Alien Knights

With heavy steps, Alfonso returned to the expeditionary force.

Taking one last look at the top of the hill, he put his helmet back on and ordered everyone: "Attack."

Ionella grabbed Randall who was about to step forward and whispered: "This time we are the ones fighting the front line."

Under the latter's astonished gaze, Yoonela and dozens of beast control users commanded their respective giant wolves to advance towards the top of the mountain.

Ackerman watched hundreds of giant wolves approaching the top of the mountain in a dispersed formation. Worried, he walked to Alfonso's side and whispered: "There are at least two thousand enemy troops stationed up there, with muskets and artillery. With everything in place, these war beasts are simply unable to break through the enemy’s defenses.”

Alfonso stared straight ahead and answered him: "Take a closer look at the army. Do you find that there is something missing?"

Ackerman looked back at the army behind him, then looked up at the battlefield. After a few seconds, he frowned and asked, "Are there fewer war beasts? Where are the guys who look like big lizards?"

Alfonso said nothing, but stretched out the index finger of his right hand and pointed at his feet.

Seeing the other party's actions, Ackerman was confused.

After approaching the extreme range of the enemy's guns, hundreds of giant wolves began to lie down and crawled on the ground.

The enemy's nervous shouts came from the enemy camp on the top of the mountain.

Facing these ferocious-looking and huge giant wolves, some timid soldiers ignored the orders of their superiors and began to shoot blindly.

One person's panic, like a deadly plague, instantly spreads to the entire enemy position.

At first it was just sporadic gunshots, but in the end it turned into continuous shooting.

However, due to the range and power, the enemy's shooting did not cause any substantial casualties to the war beasts.

Occasionally, one or two unlucky giant wolves were hit in the body by muskets. At most, they only roared twice in pain. Under the control of the beast control user, they still lay on the spot, motionless.

Seeing the smoke in the air getting thicker and thicker, and listening to the increasingly chaotic noise on the battlefield, Alfonso nodded and said, "It's almost time."

Ackerman was completely confused: "Is it time? Is it time to do what?"

Alfonso turned to a beast controller next to him and said, "Let's get started."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden chaos in the enemy defense line at the top of Yuanjin Hills.

Trenches, bunkers, tunnels... In these fortifications, the originally solid walls were suddenly broken open by huge force, and sharp monster claws stretched out from the holes in the rock wall. In the blink of an eye, many of them were destroyed. The enemy soldiers were caught off guard and torn to pieces.

"There's...something coming out of the soil!"

A gunner in the bunker looked at the five-meter-long mutated giant lizard in front of him, with double horns on his head and covered with iron scales. He was suddenly frightened out of his mind and his limbs became limp.

The commander of the bunker wing sat on the ground, watching this huge monster that he had never seen before crawling closer and closer, and shouted with chattering teeth: "What are you still...still standing there in a daze?! Shoot! Shoot!" "

The defenders in the bunker picked up their muskets and attacked the giant lizard.

The musket hit the monitor lizard, accompanied by the sound of metal collision, and in a burst of brilliant and dazzling sparks, the bullets were bounced around.

Enraged by the musket attack, the monitor lizard opened its huge mouth, and a thick gray-green mist instantly filled the entire small space.

A soldier standing in front of the giant lizard was closest to the poisonous mist and was sprayed all over his body.

This gray-green poisonous mist clearly looks like gas, but when it touches armor, clothing, and skin, it becomes as sticky as oil.

Along with the rising burst of white smoke, all objects contaminated by the poisonous mist were instantly corroded out of shape as if they had been exposed to strong acid.

The soldiers watched helplessly as their bodies were corroded by the poisonous mist. In the end, only dark and fragile bones were left. The screams of fear echoed throughout the battlefield in an instant.

"Retreat! Retreat outside..."

The commander who fled towards the exit of the bunker only had time to say a few words. After inhaling a little poisonous mist, he began to bleed from his seven holes. He could no longer stand upright and fell limply to the ground. His whole body began to emit the stench of rotting flesh and... smoke.

