Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Battle of the Frozen Strait
On June 15, 1675, the war between the Crusaders of the Holy Illuminati and the Snowy Confederation began
The first battle took place in the Icy Strait, and at 15:30 p.m., more than 50 of the more than 200 ships of the Crusader Combined Fleet, armed with giant crossbows and trebuchets, poured a large number of arm-thick arrows and flaming boulders into the snowy Union Navy on the opposite side
The magicians on the battleship of the Snowy Federation jointly opened a huge magic shield, and more than two hundred giant arrows in the first round of attacks hit headlong on the magic shield composed of air elements and water elements, causing ripples in a circle, most of the giant arrows were shattered, but the magic shield was also riddled under the huge impact, among the mages who maintained the magic shield, some of the weaker mana seven-ring mages and mage apprentices could not withstand the magic feedback, vomited blood on the spot, there were about a dozen giant arrows through the loopholes of the magic shield, and rushed straight towards the mage's warship, those crusader soldiers who controlled the giant crossbow machine were well-trained, the aiming level was quite high, and none of the more than a dozen giant arrows that passed through the magic shield fell into the sea in the armorThe mages on the board scrambled to escape, and the giant arrows pierced through the deck, killing some of the crew inside, and some of the mages who couldn't avoid it were brought down
After the giant arrow, more than 50 burning boulders followed, not giving the enemy any chance to rest, half of these boulders falling from the sky scattered in the air, turning into a burning stone rain, covering the mage's navy indiscriminately, attacking, and the other half of the boulder still maintained its intact state, and smashed directly into some warships, there were four mage ships directly penetrated by the boulder, ignited a fire, and the mage who fell into the water could not swim, only a small number were rescued, and dozens of others were drowned in the icy water
The commander-in-chief of the Crusaders was so pleased with the results of the first attack that he ordered the second attack, and the soldiers were busy and nervously working in front of the giant crossbows and catapults, when the mage's counterattack began: ice arrows, fireballs, lightning, falling rocks, wind blades...... All kinds of attack magic smashed down from the sky, the Crusader fleet did not have a huge magic shield like a mage, and the soldiers on the exposed deck were directly killed, some were frozen into ice sculptures, some were burned to charcoal, some were smashed in the head by sharp stones, some were cut to pieces by wind blades...... A large number of giant crossbows and trebuchets were destroyed on board, and the Crusaders' defenders hurriedly ran out of the cabin, raising their giant shields to protect the surviving soldiers and war planes
These counterattacks came from a dozen or so combat floats in the air, and the mages on board cast a large number of attacks on the Crusader ships, one of the four fortress floats of the Snowy Federation, one of the float ships, and its own float fleet, the commander of the float fleet stationed over the opposite coast, saw that his own navy had suffered a big loss, and immediately ordered half of the subordinate float fleet to reinforce it, while the Frost itself and the remaining half of the float ships remained on the opposite shore, they were in case of the landing operation that the Crusaders would launch immediately after the collapse of their own navy
The Crusader Commander ordered the 50 magically attacked ships to retreat, while more than a dozen ships were cut across the flanks to the front of the formation, each of which was equipped with 10 giant crossbows, which were not the same as the previous ones, which were aimed at the sky
With the commander's order, hundreds of giant arrows that were ignited with oil were shot into the sky in unison, and rushed straight towards those floating ships, the floating ships were huge in size, and the movements were clumsy, and the magicians who controlled the airships had no time to let the airships dodge such a dense attack of giant arrows, they could only rely on the strong hull to resist, and some magicians hurriedly used the wind magic air shield in the air system to lay a layer of defense around the airship, but the fragile air shield resisted ordinary arrows, but it was vulnerable in front of the giant arrows, and the giant arrows easily passed through the air shield and the bottom of the airship had a fierce collision, and the airship shook, and the mages inside were knocked into pieces, flying in the front twoThe floating ship was taken care of by the giant crossbow machine, and was pierced by the giant arrow, the power of the ship was severely damaged, and the fire fell to the sea, and most of the magicians loaded inside were buried in the sea, and only a few were able to use anti-gravitational magic on themselves in time to escape, and the other airships were slightly and seriously injured, and one of the airships was severely damaged, and escaped from the battle and fled in the direction of the mother fleet
The rest of the floating ships were still colored, and I saw a huge magic array appear at the bottom of these flying ships - this is a sign that several magicians jointly cast the same magic, and the fire element quickly gathered in the magic array, turning into a huge fireball, boom, boom, The fireball smashed down on the surface of the air, and when a giant magic array appeared at the bottom of the floating ship, the commander of the air defense warship unit realized that the other party was going to fight back, so he would not be stupid enough to let his warship resist the huge fireball, and the crusader air defense warship hurriedly scattered around, but there were still 5 air defense warships that could not dodge, and were directly hit by the giant fireball, burning into a raging fire on the sea
