One hundred and twenty-ninth chapter Zhou Quan
Bernando pulled out a gray sheepskin scroll. He opened the scroll and chanted a few times. The next moment, a red flame suddenly rose up on the scroll, and the entire scroll instantly turned into ashes. Leto was startled. However, the flame did not affect the magician's hand. The latter just threw away the ash casually.
"Your Highness, this is the Demon-Destroying Scroll." Bernando explained. "It can cause the magic wind to fall into extreme disorder within a few minutes, effectively removing any magic effect. If you use multiple at once, it may even cause the overall disorder of the local magic wind, making it impossible for the magicians on both sides to use magic for a certain period of time."
Leto was a little skeptical. But in fact, the effect of the Demon-Destroying Scroll was very good. In a short time, the Ishizuka-Binding Spirit, which had just been stuck in the cavalry, slowed down the speed of the Ishimatsu-Binding Spirit, which had been tightly attached to the cavalry, so that the war horses could easily throw them behind them. The two sides opened a significant distance.
Some figures had already appeared in the fog. There was no doubt that it was the Immortal Legion.
The musket knights were lined up in a very neat row at this time, and all the knights picked up the muskets and aimed forward. The light cavalry quickly circumvented the sides of the knight's queue.
"There's another magic." Bernando said to Leto. "That should be a spell of attack. They intend to use magic to attack the musket knights."
"Can you stop it?" Leto asked.
"We will try. But we may not be able to stop it. The distance is not good for us. If we want to ensure that we can stop it, we must use the Demon Breaking Scroll." Bernando replied. "A reel costs about three thousand gold coins. We carried ten, and now there are nine."
The Demon-Destroying Scroll is a valuable commodity, Leto has long heard of this. Even the people in the church cannot carry too many to the battlefield. Although the three thousand gold coins are not a particularly outrageous number for Leto, he minds the matter of "only ten" mentioned later. Now, the Musketeers have completed their missions and can only be used as ordinary musketeers after retreating, and the value is no longer great. At this time, it doesn't matter if they suffer some casualties. When the vampire uses magic to attack his cannon, he will need these reels.
The facts once again proved Bernando's judgment. Although the church's magicians tried their best to prevent the other party from casting spells, they seemed to have no results. A smoke of gunpowders fired from the distant muskets came out of the queue. Just as they finished shooting and wanted to retreat, many black energy shot out from the fog and swept across the muskets' queue. This black energy is corrosive. Wherever they went, whether it was a human or a horse, instantly corroded skin and flesh, turning into a pile of white bones. The knights' armor had no ability to resist this power at all. In just one moment, hundreds, perhaps hundreds of muskets, disappeared forever.
"Very good." Leto thought secretly in his mind. He knew that the magician's spell casting ability was limited, and it was a good thing for the black magician to waste magic on these musketeers who had lost value in the battle, which meant that his main force was less likely to be threatened by magic.
At that time, the remaining musketeers, including the light cavalry holding pistols and the knights firing guns with revolvers, had retreated back to the front of the queue. On the one hand, they witnessed the power of the black magic just now, and on the other hand, they had indeed completed the combat mission of harassing and consuming the enemy. These cavalry quickly passed through the gap between the pre-leased phalanx to the rear. There was no large-scale chaos during the entire process, fully demonstrating the nature of well-trained elite soldiers.
At the end of the vision, the Immortal Legion has appeared.
"General, the cannon should be fired." A messenger beside him said nervously.
Leto looked up at the cannons he had arranged. The cannons looked strange in shape from a distance. Rather than saying that they were like cannons in the usual sense, they were more like large trucks that were pulled from wood in the logging field. From the appearance, these cannons looked like multiple ordinary cannons were simply overlapped together, like carpenters loading trees cut down onto large trucks, and they were piled into a "cannon mountain". A gust-beamed cannon contains more than ten cannons. Compared with ordinary cannons, these cannons appear thin and straight, so that they can accommodate as many cannons as possible in a limited space.
There is really nothing to boast about this creativity, but the real gunner will be amazed by this amazing war machine.
This is because to make the cannon like this, it requires perfect smelting technology. Everyone knows that the cannon needs thick steel walls so that the terrifying power of gunpowder can shoot the shells out instead of destroying the cannon bore itself. In order to meet this requirement, the cannons are usually cast in a shape similar to wine bottles. The production skills like magical craftsmanship can make these cannons so thin but can withstand huge gunpowder power. The firepower of a gust-and-bead cannon can match more than ten cannons.
However, although this cannon is powerful, it still has some flaws. For example, the casting technology is still not mature enough, and fools understand that insignificant minor errors in the casting process may lead to the scrapping of the entire cannon; the fire gate control method is not appropriate enough, which makes it difficult to empty all the cannons at once when the cannon is fired. It is precisely these flaws that make this weapon only considered a "new experimental weapon" at the current stage and cannot completely replace ordinary cannons.
"General, cannon!" the messenger urged again.
