Chapter 275: Stalemate
When the Ape Sea Alliance warriors saw the minotaurs who had been engulfed in demonic fire but were still fearless to die, they knew how powerful these dying warriors would be when they came in a rage, but unfortunately their numbers were too crowded to avoid the minotaurs on fire.
Therefore, the magicians rained down the fire rain to kill and injure the minotaur, and their attack did have this effect, but to their surprise, the minotaur was too fierce and could still pull several cushions before turning into ashes.
The magicians just condensed the fire element and kept raining fire, and they couldn't care which side of the people died in the end.
A little unexpected situation looked at the ape army leader in the eyes of the ape army, and he almost didn't snoop his nose crooked, what is this called, how could it become like this?
The coalition soldiers in their own camp are in chaos for the time being, all to avoid the bull-headed ghosts who seem to be bathed in the flames of hell!
As soon as they were in disarray, the previously intact and strong defensive line was loosened, and many warriors were tripped to the ground in the dodge, and then trampled into meatloaf by the paws of their feet trampled on from all directions.
This is the form of warfare in the age of cold weapons - crowd tactics!
Thousands of warriors charged with their blades in an airtight manner, and after the two sides came into contact, they fought separately, hand-to-hand combat.
At that time, the tactics of crowds were quite effective, and in the case of the same time and place, there was little suspense that the side with more troops would win in the end.
In the camp of the Ape Sea Alliance before the third battalion, their strength advantage is undoubted, if they fight normally, even if the Minotaurs can reach ten by one, how can they be too few in number, even if they succeed in breaking through in the end, there will be few troops left.
The ape was once a vassal with the Minotaur, and he was very jealous of those black tower-like races, anyway, he didn't have the courage to provoke the Minotaur.
This time, he was ordered to prevent the Minotaur from breaking through and joining the three battalions, because the Minotaur chose his direction, and he had to go all out, otherwise he was waiting for him with an even more fierce and brutal handsome Xiong Meng.
He found that the defensive line he had built with the Sea Clan had been burned into a hollow by the burning minotaurs, while the coalition warriors were still scrambling to dodge the terrifying fire.
Behind the minotaur who had died in front of them were more grief-filled and bloody, brave robes, and some of them were burned by fireballs from time to time, and then they did not hesitate to join the charge.
The ape side was secretly frightened, the defense line had already been cut out of a gap of nearly one-third, and if he didn't come up with a countermeasure to stop the angry charge of the minotaur as soon as possible, his blocking mission would be a complete failure.
The thick nostrils twitched violently, cold sweat was dripping on his head, and he turned his head to look at the magician who was casting spells and setting fire to the back of the Wuzi formation, his eyes rolled, and he shouted: "The magician obeys the order! Go forward a hundred meters and set fire to the rear of the enemy formation!"
When the order came, the magicians who were concentrating on casting spells were stunned, "What do you mean? Let's go forward? What are you kidding, who doesn't know that the magicians are casting spells far away from the rear of the enemy warriors, rushing up and letting us use our weak bodies to resist the powerful Minotaurs, what do you think about this head? We don't provoke you on weekdays, do we?"
The magicians complained that they didn't take action, but it made the ape angry, but the last shred of reason reminded him that the status of magicians was still relatively noble, and good words and persuasion generally worked well.
He rushed to the mage leader Ape Yan Gao, and gasped: "The minotaur is fierce, and your magic fire makes it impossible for our warriors to get close, now you can rain fire between the middle and rear camps of the minotaur, so that you can cut off the connection between their front and rear armies, and secondly, the minotaur who is on fire will not be able to rush to our defense line before dying!"
Ape Yan Gao is not a fool, but he didn't understand the intention after hearing the ape Fang's order, and when he heard the explanation, it was in line with the current battle situation, so he immediately nodded in agreement, and led the magicians to move forward in front of the formation surrounded by warriors.
A hundred meters away is actually not the middle of the surging crowd defense line, and this distance from the minotaur can't rush for the time being, Ape Yan Gao estimated that the distance was almost over, and with a wave of his hand, he continued to summon fire rain with nearly a hundred magicians.
Not to mention, this method of the ape side worked well, fireballs fell from the sky, covering the middle of the Minotaur shock formation, and there were many warriors dressed in magic fire, these warriors regarded death as home, but at this distance they could not find an enemy who could die together, so there were constantly warriors screaming and turning into a pile of ashes.
The Minotaurs, who had already penetrated a little deeper into the defensive line in front, may not have been affected by the demonic fire for the time being, nor were they killed under the siege of the ape sea coalition army, but it is an indisputable fact that they are gradually burned out of the isolation zone by the demonic fire, and it will not be long before they will be surrounded by the coalition forces.
Ape Fang looked at the slightly stable battle situation, crossed his hands on his waist, raised his eyebrows, and exhaled, "See how long you can last!"
"Bang!"
Suddenly, there was a loud bang on the battlefield that drowned out the shouts of killing, roars, screams, and more of the fighting voices.
