Chapter five hundred and sixty fourth battle of annihilation
"Lord, I came at the right time. I was preparing to launch a full-scale attack. This time, those forward sentries played the most important role in bringing most of the skeleton knights together, saving me the trouble of looking for them." Marshal Eriksen
Send out an invitation.
"Let's go and take a look together." Sean did not tell Marshal Eriksen that the forward whistlers did what they did because they received their own orders.
The battlefield chosen by Marshal Ericson was a valley.
It is said to be a valley, but in fact there are small mounds of earth on both sides that are less than a hundred meters higher than the flat land. There is a stream less than ten meters wide at the bottom of the valley, and there are quite a few various water ponds, which are probably not very deep.
Sean is now considered a veteran on the battlefield, and he can see the geographical advantages here at a glance.
The two armies of Bull and Bastion dispatched by the Third Army are mainly infantry. If they want to encircle and suppress the Skeleton Knights, they must limit their charging momentum and mobility to the greatest extent.
The more complex terrain at the bottom of the valley is an excellent choice.
The small slopes on both sides have become an excellent choice for long-range attacks. All the mortars in the two legions have been concentrated to form a small artillery position with fifteen mortars.
Among these fifteen mortars, only three are medium-sized, and the rest are all light portable mortars.
During this period, the Firearms Bureau is fully engaged in the production of infantry guns and mortars. High-quality products are given priority to equip two independent artillery regiments. Some inferior or redundant products are flowed to other army units, among which the third group army is given priority.
The highest, this is determined by the particularity of the enemies they face.
Previously, Sean asked Marshal Ericson not to use artillery, because he was afraid of surprising the mastermind behind the Klein tribe, and would not be able to achieve the unexpected effect.
Now that there are no worries in this regard, Marshal Ericson can naturally use all the means at his disposal.
"The annihilation operation begins!"
Following Marshal Ericson's order, the scouts rushed out in droves, and after only half an hour, they came back. Behind them, there was a loud sound of horse hooves, and groups of skeleton knights clenched their teeth.
Then they rushed into the canyon.
Obviously, these skeleton knights have already been lured nearby by their sentinel cavalry, and now they just need to find a way to lure them over.
The Lord God of Death wanted to slip away, but naturally he couldn't do it under the noses of many whistles led by the Eternal Night Army, so they sent out skeleton knights to drive, destroy, and hunt them down.
The order was given at all costs.
After all, he was ready to abandon his nest. Whether it was the undead army or the skeleton knights, they were all abandoned. As long as he completed this task, it didn't matter whether he lived or died, so he didn't care about the coordination of infantry and cavalry, and gave it to Yong Ye.
Opportunities for military leaders to make targeted arrangements.
These skeleton knights rushed into the valley and found that the enemy they faced was not just sentry cavalry. They were still fearless and showed no intention of shrinking or hesitating.
After all, they themselves don’t know what fear is.
They didn't even need to gather all their troops before they bravely launched a charge.
What greeted them was a burst of artillery fire. There were not even special artillery shells, just the most common black powder artillery shells. They smashed into the Skeleton Knight camp. Suddenly, a group of people fell on their backs, flames spurted, black smoke rose, and residual limbs flew around.
This is the real power that artillery should have.
If they were replaced by ordinary troops, seeing this formation for the first time, this wave of shelling alone would cause them to collapse and scatter in all directions.
The fierce battle with the dragon battleship controlled by the God of Death had almost made Sean doubt the power of his artillery position.
With more than two hundred artillery pieces and various special artillery shells, the enemy was not completely taken down, which is a bit scary no matter how you think about it.
If the opponent hadn't been bent on escaping, what kind of impact would the undead army have had on the leader of the Eternal Night Army?
It's simply unimaginable.
These skeleton knights had just experienced the baptism of the artillery array, and then plunged into the mine array.
After finally struggling to reach the waiting infantry, what awaited them was countless black powder grenades to wash the ground.
Even monsters like the Skeleton Knight are basically dead after three rounds. Before they can raise their bone knives, another burst of combat skills awaits them. Facing the shield wall and the forest of guns, they can't rush in at all. Inside
There were also some great knights who had transformed into Super Saiyans. They could only be suppressed and beaten, and they all fell down in an instant.
