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The morning sun shone on the wilderness of the Black Forest earlier than ever, and the white morning mist flowed like water on the ravine-covered land, and a small black dot gradually flashed in the mist.
It was the most common black eagle in the Black Forest wilderness, its outstretched wings covered with black eagle feathers, it was not large, but it had a vigorous body, and its bright eagle eyes were staring at the vast expanse of earth beneath its feet.
"Woo" with a crisp eagle roar "The body of the black eagle in the wilderness flew through the air like a shelled bullet, drawing a faint black line in the sky, this black eagle is a special product of the Black Forest, it is an extremely fierce bird of prey in the air, and the barren and barren land makes the creatures here smaller and more flexible than other areas!"
This kind of black eagle is known as the overlord of the sky, and it used to be a cherished tribute to the royal family of Salander, an adult black eagle is definitely the most ferocious killer in the wilderness, they can tear the hunter's leather armor with their claws as sharp as iron, and they are also masters of tracking prey, even in the dark night, they can clearly see the target within a radius of ten miles
"Don't touch it!"
Ferrantir reined in his warhorse, unveiled his luxurious helmet decorated with gold inlays, raised his head, and looked sharply at the small black dots in the sky that were getting farther and farther away.
He reached out and pressed a sharpshooter behind him who was aiming, raised a powerful compound curved bow, and said with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, "I just want it to see our numbers and travel routes, and it will bring this information back, so that the woman of Sukebrin will know what a war of great disparity in power she is facing."
"The son of Salander is the son of Salander, the bloodline of the Ferran family, it is really courageous!"
Beside him, a strong man with a hard face, wearing a delicate armor, and a strong body like an iron tower said, "Although the Black Forest Chasers of the Sukh tribe are powerful, they only have 3,000 people, and the five thousand fierce tiger Mamunuk light cavalry of Bernik are enough to deal with them." We just need to move unwaveringly towards their camp and destroy the stronghold of these sinners with an invincible advance!"
"Haha, Sect Master Hanigan is really joking. With the strength of our four allied forces, do we still need to put on a battle posture to deal with a small Sukh clan?"
Ferrantir looked at the army marching from his side, and said with a smirk on his lips, his face full of contempt, next to the two of them, the 20,000 troops that had been drawn from the city of Zhisaran. Just as the same huge dragon marches towards the hinterland of the wilderness, with spears like a forest, and the army is mighty,
"If you want to fight, the little strength of their Sukh clan is not enough!" he said that made the strong man on the opposite side laugh in the same way,
The morning breeze blew, and the golden sun shone on the soldiers of the Great Army. In the vast wilderness, witnessing such a majestic army, it is no wonder that the two of them have some land in their hands. I have the pride of the world
At the forefront were the Salander pikemen with improvised spears in their hands, wearing wide robes that almost covered their entire bodies, only exposed at the position of their eyes, and embroidered with the symbol of the Sky Cult on their chests, numbering about 10,000 people.
The spears in the hands of these soldiers are very rudimentary, with an iron spike wrapped around the front, which looks a little scattered, but it is better to have a large number of people and are not afraid of death.
The Sky Cult is a branch of the Sky Temple that split off from the Sky Temple after the Normans ruled the South, and the founder of the Sky Cult is the strong man in front of him who looks like an iron tower, Hanigan, who used to be a slave sacrifice to the High Priest of the Southern Temple, mainly responsible for the maintenance of some broken temples
But because he was too disappointed with the Temple's performance in the war with the Normans. So he claimed that when he was cleaning a temple, he was inspired by the high priest of the sky, Prophet Fran, to create his own Sky Cult,...,
The tenets of the Sky Cult are contrary to the purpose of peace and tolerance of the Sky Temple, and belong to the typical religious heresy, Hanigan declares that the Sky Cult is the only religion that the Salander people should believe, and all religions other than the Sky Cult are false religions and should be violently eradicated.
This kind of rhetoric is not uncommon among Southerners who are disillusioned with the Temple, and there are many people like him who have gone from believing in the Temple to hating the Temple, especially among those who have been bullied in the South.
The number of the Sky Sect is about 50,000, and this time he sent nearly 10,000 disciples, and he volunteered to open the way in front, not only to take enough interest in plundering the food of the Sukhs, but also to show his strength to other forces, if they are attacked, the spear formation formed by these pikemen will entangle the incoming cavalry,
Behind the cultists were the sluggish hoplites in the middle, 2,000 heavily armored Mamunuk knights formed the backbone of the formation and 5,000 Salander hoplites, these were the proudest of Ferrantir's capital, most of these Mamunuk knights were southerners, they had experienced the shame of defeat and the fate of the country,
They fought endlessly, but were eventually betrayed by the kingdom, and they were once the first Mamunuk knights of Salander, who were hailed as the heroic legions in the Salander army,
In the war with the Normans, the 5,000-strong First Mamunuk's Knights were in charge of the break, but they were defeated by the war falcon cavalry of Goshawk Avize, and were besieged in the city of Yueans for 2 months, and finally broke into the city by the Normans due to lack of food.
