Chapter 773: The Fallen Banner
Centaurs can be said to be the natural and best knights in the King Continent, they have the movement speed of war horses, but they also have the combat ability of a warrior, they are born with the ability to use javelins and heavy melee weapons in high-speed movement, which is why the sun does not set why to recruit centaurs, and hand over the most important part of this combat mission to these centaur warriors to complete.
In the eyes of many people, centaurs are excellent javelin cavalry, followed by excellent heavy cavalry, but in fact, after the army began to digest the centaur tribe, the sun did not set until the sun knew that using a centaur as a javelin cavalry could only exert half of its ability at most, and if a centaur was used as a heavy cavalry, it could only exert half of its strength.
This is because although the centaur throws the javelin very accurately and has excellent mobility, if it does so, it will completely insult the centaur, which is several times heavier than the war horse, and in the same way, if the centaur warrior is equipped with heavy armor and cavalry spears, and the centaur sends a heavy cavalry phalanx to charge, then it is completely impossible to maximize the mobility of the centaur warrior.
Eventually, the plan proposed by the Centaur Warriors was to turn the Centaur Warriors into a class that could charge into battle while retaining their mobility, and there were only two closest to them, the light lancers who had been assimilated by the auxiliary cavalry, and the hand-to-hand heavy cavalry similar to the Dick heavy cavalry or the Battlefield Order.
And given the sturdy body of the centaur, the sun never sets chose the second plan. Therefore, the sun never sets decided to equip the centaur warriors with upper body plate armor and the armor used by the horses, and at the same time distribute to each centaur warrior a two-handed battle axe used by the Mishaal heavy infantry, of course, this kind of tomahawk must have a much longer handle than the one used by the Mishaal heavy infantry. Because the centaur warriors who are naturally good at throwing javelins have very slender arms, and the centaur warriors themselves are at least 2 meters tall, the two-handed axes distributed to the centaur warriors are not only long, but also the axe parts have to be modified to cater to the use of centaur warriors, and the axe handle itself must be changed to steel as long as it is made of hardwood.
While this makes it seem like a lot of money to build, the fact is that the Centaurs actually cost only half the money they would spend on regular heavy cavalry, as Centaurs only need to be equipped with thicker plate armor. Although the same centaur needs to be equipped with the armor used for the warhorse, this armor actually only needs the part of the horse, which is the easiest to equip and easiest to build, compared to the standard equipment of the lifting cavalry weapon. Centaur warriors don't need secondary weapons, and while some combat-capable centaur warriors are equipped with 2 or 3 javelins, the centaurs are basically only equipped with a characteristic two-handed axe, so the overall cost of the centaur warrior is even lower than that of the auxiliary cavalry.
Moreover, human knights must learn this skill in guò riding when they become knights. Centaurs, on the other hand, are not needed at all because of their special species. Even as long as the weapons and armor are distributed to the centaur warriors, their own combat ability surpasses the chainmail cavalry, close to the standard equipment of the cavalry unit before the sun never sets - the feudal knights, now equipped with elite armor and battle axes, the centaur warriors are now equivalent to the Dick heavy cavalry after the bonus in charge power.
At the beginning, the Dick heavy cavalry that confronted the heavy cavalry of the sun was very powerful, and now the charge power of the centaur warriors is stronger than that of the Dick heavy cavalry, so basically except for the heavy cavalry that specializes in the use of heavy cavalry spears and is equipped with heavy cavalry like the Allied knights, there is basically nothing in the heavy cavalry that can restrain today's centaur warriors.
"Kill!" Under the leadership of the chiefs. The fierce centaur warriors, while breaking through the phalanx of knights and servants that had been shattered by the auxiliary cavalry, began to form an arc around the area where the regular heavy cavalry of the two sides were engaged. Further accomplish the task of encirclement.
At this time, although the Allied heavy cavalry on the periphery had discovered the anomaly of the Sunset Army, because of the scattered battle formations and the success of the first phase of the Sunset's tactics, although there were countless Holy Light Knights and Griffin Cavalry under the leadership of the centurions to kill out of the chaotic war zone, basically these allied knights were killed with swords and shields.
