393. Fierce Battle

The sound of a rolling tide reverberated on the battlefield.

As far as the eye could see, a red light appeared, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves, like the waves of the sea, surging towards the battlefield.

Crimson Knights, Cazes. Prince Hodgdy's first combat force!

It's just a thousand horses, but the sound of galloping on the battlefield is like a thousand horses.

Leading the way was the leader of this order, Thaddeus.

He also wore a set of red, blue, and black light armor, the shape of the armor was not luxurious, but more focused on the comfort and practicality of the rider, and Thaddeus, as the head of the entire knighthood, only had a red cloak more than the others.

Under his leadership, the Knights, who were in the midst of a gallop, soon formed a cone formation that was most suitable for the charge.

And the sharp knife, which is the core of the cone formation, is naturally also Saiddeus.

"Raise your gun!"

I only heard Thaddeus shout angrily, and then slowly raised the spear in his hand, and the knights in the front row behind him also slowly raised the spear in their hands.

The gleaming spears looked as dazzling as a fast-moving forest of spears when raised from the hands of the knights.

The distance between the two sides is rapidly being narrowed.

"Pingju!"

Another roar.

Even on the noisy battlefield, the sound was still loud and clear.

The galloping knights finally began to slowly raise their spears flat, and in order to enhance stability, the handles of the knights' spears were all clamped under their armpits.

This move basically means that the knights' most rear-end charge is about to begin.

The roaring gallop was also getting closer and closer to the main battlefield - the Crimson Knights were less than five hundred meters away from the rear of the Thunder Lion, although this distance was not the most suitable distance for charging and accelerating. But judging by the speed at which the Crimson Knights move, they would have two or three minutes at most before they reached the perfect distance point for launching an accelerated charge.

And at this moment, on a hillside about a hundred meters away from this battlefield, there were several people watching the charge of the Scarlet Knights with cold eyes.

The corners of William's mouth lifted slightly, and the look on his face clearly showed that everything was still under his control.

"Are you so sure that the end result will be like this?" Sean really couldn't get used to William's appearance, and couldn't help but snort.

"Of course." William said proudly, "The so-called strategic intent, to put it bluntly, is just a game between two chess players. And if you want to play a game, then all the rules must be logically reasoned according to the accuracy of the information you have gathered. Therefore, in the strict sense, it can also be said that it is just an intelligence war, and whoever collects more intelligence will naturally be able to gain more advantages in a battle. ”

"I still don't understand." Sean shook his head.

"With your intelligence, it's really hard for me to explain it to you." The blush on William's face had become more and more obvious, and he pursed his lips in disdain. He didn't even have the mood to squint at Sean, "Anyway, you just need to know the way." All the information that the other party has collected is provided to him by me. I won't let them know the truth. They don't know anything, and only if I am willing to let them know the way, they will be able to know the way. ”

"Excuse me, can you speak the lingua franca of the mainland?" Sean asked.

"Aldolph, you explain." William didn't want to pay any attention to Sean at all.

looked at William and Sean's appearance, like Aldolph who had been driven to the shelves with a helpless look. He pondered for a moment before he spoke, "...... What Master William meant was that he had created a false impression that the commanders of the other side were only the vanguard. And the real main force is someone else. In this way, the commanders of the opposing side will definitely be in a hurry to deal with our vanguard army, so they will choose the most suitable terrain to exert the combat effectiveness of their legions, which means that at least they want to occupy both the advantages of people and location. ”

"But isn't the mountainous terrain of the White Ice Ridge the least suitable for the Knights?"

