In the world of Erathia, due to the existence of a large number of races with the ability to fly, the battlefield naturally extends to the air.

It's just that the way of air combat in this world is very different from that on Earth, and in essence, the way it fights is not much different from the battles that take place on the ground.

And because of the existence of solid military facilities such as castles, the victory or defeat of a war launched in order to attack the city and seize the land is often ultimately determined by the battle between ground troops, so the air battlefield, in many cases, does not receive much attention from people, after all, in this world, the tactical concept of aerial bombardment, the world of hot weapons, has not been clearly recognized and fully utilized.

Therefore, the use of flying troops in various countries is relatively simple, the existence of a large number of flying races, the wide application of magic in warfare, and the importance of ground warfare, so that people in this world have not yet realized the importance of air supremacy.

The same is true of the Erathian Army, of course.

In fact, the tactics of the Erathia army, which uses griffins as the main force in the air, have always been very simple in terms of air combat, because the only way for griffons to fight is hand-to-hand combat, so the performance of the Erathian army in air combat is often that the griffon knights command their griffons to rush up and start a melee, no matter who the enemy is, their fighting style is the same.

Griffons breed well, can easily form an impressive number of griffins, and have good speed and superior hand-to-hand combat ability, so this tactic is often quite effective, and it is often a headache for any kind of flying unit to face an overwhelming herd of griffons that occupy a numerical advantage.

Today, however, this tactic of the Erathia Army has failed.

Because from the very beginning, the flying unit of the Entagri Army has been deliberately maintaining a distance from the flying unit of the Erathia Army, and has no intention of hand-to-hand combat with the enemy at all.

The Entagre Army's flying force of nearly 10,000 harpies, thousands of poisonous manticores, and hundreds of dragons played hide and seek in the sky with the griffons of the Erathia Army.

They do not engage their opponents, nor do they give them the opportunity to attack their ground forces, they always contain their opponents, and they do not even give their opponents a chance to outflank themselves in the air, the sky is too big.

While the ground forces on both sides were already in full swing, the battlefield in the sky had not been able to start for a long time, and even under the deliberate manipulation of the Ntagrei army, it began to get farther and farther away from the ground battlefield.

This situation makes the griffin knights of the Erathia Army all angry, but they are helpless, there is no way, compared to griffins, whether it is a harpy banshee, or a poisonous scorpion lion, they all maintain a relative advantage in speed, griffons want to catch up with the enemy, it is not so easy, they have no long-range attack method to attack the enemy, no way, the domestication of royal griffins is far more difficult than ordinary griffins, and the number is small, plus the unsatisfactory load, There were no mages or archers in the flying units of the Erathian Army.

The angel warriors in the Erathia army are superior in terms of speed, but the number of only a thousand people makes these angels dare not rush into the enemy formation recklessly, one thousand against more than ten thousand, the difference in number is too far, and the hundreds of dragons on the other side are also eyeing the enemy, and the combat power of thousands of poisonous manticores is also good, if one is not careful, the angels may not be able to contain the enemy's main force, so that their own griffins have the opportunity to get close to the enemy, and they will in turn suffer a big loss in the hands of the enemy.

So the two sides kept circling in the air, and then it was not until the commander of the Elassian Army's flying unit, a veteran griffin knight, began to seriously consider whether to meet up with the ground forces first, and let his own magicians give the griffons a large number of blessing attacks to increase the speed of flight, or simply abandon the separate air battlefield and cooperate with the ground forces, this stalemate was finally broken.

Without warning, the flying units of the Entagrean Army took the initiative to attack the enemy.

Due to the absence of mages, the griffin knights were unaware that there were still a hundred mages riding giant manticores hidden in the enemy's flying troops.

And the griffon knights, distraught by the enemy's diversionary actions, did not notice that the enemy had unwittingly gained an advantage in flight altitude.

In the same way, the griffin knights did not realize that the harpies of the enemy were carrying small light crossbows.

Unbeknownst to the griffin knights, the enemy had been tracking the griffon knights' location through the movements of the griffon herd.

A hundred mages used their wands to unleash a wide range of attack spells, causing a large number of casualties to the griffons of the Erathian army in an instant, including a considerable number of griffon knights.

After such a period of maneuvering, because the Entagre army did not launch an attack for a long time, and mistakenly thought that the Entagre army did not have magicians in the flying unit, the griffin knights lined up the griffin formation too densely, and their protection of themselves began to be lax.

This has cost them dearly.

After the magic, there was a rain of arrows formed by the harpy banshees' ten thousand crossbows.

Although they were only light crossbows with less power, but with the advantage of height, these crossbow arrows still caused a lot of damage to the griffons without any armor protection, the griffons were not as hard as the dragons with their scales and tough, and the harpy arrows easily pierced through their feathers and then into their flesh.

