Chapter 888 【0885】 Next Level

Before Draven's troops showed up, Lux had been very worried.

She was not worried about the Noxians, but about her own supply lines and the possible actions of the Frostguard priests.

For Lux, the Black Forest was filled with the fog of war, and what was even more terrible was that she knew nothing about the characteristics of the Frostguard tribe - the only reference she could have was the characteristics of the void creatures that Karya had mentioned, and the ice bloodline.

So, when the Frostguard priests opened up the glacier rift and led Draven's troops through the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain, Lux was even worried that they would come up with something like a hernia and make a big detour.

If the other side did not fight with her head-on, but ran to cut off the food supply, then Lux would be in a lot of trouble.

When the Noxians did not show up for a long time, Lux and the staff of the headquarters put themselves in the perspective of the Noxians and proposed three possibilities: upper, middle and lower.

The best strategy for the Noxians should be to make a large-scale detour, even at the risk of causing opposition from other principalities, and launch attacks on Nokmochi and even Laobamen. Although doing so will put Noxus in an absolute passive position in diplomacy, the Demacia Northern Expedition did not leave too many soldiers in the Principality of Valoran and the city-states to protect the supply lines.

If the Noxians are really so bold, Lux and the Demacia Northern Expedition will instantly fall into an absolute passive position.

Of course, considering that the Noxians do not have a full-map vision, the possibility of them making such a desperate bet should not be too high.

In Lux's eyes, the Noxians' middle strategy is to build a fortress in the north of Tuk'gul and defend it.

With the support of the Frostguard tribe and the initial active slowdown of the Northern Expedition, Noxus should be able to quickly build a fortress on the main traffic route from Tuk'gul to Freljord - as long as the fortress is built, the Northern Expedition will not ignore the fortress and go deep into Freljord.

Although this plan seems a bit stupid, it is enough to make the Northern Expedition uncomfortable. The long supply line has always been the most vulnerable link of the Northern Expedition. The Noxians, who rely on the fortress for defense, can wait and see the Northern Expedition in a hurry.

At the same time, the Frostguard and Avarosa will fight without interference. Lux can't say whether she can defeat the Noxian fortress first or the Frostguard will deal with Ashe first.

As for the worst strategy, Lux and all the staff and commanders agree that frontal combat is the absolute worst strategy for Noxus.

Although this cognition sounds a bit arrogant, it is true. The imaginary enemy of the Northern Expedition is Lissandra, the Frostguard priests, and the void creatures. In addition to food and supplies, the Enyuk cart is loaded with the knocked down Malphites.

Although it might be difficult to fight the void creatures with these, if the enemy is Noxus, the result is bound to be a crushing defeat. If there is a fortress, the Noxians may be able to delay for a while, but if they really go crazy and choose to fight head-on, the outcome of the battle will not be in suspense.

And now, with the east and west pincer attacks of Draven's troops and Darius's troops, the intentions of the Noxians have been completely exposed.

They are planning to win the battle head-on by means of a pincer attack!

Ha, a bad strategy!

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Darius obviously doesn't know that his choice is actually a bad strategy in the eyes of the Demacians.

For him, when he saw the signal given by Draven's troops and the scouts confirmed that the five warbands in the west were about to meet the enemy, Darius also breathed a sigh of relief.

Those Frostguard priests are still useful. They really sent Draven's troops to the Black Forest without anyone noticing!

Now, the pincer attack has been formed, and the Demacians are just pretending to be calm. It's time to make a concerted effort to wash away the shame of the Battle of Tobysia!

Facing the eager eyes of other warband commanders, at this moment, Darius finally raised his double-edged battle axe high.

"Charge, fearless warriors of Noxus!"

"Our comrades have launched a surprise attack in the west, and now the Demacians have fallen into an absolute passive situation!"

"Everyone pick up your weapons. At this moment, all the sharp edges belonging to Noxus will suffer the blood of Demacians!"

"For Noxus!"

Amid Darius's roar, the Noxian warbands that had been ready for a long time quickly attacked. Three of the seven warbands, with the commander's personal guard warband as the vanguard, fully deployed the attack formation.

