Thank God Liu Yifei and the others still have the advantage of the air force. In particular, the Angel Corps is not only powerful in maneuverability, but also has considerable support capabilities. This will prevent the military formation from collapse immediately...
After much hesitation, Liu Yifei could only give up the high lethality of the angels and let them start to gather magic power to supplement the MP shortage of the priests. At the same time, the priests began to rest in batches to speed up the recovery of magic power.
As the angels gradually withdraw from the first battle sequence, the griffons' air superiority ability becomes particularly important!
However, what is depressing is that the gryphon’s anti-air effect is not very good~
In fact, it’s not that the gryphon’s air combat ability is weak. After all, it is a powerful aerial raptor. The gryphon’s combat ability is definitely not weak. What’s especially powerful is its strong continuous combat ability, which makes it an absolute choice for long-distance attacks!
However, in comparison, the griffins have a greater advantage in fighting against ground units!
Because that move "Combat Dive" is so lethal!
Not only does it instantly amplify the gryphon's killing effect by two or three times, but more importantly, under the powerful high-speed impact, it is almost possible for ground units to be put into a "stunned" state and left to mermaid for several seconds!
Such special effects are enough to establish the griffin mercenary's crushing effect on ground units!
It can be said that if the strength of griffins in air combat is only equivalent to that of ordinary third-level creatures, then the killing effect of griffins in combat against enemies is almost comparable to that of powerful fifth-level troops!
And the price
Just the special attack effect of "combat dive" consumes the griffons' physical strength extremely, and they need to take a short rest after just a few times~
With the joint suggestions of Knight Lant and Lei Hanyu, Liu Yifei finally discovered the valuable value of the gryphon mercenaries in this battle in time, and began to adjust the layout of the entire battle formation with the new gryphon charge flow tactics!
The responsibilities of the spearmen remain unchanged, mainly focusing on the stabilization and defense of the outer battle circle.
Swordsmen, especially mid- to high-level dual-wielding swordsmen and expeditionary crusaders, began to move into military formations to quickly eliminate enemies that occasionally appeared from under their feet.
Because these enemies are too close to Liu Yifei's army, they often suffer countless blows before they can actually go into battle. Unless the opponent is strong enough to resist, they generally won't be able to make the first blow~
However, these "point kills" were previously the responsibility of priests, which undoubtedly increased the MP consumption of priests. Now they have to cancel it and switch to high-attack swordsmen to do it for them.
The total number of Expeditionary Crusaders and Double Cross Swordsmen is nearly 9,000-- 5-->. These mid-to-high-grade swordsman mercenaries attack the strong and defend the weak. Placing them on the periphery to "defend" not only wastes their lethality
, and more importantly, it was a waste of their mobility.
Basically, the "Double Cross Swordsman" is a force-sensitive double sword warrior, and the "Expedition Crusader" has even greater increases in strength and speed.
It is definitely not enough to spread it evenly among an army of more than 90,000 people. Liu Yifei's method is to use a squadron of 48 people, and place two players in each squadron to carry out regional "assisted defense."
All "internal protection" troops will focus on a certain area to guard. Once an enemy is discovered, they will be eliminated. If a more powerful target appears, such as a mid-to-high-grade black knight or a bone dragon, they will support the opponent's unformed and free movement.
Always concentrate the power of two to four surrounding squadrons to kill them!
-- 5-->
The powerful swordsmen turn to the internal battle, leaving the outside to ordinary archers and Holy Crusaders.
The number of ordinary swordsman mercenaries is a little over 7,000, while the Holy Crusade remains relatively intact, with a number of 8,000, which is enough to support the external defense.
The crossbowmen, especially the "heavy crossbowmen", had sufficient arrow reserves, so they began to focus on clearing out long-range units such as skeleton archers and corpse witches that were exposed within sight.
Skeleton Archers are okay, their range and strength are not as good as those of Heavy Crossbowmen. In addition to their large number and nearly infinite regeneration, they are completely defeated by Heavy Crossbowmen!
In the past, the Corpse Witches were dealt with by angels from a distance. Because the angels' MP could no longer be consumed without restriction, they could only be dealt with by crossbowmen.
However, as low-level creatures, crossbowmen will suffer a large loss of damage when attacking fifth-level corpse witches. Liu Yifei has no choice in this regard and can only use high-quality arrows~
When you encounter corpse witches appearing in a group, you can only use the arrows of the Holy Judgment to kill them violently. For a small number of enemies, you can only use rare-level armor-piercing crossbow arrows to shoot them, which is enough to cause a heavy blow to the corpse witches.
