Your war hammer is too fake

"From the results, their attempt obviously failed. Either [Education] has some flaws or weaknesses that we are not aware of, or the upper nodes of the Nest Clan cannot be educated. After all, there are individuals among the cavemen who are naturally immune to education. In any case, [Education] is definitely not as invincible as it seems. As long as we further understand the specific details of this ability, we will naturally be able to come up with countermeasures. Well, maybe we should try to capture a living Faceless Man for research..."

Barrel glanced at me and said, "I remember you said that you chose the [Great Scientist] trait when you were in the car?"

"Yes," the girl nodded, "I haven't really used this ability yet."

"Since you have used Soul Search to examine the memories of those cavemen," the dwarf king asked, "did you see the specific scenes of their indoctrination? Even just some fragments will do."

"That's the problem. The cavemen were in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness when they were being educated, and their perception of the outside world was almost non-existent," the governor crossed his arms over his chest. "It felt hazy, vague, and vague. As for useful information? None. At least I couldn't find any useful fragments from the memories of those tongues."

The two discussed for a while, and the topic naturally shifted to the current battle situation. During the three days of waiting for the arrival of the Plateau Fort Army, An Jiyue sent a lot of Tu Wushang to scout, and obtained a lot of intelligence by this method of probing the bushes with his face. Relying on his ability to escape underground, Tu Wushang ran very far, and even carried out a suicide raid on the main force of the Faceless Army on the march, sending away an entire team of Tu Wushang and forcing the Faceless Army to reveal some key information.

"The enemy's main force, I mean, those well-equipped and well-trained cavemen soldiers, number about 2.5, most of whom are infantry. There are also about a thousand cavalrymen, whose mounts look very much like cold lizards, but without eyes. They may be a subspecies formed by living underground for a long time," An Jiyue introduced to Barrel the intelligence obtained by giving away a lot of Tu Wushang. "It is said that in a lightless or dim light environment, it takes two hundred generations for creatures to reproduce before their eyes degenerate."

"The second is bad news. I lost an entire team of Tu Wushang. Under normal circumstances, this should not happen." After all, Tu Wushang can burrow underground. "A team of Tu Wushang that was almost full was gone in an instant. I was observing the battlefield through the perspective of the leader of another team of Tu Wushang at the time, and I didn't see what the completely wiped-out team of Tu Wushang saw."

"Wait a minute," Barrel asked, "Is it because of the perspective that you can't see that position?"

"No. The Faceless Men must have intentionally concealed their most elite forces. Let me think how to describe it... electronic interference, understand? But the Faceless Men did not use electromagnetic waves, but mental power. They interfered with Tsuchigumo's senses in some way, or perhaps directly interfered with Tsuchigumo's brain. Anyway, the result is the same. If I were there in person, I should be able to see through the Faceless Men's tricks, but Tsuchigumo doesn't have that ability."

"I reviewed the entire battle afterwards. The Faceless Ones must have deliberately set up a trap to lure my people into it. Due to the interference of the psychic power, the Tu Wushang team didn't see the enemy units there at all, or their thinking was interfered with, so their eyes saw it but their brains thought they didn't. In short, when the Tu Wushang team approached a close enough distance, the enemy suddenly attacked and destroyed the entire team of soldiers in an instant. The interference may have lasted for the entire battle. They were quite cautious."

Barrel concluded: "So we have no idea what surprises the other side has prepared for us?"

"Look at the bright side. They also don't know what our trump card is," An Jiyue said. "That's why I said it's best to rest for a day and start the battle tomorrow. I know that three days of forced march is nothing for the dwarves. It's better to be cautious in everything. Besides, I still have some preparations to complete. I'm more curious why the other side didn't attack. Logically, they are the ones who can't afford to delay. After all, there are the Nest Clan watching covetously on the side."

……

At the same time, in the camp on the other side.

"Why not just attack?"

Dorze Void murmured, "Your 'genius idea' can only scare the bugs for a while. Those arthropods will soon launch a tentative attack. When they realize how weak we are now, what will the Council use to defend our last shelter? Just rely on a threat of mutual destruction?"

