Chapter 276: The vanguard is destroyed
However, while the spearhead of the Severn army was waiting for Severn IX's next order, they were the first to attack.
This precedent who didn't even bother to pay his name, according to the usual practice of siege warfare in human countries, lined up his troops 500 meters away from the city wall. This is true of common sense, because the average catapult, arrow, or even magic of the human nation can rarely hit more than 500 meters.
But this vanguard officer didn't know that the attack range of the Night Elves was different from that of ordinary humans. Anyway, there were very few soldiers who fled back before, and those noble children who were ransomed should also find that the Night Elves far exceeded the ordinary killing distance in the previous battle? Why did this vanguard officer still send the troops to the mouth of the Night Elves? Yu Fei was puzzled, but he was not polite.
The vanguard of the Severn Kingdom is the second elite group of troops dispatched by the Severn Kingdom this time - the first elite is naturally Severn IX, who guards the royal expedition.
However, even these ordinary soldiers are 100,000 vanguard troops who have advanced to the ranks, and they are also holding their heads in the face of the boulders, arrows and javelins that fly from a distance and fall on their heads with great kinetic energy and potential energy.
This vanguard is composed of the more elite soldiers in the armies of various places, and it was not a part before. Therefore, after the confusion, few people listened to the orders of the vanguard officer who had no authority, and they all fled.
The vanguard officer was also speechless, seeing that it was impossible to attack or continue to wait for orders in this situation, so he had to announce that the entire army would retreat three hundred meters. Since it was an order to flee, the soldiers chose to obey. Some order has been restored. It was a relatively consistent retreat of 300 meters.
Next. The vanguard officer also felt a little uncomfortable. The Night Elves captured the fortress of Brak from the other side, and although the wall was destroyed by the slingcarts and boulders, the side facing the territory of the Kingdom of Severn was still intact.
Although the wall facing the country was not as tall and heavy as the other wall, which had now been destroyed by the Night Elves, it would still be a great resistance to the besieging side.
Now, having discovered the enemy's extremely long attack range and felt the intensity of the Night Elves' attack, the vanguard officer made a calculation. In the short time of reaction and retreat, the 100,000 vanguard troops led by him actually lost as much as 30,000.
The pioneer officer looked at the soldiers who died. Except for those who were stoned and crushed to death. The dead soldiers each had only an arrow or javelin stuck in their bodies. This kind of precise blow made the pioneer officer shudder a little.
It is so far away from the city wall, and it is so tall and majestic, and it will definitely not be able to be conquered in a moment and a half. How many people will die during this time? After a rough estimate, the vanguard officer found that if he dared to lead the vanguard to attack the fortress of Brak directly, he might be wiped out before he could reach the base of the city wall.
The vanguard officer wisely put aside the idea of attacking the city, and was not even willing to test it. He had already thought in his heart that even if Severn IX gave the order for the vanguard to attack first, he would not obey it.
Offensive? The only thing they could do was to lay a layer of corpses on the front of the fortress of Braque. There was not even a gathering for these corpses to be piled up under the city walls as a way for posterity. Because they will all die in the way of the charge.
The vanguard officers who had made up their minds to wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops, and the soldiers who were a little choked by the blow just now. At the moment, they get along very harmoniously. Everyone was very calm and did not make any move - the attack was death, and if they retreated directly, no one would dare to do so without receiving an order.
Soon, however, the vanguard did not calm down. Because they saw from afar that the gates of the fortress of Brac were actually opened! The pioneer officer naturally saw this scene, and was stunned for a moment before sneering and imparting his experience to the adjutant next to him.
"This enemy is too naïve, and he wants to lure us to attack when he opens a city gate. We are not stupid, we can close the city gates long ago when we rush to such a distance. Do the enemies in the city think that we will attack blindly after seeing their powerful ranged attacks? Such a small trick can be seen through at a glance."
The adjutant next to him naturally responded silently, and the pioneer officer also boasted endlessly. However, in this harmonious atmosphere, the new scene they saw made them and all the soldiers of the vanguard completely uncalm.
After the gates of the fortress were opened, it was not just open to lure the human forces to attack, but many troops quickly came out of it. These include mountain giants who must line up one by one, claw druids in their untransformed form, and some mobile classes such as huntress and fawn.
