Monster Minotaur

According to Refola's expectation, the Lightning Legion successfully bypassed the Maro Legion that was collecting them on the Elam border and reached the rear of these large-scale legions. Originally, their speed should have been faster, but in order to cover up the marks left by the wheels of the artillery, this delayed them for some time.

According to the report of the scouts sent out, not far ahead was the station of the Maro Legion. This reserve legion, which was left behind to support other legions on a mobile basis, did not know that they had been exposed to the eyes of the enemy. The Maro Legion has no habit of hiding. The groups of white tents in the camp can be seen clearly even from several miles away.

As the Lightning Legion got closer and closer, Maro's scouts who were on guard finally discovered the Legion and ran toward the camp with bursts of dust. Like a stone hitting a hornet's nest, the originally quiet camp suddenly became noisy. The soldiers who were resting in the tent quickly put on their armor and got out of the tent, finding their tenth captain nearby.

And these centurions, after gathering all his men, led the team to find their centurion. Maro's discipline and quality were immediately reflected. Although the entire camp was a little panicked due to the enemy attack, everything was going on in an orderly manner amidst the panic. The soldiers knew what they were going to do, and the officers also understood what they were doing. Need to go there.

It's really slow. Glock said while riding on his horse and looking at the Maro soldiers who had gathered in front of them and formed a neat square formation: If we do it, it will be at least half the time faster than them. But... this should be considered fast among the Central Plains countries.

In the face of a sudden enemy attack, the most important thing is to quickly assemble the troops. If the troops are assembled one minute earlier, the advantage will be one minute earlier. The Legion of Thunder Bluff has always valued training for this kind of thing the most. According to the requirements of the training manual given by Mo Yan, the troops will suddenly assemble at least three to four times a day to train the soldiers' quick reaction capabilities.

At the beginning, all the Salters did not understand this sudden gathering and then disbanding, and even thought that their training officer was a bastard who liked to torture people. At this time, some people saw the speed of the Maro people's gathering, and they understood the importance of rapid assembly. Looking at the Maro people who had gathered in a hurry, they could raise their chins and say proudly: You are so weak. .”

If possible, a surprise attack is the best thing. The unprepared Maro legion only needs a cavalry attack to make them panic to the point where they cannot assemble normally, and then it will be easier to defeat this legion. However, there are very few soldiers in the legion who can ride horses, and there are few places where they can ride horses in the mountainous terrain of Elam.

The Lightning Legion is mostly equipped with pack horses, not the kind of horses that can charge quickly. The slow-moving artillery and those gray dwarves with short legs also needed protection. The combination of these problems could only make Refola give up the surprise method and move forward in a regular battle formation.

The tall and strong Salt warriors walked at the forefront of the team with shields and spears, followed closely behind them were a group of gray dwarves carrying flintlock guns, and in the center of the rear of the formation were packhorses. With the artillery and the wooden carriages used to load the cannonballs, the entire team was not moving too slowly, but it was not too fast in order to maintain the formation.

Have they stopped? A bearded man in the Maro Army's position, riding on a shiny black horse, frowned as he looked at the Lightning Legion that had stopped in the distance. This is different from the normal fighting method. Both sides will stop at least before the bow and arrow can reach the place, and adjust according to the opponent's formation.

For a long time before the army went to war, both sides were constantly adjusting their formations in this way. It was not until one side made a strategic mistake that the soldiers were fighting. Now that the other party had stopped at such a distance, this gave Beard a bit of a bad premonition.

It seems that they are equipped with Thunder Bluff's artillery. A military mage wearing an archmage's robe next to Beard handed Beard a secret letter about the artillery instructions and said: And this is what sent us here. The reason for coming, have you distributed those long staffs to the soldiers in the front line? If you can survive without...the attack later, what awaits you will be the emperor's guillotine.

This young mage came directly from Maruo City some time ago, and he also brought a batch of magic equipment with him. This mage, who didn't even bother to tell him his name, acted as if he was the master of this legion. He didn't pay attention to the beard at all. After arriving, he casually changed the legion's square formation and gave All the small phalanxes at the forefront are equipped with long staffs exuding magic energy.

