Blood Dragon

Chapter 350 Chapter 1 Decisive Battle [-]

At noon that day, because there was no report from the scouts for a long time (due to the interference of the magical communication of the Chaos Legion, this kind of thing has become common), so Belair sent some outposts as far as possible up and down the river. .These are small troops in groups of four, dedicated to reconnaissance and pathfinding.

But even he didn't expect that the enemy was already crossing the river, and it was in the slow water area he had explored before.The scouts he had placed here before were all killed—the Chaos Wizard took the Chaos Egg to the other side of the river in the dark, and using the monster's keen sense of smell, he easily found and killed the scouts.Since the magic communication was cut off, these people could not convey the crisis they saw through magic communication.Some of them tried to escape on horseback, but were outpaced by the magic disks and spells of the Chaos Sorcerers.

In the evening, two groups of four were attacked, seven were killed and an eighth escaped.He fled to the artillery position prepared by Baylor at midnight, calling out to the outposts: "Take arms, the enemy is coming."

The people on the ground immediately sent a messenger to report to the camp that Aishuruffat was contacting the rear overnight.Because of the news, it seems that the situation in Newsteria City is better than expected.The Chaos Legion retreated without causing much damage, and the fortifications outside the city were not damaged at all.

Ashurfat didn't hesitate for a second, and immediately beat the drums to gather troops and sent reinforcements to support the team.

It takes one who has experienced it before to imagine the effect of drumming to summon soldiers in the middle of the night.The clouds of war have come to scare even the bravest of souls.

However, the soldiers also knew that a Chaos raid could happen at any time, and most of them slept in their clothes.When the order came, many soldiers jumped up, grabbed their weapons, and quickly gathered together.

But the enemy did not take advantage of the momentum to attack the artillery position that night.When it was dawn, all the tricks of the Chaos Legion were exposed—they didn't collect wood, but used magic to freeze an ice bridge directly on the river.

The price of this magic is heavy enough to exhaust thirty Chaos wizards—the kind of exhaustion that has to lie on the bed for several days—but the current Chaos Legion can afford the price.

Their army did not rush all the way along the river bank to the reinforced artillery position as Belle had imagined, but went all the way to the very dangerous swamp.

The swamp made the Chaos army pay a heavier price. Thousands of people were swallowed by the quagmire, leaving no bones left.But the rest of the Chaos Warriors marched on the corpses of their companions, and forced to use them to open a passage.All the sacrifices are worthwhile. Now, the main force of the Chaos Legion has come to the side of Ashrufat's army.There is no longer any favorable terrain for him to take advantage of.

If the heavy rain hadn't come in time, perhaps this decisive battle would have had a result that day.But torrential rain interrupted the upcoming battle.At this time, it is as if both the heavens and the human beings feel this indescribable pressure, and they all want to vent.

Ashurfat retreated through the rain, but the Chaos Legion followed closely like a gangrene.The battles in the rainstorm cannot be expanded, and they are all carried out in small battles of 50 people.These fights told Ashurfat that he hadn't been able to put the distance between the two sides.When the rain stops, the final decisive battle is inevitable.

The heavy rain lasted for a day and a night, but it finally ended.At noon that day, the rain eased, and both armies were ready for battle.At this moment, they were on a plain with a slightly complicated terrain - only a little bit worse than Yimapingchuan. Although there were many ups and downs, it was still a plain.However, some places were soaked by the rain and turned into muddy ponds, which were extremely muddy.

The distance between the two sides is so close that there is no time for each other to gather troops and form a battle formation as usual.

So the battle began on this plain.The sound of the drum stretched out like a gunpowder thread, and in the light rain, the orderlies on both sides could be seen running wildly.This is not a battle in the usual sense. Specifically, although the two sides are ready to fight at this time, the armies of both sides are scattered in a large space, so that the commander cannot use flags, drums, Trumpets, horns, things like that control the army, because the lines are so long.

At the beginning of the battle, Beryl commanded his Tiberius Army to be located on the right side of the entire front. Although his troops were scattered, they were relatively concentrated as a whole.And the number of Chaos Legion he faced was also less.

Barranca was in the centre, while Parry was on the left.Ashuruffat himself was in the rear with a small number of cavalry troops.

The formation of this situation was not intentionally arranged by Aishuruffat, because no one could predict the time when the rain would stop.When the rain began to lighten and everyone realized that the battle was about to begin, the entire coalition army was in this arrangement.

All these troops have a total of 4000 people, forming a very long front, with various arms interlaced, and the overall arrangement is even.In addition to these, there are also a small number of small troops sent out to harass the enemy and hinder the enemy's pursuit.However, the number of these troops is too small to have a valuable impact on the battle situation.

Opposite them is the Chaos Legion with a total of 10 people.Unlike Ashurfat, Marvin's Chaos Legion is much simpler in composition.Almost all of the Chaos Legion are heavily armed infantry and cavalry. The number of cavalry is far less than that of infantry, and there are no large-scale long-range troops.

