Chapter 324: Guild Wars 2 (Modified)
"Buzz, buzz..."
After a few muffled sounds of a huge bowstring, four expensive arrows flew towards the golden dragon who was cooperating with the ground forces to strangle the orc vanguard.
The golden dragon seemed to look in the direction of the orc dragon hunting ballista, and the instinct of the high-level creature made him sense a hint of threat.
"Roar!"
The speed of the giant arrow was very fast, and it had already flown at the moment when the golden dragon turned back, and a huge arrow grazed the golden dragon's flank, hanging up a few pieces of scale armor and a small piece of meat of the golden dragon, and the golden dragon roared in the air, and then another arrow hit the golden dragon's hind legs, causing penetrating damage on the golden dragon's legs, while the other two giant arrows didn't know where they were crooked.
The limitations of the dragon hunting ballista are still very large, this kind of single-shot ballista, can hit a shot at a distance of thousands of meters is already considered lucky, the accuracy of this thing half depends on the shooter's aim, half depends on the providence, it is indeed too difficult to hit the air target with a single shot, and the anti-aircraft guns in World War II may not be able to knock out an aircraft if they shoot dozens of rounds in a row.
And because of the lack of mobility, more often the dragon hunting ballista can only be placed in some fixed fortresses or important cities to defend against dragons, this time it is a special reason, the orc expeditionary force can assemble four dragon hunting ballistas.
Don't look at this injury is not serious for the golden dragon, it is only pierced into the hind legs, but it does pose a threat, if this arrow hits the heart of its upper body, the golden dragon will immediately lose its ability to fight even if it does not die.
"Keep loading!"
"Drink!"
Seeing that the golden dragon had been injured but was still flying steadily in the sky, Geert knew that this blow had not made a difference, and immediately ordered the dragon hunting ballista to be reloaded.
The loading of this giant winch is very troublesome, and dozens of orcs have not reloaded it for a long time while shouting their strength.
However, the power of the dragon hunting ballista still made the golden dragon a little more restrained, especially Moriel was not ready to let the only golden dragon take the risk, the battle situation did not come to that point, before the orc's dragon hunting ballista was loaded, the golden dragon retreated slightly after squirting dragon breath at the end and left the attack range of the dragon hunting ballista.
"Roar!"
"Kill!"
Although the golden dragon only came out for a while, the orc vanguard army, which had already been defeated by Ron and others, was so mixed up by the golden dragon that it was inevitable that there would be a small-scale rout, and the casualty rate reached forty percent, or the loss of the commander, the orc vanguard battalion was able to hold on until now before it wavered, no matter what standard is used, it can be regarded as a first-class elite.
The Third Legion of the Orcs was already approaching, and they were about to support before the Orc Vanguard Battalion completely collapsed, and the Silver Wing Legion also refused to show weakness and accelerated its pace.
"Da Da Da, Da..."
The Red Flame Knights slowly walked on the side of the Silver Wing Legion with heavy cavalry, the heavy cavalry of the Red Flame Knights and the Hunter family, plus the centaur elite, the number was as many as a thousand, and the Red Flame Knights and the heavy cavalry were both one person and two horses, causing the entire cavalry team to look even larger.
"Hold off the human cavalry first, and don't let them charge."
This was the thought of the commander of the Third Legion of the Orcs for a moment, and encountering a heavy cavalry impact while moving would not be a very good experience for any troops, and if it could be avoided, it should be avoided.
The giant wolf cavalry took the initiative to meet the Red Flame Knights, although these giant wolves are slightly shorter than the war horses, but they are definitely not weak hands, and the cavalry above is the most elite warrior of the orcs, these orc cavalry armed with long scimitars drove the giant wolf towards the human cavalry, and a grappling belonging to the cavalry was about to start first.
When the giant wolf runs, it keeps making a dog-like whimpering sound, and after this sound is connected, people will have a sense of fear when they hear it, let alone horses, most of the time, when these giant wolves start to whimper, the war horses of the human cavalry will begin to be less obedient, even if they don't turn around and run away, they will hesitate, this kind of fear engraved into the genes of living things is generally difficult to overcome.
On the battlefield of Dragon's Breath Pass, only specially trained Western Frontier horses can overcome this fear and barely hold on to the battle.
