Chapter 564 Annihilation Battle
"The lord came at the right time. I was about to launch a full-scale attack. This time, the sharp whistles of the forwards contributed a lot to attracting most of the skeleton knights together, saving the trouble of finding them." Marshal Ericson issued an invitation.
"Let's go, let's go take a look together." Sean didn't tell Marshal Eriksson that the reason why those forward whistles did this was because of his own order.
The battlefield chosen by Marshal Eriksson was a valley.
It is said to be a valley, but on both sides are small soil pockets that are less than 100 meters higher than the flat ground. Below the valley bottom is a stream less than ten meters wide. There are quite a lot of various bubble ponds, and it is estimated that it will not be too deep.
Sean can be considered a veteran of the battlefield now, and he can see the geographical advantage here at a glance.
The Bulls and Fortresses dispatched by the Third Army are mainly infantry. If they want to encircle the Skeleton Knights, they must limit their charging momentum and mobility to the greatest extent.
The more complex terrain at the bottom of the valley is an excellent choice.
The small slopes on both sides became an excellent choice for placing long-range attacks. The mortars in the two armies have all been concentrated to form a small artillery position with fifteen mortars.
Of the fifteen mortars, only three were medium, and the rest were all light portable mortars.
The Firearms Bureau is now fully producing infantry artillery and mortars. High-quality products are given priority to equip the two independent artillery regiments. Some poorer or redundant products are distributed to other regiments. Among them, the third army is still the priority. The highest, this is determined by the particularity of the enemies they face.
Earlier, Sean told Marshal Eriksson not to use the artillery easily, because he was afraid that the mastermind behind the Klein tribe would be shocked, and the unexpected effect would not be achieved.
Now that there are no worries in this regard, Marshal Eriksson can naturally take out all the means he can use.
"The annihilation operation begins!"
Following the order of Marshal Eriksson, the sentries rushed out in groups, and after only half an hour, they rushed back again. Behind them, there was a loud sound of horseshoes, and teams of skeleton knights gnawed. Then they rushed into the canyon.
Obviously, these skeleton knights have already been lured nearby with their sentinel cavalry, and now they just need to find a way to lure them over.
The God of Death wanted to slip away, but naturally he couldn't do it under the noses of the many sharp whistles of the Yongye army leaders, so he sent the skeleton knights to drive, exterminate, and hunt them down.
It is an order that ignores everything.
After all, he is already ready to abandon the nest. Whether it is the undead army or the skeleton knight, they are all abandoned. As long as this task is completed, life or death does not matter, so he doesn't care about the coordination of infantry and cavalry, and gave it to Yong Ye. Opportunities for targeted deployment of military leaders.
These skeleton knights rushed into the valley and found that the enemy they were facing was not just sentinel cavalry, they were still fearless and did not flinch or hesitate at all.
Having said that, they themselves don't know what fear is.
They didn't even need to assemble a complete number of people, so they bravely launched a charge.
What greeted them was a burst of shelling, not even special shells, just the most common black powder shells, smashing into the Skeleton Knight camp, immediately a group of people turned their backs, flames sprayed, black smoke rose, and stumps flew around.
This is the real power that artillery should have.
If it was an ordinary army, it was the first time they saw this kind of formation, and this wave of shelling alone would have caused them to collapse and flee in all directions.
The previous fierce battle with the Dragon Skeleton battleship controlled by His Excellency God of Death almost made Sean doubt the power of his own artillery positions.
More than two hundred cannons, plus all kinds of special shells, just couldn't take down the opponent completely, no matter how I thought about it, I was a little terrified.
If it wasn't for the other party's wholehearted desire to escape, what kind of impact would it have on Yong Ye's army leader with the help of the undead army?
Simply unimaginable.
These skeleton knights had just been baptized by the artillery positions, and plunged into the minefields again.
After finally struggling to reach the infantry who were waiting in full battle, what awaited them was countless black powder grenades to wash the ground.
Even for monsters like the Skeleton Knight, after three rounds, there are basically no three out of ten. Before they raise their bone knives, what awaits them is another baptism of combat skills. Also mixed with the great knights who transformed into Super Saiyans, they only had to be suppressed and beaten, and they fell down seven or eight in an instant.
