There is an incongruity nearby which is a red flag.
The patrol leader himself is not a transcendent, and he can't sense the surrounding environment with magic power. However, an experienced veteran's battlefield perception is not much worse than ordinary low-level transcendents. Let him be keenly aware of the dangerous atmosphere in the environment, and the effect of the secondary sanity spell in the standard helmet can make his spirit extraordinarily concentrated, so sensitive that it is close to the level of a low-level transcendent.
Hostile individuals are lurking nearby, the number is unknown, but they don't seem to be magical beasts in the mountains.
They have already noticed the existence of the patrol team, but they haven't taken action yet, probably because they haven't found a good angle to attack or haven't confirmed their details.
The patrol leader did not speak rashly, but calmly made several signals behind his back with hand gestures. This simple tactical sign language is a must-have skill for Cecil combat soldiers. It is said that its original inspiration came from the first batch of refugees. A young man, everyone in the patrol can master it.
Seeing the captain's hand gesture, the soldiers immediately changed the marching queue calmly, took precautions in the direction prompted by the captain, and then quickly rushed to the nearest bunker and opened the safety of the heat ray gun. The moment these actions were made, there was a slight sound of piercing through the air!
The patrol captain was startled. The attacker's reaction speed exceeded his expectations. His soldiers were natural enough when changing formations, and the information passed between him and the soldiers was also covert enough, but the other party still realized his exposure immediately. And decisively launched an attack. This is not an ordinary bandit, not even an ordinary professional mercenary!
Fortunately, he had already been vigilant in advance. The moment the sound of piercing the air sounded, the veteran had subconsciously raised his left arm, and a translucent energy shield instantly formed and blocked most of his body, while a few crossbow bolts It clanged against the shield, and fell to the ground after being slid away by the force field shield.
In such an instant, the patrol captain reached out and took out a crystallized grenade from his waist, and swung his arms to throw it towards the attacker's hiding place, while the soldiers behind him did the same thing for seven or eight ticks. The rattling iron lump cut through the air and flew into the distance with a parabola. The whole process was smooth and smooth, just like a conditioned reflex.
As the lord explained during the training, if you really can't be sure of the enemy's situation, at least one round of grenade throwing is definitely right. It can disrupt the scene even if you can't kill people, and you can create opportunities whether you attack or retreat afterwards.
Everything happened in just a few seconds. Compared with the Cecil combat soldier who completed a series of responses almost by conditioned reflex, the Typhon team lurking on the side of the mountain road fell into a state of confusion from the very beginning.
It's not that they are not elite, but that they have never seen them.
Everything is different from what they expected, and it is different from the fighting methods they have heard or seen!
This team is one of the infiltration troops that entered the Dark Mountain at the same time as Solderin's team. They chose a route closer to the north side of the mountain. There were two low-level knights and a low-level mage in the team. They The existence of the patrol team was discovered very early, but the special mountain terrain made the encounter inevitable, so they decided to use the dead angle of their vision to ambush and annihilate the team that seemed to be equipped with strange equipment. In the initial prediction, this is not a problem at all, with the advantage of ambushes, they can use the first round of crossbow bolts to kill the captain of the patrol team and two to three patrol soldiers, and then the mage will use fireball or arcane missiles to cause chaos The patrol team, and finally the knights led the soldiers to harvest, which is a sure thing.
As a result, before launching an attack, the Ansu patrol team reacted. They quickly changed their formation and looked for a favorable position as they had rehearsed in advance. It was completely impossible to see how they completed the communication!
Typhon soldiers had to launch an attack hastily, but after the first round of crossbow arrows were fired, they were all blocked by the magic shield.
Blocked by magic magic shield!
That patrol captain, who was wearing infantry armor and looked like a warrior, turned out to be a mage who could instantly cast a force field shield
At the moment when the Typhon soldiers were stunned, they saw the enemy launch a counterattack, and several strange metal bumps were thrown towards their hiding place.
Although I don't know what that metal lump is, but the conditioned reflex developed over the years of training and actual combat has had an effect. The magician in the team propped up the mana shield at the very moment, and then, it exploded like thunder It exploded outside the mana shield.
After all, human arms are limited, and the crystallized grenade thrown did not reach the most effective killing position. Most of the explosions occurred far away, and only two crystallized grenades hit the mana shields of those imperial soldiers. With a powerful magic explosion, the mana shield was torn apart, and the cover rock also collapsed, but also because of the shield's blocking, the power of the explosion was greatly weakened, and the soldiers hiding inside the shield were unharmed.