Countless Noxian soldiers wearing black iron armor walked out of the shadow of the Black Forest. They silently and neatly held their spears and axes, slowly sweeping towards the Demacia position like a forest.

At the same time, on the other side, Draven's command was more direct: "Hit hard, charge hard, blow up the heads of those Demacians, it's our turn to perform!"

Amid Draven's shouting, all the axemen and archers in the five war groups that were deployed in a sharp arrow shape came to the two wings as planned, and continued to deploy to both sides to increase the strike surface as much as possible.

The main force of the Trifari War Group led by Draven, swarmed down from the hillside of the southern foot of the Dragon Ridge Mountains, like a rushing black river, roaring towards the slightly narrow and long position of the Demacia Northern Expedition Army.

This lack of thickness in the formation, under the attack from the east and west, will definitely collapse at the touch of a button!

Faced with the Noxian offensive from both the east and west, the Northern Expedition Army did not show any confusion, and they did not even actively shrink their formation and build a heavy defense.

On the contrary, the Demacians further expanded their formation, as if they were afraid that the difference in the forces of the two sides in this wave of pincer attack was not large enough, and the Noxian assault was not fierce enough.

Draven obviously did not understand these changes.

Although Darius understood what the Demacians were doing, he did not understand why they did this.

What's wrong, are you afraid that you will not be penetrated?

Darius, who was laughing in his heart, could not help but hug his shoulders - to be honest, he was a little itchy, and he wanted to rush up and swing his axe to chop, but now he was no longer the Hand of Noxus, and as the commander-in-chief of Noxus, Darius had to suppress this impulse.

In this situation, he could only draw out the dagger he carried with him, squinting his eyes to look at the battlefield situation from a high place, while rubbing the sharp edge of the dagger with his fingers.

The feeling of the sharp blade against the skin is strong enough!

Soon, under Darius's expectant eyes, the vanguard of Noxus and the front-row shield guards of the Northern Expedition Army collided fiercely.

The originally neat direction of the Northern Expedition Army soon became uneven as if the commander-in-chief's personal guards rushed forward, and it seemed to collapse at any time.

However, the willpower of these Demacians is quite good. Even so, they at least held the front line and even launched a few counterattacks from time to time.

From Darius's perspective, it seems that the casualties of both sides are actually similar?

Why, these Demacians put all their elite troops on the eastern front?

With a wave of his hand, he signaled the messenger beside him to change the flag and the drumbeat. As the order was issued, the commander-in-chief's guards, who were still fighting with the Demacia shield guards, began to withdraw from the battlefield in an orderly manner and make room for attack. At the same time, the Iron Wings, the second attack echelon, began to charge.

Darius, who had rich combat experience, knew very well that the shield guards were not afraid of muddy battles, but of echelon attacks like the tide. The continuous offensive would quickly cut the defenders' will, and no matter how determined the warriors were, they could not persist forever in passive defense.

Since the Demacians were unwilling to shrink the formation and increase the width of the formation, and insisted on giving themselves sufficient offensive space, they must use it!

"Inform the Bloody Corps and Conqueror Corps that if the Demacians don't shrink their front line in the next phase, they will all attack together!" Darius couldn't help pinching his fingers while speaking, "Then the Iron Reaper and the Immortal Warriors. Since the Demacians want to be heroes, let them become heroes on the monument!"

The messenger took the order and flew away, and Darius squinted his eyes and looked for a while, then waved behind him.

"Hurry up and urge Draven, don't delay the time on the western front any more-the main force of Demacia is here, he should rush in quickly."

"Defeat them earlier, and there will be fewer casualties."

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When Draven received his brother's order, he didn't even have the strength to respond at the first time.

Unlike the situation of Demacia's defense and Noxus's attack on the eastern front, when Draven led five regiments to attack in full force on the western front, the Demacians decisively chose to counterattack.

Originally, this counterattack was exactly what Draven wanted.

Especially when the Frostguard Priests summoned a blizzard over the enemy, Draven even heard the goddess of victory smile.

I have five elite warbands on my side, and the terrain is still high. Why do you want to distract yourself from the eastern defense and counterattack me?

