Chapter 378: Battle of the Lizardman Ruins 5000-character chapter
Just as Fulgrim expected, the Skink Legion's attack was just the beginning.
In the afternoon, the expeditionary force immediately discovered that the Lizardmen were counterattacking.
The Lizard Legion, which is taller and taller than a human, appeared in the depths of the rain forest. These creatures are not the little men of the Skink Legion at all. These Lizard warriors are tall and strong, with powerful arms.
They surged out from the lush rainforest like green tides, completely surrounding the ruins.
"Swish, swish, swish~" A large group of cavalry riding cold lizards also appeared deep in the rain forest.
The ancient race began to show its fangs.
"Legion Commander, the scouts discovered a large number of lizardmen reinforcements!" A great swordsman immediately came to report.
"How many are there?" Fulgan always remained calm.
"I can't even count them. The number is estimated to be more than five thousand." The great swordsman said with sweat on his forehead: "What should we do? Legion commander, do we want to retreat?"
"Retreat? Are we competing with these lizardmen in the lizardmen's territory, in the tropical rain forest?" Before Fulgen could answer, Pirazzo first reprimanded the great swordsman for his unrealistic idea, and the experienced mercenary leader looked around for a moment.
Looked into the distance.
The forest is trembling, the forest sea is swaying, a heart-stopping restlessness.
The morale of the expeditionary force began to be eroded by the fear brought about by the unknown. The soldiers hesitated, and subconsciously, they turned their attention to the figure standing on the ruins.
That's their belief.
Fulgrim knew what he should say.
In the heart of the Emperor's Children Primarch, these men of his are just a ragtag group of people, not to mention his former legions, and even his army blown to that planet by the warp storm are far inferior.
But what does this have to do with anything? Doesn’t everyone come from scratch, from weak to strong?
Since being resurrected, Fulgrim has set a yardstick in his heart. He needs to prove himself again in front of his father. He must prove again that he and his army are the perfect sons of the Emperor. He will use this army to
Recreate his glory!
In full view of everyone, the leader of the Ashes Army spoke.
"Wealth, or death, glory, or oblivion." Fulgrim's eyes shone brightly. He carried the golden power sword and said slowly: "Now, there is only one fight, there is no escape, no rejection.
,Soldiers, do you feel afraid?"
"No!" The soldiers who came to the Lustria expedition were either young soldiers eager to perform meritorious service, or mercenaries eager to make a fortune, or criminals who committed crimes and sought to get away with it, or they could not survive and came to enlist.
A homeless man who eats food.
No matter who it was, there was a fierceness in their hearts. After hearing Fulgen's words and feeling his contemptuous gaze, almost in an instant, the soldiers all turned red and roared loudly: "No!"
"So, are you willing to fight for me?" Fulgrim stood above everyone with his outstanding figure. He felt it, felt the faith, bravery and hope of mankind.
"Yes! Yes!"
"The glory of the past has long been gone, and the endless darkness has swallowed us up, but we are still standing here! We are great humans, the greatest race in the universe. We were born from war, and we will never surrender. We are brave.
Soldiers who are loyal, have faith, and agree with me, raise the weapons in your hands, hold on to your shields, and let us write the glory of our expeditionary force in blood and fire!" Fulgan laughed and raised his head.
The sword in his hand.
"In the darkness, we are born!"
"In the light, hope lasts forever!"
The majestic figure sang loudly, and his god-like majesty made the entire expeditionary force swell with enthusiasm.
That is a light that is more dazzling than the sun.
"Glory! Glory! Glory!"
The Army of Ashes boiled, and the human soldiers roared loudly. Their cowardice, fear, and wavering had all turned into ashes, leaving only loyalty and faith, and the blood ignited in their chests.
Fearless courage turns into powerful strength.
"In a future filled with endless darkness, there is only war. Soldiers, who is your enemy?"
"Who is the enemy of the legion commander! Who is our enemy!"
"Soldiers, why do your swords exist?"
"For the honor of the legion commander! To protect the legion commander!!!"
The human army is once again ready for battle,
When a large group of lizard men appeared in front of the expeditionary force, all the human armies were ready. Without a trace of panic or fear, the human soldiers firmly guarded the entrance to the ruins.
