Chapter 1342

The dozen or so people nearby were inevitably caught in the blast and injured—some had their clothing set ablaze, others were struck on the head by flying rocks and died on the spot.

Yet from the sky, burning stone projectiles kept raining down one after another, each one catching a dozen or so people in its blast radius.

This scene left the Holy Kingdom's commander utterly dumbfounded.

They said there were no large-scale war machines—what the hell is this?

Was their intelligence wrong? Or had the Chilperi Kingdom lent war machines to the Imperial army?

But hadn't the Chilperi Kingdom's war machines already been wiped out completely by Taji and Lei Dun? Newly built ones couldn't possibly be this efficient, could they?

The Holy Kingdom's commander racked his brains but couldn't figure it out.

But if the enemy only had catapults, gritting his teeth and enduring didn't seem impossible, did it? After some hesitation, the Holy Kingdom's commander still gritted his teeth and continued the attack—if the Imperial army entered the Chilperi Kingdom's capital and helped with the defense, that would be troublesome.

With their current number of mages, they couldn't summon Magic Crystal Cannon strikes.

"Mage corps, fall back! Signal the cavalry—priority target the enemy catapults!"

"Yes!"

Soon, a special signal flare was fired into the sky above the battlefield.

The cavalrymen's first reaction upon seeing it was to detour and head toward the catapults in the enemy rear camp, but there was no enemy blocking them up ahead—only a whoosh-whoosh-whoosh sound like the wind.

Suddenly, a figure appeared in the cavalry's line of sight—it looked like a strange vehicle moving at extreme speed!

No horse, yet moving so fast? What kind of dark magic was that?

A bad premonition rose in their hearts, but by the time they noticed, it was already too late.

Stopping a cavalry charge isn't something that happens in an instant, and the enemy's war chariot was equally fast—within a minute, the two sides were already very close.

"Enemy war chariot! Prepare to evade!"

As for the offensive capabilities of war chariots, the Holy Kingdom's soldiers were still stuck on the concept of ramming and side-swiping.

Since the enemy war chariot had no horses, that meant the enemy was very likely planning to ram the cavalry—a shield wall set up in front, with the horses hidden behind the shield wall.

In fact, it was more or less like that, but the Holy Kingdom's cavalry had also underestimated the blade chariot that Lin Cheng had built.

"Cavalry, begin evasive maneuvers—take them out!"

"Got it!"

The cavalry scattered to both sides, and the soldier driving the blade chariot decisively turned the steering wheel left and right, executing a swinging-tail maneuver. Greedy, he wanted to reap the cavalry on both sides—of course, one can't have one's cake and eat it too.

Even so, the sharp, high-speed spinning blades easily severed the warhorses' limbs, sliced open their bellies spilling copious blood and entrails, and the soldiers who fell didn't even know what was happening. The spinning blades at the rear sliced straight through their breastplates and took the cavalrymen's lives.

On the field, apart from the whirring-whirring-whirring sound of the spinning blades, only the warhorses' wails remained. The warhorses, with their strong vitality, could still let out a few cries, but as for the Holy Kingdom's cavalry, the instant they fell from their mounts, their lives were reaped by the spinning blades.

The spinning blades were like a harvester, madly reaping the weeds.

"Oh-ho, this is too awesome—first time I've felt war could be this easy. Master Lin Cheng really is a genius!"

"Yeah, if it weren't for the iron plate blocking the side, I might've gotten a face full of blood."

"Your face has gone pale—got scared? It is a bit terrifying, yeah."

"Good thing the Master is on our side. The war chariot is like a scythe—rows and rows just falling down."

This driver and soldier, when they first trained in driving, were personally instructed by Lin Cheng, who called himself a genius.

Back then, they still thought it wouldn't work—were the Holy Kingdom's people really that stupid?

Knowing full well the danger of the war chariot, they still stupidly crashed into it head-on—but now they had to admit that the war chariot's speed, agility, and stability far exceeded their imagination.