Chapter 431: Pursuit
Those who have experienced war know that as long as a group of soldiers in the army run away and there is no strong commander to stop them, it will soon turn into a rout of the entire team.
Now, both the three demon generals and the Great Demon King Piccolo are trapped in the demon domain, and the demons on the field do not have a commander who can convince the crowd. Therefore, after the demon soldiers discovered the escape of the demons in the rear, they quickly lost their will to fight and chose to escape together.
Although demons are not human, they also have a herd mentality. What's more, the wind direction of the entire army is to escape. Even if there are a few demons who want to fight to the death, they are all swept away by the large army and start to escape.
If you really don't know how to live or die and continue to rush forward, you may even be killed by your own people because you block the escape path of other demons. Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that there are still about 2,000 demon troops starting to rout.
Seeing that the demons that had been attacking their own camp unremittingly retreated like a tide, the blood elves first breathed a sigh of relief, and then became excited.
Compared to the previous situation where they had to worry about whether the demons would break through the defense line and threaten their homes and the great Sunwell, the current situation couldn't be better. The demon soldiers who were fleeing wholeheartedly could serve as a better target than before.
Relying on the characteristics of the magic-saving skills and the passive and active mana recovery of the blood elf witches, all blood elf magicians did not fall into a situation of lack of mana. A large number of blood elf magicians cast magic with more energy than before, harvesting the lives of fleeing demons.
As melee units, the sword dancers and bloody knights had to suffer a lot. After working hard to block the previous demon offensive, they now had to take the initiative to chase the fleeing demon soldiers.
Fortunately, the blood elf witch troops, which had been busy restoring the magic power of a large number of blood elf magicians or limiting the occasional demons that broke through the defense line, also freed up their hands at this time and began to cast deceleration spells on the demon troops.
The blood elf witch's deceleration skill is very powerful, and can directly cut down the enemy's movement speed. Especially those elite blood elf witches, when they raise their hands, they will slow down a group of people, greatly reducing the movement speed of all demons in a small area.
When the front has entered a melee, most ordinary blood elf witches can be said to be difficult to do. The deceleration skill will not have much effect when the enemy is close in the positional battle.
Only the blood elf witches who have reached the elite and elite levels can use the sheep transformation to limit some enemies with strong momentum and restore magic points to friendly forces, which can make a great contribution.
However, when the enemy starts to escape and the positional battle becomes a pursuit battle, the role played by the blood elf witch cannot be ignored. The cooling of the deceleration skill is very fast. Every ten seconds, a demon will fall into a state of half a minute of movement speed reduction, which makes them who are trying to escape very troubled.
Moreover, the casting distance of the deceleration skill is not very short. Most blood elf witches choose to apply the deceleration effect to the demons running in the front. In this way, although most of the demons cannot be taken care of for the time being, it can still slow down the escape speed of the entire demon army.
As the blood elf witches worked hard to cast deceleration, the melee units of the blood elves began to chase the demons with the blessing of the priests.
The blood knights, who moved very fast, rushed to the front. The entire blood knight army formed an arrow-shaped charge formation, with the spearmen and the only blood fury knight Xinjili as the arrowhead.
Originally, Yu Fei was going to let these knights come out to give the demons a fatal blow when they launched a counterattack at the end, but he didn't expect the situation on the field to change rapidly, and the demons were defeated so quickly and inexplicably.
Fortunately, the blood knights were ready to attack to defend their homes at any time. Under Yu Fei's command, they were not caught off guard and quickly formed a formation to chase the demons.
Although the Lancers at the front had activated the enhanced Hot-Blooded Charge skill, they also deliberately slowed down their speed so as not to be out of touch with the other knights who only had general charge skills; behind the cavalry were all the sword dancers, who could cause damage to multiple targets at the same time and were the best soldiers to harvest enemy lives in a melee.
Because the demons fleeing in the front were slowed down by a large number of deceleration skills, the demons that were originally charging in the front and now fell behind were blocked by these "friendly forces" whose speeds were slowed down to the normal speed. Even if they could be ruthless and kill the demons that blocked their way, it would be difficult for them to break free for a while because the deceleration spell had a wide range.
The Blood Knights in the charge, with just this one enemy with their backs to them, and in a mess where no one launched a counterattack or tried to interrupt the cavalry's charge, fully demonstrated their strength.
After a long charge, the damage of the Blood Knights was greatly enhanced, and the damage of the Lancers who activated the Hot-Blooded Charge was more than doubled. After breaking into the demon army that had no intention of resisting, the cavalrymen's spears pierced through the bodies of the demons one by one, turning them into their own experience.
After the charge, the cavalry unit's damage bonus is only once, and the bloody knights can only attack with their own attributes. Only a few lance cavalry units once again activated the spear thrust skill and continued to cause considerable damage.
However, although the effect of the charge was only one round, it also caused three or four hundred casualties to the fleeing demons. Xingli, who activated the blood rage state, rode alone and pierced through the bodies of more than ten demons, with remarkable results.
After the cavalry charge, it was time for the sword dancers to show their strength. The agile sword dancers quickly broke into the demon army, using their dual swords, slashing and even constant sword dance characteristics to cause a lot of damage to the enemy.
The elite sword dancers rushed faster than the bloody knights, relying on the leaping flash skill to flash directly into the demon team, and relying on the constant sword dance state to slaughter the demons around them.
Unlike ordinary sword dancers who still need to worry about being hurt by demon counterattacks, elite sword dancers are all masters of swordsmanship. The existence of the sword curtain skill allows them to easily block the possible counterattacks of demons and devote themselves to killing.
The elite blood elf priests also specially applied bloodlust and soul fire to these sword masters, allowing their output capacity to reach an extreme.
Although hundreds of sword dancers did not cause high damage to the cavalry troops that were not blessed by the charge at the beginning, the results they achieved later were much greater than those of the cavalry. Some ordinary sword dancers even directly advanced in the battle and became elite sword dancers, slaughtering the fleeing demons faster.
However, relatively speaking, the cavalry troops have stronger defenses, and they did not suffer any losses in front of some demons who fought back because they saw that they could not escape smoothly; while the sword dancers, whose armor was so low that it was almost non-existent, had already suffered some damage.
This made Yu Fei somewhat sigh. Night elf archers are more convenient to use. Although archers may be lower than sword dancers in output, archers are more cost-effective in terms of safety and fire suppression.
This was a pursuit battle with the wind, and a small number of sword dancers were lost. If it were in those more tragic wars, I am afraid that only half of the sword dancers would be left after a battle. Of course, the damage they can cause is definitely greater than their own losses.
On the battlefield, the elite sword dancers who are at ease and the ordinary sword dancers who are constantly injured or even dead form a sharp contrast. Thinking of the gap between the elite blood elf troops and the ordinary and elite troops in the rest of the blood elf witches, priests and scarlet knights, Yu Fei had a kind of enlightenment in his heart.
The blood elves, as a race, may not be able to mass-produce troops like the night elves.