Chapter 115
It was only a steep slope high for one man, and soon the first squire knight climbed up, but as soon as he came up, he was swung a steel hoe by a Rhodok crossbowman, and the hoe broke his head. But the Rhodok crossbowman was then shot through www.biquge.info the door by a crossbow arrow from the squire knight who arrived later.
More squire knights, stepping on the bodies of their companions, climbed onto the heights. On the heights, the firepower of the Rhodoks was thinning.
Hand-to-hand combat begins!
At the same time, the first batch of rushing heavy horsemen also rushed out from surrounded by spears piercing from all directions, and there were less than thirty or forty of the nearly two hundred heavy horsemen in the first row.
As soon as they broke through the back of the second line, the speed of the horses slowed down, and they were met by the volleys of spearmen who rushed up like crazy, and a series of war spears almost did not give any chance to greet them, and in an instant they penetrated the bodies and horses of the thirty or so heavy cavalry.
The original fragmented formation of the second battle column miraculously recovered at the same time as the third array rushed up, and these Rhodok warriors did not need to run at all, so they not only wore their own sleeveless plate armor, but also covered with a layer of full-body plate armor of their fellow fortress snipers.
Two layers of plate armor wrapped them in bloated, and they would be out of breath when they ran a few steps. But the good thing is that now they don't need to run at all.
As soon as the sprint of the Svadian heavy riders stopped, it was as if they had fallen into a meat grinder, and the scene of their previous wanton slaughter was completely reversed, and these standard tin cans with double armor were even thicker than the armor of the heavy riders. Unable to charge, the heavy riders could only wield their huge spears in vain to make slow thrusts, and some of the quick-reacting ones dropped their spears, pulled out their maces or two-handed swords, and slashed down with great force, only to leave a deep mark on the Rhodok tin cans.
Rhodok's tin cans, wielding sharp straight-edged military knives or shorter heavy military guns, stabbed like madness, and almost every assassination result in a Swadia heavy rider being dismounted and a bullet hole pierced in his body.
For the first time, Svadia Heavy Rider actually felt a sense of helplessness and panic in his heart.
The previous leader of the heavy cavalry who led the charge had already been stabbed to death by a random gun after penetrating the second array, and at this time, the highest-ranking heavy cavalry leader on the field finally waved his cavalry gun and shouted: "Stand back, stand back and assemble, ready to charge again!"
The heavy cavalry that came up like a tide immediately rushed back like a tide, and three hundred meters away, re-lined the wedge formation.
In the first array, the battle on the steep slope continued, and in front of the squire cavalry who were good at hand-to-hand combat, the snipers of the Rhodok fortress, who had lost the protection of plate armor, gradually lost the initiative and were driven down from the steep slopes.
While the heavy cavalry lined up, the battle between the squire knights and Rhodok crossbowmen for the scattered high ground of the first array immediately entered a white heat.
The Rhodok crossbowmen frantically counterattacked, hoping to push the squire knights down the heights, so that they could organize another lethal salvo before the opposing heavy cavalry could charge again, but the squire knights wanted to stop this deadly volley, and both sides immediately killed red-eyed.
Obviously, although the Rhodok Fort Sniper is the strongest hand-to-hand combat class in ranged units, it is still not enough in front of standard hand-to-hand combat units and dismounted squire knights. Soon, more than half of the highlands fell into the hands of the Swadiaans.
The occupied high ground, the Swadians, who were immediately good at archery, rummaged through the ground with usable siege crossbows, quickly turned to the Rhodoks, and began to shoot, thus triggering a new round of contention.
But it was only the Rhodok crossbowmen who were getting smaller and smaller in number to participate in the battle, and the infantry of the second and third columns never dared to move lightly, because the heavy cavalry wedge-shaped formation on the opposite side had already begun to jog.
After a fierce battle, the corpses of the 13,400 squire knights were left on the opposite side, and the number was rising, while the heavy cavalry lost at least nearly 700 men. In the first wave of attacks, the battle loss rate of the heavy cavalry was as high as thirty and a half, which should be the most tragic field battle in the history of the war between the Svadia Empire and the Rhodok Empire.
