Chapter 313: Griffin Knight vs. Black Iron Rider (Medium)
"Fourth, 43 Cuman archers............. it looks like we can call it a day today," Henley muttered to himself after applying mashed herbs to the wounds on his griffin's forelimbs and tying them with bandages. Around it, dozens of griffon knights are cleaning the battlefield, piling up the corpses of the Cumans for burning, while the royal griffons they ride are enjoying the delicious trophies of war, fresh horse meat.
It had been six days since the 1st Cavalry Regiment had arrived at the front camp of the Sunset Empire in the Shanggar Rift Valley, and when Henry arrived at the Shanggar Rift on the first day, Henry had also received information from Henry about the tasks he had to do and the news about themβthe Cumans had announced their alliance against the Sunset, and they had already gathered an army of 100,000 cavalry to march towards the Nat Plain.
For this news, although Angli was a little surprised that this empire-level power established in the northwest region of the Central Continent and the central region of the Central Continent actually joined the Anti-Sun War Alliance so quickly, he was not alarmed, because as early as the moment when Angli led 5,000 griffon knights from the New Delhi Peninsula to take off, Sun Lin had sent a letter to tell Angli that the biggest enemy of the griffin knights was not Dick's tomahawk heavy cavalry, nor the Ottoman palace guards, nor Helgen's reindeer cavalry, After all, no air cavalry, even those in the Pterodactyl Knights of the Wing Lok Knights of the Middle Domain Dragon Empire, who were equipped with heavy plate armor, including their mounts, would not dare to face the hordes of enemies armed with strong bows and crossbows, because the air cavalry species has developed so far, and long-range weapons are always the hard wounds of the air cavalry troops.
So when Henry had just finished telling Henry about the current form of the enemy and the enemy, and Henry had not informed Henley of the task, Henry himself had already guessed and preemptively promised Henry that he would personally lead 3,000 griffon knights to hunt down those Cumans, so as to reduce the burden of the Sunset Cavalry Regiment as much as possible in the future decisive battle between the two sides on the Nat Plain.
Although Sun Lin has more than 30,000 support cavalry in his hands, compared to those authentic guerrilla cavalry units, Sun Lin has not yet been bold enough to play a big knife in front of Guan Gong. As a result, the 3,000 griffin knights of the 1st Air Cavalry Regiment of the Sun Never Set, under the leadership of Angli, launched a "hunting" plan that lasted for about one month, and today is the third day of the griffin knights' "hunting" plan, and it is also the second day that the vanguard of the Cuman troops rushed to leave the team in advance and rushed to the outside of the Shangger Rift Valley to meet the allied cavalry units and resist the pace of the 50,000 iron cavalry on which the sun never sets.
"Hmmm! There is a case! As an Angli who turned from a land cavalry unit to an air cavalry, he still retains some land cavalry skills, so when he felt the ground under his feet begin to shake, Angli jumped directly to the ground and put his ears to the ground, and slowly muttered under the vigilance of the griffin knights: "Southwest direction......... More than 5 kilometers away.......... there are either as many as 10,000 people, or a heavy cavalry force, it seems that the vanguard of the Cuman has come to see, but it is also right, since the small reconnaissance force of the Cuman has been hunted for 3 days, the main owner should also appear. All of them! Give me all the griffons right away! Lift off to 500 meters! β
And when the griffin knights quickly climbed onto the backs of the royal griffins and rose into the air, the sight in front of them made the hearts of all the griffon knights present sink, but in the places they did not perceive, a trace of mad fire was beating. At the same time, what Angli said before was also confirmed one by one after the situation in front of him.
In the distant sky, a black line is slowly moving forward, and after Henry himself stayed in the air for a few minutes, the so-called black line gradually turned into a rectangular phalanx composed of thousands of black-armored cavalry, which is a characteristic class of troops from the Cumans - black iron archers, which belong to one of the heavy archer cavalry.
Like the ordinary heavy archers, the black iron archers are completely configured according to the equipment of the heavy cavalry in terms of armor, the gundam war horses are covered with heavy chain mail and steel plates, and the cavalry holding compound bows are also wearing heavy plate armor, and the black iron cavalry can also cast a circular firing array, but unlike other heavy cavalry, because the Cumans are not only natural horse archers but also natural riders, so in addition to the circular firing array, when the black iron archers have no arrows, Armed with round shields and scimitars, they agreed to be able to use a conical charge like the heavy cavalry, but the black iron archers without spears were destined to be unable to match the power of regular heavy cavalry.
"There are no less than 5,000 black iron archers, and after seeing this time, the Cumans have made up their minds to compete with the Dick Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Helgen Empire, or do they really want to take away some of the land on the Nat Plain from the Dick Empire......... Come on, come on, when the plan is successful, you will know how foolish it is to send so many troops to the Nat Plain and join the alliance against the sun, but before that, it is time to give these Cumans a warning. Heralds! β
"Commander of the Angli Legion, do you have any orders?"
"Go and gather all the griffon knights, tell them that tonight we are going to hunt a strong panther and let them meet at Camp 6, and I hope all the griffon knights will not be absent............... I remember that there was a regiment of our cavalry moving there 30 kilometers from here, and you tell them about the hunt for the Panthers, and if they can catch up, let them join. β
"Yes, Legionnaire." When the herald left, Angli watched the black iron archer cavalry of more than 5,000 people before flying towards Camp 6 with a dozen griffin knights, but Angli didn't know what to do at the moment, on the edge of the huge black torrent below, a young woman in mosaic armor was looking at Angli's departing figure, and the herald beside him only reacted after a few calls.
"Are those the griffon knights of the Great Empire on which the sun never sets? It's a good troop............ However, our Black Iron Archers are not bad. Herald, you go and inform the remaining 5,000 Black Iron Archer cavalry in the rear, tell them to speed up, I guess there will be a hard battle tonight. β
"Yes!"
"Humph! Bastard, I'm going to let you know that I'm no worse than you in leading troops into battle! Just show me! β