Volume VIII, Chapter 32
A few flickering points in the southern part of the world of Osiria finally came to an end, and the enraged Holy Emperor Shinas, with a burst of strength, succeeded in keeping 90% of the forward force of the mixed 1st and 2nd Frontier Armies. However, the losses of the armies of the other two Holy Lands were more than 20%, and the number of troops of the Holy Cult was reduced to 160,000. The 800,000 coalition forces had shrunk to 680,000 before the contact with the enemy's regular army, and the huge blow was not only a loss of strength, but also the beginning of demoralization. The all-out efforts of the Black Wings finally made Osiria realize the true meaning and iron determination of Orka, the name of the Demon Wing Death Reaper, and the combination of technology and magic beyond the modern era may make the Black Wings, who have less than 200,000 combatants, truly qualified to compete with the world.
However, this is just the beginning, like the ups and downs of the history that followed. As the first battle of the Second Patriotic War, the climax of Operation Folded Wings, known as the "Battle of the Plains of Griva", began at 12:19 on February 1, 371 in the Swan Emperor's calendar, starting with the first flash of white light. The real battle between the two sides began at 4 a.m. on 4 February, when the Black Wing cadres Carolette and Ibeh waved 100,000 troops, divided into five routes, and penetrated into the well-organized Holy Cult army with unprecedented depth. The self-inflicted encirclement that seemed to go against military common sense actually paid off in the initial period of time thanks to the extremely high maneuver speed and individual combat ability of the Black Wings Western Route Army. However, in the subsequent rapid response and judgment of the United Front Work Department of the Holy Sect, it also effectively curbed the Western Route Army's in-depth military operations with the "proliferation" tactics that ran counter to today's operational thinking, and used the traditional military formation of "large-scale diffusion and small-scale assembly" to strike at points. The first effective battle strategy against the Black Wings was formed.
As for the most powerful Legion of the Holy Land on the Western Road, Orka was personally stationed to restrict the movement of Shinas. The Black Wings' cutting-edge forces gathered in a barren plain two hundred and forty kilometers south of the Burial Heaven Mountain Range. Orca concentrated all of his remaining 80,000 troops in this corner of the flat, open Grivar Plain, and opened the battle with an almost continuous air strike. And the term "air supremacy" was officially included in the history of the war in Osiria from this battle.
- The Battle of the Plains of Griva
—Osirian historian Franne Cayan Wintington
Dragon-like black lightning curled above the clouds, then stretched forward with a sharp roar, bringing with it a frenzy of dark elements.
The waves of the dark elemental slammed into the light barrier in front of the Black Wings Army Array, shrouded in a cloud of black mist, and bloomed into layers of poppy-like annihilation flames with great contrast distorted by black and white.
The distance between darkness and light was so far away, but the flat terrain did not give the two sides the slightest visual obstruction. Each individual unit of battle has been transformed into tiny dots of light, swimming across the vast and desolate plains around it. Points of light of the same color will quickly coalesce as soon as they get closer, and points of light of different colors will retreat or disappear in the rapidly dispersing red sparks.
At this moment, on the detection scroll in front of the Black Wing cadre Tagaus, the speed of the movement of the black symbol belonging to his side was gradually surpassed by the faster and faster golden light spots. The flat plate's monotonous facial features were still expressionless, but everyone standing beside him felt a murderous aura that brought a sting.
"They're getting faster and faster. ”
"Build yì back defense. Rogel, a staff officer beside Tagors, said in the same monotonous tone as the chief.
"Adopted. Targos replied, speaking a few words into another scroll, and the magic circle immediately loaded the sound signal with its unique fluctuations, spreading out in all directions, resonating on the scroll printed with the same circle, transmitting the signal to the lower commanders.
The soldiers, whose vision was like a fog that sometimes condensed and spread, shrank back sharply a minute after the order was given, like limbs that had been electrocuted. A group of Blue and Red Knights in blue and red armor unleashed a ranged magical attack from the flanks. About thirty Storm Knights' Water Fighting Knights and five Fire Knights' covering mages rushed straight to a distance of less than three hundred meters from the headquarters at the moment of the change in the frequency of the army brought about by the retreat.
