Chapter 278: Vanguard Destroyed

However, while the vanguard of the Severn Kingdom's army was waiting for the next order from Severn IX, they, the attackers, were the first to be attacked.

This vanguard officer who was a walk-on and whose name I can't even remember, followed the common practice in human countries during siege warfare, and lined up his troops five hundred meters away from the city wall. This is correct according to common sense, because few common slings, arrows and even magic in human countries can hit five hundred meters away.

But this pioneer officer didn't know that the attack range of the night elves was different from that of ordinary humans. Speaking of which, there were a very small number of soldiers who escaped before. Those nobles who were redeemed should also have discovered in the previous battles that the night elves have a far greater killing range than ordinary people? Why did the vanguard officer still send his troops to the night elves? Yu Fei was puzzled, but he was not polite.

The vanguard of the Severn Kingdom can be regarded as the second most elite group among the troops dispatched by the Severn Kingdom this time - the first elite is naturally the Severn IX who is guarding the emperor's personal expedition.

However, even these ordinary soldiers, who were the advanced troops of 100,000, were running away in front of the boulders, arrows and javelins flying from a distance and falling on their heads with great kinetic energy and potential energy.

This vanguard force is composed of relatively elite soldiers from various armies, and they were not part of one unit before. So after the chaos started, few people listened to the order of the pioneer officer who had little authority, and they all ran away.

The vanguard officer was also speechless. Seeing the situation, it was impossible to attack or continue to wait for orders. He had no choice but to announce that the entire army would retreat three hundred meters. Since it was an order to escape, the soldiers chose to obey, restored some order, and retreated three hundred meters in a consistent manner.

Next, the vanguard officer also felt a little bad. The night elves attacked Brak Fortress from the other side. Although that side of the city wall was destroyed by blade throwers and boulders, the side facing the Severn Kingdom was still intact.

Although when it was being built, the wall facing the country was not as tall and thick as the other wall that had been destroyed by the night elves, it would still pose a great resistance to the siege.

Now, after discovering the enemy's extremely long attack range and feeling the intensity of the night elves' attacks, the vanguard officer made a calculation. In the short time it took to react and retreat, the 100,000 leading troops he led actually lost as much as 30,000.

The vanguard officer looked at the dead soldiers. Except for those who were crushed to death by boulders, each of the dead soldiers had only an arrow or javelin stuck in their body. This precise strike made the vanguard officer shudder.

The city wall that is so far away from the city wall and so tall and majestic cannot be captured in a short time. How many people will die during this time? After a rough estimate, the vanguard officer discovered that if he dared to lead the vanguard to directly attack the Brak Fortress, he might be wiped out before he even reached the base of the city wall.

The vanguard officer wisely gave up the idea of ​​​​attacking the city and was not even willing to test it. He had already thought in his mind that even if King Severn IX gave an order for the vanguard to attack first, he would not obey it.

attack? The only role they can play is probably to lay a layer of corpses in front of Brak Fortress. Even these corpses did not even reach the gathering that was piled up under the city wall as a path for future generations, because they would all die on the way to the charge.

The vanguard officer, who had made up his mind to wait for the follow-up troops to arrive, and the soldiers who were frightened by the previous attack, were getting along very harmoniously at the moment. Everyone was very calm and did not take any action - attacking would mean death, and if they retreated directly, no one would dare to do so without receiving an order.

However, soon, the vanguard could no longer remain calm. Because they saw from a distance that the gate of Brak Fortress was actually opened! Naturally, the pioneer officer also saw this scene. He was stunned for a moment and then sneered and imparted his experience to the adjutant next to him.

"This enemy is too naive. He opened a city gate and wanted to lure us to attack. We are not fools. We could have closed the city gate by the time we reached such a long distance. Do the enemies in the city think we are seeing them? Will you continue to attack blindly after a powerful long-range attack? You saw through this little trick at a glance."

The adjutant next to him naturally responded nonstop, and the pioneer officer also boasted endlessly. However, in this harmonious atmosphere, the new scene they saw made them and all the soldiers in the vanguard completely uneasy.

After the city gate of Brak Fortress was opened, it did not remain empty to lure human troops to attack, but many troops quickly walked out of it. This includes the mountain giants who must line up one by one to go out, the druids of the claw in their untransformed form, and some highly mobile units such as huntresses and deer.

