Chapter 157: God's Shield
"Kill! Kill! Kill! "In contrast to the wildness of the Mishaals, the Papal Guard maintained its line like an elegant gentleman, holding its own line diagonally in front of it with an oval steel shield, and holding a steel spear with a bloodletting groove flat in the gap between the shield at the waist, making the same thrusting motion.
Although this method may seem simple, it is actually a test of endurance and arm strength of the members of the Papal Guard, which can be felt when you lift two objects of more than 10 kilograms with both hands and do an average of 30 rapid forward parallel pushes every minute. Although this is very simple, it is the most effective way to consume the sharpness of the Michar people, and this single but unified way of fighting also enables the Papal Guard to maintain the first front steadily, nailing the 120,000 Mishal Snow Mountain soldiers to a position 100 meters away from the second line on which the sun never sets. "If the comrades in front fall, the back will immediately fill the gap, even if they step on the corpses of the enemy or comrades, they will never take a step back, and they will never allow any inch of land to be lost, even the collision of heavy cavalry will not make me take a step back!" This was how the Papal Guard fought, and unless the commander ordered it to retreat, these fanatical soldiers would never leave the line under their feet.
"God's shield! God's shield! I don't know who started the coaxing, this sacred word spread among the Papal Guard, and spread like a virus, and it was only less than 5 minutes later, and the general guard next to Andelt, and even those Mishaals who were frightened by the madness of the Papal Guard, called the silver and brown troops in front of them the shield of God, and the members of the papal guard also changed from the original "kill" or "stab" to the shield of God when they used steel spears to stab. And the soldiers on all fronts, even those siege soldiers, orc slave soldiers, etc., who were in the rear, began to look at the powerful heavy spear troops in front of them with excitement, and shouted in unison with the shield of God to cheer for them. And this legendary army that set countless records in the medieval era of the Empire on which the sun never sets, and participated in dozens of bloody battles also started their 10-year legendary road after this battle, until the moment when they were completely annihilated, the Papal Guard called the Aegis of God did not once retreat the battle line by 1 meter without the commander's signal.
"Aegis of God............ It is worthy of being in the hands of His Majesty, and the Swiss Guard, one of the two Davids, the Papal Guard, this combat ability is even comparable to the heavy swordsman, and the defensive power is estimated to be able to block the short-distance charge of the heavy cavalry, and the mainstream of this battle has been firmly grasped by our army, and the order is to ask the siege troops to beat this group of snow-capped monkeys to me! The Orc Slave Army moves to both flanks of the battlefield and targets enemy compound archer troops! ”
With Andrth's order, the heavy catapults and counterweight trebuchets that had been suppressing the long-range troops of the Mishaal army began to shift their targets and project them at Mishaal's 120,000 hand-to-hand troops, at this time, in order not to hurt the innocent, the heavy trebuchets had extended the fuse of the burning barrels used to throw and kill the enemy by 5 decimeters, so that the location of the explosion of these burning barrels could be changed from the sky to the ground, that is, the burning barrels could be used as an explosive stone. While this will reduce the range of the burning barrel, it will eliminate the possibility that the Soldier will be burned to death by the sparks that the Flower of Death will fly from its bloom. On the other side, the counterweight trebuchet that was originally used to throw rotting oxen also replaced the ammunition with giant oil-soaked stones, each weighing 500 kilograms, and when ignited, it can immediately emit a heat of several hundred degrees Celsius, which can instantly roast the body of a Mishaal soldier.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The impact of the boulder and the explosion of the burning barrel even shook the ground, and the Mishaal soldiers on the edge of the impact zone and the explosion zone were as if they had experienced an earthquake of magnitude 6 or higher. Because the Mishaal soldiers in front were suppressed by the Aegis, and the Mishaal soldiers in the back were even more crazy and kept squeezing forward, at this time, from a distance, the Mishaal soldiers were as immobile as the sardines that had been backlogged into cans. This makes every explosion of the Burning Barrel or the impact of a giant flint take away more than 2 digits of life, and if you are lucky, you can even reach 3 digits.
Then, when the war lasted for more than 20 minutes, the orc slave army that never set also made a big circle around the edge of the battlefield, raided the position of the compound archers in the rear of Mishaal, and completed the tasks of chiseling, encircling, and dividing in a few minutes, nearly 20,000 Mishal compound archers have been surrounded by 10,000 orc slave soldiers. By the time he and the 5,000 Mishael royal axemen guarding Novasev's side came to their senses, thousands of compound archers had already been chopped into pieces by the orc warriors with their broadswords.
"Why are you still stupid! Go get those compound archers out of here! In Novasv's shouting, Mishal's most elite 5,000 Royal Axe Guards began to trot forward to rescue the compound archers, and those Snow Mountain warriors who did not receive support orders were also organized by several commanders to draw nearly 10,000 Snow Mountain Warriors from the rear area of the front-line battlefield to move backwards, intending to cooperate with the 5,000 members of the Royal Axe Guards to keep these 10,000 orc warriors in the encirclement they formed forever.
However, instead of fleeing or moving to the flanks before the siege network of the Mishars was formed, and did not organize a defensive formation to hold back the more than 20,000 Mishar soldiers, the orcs were very bold, or had premeditated to obey a few human slave owners, and immediately abandoned the remaining 10,000 or more compound archers, and marched towards the 10,000 snow-capped mountain raiders who had withdrawn from the front-line battlefield. A charge was launched.
"Is this group of orc soldiers crazy? Didn't they know that not only would they not be able to flee the battlefield, but they would also be able to expose their backs to long-range blows from more than 10,000 compound archers? Could it be that their commander has become so arrogant that he whimsically wants to surround 120,000 with 60,000 men? It's really unbelievable! ”
This was Novasev's idea at this time, but this seemingly correct idea was shattered by what happened next.