Tagaus heard the position commander next to him shout to the mage regiment next to him in a distinctly "Tagaus-style" tone, "Shift the fire strike point, and concentrate a platoon on the nearest target."
The calm tone and calm reaction made Tagors give a satisfied "um", but even so. In this battle, which was destined to happen from the beginning and was destined to have a huge disparity in strength, it was not allowed that any of the people involved in the battle would be allowed to lose control. Every soldier of the Black Wings knows what a terrible battle they are facing, and the goal of the opponent is to uproot the Black Wings where they grew up. There is no chance of forgiveness. The Blackwing soldiers who fought on their backs burst out with great combat effectiveness, but in a battle ratio of one to three or even one to four. Even the Black Wings' leading war technology and combat concepts have been gradually dismantled in the war technology that has been unsealed in the Magic Vault.
He knew very well that Lord Orka, who was standing in mid-air, had told every cadre several times: "Fight quickly." War must not be pushed into a tug-of-war. ”
Carrying out orders has become a way of life for Tagaus, and the cold mind quickly calculates the battle plan for the next stage. He didn't know if the common thinking of the three knight captains on the other side could keep up with his train of thought, but even a small successful gamble would mean defeat under the huge difference in strength between the two sides. Every time he needs a big win.
Black lightning condensed over Orka, spreading towards the Light Barrier in front of Shinas, two kilometers away. Despite such a distance, the Winged Demon Supreme and the Contemporary Saint Emperor still spied the spiritual storm behind that layer of iris from the eyes of both sides.
Shinas was still dressed in a star-blue gorgeous battle suit, quietly hovering above the headquarters of the Holy Land Army and the Knights, his expression less of the anger he had shown a few days ago when Oz was hit hard, and he regained his former joy and sorrow, and looked at Orka calmly.
Orka crossed her arms. Her expression seemed to tell the soldiers below her, and the Sinas in front of her was as insignificant as the enemies who had disappeared into Orka's staff. With their strength. It is enough to completely turn the tide of the battle between the two sides, and even the outcome of the duel between two people. can determine the success or failure of every battle that is crucial to Black Wings.
She saw that the formation below was back in order, but the black mist that revealed the dark elements was much thinner than when she came.
She sighed in her heart, Edelstan's Black Wings' great victory was entirely due to the Holy Land's underestimation of herself and ignorance of their combat methods, but in just the time between these two battles, the Holy Land had already deduced the Black Wings' general combat style and adopted the most effective combat countermeasures.
In a desperate gamble, Shinas opened the Secret Hall of Magic, which had been closed for 500 years, and recreated the terrifying killing magic and martial arts that were once completely used in battle to the armies of the Holy Land. The Holy Emperor Knights, a symbol of holiness and justice, have finally taken on the blood of the Moonlight Knights of the Emperor's Era, and this blood is a seed that will continue to grow in the following battles, and will eventually prove that the First Knights of Osiria still belong to them with their absolute strength rather than the inheritance of history.
In a battle with a huge disparity in forces. And there is not much terrain worth exploiting in the Griva Plain, and the so-called battle command is simply not too complicated. The only thing that can win is the play of details, and the victory obtained with details is often difficult to achieve sufficient results.
The mage regiment led by Eleonor, who mainly studied camouflage magic, only obtained a certain number of fighters for them in the early stage, and the Holy Land did strengthen the defenses of the two wings at the beginning. At the precise moment when their mobilization was not yet stable, the 40,000-strong assault force split into eight groups and instantly broke through the slowly advancing offensive formation of the first layer of the Holy Land from the front.
The original magic cover from the three flying ships worked here, and Orka used the flying ships for the first time in real warfare. Although the flying ship that was slow and did not have the support of the magic tower was able to sustain less than half an hour's endurance, the suppression of the magical fire on it during this time gave a great shock to the military power of the Holy Land. It was at this moment that Shinas rushed into the skies to stop the flying ship from continuing to suppress, but Orka, who was facing Shinas, interrupted her plans.
