Chapter 905: Cheap Cavalry (Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription, ask for a recommendation)
In the face of these nomadic warriors, who did not know whether they were stupid or brave, Soram smiled with admiration or contempt.
"Kill them."
Solam said softly.
As soon as Solam's words fell, a short figure rushed out with a strange scream.
"Hahaha, Grandpa Kogan has come to love you!!"
Then, a group of people who were still sitting on the tooth dragon also jumped off the dragon body with a strange scream, and they not only did not have the slightest fear in the face of the Puma clan's charge, but on the contrary, they seemed to enjoy it.
And just as the two gangs were about to collide together, behind Solam, a black shadow suddenly appeared, it was Marko's personal assassin - Mel! He seems to want to capture the king first, as long as Soram is restrained, they can put an end to this battle!
Unfortunately, he was still a little slower, and just as he appeared and raised the dagger in his hand, several cold lights suddenly appeared around him, and then he was plunged into the back of the waist, throat, heart, back of the head and the arm holding the dagger.
In the blink of an eye, this promising assassin was pierced into a hornet's nest!
"No !!" Marco shouted in despair.
I don't know if he was calling for his personal guards, or for those Puma warriors.
Facing the onslaught of Kogan, Wiggins Berserker, Dios, Orc Harris, Minotaur Meffron, and the two Dragonborns, the best outcome for those Puma warriors is to die on the spot!
In the world before Solam, the light cavalry in the era of cold weapons was definitely a nightmare for the infantry, because whether it was a head-on confrontation or mobility, the light cavalry could completely abuse the infantry, but in Faeron, the situation was different. Cavalry is somewhat useful against intelligent races about the same size as humans, but when humans are fighting against many alien races with huge sizes, the role of heavy cavalry is not satisfactory, and the effect of light cavalry is even worse.
Therefore, the mainstream of mainland countries is to form knights. Knights and cavalrymen look alike, but in fact they are very different. Cavalry can be considered as a soldier who can ride a horse, and the cost is very cheap. (compared to knights)
The knight is different, the title of knight is not only a professional name, but also not just a title, in any real knight order in the mainland, a regular knight must at least reach a professional level of level 5 or above, and at the same time have a special heavy war horse, a strong knight's full body armor.
This is also the reason why the number of knights in mainland countries is not large, and the cost is too high. Let's not talk about anything else, just talking about the knight's war horse can make all countries feel pain. The knights' horses are not just a horse that can be counted.
Knights tend to weigh a lot because they are covered in armor. Generally speaking, the standard weight of the knight's full-body plate armor recognized by the Feilun Continent is at least one hundred centimeters, and if it is too light, the defense effect will not be good, of course, the use of some rare metals can also reduce the weight of the knight's full-body plate armor, but in that case, the cost will be higher, after all, with the current production level of the Feilun Continent, the output of steel itself is very urgent, and in many places, the value of steel ingots and silver is equal!
So rare metals or something, don't think about it, so far no country has such a tyrant who uses rare metal armor to arm his knights.
All in all, the knight's war horse is not a random war horse can be filled, only the kind of heavy war horse with a height of about two meters three or four can afford to hold up the knights who are fully armed, this is only the basic requirement, the knight riding the war horse is naturally hoping to use the strength and speed of the war horse to increase their own killing ability, so the light can support the knight is not enough, but also has to have speed!
Can it be cheap to hold a knight's galloping war horse with a total weight of about 300 kilograms? Of course it can't be, according to the conversion method on Faeron's side, an ordinary horse is about equal to three sheep, and a cow needs about three ordinary horses to exchange, and a war horse needs ten cows! A heavy war horse is worth about ten times more than a war horse, and an excellent heavy war horse can be worth ten ordinary heavy war horses! And a knight can't have only one horse, right? At the very least, two horses are needed to lay the foundation, after all, the war horse is really expensive, and you have to let the war horse rest from time to time.
And that's just the cost of the knight's mount, plus the equipment, salary, and benefits, so to speak, the average small country is not capable of forming a real knight order! Cremour City can barely form a squadron of two hundred knights if it wants to talk about economic strength.
But the problem is that Marco doesn't have anyone under him! Knights are not recruited casually, let's not talk about the number of people, just say that Marco himself, he doesn't have the ability to make those arrogant knights loyal to him, no matter how hard Marco tries, there is one fact that cannot be changed, that is, he is an upstart!
The knights, on the other hand, preferred the traditional nobles with deep family backgrounds, because that was in line with the logic of the nobility. It doesn't make sense for those knights to play against someone whose family history is not as long as their own.
So in the absence of a better way, Marco had no choice but to recruit Puma warriors to form a cavalry.
But cavalry and knights are not only different in concept, their combat effectiveness is also very different, this difference is all-round, from people to equipment, to war horses have a huge difference. In fact, cavalry has never been the mainstream in this world, they are more of a scout, harassment and messenger.
So the nomads in this world are actually not very mixed. After all, no amount of light cavalry could withstand the attacks of those knights and heavy armor warriors. (The speed of many knights in this world is definitely not inferior to those nomadic cavalry, although it is very unscientific, but this is Faeron, so it is impossible for something like the Mongolian cavalry to defeat the European armored cavalry in Faeron)
And the group of people under Solam, the lowest level is more than fourteen! The poor impact of the cavalry, they didn't care at all.
So waiting for the Puma warriors is a massacre! Often, one attack from Dios can split those Puma cavalrymen and horses in half! And when the momentum of the Puma cavalry is contained, the Puma warriors who lose the speed of the war horse are not even as good as ordinary soldiers! After all, in the absence of speed, no matter how good you are on a horse, you can't be more agile than down-to-earth, right?
So after a short collision, the Puma clan ushered in a one-sided slaughter!