Chapter 170: The Beginning of the Battle
When the last fire was extinguished, it was already dawn the next day, the rear battalion manpower loss was not heavy, but the news of the destruction of materials soon spread throughout the battalion, when the morning exercise, the soldiers were lifeless, but when the soldiers found that the breakfast was still normal, they couldn't help but have a trace of doubt about the news of heavy losses, coupled with the rumors and explanations of the low-level officers, the soldiers' fighting spirit returned to a normal level.
The horn sounded, the army marched forward, the sky was gloomy, there was no wind, but people still felt a trace of coldness, stepping on the morning dew, wetting the soldiers' boots and armor, the dense army was like a moving monochrome curtain moving slowly forward, and on the stone wall, there were already nearly 10,000 soldiers waiting for it, the war on the ground had not yet begun, but the battle in the sky had already entered the heat at the beginning.
The griffon's screams and the eagleman's cries echoed in the sky of the soon-to-be-battlefield, and corpses fell like showers, but the faces of the two commanders were very different.
Erfeng looked relaxed, while the prince had a gloomy face.
In the long history of the mainland, the world-shattering battles are all on the ground, and the exploits of those immortal generals are also based on the superb command of the ground army, relatively speaking, the direction of the ground war is a kind of plane war, as long as there is enough strength, in addition to the superb command, grasp the rhythm of the war can be in an invincible position, the end of all wars end in the ground war, the impact of the air war is almost minimal, therefore, no matter which human empire on the continent, the air war is only regarded as a kind of scramble for the initiative in reconnaissance space, and it does not play much role。
Someone has once proposed the importance of air warfare, but, relatively speaking, no empire will have a huge air cluster force, even the eaglemen of the orc empire were almost wiped out because of the slaughter of human powerhouses, under the influence of this objective environment, the primacy of air combat was deliberately ignored by all empires.
However, right now, all the generals of the Kotler Empire have discovered what a mistake humanity has made!
Even the crown prince's face changed greatly at the beginning of the air battle, and he spit out two words with difficulty: battle array!
The battle formation is the formation taken in the battle to defend or attack the other party, according to the different types of troops, the battle formation is also different, and the battle formation is unpredictable, it is very difficult to change at will when facing the enemy, and those who can do this are not famous generals, if this kind of battle formation occurs on the ground, not only the prince, but even those priests who don't understand anything will snort, but this scene in front of him happened in the air.
Air combat is different from land warfare, land warfare only has four directions, front and back, left and right, but the direction of air combat is three-dimensional, but also up and down, the expansion of space does not mean that the battle is easy, on the contrary, the difficulty of air combat is far more than land warfare, in the human empire, few people study the battle formation of air warfare, and griffin cavalry is precious, it is not easy to cultivate, and it will not be easy to use, if the opponent is not the orc empire, and it has been reported that the orc empire has air hawkman troops, I am afraid that the number of griffins brought by the 600,000 army will not exceed 1,000。
But now in the air, the griffin cavalry is less than a thousand, and the losses are not heavy.
At the beginning of the game, the opposite Hawkman troops rose into the air and changed into two phalanxes, because the number of Hawkmen was large, and from a distance it looked like two black and gold sugar cubes, and the griffin troops were a little scattered in front of these two phalanxes, the horn sounded, and the Hawkman troops began to slowly press forward, and the overwhelming sense of oppression brought by the Hawkmen made the prince in the camp couldn't help but hold his breath, not to mention the griffin troops who were about to fight against them.
The two troops fell into a confrontation again at a distance of less than five miles, and the upper part of the Eagle Man force began to slowly increase in height, while the lower part chose to tighten the formation, no one could understand this change, so they let the orcs do it, until this time, the generals of the Kotler Empire still thought that they were in control, and at this time, the self-confidence in their hearts was completely shattered.
Because the height of the eagle man is raised, so the griffin unit has also increased the height correspondingly, and the higher the side in the air battle, the greater the advantage, so the griffin does not seek to surpass the other party, as long as it is parallel to each other, then it is completely enough, but when the griffin force and the eagle army are raised to the same height, without warning, the eagle force launched a surprise attack.
The distance of three miles in the air is just fleeting, but there is a distance is a distance, although the eagle force is suddenly attacked, but the time left for the griffin to react should be enough, but no one thought that the speed of the eagle man is extremely fast, and it is not a griffin army running at the same height, they are diving and attacking the griffin force parallel to the phalanx below.
Fooled!