The firepower was strong, although it only caused large losses in the very beginning. However, the fully activated defensive magic is also a huge mana drain on the Holy Land Mage Regiment, and most of the air-dropped weapons loaded on the flying ship will not affect the scrolls of the Black Wing Mage Regiment. After the airdrop of the flying ship ended, nearly one-third of the mage group composed of more than 1,000 mages in the Holy Land fell into a state of loss of combat power due to the depletion of mana.
The Black Wing Commando that cuts into the enemy line according to the concept. Begin to quickly sabotage the nearest herald officer. Although the Holy Land has adopted advanced magic circle quasi-instant messaging technology, there is still a gap between it and the Black Wings. Coupled with the ensuing suppression of full-band element fluctuations, the military formations far away from the headquarters could no longer even receive a clear signal from the headquarters. Even the battlefield command efficiency of the forward commander is close to zero. In a short and rare fight, Tagors penetrated the last 20,000 reserves from the forward flank into the Holy Land formation, successfully cutting the forward troops.
The detached vanguard unit immediately became the target of the mage regiment of the main attack of the Black Wings, and within a few minutes, the Holy Land soldiers, who had twice as many fighters as the Black Wings Strikers, were blasted into basic elements by magic or completely incapacitated.
But even so, more than 3,000 Demon Wing soldiers were still killed on the battlefield, and the retreating Holy Land army began to adopt the same separatist formation tactics as the Western Route Army, and at the same time launched the war of attrition that the Demon Wing Army had to face in an almost parade manner with small forces.
Although the Demon Wing Legion, which still has an advantage in individual combat effectiveness, is still much smaller than the Holy Land Legion in terms of losses, in such a attrition mode, the final defeat must belong to the Demon Wing Legion. Tagos's decision to withdraw his troops after only half an hour of this situation lasted for him also understood another meaning of this move.
He was begging Lord Orka to join the fight.
And in front of Lord Orka was the Lord of the Holy Land, Sinas, who inherited the ancient bloodline, and he still felt palpitations in the face of such an opponent.
Orka in the sky lowered her head slightly. I saw the exhausted mages of the mage group, and the demon wing soldiers who were still determined with wounded eyes all over their bodies.
These are the prices for resurrecting Siu...... She sighed softly. As a demon, she shouldn't have had mercy on these alien subordinates, and letting Siu return to her side was what she had been looking forward to for the past five hundred years. But when this familiar tragic battlefield came back to him. The emotional attachment that came with the trust in his subordinates as a corps commander still made her feel a kind of anger that surprised her when she saw this.
Slowly pulling out his cane, the purple crystal at the top refracted a brilliant blue-purple lightning in the black silent lightning. Orka straightened up, and with a crisp sound of wings, two wings covered with long gray feathers suddenly spread out on the side of Orka's back. She leaned on her asymmetrical one-sided wings to levitate in the air, gray magic patterns gradually appeared all over her body, and a vague winged demon totem appeared behind her. And even more clear is the vague icon of the Lord of the Earth in red robes, the Seal of Creation.
"You have devoted all your strength to protecting your army. This is the biggest mistake. Orka said coldly, with a faint resounding voice throughout the battlefield, every soldier looked up at the sky in shock, whether they were fighting or resting, "Now Shinas, do you still have the power to surpass the fourth level?
The shock of this sentence spread throughout the audience, and the silent response of Shinas made everyone present subconsciously confirm Orka's words. Xinas was exhausted by the time the Burial Sky Mountains fended off the flicker. After stepping through the Burial Heaven Mountain, which had been blasted open by a breach, he continued to resist the aerial fire of the Black Wings all the way. Although the Holy Emperor is the embodiment of near-invincibility in the hearts of any human, she is still a human, still bound by the limits of her shell's power.
This sentence boosted the morale of the Demon Wing Legion, and the fierce burst of monstrous battle intent made the Holy Emperor Knights who were ready to directly penetrate from the flanks and front formations stagnate. The tight defensive formation and magic turned the black wings into a single whole, and the front and flanks even lost their distinction, and the Holy Emperor Knights finally stopped their attack under the cautious order.
