Chapter 69: Flying Straight (I)
Just as the coalition forces were unimpeded in the wild heights, a piece of news caused the large army of Erathia to immediately turn around and rush back in the direction of the kingdom. Because Tetalia, located in Erathia, suddenly attacked when the coalition forces attacked half a month ago.
In fact, this time the coalition forces are mentally prepared for the battle against the people of Tytaria, and although the process of the change of the throne of Titali is hidden from the outside world, there are still some rumors leaking out. Anyone can think of Oufu's intentions in this move, and it is not surprising that Titalia will come to participate in this war.
But everyone thought that the occasion of the battle with the barbarians was in the wild highlands, as an insignificant reinforcement of Oufu. But now they had forced Erathia's 40,000-strong army to retreat at once.
In fact, the territory of Tetalia is as vast as Erathia, but most of it is uninhabited swamps and mountains, and the richness and prosperity are naturally far from it. Therefore, the Barbarians have been beaten against Erathia for many years, and a great battle five years ago has caused great damage. Had it not been for the large swamps that served as a natural barrier, Erathia would have had little interest in the barren lands of the north, and perhaps Tytalia would have ceased to exist long ago. Over the years, Titaria has not done much except for some harassment and friction, although there is news that in the end it was Orf who helped the new king of Titaria ascend to the throne, and finally the two countries formed an alliance, but the overwhelming superiority of Tytaria has always made Erathia's military disappointed. In terms of equipment and tactics, the knights and soldiers trained by Zhengguan are indeed far more effective on the battlefield than the barbarians who are always screaming and rushing to the ground, not to mention that the number of barbarians is not very large, and even if they are out, they are only more than the orcs of Orf. The armies on the northern border, which remained in the country, would definitely be able to withstand their surprise attacks.
But this absolute, too, is only what Erathia herself thinks is absolute. Tertaria's combat effectiveness was completely beyond Erathia's expectations, not only did almost all of them come out of the nest, but their equipment was actually good enough to match the regular swordsmen of Erathia. Steel battle axes and hammers were easy enough to shatter the shields and armor of the swordsmen, and they already had rattan and leather armor to defend against arrows. These pieces of equipment are never something that barbarians can make on their own. And the source is self-explanatory.
In addition to the near-sightedness, dragonflies and lizards also joined the battlefield under the drive of the tamer, completely making up for the lack of numbers and tactical weakness of the barbarians. These swamp animals had also appeared in Tytaria's troops before, and the number of hundreds of them only played a little auxiliary role in battle, but now the dragon flies that appeared on the battlefield can be described as overwhelming, and those swamp lizards that are the size of the largest crocodile have also begun to attack the enemy in hundreds under the drive of the animal trainer.
On top of that, it is reported that the king of Liantalia, Teze, was at the forefront of the battle, and this king who had not been on the throne for a long time not only raised the morale of the barbarians, but also used his rather efficient command and dominance to make their wild morale only work where it worked. The barbarians no longer howled and rushed forward like mad bulls, they became more disciplined and tactical.
With such an unexpected combat effort, the barbarians achieved amazing results. After the absolute main force was sent to the wild heights, Erathia's defensive front, which he had thought was impregnable, was easily broken through. For the first time, these barbarians, who had seized the opportunistic opportunity, had advanced so deep into the rich plains of Erathia that they would not waste such an opportunity, plundering everything they went, and pointing their fingers directly at the royal city of Erathia.
The timing of this offensive was just right. It was when Erathia's army entered the hinterland of the highlands. In fact, they were closer to the eastern border of Tetaria at this time. But they had to go back on the defensive. No one dares to take the risk of attacking them, or that the barbarians are the ones who are truly saved, and the barbarians may be able to abandon their humble lair, but the knights will never abandon the palace and Her Majesty of Erathia. Although there were more than 10,000 light cavalry troops of Erathia among the cavalry guarding the grain road, they retreated as soon as possible. But according to the combat power shown by the barbarians. The 10,000 cavalry was not able to turn things around, at most it was just to delay the situation and buy time for the retreat of the army on the high ground.
As the absolute main force in the coalition army, as soon as Erasi's 40,000-strong army withdraws, the strength of the coalition army will undoubtedly be greatly reduced. But that doesn't stop them. Their morale is still high. The vanguard of the coalition forces was less than a hundred miles away from the city of Ofu, and the frontal battle was about to begin.
