Cunnier looked forward among the skeletons. The enemy array was a few feet away from the water, but they could no longer retreat. WwW. QUAbEn-XIAoShUo. In a formation like cOm, the soldiers have no retreat and will fight tooth and nail.
Daniel stomped his feet involuntarily, and the three huge heads of Pichuis shook under his feet. He felt the flinch of the master. Somewhat dissatisfied. Daniel suddenly realized, what was he afraid of? Even if the enemy tried their best, Salin did not give him a death order. As long as he could kill a certain number of enemies, Salin did not even ask him to take all the skeletons back.
Thinking of this, Daniel took off the small telescope from his waist. He had been polishing this thing for a long time. Although it could not see as far as Salin's. But now that he is very close to the enemy, he can use this to observe the enemy's expression.
The formation of the East China Sea Allied Forces is not very neat. Many low-level officers did not escape. The soldiers just gathered together instinctively. The senior generals could not command so many soldiers. They were also waiting for the general's orders. Therefore, the morale of this 10,000-strong army was low, and even the battle had just begun. None of the dead comrades were picked up, leaving the corpses lying in a mess on the ice.
Daniel saw it in the telescope. The faces of those soldiers showed panic, fear, hunger, and confusion.
Daniel has not learned any knowledge about commanding battles, but he is a necromancer. He has studied human emotions. Seeing the expression of the enemy soldier, Daniel immediately took out a small drum with a diameter of only one foot from his skin bag. , then took out another white bone and beat it on the drum.
Boom! Boom!
The sound of drums has an airy and desolate feel. Scattered on the ice, all the skeletons cheered up. This is the war drum of the undead, which can stimulate the fighting consciousness of the undead. Under the urging of the war drums, three thousand skeletons took great strides, holding bone spears in their hands. Pounced on the coalition position.
The coalition soldiers were cold and hungry, and their teeth chattered and made a gurgling sound, which sounded similar to a skeleton grinding its teeth.
Most soldiers did not carry spears. He only has a long knife with him, but the blade of the long knife is no more than one meter, which is not conducive to large-scale battles. Although the combat effectiveness of skeletons is not strong, the best way to make skeletons lose their combat effectiveness is with heavy weapons.
The heavy weapons of these soldiers were not brought out at all, and they all sank with the ship.
The general gave the order to attack in a deep voice. Finally, an officer urged the soldiers to blow the horn, and a team of a thousand people rushed towards the skeleton. The two armies collided fiercely, without any fanfare. The skeleton's bone spear thrust out with all its might. Soldiers without shields could not stop such killings with just their leather armor.
The coalition forces quickly organized another two thousand-man teams and approached from both sides. A frontal, stalemate battle would definitely be detrimental to the coalition forces, which were poorly equipped. Even against low-level skeletons, those soldiers were fragile. The climate in the East China Sea countries is not so harsh, and there is still snowfall in some high-altitude areas. But the low-lying plains are almost like spring all year round. In this environment, soldiers' equipment must also have a special style.
In order to be able to hold weapons firmly in battle, soldiers' gloves are an essential piece of equipment. The gloves worn by soldiers from the East China Sea countries had leather palms sewn on linen. This linen is thick, strong, and even waterproof. But it has no ability to withstand the cold. The soldiers had been freezing at the beach for a long time, and their fingers had long been numb. The two sides were impacting each other, and many soldiers' weapons flew away during the fight.
These are not peasant soldiers, but real troops. They have been trained for at least five years and have actual combat experience. But it was such an elite soldier who, in a confrontation with the lowest-level skeleton, was killed and turned upside down.
Three thousand skeletons advanced with bone spears. He didn't pay any attention to the teams pressing up from both wings. Driven by the drums of the undead, the vitality of these skeletons has also been strengthened. Without magic weapons, unless they are chopped into pieces, they will still wave their weapons and fight to the end. The undead are not without fear, but what they fear is not the person in front of them.
Daniel ignored the attacks from both sides, because the undead were not humans, and these skeletons were not summoned by him. If he wanted to change the formation, he would absolutely not be able to control it. Moreover, the impact on both wings was not fatal because the enemy had no cavalry. If you rely solely on infantry to attack, the final battle will be based on individual combat effectiveness.
The skeleton will not panic. No matter what advantageous position the enemy occupies, the skeleton will still thrust forward with the bone spear, either killing the enemy or being torn apart by the enemy.
The more than two hundred barbarians behind the skeleton were very nimble. They did not follow the skeleton stupidly up, but rode the skeleton war horse. Shoot arrows in the back.
The two thousand soldiers attacked from both sides. The barbarians only harassed within the range of their bows and arrows, and did not flee or come to support.
