Section 26: Abandonment of the Son

A gunner with good vision could clearly see the small group of greenskins under the opposite flag. Everyone knew that the Dao Boss was definitely on the other side, but it was not until now that they could determine his location.

"Gunners ready, aim!"

The gunner quickly tore open the cannon's armor for camouflage and began to turn the muzzle of the gun toward the Greenskin's position. It is actually difficult for a cannon to aim at a small target, but the concentrated shooting of dozens of cannons, as long as the luck is not too bad, does have a certain chance of hitting the target.

A few days earlier, the gunners had already prepared for this tactic several times. This battlefield has been selected for a long time, so the gunners have secretly conducted high-precision test firing. Not only that, but they also measured and calculated the most likely position of the greenskin, so the odds of hitting were greatly improved. The highest point on the hillside where the Blood Banner Boss was located today was one of the positions predicted by the gunners.

"Prepare for ignition. ”

The artillery commander gave the order in a calm tone while observing the Blood Banner Boss.

At the front of the line, Eric realized he had to retreat.

The green skins on both sides are frantically squeezing over, and the pump truck in the middle is still raging. The knights' equipment was well suited to cavalry and infantry, but not to the extent of such a massive war machine. Some of the brave knights jumped on the pump and killed all the drivers, but many more were the ones who knocked the riders and horses down and ran them over with their huge wheels.

A pump truck in front of him rushed towards Eric, several broken limbs already hanging from the sharp stakes in front of the vehicle, and the huge wheels were covered in blood. On the pump truck, the snot spirits were screaming wildly, wielding all sorts of crude weapons. The best of these weapons is a broken spear. If they get out of the car and fight in close combat, then it is easy for a knight to fight ten snots, but with this war machine, the knights are immediately at a disadvantage.

Eric sideways the impact of the pump and approaches the car from the side. He noticed that the axle of the pump was bent and deformed, and it was only one step away from breaking. So in the midst of the snot's screams, Eric slammed his hammer into the axle of the pump truck.

In the next moment, the pump fell apart. The snot spirit, which had been triumphant just now, flew out of the car under the effect of inertia, and was immediately trampled by the knights' war horses.

"Knight, prepare to retreat!" With the assistance of the pump cart, the green skins on both sides were outflanking, more and more, and the knights were pressed back and forth.

Eric glanced back at his own side. He saw that there were more than thirty cannons hidden halfway up the mountain, the cannons had been decamouflaged, and the gunners were nervously adjusting. He immediately understood that the gunners had discovered the location of the Greenskin.

However, from the position where Eric was located, he could not tell exactly where the gunners were aiming. At this time, the knights have lost their strict formation and are fighting with the greenskins, so Eric is not sure whether there is a greenskin boss among the greenskins who are fighting face-to-face with the knights.

If the Greenskins are fighting him, then if he retreats at this time, the Greenskins are likely to retreat into the Greenskins, and it will be difficult to filter them out. But if he doesn't leave at this moment, he won't be able to leave even if he wants to. For more and more greenskins are being added to this encirclement, which will soon cut off the knights' retreat. Not to mention that the pump car greatly disrupted the interior of the knights and posed a serious threat.

"Knights, hold on a little longer!" Eric gritted his teeth. At the last moment, the knight's sense of responsibility prevailed. As a knight, he should have the consciousness of dying on the battlefield. In order to achieve the highest good, some sacrifices are necessary, even if it is oneself that is sacrificed!

On the mountainside, the cannon was already in place.

"Master, they seem to have aimed their cannons at you. On the other side of the hill, Carrie reminded the Blood Banner Boss.

In fact, the Blood Banner Boss also discovered the pile of cannons that suddenly appeared in the enemy camp. You know, the position just now looked like a pile of bushes, but in the blink of an eye, the bushes disappeared, revealing the muzzle of the black hole. If it were one or two cannons, it might not be particularly noticeable, but these are dozens of cannons.

"Fire!"

It was a continuous roar, like a roar from a steel monster. A thick burst of gunpowder smoke rose halfway up the mountainside, like a cloud emerging from the void, and suddenly enveloped a large area. At this time, there is no wind in the air, and the shells can be unaffected by the wind and can be hit more accurately. But also because there was no wind, the smoke temporarily obscured the artillery's field of vision, and it was impossible for the artillery to make up for a second shot.

"Did you succeed?" high up on the hillside, unaffected by the smoke of gunfire, thousands of pairs of eyes stared at the point of the bomb in the distance. At the top of the hillside occupied by the greenskins, dozens of shells all fell here, blasting the place with a puff of smoke and dust, completely enveloping the small group of greenskins and the greenskinned flag.

In fact, it wasn't just the human side, but even the charging Greenskin stopped, feeling inexplicable at the sudden roar.

