Chapter 792: Battle of the Inland Sea (10)
"Captain! We're half an hour away from the battle! What do we do next? In the air at a height of 100 meters, thousands of griffin knights thought about the front and galloped away, although in their eyes, the surrounding sea was extremely calm, but at this time, everyone's faces were extremely solemn, because they all knew that in front of them, there was a battlefield no less than the battlefield of the Maginot Battlefield.
"What about the scouts who were sent out? They're already 5 minutes late! One of the griffon knights at the head asked uneasily, his name was Witt, and he was the head of a griffon knight, but now he had another identity - the commander of the advance army.
When Allen, the prince of the Griffon Empire, passed the message out of Griffon Harbor, all the Griffon Knights within a hundred miles of Griffon Harbor received the news in less than 1 hour, and quickly assembled into two forces, one of which was located 20 kilometers north of Port Agsulfus, while the other was assembled in a temporary camp 10 kilometers east of Griffon Harbor.
Not to mention the griffin army assembled on the edge of the port of Agsulfus, the number of griffin knights assembled in the temporary camp has reached the strength of nearly 5 legions, you must know that even if it is such an important city as Griffon Harbor, especially when there is a port of Agsulfus around, the troops stationed in peacetime are at most only one regiment of troops, even in wartime it will not exceed 3, obviously, the destructive power of the Sunset Navy has been deeply reflected in the hearts of the high-ranking personnel of the Griffin Empire.
Once assembled, the 5 griffon captains immediately set off for the battlefield, but before that. In order to prevent an emergency, according to the order of Prince Allen, Witt, one of the five army commanders, was half an hour before the whole army set off. First, he led the 4,000 griffon knights originally stationed here as a vanguard army to the battlefield.
"General, I think they're about to return." The griffon knight, who had spoken to Witt before, said, and suddenly, he saw a huge black cloud appear in the distance: "General, look, there is something unusual in that direction. ”
As soon as these words came out, the uneasy Witt immediately looked at the huge black cloud, which was extremely large. Although it was now about the size of a hand's hand in Witt's eyes, Witt knew. As long as you get closer, it is not an exaggeration to use the word "covering the sky" in that dark cloud.
"It should be just an ordinary dark cloud, but the direction of this dark cloud seems to be exactly where we are going, and it is not easy to do it now....... "The most taboo thing in air combat is to fight in thunderstorms or in an environment with fog and dust. Although the air cavalry unit can be described as flying high and far. However, this does not mean that all air cavalry units are clairvoyant, and in the above environments, air cavalry units are subject to much higher field vision restrictions than land combat units, and sometimes even casualties occur as a result.
Every air cavalry commander basically has to deal with the weather, so if the dark clouds in front of him are really dark clouds and the direction of the direction they are going to is the battlefield they are going to, then in the next battle, the combat effectiveness of the air cavalry troops will be greatly limited.
"Huh?" While pondering, Witt suddenly noticed a lot of commotion around him. Randomly, Witt discovers the source of the troop's commotion: a griffin knight. Obviously, one of the guys sent out before quickly approached the troops, but the trajectory of its flight was shaky, as long as you are not a fool, you know that the guy in front of you is definitely attacked.
But because of this, there will be a commotion, as we all know, this time it was the Sunset Navy that came to attack the middle of the continent, and the Sunset Air Force was suppressed by the griffin troops of the Maginot Line, which means that the Sun does not set this time There is no air combat unit, but his scouts in front of him were injured, and obviously something happened that should not have happened.
"Could it be that this guy went to the battlefield and was accidentally discovered by the Xiyi sailors?" Witt quickly came up with a more appropriate answer, of course, before that, he had thought of many ideas that he thought were ridiculous, and even thought that the sun never set on the battlefield hidden an army of angels, of course, these ideas were ultimately rejected by meaning. But the next moment, the Captain of the Witt Legion looked very embarrassed and confused.
"Captain! Evacuate! Air Force, black air force that covers the sky! They're going to devour us! The overstrain, combined with the trance caused by the wounds and excessive blood loss, forced the escaped griffon scout to use staccato words to organize what he wanted to say, but it was enough for Witt.
"All on alert! Get ready for battle and breakout! "It didn't come out of nowhere, and the fact that the griffon scout was wounded was in front of everyone's eyes, and although Witt arrived with great confusion, there seemed to be no enemy around it except for the dark cloud.........
"Wait? Dark clouds? Are they not dark clouds but all enemies! In an instant, Witt was shocked by his own thoughts, if that dark cloud is really the enemy, then not to mention the half of the legion strength that Witt has in his hands, even if the next 4 and a half legions come to the other side, it may not be able to defeat the other party, because the opponent's strength will definitely reach the strength of nearly 10 legions, and now only the next plan that can be made by another griffin knight unit that comes to help, but if that huge army is allowed to enter the battlefield in advance, it may cause a change in the tide of the battle.........
In a short moment, Witt thought of a lot of things in his heart, and at this time, the wounded griffon scout also dragged his injured body, came to Witt's side under the way of everyone, and said anxiously: "Commander! Give the order to retreat! They have already spotted us, sending at least one regiment of troops while chasing me! ”
"Someone chasing you? But there's no ............ around here," Witt could finish his sentence when the griffon scout immediately interrupted Witt.