"That's because they think the Crimson Knights are wonders." William said impatiently, "Tactics are a means that exist to achieve strategic intentions, and to put it simply, it is a way to deal with details. …… Their core tactics are indeed built around the Crimson Knights, but the core idea of their tactics is surprise attacks, not frontal assaults, so from the very beginning they sacrificed those three infantry legions as cannon fodder, just to delay the decisive battle on the frontal battlefield. If I'm not mistaken, the other side is preparing to crush our forces in three days. ”

"Three days?" Sean looked incredulous, "Didn't you say they wanted to use Blitzkrieg?" ”

"yes." William said with a look of course, "In their opinion, ending a war in three days is indeed a blitzkrieg." …… So you see, aren't I teaching them exactly what a real blitzkrieg is? It only takes me half a day to end this war. ”

"This tactical plan was drawn up by Aldolphus." Sean raised his eyebrows, he had never seen a shameless one like William.

But it's clear that William. Yale, the military commander of one of Sean's triumvirate, didn't know what kind of shame he was about, and he said with a look of course: "If it weren't for the illusion I created, it wouldn't have been so easy for Aldolph to blitzkrieg?" So obviously, I was not only teaching each other, but also Aldolph. Speaking of the last word, William had already turned his head to look at Aldolph and said in a deep voice: "Aldolph, you have indeed mastered the essence of blitzkrieg, and I am indeed not as perfect as you are when it comes to tactical raids, but if you want to be more sophisticated, then you must learn how to catch your opponent off guard." ”

Hearing William's words, Sean was a little surprised.

Because William said "caught off guard", not "do a good job in intelligence warfare", this fully shows that William just said that he was not simply talking about teaching Aldolph, at least he did not instill Aldolph with a tough tactical approach that he was good at, but only gave Aldolph a reminder.

"Don't talk nonsense, think about how you want to deal with the charge of the Crimson Knights." Sean said coldly.

"Do you still need to think about this?" William pursed his lips disdainfully. At the same time, with a wave of his right hand, several command flags were quickly waved.

In an instant, Sean could intuitively feel the sudden change in the atmosphere on the entire battlefield!

The steel wings that were originally entangled with an army in the middle instantly more than half of the Northland barbarians immediately broke out of the formation, and at this time, the Thunder Lion burst out with a bloody force that could be called crazy, once again suppressing the Fire Dragon Legion to retreat again and again. But all this is not the end of this, because after the Thunder Lion suppressed the Fire Dragon Legion, it actually directly merged with the Steel Wings, and the two forces turned into one force in an instant, and this conversion did not have any rustiness and delay at all. It doesn't look like it's the first time you've done a coordination tactic.

And even more so that Cazes. What Prince Hodgdi found difficult to accept was that when the two remnants of the Iron Wings and the Thunder Lion merged to form a single force, and when they faced the two forces that were far superior to their own forces, their momentum actually increased instead of decreasing, and the two enemy armies began to faintly collapse in one breath.

It's just a blink of an eye. Although Sean's side on the battlefield still looks like three troops, the situation on the battlefield is completely different.

The situation of the Cecilia Guards remained unchanged. Their offense was not strong. Maybe it was because he was a fellow Dabian, but for Clov, it was enough to hold this army back and not let them join the other two enemy forces. After all, in terms of tactical coordination, his Cecilia Guards Regiment was indeed completely unable to integrate into the battle of Steel Wings and Thunder Lion.

On the other hand, the Thunder Lion and the Iron Wings obviously don't have this kind of problem, because no matter what. Alfred's place in the hearts of the Northland barbarians is second only to Sean's. Therefore, after his linkage and convergence, although the strength of the two enemy forces was far less than the sum of the two enemy forces, it was definitely superior in terms of momentum, so it was easy to suppress the two enemy armies. It is naturally not difficult to even force the opponent's defense line to completely collapse.

As for the third legion on the battlefield, more than 2,000 soldiers with steel wings, they quickly changed positions with the previous Thunder Lion, and at this moment they became a strong wall in the attack route of the Crimson Knights. With less than a hundred meters left between the two sides, it was completely impossible for the Scarlet Knights to give up the charge at this time, so Thaddeus just gritted his teeth and gave the order to attack.

The charging speed of the entire knight regiment suddenly more than doubled.

The billowing smoke and dust are even bigger.

"They lost." William sneered, "It's your turn to strike." ”

"I know it."

Sean turned around and left without looking back.