It only took less than half an hour for the seemingly massive three thousand skeleton knights to crush all of them to death on the defensive formation of the Bull and the Fortress Legion.
The combat skills themselves have pushed the cold weapon combat led by the Yongye Army to an unprecedented peak, and are mixed with artillery, a cross-era weapon, and the flexible use of various black powder weapons.
The existence of the Skeleton Knight, who dominates in cold weapon combat, is naturally a bit unsatisfactory, especially when his head is missing a muscle.
This is why Marshal Sean and Marshal Erikson dare to attack even though they know that the undead army is several times larger than their own.
This wave of easy annihilation battles further strengthened their confidence and raised the soldiers' confidence to an unprecedented level.
You must know that a few years ago, let alone facing elite undead soldiers such as Skeleton Knights, even if they faced ordinary undead soldiers in a head-on conflict, they would have to pay a heavy price to eat them, and in the end they would not be able to defeat them.
Without relying on various long-range attack equipment and strangling them from a distance, they would not dare to engage in close combat.
Now they can easily defeat their most powerful cavalry, let alone ordinary undead soldiers.
What does this mean?
They have become powerful enough to crush the enemies they once feared.
Just like the battle name Marshal Ericson just used, this is an out-and-out battle of annihilation.
Every one of the skeleton knights who were lured here could not escape. They were either killed or tied up like rice dumplings and captured.
Against such an unconventional enemy, once they win, it will be a glorious victory like total annihilation. After their organization is broken up, they lose their wisdom and turn into killing machines that obey the killing instinct again and have no idea of escape.
Sean, who had a deeper knowledge and understanding of the energy of death spells, basically deduced the root cause of their collective wisdom.
Their soul consciousness has been extracted, and they are standard walking zombies. When the energies of many death spells are connected together, they will become a group soul consciousness, and it is normal for collective wisdom to appear.
The collective learning ability they demonstrated previously is also related to this.
This situation is somewhat similar to the learning of combat skills, in which the energy of death spells is engraved in their bodies to achieve the purpose of memory.
According to the control of magic energy by the God of Death, this is not a difficult thing.
What filled Sean's heart was more happiness. Fortunately, His Excellency, the God of Death, only focused on the quantity of undead soldiers, not on their quality, and was not as good as in terms of imagination.
If it were him, Sean would already have a plan on how to improve these undead soldiers.
Combat skills!
These undead soldiers are natural carriers of combat skills.
It is true that they have no soul consciousness, and there is no way to convert the soul consciousness into a symbol, but what flows in their blood vessels is the energy of the death spell that seems to be substantial.
As mentioned before, this kind of magic energy is not ordinary magic energy. It is integrated with soul consciousness, making it not only have the plasticity of ordinary magic energy, but also a stability that they do not have.
Just look at the series of cool operations performed by the God of Death with the help of the dragon-skeleton battleship, and you will know that the arrogant and unreasonable collision and dragon-wing acceleration capabilities are possessed by the dragon-skeleton battleship itself, but the Black Mist Giant, Black
Mist chains and energy shields are the use of the death spell energy itself.
What does this mean?
This means that when these magical energies are injected into the bodies of undead soldiers, they can be completely fabricated into combat skill modes.
What kind of terrifying situation would it be if these undead soldiers also had methods of using magical energy similar to combat skills, coupled with their terrifying power and immortal bodies?
No need to describe it in detail!
That is the real killing machine.
In that case, even if the Yongye Army Leader had new weapons like artillery, it would not be that easy to take them down.
Especially the God of Death, who possesses massive magical energy.
He was only in a passive escape state, and it took the leader of the Yongye Army nearly two hours to consume all of his magic energy.
It's really hard to say what would have happened if he had several long-range counterattack methods in his hands at that time.
No matter what, we cannot allow this monster to remain at large.
It did not pay attention to long-range attack methods before, but after the long-range artillery fire ravaged by the Yongye Army, it will definitely pay more attention to it.
Depending on the evil nature of the spell's energy, no one can tell what kind of tricks it will perform.
With this concern in mind, Sean did not dare to stay with Marshal Ericson for too long and returned to the Explorer Fleet.