[On the way here when I led the army.] Antaras o Eternal Dream, the current speaker of the Faceless Council and also a fellow apprentice of Dorzer, said this in his heart voice. [I set a trap and killed a group of mysterious creatures that Jilan mentioned in the report that can travel through the rock formations. I dissected one of the individuals, but it did not answer any questions, but brought more trouble. Brother Dorzer, we must make a careful judgment.]

"Your cautious judgment is to withdraw half of the troops from the front line, making our defense line useless?"

[It's two-thirds.] Antaras corrected seriously. [I read the remaining memories in the brains of these creatures. It's so sad that they are also members of the ancient race that was driven into the underground by the lizard monsters, but they cowardly gave up their hatred. They came from the far east and surrendered to a surface race called "Zhendan" as free people. "That one" is a Zhendan person. Her status among her people is roughly equivalent to that of Jilan to us. She commands a famous legion in Zhendan, but this legion is not here at the moment.]

"Please continue, Brother Antaras."

['That One' can also travel through the rock formations and bring a large group of soldiers with her. From a tactical perspective, this is a deadly threat. We cannot effectively grasp her movement patterns. She can bypass the front line at any time and suddenly appear from the most unexpected place. Brother Dorzer, you are our greatest commander, you know what this means.]

"If there is any other bad news," said the Chief Champion of the Unseeing, "please tell me all at once, while my heart can still bear it."

['That One' can read memories from the soul, but this ability seems to have some flaws. Jilan reported that several soldiers are missing, including a centurion. I'm afraid a lot of our intelligence has been exposed. ]

"Very good. Thank you, Brother Antaras, for allowing me to relive the despair I felt when I faced Namtaru."

[Brother Dorzer, it was under your command that we won the final victory in that battle.]

"I must remind you, Brother Antaras, that fate will not always favor us. For my people, I will do my best, but I cannot make any guarantees."

[That's enough, Brother Dorzer. That's enough. The Council has decided that our army will be under your full command. Everyone, including myself, will obey your orders. If this is our last battle, at least we fell in front of a great being.]

"So this is the real reason why you claim to release Namtaru? The Council is not optimistic about the outcome of this battle, so you have such crazy ideas. I guess the person responsible for lifting the seal has already set off, right?"

Antaras did not answer. For Dorzer, silence itself was an answer.

Chapter 88 Opening

The location for the battle was specially selected by An Jiyue.

An Jiyue did not choose to meet the enemy at the place where the search team was attacked before, but moved the battlefield back more than ten kilometers. This location was carefully selected by the girl. She specially sent Tu Wushang to confirm repeatedly that this location was the only way for the Faceless Army to go to Plateau Fort, and there was absolutely no fork or path nearby.

On the second day after the arrival of the reinforcements, the two armies with very different styles, after having what might be their last meal in their lives, marched out of the camp in neat marching formation, and then simultaneously stopped when there was still more than a mile between them, and spread out horizontally to begin forming a battle array: in the transition period between cold weapons and cold and hot weapons, one of the basic principles of battle was to form a battle array according to the range of the main long-range weapons, compressing the distance between the two sides as much as possible while trying to avoid direct exposure to the enemy's long-range firepower range.

As for the previous encounter, the first impression that the Faceless gave An Jiyue was that the long-range units were not very good and relied entirely on melee combat. The physiological characteristics of the cavemen determined that they were not suitable for using projectile weapons with a range of more than 50 meters, because cavemen could not "see" that far. These natives of the underground world who were born without eyes mainly relied on highly developed hearing and infrared senses to perceive the outside world, and their perception ability for long-distance targets was extremely weak. Or in other words, almost nonexistent.

The dwarf army stopped at a distance of about 500 meters from the enemy because after the battle started, the enemy would be within the effective range of the crossbow if they moved forward a little. Why did the cavemen, whose long-range weapons were basically only javelins, also stop at this distance? For an army that has been through many battles, combat habits are difficult to change. It is not right to say that it is a habit left over from the war with the Nest Clan. According to the intelligence collected by An Jiyue, except for siege units, the range of the Nest Clan's long-range soldiers is almost never more than 100 meters.

