Due to the protection of "Battle Aura" and armor, advanced knights' defense was far stronger than ordinary knights. Ordinary attacks could even be considered "ineffective". Therefore, the existence of three advanced knights could be called "flags". For this mixed army, as long as they did not fall, their morale would not drop.
However, at that moment, Rody's arrow had easily killed an advanced knight. The knights, who had just raised their morale, were all dumbfounded.
This arrow was far from the end of the nightmare, but it was the beginning of a series of terrible attacks.
"Puff!"
An arrow pierced into the abdomen of a knight, and the special effect of [Frost Spike] was triggered. A large piece of hexagonal frost condensed on the metal armor, causing the knight to groan and clutch his stomach.
Three seconds later, the second arrow nailed into the head of the knight beside him. With a "ka" sound, the helmet was completely penetrated, causing the dead knight to fall from his horse …
When this happened, the other knights thought that it was caused by the ten scouts who were standing on the roof, but then they realized that the scouts were long gone.
Muffled groans sounded one after another. Every three seconds, one of the knights at the front of the battle would be shot by an arrow … Some were shot in the shoulder, and because they could not lift their swords, they were cut down by the scouts. Others were shot in the throat and died on the spot.
One or two knights were considered normal casualties, but when five knights died and seven others were injured to varying degrees, they began to realize that the archer standing in the shadows was probably far more terrifying than the cavalry in front of them!
The arrows were still shooting at a steady pace. The interval of more than three seconds was very regular, but the knights were like birds that were startled by the mere twang of a bowstring, and their movements became timid …
After 15 consecutive arrows hit the target, Roddy naturally put on the third arrow in his quiver and looked at the cooldown bar of "Concentration Shooting". When the cooldown was over, he activated the skill again!
The effect of "Rapid Shooting" was to increase basic attack speed by 5%, and each hit increased attack speed by 2% at most 10 times. Previously, he had already completed 10 stacks, so at this time, Roddy's skill release speed was increased by 25% on the basis of 2 seconds, and it only took him a second and a half to complete the preparation!
The seemingly ordinary arrow actually had its power increased by 52% (12% Concentration Shooting + 40% talent bonus). When Roddy shot this arrow, his target was the advanced knight facing Sodelor!
"Ka!"
The arrow suddenly hit the knight's armor. Since Roddy had shot so many arrows, the opponent had long been aware of his existence, so he had predicted this attack and firmly blocked it with his metal armor …
But when the arrow bounced off the armor, the huge force still caused the knight's center of gravity to suddenly shift.
The Advanced Knight only frowned slightly after losing his center of gravity for a mere one second. He wasn't worried that the second arrow would come at him at that moment …
But he guessed wrong.
Not only did Roddy shoot another arrow, he also shot a third arrow under the buff of "Rapid Shooting". The previous series of slow shots were all a feint. "Concentration Shooting" combined with "Extreme Speed Shooting" was Roddy's real trump card!
The last two arrows shot out of the quiver landed at almost the same point, piercing through the advanced knight's neck at a distance of 27 meters.
His corpse fell off the horse with a plop and fell in front of Sodelor.
Two out of the three advanced Knights had died within two minutes. Such a huge blow had completely destroyed the morale of the team that had just been boosted, causing them to completely crumble …
"Kill!"
On the other hand, the scouts who had never retreated instantly had their morale greatly boosted. They roared loudly and almost crazily pushed the enemy back!
Roddy's arrows were all shot, and the enemies on the battlefield began to completely collapse because of his last three arrows.
"Akasha! Save them! "
"Reserve team, evacuate!"
Orders sounded one after another. The soldiers who had been shooting arrows on the rooftops immediately rushed into the battlefield to treat the wounded. The battle just now was extremely dangerous, and it could even be said to be a tough battle that the scouts had never encountered before. Of the 50 people who went into battle, more than 30 were injured, and 11 of them had extremely serious injuries …
On the other hand, of the 43 enemies, 30 were either dead or seriously injured. They could only hold on until now because they believed that "reinforcements would arrive soon". However, the death of the two advanced knights was the straw that broke the camel's back, and the situation that originally had hope collapsed in an instant.
Under normal circumstances, this battle would have been a lose-lose situation.
However, the potion left by Ansadin played a heaven-defying role at this time. The entire team had not died until the enemy was defeated!
