Chapter 29 The Battle
At this moment, the ones Vared were all ordinary undead skeletons. These skeleton soldiers were wearing breast deck armor and pot helmets. The soldiers in the front row held standard crossbows, the second and third rows held large Romanesque shields and spears, the fourth, fifth and sixth rows held super long spears that were six meters long, and the seventh and eighth rows held bows.
The arrangement and combination of this soldiers are similar to the square array of the Principality of Ivy. Apart from replacing the sword and shield with stronger defense, and without the cooperation of muskets, and the equipment is slightly worse than the imperial standard equipment, there is almost no difference in other places. If someone with a heart is in sight, he may be able to see some clues.
The reason why Valed von Castein set up such a formation is that such an array can form a body of firepower, multi-level lethality and strong resilience. Another reason is that... Silvania was once one of the provinces of the Sigma Empire.
Because of this, the tactics performed by the commanders of both sides were almost the same. The various phalanxes of the Principality of Ive stopped after advancing to the range of the crossbow, and they were fighting a defensive counterattacks - and the same was true for the undead army - but there were two differences here.
First, Sylvania has poor finances, so the undead's wooden crossbow is not as far as the steel pulley crossbow of the Principal of Ive. Second, the skeleton soldiers are fearless about long-range arrows!
The undead without internal organs and flesh is much less vital than humans. Even if they lack a few bones, they will not be fatal. They will not feel pain when they are traumatized, and there will be no effect of bleeding...
In this way, some of the undead soldiers in the front row suddenly inserted an arrow into their eye sockets, some were shot through the front of their breastplate by more than a dozen crossbow arrows, and some were shot through helmets, shields or other places.
——However, they continue to move forward as if they are nothing. Unless it is a magic attack with positive energy, or they are completely smashed, or they are exhausted from their magic power. Otherwise, these skeletons will continue to fight.
Seeing his crossbows volley, there was almost no effect. The soldiers of the Principality of Ive were a little anxious. General Tarik, who was standing on the camp, quickly ordered the Sigma combat priest and combat mage to go out to attach magic to the soldiers' bows and arrows. This round of bows and arrows caused effective damage.
——However, at this moment, the undead soldiers had already entered the range. The crossbow was winding, and the gust of the Duchy of Ive returned to a rain of arrows.
Human soldiers are also equipped with breast decks, helmets and shields - even their equipment is even stronger than the undead soldiers in terms of quality. However, the flesh and blood body is not as good as the skeleton's patience. Although the crossbows of the undead soldiers do not have magic attached, as long as they can hit the target, they can cause certain damage.
The two sides exchanged fire for several rounds, but only more than a hundred undead were lost, but hundreds of people were killed and killed in the Principality of Ivy. The situation was extremely unfavorable to the human side.
"...attack." Seeing the undead army sticking to its formation and not taking a step forward within the range of the crossbow, but its own side cannot gain any advantage when shooting with the other side. General Tarik had to order the army to advance.
At this moment, the troops leaving the camp from both sides also moved to the front of the battlefield and were arranged on the two wings of the Principality of Ive. The human side had 7,000 troops on the left, middle and right sides, and the front was divided into two front lines. Both the number of people, equipment and formations were relatively superior. Therefore, the general still had fantasies about this battle.
With his order, a sound of horns suddenly sounded in the barracks. The front army, which endured the shooting of the undead troops, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. The officers shouted loudly, and the soldiers shouted loudly, and they rushed towards the undead troops.
"In this way, our army will take the lead." Seeing that the opponent had to take the initiative to attack, Valed breathed a sigh of relief - the resilience of the undead army is the best in the world. As long as you persist in defending, hold on to the opponent's several rounds of offensives, and wait until the opponent is exhausted before launching a counterattack, you can defeat the opponent in one breath.
In this moment, the soldiers and generals of both sides had already fought head-on. The dense swords, halberds, spears and spears in the front row intertwined, and from a distance it looked like two hedgehogs with their hair standing upside down fighting each other.
The crossbowmen in the first row of the undead army drew their swords and round shields to fight. The shield spearmen behind them and the super-length spearmen kept stabbing continuously, and the gun bar was wrapped in a gale of wind and made a sound. At one attack, several layers of gun spears were assassinated together. Everyone was crowded on the battlefield, and such attacks were impossible to hide. At the same time, the forward shield spearmen also used large Roman shields to form a shield wall to prevent the opponent's attack.
In comparison, the human soldiers were in a more difficult situation. The swordsmen and crossbowmen of Ivey's striker, and musketeers, could indeed suppress the undead's crossbowmen during hand-to-hand combat. However, next, facing the square formation of the undead's shields, spears and spears, these human soldiers holding short weapons were somewhat powerless.
They were not allowed to retreat to the second line and leave the battlefield to those heavy armored halberd soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding long halberds - these elite troops that the Principality of Ivey was proud of.
A total of two thousand heavy armored halberd soldiers became the backbone of the Principality of Ivy in a blink of an eye. They were wearing heavy plate armor and had enough strength to defend when facing the undead spear, and the long halberds that could be cut and stabbed in their hands were enough to break the shield wall of the undead soldiers.
The heavy armored and long halberd soldiers shouted loudly, ignoring the attack of the undead soldiers, concentrating and crazy attacking. They held the long halberd and slashed violently, or roaring and stabbing. After ten or dozens of such actions, they finally broke the undead shield spearman and the shield-holding bones, or split the shield into pieces.
In this way, some gaps appeared in the formation of the undead army. The human officers immediately shouted loudly when they saw this, asking the soldiers to start a fierce attack at these gaps.
——However, what responded to them was the sting of the undead army that was ten times sharper than before. The corpse witches in the undead army enchanted the weapons of the undead at the gap with sharp and armor-breaking spells on the weapons of the undead at the gap. This time, the undead's spear finally pierced through the heavy armor of the soldier Aiwei and stabbed into the flesh.
In this way, the human soldiers organized several times and more than ten times to pounce, but were all blocked by the undead troops. The caster units on both sides also fought their best to match the game to bless the soldiers on both sides with the magic of gaining the magic.
If you release armor twice, I will add three physical defense barriers. If you release sharpness four times, I will add eight toughness - if you use speed twenty times, I will use one hundred and twenty times brave! It seems that with such high-intensity casting, the imperial combat mages are as tired as dead dogs. The ghost fire in the eyes of the corpse witch on the undead side was also much dimmed. The situation fell into anxiety...
Chapter completed!