"Tsk, I knew that [Soul Search] would always miss key information..." The information that An Jiuyue obtained from the captives with the help of this spell actually only accounted for one tenth or less of their total memory, and the acquired memory was also filled with a lot of invalid information.

The Jiedushi crossed his arms and turned his head to the dwarf king standing next to her. "Barel, let the best archers of the crossbow operators stand by. There must be artillery units on the other side. Let your people be ready to carry out counter-artillery operations at any time."

"Okay. Should we let them do whatever they want, or wait for the order to fire?"

This question made An Jiyue ponder for a while. "Let them wait for orders. We can afford casualties," after all, soldiers and supplies can be conjured out of thin air, the girl thought, "no firing without orders."

Both sides were well-trained elites, and the difference in strength was not too great, so the two armies formed their battle arrays almost at the same time. An Jiyue and Barel's side consisted of 2700 dwarves and 2.3 earth warriors, with a total strength of about 2.7; the Faceless Men's strength was about 2.5, including cavemen infantry and cavalry, according to the girl's visual estimation.

In addition, part of the Faceless's forces were hidden. An Jiyue could feel that behind the enemy's front line, there was an area that was tightly covered by the power of the mind... This feeling is hard to describe. If I had to describe it, it was probably like when I was looking for real-life pictures on the Internet before the time travel, and I vaguely noticed that some areas on the picture seemed to be unnaturally distorted, and suddenly realized that I had encountered a phantom tank.

The battlefield An Jiyue chose was just wide enough for the dwarf army to deploy. The two wings of the dwarf infantry phalanx were almost attached to the rock walls on both sides of the tunnel, and the front width of the formation was about one kilometer. 1.5 long-bearded warriors were arranged in rows, with people in each row. They would rotate between the front and back rows during the battle, so that the front row warriors always had relatively abundant physical strength. As for the heavy arrow crossbowmen and crossbow cannons, these long-range units were placed in front of the long-bearded phalanx.

——In various Chinese and foreign TV dramas, the scenes of crossbowmen hiding behind melee infantry and shooting arrows are purely the assumptions of laymen. Before the birth of line infantry, ranged infantry always stood in front of melee infantry, and they would fire from that position until the enemy was about to rush in, and then retreat. As for the Spanish phalanx, that thing used arquebusiers to "wrap" the pikemen in order to obtain omnidirectional defense capabilities, essentially turning each side of the formation into a frontal one.

The remaining troops of the dwarf army were gathered behind the front line as the general reserve of the whole army. Tu Wushang's frontal combat ability was not very good, even with the refined weapons given by the dwarves, so An Jiyue asked them to stay alone at the back of the whole army. As for the Skylark Squadron, the girl arranged them to protect the team of general artillery. With the help of the dwarf engineers accompanying the army, this team of artillery carefully hid themselves. Unless the girl herself gave the order, they would not open fire.

The Faceless Men's formation was well-organized, and the basic idea was exactly the same as An Jiyue's. The cavemen soldiers equipped with javelins stood at the forefront of the army in a loose formation, followed closely by melee infantry holding all-steel round shields and straight-bladed machetes, or holding maces in both hands. Unlike the dwarf army, the Faceless Men divided the infantry into two roughly equal parts, arranged in two front and back lines, and deliberately left a certain gap between the two wings and the rock walls on both sides of the tunnel; and the one thousand cavalry were also divided into two parts to protect the two wings of the cavemen infantry phalanx.

After both sides had finished setting up their formations, they stared at each other for another half an hour. The dwarves had no intention of actively attacking, and they calmly waited for the enemy to come upon them.

"The demons have begun to attack Plateau Castle, and the offensive is fierce," Barrel said suddenly, "My cheap son is organizing the defense."

"It doesn't matter," An Jiyue said, "Gottrik Gonnison and his pendant have returned to Plateau Castle, and Master Kurgaz and Krag are also here. Even if the Lord of Change takes action himself, even in the worst case scenario, Plateau Castle will definitely be able to hold out until we finish the job. If that doesn't work, don't you still have nearly 40 points on hand?"

In An Jiyue's opinion, some of the devil's intentions were obvious. Do you think you can take down Gaoyuan Castle without me? The girl said that the unknown Wanbian Demon Lord looked down on the heroes of the world.