"No." Leto decisively rejected the other party's opinion. In fact, in his heart, he did not regard this battle as a life-and-death duel, but as a hunting. In fact, this should be the case. He has already occupied all the advantages a general can have. To talk about danger, there are still dangers, but that level of danger is the stimulation that makes people feel happy, not the pressure that makes people feel physically and mentally collapse.
"The enemy has entered range." The messenger reminded the third time.
Leto ignored it. The range of the gust-wind-beaded cannon can cover the entire purple stone. Since the Immortal Legion has entered the battlefield, it must have entered the range. However, due to the mist, it is impossible to see the specific formation of the vampire at this time, and it is impossible to tell whether the vampire front line is scattered to attract firepower or the elite undead warriors arranged in battle formations.
The fog covers its sight. It is not caused by the dark magic of vampires, but a natural phenomenon. If the magicians forcefully drive away the fog, it will consume a lot of energy for the magicians, making it difficult for them to provide magic support in the future.
Of course, this is a small trouble. Leto has enough confidence to think that this mere fog cannot affect his victory.
"General, vampires have vision that surpasses humans. At this moment, he must have discovered the arrangement of our army's front line, especially our army's 'fort', which is really too conspicuous." Another deputy general made a suggestion. "Since whether or not the artillery fire will expose our army's firepower, it's better to fire the artillery first now, which can kill a little bit of the enemy."
"No need." Leto replied. I want the vampire to know that he can do nothing! He smiled on his face. "Order the artillery to be on standby, and no fire can be opened without my order."
The vampire will definitely do that... He has no choice but to do that. Leto speculate with interest on what will happen next. The vampire should know about the Wind-Boat Cannon - even if he doesn't understand, he can immediately infer the power of this new cannon after seeing it. If the vampire wants to win, his only hope is to destroy the turret in time.
Since that's the case, you might as well use the turret as bait. The vampire group may not be the most dangerous, but it is definitely the most troublesome force.
At this time, the retreat of the musketeers had been completed, and before Leto's battle formation, there were no friendly troops in the way.
"Your Highness!" Someone next to him exclaimed, pointing his hand to the side of the battlefield. A piece of black appeared from the mountain next to him. It looked like a cloud, but it flew towards the position of Ryan's army at a very astonishing speed.
"Bat! It's a group of bats!" The previous messenger exclaimed. The creatures summoned by the vampire really rushed to the position of the turret.
"As a matter of fact, everything was not as expected by Your Highness." A staff member who was by his side said flatteringly.
"Haha, it's true!" Leto smiled. "I thought vampires were so great. Actually, that's the case?"
"Your Highness, this is not because the vampire is not good, but because you are too visionary. Vampires have no choice."
"Haha." Leto laughed a few more times. "Tell me that as long as the bat enters the range, the musketeer can open fire immediately."
The bat group flew straight towards the position of the turret. As they approached, a burst of gunfire sounded from behind Ryan's army. But it must be said that for small animals such as bats, any long-range weapon has little effect. The killing of this wave of bullets is a drop in the bucket, better than nothing. Although some bats can be seen falling from the sky, the overall number of them does not decrease at all and continues to pounce on the turret. Once these small animals are entangled with the gunners - although it is quite difficult for them to bite people to death, it is easy to harass the gunners so that they cannot shoot down.
A miserable trumpet sounded in the mist. There was no doubt that the vampire had realized the arrangement of Ryan's army and launched an active attack regardless of everything. He wanted to take advantage of the time when the gunners were entangled by bats to let the battle enter hand-to-hand combat, causing the cannon to lose its advantage.
A huge ball of flame appeared in the sky, wrapping up a large part of the bats. The magic flames burned in the air, releasing amazing light and heat. Although the ball of flames was hollow, the group of bats rushed towards the wall of flames desperately, and then turned into black wreckage that emitted heat and fell from the air. The number of these burned bats was so large that the giant sword warriors below had a commotion.
The next magic followed one after another, and a thunder ball fell from the sky. Although the effect was not as good as the flame cage just now, the bats were swept away in the trajectory the thunder ball passed.
However, these small animals dominated by vampires did not know how to fear. The remaining bats quickly gathered back and continued to pounce towards the target. There were still a lot of them, and they could still entangle the artillery for a long time. However, at this time, the third magic had been successfully released. A large number of white light bombs, like a hurricane, ejected from the ground, forming a whole piece of shining energy in the air, swallowing up the black clouds composed of bats.
"Hu..." Bernando, who was beside Leto, breathed a long sigh. The three magics just now consumed a large part of his energy. Although these magics seemed to be fired by the two mages above the turret, in fact, in order to fight against the interference of the black magician, these magics were the result of the joint cooperation of all magicians. However, the results were worth it. The bat group had been eliminated, and although the remaining ones had reached the turret, the number was far from the word "threat". The gunners on the turret began to use their portable weapons to fight these small animals. It was obvious that they could destroy them soon.
Leto smiled and looked at everything. His heart was filled with the joy of the wise bead holding. The last unstable factor was also eliminated by him. At this time, the forward of the Immortal Legion had already rushed out of the mist, and unexpectedly, it was a group of ghouls.
Chapter completed!