Chapter 631: The Collision of Light and Darkness (Part I) (1/3)
Although he was seriously wounded, Dante the Eyeless still guarded the essence of the field march, and the scouts went out hundreds of kilometers away from the army, without understanding the situation, and did not rush forward to ensure that his army would not be attacked.
This move was very effective, wherever the dark army went, Dante was immediately aware of the surrounding situation, and when the army reached a hundred and fifty kilometers in front of the God of War outpost, the dark assassins in the northeast direction brought back a very crucial news.
Three hundred kilometers to the northeast, on the Mogas Mountain, there is an army of invaders, numbering at least 5,000 people, well-equipped, and a large part of them are alchemy puppets with hard and huge bodies, judging from the aura of power they exude, their combat power should be no less than that of ordinary iron-eating giants.
"Is it to prevent me from crossing the sentry into your hinterland?" Dante sneered, he saw the other party's true intentions at a glance, instead of suspecting that the other party wanted to use this army to sneak attack his back, of course, if he didn't find out, then this army would definitely come over to sneak attack, but the most important strategic intention of the opponent at the beginning was definitely to block his advance.
He had already dealt with the other party twice, and knew that at their level, they would never make low-level mistakes on the battlefield, and they would rarely make mistakes.
For them, the most important thing in battle is not even the strength of the warrior, but the information, all kinds of information, the control of their own side, the knowledge of the enemy, the knowledge of the terrain, everything is very important.
If one of the parties is not as strong as the other party's ability to gather information, then even if the power in his hands is stronger than that of the opponent, because of the wrong use of information, he will misjudge on the battlefield and adopt inappropriate tactics, which will lead to fatal flaws. If you are caught by your opponent and take the opportunity to fight back, even if you win, it will only be a miserable victory with huge losses!
After thinking about it, Dante ordered: "Full speed ahead, rush to the intruder sentry before dark, and rest for half an hour." Start attacking! ”
The opponent is still more than three hundred kilometers away from here, and he is only one hundred and fifty kilometers away from the intruder outpost, he is now attacking at full speed, taking the opponent by surprise, and in a short period of time, he may only need to face half of the opponent's strength.
At that time, he will attack with all his might, and it is very likely that he will take down the sentry in one go.
Even if the other party starts to come back now, they will need time to get over. Even if the opponent is faster than him and enters the guard post one step ahead of them, they will need time to adjust, and they will not be able to exert their full strength immediately, and this brief chaos is his chance.
If he can capture the outpost, he will use the outpost as a base and advance layer by layer, which is not without a chance of victory.
On his orders. The advance of the dark army suddenly increased by a step, for a moment. The dust mixed with the dark red mist, curled and soared, and the footsteps roared like muffled thunder, like a high-speed chariot, rushing towards the battlefield.
Just as Dante had predicted, the blood-colored sun in the sky slid down the horizon, and the light between heaven and earth was completely gone. A huge sentry of the intruders appeared ahead.
The outpost was full of soldiers, and the magic balls of light floated around the soldiers' heads, making the whole wall look like a giant snake glowing with white light, and the neatly arranged soldiers were the spikes and fangs of the giant snake!
Dante has a wealth of experience in leading troops. At a glance, he could see that there were at least 10,000 soldiers on the city wall, and they were neatly arranged, with a calm and calm momentum, and there was no sense of haste.
But he got the news that there were only about 5,000 people in the fortress.
But now there are five thousand more out of thin air, which can only show that when the dark assassin reported the news to him, the other party decisively returned to help, and arrived at the sentry much earlier than him, and now, the other party has finished repairing, just waiting for him to attack.
The last little plan also failed, Dante was upset, the feeling of being restrained everywhere, the strength of his body and the thoughts in his mind could not be relaxed, quietly came out of his heart again, he hurriedly shook his head, expelled these negative emotions from his mind.
"Keep a distance of a thousand meters, rest in place, and start the siege in five hours!" Dante passed a new order, and since the other party was ready, he didn't need to rush to attack.
Now, his army rested and regained his energy, and the other party was on the alert, and when it was late at night, the opponent's spirit and strength would definitely fall into a trough, and then he would take advantage of this small advantage to attack.
As for the distance of a thousand meters, this is to prevent the opponent from harassing them with long-range weapons, such as bows and arrows.
As soon as the order was issued, Dante hid in the depths of the army, surrounded by a large number of dark spirits and masters of various clans, which was to prevent the use of decapitation tactics on the ground.
The night of the Crimson Lands is extremely dark, and it has a powerful absorption effect on any light, and at night, the vision of the Holy Spirit warriors is greatly limited.
On the city wall, even if there were a large number of light balls illuminating, this light still could not be found fifty meters away, and in the distance, the soldiers on the city wall could hear the chaotic footsteps in the distant darkness, as well as all kinds of roars and talks, but they could not see the target, and they could only see a dark light mixed with a blood-colored halo in their eyes.
Everyone knows that the dark army has arrived, not far from the city, but they can only watch, they can't go out of the city to intrude, let alone take the initiative to attack, the thick darkness like a city wall has become the best protective layer for the dark army.
On the city walls, the demigod avatars of the gods stood beside the Holy Spirit warriors they had brought with them, evenly distributed across the city walls.
