Chapter 50: The Battle of the Dragons
Despite their reluctance, after dozens of their companions fell, the human civilians approached the walls, and more than a dozen long ladders crossed the moat, and the untrained civilians climbed to the opposite bank with their hands and feet, their swords and clubs falling into the moat. Although the mercenaries on the city wall did not attack them directly, the huge stones thrown in the distance bounced off and fell into the crowd from time to time, and some people kept falling to the ground with their heads covered and falling into the moat. The red part of the river is getting bigger and thicker.
Suddenly, a knightly force was killed along the moat on the right side of the Broken Ice Harbor. Unlike all the human knights that the Phanos had seen before, these knights were not wearing heavy armor or even ordinary plate armor, their black sè robes were tightly wrapped around their bodies, and they only had chain mail woven of white sè steel wire on their chests and abdomen. The weapons in their hands were also fundamentally different, these knights did not have the knightly standard two-handed spear or one-handed spear, but only carried a long sword behind their backs and a longbow in their hands.
The first appearance of the knight unit of the small mercenary regiment was a difficult thing to imagine for the commanders of most of the armies at that time, for any country, the destructive power of the heavy infantry was three times that of the light infantry, which was an indisputable thing, and the heavy knights not only inherited the advantages of the high defense of the heavy infantry, but also had strong penetrating power, in any battle, once the heavy knight troops were put into use, then the end was not far away.
Many people in later generations believed that His Excellency Amy, the mercenary king, not only fully developed the vast swordsman profession, but also gave a new explanation for the application of the knight army, which led to a new development of the knight army.
However, at that time, only the parties knew the bitterness and bitterness.
The cost of the knight force was so large that the commanders of the small mercenary group had not expected it before. It is extremely expensive to purchase horses, and the price of a good war horse is even as high as 100 gold coins, but fortunately, it is worth Amy and others to be thankful that all the horses in the knight unit of the small mercenary group are brought by the members of the group. Horse breeding to the small mercenary group finances brought almost a devastating blow, a horse eats as much as 20 kilograms of feed a day, don't think that horses eat grass - war horses eat grass, the so-called forage is made of fine grass, oats, black beans, etc., the ice port is located on the west side of the continent, and oats, The main production area of black beans is the hinterland of the mainland, and the price of these forages transported to the ice port is almost the same as that of grain, basically, the consumption of a horse's mouth is basically equivalent to the consumption of food by seven mercenaries, and this figure is converted into money and even exceeds that of the Dixinglong who eats meat and fish.
The small mercenary group was already short of funds, and the war horses and the earth dragon made the finances stretched. So much so that one time when Amy and others were inspecting the stables, His Excellency the head of the regiment held the strongest war horse and said to the war horse with affectionate tears: "Grandpa Ma, you know, you really want to eat me poor." Look at it, where is the meat on your body, this is the hard-earned money of more than 2,000 brothers in the small mercenary group. If you lose the war in the war, I will kill all of you and eat them and you won't be able to get back your roots, maybe...... Your skins can be sold for some money, your horsehair can be sold for some money, your tendons can be rubbed for bowstrings, your horses ......"
The captain didn't finish his words, and the vigorous war horse under everyone's eyes was already languishing and lying on the ground with four hooves spasms.
In such a tight economic situation, the small mercenary group really couldn't come up with more money to buy complete sets of armor for the knights. In fact, even if there is money, the knights' armor is custom-made, and the small mercenary group has just stabilized for ten months, and the production capacity of a few small blacksmith shops in the Ice Broken Harbor cannot provide so much. This time, in order to prepare for the Phanos Legion, Amy specially found the chain short armor that was originally equipped with an armed swordsman battalion from the Broken Ice Harbor City Guard. It was impossible to find the knight's spear, but it was also impossible for the boys of the knight's camp to fall under the enemy's spear in the first attack, and Amy found the horned bow that had been eliminated very early from the castle guard, and the exact words of Lord Amy were: " Shè him, shè him, even if he has thick armor and does not kill him, you must slow down their impact, so that when they collide together, you can hold their spears, by the way, crawl along the spears, anyway, they wear more armor, and the reaction is not as fast as ours, ride on their necks and cut them! Remember, you are not allowed to die casually, you and these horses owe me debts that have not been paid off at all!"
