Chapter 1174: It's Just an Adult Trial
Arthur was reluctant to send out his elite army, and all his elites who had spent a lot of money to build were gathered next to his castle, perfectly acting as a strategic reserve.
Sent to the front, where they were lined up in a haphazard formation that stretched for more than fifty miles, were his five regiments of recruits, a mixture of hunters, lumberjacks, and street men. These people are stout and powerful, and they have rich combat experience, which is much stronger than the combat effectiveness of the team composed of ordinary citizens.
The hunters were all archers, because they had been hunting for generations, so they were very skilled in archery.
Those lumberjacks had powerful bodies, and the brute strength of their arms was several times greater than that of ordinary people, and even comparable to the strength of ordinary human warriors. So they were all given heavy shields and heavy steel knives, and they were organized into thick shielded broadsword soldiers with strong defense, and stood at the front of the team.
And those heroes who have been fighting on the streets for a long time, their weapons are much more mixed. Spears, spears, crossbows, throwing knives, javelins, all kinds of strange weapons, I don't know how Arthur collected them. There are even some former heroes who carry a heavy burden, which is full of quicklime powder!
One can imagine the lethality of sprinkling a lot of lime powder in the melee, and if three or five street thugs are proficient in this special combat skill, they can effectively make several times the enemy lose a qiē combat strength. And among Arthur's five legions, there are more than 10,000 'warriors' who have prepared a large amount of quicklime powder!
Well, these are the five most combat-ready legions of Arthur's newly formed recruit corps.
Each regiment was a full force of ten divisions, nearly 500,000 men lined up, and formed a queue with a horizontal width of more than 50 li and a thickness ranging from two or three to seven or eight li, like paramecium.
They were outnumbered, and a large black mass of soldiers gathered on the plains full of fluorescent plants, large enough to scare the timid enemy to death. After all, there are five legions lined up here, not to mention so many people. Even if it's half a million chickens, it's extremely difficult to kill them all.
In this array of more than fifty miles wide, there were more than a dozen small hills. Some officers with a little experience in fighting began to drink and order those Orion-turned-archers to go to the top of the mountain to line up, at least from a high point of view, the archers will be more lethal at the heights.
And some people even shouted that those heavy shielded swordsmen gathered together to form a thick phalanx to meet the enemy.
As for those heroes who turned into soldiers? Some of them are scolding. Some were whispering complaints, others were talking about how to escape in the event of a war, so they wriggled around the ranks like worms, making a mess of the already scattered ranks.
While Arthur's five legions of recruits were still twisting and kneading, the Demon Castle that happened to be behind them opened.
The four city gates opened at the same time, the long drawbridge fell heavily, and the black dragon-like demon cavalry rushed out silently, and the endless demon cavalry like a tide was divided into four charging formations, like four red-hot broadswords inserted into butter, easily breaking into the unprepared Arthurian army array.
Before the start of the war. The scouts of Arthur's legion assessed the total number of people in the Demon Castle, and the total population of that castle was only about 10,000. It is estimated that the creatures of the abyss are one level stronger than the average combat power of humans on the ground. The number of soldiers in this castle who can fight is about 3,000.
But now rushing out of the castle were 40,000 heavily armed demon cavalry.
They don't have armor, the demons' natural thick skin and scale armor are their best armor, they ride abyssal demon lizards with a body length of more than five meters, these big mouths emit foul smell of magic lizards teeth and mouths contain poison, ordinary people will die of rapid infection and ulceration due to the slightest cut of their skin.
What's worse is that there are quite a few members of these magic lizards who can erupt low-level magic.
Lizard breath, ground thorns, petrification, gas, and more. These low-level magics are not very lethal to well-trained soldiers, but they are just becoming soldiers. For recruits who have received less than half a year of training, this is a complete blow to the mière.
Forty thousand demons clashed like a raging wind, and they rushed into the scattered ranks of Arthur's legion, and they quickly dispersed, divided into teams of twenty people, and frantically slashed the enemies around them. They were armed with strange-shaped scimitars that were two meters long, and each knife left a terrible black light in the air.
The 'poof' sound was incessant, the howl was incessant, and the first onslaught of the demon knights caused thousands of deaths. Their knives were too heavy, their knives were too sharp, their knives were too sharp, thousands of heads flew up at the same time, and blood was spilled all over the sky.
The speed of the abyssal demon lizard's nature is more than three times faster than that of ordinary war horses, and they can easily run out of more than thirty meters every second, many demon warriors don't bother to wield their knives at all, they just need to put the scimitar on their thighs, let the mount lead them forward, and the blade will easily cut off the heads one by one like a lawnmower.