Soon, in the eyes of the leading troops of the Kingdom of Severn who were observing from a distance, these troops, which totaled only five thousand, rushed straight towards them?

Are the enemies in the city out of their minds? Don't take advantage of the good defense of the city and send troops out of the city to fight? Do they think they can defeat our elite division with these strange-looking troops?

The vanguard officer was excited, but he was able to keep his composure at the beginning, and said to the adjutant next to him: "These enemies are really cunning. Seeing that we are not fooled, they put out bait to attract our attack, but I will never be fooled."

However, when he saw that the stone giants rushed to a position 600 meters outside the Black Fortress and did not stop, the vanguard officer was completely excited. These enemies were really stupid enough to attack them with less than 5,000 people!

Although the stone giants looked terrifying, and those strange-looking races seemed to be quite powerful, the vanguard officer was not afraid at all. In his heart, the army he led could be considered a strong army in the entire continent.

If it were not for the transfer from various troops, it would definitely not be able to gather hundreds of thousands of soldiers who had entered the ranks, even if they were only trainee warriors. Well, well, now there are more than 70,000 left.

Even if these enemies have some strength, I am afraid they can't make any waves with a fifteen-fold difference in numbers, right? With this thought and the excitement of being the first to make a contribution, the vanguard officer of the Severn Kingdom's vanguard actually issued an order to go forward to meet the enemy.

And the soldiers under his command were really a good match for this brainless vanguard officer, and they all rushed forward excitedly. Each of them was a soldier with a little status in their respective troops, but after being incorporated into the vanguard, they all became ordinary soldiers, and they were naturally angry.

Just now, more than 20,000 were killed and wounded by the ranged troops of the night elves, and nearly 30,000 were killed and wounded. Every soldier was terrified and angry. Now those enemies actually gave up their long-range advantages and the convenience of the city walls and ran out to fight them. Every soldier wanted to thank the fire.

So, they actually launched a counterattack against the running mountain giants in a hot-headed manner. Oh my God, I don't want to describe how brave and courageous this is.

As the distance gradually closed, those hot-headed soldiers who rushed to the front gradually reacted. With the size of the mountain giants, the closer the distance, the stronger the sense of oppression given to the enemy. The soldiers at the front had realized how stupid their actions were, but they couldn't stop.

In the charging army, if you want to stop, the only way is to be trampled to death by the people behind you. Soon, these soldiers who were full of fear from being overwhelmed by blood ran into the mountain giants.

The fate of these soldiers at the front can be imagined. "Pah--" "Puff--" "Swish--" As a symphony composed of these sounds sounded, there were puddles of meat sauce on the ground.

The mountain giants who stopped the momentum of the charge stopped, waved their thick earth and stone sticks, and began to sweep along the ground. In the last battle to attack the Black Fortress, these mountain giants learned experience. When dealing with these enemies whose bodies are quite small compared to themselves, the effect of sweeping along the ground is much better than the effect of lifting and smashing.

Although the visual effect caused by the sweep is not as good as smashing, the actual number of casualties is there. The vanguard troops, which were already in a dense formation, were swept away by the mountain giants. Their lowest trainee-level strength did not play any role.

In front of the giant sticks wielded by the mountain giants, there was no difference between ordinary strong men and trainee-level warriors. The vanguard officer standing at the back was already dumbfounded. Are those stone giants really not creatures that only appear in legends?

Also, what are those things that turn into bears, leopards or wolves when they run and lie on the ground? Damn! They actually release earth spikes! Ah, it hurts! They actually discharge electricity! Ah, it hurts! They actually spit wind blades! Ah, it hurts! Those enemies in the distance with beautiful upper bodies and deer lower bodies actually throw javelins! Ah, it hurts! Ah! Ah! Ah! ~~Then the vanguard officer knew nothing.

Before the female hunter closed the distance and launched an attack, the vanguard of more than 70,000 people was wiped out by the mountain giants, the transformed claw druids, and the deer that fired javelins from a distance. Occasionally, some wanted to run, but even if they were thrown a distance, they would be killed by the horned hippogryph knights flying high in the sky.

In this way, the confident vanguard of the Kingdom of Severn, before achieving any results, all lay about a kilometer away from the Black Fortress.