Chapter 469: The Thirsty Fall
Chapter 463 – Thirsty Fall
Five hundred and one warhorses were like schools of fish swimming against the current in the chaotic battlefield, and still maintained a furious speed under their superior riding skills.
The Border City Alliance soldiers who were lucky enough to witness this scene were first shocked, then remembered something, and their collapsing morale miraculously coalesced.
The Northern Expedition Knights was a legendary story that the residents of the Border City Alliance had heard since they were young, and there were still many soldiers who worshipped the Northern Expedition Knights, so when the Northern Expedition Knights appeared on the battlefield just as they did in the story, a surge of courage arose in them for no reason at all.
Such an obvious change was naturally known to Cross, and this time he would not miss the opportunity, because this was the only chance for the Border City Alliance to turn the tide.
While taking the opportunity to organize more soldiers to defend on the spot, Cross also intentionally revealed his position to draw the Glory Alliance’s line of sight firmly to himself, creating an opportunity for the Northern Expedition Knights’ surprise attack.
This was both the Northern Expedition Knights’ opportunity as well as his, as long as he was able to hit the Glorious Alliance hard, all the losses at the moment were worth it, Cross who had already regarded the Glorious Alliance as his greatest enemy was not hesitant to gamble with his own life.
With the perception of a Legendary Knight and his rich experience in war, Mariel knew what Cross was doing, which made him agree with him for a few moments, because the other party was just like him, deciding to make this battle the most splendid ending of his life.
Other than that, Malir didn’t have any other thoughts, didn’t even care about the reason for this defeat, as an old man who was about to be left behind by the times, he just wanted an ending.
With the sharp intuition of the legendary level, Malir led his knights to run furiously in the cannon fire, but this does not allow his knights to avoid injury, from time to time, there are peripheral knights by the shock wave generated by the explosion of the cannonballs toppled to the ground, the knights may be able to survive with fine armor and fighting aura, but the war horse can not be done, even if the Northern Expedition Knights of the horses are with a thin lineage of the magical beasts in the violent Even if the Northern Expedition knights’ horses all had a thin magical beast bloodline, they couldn’t recover in a short period of time under the violent shockwave, so the knights who fell off their horses could only be passively plunged into the chaotic battlefield.
But now it was no longer the time when fighting qi and long swords alone could run the battlefield, the soldiers of the Glory Alliance used machine guns to lock the movements of the fallen knights, and weakened the erupting fighting qi with continuous firepower, and eventually the knights with thousands of holes collapsed under the guns, not much different from the countless Border City Alliance soldiers who fell on the ground.
Occasionally there were knights who managed to get close, at this time both machine guns and rifles were hard to play a role, the only thing that could cause a little bit of trouble was the sub-machine guns, and the knight’s thousands of battle skills and bursts of fighting qi could easily cause a small-scale massacre.
Unfortunately, this advantage is hard to last, the glory alliance soldiers do not lack of courage and self-sacrifice spirit, self-detonation grenades, shoot at me roar, so that these just found a sense of existence of the Northern Expedition Knights quickly fell on the battlefield.
All of this Malir knew, it was his choice and the choice of those Northern Expedition Knights.
In fact, the battle between the old and the new is not only affected by the upper echelons, as the professionals are more affected by the brunt of the battle, especially the combat professionals, who are now very confused.
Their strong body can’t block bullets, thousands of hammered martial arts skills can’t compare to cannons, even in the battlefield performance is not much better than the ordinary soldiers holding guns and cannons, and the ordinary soldiers just how long it takes to train, how much it costs, so this makes almost all the professionals began to become overwhelmed, feeling that their own existence is worthless and meaningless.
The knights who focused on glory felt this the most deeply, because not only was it a matter of battle power, but the status and command in the army was equally affected, as if they had changed from nobles to commoners, such a huge discrepancy made all the knights of the Northern Expedition easily infected by Mariel, and they were also looking for an opportunity for a fall, and right now the battlefield of a million people was exactly the stage that they had been dreaming of, even if all of them were to die in battle. Even if all of them die in the battle, they will leave a strong mark in this epic battle.