The intimidation of the giant wolf also had no effect on the cavalry of the Hunter family, the heavy cavalry of the Hunter family is also a purchased Western Horse, and the training level is not low, the key is also the leader of the Red Flame Knights in the front row, in the eyes of the Western Horse behind, those tall and black and red red red red horses are the general existence of the Horse King, they are not only under the command of the knight on their backs, but also follow the horse king, just like having the backbone, they are not easy to be intimidated by the giant wolf of the orcs, as for the hundreds of centaur elites, The centaurs, who have fought these strange creatures, will not be frightened by the orc wolf cavalry.
The only use of the giant wolf's whimper on the orc side was to provoke the Red Flame Horse a little, and they could feel that the group of creatures on the opposite side were actually provoking and intimidating them, which made the grumpy Red Flame Horse have the intention of speeding up the charge, and then was pressed down by the knight on his back, this distance was not suitable for charging.
"Commander, the human cavalry on the opposite side does not seem to be affected by the giant wolf, it seems to be the elite cavalry of the human race."
"Well, just move on, and do the same old way as you did against the human heavy cavalry."
"Yes, sir!"
The orc adjutant on the side couldn't help but show a mocking smile on his face when he heard the commander say the old way, obviously they had dealt with a lot of human heavy cavalry. Fighting head-to-head with heavy cavalry, the orc wolf ride is not so stupid, and the giant wolf is much more flexible than the heavy cavalry.
"Scatter!"
Just when the two sides began to accelerate and entered the state of charge, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of the mouth of the commander of the wolf cavalry, these humans still have too little knowledge, such a stupid human heavy cavalry, the dragon breath pass is almost gone.
At this time, more than a thousand wolf cavalry actually stopped their charge, went around in a circle, changed direction, and ran towards the side and rear.
Short-distance outbreaks, human cavalry can not compare to the speed of wolf cavalry, once the heavy cavalry enters the charge and stops, it will consume a lot of physical strength, and many times it does not even have the ability to launch a second round of charge, and when the human heavy cavalry stops charging, it will be as easy as cutting wheat to turn around and chase back.
This is the battle method summed up by the elite wolf cavalry of the orcs, and it has been tried and tested, and the wolf cavalry minds between light cavalry and heavy cavalry. They generally do not have the same subdivision function as human cavalry, but they are the existence of a panacea, scattering reconnaissance can eat the reconnaissance cavalry on the human side, and they have the ability to confront the human heavy cavalry when they concentrate on fighting, if it is not limited by the number of giant wolves, the orcs only have tens of thousands of wolf riders in total, and the human race is in even greater trouble.
"Heh, it's this set again."
The commander of the human cavalry is none other than a retired officer from the Dragon's Breath Pass, the Grand Knight Hardmen, who has been acting as the deputy commander of the Red Flame Knights in Richard's absence, and now Morriel has waved his hand and assigned the heavy cavalry troops and the centaur elite to Hardmen.
Hardmen can also afford this responsibility, when he saw the orc wolf cavalry, he expected the opponent's tactics, when he was fighting in Longxi Pass, he had suffered the loss of the orc wolf cavalry, and he was quite clear about their methods, if he was not sure, he would not easily follow the wolf cavalry.
Seeing that the wolf cavalry of the orcs turned around and wanted to use the tactic of kite flying, Hadmen prepared to let them know what cruelty was.
"Knights of the Red Flame! Full speed ahead! Catch up with me!! ”
Hadman ordered loudly at the top of his voice, and there was some excitement in his tone, it felt like you thought you were tricking me, but you were actually being tricked by me. The herald on the side heard it well, and quickly waved the order flag and gave his order.
Have you ever seen a horse that can wear heavy armor and run as fast as the wind? This is what Hadmen wants to show off to the commander of the wolf cavalry opposite.
The prerequisite for kite flying tactics is that you have to outrun the opponent, and if you can run well, then it is called kite flying, and if you can't run, it is called leaving your back to the enemy, waiting to be beaten in the ass.
When Hardman first saw the wolf rider, he thought of the wolf rider's obscene tactics, and an even more obscene plan quickly appeared in Hardman's mind.
He deliberately slowed down the speed of the Red Flame Horse as he advanced, and the commander of the wolf cavalry would not have too many suspicions, but only regarded them as slightly elite heavy cavalry, and no one would have thought that a war horse in heavy armor could run faster than light cavalry.