After all, after the first confrontation between the two sides before, because of the tactics of the sun never setting, the allied knights all thought that there was no need to launch a second charge again, and even if the allied knights wanted to charge now, it was impossible, because the centaur warrior did not leave enough distance for the allied knights to charge while going around the arc, and it was very likely that the war horse under his crotch had just run, and he had already entered the centaur galloping phalanx.
On the Centaur side, on the other hand, these Centaurs armed with tomahawks are all a group of troops who are good at hand-to-hand combat: in fact, if it weren't for the special body structure of the Centaur warriors, the centaur warriors themselves would have belonged to the regular hand-to-hand heavy infantry class. At the same time, the centaur actually does not eat the weapon of the riding spear, after all, the task of most of the riding spears is to shoot down the knights sitting on the war horses and dismount, and the special body structure of the centaur itself does not eat this set, as for the piercing lethality brought by the riding spear, not to mention the previous one, the centaur cannot give the allied knights the opportunity to charge, and the riding spear is impossible to do any harm in the case of the war horse can not charge.
The most important thing is that the task of the Centaur warriors is to surround all the Allied knights who are exposed to the perimeter except for the frontal battlefield, and these Allied knights in front of them are exactly what the Centaur warriors want to intercept, so in fact, those Allied knights have not even turned their horses' heads, and the centaur warriors of the first battle axe have already killed the Allied warriors.
Although the centaur warrior's hands look very slender, in fact, these hands are like the limbs under the body of his war horse, which are basically composed of muscles without a trace of fat, and it takes a lot of strength for the centaur warrior to invest the javelin in his hand. So don't look at the centaurs who look skinny, in fact, their strength is absolutely unimaginable.
As for how big it was, these were the first time the centaurs had participated in the battle, and they were quickly revealed to the Allied knights: as the centaur warriors approached the Allied warriors infinitely. The centaur warrior at the front of the line made a gesture of placing his axe in front of his horse's hoove, and immediately swung it upwards.
After the sharp axe, although the Allied knights riding on the war horses were not hit, the predecessors of the war horses under their crotch were all torn from the bottom to the top by the axe, and even some strong centaur warriors directly cut off the heads of the war horses with the battle axes in their hands!
The lost life of the war horse of course also fell to its broken body, and the allied knights sitting on the war horse also fell to the ground with frightened eyes. These Allied knights were either trampled to death by the centaur warriors who continued to gallop forward, or they were mended with an axe by the stopped centaur warriors and separated.
Although these Allied knights have enough experience to keep their horses safe while their horses fall. However, they could not make up for the Centaur warriors' swords under the crotch, and at this time, the super heavy plate armor that the Holy Light Knights were proud of became their nightmare: although the Holy Light Knights also had a strong body, this did not mean that their body was strong enough to be as strong as the heavy infantry who fought on land in super heavy plate armor. In fact, many knights were not trained to engage in hand-to-hand combat while wearing super-heavy plate armor. Even the weight-bearing training they put on was rarely done, because in their opinion, these were supposed to be the tasks of the crotch warhorse.
So now those super heavy plate armor that the Allied knights had high hopes for has completely become a burden to them, because no matter how thick these super heavy plate armor is, they can't withstand the battle axes in the hands of the centaurs, but it tricks these knights who have fallen to the ground to stand up and resist, but they can't rely on the strength of their bodies to stand up in a short time.
With the full entry of the centaur warriors, although the Allied knights maintained a high morale as a whole, in some areas, the fighting spirit of the Allied knights was constantly weakened by the centaur warriors. Of course, at this moment the battle records of the Allied warriors and the number of heads. Excluding the number of casualties of the outer light cavalry units, it is still one more than the side on which the sun never sets. After all, at the time of the initial confrontation, the sun never set on the side that basically killed the strength of one legion, while the Allied side only killed about 6,000 people, and no more than 7,000 at most.
