Chapter 12 Speed
Their firepower is naturally not as fierce as machine guns. But the advantage is that it is higher accuracy. These tomb guards aimed at the Sigma Diz, who were hiding behind the logs and only showed a small part of their body. The high-precision rapid-fire rifles were continuously firing continuously, shooting the enemies without hesitation. Even those fighting priests who shouted "Sigma!" and activated their magic skills to the maximum extent, like an incandescent light bulb, could not withstand such continuous shooting.
The soldiers of the Emperor hoped to be able to counterattack. However, no matter whether it was a crossbow or a musket, it was impossible to attack within such a distance. Of course, there were also a small number of ancient tomb guards who had taken advantage of the commanding heights that were more suitable for shooting, or led their vampire officers to make wrong judgments, and exposed the army to the opponent's firepower. In this case, the soldiers of the Emperor who had been passively beaten for a long time immediately grabbed the fighter plane, pulled the trigger with red eyes, pulled the bow and shot arrows, hoping to give the enemy a certain amount of damage.
However, the combat quality of these ancient tomb guards was far above the opponent's imagination. The soldiers quickly rolled over and ran behind the broken logs, fences and stones, using these things as temporary cover - some simply grabbed the bodies of Sigmati** on the ground to block the arrows. Even if they could not defend in a short time, their exquisite half-body armor could have a good defensive effect and they did not care about being attacked by the opponent at all.
In this way, under the attack of the new cross-age army of Sylvania, in a very short period of time, half of the troops at this intersection were wiped out. The corpses were either sieved into sieves, or simply shot into two pieces by powerful large-caliber machine gun bullets, or were bombarded into broken coke by magic fireballs. The entire junction defense line was in a mess, with all kinds of strange-shaped corpses, corpses, wood, and fragments of railings paved all over the floor.
Even the soldiers who were tough, they were frustrated when facing such situations. Only those soldiers who had fought against the monsters of Sylvania and were ridiculed as defeated soldiers still maintained a cold and quiet under this situation.
Their bodies were shrunk behind the bunker, letting the other party's bullets fire, and they beat the soldiers next to them like broken sacks. They let the steaming blood and mud poured on their bodies, and they didn't move or say a word. They just insisted. Even if they were hit by stray bullets, injured, or even died of blood loss.
After a round of strafing, the local position fell into silence. Under the command of the vampire officer in gorgeous military uniforms, the new black army of Sylvania began to advance - and then fell into a melee!
The soldiers who had just stopped moving suddenly jumped up at this moment, or pulled the trigger, shooting out the smoothbore gun projectile that had been loaded, or swung heavy weapons such as warhammers, maces, flails, etc. towards the Black New Army, which was not very far away from them.
The gun bullets hit the breast deck of the tomb guards, with no effect. On the way to charge, the opponent's gun bullets were fired like heavy rain. Most of the enemy soldiers were quickly shot to death - the distance was ten meters.
But at this moment, in a few seconds, the rest of the soldiers who were intact, or at the worst, had certain ability to move came over, waving their weapons vigorously and slamming them over at the head of the tomb guard.
After the opponent rushed over, the tomb guards also gave up loading the guns and fired them, instead flattened the rifle in their hands, and fought with the opponent in groups of three with bayonet techniques.
The tomb guards who used bayonet attacks were still very good in combat. The Sansan-Yen Group cooperated with the endless warriors to easily slaughter the opposite side. In order to speed up, there were almost no imperial veterans equipped with armor. However, in this case, some imperial soldiers with strong combat power were still killed and crushed some of the tomb guards. The battle loss ratio between the two sides was maintained at around 10 to 1. This is the best result that the Emperor* could achieve...
Even such a record did not last long in the end. After the ghost scorpion mantis joined the battlefield with his sickle waving, the battle situation that the veterans finally maintained turned into a one-sided massacre again.
At the six defense points controlled by Emperor **, it seemed like this was happening at the same time. Under the fierce offensive of the undead army, the imperial team was in crisis one after another. One day and one night, Emperor ** fought to defend, with one-third of its position falling, and nearly 30% of its troops were killed and killed. The remaining troops were almost in despair. They knew that if there were not enough reinforcements, they would definitely not be able to stand the second round of attacks of the undead army.
