Apocalyptic Dragonborn Lord

Chapter 66 Iron and Blood
Accompanied by the sound of passionate horns, the cavalry on both sides took the lead in charging. They first walked slowly, then trotted, and then trotted. At the last 50 meters, they put down their lances and sprinted at full speed.

Amidst the smoke and dust in the sky, the iron horseshoe hit the ground, and a loud noise like thunder echoed throughout the valley.

Together with the knights and attendants, there were a total of two thousand heavy cavalry galloping on the flat ground at the same time, and Stannis, who was still on the hillside, felt himself shaking.

He finally understood why heavy cavalry could look down upon them in the era of cold weapons, because when faced with these one-ton monsters approaching him at an unstoppable speed, those peasants who were sent as cannon fodder without much training , It takes a lot of courage just not to run away.

"Are they just stupidly hedging like this? Can you make some outside moves?" Stannis asked Korodov. If he came to command, he would definitely dig some trenches on the battlefield and set up horse-repelling posts. All fire, water, and smoke have to be used, and those dull Westerners like these will only rush with their heads covered.

But the experienced knight commander resolutely rejected his idea, "The field here is very empty, which is not conducive to setting up traps. If it is not handled properly, it will cause trouble for our own troops to advance."

He was still too young, and Stannis once again felt that his oriental wisdom beyond a thousand years seemed useless.

The frontmost knight 'Sword Wind' Labania has already entered the enemy formation, his not so stalwart figure was swallowed by countless black shadows in an instant, hundreds of lances were snapped off in an instant, sawdust and spear heads were flying in the air, just In one encounter, nearly a quarter of the knights fell off their horses screaming, and more horses neighed to a stop, and the knights on top drew out their swords and began to slash selflessly.

The sound of weapons colliding resounded through the sky, but the fierce hand-to-hand combat did not cause too many casualties. Relying on the excellent plate armor and shields prepared by the knights, only blunt weapons can cause effective damage.

The horns on both sides sounded again, calling the knights to regroup.

After the first round of charging, most of the knights chose to return to the formation.

But at some point, the short champion knight Labania killed through the enemy formation alone, and appeared in front of the enemy's main formation covered in blood.

As expected of the number one knight of Tanis!Stannis couldn't help feeling, is he going to beg for it?
It seemed that Savoy was also very nervous, and the soldiers in the front rows lowered their spears and pointed them at the knights.

Stannis is fully focused. He is ready to witness the fighting power of the amazing but often humanoid dragon Aotian in the fantasy world.

But 'Sword Wind' didn't go any further. After all, 1 dozen 10000 is too exaggerated in the fantasy world.

When he was five meters away from the gun formation, he turned his horse's head and fled with a 180-degree turn.

In this regard, the expectant lord could only choke speechlessly.

"After the knights charge, the next step is the infantry duel." Korodov finally said.

The drums sounded again, and with the rhythmic beats, the infantry on Tanis' side formed 16 square formations and advanced in a column of 8*2.

Each phalanx consisted of about two hundred infantry, while archers stood on hillsides and fired bows and arrows at the enemy.

"Why don't the people on the two wings come up?" Stannis noticed that the soldiers in the left and right directions still remained motionless, and there were about 2000 soldiers in each.

"Because the Chinese army has not yet contacted, if we rashly join the battlefield, there is no guarantee that the opponent will throw all the cavalry into one wing and smash our weak wing at once."

On the way forward, some people fell to the ground from time to time, but no one stopped to take care of the wounded soldiers, and they did not carry the wounded soldiers off the battlefield, allowing the dying to die of excessive blood loss.

It seems that there is no field first aid here. Stannis knows that the cause of the heavy casualties of the medieval army is not the death on the spot, but the wounded soldiers not receiving first aid. It seems that he has to find some beautiful nurse sisters to establish a classical field hospital.

Finally, the two sides stopped at a distance of less than 50 meters. The soldiers in the first few rows took out heavy weapons such as two-handed swords and armor-piercing hammers. They acted like commandos to tear open their mouths.

Accompanied by the sudden roar of the horn, the soldiers also let out earth-shattering shouts like crazy, and then under the roar of the leading knight officer, the infantry began to charge, and the phalanxes disintegrated one by one, and merged with the separated phalanxes on the opposite side .

At the same time, from time to time on the battlefield, several blazing fireballs exploded where the crowd was densest.

That was the 'Pyroblast' technique that only mages could use. Stannis noticed that not far from the battlefield, several mages in robes were standing behind the double-reverse front, chanting spells.

Those are the guardian mages of their respective lords. They are protected by layers of soldiers, as important as heavy artillery.

It turns out that a mage can create a big fireball, so the gunpowder is still useful!Fortunately, I am not a bitter science student.Stannis secretly rejoiced.

However, those mages were exhausted after casting a few spells, and it seemed that casting large spells was extremely exhausting.

Accompanied by the bloody fight, the soldiers fell down one after another like harvested wheat. The soldiers in front were all dead, and the people behind immediately rushed forward. It was completely a competition to see which side collapsed first.

"Is this simply because there are more people than there?" Stannis could see that many people couldn't even wield weapons in this crowded environment, and they simply squeezed each other to death.

"That's right." Korodov gave him a strange look. Isn't the decisive factor in deciding a war just to compete on which side has more troops?

If it's just a simple competition of manpower without so many scheming and evil, Stannis feels that he can also participate in the war game with his own intelligence.

The infantry on both sides fought inextricably, and at this time the men and horses on the two wings finally started to move. They shouted at each other and charged, strangling together.

In a rare battle, the blood mist filled the air, and even the air was filled with the sweetness of blood.

But Stannis was thinking about how he would do better if he directed it himself.

Since this battle is just a competition to see which side has more people, why can't the heavy troops be placed in one direction to form a local advantage?

In the process of this infantry phalanx confrontation, Epaminondas of Thebes showed its advantages when he defeated Sparta. He deployed heavy troops on the enemy's weak chain, as long as he could Open a gap in the front, even if a small hole leads to the complete failure of the opponent's entire front.

"If I were in command," Stannis began to speak of his vision, "I would draw out one team from each of the six square formations on the right and deploy them to the two left columns. In this way, although the number of people on the right would decrease, it would still be Able to maintain a ratio of one to two, able to stalemate for a short period of time, and deploy the extra 6 teams to the left, forming an advantage of nearly one to four, able to defeat the enemy on the left as quickly as possible, and then cooperate with the right wing to kill the rest Surround. At the same time, leave the extra team as a reserve team and split it into several small teams for reinforcements at any time to fill the loopholes on the front.”

(End of this chapter)