The Knights, who were originally tasked with containing and harassing enemy forces, fell into an unexpected and difficult battle due to the sudden appearance of enhanced alien undead.
More and more undead gathered together and began to attack the knights who were gradually slowing down.
In order to distance themselves from the enemy, the Knights had to change their route and avoid the enemy's pursuit.
Standing in the watchtower, Cumberland, who was always paying attention to the battlefield, frowned and said to the adjutant beside him: "Let the Valkyrie bring the bait and try to divide the enemy's formation."
After a while, three Valkyries riding griffins set off from behind the city wall, with special baits made of blood and minced meat under their mounts.
The undead birds and bats that were originally hovering over Muxi City, after discovering the Valkyrie, turned their attention and began to fly towards the battlefield.
The Valkyrie commanded her mount to fly over the undead army.
The undead that smell the breath of flesh and blood are like flies that see carrion.
Many undead souls broke away from their original team and began to chase the Valkyrie in the sky, running farther and farther away.
But this situation did not last long, as if an invisible big hand suddenly blocked the undead souls that had escaped from the corpse group and pulled them back.
One Valkyrie was unwilling to give in and commanded the gryphon to lower its height, hoping to bring the bait closer to the corpses and increase the luring effect.
However, several bone-spurred undead spirits aimed at the gryphon in the sky and shot it down after a few rounds of firing.
Seeing the Valkyrie who fell into the group of corpses disappear in an instant, Cumberland quickly ordered: "Let them come back!"
Looking at the group of corpses getting closer and closer to the central formation, Cumberland touched his chin and for the first time showed an anxious look on his face: "There are hundreds of thousands of undead troops, and someone can actually achieve such precise remote control."
, is this possible?”
The adjutant approached Cumberland and whispered: "Sir, the second batch of reloading of the Thunder War Beast has just been completed."
Cumberland: "Order the Knights to withdraw from the battle, strengthen the defense in the center, reduce the power of the thunder coil gun, and change it to ejection. After the launch is completed, evacuate the position."
Ten seconds later, a huge explosion exploded from the center of the battlefield again.
Countless undead souls were torn into pieces in the flames and explosions, with residual limbs and pieces of meat flying everywhere, and some even fell on the distant walls of Muxi City.
Waiting for the smoke to slowly dissipate, Cumberland once again raised his telescope and looked at the battlefield.
Since the distance between the corpses is shortened and the formation is denser, the effect of the second explosion is far better than the first explosion.
But even so, according to a rough visual inspection, the remaining number of the undead army still exceeds 200,000.
The adjutant looked at the group of corpses that were slowly gathering and moving towards our army's central formation, and subconsciously said: "Sir, there are still a lot of them."
Cumberland grabbed the railing with both hands. He first glanced back at Muxi City, then turned his head and gritted his teeth and said: "Order all the formations in the center to prepare for an impact! Especially the shields of the Crusaders' heavy infantry.
The wall must withstand the first wave of undead impact!"
The adjutant glanced at the battlefield and whispered to Cumberland: "Sir, there are only more than 900 heavy infantrymen of the Crusaders. Even if the shield wall is fully deployed, it is impossible to defend against all the attack angles of the undead. Moreover, in the
Most of the soldiers in the formation are from the garrison of Holy Guard City and Silver Ring City. They..."
The adjutant's voice became smaller and smaller because he saw the anger in Cumberland's eyes.
Cumberland suppressed his voice and whispered: "You want to say retreat?"
The adjutant shrank his head and said nothing.
Cumberland raised his voice: "This is just the first giant group of corpses we encountered. There will be a second and third one in the future... If we retreat behind the city wall now, then we will never be able to do it again in the future."
It’s impossible to have the courage to face these undead spirits!”
After pausing for a moment and looking at the adjutant, Cumberland closed his eyes, suppressed his anger, and softened his tone: "Do you know what is our biggest disadvantage compared to the undead?"
Adjutant: "...Number of people?"
Cumberland: "No...our greatest weakness is emotion."
"Any creature with intelligence has a variety of emotions, fear, despair, withdrawal, madness... When external pressure defeats their will, these emotions will be like maggots in a jar, running everywhere.
yes."
"Look at the front. After experiencing two such shellings, if it were any army, it would be absolutely impossible to maintain the determination and consciousness to continue attacking... There are only undead, only these have no souls, only these have no souls.
Only a monster of flesh and blood can still attack despite suffering such heavy losses."
"So, the biggest problem in this battle is not how to preserve our strength and kill the enemy... but how to keep our army determined to continue fighting."
Cumberland looked at the battlefield. The tide-like army of undead was charging towards the shield wall of the Crusaders.
Cumberland: "If we retreat here, then negative emotions will spread like a plague in the army. The best way to fight off fear is to face fear, so we must hold on here. "
Taking a deep breath, Cumberland straightened his back and ordered again to his adjutant: "The heavy infantry of the Holy Crusaders will stabilize the shield wall, and all units of the center formation will adopt a fan-shaped defensive formation. All units of the Knights will form a forward charge formation.
, prepare to penetrate the enemy's rear sideways."
Waiting for the adjutant to issue all these orders, Cumberland hesitated for a moment and said: "Let the reserve team of the Knights stay prepared."
The adjutant was stunned, looked at Cumberland and asked: "Let the reserve team prepare?"
Cumberland looked at the undead birds and undead bats that had just arrived over the battlefield, and whispered: "If the battle situation is unfavorable, let the reserve team carry the spores into the battlefield."
The adjutant immediately understood the meaning of Cumberland's words.
Opening his mouth, the adjutant wanted to say a few words of persuasion, but found that under such circumstances, any persuasion seemed feeble, so he nodded slightly and stopped talking.
Cumberland stared intently at the approaching undead army on the battlefield, and the knuckles on his hands looked as pale as paper due to excessive exertion.
Finally, with a loud and ear-piercing sound, the corpses collided head-on with the Crusader's shield array.
The shield array that was originally arranged straightly bent slightly inward after experiencing the huge impact, and then rebounded quickly, blocking back the first wave of undead that rushed up.
At this time, the knights completed their arrow charging formation, and with the speed of the exotic war horses and the sharpness of the dragon bone armor, they launched a charge towards the rear of the corpse group.
The entire battlefield suddenly entered a state of intense fighting.