Chapter1005 The Battle of Esioken (6)
Before the enemy is really encountered, deadly killing opportunities are overwhelming.
"Woo Woo ......"
From extreme silence to extreme movement, the silent battlefield was broken by the screaming of arrows, and a dense rain of arrows suddenly shot out from the depths of the black-green mist ahead.
By the time Agulal could see the shape of the arrow, the powerful black arrow was already approaching less than a hundred meters.
At this moment, Agoural seemed to have seen the tragic death of his own arrows piercing his heart.
"Shield Wall!"
In my ears came the almost broken shouts of the Imperial officers,
Under the threat of death, Agulal, whose brain was blank, could no longer distinguish whether the arrow killed him first or completed the action of raising the shield first, he just instinctively knelt on one leg and lowered his weight as he did during training, hooked the iron-clad shield in his hand to the edge of the shield of his predecessors, and carried the shield with his shoulder.
"Knock Knock Knock !!"
The shield trembled uncontrollably, like someone smashing his shield with a hammer one after another, and the strength on his arm was quickly exhausted.
Unable to resist the impact, Agoural almost fell to the ground, and after he passively leaned back, his body was held up by the soldiers behind him, allowing him to withstand the shield on his shoulder.
"Brother, hold on."
He didn't recognize the unfamiliar voice coming from behind him, but the peace of mind at this moment made Agoural almost cry out with emotion.
"Will our shields be pierced by arrows?"
"As long as Vidalian's Radiance Enchantment doesn't disappear, it's impossible for our shields to be shot through."
Having received the answer he cared about the most, Agoural's body regained its strength and straightened his waist with his own efforts.
With a sound of "Peng", the Holy Light Mage, who was protected by the heavy infantry of the Noxus Empire, shot out dozens of slow-moving Holy Light Magic Balls,
The orbs spread out at intervals and floated all the way, and the white light pierced through the thick fog of death, allowing the soldiers to successfully see the undead legions formed in battle formations behind the mist.
When the fog wore off, the fear that gripped the Legion came to an abrupt halt, replaced by a suppressed wrath.
"Let these animals from the underworld feel our enthusiasm! Archers listen to me! Shoot the arrows! ”
The archers at the rear of the formation were already ready to attack, and the moment the order was given, thousands of arrows blessed by the Holy Light flew out of the string and flew into the sky.
After touching the enemy, the Holy Light Arrow Feather exploded like fireworks, causing the undead army's offensive to come to a halt.
Under the suppression of the attributes of the rain of holy light arrows, the unarmored skeletons and ghouls exploded directly on the spot, and even the undead legionnaires wearing corrupted armor did not dare to forcibly receive the rain of holy light arrows, and resisted with the shields in their hands.
As for those Nether soldiers who don't have a shield, they can only use the armor of their bodies to resist, the nature of radiant energy is equivalent to pouring sulfuric acid on their faces, and once the undead legionnaires who live on armor destroy their armor, the fate is not much better than that of the lowest-level zombies and skeletons.
"The archers continue to suppress! The whole army is moving forward! The Legion of Light prepares to pull out the Umbrella of Death! ”
While the Esiocan guard was steadily advancing, Sebastian gave the commanders of the two legions the order to counterattack.
After the overwhelming army of skeletons and ghouls, Leopold mounted on the back of Vieira, the nightmare horse, raised his longbow, and Leopold's voice was cold and cruel amid Vieira's loud neighing.
"Mortals should fear us! For to fear us is to fear death itself!
Pick up your weapons and skin your enemies! Cut off the bones of your enemies! Forged a throne with the blood and heads of your enemies for the supreme Lord of Darkness!
The goddess of war will open her heart for us, because we are destined to conquer this land for our masters!
Our horse's hooves will stretch to the ends of the world until we build Valhalla for warriors on top of this fertile land!
And we're going to be a part of Valhalla! ”
The soldiers of the undead legion raised their weapons aloft and frantically tapped their shields.
"Valhalla! Valhalla! ”
In the midst of a frenzied gaze, Leopold raised his horse's hooves.
"Kill !!"
When two undead legions attacked at the same time, this long-probed, brutal battle could be regarded as officially begining.
