The team galloped through the forest.

Countless staggered and churning horses' hooves made a muffled thunderous sound as they stepped on fallen leaves and mud.

One mountain, another mountain.

After two hours of prayer, Roy's team finally arrived at the Valley of the Rocks, ahead of the Phillips.

During the march, the Elven Hunters spotted a few more soldiers who were fleeing sporadically. When they were found, each of them was scarred and exhausted. To be able to escape the pursuit of the Ferrets, in addition to luck, it is also because the current Ferray army has focused its attention on strategic objectives such as Hongshi Gang and Warm Water Lake.

Hunting down the Soran soldiers was just something that the Butchers of Phillip did.

After gathering these scattered soldiers, the ranks had exceeded three hundred. However, such a small number of troops is still insignificant compared to the Feilie troops in this theater of operations. If you look down from the sky, you can see that this small team is like a lone wolf wandering among the lions. Those opponents, who are far larger than them, are following a fixed trajectory towards the goal.

Roy stood at the top of the valley and looked down.

It was afternoon, and the sun was shining brightly on the earth. The barren valley in front of Roy's eyes was like a steaming furnace.

The whole valley is in an "S" shape. Two rocky and dusty mountains are lined up on either side. Because of the dry climate and the barren land, there are hardly a few trees to be seen here. Except for a few drought-tolerant plants, the ground is nothing more than oddly shaped rocks and loose soil. If you step on it with your feet, you don't need to use any force to raise a layer of floating soil.

According to reports from the Elven Hunters, the Ferrets are still five kilometers to the southwest. It takes at least half a prayer hour to get here.

Taking advantage of this time, Roy ordered the warriors to dismount and rest. Be ready for battle. He led Thorge and the cavalry officers to run around, carefully surveying the terrain of the Troubled Stone Valley.

Thorge and the officers, following Roy, looked at the young commander like a cautious fox. Run to the east and look to the west. From time to time, he leaned down and carefully studied something.

They didn't know Roy's past, and therefore didn't understand that for Roy, who had been hunting in the jungle since he was a child, observing the terrain, judging opponents, and setting traps were his instinctive reactions when encountering beasts more powerful than himself.

And in war. This instinct is a more lethal weapon than the knowledge in the military academy.

It's a precious gift. This is the reason why the major families and military academies have insisted on selecting excellent seedlings in the form of large-scale hunting for many years.

But how could those teenagers who had grown up in castles and occasionally hunted in hunting grounds under knights and escorts be the same as this three-year-old who would dig a wolf's den. For more than ten years, he has been comparing himself to the black-haired boy who fights wits and courage with Warcraft every day?

A few minutes later. Roy already has a full plan.

He beckoned everyone to squat down at the edge of the valley, drew an "S" shape on the dry soil with a branch, and then pointed to a gentle slope not far away, and said to everyone: "Everyone. I have an idea, let's say it first and see if it can be done, if there is any problem, you are welcome, just point it out. My plan is ......"

A moment later. A complete plan, already told by Guò Roy, appeared in the minds of everyone.

If at the beginning, the seriousness and attention on everyone's faces was still respect for the boy who squatted on the ground holding a branch to write and draw, then, after listening to this plan, everyone looked at each other and saw the same shock and excitement!

They are not famous generals, but as soldiers who have been on the front line of the battlefield and have been on the verge of life and death for a long time, they are more aware of the cruelty of war and the rules that must be followed if they want to survive in war than those high-ranking nobles and those who have only learned some theories and analyzed some war cases in the academy.

If Roy had just been talking about it and coming up with a plan that seemed seamless on the surface, but was actually full of mistakes, they would not hesitate to oppose it, even if they liked the chief.

However, what they heard at this moment was not some whimsical nonsense, but a simple, rigorous, and absolutely deadly battle plan. Almost the next second Roy's voice landed, everyone responded in a categorical tone.

"Sir, just do it!"

.....................

Twenty-three minutes later, a well-formed army appeared less than five hundred meters away from the Rocky Valley.

Standing high in the valley, everyone could already see with the naked eye the column of knights turning from the cliffs and the woods. They were dressed in black armor, and they sat down on tall horses. In each person's hand, he held a long riding spear, and on the tip of the spear, the flat-horned knight's flag fluttered in the wind. Just by looking at it from afar, you can feel the powerful aura it exudes.

One hundred and fifty of the most elite Black Lightning Knights of the Seven Colored Sea Clans of the Feili Empire, with an average strength, are all above the Brave Knights. Among them, there are at least fifty of them, with the strength of just knights. It was a torrent of steel that was enough to shatter a qiē. When they came from afar, the birds and beasts in the forest were afraid to avoid them.

And what you will do is to block their steps!

Even though they had already prepared for a bloody battle, when everyone saw this army appear, they couldn't help but have their hearts beating faster and their palms sweating. Among them, including Roy.

Quietly watching the team come and go, Roy took a deep breath to calm his nerves.

This is not the first time I have experienced war.

Whether it was in Bollabelle, under the city of Medin, or even with the Black Skull bandits, it was far more tragic than the war many people had seen in their lives.

