Chapter 701: Griffon's Plague (7)

PS: There is one more more

The light lance dragoon can be said to be the most bizarre of all the cavalry arms, if nothing else, because this kind of class, which is supposed to use extremely high movement speed to outflank and harass the enemy's infantry and even cavalry in the open field, can run back and forth in the dense jungle to carry out archer-style battles against the troops that should be the home of infantry and mountain soldiers.

As infantry, especially the heavy infantry in the Middle Ages, the natural enemies they have to face are those soldiers on horses, which is not to say that the heavy infantry can't beat the cavalry, in fact, the vast majority of the heavy infantry has the ability to eliminate the cavalry on the horse in hand-to-hand combat, after all, the heavy infantry is like a turtle wrapping itself in a solid steel plate and iron wall on all sides, and the cavalry, whether it is cavalry or heavy infantry, no matter how heavy the plate armor they wear, its defense is always weak. The most important thing is that the lower half of the body, which cannot be protected by the defensive weapon in one's hand, is very likely to be exposed to the enemy.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the advantage of cavalry is that they have a mount that is much stronger than humans in terms of movement speed, body weight, and load capacity, while infantry, on the other hand, because they have a smaller body than cavalry and a more flexible body than those mounts, so that infantry can use the surrounding terrain, which is the advantage of cavalry and infantry, and it is also the method and capital for both sides to compete with each other. But now, the capital and methods of the infantry of the Divine Light Empire have been broken by the Athlon this strange mount that should not be a mount.

"Projectile!" At the behest of the centurions of the Sunset Cavalry, the light-speared dragoons who were closer to the Dwarven Forgeers removed their javelins from their waists, made of steel or iron, but were sharp and glowing from their heads, and threw them at the stunned dwarven warriors.

Although the armor-piercing power of the new Mo Forged Crossbow is extremely strong, and it is more powerful than the old Mo Forged Crossbow, in order to adapt to the combat style of the cavalry (mainly because the cavalry is in the process of mobile shooting, neither novice nor veteran cavalry archery can guarantee that every arrow will hit the vital part of the enemy soldier, and most veterans can only guarantee a higher chance of hitting). Therefore, whether it is a new Mo forging crossbow or an old Mo forging crossbow, it has to go through a small modification procedure to reduce the penetration power of the Mo forging crossbow while strengthening the accuracy and loading speed; Secondly, although the Great Empire of the Sun Never Sets has developed a new type of Mo Forging Crossbow, until now most of the soldiers who use the Mo Forging Crossbow are still using the old version of the Mo Forging Crossbow, after all, no matter how strong the production capacity of the Sun Never Setting Empire is, it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be equipped with a new type of Mo Forging Crossbow with more delicate production technology, and it is already very good that the best troops who use the Mo Forging Crossbow are all equipped with the new Mo Forging Crossbow. Not to mention that these Mo forged crossbows should be taken back to the arsenal to be reprocessed and equipped with cavalry.

The number of new Mo crossbows is insufficient, and the old version of Mo Forged Crossbow may not be able to penetrate these Forge Warriors wearing super heavy plate armor in front of them after being improved, so the Sunset Light Lance Dragoons who joined the battlefield decided to remove half of the light spear dragoons in the team and continue to equip a small number of improved cavalry type Mo Forging Crossbows and the old version of the improved Mo Forging Crossbow. The rest of the light lance dragoons all carried out a more daring decision: anyway, in the dense forest battlefield with complex terrain, even if their side could walk through it at will, those heavy cavalry rifles used for cavalry cluster charges were still unusable, since the cavalry lances could not be used, it was better to break the jar and drop directly discard the cavalry guns and replace them with a large number of javelins. Once again, the sun never sets auxiliary cavalry.

Strange as it may be, it turns out that this choice is actually the right one: after all, you have to count all the ranged weapons of the individual soldiers. Excluding Greek fire and asphalt clay pots, which can only be regarded as half a single long-range weapon. In addition to the short-range weapons that can kill and damage enemy soldiers at a certain distance, the only weapon that can easily penetrate the enemy's soldier's armor, whether heavy or super-heavy, is the Javelin.

Although the throwing distance of the javelin is shorter, the power is definitely stronger than the new Mo forging crossbow, and the most important thing is that as the light lance dragoons of the Sunset Empire, 95% of their predecessors are the auxiliary cavalry of the Sunset Empire. Although these guys don't specialize, they are able to use most of the weapons that can be used in horse combat, such as maces, extended iron spears, javelins, slings, etc., and they are relatively proficient in combat.

