Soon it was dawn.
The dawn light fell on Alan's face, and he opened his eyes. After taking a nap for an hour or so, I regained my energy. He stood up and stretched his muscles. Looking to the side, Lucy was curled up in a ball, sleeping soundly on the stone with her back to the wind. Allen pulled the warm marching blanket for her, and she woke up.
A qualified soldier is one who can gain time to rest on the battlefield. Lucy has undoubtedly achieved this. When she woke up, there was a light in her green pupils, and she was full of energy.
"They didn't attack?" Lucy asked.
Allen nodded heavily.
This is by no means a good thing. The enemy's strength is clearly superior, but they are not in a hurry to attack. Obviously, we must be prepared to take them down in one fell swoop. The Sword Demon has no intention of letting them survive, even if there are only one or two people.
Willick and Bloy came back, handed them dry food and clean water, and then sat down to rest in order to recover their energy.
Allen ate something and found Kejiesi. The major seemed to have slept through the night, but there was no trace of fatigue in his eyes. He was lowering his tactical binoculars, his face clouded. Seeing Allen coming, he sighed softly: "It seems that we have a hard fight."
Pass the binoculars to Allen.
Allen looked down the mountain and gasped. After one night's effort, the sword demon set up checkpoints on the main entrance of the mountain road. Using local materials, obstacles made of iron, wood and random stones will prevent the federal army from effectively attacking, and can serve as a cover to avoid federal fire attacks. Fortunately, the mountain road is rugged, and the sword demon can't drive their chariot up the mountain, or else this battle will not be fought.
As for the opponent's wolf cavalry, they can pass unimpeded. It's just a mountain trail, and they can't attack in groups like they are on flat ground, which greatly weakens the mobility and power of the wolf cavalry.
But the federation is still at a disadvantage.
"God, what is that?" A non-commissioned officer exclaimed.
Allen and Kejiesi turned their heads abruptly.
On the other side of the wind-eroded wasteland, the black clouds on the horizon surged, and the dust raised up into the sky. Allen returned the telescope to Kejiesi, the major looked at it, and shouted: "No, it's an ant colony!"
That's right, it was an ant colony, and there were quite a few of them. Alan glanced just now and knew that there were at least five or six hundred sword ants to raise dust and smoke of this scale. The sword ants have always been the servants and cannon fodder commonly used by the Blade Demons. In many previous battles, the sword ants usually played the role of attracting firepower and consuming federal ammunition. The hateful thing is that knowing this, the Federation is unable to change this situation.
If a large number of sword ants are allowed to swarm into the position, the losses will far exceed the ammunition consumed. Facing this characteristic style of play of the sword demon, the federation is looking for a way to crack it. Some people have suggested that sword ants can use the characteristic that they are extremely sensitive to pheromones to develop special pheromones that are lethal or disgusting, in order to kill sword ants on a large scale or force them to leave the battlefield, so as to crack the ant sea tactic of sword demons. Purpose.
It's just that such pheromones are still under development, and Allen's army is not equipped in this way.
A large number of sword ants approached like a reddish-brown lead cloud. From this point of view, there should be a medium-sized tribe migrating here. The team of wolf riders who left last night was obviously an ant colony transferred from the Hui tribe. Letting the knife ants take the lead will be very detrimental to Allen's side. Their already limited ammunition will be consumed at an accelerated rate because of these servants.
"At this point, we can only use the echelon combat method, and use the limited space on the mountain road to delay the time as much as possible." Ke Jiesi snorted.
call all the clerks
Officer, Kejiesi began to arrange the battle positions and tasks of each team. They will give up the space in the middle of the mountain road, tighten the defense line on the mountain road, and take advantage of the condescending excellence. Take turns attacking in the form of echelons to block and intercept the enemy in order to delay time. As for whether it can be dragged to the rescue army, it is a question that no one wants to think about.
While Kejiesi was laying out his tactics, the knife ant colony had already arrived at the foot of the mountain. At this time, there was a surge in the sword demon, and a tall demon strode out. He is not like other sword demons who are bent over their bodies. Obviously, like other beings, when the source power develops to a certain level, aliens like sword demons will also evolve. The sword demon in front of him is a demon who has evolved once, his body is straight, and the structure of the original spine has changed, allowing him to stand upright like a human being, which allows the sword demon to make more movements.
He is wearing a strange armor that is also made of bone and metal, and the area covered by the armor is far larger than that of ordinary wolf knights. Three banners were planted behind the back, and the strong wind blew, causing the blood-brown banners to flutter fiercely, looking like flames from a distance.
This is the famous sword demon general, the position of general, which only appears in medium-sized tribes. Among the ten tyrannical divisions, there are even higher generals. Ordinary generals also have a strength of level 20, which is equivalent to a major in the federal army. This sword demon general is dragging a broadsword in his hand, which is full of primitive style. Its grip, guard, and spine are made of solid bone. As for the blades on both sides, they are made of rough metal.
The general raised his broadsword and pointed at the federal army above. Immediately, ten wolf riders took out animal bones and blew sharp horns.
This is the signal to attack!
There is no suspense, the first to attack is a large number of knife ants. These servants ignored the rugged mountain roads and steep cliffs, and the sword ants climbed up all over the mountain, as if a dark red cloud rose from the foot of the mountain and rushed straight to the peak. Kejiesi made a gesture, and the federal army tightened up the steep peak to avoid being besieged by knife ants. Under the order of the major, the soldiers held their breaths and stood by, holding machine guns but not firing, and only waited for the knife ants to enter the optimal range before acting.
