"Guys, get ready to fight!" Lu Xiuan. Bloodhoof glanced around at everyone, and then said in a deep voice, "The wounded soldiers protect the other Bunnies and Catwomen from withdrawing, and Catwoman will form a vigilance force." …… Rollo, under your command, no problem, right? ”

"What about you?" Rollo frowned, "It's not a problem for me and Eunice to cooperate with the others to leave, but the encirclement ......"

"Stay breath, we'll go to you when we break through." Lu Xiuan said in a deep voice, "Moreover, the task assigned by Lord William is almost completed. ”

"I see." Rollo nodded and didn't say anything more, "So...... May the beast gods protect you. ”

Lu Xiu'an stretched out his hand and slapped his left chest, and said in a deep voice: "May the beast god protect you!" ”

There was a loud voice, one after another.

However, unlike the orcs, who basically believe in the beast gods, the highland elves, as a branch of the plateau elves, are the same ethnic group as the steppe elves, so the gods they believe in include the goddess of hunting and the goddess of springs. However, because of the difference in living habits, it is just that the vast majority of highland elves believe in the goddess of hunting, while the steppe elves believe more in the goddess of spring water, but it is not absolute, so at this time there are also highland elves praying to the goddess of spring water.

"Then, let's act according to the rules of battle that Master William has laid down for us." Lu Xiu'an smiled, "Everyone, don't die so quickly, I hope that after the battle, I can still drink with you." ”

"Don't worry, we won't die before you." Someone burst into laughter.

Immediately, the atmosphere of the whole team became enthusiastic, and it didn't seem like going to war at all.

After a burst of laughter. Lu Xiuan took off the horn hanging from his waist and blew it.

An old, low, dull sound. Slowly ringing.

Hearing the sound of this horn, everyone in the Savage Land felt the blood boiling in their bodies. A sense of heat and dryness made them all look extremely excited, and everyone felt that their bodies were filled with a sense of strength at this moment. And because of this sense of strength rising from their hearts, they felt even more fearless, and the trembling of excitement made all of them can't help but start roaring.

Lu Xiu'an nodded slightly at Luo Luo, and then led his troops to set off.

A thousand Catwomen and a thousand Bunny Girls, as well as nearly a thousand wounded soldiers, did not take part in the battle.

The most intact combat power is 15,000 centaurs and 3,000 highland elf sword dancers, and both werewolves and leopard people have some damage, especially werewolves. In the case of non-raiding raids, it is the Werewolf forces of Karfins who are responsible for frontal combat. So during several encounters and sieges of the camp, the troops led by Karphons were under a lot of pressure.

There were 5,000 werewolves, and at this time there were more than 700 werewolves.

Rollo stared at Lucian and Thatch Grotel and the others leaving, and after taking a deep breath, she said, "So...... Let's go. ”

Soon, a thousand catwomen quickly dispersed in groups of threes and threes, and in each catwoman group, there must be a rabbit girl following, and all the groups began to move in a large fan-shaped formation. Rollo and Younis moved behind the large fan formation with the wounded werewolves and leopards. Quickly leave the encirclement that was about to close.

……

Encirclement, when fully formed, will have a deterrent effect.

If you want to break the encirclement, it's easy.

The first is to leave before the encirclement is formed, forcing the encirclement to be forced to change or simply fail. The second is to crush the encirclement with absolute strength. Then he left dignified. The former has extremely demanding requirements for speed, while the latter has extremely demanding requirements for strength.

Of course, there is actually a third party.

That is, before the encirclement was formed. Crush one of the teams and force the encirclement to collapse successfully.

Take William to Lucian. Vanguard size of the Bloodhoof configuration. In fact, they can break away before the encirclement is completely closed, and of course the danger is not small. After all, now the fascist kingdom is in dire need of a major victory. Therefore, the strength of this encirclement network will definitely be very large, which is also the reason why the fascist kingdom directly mobilized two border garrisons to carry out the encirclement plan.

But all this, in fact, has long been in William's calculations.

Therefore, the relevant action plan and coping strategy, William has already told Lu Xiu'an. Bloodhoof is waiting for someone.

At this time, by Lu Xiu'an. The troops led by Bloodhoof were heading in the direction that Rollo and Younis had pointed out earlier, heading towards the force that had carried out the encirclement plan.