At first, he wasn't very fast, just running slowly. But gradually, his speed began to get faster and faster, and the figure after dozens of meters was faintly blurred, and each step forward was a leap of several meters. And when Sean advanced dozens of meters, at the foot of the mountain, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared, but these cavalry could clearly be seen to belong to two different camps: the first group of riders was less numerous, only about thirty horses, and they were uniformly dressed in red light armor; Behind this group of riders was a group of riders in light blue light armor, who were slightly more numerous, and probably sixty or seventy horsemen, and the two sides together numbered nearly a hundred.

And judging from the equipment carried by these riders, it is clear that these two groups of riders are not ordinary cavalrymen, but belong to the ranks of the Knights!

The first thirty or so people dressed in red light armor were undoubtedly the newly established Scarlet Knights under Sean's command.

Although the combat effectiveness of this knight order only maintains the level of quasi-fourth-level, with the assistance of Rena's aura, it can exert its combat effectiveness beyond that of ordinary fourth-level armies, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is even a quasi-fifth-level army. However, the only pity is that the number of members of the Scarlet Knights is too small at this time, only about thirty people, mainly because Sean ordered half of the men to be divided to protect Hela and Ruby, for which he even did not hesitate to borrow the twin sisters Nana and Pepe from Florence.

Behind the Scarlet Knights were the Florentine Knights: the Holy Roman Order.

The ancestor of the Wiles, Rome. When Wiles followed the fascist king to establish the fascist kingdom, he relied on the ten knights who followed him at that time. And in this great conquest of the founding of the country, Rome. Wiles gradually began to rely on his followers to form his own knightly order: the Roman Knights. Hundreds of years have passed now. The Roman Knights not only became the strongest legion under the command of the Wyles, but also the only sixth-level army possessed by the Fascist Kingdom - if it were not for the Roman Knights, the Fascist Kingdom would have been wiped out by the Chainus Empire.

Therefore, Florence named his own knightly order, the Holy Roman Knights, and Sean naturally knew exactly what he was thinking: in order to surpass the Roman knights of the Wiles family. And as a person who was kicked out of his family by his family, with his own efforts, he finally defeated his family's long-established knights on a frontal battlefield one day, is there anything more exciting than this?

No!

It's just that in terms of the current facts, Sean is really not very optimistic, after all, the Holy Roman Knights are only barely reaching the level of a third-level army.

The Knights of the Holy Roman Order are not technically weak. The biggest problem is that the quality of their equipment is poor, one level worse than the Crimson Knights. Compared with the Crimson Knights, the equipment of the Crimson Knights has a more obvious gap in terms of comfort and practicality, because there are more parts in the overall structure that seem to be completely redundant.

The two knights, the Scarlet Knights and the Holy Roman Knights, were quickly converging on Sean's side, but the leader was not Rena. It's a young man.

Dwight, head of the Scarlet Knights!

At this time, he was on his left and right. Each has a horse without a rider.

And when he led a horse and quickly approached Sean. Sean jumped onto the saddle in a leap and took the reins.

The two knights immediately rushed to the front line.

And ahead, the collision between the Crimson Knights and the Steel Wings is about to explode completely.

On the enemy's command line, Cazes. When Prince Hodgdy and Horn saw that the charge of the Scarlet Knights finally completely hit the defense line of the steel wings, the frowning brows that had been tightly relaxed finally relaxed, and the hearts that had been hanging were completely relaxed. The two had been worried about what William would have left. I am afraid that something will suddenly happen in the middle of the way and cause the Scarlet Knights' charge to lose its impact, so although it will not cause any loss of combat power to the Crimson Knights, it will eventually cause the Scarlet Knights to fall into an entanglement war.

So at this moment, seeing that the charge of the Scarlet Knights was completely effective, these two people naturally had to breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, William. Yale's fame is just too great.

But the relaxed expressions of the two men lasted less than a second. Immediately it was solidified again!

