This sudden and ferocious attack had shaken the Da Qi army's first line of defense. The heavily armoured soldiers screamed as they were rammed by the Curved Horned Rhinoceroses. Some of them were pierced by the sharp horns of the Curved Horned Rhinoceroses and hung from the horns. Some of them were sent flying into the air and fell to the ground, where they were quickly trampled into meat paste.
The average height of these Curved Horned Rhinoceroses was 3.5 meters, and the heaviest of them weighed a terrifying ten tons. Originally, they needed to charge from a distance in order to exert a huge amount of kinetic energy. However, because they were hidden behind the formation, no one had expected that they would be able to charge in such a dense formation!
The inclined surface of the shields had become their run-up passage, allowing them to generate a huge amount of kinetic energy as they ran. The sturdy soldiers who were holding the shields were also trampled by the terrifying trampling force, causing them to spit out blood.
These hundreds of Curved Horned Rhinoceroses continuously charged into the formation from the inclined surface of the shields, destroying the battle line at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Looking down from above, the Curved Horned Rhinoceroses looked like wild bulls that had charged into a porcelain shop, rampaging and trampling. Soldiers were sent flying everywhere, and miserable screams could be heard everywhere. At this time, even if the heavy armoured soldiers rearranged themselves, and the spears set up a dense array of long spears, it would be of no use.
As soon as these long spears were set up, the Curved Horned Rhinoceroses charged in. The tips of the long spears were simply unable to pierce through their incomparably thick skin. Some of the Curved Horned Rhinoceroses had trampled over hundreds of spear soldiers, and their bodies were covered with long spears. However, they still charged forward like crazy, just like wild porcupines.
Seeing that the first line of defense had been broken, Long Tenghai was very calm. He did not even look at the cultivator army, but instead waved his hand and made a hand gesture, giving out an order.
Soon, the military flags and bugles sounded, and the military orders were passed down layer by layer. With the fastest time possible, the general of the vanguard army immediately began to mobilize the troops.
When the vanguard army received the sound of the gongs, they immediately retreated like the tide.
This kind of sound was also very rhythmic and methodical. It was not like the random knocking in movies and TV series. As long as it was hurried and loud enough, it would be fine.
The length and rhythm of the sound was different, and the meaning it conveyed was also different. The officers who could understand it immediately gave orders to the soldiers beside them. The soldiers closest to the battle line resisted on the spot and tried to cover the retreat in despair. The soldiers at the back began to split up and retreat. During the retreat, the front row held their guns and shields as they retreated, covering the retreating comrades at the back. The soldiers at the back arranged themselves in formation and retreated in an orderly manner. There was a gap of about ten meters between each group, so that the troops that came later could break into the battlefield and engage in battle.
Soon after this brief sound, another round of drumming was heard. The sides of the drum were three long and four short, the sides were three short, the sides were nine short, and the center of the drum was two short. When the drumming fell into the officer's ears, he immediately understood: Rugged Army, three formations, four ranks, quickly engage!
At the same time, in the dense mass of soldiers at the back, there was a group of heavily armored soldiers sitting cross-legged and holding huge swords. At this time, they uniformly stood up. The armor on their bodies was so heavy that it was almost impossible to see their bodies. They looked like moving human-shaped tanks.
The swords in their hands were even more frightening, reaching an astonishing length of 2.6 meters. The edges of the swords were three-pointed, double-edged, and the handles were nearly as thick as an adult's wrist. They weighed a frightening seventy kilograms!
Each of these soldiers reached an astonishing height of 1.9 meters. After wearing this kind of heavy armor, they reached a terrifying height of 2.3 meters. As soon as they stood up, they immediately pressed down on the surrounding soldiers by several heads. Unlike the soldiers who were shouting loudly, not a single one of them made a sound. Their silence was like that of a devil gazing at the enemy from the abyss.
This was the trump card of the Great Qi Kingdom's heavily armored infantry: Rugged Army, Mo Sword Regiment!
