Chapter 364 The Gate of Damnation (6)
When facing the dead, the living beings will have a fear from the bottom of their hearts, which is due to the fear of death in life.
As a result, even if the enemy is just a fragile skeleton, it can have a formidable effect.
Of course, as long as you fight the Scourge a few times, you will feel a sense of fear... It will naturally disappear, after all, the dead symbolize death, but not death.
For example, the Seventh Legion in Stormwind.
They had fought the Scourge for many years, so the Legionnaires were not overly afraid of the undead, and at most treated them as a special kind of enemy.
Of course, according to the strength of the undead, there are also multiple classes within the undead.
Like skeletons, zombies, ghouls, etc., they are the lowest level of the Scourge Legion, and they are similar to cannon fodder, while the lich and death knight who rule the cannon fodder are the ruling class.
And the bone beast......
It sits somewhere in between, belonging to the elite class, but due to its strategic characteristics, it plays a pivotal role in the Scourge Legion.
To put it simply, like siege equipment troops, their very existence is a kind of strategic deterrence.
Fortunately, the Seventh Legion was not afraid of the war behemoths that rushed wildly, and in the years of fierce battles with the Scourge Legion, they also summed up many practical coping strategies.
For example, in the face of the Bone Behemoth Rushing Formation, the soldiers did not choose to resist meaninglessly, but first avoided the road, and then used iron cables and obstacles to delay the Behemoth's charge.
As for... The task of killing was handed over to the strong man hidden in the army.
Whenever a bone beast is trapped by the iron cable, there will be a strong man who will cross the crowd and go straight to the core of the undead, so as to kill it with one blow, otherwise it will be difficult to hurt its life by relying only on ordinary soldiers......
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Although the Seventh Legion is not afraid of the undead, it is still very exciting to be able to defeat the Bone Behemoth.
Therefore, when more than 200 skeletal beasts fell one after another, the soldiers let out bursts of cheers, and some sharp-eyed soldiers even launched a counter-charge towards the Gate of Heavenly Retribution.
The reason is simple, after the bone beast rushed out of the gate of damnation, the undead did not close the gate in time.
However, Yi Qi stood at the front of the position, sneering again and again.
It's typical to get carried away by a victory, thinking that if you win a game, you'll be invincible. Of course, it is also inseparable from Li Lingzhi, otherwise why risk death to launch a counter-charge?
However, the ripple effects they have caused are numerous.
At least... Under their leadership, more soldiers discovered the unclosed Gate of Damnation and began to counter-charge.
War does not deviate by the will of the individual, and it does not only refer to the rank-and-file soldiers, but also to the officers at the management level, so in many cases, even the commander of an army may not be able to control the overall situation.
For example... Now, when the majority of the officers and men have the idea that now is the best time to capture the Gate of Damnation, the effectiveness of the order will be diminished.
The reason is simple, when a person firmly believes that he is right, he has the courage to do it without hesitation, and a successful person ... It's called the bold, the loser... It's a laughing stock.
Otherwise, why are so many people in the stock market every year, bankrupt and separated?
Whether it is a shipwreck or a battle against the water, its essence is a typical gambler's psychology, only if Xiang Yu and Han Xin won the bet, there will be allusions in today's history books.
Otherwise, both of them will become the laughing stock of others, as well as negative teaching materials buried in history, after all, throughout thousands of years of history, almost 99% of people have lost bets.
Lost to the ground, lost for 10,000 years......
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When the Duke of Berval realized that the situation had quietly escaped his control, he did not try in vain to obstruct him, but instead turned into a vanguard, leading the Guards, and rushed to the Gate of Damnation.
He is also gambling, betting that he can win the gate of damnation in one go. Otherwise... If you go against the general trend, you will definitely consume the high morale you have accumulated.
With the Duke of Berval stepping forward, the morale of the legion was indeed pulled to the peak, which not only reassured the soldiers, but also chanted 'for the alliance'.
It's a pity that Yi Qi can see clearly from the heights, after the Seventh Army launched a charge, their advantage, the siege equipment unit, has lost its usefulness.
The accuracy of the thrower is already poor, and if you don't stop throwing at this moment, won't it become an indiscriminate covering attack?
Therefore, even if he lent the commander of the siege force ten guts, he did not dare to give the order to continue the projectile, not to mention the Duke of Boval, who was in the lead, and the ordinary soldiers would have enough for him to drink a few pots.
Of course, the most critical point is that Yi Qi can clearly sense that there is an incomparably strong resentment gathering near the Gate of Damnation, and it is obvious that the Scourge Legion deliberately did not close the Gate of Damnation.
Sure enough, when the soldiers rushed into the radial range of the Gate of Damnation, the undead rushed out of the fortress gate like a tidal wave, although they were only low-level skeletons and zombies, but there were too many of them, as if they were endless.
As for... The soldiers of the Seventh Legion, although their momentary blood and courage enabled them to swim against the current, their advance became slower and slower as time went on.
And, even more unfavorable is ... There were too many undead, and when the charge became weak, the soldiers of the Seventh Legion were suddenly embarrassed to find that they had been caught up in the middle of an endless army of natural disasters......
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Just when the Seventh Army was in a dilemma, the northwest corner of the battlefield suddenly rolled up with billowing smoke and dust, and hidden in the smoke and dust was a sturdy green body and the long howl of a giant wolf.
Wolf cavalry!
The wolf cavalry is a unique class of orcs, although the endurance is not as good as the human cavalry, but in terms of impact and destructive power, it has a huge advantage that is difficult for war horses to achieve.
Therefore, watching the charge of the wolf cavalry regiment is very pleasing to the eye and very real.
At the very least, it can make the visual impact.
The fragility of skeletons, zombies, and ghouls is simply not enough to withstand the charge of the wolf cavalry, so when the two meet, the undead will be easily crushed and wiped out by the green waves, just like sandcastles on the beach.
In the wolf cavalry regiment, there is an orc who stands out.
The orcs are not only extremely brave, but also charge at the forefront of the wolf cavalry, with a giant battle axe, there is no enemy at all, even the giant wolf under the crotch is much stronger than the others.
Led by the brave orcs, the wolf cavalry first opened a passage and gathered with the Seventh Legion, and then turned the wolf's head, and pointed the blade of the sword straight at the Gate of Heaven's Damnation.
On the other side, the follow-up troops of the tribe also arrived one after another.
These range from notoriously strong minotaur warriors to troll spearmen known for their precision, followed by morale-boosting shamans.
The appearance of the tribal army instantly turned the tide of the war.
Although the undead are still pouring out from the Gate of Damnation, they have not been able to stop the Alliance and the Horde, and have become straws to be harvested......