Knight with Wand

Before the afterglow of dusk fell, the aroma of meat wafted from the Orland camp surrounding Green Creek Village.

The war was about to begin, and Elifu did not skimp on the supplies for the soldiers. In addition to sufficient food and wine, cured meat and ham, Usatoland's specialty dried fish, and even freshly slaughtered fat sheep, the soldiers had a hearty meal.

Six hundred elite infantry, four hundred crossbowmen, and four hundred cavalry.

The 1,400 people who came to Green Creek Village to serve as bait and cover for the outflanking troops were all soldiers of the Thorn Flower Family.

Leon understood that this was not a selfless king who was willing to sacrifice his own military power to be loyal to the kingdom.

It's just that on the battlefield, no matter what tactics the army executes, there are risks.

Not only did he want to attract the two thousand Uriah cavalry, but he couldn't really let the army acting as a bait be eaten, Elliot naturally did not dare to hand over such an important task to a coalition of lords from the River Valley County.

In the tactic of luring the king into a urn, once the troops that delay and attract attention are really defeated by the Urians, then this combat plan will become a rock that shoots itself in the foot.

Only an army that can advance and retreat together under one flag can truly hold back the enemy's offensive.

". Tomorrow we will form a formation on the hilly land to the east of the village. Once the Urians launch an attack, Leon, you will immediately go to the west bank to inform Lord Ellipher. I will let the army pretend to be defeated in time and retreat in an orderly manner to delay time. "Baron Balfe once again reiterated your responsibilities for tomorrow.

The sun is sinking farther and farther west.

Several manticores carried the Kantadar knights on their backs and passed by the riverside village full of Uriah cavalry.

Further south, the baggage convoy carrying food and grass was slowly arriving at the forward camp.

The shadows of several ferocious beasts disturbed many prairie people's horses and livestock, causing these ferocious cavalry to curse lowly at the manticore knights.

Whether it is a griffon or a manticore, the giant beasts in the sky that feed on herds of livestock have always been the most hated object of the Urians.

When the Manticore landed on the banner of the general of the Uriah tribe, the sky knights who obeyed Abel's orders reported the military situation to the tribal war leader who led the troops.

"There is an Orland army of about 1,500 people stationed in a village on the south bank of the river. Most likely, they are here to stop you. There must be a tidal flat ahead for easy crossing." The knight lowered his head and said to the leader of the Uriah cavalry.

Achaji, who was wearing heavy armor, raised his head and was very dissatisfied with the arrogant attitude of the Kantadar knight who did not even get off his saddle, but he did not neglect the information conveyed by the other party.

"Are you sure there are only 1,500 people? How many infantry? How many cavalry?" Achaji asked.

"There are about a thousand infantry and no more than 500 cavalry, but I don't know if there are more people on the north bank. You must hurry to the south bank of the main stream of the river."

The Manticore Knight urged, looked at the sky, and asked: "It's late, I have to go."

Seeing Manticore flapping its wings, Achaji hurriedly warned: "Wait a minute, after you go back, I will ask Al Jin Shouhan for another thousand reinforcements. In addition, since the northerners have discovered us, there is no need to let them hide their whereabouts." , be sure to arrive as soon as possible!”

The Manticore Knight responded and led the team to take off.

Achaji turned around, returned to the wooden house where he temporarily lived, and looked at the scrawled map on the table.

He led the tribe's two thousand cavalry and was ordered to pass through the country roads in the forest, go east to the tributary of the Usato River, and then continue north toward the upper reaches of the map.

As expected, the villages found along the way were all deserted, unable to plunder, and trapped by supplies, which greatly slowed down the marching speed of the cavalry under his command.

People need to eat, and war horses consume five to eight times, or even ten times more food and grass than soldiers during long-term use. Now they can no longer rely on fighting to obtain food on the spot. The cavalry who used to come and go like the wind, The speed of long-distance marching is almost as slow as that of infantry.

"About one thousand and five years," Achaji considered.

The night passed quickly, and in the early morning of the next day, several teams of lightly-armed fast horses followed the hilly woodland to the east and explored northward.

Near noon, the Sentinel Cavalry rushed back to Achaji's camp and reported that the Orland army next to Green Creek Village was indeed only a thousand or a few hundred.

Uriah's light cavalry sent out for reconnaissance even went north and penetrated to the banks of the river, but did not find any more enemy ambush.

Achaji felt a little relieved, but for the sake of caution, he still did not act rashly.

He waited patiently until the manticore knights of the Kantadar people arrived, confirmed the rear camp opposite the forest to the west, and agreed to send an additional thousand cavalry to him. Only then did he ignite his fighting spirit.

