Chapter 325: Bloody Battle
Under the protection of the Great Shieldmen, Howell gritted his teeth and controlled the movement of the Storm Technique.
At this moment, there was no trace of blood on his face, and even the corners of his mouth had begun to spill blood.
The consumption of maintaining the Storm Technique was terrifying, and the mana in his body was being frantically drained.
In just a few breaths, even the azure gem at the top of the staff became dull.
As his mana was completely drained, Howell, whose body could no longer bear this burden, spurted out a mouthful of blood on the spot.
At this time, his mana and spiritual power were excessively depleted, and before his body fell to the ground, the whole person had already lost consciousness and fainted.
As Howell fainted, the raging storm lost the support of its mana, dissipated into invisibility in an instant, and then rained down a large rain of blood from the sky above the battlefield.
Looking at the rain of blood floating in the sky, Xia Qi's eyes were split, these are all his soldiers in Great Xia!!
This spell came down, and I don't know how many soldiers sacrificed him.
However, as the commander of the first army, he must maintain his sanity.
"Retreat?"
This thought only flashed through Xia Qi's mind, and then he abandoned it.
"A spell attack like that is absolutely impossible to cast at will!"
Xia Qi, who believed this in his heart, directly signaled the herald beside him to blow the horn of assembly, and the war drum was also beaten.
With the sound of the majestic war drums, the morale of the warriors on the Great Xia side began to rise gradually.
"The whole army is assembled !!"
The black imperial flag representing Xia Qi's identity was held high, and the flag fluttering in the wind undoubtedly became the backbone of the soldiers at this moment, and the surrounding soldiers moved closer to the position where the royal flag was erected.
However, in this situation, how could Arthur Wang, who was opposite, give him a chance to regroup?
After calling two elven priests to take care of Howell who had fainted and sent him back to the city, King Arthur waved his long sword.
Then he hissed and roared: "The whole army charges!" ”
The sound of the elven army smashing the sky, and the elven army whose morale was greatly boosted after the storm spell swept towards the army that had been bloodied by the hurricane in Great Xia.
This situation changed too quickly, making Jin Ming, who had just found a position, full of confusion.
"What should I do?"
Glancing back at the other soldiers behind him, he saw that they were all looking at him, which had not happened in a long time.
"No matter! Fire on Lao Tzu!! Fire!!! ”
The soldiers who received the order immediately began to move, and after a quick operation, fifty eight-ox crossbows and catapults simultaneously launched an attack on the approaching elven army.
The crossbow arrows of the Eight Ox Crossbows were all replaced with arrows with group lethality, and the catapults were no longer loaded with a single boulder, but a piece of stone bullets the size of a fist.
These scattered arrows and stone bullets were all specially prepared by Xia Qi for this battle, and they can be said to be another hole card in his hand.
And after the war, he handed over the specific command work to Jin Ming, who was the goblin king.
The large ordnance was too cumbersome to move, so Jin Ming took advantage of the cover of the forest to take the goblin soldiers and the big shield soldiers all the way.
Only now has he finally pushed these 100 large ordnance to the output position he sees.
The furious firepower caught the charging elven army by surprise on the spot, and no one expected that there would be such a ferocious attack from that position.
At this moment, King Arthur, who was in the elven army, also changed color. Because he grabbed the first-mover advantage as soon as he started fighting, Xia Qi's ordnance unit was useless at all, and he was directly forgotten after a long time.
But who would have thought that the ordnance unit, which had been paddling for so long, would start to exert its strength at such a time?
And a round of fire, is it such a swift attack?
A large number of screams echoed on the battlefield, and Arthur Wang's first reaction was to get rid of the threat.
However, the area where the catapult and the Eight Ox Crossbow were located was out of his reach, and there was a whole line of large shield soldiers nearby!
As soon as an ordinary elven soldier gets close, he will be attacked, and even if he is lucky enough to rush up, he will be intercepted by the big shield soldier.
If you want to destroy those siege ordnance, you can only rush forward with a large number of troops.
But here's the problem, there are not only siege engines on this side of Great Xia, but he also has a large number of other troops.
Thinking of this, Arthur Wang immediately called the elven archers, wanting to name the bed crossbowmen who operated the bed crossbow in turn.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the archers' troops, who had fallen into a state of silence before, saw this opportunity and began to attack them.
Under the leadership of Kreh, the archers began to quickly close the distance between the two sides, and as they galloped wildly, two more volleys were fired.
The elven mages, as always, used the first-order spell wind pressure to dissolve.
Seeing this, the corners of Kree's mouth suddenly showed a sneer, and he casually reached out and pulled out a bloodletting gun from the saddle on one side!
"All the bloodletting guns ready!"
At the same time as Kree spoke, the opposing rear troops were already within range of their bloodletting guns.
"Target, enemy archer troops, put!"
I have to say that Kree's intuition is keen, and he hasn't analyzed much in his mind, just by his own feelings, he can sense that those elven archers on the opposite side are the biggest threat.