The mountain peaks are terribly quiet, only the sound of howling wind and the strange noise of knife ants crawling can be heard in this mountain. The atmosphere was tense and oppressive, except for a few people, all of them were breathing heavily, and the pressure in their hearts could be imagined.
Just when Saber Ant's striker entered the optimal shooting distance preset by Kejies, the major swung his arm violently. Immediately, a hundred guns fired together, and a staggered firepower net stopped the knife ants, causing these big ants to fall down the mountain continuously, causing countless casualties.
Just when the battle in the wind-eroded wasteland started, Colonel Bailey walked back and forth with a solemn face. He was in the command hall of the base. Just half an hour ago, according to the procedure, the base took the initiative to contact Ke Jiesi, but did not get any response. Colonel Berry rushed over after receiving the notice, but the communication has not yet been restored.
"It's been half an hour." Bailey yelled: "Notify the two majors, Peric and Jordan, and let them take their troops to the wind-eroded wasteland. Something may have happened to Kejiesi and the others."
"Damn, this situation is not good."
Blood Eagle Base has realized that the situation is wrong and is sending reinforcements, but the battle in the wind-eroded wasteland has begun to enter a fierce stage. After a large number of sword ants were knocked down the cliff, the infantry of the sword demon began to mix with the attacking sword ants and attack the mountain road. Most of the enemy soldiers will be bombarded and killed together with the knife ants, but some of them are lucky enough to cross the firepower net and advance towards the federal defense line. At this time, non-commissioned officers are needed.
After repelling a wave of Saber infantry, Mord retreated panting. It's Allen's turn
The advantage of his team is very obvious. There are four non-commissioned officers including Allen. Allen dragged his fangs and took the lead, followed by Willick and others. Under the roaring line of fire, several Sword Demon soldiers crossed the line of fire, popped out their arm blades and rushed towards them with strange screams.
Allen rushed forward with his sword together, and the fang bone knife brought up a gray moon, and the sharp light of the knife enveloped several enemy soldiers. The sword demon infantry responded to the sword and threw down one after another. They were all killed by a wound pulled out by the fangs in their throats, cutting off the main artery and splashing blood. Allen didn't like fighting either, so he retreated after winning. At this time, two knights rushed out of the enemy's formation, and the two wolf knights were holding spears. One of them raised his spear and was about to throw it, when suddenly a faint golden light flashed across the air like lightning, instantly opening a bloody hole on his forehead.
There was a gunshot behind him, and Allen knew it was Lucy without turning his head.
The spear-wielding knight hit the ground with his spear, turned twice, and became another corpse on the battlefield.
But there is still a rider rushing forward.
Allen stopped suddenly, gave a soft drink, and rushed forward. Thousands of sparks exploded in his arms and covered the knight, and the sword demon knight danced his spear wildly to protect his body, and the sound of clanging critical strikes continued. But when the knight thought that Allen's attack would never stop, the sparks in the sky suddenly disappeared. Hundreds of thousands of sparks turned into an orange sky fire that came through the sky, and the knight yelled to hand over the spear.
The flaming bone knife hit the enemy's spear tip, and the flame was impacted by the source force and struck along the spear, like a fiery snake. Startled, the knight let go of his spear. Allen snorted coldly, and while retracting the knife, lightly picked up the spear, and the spear wrapped in flames immediately flew upside down, turning into a flame and piercing into the knight's chest in an instant.
The knight yelled and fell to the ground, rolled down the cliff, and knocked down a few sword ants. The screams disappeared in an instant, and lingered in the mountains for a long time.
Allen retreated violently, and Willick and Bloy staggered past him. The two men struck out with iron fists and heavy axes at the same time, stopping the wolf cavalry soldiers rushing from the enemy's formation one by one.
After fighting for a while, the four of Allen retreated to the rear, and other non-commissioned officers took up the battle positions.
During the break they earned, the four of them sat silently. At this time, even the strength of speaking needs to be saved. Only by squeezing every ounce of strength can there be a possibility of survival. Ten minutes later, it was time for them to go into battle again. The time is short, which shows the fierceness of the enemy's offensive.
Ke Jiesi's face was as cold as water.
The defense line is retreating steadily, the enemy's offensive is endless like a tide, and the other side has reached its limit. The ammunition was almost gone, and only two snipers still fired from time to time, shooting and repelling some enemies who attacked the strategic point. Ordinary soldiers had already pulled out their standard steel eagle swords for close combat. There were not many enemy sword ants left, and nearly half of the infantry had been killed or injured, but the wolf knights were still at their wits' end.
Except for being beheaded by Alan and several non-commissioned officers for more than a dozen cavalry, the sword demon general no longer ordered the wolf cavalry to dispatch, and he was determined to use the remaining sword ants and infantry to grind the federal army to death.
Under such circumstances, the federal army began to reduce its personnel, and at a very fast speed. In less than ten minutes, one-third of the soldiers had already been killed by the knife ants and the enemy army. Even non-commissioned officers like Allen began to suffer from various injuries of varying degrees of severity, which was a sign of the decline in the physical strength of non-commissioned officers.
Now, the only one with complete strength is Ke Jiesi.
It's not that Kejiesi doesn't want to make a move, but he has to guard against the opponent's general. After a non-commissioned officer was attacked and strangled by several wolf riders who suddenly appeared, General Sword Demon swung his sword, and the remaining hundred or so riders finally dispatched. Horned wolves roared, and knights brandished spears and battle axes, and rushed up the mountain path aggressively, pointing directly at the tired and exhausted remnants of the federal army.
(end of this chapter)