Chapter 17: Trench Warfare?

"Roar!"

Jasmine roared back to her prototype, the huge black dragon and the three slightly smaller golden dragons scuffled together, claws, fangs, everything, four behemoths in the sky, you grab and bite, scales, dragon blood flying everywhere.

The catapult at the top of the hill was successfully suppressed by the Silver Pegasus herd, unable to launch normal ground shooting, and the bed crossbow was busy shooting at the Silver Pegasus herd, and there was no time to attack the ground.

At the same time, there were also violent fluctuations of magic collision from the direction where Ouyang Yu and the others were, even if they were more than ten kilometers away, Gru could feel the shock wave blowing on his face, and after glancing at the direction of Ouyang Yu's fierce battle, he gave the order to attack on the ground.

Although the spellcaster unit of the main magic attack legion of the elven army is no longer able to fight, the elves are not lacking in spellcasting units, and the three thousand spellbreaker troops who have not been on the battlefield have been divided into two by Gru and launched a magic strike from the east and west.

After Ouyang Yu left, the super-large magic shield that no one presided over lasted only ten minutes before it was broken, and thousands of magic shells comparable to the explosive power of small-caliber shells directly bombarded Ouyang Yu's position.

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

Gru nodded in satisfaction as the smoke and dust from the continuous explosions covered the hill, and after half an hour of bombardment, he didn't think there would be any living people on the other side, so he ordered the magic attack to stop, and sent 20,000 centaurs to take up the position and destroy the remaining enemies.

The 20,000 centaurs, half of each of the east and the west, holding spears, trotted in a relatively scattered but neat formation and rushed towards the position of Ouyang Yu's army.

1,000 meters, 700 meters. Five hundred meters, three hundred meters. The centaurs were getting closer and closer to Ouyang Yu's position, through the already thin smoke and dust. The centaurs saw that the position had become potholed by the fierce attack, and there was no movement at all, and the three barbed wire fences were also blasted into tatters by the bombardment of magic, and the centaurs began to concentrate towards the dozens of gaps that had been blasted out.

But in the trench that they couldn't see, the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army bent down and lined up to get out of the anti-artillery hole, and quickly entered their combat position amid the low cheers of the non-commissioned officers.

When it was close to one hundred and fifty meters, a dense number of human heads suddenly appeared from the four trenches that were originally lifeless, and the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army pulled the trigger with their divine arm crossbows, and the long arrows like a storm of arrows shot at the centaurs. The sudden blow sent hundreds of unsuspecting centaurs to the rain of arrows.

"Don't go back, speed up!"

One hundred and fifty meters is a few seconds for a centaur to run with all his might, but Ouyang Yujun's position not only has the tripping pits dug before, but also the bomb craters and barbed wire fences that have been blown out, and the ground of the position is also relatively soft because of the explosion, and the centaurs can't run at all in this environment, Ouyang Yujun's soldiers concentrated their fire to block the dozens of gaps that were blown out, and most of the gaps were piled up with the corpses of the centaur leaders under the dense long arrows.

"Quick, support them. Arrows!!" Gru saw that his soldiers were suffering heavy casualties, and hurriedly ordered thousands of elves behind the centaurs to support them remotely, along with the native elven magic longbowmen.

Elven Magic Archers and Enforcers are both classes that apply magic to their weapons, but one is melee combat and the other is ranged attack. They all fire magic arrows with good power.

"Release the arrow!" With an order, two dark clouds of arrows rained down towards Ouyang Yujun's position.

"Enemy arrows shoot! Hide! Hide!" shouted the non-commissioned officers on the position to their soldiers.

When the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army heard the alarm, they immediately lowered their heads and clinged to the edge of the trench. Then I heard a continuous whooshing sound overhead.

The four trenches of Ouyang Yu's army were full of long arrows shot from them, and due to the small angle, the long arrows shot by the elven army could only be shot diagonally into the front and rear positions of the trenches. There was nothing that could be done about the soldiers crouching inside, only those fire-type magic arrows that could explode could deal some damage from the fragments and shockwaves generated by the explosion. When the three arrows rained down, the casualties of the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army were very small and negligible.