"Aaahhh!" The first wave of thousands of lizard warriors roared and charged towards the human army.
"Fire!" Pirazzo signaled the artillerymen to fire: "Fire!"
"Fire!!!" Five mortars and three cannons opened fire at the same time!
"Boom~boom~boom~boom~" The huge muzzle spit out red flames, and the mortar's shells flew high into the sky and blasted directly towards the Lizard Legion. The first shell exploded into pieces among the Lizard warriors.
, caught off guard, seven or eight lizard warriors were engulfed in the flames of the explosion in an instant.
"Boohoo~" The eight shells fired in a row fell one after another and exploded in the Lizard Legion. The Lizard Legion was frustrated. The human artillery was powerful, and the Lizard Legion was suppressed by firepower.
The ancient races in these forests showed no signs of retreating or wavering, as if their dead kin had nothing to do with them. On the contrary, more lizard warriors poured out of the rain forest and rushed towards the human army.
"Fire!" Led by the veterans of the company, the crossbowmen and musketeers opened fire at the approaching lizard warriors. The dense crossbow bolts and muskets knocked all the first row of lizard warriors to the ground.
The effect of crossbows has become much worse. Unlike Skink soldiers, Lizard warriors have hard skin and hold shields. As long as they are not hit in the vital points, they will not fall. They release the anger of native creatures. Many Lizard warriors have
With more than a dozen arrows stuck in it, the charge was still going on.
"Wow!" The first lizard warrior approached the human military formation. He waved the mace in his hand and opened the tips of several approaching spears in one breath: "Roar!!"
"Stab!" The spearman retreated, holding the spear with both hands, and with a strong force, seven or eight spears pierced the lizard warrior's body.
"What a thick skin!" Some human soldiers shouted: "Hit the vital points!"
Lizard warriors are completely different from skink lizards. The skin of these creatures is much harder. If the tip of an ordinary spear is not used properly, it will be difficult to damage their flesh.
"Hold it!!" The morale of the human soldiers was high. They were closely united and the forest of spears made it difficult for the lizard warriors to rush into the spear formation. The soldiers sang war songs of courage and struggled to move their spears and halberds.
Stab past.
"Go to hell! Alien!!!" A young recruit stabbed the tip of his spear into the abdomen of a lizard warrior, and red blood splashed all over his face.
He subconsciously wanted to pull out the spear, but found that the lizard warrior was holding the spear with his hand. The alien in front of him firmly grasped the lever, and then in turn used the lizard spear in his hand to penetrate the creature with one shot.
The head of a new recruit!
Blood splattered everywhere, the recruit's head was stabbed, and the soldier next to him even tasted his brain.
There was no time to remember or get angry. A pikeman immediately filled the vacancy in the general formation. Before the next group of lizard warriors rushed up, the crossbowmen and musketeers had already reloaded: "Let go!"
"Bang~bang bang bang~" dense musket sounds rang out, and the lizard warriors in front of the military formation were fired upon by volleys of muskets at close range, leaving behind a large number of corpses.
The first lizard army had already suffered more than half of its casualties. Although the humans had also suffered considerable losses, when the second round of shelling by the human artillery intercepted the fire of the lizard warriors who were preparing to charge, whistles and special sounds were finally heard from deep in the forest.
's roar.
"Cavalry!!!" The human army immediately discovered that a large group of cavalry was attacking from the flanks!
Hundreds of cavalry were composed of cold lizards who were close to horses and lizard men on cold lizards. Some of these lizard men were armed with guns and some with sticks. They quickly crossed the ruins and came towards the side of the human army formation, attacking directly.
Cannon and mortar emplacements!
"Calm down!" Fulgrim raised the golden power sword: "Array of the Wolf!"
"Yes!" the human soldiers responded loudly. Facing the lizardman Cold Lizard Cavalry attacking from the side, the soldiers quickly organized themselves into small teams. They rushed to the path that the Cold Lizard Cavalry must pass, preparing to challenge the cavalry.
The well-trained pikemen stuck their shields on the ground and raised their spears. When the cavalry approached, the pikemen suddenly took a step back and knelt down, raising their shields diagonally.
