Chapter 150: The True Purpose of the Raid (Part II)
The lives of hundreds of bare-handed Mastiff Fighters were short-lived, quickly withering under the siege of the Monitor Lizard Knights, but their sacrifices bought precious time for the rest of the army to react.
The dwarves climbed to the top of the oasis camp, where they had set up their ballistas, and the dwarves didn't care about the vulture knights who were still raging in mid-air, jumped into the manipulators, and fired wildly at the endless desert cavalry in the distance.
Bolts strapped to explosives shot into the crowd and exploded, causing a violent shock wave that overturned a group of cavalry and their mounts.
Explosive weapons originated from an extension of blasting technology during ore mining, and it was Iron Hills that first thought of applying this technology to military purposes.
However, the entire Middle-earth Continent does not attach much importance to the development of explosives technology, because the shock wave and fragmentation lethality generated by the explosion of explosives are too small a threat to units wearing steel armor, and they are simply not enough to penetrate steel armor that is often several centimeters thick, especially like the Heavy Tower Scythe of the Human Empire, which is simply armed to the teeth, even if you eat a few rounds of this ballista, it will be fine.
However, the situation of the Desert Kingdom is completely different from that of the Human Empire, and the high temperature here all day makes it impossible for the soldiers to wear heat-conducting steel armor at all, and all the soldiers wear the most traditional leather armor, and they have always been heavy on attack and light on defense.
In this way, the destructive power of the dwarven dynamite weapon is revealed.
The high-rise buildings of the Oasis are crowded with dwarves, and they are naturally the primary target of the vulture knights as they control the ballista defense line.
Several vulture knights launched a suicidal attack on the ballista platform, the sound of vulture's wings piercing the air screamed in everyone's ears, the dwarf warriors didn't have time to turn the direction of the ballista to the air, their faces were grim, no one spoke, they only hoped that at the last moment of their lives, they would help the orc brothers on the front line to deal with a few more desert cavalry.
A rain of magical arrows glowing green rose into the air again.
Without the interference of the sandstorm, the accuracy of the elven archers returned to the peak, and they no longer needed to meet the enemy in the form of saturation strikes, and the magic arrows of a dozen elven archers completed the area blockade of the vulture knights.
The arrows hit the vulture's eyes, dismantling the vulture knight's painstakingly managed attack, and one vulture after another fell from the sky, even if the vulture knight jumped off his mount halfway, all that awaited him was another rain of magical arrows.
The elves spontaneously stood behind the dwarves, blocking them from behind, and the dwarves did not look back, just whistling the ballista in their hands, but the corners of their mouths were slightly upturned.
Dwarves and elves are such a relationship, usually when they encounter a stubborn temper that can quarrel until the dark, no one is subject to anyone's stubbornness, but once they encounter war, they are the most tacit partners, and they can rest assured that they can hand over each other's life and death partners behind their backs.
As the last mastiff fighter fell, the Lionheart's legion led by the Grand Prince Simbak finally arrived, and the warriors with the blood of the Rhine Lion in their veins roared over the corpses of their comrades, slashing into the circle of the cavalry wing with swords and shields, each warrior like a wave rising high in a stormy wave, vowing to drown the enemy.
The Lionheart Legion showed far superior combat power to other legions, the weapons and equipment they imported from the Iron Hills were far superior to the Desert Kingdom in quality, the gilded machetes waved in the air into golden arcs, and one by one the desert cavalry was either cut off from their mounts or simply cut into two at the waist, and the blood was sprinkled with yellow sand, and in the blink of an eye, it was scarlet.
These strong warriors of the Rhine Lion Clan were blessed by the sacrifice and went berserk, and they would never let go of any living creature that still had breath in front of them, and the desert cavalry who was still struggling on the ground wanted to stand up, and a long knife stabbed into his heart, and turned in a circle.
The desert cavalry is not an ogre, it does not have two hearts, even if this heart is made of iron, it will be twisted into twist under this stabbing and completely cut off its vitality.
The border of the Oasis Base Camp is several kilometers long, and looking from one side to the other, you can see several cavalry wings of the Desert Kingdom launching a full-line attack, and all the legions stationed in the Oasis Base Camp are already in a state of engagement.
