Chapter 255: The First Battle of the Undead Legion (Part I)
Although it is a militia unit, the strength of the soldiers under Zhou Xiaoyang's command is still good, and any soldier has at least bright cultivation, and there are more than a dozen officers and non-commissioned officers with relatively high strength who have dark cultivation.
After everyone gathered under Zhou Xiaoyang's order, they were very curious about what the centurion was calling them over. And Zhou Xiaoyang didn't say a lot of official words and nonsense like some leaders, and after seeing that everyone was here, he concisely announced the reason why everyone gathered in public.
Everyone was very excited when they heard that a group of battle puppets were going to be sent to them, and many soldiers were already speculating about what kind of battle puppets would be sent to them.
Zhou Xiaoyang interrupted everyone's discussion, and soon began to lead his soldiers to clear out several warehouses used to store battle puppets.
Before they could completely clean the storeroom, the trucks carrying the battle puppets arrived.
Zhou Xiaoyang looked at the more than 100 trucks responsible for transporting combat puppets, and couldn't help but have some expectations in his heart, thinking that maybe there was a new progress in the above research, and it was possible to make combat puppets on a large scale in a relatively cheap way, and this time there were at least a few thousand combat puppets sent to them!
However, Zhou Xiaoyang was a little strange, since so many battle puppets had been produced in the rear, why not send them to the front line with the fiercest battles! Instead, it was delivered to them, and most of the time their militia was stationed in the rear, and they basically did not encounter too fierce battles, most of them were just some small-scale security battles. Isn't it a bit of a waste to hand over so many battle golems to them?
But soon, Zhou Xiaoyang felt as if he had been tricked, because as those trucks stopped, what came down from the trucks were skeleton soldiers and zombies exuding a cold aura.
This was completely different from the battle puppet that he Zhou Xiaoyang and the others had imagined, and he felt that he was happy for nothing.
And the officer who sent the undead soldier also seemed to see Zhou Xiaoyang's dissatisfaction, and immediately explained to him that the undead soldier was actually a special battle puppet, but the raw materials for making it were the corpses of humans and various creatures.
Zhou Xiaoyang didn't believe this officer's explanation at all, but he himself was a low-level officer who was more obedient to his superiors, so even if he didn't like these undead soldiers very much, he still accepted the entire ten thousand undead soldiers.
This is also an important reason why the above chose Zhou Xiaoyang here as a pilot first, because it is obedient enough, and the resistance will be much reduced when assigning these undead soldiers.
And under the guidance of that officer, Zhou Xiaoyang and the others quickly learned how to control these undead warriors.
After learning how to control it, Zhou Xiaoyang felt that this was also quite interesting, these low-level undead warriors with no self-awareness were indeed like puppets, and they needed human control to be able to give full play to their combat effectiveness.
Moreover, these undead soldiers don't need to clean any special warehouses to store, they only need to dig some tombs around the town to dig some graves where the yin qi is heavier.
You don't need Zhou Xiaoyang to see this pit digging work, you only need to give those undead warriors some tools, and they will go to dig the pit obediently.
Usually, there is no need to prepare any food for these guys who have already died once, they can absorb a little yin qi by themselves to maintain consumption.
In order to be able to skillfully command and control these undead soldiers when the war really comes, Zhou Xiaoyang also set aside an hour every day for his soldiers to train his soldiers in this area.
Zhou Xiaoyang found in this process that although these low-level undead creatures have no self-awareness and look stupid, as long as it is an order given by the commander, they will be meticulously completed, even if it is a deep pit forward, let them jump down These guys will not have a trace of hesitation.
This means that how much combat power these undead warriors can exert depends largely on the command level of the commander.
So Zhou Xiaoyang began to divide those undead soldiers and the soldiers who commanded them with their badges into two groups, and often conducted confrontation drills in order to improve the command ability of his soldiers.
This trick is indeed very effective, when commanding a full hundred undead soldiers, those militia will soon change from a small soldier who only knows how to obey orders to charge into battle to a commander, and the focus will quickly change from how they fight to how to command those undead soldiers, so that the gun array they lay is more rigorous and tough, so that the output firepower of those skeleton crossbowmen can be stronger.
After more than half a month of training and running-in, Zhou Xiaoyang finally felt that his soldiers had barely become centurions one by one, and they were able to prepare relatively quickly to give various orders for those undead soldiers to carry out.
At this time, Zhou Xiaoyang and they finally got a chance to fight, according to the information provided above, a demon team will attack Zhou Xiaoyang's town tonight, this demon team has only more than 1,000 horses, and there are only more than two hundred regular demons and pseudo-army soldiers in it, and the rest are basically some demons who have not yet reached adulthood and some mercenaries from the Xuangu Continent. Such a small force, since its whereabouts have been discovered from above, it can be said that it is very easy to defeat them, but the above specially released them, obviously to let Zhou Xiaoyang and the undead warriors under them undergo the test of actual combat, and see how these undead warriors perform in actual combat. If there's any flaw, it's up to the necromancers to fix it.
And Zhou Xiaoyang and the others did not have the slightest fear of war after understanding the above intentions, but they were all looking forward to the arrival of this battle.
During the day, Zhou Xiaoyang let his soldiers have a good sleep after eating and drinking, and recuperated enough to prepare for the night battle.
At about seven o'clock in the evening, Zhou Xiaoyang and his soldiers all got up on time, and then they commanded their 10,000 undead warriors to ambush the enemy army on the path they must pass, waiting for those enemies to step into this trap themselves.
