Volume 2 Spread Wings Chapter 228: Unexpected Enemy
Reiner led the cavalry troops away quickly, and in the blink of an eye, no one knew where they had gone. Levi also ordered the mastiff-chief Yakong, who he had now named Xiaotian, to lead the Yakongs to take off urgently to be alert to the possible existence of the enemy's air forces.
Then he found a small hillside, asked his subordinates to set up their formation along the hillside, and began to give many of his subordinates buffs, and began to summon many celestial creatures.
This small detail of setting up the formation on the hillside can be almost ignored in improving one's own strength. At most, it can slightly expand the field of vision of long-range troops and slightly reduce the speed and power of the enemy's charge.
But if there are some special troops in the enemy camp, there might be some unexpected gains. This is the experience he gained after summarizing other people's experiences in the copy.
That is, some artillery and most muskets can only fire horizontally. If the front is blocked by friendly forces, or the angle is wrong, they will either be completely unable to fire, or can only hit the back of the friendly forces...
It can only be said that because magic is too powerful, most races are not interested in science and technology, so research is not in-depth enough, and many gunpowder weapons are still relatively primitive. The most typical example is the elves, who have no such thing in their army at all.
At present, the only people who are still diligently researching gunpowder and related war equipment are probably the dwarves and humans. It is said that they have already developed tanks and land craft.
There are even war airships called Tiandeng and Tianzhou in the Zhendan Dynasty. They can basically be understood as small-sized beholder-type flying castles, but they don't carry too many troops, but cannons and muskets...
A few minutes later, after Levi summoned all the celestial creatures and arranged for them to detour from both sides together with the cavalry units including Lisadilan and Simon, the greenskin army finally arrived.
When seeing Levi and the others who were on high alert, the other party was obviously a little flustered, as if they had not expected such a situation at all.
Levi couldn't help but snort. It seemed that the continuous victories over the past few days had made the greenskins a little inflated. Did they think that the elves would only passively defend, so they didn't expect to meet them here?
But it can be seen that the other side still has some combat experience. After a brief shock, they quickly readjusted their status. Thousands of troops rushed over together. Looking around, the mountains and plains were the same green as the prairie.
Green-skinned warriors, green-skinned archers, squiggle herds, green-skinned boar boys, hobgoblin wolf riders, green-skinned big guys...
The enemy's troops included both long-range and short-range troops as well as cavalry. Their configuration seemed quite complete. There were also less than a hundred guys, most of whom were over two meters tall. They looked like a mix of goblins and grizzly bears. They were very strong, and held heavy cold weapons such as battle axes and maces in their hands.
They are bugbears, the most powerful of all goblinoid creatures, and often rule over close relatives such as goblins and hobgoblins as subordinates and hunting helpers.
And because of their brutal nature, they are often more resistant to similar effects such as charm and panic, and their morale is significantly better than all their close relatives.
In terms of strength, the Bugbear Warrior can reach level 2, the Bugbear Warrior is level 3, and there may be higher ones, but for now, neither Levi nor other people on the forum know clearly.
But according to the information Master had provided before, the Red Cloud Tribe was just a pure greenskin tribe. It was okay to have some goblins, as those things were just like mice or rabbits in the wild, and were everywhere. But the information didn't mention at all that they also had earth goblins or bugbears?
Could it be that they are the hidden power of the Blood Boiling Guild?
But the next moment, when he saw thirty or fifty giant pythons that looked like they had human limbs, even Levi became a little uneasy.
There are many humanoid monsters related to snakes, but Medusa, Naga and six-armed snake demons basically have the upper body of a human and a charming and beautiful face. But aren’t these snake people too ugly?
More importantly, these guys should be the snake people from the heart of Horus, located in the south of the Zhendan Dynasty, across the sea from the Inda Kingdom.
There are many snake kingdoms in the heart of Horus, but even the distance from the nearest kingdom to here is farther than Levi’s trip to Zhendan. Even if you go by sea, you have to take a long detour. How did these guys get here?
As for the ones in the middle, there were a dozen guys dressed in fancy clothes, and not just greenskins, there were also two ogres and a petite cat girl, which made Levi unable to tell for a moment who were the chosen heroes of God and who were the natives.
Unfortunately, they stopped temporarily when they were still a few hundred meters away, not giving Donna the chance to show her power, and they quickly sent out all of their more than 100 cavalry units, apparently trying to make a detour from the side.
By now, basically all the chosen heroes know how powerful the martial talents of the High Elf troops are. Coupled with the restraining effect of spearmen on cavalry units, no fool would send cavalry to charge directly into the position, as that would be simply seeking death.
Then thousands of greenskins were roughly divided into two groups, rushing up from the left and right, with no intention of communicating at all. They directly wanted to use the left and right flanking tactics to wipe out Levi and others.
But Levi was not panicked at all. He just gave orders to the summoned creatures through mental communication, and then asked Xiaoqi to find the Mastiff-Headed Yakong, and asked them to cooperate with Lisadilan and others to eat up the opponent's cavalry units first.
