Chapter 46: The Decisive Battle

The next day, less than two hundred leagues away from King's Landing, on the green fields of the Blackwater River, the two armies faced each other from afar.

The northern coalition was located in the west, and the royalist coalition was located in the east, and the two sides submitted war letters to each other, agreeing on life and death.

"Woo woo woo ......" The desolate sound of the horn blew over the field, and the two armies began to advance at the same time.

At Sauron's order, the archers in the front row lined up in a straggler's line, repeating the action of opening their bows and shooting arrows, because the distance was so far that it was difficult for these bows to inflict effective damage unless they happened to be shot at the naked body.

After two rounds of arrow rain, the two sides engaged in close combat. The first to engage were the frontal assault teams, a coalition of northern nobles and soldiers of the Tyrells.

Flags of all kinds were waved in the air, and below them were ordinary soldiers in simple leather armor and spear-wielding, who were the first cannon fodder to howl and stab their spears into the bodies of their enemies. They were followed by elite soldiers in metal armor and armed with swords and heavy axes, all of whom were professional soldiers raised by nobles, and fought fiercely on behalf of different families.

As soon as the armies of the two sides came into contact, they made a judgment. Compared with the weak southerners who lived in the warm regions, the northerners who grew up in the bitter cold and heat were much stronger and braver, and when the equipment of both sides was similar, the northern soldiers were several streets behind the Tyrell soldiers in terms of training level and average quality, completely pressing each other to fight, often one northern soldier killed three royalist soldiers, and then was killed. The Tyrells were numerous, but they were beaten back.

On the right flank of the battlefield were the soldiers under the command of the nobles of the Riverland and the soldiers of the Arryn family, and the two sides were equal in strength and won and lost each other.

On the battlefield of the left, however, the performance of the Adventist has all eyes focused on it, and it is a one-sided slaughter. The Adventist does not need to take into account his own casualties to launch a decisive assault, you slash me, I will also slash you, you want my life, I will also take your life, plus the negative impact of the Adventist injury is small, even if the body is stabbed several times, as long as the hands and feet are not broken, they are still alive, after being hit by the sword, they often jump up and cut off half of the opponent's head before the enemy can breathe a sigh of relief, and the cruelty and tyranny make the royalist soldiers frightened, and the front line is routed at an alarming speed.

"This is a soldier he found from, completely careless about his own life and death, it's really terrifying!" Seeing this scene, the two camps couldn't help but turn their eyes to Count Sauron, whose expression was always indifferent, these tough soldiers of unknown origin did not realize their horror until they were really fighting.

In fact, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms had long been suspicious of Sauron's identity, his origin was unknown, his strength was strong, and there were so many elite soldiers who were loyal to him, his true identity was by no means as simple as the wandering mercenary he introduced at the beginning.

Now, as the leader of the Northern Alliance, he has challenged the royalists.

After all, the royalist soldiers are flesh and blood, and they will also be afraid, injured, and killed, and they retreat under the crazy offensive of the Adventists, and the royalists have no choice but to send a few more reinforcements, relying on several times the number of the opponent, which can withstand the crazy offensive of the enemy army.

For the Adventists, there is no pressure at all to die together, the more the other party fights, the less they fight, and they will not really die at all. And as long as you kill an elite soldier on the battlefield, you can get a hundred reward points, which is completely enough for the entrance fee, so it is enough to kill one and earn it if you kill two.

At the same time, both camps seemed to have a tacit understanding to leave the main cavalry to hold on as the final hole card.

"Is that really the case?" In the royalist camp, the deputy commander of the army this time was Jaime, the monarch of the Lannisters, who was not captured by Robb's army because of the butterfly effect produced by Sauron, but the fact that he broke his hand did not change, and participated in the battle after recuperating from his wounds for a few months in Kaiyan City.

His father, Duke Tywin, the commander of the campaign, snorted coldly, and he ordered a Lannister army to reinforce the left flank, while the frontal troops were sent to help.

As the richest family in the Seven Kingdoms, the Lannisters equipped their soldiers with the most sophisticated equipment and the most superior training environment, which made the Lannister's morale even higher, and they brandished their weapons and charged.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Zoro had already planned to deal with this, and at the sound of an order, a team of Adventists who had been on standby for a long time quickly switched to attack the phalanx, the two wings were pressed by crossbowmen and hired longbowmen, the spearmen lined up in a shield wall to protect the flanks, and the extra-long spear array in front slowly advanced towards the reinforcements on the opposite side.

"What is this?" Tywin frowned slightly, a faint feeling of something unpleasant.

Of course, he couldn't recognize it, because this was something that had long been left over from the ancient history of warfare on Earth - the phalanx.

