Imperial Crown

Chapter 318 The advantage is mine

Count Duduo is so familiar with these six enchanted crossbows.

On the square base, even the emblem of the Principality of Eivor has not been completely polished.

They were removed from the top of the Sighing Wall!

Duduo never thought that this heavy, huge crossbow, which is almost only used in defending the city, would be used by Raven in the field.

Clutching the dice in his hand, Duduo shouted:

"Attack on all fronts, start the assault!!"

The drums rumbled, the flags kept waving, and the 30,000 troops slowly accelerated. The smoke and dust made the already gloomy world even more dim.

The entire Eagle Army stopped in place, like a tiger waiting for its prey to enter.

The crossbow disc of the enchanted crossbow slowly turned and aimed at Duduo's left wing.

A soldier raised a wooden hammer and smashed it hard on the iron pillar erected high on the crossbow disc!

Bang

Even if the wheels were pressed down by a thousand-pound boulder, the whole crossbow cart still jumped in place due to the recoil.

A layer of blue magic lines lit up on the crossbow arrows as thick as beams, and fire burst out from the lines. It crossed a distance of 400 meters like a meteor in the daytime and arrived at Duduo's left wing army.

A faint chanting sound was heard, and it was the magician in Duduo's army casting a spell.

A light curtain that seemed to be there and not there blocked the crossbow arrow's path.

Then it shattered with a bang, and it couldn't even deflect the trajectory of the crossbow arrow.

In front of this bed crossbow that accelerated to the limit, even the plate armor was as brittle as a sugar shell, let alone these infantrymen wearing only leather armor?

The crossbow arrows shot and exploded one body after another, and the flesh and blood bodies seemed to be nothing in front of it.

The sound of leather armor being torn, the sound of flesh being crushed, and the sound of bones being broken suddenly broke out and merged into one place.

Buzz——

One arrow entered the formation 16 meters and crushed 11 Duduo soldiers on the spot.

Then, the flames suddenly burst out, exploding into a ball of raging fire that swept more of Duduo's army.

"Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!"

Seeing their comrades who had been chatting and laughing not long ago turned into a pile of charred corpses, the soldiers around them howled, some stood still, and some turned around and ran!

And there was not only one bed crossbow, but 6!

It was fired 5 times in a row.

The left wing of the Duduo army seemed to be plowed by the devil's claws, leaving 6 bloody gullies and a deep pit burning with flames at the end.

As the flames burned fiercely, the disgusting smell of burning filled the entire battlefield!

At this moment, behind the Eagle Army, Raven, riding on a warhorse, clearly saw the reaction of the Duduo army and frowned slightly.

Although Duduo's left wing was in a certain degree of panic, it did not collapse and continued to advance as a whole.

This quality is more than one level stronger than the regular army of the Nord Province.

"Reload and continue to attack the enemy's left wing." Raven ordered:

"Meanwhile, send a message to the heavy cavalry brigade to put pressure on Du Duo's left wing!"

At the same time, Du Duo also issued an order: "The reserve team will dispatch 2,000 people to keep an eye on that heavy cavalry, no matter the cost!"

"Tell the leader that if this heavy cavalry encounters my army, he won't have to come back!"

"Order the left wing, without support, to stabilize the formation!"

Du Duo has seen Raven's tactical intentions.

Raven focused on attacking his left wing, with the purpose of using it as a breakthrough.

Once the left wing troops were defeated, they could form a double-sided sandwich on his central army.

A round of volleys from the bed crossbows caused about 200 casualties, which was nothing for a troop of 8,000 people, but it was a huge blow to morale.

If there were two or three more rounds, I'm afraid they would collapse before they could touch the edge of the Eagle Army!

"A bunch of rookies who have never seen blood." Duduo spat on the ground, recalling the time when he participated in the "Battle of Glory" with his father when he was young.

That was the war called "Border Battle" by the Nords.

If the veterans at that time were still there, why would he worry about the casualties of only 200 people?

Thinking of this, Duduo couldn't help but hate Wanda in his heart.