This sound frightened the ape who had just breathed a sigh of stinging pain in his chest, and his breath was not smooth, causing his heart and lungs to split.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
I don't know what to do, but the kind of inexplicable loud noises are sounding one after another.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
......
"Ah, come on, say, what's wrong with the magicians?"
Although the ape's head was dizzy from the loud noise, the image received by his eyes was that the magicians who were casting spells in the previous position seemed to be falling one after another in response to the loud noise.
Magicians generally have to stand in a slightly higher position to cast spells, with a wide field of vision, which is convenient for condensing magic elements to cast attack skills.
The magicians who moved forward just now were all standing on the carts pushed by manpower, and at this moment, what the ape saw was that several magicians had already fallen down from standing well, and it seemed that a red mist burst out from a certain part of their bodies at the moment they fell to the ground.
Seeing that the magician had died for no reason, the ape side could not help but be hysterical, and the roar woke up the soldiers who were also frightened, and the latter hurried to check the situation.
At the same time, loud noises continued to be heard, and the limited number of magicians should have not understood what was going on, and more than a dozen fell to the ground.
The soldiers quickly sent back the information: "Almost all of the fallen magicians are dead, they all have terrible penetrating wounds on their upper bodies, and two of them are still breathing, but they can clearly see the bright red internal organs in front and back, and they should not be able ......to survive."
Listening to the reward, the ape's head "buzzed", and it almost exploded with an indistinct loud noise.
"How so, what the hell is going on?"
At the beginning of the battle, he knew very well how to fight this battle, and the ultimate success or failure was largely determined by the ninety-two fire mages in his hands.
The Sea Clan also has a lot of magicians, but they are all water systems, in the previous few skirmishes with the three battalions, these water system magicians are not out of battle, but they are nothing more than to summon a wave and rain down, and the damage of this tactic to the minotaur is almost negligible.
But fire magicians are different, even if the little spark made by a beginner magician is stained on the minotaur, it can make the other party scramble for a long time, how can the flesh and blood stand up to the flames.
Therefore, at the beginning of the war, he asked the magicians to cast spells and set fire with all their might, and when the magic was not enough, he used potions, but at first he didn't expect that the minotaur would still charge with his life when his whole body was on fire, until he adjusted the direction of the fire rain in time, which temporarily resisted the overwhelming minotaur.
Who would have thought that before he could take a few breaths of relief, there would be a magician who died violently for no reason, what can I do, without the magician, no one can resist the powerful minotaur, lions, tigers, leopards, lobsters, crabs and other powerful warriors at this time, even if they want to, they can't be rescued, there are too many people......
Just when the ape was stunned and at a loss, it seemed that the loud noise coming from the Minotaur camp did not stop, and the magicians who had not died for the time being still died more than a dozen people because they did not know the situation.
At this time, there were sixty-five magicians standing in the cart.
Ape Yan Gao was among the luck, he had already noticed that it seemed that every time there was a loud noise, his own magician would fall inexplicably, could it be an attack on the magician?
I was puzzled, so I didn't care about continuing to set fires, squatted down slightly, and watched the changes.
After the death of ten more magicians, the rest of the people woke up one after another, and felt that it seemed dangerous to continue to stand on the cart with a head of superiority, and all of them withdrew and crouched.
They stopped casting spells, and the elemental clouds that hung over the minotaurs' heads immediately dissipated and the rain of fire ceased.
The coalition soldiers didn't know what was going on, but the minotaurs knew what was going on, and the fireball that gave them a headache finally stopped falling, and they all lifted their spirits, and they screamed and swung their axes to attack the defensive line.
The tide of battle is now developing in favor of the Minotaurs, and the front and rear armies that had just been cut off are once again united, and the allied soldiers who were killed are unstoppable.
At this time, the minotaur had already broken through half of the defense line, and the crowd defense line continued to be torn apart, and if this continued, the ape's resistance would eventually fail.
The loud noise was naturally caused by the few soldiers in the second battalion who could play with guns, and the effect was quite good.
Except for a limited number of early contact guns such as Niu Hong, Ma Wancheng, etc., they can hit the target with a 60% probability, and the remaining 500 or so are almost all kobolds.
The reason is simple, they are physically strong, and most importantly, their eyesight is much stronger than that of the Minotaurs and Centaurs, so they have the best results in training.
This can be seen in the performance of thousands of kobold men and gunmen in the battle of Donghai Town.
The same is true of the second battalion, when the charge began, Niu Hong and Ma Wancheng obeyed Niu Duo's orders and led the gun team to pay close attention to the possible masters to torture and kill the charging soldiers.
But they didn't see the so-called masters, but saw many warriors burned into fireballs, although they all understood that it must be the magician who was playing tricks, but at that time they couldn't see where the caster was, just in a hurry.
Unexpectedly, the ape's tactical changes made them quickly discover the annoying magician, and then began to snipe the magician by the excellent kobold shooter.