However, this is the first time that he has personally commanded a battle formation as the supreme commander of an army.

In the past, I was just a warrior. Whether it's a mountain of swords and a sea of fire or a bloody storm, all you have to do is fight with the enemy on the opposite side. Pierce your sword into your enemies to keep you alive. Now, I have to be responsible for everyone around me.

This kind of pressure, even Roy, who has always been bold. It's also a little overwhelming.

At this moment, a pair of large and calm hands fell on Roy's shoulders.

"Sir," Thorge said, "we're going to win!"

Roy looked back at Thorge's resolute eyes, and his nervousness immediately relaxed.

"They're strong. However, from the day the war broke out, we were ready to fight them," Thorge said slowly, looking at the enemy, "This is the duty and destiny of knights. We never thought about how strong they were and how weak we were. What we should do, even if it is death, we must do it. You don't have to worry about us. Besides......"

He winked at Roy, "I'm afraid these bastards can't think of anything." In front of them, there will be twenty Heavenly Transformation Knights in Demon Costumes, right?"

Soge's words made the soldiers next to him all chuckle. The atmosphere of the whole team immediately relaxed a lot.

As he spoke, the Philip army had reached the mouth of the valley in the Rocky Valley.

The line came to an orderly halt. A moment later, the thirty Black Lightning Knights split into three groups, five of them ascending the ridge on the left side of the valley and five on the ridge on the right. Another twenty knights. The four of them rode into the valley first. The remaining large contingent of more than a hundred people. waited quietly outside the valley mouth.

This scene gave Roy a deeper understanding of the experience and discipline of the Filies.

Even though they knew that after breaking through the fjord, there was no force in the whole area that could threaten them, and they were still very cautious in the process of marching.

Especially in a valley like Tongguò, which is prone to ambushes, the team does not need anyone's orders. Naturally, the vanguard was sent to investigate first. It is impossible for any enemy who lies in ambush in the valley to escape the eyes of these knights.

However, these were already within Roy's expectations.

From childhood to adulthood, he had seen countless kinds of cunning demonic beasts. And in the process of hunting, he did not know how much he had suffered. How many times have I been discouraged and my work has fallen short. However, no matter how clever the prey is, it is no match for the hunter. After a battle of wits and courage again and again, in the end, Roy, who has accumulated more experience, is always the winner.

Compared to the cunning and tricks of those demonic beasts, this army of Filie is nothing. Although they are disciplined and experienced. Seemingly invulnerable. But Roy could clearly feel that what was hidden beneath this iron discipline was their arrogance.

Although they sent a vanguard to explore the canyon, the knights outside the valley mouth did not make any preparations. They were all talking casually. It doesn't seem to believe that there will be any enemies lurking here. And the knights who probed were just routine. For the higher and deeper parts of the valley on either side of the valley, they did not investigate at all.

The Valley of Rocks is a stepped canyon.

If the valley floor is the first layer, then the ridge that the Philae knights are now surveying on both sides is the second layer. And a little farther back and above the second layer, there is a higher third layer.

Because the terrain of the third level is steep and it is far from the valley floor in the shape of a "V", it is not suitable for ambushes. Whether this is probed or not, on the surface, it does not seem to affect the safety of the Philip army. However, if they were cautious enough, they would have found that at a corner in the Valley of Rocks, there was a gentle slope large enough for three horses to gallop side by side.

Through this gentle slope, the attackers who are ambushed on the third layer can quickly occupy the ridge of the second layer and attack the enemy at the bottom of the valley from a high position. At the same time, it is possible to go around a few tens of meters away, through two other gentle slopes of guò, and down to the valley floor.

These three gentle slopes, like three sharp swords, are stuck on both sides of the S-shaped valley.

Once the Firet army enters the valley, they will face a full attack within thirty seconds of the attack. And once they were disrupted, under the narrow valley, they were no different from the prey that had fallen into a trap.

A moment later, the knight of Feilie, who had entered the valley, had already surveyed the entire valley and the area within a radius of several hundred meters from the exit of the valley.

When the knights on the ridges on both wings made a safe gesture to the twenty knights below the valley, one knight turned and galloped away the way they came, while the others stood in place in defensive formation.

A few minutes later, the Filiet army, which had received the news, began to enter the valley one after another. They were in a row of three, winding along the valley into a long snake.

Ten meters, twenty meters. Fifty meters, one hundred meters......

At the top of the valley, all the Solan soldiers held their breath and clenched the hilt of their swords in their hands. When he saw the army of Ferre, all of them had entered the valley, the knights in front. When he reached the middle and rear of the S-shaped valley, everyone's eyes were focused on Roy.

In the blazing sun, Roy rode his horse onto a huge rock on the edge of a cliff.

A gust of wind blew, kicking up the dry dust of the valley, enveloping the thin figure of the young man.

There is no independence that obsesses the girl, there is no clothes fluttering in the wind, there is no noble coldness, and there is no dazzling. He's in the dust. Riding a long-haired and thin horse, he drew an awkwardly longbow.

Roy stretched his bow and arrows.

As if sensing something, a young general surrounded by knights in the Feilie army under the mountain raised his head sharply and looked at this side. In those lazy eyes, the pupils contracted suddenly.