The 10,000-strong army of the Principality of Judah was the most advanced force in the coalition, and they marched directly towards Ofu at a much faster pace than the rest of the coalition forces. This was the first frontal assault on Orf, and the orcs had no way to avoid it.
In a way, this is also a temptation. The coalition forces also want to know the frontal combat effectiveness of Oufu and how it fights. The vast majority of the cavalry was transferred to the rear to protect the grain routes, and the 4,000 heavily armed knights of Judah's army became the absolute vanguard and main force of the coalition army. In fact, the tactic of using heavy cavalry to charge the orcs head-on has also proved to be very effective in previous battles to clear the orcs, whether it is a werewolf or an ogre, even the horses are heavily armored knights are invincible.
So far, except for the use of bipedal wyverns and ballistas to occupy a slight advantage in the air, the rest of the place is still the world of the coalition forces. Indeed, as the previous Jia Wei warriors said, the generals of the coalition forces are not stupid, and it can even be said that they are the best military commanders in the mainland. Especially after being attacked from behind and having to send as many as 30,000 cavalry to guard the grain route, the generals realized that Oufu was indeed not so easy to deal with. The characteristics of orcs and the right tactics can exert quite amazing power, and even a slightly imaginative general can feel this.
Before the Templar left, he had told the generals about the possible sneak attack tactics that Orfo might use, though the generals had not been as careful as the Templars. But it's basically everything. Not only did the griffons no longer attack on their own, but the night garrison was much stronger, and each unit had to have several high-level mages on standby at all times.
This defensive strategy really worked well. The sneak attacker who tried to sprinkle necromantic magic in the air appeared above the coalition forces once, and was shot down by the over-distance lightning sent by the combined efforts of these mages, and if he hadn't used the teleportation scroll in the air, he would have been electrocuted alive by several mages if not in mid-air. Falling into the army is also a dead end. And in the half a month since this sneak attack, Ou Fu has not taken any action, perhaps Ou Fu has also sensed that the chance of a sneak attack is too small to be worth the risk, after all, attacking hundreds of miles away from the stronghold is not an easy thing to do if you want to.
In contrast, the coalition forces have not been aware of Oufu's combat methods and combat effectiveness. Although the commanders could imagine and guess, no matter how accurate they imagined and guessed, they could not use it as a basis for setting a battle plan, so this allowed Juda's Heavy Knights to attack and test first.
The Knights of Judah Heavy are actually the strongest of the coalition forces. Both mobility and combat effectiveness are enough to compete with the orcs. Let such a force, which should be the main force, be tempted, which is exactly what the coalition forces attach to Oufu. In the unlikely event that even if they were at a disadvantage in the battle with the orcs, they would have enough to temporarily retreat and wait for the arrival of the army.
However, at least in the minds of the Judah hoplites, there was absolutely no such concept of retreat. They have such self-confidence, and they also have such self-confidence. The Duchy of Judah also borders Negan like Erathia, but it is far from Erathia in terms of size and wealth. However, although the national power is not as strong as Erathia, Juda has never fallen behind in the strategy of the Negan Dungeon. Even the Minotaurs, taller and stronger than the ogres, were unable to resist the charge of Juda's heavy cavalry.
Finally, dozens of miles away from Oufu, this vanguard of the coalition saw Oufu's troops. It's no longer the figures that only roamed the edge of their sight every day. It's a real force. The scout in charge of watching was able to clearly see the werewolves and ogres that formed a formation after attaching advanced Eagle Eye techniques.
The knights of Judah were not surprised. Now that Ofu is less than 100 miles away, any harassment and stratagem are useless, and the orcs can only be forced to face it head-on no matter what.
"The whole army is lined up, ready to charge. "The captains of the Knights gathered their ranks and fiddled with their formations. The hoplites were already two or three miles apart from each other, and the wasteland of the Pingchuan River was the most suitable for the charge of the hoplites.
But the scout in charge of watching and scouting shouted at this time: "Oufu has started to charge first...... No. Just a ......"
In fact, there was no need to say it, all the knights could also see a small white point of light detached from the orc's formation, and quickly approached here.