It can be seen that each legion has formed its own system to resist the attack, but generally the elves and dwarves are responsible for air defense and long-range fire suppression, and the orcs are the first to rush to the front to kill the enemy.
The eldest prince, Simbak, looked at the long oasis border line in the distance, his brow furrowed.
The tide of the battle is tipping in their favor, which seems good news, but it's also bad news.
The good news is that this oasis gathers all the strength and family resources of the tripartite alliance, although the several cavalry wings of the desert kingdom are fierce, but after all, they are only a few wings, and it is too unrealistic to want to rely on these wings alone to wrestle with the tripartite alliance.
However, the bad news also refers to this so-called "unreality".
He was the god of war in the desert kingdom, and his tactics were put into the classroom of the Royal Military Academy more than once, and his military ideas were written into textbooks for later generations to learn. Would a military master like him let his troops fight such an inexplicable and must-lose battle?
The eldest prince suddenly thought that there seemed to be a small group of cavalry who had forcibly broken through the defense and rushed into the depths of the oasis, and he suddenly felt bad: "Oh no!"
The front was full of gunsmoke and artillery fire, Herbert nested behind a low wall, scratching his heart like a cat's claw, he was blessed with the blessing effect of the war song, he wanted to rush to the front line now to fight well, but the order given to them by the first snow was to hold their camp, and it was the duty of a soldier to obey the order, and Herbert had to obey it.
Thanks to the Platinum Moon, the vulture knights in the sky above the bright camp have long been cleared, and the Spartan and Panda Swim hundreds of large men nest behind, and no one has found it, I don't know if the vulture knights are blind or they are too well hidden.
"Huh?" Herbert turned back to see Platinum in a small two-story building waving at him, his fingers deftly gesturing the tactical gestures he had agreed upon.
"The cavalry of the desert cubs is about to rush to us?" Herbert, who saw the white gold gesture clearly, immediately commanded the brothers to prepare for battle, and scolded and said: "Damn, I just saw that Stinky Prince's Lionheart army drive to the front line, and after a while, the cavalry were released, are they eating?"
"You talk a lot. Panta next to him rolled his eyes, replied to Platinum with a "received" gesture, and complained: "Anyway, it's so troublesome to communicate with tactical gestures, can't there be a more convenient means of communication?"
Ash interjected, "Didn't Miss Chang Ge say it before we left? She is working on a new means of instant communication that will allow us to talk and deliver messages no matter how far away we are. ”
Panta's big mouth opened into a circle: "Such a, Miss Chang Ge is too powerful, right? How do you feel many times more powerful than the boss." ”
"There is a kind of you who say this to our boss in person, and I will obey you. Herbert poked his head out and glanced across the earthen wall, grinning with white teeth: "Here we are." ”
A desert cavalry of about 600 men broke into the oasis and divided into three groups, these cavalry showed amazing horsemanship, the oasis was full of giant cacti blocking the way, but these cavalry were always able to maintain a charge speed of 50 kilometers, and they only avoided the enemy without fighting, they looked around anxiously, as if looking for something.
It wasn't until the water tanks and rivers in the Oasis camp appeared in front of them that the desert cavalry's faces were filled with ecstasy, and they pulled out their short spears with their backs, the tips of which were not only sharp, but also coated with poison that sealed their throats with blood.
Yes, the purpose of this night raid planned by Rommel was not at all to engage the tripartite coalition on a large scale from the front, his purpose was only one from beginning to end!
Poison the lifeblood of the Tripartite Alliance's survival in the desert!
Without Qing Shui, the Tripartite Coalition would have lost its foothold in the desert, and they would not be able to hold out for even a day, so they would naturally obediently roll back to the south. As for whether the tripartite coalition will die of thirst on the way to retreat, it is not something that Rommel should consider.
In the desert country, destroying and polluting water resources is a felony that cannot be forgiven, and whoever triggers this iron law is punished with death, and his family and branches are implicated.
In fact, since the creation of the Desert Kingdom, there has never been a case of destruction and pollution of water resources. Clear water means a gift from heaven to the people of the desert, sometimes a handful of clear water in the oasis does not know how many caravans can be saved from being lost and short of water, everyone will subconsciously protect these things for survival, let alone deliberately destroy, and the brain is kicked by a camel and cannot do this kind of thing.