The sky knights who entrusted Abel spent two moments flying back and forth to the north. When they saw a manticore knight returning, Achaji quickly stepped forward and asked: "Are there any Orlanders on the west bank of the tributary? "

"There is a small group of cavalry camped north of the forest on the west bank, numbering around four hundred." The Manticore Knight replied.

Achaji was convinced that with just 400 cavalry, it would be insignificant even if the enemy immediately took the risk of attacking from the west bank and went around to the rear.

Moreover, Altun Khan's support no longer needs to travel at night as covertly as before, and it will probably arrive at the temporary camp very quickly.

He can completely eat the fifteen hundred people in front of him.

Without hesitation, he immediately summoned his subordinates, leaving a few light cavalry to guard the camp, and led the entire army to mount their horses in armor.

The prairie people sent out teams of sentry riders to clear the way ahead. Two thousand tribal elite riders marched in four formations of 500 people, arriving in the countryside outside Green Creek Village in a mighty manner.

Having received the report from the driven back Thorn Fancy Cavalry, Balf had already led the army of the Faroris ministers out of the camp and deployed the army formation against the enemy.

The northern and southern armies faced each other from a distance between the undulating grassland hills.

The noble flags of Orland and the flame-edged banners of the Ulias fluttered in the wind on the land of Usato in Kantadar.

In the southern army formation, countless war horses snorted and their iron hooves slowly paced. Nomadic warriors wearing armor and scale armor carried long swords and war bows. Under the command, they moved the cavalry formation slowly and fearlessly.

In the northern army formation, spears and halberds stood in rows, and large shields were raised. In front of the six hundred-man infantry squares, four hundred archers opened a long shooting queue and drew their bows and arrows behind the tower shields propped on the ground.

Behind the army, four hundred cavalrymen composed of knights and attendants quietly waited for the battle to come.

Azerien, wearing plate armor, sat on a noble warhorse covered with horse armor, standing in the ranks of the Thorn Flower Knights.

The son of the nobles of the Holy Land City looked at the flying flags in the huge cavalry formation in the distance in a daze, his eyes slightly depressed.

It was not the first time he saw this kind of nomadic flag with a very different style.

As if feeling something, Azerien turned his head to look at the tall companions standing beside him.

Lohak's iron fingers tightly grasped the heavy all-steel halberd, and his eyes seemed to be burning with surging anger on his tense face.

The son of the Holy Land City sergeant who once stood on the tragic city wall also remembered the flags of the Uriah people, and new and old hatreds surged into his mind.

The sound of the horn in the distance made Azerien look back at the present, but he was not nervous. On the contrary, he felt a desire for battle from the bottom of his heart.

Having experienced the battle of Longka and the fight with the Wolf Cavalry, the young knight was not afraid of the battlefield, not to mention that the Uriah cavalry in front of him was one of the troops that invaded his hometown in the east.

There was no shouting, no negotiation, and the rumbling trumpet sounded when the Uriah people were ready, representing that the nomadic army quickly launched an attack.

There were countless horse hoof sounds and dull roars, but the soft and rotten fertile soil of Usato released the power of the iron hooves and did not cause the ground to shake.

A full thousand Uriah cavalry holding war bows slowly walked down the hillside, like a wave of overwhelming waves.

They were divided into two armies of 500 cavalry each on the left and right, and each army was divided into multiple rows of horizontal teams, forming a large gap line, approaching the army of Thorn Flower.

The seemingly sparse and huge formation was in order. The Uriah cavalry did not accelerate until the front row was about to enter the effective range of the Feru infantry longbow.

In front of the Northern Army, archers wearing iron helmets and chainmail raised their crossbows and pulled the bowstrings.

After receiving the order from the sergeant's loud roar, a gust of wind whistled and rows of arrows flew towards the enemy that was rushing like a tsunami.

Relying on the effective shooting range of the infantry bows far exceeding that of the cavalry archers, hundreds of sharp arrows penetrated directly into the loose formation of the cavalry.

Although there were occasional unlucky people who were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, the large number of archers and cavalrymen still reached the range in a few seconds that was enough for the bows in their hands to shoot accurately despite sporadic casualties.

The front row of cavalrymen on the left and right armies ran diagonally on their horses, pulling their bows and riding to shoot.

In the first round of bows, more than two hundred sharp arrows flew off the strings in an instant and flew towards the army of the Thorn Flower Family.

The archers who had no time to counterattack hurriedly ducked and hid in the tower shield in front of them.

The dense rain of Uriah's arrows instantly nailed the shield wall erected by the archers and spearmen phalanxes.

If they were careless, the sharp arrows of Uriah, which were specially designed to deal with chainmail, would penetrate their bodies and mercilessly take away the lives of the warriors.

The sporadic screams tested the will of the Orland archers, but when they heard the intervals between the sounds of breaking through the air, they still knew that they could not raise their heads.

