On the screen, this completely one-sided battle on the battery is clearly shown. It wasn't even a massacre, it was just a lunch. By the time the bestial vampires rushed to the fort, the fate of the gunners and mages on the turret had actually been decided. A gunner with a short sword as a melee weapon would be fine against small animals like bats, but against bloodthirsty beastly vampires, it would be impossible to resist. All the gunners who did not have time to jump off the battery and escape were killed in a very short time.

The two magicians resisted more or less. Knife-like shards of ice were summoned out of the air, striking at the bestially transformed vampire. Normally, this magic can be a great blow to the vision and mind of the enemy, but the bestial vampire ignores this and is busy tearing the victim's body apart, using its massive claws to rip the victim's muscles off the bone.

Another magician shot a magic bullet of pure energy from his hand. This time it fell on the beastly vampire's body, leaving a scar. Far from fatal, though, the pain beast vampire threw down the food in his hand and pounced, tearing both mages into pieces in a matter of seconds.

A powerful weapon of war, that is, a galloping cannon, is nothing more than a mass of scrap metal without an operator. Before the bestial vampires could eliminate the gunners, the gunners had just finished filling and had not yet had time to fire.

"Well, as I said, the man I fancy can't lose so easily. Ylang said in a leisurely manner. "You see, the greatswordsmen are about to collapse. ”

She was telling the truth. Through this picture in the center of the room in front of her, the overall situation of the battlefield can be clearly seen. As they had previously discussed, the Greatswordsmen were already at a disadvantage in the original battle, and if they were not interfered with by any third party, they would eventually collapse as casualties slowly accumulated. But right now, the entry of bestial vampires into the war immediately changed the matter from "slowly" to "in the blink of an eye".

These behemoths are on a rampage on the battlefield and invincible. This is partly due to the fact that the beastly vampires themselves are a group of deadly warriors, and partly because the previous assault of the Crypt demons disrupted the formation of the greatswordsmen, making the battle turn into a scuffle, which is more conducive to the beast vampires to wreak havoc.

Once again, the image zooms in, and this time a bestial vampire can be clearly seen biting a victim in its mouth, tossing its miserable body around in the air. This scene eventually destroyed the fighting spirit of the nearby greatsword warriors, and they began to flee backwards instead of rushing towards the strong enemy.

On the battlefield, fear is contagious. In fact, in many battles, the major defeats that led to the collapse of the entire army may have been triggered by the escape of just a few cowards. When the first person starts to run away, if there is no timely stop from the captain or his companions, then there will be a second or third follower. They will quickly form a group of routs in a small area, and they will discourage those who would otherwise be able to hold on to it. Eventually, all this will turn into a wave of terror in which the morale of the entire army collapses.

"The left flank has collapsed, and the artillery has been destroyed before it can do its job. Ylan commented. "Leto's main force, although still very complete, is now ......"

"It's still early. The gray cloak replied in an unwilling tone. "The Scarlet Duke doesn't have any hole cards. You see, no matter how stupid Leto is, he understands that this situation is not right. The infantry in the center had already divided into several units, and they did not have time to rescue the collapse of the greatswordsmen, but at least they could protect the flanks of the army from attack. Also, you see, Leto has understood that he can't defend in place, and the Ironclad Knights are already preparing to charge. At the end of the day, the defeated greatswords still have a chance to regroup and go into battle...... In a word, the current situation can only be said to be evenly matched, and it is not possible to talk about who wins and who loses. ”

"Yes, maybe you're right. But remember, before that, Leto had a clear advantage. Ilan didn't mean to argue at all, just calmly recounted a fact.

On the battlefield, Ryan's army has indeed reacted. It's unclear whether Leto or something else made the decision, but at least the fact that one wing collapsed didn't immediately decide the winner. The infantry in the center was ready to flank the enemy, while the knights on the right flank had already begun to drive their horses and prepare for the first wave of assault.

At the time of the collapse of the left wing, the right wing of the Ryan people had already launched a surprise attack. Ryan's Iron Knight is indeed worthy of the title of elite in the army. They charged from the front, slicing through the zombies like steel knives. This assault fully illustrates the disparity in combat power between the two sides, the zombies with slow activity and low intelligence are simply pierced and smashed by the knights like paper paste, knocked down and trampled by the war horses, and the first wave of assault alone directly cut off a large piece of the zombie group. And the knights themselves suffered only negligible casualties.

After the impact of the horses had been poured on the enemy, the knights dropped their spears, drew their sidearms, and began a second round of hand-to-hand combat. As everyone knows, the undead are just puppets controlled and manipulated by the dark arts, and they don't know how to retreat, only how to attack forward. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. The advantage is that even in the face of such a terrifying charge from the Iron Knight, the zombies still move forward unwaveringly, instead of turning and running away like humans. The disadvantage is that they do not know how to retreat to avoid enemy attacks, and they suffer far more casualties than human soldiers.

