Chapter 153 Devil-level Cruelty
Then, the flood, which had accumulated terrifying power, began to discharge through the gap in the damaged dam!
The vanguard formation consisted of 60 Holy Tree Knights, followed by 50 Holy Tree Cavalrymen, and behind them were the 515 Kugit grassland bandits.
So much so that except for the 60 Holy Tree Knights and 50 Holy Tree Cavalry, everyone else charged forward with lances held high in their hands, piercing the hell demons in front of them on the spot.
It was really like a devastating flood that swept away the scattered demons of hell.
The 515 Kugit grassland bandits behind them raised their nomadic scimitars and began their harvest.
The Holy Tree Knights and Holy Tree Cavalry were like sharp knives that dispelled all doubts and stabbed completely into the devils of hell.
The 515 Kugit grassland bandits were like the sharp sword blades, which caused even more horrific injuries after the tip of the sword stabbed into the devil of hell.
The horses' hooves trampled the devils from hell who had already fallen to the ground.
The horseshoes were like hammers, hitting the devils from hell who had fallen to the ground, breaking their bones and trampling their flesh.
Even if there was still a hell devil standing there in a daze, holding a scimitar and trying to resist, he was hacked to death by the scimitars wielded by the Kugit grassland bandits who rushed over like a hurricane from behind at the moment of the collision.
These devils from hell became even more confused and frightened by the superb close combat skills displayed by the human cavalry who had just chased them with scimitars.
Because compared to the pitiful figure who was fleeing in a panic just now.
These human cavalrymen today don't look like poor little lambs at all.
Instead, they were wolves that had taken off their sheepskins, revealing their ferocious fangs. They were murderous thugs even more brutal and hateful than these inferior devils!
Just now.
Groups of hell devils, whether inferior or low-level, were quickly swept away by these 600-plus cavalrymen.
It was just like a hot knife cutting through cold butter, directly cutting off one third of the scattered formation of the devil troops.
It also took the lives of almost thousands of demons.
After these Holy Tree Knights, Holy Tree Cavalry and Kugit Prairie Bandits rushed over.
All that was left on the ground were the corpses of the devils from hell.
Shen Mu, who was still standing on the top of the hill, saw all of this.
“What a wonderful collaboration.”
Shen Mudu sighed.
Because at this time he had already seen how the Kugit grassland bandits led by Bestur lured those hell demons to disperse their formation and start chasing them.
How could those hell demons be caught off guard when Aileyon and the Holy Tree Knights rushed over like a flood and broke through the scattered formation of those hell demons?
And under Bestur's command, they were divided into countless small groups in a scattered formation.
In a very short time, it recovered to the size of the cluster.
515 Kugit grassland bandits, armed with spears and nomadic scimitars, followed the Holy Beast Knights and rushed forward again.
And this time they did not use nomadic bows, but instead demonstrated their fierce melee combat capabilities.
Those hell demons that were directly defeated will be harvested one by one in a more meticulous manner.
Precise and brutal.
It's just a charge.
The entire Hell Devils' army of nearly 3000 people was scattered in the southernmost part, and the lives of thousands of Hell Devils were taken away by these cavalrymen.
Plus the three or four hundred demons that were previously shot to death by these Kugit grassland bandits with nomadic bows.
There were also three or four hundred demons lost in the attack on the city wall.
It can be said that within this short period of time, more than half of the 3000 hell devils that originally surged up from the bottom of the Su family site have been wiped out.
Moreover, Shen Mu watched the cavalry units of the Holy Tree Knights take the lead and rush through the formations of the devils of hell like sharp knives.
The remaining one thousand or so hell devils were now at the edge of the city wall, unable to advance or retreat, which was extremely awkward.
Because at this time, even if the remaining hell demons continued to attack the city walls, the human cavalry behind them, who had obviously cut off their retreat, would never let them go.
This means that these human cavalry and the human infantry on the city wall have surrounded them.
In this kind of pinch situation.
If these devils from hell continue to attack the city walls, the final result will definitely be the annihilation of the entire army.
After all, on the city wall, those Vikia archers are still holding their high-quality nomadic bows, continuing to pour the cone-head arrows in their quivers towards these hell demons.
