Volume 1: Flying to the Sky Chapter 19 Hedging and Dragon Slaying
The general of Gondor told Hippolyta that a large number of arrows were being transported from Minas Tirith.
Hippolyta thought about it, and coveted the arrows for the time being.
Minas Tirith brought a bundle of 100 arrows, the weight of which was much lighter than that of the legion, would reduce the range of the bow by about half.
The legionary cavalry quickly dismantled one by one and packed them into the marching bags that had just been transformed with their own cloaks, and Hippolyta complained about Li Yi's second bullet and did not prepare the marching bags for the soldiers.
From the top of the ruins of Osgilias, the Gondor soldiers on the lookout shouted: "A large pack of wolf riders have been found in the north! The Ringwraith of Minas Cave to the east has also come out with a wolf rider! ”
Hippolyta looked at the wolf rider in the distance and thought about what to do.
When she had been engaged with the wolf riders of the Minas Cave, she had seen that the wolf was good at pounce, and that the legionary cavalry would be easily knocked down by it when they were facing it head-on.
Moreover, the wolf is larger, and the wolf corpse will make it difficult for the cavalry in the large dense array to avoid, and it is easy for the war horse to trip over the wolf corpse and cause non-combat attrition, so she uses mounted archery to deal with the wolf cavalry.
This time, she was attacked by the wolf rider on both sides, and behind her was the Gondor army that had just supported them, and it was not her character to lead the trouble.
The south must not go, and the wolf riders in the north are likely to turn their heads and attack the ruins of Ogillias directly to cut off their retreat.
Thinking of this, Hippolyta ordered loudly: "Arrows! 10 columns of fish scales! Guns! Amazon! Offensive! ”
The legionary cavalry followed Hippolyta in the movement and quickly formed a small arrow formation, and the small arrow formation quickly adjusted its position, and a fish scale formation composed of five rows and ten columns of small front arrow formations quickly took shape, rushing towards the 50,000 wolf cavalry in the north.
The Gondor army in the ruins of Minas Tirith and Osgillias looked worriedly at the Legionary cavalry in the charge.
I don't know which commander with a bad brain gave the order to let 5,000 cavalry go to Mordor to die, and it also attracted so many orcs.
The two armies were getting closer and closer, and both had reached the speed of their charge, and Hippolyta could already see the ugly face of the wolf rider shouting loudly with a rusty iron sword.
The cavalry of the legion was silent, their thighs clamped to their hips, their left shields on their chests, and their right hand heavy cavalry spears pointed straight ahead.
The Legionary cavalry in the Blade Array quickly drew their bows and threw arrows at the heads of the charging wolf riders, most of whom killed the orc knights.
Some of the arrows hit the wolf and threw it to the ground, and many of the wolves were tripped by the wolf who had fallen to the ground.
The half-orc knight on the wolf seat was thrown to the ground, and was trampled into flesh by the wolf rider who continued to charge behind, and there was a small chaos in the wolf rider group in the charge.
Finally, as the Gondor army's heartbeat grew faster and faster, the two cavalry groups collided.
The sound of a spear piercing through the orc's body was heard incessantly, and Hippolyta quickly threw away the spear that was strewn with the corpses of the orc.
She drew her sword and slashed forward, with enemies in front of her, and with a slight swing of her horse's speed, she could fly the head of a half-orc.
Hippolyta took the lead and deflected slightly to avoid the wolf corpse that had been shot by the bow and arrow.
Occasionally, the cavalry of the legion was thrown off their horses by the wolves, some got up and fought on the spot, and some never got up again.
The legionary cavalry was like five combs, and the teeth of the combs combed through the wolf cavalry from time to time, leaving behind the corpses of half-orcs and wolves.
In 60 seconds, Hippolyta had broken through the wolf cavalry group, the fish scale array continued to run forward for a distance and then quickly slowed down, each arrow array began to adjust internally, the legion cavalry that lost the heavy cavalry moved to the formation and became a shooter, and the legion cavalry who was still a shooter just now moved to the periphery to hold a gun.
As Hippolyta gave the order to turn and attack, the legionary cavalry quickly turned on the spot and began to charge at an accelerated pace.
The Ringwraith led the group of wolf riders who had completed the convergence to charge the legion cavalry again.
As the Ring Spirit in the sky harnessed the Fallen Demon Beast and roared, the captains of the Blade Array once again activated the light elemental aura to resist the effects of the roar.
The Ringwraith defended himself with the Fallen Demon Beast and ordered the Fallen Demon Beast to fall on Hippolyta.
This time, he planned to use the fallen demon beast to directly smash Hippolyta's sharp arrow array, and then kill Hippolyta, the commander of the legionary cavalry, by himself.
The fallen demon beast was shot badly wounded before it could get close to Hippolyta, and it screamed and smashed its body at Hippolyta.
Hippolyta jumped backwards in the saddle to avoid the impact, and the fallen monster fell to the ground, and her guards lost their formation and speed and fell to the ground.
The nearby Blade Array continued to charge forward, and the shooters in the formation shot at the approaching wolf riders.
The second row of the Fish Scale Array quickly passed by the guards, and with the support of the bows and arrows of the nearby Arrow Formation, the half-orc wolf riders next to the guards turned into corpses.
The ring spirit standing on the corpse of the fallen demon beast easily blocked the arrows that shot at him, and slowly walked down from the corpse of the fallen demon beast.
"Terran cavalry commander, die!"
