Text Chapter 99 The Night of Yelantil 8
The knights did not enter the corpse tide with a sword-like posture, and if they still used this kind of military formation after entering the enemy formation, not only would it hit the killing effect, but once the cavalry at the head fell due to the attack, it would easily cause damage to the cavalry behind.
Therefore, after the cavalry rushed into the tide of corpses, it spread out in all directions like an open fan. Those fragile skeletons, under the heavy hooves of the cavalry, instantly smashed into a pile of white bone powder.
Using the powerful momentum generated by the cavalry charge, the cavalry of a thousand people forcibly dispersed into ten forces in the chaotic corpse tide. The cavalry forcibly spread, and in an instant, the crowd of corpses was torn apart.
When Krisov realized that the cavalry had completely severed the tide of corpses he was facing, he immediately gave his new battle order.
"The front team is solid and mounts the wall to attack."
The cavalry who rushed to the front stabilized the line, built a tight cavalry wall in front, and relied on the tight riding wall to trample the undead who stood in front of them. However, the cavalry wall does not guarantee 100% killing of all the undead. No cavalry could guarantee that their cavalry wall would be tight and seamless at all times. In the constant impact, the walls of the cavalry would constantly crack, and in the face of the large and strong undead, no knight would dare to risk death to collide with each other.
Because the number of undead is so large, the knights' riding wall knocked over one undead after another, but they have never been able to completely clean up the undead. The knights at the front began to be unable to withstand the damage caused by this high intensity, and the cavalry wall began to crumble in the resistance of the undead.
Unable to dodge, one of the knights in the cavalry wall crashed into the body of a giant tumor demon. Suddenly, the knight and the giant tumor demon were knocked on their backs. Although the limbs of the Giant Tumor Demon were directly distorted and twisted by the impact, its tenacious vitality allowed him to continue to survive.
The knight who was knocked over was not so lucky, he was directly trampled under the feet of the war horse that caught up from behind, and he was killed on the spot. Then, his corpse was trampled into a mass of flesh under the frantic trampling of the war horseland.
Seeing that his comrades were wounded, a soldier tried to stab the giant tumor demon who stood up from the ground with a knight's spear. It's a pity that before he could swing his spear, the giant tumors on the giant tumor demon's body were like fountains, spurting out a stream of green pus frantically.
The knight who tried to kill it was sprayed all over his body on the spot, and in an instant a series of huge bumps bulged up on the soldiers and their horses. The soldier subconsciously touched the skin of his face with his hand, and his cheeks and even the flesh of the belt were ripped off by himself, revealing bloody facial bones. Immediately afterwards, his body swollen like an inflated balloon, and his stomach was even more swollen like a pregnant woman.
The war horse under him was also infected and its whole body was swollen, and it fell directly to the ground after losing its strength. With the heavy impact, the horse exploded as it fell to the ground, spurting pus from the giant tumor and splashing it on the other knights.
One by one, the other knights who had been stained with pus fell off their horses, and their bodies exploded into a puddle of unknown cloudy liquid.
Seeing this, the knights who followed behind had no choice but to abandon the array of horses and scatter their horses to avoid their bodies being contaminated with venom.
However, it was not so easy to change the crowded array of riding walls, and the knights tried to disperse in a panic, but only to collide with each other. The speed of the war horse can reach more than 50 kilometers per hour, which is comparable to a car driving on an ordinary road. Under such a powerful impact, once the cavalry collided, it could only be shattered.
Cavalry is different from infantry in that when a cavalry falls to the ground during a rapid charge, it is often injured along with a dozen cavalrymen.
The Giant Tumor Demon Land attacked, causing the entire Centurion to lose one-tenth of its number in the blink of an eye. There was nothing to reduce in numbers, the most important thing was that the original formation was torn apart by the undead.
As for the giant tumor demon, it was killed along with the cavalry that collided with it. However, after the Tumor Demon died, its corpse exploded like the cavalry it had infected. As a result, the cavalry suffered even greater casualties.
While most of the undead are unarmed, they are not wastes that do not possess any offensive power. Conversely, the undead have a far superior advantage over humans when it comes to fighting cavalry.
There are many ways to restrain cavalry, and if it is a human, humans will choose to use infantry to list spear formations to defend against cavalry, and use regular shots to ensure that the opponent needs to face more guns, so as to block the cavalry. This is effective for cavalry that has lost speed, but for cavalry in a charge, this formation is guaranteed to kill the first row of cavalry, but the men and horses killed in battle still have a huge inertia, which will overturn the array and cause several times the casualties of their own, paving the way for the subsequent cavalry to continue to widen the gap. In this way, after a continuous charge, the enemy's army will collapse, and once the army line is broken, people will scatter and flee under the survival instinct, and the cavalry can chase and kill while accelerating.