“Oh, they sent out the Knights.” Howard, who was located at the rear of the position, raised an eyebrow after receiving the information and looked slightly surprised. It was fine for the professionals to be used for sneak attacks, but head-on, when placed on a battlefield with millions of people and thousands of artillery pieces, a few hundred professionals were really nothing.
But Howard did not underestimate each other because of this, because he is very clear about the destructive power of the professionals, really a mind to charge forward, ordinary soldiers are really not good to stop the attack, not to mention the battlefield is crisscrossed, even if the Glory Union is taking the initiative, it is not to say that mobilizing a troop to stop the attack can be mobilized, because the entire force has been mobilized by him, there are responsible for the interlude, there are responsible for the destruction, there are responsible for the encirclement, any transfer may affect the entire battlefield. Any redeployment could potentially affect the operation of the entire battlefield.
And with the strength of professionals, ordinary soldiers either take their lives to fill, or rely on perfect fortifications, otherwise there is no other way, and the difference between the two represents more than ten times the casualty gap.
But Howard wasn’t too worried about this, because the Border City Alliance wasn’t the only one with a corps of professionals, in fact the territory had made preparations a long time ago, and it wasn’t bad at all either.
From the beginning of the formation of the army, Owen took the issue of professionals participating in the war into consideration, because compared to ordinary soldiers, professionals are really too strong, in the era of cold weapons, professionals represent a hundred enemies, even if nowadays guns are starting to develop, if they can’t take advantage of the number of people, even if they are holding a gun, they are still very difficult to win, that’s why he initially gave so many concessions to the adventurers, that is, there is the consideration of accepting to fill in the army Idea.
Although he didn’t implement it later, and he didn’t care much about the army anymore, that’s because the army’s scale was getting bigger and bigger and more and more professional, Owen didn’t know how to interfere even if he wanted to, but his idea was taken seriously, so when the soldiers went out to war, apart from the logistics, the territory still had a lot of departments to participate in it, which included the root department and the professions that he had cultivated himself.
The Root Department has long become a behemoth, spreading its roots to the entire north, in addition to intelligence personnel, assassins are even more important, so sending some manpower to accompany the army is no big deal, and they have also become the army’s dark blades, killing all the invaders.
The Border City Alliance’s stalkers died in their hands, otherwise the Glory Alliance’s intelligence would have been leaked long ago.
However, also because of the Border City Alliance’s Mage Corps’ obstruction and the territory’s intention to delay the length of the war, the assassins didn’t manage to achieve much in the enemy camp, but that didn’t affect the importance that the assassins showed in the war.
As for the professionals, because of the popularization of guns and cannons, the number of martial arts professionals has greatly reduced, after all, ten years of hard training and a bullet is simply a tragedy, so the territory’s main focus is placed on the group of spell casters.
The territory’s spell caster system mainly originated from Owen, Emile, Angie, Emily, and Brian, so in addition to the perfect mage and witch system, there were also Owen’s system of puppets, magical spells, alchemy, elemental, nature, summoning, style of god, ninjutsu, shadows, death, and other aspects.
Together with the knowledge that was constantly exchanged from the system at a later stage, as well as the books that were secretly copied from the academy city back then, the territory’s heritage might not be comparable to that of the academy city and the imperial capital, but it was already above most of the forces.
Such a rich heritage, coupled with the transformation of the system does not have to worry about the loyalty of the students, the knowledge of the territory is completely open to all students, so it can be said that as long as you are willing to learn, you can learn into, until the legend of the previous do not have to worry at all.
Even if you need a unique understanding of the legendary field, the territory also has many legends left behind the experience of understanding, coupled with the number of secret realms in the north can be honed, even if the development time is not long, the number of professionals in the territory and the level is not low, enough to give the enemy to bring a lot of surprises.
What’s more, not only Howard but also the three Legends have come to the frontline this time, so they must have already begun to take action at this moment, Howard thought so.
(End of chapter)