The alarm snowflakes flew to Duke Mandreid outside the battlefield. The messengers asking for help also arrived one after another like a lantern. Without exception, they claimed that they were attacked by the undead army with heavy casualties and positions could change hands at any time.
This put the Duke in a dilemma. The strategy he had originally formulated could be declared completely invalid at this moment. When the other party created such a momentum, he naturally saw through his plan. And in this case, how should he act?
Duke Mandreid, this commander who has experienced decades of war and has fought with Chaos for nearly ten years, thought carefully: "Split troops to assist? No, this is the stupidest tactic. If the opponent is smarter, it is very likely that he will be like me, leaving a group of mobile troops to use as a reserve team. The division troops to assist may be surrounded and annihilated by the opponent with superior forces... Damn, this was originally my tactic.
In this case, it is almost impossible to find out where the opponent's main force is. It is useless to continue waiting. It is stupid to divide the troops... Then, let me concentrate my troops and help one of them. If the opponent responds, then start a battle. If the opponent does not respond, then I will continue to help another defender."
After considering the situation clearly, Duke Mandreid made a quick decision and ordered that nearly 70,000 light cavalry, heavy cavalry and cavalry under his command to prepare, attack quickly, and advance towards the nearest garrison to them.
"Is it really coming?"
All these actions of Emperor** were also investigated by the vulture scouts of the undead troops. Rest snorted coldly, and then issued an order requiring the undead troops who were attacking other garrison sites to retreat one by one in order from far to near and length, and then move to the main battlefield of the empire and the undead at the fastest speed.
Then attack.
At the same time, he commanded the other four divisions and met the main force of the Emperor**. Together with the divisions at the place where the Emperor** was preparing to assist, he formed the first encirclement. As for the other five divisions, there was another encirclement.
After dispatching troops, the army of undead slowly shrank like a big net, slowly covering the emperor. Mandreid naturally didn't know all this - because Rest's tricky command "from far to near" made a time difference, and he realized that he was wrong and wanted to send information to Mandreid, but it was too late.
More than 70,000 emperors and soldiers plunged into the pocket of the undead army.
This was what happened on the fourth day of the battle. After a sloppy reconnaissance and confirming that there was no enemy around, he made the decision to "launch a charge to the enemy side and back". The person who was responsible for this task was a team of four knights, Cheetah, Bull, White Wolf, and Golden Lion. The total number of more than one thousand elite knights, with the help of their entourage, put on heavy plate armor as fast as possible, the war horses used plate armor, and then turned over and stepped onto the horse's back. These knights, like canned iron, launched a charge towards the "unprepared" undead regiment.
Behind them, the same number of knights were ready to go, as the second wave of charge troops, while more imperial soldiers turned on their horses. The troops formed by the mixed forces of light cavalry, heavy cavalry from the North, the Ugor cavalry, the Skif-wind cavalry, the mercenary cavalry, and a group of light cavalry and heavy cavalry, which were formed in a fan shape.
Behind it is where the Duke Mandreid's headquarters is located. The cavalry infantry made a completely opposite action to their cavalry colleagues. They jumped off the horse and then equipped the armor and weapons in an orderly manner. Arrays and halberds were formed immediately. From Ostrand's heavy shield spearmen, from Stirland's river patrol troops... These elite troops formed square arrays in units of 300 people. After shaking the chessboard-like square arrays for a while, they slowly began to advance.
"Here you come!"
Not far away, he blessed himself with floating techniques and stealth techniques. Floating in the air, Rest, holding a telescope, shouted excitedly: "There are about 2,000 knights, about 50,000 cavalrymen, and 20,000 horse-riding infantrymen. They are the main force of the enemy!"
As he thought, several division commanders who were acting with him immediately began to act. The ghost scorpion mantis cooperated with the tomb guard infantry to advance slowly. At the same time, a large number of fast infantry cannons were dragged into the battlefield by skeleton war horses.
"First carry out three rounds of rapid shooting, then the ghost scorpion mantis assaults, infantry follow, and defeat the opponent!" Rest ordered loudly with a high spirit.
Chapter completed!