Even if the military formation did not collapse, the average soldier could not face the cavalry with a spear. When hundreds of horses rushed to the spearmen with thunderous force, no soldier had the courage to charge hard. After all, humans are sentient creatures, and in the face of death, anyone can feel fear.
But the undead are not the same as the human spearmen, the human spearmen have a fear mentality, and the undead are gone. Regardless of the formation in which the cavalry charges, they will choose to attack. The divided formation of the cavalry allowed the undead to attack the enemy's horses from the flank.
They didn't care what would happen to them when they hit the horses, but threw themselves on the horses, desperately biting the horses they were sitting on. Once the undead pounce on their horses, they will never let go, either tearing the flesh off the horse's body and falling down, or falling from the horse after being cut off by the cavalry with a sword.
Not only one cavalry team suffered a heavy defeat in the charge, but the cavalry team in costume basically suffered losses.
The cavalry team will never be able to maintain its agility for a long time, and once the enemy formation is too thick, the cavalry charge will not be able to penetrate the enemy's formation.
Krisov realized that his subordinates could no longer maintain the cavalry wall. So he gave a new order:
"The front team is stabbing at the skirmish, and the back team is opening the iron meteor net!"
"Boom, ......" The sound of metal chains clashing rang out at the back of each cavalry.
The knights at the back of the line began to pull out a heavy chain, and dozens of fist-sized meteor hammers hung from the chains. At the end of the chain there are two hooks that can be attached to the saddle of the warhorse to prevent the chain from falling. Each soldier held a chain, and ten knights rushed towards the undead against the heavy iron meteor net.
After the knights who rushed behind completely opened the iron meteor net, the knights in front began to gradually disperse, no longer using the wall to attack the enemy.
The various cavalry exposed gaps of about one to three meters between each other, and the cavalry could not attack all the undead, so the cavalry would choose to attack the strong undead who were large and spared those who were slightly weaker.
Those who missed the undead would be stabbed to death with spears by their comrades, or trampled to death with iron hooves by uninjured horses behind.
The sparse cavalry force cannot kill all the enemies like riding a wall. Moreover, the tenacious vitality of the undead also determines that they will not immediately lose their combat effectiveness due to the severing of their limbs by spears and sabers.
In this way, it is up to the last layer of the Iron Meteor Net to deliver a fatal final blow to these undead.
Iron meteors hung from chains, striking one after another at the undead who were left behind by the cavalry charge. Whether it was a skeleton or a corpse, they were all shattered by the impact of the iron meteor.
"Boom!"
A skeleton suddenly flew into the sky, and then slammed into a charging knight. The knight and the horse immediately fell to the ground, of course, the blow only broke the knight's body, and did not kill the knight on the spot. So he struggled to get up from the ground, then dragged his injured thigh in an attempt to dodge a comrade who was catching up from behind.
Unfortunately, the knight with a broken thigh couldn't move at all, and he could only watch as one of his familiar comrades crashed towards him.
At this critical moment, another skeleton fell from the sky and smashed straight on the comrades who rushed over. The comrade-in-arms was directly smashed off the war horse, but the war horse was not injured and continued to gallop forward.
The knight struggled with the last of his strength to move to the side. Unfortunately, it was a step too late, and the horse that had lost its owner stepped on the knight's already injured thigh, and with a "click", the knight heard the sound of his thigh bone being completely broken.
The knight who was trampled on the thigh by the war horse was still not killed, but the severe pain also made him completely lose the strength to move, and at this time he could only lie on the ground and wait for the fate of being trampled to death by his comrades.
"Knock, knock, knock!" The knight who fell to the ground did not wait for the fate of being trampled to death by the war horse, but heard the sound of footsteps shaking the mountains in a row.
"Phew, hoo!" The sound of comrades-in-arms strangling their horses also sounded in their ears.
He forced himself to open his eyes, he wanted to know what was going on around him. But when he opened his eyes, he almost saw a terrifying scene that he would never forget in his life.
He saw a terrifying giant made of bones standing proudly in front of him, and the giant's body was densely covered with the heads of the skeletons, which opened and closed as if they were laughing, and looked at the dying knight with their empty eyes.
"Help me, save me, save me......" The knight could only moan on the ground, begging for help from his comrades.
All he could watch as his body was grabbed by the bone giant and lifted above his head. The knight used his last strength to slap the bone giant desperately, but he still couldn't change his fate of being devoured by the giant.
"Click!"
The knight's lower limbs were directly torn off by the giant, and blood mixed with various internal organs splattered out of his body. When the Bone Giant eats the knight's lower limbs, the other half of the body has been bitten to pieces by the skull in the Bone Giant's hands.
Each of the giant's fingers is made up of different undead, and these undead seem to retain a part of their consciousness while forming the giant. Although they are firmly attached to the giant's body, this does not prevent them from preying on the living.