Because both sides are close to each other, the distance between them is constantly shortening.

It's just that the only difference is that this force of the fascist kingdom did not know about the approach of the enemy, and Lu Xiuan. Bloodhoof knew the enemy's movements at this time. So purely from a strategic point of view, Lu Xiu'an at this time. Bloodhoof is the advantage that has the upper hand.

Soon, the troops reached a plain.

At the end of Lu Xiu'an's line of sight, there was a fine dust raised, as if a breeze was blowing, rolling up the fine sand and dust on the ground.

The dust was light, and it didn't seem like the size of the enemy army was large. But everyone present knew that this was due to the distance between the two sides, and if the distance difference was taken into account, the number of enemy troops estimated to be more than 20,000 horsemen with this level of sand and dust—the people of the wilderness often had the ability to judge the size of the cavalry force by the sand and dust.

Luo Luo's error in the judgment of this army through hearing is not that her strength is not good, but that this army is a typical mixed infantry and cavalry force, and the distance is too far, so it can only be judged approximately.

"20,000 cavalry, there will definitely be 10,000 to 20,000 on the infantry side, will this be the main force of the enemy's encirclement network?" Thatch Grottel frowned.

"I don't know." Lu Xiuan shook his head not very clearly, "Lord William only said a few tactics that the other party may execute, and told us how to deal with it. But what kind of target we choose can only depend on our luck...... However, I guess it is very likely that it is really the main force of the border garrison. ”

"Hey. Afraid of what these days are fighting. I think I've earned enough! Karfens smirked, then moved her neck. There was a crackling sound.

"Don't worry, I'll collect your body when you're dead." Atram grinned, "Your sister, I'll take care of you too." ”

"Haha, don't worry, I'll drag you on the road when I die." Karfins laughed, "On the way to the throne of the beast god, I would be bored without you arguing with me. …… Besides. In the future, you also need someone to accompany you when you drink. ”

Lu Xiuan glanced at Thatch Grotel, who was sitting on his back, and said with a smile: "What do you say? ”

The highland elf, who was not low now, smiled and took off the wine jug at his waist, raised his head and took a big sip, and then handed it to Lu Xiu'an. Bloody Hoof. The latter was not polite, he took it and poured a big sip, and a lot of wine was spilled directly, flowing down Lu Xiu'an's collarbone to his chest, and then he shook the wine jug very heroically and wiped his mouth: "Let's go!" ”

The whole army. It continued to move forward mightily.

But this time, they didn't rush wildly, but just kept a constant rhythm and moved slowly.

The array of werewolves was at the forefront, their chests heaving. Each time I inhale in a big gulp, and then exhale slowly, and the strength is constantly accumulating. The leopards roamed on either side of the werewolf phalanx. They don't have the same obvious and intense breathing rhythm as werewolves, but their slightly bulging chests are a full indication of the strength they have accumulated inside; Walk in the last. It was a phalanx of centaurs, and they had taken off their bows and arrows. And debugging as he goes; The Highland Elves followed the Centaurs, slightly behind the rear of the werewolf phalanx, as they were not the Sharper Men of the next battle.

The team moved forward in silence, without the smoke and dust that had risen, but the momentum was extraordinarily strong.

The human force in front of them was noticeably closer, as the smoke and dust that had risen had become apparent and intense.

The werewolves looked excited, and with their eyes they could already see the enemy very well.

"It's a light ride." Karfins sneered, "There are probably more than 10,000 infantry next to it, and they should be the ones in charge of the search line." …… It should be the main force. ”

"Then you're welcome." Lu Xiu'an nodded, and then with a wave of his hand, the movements of the entire army instantly began to accelerate.

The general strength of the border garrison corps may not be very strong, but the scale of the force must be very large, at least around 100,000 people. Moreover, in order to prepare for various war situations, the regiments stationed on the border are generally composed of light infantry, heavy infantry, light cavalry, heavy cavalry and long-range attack arms, and the main force is generally composed of infantry, but since it is transferred to carry out the encirclement plan, the main force must be the main force of light cavalry.

