Chapter 364
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Chapter 364: A Bloody Collapse
“Damn! What’s going on?!”
This wave of heavy bleeding from the Elephantman undoubtedly startled Li Yuanjie.
This ‘surprise’ came too fiercely, instantly turning into a fright.
At this moment, Luo Ji, who was also observing the situation through binoculars, revealed a satisfied smile on his face.
In fact, long ago, he had been pondering, although archer cavalry were versatile and quite excellent in attrition warfare, they lacked explosive power.
At critical moments, they lacked the means to decide the outcome with a single strike.
This was indeed a fundamental weakness.
As such, after pondering for a while, Luo Ji, with the idea of compensating for this weakness, got a new piece of equipment for Burigude’s archer cavalry unit to experiment with.
And that new equipment was the javelin!
Of course, to increase lethality, Luo Ji had also carefully designed the javelin’s shape and structure after consulting data for a long time.
While giving it piercing power, he specifically added two blood grooves.
Once an enemy was hit, the blood flowed out incredibly fast.
And for this very reason, this new equipment, which had not been officially named, was directly, quite casually, and very fittingly, called a “Bloodletting Spear” by Luo Ji.
“If I can’t beat you head-on, I can at least bleed you dry, right?”
“Let’s see if you can still be arrogant after losing too much blood.”
With this thought, each of their cavalrymen had two Bloodletting Spears fixed to both sides of their saddles.
This would undoubtedly increase their load.
However, archer cavalry’s horses already carried long spears and bows and arrows, plus two quivers of arrows.
Their mobility was inherently inferior to light cavalry.
Under this premise, would Luo Ji still mind if they were a bit slower?
By a strange coincidence, Burigude and his men, without knowing it, directly hit the Elephantman who had just recovered from a serious illness with their first round of throws.
It was already a bit weaker than the other three Elephantmen.
Now, after this wave of heavy bleeding, its entire face was decisively ashen.
Its massive body swayed due to instability, almost directly toppling to the ground.
With no time to worry about that Elephantman, after one round of attack, Burigude, while taking the second Bloodletting Spear fixed to one side of his saddle, led his archer cavalry unit quickly towards the next target.
The situation on the battlefield changed in an instant.
Just moments before, Li Yuanjie had been counting on his four Elephantmen to forcefully break the formation and decimate the enemy, but his joy abruptly turned to sorrow.
Watching the Elephantmen who, after being attacked, all began to bleed heavily, exasperated, Li Yuanjie himself leaped from the bronze war chariot.
He was so angry he stamped his feet.
At this moment, even an idiot would have seen that the long spears thrown by those cavalrymen were extraordinary.
However, what could he do?
With the Elephantman’s massive size, it was destined to be difficult to evade many attacks.
And precisely because of this size, even full-body armor was hard to manage.
Let alone his low-productivity beastman civilization, even in Luo Ji’s hands, Elephantman armor and weapons would also be a headache.
After all, their size was too immense.
The Elephantmen’s tragic state undoubtedly dealt a blow to the morale of the entire beastman army.
There was an indistinct feeling that they were about to collapse, frightening Li Yuanjie into quickly activating a skill to boost morale.
Although the situation was barely stabilized, Li Yuanjie knew in his heart that this was only temporary.
He never expected that the almost invincible Elephantmen, in his impression, would suddenly be targeted by the opponent.
For a moment, his mental state was also close to exploding.
On the other hand, Luo Ji, after his initial excitement, quickly returned to a calm state.
Because he clearly knew that there was no truly invincible troop type in this world.
No matter how strong a troop type, it would certainly have weaknesses, and conversely, there would certainly be means to counter it, and definitely more than one countermeasure.
At this moment, Luo Ji could clearly feel that the scales of victory were tilting towards him.
The revealed trump cards and displayed formations were continuously tearing apart Li Yuanjie’s beastman army.
“A special civilization, huh…”
Watching the continuously torn beastman army formation, he felt as if he was watching a cake being sliced.
He would soon taste this cake.
Thinking of this, Luo Ji also felt a sense of impatience.
On the other side, Li Yuanjie’s entire heart sank completely.
His beastman army essentially had no formation to speak of.
Now that it was scattered after being charged, the situation was clearly much worse.
Looking at this situation, this battle was undoubtedly unwinnable.
This Luo Ji was completely different from all the players he had encountered before.
His previous way of fighting was to completely ignore what tactics the opponent used.
Relying on the advantage of beastman troops, he would just charge in and fight.
A wave of strong frontal assault would directly pin the opponent to the ground and continuously rub them.
But this one he encountered this time, both in tactics and troop strength, was much fiercer than the players he had encountered before.
With this thought, Li Yuanjie immediately realized he had to retreat temporarily and find an opportunity after regrouping.
The retreat horn quickly blew.
Having little fighting spirit left, the beastman soldiers heard the horn and immediately turned and ran, causing their already scattered formation to collapse even further in an instant.
However, with such a good opportunity, how could Luo Ji just let go of this chance to utterly defeat this beastman army in one go?
He decisively raised the bronze spear in his hand and at the same time, shouted loudly.
“All troops, charge! Whoever captures the enemy commander alive shall be made a Centurion and awarded a thousand strings of cash!!”
A single skill directly pushed the morale of his army to its peak.
Soldier after soldier immediately charged like wolves and tigers towards the fleeing beastman army.
The only regrettable thing was probably that Luo Yong’s Xuanjia Army had to be absent from this pursuit.
The mobility of heavy infantry simply needed no elaboration, and letting them participate in the pursuit would clearly be making things difficult for them.
Li Yuanjie, fleeing in his bronze war chariot, looked back at the 4 Elephantmen surrounded by human soldiers.
Due to excessive blood loss, at this moment, facing the encirclement by human soldiers, those 4 Elephantmen had no power to resist, each of them sickly slumped on the ground.
At this moment, Li Yuanjie’s entire heart was bleeding.
Even when the Red Fox archers were completely annihilated by a series of explosions, he hadn’t felt such heartache.
If the werewolf warriors were his biological sons, then these 4 Elephantmen were his very lifeblood.
How many battles before had he turned defeat into victory by relying on the super strong combat power of these 4 Elephantmen?
He himself couldn’t even count them anymore.
It was no exaggeration to say that each Elephantman’s combat power was worth hundreds of soldiers.
Without these 4 Elephantmen, the combat power of his entire beastman army would decrease by at least 30%.
However, now he no longer had the spare strength to fight back and save those 4 Elephantmen.
At the same time, their size was too large, making rescue difficult.
With this bloody collapse, Li Yuanjie felt like dying.
