Chapter Seventy-Three: Killing the Fifth-Order Minotaur
There is an interception in front, and there are pursuers in the rear.
The situation is already extremely serious, and the slightest carelessness will lead to the annihilation of the entire army.
Bastruan had no choice but to fight with his back.
Only by defeating the combined forces of Richard and Sophia from the front can this orc brigade have a chance to escape.
There are four squadrons of soldiers in the Richard and Sophia coalition forces, two of which are relatively elite and two are relatively average.
Although Bastruan had eight squadrons of soldiers, the battle losses were very large.
The two squadrons of kobolds had less than thirty percent of the men left, and their morale was very low.
The two squadrons of boarmen were slightly better, and the casualties were already halfway there.
The two Minotaur squadrons suffered minor casualties and maintained good morale.
The Wolf Cavalry Squadron and the Serpentine Heavy Infantry are the killer features of Bastruan's troops.
Especially when fighting head-on, the lethality of the Serpentine Heavy Infantry is very powerful.
Many times, ten serpentines can crush the battle line of an infantry squadron.
A squadron of forty snakes, like the Harpys, is a special class of orcs. Each one is a professional and can be called carefully selected.
The combined forces of Richard and Sophia numbered about 600 people, which was slightly smaller than the orcs.
The two armies were getting closer and closer, and Richard made a visual inspection of it, and found that the orcs were within range of the archers, and immediately ordered the arrows to be released.
Humans fight against orcs, long-range projection is a strong point, and the equipment is also stronger than the orc army.
Orcs are strong in physical fitness, and they also have more professionals than human armies, and are good at hand-to-hand combat.
"Archers prepare, shoot!"
The herald waved the command flag, and more than four hundred arrows were fired at the orc army.
Because of the distance, the hit rate was very average, and only seven or eight orcs were shot.
"Shoot a first-order kobold and reward 500 experience points."
Hearing the hint from the attribute panel, Richard was secretly happy and commanded the soldiers to send out a second volley.
This time the distance was less than 100 meters, and the hit rate was slightly higher, shooting more than twenty orcs.
The vast majority of hits are kobolds.
The kobolds have a lower status among the orcs, and this time they are still forced to take the lead, consuming arrows as cannon fodder.
In the previous battles, the dog head suffered heavy casualties, but now it was set on fire by a rain of arrows, and he could not bear the casualties in an instant, and fled to the rear.
The orcs were very cruel to the deserters, and the boar men who were in the battle were armed with long knives and cut the fleeing kobolds in two.
The pressure drove the remaining kobolds into a frenzy, and they scurried around, shouting and screaming.
Some clever kobolds fled to the sides, and some even chose to play dead, but were caught by the boar men who oversaw the battle and brutally killed.
Richard constantly directed his soldiers to fire arrows, and by the time the two armies were thirty meters apart, six rounds of feathered arrows had been fired.
The last three rounds were the most lethal, causing a loss of about a hundred orcs.
Thirty meters into it, the minotaurs used slings and threw stones.
The strength of the Minotaur is very strong, and the strength of an ordinary adult Minotaur exceeds six points, which can be compared to the first-order professional of the human race.
The stone projectiles they threw were not weak.
Several soldiers were hit in the head by stones, like rotten watermelons, red and white.
Fist-sized stones, with powerful kinetic energy, can smash shields, and iron armor is dented by stones.
Although the power of the slings is not small, after all, it cannot be compared with a strong bow and a hard crossbow.
Long-range mutual shooting, human soldiers still take advantage, and the exchange ratio is very considerable.
In the next two rounds of arrow rain, the bow and crossbow caused more than 100 casualties to the orcs.
The attrition of the Richard coalition army by the slings was only about thirty, which was less than half of the orcs.
Seeing that the distance between the two sides was less than ten meters away, the soldiers in the front row could already feel the cold of the other side's ice blades.
Richard and Sophia had a very tacit understanding to cast spells at the same time, releasing a powerful greasy spell.
Generally speaking, under the Standard Model, the amount of mental power invested in a ring of magic is 2.
Sophia and Richard put four points of mental power into this magic in order to increase the area of the greasy spell.
Under the standard model, four points of mental power are enough to unleash a three-ring magic.
Although the Intensive Greasy Surgery is not lethal, the area has increased by about three times, forming a large greasy area.
Richard and Sophia joined forces to include almost the entire front of the position.
Two magic spells were unleashed, instantly breaking the balance of the battlefield.
Entering the greasy operation area, the wild boar people in the front row fell down a lot, and were output by human soldiers close to their faces, and a round of arrow rain killed and injured more than 100 people.
Seeing that the archer drew his bow again and was ready to fire a volley, Bastruan roared angrily and jumped over a distance of more than ten meters.
Holding a two-handed giant axe, he slashed at his waist and cut off three spears in an instant.
Although Bastruan was in mid-air, he let out a roar of rage, which was a savage roar of bloodline magic.
This spell is a two-ring spell, which is a group sound power lethal spell.
Dozens of soldiers nearby, yelled at by Bastruan, were so frightened that they discarded their weapons.
Bastruan wielded a long-handled double axe and was about to slash downward, but Richard took a few steps forward, picked up his two-handed heavy sword, and fought hard with the heavy axe!
The two heavy weapons collided together with the blessing of the fighting spirit, making a thunderous crashing sound.
Although Richard's strength is not bad, it is far from being able to compete with the fifth-order minotaurs.
The Minotaur is a race with a strength specialty, and the strength of the fifth-order Minotaur is about 20 points, even if it is his father William, he can't resist fighting hard with Bastruan.
Richard fell backwards, a trace of blood oozing from the corner of his mouth.
But the Minotaur's plan to break through the formation was thwarted.
Richard could also borrow strength on the ground, and Bastroan was in mid-air and was hit high in the air by Richard.
Before he could land, Sophia had already fired a magic missile.
Bastruan was still in mid-air, and was hit by a magic missile, and immediately flew backwards a few meters, falling into the clearing where the greasy spell was released.
Richard was knocked out by Bastruan, and he struggled to his feet, despite the numbness of his hands, and unleashed a powerful fireball spell despite the pain.
The fireball flew out a distance of more than ten meters and hit Bastroian's chest.
The fireball exploded on his body in an instant, and the splattering flames flew everywhere, making Bastruan a burning man.
This time, Richard invested ten points of spiritual power, and the power of the powerful fireball technique was almost equal to the magic of the six rings.
The lethality of the magic of the six rings is already very good, and melee professionals, if they don't have good enchanting equipment, generally speaking, can't stop it at all.
He was hit by a powerful fireball, and Bastruan was killed instantly.
"Kill a fifth-order minotaur and reward 8,000 experience points."
Richard opened the Attributes panel and found that he had accumulated 13,000 experience points.
Before the battle was over, 8,500 experience points had been gained.
(End of chapter)