235. Ambush on all sides
Alladier stood solemnly, saluted Jiajing with a standard imperial military salute, and said in a deep voice: "Alladier promises to complete the task!"
Soon after, three figures, two large and one small, set off from the halfway point of the Badaling mountain and roared towards the northern part of the empire.
The air at high altitude is thin, and although the dragon can fly at an altitude of less than 5,000 meters, its speed is definitely not as fast as that of low-altitude flight. Only the wind dragon can fly in an area of more than five thousand meters, and the other dragons can't do it, they control the magic ability to control the air flow without the wind dragon, Jiajing and the others only fly at an altitude of two thousand meters in order to speed up the speed, which can scare the crowd on the ground into a stupe.
Most of the dragons on the continent inhabit the morning glow and the twilight dragon city, and rarely appear on the mainland, relatively speaking, the most common number on the continent is the dragon knights, but the number of dragon knights is scarce, counting the unknown, there are only ten or twenty people in the whole continent, and they are usually rare to see, and now there are as many as two at once, how not to shock these people.
A small mercenary group of only a dozen people was hunting a burst beast on the mountain, and suddenly found that there was a darkness overhead, and when he looked up, he found several incomparably huge black shadows blocking the sunlight overhead, because they were on the top of the towering mountain, and the black shadows were very close, and when they looked at it, they clearly found that the huge black shadows were actually two giant dragons! Although the other one looks like a divine beast, the body is smaller, but it is full of black and shiny metallic luster, black light flickering, full of metallic texture of the body under the sunlight, emitting a cold light, making people feel that this griffin beast is much smaller than the dragon, and even more terrifying than the two huge yellow and red dragons!
The members of the mercenary group were so close to each other, seeing the monstrous and terrifying dragon head, the fire spewing out of the nostrils and the dragon saliva flowing from the corners of the mouth, such a clear scene was simply close in front of them, and they couldn't help but sit on the ground with weak legs in fright.
The dragon's immense power was not something they could resist.
The scarred Burst Beast was also very afraid of the dragon's mighty momentum, and when it saw the mercenary attack, where did it dare to stay here, and fled into the depths of the dense forest in a hurry.
One of the mercenaries, whose face turned pale, looked at the two flying dragons and a divine beast in the distance with dull eyes, and muttered, "Captain, am I dazzled, how can I see so many dragons?!!
The captain's expression was not much better than his: "Oh my God, is there going to be a war? How could these two dragons get together, could it be that the dragon knights of our empire are dispatched!"
In the huge Athena Empire, there are only three well-known dragon knights, of course, this is not counting Badaling.
The dragon knight who was hurrying on the way had already arrived near the territory of Ingenia in two days, and joined up with Medir, Neganpei and others, and the army of Ingenia had only traveled three or four hundred kilometers, and there was a lack of a unified combined army.
Although Maidil has also practiced Nanquan, but after all, he is older, not as good as the ten-year-old and eight-year-old Renault, their strength has grown slowly, and now they are at most a high-level warrior of Black Iron, his main role is only to manage the economic construction and liquor industry affairs of Badaling, not a specialized combat talent, if it were not for his rich experience and knowledge, Jiajing would not have sent him to investigate the movements of Indiania. With his strength, attacking an army of more than 20,000 people was dead and dead, so Jiajing asked him to go back to Badaling first, leaving only Negan Pei and two private soldiers who were familiar with the terrain here.
Many of the private soldiers in Badaling are wandering mercenaries, most of these wandering mercenaries do not have a fixed area of activity, and the two private soldiers who stayed behind are the representatives of the wandering mercenaries, they said that they have been to most areas of the empire, have been in the north of the empire for a long time, and know the terrain here better, they will not participate in the battle, but it is of great help to Jiajing to formulate an attack plan.
For example, now, at the suggestion of the two of them, Jiajing and the others decided to launch the first wave of attacks on the coalition forces on a mountain road thirty kilometers away from the coalition forces!
The mountain path is located at the foot of a steep mountain range, next to a deep valley river, the water is very fast, and the mountain road is extremely narrow, allowing only three giant armored beast chariots to pass side by side. Although it is not a necessary route for the wing, if you want to go around the mountains and not pass through the mountain road, you have to walk an extra three or four hundred kilometers.
