At the end of April of the new calendar, under the leadership of the cavalry commander Sun Bu Cuman Prince Uda, 300,000 iron cavalry rushed down the west bank of the Auckland River, and the troops were divided into 3 routes, respectively led by Leo, the commander of the Praetorian Guard under the Sun Never Conqueror, and the newly advanced Sun Bu Set's outstanding cavalry commander, Dante and Uda himself, who originally led the 11th Cavalry Regiment of Sun Bu Set, rushed towards the Holy Light Imperial Cavalry Corps that occupied the original Mithril Alliance's main city Blackwater Harbor and the Griffon Imperial Cavalry Corps that occupied a nearby city called Degolia Water City. The intent is to defeat the two armies one by one before they merge.

However, due to the griffin scouts of the Griffin Empire who did a very good job in reconnaissance, the cavalry of the two countries and the 3rd Route Cavalry of the Sun Never Set set off in the ruins 2 days after they got the news that the Sun Never Set Iron Cavalry Army was attacking, and after estimating the combat effectiveness of both sides, the top cavalry commanders of the two countries immediately reached two consensuses in a short period of time: First, it was impossible for the cavalry units of the two sides to choose to rely on the ruins of the two cities for dismount defense.

It is true that if the sun does not set, the side can only choose to dismount and fight with the cavalry of the two countries, but in this case, the empire still has the advantage: first of all, although the Cumans from the sun does not set are natural horse archers, and after dismounting, they are scumbags who can't even recruit spearmen, but please don't forget that the Cumans are mounted archers, not cavalry, which means that the Cumans still have strong long-range strike capabilities even if they dismount, Super first-class cavalry, first-class marksmans, and less than third-rate warriors are the Cumans, but this is enough for the griffon imperial knights and the cavalry of the Holy Light Empire, who don't have many long-range weapons on hand, and even if they have long-range weapons, they can't use them.

The attack plan drawn up by the cavalry units of the Holy Light Empire itself was to land in the southern region of the Central Continent and then make a surprise attack on the rear of the Sunset Empire on a long way. Therefore, there are only two kinds of cavalry sent by the Holy Empire this time, one is the regular heavy cavalry of the Holy Light Empire, the Holy Light Knight, and the other is to abandon the armor in exchange for mobility. Elite rangers who are only equipped with 2 javelins for throwing and an extended version of the spear, of course, there will be some noble personal knights and knight servants who are basically not combat effectiveness in these regular troops, although the former is also a heavy cavalry but the battle can only be hehe, and the latter are basically personnel who deal with the logistics of the cavalry army, if these people also go to the battlefield, then basically speaking, this war is already in a desperate situation on the side of the Holy Light Empire.

From this point of view, as long as you are a fool, you know that the cavalry units of the Holy Light Empire are completely incapable of attacking the cavalry archery troops, but in fact, even if the average cavalry archer troops are excellent, they cannot cause substantial damage to the cavalry of the Holy Light Empire. Because the cavalry of the Holy Light Empire is basically heavy cavalry, and these heavy cavalry are well-equipped and ride compound bows in the hands of archers. Even a hand crossbow may not be able to shoot through, and this is the trust of the Holy Light Empire's cavalry in the quality of the dwarves' forging.

Of course, these Divine Light Empires were immediately beaten into fools by the side of the sun that never sets, because although the combat power of the Cuman cavalry was the same as that expected by the cavalry commander of the Holy Light Empire, the guys in the hands of the Cumans were not. And this is why the Divine Light Empire is at war with the sun. Only on the battlefield side of the Southern Regions of the Central Continent, from the beginning to the present, it is not the reason why the Divine Light Empire's side has launched a fierce attack and the Sun Never Sets side has carried out a stubborn counterattack - the cavalry troops of the Sun Never Set Empire have been carrying the cavalry troops of the Holy Light Empire from the beginning, even if the cavalry reinforcements of the Griffin Empire have not converged after the Sun Never Sets cavalry.

It can't be helped! There's really no way around it! The first two sentences are the new voices of almost all the griffin imperial cavalry and the cavalry of the Holy Light Empire, thinking that first of all, the Sunset Empire is already in an advantage in terms of numbers, and the Cumans have already provided the Sunset Cavalry Army of more than 100,000 light cavalry on their side, except for the Black Iron Cavalry Regiment, and the well-equipped auxiliary cavalry cultivated by the Sunset Empire has also reached nearly 100,000. In terms of mobile forces alone, the Empire of the Sun Never Sets has more people than the two countries, with nearly 40,000 more troops.