There are legends that they were all killed in battle, and others say that they were still alive, but they were captured by the Normans, and Ferrantir was a middle-level officer in this army at the beginning, and only he knew best what happened to this army, neither dead nor captured, and the remaining 2,000 people fled to the center through a secret passage that they had accidentally discovered, and became the most shameful deserters
Because of this, he knew that these newly armored Mamunuk knights, once they had the opportunity to hold the sword in their hands again, they would become a sharp sword that split a qiē like a lustful rebirth.
The Mamunuk knights had a worse defense than the regular knights, but they could outperform the light cavalry, and their weapons in their hands could be described as varied, ranging from heavy flails that were good for armor piercing, to heavy swords used by traditional knights.
They walked in the middle of the procession, their expressions were stern and cold, their eyes swept over the pale and yellow ravines in front of them from time to time, and the red tassels on their helmets swayed with the leap of their horses.
The clatter of the armor against the vest made a loud noise, a dazzling scarlet in the white morning mist, and the heavy horse's hooves rose and fell. trampled the ground full of mud,
Ferrantir believed that with these 2,000 orthodox Mamunuk knights and 5,000 well-equipped hoplites, the ragtag chasseurs of the Black Forest who relied on speed to fight would only be a joke in front of this iron wall.
According to the plan, this time the four coalition forces set off from two directions towards the Souk camp in the Black Forest, and in the east were the 20,000 Risalan army of Ferrantir and the 5,000 followers of the Sky Sect, and their goal was to directly attack the base camp of the Sukhs and uproot the Souk forces in one fell swoop, so the troops were mainly infantry who were good at advancing operations
In charge of the south were two other factions, the five thousand Tiger Mamouuk knights of Bernik and the eleven thousand assault pikemen of Szafi. Both men were once prominent leaders of the southern aristocracy, with Bernick once known as "the most heroic Mamunuk!"
"Woo woo" On the vast wasteland, a rapid and loud horn sound came from a protruding slope in front of it
"Stop!" Bernick heard the sound of the horn sounded by the forward scouts in front of him, representing contact with the enemy's cavalry, and raised his hand to the cavalry ranks behind him, and the sound of horses' hooves suddenly disappeared, and the whole cavalry lined up stopped their horses...,
Bernick waved his hand to one of the cavalry officers behind him and ordered, "Bucons." You take a squadron to see"
"Yes, sir," the cavalry officer next to him with two red tassels on his head nodded in response, and galloped out of the queue on horseback. The horse's hooves whipped up the smoke and dust on the ground,
The young officer shouted, "Give me the fifth squadron!" and a group of about a hundred Mamunouk cavalry rushed out of the ranks, followed the young officer, and rushed in the direction of the horn
"It's a squad of Sukh hunters who have been driven away by the Forward Scouts" and soon the officer who had gone to investigate returned and reported to him"
"Are there any casualties?" Bernier asked
"The other side slipped quickly, and one of our cavalrymen was wounded in the shoulder during the pursuit, and the arrow cluster has been pulled out, and his subordinates have checked it. There is no poison on it," the young officer responded
"Yes, that's a blessing!" Hearing that there was no poison on the arrows, Bernick's heavy face relaxed slightly, and he said to himself, "How can the chasers appear here? This is more than a hundred miles away from the Sukh camp! Could it be that we have already discovered our intentions?"
Bernick's eyebrows were furrowed, and he saw that his eyebrows were like swords, and his eyes were like stars. Full of mature masculine charm, there is white hair between the sideburns, and the weather-beaten and upright body, although it is over fifty years old, it still looks as dazzling as a sharp sword.
He was once the chief instructor of the Salander Mamunuk, and the record of winning the Mamunuk Tournament five times in a row set in his youth has not been surpassed until now, and he commanded the Mamunuk Knights, known as the tigers of the south, and in the war with the Normandians, he was defeated by the war cavalry of the goshawk Avetze because of the flank rundown,
Bernik and his more than 5,000 men were also captured because of the defeat, and a month ago, they found that the Norman guards were getting weaker and weaker, and looked for an opportunity to kill the 500 Normans in charge of the guards, and fled to Zhisaland with their original subordinates
His rich experience in warfare told him that it was really unusual to find the other side's chasers in this place, because they were cavalry troops, so they advanced the fastest, and the selected area to enter was also the most barren.
