Chapter 1098: Collapse
"It's... What?"
After two successive horrific blows cut off the marching army on the spot, and after more than 300 casualties, the commander of the overseer finally found that there was no longer any pressure on all around—the people began to wail and retreat, and before they could continue to cut off the heads of a few deserters, the third and fourth shells fell like ploughs in the dense crowd.
There is no way, people who are full of cold weapon thinking do not know how to deal with hot weapons at all: in the face of a rain of arrows, they can block it with a shield, face the stones thrown by trebuchets and large ballistas, and die next to each other, but after all, they will not cause too exaggerated casualties... But in the face of a bomb that would explode, they really panicked.
In fact, the reason why Rasiman troops swept away the Tukh defenders back then was because the spells were similar to "thermal weapons" to some extent - the Tuks who had suffered losses certainly had a long memory at this time: their warlords were mixed with priests, and they used limited fragments to shroud the "forbidden realm" in the front area of the team, because Rasiman mages had a much closer range than catapults, and it was impossible to throw them farther, and even if they attacked, they would only fall in the front row.
But no one expected that the range of the hedron cannon could cover up to two kilometers, and the reason why Sodrol waited until the front row was close to the city wall for 400 meters before firing the cannon was to avoid the impact of the "forbidden area" in front of him on the hedron cannonballs.
And now, the cannonballs that unreservedly released the power of hedron energy recklessly fell on the middle and rear of the enemy's military formation again and again, bringing the shadow of the "God of War" to this group of shivering turtles of the old era...
When the fifth batch of shells blew up the trebuchets 1,300 meters away, the vanguard of 10,000 people in front was completely in disarray.
The Warlords simply couldn't suppress the chaos, as the explosion was far more powerful than they could handle. The number of battle losses is still second, and under the huge sound and impact, no one can still remain calm - soldiers from various countries began to run desperately to the rear, and as a result, the landing points of the shells fell one by one as if chasing this group of deserters, and the frontal battlefield was from a distance of 800 meters to 1,800 meters from the city wall, and the four artillery pieces did not need to be adjusted much at all, only the artillery needed to raise the angle a little bit one by one, and the black mushroom clouds that rose one by one quickly harvested countless lives...
The clarion call for withdrawal sounded quickly, but the troops that had already broken and scattered did not follow the established retreat route at all: people seemed to have found the pattern of the landing point of the shells, and knew that they could not continue to retreat directly, so they rushed to both sides - but the gap between the various units on the battlefield was very small, and after running far, countless people were crowded together on the spot.
These armies from various countries did not know each other, so in order to flee for their lives as quickly as possible, they drew their weapons and began to chop down any soldiers who stood in their way... By the time the eight rounds of shelling had stopped, the casualties caused by the rout and crowding had already exceeded the 32 shells that fell.
On the southern wall of Laxia City, the Rasiman soldiers looked at the battlefield in front of them, and everyone was trying to make sure that they were not dreaming - they were not war novices, and when they saw this scene in front of them, they could confirm one thing: the enemy who had brought them great pressure had no power to fight back!
But a battle lasted only five minutes... That's it?
Thinking of the weapons that caused the enemy to retreat, the soldiers on the city walls involuntarily looked back at the four cannons placed inside the city.
The deafening sound just now scared them out, and they almost thought that this cannon was about to tear down the city wall together, but now they realized that the range of this weapon was a full two kilometers away, and the power was even more terrifying than the fire explosion technique of a high-level mage!
Now the guns had finally stopped after eight shots, the temperature of the barrels was extremely high, and the hot metal that could distort the air in the vicinity slowly began to cool down after the cooling circle was activated - the artillerymen were quickly overhauling and checking the inside of the barrels to make sure there were no cracks or debris, while the communication circles next to them continued to hear the voices of the soldiers in front and the rear command.
"Report to the command, all four guns of the artillery company have been cooled down!
"Request for approval, done. ”
"This is the watchtower, correct the coordinates..."
A minute later, the reloaded artillery began the second round of firing.
The soldiers on the city wall with new binoculars measured the enemy's distance through the magic circle, and at the same time adjusted the landing point of the cannonballs through the communication circle, and any cluster in the distance that tried to retract was blown apart by the cannonballs that followed—when the second round of thirty-two cannonballs was fired, there was no longer a team on the battlefield that remained intact, except for the knights of the Bindu Kingdom who used their horses to run away quickly.
And Wallad, who was standing on the inner city wall, watched this scene with his mouth open, and it took a long time for him to swallow his spit and shout loudly: "Go and gather the soldiers! I want to see two thousand people leave the city in ten minutes! Victory or defeat in one fell swoop, hurry!"
"But just now you..."
"But what's it! now! right now!"
He gave the order in a loud voice, and seeing that his subordinate was in a hurry to run away, and felt that it would be difficult for one person to quickly inform the other troops scattered in the city, he called two more subordinates and told them to hurry to gather the soldiers.
At this time, Wallard's hands were trembling with excitement, and he realized why the sunset had just asked him to send troops: if he had prepared earlier, he would have been able to sweep away the group of miscellaneous soldiers who had lost their formation by going out with 5,000 men now, and even be able to take out the opponent's headquarters in one fell swoop!
As long as you can catch the enemy's commander, the council's previous prejudice against you can be wiped out immediately, and you can even use it to get promoted and make a fortune!
But all of this is only if you can bring back enough enemy heads. He was now eager to use spells to urge this group of soldiers to quickly put on their equipment and get weapons, but because he had not made any preparations to go out of the city in advance, he waited for nearly an hour before the first team of 1,000 people could leave the city.
And at this time, the army of the Karen Kingdom had already gone out a kilometer.
This force of 1,500 men looked very thin, but it was well organized and did not move fast, and there were two "armored vehicles" in the middle, which also had cannon barrels on them, but the caliber was much smaller than those in the city, and from a distance it was thin and much shorter.
The whole army did not rush to pursue the scattered deserters, but drove all the way to the position where the shells first bombarded, and after collecting enough data, it did not continue to advance, but prepared on the spot and made a wait-and-see posture.
By this time, Wallad's two forces had chased after the already dispersed troops from both sides of the battlefield. More than 4,000 troops, numbering in number, pressed on the enemy's headquarters near the river bank from two directions - they could not keep up with the fleeing soldiers at such a speed, but they were able to kill thousands of wounded soldiers who had previously been incapacitated due to crowding and dispersal in a "sloppy" way.
Because of this, Udora was not hindered from recovering the remnants of the battlefield, and more than half of the scattered army was collected back to the headquarters by the Overseers after withdrawing a kilometer.
(End of chapter)