to inform the main army waiting outside, so that they could immediately prepare to meet the mastiff army.
Out of the special terrain such as the forest, as long as the main army outside is ready to attack, it is only necessary to pay a certain price to destroy those war mastiffs; If you insist on fighting to the death in the forest, the result is really uncertain.
I have to admit that in dealing with the mastiff troops, the heir to the leader of the Rimon tribe who has experience and lessons still knows the gains and losses better than Anelin, the famous general of Aquitani; However, it doesn't matter if the main army of the Rimon tribe outside the meadow can successfully destroy those war mastiffs, after all, Calabess's strategic purpose has been successfully achieved! (To be continued.) )