The first row of archers, who had finished shooting a round of arrows, lined up in a column without stopping, ran to the side of the formation, and turned back.

The second row of cavalrymen who had been given up followed closely behind. Under the previous suppression, they were able to get closer and fired another round of arrow rain.

The second round of whistling arrows forced the infantry archers of the Thorn Flower Family to continue hiding behind their shields.

After only one shot, the second row of Uriah cavalry also turned around from the side and fled far away.

Then the third row shot and turned around.

The fourth row shot and turned around.

The grassland cavalry sprinkled waves of death rain like the wind, testing the reaction of the enemy in front of them to the pressure.

The arrows were getting closer and closer, even landing not far in front of the knight formation behind the thorn flower army.

If the troops going out to fight were not the elite armored troops under the command of the vassal of the Farolis family, the fierce horse archery tactics of the Uria people, which had been tried and tested, would have been able to shoot the mob that far outnumbered them to collapse in just a few rounds.

Finally, the enemy's archer formation temporarily withdrew to reorganize.

The front row of thorn flower archers leaned out from behind the tower shield and symbolically fought back in vain against the cavalry that ran far out of the accurate range.

In the south side of the Uria central army, 500 war-sworn heavy cavalry were wrapped tightly in heavy armor. Achaji, with his beard and visor open, saw that the first round of probing did not cause chaos in the enemy line, so he immediately issued an order.

The flag was raised and the trumpet sounded.

The 1,000 Ulyaians who had reorganized their ranks adjusted their formations. The 500 archers in the rear rows of the left and right armies retreated one after another, and 500 Ulyaian cavalrymen armed with spears replaced them.

The northern army soon sounded the same military call.

When Baron Balf saw the mixed bows and spears of the Uriah people, and the left and right armies in a V-shaped formation, he knew that the enemy intended to use the corner-cutting tactic. The two tribes had fought on this land for hundreds of years. As soon as each other raised his butt, he knew what the other side was going to do. He immediately ordered a change of formation to deal with it.

The archers of the Thorn Flower family heard the order of the sergeant and retreated in an orderly manner without any nostalgia. Following the gap left by the heavy infantry phalanx behind them, they retreated to the rear of the army and re-formed.

At the same time, the pike phalanx with large shields erected moved forward in an orderly manner. The Thorn Flower Knights in the rear were divided into two teams and slowly marched to the sides of the two wings of the line, ready to meet and expel the mixed cavalry of the Uriah people at any time

On the east bank of the tributary of the river, just as Balf was commanding the Faroris army to confront the Uriah people, Leon also arrived at the airspace behind the west bank where the feudal lord was.

Suddenly, Death Claw noticed that there were two lion scorpion knights flying in the clouds in the distance.

Leon turned his head and glanced there hurriedly, and indeed saw a faint black spot.

However, the two sides were fighting for the time difference of action. Leon knew that there was no need to care about the surveillance of the enemy air knights at this moment.

He immediately ordered his griffin companion to descend at full speed and landed in the temporary camp of the Earl of Thorn Flower.

Although it was a bit strange that he only saw the knights and cavalry of the Valley County, he did not dare to delay. He turned over the saddle and hurried to the feudal lord and beat his chest and said:

"My lord, the Uriah people have taken the bait! Lord Balf is commanding the army to fight them fiercely."

Eliver was overjoyed, stood up and put on the knight's helmet, and shouted to the fully armed and ready lords of the Valley County: "You all follow me south immediately, encircle the Uriah people's rear, and support the east coast."

Leon then looked around and asked in confusion: "Why are there only 400 cavalry? Where are the others?"

". Of course, the others are in front. After crossing the shallows last night, I asked Baron Anquila to continue with 2,000 infantry. Now we are here just to scare the enemy's lion scorpion eyes." The Earl of Thorn Flower explained.

As he said this, he looked towards the south: "Lord Anquila's scouts have already reported that they have already hidden in the forest to the west before dawn. They are resting and waiting for us to catch up."

Leon was surprised to hear this.

Did they go deep into the south last night?

If we don't know the way ahead at night, wouldn't we suffer heavy losses if we run into the enemy's army?

Seeing his surprise, Elifer shook his head and smiled: "When two armies play chess, there is no such thing as not taking risks. Moreover, even if we ran into the enemy last night, it would not be a large scale. This risky move also means that the enemy dare not act in this way. The worst is just a chaotic battle, and we will be frustrated. I will send someone to the east coast to remind you to retreat. But if it works like this, we can easily eat up the enemy's two thousand elite cavalry."

As the two talked, the soldiers behind them finished their formation. Elifer told Leon: "Now help me drive away the lion scorpion of the Kantadar people. When we meet up with Baron Anquila, you will rush back to Balf to help."