Green Monster Epic

Chapter 844: Melee 2

As the human city of Vasa descended into hell, a human army was rapidly approaching on the western horizon outside the city.

Epp, leading the five0 thousand strong army that had been painstakingly teleported and assembled, arrived late.

Looking at the city ahead, filled with smoke and ceaseless fighting, he and his comrades wore icy expressions, their eyes filled with killing intent.

"Damn beasts!! Beasts!!"

Along the way, chasing the direction of the centaur army, each scene of cities ruthlessly slaughtered and destroyed by the centaurs ignited a raging fire of hatred within them.

Now that they had finally caught up with this army of wilderness enemies, the general, who had caused the empire and himself to lose face, felt that surge of anger erupt.

"Lord, please allow us to lead the troops into battle now!!"

Several young and impulsive human generals could no longer restrain themselves and volunteered to Epp.

"...Go!"

He could already faintly hear the miserable wails from within the city.

Outside the city, apart from a few scattered centaur wounded still healing and bandaging themselves, there were no other organized formations to be seen.

The dark city gates were wide open, and looking inside, it was difficult to see any figures moving about, indicating that this group of ferocious centaur troops had already advanced deep into the city.

The centaur army was probably focusing all its energy on destroying the city and slaughtering the people.

Now was a great opportunity to attack the centaur army, and as the commander, how could Epp not understand this?

He immediately nodded in agreement.

The centaur warriors remaining outside the city also saw the human army suddenly attacking from the direction they had come from.

Their expressions changed drastically, and they struggled to support their wounded bodies, running wildly towards the city to warn their comrades inside.

But as soon as they took a step, several gusts of wind attacked from behind.

The rogue combatants in the human army had already sneaked over, launching an attack on these wounded centaurs who had discovered their army's movements.

Puff! Puff!

Each centaur soldier had to face two or more human assassins.

Caught off guard, most of the centaur warriors had their necks slit.

The remaining dozen or so warriors reacted in time, dodging the first wave of insidious assassinations, but they could not avoid the arrows that followed.

Soon, the human army rushed into the city.

Looking at the human powerhouses flying up and down in the sky, constantly attacking, the human army commanders quickly understood the location of the main force of the centaur army without much effort.

Clang!!

"Charge! For the dawn of the Empire!!"

The young human commander roared and drew the lance from his warhorse's side, pointing it fiercely forward.

He kicked the warhorse's belly hard, and after his close partner snorted, it suddenly exerted force and rushed forward.

The leading thousands of human heavy cavalrymen received the order and quickly began to accelerate, catching up with the commander's figure.

The dark lances were raised diagonally, stretching forward like a forest of ferocity.

Ahmad and Austin, as legendary commanders responsible for containing the main force of the human powerhouse team, had been flying in the sky.

Just as they were getting into the swing of killing, a muffled thunder-like sound came from behind, immediately catching their attention.

"Damn it!! Where did this human legion of cavalry come from!!"

Austin, with his short red hair, looked into the distance and saw the dark mass of human cavalry suddenly appearing behind his army, as well as the small groups of human infantry emerging behind the cavalry.

He immediately felt uneasy.

"Order the soldiers to turn around!"

"First, defeat the human support army!!"

Ahmad's thoughts raced in his mind, and then he made a targeted decision.

The other two vice marshals of the royal court thought for a moment and then agreed to Ahmad's order.

The centaur legion soldiers who were destroying and slaughtering the city quickly received the order.

As teams of centaur warriors shuttled through the unfamiliar roads, over ten thousand warriors who were originally in the rear completed their position shift.

The cavalry on the ground had not yet picked up speed, but many centaur warriors who had climbed onto the roofs on both sides to clear the way for their comrades threw their spears first.

The human heavy cavalry had amazing protection, but inevitably, some unlucky ghosts were unfortunately hit in the weak joints by the powerful spears.

They and their horses tumbled to the ground at once, and before they could get up, they were submerged by the steel torrent that did not stop, eventually being trampled into a puddle of mud.

Although the fallen human knights and mounts caused some minor difficulties for the charging army, the centaur army had knocked down many obstructive buildings after entering the city to slaughter the human people, giving the human cavalry more space and room to maneuver.

