Chapter 63: Night Battle 5
The special skill panoramic insight is not as simple and crude as directly using its own spiritual energy to detect, it is not only large in range, high in accuracy, but also more secretive, in the battle of Ameraburg, the opponent used this move even Charlotte was unaware of, and this time the enemy detected by Ed through the thick fog also did not find that it was spied on.
Ed sensed that the number of people and horses on the other side in the range had increased dramatically in a short period of time, and he didn't dare to hold it up, so he hurriedly wrapped the horses with psionic energy, kept a distance from the enemy, and reduced his movement and went around their flanks.
In the process, he has been using the ability of panoramic insight to roughly calculate the formation and number of enemies.
With the help of the seal, Ed was able to record every subtlety of the enemy's feedback, and slowly simulate a picture of the enemy's progress in his mind.
"Sure enough, as Di Liya speculated, Ingier is making a big move this time, there are seventy or eighty people in this corner alone, and the total amount is at least three times more than this number, it is definitely not Stanley They can hold it!"
Even if Ed was prepared, he was still surprised at this time, the momentum of Howard when he set off with more than fifty psionic knights was already irresistible, and the three hundred knights gathered together in front of him were estimated to be able to kill tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers with one charge.
"I have to do something about it, I can't just watch them crush the defenses of Auare. ”
Silently calculating the distance in his heart, the mark was also able to remind him that he was not far from Ovare, and the enemy knights observed by the skill had all started the final pre-battle inspection.
They didn't make much noise, and it stands to reason that in the ten steps of unseen mist, the road was unfamiliar, and it was difficult to know where to go, let alone launch a surprise attack, but these psionic knights were well-trained and came to the right place at the right time, ready to attack.
It was just before dawn, and the city of Ovare was silent, and it was clear that Eddard's warning had not yet fully awakened the city, and it was covered by fog that the best lookout on the city would not be able to spot the Ingir ranks.
And they, the three hundred psionic knights, the proud sons of the continental war, are like beasts foraging in the dark, locking on to their prey with their superhuman keen sense of smell, and are bending their limbs and preparing to pounce on them.
"Listen, everyone, today we are going to give those careless Roland puppies a big surprise, completely take this city before their reinforcements arrive, this is related to the honor of the Second Knights of the Ingil Empire, everyone show your highest fighting spirit, the enemy is ahead, let's tear them apart, prepare, follow me!"
From behind the mist came the loud admonition of the enemy commander, who now did not care about being exposed, loudly boosted his morale and prepared for the final attack.
Edna glanced in the direction of the city of Ovare, and through the fog, he could only see a large black shadow, and only a few lights were lit on the city's head.
"Damn Stanley, haven't you brought in troops yet?"
Ed couldn't wait any longer, the enemy's attack was imminent, and Ovareh was clearly not ready for a full response, the boy pulled out the Rose Spear from behind his back, and with the help of the forerunner of the panoramic insight, he was about to attack.
The enemy commander was concentrating all his energies on the city in front of him, and after the lecture, he immediately commanded the left and right, divided the team into three parts, and ensured that all forces were put into the front wall at the first time, and the defense was broken in one fell swoop.
According to the experience of the previous raids, Ovalé City will also arrange several knight patrol groups at night, and if you want to attack the city, you must face their resistance, and it will only take a moment for their support to arrive, and soon activate the psionic defense array, locking the intruding knights firmly inside, and it is difficult to escape.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the psionic knight will not consider jumping directly on the city wall, once he loses the speed of his horse and is dragged in by the enemy, he will either die in battle or be captured, unless he has been planning for a long time like tonight, sending a large number of manpower, trying to suppress the enemy at one time, of course, this plan itself still has a great risky component.
But the Ingier people received the news from within the Roland Kingdom, the other party's reinforcements are about to arrive, once the situation falls into a protracted war, it is not conducive to the Ingier high-level who want to quickly annex this country, not only will there be fierce eyes from the surrounding countries, their own internal public opinion pressure, but also Roland's knights who are currently neutral may not be able to look past it and join the rebel forces.