Akasha drank two bottles of "Intermediate Magic Potion" and used all her strength to pull the seriously injured soldiers back from the brink of death. All the "Intermediate Healing Potion" that had been distributed had been used up, and some people even drank four bottles!
If calculated in terms of numbers, the HP recovered by the "Divine Arts" and "Potion" was already twice the total HP of the entire team.
This kind of thing had always happened to elite PVE players, but Roddy relied on his own preparation to forcibly turn his team into such a tenacious and "undying" army!
However, the potion and divine arts were not omnipotent. Their effects would be greatly weakened by continuous use. Although many of the seriously injured soldiers had survived, they had completely lost the ability to fight. At least seven people in the entire team were forcibly carried onto the warhorses, but until the moment they left, the cavalry did not give up on any of their comrades, and all of them followed the team!
This time, it was a real retreat.
Whether it was the soldiers or the warhorses, at this time, their physical strength was close to the limit, and there was no point in continuing to fight. Roddy also rode on a warhorse, and together with Ruger, they followed at the rear of the team. At this time, he was also exhausted, and did not even have much strength left to draw his bow. Even his fingers holding the reins were trembling slightly.
"Catch!"
Seeing the huge wound on Ruger's left shoulder, Roddy raised his hand and threw his healing potion to Ruger. Ruger reached out and caught it. Without saying anything, he pulled out the stopper and drank the sixth bottle of potion that he had drunk today. A little color returned to his pale face.
"They are surrounding us, and the cavalry knows where we are going!"
Lu Ge looked around and shouted to Rody, "Don't worry.
"Speed up, don't fall behind! If those guys have brains, we will definitely be able to escape! "
Roddy's answer made Ruger a little confused, but at this time, he was in no mood to think about other problems. He just tried to coordinate his tired body with the warhorse, and followed closely behind the team towards the south of the town …
*****
"We actually let them escape again!?"
Earl Durant listened to the soldier's eyewitness report, and he did not hide the shock in his voice.
Earl Owen's eyelids trembled a few times, and the other lords also looked at each other. They really could not figure out how an "elite cavalry regiment" with the help of an Elementalist, together with thousands of soldiers, could repeatedly fail to besiege a team of less than a hundred people.
The shock did not last long, and the successive news almost made these lords' jaws drop!
"Mage Cohen is dead!"
"The cavalry regiment suffered heavy losses, only nine people returned!"
"Knight Faurley is dead!"
"Knight Buffalo is dead!"
These two knights were the advanced knights that Earl Owen had always been proud of. When he first sent out the three advanced knights, the worst that he had expected was that the pursuit would fail, but he never thought that the losses would be so serious!
"Are … are they all dead?"
Earl Durant swallowed his saliva, and his tone even had a slight tremble, as if he was a chicken that had been pinched by the neck.
"The enemy is retreating out of the town."
"They are still at full strength, and there are currently no reports of casualties …"
If the previous news had already surprised the lords, this news made them feel an indescribable chill from the bottom of their hearts.
The lethality of the sentence "no casualties" was too terrible.
Three layers of defense, two encirclements, a total of more than eight hundred soldiers, and so far there was not a single death … This sounded incredible!
Because they did not personally witness the scene of the battle, the lords could not judge the combat strength of these cavalrymen. But from the news that was reported now, could it be that their strength … was stronger than the advanced knights?
Although they did not believe such a possibility, the facts were placed in front of them, and they had to make a similar judgment and quickly change their strategy in fear.
"We can't fight them in the town … There must be something wrong!"
"Pull all the troops out of the town and surround them in the open!"
"Even if we have to use our numbers to overwhelm them! We can't let them escape! "
Hatred was one thing, and self-doubt was another … Every lord had suffered a loss in the hands of this team, but if they really wanted to fight, they absolutely did not have the courage to face it head-on.
That was the reason why Rody wanted to carry out a 'battle of annihilation' in the town. Only by using thunderous means to make them feel pain and fear, would his team be able to take the initiative in a disadvantageous situation and tip the scales of victory.
As the saying went, "Of the 36 stratagems, retreat is the best stratagem". Many people simply understood it as "run if you can't beat them", but Roddy was very clear that the real meaning of "retreat" was to prepare for "counterattack" through "retreat".
From appearing outside Gigg Town until now, Roddy had completed the three initial goals he had set: "save his soldiers", "let the weak troops retreat", and "concentrate the superior forces to annihilate the enemy's elite troops".
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