Rise of the Empire Total War

Woo-

The dull horn sounded from a distant place, drifting over the wide and flat plain, shocked a group of cattle and sheep with uneasy screams.

Seeing that the herd of cattle and sheep looked up around and made an uneasy cry, the herder was a little confused. He slowly took off a piece of hay dangling from his mouth, squinted his eyes, and looked in the direction where the trumpet came from. In his line of sight, a black line moved at high speed on the distant horizon, and was faintly covered by smoke and dust, making it difficult to see the true face of this black line.

And as the black line got closer and closer, the roar that resembled thunder in the daytime also sounded. With this disturbing sound, the earth began to tremble, and the cattle and sheep around the herdsmen retreated. They pouted. Hoof, body trembling.

Seeing the black line that gradually revealed its hideous face covered by smoke and dust, the herdsman's face was pale, and his body trembled violently as if he had fallen into an ice cave. He wanted to scream, wanted to turn around and escape, but was shocked to find his own voice. As if blocked by something, he couldn't make a sound, and his body stood in place like a statue, unable to move.

As a herder, he doesn't understand what this movement represents. He was born on horseback and grows on horseback, and he knows how powerful cavalry is.

Rumble--

Finally, the flag hidden in the raised smoke appeared in the eyes of the herders. He looked at the strange flag, his pupils shrank sharply, and then suddenly enlarged. The yellow double-headed eagle flag painted on the flag was in the air. Blowing in the wind, it seems to come alive!

That is the cavalry of the Kingdom of Winster!

The herder suddenly realized that he did not know when he could move. He swallowed a large amount of saliva secreted by tension in his mouth, and then ran to the tied horse. It was his beloved horse, let him stay here. Running on the vast plain for several years, he wanted to climb on the horse's back, but found that its body was also trembling with fear.

"Damn it!" the herder cursed in a low voice, and he was about to untie the reins of the horses tied to the stone, but before he untie them, he heard the sound of horses hoofs not far away, and he looked back subconsciously. , But he was so scared that he didn't know when, the Cavalry of the Winsters had already ran to a distance of less than two hundred meters from him!

"Damn, damn, damn!" the herders cursed, and at the same time subconsciously took the short bow hanging from the horse's belly. This is a skill that every herder possesses. There are not many grasslands on this plain. They often encounter hostile small tribes. When the two sides encounter each other, they will go to war.

However, this time, his actions hurt him.

Seeing that the herdsmen who were still untying the reins actually picked up the short bow, the ten cavalrymen who acted as the forward were shocked, and they quickly took out the cavalry crossbow hung on the horse belly. Their crossbow has already been loaded, and they only need to aim at the target and pull the trigger. It can be launched. In the next second, just listen to the sound of a few crossbow machines. The deadly crossbow will fly out at high speed. Before the herdsmen can fill the arrows, they will be shot. When the arrow hit, one of the shots accurately penetrated his right eye socket, smashing the brain tissue.

After shooting the herders, ten crossbow cavalry horses ran to his corpse, one dismounted to check, the others guarded the surroundings and gathered frightened cattle and sheep. These more than ten cattle and sheep are not a small fortune. If you sell them, each of them will get a few silver marks of very new quality. Even if you don't sell them, you can still have a good meal.

After searching the whole body of the herdsmen, the crossbow cavalry only found a dagger used to cut meat. He curled his lips in disdain, put the dagger away, and walked to his horse, and said to the surrounding comrades: " This is a poor ghost, there is nothing good about him, let's move on."

"Well, he gave us eight cows and five sheep, and his value is just this." A comrade-in-arms took the conversation and joked. The people around immediately laughed. When the laughter ceased, a seemingly captain The talent said: "Ryan, you and Chris will bring these cattle and sheep back, and the rest will continue with me. Since there will be herders here, their gathering place must be not far away."

"Yes!" everyone responded, they hurriedly cleaned the scene, and then moved on.

They belonged to the Crossbow Cavalry Brigade under the Second Legion, and the Scout Brigade appointed by the Second Legion. When the First Legion was on an expedition to the Osa Peninsula, in order to deal with the war in the Principality of Lasik, the soldiers of the Second Legion received one after another. Mobilizing orders, they did not hesitate to give up the opportunity to enjoy at home, took up arms and joined the army again.

Speaking of it, the Second Army was originally Danish infantry in infantry. In order to deal with the cavalry that came and went like wind in the Principality of Lasik, Richard assigned three more brigades of crossbow cavalry to the Second Army. These crossbow cavalry may Can't beat the enemy in close combat~www.readwn.com~, but the cavalry crossbows they are equipped with are very powerful and can penetrate the armor of the enemy cavalry at medium and close range, killing and injuring the enemy.

Before dispatching the army, Richard positioned this war as a war between cavalry, so he sent out the necessary infantry (mainly the anti-cavalry militias and spears capable of forming a spear phalanx). Sergeants, heavy armored sergeants, and some civilian archers), they are mostly chain cavalry and crossbow cavalry, as well as a small number of iron canned imperial knights.

Not only that, in order to facilitate operations (not only for commanding operations, but also for post-war political operations), Richard also left the Ippolito Palace and personally led the battle, and his powerful cavalry commander Sir Frank also left the home manor, once again Fight under Richard's king's banner.

Turning their gaze back to the crossbow cavalry team in action, they chased along the trails of herdsmen and livestock. After only more than ten minutes, they saw a small gathering place of herders. It was a gathering place. Said it was a temporary foothold, it may be due to the war. These herdsmen drove a herd of cattle and sheep and could not stay in one place, so they had to move from time to time, but the Lasik Plain was not large, so they could still easily be able to. Was found, and then forced to conquer the livestock by those who served as soldiers.

Do you think that there are a lot of herders in the army who are uprising and they will not attack the civilians who are also herdsmen? That would be a big mistake. On the contrary, they both came from herdsmen, and they started more ruthlessly. In addition to the forced conquest of cattle, sheep and horses, even the food and wealth hidden in their homes could be taken away, so these herdsmen treated the herdsmen The rebels are the most disgusted.

However, now that the Winsters have joined the war, they also have a more disgusting object—oh, provided that they can still be disgusted by the Winster army that sent them on the road in hell.