Let these special arrows with extremely strong armor-piercing capabilities snipe and kill these hell demons who are not protected by heavy armor and shields one by one at a very close distance.
For those hell demons who are still in a daze, the number of casualties is increasing sharply with every passing minute and every second.
And even if these devils from hell wanted to rush up the city wall along the ladder, it would be impossible.
The defensive forces on the city wall are so dense.
Whether it is the light crossbow on the city gate or the light catapults on the arrow towers on both sides.
At this time, spears and countless stones were still bombarding.
The casualties of the hell demons who remained behind continued to accumulate.
These devils from hell even left behind corpses that began to pile up under the city wall.
Thinking of attacking the city wall is simply wishful thinking!
"Roar!"
Finally, at the end of the formation of these hell demons, the medium-sized demons who were responsible for the rear guard began to roar.
Because these middle-level devils are all superior to these low-level devils in terms of IQ, thinking ability, and judgment of the situation.
Not to mention those inferior demons who have no ability to think for themselves and are like freaks and defective products.
In a dilemma, the medium-level devils still roared and summoned the remaining hell devils, and began to re-condense into a dense formation.
And began to retreat continuously.
It was obvious that the wall of the human territory before them could no longer be attacked, so they could no longer waste their military strength.
Then staying here will only lead to death without any progress.
Then we can only retreat.
Compared to those low-level and inferior devils who were still quite angry and wanted to fight to the death with the human cavalry around them.
These medium-level devils already have their own judgment abilities.
After mutual communication.
After making sure that they no longer had a chance to attack the city wall, he immediately began to loudly command the remaining devil troops to retreat.
He planned to slowly evacuate the vicinity of the city wall and return to the subway tunnel under Sujia Station.
After all, that's where their lair and base are.
After retreating inside, not only the defense but also the organization of the defense line could effectively prevent these human troops from chasing them.
At least facing these extremely annoying human cavalry, and the shooting that seemed like the skeleton archers of the Seventh Dynasty of the Black Arrow Tower.
They can also be arranged accordingly based on the terrain and narrow subway tunnels.
Even under the deadly arrows, he continued to sprint forward.
They will also be able to eventually get close to these human archers or human cavalry, and not be passively being kite-followed in this empty plain area like they are now, like some stupid idiots, leaving their bodies here without being able to react.
The middle-level devils have to go through battles time and again before they are rewarded with soul worms by their superior devil commanders. After receiving soul replenishment, they evolve from low-level devils into experienced devils.
They are already quite skilled in combat and have their own unique understanding of it.
So they can understand what is the wisest thing to do now.
That is to retreat immediately.
"You want to retreat now? Although it's wise, it seems a little impossible."
Shen Mu's mouth curled up slightly at this time, watching those hell devils being commanded by those medium-sized devils who were supporting them in the rear and did not directly participate in the battle, and began to leave the range of the city wall and prepare to retreat.
He calmly moved his gaze to look at Aileyen and Bestur who were still regrouping their troops in the distance.
To be precise, he should be looking at the Holy Tree Knights led by Airen.
And the Kugit grassland bandits led by Bestur.
At this time, the Holy Tree Knights led by Airen were used as the tip of the sword again, and the Kugit grassland bandits led by Bestul formed the blades on both sides.
Once again, they rushed towards the devils from hell who had regrouped and formed a dense defensive formation.
‘Boom! ’
It was as if a flood had come again, rumbling and forming a cluster of terrifying power, launching a new round of charge towards these devils from hell.
This time, both the Holy Tree Knights and the Prairie Bandits have switched to their main weapons, the Holy Tree Spears and the Kugit Spears.
What we want is to use the terrifying posture of charge to completely defeat these devils from hell in one wave.
"But is it really like this?" Shen Mu suddenly had this question in his mind.
If it were the Knights of the Holy Tree or the Swadian Heavy Cavalry, they would definitely rush forward and use their most terrifying charging ability like a heavy punch to smash into these hellish demons that have formed a dense formation.
However, only 110 members of the Holy Tree Knights appeared at this time.
Even though there were 515 Kugit grassland bandits following behind them, it seemed that they still had a good advantage in numbers.