The speed of this white point of light was very fast, and the knights in the line could soon see that it was actually a person, a figure whose whole body was wrapped in bright white light. Charging with the speed of an arrow and the momentum of thousands of troops.
The so-called charge, generally speaking, the difference between the forces of the two sides is not too large, at least they must occupy the advantage of the arms before they take the initiative to attack the other side. If it was just one person rushing towards thousands of heavily armored cavalry, this kind of behavior really could not be described as a charge, and it would be better to send it to death or go crazy.
But all the cavalrymen who could see this man did have the word 'charge' in their minds at the same time, and this was the charge. Even if it was just one person, even if it was facing the most elite hoplite cavalry of thousands of continents, it was still the most powerful, exemplary and most charge-like charge.
This person's body was not huge, and his weight was not high, but everyone felt that the ground was moving, and they couldn't tell whether it was because of the hallucinations caused by the momentum and spirit that they were brought out by this person, or whether the earth was really trembling under this person's footsteps. It was as if he himself were thousands of hoplites armed to the teeth, and he was facing a lonely enemy army, and he was about to be scattered by him at once. Crushed, crushed.
"Bow and crossbow, shoot. One of the captains of the Order threw out a few words in a deep voice. He looked at the rapidly approaching white figure, and there was fire burning in his eyes, but his voice and expression were as calm as ice and as heavy as iron.
Needless to say, almost all the knights had already taken out their military heavy crossbows and held them in their hands. The Knights of Judah are all elites who have experienced life and death on the battlefield. Although his mind fluctuated because of this man, the soldier's iron will did not waver in the slightest. At the sound of an order, countless arrows and arrows shot overwhelmingly towards the oncoming figure. The army's heavy crossbows were enough to pierce armor at less than 100 paces, and the team's specialized archers could shoot even a narrow shield piercing. The thousands of arrows shot from different directions were like a storm of death made of metal.
But no storm can shake the mountains. This rain of arrows, which was so dense that it could almost block the line of sight, seemed to be just a scrap of paper that was thrown casually in front of the light emitted by the person's body, and it was blown away by the white light and momentum around him. Broken, shattered, skewed and scattered and bounced apart.
A little slower than an arrow is magic. The mages in charge of the response force were also experienced, and fireballs, walls of fire, ice arrows, lightning, and dozens of other spells were all shot towards this person. But all of these spells that could have broken the soldier's bones now seemed to be fireworks, only flickering in front of them, and many of them had not yet had time to burst out of their mana. I was shattered by that white light.
No one could see the footsteps of the rushing man. But there is no one who does not feel that every step of his indistinguishable footsteps is stepping on the center of this crust, and at the same time stepping on his heart, making every nerve and every cold hair of his life tremble with this land.
The earth is shaking, the heart is moving, the soul is shaking, for he is charging.
"Shoot. Hold a shield. At the same time as the order was given, the three regiment commanders had already gathered together, and they all looked at the person who was getting closer and closer, each holding their own weapons, the muscles and veins in their hands had been stretched to the limit, and the light of the fighting spirit on their bodies was revealed.
With the command. All the spears of the hoplites in the front row were erected, and it was a complete forest of guns.
But this man still did not stop, did not slow down in the slightest, and in the face of the forest of steel guns and the fortress built by the Iron Knight behind him, he rushed faster and more fiercely. There was a loud bang, like a meteorite from outside the sky hitting the ground, and this person actually crashed into the queue of four thousand heavily armored knights with his own flesh and blood.
The spear snapped. Flipping, knights and mounts shattered together, flipped over, shields and armor shattered, mixed with limbs and corpses flew into the air. The Iron Knights, who could have been invincible and devastating on the battlefield, shattered and splattered like sand and stones that had been stirred up by a violent impact, from where the man had rushed into the queue.
The knight's queue was originally an impregnable fortress, capable of charging and crushing tens of thousands of infantry, but the white light-surrounded figure hit it as if it had drawn into a black lake, stirring up countless splashes, and then continued to advance like a bamboo, splitting the waves.
Although the bodies and weapons of their companions were scattered like rain, all the heavily armored knights did not panic, and the knights on both wings continued to circle the middle. The formation of the knights was also constantly changing, like a huge monster, changing its size to surround the foreign object that had broken into its body as much as possible. And as more and more knights were knocked out of the way, more and more people were shattered, and the man's speed began to slow down.