A mysterious underground race suddenly appeared, and their attitude was clearly hostile to them. An Jiyue would never believe that this matter had nothing to do with the Ever-changing Demon Lord. Amon Chaka wanted to transfer herself away from Plateau Castle, but wasn't the girl herself just taking advantage of the situation and setting a trap for the blue-haired old hen?

The reason why the Tzeentch Demon's tricks are dangerous is that the demons have no bottom line, not that the schemes of these guys are really so clever. More importantly, when Chaos Demons die, they just roll back to the Chaos Realm and wait for the resurrection bar. The infinite life gives them enough redundancy to make mistakes.

Although objectively speaking, the Tzeentch demons always never learn any lessons...

After half an hour of confrontation, the Faceless Army finally took action. The first line of infantry of the underground army, the cavalry on both wings, and the front row of javelin throwers began to press forward at the same time, while the second line of infantry and the area covered by the power of the mind remained motionless.

[Dustan O Falcon: Why did the cavalry and infantry move at the same time? There is no room for your cavalry to make a detour here.]

Asur, the leader of the magicians, who was watching the battle through the live broadcast function of the chat group, asked while eating sunflower seeds. Dustan was temporarily acting as a foreman in the underground magma lake of Xuanshui at this time. The "laborers" he "recruited" from the border princes effectively solved the problem of insufficient manpower.

[Group leader #An Jiyue: The opponent wants to force our ranged units to retreat, or at least entangle our crossbowmen and crossbow cannons, making it impossible for us to take advantage of our ranged firepower. This is a desperate fight. ]

【Dustan o Falcon: ←_←I took a look, this is heavy cavalry. Given the current battlefield situation, if the enemy cavalry dares to charge over, they won't be able to turn back. Are they using the heavy cavalry as cannon fodder?】

[Group leader #An Jiyue: That’s why I said that the opponent was fighting desperately from the beginning. Something is wrong…]

The crossbows deployed in the front row fired one after another, and giant arrows like spears broke through the air, piercing the blind cold lizard and its rider like kebabs. Neither the hard scales of the blind cold lizard nor the fine steel heavy armor of the caveman knight were any use in the face of an attack that was strong enough to penetrate the dragon scales.

Except for a few elite operators who had received orders, all the dwarven ballistas were firing at full speed. The giant arrows with straight trajectories could often penetrate several riders from front to back, but the caveman knights were unmoved and drove their mounts at full speed, stepping on their fallen comrades and continuing to charge, letting their groans of pain completely disappear under the claws of the blind cold lizards and drowned in the endless war roars.

Cold lizards are not considered swift creatures, but they are much faster than infantry. After two rounds of ballista fire, the cave knights, whose formation was obviously much thinner, ran into the range of the heavy crossbowmen. Dense crossbow arrows flew into the air, but it was obviously not enough to stop the cave knights' determined charge.

"Crossbowmen and ballistae hold their positions," An Jiyue stared at the battlefield, her tone as cold as the wind blowing from the Norse Peninsula, "Ironbreakers, move forward and stop those cavalrymen."

The author says:

Author's notes: The one with a 1 in the circle is the General Cannon and the Skylark Squadron.

Chapter 89: The Way of a General (Part 1)

Armored cavalry has always been an expensive noble unit, regardless of era or race.

However, in a battle where the survival of an entire race is at stake, no matter how expensive a unit is, it is ultimately just a larger bargaining chip. If necessary, everything can be discarded.

The infantry phalanx is not an airtight solid mass. Except for the special cases of the ancient Greek phalanx and its successor the Macedonian phalanx, no matter how varied the formation of a normal infantry phalanx is, there will be just enough space between every two rows of people for a person to squeeze through sideways, so as to facilitate rotation between the front and rear rows in battle.

Under An Jiyue's order, the crossbowmen and crossbow operators stayed where they were and continued to fire at the enemy. In the general reserve that was waiting behind the long-bearded square formation, the Iron-Breaking Warriors of the five regiments silently stepped out, squeezed through the gaps left by the long-bearded warriors, and then crossed the long-range troops to form a thin shield wall of only two rows of people.