Leaving aside the obvious self-deprecation of the poor in Lord Amy's words, the use of these rudimentary weapons should indeed bring more chances of survival to the knight camp of the small mercenary group. Of course, until a lot of war is tested, all this is just a good expectation.
With a little puzzlement, the Phanos Legion quickly sent a mixed force to intercept the less than 200 knights, hundreds of heavy infantry raised the steel shields in their hands to form 3 iron hedgehogs, and then, a considerable number of centaur archers pushed up, and the last knight troops also moved, and only knights could match the knights.
The bowstrings in the hands of the knights hummed and trembled, and although there was a gap between the shè distance of the horn bow and the longbow, the knights of the small mercenary regiment had the right time and place, and the fierce monsoon wind swept along the coast from the southwest to the continent, and the bows and arrows of the knights on their mounts were carried by the wind and then carried by the light horsemen The initial speed had exceeded the judgment of the Fanos soldiers, the first row of heavy infantry shields had not had time to erect the raindrops of steel, and dozens of bear warriors fell to the ground with arrows in their faces covered by arrow holes, and the effect of the blow that came faster than expected was obviously more than that, The centaur archers were squinting their eyes against the wind and were passing through the arched positions that had not yet been fully formed, and the steel raindrops were obviously more striking to them than the bear-man warriors, and the white sè's body kept falling to the ground, and the hoarse scream became the main theme of Fanos's flank position.
The main formation of Fanos and the commanders of the two wings were shocked at the same time, and there was a faint unstable turmoil among the tens of thousands of soldiers. Two large flags, blue sè and red sè, were raised one after another above the main formation, and the soldiers on the left flank once again sent a half-orc heavy infantry hundred-man team and two werewolf hundred-man hundreds.
When there were still about 150 meters with the enemy, Chi Aotian led the knight battalion to set aside the frontal enemy and insert it along the southeast to the enemy's rear - this was also Amy's order, and the one-on-one casualty exchange must have greatly violated the business rules of "one million profits".
In Amy Jīng's careful calculations, the knight battalion shè finished the standard configuration of 3 dozen arrows per person, only if it can shè wound 100 enemies and lose no more than 10 people, it is appropriate, the purpose is just to save people, the kind of frontal knight impact on the infantry camp scenery is still left to the imperial regular army, after all, the small mercenary group has not received a penny of food from the emperor's ** department. This strange way of playing Chi Aotian is very difficult to accept, any regular knight drill in the Imperial Knight School is a collision between real steel and flesh, if it weren't for the fact that no one else in the existing senior cadres of the small mercenary group has knight combat experience, this position Chi Aotian would definitely have to give up to Xian.
More heavy infantry were separated from the frontal forces on the left flank, hundreds of large shields were raised in the air, and arrows slid through the air and fell from the sky above the large shields to the back, and screams were constantly heard.
In order to prevent the enemy from breaking through the left flank in the ice-breaking harbor, a new order spread among the Fanos soldiers, and the main formation of more than three heavy infantry centurins and five or more light infantry centurions strode forward 20 meters to form a follow-up echelon, and at least half of them established a new left flank defense. At the same time, two werewolf centurions withdrew from behind the civilians, and the rapid protection was left behind in the catapult position between the main and forward formations.
The Fanos soldiers suddenly heard a sharp chirp from the rear, and almost all the soldiers of the main formation, the left and right flanks subconsciously looked back, and countless wild vultures swept in the black pressure in the sky in the distance, and each of them had a swordsman on its back. Among the high-ranking officers of Fanos, they all knew that the Vulture Swordsman Battalion was the sharpest weapon among the main swordsman battalions of the small mercenary group, and the sharp eyes of the orcs immediately identified the target of the Vulture Swordsmen: the main camp of Fanos.
