The ninth and tenth regiments were infantry, and the soldiers were equipped with horses. Even with horses, the distance of 25 miles was covered quickly. Rex was angry because Daniel had disrupted his plans.
If Daniel's 500 men were all dead, even if Rex took Strandburg, it would affect the morale of the army.
This couldn't be blamed on Daniel. Daniel was originally a small noble, the kind of person who didn't know how to fight a war. So Salin let Geyi be in charge of the battle, but Salin ordered Daniel to be in charge of the entire army. This was a bit contradictory.
Daniel should have stopped Geyi from being greedy, but Salin's words made him hesitant. After all, he didn't know much about fighting a war. He felt that Geyi was right, so he agreed to Geyi's request.
Geyi's men didn't fight the enemy head-on, and soon the people searching the city fell into Geyi's trap. On a narrow road with rocks on both sides, the barbarians hid in the rocks. In front of them, a small team of pirates riding skeleton warhorses pretended to meet the enemy by chance, and then fled, leading the enemy into an ambush.
Daniel's undead creature, Peuuce, was hiding in the soil. When the enemy army arrived, he came out and cast a necromancy spell — Space of Weakness.
Instantly, the hundreds of cavalry and warhorses were hit at the same time. Such a large area of effect spell exhausted Peuuce. He didn't fight the enemy, but turned around and ran. The soldiers didn't dare to chase him.
The warhorses fell to the ground, and many of the soldiers in metal armor were injured. From the rocks on both sides, the barbarians jumped out and swung their huge halberds. Geyi was so angry that he cursed at the back.
The Strandburg soldiers were hit by the halberds, and even their armors were cut open. Blood splattered everywhere. No one's clothes could be used. Geyi's plan to change into the enemy's clothes failed.
Without qualified soldiers, any plan was nonsense. Daniel and Fareins were both on the magic chariot and didn't make a move. They had to conserve their mental power and magic strings, and would only start fighting after entering the city. Now, everything depended on the two hundred barbarians.
Apart from some mental problems, the barbarians were fine. At least they had the upper hand when facing enemies twice their number. Because Peuuce's necromancy spell was still active, the enemy's strength was less than half of normal.
These hundreds of enemies were not heavy cavalry, but they were not light cavalry either. After losing their warhorses, no one could run fast. The metal armor became a burden to these soldiers. If they were wearing leather armor, they would be able to fight evenly with the barbarians.
The barbarians roared. At first, they cooperated with each other, but later, they simply rushed into the midst of the enemy and slashed crazily. If it weren't for the large-scale necromancy magic, more than half of these barbarians would have died. Now, apart from a few who were accidentally stabbed, the rest of them relied on the advantage of their armor to charge forward.
The armor that Salin forged for these barbarians was very thick and light, most suitable for people with brute force. Even without armor, these barbarians' fighting style was to hack and slash at each other. They rarely dodged. Whoever was fiercer would win. On the battlefield, this kind of fighting style was very disadvantageous. However, the enemy was extremely weak and couldn't wield heavy weapons. Only a straight thrust from a sword could hurt them.
This was a very stupid but effective way of fighting, provided that the enemy's attack power was reduced sharply. Salin's tailor-made weapons saved them. Otherwise, if they fought with stone weapons, it would be difficult to break the enemy's metal armor. The barbarians couldn't compare to the Caucasians. There were many blacksmiths among the Caucasians who could make sharp metal weapons, but the barbarians used weapons made of obsidian. They could deal with magical beasts, but not human soldiers.
It had to be mentioned that Salin had gathered thousands of barbarians and exchanged his metal weapons for a large amount of obsidian. These obsidian had been accumulated by the barbarians for thousands of years, and some of the barbarian weapons had been worn for more than a dozen generations.
Both sides were happy. The barbarians had obtained more powerful weapons, and Salin had obtained the precious obsidian.
Geyi had no choice but to let the pirates block from behind and harvest the enemy's lives with bows and crossbows. The pirates' shooting skills showed at this time, and many barbarians were wounded by the pirates. Fortunately, their armor was good, and they weren't shot to death. The injured barbarians were even more terrifying. Their eyes were bloodshot, and they waved their axes and halberds like crazy.
Geyi was dumbfounded. He admired Salin from the bottom of his heart. No wonder Salin had brought a large amount of Restoration Water for his team. It turned out that he had already predicted this result.
A messy battle, an inexplicable victory.
After fighting for more than half an hour, before necromancy lost its effect, the four hundred enemies were all killed. Of course, the armor on the corpses was also smashed to pieces and could no longer be used.
Fortunately, Daniel's luck was good. Another four hundred infantrymen approached and were discovered by one of the flying undead he had released. Geyi was dazed and let the pirates charge head-on.
At this time, Peuuce recovered some energy and led the charge. Peuuce was a level-eight undead. Although his magic was limited to level-seven, his physical strength and toughness hadn't decreased too much. With this charge, he reopened the infantry formation. Nash was also unlucky. He hadn't sent a mage with the army, and the infantry hadn't been prepared in advance.