It was because of Wanda's failure that the enchanted bed crossbow that was supposed to protect the Sighing Wall appeared on Eivor's own land.

Attacked Eivor's army and harvested the lives of Eivor people!

And Duduo, due to the rush of time, did not even have any countermeasures!

The battle line was getting closer and closer. When it was less than 200 meters away, the bed crossbow completed another round of reloading.

Although the left wing of Duduo's army adopted a looser formation this time, nearly 100 people were killed by the crossbow.

180 meters, 160 meters, 140 meters...

At this moment, Raven and Dudu stared at the battlefield at the same time, counting the same countdown:

"3..."

"2..."

"1."

In the dim weather, the front-line soldiers of both sides raised their shields and stopped almost at the same time.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh

Amid the sound of breaking through the air, arrows rained down.

The rain of arrows was like a shadow condensed into substance, falling on the shields, heavy armor, the knees and shoulders of the unlucky soldiers in a dense clapping sound, splashing a little blood in the Eagle Army.

The injured soldier knelt on the spot with his spear in silence, waiting for the auxiliary soldiers to carry him to the rear.

The colleagues behind him began to fill in the position automatically.

And Raven's 2,000 crossbowmen were all aimed at the left wing of Dudu's army, and they all pulled the trigger of the crossbow while the front army knelt down to defend.

The enchanted crossbow arrows like locusts pierced into the left wing of the Duduo army, piercing through the iron kite shields in their hands, and the blood splashed dyed the ground red!

The left wing of the Duduo army fell down like wheat!

In a round of exchange shooting, the Eagle Army suffered few casualties, but the Duduo army lost at least 300 lives.

But at this time, the Eagle Army took the initiative to charge!

The advantage of Earl Duduo lies in the long-range firepower of 6,000 people. If the Eagle Army does not rush forward, it can only be beaten passively.

And Raven does not intend to exchange casualties with the other party in this way.

Aggression is like fire, and immovability is like a mountain.

The performance of the Eagle Army is synonymous with these eight words.

Earl Duduo does not understand these, but this does not prevent him from expressing similar feelings.

He was surprised that after just experiencing a round of terrifying arrow rain, Raven's army did not show any signs of shaking, and even maintained its formation during the charge!

Just as he was about to order another round of arrow rain, the messenger reported:

"Sir, the flying magic beast sent a message that the enemy's Wind King troops are attacking from the southeast! They will arrive at the battlefield in another 3 minutes."

Duduo put down his raised hand:

"Crossbowmen stand by, archers throw two more rounds of arrow rain."

"Tell those magicians that it's time to take action!!"

Here Duduo was referring to the three magicians transferred back from the Bolan Gold Mine.

The Eagle Army launched a charge under the feather arrows.

A soft chanting sounded in Duduo's army.

Three magicians, one red, one white, and one green, stood in a triangle, stepping on a small but quite complicated magic circle.

They held their staffs and chanted spells at the same time. Magic power flowed from them, turning into blue streams like water snakes, and then gathered together, slowly filling the entire magic circle.

The leading red magician suddenly waved his staff, and all the magic power in the magic circle was drawn to the top of his staff, transforming and blooming into a cluster of thick green light:

"Sea of ​​thorns!"

The thick green light drifted away, like the leisurely breeze in summer, and like the silent spring rain.

Crack...

The invisible pen tip dipped in thick green ink, and drew a wide ink mark in the open space in the center of the two armies!

The ink mark was composed of clusters of thick green thorns, with thick branches and dark red sharp spikes on them, pulsating and twitching like blood vessels.

The arrows remaining in the center of the battlefield were lifted up and wrapped by thorns, the wooden arrow shafts were easily crushed, and the hard steel armor-piercing arrowheads were ground into pieces.

Steel is like this, let alone flesh and blood.

I don’t know how many lives will be spent to fill this gully.

"What are you going to do, Raven?"

The dice circled between Duduo's fingers, and a smile of satisfaction appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Just like the Wind King's troops that appeared on the Sighing Wall, this sea of ​​thorns was the appetizer Duduo prepared for Raven.