Because only light cavalry can have enough mobility to quickly enter the designated position on the battlefield within the specified time. However, in order to avoid the tragic annihilation of the light cavalry troops, they will definitely be accompanied by infantry, usually a combination of light and heavy infantry corps, the main purpose is to be able to quickly form a defensive line after arriving at the destination, and carry out search and capture to narrow the encirclement network.

The interception in front of him was in Lu Xiu'an. The troops in front of Bloodhoof and the others were indeed the main force of the Third Frontier Army of the Fascist Kingdom in charge of the encirclement network this time, consisting of 20,000 light cavalry and 15,000 men. Behind the main force of this encirclement network is the most important 10,000 heavy cavalry units of the Third Frontier Army of the Fascist Kingdom, and the encirclement forces responsible for interception in other directions are composed of 10,000 to 20,000 light and heavy infantry troops.

In addition, in the other direction, there is also the Fourth Frontier Army of the Fascist Kingdom rushing towards this side, which is basically similar in composition to the Third Frontier Army.

These two border garrisons were originally intended to be used for emergency support in the event of an emergency at Vangesberg to delay time. As a result, this time, because William used a Savage Land force whose mobility far exceeded the level of a normal human realm, he forced these two border armies to abandon their original military mission and form an encirclement as soon as possible, and they must annihilate this vanguard force that was already making trouble behind the border at the first time.

And the few noble territories closest to the border line have also requisitioned some of the territory's private troops to rush to this side to support - the strategic location of Vangesburg is in the nature of a bridgehead for William and others, once occupied. The Void Duchy's deterrent power against the Fascist Kingdom can radiate to the three nearby territories, and at the same time form a horn with the border between the Ryan Kingdom and the Fascist Kingdom.

Any general of a fascist kingdom with a modicum of strategic vision. Wouldn't have watched Van Gesberg fall into William's hands.

However, the first prerequisite for avoiding Van Gersberg falling into the hands of William. It is necessary to solve this vanguard force first.

Billowing sand and dust are rising, and it is impossible for the human forces to turn a blind eye.

However, the imaginary panic did not appear, perhaps as a border army, it has long been accustomed to this kind of sudden outbreak of encounters - especially on the plains, there is no place to hide and hide, once the two sides get too close, they will be directly red. Bare. The naked ones are exposed to the field of view. The only advantage that Lu Xiu'an and the others could occupy was to start a charge outside the enemy's field of vision, after all, the scale of this unit of the Third Frontier Army of the Fascist Kingdom was too large, even if they wanted to adjust the formation. It is also impossible to adjust in an instant.

Werewolves, on all fours, galloping fast; The leopard man had already run away from the side, around a large circle, and began to make a detour. The Highland Elves are very physically demanding because they run fast, so they temporarily ride on the back of a centaur, and the centaur will follow the werewolf's skills and quickly approach the battlefield.

The distance between the two sides is rapidly shortening.

"Columns!" In the phalanx of the human legion, a commander began to give orders.

Barely formed in the infantry phalanx. The pikemen standing in the front were already crouching down and quickly raised their spears, the tips of their spears aimed at the werewolves who were galloping wildly, and the end of their spears pressed against the ground. The infantry of other arms in the rear is also quickly entering their combat positions according to the combat array. Although they did not expect to encounter the enemy here, their good military literacy did ensure that they did not collapse at the first opportunity.

And the cavalry has already adjusted their direction. Preparations are being made for a sortie to charge.

But in the face of the enemy's forward gunfire, the werewolves did not rush directly stupidly. Instead, under the leadership of Karfins, he actually ran to the left. Wrap around a semicircle. And the centaurs, who had been at a distance of almost 100 meters from the werewolves, also entered the battle range after the werewolves at this time, and were only about 500 meters away from the enemy spearmen's phalanx.

"Peng!"

A strong trembling of bowstrings rang out.

Tens of thousands of arrows fell from the front in a completely covered blow towards the enemy's phalanx.

Unlike regular archer hanging, the centaurs' mounted archery technique is known for their covering strikes - the centaurs in the front shoot flat, the centaurs in the back row raise the angle slightly by about 15 degrees, the centaurs in the back row raise the angle to 30 degrees, and the centaurs in the last row are projectiles and hanging shots from 45 to 60 degrees, and the order of shooting is from back to front.

This gives the illusion of a dense encirclement strike.

