Chapter 522 Our War (Part 4)
In order to prevent the teleportation array (summoning array) for deploying the undead army from being exposed too quickly and destroyed by the enemy early, Tattle Joe dispersed the monster skin array plates engraved with the array diagram in a large semi-arc area fifteen to twenty kilometers away from the enemy.
For conventional armies, running more than ten kilometers before a battle will not only break up the formation, but also deplete the physical strength and morale of their own soldiers; but for the undead army... that's fine.
There is no such thing as physical strength or morale being consumed by this group of undead, let alone formation or no formation...
The first twenty teleportation points that were opened were flashing white lights, and varying numbers of players appeared at the locations of the teleportation points.
Each teleportation point is several kilometers apart, and players coming from different teleportation points cannot see each other for the time being, but this is not a problem at all... Players have no idea about the terrible situations that conventional armies try their best to avoid, such as "being alone in deep territory" and "fighting alone".
Besides, even if more than 200,000 online players are dispersed into 20 teleportation points, each teleportation point can be allocated with a player army ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands... With so many people gathered together, the players will only complain that there are too many people and it's too chaotic, and there is absolutely no reason to be timid and afraid.
Qin Guan, who was transferred to the front line of the battlefield from the No. 4 teleportation point at 11 o'clock in the north, took a quick look at the densely packed player IDs around him and muttered, "There are still so many people." He then moved away from the teleportation point while refreshing his own Blood Alliance channel: "There are too many people at the teleportation point, come out and gather! Come out!"
"Hurry up, let's get together and set off!"
With the entry of a large number of players from the fourth test and the update of players' luggage, the activity mode in which all participating players formed a super battlefield group to act in a unified manner and distribute the spoils of war in a unified manner has officially come to an end.
Firstly, given the size of the existing players, even if they fight alone, they can still pile up their corpses to kill their opponents; secondly, the existence of the players' luggage makes it possible for anyone to embezzle the spoils... In this case, anyone with a brain would not continue to use the slogan of "unity and unified distribution" to expand the group, which would be a thankless task.
Of course, the most important thing is that the number of players is large enough. Even if individual players do not seek support from the big blood alliance, they can still form their own team and join in. Naturally, they are not interested in hanging around the big blood alliance and watching others eat meat while they drink soup.
When the members of the Qin Guan Blood Alliance squeezed out of the crowd and gathered with their own people, there were several other blood alliances at the same teleportation point who were adopting the same strategy. They only called out their own people to gather and had no intention of recruiting outsiders at all.
These blood allies, who had already formed a large group before the battlefield activity started, gathered their own people, and had no intention of communicating with each other or shouting to advance or retreat together. They just rushed towards the enemy in a disorganized and undisciplined long snake formation...
A charge distance of fifteen to twenty kilometers is just a matter of minutes for players with the same average strength as Bolt; soon, the first group of Blood Alliance members who launched the attack rushed into the warning range of the Nosk Alliance scouts.
When the Nosk coalition scouts saw the Undead army emerging from the horizon, they immediately sent out signals, semaphores and missiles to warn the rear.
Admiral Lucien, the commander of the Nosk coalition, had read through all the battle examples , and had long anticipated that the Undead army would arrive unexpectedly. He immediately ordered the cavalry regiment to take the initiative to intercept them, and ordered the Federal Mage Corps to go out and find a summoning circle that could allow the Tarantan Undead to be resurrected infinitely.
The sloppy and lame Blood Alliance was still several kilometers away from the coalition camp when four Nosk spellcasters took off and flew towards where the undead army appeared.
Admiral Lucien had naturally heard that the Rhine royal family had sent out three high-level court mages to besiege the Nightmare Butcher but failed to succeed. During the pre-war preparations, Admiral Lucien required that the participating federal countries must bring along their own high-level spellcasters, and thus put together a luxurious mage corps of twelve people.
This luxurious mage corps is a powerful weapon against the Nightmare Butcher. Admiral Lucien does not intend to let these important spellcasters waste their mental energy on slaughtering the undead. The Nosk spellcasters who were ordered to go out flew over from a height of a thousand meters and ignored the scattered undead below.
But the Norsk spellcasters don't have to clean up the undead below, but there are people who are eyeing these spellcasters...
Four thousand meters in the air, dozens of the hundreds of drones deployed in a network above the battlefield area simultaneously captured the human-shaped target passing below and sent the images back to the front-line command post in the mountainous area south of the battlefield.
The caster's target is small, but the flying speed is not really fast...
Even for the legendary Yang Qiu, the low-altitude flying speed is only around 60~70KM, and the speed when riding a bone dragon or a bone griffin is no more than 90KM, which is barely on par with the aerial vehicles in this world (the airship has a speed of around 100KM), but far inferior to the helicopters on Earth... The difficulty of attacking him is not that great.
Of course, for the Rhine People's Army, which does not have near-Earth satellite guidance, hitting a humanoid target flying slowly at an altitude of thousands of meters is still a very difficult challenge.
Fortunately, the Rhine People's Army did not need to rely on the naked eye to calculate the launch. The friendly national team had already taken all aspects into consideration for the People's Army and provided supporting equipment... The technicians of the People's Army only had to wait for the computer to calculate the results and press a button.
The first four Nosk spellcasters had just crossed paths with the Undead army on the ground in the air. Before they could see the end of the Undead army, they heard a strange whistling sound coming from the sky.
The four spellcasters turned their heads in confusion at the same time, and saw... a long row of strange flying objects that they had never seen before appeared in the sky in the southeast direction.