Soon, in the eyes of the vanguard of the Severn Kingdom, who were observing from afar, these troops, which were no more than five thousand in number, rushed straight towards them like this?
Could it be that the enemies in the city are amused? If you don't grasp the advantage of defending the city, send troops out of the city to fight? Do they think that with these strange-looking troops, they can defeat our elite army?
The vanguard officer was excited, but he was still able to calm down at the beginning, and said to the adjutant next to him: "These enemies are really thieves and thieves, and when they see that we are not fooled, they will put bait to attract us to attack, but I will never be fooled."
However, when he saw those stone giants rushing to a position six hundred meters outside of the fortress of Brak without stopping, the pioneer officer was already completely excited. These enemies were so stupid that they went out of the city to attack them with less than five thousand!
Although the stone giants looked terrifying, and those strange-looking races were quite powerful, the vanguard officer was not afraid at all. In his heart, the army he led could be regarded as a strong army on the entire continent.
If it weren't for the transfer from various units, it would definitely not be possible to make up for hundreds of thousands of soldiers who had entered the ranks, even if they were only trainee soldiers. Uh, well, now there's more than 70,000 left.
Even if these enemies have some strength, I'm afraid they won't be able to make any waves under the fifteen-fold difference in numbers, right? With this thought and the excitement that he was about to make his first contribution, this vanguard officer of the vanguard of the Kingdom of Severn actually issued an order to step forward to meet the enemy.
And the soldiers under him are really a good match for this brain-dead pioneer officer, and they all rushed forward excitedly one by one. They are all soldiers with a slight status in their respective units, but after being incorporated into the vanguard unit, they have all become ordinary soldiers, and they naturally have fire in their hearts.
More than 20,000 were killed and wounded by the Night Elves' ranged troops just now, close to 30,000, and every soldier was afraid of it. Now those enemies actually gave up their long-range advantage and the convenience of the city walls, and ran out to fight them, and every soldier wanted to thank them.
So, they actually launched a counter-charge against the running mountain giants in a hot head, oh my God, I don't want to describe how brave and stupid this is.
As the distance gradually narrowed, the hot-headed soldiers who rushed to the front gradually reacted. With the size of a mountain giant, the closer you get, the more oppressive you feel to the enemy. The soldiers who rushed to the front realized how stupid their actions were, but they couldn't stop.
In the charging army, if you want to stop, you can only walk by being trampled to death by those behind you. Soon, these soldiers, who had turned from hot-blooded to fearful, came into contact with the mountain giants
The fate of this part of the soldiers who rushed to the front can be imagined. "Bang-" "Poof-" "S-" As a symphony of these sounds sounded, there were more stalls of meat sauce on the ground.
The mountain giants, who had stopped the charge, stopped, waved their thick earth sticks, and began to sweep against the ground. In the last battle against Fort Brak, these mountain giants have learned their lessons. When dealing with enemies whose bodies are quite small compared to themselves, swiping against the ground is much more effective than lifting and smashing.
Although the visual effect caused by the sweep is not as good as the smash, the actual number of kills is there. The vanguard troops, which were already in a dense formation, were swept away by the mountain giants, and their strength at the lowest rank did not play a role in the slightest.
In front of the giant stick wielded by the mountain giant, there was no difference between an ordinary strong man and a midship-level warrior, and the vanguard officer who was standing behind the most commander was already dumbfounded at this time. Aren't those stone giants really legendary creatures?
Also, what is it about Nima who runs and runs on the ground and turns into a bear or a leopard or a wolf? Next Olympics! They actually put dirt thorns! Ah, it hurts! They actually discharged! Ah, it hurts! They actually spit out the Wind Blade! Ah, it hurts! In the distance, those enemies with the upper body and the lower body like a deer actually threw javelins! Ah, it hurts! Yes! Yes! Yes! ~~ Then this pioneer officer didn't know anything
Before the huntress could close the distance and attack, the vanguard of more than 70,000 men was wiped out by the mountain giants, the transformed clawed druids, and the fawns who flew javelins far away. Occasionally, if you want to run, even if you throw a distance, you will be killed by the Horned Eagle Beast Rider who has been flying high in the air.
In this way, the confident vanguard of the Kingdom of Severn has not yet achieved any results, and they are all lying about a kilometer away from the fortress of Brak. (To be continued......)