However, the number of these top-quality crossbow arrows is by no means sufficient for Liu Yifei to consume without scruples. Therefore, he will inevitably encounter the situation of "ineffective attack" against the corpse witch in the future. There is really no way to solve it now~
The distribution of internal, external, and long-range operations has been completed, and the most important ones are the griffins, priests, cavalry, and angels, Liu Yifei's four "ace troops"!
The total number of griffins is nearly 10,000, including 4,000 royal griffins and more than 5,000 combat griffons, with a few ordinary griffons remaining.
The battle griffon can possess the basic "combat dive" skill, and the power of the royal griffon's "charge dive" is even more amazing!
These griffons are responsible for "sweeping" the area around the military formation at close range.
Once a small group of enemy troops gather and charge at the edge of the military formation, they begin to charge and attack. The only difference is that the griffons charge from the outside inward!
Since the air supremacy is still firmly in Liu Yifei's hands, the human army has relatively greater freedom in the air. A very small amount of bone dragons and vampires, and the undead are not enough to kill the griffins in an instant, while the griffins only need to slightly exceed
With a little position, you can immediately charge the enemy below "from the outside in"!
The benefits are extremely high!
Although the griffon is easily attacked by enemies when it rushes forward in the air, there are few enemies in the air after all. There are endless undead enemies on the ground!
Moreover, the gryphon will have "limb stiffness" for a short period of time after completing the "combat dive"!
This is precisely because the griffins' dive attacks have strong power and inertia and cannot be erased at all. Therefore, once they charge from the inside out, the griffins will be easily surrounded by enemies on the ground after charging out. Even
It's cutting and killing!
If you want to get the gryphon back, you have to break up the military formation and launch a forceful attack from the same front!
There is no guarantee that the griffon will be rescued in time. What's more, such behavior is very dangerous. If you are not careful, the enemy may take the opportunity to break in and destroy the solid outer defense of the military formation.
The dive from the outside in is completely different!
Not only does it avoid the possibility of being completely swallowed up by the sea of undead on the ground afterwards, but more importantly, it can attack unsuspecting undead on the ground from the enemy's back!
In this way, the power of the griffins' swooping attack is increased by another 30%, so that a griffon can destroy a group of skeletons in one pounce--5-->or a dozen zombies or three or four vampires. In short, kill.
Amazing power!
After the enemy is eliminated, as long as the spearmen and swordsmen on the outer perimeter take a few steps forward, the frozen griffin can be enveloped in the defensive circle, regardless of the risk of being attacked by someone.
At the same time, since the griffins have not left the defensive range of the military formation, the priest can quickly restore the health and status of the griffins that are stationed in a decent manner, ensuring the griffins' ability to continue fighting.
Not to mention the high priests and saints among the priests, they are pure blood-recovery units, supplemented by some sustained range buffs with low mana consumption, and a large number of monk soldiers obtained to maintain the basic magic damage output point to kill the undead in the enemy army.
And a mid-level vampire.
Yes. The monk soldiers ignored the corpse witch's provocation, but their targets were the undead creatures of the third and fourth levels that were above the intermediate level.
Not to mention vampires~
Everyone knows what will happen once the number of mid-level vampires is accumulated. It is an absolutely nightmare-like existence!
Especially in the current situation, vampires can constantly "refresh", and as long as they are not careful, they may be gathered by these insidious guys~
Even though Liu Yifei's army is 90,000 strong, if commanded properly, a desperate charge of 10,000 mid-level vampires can cause a devastating blow!
Not to mention anything else, at least those units such as spearmen, crossbowmen and the like that lack melee power will no longer be able to survive. They will all become vampire food, and even make the opponent stronger!
Therefore, vampires cannot be killed without killing them!
And the undead are also very annoying~
They have a strong damage reduction effect on physical attacks, especially the mid-level undead and above, and they have even begun to have the possibility of completely avoiding physical damage. Although even the top form of "Reaper" can only reduce the maximum 50% of physical damage.
Attack immunity effect, but this will undoubtedly greatly reduce the effect of physical damage.
On the contrary, against magic attacks, especially light magic attacks, not only do the undead have no defense, but they are even more afraid of such attacks!
So these guys were also included in the killing list of the monk soldiers~
Unfortunately, there were a large number of monk soldiers among the reinforcements brought by Inheim!