Although this injury was not enough to kill these griffons on the spot, it was enough to make them lose their proper combat effectiveness, and even lose their ability to fly.

And if you lose the ability to fly in an air battle, there is of course only one end, and that is to fall to your death.

In just one offensive, the Entagre Army's flying units managed to drastically reduce the number of opponents by thousands.

"These despicable fellows don't dare to fight with us in an upright way but use such methods"

The surviving griffin knights let out an unwilling roar as they tried to light off the damage of the enemy's ranged attacks, but these roars certainly had no effect, and the Entagri army was busy seizing the heights and preparing for the second round of attacks.

Seeing this, the leading griffin knight immediately blew the whistle for retreat.

The experienced veteran griffin knight knew that there was no point in continuing this air battle, and if it continued, it would only be a waste of his precious time and troops, although he did not want to admit it, he knew very well that the enemy had completely grasped the weakness of the griffons, and made targeted combat arrangements, and this air battle was lost by the Erathian army.

If the enemy does not have a magician, this air battle may still be fought, because as long as he manages to gain an advantage in height, the enemy's harpy crossbow arrows will be greatly disadvantaged, and he can still pin down the enemy until his own ground forces win, but if there are magicians among the enemy, this tactic will not work, the enemy's magic is too strong, and if you hold on, it will only increase your own casualties.

In this case, it is better to abandon the opponent's flying forces and throw the griffins and angels into the ground battle, as long as the ground forces win, the enemy's flying units will do nothing.

With this in mind, the griffon knight left a small number of griffons to pin down the enemy, but he himself retreated with a large force in the direction of his ground forces.

The confrontation in the air had just begun, but it ended in a hurry due to the retreat of the Elasia Army's flying units, but the battle did not end there, and after quickly defeating the small group of griffons left by the enemy, the Entagri Army's flying units began to pursue the enemy's tail.

And at this time, the battle on the ground was also going on to a white-hot stage.

The right flank of the Erathia Army finally began to crumble.

When the chariots of the Entagrean army finally gave way to the sides, and then several of the Entagrean army's iconic spear phalanx, in the orderly steps of the Entagrean army, shouting the earth-shattering slogan, with the indomitable astonishing momentum, they finally could no longer hold on.

They are inferior in numbers, inferior in morale, inferior in tactics, and most of the elite among them have been killed by the enemy's magic and bows, and they are deservedly defeated.

However, at this time, the cavalry unit of the Erathian Army, which consisted of 6,000 heavy cavalry and 4,000 ordinary cavalry, which was killed from the rear of the Entagrean army, finally reached a considerable distance from the Entagri army.

The defeat of the friendly forces provoked the boundless anger of the Elasiaian Imperial cavalry, who shouted fanatical battle cries and lowered their rifles.

"For the Glory of the Empire"

The scene of 10,000 horses galloping undoubtedly has considerable visual impact, and the sound of hooves like thunder is enough to make people's hearts flutter, and the slogan that soars to the sky shows the cavalry's fighting spirit to the sky.

Although in front of them, several phalanxes of the enemy in the rear had begun to turn and erect a forest of spears in the direction of the cavalry, the Elasian cavalry continued to rush forward without hesitation, and they had already raised the speed of their horses to the highest speed.

The pikes do have a good lethality against cavalry, but that also needs to be treated differently depending on the situation.

The guns that the Entagre army hastily turned to lay at this time were not thick, for some reason, although these gun arrays were amazingly wide, completely blocking a large area in the direction of the cavalry, they lacked enough depth, and these pikemen were almost all cave men soldiers who were extremely weak in the eyes of the Erathian cavalry.

On the side of the Erathian army, there were a large number of heavy cavalry with heavy armor, and with these heavy cavalry as arrows, they formed a thick charging formation.

Although there was a price to pay, the Erathian cavalry was confident that they had a good chance of breaking through the enemy's guns from the center and tearing a gap in the enemy's defenses.

Then, using the powerful impact of the cluster charge, the cavalry could break the enemy's formation from this gap in one fell swoop, disrupt the enemy's position, and then use repeated charges to break up the enemy, and then let the enemy be flanked by the left flank and reserves of the Erathian Army that were rapidly approaching in the confusion.

And now is a rare opportunity for them, because the enemy's long-range troops, those magicians, those archers, because of the previous attack on the right flank of the Erathia army, most of them are concentrated in the opposite direction, although they are moving back from both sides in a hurry, but obviously they can't catch up, before they rush to the attack position, the Erathia cavalry has already rushed over without pressure.

Although more than 20,000 main forces of the Chinese army were lost, and the right flank troops were also scattered, the Erathia army was not completely invincible in the battle on this field.

Even the Erathian army, which had a large number of cavalry, had a big chance of winning.