But it is absolutely not in line with the idea that these Kugit grassland bandits would attack the dense phalanx of heavy infantry that is already well defended.
Although those hell devils, whether they were inferior devils or low-level devils, were only wearing the thinnest leather armor.
However, the Hell Devil does not have the muscles and powerful melee combat ability that even the inferior devils possess.
All of these hell demons can be called heavy infantry.
Heavy strike infantry.
Even light and heavy infantry are possible.
Light armor means that they wear light armor, while heavy armor means that they hold scimitars and engage in the most brutal hand-to-hand combat against the enemy.
So they are just a group of infantry with high attack and low defense.
Overall, they are similar to the infantry of the Lake Rat Gang.
Just relying on the powerful melee combat ability of the devil race itself, the power of their scimitars makes them have a more powerful killing ability.
Therefore, the light cavalry of the lightly armed units, the Kugit grassland bandits, did not dare to engage in a head-on battle with these hellish demons who had formed a dense phalanx.
Even though they knew that they could rely on the spears in their hands and the charging power of the steppe horses under their crotch to defeat the front row of these hellish demons in an instant.
However, once they defeat the front row of Hell Devils, they will be entangled by those Hell Devils if they cannot evacuate the battlefield quickly.
Then they will be the next to be slaughtered.
Therefore, these grassland bandits born from the Kugit grassland nomads would not be so stupid as to use their lives to attack the enemy's dense defense lines.
That's why such a doubt arose in Shen Mu's mind.
After all, doing so is totally inconsistent with the style of the herdsmen on the Kugit grasslands.
"All members of the Holy Tree Knights! Follow me!"
And at this moment, Aileyen seemed to have heard Shen Mu's voice.
He simply shook the reins of the horse under his crotch, and led the members of the Holy Tree Knights behind him who had already entered the charge phase and were planning to directly ram into the tight formation of the Hell Devils, to shake the reins of the horses under their crotch as well.
Watching Ailen turn his horse's head and not rush directly towards the Hell Demon Formation that was ready to be hit.
These members of the Holy Tree Knights also followed Ailen and made an arc from the north of the Hell Demon troops, just bypassing the tight formation of these Hell Demons.
He did not charge directly into the formation of these hellish demons.
It was as if he was just bluffing.
Made a feint.
This feint attack was indeed a tactical deception launched by the Holy Tree Knights team under the leadership of Airen.
Because Ailen was also born in Calradia.
Of course he knew what the most classic tactics of the Kugit nomads were.
It refers to various harassment and archery before the general attack.
Using the nomadic bows and feather arrows in their hands, they began to continuously consume the enemy's manpower, destroy their formation, weaken their morale, reduce their organization, and provoke the enemy to leave their tightly defended formation.
It would not be like now when he shouted that he wanted a general attack, and those Kugit nomads deliberately followed him and the Knights of the Holy Tree and wanted to launch a general attack together.
This is not in line with the customs of the Kugit people at all.
Then Aileyen immediately understood Bestur's thoughts.
Or perhaps it was because of the frequent exchanges between the Vikians and the Kugits in the past, and the excellent tactical qualities they had developed from both war and alliance cooperation, that he instantly understood the thoughts of Bestur and those Kugits.
So they launched a general offensive.
This made the devils from hell subconsciously begin to shrink their formation, forming a tight square to resist the cavalry's charge.
But when Ailen led the Holy Tree Knights and quickly passed by.
Those hell demons that had formed a dense formation were all dumbfounded.
At this time, they all began to resist the cavalry charge in a tight formation like a turtle shell, but they did not expect that what they were facing now was not a cavalry charge, but the Kugit grassland bandits.
As well as these Kugit grassland bandits, they also went around them and took out their nomadic bows and feather arrows from their quivers in the process.
Once again, they carried out close-range horse shooting at the devils from hell in these turtle shells.
This time there came waves of heavy rain of arrows.
These devils from hell who were caught off guard were once again greeted with greetings from death.
'Puff-puff-puff-puff! '
So just as the war horses roared and galloped past.
The black shadows that flashed past at high speeds left the devils from hell dead all over the ground again.
Because of their dense formation, they had no way to hide and could only passively accept the damage from the feather arrows shot during the horse archery process.