Ex would never have imagined that in this ordinary mountain path and dense forest, there were actually three extremely powerful top warriors who were preparing to launch a surprise attack on them!
The Indo-Indian forces were well coordinated, marching in a regular formation, with cavalry leading the way, pikemen following, crossbow soldiers following pikemen, and then various war auxiliaries including healers, shamans, cursers, etc., and magicians staying with those special combatants.
There are not many magicians in the coalition army, all of them are cultivated or recruited by the Innia family themselves, and most of the other aristocratic forces are sending infantry archers and crossbowmen to assist Incalia, and they are reluctant to use the scarce mage resources, Innia attaches great importance to their dozen or so magicians, guarded by sturdy barbarian warriors, even if they are dragon knights, they can't pass the barbarian warriors' blockade and snipe the mage troops.
All kinds of logistics materials and transport vehicles are located at the end of the team, escorted by heavy infantry teams and logistics transport teams, because the heavy armor of heavy infantry armor is placed on special transport vehicles, once a battle occurs, you can immediately wear armor and join the battle.
The team in front of them all belonged to the Indianian family, and the other aristocratic forces were allied forces, each with its own generals, and the formation was a little chaotic, and it was not even as neat as the army of the barbarian goddess.
According to Ex's plan, after arriving at Badaling, these people will be used to take the lead, as long as they reach the Great Wasteland, if they don't obey the order, if these scattered troops are allowed to take the lead, it will only slow down the speed of the march.
Like all armies, Ax also sent a number of reconnaissance teams to explore the way first, especially in such a dangerous place.
But they are now facing the top strength of Badaling, if it is an ordinary army ambush, naturally they can't avoid the search of the reconnaissance team, Jiajing They only have five people and a giant dragon, ambushed in the depths of the dense forest, the target is not big, how can the reconnaissance team find their existence.
Watching the Indian Nian troops slowly pass through the mountain road, Jiajing still suppressed the breath, and did not give the order to attack, his target was the coalition of aristocratic forces behind, the Indian Nian soldiers were neatly lined, the five or six small bed crossbows in front were equipped with special armor-piercing crossbows more than two meters long, and the silver arrows showed that they were made by Mithril, with demon-breaking characteristics, shot out by the powerful bed crossbow, even the dragon's solid scales and thick skin were difficult to resist, even if Jiajing and the others suddenly attacked them, they were afraid that they would not be able to cause a big panic, and they would expose themselves to the enemy's attack range。
Attacking the scattered coalition forces has two benefits, other big nobles sent troops to assist Indiania, on the one hand, because of the inextricable connection with Indiania, on the other hand, India paid them a lot of gold coins, these two aspects, the nobles only value the relationship with India, the big nobles who can recruit private soldiers are not the owners who have too much money to spend, they also know that India and Nigeria let them send troops, it is likely to be used as cannon fodder, therefore, most of the troops they send are reserve troops or secondary troops, there is no real elite, let alone a rare bed crossbow, magicians, etc., Jiajing let the troops of India attack the coalition troops, and the safety factor is much higher.
In addition, the aristocratic coalition is a force with a weak desire to fight, let the coalition know what kind of force they are about to face, causing panic among them, plus they have just set off, it is very likely that they will retreat, after all, they only want to curry favor with Innia in order to have an advantage in future cooperation, as long as they feel that Invenia has no chance of winning this time, of course they will not bury their strength in vain.
Just as the aristocratic coalition troops marched to a third of the mountain road, a deafening dragon roar suddenly sounded in the mountain forest, and the sharp roar of the dragon chant and the giant eagle came and went, and four black shadows rose from the middle of the mountain in an instant, with a powerful momentum that made the soldiers frightened, and fiercely swooped down towards a noble force with two or three thousand people and hundreds of heavy cavalry in the ranks.
The heavy cavalry is one of the elite troops on the mainland, and this aristocratic force can dispatch heavy cavalry to assist Indiania, which obviously has a lot to do with Indiania, and Jiajing naturally took them.
On the top of the mountain, the trees shook and moved in a straight line towards the team, which was of course Jiajing's other right-hand man, the Zhumu Silver Dragon Python.
The sudden appearance of dragons and giant eagles made the aristocratic coalition stunned, these aristocratic private soldiers usually suppress civilian riots in the territory or engage in skirmishes with other noble forces, where they fought with the dragon knights and super monster warriors at the top of the continent, and they didn't know how to defend against this fierce attack for a while.
