Chapter 286: Blocking the Tree Man

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Unlike other weapons, incendiary grenades need to be ignited before they are fired, and they must be fired immediately after ignition, otherwise the molten grease may ignite the trebuchet along with it.

Several arcing fires fell into the elven forest, and the fire oil that had been sprinkled in it was immediately ignited, and the moving forest instantly burst into flames, and the burning ancient trees were like huge torches emerging from the flat ground, illuminating the surroundings, and the griffin knights patrolling and reconnoitring near the forest were forced to flee in all directions by the huge heat.

The Holy See's barracks immediately erupted in earth-shattering cheers, they did not expect that just the first volley of trebuchets would have such great power, and the legendary invincible Treants were so vulnerable to the attack of fire oil bombs.

Under the command of the commander, the trebuchet struck while the iron was hot, reloaded and fired on both sides of the fire, so that the flames quickly spread to both sides.

The fire-burning treemen did not feel pain, they did not scream, and they even walked forward slowly and steadily, but with each step the branches and leaves of their bodies would turn into char and fall in their path, and eventually the entire tree would collapse. The flames did not last long, and soon dimmed, leaving only a pillar of coke in place, but the coke was immediately pushed down and trampled into the ground, and a new forest appeared behind them, and the tree people continued to advance at a set speed without fear.

"Fire oil bombs, reload!"

"Five hundred steps ahead, shoot!"

"Molotov!

"Five hundred steps ahead, shoot!"

One after another, new orders were conveyed, new fire oil bombs flew, flames exploded in the woods, and 10,000-year-old trees were charred in the flames, but the new ancient trees were immediately filled in from behind, endlessly, and they stepped on the corpses of their companions, fearlessly, and gradually approached the army of the Holy See with firm steps.

The faces of the officers and men of the Knights Templar finally changed, and they could no longer cheer. An indescribable sense of fear rose in their hearts. This fear is not only because the treants are not afraid of death, but also because of the oppression brought by the endless number of treants, like a big green worm facing an overwhelming ant colony, no matter how strong you are, you will eventually die. What's more, not only do the treants have the number of ant colonies, but their strength is far beyond that of ants, and the combat power of each treant is comparable to that of a high-level swordsman.

In the eyes of the Knights Templar's officers and soldiers, the forest shrouded in night seemed to transform into a crouching ancient beast, and the wide passage was like its open black mouth, slowly approaching, ready to swallow tens of thousands of Holy See soldiers and civilians in one gulp.

After a few volleys, hundreds of ancient trees were reduced to ashes in the flames, which successfully slowed down the progress of the treemen at the entrance of the passage and bought time for the troops inside to withdraw, but it was not enough, the treemen were still advancing on the charcoal ash formed by the corpses of their companions, and at this time they were already approaching more than two hundred paces.

The trebuchet's fire oil bombs were exhausted, and there were not many incendiary bombs left, and the power of ordinary stone bullets alone was too limited, and it could only smash one or two branches of the tree man, which was of no avail.

But at this moment, the array of the Holy See resounded with a burst of pious singing, the sound was like a clear spring in the mountains, from small to large, and finally gathered into a gurgling stream, flowing through the ears and hearts of every listener, making people's minds calm and free from distractions, and the priest who had already been in place began to chant the purification technique.

This time the military operation against the elves, the priests who followed the army were far less than the last raid on Rasbel, and there were no bishop-level figures with the army, only a few senior priests with some middle and low-level priests, a total of more than a hundred people, most of whom were scattered to different camps of the army, and at this time they had just been assembled, and immediately joined the battle under the orders of Gutsian. However, their mana is limited, and they can't unleash the purification field like the high-level priest team who raided Rasbel at the beginning, and all of them can be included in the area of action of the purification technique, and they can only cast the spell in a directional direction, and the effective distance of the spell is two hundred steps, and the tree man in front of them just enters the area where the purification technique takes effect. As soon as the purification technique was released, it took effect immediately, and the already slow steps of the tree people in the front row almost became frozen.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

......

In the darkness of the night, there was a sudden dense sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air, followed by a scream, which sounded extremely harsh in the song of the purification technique!

"Ahh

"Ahh

.......

A dozen priests who were concentrating on chanting purification fell to the ground amid screams.

The elven archers, who had been missing for a month, finally reappeared, and they had been hiding in the forest behind them, until the Holy See ran out of fire and the priests began to appear, and they sneaked to the front line and began their own attack. The night is a great obstacle to human eyesight, but it does not have a big impact on the elves, and with the help of the light of the flames, even if the priests are all standing behind the shield array of the heavy infantry, it still can't prevent the elves from taking advantage of the little gap between the shields and sending sharp arrows into the priest's body with a longbow.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

......

The elven shot continued, and there was still no screaming in the array, but this time it was not the priest who screamed, but the heavy infantry.

The array of heavy infantry that found the enemy attack was immediately adjusted, the queue in the front row became denser, and the position that the shield could not defend had to be blocked even if you used your own body, and the priest in the back was the most valuable at this moment, so even if you sacrificed a part of the heavy infantry, you had to protect the priest. Fortunately, the heavy infantry are wearing heavy plate armor, although at a distance of 200 paces, the armor-piercing arrows shot by the longbow can still penetrate the plate armor, but the lethality will drop a lot, as long as it does not hit the vital point, it is not fatal.

The heavy infantry paid for the casualties was worth it, the priest's purification effect was very obvious, once they stepped into the purification area, the tree people would soon be beaten back to their original form and become towering trees that could not be moved, and unlike the trees that were burned to charcoal, they were difficult to push, so the tree people in the back were blocked by the front ones, one row after another, and they couldn't move forward at all.

However, this effect is also limited, and the number of chaplains accompanying the operation is not only insufficient, but the quality is even more uneven, and many of them do not even know how to use purification at all, they are busy treating the wounds of the infantry. Therefore, the priest's purification technique can only block the width of seven or eight hundred steps in the front, and the treemen outside this width can completely continue to advance, and some of the treemen will even go around and approach the middle array, and the priest immediately begins to become overwhelmed, if a part of the people blocks the reinforcements of the treeman warriors on both sides, then the treemen on the front may not be able to suppress.

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