1029. Battle 2
The clouds were thick and the cold wind seemed to be completely different from what this season should be.
The air was filled with the scorching smell of burning corpses, but at least it smelled much better than the disgusting stench of corpses.
There were no corpses on the streets, and some of the city's large buildings had been used as shelters, with a group of guards and knights keeping order inside.
Now, the residents of the shelter are lining up and walking towards the central square.
Many citizens lost their loved ones in this demonic attack and left their homes with sadness.
Residents lined up in the square, ready to leave the city of Mukuso through the portal.
Their first stop will be to the city of Ruyt, where they may stay for a while, and then return to Mucuso when the situation settles down.
Of course, it doesn't matter if anyone wants to stay in Bena.
Since the land of Talapakant has become more and more barren, the loss of population has been increasing year by year, leaving behind vast areas of wasteland.
There were also nobles and merchants in the ranks.
The nobles were at the front of the line, and many wealthy people wanted to take some of the items they treasured in the city of Mukuso, such as jewelry and antiques, magic crystals, and gold coins.
According to the terms and conditions established before this evacuation, each person can only carry a maximum of a luggage bag that they can carry.
For the aristocracy, this is a bit of a difficult trade-off.
Compared to these nobles and merchants, many commoners were unable to bring anything out of their homes that night.
Although some people sneaked back home afterwards at the risk of being eaten by the Crypt People, many parts of the city were in ruins, and some people found their hidden savings in the ruins, and many more were left with nothing.
The knights of the guard battalion put up a long rope in the central square as a fence, and the people lined up in a long line in the fence, but fortunately this line never stopped moving forward, and everyone who was delayed at the portal was pulled out of the line.
Regardless of urgency, if you are stranded at the portal door, you will also be asked to the end of the queue to line up again.
A woman in a beige linen dress was holding a four- or five-year-old child, standing at the portal doorway, and couldn't help but look back, and there were two older children standing beside her, and the woman looked very nostalgically in the direction of home, and then at the southern city wall.
The knight of the guard battalion at the portal has already begun to urge: "It's your turn, hurry up and follow......"
The woman hurriedly trotted a few steps up the portal steps.
The child asked in a childish tone, "Mom, how long are we going to go out and live?" Can we ever come back? ”
The woman's worried face barely squeezed out a smile, and she pretended to be relaxed and said, "Of course, we just went out for a walk, and it won't be long before we can come back......"
The child asked reluctantly:
"Then why doesn't Daddy come with us?"
The woman took a breath, suppressed the emotions that were about to collapse in her heart, and whispered to her son, "Because he wants to stay and take care of our home......"
All the city defenders are to stay behind for the rest of the battle.
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The heavy cavalry regiments in the city of Mukuso walked out of the north gate one after another, and these heavy cavalry were followed by many heavy infantry.
The Flame Legion demons outside the city were beaten back to the battlefield two kilometers away from the city, and a large area at the city gate was empty.
Recently, the Cryptman Legion and the Hellhound Legion have been suppressed by the Bernard Coalition on the battlefield, and if they didn't have an absolute superiority in strength, I am afraid they would have been chiseled through countless times by the heavy cavalry of the Bednar Coalition Army.
This time, almost all the heavy cavalry, light cavalry, archers, and heavy infantry regiments in the city of Mukuso were dispatched.
Outside the north city gate, 35,000 heavy cavalry formed 23 phalanxes in the center of the formation, the front row of heavy infantry soldiers held a huge tower shield, and behind the bright shields were infantry soldiers wearing full armor.
Five thousand heavy cavalry and five thousand light cavalry lined up on the left and right flanks of the Bena coalition, and behind the line was a regiment of 5,000 archers, behind which forty catapults were launched.
The hussars guarded around the regiments of archers and catapults.
From early in the morning, the army began to leave the city one after another, and it was not until about ten o'clock in the morning that the formation was completely laid out outside the city.
Surdak was in the army, Samira was in the archer camp with a thousand archers, and the two-headed ogre Gulitum and the hoplites were crouching together, at least there were people he knew well.
As the army formation began to move forward slowly, the heavy infantry maintained the same pace, and the neat pace made the north and south of the city tremble, as if there was a mountain giant walking towards him, and the feeling of oppression coming from under his feet made the cavemen on the opposite side a little frightened.
Crypt people have no eyes, and their bodies are instinctually driven, based on the senses of touch, hearing, and smell.
On the left and right sides of the Crypt Man's army are also ambushed tens of thousands of hellhounds.
And the king of hellhounds, Bassa Muller, hoped that the cryptmen would be able to pin down the main army of the Bena coalition, and then the hellhound would use his speed advantage to avoid the heavy cavalry and charge the archers and catapults in the rear of the Bena coalition.
Standing at the front of the army of Crypt Men was a group of elite Crypt warriors, who looked a little restless under the pressure of the deafening footsteps on the other side.
