Chapter 19: Cavalry
The heavy cavalry lined up in two rows, holding nearly five meters long cavalry spears, and pushed towards the battlefield like a wall.
Behind the heavy cavalry, the rangers held a shield in one hand and a specially made guerrilla crossbow in the other.
The guerrilla crossbow is a light crossbow specially designed for rangers, this is a repeating crossbow capable of firing three bolts in a row, which is quite troublesome to wind, once three bolts have been fired, it is difficult to wind them again in the same battle.
In order to ensure the power, this kind of crossbow must be made with the participation of low-level alchemists, so the power range of this light crossbow with a complex structure is actually better than that of a heavy crossbow, but in order to achieve this, the cost of this kind of repeater is even more than twenty times that of an ordinary heavy crossbow.
Generally speaking, as long as there is a condition, at the beginning of the war, the arrows used in this repeater will be enchanted, so the sharp arrows fired by this repeater are terrible for heavy infantry.
In fact, this kind of repeater is designed to deal with the standard infantry phalanx, Monroe phalanx, and other infantry phalanxes that are difficult for even heavy cavalry to gnaw.
In addition to one guerrilla repeater, each Ranger also had two identical repeaters hanging from the saddle, which means that in a single battle, a Ranger can shoot nine deadly enchanted arrows, which is more than enough for most battles.
Once the repeater was fired, the horse was still hung with a short spear and a scimitar......
In fact, there were far more than twenty heavy cavalry in the Knights of Vogostan, but horses suitable for heavy cavalry were hard to find.
The ghost horse attacked twice and sent a lot of horses, especially the second time. Li Zhengkui personally led the team and led the elite night attack. But the whole army was wiped out, and these elite horse thieves rode all high-quality war horses. stayed in a hidden place outside the city, and was later found and brought back by Wanghai City.
Among the more than 800 war horses before and after, only more than 20 war horses were found that were enough to carry heavy horses.
The head of the Fergostein Knights, the Knight of Eps stepped off the war horse was originally Li Zhengkui's mount, the gun horse Liu family was originally a horse dealer, and the horses in the North Hengshan were also horse thieves, and they more or less inherited the Liu family's means of selling horses and raising horses, and this Li Zhengkui's mount was also a first-class good horse.
However, the war horses ridden by Western knights are all special breeds cultivated by mages with alchemy, and they are no longer considered normal creatures. It's an arcane beast, no matter how good Li Zhengkui's mount is, it's just an ordinary beast.
In order to allow the horses to carry the knight's armor, which was more than twice as heavy as the cavalry armor, Andre also blessed the horse with a buff spell.
Looking at this group of cavalry armed to the teeth, the old horse thieves looked down at the simple leather armor on their bodies and the ordinary steel knives in their hands, and suddenly avoided the charging route of this group of cavalry, and at the same time loudly reminded the master to be careful of sneak attacks.
However, the reaction of these old thieves was slow after all, and the fastest reaction in the battlefield was Bai Qi.
The reason is simple. He had known that there was an ambush behind the wall.
In fact, these cavalry were the key to victory, and the infantry phalanx remained undefeated at best, and they wanted to rely on the infantry phalanx to defeat the light cavalry, unless they encountered the first horse thief attack. Such an idiot.
Although the cavalry is the key to the victory or defeat, it is the unified opinion of everyone, but how to use the cavalry. But the people were unanimous and dug up the walls. Camouflage with planks and hide the cavalry very close to the battlefield. It was Bai Qi's idea.
Although there are frequent wars and the military is also very developed in the Western Continent, the people of the Western Continent are more rigorous in their thinking, and they are also somewhat rigid in the use of soldiers.
Although some of the Knights' ideas were a little unexpected, as a military strategist, Andre admired Bai Qi's whimsical ideas and adopted his opinions.
Since this idea was Bai Qi's idea, he would naturally speculate that when the cavalry would launch a surprise attack was the best time.
Therefore, when Li Zhengkui's colleague was killed by the lightning beam, he subconsciously looked towards the false city wall, because there was no better time than then.
Andre did not disappoint, and almost as soon as Bai Qi set his eyes on his colleagues, the walls of the house fell......
At this time, Bai Qi did another thing, he turned over a short knife from the storage space, cut off Li Zhengkui's head with a knife, and took out the Li Quan residual gun, raised the head high, and shouted loudly in the Great Zhou language: "Li Zhengkui is dead, don't you kneel down and die quickly!" ”
When Bai Qi shouted this sentence for the second time, Qin Qing threw over a "hallucination technique" that Qin Qing was very cooperative, expanding Bai Qi's voice so that the entire battlefield could hear it.
The rumbling hooves of the cavalry, the shouts of Bai Qi covering the entire battlefield, and Li Zhengkui's head made the horse thieves who had already been hit by the wall-like Monroe phalanx, and their morale was declining, suddenly became chaotic, and some horse thieves on the periphery avoided the cavalry's charging route.
Deng Hong looked at the iron horse that was galloping quickly, and then looked at the position of the palm thunder that had just shot out in the phalanx, the bottom of his toes, the whole person flew backwards against the bottom, retreated into the group of horse thieves, grabbed a horse thief, turned over on the horse, and shouted loudly while turning the horse's head, "It's a trick,!" Then he galloped towards the north.
Li Zhengkui was dead, and the battle was fought like this, Deng Hong became the backbone of all the horse thieves, as soon as they heard his shout, the horse thieves immediately turned their horses' heads and retreated north in the direction of Deng Hong's retreat.
They go first, but there is too late.
In order to cooperate with the cavalry ambush, Andrei arranged the infantry phalanx less than 50 meters in front of the north gate, which was only more than 60 meters away from the city wall ambushed by the cavalry.
Although the gallop speed of the heavy cavalry was a little slower, it was also relatively speaking, a distance of more than sixty meters, from the start to the contact, it was only a few seconds, just after Deng Hong's colleagues shouted nonsense, this team of iron cavalry rushed into the already chaotic group of horse thieves.
The two hundred iron horsemen cut through the horse thieves almost without hindrance, and in this short period of ten seconds, nearly two hundred rangers shot out all nine sharp arrows from the three guerrilla crossbows in their hands.
These rangers were well-trained and battle-hardened, and their crossbows were easy to handle, and almost every arrow was missed.
These crossbow arrows were all specially crafted, and before the battle, the mages of the mage regiment used the first-level spell of demonic weapons, and all of them had a temporary +1 sharpness, shooting through the leather armor and muscles of the horse thief, like shooting through tofu.
The rangers did not shoot indiscriminately, they were all looking for the best mounts, the best riding skills, and the best equipment in the crowd, and this round of shooting killed more than 1,500 horse thieves, and even shot most of the elite of this group of horse thieves.
Originally, the horse thieves wanted to escape with Deng Hong, but they were killed by two hundred iron horsemen, and they immediately ignored many of them and fled in all directions, and in the end less than 1,000 people could escape with Deng Hong. (To be continued......)