In the battle of Xilin Island, tens of thousands of Fanos Jīng Rui Legion besieged and annihilated the small mercenary group because of the omission of the Vulture Swordsman Battalion - there were three bowstring sounds in the night sky where the five fingers could not be seen, and the experienced general Dahaino was knocked to the ground by an arrow, and the bowstring sound that sounded again actually hit the rope fluttering in the dark night sky. It was a blessing in misfortune that His Excellency Dahaino survived, and afterwards, all the officers who saw the scene of the rope being broken by an arrow were silent, including Dahaino himself, had to admit that it was absolutely impossible for an archer with such accuracy to miss the first arrow, which was contrary to the common sense of the soldiers with bows and arrows - any archer, the first arrow was the most accurate for him. It seems that the archers themselves did have a subjective water release factor at that moment, and in the face of such an attack by the archers in the air, even the dragon knights could not escape the disaster with one arrow.
Looking at the overwhelming vulture knights that seemed to be drowning all the vultures, the commander of the Battle of Fanos, Commander Merlin, could not be sure that there was no such archer among them who was feared by all soldiers, let alone the number of such archers in the small mercenary group, as a soldier, although he had taken a lot of peeks down on his own life, but once the commander was attacked, the entire legion would face irreparable disaster.
Merlin immediately released the harrier that had sent the message, and then all the centaur archers and human crossbowmen withdrew from the front, quickly passing through the already somewhat chaotic main formation and weaving a new protective net around it.
The human civilians who were coerced by the sword immediately felt the pressure behind them disappear in an instant, and the formation collapsed in a few breaths, and the civilians behind them leaned towards the sides of the moat like a stream of water.
The legion on the right side of the Phanos Legion found that the gate on the left side of the Broken Ice Harbor suddenly opened, and at least five knight hundreds, clinging to the ground like black mercury, Norton, as the commander of the right wing, felt that this knight force was different from the knight unit that attacked the left flank, strictly speaking, only such a knight unit was a real knight. At the forefront were the regular knights with armor between heavy knights and light knights, and the 2.7-meter-long knight spears on tall horses stood tall, all the knights pulled down their pitch-black masks, and the horses were at least 40% full Behind these knights, there are more than one or two hundred tall earthly dragons, the same as all the other earthly dragons, these dragons are not covered with any armor, and the scales of each sè under the slanting sun are dazzling and shiny, and the green knights on the horses are unusually tall, and there is no one wearing any piece of steel armor, and the muscles of the arms show that these knights are definitely not inferior to the bear warriors in terms of combat power, and they are the same as the Fanos heavy infantry, and there are only two kinds of weapons in the hands of these warriors. A black sè war hammer and a silver sè battle axe, either of which is not less than 2 meters long.
Merlin also saw a change in the right flank, and these knights who came in a wild way were not much different from the knights in the battle on the north bank of the Lion River, and the knightly troops would undoubtedly be a problem for the right flank composed of pure infantry. At this time, we can only hope that the right-wing troops will be blessed.
All the heavy infantry on the periphery of the right flank of Phanos quickly assembled, and the few remaining archers entered the center of the right flank in the shortest possible time.
To the jaw-dropping of the right flank of Fanos, the knights did not cherish this rare line of chaos on their side to give a greater blow, all the knights pressed towards the werewolf warriors who were left out like an avalanche, although the werewolf warriors who stayed behind the humans to supervise the battle still had a thousand people, but the light infantry without heavy armor defense had almost no ability to resist the charge of the regular knights.