And the centaur elite who made the orc commander have a little scruple was put last by Hademen, just for fear of arousing the vigilance of the other party and changing tactics.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The sound of the horse's hooves of the red flame that suddenly accelerated was like thunder, and this group of irascible guys had long been a little impatient by the provocation of the giant wolf just now, and now they received the knight's command to charge, and they were three points faster than the original speed.
The Red Flame Knights directly broke away from the ranks of ordinary heavy cavalry and chased after them alone, while the centaur elite and ordinary heavy cavalry continued to maintain their normal movement speed.
At this time, if the werewolf cavalry fights reflexively, not only will they not be able to get up in speed, but they will be rushed by the Red Flame Knights, and they will quickly face the heavy cavalry and centaur elites who have caught up to make a second charge. But it was still not a matter to keep running, and if they continued to run, they would soon be overtaken by the Red Flame Knights, and then start a massacre from behind.
"What's going on! Why is that human heavy cavalry so fast! ”
The commander of the orc wolf rider quickly noticed that you were right, the thunderous hoofs of the red flame horse when it accelerated had already caught his attention, and after careful observation, he had already found that the speed of the other party as a heavy cavalry was even faster than the wolf rider under his command, it was a hell of a thing.
I thought that the other party was just a temporary force, and the speed should be lowered after soon consuming the strength, but I didn't expect the other party's speed to get faster and faster, not only did not look like the physical strength was exhausted, but it also drew the distance closer and closer.
If you can't go on like this, you have to find a way! The orc commander quickly flashed several plans in his mind, but they were all vetoed by him one by one, it had no effect, the speed of the Red Flame Knights was too fast, and the combat speed of the cavalry may not be equal to everything, but with speed, it must be able to occupy the greatest initiative, whether to go or stay is in a thought, it is obvious that now Hademen, who has a speed advantage and a tactical advantage, simply wants to stick to this orc wolf cavalry and kill them before the other party retreats to the infantry phalanx.
The orc commander gritted his teeth as if he had made a very difficult decision, and then yelled at the lieutenant beside him:
"Wald! Do you have any other relatives at home? ”
"Huh? I also have a wife and three children! ”
"Good! I'll take care of them for you! Now, you take the three hundred teams to stop, turn around and stop the heavy cavalry of the humans! ”
"Huh?"
"Execute the order!"
The orc samurai named Wald was the lieutenant of the commander, and the orc wolf rode a thousand-man team, which was comparable to a banner regiment of elite infantry, and the commander was configured with two large knights.
In this case, the broken tail survival is already the only way, otherwise being stuck by humans is an order to be chased to the end, but the tactic of breaking the tail to survive has higher requirements for the broken troops, and it is impossible to leave three centurians to die at will, there must be enough people to stay, either the commander of the thousand commanders will personally cut off the queen, or the adjutant who is also a great samurai will stay.
Adjutant Wald was stunned for a moment, and then understood what was going on, he was going to use his life to give the commander more wolf cavalry a chance to escape.
Wald had the heart to refuse, he was already a master of the great samurai level at a young age, and he had a happy life and a bright future, how could he be willing to die, but looking at the threatening eyes of the commander, he didn't dare to say anything about disobedience, someone had to die in this situation.
"Help me take care of my family."
"Hmm."
After the commander nodded affirmatively, Wald did not delay much, quickly ordered the three hundred pairs under his command, and turned around to meet the human cavalry.
"Kill!"
"Bang!"
The distance between the two sides was already less than two hundred meters, and when Wald and his men turned around again, the distance between the two sides was closer, and before the wolf cavalry could increase their speed, the two sides came together.
The wolf rider who did not increase his speed, against the Red Flame Knights who had already charged at full speed, this kind of collision would not be suspenseful at all, and the Red Flame Horse, which was originally larger than the giant wolf, still had a speed advantage, and directly knocked the wolf horse in front of him into the air.
Whether the orcs on the giant wolf are elite or orc warriors, there is no one enemy, and the war swords raised by the momentum of the charge on the horseback are completely unstoppable.
The orc adjutant Wald directly used his fighting spirit with all his strength, and forcibly stopped a Red Flame Knight, and the Red Flame Horse was attacked by the fighting spirit of the Great Knight Rank, and he didn't stabilize his body and threw the knight out of the horse, causing the first casualty of the Red Flame Knights since the start of the war.
But Wald's results ended there, and before he could face the Hardmen, he was run over by the follow-up stream of Red Flame Knights.