It took less than half an hour for the massive 3,000 skeleton knights to crash into the defensive formation of the bull and the fortress army.
The combat technique itself has pushed the cold weapon combat led by the Yongye army to an unprecedented peak, and it has also mixed with artillery, a cross-age weapon, and the flexible use of various black powder weapons.
The existence of the Skeleton Knight, who dominates in cold weapon warfare, is naturally a bit unsightly, especially when his head is lacking.
This is how Xiao En and Marshal Eriksson dared to take the initiative to attack even though they knew that the number of the undead army was several times larger than their own.
This wave of easy annihilation battles further fueled their confidence and raised the soldiers' confidence to an unprecedented level.
You must know that a few years ago, let alone the elite of undead soldiers like the skeleton knight, even if they faced ordinary undead soldiers, they would have to pay a heavy price in order to eat them. Without relying on all kinds of long-range attack equipment, strangling them from a long distance, they dare not fight close combat at all.
Now they can easily beat their most powerful cavalry all over the place, let alone ordinary undead soldiers.
This shows what?
They have grown strong enough to crush foes they once feared.
Just like the battle name Marshal Eriksson just used, this is an out-and-out battle of annihilation.
Since all the skeleton knights who were lured over, one counted as one, and none of them could escape. They were either killed or captured like zongzi.
Facing this kind of unconventional enemy, once they win, it will be a brilliant victory of total annihilation. After their organization is dismantled, they lose their wisdom and become killing machines that obey their killing instincts, and they don't even know how to escape.
Sean, who has a deeper understanding and understanding of the energy of death spells, basically deduced the root cause of their collective wisdom.
Their soul consciousness has been pulled away, and they are standard walking dead. When many death magic energies are connected together, they will become a collective soul consciousness, and it is normal for collective wisdom to appear.
The collective learning ability they showed earlier is also related to this.
This situation is somewhat similar to the learning of combat skills. The purpose of memory is achieved by engraving the energy of death spells in their bodies.
According to the god of death's control over spell energy, this is not a difficult task.
Xiao En's heart was more rejoicing, rejoicing that His Excellency the God of Death only paid attention to the number of undead soldiers, not their quality, and was not as good in terms of imagination.
If it were him, Sean already had a plan on how to improve these undead soldiers.
Combat skills!
These undead soldiers are natural carriers of combat skills.
It is true that they have no soul consciousness, and there is no way to culture the soul consciousness, but what flows in their blood vessels is the actual energy of death spells.
As I said before, this kind of magical energy is not ordinary magical energy, it is fused with soul consciousness, which makes it not only have the plasticity of ordinary magical energy, but also have the stability that they do not have.
Just look at the series of coquettish operations performed by Your Excellency the God of Death relying on the Dragon Skeleton Warship. That kind of unreasonable collision and dragon wing acceleration capabilities are inherent in the Dragon Skeleton Battleship itself, but the Black Mist Giant, the Black Mist Fog chains and energy shields are the use of death spell energy itself.
What does this mean?
This means that when these magical energy is injected into the body of the undead soldier, it can be completely fabricated into a combat technique mode.
What kind of terrifying situation would it be if these undead soldiers also possessed similar combat skills in the use of magical energy, coupled with their terrifying power and undead bodies?
No need to describe it in detail!
That's the real killing machine.
In that case, even if the Yongye Army Leader has new weapons like artillery, it is not so easy to take them down.
Especially His Excellency the God of Death, who possesses massive spell energy.
He was only in a state of passive escape, and it took nearly two hours for the Yongye army leader to exhaust his spell energy.
It's really hard to say what would have happened if he had had a few long-range counterattacks in his hands at that time.
In any case, this evildoer cannot be allowed to continue to roam free.
It didn't pay much attention to long-range attack methods before, but after being ravaged by long-range artillery fire by the Yongye army leader, it will definitely pay more attention to it.
According to the enchanting nature of the spell energy, no one can tell what kind of coquettish operations will be played.
With this concern in mind, Sean didn't dare to stay with Marshal Eriksson for too long, so he returned to the Explorer Fleet.
They had exhausted the energy of His Excellency the God of Death before, and the explorer fleet was holding on to it. Now they are exhausted and haven't produced any moths for the time being.
