The attack acceleration effect is still there, but the continuous application of prayer has long since passed, and the 20% speed bonus is missing.
However, although the infantry loses a 20% speed bonus, the three-headed hellhound with a faster basic movement speed has a negative morale buff.
In comparison, the infantry are faster. After all, they are also blessed by Xu Lai's speed talent and ultimate logistics skills.
Looking at these three-headed hell dogs, not to mention that they have been abandoned by the demon heroes, they are not much different.
The demon hero simply did not send a single soldier to support. Instead, a group of demon governors led tens of thousands of horned demons to form an array in front.
The collapse of the Hell's Three-Headed Dog Army was only a partial collapse in morale and had a certain impact on the demon army, but overall, the decline in morale could be controlled within 10 points.
Behind the horned demon are an even larger number of Magog, almost tens of thousands of them.
Despite the fact that demon heroes have many troops, whether they are horned demons, Magog, three-headed hell dogs, or winged demons, they are all relatively low-level troops.
The real combat elites, such as the human shield demon warlord among the infantry, mainly output fire demons, flame trolls, etc., are almost invisible.
Not to mention higher-level flame elves, balrogs, big demons and the like.
In other words, the average level of the troops shown by Xu Lai was only level 4, with most of them consisting of heavy infantry, spearmen and long archers.
If Elvi led the angel army to attack, maybe Mathias would not dare to go out of the city to confront Xu Lai.
Since the enemy is willing to fight Xu Lai outside the city, Xu Lai does not need to expose his high-end troops.
In addition, the fleet was commanded by Arvid and Xu Lai did not even fly the flag, which made Mathias negligent and made a hasty decision to annihilate humans in the wild.
Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that he has won every battle this year.
Under Kerrigan's leadership, the entire Western Empire had almost never encountered any decent resistance, except for a few big nobles and the Temple Alliance who showed some fighting capacity.
Even though the three-headed dog of hell is being defeated now, it still hasn't attracted enough attention from Matthias.
He was far away from the battlefield and could see that on the ships on the river, heroes were constantly releasing strategic spells to cover the battlefield.
But he couldn't see the frontal battlefield where the battle was taking place. He could only see his own three-headed hell dogs dying in battle, but he didn't know the human casualty rate.
Don’t say that he didn’t stand on a high place. Even if he really climbed up and looked far away, he could only see one hellhound after another, falling on the iron wall composed of human battle formations.
When Mathias saw the attack speed and the various auxiliary states, he thought it was because of the large number of humans, their fast movements, and the blessing of strategic spells.
Therefore, the three-headed dog of hell failed to break through the human defense line.
But he did not think that his side was incapable of fighting.
First of all, the two sides have fought intensively until now. After a few hours, even the strongest warriors will get tired and temporarily lose their ability to fight.
In this way, the three-headed hell dog lost by our side can barely be regarded as replacing part of the human army.
And as long as humans come over, it means losing the artillery support on the river. After all, the ship cannot go ashore.
At the same time, human strategic spells cannot be released without scruples like before.
Finally, humans have just used a lot of arrow projectiles. While the projectile damage is very low, the ammunition consumption is not reduced.
Looking at our own shooters, they are waiting for work, have plenty of ammunition, and are all Magogs who are good at group attacks. No matter how you look at it, the advantage lies with your own side.
Of course Xu Lai did not charge blindly.
He didn't even get off the ship. Even if his heroic ability could cover the farther battlefield, the spell couldn't cover it.
Not only spells, if the distance is too far, he will not be able to clearly see the battlefield situation, let alone make targeted adjustments.
What's more, after such a long battle, the frontline infantry's health cannot keep up with the priest's treatment.
Besides, even if you want to charge, you have to wait for everyone to arrive, right?
Not to mention the transport ships that went back to the rear to load siege equipment, even the troops on the existing ships have not been completely unloaded.
Xu Lai specially brought 5,000 cavalry out, not for watching a show, let alone for siege.
If the main force of this kind of charge is not used, why should infantry be used to charge with the fireball from the opposite side?
Even, why bother to resist, he brought the phantom shooter out specially.
It is said that one can make great efforts, then decline, and three times will be exhausted.