Although the Crypt Lords in the center of the army continued to suppress the emotions of these Crypt Warriors, these Hell Warriors were still a little uncontrollable.
When the distance between the two armies was less than five hundred meters, the Crypt Warriors finally couldn't take it anymore and scratched their chests with their arms. The front hard armor, wielding a huge battle axe in his hand, like a group of beasts breaking free from a cage, rushed towards the hoplite regiment.
These warriors were probably the backbone of the Cryptman race, and the moment they rushed out, Surdak discovered that there were almost six or seven thousand of them.
Perhaps the Crypt Lord brought all the Crypt Warriors he could muster to the battlefield.
For a moment, before Surdak could make any more moves, the archers at the back of the line drew their longbows, and the sound of five thousand longbow shooters pulling the bowstrings sounded like a tingling sensation on the battlefield.
At the end was the rattling of the catapult noose as it was taut, followed by a crisp shout......
Put!
Thousands of arrows slammed into the sky, then flew high into the air in a parabolic shape, and then fell one after another. Falling, the speed of the fall is getting faster and faster, and finally it is faster than the speed at which the arrow itself is fired......
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
'Whoosh'
The arrows fell into the cave warriors who were rushing up, and they were inserted into those hard skins, and the arrows may not be able to penetrate deeply, but they made the cave warriors let out a cry of pain, and some of the cave warriors inserted arrows into the joints of the ground, and fell while running, and suddenly fell on their backs.
The rain of arrows covered a wide area, and the cavemen behind did not grow so much hard armor, and the arrows fell on them, and countless cavemen fell on the way to charge.
The low-level demon cryptmen of the Flame Legion pressed forward in all directions......
Surdak saw the massive Crypt Lord in the middle of the formation.
With the sound of the noose being cut on the ground, the catapult threw the ignition oak barrels into the air, and as the oak barrels hit the ground, they exploded violently and turned into a sea of fire, and the bodies of countless crypt warriors were ignited.
These oak barrels containing black powder and oil continued to explode, causing the low-level demon camp of the Flame Legion to stagnate for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of the hellhound roaring, and the hellhounds hidden on both sides of the camp were like a raging tide, outflanking the rear of the military formation from both sides.
The heavy cavalry on the left and right flanks were like two sharp blades, piercing the hellhounds.
The two-headed hellhounds at the front spat fireballs, wind blades, and water bombs, ...... which exploded in the heavy cavalry.
The heavy cavalry held large round shields, on which the phantoms of holy silver shields lit up.
'Shield of Blessings'
This is the blessing of the gods that Surdak blessed the five thousand heavy cavalry with the last two thousand or so heads of hellhounds.
All the magic bullets were like colorful fireworks in front of these heavy cavalry, and in the continuous explosion, one by one the iron horses rushed towards the hell hounds, the knights did not use the knight's spear, but held a more cumbersome long-handled battle axe, with the speed of the war horse charging forward, the knights leaned sideways, picked up the long-handled battle axe and swept towards the hell hounds.
Immediately, several hellhounds were swept by long-handled battle axes, and the hellhounds that bore the brunt of the brunt were immediately split in half, and the hellhounds behind were also split to the bone.
The heavily armored blue-scaled horses collided with the Hellhounds, which were about the size of calves, but they were still struck by the front of the horses and flew out of the horns.
These blue-scaled horses were 'charged' with the knights, and a pack of hellhounds could not stop the charge of the heavy cavalry.
In an instant, the Hellhounds were chiseled through by the heavy cavalry......
The cavalry rushed through the canine herd, constantly reaping the life of the hellhound, whether it was two heads or one, their constitution did not change much.
Later, in the middle of the army, the hoplite warriors collided with the Crypt Warriors, who tried to chisel through the tower shields in the hands of the hoplites with their axes, and Paglio's spears came out from behind to easily pierce the hard armor of these warriors.
The warriors behind stepped on the corpses of their companions and pounced on the tower shield, as if a slope had been paved with corpses......
The Crypt Warriors stepped on the bodies of their companions in front of them, jumped over the nearly one-man tall tower shield, and jumped behind the shield warriors.
In this crowded environment, while they were stabbed down by spears, the giant axes in their hands also cut down the spear warriors behind them.
The two-headed ogre was in the crowd of heavily armored infantry warriors, he carried a big stick and let out a war cry, and strode into the group of crypt warriors, those magic patterns almost crawled all over his upper body, and his eyes instantly turned blood-red, as if he was crazy, a huge ogre phantom rose into the sky, and then merged with him.
Gulit Tem wields a big stick that can sweep away a circle of Crypt Warriors.
The fireball in Brain Hua's hand kept flying out like a series of fireballs, bursting in front of him.
The aura of power at Surdak's feet could only provide a strength boost for a limited number of warriors on the battlefield, but it was in his area that the shield warriors were desperately keeping the Crypt warriors out.
The shouts of killing were overwhelming......