The poisonous smoke exhaled by dozens of Gila monsters slowly spread along the bunkers, trenches and tunnels. From a distance, it looked like someone had lit a pyre in the enemy's position.

More and more enemy soldiers climbed out of the trenches, abandoned their original positions, and began to move higher up the hills to avoid the poisonous gas.

Along the way, hundreds of people fell down trying to escape because they inhaled a little poisonous gas.

By the time the church army regrouped, at least one-third of the soldiers had died in the tunnels where the poisonous gas had accumulated.

Ackerman, who saw this scene at the foot of the mountain, was stunned and speechless.

Alfonso sat on the stone pier, put his two-handed sword on his lap, and ordered the beast controller beside him: "The wolves attack."

The impatient giant wolves, who had been waiting for a long time, got up from the ground excitedly after receiving the order from the beast controller. At lightning speed, they bypassed the bunkers full of poisonous gas and pounced directly towards the mountain from both sides. Those fleeing enemy troops.

As long as it is a lone soldier or a small team, it will often be bitten to pieces by the giant wolves in just one encounter.

However, in the face of those organized enemy troops with more than a hundred people, the giant wolf kept a relatively safe distance, pressing far behind the enemy troops and driving them in a specific direction.

Randall, who was waiting at the bottom of the mountain, looked up at the battle on the mountain, becoming more and more confused as he looked.

He found Alfonso and asked, "Sir, those war beasts seem to be trying to drive the enemy troops together?"

Alfonso didn't speak, just nodded.

Randall frowned and said: "According to the normal tactical arrangement, the war beast has the advantages of speed and team. It should focus on gathering and dispersing the enemy's troops, forcing the enemy to be unable to organize effective resistance, and then defeat them one by one. Expand the results.”

"But now driving all the scattered enemy troops together will give the enemy a chance to form a unit. Once the enemy, under the leadership of the commander, re-establishes the defensive formation, it will have an extremely negative impact on our army. ."

Ackerman also came over at this time and asked: "Is the Crusader ready to attack?"

Alfonso looked up at the top of the mountain and shook his head slightly.

Puzzled, Randall and Ackerman followed Alfonso's line of sight toward the top of the mountain.

The church soldiers who had fled from the defense line had gradually gained a firm foothold and used the earth and rocks on the top of the mountain as natural shelters to start shooting at the approaching wolves.

After launching a tentative attack, the giant wolves found that the enemy's firepower was too strong. After leaving four or five wolf corpses behind, they hurriedly fled down the mountain.

Randall advised at this time: "Sir, attack. If you delay any longer, the enemy's defeated troops will meet at the top of the mountain. They can rely on the terrain advantage to form a defense line again. At that time, it will be very difficult to defeat them. ."

Alfonso raised his chin towards the top of the mountain: "Look up."

Randall followed his instructions and looked again. On top of a boulder at the highest point of the Far Ember Hills, two blurry shadows made him squint his eyes.

"I see something moving in the air, but what is it...?"

As soon as Randall finished speaking, the two vague shadows on the top of the mountain slowly revealed their true appearance.

It was a creature he had never seen before.

This creature is more than ten meters long, and its spiny tail like a steel whip accounts for half of its body length.

Its entire body is light gray, with a layer of weird mucus on its surface. Once exposed to light, a wonderful visual illusion appears, allowing this creature to blend in with its surroundings.

It has extremely explosive limbs and a streamlined body suitable for swift and stealthy actions. Its posture looks like a leopard, but its body is much larger.

The upward part of its torso has no resemblance to any other creature in this world.

On its long neck, there is a huge fleshy sac that opens and closes. It is usually shrunk in the abdominal cavity and is only exposed outside the body when needed.

The appearance of its head can only be found in horror legends.

A pair of completely black oval eyes with no pupils, two pairs of strange mouthparts that resemble insect jaws, and dozens of tentacles hanging from the top of the head constitute the most frightening aspect of this monster.