In the cloud of smoke and dust, one of the Typhon knights leading the team drew out his long sword. He was wrapped in the brilliance of magic power, and rushed out of the meaningless hiding place first, rushing towards those who would throw "explosive magic items" Ansu soldiers.
"Follow me to charge!"
Following the order of the knight, the remaining Typhon soldiers also rushed out of the bunker, preparing to resolve the battle with hand-to-hand combat on the narrow mountain path.
This development is completely different from what was planned, but these Typhon elites who have experienced many battles are still full of confidence. They are confident that no soldier from any country can defeat the captain of their patrol team in hand-to-hand combat. Mage, but he can't bring every soldier who is a transcendent, right
The enemy rushed out from his hiding place, and the patrol captain felt at ease when he saw this, and shouted: "The knight in front of the fire!"
Continuous scorching rays pierced through the large clouds of smoke and dust raised by the explosion of the crystal grenade, and the imperial knight who was charging ahead was immediately hit continuously. The aura on his body flickered violently, and quickly dissipated after resisting for a while .
Only then did the knight realize how stupid it was to rush out. However, there was no place to hide on the narrow mountain path. With the slight sound of the steel armor being pierced, he fell on the way of the charge.
And the soldiers behind him didn't realize what happened until the knight fell down. They watched in a daze as their powerful commander fell to the ground just halfway through the charge, while their own bodies were still moving forward inertially. Running, the light armor on the ordinary soldiers was even more unable to resist the power of the scorching rays, and they fell down one after another.
Although the battle was one-sided, the patrol captain still looked at the direction the enemies were running out of without hesitation. He still remembered that he saw the flickering light of the mana shield just now. When the soldiers in front are covering, magic attacks are brewing. Although the enemy's mage may be surprised when the soldiers who charge in front are wiped out in a wave, the opponent's magic attacks will definitely come.
At this moment, a flash of fire suddenly appeared in the floating smoke, and a fireball cut through the air and flew over.
Much smaller than the fireballs made by Miss Rebecca. Recently, Miss Rebecca not only managed to make fireballs the size of a washbasin, she even challenged to rub two fireballs together into a barbell shape. These fireballs from other places Master is really not worth mentioning.
The patrol captain commented disdainfully in his heart, and then used the force field shield equipped in his left hand to block it vigorously. The fireball deflected, and a ball of dazzling flames exploded among the nearby rocks, while the caster's own position It has also been fully exposed.
"The direction of the fire!"
The patrol captain yelled, and then directly used the heat energy ray guns equipped on both arms to violently bombard the position of the enemy mage. At this time, the enemies who rushed out had already died on the way of the charge, and all the firepower poured on the captain's place immediately. At the place indicated, amidst the smoke and dust, the patrol captain saw various magical lights flickering there. It might be a shield, or it might be a life-saving magic item, but no matter what it is, as long as the firepower is suppressed, it will not stop. There is always a time when there is no flash.
Those flickering magical brilliance persisted for a moment, and finally went out.
The patrol captain worriedly fired more than a dozen scorching rays in that direction, and didn't stop until the energy crystal in one gauntlet was exhausted. Then he replaced it with a new crystal, and led the soldiers to check the results of the battle.
They walked through the narrow mountain road, and the veteran captain commanded the soldiers under him with experience: "Pay attention to these fallen guys, some of them are only injured with their hands and feet tied up and don't let them run away."
In the dead corner of the mountain rock that was bombarded by the grenade, the patrol captain saw the dead enemy. There was not only a mage here, but also a knight in armor. He died with a headshot from a searing heat ray.
The knight should have stayed behind to protect the spellcaster. His role was to prevent people like sneak assassins or death squads from getting close to assassinate the weak mage, but he obviously didn't expect that the whole battle didn't develop from the beginning to the end. At the white blade stage, you don't need money-like magic attacks to directly destroy all defenses.
This is probably the most embarrassing guard knight who died.
But the patrol captain doesn't have any compassion for the enemy, especially this kind of enemy who ambushes on the mountain road and attacks him.
He bent down to check the clues left on the corpse, trying to find out where these people came from.
Although these people were crushed and defeated, it was because they did not adapt to the new fighting style, and their own side had the advantage in equipment. How much can I take advantage of.
Although the soldiers he led were well-trained, most of them had no combat experience, and these enemies... It can be seen from their ability to organize an orderly attack in a chaotic and urgent situation, these are elites.
This kind of elite cannot come out of nowhere.