If it weren't for the fact that the mage had Caesar's personal order in his hand, Beard wouldn't have cared about whether this arrogant bastard was the archmage, and would have directly captured him, filled him with forbidden magic potion, and thrown him into the wilderness. As the commander of the most elite legion in this operation, Bearded is no ordinary nobleman.

Elevation angle is seventy degrees! Panning is ten degrees. Standing on a high platform with a special characteristic of a carriage, a bearded gray dwarf estimated the distance with the instrument in his hand, and ordered with a loud voice to the twenty artillery pieces below. As the artillery chief of the Lightning Legion, he is responsible for commanding all artillery in all legions.

Following the orders of the bearded gray dwarves, the gray dwarves below the high platform were busy turning the cannon wheels with scales, raising the cannon's nozzle to the designated position, and metal-cased cannonballs were loaded into the barrel one after another. The gray dwarves, whose cheeks were flushed with excitement, stared at the gunnery commander's raised left hand, waiting for the order to fire.

Fire! Seeing the slowly advancing Maro phalanx entering the predetermined bombardment point, the bearded gray dwarf waved his left hand hard and shouted loudly. The gray dwarves below, who seemed to have been waiting for several years, quickly knocked the long magic crystals in their hands on the magic circle of the cannon body, instantly activating the magic circle without energy and transmitting the magic energy to the cannon in the barrel. The magic circle at the bottom of the cannonball.

boom! The sound of twenty artillery pieces firing simultaneously was deafening, making even the Salt people who had heard such a sound subconsciously feel weak in the legs. Not to mention that the Maroons, who had never heard such a loud noise, instantly felt their legs weak and stopped the slow-moving phalanx, which was where the gray dwarves expected to bombard.

Twenty shining cannonballs drew a perfect parabola in mid-air, roaring towards Maro's phalanx. The power contained in the magic crystal black gunpowder would make these Maro people Understand what the art of explosion is! But what happened immediately made most people in the Lightning Legion open their mouths, feeling incredible and shocked.

What! Nadal watched as a light blue shield appeared above the Maro phalanx. The shells that were supposed to fall into the Maro phalanx and cause huge damage were blocked by this sudden magic shield. . Although the loud noise and flames of the explosion scared the Maro people below, they failed to cause any harm to them.

The magic shield can actually be taken out of the city! Kira looked at the light blue shield shaking due to the explosion in disbelief. Every big city has a magic shield, which is the most important part of city protection. However, the magic array system required for the magic shield is extremely complicated, and the entire system is also extremely huge.

Until now, it could only be built in big cities. Even in some unimportant small cities, no one would build shields for them. Although the blue shield on the Maro phalanx is dozens of times smaller and much dimmer than the city shield in terms of area and light, it is a real and complete shield. shield.

Is that what those things are used for? Beard looked at the shield above his head. The large carriage next to him was the core of the entire magic energy system. Relying on the resonance with the magic staff in front of the array, a shield was formed that was enough to block the bombardment.

His Majesty the Emperor is very interested in the technology of Thunder Bluff. The archmage next to the legion commander showed a contemptuous smile and said: But in my opinion, it is just some heretical technology. The mainstream technology in this world will only be Magic, the so-called gunpowder technology is just a joke. The shield technology I invented for the Legion will make their weapons useless!

Thunder Bluff's artillery is not a secret, and the Maroons, who have proficient ears and ears, already understand the principle. Although they could not obtain the black powder formula and could not find gray dwarves willing to provide them with black powder, this did not prevent them from developing protective measures.

Maro, a country with a long history, has many talented spellcasters. The archmage who came to the legion was one of them. Caesar trusted him more than any mage, and he did have such strength and talent. Born in a family of wizards, he not only has an extremely superior wizard bloodline, but he was also instilled with dangerous wisdom using magic when he was young, which gave him a high level that others did not have.

He became the Archmage at a young age, making him a star throughout Maro. While this made him brilliant, it also made him weird and arrogant. In his eyes, even other mages were just a bunch of fools who knew how to do tricks.

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