24. Lost soldiers and generals

The thousand horsemen swept over the hill and suddenly stopped, and formed ten teams of a hundred horsemen each, and from time to time their mounts let out a chilling low roar, and one of the leading knights was very bored and wiped the dust from his chest and helmet armor, and said, "What a boredom." "As if they were not facing an army of 100,000 enemies, but 100,000 sheep, they did not seem to be going to war, but out to play.

The 100,000 troops on the opposite side stopped two thousand meters away from this group of knights, and they also frightened the thousand knights on the opposite side, and the murderous aura made this elite army also frightened, 100,000 cavalry lined up in formation, forming ten phalanxes, and a knight wearing a very gorgeous armor patted the tenth-level demonic beast under his seat, ran to the two armies, and shouted: "Who are you, why do you want to block the way of my army, report your name." "It's really boring, the eldest brother is really a supporter, it was his job, but he sent me to do it, alas, it's really my misfortune to have this kind of big brother." The knight at the head muttered, patted a god-level earth bear under his seat, and ran towards the formation.

"I am the commander of the second division of the Wu Clan, Xing Tianlie, I was ordered to come here to stop you, I don't want to know who you are, in a word, you can't step into the Tianguang Empire, otherwise, there will be no forgiveness for killing. Xing Tianlie didn't bother to speak, just dropped a cruel word, and then, pulling out his war knife from his waist, slashing it from right to left, the powerful Wu Yuan gushed out, and drew a deep pit with a width of two feet and a depth of more than zhang in the place centered on him, extending five thousand meters to the left and right, "I'm too lazy to talk nonsense, in a word, if you people from the Manhattan Kingdom dare to cross this line one step, there is only one consequence, that is-death." The last word of death burst out from between his teeth, with an incomparably cold murderous aura.

A look of fear appeared on the face of the general opposite, oh my God, this guy in front of him who claimed to be a torture heavenly martyr was able to blast his fighting spirit (of course he didn't know what Wu Yuan was) out of a distance of five thousand meters, and he was able to leave such a deep mark on the earth with just a casual stroke, how strong is this? You are very strong, Your Excellency, but there are too few of you, I will attack, Your Excellency, you are also a knight, then let's have a knightly decisive battle, don't blame me for bullying you few. With that, he turned and went back.

Xing Tianlie is no longer talking nonsense, this is a war, the other party will definitely not retreat because of his words, what awaits them will be a battle, no, it should be a boring game of slaughter.

The two cavalry phalanxes of the Manhattan Kingdom began to attack, countless magical lights flashed, and the magicians who accompanied the army added various buff magic to their troops, and the knights whose strength was generally between the fifth and sixth levels increased their strength after adding buff magic, and they firmly believed that the 100,000 troops on their side, as well as the 300,000 cavalry that followed, were enough to destroy all the enemies in front of them, if there were no accidents, they would be able to reach the carnival city tonight to grab gold coins and drink to celebrate, and the women in the carnival city were very tender, and they would have fun tonight。

20,000 cavalry pressed up in a linear formation, head-on impact, the first row is the heavy cavalry, the unified mount of these cavalry is the fourth-level Warcraft Gale Horse, the weight-bearing capacity is good, and the cavalry and Gale Horse have thick heavy armor, the defense of those three-inch thick steel heavy armor is not covered, even a god-level archer may not be able to shoot through, a piece of such heavy armor requires a thousand gold coins, it is definitely a very luxurious equipment. The charge of the heavy cavalry is something that can stop it, not to mention, the opponent does not have a magician, and the combat effectiveness of the cavalry without buff magic is at least twice as weak.

Xing Tianlie returned to his main camp and shouted: "Children, get ready, they are going to rush up and send them to death, pay attention, if they do not cross my sword marks, you are not allowed to attack, if they cross the sword marks, I will kill them." "Yes, General. The Wu warriors agreed.

One thousand meters, under the charge of the cavalry, it was only a short minute to rush there, and they finally rushed through Xing Tianlie's knife marks, Xing Tianlie smiled: "Children, kill me." "A thousand Wu clans hung up their broadswords, reached out and took their big bows from their backs, took out bone arrows made of bones from the spatial rings, and other steel arrows, etc., buckled the strings and put the arrows on them, and then, with both hands, opened the bow like a full moon, and then pointed the bow obliquely to the sky, and as soon as the fingers were loosened, a thousand long arrows flew out.

At 8:34 a.m. on November 14, 216 in the New Earth Calendar, in front of the No. 12 post outside the Carnival City, a northern border city of the Tianguang Empire, the war finally began, the two sides of the enemy were the second division of the Wu clan and the cavalry corps of the royal guard of the Manhattan Kingdom, the strength was 1,000 to 100,000, the difference was that there were no reinforcements behind the Wu clan, and there were 300,000 cavalry corps 50 kilometers behind the cavalry corps of the Manhattan Praetorian Guard, 800,000 troops at 700 kilometers on the left, and 900,000 infantry at 600 kilometers on the right。 And this battle was also the first battle that was later called the "First War of the Eastern and Western Continents". It is known as the "Battle of the Devils".

