Chapter 897: Attack before retreat

Before the Knights Templar and the 100,000-strong army arrived at the front line, the Winged People's side obviously did not want to fight with the army of Great Xia.

However, the series of measures they have made in order to control their own casualties and ensure the reserve of faith power have made their own situation more difficult all of a sudden.

Is there anything worse than the enemy's army pressing the border, attacking almost every day, and at the same time the rear positions are completely unsettled?

In late summer and early autumn, inside the border fortress, Michael and Evan made the final decision to retreat after a series of discussions!

For the sake of further victory, it is not wise to fight hard with the army of Great Xia at this time.

Preserve the troops, temporarily retreat, and buy time for the movement of forces in the rear.

In a war of this level, momentary gains and losses are nothing at all.

As long as the enemy army is defeated in the next war, the lost land and cities can be recovered, and even counterattacked!

However, before retreating, what needs to be done still has to be done.

At this time, in the city behind the border fortress, there were about a thousand troops in size, and appeared around the Holy Light Cathedral.

???????????????? It's just that, unlike usual, this time, they actually transferred the Tianyi troops.

The doors of the Cathedral of the Holy Light were open, and a large number of winged people carefully moved out the statue of the goddess enshrined in the chapel.

Obviously, they were planning to transport the statue of the goddess away, and since they were going to retreat, they must not leave the statue here.

They didn't hide it, but chose to do it during the day.

Compared with waiting until after nightfall and secretly carrying out operations, the winged side actually has a greater advantage during the day.

After all, their vision can be guaranteed during the day, and once it is night, the dominant ones will become those damned werewolves and kobolds!

In the process, a large number of Skywing soldiers and winged soldiers almost directly blocked the ground and sky.

Especially the Winged Soldiers, who occupy the aerial vision, have a greater range of vigilance, and once any suspicious elements get close to the area around the Holy Light Cathedral, they will definitely be the first to find it.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, with a sound of breaking the air, there was a sharp arrow in the distance, flying out.

In an instant, more than a dozen Skywing soldiers flying in the air were shot and killed on the spot!

The sudden long-distance attack made the atmosphere on the side of the Holy Light Cathedral tense in an instant.

Amidst a loud roar of warning, one by one the Celestial Wing soldiers hurriedly stretched out the shields of the Divine Blessing Technique, blocking the second round of arrow fire from a distance.

This made the Heavenly Wing soldiers, while breathing a sigh of relief, hurriedly turn around and roar.

"Quick! Move the statue of the goddess to the car and ...... south."

Unexpectedly, before the words were finished, with a sharp wind whistle, an arrow wrapped in azure wind elemental power swept through the shield of the Divine Blessing Technique and submerged into the eyebrows of the Celestial Wing Species soldier!

"All obey the order, change to high-level wind chasing arrows, and snipe them!"

I saw that at this moment, on the roof of a building five hundred meters away, Colonel Xiluo, who maintained a half-squatting posture and bent his bow and arrows, gave a cold order.

In general, the main users of magic arrows are Elven marksman units, and the reason for this is that they have a series of exclusive project blessings.

The Elven Marksman uses magic arrows, which can show 150% or more effect, which is absolutely impossible for other classes.

The same goes for the Wind Knights, who don't enjoy the benefits of the Elven Marksman's range of enhancements.

This includes range increase buffs, accuracy increase buffs, arrow flight speed increase buffs, magic arrow effect power increase buffs, and so on.

At the same time, because they do not have the blessing of the Elven Marksman's "Eagle Eye" project, their maximum vision is not as good as that of the Elven Marksman.

Luckily, the Owl series' deformable mechanical bow is scope-assisted in longbow mode.

But even so, the maximum effective range that the Wind Knights can maintain accuracy in Longbow mode is only about 500 meters.

Therefore, whether it is for cost-effective considerations or for effect considerations, Elven magic arrows are generally directly equipped with Elven Marksman troops.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything, and the positioning of the Wind Knight troops has been biased towards half of the all-round troops, so in order for them to be able to cope with all kinds of situations, it is also necessary to equip them with a few elven magic arrows.

And now, the elven magic arrows on their bodies are undoubtedly coming in handy.

Face???????????????? For the speed and defense-breaking ability of high-level Wind Chasing Arrows, the strength of the Divine Blessing Shield of ordinary Skywing soldiers is obviously insufficient, and the Wind Knights can almost kill with one hit on the premise of aiming at the target and hitting accurately.

However, those Skywing soldiers are not stupid, and it is impossible for them to stand still stupidly and let them aim.

Once the opponent moves at high speed, the fact that the Wind Knights' long-range shooting ability is not as good as that of the Elven Marksman is quickly exposed.

Then, looking at the Sky Wing soldiers who were flapping their wings and rushing over in large numbers, the Wind Knights, led by Xiluo, who were distributed on the roofs of various houses and buildings, did not panic.