Zoro has long discovered that although the world of ice and fire has a long history, the means of war still follow the traditional way of fighting, that is, knights and knights fight, soldiers and soldiers fight, often the morale of the commander knight is greatly increased when he wins, on the contrary, the morale is weakened, and when the battle horn is blown, it is a swarm, chaotic, and there is no formation at all.

This is the first time that the concept of a phalanx has appeared in this world, and how effective it will be depends on the actual combat test.

"Kill them!" The Lannisters howled and attacked their enemies.

However, they were greeted first by javelin shooting, and the second-row adventers of the phalanx took their javelins from their waists and threw them fiercely. The second row is finished, then the third row, then the fourth row...... It took five rounds of shooting to finish.

The accuracy of the javelin is very poor, but it can't withstand the dense formation of the enemy, and the kinetic energy of the javelin that accelerates and falls from the sky is extremely terrifying, even if it is blocked by the armor, it will not help, and the powerful force will directly shock people to death inside the armor.

The Lannisters, who were about to run fast, rushed forward, but the human instinct was always stunned in the face of the spears of the forest, and the Descenders did not give them a chance to think, and a few spears stabbed the enemy soldiers in the heart with a dash.

"Don't attack from the front, launch from the side!" The Lannisters were experienced in warfare, and it was soon discovered that the flaws of this phalanx were that they moved slowly and could not turn, and they tried to break through the enemy line from the side by making a detour from the side.

However, Sauron had already taken this into account, and some of the Lannisters, who were trying to break the enemy phalanx from the flank, found that the longbows and crossbowmen on the opposite side had already been prepared, and when they finally crossed the road of death and rushed closer, they were greeted by shields that were connected like walls and short swords under them.

Close to the body, the short sword is the king of melee combat, with a sharp head and a blade on both sides, which is best for assassination and slashing. The swift and swift stabbing tactics inflicted great suffering on the Lannisters, resulting in heavy casualties.

It wasn't until the head-to-head confrontation that the Lannisters realized the difficulty of this formation, the opponent was like a hedgehog covered in spikes, and he couldn't find a place to start.

It's not that no one tried to forcibly break up the phalanx, but this kind of phalanx designed by Sauron, each of which is a complete whole, it is impossible to fight against a hundred people alone.

The most important thing in this phalanx is courage and cooperation, both of which are not lacking in those who descend. Courage is not lacking in every adventist here, because they will not really die, and they will naturally have nothing to fear. As for cooperation, the large team composed of the Adventists already had a set of effective plans, everyone performed their own duties, cooperated tacitly, and practiced the power of the phalanx to the extreme, killing the Lannister's army quickly and effectively.

This battle also demonstrated for the first time the strong comprehensive strength of the large team of Fantasy Space.

Tywin Lannister changed color for the first time, and the Lannister elite that had been relied on to help was now the fastest point to collapse, and even faintly led to the rout of the other departments.

Seeing that the front line was not progressing well, Tywin frowned and ordered the longbowmen to throw a shot to aid his frontline soldiers. Although doing so will cause accidental damage to your own army, there is no need to worry about it in order to prevent further rout.

Afterwards, Tywin himself led his guards to oversee the battle, killing several of the retreating soldiers, shouting loudly to boost morale. At the same time, the knights of his own guard were sent to help, and finally stopped the retreat, and the battle gradually stabilized.

For the next few hours, soldiers on both sides trampled on corpses and sacrificed their lives to fight, shouting to the sky, blood flowing, and internal organs and stumps and severed arms were trampled into flesh and mud, moistening the land.

The battle lasted from early morning until noon, and the soldiers on both sides were exhausted, but none of them dared to relax in the slightest, because slacking off on the battlefield meant death.

"It's time!" On the northerner's side, Zoro sneered.

Suddenly, a huge sound came from all over the world, and the enemy and us on the frontal battlefield heard the sound of people turning their horses behind the royalist camp, and then a team of heavily armored cavalry came out from the rear row, and the royalist front was attacked from both sides, and a huge crack was torn open in an instant.

"The northerners are hiding such an army!" Tywin's face changed drastically, and the battle had been unexpected.

However, Tywin Lannister was no longer allowed to be angry, and he had to react immediately, so he had to hastily send out a cavalry corps that had been prepared to be used as trump cards.

"Stop them!"

The royalist cavalry legion is led by Loras, the "Knight of the Hundred Flowers" of the Tyrell family, and he has a terrifying legion of about 2,000 people composed entirely of heavy armored cavalry, which is also the killer weapon used by Duke Tywin to deal with Sauron, after all, everyone knows that Sauron Melkon is the first knight of the continent.

In order to deal with the strongest knight in the continent, Tywin specially sent Sandor "Hound "Hound" Clegane, "King Killer" Jaime Lannister, and dozens of knights with titles famous in the continent. Originally, the Magic Mountain was also a very good choice, but in order to appease the anger of the Martell family, Tywin could only send his head.

With such a luxurious combat power, it should be able to withstand that terrible man!