Chapter 479: The First Appearance (II)
Tucker was startled when he saw a row of explosive fires rising from the cavalry battle array below the slope that was a hundred meters wide. This wave of attacks came so suddenly, Tucker didn't expect that from the other party's strange firearms, it would be a fireball similar to that used by magicians. As many as 100 blazing fireballs, it was like hundreds of magicians shooting at the same time.
With such a scale, only in the imperial army and the private armies of those dukes, there is such a luxurious configuration.
After one explosion, a second fireball struck. At this moment, the afterglow of the first wave of explosions has finally disappeared, and a new round of explosions has been set off again. The point of the explosion was shifted back a bit, just enough to cover the cavalry that rushed behind within the range of the explosion. Tucker's throat was bitter, and before he could give orders, the third wave of fireballs came again!
There were barely gaps in the three waves of fireballs, forming a continuous explosion that progressed in stages, and the blazing storm carried a rough sound wave that shook the entire grassland, making the unicorn's cavalry regiment fall into hell. After three successive bombardments, under the attack of the raging rifle cover, the cavalry was immediately reduced by two-thirds, and only some of the lucky ones broke out of the fire curtain, but everyone was wounded. Tucker was even more shocked, it was like a lineup of hundreds of magicians with fireballs, and there was almost no gap between the three waves of attacks, making the cavalry charge a joke.
The tactics of high-power firepower coverage completely overturned the Empire's perception of war on this day. You must know that even the imperial army or the duke's private army can have more than a hundred magicians, but even any magician cannot launch three waves of attacks in a row like this. To achieve Allen's tactics, you must have more magic style, and you can only do it by taking turns bombing in echelons.
But in that case, the consumption naturally can't be compared with Allen's fire.
"Assault of the whole army!" Tucker yelled, the cavalry had been beaten to the ground. If we keep our troops, I'm afraid that this battle won't have to be fought.
He is also brave, but in the face of such an offensive, he still shouts the order to assault. Listening to the order, the infantry on the slope raised their shields and charged, which was defensive fire. The standard combat posture of the gun, but everyone knows that using a hand shield to carry a fireball is also a joke.
Fortunately, the three rounds of flame missile bombardment also almost drained the source power of the inchfire soldiers. Alan Qianjun raised his head and said loudly: "The King of the Mountain stepped forward and formed a defensive line. After the inch fire retreats, the normal shooting mode is ready to ...... Fire! â
The battle array moved like a tidal wave.
Hundreds of Mountain King warriors roared and stepped forward with shields, and in groups of three, they formed a steel defense line. The Inch Fire Warrior retreated, and settled behind the Mountain King. Using the shield wall of the Mountain King warrior as a cover, the Inch Fire Warrior adjusted the firing pattern of his rifle and fired at the remaining cavalry rushing in under Alan's command.
Loud and abrupt gunfire rang out over the steppe, and waves of blazing air and rough shock pushed away in the direction of the cavalry's gallop. From the muzzle of the Flame Rifle erupted a thick tongue of fire, and the light of the fire jumped, illuminating the faces of the inch-fire warriors. Streams of fiery metal fire whipped like whips towards the oncoming cavalry, and the furious stream of bullets tore through the armor of the cavalry and the harness of the horses, shattering their flesh and blood, and so that bewitching flowers of blood bloomed on the blue field. Tucker's eyes were bloodshot as he rushed down the slope to see the rest of the cavalry fall in an instant!
The sudden blank space on the battlefield made the tall commander feel powerless for a while.
By the time the Raging Rifles had finished firing, fewer than fifty cavalrymen had rushed to the front of the line. Eren raised his hand and shouted, "Mountain King, throw an axe to attack!" â
The warriors of the Mountain King roared in unison, and everyone put down their hammers, stretched their hands back, and drew a fine iron short axe. Aiming at the approaching cavalry, the warrior threw his axe at the same time, and immediately there was a strange whistling sound on the battlefield. Nearly a hundred short axes were thrown at the same time, constantly embedded in the body of the war horse or cavalry, and the last wave of cavalry was completely solved.