At the moment when the other party was about to rush in front of him, he shook the bow in his hand, and the bow and arrow suddenly changed to a short bow mode, so that Ciro, who was used to using a short bow, suddenly felt a lot easier.

After raising his hand and two arrows and forcing back the Heavenly Wing soldiers who rushed up, he saw that the wind knights jumped one by one, and actually kicked through the windows directly and rushed into the buildings one after another.

finally discovered the traces of these lurkers, and chased and killed the Tianyi soldiers, how could they be willing to let them go.

So he gritted his teeth and chased after him.

Now, it's kind of lively.

No matter what that family was doing, the Wind Knight and the Sky Wing Soldiers who broke through the window one after another made them completely stunned.

For a time, chickens and dogs were also jumping in various buildings, screaming non-stop.

In this complex and narrow environment, the wind knights are like fish in water, flickering and moving, rolling up and down, just like they are at home.

In comparison, the Celestial Wing soldiers were too uncomfortable.

In this environment, if they flap their wings casually twice, they may hit the opposite wall, and it is not as flexible as using two legs.

The roaring Holy Flame attack, in the roar, directly smashed a wall in front of him, and three Heavenly Wing soldiers with holy swords and angry faces directly broke through the wall.

But they saw that the wind knight who was being chased by them had already jumped to the opposite platform with a railing as if he were playing acrobatics.

Seeing that the other party was about to rush into a building again, how could the three Tianyi soldiers who were furious make the other party get their wish?

One person pursued, two pinned down, and three Celestial Wing soldiers shot at the same time, which brought a lot of trouble to Ciro.

At that time, the situation was urgent, and Ciro, who didn't have time to think about it, while dodging the Holy Flame attack, turned around with the short bow in his hand and shot an arrow towards the two Celestial Wing soldiers who were frantically launching the Holy Flame attack, so as to interrupt their follow-up pursuit.

In order to dodge the sharp arrows shot by Ciro, the two Celestial Wing soldiers who were in charge of containment had to temporarily stop their movements and dodge.

But as the one being chased, Ciro was not at peace for a moment.

Almost as soon as he turned around and shot that arrow, the Celestial Wing soldier who was in charge of the pursuit had already rushed in front of him.

The holy sword slashed down suddenly, so that Ciro didn't have time to think about it, with a simple operation, the bows on both sides of the owl bow in his hand directly popped out two blades that emitted cold light.

Then only a soft sound was heard, and with the splash of sparks, the two weapons collided violently.

Maintaining this confrontation posture, the two sides fell into a brief stalemate.

Faced with this situation, the two Celestial Wing soldiers who had just avoided the arrow attack, only when they seized the opportunity, their first reaction was to attack again and kill Siro.

But unexpectedly, at this moment, it was under their evasive actions,???????????????? The arrow that had been shot in the air seemed to come to life at this moment, and with a nimble turn, an arrow pierced the back of the head of one of the Winged soldiers from behind!

Then the arrow stained with blood and brains was still moving, and it was extremely strange that it sank into the temple of another Tianyi soldier next to him!

This was completely unexpected, so that the two Celestial Wing soldiers could not react at all, and a strange arrow took the lives of both of them one after another.

At that time, the Tianyi soldier who happened to be in this scene didn't even know what the situation was, and the expression on his face was momentarily sluggish.

Seeing this momentary opportunity, Ciro twisted his arms, only to hear a "click", and the metal bow body that was originally connected together was actually split in two on the spot.

In the flash of light, Ciro cooperated with the evasive steps under his feet, and while avoiding the attack of the Winged Soldier, he used the short knife in his hand to split in two, slashing through the throat of the Winged Soldier, and then burrowed into the next building without looking back.

Where the battle had taken place, only the corpses of the three Celestial Wing soldiers remained.

One of them was stabbed with a sharp weapon, and the other two were pierced through the head by a sharp arrow.

Those who don't know will probably think that they have been attacked from a distance, but this is not the case.

In fact, the arrow that Ciro shot at the beginning was a high-level tracking arrow!

Unlike other elven magic arrows exclusive to the Elven Marksman, the Tracking Arrow is a magic arrow exclusive to the Windranger, and the Wind Knight, as a promoted class of the Windranger, naturally has also received a series of effect blessings.

Normal homing arrows can only track one target, while advanced homing arrows, after shooting the first locked target, will automatically chase the next enemy unit within a certain radius.

Sure, it sounds like it's amazing, but it's actually not that strong.

Because, in addition to the seemingly strong ability of "tracking", the tracking arrow has a short range, average flight speed, and average power before the "tracking" effect is triggered.

Therefore, the tracking arrows are very much only used by the Wind Knights to pin down the enemy, or to sneak up on the enemy when they are unsuspecting, as they have done before.

So, under normal circumstances, the Wind Knights would shoot a homing arrow to chase the enemy, and then kill the enemy with a normal arrow or melee combat.