This is everyone's first thought, whether it is the griffin force in front or the main human army in the rear, this idea flashed together at this moment, after a defeat, the number of remaining griffins in the Kotler Empire is less than three thousand, and the eagleman force on the opposite side has at least 10,000 troops, in terms of combat effectiveness, the two sides are basically equal, so in the air battle, the two sides should be evenly matched, but all humans have to admit that they underestimated the orc empire, and underestimated this eagleman force with more than 10,000 people.
The swooping eagleman directly penetrated the griffin cavalry phalanx below, and the unguarded attack made these cavalrymen who had just had a sense of defense killed nearly fifty in an instant, if it weren't for the dispersion of the phalanx, I'm afraid this number would have doubled, and it was too late to rejoice, the eagleman phalanx parallel to himself had taken advantage of the chaos to once again chisel through the defense line of the griffin troops, and the two intersperses had completely disrupted the entire griffin troops。
"Tell them that we can play more unrestrained and not twist like a woman. Fengya looked at the Eagle Man troops that had already taken advantage, and said with a leisurely face on the arrow tower of the stone wall.
Soon the flag soldier passed this information to the Eagle Man troops who were fighting through the flag, and after the Eagle Man who was responsible for interpreting the flag passed the news to the leading general, the general's face changed and shouted loudly: "Change the formation, grind the plate!"
The order was shouted in the lingua franca of the beast clan, the sound of fighting resounded in the sky, but this order was easily conveyed, the eagle people had their own way of transmitting the news, but their opponents did not know at all, the eagle people who had been gathered together retreated and then began to change slowly, many eagle people began to climb, and some eagle people were stagnant, and even some eagle people were still swooping down, this situation was seen by the prince in the distance, and he couldn't help but roar: "Don't let them change formations successfully, attack with all their might, interrupt them!" ”
It's a pity that the Kotler Empire doesn't have the same method of delivering clear orders as the Orc Empire, except for blowing the horn of attack, the ground army has no way to transmit any effective orders, and the already weak griffin troops have completely walked into the abyss of defeat.
The change of the eagle man was actually seen by the general of the griffin force, and when he heard the attack horn from the rear, he knew that these eagle men in front of him must be hiding some conspiracy, and once they stabilized, it would be a catastrophe for the griffin army, so he shouted and gathered the soldiers together, chose a direction and launched a charge, no matter what, he must interrupt them!
And at this time, the eagleman force has basically completed the change of formation, the rated number of eaglemen formed a circle in the air, from the front to think about it seems to be a straight line, but this line is not only one, all the eaglemen have formed this circle connected in one, like a tree trunk that has been put down in the air, seeing the griffin troops attack, the eagleman general showed a cruel smile, and the long sword in his hand suddenly swung down.
The griffin troops were originally formed into a sharp triangle to cut through the phalanx of the Eagle Man troops, but the sudden crossbow arrows fell on the attack direction of the griffin troops like a rainstorm blown by the wind, and the tips of the triangular attack phalanx disappeared in an instant, while the crossbow arrows still did not stop, but began to get faster and faster.
The casualties of the gryphon troops skyrocketed, but so far, the Eagle troops were unscathed!
The griffin cavalry in the air couldn't see the battle situation clearly, but the humans on the ground could see it clearly, the phalanx composed of the eaglemen was like a millstone that was slowly rolling backwards, and the eaglemen at the highest point swooped down, they did not touch the griffin troops to fight at close range, but shot the crossbow arrows in their hands and then slipped down to the bottom of the phalanx, and then began to slowly rise after reaching the bottom, this process was enough to fill the crossbow arrows, so another round of arrows composed of crossbow arrows successfully fell on the phalanx of the griffin cavalry.
It has only been half an hour since the Eagle Man troops changed battle formations, but the griffin troops that have been struggling to support have been crushed by the opponent's battle formation, and there are less than a thousand people, if it weren't for strict military discipline, I'm afraid that at this time, the troops would have fled in all directions because of psychological breakdowns.
"Order, let the griffin troops retreat!" The prince looked at the falling figure in the sky, a trace of pain flashed on his face, the horn of retreat sounded, the prince took a deep breath, but his expression was more resolute and said: "Victory and defeat are commonplace, and losing first does not mean anything." ”
On the stone wall, Fengya looked at the retreating griffin troops with satisfaction, jumped down from the arrow tower, and wanted to show off to his partner bellows, but as soon as he landed, his face changed greatly, and the vibration of the ground made him almost fall to the ground, and there was a rumble in his ears, and the stone wall under his feet shook violently, and the soldiers around him had already fallen because of unstable standing, and even fell directly off the stone wall.
These pieces of wood came from the arrow tower where the wind teeth had just come down, and the dozen or so soldiers on the arrow tower had already been thrown out of the stone wall and were thrown to the ground to death.
"Magic!
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