Entering the final stage of the charge, the blind cold lizards, driven by their riders, increased their speed to the extreme. After being hit by two rounds of ballista fire, the formation of the caveman knights was obviously much sparser, and the volleys of heavy arrow crossbowmen further reduced their numbers - although the arrows fired by the dwarf crossbows could not threaten the knights' finely crafted heavy armor, hitting them would only bounce off with a clang, but within the effective range, they were more than enough to penetrate the solid scales of the cold lizards.

These brave riders, who had gone through rigorous selection since childhood, and then more than ten years of long training, had to pass trials before they could truly join the cavalry. They laid down their spears, tucked the copper weights at the end of the spears under their armpits, and held the round shields in front of them with their left hands holding the reins. They knew what their mission was, and they had no doubts or hesitations about it.

While charging, they tried to gather their formation as much as possible to avoid the formation being too scattered and causing the impact to be weak. The next moment, the knights were like a broken but still heavy hammer, smashing hard on the star iron shield wall shining with rune light.

When an object weighing more than 40 kilograms hits at a speed of yards, the impact of this level of kinetic energy has exceeded the limit of martial arts and courage. In theory, even the Iron Breaker Warriors will be knocked away, but under the protection of the Star Iron Armor, these strongest shields of the Mountain Kingdom will not be damaged much.

However, just before the caveman knights hit the shield wall, the flag bearers among the Ironbreakers raised their rune flags high, and the Rune of Slowness on them suddenly lit up. The momentum of the caveman knights' charge suddenly stagnated, and both the riders and mounts could feel a very obvious sense of obstruction even when simply waving their limbs, as if they were covered with more than a dozen layers of thick fur, and any movement was awkward and strenuous.

The spears that could usually pierce through the chitinous carapaces of large nests and nail these tenacious bugs to the ground with great force, finally pecked the star iron shields lightly with their shiny and refined spearheads, making a crisp sound that made the dwarves sneer. The knights squeezed out angry roars from their throats, and the mounts under their crotch opened their bloody mouths to try to bite the enemies in front of them, but the dwarves, who were never known for their agility, easily dodged them.

Shields raised, blocking the spears, the Ironbreakers stepped forward in unison, using rune-carved one-handed axes to cut through scales, hard skin, muscles, and finally the skull of the blind cold lizard. The stupid cold-blooded beast had not yet realized that it was dead, and was still dazedly stretching out its front claws to try to hook the tin can in front of it. The Ironbreakers remained unmoved, letting their claws slide powerlessly on the smooth star iron armor. They raised their shields above their heads to block the straight-bladed machetes and maces that were chopped down on their heads, then moved their shields a little further away, and swung their battle axes as the cold lizard fell to the ground, ending the knight's stubborn resistance.

When the last caveman knight fell, the effect of the slowness rune also disappeared.

"Ironbreakers, retreat," An Jiyue said to Barrel, "The ranged troops don't care about the javelin throwers, just attack the heavy infantry behind."

Although wearing the same style of fine steel heavy armor as heavy infantry, cavemen javelin throwers are still light infantry. The difference between heavy infantry and light infantry is not in armor, but in function. As the most common long-range soldier among the cavemen, a race that is not good at long-range attacks, javelin throwers will roam outside the main phalanx in a loose formation to intercept small harassment troops from the enemy, or go out before the heavy infantry launches a charge to weaken and interfere with the enemy troops with javelins.

Their duties require them to be flexible and fast, however the numerical advantage of the Brood and their ability to replenish their men is comparable to that of the Rats, so the Faceless Ones can only equip these light infantry with heavy armor to maximize their chances of survival in battle.

Generally speaking, a newly trained caveman soldier would first be sent to the javelin thrower unit. They would serve as light infantry for two to three years, and after accumulating enough battlefield experience, they would be transferred to the heavy infantry unit to continue serving.

As the relatively young and inexperienced part of the caveman army, the knights were annihilated so quickly that these javelin throwers hesitated for a while, and their pace of advancement began to slow down subconsciously. A shrill horn sounded behind the battle line of the Faceless Army. The long and sharp horn sound awakened something hidden in the depths of their minds, making them recall their unshakable loyalty to their Faceless Master.

