The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

As a result, before Zhou Xiaoyang and the others could cut down all the trees, the enemy troops had already appeared on the horizon.

Zhou Xiaoyang used a telescope to check and found that the number of enemy troops was at least 20,000 to 30,000, and they were indeed elite, with extremely powerful auras. There were hundreds of second-level masters among them.

As for our own side, there are only a dozen second-level masters. Among them, Zhou Xiaoyang himself broke through to the innate level not long ago, and his combat power was forcibly improved by relying on the bond of his battle pet Xiaobai. Compared with the warriors who have cultivated to the innate realm, The combat power is much worse.

The really powerful one is Xiaobai, who has a combat power equivalent to the eighth level of innate strength. There seems to be no masters of this level among the enemy army, only seven or eight innate masters of the fifth and sixth level.

Seeing that the enemy troops had arrived, Zhou Xiaoyang hurriedly gathered all his troops, and then began to set up defense lines with this hill as the center.

After the enemies discovered that their opponents did not seem to be fully prepared for war, the demon war general led by them immediately sent a group of more than 2,000 demon heavy cavalry to attack the enemy troops on the hill.

"Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow quickly!"

Amidst Zhou Xiaoyang's eager roar, the skeleton crossbowmen who had just formed their formation fired arrows at the demonic heavy cavalry who rushed down the mountain.

However, these demonic heavy cavalry were all wearing heavy plate armor. Although these crossbow bolts and arrows were constantly falling in dense numbers, the damage they could cause was extremely limited. After shooting for a long time, only a dozen enemy cavalry were shot off their horses. Just down.

"Smash it with a sling!"

Seeing this, Zhou Xiaoyang immediately asked hundreds of zombies to control the simple catapults he had hurriedly built not long ago using the chopped wood, and threw fist-sized stones at the demon heavy cavalry that were approaching the top of the hillside. piece.

The reason why only such small stones are thrown is mainly because the power of these simple catapults is too small, and larger stones cannot be thrown. Even these fist-sized stones, taking advantage of the terrain, are condescending. It can only be thrown more than two hundred meters away.

However, although the stones thrown by these simple catapults are small and cannot be used to break down those solid city walls in siege battles, they are quite effective in dealing with these demonic heavy cavalry. After all, it is blunt force damage. From the top of the mountain, After being thrown high by catapults and hit on their bodies, the demon heavy cavalry, even though they were protected by thick armor, were screamed one by one. From time to time, some demon knights could not hold on and were knocked off their horses.

And this is a hillside after all. As it gets closer and closer, the slope becomes steeper, and the charging speed of those demon heavy cavalry gradually slows down. Finally, they finally rushed to the first line of defense laid down by Zhou Xiaoyang. By that time, the speed was almost as slow as an ordinary person jogging.

In front of them was an unfinished low wall with a height of only about half a meter, which was made of some freshly cut trees. Five thousand zombies stretched out their sharp spears behind this low wall. , forming a dense and solid gun array.

Facing the spear phalanx, even these demonic heavy cavalry did not dare to collide directly, and they reined in their horses and stopped advancing.

In fact, under normal circumstances, when the enemy troops face these demonic heavy cavalry who are wearing heavy armor and whose mounts are tall and fierce hell horses, they will often be frightened before they can rush to the front of the formation. They were defeated, but this time the enemies they encountered were these emotionless low-level undead creatures, so their intimidation tactics were immediately ineffective. After they reined in their horses and stopped, these demonic heavy cavalry were stunned for a while. I don't know whether to continue the attack or retreat.

After being stunned for a while, some of the demon heavy cavalry tried to dismount and fight on foot. They waved their weapons and took the initiative to attack the gun array in front of them.

However, this was obviously a stupid decision. Those demon heavy cavalry who chose to attack the spear formation were soon pierced to death by the densely stabbing spears in front of the spear formation.

Seeing this, the demon general in the rear also hurriedly asked his subordinates to blow the trumpet, telling the demon heavy cavalry to withdraw quickly.

At this time, the rain of arrows and stones on the mountain did not stop falling for a moment. As the demon heavy cavalry retreated, more than a hundred people were killed and wounded. The casualties increased this time. It has exceeded three hundred, but they have not been able to achieve any results.

The demon general felt very embarrassed and quickly sent out 3,000 heavily armored infantry to take the lead, covering more than 2,000 elite archers and dozens of demon mages, and launched another attack on the hill.

The demonic troops with a large number of long-range units cooperating to attack were much more threatening. From time to time, arrows and various magics fell on the defenders' formation on the hillside. The skeleton archers with relatively low vitality basically died after being hit. , only those zombies with rough skin and thick flesh can resist two or three more times.

Zhou Xiaoyang watched the casualties of his undead warriors continue to increase. Although there was no expression on his face, in his mind he was cooperating with his human soldiers, allowing the skeleton crossbowmen to target the mountain attackers more accurately. The enemy fires arrows and tries to kill as many enemy archers and mages as possible during the exchange of fire.

However, once the enemy archers and mages have launched their attack, they will immediately hide in the shield formation of the heavy infantry. It is very difficult to kill them until the demons have attacked the first line of defense on the hillside. Before, Zhou Xiaoyang and the others could only kill more than a hundred enemy archers and mages. As for the enemy heavy infantry wearing heavy armor, they only killed more than fifty people.

After finally approaching the spear formation, the demons did not act recklessly. Almost face to face, they continued to throw javelins, throwing axes and other throwing weapons at the zombie spearmen who were so close. With those archers and mages launching attacks from time to time, the zombie spearmen in the front row continued to die and fall. Fortunately, these low-level undead creatures were not afraid. After the teammates in the front row were killed, the fearful zombie spearmen behind them He immediately stepped forward to fill his position with an expressionless face, keeping the spear array intact.

Zhou Xiaoyang and others on the top of the mountain were constantly directing the slingers and skeleton crossbowmen to fire arrows and throw stones at the enemy troops, biting off this 'hard bone' bit by bit.

The two sides were killing each other's soldiers at almost the same speed, so this was completely a cruel exchange of ideas. At this moment, Zhou Xiaoyang finally understood what it means to have one general succeed and ten thousand bones dry up.

Most of the generals in the Qinglong Empire who rose from the rank of junior officers were like Zhou Xiaoyang, who gradually matured in actual combat.

When almost half of the enemy's long-range forces were finally killed and injured, Zhou Xiaoyang finally dispatched his elite troops, which was a ghoul force of more than 3,000 people. Although these things were like zombies, they were walking zombies. Unlike zombies, which are undead creatures that actively increase their strength and blood volume, ghouls focus on improving their agility and speed. They are a kind of walking undead creature that is more advanced than zombies. Although they do not have as much health as zombies, they have the powerful ability to quickly restore their health by devouring corpses on the battlefield. This is also the origin of their name.