With this in mind, the valiant Elasia cavalry plunged headlong into the trap laid by the Entagre army to entertain them.

The Erathian cavalry, who were advancing at high speed, rushed to a certain area, as if they had fallen into some unknown magic, and suddenly there was a large-scale horse stumbling.

One after another, the Elasia cavalry fell to the ground of Igni, and the screams, roars, and screams of the soldiers, mixed with the wails of a large number of horses, and the muffled sound of men and horses falling to the ground, soon joined together, replacing the charging slogan that had just been resounding in the sky.

The fierce Herasia cavalry group, in the blink of an eye, a considerable part of them turned into rolling gourds, and suddenly fell in the high-speed charge, these unlucky fellows were severely damaged, both men and horses, and caused a great obstacle to the follow-up of their own troops who were advancing rapidly.

Fierce collisions inevitably occurred between the cavalry that continued to rush in the follow-up, because of these collisions, a large number of cavalry fell to the ground, and some of the horsemen with great horsemanship controlled the horses under them jumped over the obstacles in the shape of their fallen companions, and tried to continue to advance, but they could not rush a few steps, and they also fell to the ground with screams.

The Herthian cavalry, which had been aiming for a successful charge, was interrupted by this unexpected turn of events, and the cavalry, who could not figure out what was going on, fell into a state of confusion.

The direction of the Entagri army suddenly erupted in cheers, and the cave people laughed at the embarrassed enemy with their characteristic hoarse voices.

"What the hell is going on?"

Seeing this amazing scene from the magic screen, Stewart went crazy again.

As with the previous time, no one could answer his question this time, and although the Magic Eye was convenient, the picture could not be traced, and it was a bit difficult to tell from the magic screen what had just happened to the cavalry.

In the Erathian army, only the cavalrymen who had been caught up by the enemy's traps knew what was going on.

Because after settling down, the cavalry finally discovered that it was not some magical magic that caused them to suffer.

The clearing between them and the enemy was full of dense holes, with holes a few points larger than horses' hooves, and small pits of a certain depth.

It was these small pits that made their war horses fall into it because they were caught off guard and broke their legs in the process of advancing at high speed.

But this is only one of the reasons, in this clearing, there are not only these small pits set up by these enemies at some unknown time and in what way, in this clearing, there are also countless numbers of untold numbers of metal made of metal painted for concealment, with sharp spikes and some kind of ancient monsters that can hurt the hooves of war horses and horses.

Unbeknownst to the cavalry, these things never appeared on the continent of Erathia, and on Earth, they were known as "thistles".

Before Chen Jian crossed over, he used to be a paramilitary enthusiast, and he often sat in front of the computer and lingered in some military forums in his spare time.

Although most of the time he focuses more on modern military information, occasionally he looks at ancient military things.

The scolding battle in one of the forums over how to effectively deal with the cavalry left a deep impression on Jian Chen, and when he crossed over to the continent of Erathia, when he needed to face the powerful Erathia cavalry, these things were naturally turned out of his memory.

As a result, the Entagrean army had more sideways tactics against cavalry.

In a sense, the half-elf Pete can be regarded as Chen Jian's proud protégé, and naturally he has also learned this knowledge that he has never heard of, and applied it to the cavalry units of the Erathian Army in this battle.

Although he launched a fierce attack on the enemy's right flank, Pete has always been guarding against the enemy's left flank troops from attacking his own rear, so he placed most of his caveman soldiers in the rear in advance, because he calculated early on that the enemy would use cavalry to attack first in order to rescue friendly troops.

The task of these cavemen soldiers is to follow the advance of the brigade, and at the same time, use the unique burrowing skills of the cavemen to secretly dig small pits that are specially used to destroy the legs of the enemy's horses in the path that the enemy cavalry must pass when attacking them.

It has to be said that the cavemen's skills in burrowing are really outstanding, after prior drills, using special tools, although they have been moving, they still successfully completed the task given to them by Pete, in a considerable area, dug countless such small pits, and even made some cover-ups, so that these small pits look less conspicuous.

At the same time, they also sprinkled the thistle terrestris they carried with them along the way.

Tribulus terrestris is simple to make, and after being remembered by Jian Chen that there was such a weapon that could be used, Tribulus terrestris has been made in large quantities in Negan's arsenal and equipped with various legions of the Entagri Army, and Pete naturally will not forget to use these things.

The cavalry of the Elasia Empire, who had no idea that the enemy would have such means, fell victim to the Entagre army experimenting with their new tactics and weapons without psychological preparation, and paid a heavy price of nearly one-third of the casualties, and because they could not regroup and retreat in time, after wasting a considerable amount of time, they were fatally attacked by the enemy's long-range troops who had already been in place in the confusion.

The scales of victory began to tilt in the direction of the Entagre army.