Seeing this, Tucker almost fell to his knees. One of the most elite cavalry of the unicorns was killed and wounded without even touching the corners of the enemy's clothes. Those who survived were either seriously injured, or fell on the battlefield moaning and shouting, and had no strength to fight again. Tucker endured his grief and cried out, "Rush, avenge our brother!" â
Behind him, four hundred infantry flooded past Tucker on either side and launched a charge without hesitation. Tucker himself also released momentum, pointing directly at Allen, and the provocation could not be more obvious. Alan jumped off his horse, Tucker and the others had approached with the cover of the previous cavalry, and the fire suppression could no longer be used, and the next was hand-to-hand combat, so as to train the infantry soldiers behind who had been training for a long time.
So after a few orders, the king of the mountain was still on the front line, but the shield wall formed before was dismantled. Work in groups of three to form a combat unit to meet the enemy. At the same time, the fire spread left and right, allowing the infantry soldiers in the rear to pass through. These soldiers are from Storm City and are made up of the original soldiers and recruits from Storm City before. They had been training for many months, and after the implementation of the training plan drawn up by Roy, the soldiers who were able to get out of the camp had good combat power. What is lacking is only actual combat experience.
Alan first let them watch the battle with the Mountain King in the rear, arousing their fighting spirit. Only then did they let them fight, so as to gain actual combat experience and not lose too much because of their first participation in this kind of big war, which can be described as well-intentioned. Coupled with the Mountain King's Sweeping Formation, the lives of these soldiers will be guaranteed to the maximum.
Soon, the armies of both sides collided. The first round of collisions was greeted by the warriors of the King of the Mountain, these carefully selected, tall and strong warriors, each of whom raised their shields, and slammed into the infantrymen who rushed at the opposing side. With this collision, the warriors of the Mountain King stood still like a reef in the angry sea. Although the unicorn's infantry is also an elite warrior, it is much inferior to the king of the mountain.
At the moment, they were knocked back one after another, but they overwhelmed their colleagues in the rear, causing a lot of confusion.
Allen's infantry rushed forward like a stream of water, handing their swords to the fallen enemy soldiers, reaping their first exploits since the beginning of the war.
"Leave it to me, Commander, and feel free to do the rest." Alan picked up his knife and walked straight for Tucker. His momentum was condensed, and waves of fiery and fierce power were sent straight away, so that the enemy soldiers in front of him were unstable in their footing, and they avoided on both sides, knowing that they did not interfere in the duel between the strong men of the two sides.
Regis and the others were eager to try, but Alan had already picked the other party's commander, and they could only shoot at the officer-level figures in the enemy army. These officers are the fulcrum of the battlefield, and when they are uprooted, the remaining soldiers have nothing to fear.
As a person who has suffered the impact of Allen's momentum head-on, only Tucker himself knows what he feels. The others were in the blue field, but they were like being thrown into the eyes of the desert demons thousands of miles away. The air around him became hot and hot, as if waves of heat were rising from the soles of his feet, and a fine bead of sweat had broken out on Tucker's forehead. His shield was upright, and almost half of the people were hidden behind it, revealing only one head.
Tucker stared intently at Alan, who was getting more pressure on him with each minute. Tucker had been unleashing his momentum, but he was barely able to stop Allen.
At a distance of about five meters from Tucker, Alan stopped: "Captain Tucker, I can give you a chance." If you're thinking about surrendering, I'd be happy to stop this fight. â
"Fart!" Tucker stubbornly scolded: "The unicorn army only has warriors who died in battle, not cowards who surrendered!" â
"Well, I admire your courage. In this way, I can only respond to your bravery with all my strength. Alan nodded, and patches of orange source power light began to emanate from his body, and it looked like a flame rising.
In the flames of light, the mark of the Blade of the Burning Plains emerged. Among them, a circuit flashed. Eren activated the ability to ignite, and suddenly, he seemed to feel a flame burning in his body. The source power that was originally running in the body seemed to burn like gasoline ignited by fire. The surging power passed through the blood vessels, almost bursting Allen's blood vessels. His whole body was filled with power, like an expanding balloon, and Alan wanted to pour out this power immediately. Get out!
This is ignition, which comes at the cost of accelerating the consumption of source power, in exchange for a huge explosive power. With this in mind, Alan couldn't imagine what the subsequent boiling and outbursts would look like. He reined in his mind, and the surging source power was poured towards Qianjun, and the black knife continued to tremble with excitement like a fierce beast awakened. The blade was dyed with a dark yellow light, and at Allen's feet, a piece of blue-core grass suddenly burst into flameless spontaneous combustion.
