The battle lasted from morning to evening, from the steppe to the Horqin sands.

The battlefield was full of corpses, human corpses, elven corpses, orc corpses, war horse corpses, and wolf corpses, scattered all over the place.

The corpses were densely covered in the prairie, and the blood that flowed from it stained the prairie and the sand bright red.

With the assault of the 3,000 Dwarven Storm Bear Knights, the Condor Army successfully broke through the formation of the orc army, and then adopted the tactics of flanking the front and back to defeat the orc rapid reaction legion in one fell swoop.

The army of more than 200,000 orcs, except for the owl warriors who fled less than 60,000, all the other armies were annihilated.

Although the Condor Army successfully smashed the conspiracy of the Eaglehoof Empire, the cavalry legions that participated in the war also paid a lot of price.

More than 9,000 of the 100,000 Terran light cavalry were killed and 15,000 were seriously wounded, and more than 2,000 elven archers were killed.

Most of the seriously injured Terran light cavalry were injured by the owl warriors, and they were lucky not to be trampled by their own cavalry.

The dwarven knights of the Dwarven Storm Bear Knights did not suffer any casualties, and the reason for this was entirely because their mount bear under their crotch was too fierce.

In the face of the rampaging earth brown bear and polar ice bear, the werewolves instinctively chose to avoid it after being defeated, they would rather face the knight spears of the Terran cavalry than face these berserk beasts.

In order to ensure that they are not thrown off by the giant bear during the battle, the dwarven knights use ropes to fix themselves to the saddle before the battle, plus they are wearing heavy armor, so as long as the giant bear under their crotch is alive, they have a good chance of surviving.

After cleaning the battlefield and repairing in place overnight, Bai Yutang left 20,000 light cavalry and 20,000 elven archers to take care of the wounded soldiers, and then he and Dybala took the rest of the cavalry to the north along the edge of the Horqin Sands.

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When Bai Yutang led the army to fight the orc legion, Ning Yuan led the army to the edge of the Horqin Sands.

After repairing in place for a day at the last supply station and the elven archers who carried out the sweeping mission, Ning Yuan entered the Horqin Sands with 500,000 cavalry.

Facing the Condor Army coming from afar, Li Tianqi and the others had already lined up their positions and waited for work.

They occupied a high ground in the sand, and the army of 700,000 stretched for dozens of kilometers like a giant dragon.

Seeing that the enemy had occupied the high ground and was condescending, Ning Yuan signaled the army to stop and start arraying, and then handed over the command to James.

Seeing that the Condor Army stopped a few kilometers away, Li Tianqi and the others did not choose to strike first, but waited for the Condor Army to take the initiative to attack.

They want to take advantage of the terrain and give the Condor Army a dismount.

Although the sand dunes were not very high, and the slope was very gentle, it was still very disadvantageous for the cavalry to charge up from the bottom of the slope.

Seeing that the enemy was standing still and wanted to wait for his own side to take the initiative to attack, James immediately began to deploy his troops.

"The heavy cavalry carried out the main attack according to Plan B, and the elven archers were responsible for covering on both flanks."

With James' order, Ning Yuan led 20,000 heavily armored cavalry and slowly walked towards the enemy.

Seeing the hoplite cavalry walking on a war horse, Li Tianqi and the others immediately looked at each other.

"Isn't it the speed of the heavy cavalry that charges into battle? Can anyone tell me what impact this walk has at the speed? Why can't I see it? ”

"I don't know, I haven't heard of such a use of heavy cavalry, but isn't that good? At least you don't have to worry about being chiseled through the formation by heavy cavalry. ”

"Yes, anyway, we are now occupying a high slope, and we can respond to all changes with the same, since we can't figure it out, let's take a look first and see what they want to do."

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Just when the people of the Heavenly Wind Alliance were confused, the 20,000 heavy cavalry had already walked two kilometers away from them.

"Dismount, hold the lance, and line up."

With Ning Yuan's order, the 10,000 heavy cavalry in front immediately descended to the ground, only to see them holding weapons more than four meters long and quickly lined up in a huge phalanx.

This four-meter-long spear-like weapon is called a lance or horse lance.

The horse lance was a famous aristocratic weapon in the era of cold weapons, because its manufacturing process was very complicated, and it took three or four years for a qualified horse lance to be made, so it was not something that could be bought with money.

After Ning Yuan got the manufacturing drawings of the horse lance, he immediately handed it over to his craftsman group.

After more than five years, the craftsmen of the craftsman group finally created 10,000 qualified horse lances.

Don't look at the number of 10,000, it seems like a lot, but if you know the success rate of it, then you can know how difficult this weapon is to build.

The craftsmen of the Condor Empire have built a total of 40,000 horse lances, but 30,000 have failed, and the success rate is only a pitiful 25 percent, which shows how difficult this weapon is to make.

The use of the horse lance was most popular in the Sui and Tang dynasties, because its lance was soft and elastic, and the weight was relatively light, and the long lance of the second zhang was about the same weight as the horse pistol of seven or eight feet, so the knights could charge the lance with one hand.

The elasticity of the lance ensures that the lance can be bent after stabbing the target, so as to release the momentum generated by the high-speed impact without hurting the knight's wrist, so this long, elastic and very light lance is simply a sharp weapon for riding combat.

Of course, the lance can also exert great power in foot combat.

As the old saying goes, the spear is a lance, and the horse lance can also be used as a long spear in foot combat.

Because the hoplites moved slowly, Ning Yuan did not take them with him on this expedition.

However, considering the restraint effect of hoplites on light cavalry in frontal combat, Ning Yuancai, James and others studied the tactics of letting hoplites dismount and make temporary cameo appearances as hoplites.

The hoplite charge was powerful, but if the enemy set traps for unprotected legs, they could easily be overshadowed.

The hoplites, on the other hand, were invulnerable, and the hussars had nothing to do with them except to fly kites.

Now that the enemy occupies the high ground, the Condor Army will suffer a great loss if it charges from the bottom up, so James will let Ning Yuan carry out Plan B and use the hoplite cavalry of the cameo hoplites to capture the high ground.

Faced with a four-meter-long jungle of horses, if the enemy does not want to sit idly by, he can only take the initiative to attack.

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