The charge of the Crimson Knights was like crashing into the mountain wall in front of the defense line composed of steel wings - after a loud roar, the charge of the Scarlet Knights did not break through the defense line of steel wings, but was blocked by force!

When the knight at the front stabbed out a shot towards the steel-winged tower shield, the tip of the cavalry spear in their hand was completely deformed in an instant, and then the huge recoil force that fed back from the tip of the spear directly shattered the bone of their right hand in an instant, and the speed of time did not allow them to react at all. The next moment, the charging war horse hit his head on the tower shield, directly hit his head and broke the blood, let out a miserable neigh, and then fell to the ground, and the knight on horseback was thrown out of the air without any suspense.

At this time, the soldiers with steel wings behind the formation immediately raised their spears diagonally, not only leaning against the tower shield, but also using the end of their spears against the solid ground, forming a whole chilling forest of guns. Even if the riders who were thrown out of the gun were lucky enough not to be directly stabbed to death by this gun forest, the impact still made them feel very uncomfortable, especially after hitting the gun forest and falling from above, the successive impacts and concussions made them almost lose their ability to fight.

Just one wave of charges was blocked, and more than a hundred knights were killed or wounded, leaving a trail of horse corpses at the front of the line, and blood was slowly flowing out.

At this time, it has long been impossible to distinguish whether this blood is horse blood or human blood.

However, once the charge is launched, there is simply no way to stop.

The defeat of the knights at the front did not deter the knights who continued to charge in the rear. After all, not all legions can be torn apart by a single charge, and there are many opponents who need two or even three rounds to break through the formation, but this time is the heaviest casualty of the Scarlet Knights since its establishment. But the bloody scene in front of them did not make the knights of the Crimson Order flinch, but only provoked the anger of their common enemy.

The knights of the Crimson Knights began to charge one after the other.

Only one person knows that this time the situation is completely different from the previous charge being blocked!

That person is Thaddeus!

As a high-ranking golden powerhouse, although Thaddeus has not yet become a quasi-Sanctuary powerhouse, he can be regarded as touching the edge threshold of the rules after all, and at the moment when he just charged and collided, he keenly felt the fluctuation of the power of the law.

It was as if a line of law had drawn a wall in front of them to block their attack.

The only difference is. This wall of legal threads is not as impregnable as it seems.

Therefore, in the first blow, although Thaddeus did not break through the defensive formation, his spear still easily and directly provoked a Northland barbarian, so it was naturally regarded as creating a gap in the defensive line.

According to the normal charge effect, once a gap is made. The charging knights (cavalry) must have continued to advance, striving to widen the gap and form a collapse. So that your cavalry units can completely cut through the formation. After all, for cavalry units. If the charge fails to penetrate the enemy line and is trapped in the formation, then the charge will definitely be considered a failure, and the next thing that awaits them will be a siege.

However, the knights will be much stronger than the cavalry in terms of individual combat effectiveness, so even if they can't chisel through the formation of steel wings, with the combat power of the Scarlet Knights, they can face the steel wings of only 2,000 people. It is also possible to kill it without leaving a piece of armor.

But all this must be based on the premise that Thaddeus can break through this defensive formation.

It's just that the reaction speed of the steel wings is far faster than Dice can imagine.

When the Northland barbarian was shot away by Thaddeus. A Northland barbarian in the back immediately raised his shield and advanced, once again standing on the same front with his comrades-in-arms, completely uncaring that he needed to face a powerhouse at the peak of the golden pinnacle.

Thaddeus's pupils shrank slightly, although he couldn't see the specific power of the law, but he could feel that the cracks that had been chiseled through the wall of the law by him with great difficulty were being quickly repaired. So at this time, he also immediately threw away the spear in his hand, and with his right hand leaned back, he pulled out an exaggerated heavy sword from behind the horse, only to see that the muscles of his right hand immediately contracted, and his arm almost swelled out of a circle, and then slashed hard, and the heavy sword was directly slashed on the tower shield in the hands of this northern barbarian.

