Chapter 12: Sortie

Cavalry against infantry, or well-trained elite cavalry against malnourished and weak miners, there was not the slightest suspense about the outcome of the battle. Although these cavalry are as weak as a piece of paper in front of the Archmage and the King of the Hill. However, this definitely does not mean that their strength is weak! The reason why the cavalry's performance was so bad before was that in addition to the strength of the archmage and the king of the hill, the more important reason was that they could not give full play to the advantages of the cavalry, because the narrow terrain was reduced to a fixed target. However, in the open terrain of the wilderness, these well-trained elite cavalry finally exerted the strong mobility ability and tacit cooperation of the cavalry!

The first round of arrows from the cavalry tore a big hole in the oncoming miners' formation, causing the miners' already loose formation to become even worse and chaotic. Immediately afterwards, the horses already have a powerful impact after running! The cavalrymen on the horses don't even need to swing the scimitars in their hands, they only need to use the rapid impact of the horses to easily tear apart the miners who stand in front of them! Even if the miners react quickly to dodge the attack of the scimitar, they will be killed by their companions who are advancing in unison, or they will simply be trampled into pulp by the horses on which the cavalry sits!

It was only the first round, and the miners, who had just broken free from their shackles, were torn apart by the cavalry and rushed left and right in the miners' formation, galloping and killing with recklessness! Perhaps, this battle was really like what the two counts said, it was a one-sided slaughter!

In the face of these two cavalry units with terrifying lethality, even the Terran infantry and militia teams led by the paladins have no way to fight them head-on! Fortunately, because there are too many miners, the purpose of the cavalry now is not to attack the elite troops led by the unkilled paladins, but to rush left and right among the miners, wanting to completely crush the fighting spirit of the miners and make them flee in fear! As long as the miners flee in fear, the elite infantry team exposed to the open ground, no matter how strong it is, will be consumed alive by the cavalry! As for the safety of the two counts after these two cavalry teams went into battle? Of course, the full-time guards around the two counts, as well as the assassins, knights, and magicians who came with the army, protected it! And those miners who rushed to the two counts in a panic were all slaughtered without exception! In the face of the professional team composed of magicians, knights, and assassins, ordinary miners who were not even professionals could not deal with it head-on! They wouldn't even be able to appear in front of the two counts before they would be easily killed by the Assassin's bow and arrows and the magician's magic missile!

Fortunately, Zuo Zhe did not pin all his hopes on these miners. Just after the two elite light cavalry were attracted away by the miners, the Archmage, the King of the Hill, and the Juggernaut in the mine castle suddenly exerted their strength, knocking the overseers blocked in the mine castle out of the castle entrance!

"Attack!" With Zuo Zhe's order, the archmage and the others finally left the protection of the castle, appeared in the open wilderness for the first time, and took the initiative to kill the two counts who were protected in the center by hundreds of guards!

"Finally lured you out, I'm really a fool!" Seeing the Archmage, the King of the Hill, the Sword Saint, the three priests, and the three pointy-eared aliens holding shields and spiral blades appear, Count Casa finally showed a cruel and hideous smile on his face, "Outflank them from both sides and block their retreat, surround and kill!"

"But Second Prince, the assassin we sent out earlier reported that there was a powerful assassin on the other side!" said the shield-wielding knight beside Count Casa worriedly.

"What are you afraid of? I'm not a rookie, I'm a second-order knight! Isn't the assassin you mentioned right there?" Count Casa pointed to the black-clothed swordmaster behind the King of the Hill, and whipped the whip on the face of the guard who had only stepped out of the dark to the surface before leaving! If this knight guard, who had reached the peak of the second order, did not use the title of "Second Prince" but "Lord Earl", Count Casa might really really consider the guard's suggestion. After all, the guards are the confidants of the Grand Duke, and even if they don't think so, they should give some face. However, this powerful guard called the Count of Casa by the title of "Second Prince"! Although such a title sounded to outsiders as a close relationship with each other, it was a relationship between confidants and cronies. However, to Count Casa's ears, the title of the guard seemed to mock him as just a gentleman who had relied on his father to reach his current position! Although Count Casa was indeed a gentleman, Count Casa was most tired of being told that he was a gentleman! It was the reputation of "gentleman" that made Count Casa lose gloomily in the battle with his eldest brother for the title of duke! If it weren't for Count Casa's co-opting third brother, Count Novan, who was in the same situation, I am afraid that he would have been reprimanded by the eldest brother with evil thoughts to the point that the bird does not and retire!

Enraged, Count Casa did not even consult his third brother, Count Novan, and directly ordered each other's men to go and surround the enemy, who had only a few men.

"Without the advantage of location, you are nothing!" Count Casa sneered as he looked at the archmage and the others who were still approaching in his direction in the distance. It's just that at this moment, there are only ten guards left around Count Casa and Count Novan!

"Be careful, an enemy is approaching!" suddenly reminded a middle-aged magician wearing a gold-trimmed mage robe on a black background beside Count Casa. Almost at the same time, the middle-aged magician's pre-prepared development dust was also released, revealing the figure of the Sword Master who was quietly approaching within ten meters!

"He was there before!" Count Casa was startled and quickly turned his head to look behind the King of the Hill. I saw that the sword master covered with black cloth behind the king of the hill had disappeared out of thin air, like a broken mirror image!

"Kill him for me!" Startled by the swordmaster's cold-as-a-sword eyes, Count Novan immediately ordered the guards standing in front of him.

Without the slightest hesitation, the knight in front of Count Novan immediately rushed towards the Sword Saint who was nearly two meters tall on the opposite side, and the war hammer in his hand was even more shrouded in a rich white light! This knight whose strength had reached the peak of the second order had already activated the fighting spirit in his body, wanting to kill this alternative assassin who dared to offend the majesty of the nobility on the spot in one fell swoop!