This flame was so fierce that in an instant, it drained the water of the blue grass and burned the blue grass to ashes. The flames come and go away as quickly as they come. In the blink of an eye, a meter-diameter pitch-black scorched ground appeared under Allen's feet, and the charred grass ash was rising and drifting away in the wind.
At the moment when the grass ash flew, Alan moved. He dragged his knife forward, his momentum condensed like a knife, and slammed into Tucker's giant shield. Tucker had been continuously injecting source power into the giant shield just now, and at this moment, a light cocoon with a thickness of three centimeters formed on the shield surface, strengthening the giant shield's defense. At the same time, Tucker's hammer flashed with light, and he planned to block Allen's unrivaled blow before counterattacking.
That light cocoon is actually one of his abilities, and Tucker's ability is mostly defensive, and this light cocoon is one of them. After superimposing the defense of the light cocoon, even if he was bombarded head-on by artillery, he was sure to carry it down, not to mention that it was just an inconspicuous combat knife in Allen's hand.
The distance of five meters passed in an instant, and Alan was already in front of the Tucker shield in an instant. He didn't seem to intend to avoid the giant shield, so he handed it at the giant shield with a sword as light as a feather. Tucker snorted, leaning forward slightly. The giant shield pushes the light cocoon to meet it, trying to suppress Allen's attack. Unexpectedly, Qianjun easily plunged into the light cocoon, like a knife stuck in butter, and the light cocoon that Tucker was proud of could not play the slightest defensive role.
Tucker, who was behind the shield, couldn't feel the slightest collision of the source force, and there was a palpitation at the moment. Following Qianjun's blade, it tore through the giant shield like a piece of paper, and finally lightly touched Tucker's chest. The armor on Tucker's chest couldn't even slow down, and it had been pierced by the blade. The hot tip of the knife was like a poisonous snake swallowing a letter, and it was a little bit on the muscles behind the armor.
When Chijun retracted it, Tucker's light cocoon and the giant shield were shattered at the same time. The pieces of light and the metal on the shield fell, and in an instant the cocoon disappeared, and the giant shield shattered, but Tucker still maintained his hand and held it.
Alan slashed his hand, suddenly stepped back and put away the heavy knife. Without looking at Tucker, he turned and walked back. Tucker felt angry in his heart, and he wanted to yell. But when the voice came to the throat, it turned into a fountain of blood. Then there was an astonishing pain in the chest that was hit by the blade, and with Tucker's stoicism, he couldn't help but scream. However, the scream only had time to be half screamed before the aftermath suddenly disappeared into the air.
A stream of blazing fire erupted from behind Tucker, and then flames erupted from all over Tucker's eyes, mouth, and nostrils. It was as if a flame had exploded inside him, and the blazing flames were desperately trying to break out from any channel that could be cathartic. It was also an inch of fire, but under the effect of ignition, the explosive fiery source power was sent along the blade into Tucker's body. Even if the wound was not large, it had already burned Tucker's internal organs in an instant.
It was a moment before Tucker leaned slowly and finally fell heavily to the ground. His skin was red, his eyes were burned by flames, and two hot smoke were rising from the remaining black eye sockets.
As soon as the commander died, there was no suspense in the ensuing battle. However, the unicorn warriors were brave, and in the end, more than half of the infantry were killed, and less than 100 surrendered.
After the Battle of the Blue Field, Daniel's elite army stationed here was almost completely wiped out. The heaviest losses were 600 cavalry, and only a handful survived the battle. This elite force that was enough to sweep away other baronys was defeated under the bombardment of inch fire, and it left a deep impression in the minds of the surrendered troops. In stark contrast to the heavy losses of the Unicorn Legion, only about twenty soldiers were killed on Allen's side, and this huge battle loss ratio caused a strong impact on many people soon after.
And on this day, the trump card in Allen's hand was finally revealed, and his main force was like an ancient beast, showing its grandeur to people for the first time!
On the blue field, the unicorn army was defeated at the same time. Oulu, who was far away in his own city, had not yet received news of the defeat of Daniel's army. But the two armies met in the steppe to start a battle, and he received the report early in the morning. So, early in the morning, he summoned Oulu's officers, big and small, to a meeting in his chamber.
Alan's intention is obvious, he is here for Bauhinia. Once Oulu was defeated, there was no more baron in Daniel's realm who could fight him. At that point, Daniel would have only two options left: an all-out war or negotiations with Oban. In addition to this, the viscount does not have a zĂ i third option. R1058