However, this time, the reconnaissance plane did not circle around and leave. Instead, it began to dive straight down from a height of a thousand meters, and then flew over at a low altitude of about a hundred meters. Before this, no reconnaissance plane had ever flown at such a height. The Bindu Kingdom's knights, who did not take it seriously at first, finally noticed the abnormality, but they just raised their heads and pointed at the sky. They did not dodge or fight.
Valard frowned at this scene, feeling that something was not right.
Just as he was thinking, the plane flew over the cavalry, and suddenly, a black object leaked out from the cabin. It fell silently, swaying, and smashed straight into the position of the Bindu Kingdom's cavalry.
Then, nothing happened.
The metal bomb was inserted into the ground in front of the cavalry, splashing up a handful of soil. The cavalry, who were still a little panicked, looked at the exquisite metal block, looked at each other for a few seconds, and then laughed.
What did this mean?
Valard looked at the reconnaissance plane that had flown far away, full of doubts. He vaguely felt that the thing that fell on the ground might not be as simple as he thought.
The reconnaissance plane returned less than ten minutes after it disappeared. This time, the Bindu Kingdom's cavalry knew that it was going to use the same trick again. One by one, they jumped on their horses and waited for the plane to swoop over so that they could dodge the metal block thrown down. But this time, the reconnaissance plane did not swoop, but chose to fly over the troops in a more stable way, and at the same time, its flying speed was much slower than before.
Another black object was thrown out from the cabin. The wind-stabilizing tail made the swaying bomb gradually fall headfirst, and with the help of inertia, it fell towards the cavalry's formation.
But this time, it did not plunge headfirst into the ground. Instead, when it was still fifty meters away from the ground, it suddenly lit up with a light!
The paratroopers who raided Rasha City previously used an "automatic parachute" tailor-made by the mages of the Kingdom of Karen. The principle was very simple: when the height from the ground reached a certain standard, the magic circle would automatically trigger the mechanism and open the parachute.
This was not a barometer, but a variant extension of the earth magic. Because it was developed with the help of the Dragons, the success rate and accuracy were absolutely guaranteed.
This crystal bomb also used a similar array. However, it did not activate the parachute, but the "explosion array" in the center.
In fact, the first bomb also used the same magic circle, but because the activation height was set too low, it was completely "extinguished" before it could explode in the "anti-magic domain". That was why it was such a joke.
But this time, the magic circle inside the bomb successfully detonated the crystal at a high altitude. The magical metal fragments surrounding the bomb were blasted out!
"Boom!"
It was clearly daytime, but Valard, who was watching this scene from afar, felt that the surrounding sky had darkened. The violent explosion caused countless metal fragments to spread out at supersonic speeds, and the radiation covered the bodies of the cavalrymen below.
Because the violent explosion occurred thirty to forty meters in the air, it was not affected by the "anti-magic domain" at first, but when it spread out, the energy flow of the crystal instantly disappeared when it neared the ground.
But before that, the impact and fragments produced by the explosion had already completed their acceleration. Faced with such a completely physical attack, the armoured cavalrymen were as fragile as thin paper. Those who were close to them were instantly squashed into meat paste along with their horses. Those who were slightly further away were pierced by the metal fragments, and were sent flying by the impact of the impact!
The impact of the explosion, even from five hundred meters away, was enough to make the Lachman soldiers who were holding up their shields feel great pressure. Many of the soldiers in the front row were caught off guard and fell backward, not to mention the Bindu Cavalrymen within a hundred meters of the explosion …
It was just a bomb, but more than two hundred of the Bindu Cavalrymen who were spread out to rest died on the spot. More than three hundred cavalrymen were injured by the fragments and fell to the ground in pain. Almost all the horses were startled by the loud noise, and many of them were overturned on the spot, fleeing for their lives. Some were even directly killed by the shock!
The fragments flew too far, and even affected the Lachman soldiers who were five hundred meters away. Some of the unlucky soldiers were hit on the spot, and seven or eight of them were killed or injured.
But at a time like this, no one had the time to ask why the reconnaissance plane would accidentally injure their allies.
The Bindu cavalrymen were scared out of their wits by this attack. They did not understand what had attacked them, but the wailing crowd let them know that if they did not leave now, they would be done for. The only remaining leader quickly gathered the injured cavalrymen and tried to calm the frightened and injured warhorses before preparing to escape.
But they had just left behind a pile of corpses and ran away when another reconnaissance plane flew over.
The sound of the propeller that they were used to was now like the whisper of the Grim Reaper. The Bindu Cavalrymen were completely scared out of their wits. They howled and tried to speed up their horses, but how could horses outrun a plane?
The reconnaissance plane, which had absolute air supremacy, was not worried that the enemy would counterattack. It aimed at the crowd and dropped another bomb.
"Raise your shields! Raise your shields! "
This time, Valad did not dare to observe the battlefield from the back of his horse. When the plane lowered its altitude, he jumped off his horse without any manners. He raised his hand and threw a shield scroll. He then hid under the shield raised by the guards without a care for his image.
A deafening explosion echoed again. This time, due to the distance and the timely release of Valard's shield, the team wasn't accidentally injured. However, when he stood up and looked into the distance, he involuntarily swallowed his saliva.
Those cavalrymen who were arrogant and galloping in the formation just a moment ago were now completely disorganized from the explosion and scattered into shadows that fled in all directions.
On the ground, the corpses of horses and cavalrymen were scattered in sight. Some were completely smashed into pieces, and the remaining injured were groaning in pain as they tried to get up. There were still diamond-shaped metal fragments stuck in their bodies. But after trying for a long time, they still fell to the ground under the watchful eyes of countless people and gradually stopped breathing.
The sound of the propeller gradually faded away, but the battlefield of more than forty thousand people was so quiet that only the cawing of crows could be heard.
"Sir, what, what should we do?"
"Put the scouts on the periphery and we will continue to advance towards Lasha City! Use the carriages to transport the injured and the dead. If we can't, just leave them here! The vanguard must advance towards Lasha City! We must enter the city as soon as possible! "
Although Valad's face was still calm, he lowered his head and found that his arm was trembling uncontrollably. He turned to look at the cavalrymen in the middle of the army and found that most of them were in a sorry state. Obviously, the frightened warhorses had brought them a lot of trouble.
But compared to the two thousand ferocious Bindu Cavalrymen, this was not a problem at all.
(End of Chapter)
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