Of course, the cavalry commanders of the two countries knew about this from the beginning. But at that time, these guys were very bullish and said: "It's okay, our number of heavy cavalry is completely capable of crushing them, and when the Imperial cavalry troops are exhausted, we will counterattack and destroy the heavy cavalry of Sun Never Set, and then slowly deal with these non-lethal flies." ”

The ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, when the heavy cavalry units of the Holy Light Empire and the Griffin Empire found trouble with the heavy cavalry troops of the sun never setting in turn, the cavalry commanders of the two countries found a very painful problem, that is, the number of heavy cavalry that the sun never sets does not have to be less on either side of the party, and these heavy cavalry TMD are actually "light cavalry"!

Because after the Sunset Cavalry was divided into regular cavalry regiments and auxiliary cavalry regiments, although there were only 11 regular cavalry regiments as before, and two cavalry regiments composed of black iron heavy archers should be removed, which means that there were only 90,000 regular heavy cavalry on Sunset, but the problem was the centaur tribe that was incorporated before the sun never set! After the Centaur Empire invested a lot of equipment, all of them became heavy cavalry units with mobility comparable to light cavalry, with more than 100,000 people, although this scale could not face the combined forces of the two countries, but it had an overwhelming advantage in facing either side alone.

In the early days, they were pushed around, so that the armies of the two countries were weakened very strictly, and now if they really fight under the horse with the Sun Never Set Empire, then the odds of victory are not very great, although the battle under the horse can make the Sun Do Not Set 100,000 centaur iron horsemen unable to participate in the battle, but they can cut off the armies of the two countries, so that the Sun does not set has the possibility of destroying their own side one by one, and the ability to fight under the Sun does not set on the horse is obviously stronger than their own side, so the horse battle is excluded.

As for the second consensus, the two sides should join forces and then counterattack, because both sides know that if their own side really merges together, the Sun Never Sets Empire will actually not be able to do anything with itself, first of all. The sun never sets side is equipped with full-body plate armor, and the side is equipped with heavy plate armor that is more suitable for heavy cavalry battles, so if the sun never sets empire is engaged in a head-to-head battle with itself. Then it is actually their own side that has the advantage.

And secondly, after the merger, the strength of the sun will not have any advantage, and the most important thing is that the number of heavy cavalry that does not set after the merger is less than that of their own side, and if the sun does not set if the heavy cavalry is disabled in this encounter, then it is possible to eliminate certain disadvantages on their side, and you must know that for the current situation, those eliminated disadvantages are equivalent to bringing them a glimmer of life.

Of course, in fact, this is an extremely misguided idea, and it is also the most mistaken part of the Central Continent Allied forces in this war.

After merging the armies, the allied forces chose the Supreme Commander of the Holy Light Empire as the commander of the army. In the vast desert area of the southern continent, he launched a counterattack against the army of Sunset, and after receiving the news that the enemy forces were combined and counterattacked, Sunsetu also made the decision to merge the three armies into one army. It was decided by Prince Uda as the supreme commander, and then rushed towards the Allied forces in the Middle Continent.

At this point, as many as 800,000 cavalry participated in the battle, and all of them were fought by cavalry units, the Battle of Mithril Bay in the South Continent of the Central Continent officially began-because the battle zone itself was located in the territory of the Mithril Alliance, which originally belonged to the goblins, and was less than a hundred miles west of the war zone. It is the Mithril Bay under the original Mithril Alliance. This is why the battle became known as the Battle of Mithril Bay.

"Attack! For the sun never sets! ”

"Drink!" Except for some special heavy cavalry units, such as the Dick heavy cavalry belonging to the 11th Heavy Cavalry Regiment of the Sunset, and the cavalry of the Field Order, which now belongs to the 7th Heavy Cavalry Regiment, and the newly established 9th and 8th Royal Noble Cavalry Regiment (these things are attributed to the descendants of the nobles of other countries who have entered the army, and the cavalry regiments of the two countries specially prepared by the military department of the Sunset Army are slightly lower than the heavy cavalry of the two major knights in terms of morale and combat skills, but the equipment is much higher), the remaining 7 knights have been fully knighted.

The heavy cavalry of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Cavalry Regiments were the Knights Templar, all of whom numbered 10,000. This means that there were 40,000 Knights Templar in the ranks of the Sunset Heavy Cavalry, and all of them were elite knights. Because they are basically converted from English knights, all of them have retained their previous combat effectiveness.

