Chapter 217: Annihilation Battle 1

Durram deployed his troops, reorganized the formation, and led the orcs out of the camp.

He led the kobolds in the lead, the minotaurs in the middle, and the wild boars in the rear. The werewolf cavalry cruised outside, and the snake-bodied professionals served as the reserve team and appeared at the most critical moment.

Seeing the orcs walk out of the camp, Richard immediately ordered the catapults to reduce the counterweight and adjust the range to 400 meters.

Duram waved his hand violently, and the orc army moved forward quickly. His eyes were very sharp, staring at the human camp.

Duram knew that the orcs were far from being the opponent of humans in long-range shooting.

The advantage of the orcs was close combat, and they could only defeat their opponents in the battle by exerting their own strength advantage.

Seeing that the kobolds had entered the range of the alchemical bombs, Richard did not intend to attack them.

The reserve of alchemical bombs was insufficient, and they could only be used to attack high-value targets. Richard had asked the auxiliary soldiers who operated the catapults to focus on the snake-bodied people.

As long as the snake-bodied man appears on the battlefield, the alchemical bomb will hit the snake-bodied man.

The dog-headed man moved forward very quickly and entered the archer's range in about three minutes.

In the Harland territory, all veterans practiced archery, and there were many sharpshooters. There were more than two thousand soldiers equipped with bows and arrows, accounting for almost half of the total.

These veterans have been in the army for many years and are wearing steel armor.

Those who can use bows and arrows are all good players in the army. Because of military skills, archery is the most difficult to practice. The gun and sword skills used in actual combat are not so fancy. There are often only a few moves. It is not difficult to master them and you can get started in a few months.

Unless the archery level is very talented, it usually takes many years to train a qualified archer.

According to Richard's experience, soldiers who can practice archery well are not only powerful, but also have a foundation in breathing practice, and are also good at using other weapons.

It takes about five or six years to train a good archer with a third-level archery level.

The arrows pierced the kobolds with a sharp whistling sound, and several kobold squadrons were immediately covered by the rain of arrows.

Seeing the rain of arrows coming, the kobolds hurriedly raised their shields.

But the kobolds' thin wooden shields could not stop the strong bows and crossbows.

The kobold captain's eyes blurred, and hot blood splashed on his face. Suddenly, his ears were filled with sharp whistles that pierced his eardrums.

The white light in front of him passed by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, many of the soldiers he commanded had been shot and fell, and there was a large gap in the formation.

"Shoot!"

Before the kobold captain could react, the second round of arrows had been fired. The dense arrows were like falling raindrops, with a deadly arc, and once again hit the kobold vanguard.

This time, the kobold captain was unlucky and was shot into a sieve by seven or eight arrows.

Immediately after the third and fourth rounds, after six consecutive rounds of arrow rain, more than half of the three kobold squadrons in the lead had been killed or wounded.

Although the orcs could bear more casualties, such a miserable scene still exceeded the limit of the Kobold Squadron.

The fear of death constantly hit the nerves of the Kobolds. Seeing another round of arrow rain coming, the Kobold vanguard finally couldn't hold on. They shouted wildly and retreated backwards at the same time, but were stopped by the second echelon of Minotaur.

The orcs' military law was harsh. The Minotaur was not polite to the Kobolds and immediately arrested and executed them.

When Duram saw this scene, he immediately had a bad idea in his heart. He had participated in many wars, and such a swift and powerful long-range attack power still shocked Duram.

Duram had only seen so many archers in the backbone brigade of the main human legion. He really couldn't understand why a small viscount had such elite soldiers under his command.

Duram didn't understand at all that the military strength of the Harland Territory had been established for nine years.

In the past nine years, Richard had invested millions of gold coins in the army intermittently. For nine years, this army has not suffered major losses and has been in a healthy development.

Now, the combat effectiveness of several main infantry squadrons in Harland Territory is second only to the Warcraft Cavalry, far exceeding that of ordinary infantry squadrons.

Although the number is small, it can indeed be called an elite force.

The dog-headed men of the first echelon were defeated, and the tauren of the second echelon rushed up.

Cold arrows were constantly shot out, and bursts of whistling sounds came in the air. Black spots fell from the sky. The tauren hurriedly raised their big shields to protect their bodies firmly.

The tauren were powerful, and the shields they held were very sophisticated. The outside was covered with a layer of wrought iron, the inner layer was six or seven centimeters of elm, and the innermost layer had a leather-lined handle. Unless the enchanted crossbow is enchanted, there is kinetic energy to penetrate this heavy shield.

Harland Territory has hunted many high-level Warcraft, and some blood steel can be produced in the territory. Over the years, hundreds of enchanted crossbows have been accumulated.

These enchanted crossbow users are all archers, and their archery skills have generally reached the third level, and seven or eight people have even reached the fourth level.

The third-level archers are already one in a hundred, and their arrows almost never miss, and every arrow hits the flesh.

