Volume 1: Soaring to the Sky Chapter 18 Mounted Shooting

After Hippolyta set out from Habiton, she had a stomach full of grievances, and she had children, and she was given this task of sending her to death.

The average army marches long distances, and the infantry is definitely faster than the cavalry. War horses are more valuable than people, except for combat charges, many times cavalry marches are dismounted and walked.

The advanced war horse of the legion war horse is stronger, taller and more durable than the average war horse, but it can't stand the heavy armor of the whole body, and each person only has one horse.

The Mongolian cavalry, which has the fastest cavalry marching speed, marches at most in the state of trotting of war horses, but they have two or even three horses per person, and the war horses have time to rest with empty loads.

After Hippolyta was recruited as a legionary cavalryman, she didn't have time to explain the situation of the cavalry to Li Yi, and came to the Middle-earth world.

This is the first time that Amazon has entered the mission world, and Hippolyta does not dare to say much, no matter how difficult the order is, it must be completed.

The civil strife had just passed, and she didn't want Li Yi to feel Amazon's disobedience to him, so she could only find a way to meet Li Yi's requirements.

The legionary cavalry marched quickly at the pace of a war horse trot.

Every 1 hour, the Legionnaires will apply Chaos Heal to the trotting horses to restore damage and stamina from long marches.

Every 2 hours, the cavalry regiment would stop for half an hour to rest and feed the horses.

The supply consumption of war horses is originally twice that of people, and shortening the feeding interval doubles the supply consumption for the war horses to replenish their physical strength.

Hippolyta calculated the supply consumption, but fortunately, Li Yi gave 100,000 supplies, which was at least enough for the legion cavalry to use for 400 days!

On the first day, the cavalry regiment ran to a secluded camp near the crossing of the Aysin River.

In the middle of the night, Hippolyta left the camp with her personal guards and went to the ferry to find out the military situation in the town.

Through the moonlight and the lights of the town, it was found that although there were troops patrolling the ferry, there were not many of them, which should be used as a warning and to prevent robbers. The river is not deep at the ferry, and war horses can wade across it.

When Hippolyta got the military information she wanted, she quietly returned to the camp with her personal guards.

Early the next morning, the cavalry of the legion marched at a constant speed towards the town of the crossing of the Aisin River.

Soon, the patrolling Rohan cavalry spotted the legionnaires, most of whom bravely charged the legionnaires, and a few of the Rohan cavalry ran back to the town of Issin River crossing.

Hippolyta didn't want to kill them all, so she naturally let a few of the Rohan cavalry who ran away go to give a warning message.

The nearest Legionary Cavalry Hundred, took her order to capture Rohan's cavalry alive.

The battle ended with a single charge, and the legionnaires treated themselves and the Rohan cavalry from their wounds, tying them up and bringing them over.

Hippolyta sat on her horse and looked down at the captives of the Rohan cavalry piled together.

"Untie their ropes and return the horses and weapons to them."

The Rohan cavalry looked at each other suspiciously, what did this group of cavalry want to do?

The captain of the Rohan cavalry stood out from the captives.

"Where are you from? Why attack the Rohanate? My men have reported to the capital of Idoras, that the army of Rohan's cavalry will soon encircle you. ”

Hippolyta looked down at the captain of the Rohan cavalry.

"Tell your king what I say. The Chaos Legion has no intention of making enemies against you, we are only borrowing from the Kingdom of Lurokhania. Our goal is to attack the orcs of Mordor. Of course, if you want to fight, we will not be polite. ”

After speaking, he led the cavalry of the legion through the crossing of the Aisin River and continued to march at the pace of a trotting horse.

When the leader of the Rohan cavalry saw the legion walking away, he took a few cavalry to Idoras to report the news.

Along the way, the towns through which the legionary cavalry passed were deserted, and the gates of the castles were closed.

The Rohan cavalry stationed in various places only watched from a distance, and when the legionary cavalry passed, they followed and gathered more and more.

In the afternoon, the legionary cavalry crossed the Molin Creek on the border between the Rohan and the Gondor kingdom at the Molin Creek crossing, and the Rohan cavalry slowly retreated.

After entering the territory of Gondor, Gondor did not send troops to stop Hippolyta, and the news of the passage of the legionary cavalry should not have reached Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor.

The Gondor lords along the way should have received information from the Rohanate, but they only led their armies to defend the entrances to the villages and towns along the path through which the legionary cavalry must pass.

In some towns and villages, the road passed through the village, and when the road was blocked by the Gondor army, the legion had to go around the outskirts of the village at a constant speed.

In the middle of the night, Hippolyta led the cavalry of the legion and set up camp near the west gate of the ruins of Ogilias.

You can see the lights on Minas Tirith from a distance, and the soldiers are busy on the city wall, probably to guard against the attack of the legionary cavalry.

Hippolyta pouted when she saw it, is she a fool? How did the cavalry attack the city?

On the morning of the third day, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of Gondor troops, the cavalry calmly finished breakfast, methodically pulled out the camp, and lined up in a queue to the west of the ruins of Ogilias.

Behind the legionary cavalry was a defensive array of tens of thousands of Gondor troops.

To the east of the ruins of Osgillias is the Cave of Minas, and the Ringwraith should have discovered the arrival of the Legion and the movement of the Gondor Army last night.

The orcs, led by the Ringwraith, lined up to defend the valley leading to the Demon Cave.

