Chapter 203: Honor (I)

Daniel looked ahead in the skull. The position of the enemy formation was still several miles above the water, but it was no longer possible to retreat. In this formation, the soldiers have no way to retreat, they will fight desperately.

Daniel involuntarily stomped his feet slightly, and the three huge heads of Pisius shook under his feet, and he felt his master's retreat, a little dissatisfied. Daniel suddenly realized that he was afraid of something, even if the enemy was desperate, Saleen did not give himself the order to die, as long as he could kill and wound a certain number of enemies, Saleen did not even let him bring back all the skeletons.

Thinking of this, Daniel took off the small binoculars on his waist, he had been polishing this thing for a long time, although it was not as far as Saleen's, but now it was very close to the enemy, he could use this to observe the enemy's expression.

The formation of the East China Sea Coalition Army is not very neat, many low-level officers have not escaped, the soldiers are just instinctively gathered together, and the senior generals can't command so many soldiers, they are also waiting for the general's order, so the morale of this 10,000-strong force is low. Even the comrades who had just died in battle did not pick up and let the corpses lie on the ice.

Daniel saw through the binoculars the soldiers' faces were panicked, fearful, hungry, and confused.

Daniel didn't learn much about commanding battles, but he was a necromancer, and he still had some research on human emotions, and when he saw the expression of the enemy soldier, Daniel immediately took out a small drum with a diameter of only one foot from his skin, and then took out a white bone and beat it on the drum.

Knock!

The sound of the drums had a sense of emptiness and desolation, emanating over the ice, and all the skeletons cheered up. This is the undead war drum, which can stimulate the undead's sense of battle. Urged by the drums of war, the three thousand skeletons strode forward, spear in hand, and pounced on the position of the coalition army.

The coalition soldiers were cold and hungry, their teeth chattering and gurgling sounds similar to those of skeleton grinding.

Most of the soldiers did not carry spears, only long knives, but the blades were no more than a meter long, which was not conducive to large-scale battles. Although the combat effectiveness of skeletons is not strong, the best way to make skeletons lose their combat effectiveness is heavy weapons.

The soldiers did not carry their heavy weapons at all. They all sank with the ship.

The general gave the order to attack in a deep voice, and at last an officer urged the soldiers to blow their horns, and a team of a thousand men rushed forward against the skeletons. The two armies collided fiercely, without any fancy. The skeleton's bone spear stabbed out with all its might, and the soldiers without shields, relying only on the leather armor on their bodies, could not stop such a killing.

The coalition forces quickly organized another two thousand-strong teams and approached on both sides. Frontal stalemate battles are certainly not good for the coalition forces, and the soldiers are under-equipped, even against low-level skeletons, and those soldiers are vulnerable. The climate of the East China Sea countries is not so harsh, and there is snowfall in some high-altitude areas, but the low-lying plains are almost like spring all year round. In this environment, the soldier's equipment must also have a special style.

A soldier's glove is an essential piece of equipment in order to be able to hold a weapon tightly in battle. The gloves worn by the soldiers of the East China Sea countries were made of leather on the palms and sewn on linen. This linen cloth is thick, strong, and even waterproof, but it has little ability to protect against the cold. The soldiers froze on the beach for a long time. The fingers have long been numb, and the two sides have impacted each other like this, and many soldiers have directly taken off their weapons and flew out when they were fighting.

These are not peasant soldiers, but real troops, trained for at least five years, with real combat experience. But such an elite soldier, under the hedge with the lowliest skeleton, was killed and turned on his back.

The three thousand skeletons advanced with their bone spears, ignoring the ranks pressed up on their flanks. Fueled by the drums of the undead, the skeletons' vitality is also strengthened, and without magical weapons, they will fight to the end unless they are chopped down. The undead are not without fear, but they are not afraid of the person in front of them.

Daniel didn't pay attention to the attacks on both sides, because the undead were not human, and these skeletons were not summoned by him, and he absolutely couldn't control it if he wanted to change formation. Moreover, the impact of the two wings is not fatal, because the enemy has no cavalry, and if you only rely on infantry to fight, it is the combat effectiveness of the individual that will fight in the end.

Skeletons do not panic, and even if the enemy occupies any advantageous position, the skeleton will still stab forward with a bone spear, either kill the enemy, or be broken up by the enemy.

The more than two hundred barbarians behind the skeleton were very nimble, and they did not rush up stupidly with the skeleton, but rode on the skeleton war horse and fired arrows in the back. The two thousand soldiers flanked from the left and right, and the barbarians only attacked within the range of their bows and arrows. neither did they flee, nor went up to support.