In Qin Yin, most infantrymen rode horses, but they weren't good warhorses. These infantrymen's horses all carried heavy infantry equipment, such as iron shields. If these infantrymen organized themselves and formed three layers of iron shields for defense, Peuuce wouldn't be able to charge from the beginning to the end.
There were also many swordsmen among the infantrymen. Facing Peuuce who couldn't use magic, they would definitely hurt Peuuce's foundation. If there was even a quasi-sacred swordsman hidden among the infantrymen, it was even possible to kill Peuuce. If there was a great mage, Daniel would have cried.
There were no ifs on the battlefield. Nash's order was neglected, and the two teams came out to search. The infantrymen and cavalry were separated, and there was no mage accompanying them. Previously, the cavalry was harmed by necromancy, and then the infantrymen's formation was broken by Peuuce. Then, the pirates rode skeleton warhorses and brandished their longswords.
Strictly speaking, even with Peuuce, these pirates weren't a match for the four hundred infantrymen. After Peuuce killed dozens of soldiers in an instant, a dozen swordsmen surrounded him. One of the swordsmen slashed at Peuuce's head with a longsword. He was so scared that he frantically rushed forward, no longer cooperating with the soldiers.
This Peuuce was somewhat special. He was trapped in the Myers Continent's plane, and it was already very difficult for him to return to the Undead Plane. If he died in battle, his soul would dissipate, unlike those summoned skeletons, which could be resurrected in the Undead Plane.
It was a tragedy for the cavalry to be trapped in the infantrymen. If they couldn't speed up, they would be strangled by the infantrymen. Especially Qin Yin's elite infantrymen, they could instantly kill a stopped warhorse. Every infantryman had three short weapons, one of which was specially used to deal with warhorses.
However, the pirates under Geyi's command were all riding undead warhorses. The foot-long metal thorns couldn't hurt them at all, unless it was an enchanted weapon.
But how could ordinary soldiers' weapons be enchanted? After a short period of discomfort, dozens of these well-trained soldiers had already been cut down.
These pirates weren't as elite as Qin Yin's infantrymen, but they had excellent eyesight. Seeing Peuuce escape, they immediately made a decision and followed Peuuce out of the infantrymen's siege. This was the instinct of pirates, and they didn't need to be trained. Geyi, who was watching from a distance, wanted to cry. The army that he had painstakingly trained was like this?
But it was precisely this kind of escape that saved the pirates. The skeleton warhorses would suddenly accelerate, and Nash's men weren't aware of it. For a while, they couldn't organize an effective interception, and the pirates left behind a few corpses and escaped. This happened in just a dozen seconds, and Geyi didn't give such an order at all.
In just a dozen seconds, four pirates were killed by the unprepared enemy. This time, the pirates were scared, and they no longer dared to rush into the infantrymen to fight. Instead, they started shooting arrows from a distance.
If Nash's infantrymen and cavalry weren't separated, this tactic wouldn't be applicable. But now, they were facing infantrymen riding on ordinary horses, and they simply couldn't catch up with the skeleton warhorses. But infantrymen were harder to kill than cavalry. All infantrymen had two shields, one was an iron shield to organize defense, and the other was a wooden shield to defend against arrows.
Wooden shields couldn't defend against alchemy crossbows, but they still had a certain defense against steel crossbows and longbows. Moreover, these infantrymen were very strong. Amidst the chaos of arrows, only a dozen or so people were killed.
The infantrymen took out their crossbows to fight back, but the range of the crossbows was not as good as the steel crossbows in the pirates' hands. In the midst of the counterattack, more than a dozen of them were shot dead by the pirates. In less than two minutes, the 400 infantrymen were reduced to nearly a hundred. If it was a motley crew, they would have already scattered and fled. But the two battalions of infantrymen still retreated towards Strandburg under the orders of their officers. The soldiers used their wooden shields to block the arrows.
The 300 infantrymen abandoned their horses and retreated on foot in an orderly manner. After all, Strandburg was behind them. No matter how strong the enemy was, they wouldn't dare to approach. What they didn't know was that the enemy in front of them had originally planned to rush into the city.
Geyi also felt that something was wrong. At first, the 400 cavalrymen died unjustly because they were fighting with barbarians in a narrow place, and they were also hit by necromancy. But the infantrymen in front of them made Geyi's heart tremble.
The regular army was really strong. The pirates had already used up their steel crossbows and changed to short bows. They started shooting arrows. Half of the pirates didn't even have the strength to draw their bows. If this continued, the hundreds of infantrymen would really be able to escape back to the city.
Without a choice, Geyi could only go to the place where Daniel was hiding. The chariots were hidden in the withered grass. Geyi knocked on the carriage and whispered: "Sir, the enemy can't take them down."
Daniel was also observing the battlefield. He knew that if he didn't make a move, the pirates could only retreat and let the enemy escape.
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