Blood Dragon

Chapter [-] Melee

There was a quick, piercing screeching sound in the wind.Robin couldn't figure out what it was coming from, but the usefulness of this voice was obvious: all the Chaos Legion that was advancing just now stopped, even the Chaos Egg.

The position where they stop is also very particular, this is the limit of the range of the musket.At this distance, the musketeer would not shoot—because the hit rate of the bullet was reduced to such a limit that it could be regarded as a waste of ammunition.

Although the church's hard-working propaganda described the Chaos Legion as evil, bloodthirsty barbarians, lacking strategy and discipline, and relying entirely on violence and muscle to fight.But the facts witnessed in front of them show that the Chaos Legion is by no means a savage with muscles but no brains. They are also a well-disciplined and well-trained legion.

Robin began to think wildly involuntarily.He still remembered when he was in Sylvania—at that time, he witnessed the battle between the undead army and the Bin tribe.But in that battle, Robin was not so much a participant as a bystander.He watched the entire battle with Baylor—in a safe position, relaxed, and watched the entire battle happily.

He used to think that he was bathed in the baptism of war, but now it seems... After all, watching from the sidelines is just watching from the sidelines.Those who are not the authorities cannot understand the suffocating psychological pressure, and cannot understand why some soldiers fled before the battle began.

Also... finally such a day came.But this is also inevitable, and Robin knows that he will have such a day sooner or later.Sooner or later.He had to put on his whole body and stand on the front line of the battlefield as an officer.

The Chaos Legion in the distance has completely calmed down, looking like a dark gray cloud.Perhaps they expected to use this kind of pressure to make the enemy collapse automatically, but this time they must have miscalculated.

Now Robin knew the reasons for Parry's failure—not all of them, but at least one of his mistakes, perhaps just one of countless mistakes that led to his failure.Parry was too confident, overestimating his own strength and underestimating the courage of his enemies.He puts veterans on the front line and recruits on the second line.Therefore, when the Chaos Legion broke through the first line composed of veterans, the recruits on the second line completely lost their fighting spirit when they saw the retreating battle situation.They were defeated directly in this way, and their escape led to the complete collapse of the front line.

The correct approach should be to put recruits on the front line and veterans behind.In this way, when the recruits are defeated, the experienced veterans generally will not waver.And the stability of the second line will encourage the defeated first-line troops, and then there is the possibility of re-formation.In this way, on the one hand, the recruits can be used to consume the Chaos Legion's offensive momentum, and on the other hand, it can maintain the pressure of the superior force on the enemy.If you set up the formation in this way, even if you lose, it won't be too ugly, but Parry's wrong approach ruined everything.

"Get ready! Get ready, get your weapons!" Robin walked along the front line once, this was his last... last tour of his troops-there would be no such opportunity.Perhaps inspired by Baylor, the morale of the soldiers seemed to be a little higher, at least not as numb with fear as before.He returned to his place and signaled to the trumpeter beside him.So the Trumpeter sounded his horn, a sign of battle and a challenge to the Legion of Chaos.

Robin clenched his long sword—unlike ordinary soldiers, as an officer he held a sword and shield—and began to give orders,

The entire phalanx began to move forward slowly.Maintaining their dense formation, they advanced in small steps to further provoke the Chaos army.Robin didn't line up with the other soldiers, but stood at the head of the line.He knew that if he didn't act braver than he really was, this army of defeated soldiers might fall before a fight.If this is the case, he will hold back the general, and it may lead to a big failure that he can't forgive himself for the rest of his life.

The entire phalanx began to move continuously. "Advance", "Advance", "Steady", he heard the soldiers behind him repeating his orders, the voice echoed back and forth in the team, and the silence was broken.Thousands of feet moved slowly, and shields and armor clashed with metallic clangs.Robin stared at the enemy without moving his eyes, then raised his long sword and held it high above his head.

"Stop!" he said without turning around. "Get ready to fight, I want to see if Chaos' blood is red! Kill them all!"

After saying this exaggerated sentence, he immediately issued another clear order, "Steady!"

But he didn't know if he could hold on.All these soldiers had just experienced a defeat, their morale was low, and their bodies were exhausted.Nor were they familiar with him—indeed, complete strangers to each other.So he issued an additional order.

"Attention, you are not allowed to leave the team, and you can't attack on your own. Trust your companions, trust me, and trust General Beryl! Keep in formation and never disperse! Don't worry about the enemy, they won't maintain a tight formation forever! "

The last sentence was told to him by the General.For the first time, Robin wasn't sure if Baylor's estimate was correct, but he shouted anyway.

His provocation paid off.The Chaos Legion has already begun to move.The entire huge, gray-black phalanx began to move forward amidst the sound of iron boots stomping on the ground, and the Chaos Egg also rushed forward.Their speed began to pick up, just as Baelor expected, the Chaos Legion's steady pace did not last for too long.Some Chaos Warriors started roaring and roaring, bloodthirsty frenzy swept across the entire Chaos Square in an instant, everyone was speeding up, and the strict formation began to disintegrate.The speed of the Chaos Egg is much faster than that of a human, and soon there is a considerable distance between the Chaos Warriors in the rear

In an instant, Robin began to make steady progress again.The same goes for the soldiers behind him.In front of him, the Chaos Legion began to run wildly, like a tide capable of engulfing everything.Although he raised his head and chest, he found that he was actually full of panic and fear.Although he walked very slowly, he almost tripped over the vines in the crevices of the stones and the small stones that were not easy to see.

