Early in the morning, in the field in front of the town of Lacey, the two armies maintained an effective distance from each other

These two armies were quite numerous, and the black pressure was divided into several large blocks, and if it weren't for the vast plains of the Lacey Town Field, it would not have been able to accommodate them

The birds and beasts that usually inhabit the plains have long been gone, and the invisible oppression makes almost everyone's face show a solemn look, and everyone understands that once this terrible tranquility is broken, the murderous machine bred will burst out like a storm

In the central phalanx of the Imperial Capital Alliance, Obsidian Lucifer, the commander of the Imperial Capital Alliance, squinted his eyes slightly, his face was tense, and he looked solemn and calm on the surface, but on closer inspection, his purple eyes were covered with tired bloodshots, and he obviously had not slept all night

On the opposite side of the coalition is the army of the Dark Moon, riding a white magic horse, wearing silver-white armor is the commander of the Dark Moon, Thea Lucifer, although it is only the second time that he really commands the army to fight, but compared with the last time he faced the two major coalition forces of Chi Yu and Blue Melt, the eldest princess showed extraordinary calmness and calmness

Thea Lucifer's obsidian voice rang out, suppressing all the noise, I give you a chance to surrender, I can give you the position of emperor

Xia Ya's cold voice echoed in the wilderness: Obsidian, Lucifer, you are just a usurper who has not been recognized by the Sword of the Fallen Angel, and you are not qualified to be the emperor at all, not to mention that you have lost even the imperial capital now

Obsidian, who was stabbed to the point by a word, finally became angry: Those who obey me live, and those who disobey me die, I swear by the surname of the Lucifer family, and all of you will be the burial objects of this stubborn woman

The power of the Demon Emperor's pinnacle level could not play much role in this kind of wilderness, but as the supreme ruler of the empire, Obsidian's fierce oath with his surname did make the Dark Moon army feel a little shocked

In the past three hundred years, we have lived in a barren dark moon, subjected to inhuman sanctions and exploitation, in order to survive, we have endured humiliation and trampled on our dignity, and finally one day we have defeated famine with our own efforts and diligence, defeated poverty, and can raise our heads to be human beings, no longer groveling for a mouthful of leftovers, and can have a happy life and family, but at this time, this rebel who usurped the empire, this cruel, greedy, Arrogant and shameless people who want to plunder our hard-won gains, who want to trample on our bodies and dignity again, who want to destroy everything we have, tell my generals, soldiers, my brothers and sisters, will you do it

The neat and loud voice of the army of the Dark Moon sounded, this momentum was completely different from the battle of the lords at the beginning, full of fighting spirit and courage, and the negative emotions brought by the obsidian oath were suddenly dissipated

Xia held the royal banner high: perhaps we will sacrifice our lives, but when we see the ancestors of the fallen angel empire again in front of the demon gods, we can still hold our proud heads, the inheritors of the Red Blood Flame Light Banner, our eyes are full of fighting blood, our sharp blades are ready to destroy the fragile enemy army, the will of the royal banner will guide us forward, the inheritance of the Great White Night will give us the highest glory and courage, warriors fight for the dark moon, fight for the empire

Fight and fight

The morale of the Dark Moon army skyrocketed, and the neat sound of weapons and banging shields made the entire field tremble slightly, as well as the military spirit of the Imperial Capital Army

Since Xia Ya shouted out to fight for the empire, the confidence of many soldiers of the coalition army began to waver, although the White Night Emperor has fallen for three hundred years, but the legend of the strongest man in the demon world and the first military god is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the coalition army has suffered consecutive defeats before, and the emperor has been supported by Xia's first general, George, has fallen, and the hearts of the people are floating, and now in the face of the White Night Emperor's lineage who has inherited the Red Blood Flame Light Banner, Princess Xia is facing the powerful momentum of the Dark Moon Army, and the battle spirit has almost been suppressed to the trough

Obsidian knew that if he continued to speak, Dark Moon's morale did not waver, but his side was discouraged first, and he didn't fight anymore at the moment, and ordered the infantry in the front row to attack...,

This light infantry of about 20,000 men was an elite selected from the lord's army, commanded by the lord of the Green Tree Domain, Sogdian, equipped with leather shields and armor, of which 5,000 were archers, and the overall combat effectiveness was strong, and Obsidian was the first to dispatch, this infantry was obviously trying to throw stones to ask for directions