They could only risk their lives to block the arrows shot by the Kugit grassland bandits.
They can't make changes.
"Hey!"
So much so that the Kugit grassland bandits who came around from the south began to circle around these hell demons who had formed a tight formation.
The circular cavalry and archery formation began.
Using the nomadic bow in his hand, he poured all the arrows in his quiver towards these devils from hell.
The number of casualties among the devils from hell is increasing.
Reaping the lives of these hellish demons in a more cruel and efficient way.
At this moment, Shen Mu, who was still standing on the top of the hill in Rivadin, slowly raised his hand.
"Low-level supply ring!"
Shen Mu's mind communicated with the system again: "Supply target! 500 Kugit grassland bandits!"
Then, with the help of the Mount & Blade system, he communicated with the special magical power of the ring in his hand and the armory of the Einfas Empire from the Mount & Blade Warwind world.
All the feather arrows were moved into the quivers of the Kugit grassland bandits.
Let their empty quivers be replenished so that they can continue to draw new arrows and shoot at those devils from hell!
"Swish, swish, swish, swish, swish--!!!"
Then, a series of shrill sounds of breaking through the air appeared again in this flat field.
Those Kugit grassland bandits who had already shot all the arrows in their quivers.
At this time, new arrows began to pour towards the demons from hell.
More and more demons from hell began to fall.
Even the inferior devils on the outermost layer were almost all dead or wounded. The sharp feather arrows that passed by like black shadows had already begun to reap the lives of the low-level devils in the middle layer.
More and more demons began to fall to the ground.
The miserable scene turned into corpses all over the ground.
And you have to know that at this moment, these demons who had formed a tight formation did not dare to rush out again casually.
Because they had already rushed out before, had learned their lesson, and had left corpses all over the ground.
He has also been severely taught a lesson by those human cavalrymen in white armor.
And now.
These devils from hell were still forced to form a tight formation, sacrificing the lives of the devils on the periphery in exchange for the vitality of the devils in the inner layer.
Then they slowly began to move towards the Su family's site with the help of high organizational strength and strong discipline.
He wanted to use the lives of the devils from hell to buy time for evacuation.
Especially those medium-level demons in the center who are well protected.
Up to now, none of them have died.
Although there were two or three medium-sized demons at the outermost edge with two or three feather arrows stuck in their bodies, they did not cause any fatal injuries to them. They were not even seriously injured, but only slightly injured.
This is due to the stronger muscles of these medium-sized demons and the more sophisticated leather armor they wear on the outside.
But at the same time, they benefited more from the human shields formed by the low-level and inferior devils around them who used their lives to protect them.
Such is the hierarchy of the devil.
When faced with danger, it is common for these levels of demons to sacrifice lower-level demons without hesitation.
There is no pity, no sympathy, and no regret.
The lower-level devils themselves are consumables of the higher-level devils.
And one level is suppressing another.
Only when you reach a higher level can you avoid becoming a consumable.
This is why, although these devils are highly organized and disciplined, they are still trying their best to intrigue against each other, and even harm their own fellows in small details.
This is because these devils all know that if they let the devils of the same level eat one more bite, it would be equivalent to them eating one less bite.
Then the time it takes to be promoted to a high-level devil will be extended.
Once it is prolonged, there may be danger, and even fatal danger. For example, there is no way to become a higher-level devil like now.
In order to avoid this situation, any devil, no matter what level, is trying his best to seize every opportunity to absorb soul fragments and eat soul worms to make himself stronger.
Try to be promoted to a more powerful devil, a higher-level devil in the shortest possible time.
Of course, now it shows a scene where high-level devils can unscrupulously order low-level devils to serve them.
These medium-level demons did not hesitate to let the low-level demons block their bodies as shields to block the arrows, so that they could approach the Sujia Village station.
There is a chance to survive, a chance to escape, and a chance to organize new troops to fight back.
All this seems to be natural to those inferior and low-level devils.
These inferior and low-level devils are also willing to die.
Maybe they are unwilling to do so.
But this is the level of the devil, this is the cruelty, there is no way to resist!
And at this moment, Shen Mu repelled the first wave of attacks.
The dialog box has appeared before your eyes.
(End of this chapter)