Otherwise, the number of fifth-level monks is already small. They would have to deal with the pressure of both undead and vampire mercenaries at the same time, and they would be exhausted!
And with more numbers and powerful class suppression effects, at least for now, the monk soldiers still seem to be able to fight~
The angels' work has become support and rescue and temporary rescue.
Since the priest was forced into a resting state by Liu Yifei to speed up MP recovery, the lack of healing can only be made up by angels. They will only provide support when the battle situation is dangerous. Another priority is to continue to maintain control of the enemy's air force.
Unit suppression!
In fact, after the undead and vampires were "taken over" by the monks and soldiers, the tasks that the angels were responsible for were very light. The main job was to destroy the enemy's bone dragons.
Although the bone dragon has always been criticized as the weakest seventh-level creature among the eight races, in this scene, the bone dragon that can be refreshed infinitely is not weak or weak. As long as the number is gathered in place, the difference in individual strength does not matter at all.
Worth mentioning~
Therefore, once the bone dragon appears, it must be eliminated intensively!
In addition, sometimes there will be bone dragons that shrewdly chase griffins that want to dive in the opposite direction, and at this time the crossbowmen in the team will show off their prowess!
The rate of fire of the repeating crossbowmen is twice or even three times that of ordinary crossbowmen! Compared to the strong crossbowmen, let alone! It is simply the difference between sniper rifles and machine guns-- 5-->!
Once an idiot bone dragon comes too close to the battle circle, the repeating crossbowmen will use a larger number of exquisite-level crossbow arrows to suppress them with intensive attacks.
From this point of view, the most "useless" in the military formation turned out to be the sixth-order cavalry that should have been very powerful!
And that’s exactly what happened~
The greatest strength of the sixth-level human cavalry is the damage bonus after charging!
At the extreme charging speed of thirty meters per second, the lethality added by using the lance is by no means as simple as doubling or doubling it. It can be said that as long as the attack is successful, the killing effect of the huge assault lance directly penetrating the enemy's body is similar to
"Absolute lethality" like the bed crossbow!
Either escape or die!
This deterrence itself is the most powerful weapon~
It can be said that as long as the human cavalry starts running on the battlefield, no enemy will be on tenterhooks~
But now
The dense crowding and encirclement situation left no room for the cavalry to charge!
Forget about charging~
Even if you want to turn the horse around, it’s not easy~
In this almost "impossible" state, they are just "more powerful infantry"~
Another powerful thing about knights is that as long as they ride on a war horse, HP and defense will take priority in calculating the data of the war horse. The physique and strength of the war horse are much stronger than those of the knight, making it easy for the war horse to have thousands of HP points.
The war vest also makes the defense of the war horse amazing!
This is an important guarantee that the knight, as a charge unit, has a "low mortality rate"!
However, Liu Yifei is reluctant to use these "Blood Ox Infantry" to consume the enemy's cannon fodder on the outside, so the cavalry can only huddle in the center of the military formation, serving as "senior guards" for military supplies.
The effect of such chain adjustments is amazing!
After completing the battle formation order again, the surrounding undead actually cared about the speed consumption visible to the naked eye!
Damn it~
Liu Yifei never expected that the vampires, undead and zombies that had begun to gather in large numbers would actually start to grow in reverse! The undead siege surrounding the surrounding area continued to weaken, even under the bursts of the crossbowmen's bursts and the arrows of the Holy Judgment.
Even the skeleton archers and corpse witches are being consumed quickly!
In the end, the number of bone dragons actually became more and more "dazzling"!
Rapidly consuming the enemy means that the battle pressure on Liu Yifei's side is greatly reduced. The greater benefit is that it can speed up the advancement of the troops!
The current speed of Liu Yifei's military formation is almost comparable to the state when they just came in from the door yesterday. It can only be described as "unimpeded"!
And this is not the most important thing!
The most important thing is that the monks are starting to increase their MP!
Monks can finally save mp!
Although the mp of angels is gradually declining, the ability of angels to recover magic is higher than that of monks. This exchange is worth it. After all, monks have the responsibility of medical care and are indispensable in the dungeon strategy. It is simply impossible to have no mp at critical moments.
This is the harbinger of a group fight!
In addition to the consumption of angel mp, the biggest loss is the consumption of crossbow vector reserves~
The constant firing of crossbowmen and company crossbowmen caused the arrow reserves in the baggage troops to decrease rapidly!