With a slight roar, as if some machine had exploded, the tower shield in the hands of the Northland barbarian was immediately exploded, and the iron pieces were scattered in pieces, pulling several Northland barbarians around him into the water to be buried together, and the obviously valuable war horse under Thaddeus's crotch was also not spared.

It's just that at this time, Thaddeus can no longer care about the sacrifice of his beloved horse.

His fighting spirit erupted suddenly, directly crushing the bones of his beloved horse, and the moment his feet touched the ground, his body immediately moved, and the heavy sword in his hand also immediately swung and moved, directly splitting all the northern barbarians into the sky. Without waiting for these Northland barbarians to land, due to the influence of Thaddeus's fighting spirit, the bodies of these Northland barbarians quickly swelled, and the next moment they exploded in the sky, and countless blood rains fell one after another.

A small gap was completely broken by Thaddeus!

However, at this time, the Scarlet Knights had already charged three times, and in addition to increasing the casualties of the Knights, it obviously did not have much effect on the entire defensive array. Of course, the Northland barbarians were not without casualties, and when the third round of charges hit, all the Northland barbarians in the first row could not withstand the charge of the knights, and they were directly shocked to death under the continuous impact force.

Thaddeus's eyes were cold, he knew that the charge of the Knights of the Dao Dao was not useless, but if he really had to rely on the charge of the Knights, the casualties would definitely be very large. And from this moment, it has been clear that it is impossible for them to cut through the defensive array formed by these two thousand steel-winged soldiers.

Of course, Thaddeus was not stupid, just looking at the current situation, he already knew that this heavy infantry army was able to block their charge, not because of how great they were or how powerful they were, but because of the tower shield used in the hands of this infantry regiment.

In fact, when the steel wings are dressed in an impact shield, they can indeed upgrade this legion to a fifth-level legion, but this upgrade is not a fifth-level legion in the real sense, it can only be said that in the battle against the cavalry, the steel wings can exert the combat effectiveness of the fifth-level army.

However, the army skill of "Continental Barrier" is not really invincible.

[Continental Barrier: Dress advantage, the army is immune to all slashing, piercing, and long-range strike damage, forming a field suppression effect on cavalry troops, immune to light cavalry charge effect (field suppression effect has been bonus), exempt 60% heavy cavalry charge effect (field suppression effect has been bonus), exempt 30% special cavalry unit charge effect (field suppression effect has been bonus), movement speed is reduced by 50%, cannot be concealed, the defense array cannot move when deployed, and the magic resistance is weakened by 400%, Any blessing of magic and magic will be reduced by 50%. Dress code: 500 men, heavy infantry. Costume Effect: Army Level Upgrade by 1 level, Absolute Barrier: 35% chance to force cavalry units that have broken through the defensive formation to be unable to chisel through the formation. 】

In this army skill, the reason why it can block the power of the first round of knight charges is purely because of the special effect of "immunity to all slashes, piercing, and ranged strike damage", after all, the impact of the spear belongs to the "piercing" type of damage from the attack judgment. It's just that the Knights are already a "special cavalry unit" in the strict sense of the word, so the effect of the continental barrier only weakens it by 30%.

In terms of actual combat situation, it was simply impossible to rely on the "continental barriers" to intercept the charge of the Crimson Knights - at least William had never thought about it. So the current situation is definitely an unexpected surprise for William. Only Sean, who saw this scene, knew that the reason why the steel wings were not completely chiseled through the formation at this time, but blocked the Scarlet Knights, was purely because they were very shit lucky to activate the special effect of "Absolute Barrier".

But even if the formation hadn't been chiseled, the threat to the steel wings had not diminished in the slightest.

"Dismount! Foot Combat! Thaddeus exclaimed.

All the knights of the Crimson Knights did not hesitate in the slightest, they immediately let go of the spear that had been clipped under their armpits, drew their backhand slashing knives placed behind their horses, and dismounted one after another, switching from cavalry to foot combat! (To be continued......)

PS: A chapter of 7k words, of which 1K is considered to make up for the number of words owed yesterday, and today it is more than 6K.