Although the elven army's long-range attack did not cause casualties to Ouyang Yu's army, it successfully suppressed their firing, and the centaurs took the opportunity to successfully rush to the first line of trenches.

"It's a success!" Gru clapped his left and right hands excitedly as he watched the centaurs rushing into battle, according to his previous experience in fighting with humans, the human soldiers with poor hand-to-hand combat skills would definitely collapse at the touch of a button, and then he would be greeted with a brilliant victory.

The truth was so far from what Gru had imagined, as the centaurs rushed to the first line of trenches, only to be attacked from both the front and below.

The soldiers of the first trench of Ouyang Yu's army squatted in the trench and kept stabbing with spears, using trench artifact sappers to shovel and chop, the centaurs above their heads, and the soldiers in the second trench continued to attack those centaurs who could not enter or retreat with their crossbows.

Because centaurs are much larger and longer than ordinary humans, they can't go down into the narrow trenches designed for humans at all, and their lower bodies are the same as horses, it is difficult to squat down, and they can't reach the human soldiers in the trenches when they bend down, so it is naturally difficult to kill and injure the human soldiers in the trenches.

"Grenade ready!"

After hearing the order, some soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army in the second trench took out one by one from the bag on the right side of their belts one by one to imitate the M24 wooden-handled grenades of the German Army during World War II, and then threw them out in the shouts of the non-commissioned officers.

The centaurs who were storming the second trench looked at the tens of thousands of iron bumps that were thrown out, and the tail was still smoking, and some of the more curious ones even picked them up and held them in their hands.

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

Tens of thousands of grenades exploded at about the same time, and prefabricated fragments filled every corner between the first and second trenches, and a large number of flying fragments burrowed into the bodies of thousands of centaurs, shooting them like sieves.

"Rush!"

After a rain of grenades, the centaurs between the first and second trenches were cleared, and the other centaurs were also terrified, and the human soldiers of the first and second trenches took the opportunity to jump out and launch a counter-charge with the ten-man team as the basic unit.

Although the demoralized centaurs were tall and strong, they couldn't stop the human soldiers with high morale, and the human soldiers held spears, shields, bows and crossbows, divided labor and cooperated, and fought one after another, and the centaurs who fought were defeated and retreated, and were soon driven out of the position of Ouyang Yu's army.

Gru, who had been watching the battle from the rear, was half angry to death, but he had no choice but to blow the horn of retreat.

"Boom, boom, even if you use up all your mana, you must flatten the ditch dug by the humans!" Gru yelled angrily.

The Spellbreaker troops, who had finally recovered a little bit of magical power, were once again on the field to prepare for the magic bombardment.

"Enemy artillery bombardment! Quickly return to the defensive artillery hole!"

On the position of Ouyang Yu's army, the soldiers accelerated the action of treating their comrades and cleaning up the battlefield, and then went into the trench as quickly as possible, with a small but strong anti-artillery hole, squatting down and covering their ears with their hands and opening their mouths wide.

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

This time the magic bombardment lasted for half an hour, tens of thousands of magic bullets bombed the entire hill into the surface of the moon, three barbed wire fences were basically destroyed, almost half of the trenches were filled, and the exits of a large number of anti-artillery holes were collapsed.

On the position of Ouyang Yu's army, some soldiers were digging to rescue their comrades, and more soldiers ran out of the anti-artillery hole again and silently returned to their positions, and with the order of the non-commissioned officer, the dense rain of arrows was still shot out of the trenches.

"Damn, can't these humans be killed?" Gru cursed fiercely, the three thousand spellbreakers had all exhausted their magic power, and tens of thousands of magic in his image could kill more than 100,000 humans, but Ouyang Yujun on the opposite side couldn't kill him, which completely subverted his previous three views. (To be continued......)