Boom boom boom!!

The distance between the two armies was not too far, and soon the vanguard of the two armies collided fiercely.

The centaur legion, which could only barely be considered light cavalry, was facing the most powerful heavy cavalry in the human army, and without the opponent's advantage of initiative, it immediately suffered a great loss.

Nearly two thousand people were killed or wounded in the human heavy cavalry's charge.

However, the centaur side also had its own advantages.

A centaur, equivalent to a human and horse combined, was much more agile than human cavalry.

At the same time, the support from their comrades who were also rangers and archers was also very effective, constantly killing the oncoming human cavalry while also disrupting their subsequent reinforcements, greatly helping the centaurs regain the situation.

The human cavalry tried to tear apart the centaur officers' line to lay the foundation for the infantry legion's breakthrough tactics, but the centaur legion's warriors blocked the vanguard of the human cavalry legion with their flesh and blood, until the human cavalry's impact speed became increasingly slow, until they were dragged into a stalemate of melee combat by the centaurs.

To this end, the ten thousand centaur legion that blocked the five thousand elite human cavalry lost more than half of its troops to achieve this goal.

But when the cavalry lost its advantage of mobility, its powerful lethality could no longer be fully displayed.

Even if they could still rely on the protection of their heavy full-body armor at this time, they still held the upper hand.

More centaur cavalrymen galloped from the woven roads or ruins, directly bypassing the cavalrymen who were caught in the melee in front, and instead aimed their targets at the human infantry legion.

The leading commander, Curry, took the lead, holding his lance high and waving a wave of combat energy from a distance.

The human infantry commander held his sword and shield and shook his arm, and a shield phantom immediately appeared in front of the infantry legion, just in time to meet the combat energy slash.

Just as the colliding energy set off a surrounding gale, the centaur cavalry, whose speed had already increased to a certain level, had already rushed to the front of the infantry like arrows.

The lances held high by the vanguard of the arrow formation were instantly strung with countless corpses of human warriors.

Of course, the forest of spears constructed by the human infantry phalanx on the front line also allowed many centaur soldiers charging at the front to be pierced through, unable to move.

More centaur warriors, with a stomp of their four hooves, leaped high, plunging directly into the human soldiers' formation, each with a spear constantly thrusting and stabbing, impacting the human army's formation. The knight officers within the human army were also mobilizing the strength of their own squads and companies, dividing and dissolving the centaur warriors' assault.

Both sides were elites of their respective races, and as soon as they clashed, they became entangled in a bloody and cruel fight. The human army's advantage lay in the knight officers being distributed down to the company level, allowing for more composed coordination; while the centaur side not only possessed the advantages of size and combat power, but also had mid-range ranger archers in the rear constantly throwing javelins, cutting off the human army's rear support.

Clusters of magical aura rippled within the armies of both sides, and a continuous stream of soldiers joined the battle, making it a fierce and inseparable struggle.

In the sky, the human elite squad continued to entangle Ahmad and several legendary knights, preventing them from returning to the army to strengthen the army's defense and attack.

Although Ahmad and the other legendary commanders were anxious, they did not panic. They had great confidence in the soldiers under their command. Even if the soldiers in the city were being used as a sandwich, the actual combat power and numerical advantage of the army were enough to stabilize the formation even without the command of the commanders.

The only problem was that the number of casualties among the soldiers would be higher.

The human commander swept across the front lines, invincible wherever he went, but the centaur warriors who launched counterattacks against him one after another never ceased. With the help of their companions' fearless containment, the surrounding centaur warriors would also launch fierce offensives, tearing apart the human formation and restricting the human knight's ability to mobilize the army.

A centaur warrior leaped high on his hind legs, stepping on the shoulders of a comrade fighting fiercely in front, then soared two or three meters into the air. Before he even landed, a javelin shot towards a human warrior beneath him.

The human warrior was originally fighting with the opponent in front of him, and before he could guard, a shadow loomed overhead, followed by a gust of wind attacking his head. The human warrior solemnly raised his spear, and his arms danced in front of him to form a screen of spear shadows.

Clang!