Attract the attention of the Sukh cavalry with the main force of the infantry actively exposed, and then launch a surprise attack from behind with the fierce tiger horse munuk knights of Bernik, so that no matter how the Sukh chasseurs fight, it is difficult to escape the result of being completely annihilated by two sides, and there is an ominous omission in the perfect plan
"The subordinates think that it should be just a routine patrol" The young cavalry officer said with a hesitant face, "This hunting cavalry team doesn't seem to have the intention of fighting, but just retreated after contact, the hunting cavalry of the Sukh tribe has always been known for their speed and the use of poisonous arrow clusters, this time they did not use poisoned arrows, it just means that they did not expect to meet us, so they did not follow the wartime equipment, if it is just a routine patrol, it is normal"
"Now we can only hope that this is the case, otherwise, let's prepare for a fierce battle!" Bernik said with a wry smile on the corner of his mouth, "Although the Sukh army is small, they are all war-hardened elites, good at guerrilla tactics and the use of poisoned arrows that seal their throats, especially the Sukh chasseurs. It is the sharpest assault cavalry of the Salander light cavalry, with strong combat power, poisoned arrows like the wind, and misses a single blow. Fleeing immediately was extremely difficult, and even the Goshawk Avi, who was known as undefeated among the Normans at the time, felt a great headache, so the Normans finally gave up their plans to conquer the Black Forest
"Woohoo"
A hurried, urgent trombone sound pierced through the mist in front of it again, only this time it was a little different from the previous one, more like a desperate scream, mixed with the howling morning wind that blew through the wilderness. A whimpering exhale...,
"There's something going on up ahead!" said Bernick, the faces of the officer next to him changed at the same time, and the sound of the horn, one long and one short, was used only in the most urgent situations
"All of you come with me!" Bernke shouted with his hands raised, and before the horses had reached the hillside where the trumpets sounded, a piercing whistling sound had come from the air overhead,
Bernick's face turned pale, and he raised his head to see the morning light that had just risen overhead. Countless things that shone with cold light fell like starlight in the sky, and the thought that these might be the poisonous arrows of the Sukh chasseurs that sealed their throats with blood, Bernik felt a chill coming from behind him
"Everybody's shielded!
Bernis shouted with all his strength. The right hand skillfully raised the crane type cavalry shield to block his body, in an instant, countless rapid arrow clusters fell like a torrential rain, the impact of the shield rattled, and suddenly a burst of people turned on their backs, the knight's shield protected the body of the knight on the horse, but could not protect the war horse under the crotch, countless war horses fell down with a mournful neighing sound after being hit by arrows
"Despicable fellow!" Bernes put down the shield in his hand, gritted his teeth and looked at the tail of the arrow that was still shaking in the shield, and looked at the terrain around him with an annoyed expression. I couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air,
It was a road running towards the hillside, and the surrounding fog made it impossible to determine the direction of the arrows, although many people put up their shields, and hundreds of Mamunuk's knights were still hit by the arrows. The horses that had lost their owners spun in circles, and the other Mamunuk knights did not know which direction to pursue
"East, the enemy is east!"
The adjutant's shout was heard from the side, and following the direction of his finger, Bernes saw a group of about a thousand Sukh hunters who had just lowered their bows and were preparing to flee with cunning
"Kill them all, despicable fellows!" Bernes pointed to the fleeing sneak attackers, and the thousands of Mamunuk knights behind him stepped out of their horses' hooves, following them like a landslide, their eyes were firmly fixed on the fleeing chasseurs, the sound of the morning wind blowing in their ears, thinking of the colleague who had died tragically just now, the eyes of the Mamunuk knights were bloodshot,
"My lord, I think there is something wrong!" the adjutant said loudly as he approached Bernes as he rode his horse, "These chasseurs have the wrong bow grip, and the bow in their hands is obviously not the light bow used by the assault cavalry of the chaser, and the subordinates think it looks a bit like the powerful compound bow of the legendary falconry!"
"A powerful compound bow?"
Bernice's face changed slightly, he is a senior Mamunuk, of course he knows the difference between a powerful compound bow and a chaser assault light bow, not only in range, but also in power, no wonder a round of arrows just now, so many Mamunuk's knights under his command fell, if it is just a light bow of the chasseur, at what distance, even Mamunuk's armor can't shoot through!"
"No wonder I always feel wrong!" Bernis, who came to his senses, hurriedly shouted, "Stop pursuing! Stop pursuing!" But because the formation spread out was a little too large, the Mamunouks who were charging with all their strength only stopped after ten minutes,
Looking at the top of the hills, which were somewhat recessed, there was a strange light slowly emerging from the white mist in the morning light, and Bernice knew what was going on, no matter how stupid he was.
"Fooled!"
Bernice's eyes were glazed, and his face turned pale as he looked at the black lines that emerged from the mist.
Although he was a fierce general, he was not the kind of person who thought carefully, and when the Normans fought against Salander's army, the first thing he did to break through the defense line was to tear the entire defense line from him, and this time, he was unfortunately hit again
"It's the enemy!
"We're surrounded! Who are these people?"
The Mamunuk knights looked at each other with dazed and fearful looks, they were on their horses, and they were completely oppressed to the middle,
The black cavalry was like a demon god who appeared in the mist, and the black pressure seemed to emerge from the ground at once, and the earth trembled slightly under this majesty, and one after another banners waving in the wind kept emerging
"This No. 1 Mamunuk warrior is really not an ordinary easy catch."
On the top of a hill not far away, the fat man sat on his horse, squinting at the five thousand horse-munuk-knights surrounded below. If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )