Chapter 10: Destroying the Withered and Decaying
At this time, outside the west gate of Kevin City, in the camp of the Holy See sent the Golden Knights of the Lance.
"I always felt like something was going to happen today." Alan Baldwin, the deputy head of the regiment, took two steps behind his back and said with an ugly face. A veteran of a hundred battles, he had honed his extremely sharp battlefield instincts, and now, his instincts were sounding the alarm that danger was coming.
"Alan, you're thinking too much. The generals have often gone to Archbishop Morris for deliberations in recent years, and nothing has happened to them! And with those scouts under that mongrel, how dare they make a mistake? Could it be that the king is tired of it? ”
Camp Commander Chade, who was in the tent, persuaded him that he and Alan were close friends, so he could speak casually.
Deputy Head Allen shook his head solemnly, "What if he really does it?" ”
Chad laughed indifferently and said, "Then we'll defeat him!" We are the first knights in the kingdom, and it will not be easy to defeat his ridiculous mounted infantry formation? ”
Hearing this, Commander Allen also laughed, the mounted infantry formation was a joke in their King Andris**. It refers to the Praetorian Cavalry under King Charles.
I don't know if I took the wrong medicine, Charlie's mongrel actually trained his cavalry like infantry, requiring them to line up in a tight queue no more than three feet apart, and walk in line like infantry all day long, occasionally practicing charges, but it is naturally indispensable to have a full range of foreign appearances.
Allen had watched the training of the Praetorian Guards, and in his opinion, the opponent's formation was completely a child's trick.
Their cavalry is a clutch soldier, and they pay attention to flexibility and freedom, and their tactics are changeable. Even if it is a heavy cavalry collision formation, it is generally a collision and a walk, and then take turns to attack. And what about Charlie's cavalry? It's a desperate posture with people.
In such a tight formation, all that remains is a straight impact. But the question is, how many soldiers can stand such a suicide attack-like tactic?
As a veteran of a hundred battles, Allen could not understand the armies of this era anymore, most of them would lose their combat effectiveness as long as they suffered a loss of one percent, and if the battle losses exceeded two percent, they would collapse.
In their western continent, perhaps the royal war mage legions of the various kingdoms and the Templar Order of the Holy See can endure more than 30% of casualties, because they have been influenced by religious ideas since childhood, and their devotion to the goddess can overcome the fear of death to a certain extent.
But Charlie was a guy who had grown up in the land of the unbelievers, and his mind had long since become completely cyritic, as can be seen in his self-proclaimed name and in the honorific title he demanded. The kings of their Western Continent have always called themselves "I", when did they start to "call themselves alone" like the Seris? The same is true of other people's honorific titles for him, they Western Continent people refer to the king as "my king", when did they start to call him "king"?
How could an unbeliever like him train a strong army that would not swerve to the death of the goddess? Although this bastard bastard has been putting on an extremely devout appearance towards the goddess since he returned to China and succeeded to the throne. Not only can the "Genesis Sacred Code" be memorized backwards, but he is also very diligent in going to church, and he is even more deferential to the clergy.
But Alan can see at a glance that he is pretending!
In addition, in fact, Alan is very skeptical, even if the royal war mage legion and the Templars can really play Charlie's game?
Maybe at the beginning of the battle, right? But in the end, there is no need to think about it.
"That's right, Chad, it's me ......who is too worried," Alan said with a wry smile, but before he could finish his words, there were earth-shattering cries and shouts of killing from the camp in the distance!
"This is?!"
Alan and Chad looked at each other in surprise.
"That bastard really did it!" Alan said through gritted teeth.
"Then let's go and defeat him! Revenge for the generals! Chad shouted excitedly and angrily. After seeing Charlie go out of the city to sweep away the leaderless army, he had somewhat guessed the fate of the generals of the self-army in his heart.
"Hmm."
Alan nodded with a sinking face. He was now the highest-ranking officer of the Golden Lance Knights, and after the murder of the current commander, the command of the Knights naturally fell into his hands.
"But before that, send someone to inform the War Mage Legion in the nearby camp, and we will cover their formation."
Chad nodded. This is the proper meaning of the question, without the army of war mages, even if their cavalry defeated Charlie's mongrel army, they would not be able to attack the strong royal capital of Kevin.
"I'll go!" With that, Chad picked up the tent and walked out.
"Guards, blow the emergency rallying call!"
Evan ordered to the other as he put on his armor with the help of one of his guards.
At this moment, in the middle of the battlefield.
"Your Majesty, these guys have their nostrils facing the sky all day long, but I didn't expect that they would be as vulnerable as a local chicken and a tile dog in a fight!" Bill, the leader of the mercenaries, said with a laugh as he pointed his rifle at the Holy See troops who were fleeing with their armor and throwing away their armor.
King Charles shook his head and smiled, it is normal for the enemy army to be leaderless, and it is normal for them to be attacked suddenly and destroyed. However, he didn't want to discourage Bill, so he said, "It's not that they're too weak, it's that we're too strong!" ”
"That's right, the king is right!" Bill said with deep sympathy, since they crashed into the enemy camp just now, their cavalry formation is everywhere, all of them are invincible, even the occasional resistance will be quickly crushed. He has countless experience in the battle formation, but he has never fought such a smooth battle, it is completely one-sided!
"Listen, your majesty, it's the sound of the horn of the Golden Knights!" Suddenly, Barnes, who was on the other side of King Charles, pointed his rifle at the northwest and shouted loudly.
Charlie hurriedly listened carefully when he heard this.
"Hmph, it looks like our strong enemy has already appeared!" He said with a sneer. This is the first hurdle in his career, and he must pass it no matter what!
"What strong enemy? King, let's go and crush them! Bill said unconvinced.
Charlie smiled bitterly and said, "Good, good! Today is the day of the fall of the Knights of the Golden Lance! ”
"Exit the enemy camp, regroup, and prepare to take on the Golden Knights! It's up to the infantry brothers to take over! Barnes ordered loudly into the cavalry.
At this time, Charlie's men not only fought out of the city with the Praetorian Cavalry Corps, but even the Praetorian infantry rushed into the enemy camp and set fire to it, making the enemy camp even more chaotic.
Ten minutes later, the five thousand iron horsemen of the Praetorian Cavalry Legion drove to the edge of the battlefield, and directly facing them was the Golden Cavalry Knights.
"It's good-looking!" Bill put his hand on the pergola and looked at the enemy formation more than 600 paces away.
As the name suggests, each member of the Knights of the Golden Lance carries a golden spear in their hands, and the men and horses are covered in gilded armor. Under the sun at two or three o'clock in the afternoon at this moment, it looked even more gorgeous and dazzling, in sharp contrast to the black Praetorian Guard cavalry formation more than six hundred paces away.
At the same moment, Alan was also watching the formation of the Praetorian Cavalry Regiment.
As on the training ground, the five thousand cavalry were divided into three waves, each of which was a thin three-tiered array, with the same row of cavalry separated by only three feet, the squads separated by two paces, the front and rear rows separated by seven paces, and each wave of cavalry separated by thirty paces. The soldiers in the first row of the cavalry all held cavalry spears more than four meters long, the second row was a spear about two meters and a half, and the third row was a straight-edged knife in the style of Seris, which was more than three feet long.
"Charlie, this nerd, is this stupid to read the military books of the Eastern Continent? He really brought this set to the battlefield, see how he cries for a while! Alan sneered, although the Praetorian Cavalry easily destroyed the outermost friendly troops in the camp, but Alan didn't think that the other party was very powerful, because he was confident, and in the same situation, his Golden Cavalry Knights could do this, or even better.
"Is the War Mage Legion starting to line up?" He turned to his guard.
The guard, who was standing on horseback at the moment, heard the general's inquiry, and immediately replied, "Not yet, they are not yet fully out of the camp." ”
"Shh Alan pursed his lips, he was very annoyed by the inefficiency of the mage legion, and he was embarrassed to take three times the salary of the knights with such a casual attitude?
"That's it, you won't need them to defeat Charlie's bastard anyway, it's enough to have our Golden Knights of the Golden Lance!" Alan said as he tried to calm down.
"Forward!" Alan raised his riding gun above his head and shouted.
The guards beside him immediately sounded the trumpet of advancement.
On the other side of the battlefield, King Charles also gave orders to his attendants to march, and suddenly, the sound of five short tones and one long tone of the horn also sounded.
Amid the sound of the trumpets of the two sides, two powerful cavalry corps began to march against each other.