Thousands of low-level undead swarmed in, mixed with thousands of extremely powerful undead legionnaires,
Except for the casters of the underworld who still maintain a considerable distance to release the spells of the underworld, there is no longer any formation or discipline on this battlefield, and only the simplest and purest battle remains.
The Legion of the Underworld has only one strategic purpose, which is to penetrate the defense line of the defenders of Ishokon and cut off everyone's heads.
In fact, this is also the real function of the Umbrella of Death - to force the defenders of Ishokon down from the damned walls, and let the defenders of Ishokon fight with the legions of the underworld in hand-to-hand combat, so that the defenders of Ishokon will not fight with unmartial cannons.
Otherwise, Sebastian would not have been prepared to expose the Umbrella of Death so early.
After all, what the Dark Lord wants is not only conquest, but the brutal and bloodthirsty process of war is also what Mordecaesar is pursuing, and the more cruel and ruthless he is to torture the enemy, the more he can please Mordkaiser, and after enough killing, the underworld soldiers will be qualified to ascend to demons.
To get back to the point, compared with the mighty Underworld Legion, the Ishooken defenders who went out of the city to fight were as weak as a reef surrounded by the vast sea, but the defenders relied on a tight military formation to resist the waves of the Underworld Legion, of course, this also had a lot to do with the fact that it was the low-level undead who took the lead in killing.
"Everyone! Hold the line where you are! Legion of Light! Get ready for channeling spells! ”
The unprecedented counterattack greatly increased the pressure on the soldiers, and the imperial general immediately issued various orders to deal with the changing situation of the war.
First, the sword and shield paladins of the Holy Light Legion came out in formation, and stood on the outermost part of the military formation, becoming the first outer wall, allowing Agoural and the Imperial hoplites to become the second line of defense.
The elemental mage followed, artificially shaping impregnable towers with elemental magic, and launching magical attacks on low-level undead creatures.
The tower is for the use of the Light Mage and the Holy Spear Shooter,
A Holy Light Mage with good vision can cast a wide range of destructive magic on the top of the tower to destroy the undead on a large scale, and the latter can shoot from a distance with a holy stone weapon to deal effective damage to powerful undead warriors.
Otherwise, the endless Sea of Skeletons alone would be enough to grind everyone to death on the battlefield, let alone any of the undead legion warriors who would be enough to slaughter the mortal army.
Before sending troops, the empire had already formulated various countermeasures, and although the scale of the legion that went out of the city to fight was not large, it could also be called a sentence 'although the sparrow is small, it has all five organs'.
In the depths of the shadows, a skeletal dragon fluttered its wings, and Sebastian sat on the dragon's back, the indifferent Marshal of the Underworld observing the battle from an outsider's perspective.
In his bird's-eye view, the Noxian Empire's legions constructed a formation that was strong enough to resist the undead legions, occupying a considerable battle advantage, using formations, geographical advantages and various bonus buffs to flatten the advantages of the underworld legions, and also stepped on it hard.
Blind faith in Mordecaesar aside, for him, the battle can be said to be a complete defeat.
During his lifetime, he was also the famous generalissimo of the Normanrov Kingdom, commanding more than 100,000 Normanrov regiments.
Although he fought with Uzur all his life and had to be a lackey after his death, he did not forget how a suitable commander should fight.
Of course, he knew that the real war should be fought steadily like the Noxian Empire, and not like the F2A that his master Maude Caesar agreed with and shouting Valhalla to command the next rush to kill, either cut down others or be cut down by others, that would be a little too stupid.
There are many key factors that affect the victory or defeat of a battle, like a barbarian, you don't think about anything and just kill it, once you encounter an enemy who can really fight, you will inevitably pay a heavy price.
If it weren't for the fact that there has never been a shortage of cannon fodder in the underworld, this battle would have been over a long time ago, counting the troops of the newly promoted demon ascender Agulal, the four undead legions together are less than 30,000 people, even if they are ten more than ten, they can't hold up the undead legion soldiers like Noxus Emperor and grind them slowly.
But as the generalissimo of the underworld, there is really no way to change this situation, or even if he can not be controlled by Nightfall, the mainstream of the underworld agrees to please Maude Caesar by brutally beating him,
It seems that Mordecaesar did not approve of his subordinates fighting 'crooked ways' with his servants for a long time.