The strength of the barbarians cannot be underestimated. They still pull soft hunting bows, which are definitely useless against iron armor, but they can still cause damage against the opponent's thin leather armor. With this kind of hunting bow with a small draw weight, a barbarian can shoot hundreds of arrows without mercy.
Of course, this is also thanks to Salin. His requirements for the equipment of the soldiers were still high. The barbarians had not surrendered for a long time, but everyone who could shoot an arrow had a metal bow. With this thing, the fingers will not be injured when shooting arrows, and the power mainly relies on the arms, which can improve the archer's combat effectiveness.
The only disadvantage of a bow opener is the greater wear and tear on the bow string. Generally, if a bow string is pulled with fingers, it can shoot at least two thousand arrows before it is scrapped. With a bow opener, the wear will be more than doubled. To reduce wear, either add lubricating grease or improve the quality of the bow opener. Both of these increase costs.
Therefore, Salin's soldiers all have two bow starters. One is made by alchemy and is used to make extremely high-quality bows. The other is an ordinary bow starter for practicing or ordinary bows.
In fact, Salin was short of manpower, and it was not time to divide the arms in detail, but one thing he learned from Rex was how much investment you give to the soldiers. That's what the soldiers will give you in return.
The general watched the battle in the distance from behind, with no hope of victory in his heart. He could see now that this undead army did not intend to completely eliminate them, but only came to kill and injure his own living forces. When your own strength is weakened to a certain extent, you will not be able to attack the city. At that time, the enemy will only need to defend the harbor, and your people will die of cold and starvation.
If his battleship is still there and these soldiers are well prepared, there will be no problem facing three thousand skeletons. He only needs to place an iron shield on the front and attack with heavy infantry on both wings, and he will smash the undead army into pieces.
But now all his soldiers are using sabers, and there are no weapons like hammers, battle axes or halberds. The soldiers had no tools to protect themselves from the cold, and their hands and feet were numb. A long knife with a standard weight of only about two kilograms could cut a shallow mark on the skeleton's body at most. It would take more than a dozen knives to smash a skeleton. No matter how strong his command ability is, it is useless unless he can make the warships rise from the bottom of the sea and distribute heavy equipment to the soldiers.
Three thousand soldiers and three thousand skeletons were strangled together. Most of the more than seven thousand soldiers arrayed behind them had no weapons and could only watch helplessly.
The general sighed suddenly and said to the magician beside him: "You all go away and use wind magic to leave. The other party will not chase the magician."
"Your Excellency, General. We won't leave. Master Youxi Masuo hasn't come back yet." Several gray-robed mages became anxious. Although the magicians and sixth-level mages are gone, they still have the power to determine the outcome of the battle.
"Can you catch up with the skeleton warhorse?" the general asked, pointing at the barbarians firing arrows from behind.
The gray-robed mages were speechless. It also takes time for Fengju to catch up with the war horse. Because the physical strength of the war horse will decrease, but the skeleton war horse does not have the problem of physical decrease, at least before those people run back, they will not be able to catch up.
"Did you see the undead in the team?"
"I saw it."
"That's an eighth-level undead. Picius." The general's voice was cold: "Maybe the level of the necromancer is still low. But the combat effectiveness of this kind of undead will not be lower than level seven. You can't help me even if you are here. Don't He said that if Youxi Masuo comes back, he may never come back. You guys, let’s go.”
"But, Your Excellency!"
"Our main fleet has gone to Lianyuncheng. You go to Lianyuncheng, find them, and continue fighting. My defeat here is irreversible." The general said, taking off the weird helmet and throwing it on the ground. He said to the surrounding soldiers: "This time, you don't have to protect me. Just kill a few more enemies."
The decoration of his helmet has a greater meaning. When worn on his head, it will affect his field of vision. The general never thought that one day he would have to kill the enemy himself.
When the remaining generals heard the general's words, their eyes turned deathly gray.
"Why are you looking like this? As a soldier, isn't it enough to die on the battlefield
"It's all your fault. Why did you want to rob the battleship? That battleship is more advanced than ours. The enemy must be very powerful. If it weren't for your order, how could we end up like this!"
A general couldn't help pointing at the general and angrily reprimanding him. The general sneered: "When we first robbed, you were all talking about how to distribute it. Now you blame me?" He stared at everyone coldly. He continued: "We are here just to conquer. Do we still want to do business with them?"
"But we have the right to surrender!"
"No, at least you don't have it anymore." The general suddenly pulled out his long sword and took a step forward, more than five meters away. He thrust the sword directly into the mouth of the general who had offended him. The long sword retracted like lightning, with bright red blood on it.
"Who else wants to pitch.
The surrounding officers were silent. Many of them did not become generals by virtue of their bravery. The generals already had the power of sword masters, and one person could kill them all. What's more, the general has nearly a hundred soldiers beside him.