But the Rhodoks were not at all uncomfortable, at least eight hundred crossbowmen were wiped out in hand-to-hand combat, and in the first wave of heavy cavalry charges, the second array, which almost collapsed, lost at least half of them, and now there were less than a thousand men left who could stand up in front of the heavy cavalry charging route. It seems that the casualties are fewer than those of the Svadians, but the long-range advantage that the Rhodoks should be most proud of has been completely lost, and it is almost inconceivable to use three thousand infantry to block the onslaught of the two or three thousand heavy cavalry remaining on the opposite side.
What's more, the most elite Swadia royal knights on the opposite side have not yet entered the battle.
Allah was also wounded, and his face was shattered by a dying heavy horseman, and a sword slashed his left cheek, leaving a hideous bloody wound, but he didn't have time to bandage it. In the previous battle, his presence restored the second array, which was on the verge of collapse, and even he alone slashed at least a dozen heavy cavalry.
But it's still a drop in the bucket......
Allah looked into the distance, and the Swadian heavy cavalry had already begun to enter the charging distance, and the mutilated cavalry spears were flattened like a forest that had been cut down in an instant.
Behind the neatly arrayed, armor-lit Svadian royal knights, the dense forest was still quiet, and there was no movement.
"As long as those royal knights are also in the fight, Emmons will appear!" Allah muttered, he bit his lip, the blood mixed with the blood gushing from the wound on his face, he clenched his hands on the straight-edged military knife that had been broken from it, and roared: "Brothers of Rhodok, the time has come to avenge our brothers who have died at the hands of the Swadians for hundreds of yearsβ"
"--Kill !!" "Ah-" I sneezed suddenly, and my nose was sour.
"What's the matter?" Ling Ling asked me nervously on the side, "If you have a cold, take a break, maybe your crazy thoughts are hallucinations caused by illness?"
I gave him a cold look: "You have hallucinations when you have a cold?"
Ling Ling closed his mouth.
After a while, outside the city of Paraven, a cloud of smoke and dust billowed to the northeast, followed by another cloud of smoke and dust several times larger, billowing and chasing away.
I nodded, jumped off my horse, and it was only now that I dared to let go of my heart.
"Order the whole army, untie the horse's belly, let the horses eat and drink, everyone starts eating, and the food must be finished within ten minutes!" Ling Ling whispered the order behind him, and Wuke was the first to sit down on the ground, take out a pork leg and gnaw it.
Ten minutes later, most of the fighters had silently finished their rations, and Wuke had dropped a slick pork leg bone on the ground, burping, and I glanced in the direction of Paravon from a distance, where the smoke had disappeared for some time.
"Let's get started. I nodded.
As the last rays of twilight faded below the horizon, the village of stables at the foot of the city of Paraven was suddenly looted by unknown persons, and many parts of the village were ablaze with a roar of people, and the wails of the dead and wounded mixed with the crackling of the flames could be heard far away.
Five minutes later, the drawbridge over the greater city of Paravon was lowered, the gates opened, and a garrison of 1,000 Paravon militia marched to the village to suppress the bandits.
Fifteen minutes later, a thousand-strong militia was devastating in the burning village, and only a few dozen men, covered in blood, had managed to escape from the burning village, which, according to their reversed accounts, numbered less than 400 men, and it was evident that they were battle-hardened bandits.
Thirty minutes later, the first group of 2,000 Palauven palace guards drove out of the city gates and engaged the bandits, who numbered less than 400 men in the burning village, and the bandits were outnumbered by the well-equipped and well-trained palace guards and began to retreat.
The palace guards pursued the plains of the southern pastures for four or five miles, and at last they were ambushed by at least two thousand five hundred well-armed unidentified men, whose sturdy sleeveless armor was no stronger than a piece of paper under the fire of the crossbowmen who were lying in ambush in the grass.
Not to mention the swarthy ironclad warriors who suddenly appeared from the depths of the grassland, their armor was not only strong, but also extraordinary, and their long and narrow slashes were like lightning bolts, and each time they flashed, they would harvest a life.
The two thousand palace guards were dealt a devastating blow in an instant, and some of the Swadians who had fallen behind immediately stopped in fright and hurried back to the great city of Parabun in a panic.