There was a muffled sound, like hitting a stone in the middle of the lake, and the man's figure finally stopped. The path behind him that had just been knocked out by himself was instantly filled by the knights around him, and he was already in the middle of the thousands of knights.
"General Gru, I have long admired the great name. A dull voice came from under the mask, and the three captains of the Knights of Judah were side by side, and the spears in their hands fell on this man's hand, or rather, the three captains finally stopped this man with a combined blow.
"The legendary god of war who commanded the orc troops of Oufu is indeed worthy of his name. I'm afraid that even the paladin Lancelot would not be able to break into our camp like this, and you've actually defeated hundreds of our elite knights in one go. ”
"But we really can't imagine that you would adopt such a stupid and arrogant tactic, do you think that you can penetrate our ranks by your own strength and thus severely damage the morale of our army? You have underestimated us too much, and now that your momentum is exhausted, and your fighting spirit is gone, it is impossible to rush out of our hands again. ”
"As a martial artist, I certainly want to compete with a top master like you. But this is a battlefield, and as soldiers, we are outnumbered here. Regretful. The voice of the Knights Master came from under the mask, and although it smelled of metal and hardness, the excitement of killing the opponent was still evident in the tone of great regret.
"It's a pity. That's what I want to say to you. Gru's eyes swept over the faces of the three captains, his voice colder than theirs. "You're right, this is the battlefield. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Gru squatted slightly, and the light of his fighting spirit suddenly brightened again, he had already risen from the ground, and his whole person was like a crossbow arrow shot by a strong crossbow, and he actually jumped straight out of a height of hundreds of meters on the spot.
The three captains of Juda were all stunned, and they all looked up at Gru in mid-air. Jumping high in the face of countless enemies below is almost like making others gather their strength and prepare to kill him when he falls.
The blue teleportation light sparked on Gru, and he unfolded the teleportation scroll as he leaped up. The three regiment commanders were slightly stunned, and then shouted to release the arrows, but the arrows only hit a small trace left after the blue light disappeared.
"What is he doing, wanting to exchange a teleportation scroll for the lives of a hundred of our knights? One of the regimental commanders shouted angrily: "All the troops are lined up and ready to charge." Crush the orcs in front of you. ”
But the other regiment commander stared into the air, frowned and said, "Wait, what's that?"
Several small objects fell from the sky, just where Gru had just stood. The most conspicuous of these is a seemingly gray jade plaque, strung together into a necklace by an extremely thin chain. But if you look closely, you can find that there is no gray on this jade plate, and the gray color is the illusion of countless small and uniform black lines and white lines. But now there seem to be two cracks in this extremely delicate jade plaque that spoil this strange beauty.
The other small objects were shattered magic crystals, and from the shape of the shatters, it could be seen that these magic crystals seemed to have been a small container before, a crystal container that was just enough to hold the jade plate.
"Not good. "Oops. The three captains shouted almost at the same time. They didn't recognize what the jade plaque was, but they could see a strange wisp of gray spreading out of the small gray thing, and they could feel the terrifying magic contained in the gray.
This gray color has just appeared, and everything around it has turned gray in an instant, as if this space has been wrapped in this lifeless color.
"The whole army retreated. The faces of the three regiment commanders turned gray, their skin turned gray, the armor and fighting spirit on their bodies were also gray, and even the voice of this roar seemed to be gray.
But instead of retreating, they stabbed their guns at the ground at the same time, stabbing their guns at the little thing on the ground that was overflowing with dead ashes. The tips of the three spears did not hit the jade plaque, but pointed at it at three different angles from an inch of space. All the fighting energy of the three group leaders was also condensed to the tip of the spear, forming a barrier of fighting energy, trying to suppress the spread of this gray.
It's just a pity that they're all a little slower. If they could have done it a second or two earlier, it would have done what they had expected, and the gray aura had indeed slowed down a little under the barrier of the fighting aura, but it was only a little, and since the complex and incomprehensible mana contained in it had already moved, it was impossible to stop interrupting.
The hoplites around them were rapidly retreating, but a sea of gray with a diameter of miles had already surrounded them. It was neither fog nor anything tangible, it was a color, the color of dead ash.
In this gray there is nothing but death.