"Damn, what are they doing!" Leto let out an expletive. From an objective point of view, he shouldn't have let out this curse, because it was he who had previously strictly ordered the Knights not to take the initiative to attack. And the knights have just launched the first round of offensive, and anyone can see that the results achieved by the knights are very amazing.

However, among human beings, there are very few people who know how to find fault in themselves. Most people will consciously or unconsciously find the reason in others. Leto's reason for cursing was simple, the knights were not able to penetrate the zombie formation at the first charge. At this moment, the ghouls and beast vampires who had defeated the giant swordsmen had begun to detour to the flank and rear of the army, and those beast vampires rushed directly to the detachment covering the flank of the main force under their own irrepressible bloodthirsty impulses. These giant beasts rampaged through the well-formed sword and shield infantry ranks, killing the sword and shield infantry with great vitality.

Leto was already a little panicked just now. When the beastly vampire rushed over to crush the greatswordsman, he almost felt a pang of despair. Fortunately, several of his experienced lieutenants had alerted him in time—as the two spectators who had watched the battle from afar had said, at this moment, the Ryan were far from being defeated.

One of the two lieutenants volunteered to lead the knights in a charge, while the other rushed to the left flank and hurriedly organized his troops to face the threat from the flank. Leto accepted their opinions unconditionally in the absence of the six gods. And the tide of battle quickly developed according to their predictions. Although the bestial vampires were ferocious, they were not able to tear a gap in the battle line and quickly cause a catastrophic rout in the face of the dense formation. Although the sword and shield infantry suffered heavy casualties, they held this crucial wave after all.

Even Leto, who was in a state of panic, could see that the battle situation was far from so bad. In addition, the ghouls pursuing the Greatswordsmen were held back by musketeers and archers, and the defense of some halberders who had been temporarily drawn in made it possible for the remaining Greatswordsmen to retreat temporarily rather than be wiped out in pursuit. It all finally calmed him down. He hasn't lost yet, at least he's still far from losing.

His immediate hope was that the central infantry would be able to withstand the flanking attacks from both sides, and that the knights would be able to wipe out the horde of zombies before the central infantry was routed. And this doesn't seem particularly difficult right now. Just a few detachments had withstood the pressure from the flanks, and the fighting power of the skeletons—honestly, their real fighting power lay in their terrible appearance, not in those rusted swords in their hands.

Also, in the fierce battle with the Greatswordsmen just now, those mutated ghouls have suffered great losses under the attack of Greatswords, magic and muskets. And since the attack of the beast vampire is blocked, the remaining problems will not be too big......

"Your Highness...... I remind you of one thing. Bernando, who was beside him, said suddenly.

"What?"

"So far, it seems that the dark mages under the vampires have not performed any magic on a large scale. Bernando was covered in a cold sweat and his face was a little pale—a sign of the exhaustion of his magic. "They can't do nothing, it's not normal. Please be careful. ”

"Don't you have a Demon Breaker Scroll?" Leto asked rhetorically. After knowing that Bernando carried a large number of demon-breaking scrolls, magic had become one of the last things he needed to think about. The value of the Dark Mage is, of course, to use magic, and their magic is ineffective - it's just a matter of the cost of the Demon Breaker Scroll.

"That being said...... To be honest, I could feel the black magic at work all the time, but I couldn't see any magic at all. And, Your Highness, don't you think it's not normal that the fog hasn't subsided?"

Indeed, it was already morning by this time, and the early morning mist should have cleared long ago. But right now, the fog doesn't have the slightest hint of dissipation. Not only that, but before I knew it, the fog had become significantly thicker, and the field of vision was narrower than before. In front of Leto was a staggering river of the dead, half hidden in the mist, with no end in sight.

"The dark mages did it?" Leto wondered. It has been confirmed that the fog was indeed a natural phenomenon. At the moment, is it still necessary to do this? And Bernando has said before that it takes a lot of energy to disperse the fog, and it is definitely not a simple task to add a dense fog.

What the hell do vampires want to do?

"Your Highness, although I don't know what tricks the vampires are playing, we must not relax. Bernando suddenly added. "The vampire's most elite undead troops, the grave guards, haven't appeared yet. ”

That's right...... Vampires also have elite troops...... Leto suddenly felt a shudder.

A series of terrifying explosions suddenly rang out. Before Leto could recover his senses, a cannonball flew not far in front of him. Solid cannonballs of terrible force, powered by gunpowder, plowed through the dense formations of Ryan warriors, leaving a trail of blood full of stumps and flesh.

What had happened? It was so sudden and so unacceptable that Leto stood there dumbfounded, watching the shells inflict unbelievable damage in his army. This is not one or two shells, but dozens, hundreds of shells. In other words, this is not ordinary shelling, but devastating destruction, complete destruction.

Then, the vampire skeleton warriors, pressed over from the front, began to engage the stunned Ryan infantry.

"What's going on?" Leto wanted to ask, but his voice was choked in his throat and he couldn't say anything.

"Your Highness!" shouted someone behind him in frustration. "The vampires sent their own gunners to occupy the battery. They turned our artillery around and shot us!"