Hippolyta waved her hand to set off, and the legionary cavalry marched in a marching column into the ruins of Osgillias in silence.

Thousands of Gondor soldiers on the top floor of the building in the ruins waited with bows, and the shadows of the Gondor infantry hidden inside the buildings in the ruins were sufficient.

The cavalry of the legion, which had already passed through the ruins of Osgilias, began to line up to the east of the ruins.

When Hippolyta saw that all the cavalry was in position, she gave a loud order: "Circle! Two columns! Ride and shoot! Amazon! Offensive! ”

She led the guards and rushed towards the orcs who were lining up to defend the valley mouth.

All the hundred-man team formed a circle formation of two teams, one in a row, one row after another, and two columns followed her attack.

When she was still 300 meters from the enemy, Hippolyta gave a loud order: "Shoot!" Turn with me! ”

Then a rain of arrows fell on the enemy, and when the next column of 100 men reached the position that Hippolyta had just ordered, another rain of arrows was fired at the enemy.

By the time Hippolyta caught up with the back row of hundreds, the 5,000 legionary cavalry had formed a huge circle, raining arrows on the orcs.

The orcs defending in the Taniguchi array have been shot and killed since the first wave of arrows.

Under the order of the ring spirit, the orcs in the back kept raising their shields to fill in the position and clean up Taniguchi's corpse.

By the time the legionary cavalry had formed a cavalry formation, the Ringwraith knew that it could no longer be held like this.

The Ringwraith ordered the orc infantry to retreat with the corpses as much as possible, and he rode the fallen demon beast and led the more than 10,000 orc wolf riders stationed in the Minas Demon Cave to charge the cavalry circle.

Seeing this, Hippolyta ordered the circle to move north as a whole to widen the distance between it and the wolf riders, and the wolf riders were shot and killed in the charge.

The Fallen Demon Beast flew in the sky with the Ring Spirit and roared loudly, making a terrifying sound, and the cavalry captains turned on the light elemental aura to resist the sound of fear of the dark attribute of the fallen demon beast.

The Ring Spirit drove the fallen demon beast, looking for opportunities in the sky many times to pounce, but was forced back by the arrows shot from the circle.

The ring spirit was helpless, and led the remaining more than 6,000 wolves to ride south to the valley mouth.

The cavalry circle stopped heading north, and pursued the retreating wolf riders in reverse, and the Gondor army guarding the ruins of Osgillias and Minas Tirith watched in amazement.

At this moment, north of the Cave of Minas, the black door of Mordor's portal was slowly opening.

Fifty thousand half-orc wolf riders swarmed out of the door, and behind the wolf riders were half-orc infantry with no end in sight, lining up for the wolf riders to pass first.

Hippolyta complained to Li Yi in her heart, this big pig's trotters didn't have many arrows, and all the legion cavalry only had 30 arrows after being recruited.

A third of the arrows were used in a single battle, and in the course of the pursuit, the Amazon girls tried to recover as many arrows as possible from the closest.

However, there is no way to recover the arrows that are too far away and broken, so they can only be slowly recovered after the war.

Hippolyta looked at the Gondor army guarding the ruins of Osgillias and came up with the idea of borrowing arrows, and she asked one of the Guards cavalry to run and borrow arrows from the Gondor army.

Although the arrows of the Gondor army were not the same as the heavy bows and arrows used by the cavalry of the Legion, some were better used than none.

The legionary cavalry girl who borrowed arrows ran to the ruins of Osgillias and directly asked for 250,000 arrows.

The general of the Gondor Army, who was standing on a high place in the ruins to watch the battle, almost fell down without standing firm after hearing the shouts of the legion's cavalry girl.

He thought about it for a while, but he took out 50,000 arrows and piled them in the open space in front of the ruins, and then sent someone to report to Minas Tirith behind him about the legion's borrowing of arrows.

The Ringwraith withdrew to the Minas Cave with the Orc Wolf Rider, and he felt that this battle could not be fought.

Generally, the bow and arrow can only shoot 50 meters, and the strong wind from the wings of the fallen demon beast can easily fan the weak arrow away.

The range of the legionary cavalry bow reaches 300 meters, and when the fallen demon beast dives, it can't fan the arrows shot by the legion cavalry at all, and it is easy to be injured, and the speed of the arrows is about the same as that of a bed crossbow.

Moreover, there are too many cavalry near Hippolyta, even if she mounts a fallen demon beast, she can't kill Hippolyta, and it is easy for her to escape.

Unable to kill the cavalry commander, his half-orc wolf cavalry and infantry could only continue to be hunted on the battlefield, and there was no choice but to retreat.

But he had already sent a message to Mordor, believing that reinforcements would soon arrive.

Hippolyta saw the orcs retreat into the cave of Minas, and did not chase deeply, but only recovered the arrows and arrows near the mouth of the valley.

With arrows, it's easy for Amazon to make their own arrows, a survival skill that every Amazon must learn from a young age.

Hippolyta led the legionary cavalry and retreated to the east of the ruins of Osgillias to rest.

Although the battle was not long, the cavalry still fed some fruit as snacks to the horses when they were resting.

The arrows supported by the Gondor army in the ruins were also quickly distributed to each legionary cavalry.

The legionary cavalry rested, and Hippolyta was about to lead his army out of the ruins when he was stopped by the general Gondor.