The Eagle Army was now in a dilemma.

If they stopped where they were, they would continue to endure the rain of arrows. Although the casualties were limited, there was no field battle in the world that could be won by passively taking a beating!

And if they chose to bypass, it would mean wasting a huge amount of time and energy, and they would also have to endure the long-range harassment of Duduo's army during this period.

Of course, Duduo also knew that Raven was a magician, but what could he do? Set fire to this sea of ​​thorns?

That would only create a sea of ​​fire!

Duduo sneered: "You are not the only one who can use magic, Raven!"

This thorn curtain wall was indeed beyond Raven's expectations.

But he had no intention of stopping the attack.

Behind him, Margaret, dressed as a soldier, was quietly chanting a spell.

She was holding two bottles of Corrupted Soul Essence in her arms.

The black breath representing the power of the curse flowed out from her body, and after being stained with the Corrupted Soul Essence, it turned into a black and red color like dead blood and seeped into the earth.

Black and red veins like roots grew in the earth.

Wherever she passed, an inexplicable grayness spread.

Snakes, insects, rats and ants, regardless of the noise on the ground, drilled out of the soil one after another, and were crushed into meat paste by iron boots one by one.

It was clearly midsummer, but the grass and trees began to wither and turn yellow!

The vines that stretched across the battlefield became listless before they could fully stretch out.

As the black and red breaths swirled up, the vines changed from dark green to withered yellow, and from withered yellow to dead white, and finally turned into pools of shapeless mud.

Ka——

In Duduo's army, three mages could no longer maintain this ritual magic.

The magic circle under his feet suddenly burst into radiance, and then disintegrated with a sound like crystal shattering.

The surging magic power overflowed from the mouths, noses, and eyes of the three mages, turning into silver flames.

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"What is going on?"

"What did Raven do?!"

"Retreat, retreat first!"

The three mages were panicked and retreated to suppress the rampaging magic power. If they did not adjust now, their magic realm would probably fall.

On the other side, Margaret also restrained the black air on her body, and the two bottles of corrupt soul essence in her arms had been emptied.

There was a hint of excitement in her tired eyes!

Strictly speaking, she did not cast a spell just now, but used her blood power to curse this land.

With the help of the essence of corrupted souls, this land will become a desperate place for living creatures in the next few tens or hundreds of years, and no plants will be able to survive here!

Moreover, it is the fake thorns constructed by magic power?

"Waste!" Du Duo's eyes twitched violently twice, but he also knew that this was a crime without war.

If it weren't for the three mages who attracted Raven's attention, God knows what kind of damage this third-level spellcaster would cause.

Du Duo shouted: "Charge!"

The horn sounded loudly.

At this time, the two sides were less than 80 meters apart, and Du Duo's army launched a counterattack against the Eagle Army, which had rushed to the fastest speed.

At this moment, the earth rumbled and shook because of the trampling of tens of thousands of people!

The shouts of killing filled the entire battlefield!

The Eagle Army in black armor and the Du Duo Army in blue robes were like two floods rushing against each other.

They collided without any fancy moves!

Boom——

The earth-shattering collision splashed not water, but weapons, broken limbs and thick blood!

Some people were hung on the spears under the huge impact; some people blocked the front of the soldiers, but were pushed back and fell to the ground, and were trampled into meat paste by their own people; some people huddled together, but survived in the jungle of swords and guns!

The brave may not survive, and the cowardly may not die.

War tests every soldier equally.

To survive, you need equipment, training, will...

and a little bit of luck!

This is the cruelty of the battlefield, but also the fairness of the battlefield!

A shadow covered the sky, and the Wind King's troops came as expected.

Du Duo looked at the shadow covering the sky and directly felt the pressure that Wanda faced at the beginning.

The majestic physique and neat formation are worthy of the reputation of "King".

Seeing the Wind King's troops getting closer and closer, Du Duo clenched his fists:

"Ready-"

"Fire!!!"