The strength of the barbarians is not to be underestimated, they still pull the softer hunting bow, which is certainly useless against the iron armor, but can also deal damage against the opponent's light leather armor. With this kind of hunting bow with little pull, the barbarian can shoot hundreds of arrows without relenting.

Of course, this is also thanks to Salin. He demanded great equipment from his soldiers, and the barbarians did not return for long, but everyone who could shoot arrows was given a metal opener. With this thing, archery will not hurt the fingers, and the power is mainly generated by the arms, which can improve the combat effectiveness of the archer.

The only disadvantage of the bow opener is that the wear and tear of the bowstring is large, generally if a bowstring is pulled with a finger, at least 2,000 arrows can be shot out before it will be scrapped, with the bow opener, the wear is immediately more than doubled. If you want to reduce wear, you can either add grease or improve the quality of the bow opener. Both of these add to the cost.

So Salin's soldiers all had two bow openers, one made with alchemy for extremely high bows, and the other for training. Or a normal bow.

In fact, Salin is short of manpower, and it is not yet time to divide the troops in detail, but he has learned one thing from Rex, that is, what you invest in the soldier, the soldier will give you in return.

The general watched the battle in the distance from behind, with no hope of victory in his heart. He could now see that this undead army did not intend to completely destroy them, but only came to kill and injure their own living forces. When their own strength is weakened to a certain extent, they will not be able to attack the city, and then the enemy will only need to hold the harbor, and his own people will freeze and starve to death.

If his battleship is still there. If these soldiers are fully equipped, they will have no problem facing 3,000 skeletons, he only needs to place iron shields on the front and attack them with heavy infantry on both wings, and he will crush the undead army.

But all his soldiers now wielded swords, and there were no such weapons as hammers, tomahawks, or halberds. The soldiers had no tools to protect themselves from the cold, their hands and feet were numb, and the long knives with a standard weight of only about two catties were cut out, and at most a shallow mark was cut on the skeleton's body, and it took more than a dozen knives to split a skeleton. No matter how strong his command skills are, unless he can get the battleship to float up from the bottom of the sea and distribute heavy equipment to the soldiers.

Three thousand soldiers and three thousand skeletons were strangled together, and most of the more than 7,000 soldiers in the rear formation had no weapons and could only watch.

The general suddenly sighed and said to the magician beside him: "You all go, use the wind speed technique to leave, the other party will not chase and kill the magician." ”

"Your Excellency, General, we will not leave, Master Yuxi Marceau has not returned yet. "A few gray-robed mages were in a hurry. Although the magician and the sixth-level mage are gone, they also have the power to decide the outcome of the battle.

"Will you be able to catch up with the skeleton horses?" asked the general, pointing to the barbarian behind him.

The gray-robed mages were speechless. If the wind speed technique wants to catch up with the war horse, it will also take time. Because the stamina of the war horse will decrease, but the skeleton warhorse does not have the problem of physical strength dropping, at least they can't catch up until those people run back.

"See the undead in the team?"

"See. ”

"That's an eighth-level undead, Pisius. The general's voice was cold: "Maybe the level of that necromancer is still low, but the combat power of this undead will not be lower than level seven." You can't help me if you're here. Don't say wait for Yuxi Marceau to come back, he may never come back. You guys, let's go. ”

"But, Your Excellency!"

"Our main fleet went to Lianyun City, you go to Lianyun City, find them, and continue to fight, my defeat here is irreparable. The general said, taking off his strange helmet. Throwing it on the ground, he said to the soldiers around him: "This time, you don't have to protect me, just kill a few more enemies." ”

The ornamentation of his helmet is more meaningful, and when worn on the head, it will affect his vision. The general did not expect that one day he would have to kill the enemy himself.

When the rest of the generals heard the general's words, their eyes were also dead gray.

"Why do you have such expressions? As a soldier, isn't it enough to die on the battlefield?"

"It's all your fault, why did you snatch the battleship? That battleship is more advanced than ours, the enemy must be very strong, if it weren't for your orders, how would we have ended up like this!"

A general couldn't help but point at the general and scolded angrily, and the general sneered: "When you first robbed, you were all talking about how to distribute, and now blame me?" He stared at everyone coldly with his eyes, and continued: "We are here to conquer." Do you want to do business with them?"

"But we have the right to surrender!"

"No, at least you don't. The general suddenly pulled out his long sword, took a step forward, stepped more than five meters away, and stabbed the long sword directly into the mouth of the general who offended him. The sword retracted like lightning, and there was bright red blood on it.

"Who else wants to surrender?"

The officers around him were silent, many of them did not become generals by bravery, the general already had the power of the Sword Master, and one person could kill them all. What's more, there are nearly 100 personal soldiers around the general.