"???" Hundreds of cold lizard cavalry did not react to the human actions. The cold lizard stepped directly on the shield and passed the first row of soldiers. Then these creatures realized that they had missed the step and fell from the air.
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Waiting for them are a large group of spearmen and sword and shield soldiers. Every cold lizard cavalry who falls into the human position finds that he has to face at least three human enemies!
"Forward!!!" The great swordsman joined the battlefield, and the veterans waved their giant swords and quickly killed these lone cold lizard cavalry. Many lizards were pulled off the cold lizards and fell into the siege of humans.
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"Get up!" After half of the cold lizard cavalry were put in, Fulgan ordered the pikemen to set up their shields. The remaining cold lizard cavalry were blocked from the line and fought fiercely with the pikemen.
The front and sides are full of figures of human armies and lizard-man legions fighting. The entire ruins is like a flesh-and-blood millstone, with red-eyed humans and lizard-man legions engaged in a brutal close battle.
Deep in the rain forest, a skink priest said to the blue lizard man sitting on the tyrannosaurus: "War leader, the war has reached a stalemate. If this continues, our losses will far exceed our gains."
He is an extremely strong lizard man, holding the war spear of the god Taranxra in one hand and the "Hand of the Gods" in the other. He is a lizard man riding the immortal tyrannosaurus "Quimok". He is the war leader of the Holy Council of the City of the Sun.
Sitting high on the throne, its fierce eyes are observing
The situation on the battlefield, his horns and head are decorated with gold, his eyes full of cruelty and bestiality only contain the passion for war and bloodthirsty killing intent, the golden armor can only become a decoration on his body - his
The skin is harder than the strongest steel.
Ku'ga, an ancient lizard-man, is also the last survivor of the Ashoto race of lizard-men.
When the Ancient Saints left, the portal was destroyed, and Chaos descended, Kuga and other lizardmen fought against the Chaos Demons. At first, the Lizardmen gained the advantage under the leadership of Slann, but the Chaos Demons were endless. Hundreds of years of war
Finally, the lizardman army was unable to support itself, and Ku'gar and his army were forced to retreat to the city of Shihout, relying on Slann's magic for defense.
In the end, the Chaos Demon used a Chaos Storm to disable the Slann's magic and slaughter the entire city, but Ku'ga led the city's last lizardman army to engage in a brutal guerrilla war with the Chaos Demon.
This fight lasted for thousands of years. It was not until the elves created a maelstrom that drained away the winds of chaos that Kuja, who had been fighting guerrilla warfare for centuries alone with several Chaos Demon Legions, received support.
This greatest lizardman warrior who has lived for seven thousand years was named "War Lord" by the Slann Holy Council. He is also the only lizardman who can enter the Holy Council (the other lords are all Slann).
"Call the Pterodactyl Legion, and call the Ankylosaurus!" Kuga observed the battle situation and made an immediate judgment.
These humans are different from normal humans.
Kuga has already eliminated several waves of human explorers.
Humanity is not a very powerful race. This race is greedy, snobbish, and easily contaminated by Chaos. According to Kuja's understanding, humans are not a race that is included in the "grand plan" and should be eliminated.
According to past experience, the fear is that humans will not be fooled. As long as humans are fooled and enter the ruins, the Lizardman Legion has already won the victory in advance. Over the past hundreds of years, several waves of human expeditions have been annihilated here.
Ku Jia didn't understand why this human army was so elite, but Ku Jia knew that this would not work. The losses of the lizard man army had exceeded expectations, and many lizard man legions had already suffered more than half of their casualties.
However, this human legion has reached its limit. No matter how strong the human discipline is, no matter how elite the human legion is, the quality of individual soldiers is still very different.
A shrill roar traveled through the tropical rainforest.
"Dong~dong~dong~" An Ankylosaurus with a height of more than five meters and a body length of more than ten meters appeared.
The three-headed Ankylosaurus appeared from the depths of the rain forest under the command of Kujia. These ancient giant beasts released their original instincts. Their armor skin was extremely hard, and they strode forward with four thick legs: "Roar~~~"
"Behemoth!!!" The human legion was fighting fiercely with the lizard-man legion. The sharp-eyed soldiers discovered the figure of the behemoth and were horrified. Pirazzo signaled the crossbowmen and musketeers to shoot at the ankylosaurus: "Shoot!
