Chapter 211.1 |
The first to move among Marquis Nolpoth’s forces were not cavalry but infantry.
The infantry stopped when it saw a group of Dark Knights who had just escaped from the rampaging giants and immediately pointed their crossbows at them.
Just as the Dark Knights noticed this and tried to fix their formation, the infantrymen pulled the trigger of their crossbows, sending countless iron balls flying, knocking the Dark Knights off their bicorns.
The demons had extremely high durability as well as defensive strength, so if they had been attacked with ordinary crossbows, they would not have fallen from the Bicorn.
In contrast, the impact of the bullet crossbow’s iron balls was more impactful. Although it was not a fatal blow to the Dark Knights, a monster in full-body armor, they could not escape the heavy impact.
The heavy iron balls flew at high speed and knocked the knights off their horses, leaving them unable to catch or control Bicorns, who had lost their vision.
(T/N: Bicorns are horse-like demons/monsters.)
Marquis Nolpoth, who saw many, but not all, of the Dark Knights fall from their horses, waved a red flag and gave the signal.
At the signal, the sound of a whistle echoed across the battlefield. The next moment, the Bicorns started running toward the sound, causing the fallen Dark Knights to be kicked and crushed by the Bicorns that were supposed to be their mounts, causing an indescribable confusion.
Before the Dark Knights had time to come to their senses, a squad led by Viscount Davrak, charging with battle-axes, cut inside the group of Dark Knights from their flank and started killing them.
The advantage of the whistle, an item that Welner had known in the game, was that it could be used to attract demons to an area and engage in battle to earn game EXP.
However, in reality, even adventurers would not try to attract demons unless they have a great need to do so. Therefore, it was only natural that Welner wondered why they would have developed such a tool to attract demons in the days of the ancient kingdoms.
But Welner changed his mind when he thought about it in the context of mass warfare. He realized that being able to attract the demons meant being able to guide the demons. Tactically, this tool could separate the part of the enemy forces that heard the sound of the whistle from the main battlefield.
It would make more sense if the whistle were originally intended for use in a group battle against a demon army, rather than for use against monsters individually, as in RPGs. Welner thought so and used the whistle to separate the Dark Knights from the main enemy forces as well as separating the Bicorns from the Dark Knights.
The Dark Knights did react to the sound of the whistle, but the movement speed of a full-body armored Knight and a quadrupedal beast differed a lot.
Marquis Nolpoth’s army ignored the Bicorns, who had been drawn by the sound, and started to attack the Dark Knights, who had fallen from their horses. As the Bicorns were removed from the scene, the Dark Knights started to fight back.
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“Here they come, get ready!” (Welner)
“Ha!”
Welner quickly checked the entire situation as he saw a group of Bicorns coming towards them.
So far, everything was going according to plan. For now, they only had to take care of the approaching Bicorns.
Calmly, Welner gave the order.
“Ready!”
The knights dismounted and stood by in response to Welner’s voice. Next, they formed a line and lifted the long spears that they had left lying on the ground. After that, they poised like stone pikes on the ground, holding spears at an angle where their whole bodies were positioned to support their weapons.
A group of Bicorns plunged head on into the wall of spears that Max, the leader of the Zeavert knights, had prepared for them. The Bicorns screamed in pain, and soon a line of lance-pierced-Bicorn formed, as Bicorns failed to stop in time because of their momentum. More indescribable screams and sounds of impact echoed, along with vibrations.
Typically, the line of spears, a defense tactic using long-handled spears, were used to stop the horsemen rather than to knock them down. After all, it would be stupid for a knight who was riding a horse to rush into a wall of spears.
Demons, however, were not originally sensitive to the emotion of fear. Moreover, many of them have been blinded. Therefore, they did not stop halfway and accelerated themselves into the tips of the spears.
Some of the Bicorns, still breathing, struggled to move their bodies, which had been pierced by the spears, but there was no way they could get out of the situation.
“Mage squad, take care of it!”
Welner called out, and the magician team behind the line-of-spears launched their first attack. Considering that magic was less powerful in a group battle, everyone chanted magic in turn, not all at once, but in a lopsided fashion, with various attack magic flying through the air.
Unlike bows, area magic could not be easily avoided. The magic was aimed only at the Dark Knights, who were still barely on top of their Bicorns, and as a result, they were hit by concentrated attacks. In the end, the Dark Knights fell to the ground.
Although a lot of Bicorns were slaughtered, there were still many left. Those Bicorns entered into another frenzy, rampaging many Dark Knights.
As a result, enemy forces were in a hot mess. Then Welner’s new instructions fly.
