In the midsummer of Year 4 of the Magical Calendar, almost every high-level military commander among the three parties and seven nations who were directing or being directed to participate in the prelude to the War of the Gods - the Battle to Defend the Eminore Continent, saw Xilin Island located at Longkou of the Lion River.
The importance. Almost everyone knows that this island was not attacked as a strategic location until midsummer. The core reason is that this island is the territory of the most powerful Amy Empire in the entire known world.
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Of course, this stable situation only lasted until autumn and February of Year 4 of the Magical Calendar.
Chapter 1 Getting involved in the war
The "Xilin Island Famous Battle" officially kicked off at 11:00 in the middle of the night on February 22, the 4th year of the magic calendar.
Most historians of the Mercenary King in later generations agree on one point: in the early stages of this battle, if Amy did not have Ying by her side, she might have fallen into a bloody battle.
In the known world, there is a big gap in the vision range of each race, and humans are extremely low in all rankings, especially night vision.
Because the forest elves have lived in the forest for a long time, their vision is very dim even during the day, and it is even darker when they come out at night. This is a blessing in disguise. Among all races, the forest elves' night vision is the best.
The orcs, especially the nocturnal orcs such as werewolves and werewolves, have an advantage in terms of night vision range that is unmatched by other races except forest elves.
The gnomes also live in the dark, but they rarely need to see very far away, so the night vision range is slightly shorter than that of the forest elves and orcs.
The night vision range of the dwarves ranks fourth, and they can often see animals 500 meters away.
Prairie elves live on the endless prairie, and their sight distance during the day is very wide, ranking first among all races. However, at night, compared with their close relatives, forest elves, there is a huge difference.
The worst are humans. Most humans can only see within 100 meters at night. Only humans have night blindness, a disease that should have been eliminated by nature.
Amy was startled when she heard Ying's whisper, and her fingers couldn't help but tremble. As a magician, he naturally knew the range of elves' vision. He had no doubts about Ying's words and shouted in a low voice.
At the outpost on duty, ask him to notify everyone to prepare for the battle.
People who don't know the actual situation are often happy. When the sentry heard the captain saying that the enemy was coming, he thought of the promise made by the captain during the day. He was so excited that he almost wanted to go out and kill these little pirates by himself, so that he could use those two rare weapons.
All the magic weapons are in hand.
Among mercenaries, there is a whole set of management methods. The danger of living on the line of life and death every day has long made most mercenary groups sleep in peace. The sentries quickly rang the bells hanging on each
The alarm bell in the mercenary's room wakes up every mercenary with the highest level of ringtone.
At this time, in order to prevent the enemy from seeing anyone on the island, Amy had already jumped to the ground with Ying in her arms. Daqingshan, Chi Aotian, and Horns, who had not yet fallen asleep, were already standing under the house with weapons in hand.
The sound of the mercenaries getting dressed could be heard sparsely throughout the small mercenary group's headquarters, and the sound of the door being gently opened and then closed. Each room was generally divided according to teams, and there were 5 people living there.
The mercenaries, under the leadership of the team leader, ran in the dark to their designated positions on the playground. After the leader gathered his team, he whispered to the team leader to report the number, and then ran to the team leader to report the gathering status of their respective teams.
The captains had already seen the positions of the regiment commander and the captains of each military battalion, and trotted over to report the situation of their team.
For the small mercenary group, this kind of sudden gathering at night is an extremely common training. Today's speed and quality are not much different from usual.
Amy whispered and ordered each unit to enter positions that had been rehearsed many times in advance.
What is very different from the regular army is that small and medium-sized mercenary organizations rarely pay attention to face-to-face charges in war. After all, the enemies they most often encounter are not the upright enemy troops, but more groups of thieves who attack based on danger.
On the west side of the small mercenary group is a beach formed by perennial alluvial waves. The sand embankment on the beach is slightly higher than the average altitude of the island, and dense shrubs grow on it. The first to enter the position were the blocking swordsmen.
Under the leadership of deputy captain Wei Xi, he quickly sneaked into the slope on the seaward side of the sand embankment. Some pits half a person deep had been dug here. The blocking swordsmen jumped into the pits and quickly pulled the sand table used to cover the pits over their heads.
Up. Chi Aotian was originally supposed to be leading the team, but Amy thought he was too murderous and not suitable for covert attacks, so she left him behind.
The archer battalion entered the position next. Under the leadership of two guerrillas, they also bent down and came to the slope. When passing by Amy, both Gersu and Granyus discovered the man standing next to Amy.
Close relatives, they looked at Ying with different eyes and naturally understood why the regiment leader could find the enemy.
The number of soldiers in the Demon Swordsman Battalion was almost the smallest. When Amy saw them arriving, she slightly raised her hand and waved at them, signaling them to follow the deputy captain and enter the position as soon as possible.
Finally, there is the Great Swordsman Camp. In order to avoid being discovered by the enemy as much as possible, these big guys bent down, touched the stones in front of them with their hands, and quietly hid themselves in the bushes.
The saddest thing is the Wild Eagle Swordsman Camp. The Wild Eagles can't see anything at night, so they naturally lose the chance to go to the battlefield. Thinking about the red and blue swords they saw during the day, they can only pray secretly and hope that other swords will
Don't take all the credit away from Shiying.
While watching the soldiers enter the position, Amy looked at the silver moon in the sky. It was the last quarter of the moon. The enemy commander was really powerful. In the beach landing assault battle, the most feared thing was having to wade through waist-high water. The entire
This process is the best time to attack the blockers. At this time, it is the last moment of high tide. If it can not be discovered by the enemy, the large sailing ship can ride the tide and wash up directly on the beach.
