Chapter 3: Pyrrhusian Victory
Taking advantage of the brief gap caused by the flames, Boram and his party, who had been overwhelmed by Lucia's cavalry, finally had a chance to adjust their tactics. The caravan guards who were originally carrying crossbows in the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" picked up the spears around them and joined the ranks of the spear team without saying a word.
Thanks to the military service system and militia system implemented by Boreham Territory for more than 200 years, the guards in Boreham caravans are basically composed of veterans with a small number of reservists. This makes their overall strength stronger than the average mercenary group and adventurer. In addition, they often participate in the joint training of the regular army led by Boham, which makes them so skillful in cooperation.
If it were to be replaced by ordinary mercenary groups and adventurers, let alone such a cooperation. It was not easy to maintain the level of the previous level against Lucia's champion cavalry - the first time he faced the overwhelming array of adventurers and mercenaries, even the strongest of them would be psychologically shaken. If they hadn't known that they couldn't outrun the cavalry, they might even have collapsed first.
In this regard, the mercenaries had some experience because they had more or less participated in land disputes between nobles. So the performance tends to be relatively good. But even they had never faced the Lucia Champion Cavalry - Lucia would not use her trump card on these people.
At this time, the anvil did not retreat with the ordinary shield swordsmen, but relied on its strong resistance to blows to stay close behind the gun. Once Lucia's soldiers broke through the rain of bullets and arrows, the dwarf stone warrior rushed forward without saying a word to block the eye.
After several rounds of rescue operations, the outstanding anvil walked a lot at night and finally encountered ghosts. After a flash of cold light, the anvil felt a tremendous force from his pure gold shield that it could not resist. Even the Celestial Earth Elemental and the anvil under his feet were almost one, but they couldn't stop him from being knocked out like a baseball.
The dwarf's thick body and anvil's heavy armor weighed more than 200 pounds. This 'baseball' immediately becomes a 'bowling ball' when it lands. In the middle of the roll, several more Boreham gunmen were knocked down.
"Poof-" When the anvil finally spit out the broken grass in his mouth and got up, he saw a scene that broke his heart - the giant axe of the Celestial Earth Elemental enemy he summoned collapsed with a bang. The stone, which had broken into several sections, quickly merged with the general body under his feet after hitting the ground. It's like they never appeared.
"No!" When Anvil shouted this, a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth. The dusty beard was also lost and dyed a dark red. This was not only heartache, but also because the death of the Celestial Earth Elemental had also hit him hard.
Once the Stone Warrior's Celestial Earth Elemental is dead, he will not be able to summon another Celestial Earth Elemental for the next 30 days, or until he has leveled up in the Stone Hero class. At the same time, during this 30-day period, the Celestial Earth Elemental will be penalized by 1 point of impairment in both attack and damage checks.
But before the enemy officer who had chopped off the anvil could be triumphant, the same fate befell him. I saw the light of the long sword in the hand of the knight of Nabaputi, and the guy in front of him turned into a meteor in the sky with a weapon.
The guy who was knocked away looked like a boulder thrown from a catapult in Boreham's lead line. When it hit the ground, there was a rumbling sound, and gravel, dirt, and dust flew all over the sky, and the ground shook violently. The unlucky ghost on Lucia's side who was killed by this human bomb, and I really don't know where to tell the grievance.
In the same way, on the sky of this battlefield, knights from different countries are also fighting each other with swords. Extraordinary mounts, delicate and sturdy armor, and powerful knights.
If the fight on the ground is a brawl of street gangsters, then here is the driving force of almost all martial arts masters. It can be said that there is a difference between the lower Riba people and the spring and white snow.
But even the knights, who had been more conservative in the past, were fighting for their lives at this time - or rather, the two knights of the Boreham Territory were fighting for their lives without regard for their own safety. This kind of fighting style of play immediately made the Lucia knights, who were obviously superior in numbers, come back one after another.
And the battle on the ground changed dramatically immediately after the addition of the Bapti Knights. Not only because Knight Bapti alone resisted the entire front, but more importantly, his appearance was like a needle that fixed the sea, so that the already shaky morale of Boreham's officers and soldiers was instantly restored to the best state.
At this time, Clematis also completed his second prayer after the start of the war, and sang hymns that resonated with him. Although even if the two are combined, the range of their enhancement is not high, but the scope of this spell is indeed not small, and it is not as limited in number as ordinary group spells.
At present, if one or two strong people on this battlefield cannot achieve qualitative change, it is better to strengthen the entire group in a targeted manner, and the effect will be more obvious. Therefore, Claudia can only create fog for the medical station in the core carriage at this time, so as to increase the difficulty of the enemy to strike here.
Although the noodles that have been consumed by the 'enemy breaking arrow' in their hands can still successfully snipe the officers on Lucia's side, it is difficult to say whether they will be killed with one blow - the opponents often resist the crossbow fire with their strong vitality, and then withdraw from the first sequence of the battle and rush to treat the wounds.
And the catboy, who is not suitable for this kind of battle, stays by Barrett's side at this time and pays attention to his safety. By this time, Barrett's carriage had become the army's medical station, and the wounded but not dead soldiers were brought back for treatment. The increase in numbers made Barrett's security more and more difficult - because enemy killers could use the environment to sneak in.
Suddenly, two more arcs appeared in the sky, and then a black dot became larger and larger in the completely shattered clouds. The corpse that fell into the sky, along with the armor, completely mixed into a 'mysterious meat' after it hit the ground.