"What's going on?" asked his men in a green-skinned group that stopped in the middle of the charge.

"It looks like the boss was hit by a cannonball. ”

"Boss?"

Under the common gaze of the two warring sides on the entire battlefield, the smoke and dust raised by the shell bombardment slowly subsided. The number of greenskins who had gathered here - that is, the Blood Banner Boss and several of his leaders plus the guards - was more than half of them, and the Blood Banner Tribal Banner that had been flying high was also blown down.

This sudden blow really caused a great shock.

"The boss was killed?" "The boss is hanging?" "The boss is slamming into the street?" The greenskins hesitated for a moment, and even the "Waaaaagh" that had been shouted just now subsided.

"Waaaaagh!" but, only a short time later, an orc jumped up on the top of the hillside and let out a roar that resounded through the mountains. Then, each greenskin saw the blown down flag stand up again, the orcs' filthy banner waving over the hilltop.

"The boss is okay!" In an instant, the greenskins who were still hesitating just now let out a cheer. "If you don't do a lot of work, the boss won't die!"

"Let's see how good we are! Stomp them flat!" The greenskins burst out into a wild roar again, and the morale of the whole army was high, and they frantically pounced on the enemy in front of them.

"It looks like our attempt has failed. "In the base camp of the army, that is, the command position where the generals are located, someone said with a little regret. "This tactic still depends more or less on luck. ”

"What should we do next?" said an officer to the Queen Mother.

"Well," the Queen Mother's veil obscured her face, making it impossible to guess her true heart at the moment. "According to the original plan, we retreated. ”

"General Eric is surrounded by the enemy, if we retreat now......" someone reminded the Queen Mother.

Indeed, Eric has lost his best chance of retreating. On the battlefield, this is very common, and the fighters are fleeting. Eric had a brief chance to retreat before the artillery was fired, but that opportunity was now out of his way. By the time he confirmed that the sniper had failed and wanted to gather his troops to retreat, a group of goblins detoured back to their rear at high speed in the frenzy of "Waaaaagh", cutting off the knights' retreat. His troops were surrounded on all sides by the greenskins. To make matters worse, seeing that the situation was favorable, a large group of goblins had joined the siege at this time, and Eric's troops could no longer get out of the trap on their own.

"Waste one. A young senior officer beside the Queen Mother shrugged his shoulders and commented. "I don't know how to advance or retreat! Just now he had a good chance to retreat. ”

"If we're going to get General Eric back, we're going to have to fight Greenskin here. The Queen Mother's voice was cold and steady, "This is not in line with our plan. Fighting here, we can only engage in a war of attrition. ”

This is not a lie, the two armies occupy the slopes of the hill and position themselves along the slopes, and this terrain determines that it is conducive to defense and not conducive to attack. This is equal for both parties. Don't look at this moment, the musketeers knocked down a large group of greenskins rushing up with rapid fire, temporarily restraining the attack of the greenskins. But once the Shem attacked, they would also be at a disadvantage.

"Retreat. As for General Eric...... Since he is a soldier, he naturally knows what to do now. ”

Retreat is not a hassle, because a complete retreat plan is drawn up from the beginning. The Sham army began to retreat slowly, and the musketeers retreated to the rear. They had already set up some defensive fortifications on the way to retreat, and using the cover of these fortifications, the pursuit of the greenskins only increased casualties in vain.

But here in the besieged Eric, the situation is completely different.

Now, every greenskin knows that they have an overwhelming advantage, and they have won. Even the goblins shouted feverishly one by one, rushing up and drowning the knights one by one with their numerical superiority. The damn pump carts were still on the rampage, and while their numbers had been reduced by at least half from the knights' attacks and self-collisions, and the occasional greenskins that stood in their way, they were able to keep the knights from rallying together. The knights could only be attacked by the greenskins in this chaotic state of battle.

Eric's heart beat violently as he swung his hammer around him. He is now in the midst of one of the most brutal battles of his life, and he is doomed. He had seen the large forces abandon themselves and retreat, disappearing from their original positions, and all the greenskins on the battlefield were focused on their troops.

At this moment, the greenskinned army had surrounded this increasingly small force in three layers and three layers outside. Not to mention the orcs, even the goblins are pushing me to squeeze into this battle.

Eric uses his warhammer to smash a goblin's brain. But in this short period of time, the two knights at the back of his side were dragged off their horses by the goblins, fell to the ground and were violently attacked by countless weapons.

Just as Eric himself knew that he was going to be doomed, the greenskins suddenly began to scatter and retreat, freeing up a large area. A large orc appeared in front with a sword. And the knights around him had been killed and wounded, and he was the only one left.

Is this a feast for the Boss?" Eric smiled wryly, then raised his hammer and charged towards the orcs.