80. The Flames of War (14)
Seeing the opening of the city gate, the self-propelled artillery unit of the dark army has begun to retreat, and the mage on the self-propelled cannon is out of the self-propelled gun car, standing on the roof of the car, holding various magic staffs, and begins to prepare magic, if the enemy rushes up, the first thing to greet them is all kinds of magic. A large number of swordsmen also came out of the gun carriage, guarding the gun carriage, and the self-propelled artillery units retreated very neatly. At the same time, the large forces of the dark army have rushed up neatly, and at this time, there is nothing to do with artillery, it is a battlefield for other arms.
When the self-propelled artillery troops retreated beyond the range of the magic cannons on the city wall, a large number of the Fourth Swordsman Legion had already rushed out of the city, although the self-propelled guns of the dark army were retreating, but the soldiers of the Swordsman Regiment had no way to retreat, although the five city gates were not small, but a large number of soldiers were rushing up from behind, if they retreated at this time, it would only confuse the soldiers, and the losses would be greater, so they could only rush forward.
Rayleth commanded the troops to line up under the city wall, waiting for the assembly of the large army, at this time it was still within the protection of his own magic cannon, the attack of the dark army could not reach, it was still safe at this time, however, when a large number of soldiers were assembled, it was no longer safe, the self-propelled guns of the dark army would reopen the gun carriage to bombard, therefore, they could only rush forward, but the infantry of the dark army and various giant crossbows had already protected the self-propelled guns behind, just waiting for the light army to rush up and send them to death, with the change of the battlefield situation, more dark army infantry is coming from the rear, ready to join the battlefield at any time, the light army wants to break through the interception of the dark army infantryIt's something that's simply not possible.
The infantry of the Dark Army was only eight kilometers away from the city wall, just outside the range of the magic cannons, and two kilometers behind them, 60,000 self-propelled guns had already reopened their gun mounts.
If you don't rush up, then what if the dark army comes up again? When the time comes, the city gate will definitely not be able to be opened again, and these soldiers will just wait to become cannon fodder, after all, tens of millions of troops are arrayed, and the array formed is 40 kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide, as long as the dark army's self-propelled guns are pushed up, only one round of cannon fodder is needed, how many 10 million troops can be left? Therefore, there is still a glimmer of life when they rush up, and if they don't rush up, they will die.
The soldiers of the Swordsman Regiment had already assembled, and Rayleth shouted, "Follow me." "The army began to charge, rushed out of a kilometer, and they were greeted by 60,000 magic cannon shells, when they charged, 10 million troops had already dispersed, and the distance between them was relatively far, plus although the power of the magic cannon's shells was strong, the speed was not very fast, and the strength of the infantry was also very strong and flexible, so although the casualties were very good, they were only hundreds of thousands of casualties.
The charge began to stop and could not stop, and when it was closer to three kilometers, the giant crossbow began to exert its might, and a large number of crossbow arrows began to shoot towards the Bright Army, the density of crossbow arrows far exceeded the artillery fire, and the casualties of the swordsmen began to increase greatly, and at the same time, the second round of artillery fire also arrived, once again bringing a baptism of magic to the swordsmen, and also taking away countless lives.
As the swordsmen began to charge, Mibit St. Ryke organized more troops to rush out of the city in the fortress, but with 10 million swordsmen, it was impossible to delay the dark army for a day, so it was necessary to organize more troops to rush out of the dark army to entangle the dark army, and not let the self-propelled guns of the dark army have a chance to attack, which was equivalent to exchanging human lives for the time to repair the magic array, but how many human lives were needed to exchange for this day? Is it 30 million, or 50 million? Or 100 million? No one knows that now is no longer the time to calculate this, because if you don't do this, the consequences are not something that the Light Army can bear.
The infantry on both sides have been entangled, starting a tragic tear killing, the self-propelled guns of the dark army are still constantly attacking the rear of the position, blocking the enemy's reinforcements, providing more support for their infantry, and the giant crossbow because it is approached, so, has begun to retreat, however, retreat to the self-propelled guns before no longer retreat, but point the giant crossbow to the sky, and begin to throw, although the accuracy of the projectile is not high, but it can also provide support for the infantry, on the contrary, the bright army is not supported by any war machinery, so it is strange that the bright army does not pay the price of blood。
The battle was extremely tragic from the beginning, both sides kept transferring soldiers to the front line, the difference is that the dark army's strength is very sufficient, and the casualties of the light army are much higher than the dark army, such a battle is of course the dark army is willing to do, because, since the battle started for three hours, the dark army's losses are only about one-third of the light army, and the dark army has not tried such a battle for a long time.
The battle had been fought like this at the beginning, seeing his troops die one by one, Rayris had never fought such a battle in his life, and for the first time he wondered if it was Ovat's problem, he had never fought such a battle under Nicholas, and fighting this kind of battle would give him nightmares.