The javelin was blocked by the opponent's rotating spear shadows, but the spear shadows also stopped rotating under the heavy impact, and the opponent seized the opportunity to thrust forward, piercing the left shoulder of the human warrior who only had time to turn sideways.

Puff!

A long spear fell from the sky, piercing through the steel helmet worn by the human warrior, and clumps of red and white matter flowed out of the broken helmet. The human warrior also collapsed.

The centaur warrior in mid-air was so conspicuous that he naturally became a large target for the opposing human warriors. Several spears, like snakes spitting venom, went straight for the centaur warrior's chest, lower abdomen, and other vital points.

Puff! Puff!

The centaur warrior's body was completely pierced, but before he died, his body burst out with a huge force, continuing to support him as he smashed into the human formation.

Thump!

The centaur warrior's corpse landed in the crowd, revealing a brief gap. Before the human warriors could fill the gap, two more centaur warriors trampled over the corpses of the human warriors from behind, squeezing into the gap.

Immediately following, a dozen spears stabbed out from around the centaur warriors, tearing the gap larger and spreading it to both sides. Just as the two centaur warriors who squeezed into the human line were killed by human soldiers, three or four more centaur warriors took over the gap torn by their fallen comrades, continuing to advance forward.

Every meter they advanced, hundreds or thousands of soldiers on both sides would be lost. The presence or absence of legendary commanders was certainly important for army battles, but the actual quality and strength of the soldiers on both sides also played a significant role.

After all, in addition to the existence of legendary commanders, there were also a large number of mid- and high-level knights distributed in the regular army. Their domain power might not be as wide or as strong as that of legendary knights, but in the cruel battles where life and death were seen in seconds, many times, courage, fighting spirit, and even the spirit of sacrifice could help the army gain the upper hand.

The centaur legion had long understood that their army was a suicide squad, and there was no retreat. Therefore, when they fought, they had long been prepared to sacrifice themselves at any time. On the other hand, the humans had witnessed the tragic encounters of the people and the imperial cities along the way, and their hearts were filled with grief and indignation, but when it came to facing life and death in battle, not everyone could be calm and composed.

Epp transformed into a firepower turret, venting the various spell-like abilities he had gained from awakening his bloodline, while also observing the situation on the front lines.

The more he observed, the more gloomy Epp's mood became. The 50,000 troops he had brought had all been投入 into the battlefield. Except for the heavy cavalry's initial heavy blow to the opposing army, the other elite infantry and light cavalry gradually fell into a disadvantage in the battle with the opposing army.

It should be known that the opponent was currently fighting on two fronts. The front line in the city was still fighting with the human garrison, and the enemies fighting with his reinforcements in the rear had been preempted from the start, with insufficient preparation for a temporary change of attack direction.

The fact that these 50,000 troops could arrive in time was at the cost of the empire spending more than 10 million in jewels and materials to teleport them here. Although the subsequent teleportation array was still in operation, the jewels and materials that the empire could raise in a short period of time were limited, and ultimately, the majority would have to rely on conventional means of travel to arrive.

If his vanguard army could not guarantee a heavy blow to the opponent, then it would cost a heavy price to organize an army with the strength to intercept the centaur army's destruction of the empire's inner towns.

The consumption of materials such as jewels and resources was secondary. What the empire's high-level officials were most concerned about was the destruction of the population and cities. In particular, the powerful empire had lost face due to the centaur army's invasion, exposing the weakness beneath the empire's powerful appearance!

As a vested interest in the empire and also the empire's most staunch supporter, Epp also felt the empire's current predicament and naturally hoped to kill the culprit under his hands.

But now it seemed that he had underestimated the spirit of the enemy army in front of him and had not expected their fighting will to be so firm and fearless, far more mission-oriented and responsible than his own sorrowful army.

Now, there was very little room for tactical adjustments on the battlefield where the soldiers were fighting. They were relying on a single force to support themselves. Any large-scale change in formation could lead to unexpected consequences, let alone adjustments such as temporarily withdrawing troops and reorganizing.

Although a trace of regret arose in his heart, Epp had no other choice at this time but to try his best to squeeze out every bit of his magic and mental power to provide more support to the human soldiers on the front lines and help them kill more enemies.