Although they all have four legs and can run, how can some ordinary wild wolves and wild boars compete with real war horses in cavalry combat?
He himself slowly threw quicksand traps in front of the formation. Many actual battles had already proved that although this thing was of low rank, its effect was not low at all. At least judging from the troops currently displayed by the opponent, I am afraid that no one can ignore them.
As the greenskin battle formation slowly advanced, Levi also noticed something. These greenskins actually showed extraordinary discipline. Even when they were moving, the left and right sides maintained a roughly square shape.
This is not worth mentioning for some trained humans or elves, but for the greenskins who extremely value freedom and belong to the chaos camp, this is too rare. No wonder Reiner is so worried.
After frowning uncontrollably, Levi stopped casting the quicksand trap and began to chant the ice storm spell. As a tier-4 magic, the casting time required was actually slightly shorter than that of the micrometeor, which was quite a surprise.
A few seconds later, Donna gave a delicate shout and ordered the ranged troops to launch an attack, and then Levi also finished casting the spell.
As he waved his staff lightly, an ice-blue cloud with an area of more than two hundred square meters suddenly appeared in the air. His magic arrived earlier than the rain of arrows from the ranged troops.
Before all the greenskins could react, countless palm-sized magic ice flakes had already smashed down on the greenskins below, causing one blunt attack and one magical damage. At least one-sixth of the enemies had a thin layer of frost on their bodies, and their movement speed was significantly reduced.
The slowing effect of the ice storm is based on the strength gap between the two sides, and now it seems that the strength gap between them and Levi is really too far.
Then nearly two hundred arrows fell from the sky, instantly clearing out all the Squig herds. These ugly monsters that looked like big eggs with two legs, but had shark-like mouths, were the most typical type of soldiers that were strong in offense and weak in defense, and they were also quite fast, so naturally they needed to be eliminated first.
There were several slightly angry curses from the greenskin camp. It was obvious that they had underestimated the opponent's maximum range and power, whether it was arrows or magic!
Levi was not surprised. His troops were originally based on long-range archers as their main output, and he had just recruited 80 more long-range troops, which further improved his output capacity.
Even though most of them did not benefit from Donna's limited leadership, their own abilities alone were not something these ordinary low-level greenskins could resist, not to mention his military rank bonus.
After killing the most threatening group of Squigs, he turned and continued casting spells. He did have a fight with the greenskins in the dungeon before, but this time he still wanted to test the effects of other magic on them, such as Stinking Cloud and Spider Web!
After looking at each other, the greenskins felt a little embarrassed. The shooting range of the high elves was obviously beyond that of ordinary greenskins. If they continued to shoot at each other, they would suffer a great loss.
It seems that we still need to change the battle strategy a little bit, and rely on the advantage in numbers to kill the enemy with a single charge!
"attack!"
“Speed up!”
“Charge!”
Several orders came out from the greenskin army at the same time, and then all the greenskins roared and rushed forward.
With this charge, their original formation could no longer be maintained, and soon the second wave of arrows rained again. This time, Levi and Donna could clearly feel that the enemy had suffered more damage. The phalanx was not just for show, it could also slightly improve their defense.
Now this is certainly a good thing for Levi and the others, but if Reiner, Mikaela and even Princess Belinda and other indigenous people knew about it, it would probably not be so easy, because this matter is more and more likely to be related to the green-skinned god of war.
But Levi did not stop his actions, and another ice storm hit the snake people. Although he had never dealt with these enemies before, Zhendan's God-chosen heroes had killed many of them.
Since these guys have scales on their bodies, they have a high resistance to ordinary physical attacks, whether it is swords or arrows. However, as cold-blooded animals, their biggest weakness is their fear of cold. All ice attacks can cause additional damage and effects to them.
As expected, with the arrival of the ice storm, the magical damage suffered by the snakemen was obviously much higher than that of ordinary greenskins, and almost half of the snakemen were covered with thick frost, and their movement speed dropped significantly in a short period of time.
At this time, Donna's rain of arrows also followed. Although it can be seen that their physical defense is indeed good among the same level of soldiers, their strength was crushed after all, and almost all of them were killed.
Levi was slightly relieved. It seemed that most of these snake people were level 2, and there were only a handful of level 3. Even if the other party had cooperated with the snake people, it should not be too in-depth.
Thinking of this, the Stinking Cloud Technique had already been cast and landed directly on the area where the greenskins were most concentrated.
Even though the greenskins themselves had absolutely no regard for hygiene, they could not stand the strong stench created by this they all fell to the ground and vomited.
Then he cast the Spider Web spell, covering a large group of enemies. Although the greenskins tried their best, they were unable to break free. As his strength increased, the effects of these two spells became stronger and stronger.
Donna also commanded the long-range troops tacitly, following the landing point of Levi's magic. She soon discovered Levi's main attack direction.