Four giant transports sailed out of the reserve fleet of the Crusaders, the deck of the transport ship was lined up with dense griffons, after the commander gave the order, the griffons flapped their wings and carried the knights on their backs to the air, hundreds of griffons flew out one by one, and the magicians on the airship no longer had time to concentrate their mana and cast huge fireballs in the face of the overwhelming griffons that were rushing towards them, and they attacked the griffons outside the portholes as individuals, and the airriders used the griffons' flexible mobility to dodge various elemental magic attacks, but there were still some unfortunate people and their mounts that were hit and fell into the sea, of course, there were also some griffonsRiding close to the airship, javelins were thrown into the portholes from the dead ends, and many mages standing by the portholes were killed by these powerful javelins
At this time, the air elements quickly gathered around the floating spaceship, producing hundreds of elemental people composed of air elements, including the most primitive wind elemental people, the slightly more advanced storm elemental people, the more advanced thunder elemental people, and even the most advanced space elemental people, the appearance of these elemental people quickly made up for the lack of strength of the mage army in the air, although the wind elementals did not have any lethality, but they could greatly slow down the movement of the griffin air riders who were entangled by themselves; the wind blades sent out by the storm elementals were like sharp knives that scraped the armor of the air riders and the wings of the griffons; the thunder elementals fired lightning bolts around, and the griffons who were hit all fell towards the seaThe most terrifying thing is that the only space elemental person, any griffin skyrider who is hit by it will be sucked into the endless extradimensional space
The crusaders' side was not without countermeasures, and suddenly shot down eleven huge pillars of light in the sky behind the fleet, and after the light pillars disappeared, eleven angels appeared on the battlefield, including: four pairs of winged Angels, one Angel of Virtue with three pairs of wings, two pairs of winged archangels and one Angel of Power, and the other six were ordinary angels with only one pair of wings, and the priests in the crusaders summoned angels-for-tat, these angels flapped their wings and pounced on the qi elemental people in the melee, although they were fewer in number than the elemental people, but they had an advantage in quality
The sky was inextricably linked, and the ships on both sides began a new round of bombardment on the sea, this time the Snow Federation not only reopened the giant magic shield, but also used steam magic on the sea surface, generating a huge water mist to wrap their ship pair inside, so that the Crusaders' attacks were difficult to aim, and the water in the water mist greatly reduced the burning effect on the boulders and arrows thrown by the Crusaders; On the other hand, the Crusader ships were neither protected by magic shields nor dense fog to interfere with the enemy's vision, and they were only defended by defenders standing on the side of the ship, and it was difficult to support them for a long time, some of the defenders' huge shields were shattered, and some of the human bodies were falling to the ground, and the magic attacks were passing through the gaps of the defenders, hitting the unprotected soldiers behind them, and tearing these gaps wider and wider
Seeing that the superiority of sea facing and shooting is gradually tilting towards the side of the Snowy Federation, once the naval battle is lost, it will directly affect the air, but the Crusaders still have trump cards, and their commander-in-chief has issued a new order: the ramming ship is attacking, and the broadside ship is following, preparing for the broadside battle
After the order was given, the Crusader ships, which were still firing huge arrows and flaming boulders at the opposite side, stopped attacking, and they spread out on both sides, and ten large, Oddly shaped large warships, these warships are equipped with a large cone-shaped impact angle in the bow, wrapped in several layers of iron near the bow and impact angle, very hard, and even blessed with light magic, which can resist a certain range of magical attacks, the hull is slender, the bottom of the ship is triangular down, not only has a few masts, sails, and a large number of oars on either side of the waterline - this design can greatly increase the speed of the ship, but the weakness is the difficulty of steering
Ten ramming ships slammed into the mage's fleet at full speed like ten ancient beasts, fireballs, Lightning and other countless attack magic hit the impact ship, producing a cloud of smoke, after the smoke cleared, these impact ships actually rushed out unscathed, another round of more violent magic attacks, and finally the two impact ships that suffered the most attacks reached the limit, with unwilling sailors sunk to the cold bottom of the sea, the other eight impact ships finally had to taste their wishes, rushed to the front of the enemy formation, only to hear a few loud noises, three mage ships were stopped and smashed into two, and the other ships avoided the mage's fleet formation chaos
At this time, there were still dozens of smaller broadships on the sea, heading at full speed on the side of the snowy Federation Navy, originally these broadships were set off closely behind the ramming ships, but due to the difference in speed, when the ramming ships had already rushed into the enemy formation, the broadside flotilla was only half the way, and these broadships were loaded with a large number of infantry, and once they got close to the enemy ships, these infantry would rush to the enemy ships for hand-to-hand combat