If the ascension ceremony doesn't come out, it's good to say, he still has the possibility of changing, and as soon as the ascension ritual comes out, he has no intention of trying.
In order to qualify for Valhalla, the warriors of the underworld must put aside their intrigues and slay their enemies with real strength, offering their heads as trophies for the lord.
In addition, what shady schemes, what poisoned assassinations, and what planted blame have all become the disgrace of the Valhalla warriors.
Because of this, even if he wanted to train the Legion of the Underworld to be like the Legion of the Noxa Empire in his own way, it would not work, no one would listen to him at all, and perhaps cause Mordekaiser to be dissatisfied.
To put it bluntly, he, the 'Generalissimo', can only formulate operational goals at the strategic level, and macroscopically guide different undead legions to seize the entire material realm.
Virtually every undead legion is commanded by someone else, and is under the direct control of Mordecaesar.
Now the only ones willing to agree with his 'cowardly' war are the casters of the underworld, such as lichs, corpses, and other ghosts with brains.
Sebastian knew how powerful Mitner Lachen was, so he could better understand how outrageous the Noxian Empire was when foreign reinforcements resisted the invasion of Mitna Lachen's undead legion.
It can be said that the initial momentum was built without the intervention of the Noxian Empire, and without the Noxian Empire, even if the entire Ishtar was slaughtered, it would not be a matter of pride, and how could the giant be proud of trampling a maggot to death?
[It's a pity that there was no great civilization like the Noxus Empire in my era, otherwise I would not have been defeated by Maudecaesar......]
The idea of rebellion flashed, watching the Empire's Holy Light Angel begin to torture the Underworld Legion, it was not surprising that the Underworld Legion would touch the nail Sebastian sighed lightly, and recruited Ahsoka Frolle with a spell, after all, if this war beyond his control is lost, he will still be fully responsible.
Within thirty seconds, a dark green hunchbacked thin old man with wings flew in front of Sebastian, bowing his head respectfully.
is completely different from his previous status, and now Ahsoka, who has evolved his life level, has been promoted from a witch to a lich, and his subordinates have even accepted several witch spirits and corpse demon brothers.
The reason why he was able to gain so much was of course because he successfully 'captured' the Empire's war weapon [Thein] for Sebastian, in addition to increasing his life level and harvesting his younger brother, Ahsoka also obtained the qualification to follow the Generalissimo of the Underworld - at least Ahsoka himself thinks so.
"Master, what do you need the villain to do for you?"
Sebastian casually threw out a palm-sized black crystal, and Ahsoka hurriedly caught it with both hands, looking at Sebastian with a puzzled expression.
In his opinion, it was just an ordinary dark crystal.
"Smash this crystal on the battlefield."
Seeing that Sebastian didn't mean to explain, Ahsoka didn't ask too much and waved his wings and flew to the battlefield.
On the battlefield, two large holy angels steaming with white flames were under the control of the Holy Light Mage, holding large swords and slashing out one after another glorious sword qi, destroying a large number of undead creatures.
There was also a holy angel holding high the sacrificial scepter in the protection of the military array, and in the high-pitched prayers, dozens of holy light arrays with a radius of three meters appeared on the land where the undead creatures outside the imperial army array were raging.
The sacrificial scepter in the hand of the holy angel shot out a dazzling pillar of light into the sky, and the holy light energy gathered by the pillar of light spread out from above, and was pulled by the holy light array, and the holy light energy above the sky poured down, turning into a sword of judgment and smashing into the earth.
By the time the Holy Light Circle disappeared, more than thirty percent of the undead creatures besieging the Imperial Army had been wiped out, and because the Sword of Judgment had spread too far, the corpse tide of the undead had left a large gap, so that there was no way to take over the vanguard army that had been wiped out in time, leaving the Imperial soldiers with nothing to do.
Agulal looked numbly at the three holy angels guarding his head, and only felt like he was in a dream.
Originally, he thought that the Noxians forcibly recruited him to be cannon fodder on the battlefield, but now it seems that the reality seems to be a little different from his thoughts.
"One go! Clear the Umbrella of Death here! (End of chapter)