The javelin throwers regained their pace, and they shouted to encourage themselves, speeding up their pace and rushing towards the dwarf position. On the opposite side of them, the dwarf's long-range troops kept firing. The master engineers walked back and forth in the position, ensuring that all the ballistae were operating with the best efficiency and accuracy.

The ballista troops had already brought the cavemen heavy infantry into range. The loose formation of the javelin throwers could not effectively block the ballista from shooting directly at the cavemen heavy infantry behind them. Although giant arrows would occasionally shoot from far to near, skewering several javelin throwers, most of the attacks hit the targets the dwarves were really aiming at. The absolute suppression of the range made the cavemen unable to fight back. They could only grit their teeth and endure this one-sided beating until they could no longer bear it or finally finished this section of the journey.

One after another, huge arrows fell into the neat formation of the cavemen heavy infantry. Whenever someone fell, the people in the back row would immediately trot to fill the empty space and maintain the formation. Even when moving, the cavemen soldiers always maintained a straight battle line, like a dark thin line pressing forward.

The strange cries of some strange beasts echoed from the top of the tunnel. New troops left the area covered by the power of the mind and crossed the battlefield from a high altitude. An Jiyue looked up and saw some lightly-armored riders who looked like cavemen but were obviously much thinner. They rode giant bats of astonishing size over the heads of the cavemen infantry and flew towards the dwarves at a height that was almost close to the top of the tunnel.

"Let those crossbows on standby fire." An Jiyue turned her head sharply and looked at Barrel: "Immediately!"

In the caveman society, fighting is the job of men, and women cannot normally become warriors - unless they can gain the favor of the Night Fel Bats and become a Night Fel Bat Knight with a decisive position in the village.

All Night Felbat Knights are female, as only a few female cavemen can establish a spiritual connection with these flying beasts, thereby taming these underground creatures that have never been tamed. Compared with the Cold One Knights, Night Felbat Knights enjoy a higher status because only they can deal with those flying enemies.

After the cavemen were conquered by the Faceless Men, the Night Fel Knights received great attention from the Faceless Men. Relying on their own superb attainments in the spiritual realm, they managed to improve the training process of the Night Fel Knights, and also equipped them with more suitable equipment and supporting tactics, and even made an exception to allow them to learn how to develop and use mental power. Of course, only the most superficial part.

The timing of the appearance of these Night Bat Knights was just right: the crossbow had just fired a round, and although these war machines were extremely powerful, the shooting procedures were much more complicated than those of individual soldiers' equipment, and it was impossible to reload them in a hurry.

Several crossbow operators who were left behind to counter the possible Faceless Artillery raised their firing mechanisms and shot out giant arrows after a brief aim. With the help of the tracking rune, two Night Devil Bat Knights spun and fell from the sky, making a dull sound when they hit the rugged rocky ground. The next moment, flames exploded where the two Night Devil Bat Knights fell.

Instantly, An Jiyue realized what these soldiers she had never seen before were here for. For a moment, the girl wanted to immediately activate a trump card she had prepared in advance. Before the battle began, she buried a number of stone slabs engraved with talismans near the battlefield. These things could guide the wind of magic, thus helping her to quickly cast those powerful spells.

Soil and rock formations naturally block the flow of magic wind. The deeper underground you go, the weaker the magic wind becomes. An Jiyue is currently more than a kilometer above the ground. Even for a spellcaster of An Jiyue's level, it is very difficult to cast high-level spells in such a place. It's not that the spell can't be cast, but the thin magic wind will greatly prolong the time required to cast the spell, and it will also become more difficult to control.

Even though the stone tablet with the talisman engraved on it had been buried for three days, the magic wind gathered by it was still pitifully small in An Jiyue's opinion. If she only cast ordinary spells, there would be no difference between her here and on the surface. But if she wanted to cast a large-scale powerful spell, she would probably only have one chance to make a move.

All kinds of messy thoughts mixed up in the girl's mind, almost suffocating her. The Night Demon Bat Knight would soon fly over the dwarf army, leaving her only a dozen seconds to make a decision.

