Chapter 83: The Expedition (4)
"Black Temple Mercenary Regiment, strangle the enemy archers! Rand Legion, advance at a constant speed!"
Upon receiving Donner's order, Enriquez led his army towards the archer positions of the Thorns, and the arrows from the opposite side slid on them like dense raindrops, but not a single one fell.
Soon, they rushed into position. Five hundred black-armored knights, like tigers rushing into a flock of sheep, slaughtered archers with almost no melee ability.
Sarah led the Rand Legion to a point of more than a kilometer from the enemy archery camp and stopped, as if to wait for the end of this massacre in the enemy archers' positions.
These ballistae are nearly three kilometers from the riverbank, and if they advance a little further, they will be ready to fire deadly bolts. But Sarah, who was in charge, remained motionless and waited silently.
More than 50,000 thorny soldiers waiting to cross the river, pressed by these ballistas, tightly crowded to the bank of the river.
The first cavalry to cross the river had already reached the middle of the Ava River, and five hundred meters further to the opposite bank.
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"Well, it's our turn. Wesley spat out the grass stalks that had been in his mouth for a long time and shouted, "All aim, right?"
After receiving an affirmative answer, he pushed away the remnants of the fortifications that were blocking him, revealing the figure of a ballista.
Beside him, fifty ballistas appeared at the same time.
More than two hundred people joined Wesley's group on the night the Rand legion stayed in the Gonta Meadows, and had been preparing here for many days after crossing the river.
"Ready, launch!"
More than 3,000 crossbow bolts were lifted into the air, and the target was not the knights who were crossing the river, but the sorcerers and infantry who were tightly packed on the opposite bank.
......
"Look!
Beside General Mandel, a soldier suddenly shouted hysterically.
By the time the general turned to look, countless crossbow arrows were already shooting at them in the sky.
The crowd on the banks of the river was too dense, even denser than under Dorne at the time, with more than three thousand crossbow arrows, almost each of which had two or three corpses strung together.
The surviving crowd fled the riverbank.
In the distance, the Rand legion led by Sarah began to move, and more than a hundred ballistas advanced neatly.
So the crowd that had just dispersed was pressed back to the riverbank.
In the Ava River, an exclamation suddenly came to mind. A ship full of knights began to sink slowly. Immediately after that, the cries came one after another, and the planks of many ships began to loosen near the waterline. The panicked knights struck out one after another, trying to plug the gaps, but there were more and more gaps, and the planks seemed to have been tampered with.
Soon the ship was completely sunk after standing in water, and the knights, dressed in heavy armor, were almost immediately submerged in the river.
General Mandel trembled, he knew he had been tricked, but now with the wide Aeva River on one side and the approaching lineup of ballistae, he was powerless.
On the other side of the river, another volley of crossbow bolts seemed to be fired at far less interval than Klee had said, but none of that made sense.
The Knights of the Black Temple have slaughtered the archers of the Thorns, and General Klee has been captured once again.
The Rand Legion advanced two kilometers from the riverbank, and then, as if watching a show, deliberately stopped.
The turbulent waters of the Ava River had taken away the wreckage of the boats, and there was not a single figure left on the river.
In a very short period of time, the fifty ballistae on the opposite bank fired seven or eight rounds and slaughtered nearly 30,000 people.
The more than 5,000 archers of the Thorn Army were all wiped out, and the 20,000 elite knights were all wiped out, and there were less than 30,000 people left at this moment, scattered on the banks of the river, at a loss.
"Dean Kane, let your team practice their hands?" Donner said with a smile.
Kane first looked at Donner suspiciously, then smiled knowingly, nodded silently, and said loudly to the army behind him:
"Soldiers, do you see? On this battlefield, those white bones used to be our brothers! They lost, and now, let's win them back!"
After Kane said this, he took the lead and rushed towards the enemy, followed closely by Kaz, Devis, and Merkel...... There were more than 20,000 blood-soaked Faemon soldiers.
Donner squeezed the horse's belly hard and followed.
"Randt Legion, stay put!" said Sarah, and rushed out after Donner.
"Enriquez, let's get on it!" Donna waved his hand, and the Knights of the Black Temple followed closely behind Kane.
More than 20,000 men, like a wild wave hitting a rock, crashed headlong into the remnants of the thorny army.
It was a massacre.
Without the most elite knights, they were frightened again, lost their command, and scattered the thorny army in formation, like a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Mandel had been killed by a crossbow bolt from the other side long before.
Mage Clark died at the hands of Enriquez's sword.
......
Across the riverbank.
"If I knew I could fight like this, I wouldn't have come. ”
Richard looked at the battlefield opposite, and his heart was surging.
"We've just killed more enemies, haven't we?" Wesley reassured.
"Brother Wesley is right! Richard, your brother's assignment for us is more important. Kelly began to play the role of sister-in-law again, teaching Richard a lesson.
"Those brothers, finally did not die in vain. Mino whispered.
Everyone knew who he was talking about, and for a moment there was silence, as if to mourn the people who died in this war.
On the battlefield opposite, the slaughter was still going on.
However, the war is over.
After shooting those arrows, they knew that the war was over.
"Stupid human ......," Wesley said suddenly, in the same tone as his uncle Victor.
"Brother Wesley, will you also go to the Magic Continent like my brother?" Richard asked suddenly.
"Yes, I'm going to the Magic Continent, and then I'll come back and travel the world with your brother. Wesley said this, suddenly looking a little gloomy, and he thought of Roger, who had talked about this topic.
The Grand Duke of Celt thought that taking refuge in a powerful enemy was the only way to protect himself, but why didn't he think that he was just a pawn of the enemy, and after the chess piece lost its value, of course it would be erased mercilessly.
Why can't Roger figure this out? Why die sadly in that way.
Wesley shook his head silently, lamenting again in his heart: stupid humans.
"I'm going to the Knight Federation, and I'll wait for you to come back, and then I'll travel the world with my brother and you. ”
Kelly smiled slightly, she and Richard had the same choice.
"Brother Mino, what about you, will you also go to the Knights' Federation?" asked Richard.
"I, I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay here and keep the war away from the defenseless ordinary people. Mino's eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze seemed to have penetrated the battle on the other side and cast farther away.