When the warriors of the Wu clan opened their bows and arrows, the cavalry officers of the Manhattan Praetorian Guard who led the charge were still laughing secretly: "What are you kidding, shooting arrows thousands of meters away, even god-level archers can't shoot through the heavy armor on our bodies with arrows, isn't this a waste of strength?" However, they are all battle-hardened warriors, and when they saw the enemy firing their bows and arrows, they still gave an order: "Raise your shield to protect yourself." "The 20,000 heavily armored cavalry lifted the steel shield they carried by their side to protect their faces and other vital points.

Thousands of long arrows shot out of the air, each arrow with a strong sonic boom, shot at a high speed that is invisible to the human eye, the speed of these long arrows is at least four times the speed of sound, needless to say that ordinary people, even saint-level masters to see the direction of the arrow is impossible, the speed is too fast, of course, they will not understand that this is the lowest speed that the warriors of the Wu clan can use.

The sound of sneering is endless, this is the sound of countless long arrows shooting through the heavy armor and shooting into the human body, countless heavy armored cavalry have been shot through the body of the long arrows, one by one under the gale horse, the accuracy of these long arrows is good, more than half of them are hit, that is to say, the first round of long arrows alone has taken the lives of at least five hundred heavy armored cavalry, and half of them have not missed, but the person who was shot did not die immediately, but was carried back by the powerful force of the long arrow, fell off the mount, and was trampled to death by the cavalry behind, just the first round of attacks, 20,000 heavy armored cavalry lost at least more than 800 peopleThis result stunned all the knights of the Manhattan Praetorian Guard.

After the first round of attacks, it was only one second, and the Wu warriors bent their bows and arrows again, and the second round of arrow rain was fired, and the distance between the two rounds of arrow rain was only three seconds, that is to say, when the heavy armored cavalry rushed before the Wu warriors, the Wu warriors could shoot at least fifteen to eighteen rounds of arrow rain, and if the casualties in each round reached eight hundred, there would be no more than a few people left before the 20,000 heavy armored cavalry rushed to the Wu warriors.

These simple arithmetic problems were not difficult for the well-educated officers, who had already come to the above conclusion in just a second, but, by the time they reached the conclusion, their hearts had already sunk into hell, as we all know, the accuracy of the archer is inversely proportional to the distance, the farther the distance, the worse the hit, and conversely, the closer the distance, the higher the hit rate. Now, at a distance of one thousand meters, the other side has such a terrible hit rate, then, if they rush forward again, I am afraid that every arrow they shoot will kill a cavalryman, and then, even if they rush forward, I am afraid that there will be one or two thousand people left at most. This battle can't be fought.

An officer in the general's armor shouted wildly: "The enemy is too strong, ask for support, and the whole army will charge together, otherwise, we will all die." "Although everyone can calculate math problems, but once the cavalry charge begins, it is impossible to stop, you can only continue to rush forward, if you want to retreat, you will definitely be trampled to death by the mounts of your companions who rush up behind you, so there may be a way to survive when you rush over, but if you don't rush, you will definitely die, this is the iron law of cavalry charge, and you have never missed it. Therefore, at this point, even if these cavalrymen are all chilling, they just rush forward desperately, holding their legs wildly against the horse's belly, hoping that their horses can run faster, and some use their own swords to stab their horses' buttocks, bleed, and let the horses increase their speed a little more when they are in severe pain.

The speed of the heavy armored cavalry increased greatly for a while, and the 80,000 cavalry in the rear also saw that the situation was not good, although there were only a thousand cavalry on the opposite side, but the archery skills of each one were too strong, and it was simply beyond the understanding of human archers, so the leader of the Praetorian Guard shouted: "Report to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince immediately, and the others, follow me." He knew very well that if only one or two thousand people rushed up, it would not be enough for the other party to slaughter, and only when the whole army pressed it could it be possible to rush over and fight with the other party, of course, if the magicians in his army could rush up, they could use magic to destroy the enemy.

Xing Tianlie did not take a bow to kill the enemy like other soldiers, if he did this, he would be scolded to death by the soldiers, and finally had the opportunity to kill, as the division commander, he also wanted to grab the opportunity of his subordinates, it was strange not to be scolded to death, seeing that the other party's whole army was pressing, he scolded boringly: "What a group of fools." There's no pleasure at all in killing. ”

100,000 cavalry charged, the formation spread out for more than ten kilometers, overwhelmingly pressed over, this momentum is really amazing, but, in the eyes of the warriors of the Wu clan, these people are just here to die, so pressing up, will only die faster.

"Multiple arrows ready, shoot. Xing Tianlie shouted. All the Wu warriors once again drew their bows and arrows, but this time it was different from the previous times, this time each of them no longer had one arrow on their fingers, but four arrows, one bow and four arrows, that is, the density of the arrow rain was four times greater, of course, the number of people who were killed under a wave of arrow rain was also four times greater, and if it came a few more times, the first 20,000 heavy armored cavalry to charge would be dead.