"Is that enough?" said Shinas with a blank face. The light elements in this space quickly condensed, forming huge golden runes around her. Equally. Behind her, a Creator Seal, much clearer than Orka's, appeared behind her. As the icon of the Lord of the Earth slowly walked towards Shinas, everyone present could hear the footsteps of the Lord of the Earth, as if the Seal of Creation standing behind Shinas had become an entity.
Orka squinted, this was the second time she had seen the Holy Emperor who inherited the bloodline of the Lord of the Earth summon the Divine Seal of Creation. She had a very clear impression of this, the moment when Shinas seemed to be fragile was actually her most powerful moment, the moment when the Ancestor Emperor Arya resonated with this bloodline, gained the power beyond the fifth level, and severely injured the black mage who had broken through the bottleneck of the fifth level. And it is obvious that the current Shinas cannot control the power of this moment, otherwise the power of this moment of transcendence will be able to leave his bones gone.
The Lord of the Earth, who was also the ancestor of the elves, stood behind Shinas, stretched out his arms, slowly embraced the petite Shinas, and then gradually melted into her body.
Seeing this miraculous Creation Divine Seal, the Holy Land Army's loyalty and faith in the Holy Emperor burst out again, and the intense light instantly illuminated half of the sky, and the Holy Emperor Knights who turned into sharp cones rushed towards the Demon Wing Legion in a circle with the sound of thunderous horses' hooves.
The air tore through and let out a long scream, and black lightning seemed to cut through the spatial rift, following behind Orka. The sheer speed was almost the same as the teleportation at this moment, the gray wings vibrated lightly, and thousands of gray feathers soared into the air, turning gracefully in the air, and then bringing a more chaotic and sharp screeching sound, stabbing at Shinas from countless angles.
Shinas raised his hands smoothly and made a gesture of hugging in the air in front of him. The cane in Orka's hand that rushed in front of her was emitting a cold gray refraction, and the bending of the air formed a circle of ripples in front of her, and the sharp killing intent penetrated the weak body of Shinas.
Four golden runes appeared at the angle where Orka's staff had pointed, completely ignoring the distortion of the path of light that had been bent into the air. Among the powerful light elements that quickly began to accumulate, the totems symbolizing the four elements loomed in the golden runes.
"Ding---"
The distant sound of gold and jade colliding resounded in the sky, and Orka's staff hit the center of the four runes, but apart from this extremely crisp sound, the elemental defense in front of Shinas did not break. The powerful force of the shock caused Orka to fly upside down, and everyone saw only a shadow dragging patches of gray feathers soaring into the sky, and the speed was so high that even the clouds spread out, leaving a little sky blue in the gloomy sky.
The countless feathers that surrounded Shinas scattered in all directions, falling helplessly towards the battlefield beneath him. The soldiers of the Demon Wing Legion waited for the Legion Leader to emerge from the clouds again, but Sinas was a little apprehensive by the blow she had just struck, for in her perception Orka had disappeared completely. The sky seemed to be covered with a misty gray mist, and the gray that symbolized Orca was hard to distinguish.
Xinas suddenly felt a tingling in her mental power, and she subconsciously turned around, reaching out and flicking a little gold towards a gray feather. The speed of that feather was so fast that it had even exceeded her visual processing ability, and she could only infer its existence from her mental power. The golden point of light had just shattered the gray, and four more gray feathers swept up and down from her back and back.
In the rapid flash, Orka could only hear Shinas exhale a spell urgently, and the magic that would allow her to cast a spell in the form of a guò spell was at least Cheng Dù, who had reached the eighth level of magic. Instinctively alerted to danger, Orka quickly retreated, flapping his wings again and firing a few gray feathers at Shinas.
The light element of pure gold turned into pure white under the extreme urge, and with Shinas as the center, a white light cross that could connect to the heavenly dome appeared in mid-air. The sound of the chant and prayer pierced the heart of the retreating Orka, and in this moment, she understood the intention of Shinas.
"You're crazy!--You dare to create the world in the light!!-" (To be continued......)