Chapter 359: Nightfall, Fog
It is true that higher intelligent beings are not necessarily afraid of fire, after all, in order to transform from ordinary beings to higher intelligent beings, learning to make and use fire is one of the necessary conditions. And for ordinary animals, not only fire, but also anything that can make their innate nerves feel fearful, ordinary creatures should be afraid.
In fact, when the Greek flamethrowers used the simple single-shot Greek firethrowers in their hands to shoot the raging fire at the Atlantan chainmail cavalry who rushed forward, the Atlantan chainmail cavalry that was really ignited by the Greek fire was only a few hundred people, and the casualties were only the chainmail cavalry in the first few rows of the cavalry charge, including many chainmail cavalry, which were not affected by the jetted fire, if these Atlantan chainmail cavalry chose to continue to charge forward at this time, In just a few seconds, the weak formation of the Greek Pyros was torn to shreds.
However, the Atlantan chainmail cavalry is not a real elite heavy cavalry, and its comprehensive strength, including morale, endurance, etc., is not even as good as the chainmail cavalry equipped in the original army of the Sunset Empire and the current support cavalry. In addition, the war horse under the crotch instinctively panicked after feeling the presence of Greek fire, which made the charge begin to slow down, and the current uphill terrain greatly reduced the speed of the cavalry charge, and the Atlantan chainmail cavalry could only flee with hatred after leaving behind hundreds of human and horse corpses that were still emitting black smoke and emitting the smell of burnt meat.
The cheers of the white, Greek-style steel helmet in a glittering silver light looming behind the billowing black smoke and orange-red flames became extremely harsh in the ears of the Atlantan chainmail cavalry, but at this moment they could only wave the whip in their hands harder, or use the spurs behind the iron boots to stimulate the abdomen of the war horse under their crotch, because it was really not a big deal to let go of their dignity or anything compared to being burned into charred flesh and black charcoal by the terrifying pillar of fire.
"Oh damn the sun does not set! How could they possibly have so many Greek Pyro! "Hybad, who watched the battle from afar, didn't know that the sun never set on the Greek fire, after all, the sun never set people can borrow a special device to spray a fire that cannot be extinguished with water is already a well-known information in the high-level of the Western Continent, but the problem is that the number of this kind of Greek Pyro generally appearing on the battlefield will definitely not exceed 1,000 people, not because it is very difficult to train soldiers to control Greek fire throwers, but because this pump weapon has very high requirements for craftsman casting skills, Although it can be mass-produced, it is impossible to cast it at will like a mace on the whole, and the war in the middle of the sun never sets has a great demand for this weapon, so Haybad does not believe that all the soldiers who defend the scorpion crossbow position are actually the Greek flamethrowers of the great empire, and even if this is removed, it is impossible for Haybad, who does not have wooden binoculars, to directly judge those soldiers who never set the sun in his eyes like silver grains of rice. And it is even more unlikely that he will give his chainmail knight the order to retreat in a short period of time.
As the Atlantan chainmail cavalry that was repelled by the Greek flamethrowers began to retreat, the chainmail cavalry that had been entangled with the Xiyi soldiers before also began to retreat to their own theater of operations, and when all the Atlantan chainmail cavalry returned to the rear of the battlefield, according to statistics, the casualty rate of the 3,000 Atlantan heavy cavalry was close to 5 points of its original number1, and they only eliminated less than 300 Xiyi soldiers, and none of the soldiers who belonged to the main sun did not fall, which made Haibad, who was present, smile bitterly:" Keep sending troops to the front lines.......... the only thing we can be thankful for now is that the two massive steel machines have finally been pushed back by the Shark Ballista. ”
After the two dwarven centurions were depleted due to multiple injuries and the amount of ice stored inside was about to be depleted, and the Moforging engineers were able to evacuate the battlefield, the scales of victory returned to a flat state as a new batch of Atlantic troops were put in, and then, the sun never set also fought a war of attrition with the Atlan soldiers in a style that did not suit Assar: every once in a while, the Atlantic side would mobilize more Atlantan militia and shield spearmen from the rear because the soldiers on the front line were about to be slaughtered. The peasants joined the battlefield, and every once in a while, the Sunset side mobilized the Sunset heavy swordsmen from the rear who were in good spirits to replace the Xiyi soldiers on the front line, and the members of the Changyi team, who were the strongest attack and charge power in the Sunset, had already been pulled to the rear during the first troop replacement.
Although in terms of troops, no matter how elite the soldiers who never set the sun are, how they can fight, the Atlantan side with 300,000 miscellaneous soldiers can definitely win the battle of attrition, but on the whole, the side that does not set the sun seems to have an advantage at this time, because the two sides are in the competition of war equipment, and the side of the sun does not set is definitely the kind that plays Atlanta.
The manatee trebuchet is of course highly accurate, and can throw lit flints at the soldiers who are in the rear, causing great damage. But don't forget that the No. 3 trebuchet of the Sunset Empire is inferior to the Atlantan side in terms of accuracy (after all, the stabilizer of the counterweight trebuchet itself was invented by the Atlantans, and the Sunset side was also learned from the Atlantic side), the rest of the abilities are stronger than the Manatee trebuchet, and the most important thing is that the No. 3 trebuchet can also throw flint and even rotting oxen behind it under the overcontrol of the Mo Forging Engineers.
In addition to the manatee trebuchet on the Atlanta side, the shark ballista has been stopped by those Atlantan nobles in the army because of the damage caused to their own soldiers when they forced back the two dwarf centurions. As for the can-throwing bow, it was temporarily disabled due to the field and other issues.
It was already dark, and the battle had been going on for more than 13 hours, and if the battle continued, as long as the sun did not set and the ammunition for the scorpion crossbow and the counterweight trebuchet were sufficient, the winner of the battle would be the side on which the sun did not set. Because until now, there are only more than 50,000 soldiers on the side of the sun that never sets, including the Xiyi soldiers, and less than 20,000 have been killed in battle, while the Atlantan side has killed more than 30,000 people and seriously injured more than 40,000.
But at this moment, it suddenly began to fog, and it was still foggy.