In this case, there is no treatment of the wounded at all, the artillery is bombarding in the back, the giant crossbows are constantly firing, and the soldiers can only use their flesh and blood to face those war machines with amazing lethality, this kind of battle is just a battle to send them to the death, but the military order is like a mountain, and those who escape from the battle die, what choice do they have? Even if they know that the road is dead, they have to charge.
In contrast, the dark army is much better, the wounded can also leave the battlefield and be sent to the rear for treatment, and what's worse is that the bright army has always been famous for its many magicians, a large number of magicians blessed the soldiers and treated the wounded, which can greatly reduce the casualties of the soldiers, but this time it is different, the magic power of the magicians of the bright army has already been exhausted, and there is no magic power to bless the soldiers with magic, on the contrary, the soldiers of the dark army have magicians to bless magic, so that the light army suffers more, so the morale of the dark army is very high, and relatively, the morale of the bright army is very low, the low morale made the combat effectiveness of the Bright Army subtract another two percent.
The battle continued, the armies of both sides were sent to the battlefield one by one, and then, it was to mobilize more troops from the rear to send them to the front line, the logistics troops on the side of the dark army also sent the wounded down from the front line from time to time, and the light army basically only had the troops sent to the front line, and the people who were not sent down, the battle was extremely tragic, if people looked down from the air, they only saw the troops in white armor rushing up like waves, and then they dissipated, disappeared, only saw the blood flowing down from the soldiers' bodies, converging into small puddles of blood on the ground, and then, seeping into the soil, disappearing after the worst, leaving only an endless pungent smell of blood。
Five hours passed, and the magician troops of the Bright Army recovered some of their magic power and began to bless the soldiers of the Bright Army, with the blessing of magic, the casualties of the Bright Army began to decrease a lot, but the casualties were still extremely heavy.
Eight hours passed, and the barrels of the dark army's self-propelled guns began to turn red, and they had to stop firing and wait for the cooldown time, which made the casualties of the Light Army further reduced, but this could not last long, because the cooldown only took about half an hour, and after half an hour, the nightmare of the Light Army returned.
When Relice saw that the enemy's magic cannon was no longer firing, he knew that the opportunity had come, and he ordered: "Mobilize the soldiers of the 21st Legion, press them with all their might, I don't care how many people they will die, in short, press me, we must disrupt the battle line of the dark army, otherwise, we will all die." ”
The total strength of the 21st Legion is 30 million, they have all assembled, rushed out of the city gate, charged towards the battle line of the dark army, and after joining a large number of troops, the battle line of the dark army began to be unable to withstand this pressure, after all, there are not many soldiers on the battle line of the dark army, so the self-propelled artillery troops began to retreat, and the giant crossbow troops also began to retreat. The dark army's front began to slowly crumble.
The time has entered the night, the battle has been fought for more than a day, the soldiers on both sides have good strength, the night does not have a great impact on them, so, the battle is still ongoing, and when the battle line of the dark army began to collapse, the dark army began to retreat step by step, the battle situation changed again, and the blood knight legion commanded by Cassel finally joined the battlefield.
Most of the soldiers put into the battlefield by the Bright Army are infantry, and there are very few cavalry, because a large number of cavalry have been killed on the northern battlefield, so the number of cavalry assigned to the battle of light and darkness is much less, and there are a total of five cavalry regiments and five swordsman regiments in the Tenth Army of Light, three cavalry regiments have been transferred to the northern battlefield, and the Eighth Cavalry Regiments have almost been wiped out, so there is also a cavalry regiment under the command of Owart, in the central theater, not here, in the newly formed regiment, the number of cavalry is not much, therefore, when the Blood Knight Legion participates in the battle, it is simply a reminder from the Lord of Yama for the Bright Army, cavalry to infantry, that kind of natural suppression can not be compensated for by individual strength alone.
After the blood-red knight charged, countless corpses were left on the ground, and a large amount of blood, a soldier of the 21st Legion was chopped to the ground by the knights of the Blood Knight Legion, a soldier was trampled under the feet of the demonic beast, turned into a corpse, and even turned into a pulp, when the cavalry roared past, all that was brought to the infantry was death, bloody death. Human heads flew into the sky, streams of blood spurted towards the sky, and severed hands or other organs flew all over the sky, the battlefield was so cruel and tragic.
Columns of cavalry charged, countless soldiers fell in pools of blood, the 21st Legion only supported for three hours before collapsing, they were not facing a war, but a tragic massacre, their combat effectiveness was not as good as the strongest Blood Knight Legion in the Dark Nine Army, and to face the Blood Knight Legion with infantry, what else is there to say? When the casualties were about half, the soldiers of the 21st Regiment had no choice but to flee, and all the soldiers, including a large number of officers, were only concerned about their own lives, but what could they escape at that time? There was no other way for them to be taken prisoner or die.