Many of the infantrymen, who had no time to react, quickly fell in this wave of harvest of the centaurs, especially the spearmen who stood at the forefront. The soldiers who were a little further back in the position and the heavy infantry with shields and armor were in slightly better condition, and the others could not avoid the overwhelming rain of arrows like flying locusts, even if the commander was frantically shouting slogans such as raising shields and covering, but the casualties were still tragic.

The formation of the infantry corps began to be confused.

Whether it's Lu Xiu'an. Bloodhoof, or Thatch Grottel, or Karphins and Atram, all the orcs and highland elves have a sense of excitement in their eyes at the moment. This head-to-head field encounter, after completely following William's specified battle formation skills, actually reaped such an unexpected result, which they could not have imagined in any case.

Because staying in the depths of their memories, it is the human army that has very strong combat and defensive capabilities, and they are very well equipped. And they usually hide in the fortifications, and they are like turtles shrunk in a hard shell.

But now, in just a covering rain of arrows, the enemy's infantry formation was actually confused, which made this vanguard force instantly gain extremely important and affirmative conviction!

Centaur troops, as they ran and fired, they did not follow the werewolf's direction to the left. Instead, it moved quickly to the right side of the leopard man's roundabout way. But this kind of high-speed movement also has a difference in speed. The formation of the entire centaur force began to grow long, like a silk thread that was constantly being pulled out of the thread.

Another bowstring tremble.

This time. The centaurs fired from the right side, and the formation of a straight line of fire ensured that all centaurs could shoot straight out of the plane, without the need to attack with full coverage as before. However, this time, because of the preparation in advance, the casualty rate was actually not as high as the first covering strike before, but the centaurs put all the attacks on the right side, so naturally the entire enemy formation was pulled and deformed more severely.

The enemy commander finally understood how terrifying the centaur was on this battlefield.

So, without hesitation, he ordered the cavalry to start charging towards the centaurs.

Almost as soon as the cavalry ran and moved. The werewolves on the left also took advantage of this to rush into the deformed and chaotic infantry phalanx.

Almost all of the main defenses are concentrated on the right, so the defenses on the left are relatively weak. Werewolves, on the other hand, are known for their physical strength, and their individual strength and attack power are definitely stronger than those of ordinary humans, especially when their confidence is extremely strong at the moment, their combat effectiveness will burst out to a higher level.

Like a sharp, warm knife slid into butter, Karphons smirked and led his men into the infantry phalanx. Although they are still slightly inferior in numbers, the pressure they will have to face when rushing into the phalanx is enormous. But what is incredible is that the entire infantry phalanx has no way to stop the charge and killing of these werewolves. Not even slowing down their breaking speed simply can't do it.

On the other side, the light cavalry that charged out was no longer able to return at this time - even if they were willing to do so, they were already in the middle of the infantry phalanx. It can almost be said that the werewolves who are integrated with the entire infantry phalanx are also powerless. The only thing that could be done at this point was to catch up with the centaur force. After inflicting heavy damage on them, go back and clean up the werewolves.

But what everyone didn't expect was this. The centaurs, who should have been cavalry in the eyes of humans, the highland elves riding on the backs of centaurs, all rolled over and dismounted. And when they turned over and dismounted, they had already relied on their sensitive body reflexes and balance abilities, and quickly formed a defensive phalanx unique to sword dancers while landing on the ground.

After losing the weight of the highland elves, the speed of the centaur unit has increased a lot, especially the part of the centaurs that were originally backward and pulled into a straight line, and the running speed has also increased, and the entire force has quickly turned into a whole again. However, this time their integration time was not long, almost as soon as they were integrated, they immediately turned around and scattered into two troops, left and right, rushing out from both sides of the highland elf troops.

The Highland Elf troops also met the 20,000 light cavalry charging head-on at this moment.

Three thousand against twenty thousand.

This is an extremely disparity ratio, and on any battlefield, all commanders know that it is only a matter of time before the entire formation is chiseled.

However, the development of reality gave the entire cavalry unit an unexpected deviation.

The hundreds of highland elves at the front were indeed unable to stop the charge of the cavalry troops, even if these cavalry were light cavalry, there were still many highland elves who were knocked away. However, the unique bloody nature and brutality of the wild land also made these elves try their best to leave a scar on the enemy while being knocked into the air.

