Chapter 366: Battle of Black Mountain (X)

"What wave is this?"

Looking at the burning shield cart in front of him, Victor dragged his tired body back to the front line and asked Murat who was helping on the side.

"It's the third wave." Murat raised three fingers lightly, then looked up at the sun in the sky.

The sun was almost at noon overhead, and this encounter was longer than anyone had imagined.

Looking at the battle before them, the morale of the war monks was generally high, but there were still some signs of fatigue.

"Hey, here comes the mint water."

Several orderlies came staggering down the slope, each carrying a large bucket of mint water.

Seeing the cool mint water, these war monks did not rush to grab it. Instead, they stood in their original positions like benchmarks, not moving at all.

This is because the orderlies would help them bottle all the mint water and deliver it to each brigade.

They passed the mint water sent from the rear to each other. Under the scorching sun, even the mint water in the water bag felt a little warm.

After swallowing the cool mint water, the cool air rushes to your nose and forehead, dispersing a lot of the original summer heat.

After drinking the mint water, Coleman felt that the cicada chirping in his ears became much clearer.

Standing next to Coleman, Victor held a telescope and looked at the Zeraken formation in the distance.

Amid the golden wheat fields, farmers were bending over to harvest wheat and rice, even though their surplus food might have been robbed and their houses burned down in the morning.

But if they don't work, they will have no food to eat next year. Who can they threaten by not working?

In such hot weather, many soldiers in the Ibe army fell down due to heat stroke.

As these people had been subjected to the blessing magic many times, they were already in a weak state, and coupled with the heatstroke, dozens of people died suddenly from heatstroke within a short period of time.

Under such circumstances, Victor estimated that it would be difficult for the enemy's central army to launch another attack before three o'clock in the afternoon.

On the contrary, the left wing of the Ibe Army was the least affected because it was close to rivers and streams and was sheltered by trees.

"Guess what method that clever Count Zerlaken will use to deal with us next time?"

"Who knows? I guess they'll ask a wizard to curse us."

"Don't tell me, don't tell me, these devil monks might really come from the Hellfire."

Clever Zerlaken is the nickname given to Zerlaken by the Savior monks, mainly due to his act of splashing holy water on the Savior during the second wave of attack.

As a result, the Savior Army was safe and sound, but the morale of the Ibe Army dropped sharply because the holy water was ineffective.

After being repelled by Viktor and others, Zelaken did not give up.

He first mobilized the peasant soldiers and formed two large square formations, trying to use the numerical advantage to defeat the Salvation Army.

Then, their morale was greatly reduced by the holy water incident, and the peasant soldiers took the lead in fleeing, taking the guards with them, and they retreated before even fighting.

Not long after, after using potions and issuing bounties, Zelaken returned with his guards.

He changed the large square into a column, trying to reduce the attack area of ​​the volley guns, but was repelled by the L-shaped shooting tactics from the flank.

After Zelaken had settled for more than an hour, he collected a large number of door panels from nearby and installed them on the carriage.

He ordered the peasant soldiers to push the cart bunker and force their way in, blatantly using Horn's cart bunker tactics against Horn.

Correspondingly, Horn immediately ordered the fireball crossbow to move forward 50 meters. Four wizards of the Flame Rose operated the fireball crossbow, and four large fireballs flew out, and a big fire destroyed Zerakon's dream of a car fort.

However, both Horn and Victor were a little confused. If the shield car tactics just now were combined with the extraordinary knight, there might really be a bloody battle.

It is understandable that the extraordinary knights are unwilling to go because of the "too strong aftereffects of the drugs", but the Cossacks are intact from beginning to end, so why don't they go?

"Are you preparing to retreat?" Das looked up at Horn who was holding a telescope.

Horn would not be surprised if it was Niedsal who made this decision, but the problem was that they had not reached that point yet.

Even if Nedsal wanted to leave, once the formation changed, wasn't he afraid that the Saviors would immediately come down the slope and attack them?

The positions of the two sides are too close. Even if they want to retreat, they may have to retreat little by little. It is impossible not to retreat until now when the central army is almost crippled.

"Uuuuuu——"

An urgent horn sounded from the right wing, and Horn was cheered up. Was it the Cossacks that were dispatched?
Horn immediately jumped off the rock, snatched the telescope from Das, and looked at the left wing of the Ibe army.

But strangely, the guards were still hiding in the shade of the trees, waving their fans lazily, while the squires and the Cossacks were still by the stream...

"No! That's not Nikossack." Horn's eyes widened suddenly, "Why are most of the horses in the stable empty?"

"Your Majesty, it's not that direction!"

Das grabbed Horn's shoulder and turned him toward the right side of the right wing.

A sand-sculptured flag representing Niedersar fluttered on the hillside, and three hundred Niedersar Cossacks and two hundred squire knights miraculously appeared behind the right wing of the army.

"Where are the Hussars?" Throwing the telescope in his hand to Das, Horn waved the flag towards Hakuto.

Meanwhile, Hakuto sent out a flag signal indicating that no enemy movement was detected.

Instead of going around from the left side, could it have gone around from the right side?

"That's impossible." Das frowned. "We chose to set up the formation here because the west side of the river is full of swamps and puddles, and their magic of walking on flat ground cannot allow them to walk on water!"

At this moment, Mormont, who was meditating to restore his magic power, suddenly opened his eyes.

He was stunned for half a second, then quickly stood up and trotted to Horn's side: "Your Majesty, can I use this telescope?"

Picking up the telescope, Mormont scanned the edge of the swamp, and suddenly his view stopped.

After about three seconds of silence, Mormont suddenly gritted his teeth and whispered, "There's a traitor!"

"Traitor?" Das didn't understand what he meant.

Putting down the telescope, Mormont's eyes were filled with anger: "There are traces of fossils turning into mud and frost in the puddles and the edge of the forest...

Damn it, they have wizards working for them, how dare they? Have they forgotten what those knights did to us?"

Horn and Das looked at each other. Although the case was solved, he never expected the process.

This Nedsal is really a man of no particular taste. If he were replaced by an imperial knight or a church bishop in command, it would be impossible for him to use magic to achieve tactical goals.

In the church, procedural piety is true piety.

After adjusting the Blood Cover Cloud to a convenient position on his belt, Horn took a deep breath and put on his helmet: "Hakuto's troops will move to the right and temporarily abandon the high ground on the right."

After a pause, Horn turned his head and said, "Guards, follow me to support the right wing!"

(End of this chapter)