Who says knights can't backstab

Chapter 712

"General, that mountain... blocked the city gate."

The retreating Ao San Emma troops outside the city stopped outside the moat of the west city gate blocked by falling rocks.

The moat had already been filled with rocks, and the slopes piled up with sand had completely blocked half of the city gates.There are piles of rocks on the city wall, and no defender can be seen.

Grote Kossis was riding on the horse, silently watching what happened before him.

The mountain collapsed in an indescribable manner like this, turning into a moat, lying between them and Pakri.

"General, are we...going to the south gate by detour?" Jerome asked tentatively. "General Robbins will definitely lead the troops to the south for support. If we join them..."

But before he finished speaking, he saw the general in front of him turn his horse's head, and then blew a whistle, and a dragon guiding eagle immediately flew out of the queue and landed on his arm.

Grote Kosis drew out the long sword at his waist, first pulled the cloak behind him, swung the sword to cut a section, and then drew a line on the palm of his left hand, blood flowed out from the palm immediately.

"General, you..."

With a cold expression on his face, Kosis dipped the fingers of his right hand in the blood of his left palm, and quickly wrote some blood words on the cloak, then tied it to the eagle leg of the dragon guide, and patted the eagle on the head of the guide dragon: " Go, take this letter to General Oberian."

He waved his arms vigorously, and the Dragon Eagle flew up immediately with its wings spread out, soaring to the sky, and disappeared from sight in a blink of an eye.

"It's too late to meet Robbins. The people of La Rochelle are not fools... No, it should be said that our opponents have been very cunning from the beginning. Don't you still think that after cutting off our retreat, they will still fight?" Let us join the troops in the city?"

Jerome was speechless - he was not a general, but a pure warrior, and he knew nothing about these things.

"Let all the soldiers turn around." Grote Kossis looked at where they came from, where the smoke and dust were already billowing, and La Rochelle's army had indeed pursued them.

"Our brave and fearless men of O'St. Emma, ​​we have no retreat now." His voice echoed through O'St. Emma's army. "Arrange! Let the savages of La Rochelle know, What is an empire, what is an Ostem Emma!"

The broken cloak was blown loudly by the cold wind, the long sword in his hand was held straight forward, his eyes were as sharp as the edge of a sword, and his password spread throughout the army in an instant:

"Meet the enemy - line up!!"

The high-pitched horns began to sound, and the Ao San Emma's army, which was still chaotic just now, was gradually cleared up. The troops headed west under the restraint of their commanders. It took only a few breaths to divide the war zones.

The earth elemental mages began to chant in a low voice, and erected earth walls in front of the soldiers in the front row, setting up temporary shelters for them—although the landslide cut off their retreat, it also filled the earth element here to a great extent. A level that mages are not used to.Make their spellcasting smoother than ever.

A temporary front line has been set up in a blink of an eye, and the archer positions and war weapon positions in the rear are also on standby, waiting for La Rochelle's army to enter its range, and immediately deal a heavy blow to it.

The black dragon flag fluttered in the wind, as if the troop below had not suffered any setbacks, but greeted the challenger with a perfect victorious attitude.

"Come on, La Rochelle man, let me see how capable you are!"

Grote Kossis sat on the horseback, with his upper body straight, looking straight ahead, waiting for the arrival of La Rochelle's army.

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"Report! The O'Santa Emma have stopped retreating."

When the news reached Atzke's ears, he was still estimating whether he would have enough time to cut off the people of Osan Emma before they entered the south gate.

But this news immediately interrupted his train of thought.He quickly rushed to the front of the team, and through the Eye of Memphira, he learned about the current state of the people of Ao San Emma.

"They have finished their army, are they waiting for us there?"

His expression immediately became extremely serious, and he immediately sent an order: "The whole army slow down, advance slowly, keep the formation, and don't enter the range of their war weapons."

This is undoubtedly the last situation he wants to see: dealing with a retreating army and a whole army preparing to meet the enemy are undoubtedly two concepts.This means that they will change from a pursuit battle to a tough battle.

