On the snowy plains of Vecchia, the pirates, armed with Nord-style chain mail, were carrying large axes and bows and arrows, and before they could reach the gate of the village in front of them, a line of more than a hundred farmers and militiamen.

The bear-strong pirate leader wore thick chain mail, a cloak, and a tomahawk on his shoulder, with a look of disdain on his face.

He walked ahead of the group, yelling twice from time to time. When he saw the peasants with farm tools and the poorly equipped soldiers retreating timidly under his own roar, he would laugh with satisfaction, and the soldiers around him would be even more excited.

They would kill all the men in the village, plunder their belongings, defile their women, and then return to the speedboats, enter the sea from the unfrozen river, return to their stronghold with the ill-gotten gains, and then return home with the rest of the people before winter.

This will be the last plunder of their journey, and it seems to them that it couldn't be easier.

They had more than a hundred murderous and well-armed warriors, and the other side was just a group of villagers.

The winner is decided.

Their steps were getting faster and faster, and their axes and shields were already in front of them.

As soon as their leader roared as usual, the pirate warriors would rush at each other and take the lives of the wretched.

However, the smile on the leader's face quickly retracted, his steps slowed, and his head twisted back.

The other pirates were a little confused, but then they heard the sound of horses' hooves that was getting clearer and clearer, with a clear rhythm and a dense sound.

With the roar of dialects from the north, the columns of pirates turned around, raised their shields, and walked steadily in the direction behind.

And in the process, the pirates armed with javelins and throwing axes also came from the front of the previous team to the front of the current team.

In the villages on the other side, the faces of those villagers also showed puzzled expressions. There was no garrison from Vekia in the vicinity, and they couldn't figure out who had arrived, whether it was friend or foe.

Figures appeared in the distance, and the pirates stopped. The pirates with spears all raised their spears and raised their shields, forming a simple phalanx.

Although they are all bandits, their formation is indeed a standard Nord phalanx, and their foot combat strength is very good.

However, when those cavalry appeared, these Nord bandits also rushed to fear, and retreated more than a dozen paces, and there was a certain confusion in the formation.

Herds of armored horses, carrying heavy cavalry on horseback. The horse's hooves trampled to the ground, stirring up dust on the ground.

The robes of these cavalrymen were painted with red peony patterns.

And unlike the cavalry teams that these pirates had seen before, these cavalry were divided into two parts, one was a heavily armed cavalry with large intervals and spears. They are spaced wide between the front and back, and they don't block each other.

The other part of the cavalry were all lightly armed cavalry armed with sabers and long swords, the horses were not armoured, and the distance between them was only one and a half steps, and more than seventy cavalry gathered together, more dense than any cavalry unit on the Svadia continent.

They marched forward with swords and swords, and the whole line was only two rows, but because of the dense arrangement, they pushed forward like a wall, crushing the courage and fighting spirit of the pirates.

The distance of 100 meters passed quickly under the gallop of the horses, and the pirates threw their javelins and throwing axes, and several of the charging cavalrymen fell from their horses, and the riders behind also passed them.

However, light cavalry that marched in a wall was more affected than heavy cavalry units with thick armor and far apart. If the people in front fall, the cavalry behind will be somewhat blocked, and the ranks will be a little chaotic.

However, those cavalry also launched a counterattack, and the cavalry in the rear threw their javelins and flails in their hands and smashed into the infantry units on the opposite side, causing a lot of confusion.

Soon, both the hoplites attacking from the front and the light cavalry phalanx from the flanks rushed in front of the pirates.

Riding spears provoked a man's body and pierced a man's chest. The smock-clad horses and riders slammed into the ranks of the pirates. In the face of such a ferocious impact, many of the pirates' spears were broken, and the cavalry units also crashed directly into their ranks, tearing the phalanx directly from the front several times.

The cavalry on the flanks also crashed into the Nord shield wall. As the spear pierced into the horse's body, the scimitar and sword slashed from above. Maces and tomahawks of all kinds were also smashing towards the pirates.

The horses knocked over the Nord soldiers in the front row, and the riders' swords swung in the crowd.

Although the casualties were heavy, when this cavalry wall crashed into the phalanx of the infantry, the formation of these Nord pirates was directly knocked out of a gap, and many of them fell to the ground and were directly stepped on by the cavalry.

When the infantry of the Peony mercenaries followed the footsteps of the cavalry, the phalanx of the pirates had already been dispersed by the cavalry. After a third of the men were killed by the opposing cavalry, the rest of the pirates were surrounded by a large number of cavalry.

The pirates scurried around the encirclement like headless flies, cut into small pieces by the cavalry, and gradually wiped out.

In ten minutes in total, the battle was over. The casualties of the Peony mercenaries were not small, but it was already a great success to defeat these murderous pirates with cavalry alone.

"Cavalry tactics need to be improved, discipline must also be strengthened, if the casualties are too great, it will be us who will be defeated."

Byron had been watching the results of this training from afar, and he needed to see how the wall attack would work here. So far, it's pretty good. The casualties are relatively high, but as long as they are well trained, the light cavalry can play the effect of heavy cavalry, and it is very cost-effective.

"Not bad, your idea is really good. However, the people in the first row are simply sending them to death, and the consciousness of the mercenaries is still not enough, so we still have to strengthen training. ”

Fatis nodded, Byron's cavalry tactics are very interesting, strengthening the density between the cavalry, strengthening the shock force, this has been thought of by officers before, but it is the first to apply it to practice so beautifully.

Alleyne nodded slightly, acknowledging that the tactic was working.

However, he did not discuss the issue further, but raised a riding gun with a peony banner tied to it, and then trotted to the village on his military horse.

The villagers still did not lay down their weapons, looking at him suspiciously and warily, as well as the brigade of soldiers behind him.

"You're safe!"

Ellen looked up proudly and said to the villagers.

"We are peony mercenaries! We have accepted the commission of your lordship, and you are now saved! ”

In the next half month, the Peony mercenaries eliminated a number of pirate teams that were looting in Vekia, and expelled a group of Kugit bandits.

While earning a large amount of dinars, the names of Byron and Peony mercenaries gradually spread throughout the kingdom of Vekia.