After another thirty minutes, the whole city of Parabun was boiling, and for the first time, the drunken people of Parabun knew that there was an elite mysterious armed force that had unknowingly arrived near Paraven, burned a village, and ambushed a large group of palace guards.
This is in Parabun! The most heavily guarded capital of the Swadia Empire, the most powerful country in all of Caladia! There is an unidentified armed force of one or two thousand men who dares to be so arrogant! This is blasphemy, blasphemy! This seriously tarnishes the chivalry that the Swadia people believe in! A troop of horse bandits of one or two thousand men came before and ransacked the villages outside the city, which is already an intolerable insult to the Paravonians! So General Tuyas went out of the city with five thousand blood rose knights in pursuit. Now that there is such a group of people again, are all the outlaws in the world breaking their brains today and are going to come to the lion's mouth to extract their teeth?
It must be exterminated, and one by one it must be captured alive and sent to the gallows!
Therefore, in order to purify these sinful bandits, and to punish those outlaws who broke their brains, the 10,000 palace guards stationed in the city of Parabun were immediately assembled, and with the joy of flowers and wine from the citizens of Parabun, they rushed to the south of Parabun, where their compatriots had been ambushed.
Wuke picked his teeth and said to me: "General, are all the palace guards in Paravon like this? I think they have been hollowed out by wine a long time ago, I just dispatched five hundred python fangs, combined with the death eye of that guy in Tex, and instantly broke their morale. Aren't they Svadians the most honorable, and now they kneel in a row, and it's very honorable?"
I looked at the sky impatiently and said, "Okay, our time is limited, the distance of four or five miles, plus the mobilization and assembly time, it is almost time for them to leave the city, if they are hit head-on by 10,000 of them, we will be dead!"
With a loud snort, he spat out the twig of the tooth-picking tree, and said, "Well, you will see what kind of greeting I have for the Svadians!" and said this, taking up his big axe and hurrying towards the more than a thousand captives who had surrendered on their knees.
"O Swadians," I muttered...... "those guys, all idiots who have been so dazed by chivalric fiction that they think that real battles are like duels, and that if you can't fight them, you just need to hand over your weapons?" β
As I said to myself, Tex had already walked up behind me and said, "General, according to your orders, traps and other things have been prepared, and we Eye of Death are the best at doing these little things." β
I smiled and nodded: "Defeat Paraven, you are the first credit!"
Over there, Wuke had already chopped off the head of a Swadian with an axe and walked to the second one, covered in blood......
An hour and a half later, the sky was completely dark, the night sky above the pasture was extraordinarily open, countless bright stars twinkled in the night, and a faint and dreamy galaxy like smoke stretched across the sky.
It's been a long time since I've seen the Milky Way...... I haven't seen such a beautiful Milky Way since the day I ended my trip to Calradia as a bard and returned to Buyoune.
But tonight's galaxy must not be beautiful for the people of Parabon.
When the first reinforcements of the Paraven palace guards arrived, even from a distance of several hundred meters, I could still see them all standing as stupid as statues, standing around the circle of torches in a daze, and everyone's face showed unbelievable shock and anger, and indescribable humiliation.
I didn't cry with my head in my arms, which was a bit beyond my expectations.
But the next moment, at least ten people fell to their knees and vomited.
In front of them were more than a thousand of their former siblings, stripped of their armor and beheaded, and their bare bodies piled up into a huge temple. Their weapons, thousands of swords, were all densely inserted on top of this huge Jingguan more than ten meters high, and from a distance, it seemed to have a layer of steel hair.
Around that Jingguan, hundreds of flaming torches were planted, and all this was clearly visible.
Wuke rubbed his hands excitedly and whispered, "General, my skills are not bad, right?"
I looked at the bloody guy in disgust and didn't speak.
Subsequent Palauven palace guards arrived one after another, more and more, and finally at least 8,000 people were assembled near this Jingguan.
I heard them roaring and cursing with all their might, to the effect that they were going to seize us and shape us into the same size of the Kyoto, or to catch us and let their gods punish us to hell or something.
"It's so uncreative. I sneered, "Let's get them some ideas later." β
Wuke nodded excitedly.