When a large number of broadside ships were found approaching, the commander of the Snowy Federation Navy issued a clever order, and the mages on the warship who were still able to fight chanted a spell in the direction of the broadside fleet, casting a large amount of ice-based magic, and a few minutes later, when the broadside fleet was about to approach the enemy fleet, a huge ice surface formed on the sea around the broadside fleet, and most of the broadside ships were sealed in the ice, unable to advance or retreat
I saw a woman wearing royal knight's armor and a yellow and red cloak jumping out of the receiving boat at the front and rear, her long brown hair was tied into a ponytail, one hand held a tower shield, and the other hand held a double-headed gun jumped onto the ice, the majestic female knight stuck the double-headed gun on the ice, and then ran forward quickly, the double-headed gun in her hand actually broke through the huge ice directly
The mages were shocked, they hurriedly chanted a spell and launched attack magic at the female knight, but the female knight was flexible, dodging left and right, most of the attack magic was dodged by her, and a small number of it was really impossible to dodge, so she used the tower shield to block, the powerful magic only left a few black marks on her shield, and the female knight mage was about to launch a second magic attack, but they didn't have time to chant magic spells, and the female knight with an unusually fast speed had already rushed to the ship, and with the swing of the double-headed gun, the mage on the deck still turned into a piece of blood mist
The general had already rushed to the enemy ships, and we were about to rush forward, but some of the broadside ships that remained on the ice shouted, and the other broadships that followed them rushed along the ice broken by the female knight towards the mage's ship
A mast was placed between the two ships, and a dozen light infantry slashed at the mage's warship, and among these light infantry were a certain number of blue-faced raiders - they were the characteristic class of the Cult of Light in the kingdom of Shalilan, the only great power on the continent of Moron, a light infantry known for their speed and explosive power, so they were named the blue-faced raiders because they would paint their faces blue to show bravery
Run, seeing more and more crusader soldiers rushing onto the ship, the mages were so frightened that they quickly hid in the cabin, and the crusader soldiers were about to kill into the cabin, and suddenly a group of magic dolls rushed out of it, these machines made by alchemists were originally used for labor production, but after the goblin slaves were used in large numbers, the magic dolls were used in war, they had no ability to think, and only acted by the will of the mages who manipulated them, wielding double knives, Spears and even fists attacked the crusaders who rushed onto the ship, and the crusader soldiers who participated in the broadside battle were all battle-hardened soldiers, and they were not afraid of these illusory puppets, and the soldiers nimbly avoided the clumsy attacks of the magic dolls, and then looked for the joints of their heads, necks, arms, etc., and cut their arms into them, turning these dolls into piles of broken parts, but there were also many soldiers who were killed by the puppets in the melee
The female knight led the soldiers in the broadside battle, and was capturing the enemy ships one by one, but it was impossible for her to win the broadside battle, because it was only a part of the soldiers of the broadside flotilla who rushed with her, and two-thirds of the broadside ships were still frozen in the sea, and the female knight's subordinates were fighting more and more hard without backup, but the mage released more and more dolls......
After hours of fierce fighting, the female knight found that there were no soldiers left around her, and now she was surrounded by an ever-increasing number of magical dolls
The general's battle failed, and the commander told you to evacuate immediately, and the sound came from the sky, a man in the knight's armor of the knight of kingship rode on one griffin, leading another unridden griffon, nimbly avoiding one attack after another, and the magic flew towards the female knight
The hateful female knight cursed, her battle spirit had already burned to the limit, and behind her appeared a figurative phantom of mountain carvings, and the female knight looked up and said to the knight of royal power, "Adjutant, get out of the way first, and I will use the 'Flying Spiral Kill' to clean up this pile of garbage."
The adjutant immediately raised the height of the griffin, he knew that his superior's battle spirit technique called Flying Spin Break was powerful, and he didn't want to be implicated
I saw that the female royal knight dropped the tower shield, raised the double-headed spear with both hands, and rotated it on her head, and the speed of rotation became faster and faster, and the phantom of the mountain eagle behind her suddenly became several times larger, and the female knight shouted: Kill
The speed of the double-headed spear became the speed of light, and a huge cyclone spread dramatically in all directions, and the puppets surrounding her were crushed by the force of the cyclone, and all the superstructures on the deck of the ship she was on disappeared, even several nearby ships were implicated, and several mages were crushed by the cyclone, and their internal organs were ruptured and died
This was the power of the top knights, and the surviving mages around watched in amazement as the female knight rode away on the griffin and her lieutenant, and no one thought of chanting a spell to attack
The fierce battle lasted 37 hours until 4:30 a.m. on June 17, in the narrow strait, where the two sides lost heavy losses, broken pieces of wood, severed human arms and griffons, and the corpses of griffons were scattered all over the sea.