Section 300 Scuffle

There was a quick, piercing screech in the wind. Robin couldn't figure out what it was coming from, but the usefulness of the voice was obvious: the Chaos Legion that was still moving had all stopped, even the Chaos Eggs.

They were also very particular about where they stopped, and this was the limit of the musket's range. At this distance, the musketeer would not have fired - because the accuracy of the bullet had been reduced to such an extent that it could be considered a mere waste of ammunition.

Despite the hard work of propaganda on the part of the Church, the Chaos Legion is portrayed as evil, bloodthirsty barbarians, unstrategic, undisciplined, and completely dependent on violence and muscles to fight. But what we have witnessed shows that the Chaos Legion is by no means muscular and brainless savages, they are also a disciplined and well-trained legion.

Robin began to think about it incomprehensibly. He remembered his time in Sylvania, when he had witnessed the battle between the Undead Legion and the Coast. But in that battle, it was not so much Robin who was a participant as Robin was a spectator. Together with Bayor, he watched the whole battle - in a safe place, relaxed, and happy.

He used to think that was a baptism of war, but now it looks ...... Spectators are just spectators, after all. Those who are not the authorities cannot understand the suffocating psychological pressure and why some soldiers flee before the battle begins.

Also...... It's finally coming to this day. But it's also inevitable, and Robin knows that sooner or later he will have such a day. Sooner or later, it's just a matter of time. He had to be clothed all over his body and stand on the front lines of the battlefield as an officer.

The Chaos Legion in the distance had completely calmed down, looking like a dark cloud. Perhaps they were expecting to use this pressure to make the enemy collapse automatically, but this time they definitely miscalculated.

Robin now knew the cause of Parry's failure—not all of them, but at least he knew that one of the mistakes he had made might be just one of the many mistakes that led to failure. Parry was too confident, overestimating his own strength and underestimating the courage of his enemies. He put veterans in the first line and recruits in the second. Therefore, when the Chaos Legion broke through the first line composed of veterans, the recruits of the second line completely lost their fighting spirit when they saw the retreating battle situation. They were directly routed, and their escape led to the complete collapse of the first line.

The right thing to do should be to put the recruits on the front line and the veterans at the back. In this way, when the recruits are defeated, the experienced veterans generally do not waver. And the stability of the second line will encourage the defeated first-line troops, and there is still the possibility of regrouping into battle. In this way, on the one hand, it can use the new recruits to consume the offensive momentum of the Chaos Legion, and on the other hand, it can maintain the pressure of superior forces on the enemy. If you set up the formation in this way, even if you lose, it won't be too ugly, but Parry's wrong approach will ruin a loss.

"Get ready, get ready, get your weapons!" Robin walked along the front line once, the last time he patrolled his troops—and there was no chance of that. Perhaps encouraged by Baylor, the morale of the soldiers seemed slightly higher, at least not as numb by fear as they had just been. He returned to his place and motioned to the trumpeter beside him. So the trumpeter blew the horn, which was a sign of battle and a provocation to the Chaos Legion.

Robin clenched his sword - unlike ordinary soldiers, as an officer, he held a sword and shield - and began to shout orders,

The entire phalanx began to move slowly. Maintain their dense formation and march in small steps to further provoke the Chaos Legion. Instead of lining up with the other soldiers, Robin stood at the front of the entire line. He knew that if he could not appear to be braver than he was, this army of defeated soldiers might collapse before a fight. If this is the case, he will drag the general's hindquarters, and perhaps lead to a big failure that will make him unable to forgive himself for the rest of his life.

The whole phalanx began to move constantly. "Forward", "Forward", "Steady", he heard the soldiers behind him repeating his orders, the voice echoing back and forth in the ranks, and the silence was broken. Thousands of feet moved slowly, shields and armor clashing against each other, making a metallic clang. Robin's eyes stared at the enemy without moving, then he raised his sword and raised it high above the top.

"Stop!" he said, not turning around. "Prepare for battle, I want to see if the blood of Chaos is red!

After saying this exaggerated sentence, he immediately gave another clear order: "Steady!"

But he didn't know if he could hold it down. All of these soldiers had just experienced a defeat and were demoralized and physically exhausted. They weren't familiar with him either—in fact, they were complete strangers to each other. So he gave an additional order.

"Be careful, don't leave the team, don't attack on your own. Trust your companions, trust me, trust General Bayer! Stay in formation, never scatter! Don't worry about the enemy, they won't stay in tight formation forever!"

The last sentence was told by the general. For the first time, Robin wasn't sure if Bayrell's estimate would be correct, but he shouted anyway.