Instead of attacking the enemies on the left side evenly, he just kept on attacking them. Could it be that he wanted to defeat this part of the enemy forces first?
But no matter what, although Levi cast spells many times and delayed a large number of enemy troops , and the enemy troops on the left were quickly hit hard, the greenskins still had a certain advantage in numbers, and they soon rushed up.
The few quicksand traps were broken almost instantly, and a large number of greenskins crashed heavily into the defense line formed by the Silver Guards and Caledor Guards.
In an instant, the damage numbers floating above the heads of both sides made the faces of many green-skinned God-chosen heroes who were originally very excited and expectant become extremely ugly. They knew that they had really met a tough opponent this time.
But then they all excused themselves, saying that it didn't matter. Although these melee troops were indeed very strong, their numbers were there. They simply couldn't protect all the ranged units. As long as they outflanked them from both sides, they would kill all the enemy's ranged troops in less than a quarter of an hour!
But Levi also laughed. He first summoned two large earth elements to act as meat shields to assist Cindy and the two guardian angels on the right wing. He then asked the Tritons to switch to melee weapons to temporarily take charge of defense. He then cast the spider web spell again to temporarily trap a large number of enemy troops.
As for the left wing, he didn't need to worry too much. The enemies over there had already been severely defeated, and Elegy with dual giant swords was eyeing them covetously. With Bayoru supporting them, they could not threaten the long-range troops in a short period of time.
The enemy felt they had victory in their grasp, but so did he.
The chosen heroes of the greenskins were a little confused at first, wondering why the other side didn't retreat in such an obviously unfavorable situation.
But within ten seconds, their faces changed drastically and they hurriedly tried to retreat because they felt the ground shaking slightly and heard the rumbling of horse hooves. There were cavalry troops approaching quickly, and there were at least hundreds of them!
At once, many heroes showed their abilities. The Shaman threw down several energy pillars in succession. The Berserker roared and his entire body expanded several times. The Witch Doctor chanted mysterious spells and summoned the ghosts of several wild beasts from under the earth. The Cat Girl twisted her waist and summoned an identical phantom.
But all of this was useless in front of the cavalry led by Reiner. After all, two of their teams were level 5 cavalrymen named after them!
With just a charge, hundreds of subordinates of the Greenskins' chosen heroes who served as their personal guards were easily defeated. The several-meter-long lances exerted extremely powerful power in the high-speed charge, and whether it was stabbing or smashing, it could easily severely injure the Greenskins.
The fight was so exciting that Reiner even swung his spear repeatedly, sending several of the most arrogant enemies flying into the air. Then the Dragon Prince's cavalrymen who served as his personal guards in the back raised their lances in unison and in an instant poked multiple large holes through the enemy's bodies.
When they saw the opponent's power, even the Berserker with the longest health bar and the highest level was killed instantly. When they saw the leader clearly, the remaining green-skinned God-chosen heroes wailed and turned around to escape.
They have been fighting for so many days, how could they not know who the other side is?
At the beginning, the opponent seemed to be just an ordinary captain of the Silver Helmet Knights, but because he fought several battles with them continuously, he actually grew into a hero in a very short period of time. It can be said that he became stronger by stepping on their lives and blood!
But how could their legs keep up with the running speed of the warhorses? They barely lasted 10 seconds before all the Greenskins' chosen heroes were taken away in one wave.
Then Reiner continued to charge the greenskin troops from behind with his remaining momentum.
At the same time, Lisadilan and Julia on the left and right sides also showed their power. Waves of arrows fell directly on the back of the greenskins on the left wing. The night elf hunters also threw out their unique moon blades, which bounced back and forth on the enemies. Although the damage caused was not too high, it looked very comfortable.
The cavalry led by Simon and many celestial creatures had successfully detoured from the right side and launched an attack from behind, especially among them.
Xiaotian descended from the sky with the Legion's Archers and charged at the enemy's ranged forces. Although the greenskin shooters, in terms of hit rate and lethality, were far from comparable to the elves commanded by Donna, they were still a threat to some extent.
Now, even if the Yakongs cannot kill all the enemies in a short period of time with a successful air raid, it will definitely greatly interfere with their shooting.
Suddenly faced with such an unexpected situation and losing the command of all the God-chosen heroes almost at the same time, the remaining greenskins immediately became chaotic, and soon the enemy forces on the left side collapsed completely.
Simon began to take advantage of the situation with a group of cavalrymen to drive away the enemy. He did not seek to kill the enemy, but only to disrupt the remaining enemy's formation to the greatest extent and affect their morale. After following Levi for so long, he had learned something.
The enemy troops on the right also began to choose different ways of responding according to their own personalities.
The greenskins began to howl as they launched their final charge. The seemingly rude and stupid bear goblins displayed a cunning and cowardice that was completely different from their appearance. They began to try to escape in the chaos.
Unfortunately, Levi did not give them this opportunity. He used spider web magic, grease magic and other techniques one after another. Now his goal was not to kill the enemies, but to keep all the enemies as much as possible!
