Why did the lord rebel

Chapter 57
Whether on Earth or on the Haven Continent where the Empire is located, the first soldier in history to discover that people can fight on horseback is undoubtedly a complete genius!

When a soldier has his own warhorse and becomes a cavalry, the improvement in combat capability he can get is not just as simple as 1+1=2;
First, the speed of the horse means that he instantly gains an unparalleled mobility advantage on the battlefield;
The height of the horse allows him to crush the infantry with a condescending attitude when fighting alone;

And even more importantly, the horse's carrying capacity means that he can wear stronger armor and wield larger and heavier weapons without affecting his movement!
In this era when hot weapons have not yet been born, and military operations are almost entirely dependent on white knives entering red knives and stabbing hard, except for siege warfare where infantry is the main force, a considerable part of field tactics basically revolve around cavalry and counter cavalry. Expand!

Spear knights, spearmen, mounted archers...

Cluster charge, Schisson formation, Parthian tactics...

The entire history of medieval warfare is almost a history of games revolving around cavalry and anti-cavalry, reverberating with the sound of hooves all the time!

It is precisely because horses have brought such great changes to the war pattern, and mounts are so important to knights, so, "how to make yourself stay on horseback safely" has become the cavalry individual skill in this era. An indispensable part!

And for this, Harrison Mustafa, the battle-hardened "Wind of Desolation" commander, is the best teaching example!

Facing the black unknown object that suddenly attacked from the right, he did not sit still in shock like Brother Zhan Chu, nor tried in vain to change the speed and direction of the horse, but left the saddle with his hips and kicked his feet away. With the stirrups, he only hugged the neck of the horse with his arms. Following the direction of the black shadow, he leaned to the left side of the horse's body, and then he hooked the horse's shoulders with his hands, and the whole person went around the horse's neck extremely smoothly. Turned around!
So, the black object that was supposed to hit him, just missed the target and swept over the horse's back;

And the commander of Mustapha, who escaped the catastrophe, climbed on the horse's back with a gentle force, and sat back on the saddle intact!

All this happened in an instant!

And in just this moment, the superb reflexes, strength, dexterity and equestrianism of the Chief Mustapha have been fully displayed!
If he described his horse riding skills as a championship-level cyclist who won the Tour de France trophy, then the Igor family represented by Xia Houyan, equestrian is like just learning cycling for two days, and his parents need to support him so as not to fall Fallen five-year-old!

However, before the head of Mustafa showed a smug smile, another black shadow flew over from the right side!

This time he wasn't so lucky - the head of Mustapha, who had just returned to the saddle, had not completely stabilized his center of gravity, and of course he couldn't repeat the same trick to avoid the second attack that came in a blink of an eye!

With a muffled sound, the shadow slammed into Mustafa's arms, and immediately rolled off the horse with him!

It was at that moment that Mustafa saw what the shadow was—

The shadow that suddenly jumped out of the roadside bushes was actually a soldier in armor!

But before Mustafa remembered why the soldier's armor looked a little familiar, the other party raised his head with his arms in his arms and met his gaze——

Mustafa was instantly distraught and his heart was torn apart!
Because what he saw was not the eyeball!

But in the empty eye sockets of the white bone skeleton, two wisps of light gray, burning and rising ghost fire!
Stuffed in this armor is not a living human being, but a skeleton with only bones left behind!

This is a skeleton soldier!

The group of Igor family in front hurriedly pulled the reins and turned the horse's head.

However, neither Master Laurie nor Alice had the desire to go up to make up for Captain Mustapha, who was thrown to the ground by the skeleton soldiers.

Because from the nearby bushes, dozens of the same skeleton soldiers ran out, jumping like a vicious dog to the Mustafa who fell to the ground, pressing the mercenary commander to the ground. Down!

In the pile of skeletons in Bai Sensen, Mustafa's roar like a trapped beast suddenly came!He exhausted all his strength, performed every combat skill he had learned in his life, and even used the dwarf berserker's unique secret skill "Rage", but in the end, his eyes were only red, and he was bitten by the skeleton soldiers who kept coming in. One bite on the body, one knife at the waist!

Under the bleak moonlight, a smear of red blood was quickly smeared among the countless skeleton soldiers.

The initiator of everything, the lord Xia Houyan held the reins, watching this scene with a complicated expression.

He knew the number of this group of skeleton soldiers very well: sixty.

Yes, this large group of daunting skeletons was made by him according to the guidance of "Necromancy Essentials", using the corpses of the "Desolation Wind" mercenaries who died in the previous battle!

What they were wrapped in, held in their hands, and even the leather armor and saber used by the mercenaries during their lifetimes!

I am afraid that the head of Mustafa would never have imagined that it was the undead creature that he had become, and sentenced him to death with one knife and one knife!

Looking at the scene of dozens of skeleton soldiers besieging a living person, Xia Houyan finally realized how powerful the necromancy spells recorded in "The Essentials of Necromancy" are taboos!

Why are there only a few combat spells that directly cause damage, such as "Finger of Death" in the entire "Necromancy Essentials"?
Because no need!
All the famous necromancers from ancient times to the present are all a group of undead creatures who call back and forth, and do not have to shoot themselves to fight the enemy!
The reason why they don't need any means of directly hurting the enemy is because the fangs of zombies, the claws of skeletons and the ghosts of ghosts are their best weapons!

Unlike the immortal zombies like Dave, the skeleton soldiers created by the mentor-level magic "Skull Resurrection" using corpses have insufficient strength, intelligence, and self-repair ability. , is a thorough disposable consumables;

But the advantage of "Skull Resurrection" is that it can be cast on a large number of corpses at one time, and the spell can be held quickly, and there is no high requirement for the integrity of the corpse!
Xia Houyan, who had long anticipated that this line of business could be subject to many changes, deliberately turned the [-] mercenary corpses into skeleton soldiers with "Skull Resurrection" before entering Yanxi City;
And Lord Hades did not disappoint him, and with a stroke of the pen again, reduced the high consumption of magic power he needed to cast spells;
Otherwise, at the level of his second-order mage, he would undoubtedly not be able to release this mentor-level necromantic spell.

The cunning and cunning lord, at that time, let the skeleton soldiers ambushed in the bushes in this area, just in case of any unexpected events; and after being targeted by the head of Mustafa, the Igor family naturally followed the road to the skeleton soldiers. The ambush site came, which led Mustafa to step into this undead trap step by step!
The death knell of Mustafa's fate had already sounded when the skeleton soldiers in ambush came out with the Lord's order!
Sometimes the development of things is so paradoxical: the Igor family, who had just been ambushed once by the "Wind of Desolation" mercenary group and suffered heavy losses, actually turned over to be the master this time, and in turn ambushed the mercenary leader once!
Sixty skeleton soldiers, the damage that can be done in a short period of time is amazing;

Although the commander of Mustapha killed more than a dozen white skeletons at the beginning with his amazing strength and desire to survive, he was eventually weakened by the attacks of other skeletons. Soon, the white skeletons piled up. There was no sound anymore.

Xia Houyan and Master Laurie glanced at each other, and waved their hands with the magic of the underworld.

As a result, the skeleton soldiers retreated extremely tamely, revealing the bloody corpse of the commander of Mustapha.

Lord Lord did not immediately return to the camp with his subordinates, but in the eyes of Master Laurie's epiphany that "it can still be done", he dismounted and walked towards Mustafa's corpse.

He, but there is still a key question to ask this mercenary robber!
(End of this chapter)