The light infantry formed several rectangular formations, marching towards the Dark Moon Army formation with neat steps, Xia's side reacted quickly, several rows of soldiers rushed forward to meet them, the soldiers at the front were the largest horned demons in Liliang, and the two of them held a tall giant shield together, and due to the height of the giant shield, it was difficult to see the situation behind it, and it seemed to be archers

The archers sneered at the infantry, and ordered the Imperial Capital Boulder Legion to go out and keep a distance, following behind, and the Boulder Legion was composed of heavy infantry and pike, commanded by General Longbottom, even if the other party sent the Demon Cavalry led by the rebellious Nesta, it could be defeated

This kind of large-scale battlefield troops are not real-time strategy games, a mouse can draw a box to let the commander-in-chief control the command of hundreds of people and command 100,000 people, millions of people are completely different things, the more armies, the more difficult it is to command, the commander is usually difficult to do like an arm, just imagine that many people in front of you are retreating and fleeing, even if you don't want to retreat, you can't do it, otherwise you will be trampled to death, the so-called defeat is like a mountain, and that's it

The more sophisticated the army, the more it will be able to enforce orders and prohibitions, and command Ruyi to give full play to its most powerful combat effectiveness, which requires not only excellent command ability, but also strict training

Obsidian and Xia are like two chess players who send their own chess pieces, and the chess pieces fight each other, in addition to the deployment of the chess players themselves, the specific types of troops, Shengke and the chess pieces, the advantages and disadvantages of their own commanders are also very important, for example, the archers generally restrain the spearmen, the spearmen restrain the cavalry, the cavalry restrains the infantry, but if the cavalry is commanded properly, it may not be impossible to level the spearmen

War is not a simple numbers game, but most of the commanders of the individual military formations in the imperial capital are famous generals who have experienced a hundred battles, and Obsidian's own experience is better than that of Xia in this case, and the imperial capital army, which is still superior in numbers, does have a greater chance of winning

Dark Moon's current advantage is just morale on the surface, but morale is a very volatile thing, as long as the momentum of the coalition can be played with the fighting array, the morale of the Dark Moon Army will naturally gradually decay, and it is not difficult to win, at least in Obsidian's opinion

The light infantry of the coalition army kept a distance from the heavy soldiers of the Boulder Legion, and advanced forward with neat steps, and there was no need to accelerate at the current safe distance, and Obsidian had secretly ordered the cavalry to prepare to launch - with the experience of Hisia's command, it would be difficult to resist this continuous charge one after another, and then launch a full charge in one fell swoop when the opponent was in a hurry, and then only need to hold back those dragons, and wait until the Darkmoon Army is crushed, and the overall situation will be decided

In the face of the heavy legion behind the light infantry, Xia still did not send a military formation to deal with, but those slowly advancing giant shield arrays were preparing for something, and soon a ballista was pushed out by the goblin warriors, and the giant shield also stopped advancing

The ballista has been replaced by the magic crystal cannon due to various defects, this kind of obsolete ordnance is only preserved in some backward places, and now that Dark Moon has launched a ballista with weak lethality on such a critical battlefield, even if Xia is incompetent, he should not have made such a stupid decision, Obsidian couldn't help frowning

Sogdian and Longbottom also saw the ballista, and at this time the light infantry at the front was still quite some distance from the range of the conventional ballista, so Sogdian did not panic, but only commanded the army to slow down a little, ready to start accelerating after withstanding the first attack of the ballista

However, it turned out that Sogdian's slowing down command was a typical error of empiricism, and the last thing he should have done was to judge these ballistas by his own conventional weapons, and while the infantry was still at a safe distance, those ballistas had already begun to fire, and the dull sound of machine springs sounded one after another, and the sound of the turbulent breaking through the air came out..., and at the moment when the ballista was fired, there was finally a hint of horror in the sound of Sogdian: scattering the formation

As soon as these words came out, the spear-like huge crossbow arrows had already flown into the dense phalanx at a terrifying high speed, and the fragile leather shields or leather armor of the light infantry were easily penetrated, and then the huge arrows burst out with a bang, and countless short and sharp arrows burst out in the scattered green smoke, and the nearby soldiers were caught off guard by those arrows penetrating their bodies and screaming

Green smoke, like arrowheads, is also highly poisonous, and many soldiers' bodies have begun to decay rapidly

When Geraint attacked the Valan Fortress, the poisonous smoke of the ballista could not be effective due to the heavy rain, but today's weather is just the right time to exert its maximum power

Not only Sogdia and Longbottom, but even the obsidian and others in the coalition army's own formation changed their faces, they had never seen such a strange crossbow with such range and power, and Dark Moon had been hiding such a terrifying killing weapon