"What is that?" A Nosk spellcaster serving the Kashmir royal family narrowed his eyes slightly.
The spellcaster had just expressed his confusion when a long line of strange flying objects approached from dozens of kilometers away...
The Chinese-made anti-aircraft XXX rockets and missiles for firefighting (that's right, they are for air-to-air firefighting) have a maximum range of 190 kilometers (don't ask me why firefighting needs to be able to hit so far, how can forest firefighting be done without a long range), have precision strike capability, and a hit radius deviation of less than ten meters. They can be mounted on vehicles and have excellent maneuverability and off-road capabilities.
The flight speed of this firefighting (important) rocket and bullet is... 2.4 Mach.
Firefighting (important) rockets and missiles with a flying speed of 2.4 Mach were launched from dozens of kilometers away to attack humanoid flying objects moving at a speed of 60~70KM at a low altitude of thousands of meters... The result is self-evident.
What's even more sad is that the People's Army, which used this "alien firefighting equipment" for the first time in actual combat, was completely inexperienced and unsure, so they didn't dare to be careless at all. Based on the principle of caution, they generously allocated two rounds to each caster...
Eight brilliant fireworks exploded in the sky at an altitude of 1,200 meters.
Of course, players on the ground can hear the whistling and explosion sounds of fire rockets and bombs.
When the "fireworks" exploded, many players who were rushing towards the enemy camp looked up at the sky and complained: "Fuck, opening a battlefield event and setting off fireworks to liven up the atmosphere? Isn't the planner boring!"
"Psycho!"
How should I put it… If it were Africans, Middle Easterners, or North Americans, they would definitely notice something was wrong; but for the Chinese people who would think someone was setting off firecrackers when they heard gunshots, it is really difficult to distinguish between fireworks used for the New Year and (important) rockets and bullets used for firefighting…
After the "fireworks" faded, under the firepower that could destroy reinforced concrete buildings, the four Nosk spellcasters managed to save the face of high-level spellcasters and were not killed.
After all, they were flying above the battlefield, and these four high-level spellcasters were protected by a spiritual field. When the rockets and bombs approached, the four of them instinctively sensed the danger, tried their best to save their lives, and stayed as far away from the center of the explosion as possible... At least they managed to survive.
But he just barely managed to survive...
The strongest of the four, the Kashmir Court Mage, was barely able to stay afloat, but the other three were directly injured in the lungs by the blast and fell to the ground, spurting blood.
The Kashmir court mage took a deep breath and released his mental field to cover his three companions. He vomited blood and released a subspace barrier to conceal his body, then staggered back to his own camp.
The Undead army on the ground engaged in combat with the attacking Nosk cavalry. The severely wounded Kashmir court mage also struggled to return to the camp and fainted as soon as he landed.
Admiral Lucien, who witnessed the "brilliant fireworks" in the sky, ran over in shock to check on the four spellcasters. He was furious and helpless: "What is going on?! What on earth is that??"
No one could explain the confusion to the federal admiral. The orderly soldiers were in a mess and were frantically feeding medicine to the spellcasters who were half breath away. A group of federal noble officers looked terrified, and the eight spellcasters who were not assigned to the first batch also had very ugly .
Admiral Lucien, in his shock and anger, at least did not lose his sanity and quickly realized the crisis... Those strange flying objects that suddenly appeared from the horizon could hit the spellcasters in flight, and would definitely hit the conspicuous command tent in the camp.
He is not as resistant as the high-level spellcasters. He will surely die if attacked by such an unheard-of explosion/object!
"Tear down the command tent—no, orderly! Take all my stuff out of the command tent!"
"All officers and staff members, move to the common tents!"
After eliminating the risk of his own headquarters being wiped out, Admiral Lucien, who was sweating profusely, quickly put aside his previous contempt and forced himself to calm down and analyze the situation.
This admiral was not just a name, he had indeed spent a lot of time investigating the Tarantan Undead. Admiral Lucien was 100% sure that the Tarantan Undead had never used such outrageous tactics in previous battles.
If the Tarantan Undead had this kind of attack method, the Rhine royal family would not help to conceal it.
In other words... the only ones who could have this kind of unexpected attack method were human armies that had never participated in a war before and had never exposed their combat capabilities.
Given the undead regime's ability to amass wealth, it is indeed very likely that they would spend a huge amount of money to equip the human armies under their rule with expensive alchemical weapons.
"Could it be the new alchemical weapon that the Kenyans sold to the Rhine people?! Those damn bastards!!"
Admiral Lucien gnashed his teeth, his eyes burning with rage, and immediately ordered the strongest elite legion in the Vanguard Army to move out together with the Knights of the Church to search for the human army hiding behind the Undead Army and shooting arrows in the direction of the mysterious alchemical weapons.
The Federation Elite Corps and the Church Knights received the order to attack, but not long after, the messenger came to report anxiously: there were too many undead, and the Elite Corps and the Church Knights were entangled by the undead army as soon as they left the camp.
"Aren't there only 30,000 undead? How could they possibly tie up all our troops?" Admiral Lucien angrily asked the orderly to push the water mirror wall over.
The Mage's Eye released by the Nosk spellcaster monitored the battlefield situation within a five-kilometer radius in front of the camp, and the detected images were projected onto the water mirror wall composed of twelve water mirrors .
Admiral Lucien glanced at the twelve water mirrors and almost vomited blood on the spot.
"Aren't there only 30,000 undead souls? How could there be so many?!"
In the images projected from multiple angles by the Mage's Eye, the Undead Army, which was several times larger than the Nosk Alliance, was like waves, continuously and fiercely attacking the Alliance's defense line...