The Chaos Legion was on the move, and the soldiers had already formed an obvious gap between front and back because of their running speed.There was no sign of maintaining formation or teams.All Chaos warriors wield their weapons with fanaticism rather than holding them calmly.This is completely different from the training received by soldiers in the Seven Kingdoms.

The first wave of musketry began to fire.Bullets tear through the air, and gunpowder smoke obscures the sky.Some Chaos warriors fell headfirst as if they had hit an invisible wall.But others are still moving on.Some Chaos warriors raised their shields to try to deflect the bullets, and many more stepped on their feet.

The sound of gunfire made Robin stagger.He raised his long sword again to signal, and after finishing this last job, he returned to the right side of the queue and stood beside the young recruit named Thaler.

The gunshots stimulated the killing desire of the Chaos Egg.They ran faster, like unstoppable boulders rolling down from a high mountain.They have already separated a large distance from the chaotic phalanx behind them.These monsters looked very much like onions with legs growing out at the moment. They waved the terrifying fleshy tentacles on their bodies, and their throats were full of beastly roars.

A second wave of gunfire rang out.This time, almost all the firepower was concentrated on these tentacle monsters.Robin has seen the corpse of the Chaos Egg - the one killed by Ashuruffat.The corpse of the Chaos Egg was dissected, and its thick muscles were impressive.In fact, as we saw when we killed the Chaos Egg last time, the surface of this monster's body is very muscular, and the huge and powerful muscles are like a layer of armor, preventing most attacks from reaching deep into the internal organs.Their key lies here at the base of the tentacles.The muscles here are weak and densely packed with nerves.

The speed of the two Chaos Eggs slowed down, they staggered and continued to rush for a certain distance, and finally fell down helplessly.But the other two Chaos Eggs were already approaching, and the Musketeer had no time to unleash the next wave of bullets.

The Chaos Egg rushed into the ranks of spearmen.Robin heard the soldiers wailing and screaming, the shields shattered under the slam of the tentacles, and the human body was thrown high and thrown into the distance.

Another wave of bullets came, but they were aimed at the approaching Chaos army.As for the Chaos Eggs, they can only rely on their own efforts.Fortunately, the dense formation also greatly weakened the lethality of the Chaos Egg. In the absence of enough space to swing its tentacles, the destructive power of the Chaos Egg did not seem to be as expected.They knocked down twenty or so soldiers, but at least half of them managed to get up and fight again.

The Chaos warriors who had been shot were thrown down in groups, and then their companions stepped straight on them.

A few revolvers are still exerting their power, but on the whole, the "three shots before the battle" is over.Chaos warriors rushed over ferociously.Robin can hear the roar of the enemy army and see each other's faces.The soldiers killed by the Chaos Egg fell to the ground, struggling to die slowly.But more soldiers lowered their spears, ready to meet the approaching Chaos warriors.

The Chaos warriors who rushed over had completely lost their formation after suffering three waves of fire from muskets.They no longer paid attention to the neat formation, they just shouted and roared like crazy, and rushed towards the spears.

The two armies clashed, and the sound of steel clashing resounded through the sky.A dozen or so Chaos Marauders, who looked like a small group, rushed towards Robin, roaring loudly.Their squad was only a little bit in formation at the moment of the final battle, but they obviously planned to use fanaticism to make up for the lack of formation.The two sides fought, metal clashed with wood, shields jostled, and flesh splattered before the steel.

In the blink of an eye, the outcome was decided.In front of the dense formation of more than twenty spears, the marauders left five or six corpses.There was no damage on Robin's side, only two spears were broken.

At this point the battlefield is in chaos.The two armies staggered, stabbing, slashing, pushing, and colliding with each other.There were sounds of knocking, shattering of bones, and screams and whines.After a short initial time, the formation of the spearmen has also begun to become disorganized.Robin completely lost control of the entire phalanx, and what he observed was only a short distance away.The only thing he can do now is to stand beside the flag in the queue, holding a long sword, and together with several other people around him, protect the flag from falling down.This is the only thing he can do now.

This is the real battle?When watching from behind, Robin didn't notice it.Only now did he feel it.The training of the spearmen is to stand neatly with the occupants, shoulder to shoulder, with their spears raised forward, and to stab the enemy when they approach.But the facts show that these trainings are too idealistic.Because at this moment, Robin felt as if he was facing a street fight, frantic and bloodthirsty, completely plunged into a whirlpool of violence and chaos.Now he also vaguely understood why Parry's army was defeated by the Chaos Legion in one round.Because under the frantic onslaught of the Chaos Legion, the effort to maintain formation was difficult to achieve.