Unless it is absolutely necessary, unless the flames of war have burned to the doorstep.
The former oasis has become a supply line for the enemy, and in order to defeat the tripartite alliance at the source, destroying water resources is the fastest and most effective way to achieve the greatest sequelae.
Rommel chose this most extreme method, but no one believed that he really dared to do it, as always, unexpectedly, stabbed in the lifeline.
The captain of the cavalry at the head saw by the flickering light of the fire that there was not a single person in the camp in front of him, and not far away there were a dozen large water storage carts that could supply the needs of a legion.
If he had known in advance that there were hundreds of strong men hidden behind this low earth wall, he would have been a little more careful.
"Where do you look, brother?" A cold bear roar exploded in the ears of the cavalry captain like thunder, and he was so frightened that he almost lost the short spear, and before he could turn his head to see who the hero was, a casserole-sized fist magnified at high speed in his field of vision.
"Bang!" the cavalry captain last heard the sound of his own skull shattering.
Herbert's strength is already an astonishing 3,000 catties, and it is directly doubled to 6,000 catties after being strengthened by the blessing of Anna's war song, and this is not over, the artifact of the song crystal can increase the wearer's war song effect by 50%, that is to say, the current Herbert's serious punch has exceeded 9,000 catties, and it is 10,000 catties if rounded!
There were only 200 horsemen who came to raid the Guangming camp, and just jumping over an earthen wall directly caused them to lose half of their men and horses, and the dead heads of these cavalry were all blooming, and the fate of being covered by 10,000 catties of fists was generally like this.
Silver Gray and a group of snow leopard cavalry crouched behind the low wall on the other side, rolling their eyes.
Why did these stupid desert cavalry just come from behind the low wall over there? Can't they come from their side? The Spartan bears hammered over half of the desert cavalry in one look, and they won't even be able to drink the soup when they pass by.
In a very short period of time, the three desert cavalry judged that the group of bears with explosive muscles in front of them were no match for them, and immediately gave up the futile battle, and threw the short spears in their hands at the water storage cart with all their might, as long as they could complete the task assigned by Lord Rommel, they would die without regrets!
However, the three short spears stopped a stone's throw away from the water storage truck, and Panta came out of nowhere, holding a short spear in one hand and biting one in his mouth, and he couldn't help but sneer: Dare to play with spears in front of pandas?
The desert cavalry's face was full of despair, and the next second he was slapped by the bear man, and the Spartan bear man was a basic requirement for one dozen and ten, but now it was just one-on-one, there was no suspense at all, and these cavalrymen were beaten to the point that their own mother couldn't recognize them.
"Hurry up, let go, this spear has poison on the front!" Herbert jumped to his feet when he saw that Pantana was still playing with the spear in his mouth.
"Damn!" Panta was so frightened that he quickly relented, he picked up the short spear and looked at it carefully, and sure enough, the tip of the hair emitted a faint blue light, obviously coated with poison, and smelled a sweet fragrance.
If the position he bit just now was a few centimeters closer to the tip of the spear, he was afraid that he would have died now, and the gods would not be able to save him.
The entire squadron of desert cavalry had been eliminated by the Spartan bears, and the crisis was resolved, and Panta studied the short spear with a belly of fire.
He found that the short spear, which emphasized the piercing effect, was not only coated with poison, but also had a hidden mechanism inside the short spear, which allowed the short spear to release the venom inside after penetrating the target, and was a weapon specially designed to target and pollute water sources.
"These puppies are really vicious, and if they do get their hands on them, our water source will be completely ruined. Panta was still a little scared when he thought about it now, but fortunately he stood up to block these short spears, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Hatsuyuki came to the scene under the protection of a group of militiamen to see these short spears, she took a deep breath, and realized that this was Rommel's ploy against the entire tripartite alliance and not just against Guangye, if he really succeeded, the coalition army would come to an end.
"All the troops obey the order, disperse in small teams to find these desert cavalry who have infiltrated the oasis, find the target, and encircle and destroy it as quickly as possible, whether it is life or death!"
The militants of the bright field have radiant faces, and they can finally let go of their hands and feet!