"They're in the sky! They're Batriders! As if confirming the words of this griffin scout, more than two hundred meters away from this griffin knight force, suddenly remembered a strange roar, this kind of roar is actually not the type of deafening, but when everyone heard this sound. They found that their eardrums were about to be punctured, and their heads were in agony as if they were about to explode, and even the griffons under their crotches became very agitated. Apparently also affected.
At this time, at a height of two hundred meters, when a huge gray cloud slowly moved away, a huge "black python" appeared in the eyes of everyone, and they followed the cloud to hover in the sky, moving in the sky like a snake, but quickly. Everyone could tell what the so-called "black python" was—a batrider with at least one legion.
The vampire's Batrider was once an air combat arm that could suppress the human griffin knight in ancient times, and compete with the orc Thunder Eagle and the elven Chimera, but because of the suppression of the Ancient Dead Alliance, the combat power of the Batrider was not known to the world. And although the previous battle on Maginot has appeared in the eyes of the world, it has been ignored again because of the appearance of the Spider Clan and the army of the underground dynasty.
Even on the side of the Allied upper echelons. The Allied intelligence forces only know a few words about the Bat Force: the Bat Riders are the forces of the Vampire Empire in the depths of the Northern Continent. It is not afraid of the cold, it is one or two times larger than the Griffin Knight, and it has strong melee ability but low mobility. They don't even know that there are some Demon Bat Riders in Batrider who are stronger than Batrider.
But it was also because of this that Witt let go of a mistake before the two sides engaged: a misjudgment of the discovery of the enemy's forces. Because Witt had only fought with the Angel Force and other Griffon troops, Witt judged with common sense that even if the enemy was an air combat unit, he should appear in and under his field of vision, without thinking that the enemy would appear in his field of vision.
Vampires themselves also need oxygen, but their demand for oxygen is several times lower than that of humans. Just like a vampire eats a lot of food, it would be impossible for a vampire to survive in the northern continent at an altitude of several thousand meters above sea level, where there is snow and ice everywhere. This is also the case with vampire mounts, whether they are nightmare horses or giant bats.
As a result, the Batrider, who is not as mobile as the Griffin Knight, or even much weaker than the Griffin Knight, has an ability that very few air combat units have: high-altitude flight. The high-altitude flight here is not a few hundred meters above the altitude where the griffin knight is, but a flight at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, and most importantly, the troops that can generally fly at a distance of kilometers are basically troops like Thunder Eagle, Chimera and Dragon, like Bat Knight, which is a combination of two combat units to fight at high altitudes, and only the Vampire Empire is unique.
"Retreat! Evacuate! At this time, Witt's face can be described as bloodless, of course, this is not because of the Batrider raid, because Witt has prepared the whole army before the Batrider raid, what really makes him feel defenseless is the things in the hands of the vampires: all the vampire knights riding on the giant bats are not holding their favorite giant swords or spears, but javelins that shimmer with cold light, and a crossbow with a strange shape.
The body of this crossbow itself is nearly double that of the ordinary heavy crossbow, and these crossbows are basically assembled from steel parts, this strange shape of the crossbow is easy to make all the people in the King Continent now, especially the soldiers, think of a terrifying weapon: the Mo forging crossbow unique to the army where the sun never sets, in the face of this weapon that even the steel tower shield may not be able to resist, unless you have cover, otherwise you are a dead thing in the eyes of the crossbow wielder.
Witt's guess was right, although the Mo Forged Crossbow in the hands of the vampire was not a new Mo Forged Crossbow that was only available on the Maginot Line, but in some ways, the old Mo Forged Crossbow was more powerful than the new one, after all, the old version had high penetration.
"Projectile!" A low cry came from the mouth of a vampire, but the figure was remembered in the silence of the battlefield where only the sound of the waves remained, like dropping a bomb on a calm lake for the next moment, and the next moment countless griffin knights scattered around, but the arrows and expressions faster than them had begun to fall.
"Poof, poof!" Although the screams of griffons and human knights were constantly remembered, in the ears of griffon knights, they heard more of the sound of javelins and crossbow arrows piercing their armor, because each such sound meant that a griffin knight was about to die immediately.
At this time, the griffin knights who were attacked from a high altitude fell into the water like dumplings, and the vampires who slaughtered the previous griffin troops were scattered after three rounds of free fire, and after the originally compact griffon troops were scattered, they waved the giant swords in their hands and turned into the reaper of life, rushing into the griffon knights The griffin knights who had lost great morale under the successive blows of the griffin knights, although these griffin knights were the most elite troops of the griffin empire, they became vulnerable after learning that they were going to die.
"Humph! These griffin knights still have no progress as they did thousands of years ago, and if it weren't for the cover of angels and thunder eagles, these ragtags wouldn't have driven me to the Northern Continent. High in the sky, a vampire in dark gold armor looked indifferently at the slaughterhouse below and said in a disdainful tone, while on the other side of the vampire army on the other side, a vampire with black armor and silver edges frowned, and said to the vampire in dark gold armor: "Great prince, will this delay our battle plan." ”
"It's okay, the sun never sets, as we have already said, we are only here to prevent local air combat units from entering the battlefield, although these seem to be only advance troops, but don't we already have the source of the enemy? A qiē is all in the plan. The vampire, who was called the Great Prince, said lightly: "General Zige, you have to remember that there is no navy in this world that can defeat the Sunset Navy, although it is only a foreign navy of the Sunset Empire, but their combat effectiveness is definitely stronger than we imagined, besides, isn't the Sunset Commander named Orso already leading the main force to support?" (To be continued......)