Matthias was already prepared to fight humans, so he didn't even bother with the three-headed hell dog because he was afraid of breaking his formation.
In a large formation set up by tens of thousands of people, even the slightest movement would take several times the time to adjust.
Besides, in order to cope with this battle, all the demons were summoned temporarily.
Even though they had already eaten breakfast and stood watching the show for several hours, they were already starting to feel hungry.
But Mathias did not allow them to eat, because this would seriously affect the formation and extremely waste time.
The two sides are indeed more than 5 kilometers apart, but not to mention the cavalry, the infantry with attack acceleration can only take three to five minutes at most to rush over.
And although the enemy's artillery didn't fire at this time, it might not be while they were eating.
Eating does not take an hour. No matter how fast you go, it will take about ten minutes.
Ten minutes for one person, one hundred minutes for ten people.
Of course, time cannot be calculated like this.
However, the devils on the other side of hell do not have professional chefs, and everyone eats by themselves.
Most demons only eat meat. In hell, the little demons are the natural food of the big demons.
But when it comes to the army, even the hell army, which has always built its city with chaos, still needs basic order.
Matthias knew that once these demons were allowed to eat, the battle they had finally established at this moment would collapse immediately.
Fortunately, the weather today is quite helpful. After the beginning of summer, the weather is getting hotter day by day, and there is no sign of rainfall.
Compared to hell demons who are not afraid of heat, humans are somewhat affected by being heavily armored.
But Xu Lai was not as anxious as Mathias. The depression accumulated in his chest had almost dissipated in the previous battle with the Winged Demon and the Cerberus.
After the infantry, archers and priests all landed, Xu Lai's cavalry was still not in a hurry, but sent the logistics supply team ashore first.
After these people came ashore, Xu Laicai disembarked with the Guards Cavalry and the heroic knights led by Tahan.
All the infantrymen who fought previously rested, and the newly landed soldiers were responsible for formation cover.
After Xu Lai and others came ashore, they first let the horses adapt to the ground environment, and then unloaded all the phantom shooters, including the phantom marksmen, ballistas, catapults, etc. on the Hantan.
After this tossing, another half day passed. Matthias and the others were watching from a distance with eyes wide open. They wished they could go over and grab Xu Lai immediately and let him come over and have a good fight.
Even the most calm demon heroes are already so angry, not to mention those horned demons, Magog, Gog and so on.
Demons are notoriously chaotic species. Except for the recruited demons who remained motionless, most of the remaining demons could no longer hold back.
Some tried to find some food, while others blamed the devil next to them for meeting him. If Matthias hadn't still been there, his personal guards and governors could still have controlled the situation, and I'm afraid these demons would have started fighting on their own.
However, the more irritable the devil is, the more beneficial it is to his side.
However, Xu Lai did not dare to delay for too long. The sun was shining brightly, and once he started to rest, it would be difficult to regain his fighting spirit.
Especially Xu Lai's side, they are all conscripted troops, and they are all new soldiers. Their patience is definitely not as good as that of veterans, let alone compared with recruited soldiers.
Xu Lai just waited until everyone had eaten and drank, and waited until the logistics staff pushed the catapults and crossbows over. Then he waved his hand and the army pressed forward.
After all, Matthias had a city to defend and did not dare to bring out all the troops.
Coupled with the fact that both of our own attacks had failed, and we had been holding our breath until now, the formation was already in disarray.
Seeing the overwhelming human offensive, I felt a little guilty for no reason.
Matthias shook his head vigorously, how could the invincible great demon be defeated by a mere human.
Snatching a spiked whip from the hand of the personal guard beside him, Matthias whipped the demon in front of him hard.
“Smoke it for me. If anyone else can’t stand well, I’ll beat him to death.”
The infantry did not run like the three-headed hell dogs. They just lined up in neat steps and stepped forward step by step.
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At first, everyone’s pace was not neat.
But on the warship behind, countless loud drums were beaten one by one.
All warriors instinctively follow the beat of the drum and adjust the timing of their footing and swing.
When the sound of neat steps is coupled with the beating of heavy hammers, the dense sound waves are shocking.
Matthias couldn't help but swallowed, and panicked and ordered a few Magogs to shoot.
