Chapter 134 Death Mist

To produce a one-kilogram alchemical bomb, the cost is 700 grams of blood steel, which is worth eight silver coins and twelve copper coins. 300 grams of black gunpowder is worth five silver coins and sixteen copper coins. In addition, a magician needs to invest four hours to draw magic runes.

Even if the labor of making the bomb shell and black gunpowder is taken into account, the cost does not exceed two gold coins, in addition to the magician's time investment.

The alchemical bombs sold by the Heart of Elements are more powerful, but the price is as high as one hundred gold coins, and the cost performance is not comparable to the magic bombs produced in the Harland Territory.

Before going to the war, Richard had a premonition that this war might encounter trouble, so he stored a lot of war materials in the Starlight Bottle in advance. Among them are alchemical bombs.

There are only 500 alchemical bombs in the Harland Territory, all stored in a separate underground warehouse in Sophia Castle.

This time, Richard went to the war with 300 alchemical bombs, hidden in the Starlight Bottle.

It takes a special spell to open the Starlight Bottle, and this spell needs to be read in Mandarin.

Richard didn't want outsiders to know anything about Mandarin, so he would often quietly chant the spell in the middle of the night when no one was around to open the Starlight Bottle.

Today's exploratory attack was not successful, so Richard asked everyone to rest for a day.

That night, Richard quietly opened the Starlight Bottle in a place where no one was, and took out thirty alchemical bombs.

After the alchemical bomb was successfully manufactured, a lot of actual combat training was done in the territory. Many veterans of the first squadron had personally thrown alchemical bombs and had a clear understanding of the dangers of such things.

The squadron also selected grenadiers who specialized in throwing bombs.

The selection criteria for grenadiers are very strict, and the strength needs to be more than six points.

Generally speaking, the strength of a first-level professional is about six points. Before there is an advanced professional, the strength is more than six points, and they are all naturally strong.

The soldiers of the first squadron have practiced breathing methods for five years. There are no advanced professionals, and the number of soldiers with strength exceeding six points is no more than ten.

These people have focused on training throwing skills. They throw one kilogram of alchemical bombs, not only at a long distance, but also very accurately.

Richard is going to let the first squadron take the lead today, and use thirty alchemical bombs to sneak attack and stun the enemy at once.

When the enemy in the camp is in chaos, let the two cavalry squadrons attack from above.

After formulating the tactics, Richard called the officers together and arranged the combat tasks.

When it was about ten o'clock in the morning, the soldiers had breakfast. Richard saw that the sun was abundant and the weather was pleasant, so he immediately issued an order to attack the city.

The first squadron slowly walked out of the camp, approached the archers' range, and raised the heavy shield.

The shield weighed 100 kilograms and could protect five or six people.

If the first squadron was not very high-quality, many people were strongmen with strength of more than four points, and they could not lift such a heavy shield at all.

This special shield has iron sheets nailed on the outside, thick wooden boards in the middle, and sheepskin lining inside.

The heavy shield has a very strong defense. Unless you encounter a powerful archer like Richard, ordinary archers can't shoot through this three-layer heavy shield.

Relying on the protection of the heavy shield, the casualties of the first squadron were minimal, and they rushed to the trench outside the camp.

Seeing that the distance was no more than 30 meters, the grenadiers and professional officers of the first squadron threw alchemical bombs one after another.

Thirty alchemical bombs exploded in the camp almost at the same time, and the camp was immediately blown up into dust.

The splashing shrapnel flew everywhere, directly sweeping down a large number of people.

Because the grenadiers threw very accurately, most of the thirty alchemical bombs exploded in the crowd.

A large number of soldiers were affected by the explosion, and the casualties were very heavy.

There were only more than 300 rebels in the camp, and more than 100 were killed and wounded at once.

The violent explosion stunned the rebels instantly.

There were broken arms and limbs everywhere in the camp, and there were miserable cries of casualties in every place.

Even in the first squadron attacking the stronghold, many recruits were a little stunned when they saw the miserable state of the enemy.

These recruits were serfs recruited by Baron Les and others. After being recruited by Richard, they became auxiliary soldiers and cooperated with the armored soldiers of the first squadron to fight.

Although they had participated in a battle and had some combat experience, their ability to withstand was better than that of the recruits.

However, when they first saw the power of the alchemical bomb, the recruits were still scared out of their wits. Many recruits actually knelt on the ground and prayed to the gods not to send down thunder.

Martin, the captain of the first squadron, shouted and dragged a recruit up with kicks and beatings.

"Hurry up and fill the trenches to open the attack channel for the cavalry."

Hearing the captain's order, the flag bearer waved the flag vigorously.

The Brena serf army was in the second echelon, out of the archers' range. Seeing the flag, the officers issued orders, and the serfs pushed wheelbarrows and filled the trenches with earth bags.

The surviving soldiers in the camp found that the enemy was filling the trenches, and spontaneously organized to shoot arrows, killing the serfs filling the trenches.

The archers of the first squadron also drew their bows and arrows, suppressing the small number of archers in the mountain village.

There are many veterans in the first squadron, two of them are fourth-level archers, more than 20 of them are third-level archers, and there are five or six enchanted bows in the hands of officers.

The soldiers and officers in the mountain village suffered heavy casualties, and there were only more than 30 organized archers.

They soon fell into a disadvantageous position in the shooting with the first squadron.

In a few minutes, more than ten people were killed or injured. And the archers of the first squadron only lost one person and injured two.

Seeing that the archers could not gain an advantage, they could not suppress the first squadron.

The camp was about to fall. The camp commander had a bit of fanaticism on his face. He gathered the soldiers together, took out a short knife, cut the aorta on his wrist, and put his blood into a huge magic circle.

There was a strange white crystal in the middle of the magic circle. After the crystal was dyed red with blood, it immediately burst out with a dazzling light, and a plane channel leading directly to the dead world was immediately formed.

The cultists in the mountain village used a special method to open the mysterious plane channel, and Richard outside was completely unaware of it.

Suddenly, a stream of mist spread out in the mountain village. Seeing this scene, Richard's face changed, and he immediately blew the horn of retreat and conveyed the order to retreat to the first squadron.

Richard had seen this kind of mist in a book, called the fog of death.

There is a lot of mysterious power in the mist, which will greatly consume the vitality of living things. Whether it is people, animals or trees, as long as they are shrouded in the mist, their vitality will sooner or later be sucked away by the mist.

All corpses that die in the mist will become terrible undead.

Undeads are very resistant to physical attacks, and elemental and soul magic are needed to kill them.

Richard is the only magician in the army, but he can't beat more than a few hundred undeads.

Slightly more powerful undeads are more difficult to deal with than third-level professionals.

Three hundred undeads, even if a legendary warrior comes, he can only run away alone.

This problem has occurred in the village, which is beyond Richard's control. Now he can only turn to the Dawn Church, hoping to rely on the power of the church to kill the undead and eliminate the fog.

Fortunately, the fog is not expanding fast, and the undead are not smart. They don't like to leave the environment covered by the death fog, so Richard can smoothly retreat to Brena County with his soldiers.

The official roads of the two counties have been blocked by the fog. Richard wants to enter Canyon County for support, so he can only take a small path over the mountains.