Therefore, even if the allied generals at this moment had been fighting on both sides for about 20 minutes, they knew that the light cavalry troops on the periphery were really crushed by the light cavalry troops on which the sun never set, and the centaur warriors who had begun to circle around the sun did not feel uneasy, because in the eyes of this marshal from the griffin empire, the people he arranged on the flanks and rear of the troops were all knights of holy light whose defensive strength was higher than that of the griffin cavalry, and his own Qianjun had been divided into countless poisonous needles and inserted into the increasingly weak battle formation of the sunset. Now, even if there is any trickery on the side of the sunset, as long as his side descends ten times with one force and disperses the battle formation of the sunset cavalry army in front of him with all his strength, then the conspiracy of the sunset side will be self-defeating.
But the marshal from the Griffin Empire did not find out, in fact, at this time, the number of casualties of the front-line Allied knights against the Sunset Cavalry was decreasing, on the contrary, the casualties on the Allied side were increasing exponentially, of course, this is not to blame him, after all, now is not the era that I wish the world could use electronic tools to detect in the air, and then count the casualties in a short period of time, and the implementation of this situation itself can also be explained, after all, the Allied side has been deep into the enemy's interior.
However, the Allies did not realize that the rate of reduction and increase was too fast, because they did not know that the hand-to-hand combat knights of the sunset armed with two-handed battle axes and knightly shields with mace shields had completed the ladder exchange with the hospital and Templars themselves in the front row, in fact, the first column was now in the first column, except for the Templars who could not be evacuated, all of them were members of the Dick heavy cavalry and the Field Order, and the second column was the knights of the two knights who were still full of energy so far.
"Ahaha! Brothers, kill this bunch of scrap wood! "Like the Michal hoplites, the Dirks from the northwest region of the Central Continent are also tall northern men, although these northern men are a little bit of a hoop because of their perennial adaptation to fighting with horses, but even so, these guys are generally above 2 meters, and they also have rock-like muscles, and most importantly, these guys are as bloodthirsty and warlike as the Norse Vikings of the original world.
After being ruled by the Sunset Empire, with the invasion of the Sunset culture, although some Dirk people living in the remote snowy plateau area could not absolutely identify with the Sunset Empire and officials, and even some uneasy factors appeared in some places, the Dick people in several important cities of the former Imperial Empire led by the Dick Imperial City had begun to accept the rule of the Sunset Empire.
Although the ideological invasion of the state religion of the Sun Never Sets Empire was very radical, it did not touch the bottom line of the Dik people under the suppression of Sun Lin, and those missionaries who believed in the Wild Minor Religion as long as they formally preached under the law of the sun never set, and it was not impossible for them to even apply for the construction of religious buildings in a certain city (of course, among them, the sun never set side also made certain compromises, otherwise the new rear of the Sun Never Set Empire would not be so stable).
And even if these Dirks who have been invaded by the culture of the sun never sets and live in the cities, even if they have the same robust provinces as all the Dicks, they are in fact already different from the Dicks in the periphery: these Dicks have basically lived the life of citizens, and have lived for a long time, and if they are suddenly allowed to return to the life of hunting in the periphery now, they will definitely not be able to adapt to it in a short time, and on the contrary, if the sun does not set now, continue to give them this stable life, Even if these people are not interested in the empire on which the sun never sets, in fact, a seed has been planted in their hearts that they are inclined to the empire on which the sun never sets.
And it is precisely because of this that the Dick Heavy Cavalry Regiment, which had only one regiment and most of its members were still veterans who surrendered on the battlefield, has now received essential changes, the first of which is the psychological thinking of these Dick soldiers, and secondly, these soldiers are basically no longer injured veterans, except for a few veterans who are not right because the sun does not set, and now the soldiers of the Dick Heavy Cavalry Corps are all sturdy young soldiers, and they are the moment when the combat effectiveness of a soldier reaches its peak in his life; In the end, the number of the heavy cavalry troops, which is currently only one corps on paper, has reached more than 15,000 with the supply of equipment, and the number of reserve troops who did not fight with the army exceeded 20,000.
It is such a strong knight order, which has been turned into an axe that cuts the Allied knights under the use of Uda himself, maybe this axe is not sharp, but the blunt axe here has begun to gradually tear apart the defense of the Allied side, and even if the axe here is not sharp enough, Uda has a heavy hammer in his hand that can smash the Allied knights - the Field Order. (To be continued......)