Chapter 1378: Chapter 1378
Chapter 1378: Chapter 605: Countless Casualties! A Devastating Defeat!
To be honest, the actual damage caused by the two rounds of massive crossbow shooting, along with the Fish Oil Bomb attack, was not very significant.
In total, only about three thousand were killed or injured, making the casualties less than ten percent.
But the rhythm of the forty thousand vanguard troops of the Silver Alliance was completely disrupted.
Before, the four phalanxes charged neatly.
But now, they were in total chaos.
The deadliest was that round of lime bombs.
The dust storm raised by tens of thousands of pounds of lime powder enveloped nearly thirty to forty thousand people, with around fifty to sixty percent of the soldiers getting lime in their eyes.
No matter how fierce the Barbarian soldiers are, their eyes are the most fragile part.
Once their eyes couldn’t see, and with the burning pain, they were obviously thrown into absolute panic.
And once they lost formation and fell into chaos, the command system completely collapsed. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ Nove1Fire.net
Tens of thousands of soldiers scattered like headless flies.
Technically, using Fish Oil Bombs after lime bombs is not a very reasonable move.
Lime in the eyes can’t be washed out with water, but it can be cleaned out with oil.
It’s just that the Barbarians, encountering lime on a large scale for the first time, evidently didn’t know this.
After careful deliberation, Suo Mo still decided to take advantage of this chaos and use the Fish Oil Bombs to create large-scale fatalities.
Compared to gunpowder, the attack power of Fish Oil Bombs is much weaker, but it still caused over two thousand casualties.
More importantly, the sight of over thirty thousand troops in chaos, with flames bursting and thick smoke billowing everywhere, was truly shocking.
Constantine and Alfonso desperately shouted and whipped the soldiers, but it was all to no avail.
The entire battlefield order had thoroughly collapsed.
The Silver Alliance Leader was astounded upon seeing this scene, and so was the Rakshasa King’s son-in-law, Nai Shu.
It was thought that the Flame Demon Tribe, which had just been established for a few months, was definitely a motley crew. After all, the Near-Human Tribe’s combat power was always inferior to the Barbarians.
Therefore, Nai Shu and all the Chieftains believed this would be an effortless battle.
Forty thousand troops would storm up the walls, and the battle would be over!
No one expected, however, that just as the battle began, such a scene would unfold.
The fierce and robust forty thousand vanguard, only a few hundred meters from the walls, were caught completely off guard, and in total disarray!
The Silver Alliance Leader couldn’t help but look toward Nai Shu, seeking his instructions.
However, Nai Shu merely stood up, looking shocked at the battlefield, without any orders!
He was genuinely astonished, and he realized that it was Suo Mo leading the battle, not Lanling. It seemed as if he wasn’t within the tribe, then where could he be?
Suddenly, the Silver Alliance Leader shouted loudly, “Constantine, Alfonso, what are you doing, quickly regroup the army and continue the charge!”
Constantine and Alfonso had already tried their best.
When the sky was filled with lime dust, they didn’t know what it was, so they instinctively released magic shields to expel the lime powder.
When soldiers screamed that their eyes hurt and went blind, they realized the horror of it and became even more cautious.
But trying to restore the army’s order was too difficult a task for them.
Because, with a significant number of soldiers unable to see, they kept spinning around or running wildly.
The entire command system collapsed, making recovery impossible.
At this point, the wisest choice was to sound the withdrawal gong.
The soldiers, already in panic, entirely unable to distinguish directions, would instinctively run towards the direction of the gong sound once they heard it, ensuring that the majority of soldiers could safely return to the army formation.
However, with Nai Shu silent and the Silver Alliance Leader eager for revenge, they ordered Constantine and Alfonso to restore army order on the spot and continue charging, which was a monumental mistake.
The consequence of this was!
It gave the Flame Demon Tribe time for a new round of strikes.
The third round of gigantic catapult, fire!
Another round of colossal lime bombs, thousands of pounds of quicklime powder once again struck the chaotic troops, raising yet another lime dust storm over hundreds of thousands of square meters.
However, this time, fewer soldiers were hit.
Because the majority of the soldiers, with their eyes incredibly painful as if blind, didn’t dare to open their eyes.
However, this round of lime bomb attacks caused more soldiers, whose eyes were previously unaffected, to fall victim.
They finally experienced the nearly blinding, burning pain in their eyes.
The battlefield was filled with even more endless screams!
The troops, already in extreme chaos, became even more disordered.
Several minutes later…
The catapult attack came roaring once again.
This time, Fish Oil Bombs were once again launched.
However, even more deadly, three thousand fire arrows attacked simultaneously.
Thus, the Fish Oil Bombs were completely ignited almost at the moment of explosion, even bursting into flames!
“Boom boom boom boom…”
The chaotic vanguard troops were once again plunged into a sea of fire.
This time, the casualties were even greater.
Some were burned to death, and an even larger portion suffered casualties from trampling on each other.
Suo Mo on the city wall, along with the Flame Demon Tribe soldiers, looked at all of this with immense surprise and delight.
The battlefield was indeed a place full of surprises and miracles!
Most people believed that among Chief Lanling’s secret weapons, the gigantic crossbow was certainly the most formidable, shooting dozens of giant arrows at once with tremendous power.