Previously, they had exhausted the energy of the Lord God of Death, and the Explorer Fleet was determined to hold on to it. Now they are exhausted and have not caused any trouble yet.
It turns out that Sean's concerns were correct.
These Gods of Death ran towards Brother Port, heading towards the undead army they had sent earlier.
Just as he was running towards Brother Port, the direction of the undead army had obviously changed. It no longer blindly approached Brother Port, but instead prioritized moving closer to the Donau River.
After all, the magical energy in their bodies comes from the same source, and it is mixed with soul consciousness. It is not surprising that they are closely connected.
Can't Sean's soul consciousness be able to switch back and forth between soul weapons?
These soul weapons, even though they are thousands of miles away, have an extremely close bond with each other.
Although this bond cannot allow Sean to instantly perceive what they see and hear, it can accurately locate and even roughly calculate the straight-line distance between the two parties. With this, Sean can also predict Jing Lei.
The golden eagle plays positioning navigation. After setting the direction and altitude, you basically don't have to worry about it. Just fly in this direction.
Even if the connection between the God of Death and the undead soldiers is not as strong as Sean's, it shouldn't be a problem to issue a simple remote summoning command to them.
Marshal Ericson left a corps to clean the battlefield, then turned around and quickly crossed.
Since he had guessed the enemy's combat target in advance, when Marshal Ericson led his troops to carry out the operation, his goal was very clear, which was to be the first to stand between the Donau River and the undead soldiers.
Although the dragon carcass warship can go ashore, it is only when the magic energy is sufficient.
If it dared to jump to the shore now, it would be seeking death. It could not jump very far before being torn into pieces by the Yong Ye army leader.
In this case, the undead soldiers can only be sent to find the dragon-skeleton battleship.
The two sides raced against time, and what they were fighting was a time difference.
Once Marshal Erikson arrives first and leads his troops to stop the undead army, even if they are not wiped out, it will only take two to three days.
Even if the dragon warship where the God of Death is located is not broken into pieces, a large number of reinforcements from the Eternal Night Army will arrive.
If the God of Death fights against the undead army first, many variables will arise. Even if the Eternal Night Army leader solves the crisis brought by the Klein tribe, it is possible that the culprit who caused this crisis will not be left behind.
If such a madman is allowed to escape, he will definitely cause endless harm, and maybe one day he will come back with an endless army of undead.
After realizing this, Marshal Ericson led the Bull Legion and the Fortress Legion, marching wildly day and night, and reached the front of the undead army less than 20 kilometers away from the Donau River.
To be more precise, he should have been forced to the designated battlefield by the leader of the Yongye Army.
The leaders of the Eternal Night Army cannot control the actions of the undead army, but they can influence the God of Death to a certain extent.
There is a full fleet behind it!
The two explorer warships that were previously attached to the dragon warship had already separated.
It's not that Sean doesn't want to eat the opponent in one bite, but the Donau River is a bit too vast. The explorer fleet must be careful to prevent the dragon-wrapped battleship from suddenly turning its bow and rushing through them. The dragon-wrapped battleship has never given up on this, from time to time.
A wave of tests will be conducted, causing the explorer fleet to be in a hurry.
Furthermore, the flexibility of the dragon-carcass battleship is far superior to that of the battleships led by the Yongye Army.
To a certain extent, the dragon carcass warship is now a living creature. It can go left when it wants, right when it wants, and it can perform tricks beyond its limits even if it doesn't matter. It is naturally very difficult to deal with.
What's even more terrible is that the recovery ability of this God of Death is quite astonishing. He is an out-and-out reaper of life. When he walks on the river, dead fish float up in pieces wherever he passes.
These dead fish are intact on the outside, but there is no life inside or out.
It is obvious that all their souls have been harvested by the hungry God of Death, which is frantically devouring all magic energy and producing new death magic energy.
The explorer fleet would not just watch it recuperate, and the bombardment continued from beginning to end.
Under their conscious drive, the dragon warship was soon forced ten kilometers downstream of Brother Port.
The explorer fleet then restrained its pace of oppression and maintained a certain level of suppressive firepower to prevent the dragon ship's energy from increasing too quickly. At the same time, it did not force it to jump over the wall and rush into Brother Port or the Yongye Army.