"What should we do?" Leonardo asked aloud, "These Osan Emma people... have to admit that their resilience is indeed worthy of praise."

"Let our catapults come to the front." Atzke stretched out his hand to signal, "Their catapults are not as far away as ours, since they want to shrink back, let's smash them hard until they can't hold on. "

"However, the troops in their city will still go out to support them. We don't know how much the collapse of the mountain giant has caused a reduction in the number of troops in the city, but the balance of numerical superiority will eventually tilt to their side."

"Our archers are also better than theirs." Memphira said from the side, "No human can compare with elves in archery skills. If our catapults can destroy the opponent's war weapons first, then the archers Then you can go to the front line to suppress."

"The killing efficiency caused by bows and arrows is undoubtedly higher than that of catapults that need to be loaded and repaired for a long time... Let the catapults give priority to attacking their war weapon positions." Azike responded, "But the problem is still not resolved , if they are really shrinking their heads and resisting the positions established by the earth elemental mages there, we still can't break them down before the reinforcements in the city arrive."

"So we have to find a way to force them to probe." Sugar Winkler said, "But the long-range firepower is not enough, and if the soldiers go up to the battle, there will be too much damage, and we can't accept it..."

His eyes suddenly lit up, he slapped his thigh vigorously, and shouted: "I thought of it, I thought of it!"

"What did you think of?"

"Feint attack, we can lie to them!"

He quickly expressed his thoughts, Atzke's eyes flickered, and the plan was finalized immediately after a while.

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Amasir's troop formation was two kilometers away from the limit range of the Orsan Emma's catapult, and the catapult was pushed to the front of the formation first as Atzke had planned.

"Can you find the location of their war weapons?"

The general of the new artillery battalion, Barcliffe, turned his face to look at his commander, patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, General Angers, the places where the war weapons are placed are undoubtedly in the middle and rear of the array. I have a lot of experience-"

He was originally the commander of the artillery unit of the Amasir Natural Guard Army. He was dug from Solconan by Duke O'Connor. It is said that he served in the First Army and was kicked out of the army because of a mistake.

During the merger of the Amasir Army and the Siliki Army, because the catapults produced by the Lurea Research Institute were enough to become a standing army, they were excavated and promoted to lead this artillery unit.

"First strike, towards their center. Now the Osan Emma must have guns waiting to shell our troops, just in time to hit them."

"Catapult, Direction Correction, Magic Fill—"

"put!"

The machine expands loosely, and the catapult under the magic power is like a magic shell generated in a magic crystal cannon. With a red tail flame, it hits the formation of the Austrian Saint Emma fiercely like a falling meteor.

"Their catapults fired first!"

"Oops, their targets are our weapons of war!"

"Where is the mage? Save me, mage, we need shields!"

"It's too late, the mage is building a position at the front—"

The people of Alma, who had already endured the bombardment of Amasir's troops, screamed, and Grote Kosis's majestic face suddenly showed a tinge of pain—as a commander, But they forgot that the throwing distance of the opponent's catapult was better than theirs, and it was still after they had just suffered the pain of the opponent's shelling.

Dozens of stones slammed into Ao Shengemma's formation like a swarm of falling meteors. Even though some of the slings were blocked by professional-level experts, a few of them still landed intact, just hitting the ground they had erected and prepared to attack. Among the war weapons positions of the La Rochelle people!
In an instant, several costly ballistas and catapults, together with the soldiers trying to push the war weapons away, were smashed into pieces by this round of catapults!
"Push the war weapons back, push back!" They quickly took advantage of the gap between the La Rochelle throwing stones, pushed the war weapons to the rear, and at the same time mobilized the earth element mages to return to the middle of the team and began to build the earth element barrier.

But just as they were busy, the second round of throwing stones had already passed through the air, and once again fell towards their position——

"The stone throwing is coming again! Pay attention to avoid, pay attention to avoid!"

"Where did they smash it?"

"Damn it, why is it aimed at our war weapons again!"