The helmets of these soldiers had two sharp horns at the top, and their faces were covered with full helmets, revealing only their eyes and noses. From their bodies to their fingers, there was not even the slightest gap to be found. Even if a powerful arrow were to hit them, it would only tickle them.
Their armor and swords added up to a total of four to five hundred kilograms. Unless one was born with great strength, they would not be able to wield them.
After hearing the military order, they immediately rearranged themselves according to the officer's orders, completing the formation in the shortest time possible. Then, they listened to the rhythm of the drums and began to step forward, each step causing the ground to fiercely tremble.
When they got into formation and began to enter the battlefield through the path that the defeated soldiers had opened up, the terrified and panicked soldiers immediately regained their courage when they saw their tall, mountain-like figures. Their steps also became much more orderly.
The heavily armored soldiers of the Mo Sword Regiment marched forward, rumbling as they arrived in front of the formation. At this time, almost all of the soldiers responsible for bringing up the rear had been trampled to death. Corpses were strewn everywhere, and rivers of blood flowed everywhere.
But these soldiers did not respond. When they heard the military order, they suddenly stopped and then immediately assembled to the left and right, forming a long black formation that resembled a great steel wall.
At this time, the crazed and berserk Curved Horned Rhinoceroses also rumbled toward them like a raging flood.
"Eternal Wind!!"
The officer next to them roared in unison. The soldiers in the first two rows of the Mo Sword Regiment immediately stabbed the ends of their swords into the ground and pointed them forward, forming a crisscrossed formation that was as dense as a forest.
The Mo Sword Regiment behind them took up their stances, holding their swords with both hands and pointing them to the ground. Their bodies were slightly arched, and their eyes were like eagles, staring straight ahead.
These Curved Horned Rhinoceroses were wild at this time. Even though there was a dense formation of swords in front of them, they still charged forward without any fear. In their view, they were able to overturn the spear formation, so what could this kind of swords count for?
But when they suddenly crashed into the Mo Sword Regiment, their huge bodies and terrifying impact were like a raging tide crashing into a reef. They were immediately smashed into pieces!
When the huge bodies of the Curved Horned Rhinoceroses crashed into the Mo Swords in the front row, the sharp tips of the swords immediately glowed red, piercing into their bodies like a hot knife cutting through cheese. They screamed miserably as they were skewered by the Mo Swords.
But the huge impact still knocked the two rows of heavily armored soldiers off their feet. Some of the heavily armored soldiers even had their heads tilted to the side from the impact of the rhinoceroses, and their necks were broken on the spot. But their hands were still tightly gripping the swords, maintaining their original posture.
The rhinoceroses at the front did not break through the line, and the rhinoceroses at the back were immediately forced to slow down. Some of them could not stop in time and crashed into the rhinoceroses that were skewered in front of them. The huge force caused the Mo Sword to bend violently, making a terrifying creaking sound of steel fatigue.
"Like a forest!!"
The front row was knocked askew, and the soldiers at the back immediately stepped forward according to the military order, filling in the gap. The entire front line was like a steel line. No matter how these rhinoceroses attacked, they did not move.
When these rhinoceroses' charge was finally completely blocked, and they were forced to stop one by one, another military order rang out loudly.
"Swift Fire!!"
The Mo Sword soldiers of the fourth and fifth row immediately stepped forward. They raised the Mo Swords in their hands in unison, and then they chopped down on the heads of the Curved Horned Rhinoceroses that had already lost their charge!
With this one slash, all the Curved Horned Rhinoceroses were cut in half on the spot!
Blood splattered, and organs flew!
Looking from afar, they simply looked like a flying sawtooth wheel that was constantly rolling forward, leaving behind a hell of blood and flesh!
In an instant, the front line was quickly pushed forward, and they immediately recovered the position they had lost at a speed visible to the naked eye. They pushed forward, and once again pushed to the back of the front line. The officers loudly shouted, "Like a mountain!!"
Crash!
The footsteps of the soldiers simultaneously stopped, and the Mo Swords in their hands were once again neatly inserted into the ground. They pointed forward, and no longer moved.