1007. Victory and Harvest
An explosion resounded through the valley, and the entire valley shook with the explosion.
The horses were startled, and the knights on horseback were overturned to the ground, and they were wearing heavy armor, and they fell off their horses, as if they were falling apart, and the horses raised their bowl-sized iron hooves and trampled on the knights fiercely......
Some knights were next to those straw men, and at the moment of the explosion, even the men and horses flew into the air, and they were blown to pieces, and the armor on their bodies was pushed farther away......
These straw men were scattered all over the valley avenue, and when they detonated, the magnice in the sky were startled.
Even if they used Burst Flame, they couldn't have that power.
And those scarecrows that were ignited were like countless infernal flames, rumbling and exploding.
The valley was covered in dust and smoke, and an unlucky magician was hit by a heavy helmet that didn't fly high enough. and nearly knocked him off the magic handle, causing an accident in the air.
The heavy cavalry in the mountain road were simply frightened by these sudden explosions, and those heavy cavalry who were not affected by the explosion fell off their horses one after another, and their ears were so loud that they could not hear anything, and suddenly it was as if they had entered a silent world full of gunsmoke.
The heavy cavalry hiding in the woodland were also stunned by the scene in front of them, looking at the valley filled with gunsmoke, everyone was double. The legs are a little weak.
When Surdak led his team to charge down the hillside, there were only a few dozen people who followed him at first, and by the time the soldiers of the heavy infantry regiment came to their senses, Surdak had already rushed to the hillside dozens of meters away with a group of people.
The large army hurriedly followed and ran down desperately, they had already hidden some of the repellents in the woods, at this time to stop these heavy rejects at the exit of the valley, this valley is very wide, and there are dozens of rejects needed......
The valley was already in chaos, and Surdak led his men to block the horses in the middle of the valley avenue, and the dense forest was full of tripwires between the trees to prevent the cavalry from escaping from the woods.
Then they were on the edge of the battlefield, with their swords in hand, and began to collect the heavy cavalry that had escaped from the mountain path.
At this time, no one can run out of it on horseback, as long as these heavy cavalry do not ride horses, the heavy armor on their bodies is not protective gear, but a shackle that hinders their movement, the armor is too heavy, the double armor of the cavalry. There is a slight looping in the legs, and it takes a lot of physical strength to take every step forward.
Unable to carry the knight's spear on their shoulders, they could only draw their knights' swords and fight the hoplites......
Occasionally, one or two heavy cavalry rushed out of it on horseback, and the two-headed ogre Gulitum would take the initiative to greet him with a big stick, and the ogre had a fireball in his left hand and a big stick in his right hand, rampage on the battlefield, and it was simply unstoppable.
Of course, although the Constructed Knights at the squadron leader level in the Heavy Cavalry Regiment were also affected by the explosion, most of them survived on the battlefield with the strong defense of the Demon Pattern Constructed, and these Constructed Knights became a potential threat on the battlefield and required Surdak's special attention.
However, there are also many constructed swordsmen on Surdak's side who are mixed in with the ordinary infantry, and they are also looking around for the constructed knights who are hiding in the crowd on the opposite side.
On the battlefield, there have been soldiers who have become accustomed to cutting off their heads and settling their battles after being killed.
For the heavy infantry soldiers here after killing people, they have to cut off the head and hang it on the waist, and the head is swaying back and forth around the waist, and there is blood dripping on it, and the scene is extremely bloody.
These cruel methods of the heavy infantry soldiers on the opposite side, the last line of defense in the hearts of the heavy cavalry was broken......
Many people wanted to flee the battlefield and turn around and run back, but unfortunately the straw men on the avenue were like talismans, and fireballs were still falling in the sky.
Surdak is like a farmer standing in a vegetable garden, directing his men to harvest cabbage in the field.
Finally the heavy cavalry began to choose to surrender......
The merit of the captured heavy cavalry alive was higher than that of the dead heavy cavalry, and these heavy infantry warriors with ropes were very rudely tied hand and foot together, and then painted their numbers on the opponent's armor with charcoal.
The retreat was blocked by the horse that refused the road, and it was busy until dark, and there were still battles in some parts of the battlefield......