There were also some demon knights who were neatly lined up in a horizontal formation, and charged forward in a neat formation. Everywhere they passed, countless heads flew up, and the sound of 'poof' was as dense as popping beans.
The five legions sent out by Arthur were instantly in chaos.
Arthur roared angrily, and he spent a lot of money to build two armies of snow birch and cedar roared out in his rage, forming a thick phalanx ready to launch a counterattack against these daring demon knights. But before the soldiers of these two elite legions could be dispatched, the recruits and soldiers of the five legions in front had been completely defeated.
It was only half a cup of tea after the Ghost Knight charged, and Arthur's five legions were scattered.
The rebels did not dare to charge in the direction of the abyssal creatures, and they naturally rushed in the direction of Arthur's barracks. They rushed into the ranks of the two legions of Snow Birch and Cedar like a tsunami, and smashed the ranks of the two elite heavy legions.
The demon knights let out a low, menacing howl, and they roared in a neat line, reaching out to pull their heavy javelins from their pouches on the side of their mounts, and projecting them with the speed of the lizards.
The dense rain of guns locked onto the main formation of the two major armies of Snow Birch and Cedar, and the thick plate armor could not withstand the strange power of these evil spirits, and the heavy javelin tore through the protection of the plate armor, piercing the bodies of those elite soldiers, and firmly nailing them to the ground.
The onslaught of the demons lasted only a few breaths, and then they scurried back to the demon castle as fast as they could.
It was the impact of these few breaths that more than 2,000 people died on the spot in the heavy javelin fire of the two most elite heavy armored legions under Arthur's command.
Arthur was trembling with rage, and he roared in annoyance, and there were already dots of blood bursting out from the corners of his mouth.
About an hour away, in the main formation of those abyssal creatures who came to help, in a cart dragged by twelve abyssal two-legged dragons, a young man who was no more than sixteen or seventeen years old, but with a full beard, was sitting cross-legged on the soft couch, gulping down the fragrant and delicious stewed dragon tendons.
After a sip of wine and a mouthful of meat, the young man suddenly raised his eyes and shouted loudly: "Hey, flawless girl, there should be almost a lot of separation in front, right? Go and ask, how many people were killed by the second wave of attacks of those evil spirits? Warn them, it doesn't matter how many people they kill, but if they dare to lose a person, I will peel off the skin of their four leading generals!"
The one called the flawless girl is a beautiful girl who looks only fourteen or fifteen years old, born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and has a gray and dead air all around her. She crouched in the corner of the carriage, and in front of her, two small dog skeletons no more than a foot long were opening their mouths to pounce on each other under her command.
Hearing the bearded young man's words, the beautiful girl snorted lazily, she picked up the tails of the two skeleton puppies, and said lazily: "Don't play too much. That inexplicable Prince of Beihai swept through the young men of the five major provinces to form an army to attack the fourth abyss, and his purpose was definitely not simple. Beware that you beat him up too badly and provoke the people behind him, and you're in trouble. ”
The bearded young man laughed proudly: "I'm just waiting for the person behind him to come out!" Haha, I'm suffocating my internal injuries here, so I quickly completed the coming-of-age trial and drove this guy back to the ground.
He raised his thick arms triumphantly and shook them, and the bearded young man Wang Zong couldn't wait to shout: "That guy Wang Chong was two rounds older than me, and ran to fight for the spiritual objects of heaven and earth, but he was beaten by that kid named Lin Qi of the Tiger Clan! When I go to the ground, I must find that Lin Qi to compete and see who is the hero between me and him!"
The girl rolled her eyes, and then exhaled a cold breath faintly: "You are fighting against that group of thugs of the Tiger Clan? To be honest, I really don't think well of you!"
Standing up lazily, the girl walked out of the carriage, and then gave a hard kick to one of the blood sickle demons guarding the cart.
"You stupid and arrogant idiot lord who thinks he is invincible in the world has said, send a message to the people in the castle ahead, and if they dare to suffer any casualties, their skins will be stripped off and worn as clothing. ”
"Well, by the way, help me bury these twelve Pluto Totem Poles outside the city, I want to try the Great Summoning Technique of the Pluto Dragon that I just learned recently. ”
"Anyway, it's the centaurs of the Western Continent, or the gods of the Punishment Temple, and if you kill a few more, you shouldn't be talked about by those old guys, right?"
A playful glow flashed in the girl's eyes, and wisps of gray dead air that seemed like substance spread out from all around her body.