Hippolyta landed and stood firm, sword in both hands, looking at the horrific hollow helmet of the Ringwraith, raising her sword to slash at the Ringwraith.
The Ringwraith holds a sword in his right hand to block Hippolyta's slash, and swings the flail in his left hand.
"No man can help me!"
Hippolyta lowered her head and flashed the flail, and the sword in her hand stabbed the ringwraith in the abdomen.
"I'm a woman!"
The ringwrath was wounded in the abdomen, and the right hand swung the sword for a while, and Hippolyta drew her sword and slashed horizontally to block the ringwray's right hand, and forcefully slashed at the head of the ringwraith, cutting off the head of the ringwraith.
Then he drove the light element with both hands, dispelling all kinds of dark elemental damage caused by attacking the ring spirit, and watched the ring spirit slowly shrink and dissipate.
"Li Yi bullied me, I admit it! How old are you? ”
As she spoke, she trampled the Ringwraith's shrunken armor to smithereens, as a fourth row of arrows rushed past her.
Hippolyta glanced around, the living guards had formed their own formations and continued to kill the approaching wolf riders, and the corpses of orcs and wolves were piled up in a circle.
She counted, and more than 20 Amazon sisters were lying on the ground and were breathless. Hold back the tears, as long as she can win, these Amazon sisters who have accompanied and protected her for hundreds of years and thousands of years can be resurrected!
At this moment, the fifth row swept by, and the three legionary cavalry hundreds, who were close to her, began to guerrilla around her, helping to clear the surrounding wolf cavalry.
After the death of the Ringwraith, the wolf cavalry group and the legion cavalry fought twice, and the last unknown orc captain led less than 10,000 wolf cavalry to retreat north.
The orc infantry at the mouth of the Minas Demon Cave quickly withdrew to the Demon Cave when they saw that the situation was not good.
In this battle, 207 cavalry of the legion were killed and 182 horses were killed. Destroy 1 ring spirit, more than 51,000 orcs, and more than 46,000 wolves.
The legionary cavalry cleaned the battlefield, and the Gondor army said that they could provide a cemetery, but Hippolyta decided to gather the bodies of all the fallen sisters and burn them on the pyre.
When all the Legionnaires took off their helmets in front of the fire and paid a silent tribute to the Amazons who had died in the battle, the Gondor army realized that it was all women who had just won this epic victory.
This battle caused the prestige of the war tribes of the Amazon to quickly spread throughout the land of Middle-earth.
On the morning of the fourth day, the reorganized legionary cavalry and the 2,000 cavalry and 1,000 sappers sent by Gondor marched north under the watchful eyes of the Gondor army in the ruins of Osgilias, aiming at Mordor's Black Gate!
On the other side, Antiope led 3,500 legionnaires on a rapid march, eating while running when hungry, and using chaos healing to restore strength when tired. On the first day, we passed through the mountain pass and arrived at the old ferry crossing on the Langueforado River and camped to rest.
On the second day, Antiope's department made a rapid passage through the dark jungle through the Old Forest Road. Arriving at the rushing river at noon, he shot and killed many orcs, wolf riders, sentinels and giant spiders in the dark jungle along the way. Antiope traveled north and quietly occupied the town of Vale, which had been abandoned for 80 years, at night.
On the morning of the third day, Antiope, looking at the map and sensing that her sister might be surrounded, sent 14 teams of legionary infantry and 1 team of legionary crossbowmen to quietly go south to the Black Gate of Mordor to support Hippolyta.
She left 15 teams of Legion infantry in Riverdale to camp in seclude, and took the remaining 4 teams of Legion crossbowmen to Lonely Mountain.
Antiope left her guards to defend the main gate of Erub on the lonely mountain, and she led 4 teams of legion crossbowmen into Erub with a gentle movement.
Since he didn't know the route of Ilubone, he found the treasury of the Yamashita Kingdom at noon.
She remembered Li Yi's instructions, and did not recklessly enter the vault to investigate, but let the 4 teams of legion crossbowmen quietly enter the vault and disperse in formation.
Antiope, seeing that the legionary crossbowmen were ready, shouted in the vault, "Smaug! Come out and die! ”
A dark red and black dragon slowly emerged from the pile of gold coins.
"Oh! Human bandits! Bedbug! How dare you come and steal my riches! I'm going to kill you! ”
A cloud of flame gathered in Smaug's chest, glowing red through the scales of its abdomen, and it quickly charged at the Legion crossbowmen and spewed a breath of dragon's breath at them!
The Legion crossbowmen stood still for Antiope's orders, and the dragon's breath flame burned to the Legion's crossbowmen's side and quickly extinguished, causing no damage to the Legion crossbowmen.
Antiope saw that Smaug was close enough and exclaimed, "Go!" ”
400 1-meter-long heavy crossbow arrows were fired at Smaug.
Smaug sensed the threat of death, but it was too late to dodge, so he allowed the bolt to plunge deep into his body and puncture his heart.
It glided in front of the array, and another 400 bolts were fired.
Before it could lose consciousness, it could swing its wings before its eyes went into eternal darkness.
Its last wings flew 2 teams of Legion crossbowmen, and the flying Legion crossbowmen slammed into the vault wall and were seriously injured, although no one died, but the 2 teams of Legion crossbowmen lost their combat effectiveness.
Smaug's blood spurted from the wounds of the bolts, and Antiope sighed and let the dragon's blood pour down on them, directing the other crossbowmen to come to the rescue of the mortally wounded.
Antiope looked at Smaug's huge dragon's eyes and whispered, "We are Amazons!" ”