Chapter 527
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Chapter 527: The Rhythm of Collapse
Luo Ji’s decisive tactical adjustments clearly annoyed Gawain.
Large military machines, when used against personnel, always had notoriously unreliable accuracy.
This was especially true for siege weapons like bed crossbows, which had parabolic trajectories, making their aim even harder to control.
When attacking enemy formations, sometimes you’d have to adjust the attack angle five or six times just to get a decent shot.
After all, large military machines like these were primarily meant to target enemy large military machines or city walls.
As for targeting individuals, anyone who thought they could achieve miraculous effects was simply an idiot deluding themselves.
While a numerical advantage could compensate to some extent, that compensation was very limited.
Luo Ji had now directly split his original large formation into multiple smaller formations, with considerable gaps between each.
This was clearly targeting the weakness of his siege weapons’ poor accuracy against infantry.
A sense of difficulty immediately arose.
However, the weapons manufactured by his goblin civilization, with its proud technological prowess, weren’t limited to just large military machines!
The surrounding goblin crossbowmen, with their precise striking capability, were undoubtedly prepared for this exact situation.
“Crossbowmen Team One, Team Two, prepare for volley!”
As the command was given, the goblin crossbowmen raised their hand crossbows.
Luo Ji, constantly watching the goblin crossbowmen’s movements, immediately seized the moment they made their move and, not to be outdone, commanded.
“All units, hold shields! Advance!!”
The sheer number of goblin crossbowmen made Luo Ji’s eyelids twitch.
He knew that, having developed this far, his Myriad World Civilization’s crossbowmen unit had fewer than 300 people, because the manufacturing speed of hand crossbows was too slow.
However, the goblin civilization’s crossbowmen unit made him acutely aware that his military equipment manufacturing department’s efficiency was completely outmatched by these goblins.
Large shield infantry had a clear counter-advantage against crossbowmen, but the enemy’s crossbowmen were simply too numerous.
Even with the counter-advantage, he still felt a significant ranged suppression.
Of course, Gawain’s side wasn’t having an easy time either.
Luo Ji, being a formidable opponent, forced him to shift most of his attention to commanding the battle on the left flank, gradually neglecting the front.
This situation, while indicating that the commander on the left flank was putting sufficient pressure on the enemy, also revealed the enemy’s underestimation of him.
This inevitably caused a hint of unwillingness to rise in Gu Xuan’s heart.
However, he was ultimately someone who considered the bigger picture.
Seizing an opportunity, Gu Xuan immediately ordered an acceleration of their advance, completely intending to charge forward in one go.
The pressure on the front continued to increase.
Looking at the human army drawing closer and closer, one of the green-skinned goblins couldn’t help but shout.
“Great King!!”
This shout from the green-skinned goblin made Gawain, who was focused on commanding the battle on the left flank and countering Luo Ji’s advancing troops, suddenly snap back to attention.
A quick glance at the unit on the front, led by Gu Xuan, revealed a clear expression of irritability and impatience on his face.
“So troublesome!!”
To suppress the offensive from Luo Ji on the left flank of his position, Gawain had been continuously and imperceptibly shifting troops from the front to the left flank.
Over time, his frontal forces had significantly decreased, and without his personal command, his front defensive line found it extremely difficult to maintain steady pressure against Gu Xuan’s advancing troops.
“Increase fire! Fire, fire, fire!!!!”
The pressure on him grew steadily, and his agitated emotions spread rapidly.
A 1v2 fight was simply too disadvantageous for him.
His original overwhelming firepower was completely dispersed.
Under immense pressure, Gawain began to continuously speed up his attack frequency to simultaneously suppress pressure from both the left flank and the front.
At the same time, a message was quickly sent to Wang Bo, who was coming to reinforce him.
“Where are you? Why aren’t you here yet?!”
Following the dispatch of this message, somewhere on the outskirts of the battlefield, furious shouts of battle erupted.
Wang Bo, leading his forces to reinforce Gawain, had just been teleported in.
Before he even had a chance to clearly see his surroundings, an armed force bearing a black tiger banner with a “Xuan” character directly attacked him!
The number of people in this armed force was estimated to be around 500.
What was more critical was that each and every soldier was almost armed to the teeth!
Their full-body black armor made his heart furiously twitch.
Which powerful figure was so wealthy? To have created such a luxurious force?!
Undoubtedly, what Wang Bo was currently facing was precisely the Xuanjia that had accompanied Luo Ji on this campaign!
Luo Ji’s initial purpose in arranging the Xuanjia on the periphery was simple, as he wanted to be prepared for any situation.
If Gawain also brought in reinforcements, the hidden Xuanjia could ambush them.
And even if no reinforcements arrived, at a critical moment, the Xuanjia could charge forth and catch Gawain off guard.
Who could have known that things would be so coincidental?
Whether it was Wang Bo’s bad luck or the system’s trickery, one teleportation landed him right under Luo Yong’s nose.
With military merit delivered right to their doorstep, why wouldn’t Luo Yong seize the opportunity?
With a direct command, he led his Xuanjia soldiers.
In just a single encounter, they completely shattered Wang Bo’s shield unit!
Their entire formation was torn to pieces in a short amount of time.
The “Formation Breaker” and “Armor Pierce” traits made it as easy as slicing melons and dicing vegetables for the Xuanjia to cut down the no-tier player’s shield units.
They advanced, killing as they went.
Wherever they passed, enemy corpses piled up along the way.
The black armor on their bodies became even deeper in color after being stained with enemy blood.
In just a few encounters, Wang Bo’s entire unit was literally scared to death.
They no longer remembered that they had come to reinforce someone else!
Their army collapsed like a crumbling mountain, morale plummeting.
Facing this exaggerated disparity in combat power, there was no room for resistance at all!
Clearly, having encountered the Xuanjia, this black tiger blocking their path, Wang Bo’s reinforcements would never arrive.
And at this moment, on the main battlefield.
To suppress the enemy forces from both the flank and the front, the goblin crossbowmen’s attack rhythm became increasingly rapid.
Pulling the trigger and firing a crossbow bolt might not even take a second.
However, compared to that, re-cocking the hand crossbow and loading a new bolt required significantly more time.
From the moment the rhythm spun out of control, the balance of the goblin crossbowmen’s rhythm had already been broken.
After another round of firing, a clear discontinuity appeared in their sustained attack frequency.
Seizing this opportunity, Bai Ze, who had been leading the light cavalry unit in a flanking maneuver on the outskirts of the battlefield, decisively raised his bronze spear.
“All forces, charge!!”
The cavalry unit’s speed rapidly surged to its maximum.
1,000 light cavalry, sweeping in with a sky full of dust!
The thundering sound of hooves instantly drained the color from Gawain’s face.
“Crossbowmen, cross…”
Looking at the goblins, who were frantically re-cocking their hand crossbows in panic against the cavalry threat, Gawain’s voice cut off abruptly.
This cavalry unit, like something out of his nightmare, had appeared at the most opportune moment.
This was definitely not a coincidence; it was premeditated!
The two advancing units on the flank and front had completely overwhelmed him, forcing the crossbowmen unit, which had originally maintained a perfect cycle, to continuously accelerate.
Finally, the balance of their rhythm was completely broken.
Precisely timing the pause in the crossbowmen unit’s attack, the enemy had revealed their true killing blow at this moment!