In addition to the strength of the troops, the soldiers on both sides were relatively tired because of the continuous march in the rain.

At noon, almost after Aishuruffat divided the battle area for each unit, the Chaos Army under Marvin's command began to attack actively.This is not a full-scale offensive, but an offensive launched by the central part of the entire front, where the Chaos Legion gathers the most troops.

Ashuruffat led the [-] cavalry around him and ran towards the location where the battle took place.The battlefield was too large and scattered, so what he could do was to choose the highest hill on his side, where he saw the formation of the two armies.

The Chaos Legion also formed three columns, and the left flank included all the cavalry and light infantry - it was they who had bitten Ashrufat's rearguard tightly before.They are now facing Parry's army, and the two sides are roughly equal in number.Now, perhaps because they wanted to take a break, or because the ground on their side was too muddy for action, they did not launch any threatening offensive.The two militaries are maintaining a small-scale contact, and there are basically no major actions.

At the same time, a large number of heavy infantry were deployed on the center and right of the Chaos Legion.They are synergizing with each other and are making steady progress.But in the central part, an enemy protruded extra and was approaching quickly.

This force was supported by magic, for several of the cannon aimed in this direction were destroyed by magic. The * team also suffered some damage.

It was the sound of war drums, guns, and shouts from this direction that attracted Aishuruffat.

When Ashurfat began to observe the battlefield (he has superhuman eyesight, so that he can see the overall situation), Beler has already dispatched a detachment to reinforce this side of the battle.Tiberius' army launched an attack from the flank, which barely repulsed the Chaos army.

But on the whole, this is not an offensive in the true sense, but just a trial.

The situation is quite serious, all of Ashurfat's plans fell through, no, not only fell through, but turned into a disaster.He can no longer escape the battle now, he can only accept this battle with little chance of winning.In all his realities and dreams, he was fully prepared to attack the enemy, and this was the first time he was attacked by the enemy before he was ready to fight.

The Chaos Legion made full use of its superiority in strength and magic.In front of Beler, the Chaos Army had already spread out its formation, parallel to Beler's line of defense.The only difference is that the Chaos Legion has more than [-]% more troops than Beler, and they not only have an advantage in quantity and quality, but also in terms of equipment: almost all of their troops are heavy infantry, and Beler's men In addition to heavy infantry, there are also a large number of lightly armed troops such as pistols and pistols.According to the classic cognition in this world: the combat effectiveness of heavily armed troops exceeds that of lightly armed troops.

It's not just Baylor, except that Parry's situation is slightly better, so is the situation on the entire battlefield.

The commander of the enemy's right flank is a Chaos Sorcerer suspended in mid-air - standing on a magic disc.The Chaos Sorcerer has given up casting spells in favor of mobilizing troops by the banner in his hand.His position determines that he can have a bird's-eye view of the entire battlefield (only human eyesight limits him), and his subordinates can easily understand what they should do from him.

Belair's force was much smaller, but he had a creek ahead of him formed by a deep ditch.The creek is crescent-shaped and lies in front of the Baylor line.Due to the torrential rain, the current of the creek is quite rapid, and the water depth is about a person's chest height.

Baylor had already seen the benefits of this natural line of defense, so when he deployed his army before the battle, he made full use of this stream.Therefore, even though the Chaos Legion was slowly pressing over, Baylor did not intend to retreat.

In addition, most of the Allied artillery was deploying its positions.Except for a very small number of cannons, which were the only front line, the other cannons all chose the second line in unison, using those positions with slightly higher terrain as their positions.

All Ashurfat could do was to watch the outcome of the battle on Bellel's side.He knew that if Baylor held his position, the enemy's attack center of gravity would most likely be shifted to the center.All he can do is to lead the cavalry to help and ensure the orderly retreat of his troops-there is no other way.He must concentrate enough troops in this retreat and seesaw, and then launch a decisive and sudden onslaught to destroy the command core of the Chaos Legion, or kill the enemy's commander-in-chief (it should be Marvin).This is also his only chance of victory.

The wait is extremely excruciating and terrifying.

He didn't have to wait long before the battle began right in front of Belair's lines.The Chaos army came to the creek, and small groups began to try to cross the river. The gunmen responded to the enemy's actions with a violent salvo.The Chaos force that made the attempt was overwhelmed, and perhaps a hundred died in the stream.The Chaos Legion also countered with magic, but the effect was not good, and the number of casualties was very limited.

The Chaos Legion retreated slightly, out of full range.They began to mobilize, and because they had an advantage in numbers, they planned to launch a fierce attack in multiple positions to break through this line of defense.Through this attempt, their airborne commanders had also seen that the stream line was not dangerous.In fact, the water depth of the stream is limited. Under normal circumstances, it cannot drown people. After all, the water depth is only to the extent of the chest.

Belair saw at once what the enemy was about to do.