"Long-range troops, continue to hold your position," An Jiyue felt for the first time that her own voice was so unfamiliar, "Tu Wushang, go back to the camp to get sandbags, and come back quickly!"

The author says:

Author's note: I encountered some bad things in real life, but I have solved them. I will make up for the one I owe as soon as possible.

Chapter 90: The Way of a General (Part 2)

There were about seventy Night Bat Knights flying over the dwarves' heads.

Limited by the way they perceive the outside world, cavemen have almost no ability to observe distant targets, unless that thing continuously releases a very alarming volume. Generally speaking, cavemen can't "see" most enemy targets more than 50 meters away, let alone use long-range weapons to attack enemies outside this range.

The only exception is the Night Devil Rider. As the only cavemen allowed to learn the power of the mind, they can establish a stable mental connection with their mounts, directly control their beast companions by "thinking", and use the sensory organs of the Night Devil Bat to perceive the outside world. Compared with the cavemen's keen but limited hearing, the Night Devil Bat's ultrasonic wave has a crushing advantage in detection range, and its detection accuracy is no less than that of the cavemen's ears.

These experienced female knights pulled bowling ball-sized round objects from their saddles and threw them violently just before they flew over the heads of the dwarven ranged troops. Some heavy crossbowmen raised their dwarven crossbows and shot at them. When the crossbow strings rang, some of the Night Demon Bat Knights suddenly felt a strong sense of danger from the bottom of their hearts, and they responded immediately. The Night Demon Bats, who were in tune with the riders, turned their bodies nimbly and calmly avoided the crossbow arrows with the smallest movement.

Although the psychic power of the Night Devil Knights is crude and shallow compared to their Faceless Masters, it is enough to greatly enhance their sixth sense and give them amazing intuition about danger. With strict dodge training, non-range long-range attacks are extremely difficult to hit the Night Devil Knights.

The dwarven ballista was able to take down two Night Fel Bat Knights because they had never seen an arrow that could track a target... or any other ranged weapon with physical ammunition.

Pitch-black spherical projectiles fell from the sky. Some of the ammunition landed on an empty field, creating a fireball that only served to embellish the battlefield atmosphere. However, more than half of the incendiary bombs accurately smashed into the ranks of the dwarf ranged troops. In an instant, dozens of balls of blazing flames exploded in the crowd, and the air waves blew away living people and various debris.

An Jiyue clenched her back teeth. She forced herself to watch what was happening: the flames devoured two hundred, or three hundred dwarves in an instant. The incendiary bombs, which were based on crude petroleum and mixed with sulfides and certain alchemical products, would explode as soon as they came into contact with the air. The sticky liquid would stick to armor and clothes and flow slowly, burning wherever it flowed. Water had no effect on this thing, and only by covering it with sand to isolate it from the air could these flames, which were like a thorn in the flesh, be extinguished.

"Xiao An!" Barrel shouted in a voice that was almost like a roar.

If I had recruited a team of Lei Zhenzi in advance... This thought had just come to her mind when An Jiyue pushed it back. "The order remains unchanged," she looked straight ahead without looking at Barrel's expression at the moment, "Tu Wushang went to get sandbags. Let the crossbowmen and ballistae who were not affected or whose condition was not serious move to the sides and avoid the fire. Tell them to keep shooting."

As soon as the words fell, the area around the two of them was almost filled with the sound of crossbow strings. Thousands of rangers from Plateau Castle, under the command of their captains, pulled the trigger on their swords. A rain of arrows flew into the air, evenly covering the entire area above the position. The Night Demon Bat Knights calmly lowered their altitude, and a dark cloud of crossbow arrows swept over their heads.

The previous thought appeared in her mind again. An Jiyue knew that as long as she wanted, the surging thunder would kill these giant "mosquitoes" like an electric mosquito swatter.

After flying over the entire dwarf army, the Night Bat Knights, with almost no casualties, circled half a circle behind the dwarves, turned around and flew towards the back of the dwarf army.

"All rangers, move forward and reinforce the long-range troops in the front row." An Jiyue paused and said, "I am not squandering your army, Barrel, you saw it just now, I..."

"No need to explain," said the dwarf king. "Win this battle and don't let my men die in vain."