Combining various factors, there was this risky night attack, the commander himself did not approve of it, but the pressure from above forced people to lead the team to act, fortunately so far a qiē has been carried out very smoothly, the harassment action some time ago paralyzed the vigilance of the other party, and he definitely never thought that he would make a dangerous move.
Just as he scattered his knights and rushed towards the city wall one by one, a spear flying from behind instantly cut through the heavy mist and silently shot at him.
This is the first time Eddard has used the Spear of Roses to ambush an enemy, and he has made good use of this rare weapon's proprietary trait "Hit", and he has always succeeded in hitting enemies from a distance, and this time is no exception.
Just as Commander Ingier had predicted the Rolands, he himself had never expected to be attacked by the enemy, and just as he was complacent about the smooth progress of the attack he commanded, the Rose Spear pierced into his body mercilessly.
It wasn't until the moment the attack was imminent that the commander noticed it and wanted to dodge, but it was too late, and he had to resist.
However, Ed's blow had already mobilized all his powers, the power of Deria's astral spirit, and the power of divine magic had already been his own spiritual energy.
Even though Commander Ingill's psionic ability was far stronger than Ed's, he still couldn't perfectly prevent this sneak attack, and the commander suit that was more beautiful than practical was broken with a single blow, and the tip of the gun pierced his organs deeply.
The Commander spat out a mouthful of blood, coughing up more clots of blood when he tried to speak, and he knew that his lungs had been wounded, and hurriedly used psionic energy to suppress the wounds.
The dozens of knights standing beside him were stunned, and everyone's first reaction was to look behind them, looking for the murderer.
Ed threw a shot, and did not stop to see the results of the battle, but immediately left in the opposite direction, and at the same time activated his own spiritual flame, accelerating with all his might, and did not care to hide his whereabouts at all.
"Where is he, damn Roland Knight, don't try to run!"
"There's only one man, a lone guy, and he injured our commander!"
The Ingier knights living in the island country are no strangers to the fog, Eddard revealed his whereabouts as soon as he ran, and the dense fog could not stop the search eyes, not to mention the spiritual flames that rose into the sky clearly marked the enemy's movements.
Some knights were hot-headed and immediately rode their horses to chase after them, while others who were about to storm the city wall hesitated, originally the commander of the team could have ordered unified action at this time, but Ed just injured his lungs, even if he used powerful spiritual energy, he quickly suppressed the injury, and there was no fear of his life, but he could not command again in a short time.
The Ingier commander was also very strong-willed, pulled his spear from his back, threw the bloody weapon directly, and stuck in front of the hesitant pursuers around him, who reined in his horse and turned his head to look at his wounded commander.
Relying on powerful psionic energy to suppress the injury, his face was still white and terrifying due to blood loss and pain, shaking his head, using his actions to stop more people from pursuing, he raised his hand, pointed to the city of Ovareh in front of him, and signaled to his subordinates to focus on the target of this attack, as for the dozens of knights who pursued too quickly, they disappeared into the mist in the blink of an eye, the commander did not have the insight skills of Ed, and the spear that stopped him was thrown too far and was likely to hurt his own men.
"Just let them go, just catch the guy who dares to attack him, and he must dig out his lungs little by little, and no ransom requests will be accepted!"
The commander thought indignantly, gesturing the rest of the men into the attack sequence, and the knights who started the charge first had no idea what was going on, they had already made their way to the city wall, ready to leap in.
Things were as easy as expected, and the first few psionic knights at the front went up to the city without the slightest hindrance, and according to the previous experience, the knights patrolling Ovarare should have arrived immediately to fight them, but for some reason, the defender who should have appeared did not show up for a long time.
The wounded commander wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and saw that dozens of knights rushed forward, but there was still no movement.
"Something is wrong, even if those Roland knights are not good, they can't sleep so hard because of a few nights of fatigue and fighting, and they don't even send knights who patrol normally, and what is the origin of the guy who injured me just now?
It was impossible to think about it, but he already had a bad premonition at this time, but he was ready to fly, and he did not instruct the knights to suspend the attack.
