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Chapter 203: Honor (Part 1)

Daniel looked forward in the skeleton. The enemy's array was still several miles away from the water surface, but he could no longer retreat. In this formation, the soldiers had no way out and would fight desperately.

Daniel couldn't help but stomp his feet gently. The three huge heads of Pixius under his feet were shaking. He felt his master's retreat and was a little dissatisfied. Daniel suddenly realized, what was he afraid of? Even if the enemy tried his best, Salin did not give him a death order. As long as he could kill a certain number of enemies, Salin didn't even ask him to bring all the skeletons back.

Thinking of this, Daniel took off the small telescope at his waist. He had polished this thing for a long time. Although he was not as far away as Salin, the distance from the enemy is now very close. He can use this to observe the enemy's expression.

The formation of the East China Sea Alliance was not very neat, and many low-level officers did not escape. The soldiers just gathered together instinctively. The senior generals could not command so many soldiers. They were also waiting for the general's orders. Therefore, the morale of this 10,000 troops was sluggish. Even the comrades who had just died in battle did not pack up and let the bodies lie on the ice.

Daniel saw in the telescope, and the soldiers were panicked, fear, hunger, and confused.

Daniel had never learned any knowledge of commanding battles, but he was a necromancer and he still studied human emotions. Seeing the expression of the enemy soldier, Daniel immediately took out a small drum with a diameter of only one foot from his skin, and then took out a bone and started beating it on the drum.

Dong! Dong!

The sound of the drums has a sense of emptiness and desolation. It emanates from the ice layer, and all the skeletons are excited. This is the undead war drum, which can stimulate the undead's fighting consciousness. Under the urging of the war drum, the three thousand skeletons took big steps, held bone spears in their hands, and rushed towards the coalition's position.

The coalition soldiers were cold and hungry, their teeth were trembling and making giggling sounds, which sounded almost the same as skeletons grinding their teeth.

Most soldiers do not carry spears, only long swords with them, but the blade of a long sword is only one meter long, which is not conducive to large-scale combat. Although the combat power of skeletons is not strong, the best way to make skeletons lose their combat power is to heavy weapons.

These soldiers' heavy weapons were not carried out at all, and they all sank with the ship.

The general issued an order to attack in a deep voice. Finally, an officer urged the soldiers to blow the horn, and a team of thousands rushed up against the skeleton. The two armies collided fiercely, without any fancy. The skeleton's bone spear pierced out. The soldiers without shields could not stop such damage by relying on their leather armor.

The coalition quickly organized two other thousand-man teams to approach on both sides. The stalemate battle on the front must be unfavorable to the coalition and insufficient equipment. Even against low-level skeletons, the soldiers were fragile. The climate of the countries in the East China Sea was not so harsh. Some areas with high altitudes still had snow, but the plains with low terrain almost all seasons like spring. In this environment, the soldiers' equipment must also have a special style.

In order to be able to hold weapons tightly in battle, soldiers' gloves are an indispensable piece of equipment. The gloves worn by soldiers from the East China Sea countries are made of leather and are sewn on linen cloth. This linen cloth is very thick, strong, and even waterproof, but has no ability to resist cold. The soldiers were frozen by the sea for a long time, and their fingers were numb. With such impact on each other, many soldiers flew out of their hands during fighting.

These are not peasant militiamen, but real army, with at least five years of training and have practical experience. However, such elite soldiers were killed and turned over when they were hedged against the lowest-level skeletons.

The three thousand skeletons advanced with their bone spears, ignoring the team pressing up on both wings. Driven by the undead war drum, the vitality of these skeletons was also strengthened. Without magic weapons, they would still wield their weapons to fight to the end unless they were cut down. The undead was not without fear, but they were not afraid of the person in front of them.

Daniel ignored the attacks on both sides, because the undead were not humans, and these skeletons were not summoned by him. He would definitely not be able to control his formation if he wanted to change his formation. Moreover, the impact on the two wings was not fatal, because the enemy had no cavalry and only rely on infantry to enter, the final battle was still the individual's combat power.

The skeleton will not panic. No matter how the enemy occupies a favorable position, the skeleton will still stab forward with a bone spear, kill the enemy, or be separated by the enemy.

The more than two hundred barbarians behind the skeleton were very flexible. Instead of following the skeleton, they rode the skeleton war horse and shot arrows from behind. The two thousand soldiers attacked each other, and the barbarians only attacked within the range of the bow and arrow, and did not escape or go up to support.