The 2.7-meter-long knight spear rarely has only the thin body of a werewolf warrior strung on it, and the earth dragon knight who follows it is several times more destructive than the regular knight in front of him, both in terms of the knight itself and the mount. The hind limbs of the earth-walking dragon have more than 10 centimeter-long bone claws, and the front paws are more than 20 centimeters long, long-term predation of various beasts has caused the strongest carnivore on the land to have claws stained with corpse poison, lying on the ground and just dodging the knight's spear The wolf warrior immediately had countless claw marks under the bone claws that were sharper than the spear, especially the front paws of the earth-walking dragon tore these werewolves in front of them more than 20 meters away every time they grabbed fiercely, the huge battle axes of the berserk knights easily cut off the werewolf's backbone without any effort, and the war hammer with the heavy wind knocked the werewolf's corpses more than 20 meters away。
There was no suspense in the battle outside Icebreaker Harbor, and when the last of the Earthwalking Dragon Knight swept over the werewolf thousands, there was not a single intact corpse on the ground.
The knights did not pause for a moment, like arrows shè towards the left flank of Fanos, the left flank of Fanos under the belly of the enemy tended to collapse in an instant, the unprotected bodies of centaurs and werewolves could not form a strong defense, and the orc and bear soldiers who were leading the knight camp in the defense pool had just had time to turn around, and the huge battle axes and long swords had already rushed towards them.
The east gate of the Broken Ice Harbor was opened, and from the east gate and the north gate poured out at the same time, the black-clothed swordsman troops oppressed the coerced civilians from the periphery and poured towards the city gate, and the teenagers shouted loudly in the straightforward local dialect of the northern continent to let people enter the city for refuge.
Amy watched as Daqingshan commanded the mercenaries to carry the wounded civilians into the city under the city walls, holding the flagpole tightly in her hands. As the highest military governor of the city, the pressure in his heart at this time is by no means understandable to ordinary mercenaries. In the battle in front of him, the small mercenary group sent almost all of its combat strength, and now the main force responsible for defense on the city wall is the swordsman battalion of Broken Ice Harbor and the residents who have no combat experience at all, and the coastline defense system that Balbas is responsible for has been withdrawn except for a song of swordsman battalions, and the rest of the troops have been withdrawn, supplemented by the four D- and E-level small mercenary regiments that are resident in Broken Ice Harbor.
The development of the battle situation has exceeded Amy's expectations, he did not expect that the attack of the Vulture Swordsman Battalion will prompt the enemy's main general to mobilize almost all the long-range strike forces to defend the formation, it is this slight change that makes the enemy's right flank troops lose their frontal defense, and finally have to be cohesive, and the left flank of Fanos has lost the ability to defend their backs, and the formation has completely collapsed.
Even so, the battle situation is not optimistic, the small mercenary group has no formed team to send out at present, at this time, if the enemy warship storms the harbor, the defense system of the ice port will tend to collapse, at this time, if the enemy has any sizable knight force to intervene, the battle situation outside the city walls will change radically. It was the first time to command such a large-scale battle, and Amy could only secretly pray that the battle would end as soon as possible.
Two loud hiss suddenly sounded in the western sky, and then there was a thunderous sound of the air being torn apart, and the calm clouds were suddenly shattered, and more than a dozen huge beasts flew close to the sea.
Dragon!
Dragon Knight!
And not just one!
Both Amy and Horns had the worst-case god in their eyes. Lu'er received the dragon god sent Luo Divine Dragon summoning order to return to the dragon realm to hold a meeting of the dragon envoys, and the small mercenary group will no longer be afraid of any giant dragon as before, and these dragons in front of them are afraid that even the pseudo-dragon knights stated in the intelligence will deal a huge blow to the soldiers defending the city.
In front of the many dragons is a golden dragon as huge as a hill, the huge wings spread out on both sides like golden clouds to cover the proud sun in the sky, the giant wings vibrate every time the golden scales the size of the bowl fold shè dazzling light, there is a black knight behind the neck of the dragon, although the distance is very long, the luster on the black armor cast is a testament to the precious xìng after being fused with rare metals. The golden dragon lance pierced from between the dragon's neck and dragon wings was at least 3 meters long, and on the other side was a huge shield about a meter wide.
