Chapter 73 Steel Harvest

This was Lupo's conspiracy, but perhaps he himself did not know the existence of this strategy. If the opponent used a wide front to fight against him, he would have an advantage in unit firepower with more people.

And when the opponent used a tortoise shield formation to fight against him like now, he could only hope...

"Fire!"

With Lupo's roar, the infantry regiment suddenly raised their shields in front of them and separated the formation to create a shooting window for the crossbow under command.

Behind their separated formation, four crossbows began to release kinetic ammunition in an extremely deadly way.

Four heavy crossbow arrows with widened blades specially designed to fight against infantry were released with the infantry regiment's defensive posture. They crossed two hundred meters in an instant and passed through the elven guards at the front of the shield wall. The unfolded blades also affected others on the side.

Like a hot blade wiping over ice and snow, the thick shields and armored bodies of the elven guards seemed so vulnerable in front of such war weapons.

The killing effect of four heavy crossbow arrows on the dense formation far exceeded the imagination of both sides. Each crossbow arrow killed at least five elves, and more than fifteen people lost their combat effectiveness.

This is the power of machinery, storing energy and then releasing it in the required form.

What followed was a dense rain of crossbow arrows. The crossbowmen fired at the four gaps along the passage opened by the heavy crossbows. The outermost shield wall had been penetrated, and now it was finally their turn to output.

After losing the shield, flesh and blood could not stop the steel arrows.

No matter how well-trained the elf guards were, they could only barely maintain their positions, and the bow and sword militia behind the gap completely ate this round of volleys.

The elf lord's eyes were about to burst, and the female archer next to him gritted her teeth, raised the exquisite longbow in her hand to condense the power of magic, and wanted to destroy a crossbow cart, but she couldn't reach the bed crossbows hiding 250 meters away, so she could only shoot two shield-bearing spearmen to express her anger.

"Infantry regiment! Charge!"

Lupo did not intend to give the elves a chance to breathe. He issued the final order, letting his infantry regiment take advantage of the low morale of the opponent and launch a decisive charge.

The long-range mutual consumption ended.

The hand-to-hand combat of willpower and skills began.

The long-range consumption was just a preparation for this close combat. In an era when long-range power was still lacking, close combat was still the direct means of deciding the battle.

The spearman's spear was blocked by the elf armor. The elf guard inserted the spear in his hand into the spearman's body with his backhand, and the sharp spearhead easily shattered the ineffective armor. When he wanted to pull out the spear, he found that his body had a gap in the armor because of the stab.

Multiple spears came up together and pierced the body of the elf guard along the gap. The surrounding cavalry team started to charge from the front side to meet the panicked elf militia.

Either the long sword cut off the head of the infantry regiment, or the body of the elven militia was cut open by the short spear and short sword of the crossbowman.

The well-trained infantry regiment and the elven guards with martial attainments shed their blood on the wild plain.

The blood stained the earth.

They just regarded it as a game, like a duel between players to divide up the resource points.

Whoever wins can divide up this resource point.

But they didn't expect that these monsters themselves would also react to the actions of the lords.

Pinching his own timepiece, relying on the sunlight reflection caused by the glass mirror on it to send information to Changheng. It is difficult to observe the flash outside the target reflected by the light source. He has checked the time with Changheng.

The two lords entered a long and bloody hand-to-hand combat...

Then the harvest of steel should begin.

Thanks to the tall grass everywhere here, if it weren't for these tall grasses, Ji Lin would not be able to watch outside the battlefield so safely.

The musketeers had already reached 500 meters from the elves, carrying 200 scout hunting spiders with stealth effects. He didn't dare to bring out the light crossbow troops for ambush because of their limited training level.

Ambush requires a surprise attack. Those newly trained troops are too clumsy to move, and they can't compare with this initial troop that has been following from beginning to end in terms of combat experience.

The human lords close to the swamp are handed over to the corrupted devil crabs, while the elf lords far away from the swamp will be helped by Ji Lin to return to the stagnant preparation area in advance.

This is called division of labor and cooperation.

Joining the musketeers who have stopped and waited for Ji Lin's instructions, they have already loaded their weapons with ammunition and are hiding in the bushes silently and coldly.

Counting seconds to breathe.

At the speed of the steam spider, 35 kilometers per hour, about ten meters per second, it takes...

one hundred seconds to cross this one kilometer and rush out from behind the hillside.

One minute and forty seconds.

When they launch an attack, these steam spiders will start.

Launch a destructive charge.

Five hundred meters.

Four hundred meters.

Three hundred meters.

Two hundred and fifty meters.

"I, I feel something is wrong..."

An ominous premonition came to her mind, and she looked at the half-elf lord beside her, but the other party was unaware.

She secretly regretted why she chose such a useless waste.

The almost tragic battlefield ahead interfered with her natural sensitive intuition, and the heavy losses on her side forced her to focus all her attention on the front battlefield.

Even though she knew that her people would not really die, she still felt heartbroken when she witnessed this terrible scene.

Even if the battle situation was so bad, they were not without a chance of victory. The martial arts attainments that the elf guards had honed over a long period of time were by no means comparable to those of these humans.

But, why?

As her sight shifted to her right rear, the tall grass in the distance there swayed unnaturally.

A whistle rang across the plain.

Countless gray-clothed figures stood up from the tall grass, holding steel guns, with cold eyes, pointing directly at her and the elves who were still fighting.

The sound was like thunder, and the armor was like hemp.

The barrage of lead bullets swept through like a wall of death, and the elf guards and militia fell in rows like the tall grass that they trampled during their march. Those infantry regiments that were unfortunately affected also left with the elves without any surprise.

The shield raised by the elf guards in a hurry only blocked two bullets before being completely destroyed. The armor on their bodies could only block a lead bullet when they were very lucky.

They heard a sharp and mechanical long sound through the air, followed by a monster.

A monster spewing white breath.

It took them three minutes or five minutes to get distracted.

Everyone's attention was interrupted by the attacker, and the fierce fight on the field seemed to have come to a halt.

The six-legged monster made of steel had rushed in front of all of them and crashed into the enemy formation.

Compared with the charge of the 60-man cavalry, the impact of ten steam spiders was terrifying.

Facing the monster infantry, the elven guards who still had morale planned to use their spears to fight against the steel behemoth. He could see the rune circuits circulating at the joints and naturally realized that this was a rune machine.

If it was just a collision... it would be okay, very scary, but there was a way to fight...

The arc-shaped superheated steam erupted forward with the steam spider as the center the next moment, and at the same time, the two sides also ejected short-range blocking steam.

With high temperature and death.

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