The fourth-level archery skills are even more rare, and they can shoot at the swinging willow branches from 300 meters away. Even the eagles in the sky can't avoid this terrible archery and can be easily shot down.

These more than one hundred archers are almost the backbone of the Harland territory.

More than a hundred archers use enchanted crossbows, and each round of shooting causes heavy casualties to the orcs, with about a hundred casualties.

Although the orcs hold shields and wear armor, they still can't stand the killing of enchanted crossbows for too long.

Seeing the increasing casualties, the minotaurs sped up. After suffering a lot of casualties and entering the range, they used slingshots to throw stones at the human army.

The minotaurs were very strong, and the stones thrown by the slingshots were also lethal.

However, throwing stones was far less accurate than archery, and such an exchange ratio was very disadvantageous.

In order to avoid greater casualties, the minotaurs could only continue to speed up and fight close combat with human soldiers.

After 500 to 600 casualties, only about half of the minotaurs of more than 1,000 people in the six squadrons were left.

At this moment, the distance between the two sides was only a dozen meters.

"Forward."

The minotaur commander drew out his command knife, shouted wildly, and rushed towards the first brigade.

Seeing the orcs rushing to the front of the formation, the soldiers could even see the hot air exhaled by the orcs. The veterans of the first brigade were not at all confused, and almost shot the last round of arrows close to the orcs' faces.

The lethality of close-range arrows is extremely strong. This round of feather arrows almost killed the orcs rushing in the front, opening a large gap in the orc army.

After shooting the last round of feather arrows, the veterans stuck the enchanted crossbows into the ground, pulled out the enchanted long swords at their waists, and took the initiative to block in front.

All the archers in the territory wore enchanted armor. Many of them wore brute force armor and launched brute force spells.

Seeing that the orcs were about to rush up, the magicians of the mage group took action.

In this battle, all the Harland Mage Associations were dispatched, the primary apprentices participated in the treatment group, and the middle and high apprentices followed the magicians and were responsible for casting spells.

In an instant, more than 20 spells were released.

These spells included attack spells and control spells.

In an instant, fifty or sixty orcs were killed or injured, and more than a hundred tauren were restricted in their steps.

In war, once the movement is restricted, there is no way to survive. The orcs who were restrained by the spider web spell and the grease spell died immediately under the swords, guns and arrows.

The second echelon suffered heavy casualties, and the third echelon wild boars had already killed them.

The reason why the orcs rushed up one echelon after another was that they used the tactic of adding fuel to the fire.

The main reason was that the camp built by Richard was small in scale, and there were too many soldiers to be deployed. The soldiers in front would block the attack route of the soldiers behind, and they would easily become targets for archers when they were crowded together.

The wild boars charged very quickly and quickly filled the gap left by the tauren.

Seeing that the mage group was so lethal, Duram decided to take his personal soldiers to attack the human mage group.

Richard observed the battlefield and did not make a move. Seeing that Duram was coming up aggressively, Richard held the lightning staff, invested ten points of mental power, and used the powerful four-ring magic lightning spell.

With ten points of mental power, the power of the powerful lightning spell is not weaker than high-level magic. With the blessing of the lightning staff, the power of this magic is slightly higher than the nine-ring magic.

The lightning spell is not only powerful in destructive power, but also fast in attack speed.

Duram was hit by this spell before he could dodge, and his blood and qi surged up and his body became numb.

If it weren't for his high magic resistance, this spell would have killed him.

Although he survived the powerful lightning spell, Duram's chest was already burnt and smelly, and even his internal organs were almost roasted by the strong current.

Seeing that Duram was seriously injured, the orc shaman hurriedly released a healing spell.

The powerful life energy entered his body, and Duram finally escaped. Seeing Richard raise the lightning staff again, Duram's scalp numbed and he immediately hid behind the guards.

The two sides began to fight hand-to-hand, and the snake-like professional also sorted out the formation and prepared to fight.

Although the snake-like professional army is powerful, its weaknesses are very obvious. It moves slowly and cannot catch up with the human elite soldiers, and is easily restrained by targeted tactics.

It is difficult for such an army to fight independently. If the snake-bodied squadron fights the first squadron of the Harland Territory, the first squadron can easily use the kite-flying tactic to kill all the snake-bodied squadrons.

Even if Soros is alone, riding an iron-horned horse and holding an enchanted bow, he can easily defeat his opponent.

Therefore, the snake-bodied squadron has no independent combat capability because of its obvious weakness, and can only cooperate with the main force of the orcs to fight.

Although the weakness is obvious, the snake-bodied people are very strong in close combat, and Richard dare not let the snake-bodied people break into the formation.

Once in close combat with the snake-bodied people, casualties will be difficult to control.

Even if the elite infantry of the first squadron fights hand-to-hand with the snake-bodied professionals of the same squadron, the casualties will become very heavy, which Richard cannot bear.

So he immediately issued a military order to let the auxiliary soldiers launch alchemical bombs.