After a round of hard shooting, about 2,000 soldiers had fallen due to the dense formation, and those ballistae were quickly loaded with new giant arrows, which were used through a prop similar to a small winch, and even the weak liliang of goblin warriors could be used, without the weakness of traditional ballista cars that were slow to reload and difficult to control

The second round of crossbow arrows flew out again, and took nearly a thousand lives, and the soldiers in the light infantry army formation were already timid, but they were not allowed to escape without receiving the order to retreat, otherwise they would be directly killed by the military court, under the order of Sogdian, the light infantry began to sprint, and the Longbottom behind also issued an order to speed up, the power of the ballista was far beyond imagination, even the iron shield equipped by the Boulder Legion could not defend against the terrifying huge arrows shot by Liliang, and what was more terrifying than the giant arrows was those poisonous smoke

After dispersing, the effect of the ballista is indeed much weakened, but under the subtle control of the goblin warriors, it still exerts a good power, and each round of fire can bring considerable damage

After the distance between the two sides was closer, the archers behind the huge shields began to move, and the rain of arrows in the sky was sprinkled on the light infantry at the front, and the skillful triple fire coupled with the elite arrows brought a heavy blow to the light infantry, and the Sogdian infantry on both sides had already suffered more than half of the casualties before they could make contact

Although the heavy infantry behind was attacked by the heavy crossbows, the arrows that burst open were much less damaging to the heavy infantry covered in iron, but it was the toxins and poisonous smoke that caused a lot of trouble

The number of light infantry was sharply reduced in the face of the rain of arrows, and all Sogdia could do was barely protect himself with liliang, as a lord of the Great Demon King level, he could still rely on his strength and run rampant in his own territory, but in this kind of battlefield, he was just cannon fodder

The price of the light infantry was not in vain, the heavy infantry behind was already approaching, the lethality of Dark Moon's bow and arrows suddenly weakened a lot, at this time, a large amount of smoke and dust appeared behind the rows of giant shields, and the sound of horses' hooves could be faintly heard, it should be Dark Moon's cavalry began to dispatch

The commander of the Boulder Legion, Longbottom, quickly ordered the scattered team to concentrate on the formation, slow down the speed, and put the pikemen at the forefront, the spears in the hands of these soldiers are specially made, which can withstand the huge impact without being broken, for the sprinting cavalry, the momentum of running at high speed can certainly increase the speed and lethality, but it will also bring greater reaction force, and become a skewer on the spear

As for the defense of the heavy ballista after concentrating the formation, Longbottom knew that because the enemy's cavalry was about to engage the ballista or bow at close range, and if the ballista or bow and arrow were fired rashly, it would be easy to accidentally injure his own army, leaving this aside, the cavalry was much more difficult to train or expensive than the infantry, and the enemy would certainly not be so stupid

Nesta who surrendered to the Dark Moon is Longbottom's old friend and old opponent, and in the past exercises, he has been overpowered by Nesta's Shadow Legion, and now it is just time to show the latest training of the gun array, and destroy Nesta's cavalry on the real battlefield..., sure enough, soon after, a large number of cavalry rushed out from the center and both sides of the shield array, and Longbottom, who was originally ready to fight with Nesta, couldn't help but gasp when he saw these cavalry, and the Boulder Legion and the light infantry in front of them all showed a look of horror

This is not Nesta's Shadow Legion

The black cloak was hidden, and the hand holding the reins stretched out from the armor was not flesh and blood, but dry bones, and the war horse under it was composed of bones except for a few key parts

The undead are not cannon fodder-level skeletons, but cavalry of the undead

If it was just a few fear knights, it would have been fine, but the number of cavalry rushing out in front of him had exceeded 10,000, led by dozens of terrifying knights riding ghost war horses, all in black armor, holding spears, leading the undead cavalry to rush towards the phalanx of the Boulder Legion

There was a stirring on the side of the coalition army, when did you hear that the undead also have a cavalry legion, what kind of advanced necromancer can this be, when did the demon world have such a powerful necromancer, and it is still on the side of the dark moon

Judging from the number of cavalry, this undead cavalry must have existed for a long time, otherwise it would not have been possible to gather so many corpses, whether it was a heavy ballista or an undead cavalry, it had never appeared in the battle of Moonlight Fortress or Dico Town

Those damn intelligence officers, Obsidian, gritted his teeth and clenched the reins in his hands, and the First Combined Legion, the Black Nightmare Cavalry Legion, the Dragoon Legion, immediately attacked, and the goblin brigade prepared to set up catapults

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