However, the distance between the two sides is too far. Even for level 4 Magog, the fireball can only be thrown a hundred meters away.
Not to mention compared to phantom archers, even longbowmen have a range far beyond those of Magog.
Obviously, Mathias was a little panicked and could no longer accurately estimate the distance.
Although he is only over 20 levels, he has upgraded his archery and fire spells to the ultimate level.
The only two ultimate specializations, the former can increase the range of his troops by 20%.
Xu Lai seemed very calm. The large army stopped at about 250 meters, and the spearmen who came up in rotation lowered their spears one by one.
Mathias frowned, not understanding what it meant that the humans stopped charging instead of charging at this time.
Immediately afterwards, he discovered the rain of arrows falling from the sky, the throws from the long archers, and the throws from the phantom archers.
It is also a blind shooting that cannot see the target. At this moment, the hit rate of the phantom shooter has become similar to that of the long archer.
But the phantom shooter with the special effect of the phantom heavy bow does not reduce the damage even if it is thrown, and the damage is still terrifying.
And each of them can be equipped with many phantom arrows. Even if these phantom arrows cannot compare with the damage of the main body, they are still more exaggerated than the long archers.
The only advantage of longbowmen is their numbers, extremely high numbers.
The arrow rain formed by 6,000 long archers and 1,000 phantom archers covered the sky above the demons.
The demons were stunned by such a terrifying long-range attack. They stared blankly at the rain of arrows in the sky, watching them strike mercilessly on their bodies.
The demons fell one by one like wheat.
Even Mathias, a hero, couldn't help but tremble in his heart after feeling the overwhelming rain of arrows.
However, what made him even more desperate was that they could only allow the enemy's long-range troops to attack them, unable to fight back at all.
Not to mention the long-range troops here, the highest is Magog, even the fire demon, the flame troll can't compare here.
He gritted his teeth, it would definitely not work if he just got beaten without fighting back.
Who knows how much ammunition those humans have stored up? You can't use the lives of demons to compete for the opponent's ammunition consumption.
Matthias waved his hand and released the Hell camp's first strategic spell, Atmospheric Aegis.
This spell can reduce the long-range damage taken by the selected unit by 25%.
It is a pity that Mathias himself does not have a high level of air magic, so he cannot use this spell to cover the entire army.
Atmospheric Shield, Matthias selected long-range troops such as Gog and Magog.
He then tore open another scroll. The protective shield Xu Lai used before could reduce the melee damage of the selected troops by 15%.
For this spell, Matthias chose the Horned Demon and the Demon Overseer.
Matthias, who could no longer sit still and wait for death, chose to take the initiative to charge against the human troops.
Now, he finally knew why humans had put down their shields early and thrust out their spears. Their feelings were already waiting for him.
After using two strategic spells in succession, Xu Lai, who was in the rear, mounted his horse with confidence.
The prophet's sword is raised high to the sky, the light of the ultimate prayer falls, and then there is the ultimate bloodthirsty thaumaturgy that increases the attack power of all troops by 12 points.
After the bloodthirsty thaumaturgy, Yu Lan from behind also started to cast a spell, and randomly received a general weakness, which reduced the attack power of all demons by 10 points.
Xu Lai didn't care about the status imposed by the demons. The spells he released would only be more beneficial to his side.
Therefore, he must wait until the enemy casts a spell before casting a spell. Otherwise, it would be a pity that such a high-level spell as prayer would be dispelled by a low-level dispersal spell.
After the spell was released, he did not stop. He and Tahan each led half of the knights, one on the left and one on the right, outflanking the rear of the imperial array.
The sound of fighting that gradually sounded in front could not cover up the shock of the high-ranking knights.
The thunderous sound was all absorbed into Matthias’s ears.
He was horrified to find that at some point, two groups of terrifying knights emerged from behind the humans.
These knights, without even looking at the front battlefield, made a big circle and went straight to the rear of the demon army.
Matthias swallowed, these daring humans actually wanted to make his dumplings?
What’s even more frightening is that because he came out in a hurry, there was no strong defense behind him.
Even if there were, it would be difficult to stop the charge of the human knight.
In other words, the human hero really made the dumplings. (End of this chapter)