The first batch of arrows whistled up.

In the sky, the commander of the Wind King's troops, Ho Yaz, also shouted:

"Teach them a lesson!"

"Storm vortex!"

In the sky, more than a hundred Wind Kings flapped their wings together, and a green storm swept out like a curtain!

Thousands of arrows lost their power at the same time, and then rolled back in the wind!

In Duduo's army, the soldiers' leather helmets flew, and they could hardly open their eyes!

The dust was blown away, revealing the uneven ground.

Even though they were stacked together and pressed down with stones in advance, the stored crates were still overturned one by one, and the straw filled them was shaken apart, along with the arrows, weapons and armor inside.

However, just as the Wind King was about to start diving, the second batch of arrows arrived again!

The Wind Kings who had just cast a storm vortex had no time to condense magic power in a short period of time, and could only pull up urgently!

The Wind Kings flew quickly, but even so, four of them were hit by arrows.

Drops of blood fell from the air.

This time, Hoyaz did not immediately order to continue the attack, because the third group of crossbowmen had already aimed at the sky.

And Hoyaz also found that the Duduo army, which was the first to shoot the crossbow, had basically completed the reloading.

What they will face is an endless supply of feather arrows!

This is the first time Hoyaz feels so powerless.

He looked around, trying to play a role elsewhere.

But on the front line of the battlefield, the Eagle Army and the Duduo Army collided with each other, and it was almost impossible to distinguish each other. Whether it was throwing spears or pulse surges, it would cause accidental injuries to friendly forces.

And the baggage of the enemy army behind the rear was all within the coverage of the feather arrows.

"Haha, war, can't be won by one or two tricks."

Looking at the Wind King wandering in the sky, Duduo felt great satisfaction in his heart.

At the same time, there was a little regret.

Duduo thought that after the Wind King encountered disadvantages on the front battlefield, he would attack his camp in order to destroy his food and grass.

To guard against this, he even prepared some "surprises" for Raven in the camp.

However, war is like this, changing like the wind, and it is normal that the arranged means are not used.

And the current situation is enough to satisfy Du Duo.

6,000 long-range soldiers against 100 wind kings, it seems to be a disadvantage, but now the two armies are mixed together, instead of risking accidental injuries and continuing to shoot, it is better to use this to block Raven's strongest means.

As for Raven's other killer...

Du Duo's eyes swept across the left side of the battlefield, where his 2,000 reserve troops were circling with Raven's heavy cavalry.

Anyway, he still has 3,000 reserve troops. If the opponent's heavy cavalry chooses to force a breakthrough, then all the reserve troops will be put in to crush Raven's last resort.

The situation on the front battlefield is relatively monotonous.

Du Duo could only see his central army and Raven's central army pressed together, the battle line was in a tug of war, Bonta and the opponent's main general Eric were deadlocked in the formation, steel and void blended and collided, and it was impossible to tell the winner.

As for the left and right wings, he could not see them clearly.

In fact, even at the two ends of the central army, it was difficult to distinguish the specific situation.

Sitting high in the city, calmly commanding an army of 100,000 or hundreds of thousands, and being able to easily see through the battlefield situation and win by deploying troops and battle formations, that is a plot that only appears in third-rate novels.

The reality on the battlefield is that once the hand-to-hand combat stage begins, smoke and dust rise, and the two sides are intertwined. As the main general, it is difficult to see the situation clearly, and can only roughly grasp the situation through the continuous reports of the messengers.

This is also the difficulty of large-scale combat.

The more troops there are, the more complicated the battle situation will be, and the messenger's message will always be delayed and distorted to a certain extent.

How to distinguish, command, and deal with it depends on the ability of the commander.

But Du Duo is not worried.

"30,000 vs. 10,000, the advantage is mine!"

Without the surprise of the air force, can Raven still play tricks?

"——Sir!" A messenger ran to Du Duo breathlessly:

"The situation on the right wing is difficult, request support!"

Du Duo was angry: "Didn't I say that there is no left wing..."

"Wait, right wing!?"

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