Chapter Seventy-Three: Chaotic War (2)
"Click!" The first lightning ball hit the target, and the electricity inside flowed through the body of the Beamon giant beast in an instant, and the gray-white long hairs on its body all stood up at once, and before this Beamon giant beast could react, the second and third lightning balls also hit its body respectively.
As an ancient monster, although the Beamon Behemoth was not severely injured by this level of attack, the paralyzing feeling brought by the electric current still flowed all over its body, which also made the Beamon Behemoth understand that what it was facing was not an inconspicuous ant, it raised its head and let out a roar at Victor flying in the sky, which was both an expression of its inner anger and a provocative way, who made the Beamon Behemoth just a land overlord.
As early as in the Battle of the Ancients, even an adult red dragon could not defeat the Beamon Behemoth in hand-to-hand combat, but the Behemoth could not fly and climb, so in the face of high-flying enemies, the Behemoth could only be beaten in vain. Now Victor also learned the way the dragons fought back then and flew in mid-air, and for a while, the two Beamon beasts had no way to help him, and could only let out angry roars on the ground.
The commander of the orc army, the prophet Evan, had to smile bitterly in the face of such a situation, the sky itself is a forbidden area for all humanoid creatures, if the human army can also use a strong crossbow to attack low-flying enemies, but unfortunately the orc army can't make such a large weapon at all, so the prophet Evan had to give an order to mobilize a team of orc spearmen and let them assist the Beamon giant beast to interfere with Victor's spell.
After seeing the movement of the orc army, the human commander General Sharic, who was sitting on his horse, sneered, although Orlando gave him an order to defend in a conservative way, but this did not mean that he should be beaten passively, so General Sharic asked the heralds to rush to the Jonas department in the left flank position, and ordered them to dispatch a 5,000-man archery brigade to contain the orc spear slinger troops on the opposite side, and at the same time, Sharek also mobilized 5,000 pikemen from the Chinese army to the left flank,. to strengthen the defense of the left flank after the absence of 5,000 shooters.
Since both sides are fighting in large armies, it will take a certain amount of time for the transfer of thousands of people in this area, imagine that both sides are laying out layers of formations, and at this time, suddenly dispatching a force to attack is equivalent to opening a gap in the originally tight defense. If nothing else, it is a very troublesome matter for the army that has been ordered to attack to move in the area that is already in your own position. Neither can you go too fast to disrupt your formation, nor can you blindly rush forward so that the follow-up troops will not have time to fill the gap after they leave, but let the enemy seize their flaws.
At this point, the combat experience of human beings far exceeds that of the orcs, after all, the orcs have only slowly begun to train their troops in the last ten years, although they can train a strong army with discipline, but the accumulation of experience is not achieved overnight, even the wisest prophet of the orcs Evan can not fully master all the knowledge of war.
On the other hand, on the human side, the legions that are qualified to participate in the main battle of the Third Orc War today, from the commander of the legion who commands tens of thousands of people to the squad leader who commands dozens of people, have all received the study of military command, and they are familiar with many details of the war, especially the on-the-spot command.
So both sides sent a small force of 5,000 men, but the scenario was completely different. After receiving the order from General Sharic, Jonas immediately ordered Thomas, who was standing at the front of the position, to lead his crossbowmen through the barrier laid by the sword and shield warriors in the first row and the spearmen in the second row.
When the Thomas Department advanced about 1,000 meters, the logistics troops who came from the detour arrived as scheduled, each of them was riding a war horse under the crotch and holding a war horse in their hands, so that in just 5 minutes, the power of the 5,000 crossbowmen of the entire Thomas Department was greatly increased.
On the side of the orc formation, after receiving the order of the prophet Evan, the high-ranking officer of the orcs ordered the spearmen to go around from the side and pass through the gap between the two phalanxes in order to make the pre-arranged position go in trouble. The formation of hundreds of thousands of people spanned more than ten kilometers, of course, these people could not stand next to each other, they must have been divided into several phalanxes, and the gaps between the phalanxes were filled with simple horses made of wooden walls to build camps.
When the orc spearmen passed through these rejections, the leader of the orcs who led the team ordered to push away these rejections that also affected their advance, so that the entire tight position of the orcs showed some flaws, and because of the circumambulation and walking of these orc spearmen, they entered the battlefield ten minutes later than Colin's archers.
What does it mean to be ten minutes late? Quite simply, it's the loss of favorable terrain. The short spears thrown by the orc spearmen have a short range and strong lethality, in just a few tens of meters, even if they hold a wooden shield, they can't block the penetration of the spears, if these 5,000 people throw together, it is indeed a great threat to Victor.
Unfortunately, they entered the battlefield 10 minutes late, at this time Thomas had already led his troops to block the path of the orc spearmen, they wanted to enter the range of 100 meters from Victor, they had to risk passing through the firing range covered by Thomas's crossbowmen, although each orc spear thrower was equipped with a wooden shield, but in the face of crossbow arrows fired by machinery, I believe that no more than one tenth of the people who could do this alive would not be able to do so.
In the past ten minutes, the two Beamon beasts of the orcs have been injured in many places, they are like thunder, but they are not completely helpless Victor flying in the sky, and the Mammoth Legion of Thunder is always about 1000 meters away from the Royal Knights of Orlando, whenever the Mammoth Legion accelerates and tries to get close to the Royal Knights, Orlando will cleverly change the direction of travel, and reopen the distance between each other to a safe position.