Mount & Blade: Wind of War - Chapter 609

c596 Magic crystal airship, cross-era combat power crushing

The overall combat power and morale of the Merchant Alliance mercenary corps were low. Although the salary was high, the level of the middle and senior officers was too poor.

Although they responded in time and Rhode went to support them personally, they were still far from being the opponent of the Skaven army.

The Skaven had strong heavy-armored melee rats, unique magic and technology systems, and amazing numbers.

Although the rats were timid and prone to collapse, they were also prone to fanaticism when their morale was high, launching a group charge without fear of death and injury, and coupled with the effect of plague magic, they almost defeated the Merchant Alliance army in the early stages of the war.

Fortunately, Rhode reacted quickly, set up a strong camp and fought a stupid battle, deployed layers of defense and slowly retreated, using space for time.

In this way, the offensive of the Skaven was barely suppressed.

In this process, Rhode also took action repeatedly. It was precisely because of the existence of the continent’s strongest man, the Emperor of Light, that the morale of the Merchant Alliance army, which had been defeated repeatedly, remained above the horizontal line. However, this frequent rescue was very dangerous for Rhode himself.

Because there was also a powerful giant horned rat god on the opposite side, who frequently attacked on the battlefield. If he was surrounded by the enemy’s legendary units, the giant horned rat god would attack at the right time, and Rhodes might be surrounded and killed on the battlefield.

Although cruel, low-level troops are used for consumption in extraordinary wars. In fact, in any world, once the army goes to the battlefield, it is essentially used for consumption. The Skaven ratmen are huge in number and are more thorough in this regard.

As long as they can surround Rhodes and kill him to exhaustion, they will not care how many low-level ratmen they send.

Fortunately, either the giant horned rat god failed to attack for some reason, or because Rhodes arranged properly, he did not give the other side a chance to attack.

With the arrival of troops from other countries, the situation gradually stabilized.

Although the plague was spreading among the army, the army was a highly obedient collective, and it was much easier to control than in the civilian world. Every day, holy priests and light priests cast purification spells to suppress the spread of the plague to the greatest extent.

Originally, the top extraordinary powers in this world had secretly reached a consensus to sacrifice the entire Merchant Alliance in exchange for strategic buffer time.

However, because of the existence of the Emperor of Light, the situation of the Merchant Alliance was stabilized. Although the entire Merchant Alliance still suffered heavy losses, it seemed that the entire country did not have to be consumed.

The Holy Empire, the Mage Kingdom, the Northland Elves, Raymond and Saint Laurent, and even the beast-blooded forces of the Sims Royal Court, all sent troops to support the front-line war.

Especially when the regular army of the Empire of Light entered the field, it completely sounded the horn of the coalition’s counterattack.

“My God, what is that?”

It was not only the Skaven who were attacked who exclaimed like this, even the coalition countries, when they saw the new weapons of the Empire of Light, they all had such an expression.

There was no way. For people of this era, when they suddenly saw the Atiman Magic Crystal Airship that looked like a small castle, they really couldn’t help but be shocked.

Magic Crystal Airship, one of the intermediate technologies of the Sage Civilization.

Without a large amount of magic crystal ore, this technology would not be realized even if it was obtained. If Rhodes had not always attached great importance to the construction of engineering in the territory, and even asked Atiman to become the dean of the engineering college and teach his disciples.

Even with the legacy of the sage civilization and even with enough magic crystal ore, this creation could not be quickly transformed.

However, for the Empire of Light, these problems are not a problem at all.

The advanced and top technologies of the sage civilization are still beyond Atiman’s understanding, but he can learn some intermediate technologies and develop and manufacture them with his apprentices.

The huge airship was advancing in the air, and the hatch was opened. Soldiers dropped “packages” one by one below. When these “packages” fell on the Skaven ratmen’s position, they exploded continuously with a rumble, and the terrifying flames forcibly dispersed the ratmen within the range.

Once there is no formation on the battlefield and the morale is suppressed, what is left is a one-sided massacre of one side against the other.

Magic crystal explosive packs, one of the low-level technologies of the sage civilization.

In this era, this is actually a magic crystal weapon with a very low utilization rate, because the value of magic crystal is too high, while the power of magic crystal explosive pack is relatively small. In addition to the Bright Empire, which owns the Hell Territory and can continuously mine magic crystals, other forces will not use or afford such war consumables even if they are jealous.

“Counterattack! Counterattack!”

Such shouts were issued by the coalition forces and the Skaven.

Some Skaven riflemen whose morale has not collapsed stepped into the trench bunkers and kept shooting at the magic crystal airship in the sky.

However, those bullets hit the heavy armor, but it is often difficult to break through its defense, and it is not just that.

As the hatches on both sides of the magic crystal airship opened, a large number of Rhodok sacred heavy crossbowmen and King Guard Griffin Knights flew out.

Whether it is the light arrows of the sacred heavy crossbowmen or the javelin and axe of the King Guard Griffin Knights, they have caused huge damage to the Skaven below.

In particular, Wang Wei’s Griffin Knights would throw down magic crystal explosive packs from time to time. Although the number was small, they were undoubtedly more targeted than the bombardiers on the airship. A dive and then a throw could often blow out a large group of rats from a trench.

Although the absorption and transformation time was too short, even with the efficiency of the Empire of Light and the whole country’s efforts, only less than ten magic crystal airships were produced, but the appearance of less than ten magic crystal airships successfully made the Skaven Ratman retreat a hundred miles, and they had to use deep trenches and underground fortifications to deal with the absolute air superiority of the human coalition.

At this point, the war situation can be said to have changed from offense to defense.

Because of the high alertness of the Mage Kingdom, because of the powerful control and military command capabilities of the Emperor of Light Rhodes, and because of the forced sacrifice of the entire Merchant Alliance, this plane war gradually entered the stage of wrestling between the two sides.