All Knights Templar were equipped with fish-scale inner armor and fine full-body plate armor, carrying a steel crusade shield on their backs, and armed with a mace and knight's sword, as well as a heavy cavalry pistol with a steel spear head, basically completely retaining the excellent Cheng dù of the original English knights, the only difference was that there were some changes in appearance, and at the same time, the Templars basically wore a layer of white robes on the outside, and the shoulder armor was embroidered with a red cross and a white background of the Templar insignia. Even the armor worn by the war horse under his crotch is embroidered with a red cross and white background pattern on the surface.

The same is true of the Knights Hospitaller, who were on the same level as the Knights Templar and changed from the 4th, 5th, and 6th Cavalry Regiments on which the sun never sets, and since it is spring, the knights of the Knights Hospitaller have not taken off their robes with white patterns on a black background.

Of course, there are some differences between the knights and the Knights Hospitaller and the original English knights, first of all, the equipment, the English knights are equipped with the No. 4 war horse after the sun never sets on the Nightmare Horse, and the war horse of the Knights is indeed the No. 5 war horse after the No. 4 war horse is hybridized with the Cuman war horse.

In addition to inheriting the tall body and strong endurance of the No. 4 war horse, the No. 5 war horse also inherited the second major feature of the Cuman war horse (the first characteristic is speed, but the speed requirements of the war horse itself as a heavy cavalry are not important, on the contrary, the load capacity and endurance are the first) - flexibility, where flexibility does not refer to the movement ability of the Cuman war horse, but refers to the movement of the war horse when running.

You must know that war horses are flesh and blood animals, and unlike the steel chariots of the future, they are stored by the body, not the tank that can run around as long as the oil is enough, so the war horse will try to avoid making some similar turning actions in the process of moving, especially in the running U-turn, or immediately U-turn, because this is a very large consumption of all aspects of the horse's physical strength.

Of course, the most important thing is that a war horse like a heavy cavalry war horse, the only thing to do when running is to make a big arc and then turn around, because only in this way can the running war horse not slow down its speed, and this way of turning around is very likely to show the vulnerable side of the heavy cavalry to the enemy, and it is very likely to be caught by the enemy to the weakness.

But the new No. 5 war horse is different, because the Cuman war horse has a certain difference from the ordinary war horse in terms of body structure and skeleton, so the hybrid No. 5 war horse also inherited this point, and this feature can make the war horse flexible to its own body, just like the body of the ordinary war horse can only pose a straight body, but the body of the Cuman war horse and the No. 5 war horse can be slightly bent on the movement dù, you must know that the bend here is not the kind of horse head after looking at it as simple, Rather, the horse's body is able to stand in a bend while standing on the ground.

In this case, after the calculation of the horse trainer who never sets, it was found that the new No. 5 war horse can take 20% less time to turn than the No. 4 war horse, and the speed is also reduced, and the body consumed by the war horse is reduced, according to the horse trainer, if the original No. 4 war horse can be chiseled by the enemy cavalry for 2 times in the case of 1000 equal numbers of both sides, then the number of times the No. 5 war horse will be increased to 3 times.

And this is where the knights of the two knighthoods have the greatest advantage over the English knights - flexibility, of course, the two knights also have an advantage over the English knights in terms of people, among which the advantage of the Templars is on the battlefield: the Templars are the most ardent followers of Christianity, so the Templars are not only more morale, but also more aggressive.

And what Sun Lin needs, and what the sun never sets army needs, is this kind of aggressiveness, so the Knights Templar seem to be only 1 point more than the English knights in terms of appearance, but in fact, Sun Lin's most conservative estimate is that the Templars' combat power is 30% more than that of the English knights.

The Knights Hospitaller is the guardian of the Christians, so after the system upgraded all the English knights of the 3 legions to the Knights Hospitaller, Sun Lin was pleasantly surprised to find that all the knights of the Knights Hospitaller basically have the ability to carry out effective simple bandaging of the wounded, and they can also have a certain understanding of the plants that belong to the herb class in the surrounding environment, that is to say, if the army is equipped with a Hospitaller Knight, then this army has obtained a heavy cavalry unit and a field doctor unitIn this way, the chances of survival of the survivors after the war are greatly increased, and the decline of the sunset soldiers has also been curbed to a certain extent.

Of course, the sun never sets seems to be very strong, while the Allied side is very weak because it has been driven and run before, but when the two sides find each other, and the heavy cavalry of the two sides begins to move forward face to face and let the horses enter a trotting state, Prince Uda knows that this time it is simply a luxury to pierce each other, and it is very good to be able to resist the charge of the allies. (To be continued......)