However, the reversal of the battle situation only took a moment.

After the two sides were in full contact, Draven suddenly found that the situation seemed to be completely different from what he imagined.

The Demacians with the blizzard on their heads did not suffer any substantial damage. Their mages countered the spells very well. Although they did not directly dispel the blizzard, they at least ensured that the soldiers covered were not affected too much.

If it was just like this, it would not be a big deal for Draven - in a frontal battle without the advantage of spells, he was still very confident in the Trifari Warband and the other four battles.

However, as the first wave of offensives was smashed in front of a group of stupid stone men, Draven's brain had a short downtime.

What are these big stone men who don't look very smart, but cooperate very well?

Are they new Forbidden Stone Colossi?

Why do they move by themselves?

They move very slowly and stupidly, but why do they work so well with the Demacians?

Why do arrows, axes, spells, and even swords have no effect on them?

Draven is not the only one who has these questions - all the Noxians who rushed out in the first wave on the entire Western Front, full of hope that they can win, have these doubts at this time.

They rushed to the front of the Northern Expedition Army, and then watched their swords break on the Malphites, watched the Demacians skillfully move in sync with the Malphites, and watched them join forces to sweep the battlefield. Although they fought hard throughout the process, the result was meaningless.

Compared to the foot-and-army coordinated tactics adopted by the North Walkers during the Demacia Civil War, the current Northern Expedition Army uses a more complex, more coordinated, and more powerful infantry-tank-mage coordinated tactic.

Malphite provides mobile cover for the battle mage, and together with the squadron-sized warriors, forms an infantry-tank-mage unit. On a battlefield with limited width, the Noxians simply cannot deal enough damage to destroy such a small battle cluster.

And since the Noxians can't come up with any effective means, such a battle cluster can naturally crush the battlefield like a bulldozer.

Draven watched his flying axe deeply cut into a Malphite's body, leaving a wound of several inches, but after a few breaths, a magician hiding behind Malphite completed the basic repair.

As the ultimate weapon of the Shurima Empire to suppress the void, one of the most important features of the monolithic element is its strong memory and repairability. Although there are not many people in Demacia who know advanced elements, there are still more than 30 qualified archers who can urgently repair Malphite's non-structural damage on the battlefield.

This number is enough.

Considering that the damage that the Noxians can cause to Malphite is limited, and they did not carry too much heavy firepower to form a pincer attack, these archers can fully undertake the mission of repairers.

In fact, according to normal requirements, the wounds cut by Draven do not need to be repaired, but the archer just now was a little too idle. Seeing that no one else seemed to be able to cause damage to Malphite, she still repaired it.

Anyway... I'm idle anyway.

Draven was stunned when he saw this scene. If it weren't for the guards around him who desperately covered him, he might have been the first to die in the front.

Then, when he was rescued from the battlefield with a blank mind, the messenger brought Darius's order,

"The main force of Demacia is on the eastern front, and the western front should strengthen...the offensive..."

The messenger obviously noticed the situation on the western front, and his voice became smaller and smaller. If it were normal, Draven would definitely scold him loudly, but now, he suddenly stood up.

"Now, go back and tell my brother, tell Darius that this is a trap. The Demacians are much stronger than expected. I will hold back their real main force. The eastern front must withdraw from the battle as soon as possible!"

"Right away!"

As he said, Draven took out a pair of flying axes again, called his guards and planned to rush to the battlefield again.

"Are you crazy?" Tamara hurriedly found him when the guard looked a little embarrassed. "You are going to die at this time!"

"It is better for me to die than for Darius to die!" Draven pushed Tamara away roughly and asked the guards to tie her up. "Go, send her to the east. She is good at talking and knows how to make things clear. The rest, come with me and charge again!"

Kalya's small class·Single Stone Tactics:

In the Shurima Empire, the single stone tactics are used with the ascenders. Considering the situation of Demacia and Malphite, the Northern Expedition chose to use Malphite as a small mobile cover fortress, and cooperate with the Archons and the Northern Expedition to advance in a dense front.

At present, this move has formed a crushing effect on Noxus.

P.S. Let's see if we can add a few chapters at the end of the month.