10,000 people, about 1,500 meters long city wall, 41 demigod avatars, each demigod led an average of more than 250 soldiers, responsible for defending a distance of 40 meters. Rollin was naturally there, and he, William, Taros, the god of the wilderness, Lomisa, the god of winter, Lemmit, the god of beasts, the goddess of springs, and the goddess of the forest were all responsible for defending the west.
When the battle begins, they will be under the most intense pressure.
Among the sentry posts, the nominal supreme commander is Allen, but Allen has delegated the specific command to Rollin's body, so the entire sentry is now subject to the will of Rollin's body on the third floor of the fortress.
The Holy Spirit Soldier couldn't see through the darkness, but for Rollin, who already possessed near-medium divine power, it was naturally not a problem.
His divine power turned into wisps and spread out of the city walls. He could clearly feel the situation outside the city, but when he saw that all the dark warriors were resting, he understood Dante's intentions after a little thought.
"Do you want to work at ease?" Luo Lin smiled slightly, and one of his orders turned into a divine thought, which was directly mapped into the mind of the leader of the craftsmen on standby in the square outside the sentry.
In order to deal with this war, Rollin spared no expense in making a lot of preparations. In addition to crafting weapons and equipment, craftsmen also built a large number of powerful trebuchets.
Because of the unique toughness of the abyss material, coupled with the use of strong Divine Crystal Cold Iron in the key parts of the trebuchet, and the various powerful runes drawn on the trebuchet, these machines have unimaginable powers of similar weapons in the mortal world.
Because of the time problem, the craftsmen only built ten trebuchets, each of which was a behemoth, the ammunition was a ten-ton boulder, and the throw distance was a terrifying 3,000 meters!
This is significantly higher than Dante's estimates.
With the addition of the Iron Giant. The mining efficiency of the sentry mine has been greatly increased, and there are many more gravel in the sentry out of thin air, which was originally used to pave the ground outside the sentry post, but now, these gravel have been melted together by divine power and become boulders, so the trebuchet has no shortage of ammunition at all.
These ammunition are also specially made, and the boulder is hollow. There are many dense honeycomb-like crevices inside, which are filled with a large amount of divine power. When projected and hit a target, it will explode, and the fragments carry divine power and can cause massive damage to dark creatures.
As soon as Luo Lin's thought moved, a voice sounded in the head of the craftsman: "To the west of the city wall, the distance is eight hundred and thirty-five meters to one thousand five hundred meters, attack at will!" ”
Along with the voice, an image appeared in the craftsman's mind. But it was Rollin who felt the situation outside the city, and the two cooperated, and the leader of the craftsmen immediately had a clear understanding of the situation outside the city, and he began to run on the trebuchets one after another, while shouting the enemy's location data. and commanded the craftsmen to challenge the azimuth rudder of the trebuchet.
After about five minutes, ten trebuchets were in place, and the leader of the craftsmen confirmed once more, and when he was sure that everything was in order, he shouted, "Attack! ”
"Huh~Huh~" The sound of the machine sounded, the huge catapult arm swung rapidly, and the boulder full of divine power roared out, turning into a wonderful ray of light in the sky, rushing into the thick darkness like substance.
The eyes of the warriors followed these rays of light, and when the light rushed out of the hundreds of meters, the light in the sky disappeared because of the darkness, and the whistling sound became minimal, and the dark army on the opposite side did not seem to understand what was happening, they may also be watching the meteor-like boulder falling from the sky, anyway, suddenly there was no sound.
It was as if a dark beast had swallowed up all of the trebuchet's attacks, and the world began to fall silent.
The silence lasted for about five seconds, and after five seconds, a sudden burst of light burst out of the distant darkness, like lightning, briefly but clearly piercing the darkness, revealing the location of the dark army.
This was followed by huge waves of sounds, including the explosion of boulders, the screams, roars, and roars of creatures of the abyss, all sorts of things, and so on.
"What's going on? Damn it! It's a giant trebuchet! Dante immediately understood, just to prevent the opponent's long-range weapon, he stopped at a distance of nearly a thousand meters, originally thought that he was hiding far enough, but he didn't expect to be attacked.
It was his mistake, and it was a mistake that caused the dark army to suffer a lot of losses.
At this time, it would be very unwise for them to start attacking in a hurry, because many soldiers were blinded by this terrible attack, and if they attacked together, the scene would be absolutely chaotic, a mess, and the combat power would not be able to exert seventy percent of the battle.
"Stand back! Back off! Dante commanded loudly, his mind very clear.
The dark army began to retreat, because of the sudden blow, so the scene was extremely chaotic, although they had been retreating since they heard the order, but it took more than ten minutes for them to retreat to three thousand meters away. In the meantime, the trebuchet's boulder sent off all the way, killing and injuring countless dark warriors, including an abyssal beast.
This giant beast was also unlucky, his head had just been hit by a boulder, it was a ten-ton boulder, and it flew at high speed, at least a hundred meters per second, and it was also full of divine power, this time it hit his head, a large amount of divine power penetrated into it, destroying his defense, and as a result, half of his head was smashed, and it was finished on the spot.
Half an hour after exiting the trebuchet's range, the specific losses were also counted.
"One thousand one hundred and eighty-nine wounded, three hundred and fifty-one seriously wounded, one hundred and twenty-two dead, including one abyss giant beast killed in battle."
Before the fight started, the opponent's hair was not touched, and his own side broke so many soldiers first, and the faces of the soldiers showed panic.
Seeing this, Dante's heart 'chuckled', feeling very bad, he had to do something. (To be continued......)