To tell the truth, those demons sent more than a thousand people to attack Zhou Xiaoyang's small town military station numbered B023 where they were stationed this time, and the troops sent were enough in the eyes of those demons, after all, according to the information they had obtained before, the Blue Dragon Empire had recovered more and more territory, and the troops used to garrison the rear were seriously insufficient. And their side sent more than 1,000 people to attack, and the difference in strength was more than ten times, and it was impossible to lose this battle no matter how you look at it!
It's a pity that these demons didn't expect that the Blue Dragon Empire had the audacity to start manufacturing all kinds of undead warriors in large quantities, and the military station where Zhou Xiaoyang and them were already stationed with a full 10,000 undead warriors. The side that has the advantage in strength is actually Zhou Xiaoyang and them.
To be honest, the reason why so many undead warriors were sent over was because the high-level leaders of the Blue Dragon Empire were still not sure how these seemingly weak undead warriors would perform in actual combat.
Zhou Xiaoyang and they waited until more than nine o'clock in the evening, and those demons finally appeared, Zhou Xiaoyang leaned on the telescope with night vision function issued above, and clearly saw that in the demon team, there were indeed many juvenile demons who were even less than one meter two tall, and there were also many mercenaries from the Xuangu Continent who were equipped with messy equipment and had no formation at all when they were marching. These mercenaries are not only far inferior to the regular army, but also far inferior to the elite mercenary squads like the Black Panther Squad, and they may have been just a group of bandits and bandits not long ago, that is, because the demons are now suffering from serious troop losses, they will be pulled over to make up the numbers.
As for those underage demons, although they don't look tall, just like human children, their combat effectiveness is actually not low, at least they all have the combat power of bright warriors, among which the bloodline is more noble and powerful, and they already have the combat power of dark warriors, what they lack compared to regular demon warriors is training and equipment. In Zhou Xiaoyang's observation, most of these underage demons just had a simple set of leather armor on their bodies, and some of them had a simple set of chest armor or chain mail, and most of the weapons were simple cold weapons such as short knives, short swords, and short spears, and long-range weapons were basically invisible.
After waiting for all the enemies to enter the ambush circle, Zhou Xiaoyang grabbed the whistle hanging on his chest and blew it vigorously.
After hearing Zhou Xiaoyang's whistle, the other soldiers immediately gave an order to those undead warriors through the armor card, and suddenly tens of thousands of undead warriors stood up in unison, surrounding those demons and the puppet army of the Xuangu Continent.
The dozens of demon warriors with the cultivation of transformation suddenly saw so many enemies around them at once, and they were all frightened, thinking to themselves, is the enemy doing some kind of military parade here? Otherwise, how could there be so many enemies gathered here!
Before these enemies could react, a rhythmic drum sounded, and it was several zombies with not very good legs and feet beside Zhou Xiaoyang who were in charge of drumming.
After hearing the sound of the drums, the human soldiers under Zhou Xiaoyang immediately began to direct those undead soldiers to march forward in unison according to the rhythm of the drums.
As I said before, these undead soldiers will meticulously carry out the commander's orders, so at this time, under the command of those human soldiers according to the rhythm of the drums, the speed and pace of the advance actually seem to be almost the same, and the entire formation is not chaotic in the process of advancing.
This undoubtedly also brought great pressure to those demons and puppet troops, after all, the enemy who was able to maintain such a neat formation between the marches was definitely elite!
At this time, God also helped blow a gust of night wind, and suddenly the corpse poison mist that was originally just haunting around the plague zombies was also blown towards those demons and puppet armies.
Under the cover of the night, these corpse poisonous fogs were difficult to find, and many demons and puppet soldiers took several breaths, and only realized that something was wrong after perceiving the faint smell of corpses.
Although they immediately held their breath, the poisonous gas they inhaled before still made many demons and puppet soldiers with low strength feel dizzy and disgusting one by one, and some people really couldn't support it, so they fell to the ground and vomited, and naturally they couldn't continue to hold their breath in the process of vomiting, and inhaled a lot of corpse poison mist, which made them poisoned even deeper.
"The despicable Blue Dragon Empire is miscellaneous, and you still use poisonous gas, you are even more vicious than our demons!" Enduring the discomfort of his body, a demon warrior roared and threw a fireball at the approaching enemy army.
Seeing that the demon smashed a fireball, the zombie warriors at the front of the small group of zombie pikemen who were attacked immediately raised the large shield made of stainless steel in unison, forming a tight shield wall, and after the fireball smashed on the solid shield wall and exploded, it only burned the surface of those large shields to some blacken, and failed to cause any damage to the zombie warriors in the rear.
However, the firelight generated during the explosion of the fireball technique also dispelled a lot of corpse poison mist, making those demons and puppet soldiers see the true face of the enemy army at a glance.
"It's just a bunch of weak chicken skeletons and zombies, how can these wastes be our opponents, brothers, rush with me and fight your way out!"
After discovering that the enemy was not the elite of the Blue Dragon Empire, but just a group of low-level undead warriors, those demons and puppet soldiers suddenly recovered a lot of morale, and one of them had a pair of long goat horns and a long-handled battle axe After roaring, he took the initiative to attack the enemy formation that was still approaching step by step.
Seeing this, the other demons and puppet soldiers were also aroused to their ferocity, and they followed closely with strange screams.
Seeing that the enemy army took the initiative to attack, Zhou Xiaoyang immediately changed the drum beat, so that the military formation facing the enemy's attack stopped advancing, and more than a thousand zombie pikemen quickly put the spears in their hands flat, forming a strict spear phalanx.
The skeleton crossbowmen at the back also raised their crossbows one after another, and according to the commander's orders, they aimed their bows and crossbows in the direction where the enemy troops were. After waiting for the commander to calculate the advance amount, he is ready to shoot a rain of arrows to kill and injure the charging enemy troops.