Amy held Ying's hand, and with Da Qingshan, Chi Aotian, and Horns, they also quietly touched the bushes on the beach. Ying silently counted the boats in front of her and whispered: "There are 20 big boats in total.
The boats are all filled with soldiers, and it’s unclear how many soldiers are on each boat. It’s about 1,000 meters away from us now.”
20 ships? According to the Imperial Coast Guard’s military ship transport capacity, each ship generally carries about 30 soldiers. Assuming that the incoming ship is one or two times larger than the Imperial Coast Guard ship, then the number of enemies coming
Probably between 600 and 1,800 people. The core members of the small mercenary group exchanged glances with each other. If there were 600 people, then this battle would definitely be won easily. If there were 1,800 people, then there might be a stalemate.
"The incoming ship is still 700 meters away." Ying reported the data again.
"There are still 600 meters to go."
"The enemy lowered the boat." Horns squinted his eyes and said. The distance between the enemy ship and the coast had already entered Horns' field of vision.
"Well, there are about 10 people in each boat, and the first batch of boats put down is about... 30 boats." For the forest elves, this distance is almost the same as seeing things in the daytime. "They look so ugly..."
Ying frowned slightly, "They have a human body, but the head looks like a dog's head, no, more like a wolf's head. They hold a small shield in one hand, short hair in the other, and fangs exposed on their mouths."
,How could there be such a monster?"
Amy gently pulled Ying and shushed her slightly, indicating her to lower her voice again. It seemed that it was indeed another continent attacking the Eminol continent.
The enemy's commander once again weighed heavily in Amy's mind. It seemed that this commander was quite careful. For this unfamiliar sea area, he must be worried that there might be reefs on the bottom of the sea and that the big ship would run into rocks, so he hoped to land by small boat.
Werewolves... No one has a clue about this unknown enemy. Amy carefully recalled the sporadic information about werewolves in the large number of books that she read with her teacher in the Imperial Palace Library. In that distant continent, there are
There are many orc races: bearmen, centaurs, snakemen, etc. Werewolves are the largest in number. They are found in almost every area of the continent and live in tribal groups. It is said that among the races on the entire continent, this race is the most numerous.
Smart - of course, we must remove the scattered humans on the continent. They even established their own writing system based on human writing through communication with humans. The werewolf soldiers' individual capabilities are almost the same on that continent.
The weakest, but the group attacks, especially the continuous tracking attacks, are the strongest, and they are extremely vindictive. Although there are inevitably feuds among each tribe, once they are attacked by foreign tribes, they can immediately put aside their feuds and share the same hatred, and put the foreign tribes to death.
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Amy was secretly glad that there was such a sea as a separation. These soldiers were far better than the soldiers of the empire in terms of agility and speed of action. Perhaps they were even more nimble than the swordsmen of the small mercenary group. If they were on land,
In a confrontation, depending on the strength of the enemy commander, if this high-speed force can be used rationally, there is no doubt that one force can be used as multiple forces. What is even more fortunate is that the sea breeze has been blowing in the direction of the mainland. In this way, all
All the flavor of the sound will not be detected by the sensitive werewolf soldiers.
Soon, there was a slight uneasiness in the archer's position. Apparently, the prairie elves discovered the enemy at the same time. At this time, the enemy was still about 400 meters away from the coast.
Gersu turned his head and looked at the group leaders not far behind him. Amy and Horns made a gesture at the same time: "Wait until the enemy enters the effective attack range, and then decide to attack at your own discretion."
"Prepare to attack." The obvious gesture also came from Gersu's hand, and was passed to each archer one after another.
The attack range of the prairie elves' bows is about 250 meters, which is far beyond the 150-meter attack range of human archers. Looking at the speed of the enemy ships, all the archers drew 10 arrows from their underground quivers.
Arrange 20 to 20 arrows scattered in front of you, with the arrow tips forward and the arrow feathers concentrated in one position.
400 meters…
350 meters…
300 meters…
Gersu is 470 years old this year. In the past 200 years, he has gradually grown from a young rookie archer to a man deeply loved by his tribe in dozens of battles he participated in as a mercenary or an imperial soldier.
The trusted captain. Even a veteran like Gersu, who had experienced hundreds of battles, was extremely surprised when he saw the troops he had never seen before. His palms began to sweat, and he felt cold in the night wind.
Not to mention that most of the other prairie elves are elven hunters who have never experienced war. Their hands are subconsciously touching the arrow feathers in the ground.
250 meters... This is the distance that most prairie elves can attack. Gersu took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "Get up--" Huo De stood up, and all the other elves' arrows
With one hand holding a bow and the other holding an arrow feather, they all stood up. Bows about 1.4 meters long were erected one after another. The arrow feathers were placed on the bow almost instantly. As Gesu shouted louder,
The words: "Shoot!" 102 arrows were shot straight at the ship moving on the sea.
From the first syllable of Gersu to the shooting of the arrow feathers, it was almost an instant. The enemies on the sea obviously also saw the sudden changes on the shore, but the bows and arrows fired by the elven archers did not give the werewolves any reaction at all.
By chance, dozens of soldiers were stunned and pierced by the long arrows flying from the air. Under the huge penetrating power of the bows and arrows, the werewolf's body was lifted up and fell to the sea.
When human bow soldiers shoot bows and arrows at a distance of about 150 meters, most of them shoot at high altitudes with different calibrations according to their own bow power, and use the gravity of the falling bows and arrows to strike the enemy from the air. This is fundamentally different from the prairie elves, who shoot with arrows all year round.
Prairie elves who make a living by hunting often shoot in a straight line to deliver the most fatal blow to their prey - even at an ultra-long distance of 250 meters.