The dragon knight had obviously seen the war on the ground, the golden dragon let out a more crisp dragon groan, and the giant wings drove the boundless wind and thunder's huge body to the battlefield, and more than a dozen dragon knights behind also changed directions.
Looking down on the earth in the sky, the ground is like a chessboard and the road is like silk, nearly 20,000 soldiers are strangled into four battle groups, the right wing of the Fanos is the most stable, and there has not been any substantial contact with the small mercenary group; the main formation has entered a state of imminent battle; the most miserable is the front formation, where there is no longer any living Fanos soldiers; the most chaotic is the left wing, the formation has completely collapsed, most of the soldiers are fighting alone, and the imperial knights are wantonly attacking with neat battle columns.
The golden dragon soared above the left wing troops, the dragon in the state of battle exuded a breathtaking aura, the earth dragon rolling on the ground immediately felt the battle intent falling from the sky, all the mad knights could feel the huge fear of sitting down the dragon beast, the steady steps became stumbling, the neck that poked straight out was drooping, and some timid dragon beasts even stopped obeying the knight's orders and fled in a panic.
There was a more poignant roar of the dragon in the sky, the dragon's 3-meter-long dragon neck was raised gracefully and powerfully, and the two giant wings struggled to spread out into the sky, and then, a huge fireball of gold appeared in the dragon's mouth, and after a few breaths, the fireball that quickly became larger was like a fire meteor falling from nine days to the ground, and the sky and earth changed at the moment when the fireball landed, and a mushroom-shaped fire cloud rose from the ground, and the flame emitted infinite light to burn the entire sky red and sting everyone's eyes.
After a few breaths, a series of deafening loud noises suddenly sounded between heaven and earth, and everyone felt the rolling heat wave that was strongly pushed towards the surroundings from the place where the fireball landed, and the residents who stood on the wall of the Broken Ice Harbor without holding the battlements were even swept to the ground by the heat wave.
After everything calmed down in the world and the earth, the little mercenary group members who were trying to open their eyes were needed to use "miserable" in front of them The scene described was astonishing: there was a huge circular pit on the ground that was 4 meters wide, the pit was pitch black, and countless charred corpses fell around the crater, and there were melted and rolling iron streams on the ground, and some later, there were still burning corpses, and further out, more corpses fell, and the sudden heat wave stripped all the clothes off the corpses, and all the dead people fell to the ground like cooked prawns. The air was filled with the pungent stench of burning corpses.
All the warriors stopped fighting and stared at the battlefield. In the moment just now, the knight battalion directly under the city lord of the Imperial Ice Broken Harbor had been wiped out from the active forces of the Empire. If it weren't for the slightly slower speed of the Earth Walking Dragon, if it weren't for the dragon power emitted by the Golden Dragon that pressed the Earth Walking Dragon to flee in all directions, if the Golden Dragon Dragon Breath sprayed shè 30 meters further north, the Berserk Knight Battalion that had just been formed by the small mercenary group would also be revoked, and even so, at least 2 berserk knights were swept into the sea of fire.
Except for the crackling sound of the flames devouring corpses, the battlefield was as calm as death, and the dragon's burst of combat power was enough to make the faint of heart feel the urge to flee.
"Your Excellency, it is really majestic!"
In the heat wave, a cold voice suddenly sounded, and the words did not deliberately accentuate the tone, but the cold still pierced the bone marrow of everyone on the battlefield between breaths. Both the Golden Dragon Knight and the Pseudo-Dragon Knight were amazed that an enemy could speak so calmly regardless of the scene in front of them. 300 meters to the south, a large cloud of black gas surged from the flat ground, and the sea breeze was so cold, but this black gas was not moved at all. The cold voice came out of the black air.
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