Ex's face changed drastically when the dragon's groan sounded, of course he knew that the Badaling he was about to deal with had two dragon knights, he couldn't imagine that they were not firmly guarding their own territory, and they would dare to disperse their forces to attack him.
The mountain road is narrow, the team is very open, and with the transport team in the middle, the crossbow team with bed crossbows that can attack the dragon is at least more than a thousand meters away from the dragon, and even if the bed crossbow can shoot the dragon, it is not able to penetrate the dragon's hard scale armor.
Ex served in the Empire, and he had seen the dragon knights of the Empire before, and he quickly calmed down and calmly ordered the formation of the team to change.
The crossbow team quickly pushed two heavy bed crossbows back from the gap left by the transport convoy, and a dozen or so magicians sitting in five or six vehicles also quickly approached the attacked troops under the protection of the barbarian warriors.
Even though he didn't think there was any danger of being attacked, Ex still left a gap of three or four meters in the mountain trail to allow the team to turn around, which has played a lot of roles now.
The air force units in the team also rose into the air quickly, and with a strong dragon might, they brazenly rushed towards the attacking dragons and super Warcraft warriors.
Among the Indonian private soldiers, there are 300 flying troops, most of which are lions and herons, as well as pegasus, rock eagles, and soaring beasts. Although their level is too different from the dragon, but after a long time of training, under the control of the knight, they are not very afraid of the dragon's might, and they challenge the majesty of the dragon with their teeth and claws, most of these warriors with flying war beasts are members of the slave catching team, and the strength is certainly not comparable to ordinary soldiers, more than three hundred air force units, entangled the dragon, and let the bow team with bed crossbows turn back, which is a great threat to the dragon warriors.
There are also many warriors with flying war beasts in the aristocratic alliance, who have recovered from the shock of seeing the dragon just now, and know that if they don't stop the dragon attack, it is likely that it will be their turn in the next moment.
More than 20,000 soldiers, in the blink of an eye, more than 500 air forces rose and killed Jiajing and others, and the momentum was amazing.
If there was no threat from the ground forces, the two dragon knights, the red-eyed griffin, and the iron-feathered sand eagle would naturally not be afraid of them, but now the troops below shot countless arrows, and swept towards the dragon like a falling rainstorm. Although the dragon can disdain ordinary bows and arrows, the bows and arrows with spiritual power shot by the archery masters can cause damage to the dragon, especially the two approaching bed crossbows, as long as they are five hundred meters away, the armor-piercing crossbow made by Mithril can easily pierce the dragon's scale skin.
Jiajing shouted loudly, and the huge wings of the Iron Feather Sand Eagle waved continuously, and the wind that fanned up formed a huge wind blade, which not only rolled back most of the bows and arrows, but also swept towards those heavy cavalry.
Taking advantage of the fact that the coalition air force did not arrive, Xiao Bai, the fire dragon, ignored the rain of arrows, roared and swept down, and the blazing dragon flames spewed out were sprinkled on the heavy cavalry who could not dodge without hesitation.
The heavy cavalry faced the attack of the dragon, and the horses under the seat were already panicked and chaotic, where they could avoid the attack of the dragon dragon Yan, and the body wearing only soft armor encountered the blazing dragon flame, and it was immediately burned into a pitch black ball, and some of the knights with spiritual power protection were not much better. Although he was not killed immediately, the beard began to burn and immediately fell to the ground, fluttering on the burning clothes and beard.
The horses that were directly hit by Long Yan simply became roasted horses, emitting bursts of aroma.
The power of the giant dragon was well displayed at this moment, and Xiao Bai's pounce and dragon flame spray killed at least twenty or thirty cavalry on the other side.
Two of them, who seemed to be of good strength and could still hand spears to Xiaobai when Long Yan was in good shape, unfortunately became the target of Puanx, and the sharp armor-piercing dragon spear easily pierced their chests, sending them flying high.
When the dragon rose from the mountain road, I saw that where its belly defense was relatively weak, a few bows and arrows were sparsely inserted, and the powerful warriors in the coalition army gave Xiaobai a slight damage, but the arrows were not deep enough to pose no threat to the dragon.