But then the development of things really changed, at this time more knights came to the city, a third of the total, nearly a hundred psionic knights wanted to volley over the outer city defense of Ovare, and a psionic defense shield that could not be seen by ordinary people was instantly unfolded on the city wall.
Hundreds of knights slammed into it one after another, like flies that had been swatted and fell from the sky one by one, and many of them were slightly injured by the unsuspecting psionic collision.
"Damn!" accompanied the commander's words, and from the corner of his mouth another dark red and foaming blood remained.
Although the commander believed that the number of knights in the city who could provide psionic energy for the defensive position was not too large, this kind of formation that was reserved in advance when the city was built could unite the entire defense, and the spiritual energy of the internal defense could be concentrated to deal with external shocks.
And the attack launched by many knights will inevitably have some sequential gaps on the city wall, although it is small, but it is enough for the defensive array to mobilize its strength to make up for it, so unless it is a team that has been specially trained for a long time, it can be able to understand each other and work together to break through the defense.
Although his team had also hurriedly practiced before the battle just in case, it was really unknown how much the actual combat effect would be, and there was no way at the moment, things had fallen into the situation he least wanted to see, the commander used spiritual energy to suppress the injury, and forcibly mobilized his subordinates with a violent wheezing voice to gather and start trying to break through the defense.
It is not impossible for them to break the defensive shield by taking advantage of the advantage in numbers and a little luck, depending on how much time it takes.
As for the knights inside, unless they attack the location of the defensive array or can directly dismantle the rune array in the buried wall from the inside, it will be useless, fortunately, there are quite a few people, and the danger is not great in a short time, as long as their side quickly opens the situation.
Commander Ingier didn't have time to think about why things had developed to this point, the enemy's reaction was too fast, he could resist the impact of hundreds of knights at once, and at least more than half of Ovare's psionic powers were concentrated in the defensive formation, and the kid who injured himself, could it be that Roland had already prepared?
He didn't want to think about this terrible consequence, now there were many knights of Ingier trapped inside, and it was impossible for him to retreat, and there was only one way left for him to attack.
"The first and second squads used the formations we had practiced to concentrate their forces on the siege, and the third squad was on guard on the perimeter, beware of harassment attacks from above. ”
The success rate of this method of concentrating forces from the outside to forcibly break through the defense is a problem, in addition to the extremely high requirements for coordination, the fact that once the enemy attacks in the middle, even if it is harassed by a hidden weapon with psionic energy, it will greatly interfere with the siege troops.
The only good news at the moment was that Commander Ingier did not have to worry about the harassment of the defenders of Ovare, who were obviously not strong enough at the head of the city, and were even pressed and beaten by the knights who had successfully broken through on his side, so he quickly changed his plan and further reduced the number of men on guard to form a siege team, hoping to break the deadlock as much as possible.
As for Ed, he had long forgotten about it, and the boy was running for his life in the wilderness at the moment.
The number of knights chasing him was much smaller than expected, only more than twenty, and the rest of the people quickly reacted and returned, but these twenty or so psionic knights were by no means something he could deal with.
"Damn, why are you still chasing, do you have a grudge against me, do you need such a big battle?"
He guessed correctly, there are knights in these twenty-odd numbers who specialize in protecting Commander Ingier, and they naturally refuse to let go when they see that he hurts the target he is guarding, but many of them have other calculations, such as the same as the commander who is not optimistic about this operation and simply slips away, and a few are even smarter, from the appearance of Ed, he smelled that things were not good, and Zazahu came to chase him, in fact, he was ready to find a reason to avoid the war, and then go back after the battle situation was clear.
The boy's shot was aimed at the enemy commander, and although it wounded him but did not kill him, he got himself into trouble, and with the advantage of the first start, Ed did his best to keep a distance.
He did not run in a straight line, but in a large circle according to the topographical record given by the engraving, and ran in the direction of his own team, so that the distance between him and his pursuers was not shortened.
Ed was very anxious, according to the speed of the horses on both sides and the length of the distance, it would not be long before he would be caught up, and it would be impossible for him to escape from more than twenty times the enemy.