As a result, when the charging strength of the 20,000 cavalry decreased layer by layer, until nearly 2,000 highland elves were directly or seriously injured in this battle, or killed, or trampled and fell to death, they broke into the charging strength of nearly two-thirds of the cavalry troops, and they actually disappeared!

Their charge was completely stuck!

"Whoosh!"

A short spear, piercing through the air, pierced the neck of a cavalryman.

With a look of disbelief, the cavalryman slowly slipped off his horse and fell.

A sword light slashed head-on.

A Highland elf leaped with a sword, and the blade slashed from the bottom to the top, slashing a cavalryman to the ground. However, before the highland elf could land, a mounted spear stabbed out diagonally next to him pierced the highland elf's body, and pierced him on the cavalry spear like a skewer, but before the cavalry could show the joy of assassinating the enemy, the highland elf who was penetrated through the body showed a cruel smile, and stabbed the cavalryman's heart with a backhand sword.

Then, countless short spears burst through the air.

The centaurs on both sides have already begun to attack. Only this time, instead of using bows and arrows, they threw their short spears, which for the centaurs did not need to be aimed at at a distance of less than two hundred meters, and each of their attacks would have allowed them to hit an enemy, and most of them were enough to kill an enemy in one blow because of the terrible piercing power of the short spear.

The roundabout leopards, instead of coming to the aid of the centaurs and highland elves, rushed diagonally towards the infantry phalanx at the rear of the battlefield.

Although the infantry who were already dealing with the attack of the werewolves expected this leopard force, but the enemy commander was not suitable for the cooperation and fighting style of these orcs, he thought that these leopard men should be similar to the reserve force cavalry, even if they were put into battle, they should be to support the highland elves and centaurs, attacking those light cavalry, after all, the phalanx of the highland elves was about to be chiseled through, and once the phalanx was chiseled, the cavalry troops charged again, it was enough to inflict heavy damage on this vanguard force again.

Therefore, in their conventional tactical thinking, priority must be given to solving the cavalry units that did not chisel the formation at the first time.

Unexpectedly, these leopard men didn't pay attention to the cavalry troops at all, but broke into the infantry phalanx, forming an alternative internal and external offensive with the werewolves who were constantly charging.

This time, the entire infantry phalanx finally failed to withstand this two-way pressure and was completely chiseled through.

And the werewolves who broke through the formation did not turn around and chisel through the reverse like the cavalry - all the werewolves who broke out of the formation put their weapons into the wolf's mouth, and then jumped forward and ran on all fours, this time their target was the cavalry unit, and they broke through from the rear.

The Leopard troops led by Atram immediately dispersed after breaking through the formation, directly cutting the entire chaotic and crippled infantry phalanx in the mode of squads, so that every part of the enemy army had to be surrounded and attacked by two or three squads.

This is the most common encroachment tactic used by infantry who are caught in a white-hot battle after the cavalry has penetrated the enemy line.

Usually, once the encroachment tactic is carried out by a certain side, it often means that the phalanx is not far from being defeated.

As for the cavalry units that were in a state of stagnation, after the werewolves in the rear also joined the battle, the whole formation instantly became more chaotic. In particular, the werewolves play in a completely unruly manner: they either leap and jump and throw the cavalry off their horses, or exude the aura of a wild wolf that even the horses are afraid of, or they slash the horses and the cavalry in their field of vision with blood-red eyes, or they simply kill the horses and ignore the enemies who fall off their horses.

On the battlefield, there was already chaos.

And along with this chaos, the tragic bloody atmosphere completely spread on the battlefield. (To be continued.) )

PS: Well, about the massacre in the first two chapters, it seems that some people expressed displeasure. …… In fact, to be honest, I myself thought about it for a long time, and finally wrote this paragraph according to the original manuscript, mainly because of the practice of "war is inherently cruel". The special geographical environment conditions of the Savage Land lead to the fact that the Savage Land is often slaughtered and captured by human countries, so William led the troops of the Savage Land to fight this time, although the main purpose is to unify them, but some concepts will be irreversible for a while, and William, as a real commander, sometimes needs to be ruthless, since he can't stop this state, then taking this as a tactical use has become his first consideration. …… Of course, this kind of plot that I myself find disgusting, I will definitely not write in detail and write more, just mention it in one stroke.