Shoot the giant beasts! Don’t let them get close to our military formation!”
The crossbowmen turned around, and the dense rain of arrows attacked the giant beast instead.
It has no effect. Ordinary feather arrows cannot break through the hard skin of Ankylosaurus. Only muskets can cause effective damage to Ankylosaurus.
There were not many musketeers, and the three-headed ankylosaurus gradually approached the military formation.
The war leader Kuga raised the spear of the Lord Talanxra in his hand and released a wild roar. A large group of pterosaur riders appeared in the sky, with small skink skirmishers riding on them. They passed by
From high in the sky, the human military formation was attacked from the side. A hail of javelins fell, and dozens of soldiers were hit on the spot in the blink of an eye.
"Boom!" The first Ankylosaurus approached the military formation. It ignored the siege of spears and knocked all two rows of human soldiers away unreasonably. Most of the weapons were ineffective against the Ankylosaurus. Only the Great Swordsman and the Fireman
Gunners can deal damage to Ankylosaurus.
Under the huge threat posed by the Ankylosaurus, the front line was shattered and the expeditionary force was forced to retreat.
Fulgan knew that he had to take action.
The purple figure jumped down from the ruins. Fulgrim nimbly dodged the attack of a lizard warrior. The golden arc of the power sword surrounded the Primarch of the Emperor's Son and turned into a purple arc of light, brightening the surroundings.
None of the lizard warriors could open their eyes.
The light disappeared, and the eight lizard warriors around Fulgan were all chopped into two pieces. The wounds were smooth and flat, like perfect cutting surfaces like art. The lizard warriors around him died on the spot before they could even react.
The next second, Fulgrim struck out with another sword. His speed was as fast as a ghost, and his figure was like an eternal nightmare in the subspace. In an instant, eight more lizard warriors were neatly cut into two pieces.
The position of the Lizard Legion turned into a bloody slaughterhouse. Fulgrim was like a purple phantom. Every time he passed a place, dozens of Lizard warriors were separated from flesh and blood with his next breath. There was no Lizard warrior following him.
Can match his speed and resist his exquisite swordsmanship.
"Roar!!!" An Ankylosaurus rushed towards Fulgen, its thick front hooves making the ground tremble.
Fulgrim did not dodge, he raised the sword in his hand towards the Ankylosaurus: "Come."
"Roar!!!" The Ankylosaurus released its violent power. It gradually approached the tall human in front of it, opened its mouth, and wanted to swallow this human and turn it into a delicious meal.
Facing the giant beast in front of him, Fulgrim only made one action.
The hand holding the sword gently turned his wrist.
The Ankylosaurus released an uncontrollable scream. It took two powerless steps, and then slumped to the ground. The beast's throat was completely cut open, and a large stream of bright red blood spurted out.
Fulgrim stood proudly in the center of the battlefield. An entire lizard-man army was defeated by Fulgrim alone. Two Ankylosaurs fell to death under his sword.
"Long live the Legion Commander!"
"Fight! Fight!"
"Never give up!!!"
Human morale was greatly boosted, and the soldiers unleashed a terrifying fighting force, finally barely repelling the lizardman army.
The figure with flowing silver hair stood on the corpses of a large group of lizard warriors. Fulgen stretched out the tip of his sword, and the glorious tip of the golden power sword was raised towards the depths of the rain forest, pointing directly at Ku'ga.
Kuja quickly understood that this was a letter of challenge.
Considering that the Lizard Legion had suffered heavy losses, which were beyond what Kugar could accept, the war lord riding the tyrannosaurus Quimok finally emerged from the depths of the rain forest.
As if destined, Kor'ga and Fulgrim looked at each other, the powerful lizardman warlord and the Emperor's Children Primarch found their respective opponents.
Kuga drove the tyrannosaurus and ran quickly, and all human soldiers who tried to get close to the war leader were torn into pieces.
Fulgrim moved forward slowly carrying the golden power sword. Along the way, all the lizard warriors who tried to stop him turned into a rain of blood.
In the middle of the bloody battlefield, in the smoke from the cannons, in the dense barrage of javelins, arrows and muskets, the two sides met.