PS: The main reason for this situation is that the power of the Great Empire was not as strong as it is now. The second-line troops can be equipped with sophisticated weapons made by the Imperial Quartermaster's Department, so at that time, second-line troops such as the Lanster Mace Soldiers, although they were wearing steel inlays with simple and exquisite craftsmanship, most of the weapons in their hands were either captured weapons from enemy soldiers, or items recreated and randomly created by imperial blacksmiths after remelting the broken armor of enemy soldiers, and as the most miscellaneous auxiliary cavalry, although on the surface these soldiers were rare cavalry units in the great empire on which the sun never sets, received the benefits of special care in the second-line arms on the surface - equipped with light chain mail, but in fact, as long as you know the army system of the Great Empire, you will know that the Sun Never Sets Army is specially cared for, or the most serious between the polarization of cannon fodder and elite is actually the cavalry unit that never sets, so although the auxiliary cavalry of the Great Empire has a bright appearance and armor, in fact, the weapons in their hands are all weapons when they were still knights and squires and militiamen, For example, those elongated iron spears, in fact, most of the grips of this iron spear are made of iron rods and wooden rods plus some ropes, and those javelins are made of items transformed from the spearheads of the war spears left behind after the enemy spearmen died in battle, nail hammers, war swords and the like, it is estimated that the only thing that is made by the great empire of the sun never sets is those Mo forging crossbows and powerful compound bows that are gradually equipped by the auxiliary cavalry of the sunset, It is worth mentioning that the armor-piercing crossbow arrows used by the auxiliary cavalry back then were recreated after these guys took the daggers from the corpses of enemy soldiers and brought them back for disposal when these guys volunteered to clean up the battlefield.

"Ah......h

However, although the nerves of the dwarven forges warriors have long been paralyzed, those paralyzed nerves do not wrap around the cranial nerves, and even now, the commanders of those dwarven forges warriors can still judge in such an adversity that their side may have fallen into a situation of annihilation in this situation, and the only thing that can fight back is to continue to march forward and rely on the huge torrent of steel to fight a bloody way, after all, only about 20,000 soldiers of the sun never sets are blocking their progress.

Therefore, in such a situation, the dwarven warriors on the side of the Holy Light Empire not only did not retreat, but also did not divide their forces to kill those light lancer dragoons, but only made the battle formation condensed before, and then relied on the charging ability of the super-heavy assault infantry comparable to the heavy cavalry, and launched a full-scale charge towards the 10,000 sunset heavy hook and sickle soldiers who blocked the forward pace of the dwarven forged warriors in front of them, and launched a full-scale charge with the dwarven forged warriors from the blackstone dwarven kingdom. But can the Dwarven Forge warriors on the side of the Great Empire of Divine Light really be able to fight back? Not to mention the long-range troops who have been pouring javelins, armor-piercing crossbow arrows, and Siling cone armor-piercing arrows on it, you must know that even if the evacuated Sunset light troops are excluded, the Sunset side will only send half of the number of soldiers.

"It's now! Field Order troops on top of the Knights of England! Dozens of minutes later, looking at the mixed troops of the Sunset Heavy Hook Sickle and the Blackstone Dwarf Legion that had already appeared in front of him, Bobby, who was watching the battle from a distance and was the commander of the Sunset Cavalry Reinforcement Force in this operation, immediately sounded the horn to the herald beside him to represent the counterattack, and almost at the same time, countless walking Sunset knights armed with swords and shields or two-handed armor-piercing hammers, wrapped in Sunset's full-body plate armor, appeared in the bushes behind the road, Under the command of numerous centurions, a surprise attack was launched towards the crumbling defensive belt ahead.

Although the combined number of these soldiers is only about 30,000 people, and more than half of the soldiers and dwarven warriors who fought on the front line have been killed or wounded, rushing forward to fight with the dwarven warriors on the side of the Holy Light Empire is almost no different from sending them to death, after all, until now, if only the number of heavy infantry on both sides is counted, then the strength of the Holy Light Empire can be said to be as much as 3 times that of the Sun Never Sets, but what can this be? From the very beginning of this war, the Sunset side did not intend to use the heavy infantry to kill the super-heavy infantry on the side of the Holy Light Empire, and the Sunset Heavy Infantry was only a restraining force, so that the light lance dragoons on both flanks of the battlefield could tilt ammunition as much as possible to the side of the Holy Light Empire, and the most important thing was that the appearance of these walking Sunset Knights was just the beginning. (To be continued......)