Therefore, he made such a decision decisively.
His big decision was the right one, because even a first-order spell couldn't just be played with.
Every spell consumes their mana and mental power.
From the beginning of the war to the present, the elven mage in the back row on the opposite side has been depleted at this time after losing so many spells.
In comparison, the elven archers who are constantly bending their bows and arrows are more tricky.
The battle thrown by that round of bloodletting guns was simply overwhelming, and the faces of those elven archers who were locked suddenly changed drastically.
The elven mages on the side wanted to save the scene, but at this time, they were extremely tired mentally, and the efficiency of both reaction and spell chanting had greatly decreased.
Many of these elven mages could no longer keep up with the high-intensity rhythm of such continuous spell casting.
And a first-order spell like the Breeze Technique, if it can't be used together in large quantities, the effect will only be pitiful.
Therefore, the limited Breeze Clearing Technique could not shake the offensive of the bloodletting gun at all.
The huge number of bloodletting guns swept towards the formation of the elven archers like a storm, carrying the inertia of the falling, and the sharp spear heads easily pierced the fragile bodies of the elven soldiers.
Accompanied by screams, a large amount of blood stained the entire land red in a short period of time!
The rear and flanks of the elven army were attacked by both the archers and the ordnance troops, and the successive changes made Arthur Wang feel anxious.
Obviously, he had just used the Storm Technique to severely reduce the strength of the main army on the opposite side one moment, why did it become like this the next moment?
was bloodied by the bloodletting guns of the archer troops, and the elven archers at this time obviously had no spare strength to snipe that ordnance unit.
Realizing this, Arthur Wang's whole heart sank significantly.
"Impossible! When pigs fly!! How could I possibly lose?!!! ”
His gaze swept quickly across the battlefield, and Arthur Wang was forcing himself to calm down.
"The casualties of the main army on the opposite side are real, and the current situation is because I was pinned down from both sides by the archers and ordnance troops on the opposite side."
After thinking about this, a trace of determination suddenly flashed on Arthur Wang's face.
"The whole army charges !!"
At this time, Arthur Wang had already decided in his heart that the main army in front was Xia Qi's weak point, as long as the main army was defeated, the threat that those archers and shields responsible for containing him would be greatly reduced.
As soon as he thought of this, after transferring the big shield troops to protect the elven mages and elven archers in the back row, Arthur Wang himself directly led the elven army to kill!
Looking at the elven army that was pressing towards him, a drop of cold sweat slipped from the corner of Xia Qi's forehead, and he didn't know whether to say that King Arthur was a bachelor enough, or if he reacted fast enough, so he chose to go straight to his main army in a desperate way.
But Xia Qi had to admit that he was really caught by the other side of the weakness.
At that time, whether Arthur Wang concentrated his forces to deal with the archers or the ordnance troops, he could buy him valuable time.
And now, this little time is simply not enough for Xia Qi to completely gather the main army that had been dispersed before, and at present, less than 5,000 troops have just gathered around him.
"Bear!"
As the first elite under Xia Qi, the Imperial City Praetorian Guards gathered together even when they avoided the hurricane before.
After that, Xia Qi raised the banner, and naturally rushed over as soon as possible.
Right now, only the Imperial City Praetorian Guards can block those elven armies.
"Praetorian Guards of the Imperial City, follow me...... Kill!!! ”
"Kill !!"
Obviously, there were only more than a thousand people, but at this moment, the power of the Imperial City Praetorian Guards broke out, which made the elves feel a burst of combat power in their hearts.
In particular, the dried blood stains and the minced flesh stuck in them could be faintly seen in the armor on their bodies.
In the elven army, the faces of many soldiers turned pale for a while, and even the steps under their feet unconsciously slowed down a lot.
Wang Arthur, who noticed this change, instantly turned ugly.
"Heavy armored infantry wearing full-body armor, this Xia Qi is really worth the blood!"
It is not easy to raise such a force, not only because of weapons and armor, but also because of such a heavy armored army, the materials required for long-term training are very amazing.
Low-level players have relatively limited resources at hand, and instead of spending effort and resources to train heavy infantry, they would rather casually get a few thousand light infantry out.
Arthur Wang could feel that this army was probably the elite of the elite.
Howell's storm technique just now, the terrifying power made the morale of ordinary soldiers plummet, but the Imperial City Janissaries in front of him seemed to have not been affected much, and the morale of the army was basically unshaken.
didn't have time to think about it, Wang Arthur shouted loudly: "The whole army obeys the order!" Kill one person and reward 100 dollars! Kill ten people! Kill twenty people and seal the centurion! Kill the enemy general, and add a knighthood and a reward of 10,000 gold!! ”
I don't know if it was Arthur Wang's morale-boosting skills that worked, or the temptation of the reward that was difficult to refuse, the elven army instantly boosted their morale, roaring and killing the Imperial City Guards in the distance.
The bear grinned, his eyes full of murderous intent.