His provocations bore fruit. The Chaos Legion has already begun to move. The entire massive, gray-black phalanx began to advance with the sound of iron boots stomping on the ground, and the Chaos Egg rushed forward. Their speed began to pick up, and as Bayrell had expected, the Chaos Legion's steady pace had been maintained for too long. Some of the Chaos warriors began to roar and roar, and the bloodthirsty frenzy instantly swept through the entire Chaos Phalanx, everyone was picking up speed, and the strict formation began to disintegrate. The speed of the Chaos Egg was much faster than that of humans, and it soon opened up a considerable distance from the Chaos Warriors in the rear

In an instant, Robin began to move steadily again. The same goes for the soldiers behind him. Directly in front of him, the Chaos Legion began to run wildly, like a tidal wave that could engulf a qiē. Although he raised his head and chest, he found that he was actually full of panic and fear. Although he walked slowly, he almost tripped over the vines in the cracks in the stones, and small pebbles that were not easy to see.

The Chaos Legion is in action, and the soldiers have formed a clear difference between the front and back due to the speed of their running. There was no sign of maintaining the formation or the team. All the Chaos Warriors are fanatically wielding their weapons instead of holding them calmly. This is completely different from the training that soldiers in the Seven Nations received.

The first wave of muskets began to fire. Bullets tear through the air, and smoke obscures the sky. Some of the Chaos Warriors seemed to hit an invisible wall and fell to the ground. But others are moving on. Some Chaos Warriors raised their shields to try to fend off bullets, and more often put pressure on their feet.

Robin staggered to his feet with the sound of a neat musket. He raised his sword once more, and when he had done this final job, he returned to the right side of the queue and stood beside the young recruit named Thaler.

The sound of gunfire stimulates the Chaos Egg's desire to kill. They ran faster, like unstoppable boulders rolling down a mountain. They were already separated by a large distance from the Chaos Phalanx behind them. These monsters looked very much like onions with legs growing at the moment, and they waved their horrific fleshy tentacles, and their throats were full of animalistic roars.

A second wave of gunfire rang out. This time, the firepower was almost entirely focused on the tentacle monsters. Robin had seen the corpse of the Chaos Egg, the one killed by Ashrufat. The corpse of the Chaos Egg was dissected, its thick muscles impressive. In fact, as seen in the last time the Chaos Egg was slayed, the surface of the monster's body is very muscular, and the huge and powerful muscles are like a layer of armor, so that most attacks cannot penetrate deep into the internal organs. Their crux lies here at the root of the tentacles. The muscles here are weaker and the nerves are dense.

The two Chaos Eggs slowed down, and they staggered for a while before finally falling down. But the other two Chaos Eggs were already approaching, and the Musketeers had no time to unleash the next wave of bullets.

Chaos Egg rushed into the ranks of spearmen. Robin heard the soldiers cry and scream, their shields shattering under the onslaught of their tentacles, and the human body was tossed high and dropped into the distance.

Another wave of bullets arrived, but they were aimed at the approaching Chaos Legion. As for the Chaos Eggs, they can only rely on their own efforts. Fortunately, the dense formation also greatly weakened the lethality of the Chaos Egg, and without enough space to swing its tentacles, the Chaos Egg's destructive power did not seem to hit as expected. They knocked out about two dozen soldiers, but at least half of them struggled to their feet and returned to the fight.

The Chaos Warriors who were shot at were knocked down in droves, and then trampled straight over by their companions.

A handful of revolver muskets are still in full swing, but overall, the "three shots" are over. The Chaos Warriors rushed fiercely. Robin could hear the roars of the enemy and see their faces. The soldiers killed by the Chaos Egg fell to the ground, struggling and slowly dying. But more soldiers lowered their spears, ready to meet the approaching Chaos warriors.

The rushing Chaos Warriors had completely lost their formation after three waves of musket fire. They no longer paid attention to the neat queue, but just shouted and roared like madness, and rushed towards the spears.

The two armies intersected in close combat, and the sound of steel crashing resounded in the sky. A dozen or so Chaos Marauders who appeared to be a squad rushed towards Robin's side, roaring in anger. Their squad only had a slight formation at the moment of the final engagement, but they clearly intended to make up for the lack of formation with fanaticism. The two sides fought, metal and wood clashed, shields and shields pushed, flesh splattered everywhere in front of steel.

In the blink of an eye, the winner was decided. In front of a dense formation of more than twenty spears, the marauders left behind five or six corpses. Robin's side was not damaged, except for two broken spears.

By this time, the battlefield was in chaos. The two armies staggered, stabbing at each other, slashing, shoving, and ramming. Knocks, bones shattering, screams and screams come and go. After a brief initial period of time, the formation of the spearmen had also begun to disperse. Robin completely lost control of the entire phalanx, and all he observed was a short distance around him. The only thing he could do now was to stand beside the flag in the queue, holding a long sword, and together with several other people around him, to protect the flag from falling. That's the only thing he can do now.

This is the real battle? When looking from behind, Robin doesn't notice it. Now he could feel it. The spearmen were trained to stand with the possessor, shoulder to shoulder, with the spear raised forward, and to assassinate the enemy when he approached. But the fact is that these trainings are too idealistic. Because at this moment, Robin feels like facing a street fight, crazy and bloodthirsty, completely caught in a vortex of violence and chaos. He also vaguely understood now why Parry's army had been routed by the Chaos Legion in a single blow. Because under the crazy onslaught of the Chaos Legion, the effort to maintain the formation is difficult to achieve.