The power of the barbarians should not be underestimated. They still pull a softer hunting bow, which is definitely useless against iron armor, but it can also cause damage when facing opponents' thin leather armor. This kind of hunting bow with very little pulling force can make the barbarians not even ruthless even when shooting hundreds of arrows.

Of course, this is also due to Salin. He had extremely high requirements for soldiers' equipment. These barbarians did not surrender for a long time, but everyone who could shoot archers got a metal-made bow-opener. With this thing, archery would not hurt your fingers, and the force was mainly based on your arms, which could improve the combat effectiveness of the archer.

The only disadvantage of the bow-opener is that it has a greater wear on the bow string. Generally, if a bow-opener is pulled with a finger, at least two thousand arrows can be shot out before it will be scrapped. With the bow-opener, the wear will be more than doubled immediately. If you want to reduce the wear, either add lubricating grease or improve the quality of the bow-opener. Both of these will increase the cost.

Therefore, the soldiers under Salin all have two bow-opening tools, one is made of alchemy and used to make extremely high bows, and the other is an ordinary bow-opening tool for training, or an ordinary bow.

In fact, Salin was short of manpower and had not yet reached the time to divide the troops in detail. However, he learned something from Rex, which was that the soldiers would give you the rewards they would give you.

The general looked at the battle in the distance from behind, and had no hope of winning. He now saw that this undead army did not intend to completely destroy them, but just came to kill those with their own vitality. When their power was weakened to a certain extent, they would not be able to attack the city. At that time, the enemy only needed to defend the harbor, and those of them would die of cold and starvation.

If his warship is still there and these soldiers are fully equipped, there is no problem facing the three thousand skeletons. He only needs to arrange iron shields on the front and use heavy infantry to attack both wings, which will smash the undead army.

But all his soldiers are using swords, and there are no weapons such as hammers, battle axes or long halberds. The soldiers do not have cold-proof tools, and their hands and feet are numb. A long sword with a standard weight of only about two kilograms will be cut out at most. At most, a shallow mark is cut on the body of the skeleton. It takes more than a dozen knives to break a skeleton. No matter how strong his command ability is, it is useless, unless he can let the warship float up from the bottom of the sea and distribute heavy equipment to the soldiers.

Three thousand soldiers and three thousand skeletons strangled together, and most of the more than seven thousand soldiers lined up behind had no weapons and could only watch.

The general suddenly sighed and said to the magician beside him: "You all go, use wind speed technique to leave, the other party will not chase the magician."

"God General, we won't leave. Master Yuximaso hasn't come back yet." Several gray-robed mages were anxious. Although the magician and the sixth-level mage have left, they also have the power to decide the situation of the battle.

"Can you catch up with the skeleton war horse?" asked the general pointing to the barbarian who shot arrows behind him.

The gray-robed mages were speechless. It took time to catch up with the war horses by wind speed. Because the physical strength of the war horses will decrease, but the skeleton war horses do not have the problem of physical strength reduction. At least they cannot catch up before those people run back.

"Did you see the undead in the team?"

"See it."

"That's the eighth level undead, Pixius." The general's voice was cold: "Maybe the level of the undead mage is still low, but the combat power of this undead will not be lower than the seventh level. You are here, and you can't help me. Don't say that if Youximaso comes back, he may never come back. You, go."

"But, Your Excellency!"

"Our main fleet went to Lianyuncheng. You go to Lianyuncheng, find them, and continue fighting. My defeat here is irreversible." The general said, took off his strange helmet, threw it on the ground, and said to the surrounding soldiers: "This time, you don't have to protect me, just kill a few more enemies."

His helmet decoration is more meaningful, and wearing it on his head will affect his vision. The general did not expect that one day he would have to commit suicide by himself.

The remaining generals also looked dead gray when they heard the general's words.

"Why are you doing this expression? As soldiers, aren't you satisfied enough to die on the battlefield?"

"It's all your fault, why do you want to snatch the warship? The warship is more advanced than ours, and the enemy must be very powerful. If it weren't for your order, how could we end up like this!"

A general couldn't help but point at the general and scolded him angrily. The general sneered: "When you robbed, you were all talking about how to distribute it. Now I'm blaming me?" He stared at everyone coldly with his eyes and continued: "We are here to conquer. Do you still have to do business with them?"

"But we have the right to surrender!"

"No, at least you have nothing." The general suddenly drew out his sword, took a step forward, took more than five meters away, and directly stabbed the sword into the mouth of the general who offended him. The sword retracted like lightning, with bright red blood on it.

"Who else wants to surrender?"
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