It turns out Sean was right to be concerned.
These gods of death ran in the direction of Brother Port, aiming at the undead army they had sent earlier.
Just as he was running towards the Brothers Port, the direction of the undead army changed obviously. They no longer blindly approached the Brothers Port, but moved closer to the Donnao River first.
The magical energy in their bodies comes from the same source after all, and it is also mixed with soul consciousness, so it is not surprising that they have an intimate connection.
Can't Xiao En's soul consciousness switch back and forth in the soul armament?
These soul weapons, even if they are thousands of miles away, have an extremely close bond with each other.
Although this kind of fetter cannot allow Sean to perceive what they see and hear in real time, it can accurately locate and even roughly calculate the straight-line distance between the two parties. Golden eagles play positioning and navigation. After setting the direction and altitude, they basically don't care about it, and just fly in this direction.
Even if the connection between the god of death and the undead soldiers is not comparable to that of Sean, it shouldn't be a problem to issue simple remote summon commands to them.
Marshal Eriksson left a corps to sweep the battlefield, then turned around and quickly interspersed.
Since he had already guessed the enemy's combat objectives in advance, when Marshal Eriksson led his troops to carry out the operations, the objective was very clear, that is, to take the first step and lay between the Donnao River and the undead soldiers.
Although the Dragon Skeleton Warship can go ashore, it is under the condition of sufficient magic energy.
If it still dares to jump to the shore now, it will seek its own death, and it will not be too far before it will be torn into pieces by the leader of Yongye Army.
In this case, the undead soldiers can only go to the dragon skeleton battleship.
The two sides are racing against time, and what they are fighting is a time difference.
Once Marshal Eriksson arrived first with his troops and stopped the undead army, even if they were not wiped out, it would only take two to three days.
Even if the dragon bone warship where the God of Death was located had not been dismantled into pieces, a large number of reinforcements from the Yong Ye Army Commander would have arrived.
If the God of Death fights with the undead army first, many variables will arise. Even if the leader of the Eternal Night Army solves the crisis brought by the Klein tribe, it is possible that the culprit who caused this crisis will not be left behind.
If such a lunatic is allowed to escape, it will definitely cause endless harm. Maybe one day, he will make a comeback with an endless army of undead.
After realizing this, Marshal Eriksson led the Bull Legion and the Fortress Legion to rush forward day and night, and reached the front of the undead army less than 20 kilometers away from the Donau River.
To be more precise, it should be forced to the designated battlefield by the Eternal Night Army.
The Eternal Night Army Leader has no way to control the actions of the undead army, but they can influence the God of Death to a certain extent.
There is a full fleet behind its ass!
The two explorer battleships that were previously hung on the dragon skeleton battleship have already separated.
It's not that Xiao En doesn't want to eat the other party in one bite, but that the Donau River is a bit too vast. The explorer fleet must be careful to prevent the dragon skeleton warship from suddenly turning its bow and rushing through them. The dragon skeleton battleship has never given up on this point. If there is a wave of testing, the explorer fleet will be in a hurry.
Then there is the flexibility of the Dragon Skeleton battleship, which is far above the battleship led by the Yongye Army.
To a certain extent, the Dragon Skeleton Battleship is now a living thing. If you want to go left, you can go left, and if you want to go right, you can go right. If there is nothing to do, you can still perform showy operations beyond the limit, which is naturally very difficult.
What's more terrible is that the recovery ability of this God of Death is quite amazing. He is an out-and-out harvester of life. He walks on the river, and wherever he passes, dead fish float up in pieces.
These dead fish are intact on the outside, but there is no half life from the inside to the outside.
It is obvious that their souls were all harvested by the hungry God of Death, devouring all the energy of spells crazily, and producing new energy of death spells.
The explorer fleet will not just watch it cultivate and recuperate, and the bombardment has never stopped from beginning to end.
Driven by them consciously, the dragon skeleton battleship was quickly forced to ten kilometers downstream of Brothers Port.
The explorer fleet restrained its pressing pace, maintained a certain amount of suppressive firepower, and prevented the energy of the dragon skeleton battleship from increasing too fast, and at the same time did not force it to rush into Brother Port or the leader of the Eternal Night Army.