Liu Yifei really has no choice about this~
After all, the enemy is dying all the time. It would be a damn thing if they didn't have any trouble at all.
Liu Yifei never expected that just a shift in the "combat focus" would produce such an astonishing change. This made him feel bright and at the same time, he couldn't help but carefully observe the third-level mercenaries of the human race like Griffin.
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Strong in body, strong in body, strong in strength, and many in number!
Its anti-air power is average, but its anti-ground power is amazing!
In addition, it can carry a humanoid with a standard volume unit for long-distance flight.
These griffins are very "connotative"!
Liu Yifei seemed to have suddenly discovered a new toy!
The human race's second-level crossbowmen, fifth-level priests, sixth-level cavalry, and seventh-level angels are all powerful units that attract Liu Yifei!
Lancers are nothing, just ordinary melee units. Swordsmen are the same. They have strong attack power but weak defense, so they are not units that require special attention.
But the gryphon
I have to say~
This was something that Liu Yifei subconsciously ignored in the past.
Silently, Liu Yifei couldn't help but think ~
If the situation changes now and he represents the undead side. And if his opponent uses tactics like this to attack him, how should he respond?
Well~
Suppression and being suppressed are always one of the most thought-worthy and "interesting" highlights on the battlefield!
The saying "attack with distance, attack with speed and attack slowly" is indeed true~
But many times, there are few uniform troops on the battlefield. They are usually mixed legions of several military forces. Therefore, the selection and combination of "tactics" are particularly important~
For example, Liu Yifei's previous play style that focused on monks and angels can be seen as a play style that focuses on mp-consuming magic flow. Not only does it have a mediocre effect, but it also quickly drains away the mp of the magic troops, which is not worth the gain~
However, just a slight change in tactics amplified the output effect of the physical attack troops, especially the griffin troops' attack and killing effect. However, this "special effect" can be used repeatedly. As long as the lions are killed after a while,
The eagles just take turns to rest.
Just a small change in tactics caused two completely different changes in the battle situation. How can one not be delighted by the powerful effects?
Now that I have time, I still need to communicate more with masters of other races~ I have been working behind closed doors for a long time. It is inevitable that I will encounter embarrassing things that are not the same as when I go out."
Seeing the knights Lant and Lei Hanyu commanding the battle on the front line, Liu Yifei couldn't help but smile~
This tactic was exactly what the two of them told Liu Yifei before.
I have to say that it seems that these two people have surpassed Liu Yifei in terms of the changes in tactics of mixed combinations of human mercenaries.
The troops continued to advance rapidly, and it took less than five hours to advance nearly one-third of the distance!
This result greatly exceeded Liu Yifei's expectations and doubled his confidence!
However, more difficult situations also emerged.
As we enter the final stretch of the battle, spirit-level heroes begin to appear in large numbers among the enemy's troops!
Basically, a spirit-level undead hero will appear every five minutes, and sometimes three will appear within ten minutes!
Such an astonishing frequency of heroes not only greatly enhances the enemy's combat power, but what's even more terrible is that the undead army can advance and retreat more appropriately. Sometimes under the command of the hero, targeted lock-on attacks can also be launched!
And as a result, the gryphon troops will be the first to suffer!
Although there are a large number of angels, Liu Yifei's number of people who can be resurrected has greatly increased~
But the problem is that the enemy is not stupid at all when commanded by a hero!
Sometimes we just take advantage of the moment when the griffon is hunched forward and ready to dive and pounce, and "forcibly drag it away"!
Either the bone dragon or about twenty vampire bats came together to knock down the struggling griffins or drag them behind to prevent the angels from resurrecting them.
Although Liu Yifei has divided the angels into hundreds of brigades, and the archangels in each brigades are led by powerful mid-level angels, it is still difficult to prevent the griffons from reducing their numbers. The griffins, which are the core of the tactics, have begun to
decrease
"Damn it! We can't let this stalemate continue! Otherwise we will definitely be doomed!"
Seeing seven or eight more gryphons wailing and being dragged into the vast wave of undead by the enemy, Liu Yifei was so angry that his teeth were itching for a moment!
It just so happens that he still belongs to the type of person who is "powerless". After losing the ability to cast spells from a distance, he is basically a helpless person in such chaotic situations, and he is anxious just watching from the side!
What should we do?
Liu Yifei, who was so anxious that he scratched his head and kept looking around, finally decided to focus on the group of knights huddled in the center of the team who were just as "idle" as him.