Whoosh! Roy didn't say a word, and the arrows were like beads. Go straight to the young general's door.

The arrow from the string is like blowing the horn of the charge. An earth-shattering roar. Soaring into the sky.

"Kill!" Under the leadership of Soge, Solan's soldiers jumped to their feet, like a torrent of steel, and galloped down the gentle slope. At the same time, dozens of elven hunters also showed their figures. Feathered arrows flew like rain!

.....................

Enemy attack!When the mournful screams of the knights under his command rang out. In his gaze, there were only lightning-fast feather arrows and the figure of the black-haired boy on the top of the mountain.

I was ambushed?!

In this place, which was already like a cake, arbitrarily cut by the Philip army, there was a Solan army. And. This army even dared to take the initiative to ambush itself.

This accident made Naqi unbelievable and angry.

Seeing that the guard knights beside him rushed up to protect themselves, they shouted loudly: "Get out of the way!"

The powerful fighting spirit instantly inspired eight battle rings. A fiery red light, like a substance, instantly enveloped the space within a radius of five meters. The first feather arrow, as soon as it entered this space, it was like submerged in water, and it suddenly slowed down. As Naqi reached out and grabbed it in the air, the feather arrow exploded into a cloud of powder before it could get close to his three-meter range.

However, just taking the sneer on the corner of his mouth, when he just appeared with the burst of the first feather arrow, he suddenly found that the next few arrows actually flicked their tails strangely in the air, cutting through a dazzling arc and shooting towards several other knights around him.

Naqi's face changed drastically, and he yelled urgently: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

However, these arrows were too fast. I only heard a few puffs and puffs, and the blood flowers reflected the red eyes of Naqi.

Except for one knight who reacted quickly enough and was cut in the cheek by an arrow, three knights choked their throats with their hands at the same time, their eyes bulged out like goldfish, their mouths gurgled with blood, and they fell from their horses to the ground.

Naqi fiercely set his eyes on the mountain.

This kind of archery technique that can change the trajectory of the arrow after it leaves the string, let alone seen it, and I have never even heard of it. And what made him even more unbelievable was that the person who shot these arrows turned out to be a black-haired boy who was much younger than himself!

In the field of vision, the black-haired boy made a throat-slitting gesture around his neck, and then disappeared. At the same time, the rain of arrows falling from the mountains has caused a large number of casualties among their own teams. At least seven or eight knights were shot through the throat by the arrows of incomparable precision. More than 20 people were injured and fell from their horses in a rain of arrows.

Seeing that the Solan cavalry on the mountain had already rushed down the hillside. Naqi quickly glanced around.

"The first squadron formed a defensive formation. The second squadron, seizing the left flank hillside, the third squadron, seizing the right flank hillside. Naqi ordered one after another, "Kill them all for me!"

I have to say that being able to become a disciple of Minai, one of the Five Masters of the Seven Colored Seas, and Naqi's talent in military affairs is really amazing.

Despite the ambush, he did not panic. On the contrary, almost instantaneously, he saw the lineup of the attackers and made the most correct judgment and decision.

He found that most of the Solan people who were speeding down the hillside were ordinary Solan cavalry. Even the dozens of knights who rushed ahead, most of them were poor armed knights. Although his side was caught off guard and fell behind, if the other party wanted to annihilate himself with such a small amount of troops, it would be the most pipe dream!

He did not give the order to retreat because he knew that if he chose to retreat at this time, he would be sending his back to the enemy's sword. The disorganized forces are likely to collapse under the pursuit of the enemy whose speed is fully raised.

And an experienced boxer, when faced with his opponent's heavy punches, will sometimes take the initiative to put his head up to avoid the opponent's strength from being fully exerted.

If these two gentle slopes in the valley are compared to the two fists of a boxer, what he has to do now is to meet them!

These two gentle slopes allow the opponent to exert their impact as much as possible. However, when the war horse is going downhill, the speed is not too fast because of inertia. This is the instinct of a war horse. They will be more careful not to step into the air. At the same time, the knight on the horse must also lean back. This stance is convenient for maintaining balance, but not for attacking.

As long as they can withstand the first wave of Solan's charge and block them on the gentle slope, the narrow terrain and downward inertia will become a terrible trap.

They will fall down on the hillside like a rolling gourd. The knight in front will block the way of the knight behind, and then, this seemingly ferocious torrent will crash into the hard reef of the Black Lightning Knight!

When the time comes, as long as you retreat further, you can turn this narrow valley into a meat grinder that crushes this Solan army that has climbed and fallen!

With Naqi's order, the Black Lightning Knights quickly quelled the chaos and went into action. They formed a defensive formation in groups of five, and while pushing away the falling arrows, they quickly seized the two gentle slopes on both sides of the canyon that posed the greatest threat to them. And the thirty knights who explored the road in advance, after a short period of distraction, shouted angrily and came to this side to reinforce one after another.

For a while, I only saw the iron flow rolling in the valley, and the Solan army above and the Feilie army below rushed towards two gentle slopes at the same time...... (To be continued......)