348 Storm Array
Duke's tactics are very simple, relying on the strong physical defense of the storm shield and the armor, the ice demon is engaged in an extremely bloody hand-to-hand combat, with blood and courage to prove who is the owner of this land!
The Ice Demon Warriors who rushed to the front quickly saw this steel hedgehog-like position, and the five-meter spear and the three-meter height made them finally hesitate. Although their jumping ability and physical fitness are amazing, they have not reached an exaggerated state, and their overall body is stronger than that of a mid-level swordsman, but their swordsmanship is inferior to that of a middle-level swordsman.
With this kind of width and height, it is impossible for a mid-level swordsman to jump, even if the ice demon is physically stronger, he can't cross this exaggerated distance simply by jumping, so the ice demon in the front row will hesitate.
But this is war! Once the charge is made, there is no reason for the soldiers in the front row to stand still and cower. Anyone who stops in the front row of the battlefield is either killed by the enemy, or squeezed or trampled to death by his comrades. In a sense, the reason why the cavalry is indomitable is this, once the charge is launched, then the knights have no second choice.
Therefore, the ice demons who stopped their tracks, under the impact or push of the ice demons in the back row, all stepped forward one after another, and began to crash hard into the shield array of the storm army.
Once they entered the mode of positional warfare, the physical advantage of the Ice Devils was no longer so obvious, and the ice swords and ice armor in their hands did not have any advantage in the face of the Storm Army's spring steel blades and the storm armor made of hydraulic stamping.
The spear was like a red-hot iron rod fused into the ice, easily piercing the ice armor on the ice demon's body, and directly pierced a pair of piercings. In just a few seconds, the periphery of this spear array had already penetrated the ice demon's corpse.
Faced with such a situation, the Ice Demons did not flinch or fear, they still rushed towards the Storm Army's position one after another. Because the Ice Demon does not have the complex emotions of humans, as long as the Ice Demon General gives an order, they can ignore life and death. At least in the history of Stormcastle in the past, there has never been a record of the Ice Demon being afraid of death or escaping.
Similarly, the huge impact from the Ice Demon Rushing Formation also made many spears unable to withstand such a huge force, and they broke directly from the middle. After all, if you want to make a soldier lift a five-meter-long spear for a long time, then you must choose some lightweight materials.
The best material is naturally made of hard and elastic wood, and then it is constantly sanded and smooth with tung oil, and finally a good gun shaft can be obtained. But this process takes too long, and some of them even need to wait three or five years for the top gun barrel to allow tung oil to penetrate into the wood.
Neither the complexity of the production nor the waiting time required for the current Storm Castle could not possess these two things, so these gun barrels were just ordinary wood, and naturally in front of a "monster" like the Ice Demon, who was more than two meters tall and weighed at least 100 kilograms, he could not withstand such pressure.
As the spear continued to break, the distance between the ice demon and the storm army began to close, and the broken spear was replaced by a short spear. Compared to longer spears, short spears are more flexible and much stiffer, and generally do not break easily.
It's just that the ice demons didn't know how to charge blindly as Duke expected before, and after paying huge casualties in the spear array, they began to directly cut off the spearhead with the ice sword in their hands, so that the spear with only a wooden stick was left, and it couldn't pierce the ice armor on their bodies.
As the number of spears continued to decrease, and the layers of ice demon corpses invisibly became shields, the ice demon army finally began to directly hit the storm army's battle shield. From the gaps in these shields, the Storm Army's blades and the Ice Demon's ice sword began to engage in the most brutal hand-to-hand combat.
From this moment on, the smell of blood instantly filled the air, he originally thought that these new Storm Army would not be able to reach the strength of the veterans of the first regiment of the Storm Army before, even if they had experienced some experience in raiding the Ice Demon Village in the early stage, in the high-intensity battlefield of facing the Ice Demon, maybe the will to fight would not be so strong.
However, the strength of the Storm Army far exceeded Duke's expectations, and these soldiers rushed towards the front line one after another, not giving the Ice Demon any chance to break through. And in the face of the ice demon, whose personal strength is much stronger, the storm soldier did not flinch, and the blade and heavy shield continued to slash towards the ice demon's body.
The long-term spiritual construction has made these storm troops fight for something, they have formed a preliminary sense of race and territory, and no longer regard Storm Fort as Duke's Storm Fort, but the Storm Fort of all Storm Army. And with Duke paying the pensions and land of the soldiers who died in the previous battle, it also greatly boosted the morale of the Storm Army soldiers.
They no longer have any worries, even if they die in battle, the lord will give his family enough treatment. If they can return triumphantly, they can also earn land by relying on military exploits, get the opportunity to change their identity and status, and become a small lord.
Even after making great achievements, Duke promised to canonize knights in the future, so that they could become a noble class. It can be said that Duke made all the low-level soldiers see hope and understand the meaning of their own fighting, they are fighting for themselves and their families, how can such an army not be combative?
The Ice Demon's attack was completely resisted, and Anubir's gloomy face in the distance was also a shock that could not be restrained. If this kind of scene was not in front of his eyes, Anubir couldn't believe his eyes, the human race actually completely resisted the attack of the ice demon in the field situation.
And judging from the corpses on the ground, the casualty rate of the Ice Demon is even greater than that of the Storm Army, you must know that the previous Ice Demon Warriors could fight ten ordinary Storm Castle soldiers, and only the knights could resist it. In just one year, from the initial tentative attack being thwarted, to the later siege battle being repulsed, to now the human army attacking Storm Fortress, the situation can be called a 180-degree turn, which is really unacceptable to Anubir.
When will humans be so powerful, even if there are many strong human beings, it is impossible for them to appear in the storm army. You must know that the territory in the distance has been a surviving existence under the sword of the Ice Demon for hundreds of years, and the reason why it is still allowed to exist is not that the Ice Demon has no way to conquer it, but that it does not want to cause the Holy See to counterattack, and it can provide a steady stream of babies, as long as it is plundered once every few years.
Such a "prey" that he despised actually showed his fangs today!