These heavy cavalry were far more tenacious than Surdak had anticipated.
……
Archmage Morrison and Archmage Harper have been reunited, and two of the mages were wounded by arrows during the operation, and no one was killed.
What shocked the mages the most was the explosion in the valley, even if two hundred fire magicians cast spells at the same time, they might not be able to make this kind of scene, unless it was to arrange the fourth-level group fire magic 'meteor fire rain', maybe it could overpower this explosion on the scene......
"Did you see how they set it up?" Archmage Harper asked the people around him.
When arranging the battlefield, Surdak had specially invited the mage group to participate, and a mage who participated in the whole process stood up and explained:
"They seem to have buried a lot of oak barrels in the ground next to the straw man, not metal rune plates that burst flames......"
"Well, oak barrels, it's heavy." The other mage affirmed.
Archmage Harper then asked, "Did you get any samples?" ”
"Yes!" The magician nodded, took a paper bag from his bosom, and said, "These powders were taken from the barrels. ”
"Alchemy or potions?" Archmage Harper asked.
"Alchemy...... it should be," said the magician.
Archmage Harper glanced at the crowd and said, "Isn't Higgins a master alchemist?" Show it to him and see what he says. ”
Not long after, a middle-aged magician came up from a hillside not far away, and he didn't even look at the powder, because he had a bottle in his hand, and said to Archmage Harper, "It contains charcoal, sulfur, um...... It's not as powerful as a firescale bomb, but with a barrel, it can create an explosion bigger than a burst of flame! ”
“……”
"I heard that Viscount Surdak has a sulfur mine......"
The magicians paused for a moment, and only then did someone start to say, "No wonder you want to use the fireball technique to detonate, it's just a simple firescale bomb without a magic rune detonation device!" ”
The magician named Higgins nodded and said, "Almost, the composition is much simpler than the firescale bullet......
The magicians finally came to a conclusion: "It seems that this Viscount Surdak also knows a great alchemist......"
This conclusion is still acceptable to everyone.
……
The battle at the barracks garrison was over, and Nedmosby's hoplite regiment managed to capture the entire barracks and capture nearly 3,000 soldiers of the lord's army.
What awaits these warriors will be a long period of labor, and when the battle on the Gampoo plane is over, they will be prisoners of war, waiting for their families to bring them back with a ransom.
If there is no family to save them with ransom money, they will continue to be reformed in labor camps.
Of course, if these captives work hard enough, they can still regain their freedom before they die.
There are not many supplies in the garrison camp, so Surdak still needs to capture the town of Hatangada as soon as possible in order to solve the current problem of the extreme shortage of various war preparation materials.
After all, it was a legion of more than 20,000 people, and Surdak and Aphrodite alone could not transport so many supplies back and forth through the Void Gate.
Many of the green-scaled horses were killed in this battle, much to Surdak's distress.
The dead green scaled horse was cut into pieces of meat on the spot, and transported back to the garrison camp to stew soup.
The wounded horses were also transported back to the camp, and Surdak was ready to raise them, even if they couldn't go to the battlefield, and then send them to the pastures of the hills and mountains of the Bailin plane in the future, and raise them as stallions......
There were less than 600 blue-scaled horses that survived this battle, and the captives of the heavy cavalry were only more than 500 people, and the 50 captains of the Constructed Knight Squadron were all killed, and the captured Demon Pattern Formations were all extremely damaged.
The heavy cavalry who can still find complete corpses is nearly fifteen hundred.
The rest were blown to minced meat, and some of the heavy cavalry took advantage of the chaos to escape.
The heavy cavalry who refused to surrender were beheaded and their bodies hung on wooden crosses on a hill outside the town of Hatangada.
Many people died in this battle, and the loot that could be obtained was not as much as expected.
The light cavalry on the side of Hatangada did not take the opportunity to come out to support, they were not like the heavy cavalry with thick armor, and they were not afraid of the mage regiment in the sky.
Until now, the 15,000 infantry soldiers of the Second Legion of the Lord's Army are still on the road leading from the city of Mukuso to the town of Hatangada......