"Why can their throwing stones be so fast?!"

This round of throwing stones was impartial, hitting the group of war weapons that had just been pushed to the back of the team.The last round of stone throwing had professional-level fighters to help resist, but this time the professional-level fighters still stayed in the middle of the team, and the earth elemental mage dispatched to provide protection was also serving the middle of the team that was hit!

This round of slamming stones announced that the war weapon troops of the troops outside the city had completely lost their combat effectiveness and withdrew from the battlefield at this time.

Grote Kossis hated his teeth on horseback, but at this moment, he couldn't take the initiative to attack—he could see the strength of the La Rochelle archers, and there was no earth dragon army To open the way, it is undoubtedly equivalent to a fool to charge now, not to mention that the position has been established, and it is the correct way to stick to the position and wait for reinforcements.

At this time, in the La Rochelle position, the catapult had already released the third round of catapults. Atzke watched the red meteors streak across the sky, and once again fell on the position of the people of Saint-Emma, ​​while the artillery battalion The commander still said triumphantly:

"After the first round of beatings, they will definitely retreat their weapons of war, so as long as the second round of throwing stones hits their rear, they will definitely be able to completely destroy their catapults!"

"Then what about the third round of throwing stones?" Azik couldn't help asking.

"This round probably won't achieve much effect." Barcliffe shook his head and said, "War weapons are dead, heavy and easy targets, but people can avoid stone throwing. They have already prepared themselves, and this round is just a random one." It’s just smashing—not to mention, my lord, hasn’t your goal been achieved?”

Atzke tilted his head and thought about it, and that was indeed the case—it would be better to say that being able to proceed to the second step of the process so quickly exceeded his expectations.

"You can also shoot a few more rounds. Maybe the people of Ao San Emma have been bombarded too much, and they can't help but rush out."

But Barcliffe shook his head again and again, "My lord, do you think that such a good bombardment effect does not need to be paid for? Three rounds of high-frequency catapults are already the limit, and now the bodies of these catapults are in a state of magical overload, and cannot continue to catapult stones. "

Atzke was a little ashamed—he had too many things to take into account, and he really didn't pay attention to the details of the products of Lurea Research Institute. He only knew that these catapults were light, fast and shot far, and the inscribed magic runes were tall and tall. , I didn't know there were such things as "burst loading" and "overloading".

But his goal has indeed been achieved, he nodded immediately, and then ordered: "The archers go out, the first shield guard group goes out, and the archers are escorted forward!"

The voice fell, and a moment later, a group of shield guards equipped with Lurea's assault device escorted the archer brigade out of the battle, and immediately opened the bow after reaching the shooting range. Throwing away towards the position of the Ao San Emma people.

"Shield soldiers, top shields! The rest seek cover and avoid their shots!"

At this time, Grote Kossis understood the plan of the La Rochelle people—the other party knew that they were waiting for reinforcements in the city, so they wanted to use long-range firepower to force them out of battle.

But have they ever thought about how abundant the earth element was provided by the collapse of that high mountain—it only needs the earth element mage to wave his staff casually, and several layers of barriers can be built to resist bows and arrows.

The bow and arrow couldn't inflict any damage on them at this moment, not even itching!
If the people of La Rochelle can only come up with this little trick, then what awaits them next is the impact of the complete Austrian Saint Emma army!

"Where is the scout, have you contacted General Robbins?" He asked Jerome beside him.

"The scouts haven't returned yet. It is estimated that the topography of the city has changed due to the collapse of the mountain. They will not be able to find General Robbins for a while." Jerome replied.

While the two were talking, they saw Yiqi running quickly from the side in front of Cosis. The scout on the horse had no time to dismount and salute, so he shouted from his horseback:

"My lord, we found a group of La Rochelle men heading towards our north!"

"A team of La Rochelle people? How many?" Cosis asked hastily.

"Nearly 300 people, a group of knights riding strange mounts, they seem to be escorting... a group of mages!"

(End of this chapter)