Having lost a companion, the Lucian knights had no desire to fight again, and they retreated to the east while resisting the attacks of the Boreham knights. And these Boreham air players did not chase them with all their might, and while maintaining pressure on them, they once again separated a knight and went straight to the ground.
With the addition of a second battlefield meat grinder, the advantage that Lucia's champion rider had barely maintained was completely wiped out. Under the charge of the other two knights, it immediately showed a collapse. After holding out for less than a quarter of an hour, they could not bear the huge casualties, leaving behind a complete rout.
"Another knight? And it didn't seem like they had just arrived, but rather like they had been lurking around early, waiting for an opportunity to burst out and hurt people. Rielly, who had witnessed the whole scene, muttered something meaningful.
And Clematis, who was not far away from her, heard this clearly with his super high perception: "Since several knights were so nervous when they retreated, it was impossible for them not to ask for help from the territory. The presence of such reinforcements was not unexpected. ”
"But even we know this kind of thing, there's no reason why Lucia doesn't know! It was a bit of a surprise to me that the knights they sent would be driven away so easily. Rielly frowned, just couldn't figure it out.
"I'm not the commander of Lucia's operation, so I know what's going on in their heads." Clematis shrugged his shoulders and took out his bandages and went to care for the wounded.
As the two ladies spoke, the Boram people, who were still able to do physical work, began to clean up the battlefield. It takes a lot of time and effort to collect loot or clean up corpses.
Four hours later, the land that had been fought was still a mess, and the piles of charred corpses looked like a low pyramid from a distance. Unlike the usual stench of corpses, the air was filled with the smell of burnt animal protein, and the jackals in the wilderness were constantly digging through the piles of corpses.
These densely piled up corpses, according to the Oriental metaphysics, will make this place extremely yin from now on. According to the theories of those mages in the Western Continent, a large number of souls leaving the body and the natural corruption of corpses will form a strong concentration of negative energy.
If left unchecked, it's fairly easy to get a few zombies out of this pile of corpses. In the most serious cases, it is possible to form spirits and other spirits as a result - even in this world, there are still many people who do not have any faith.
Not to mention the presence of a wizard who is well-versed in the school of the undead, a priest with a realm of death, or some street rat like an evil god or demon cultist. In the Cruze Kingdom, there will be a good show of demons dancing in the kingdom of Cruze.
In the long run, it won't be too long before the situation in the Kingdom of Garcruz will be more than just a war between the original Kingdom of Lucia and the Duchy of Cruze and the Kingdom of Norhan. Hopefully, a fourth party will rise from it, and the end result may even be a dead end for a large part of the Cruze Kingdom.
This is not alarmist, just like the ancient Celestial Empire -- in troubled times, all kinds of cults that were originally hidden under the ground have sprung up one after another.
The main reason for this is that the old order has been broken, and the new order has not yet been established, giving them the external soil to survive.
At the same time, the restless hearts of civilians in troubled times also need spiritual sustenance, and the two are like dry firewood and a fire!
What's more, in this Western Continent, where supernatural abilities are obvious to all, whether it is a demon or an evil god, the blood sacrifice is the fastest way for believers to gain power.
For those who can't protect themselves in troubled times, or who have a bitter vendetta, this is the 'best' way for them to change their destiny from now on.
Therefore, even how huge the power of the church of the good camp is in the Western Continent, how strictly it guards, encircles, and intercepts such things. But after all, there is no way to kill them all and bud them.
Even the use of prophecy spells can't do much here--in other words, a certain big JJ's pretending to say that it's 'the way of heaven is counted, and it is not enough to be considered by the people.'" 'Perhaps, as long as there is real injustice in this world, there are classes; Even if they don't exist on the surface, they still keep happening.
What's more important is that the current Cruze Kingdom does indeed have a fourth-party force that has been on the face for a hundred years. The Dark Elves, who have not yet been completely driven underground, have always been a real threat. What's more, there is no shortage of precedents for those black skins who lack a bottom line to fight with the lower planes.
Judging from past experience, after the fierce war between the two countries, a large area of territory turned into ghosts under the control of some well-intentioned people, and it was not just two together in the history of the Western Continent. So now whether it is the corpse of the enemy or the enemy, the victor will carry out special treatment.
Of course, in peacetime, it is better for a person of status to invite a priest to decontaminate the corpse, so as to completely block the way for others to disturb the peace of the deceased. Those who are not so particular will also buy some holy water from the temple or something, which can also make some low-level necromancers sigh.
But on the battlefield, oil and torches are the cheapest and most effective way to deal with them, but burning the corpses of former comrades, many soldiers often can't pass the emotional level, and if you don't get it right, it will be a very serious blow to morale. Of course, there is a world of difference between the way to deal with one's own comrades-in-arms and the enemy who has just met in battle.
Fortunately, for the wealthy Bolem Lords, it is not impossible that their dead comrades will be carefully collected, sprinkled with holy water, and embalmed to a certain extent, and then transported back to the territory for burial - but now they are still on the run, and they can't take those corpses with them. So I had to put it in an urn after cremation as before.
Because of the severe attrition, the cleaning of the entire battlefield lasted for 6 hours before it was completely completed. The sun, which was still hanging high, also gradually set in the west at this time. The officers and men of Boreham, who had experienced a bitter battle, could no longer afford to travel overnight. After leaving the blood-stained earth, he re-encamped.
The Boreham Rangers, who were the main force in this battle, had basically lost their combat capability, and the Boreham caravans that moved with the team also suffered heavy losses. If you don't go back to the territory to replenish and recuperate, you won't be able to take on any tasks. (To be continued.) )