Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Imperial Flying Horse
Helan Mingxiu and the soldier took the opportunity of the withdrawal of the coalition servant army. Mixed into the camp of the servant army, this time Helan Mingxiu is out of the way, as a nobleman who died in the country, it is actually very difficult for Helan Mingxiu to become an official of the Xia Yuan Empire, he is excluded everywhere, so he has been looking for an opportunity to get out of this situation, when Cheng Xiuyi came back, as a person with a keen political sense, he felt that his opportunity had come, the emperor loved the eldest princess, and hoped that she could help him carry out reforms, and the imperial nobles did not want to change the status quo, so it was inevitable that something would happen between them'Fierce' conflict, as expected, Cheng Xiuyi came back and cooperated with Cheng Mingci to start the reform process, and this reform is bound to hurt the interests of the imperial nobles, but if it is not reformed, the empire will be treated like a vampire by these nobles The blood of the empire Meat's sucking clean, but at present, these reforms have had some effect, if it weren't for the damn grassland beast demon attack, then the empire would definitely be able to have a earth-shaking change in less than twenty years, and Helan Mingxiu has always been the vanguard of reform by Cheng Xiuyi's side, he knows that only by breaking the situation of the original aristocracy controlling the government can he let the original nobles of the dead country and some ordinary people take the throne, and they will have a chance to get rid of this inferior situation, otherwise they will never have a chance, so when the beast demon empire attacks the capitalWhen Cheng Xiuyi decided to have a decisive battle with the opponent outside the capital to provide enough time for the overall retreat of the capital, Helan Mingxiu decided to risk his life to help Cheng Xiuyi, otherwise, things like plotting against the generals of the opposing camp would not have been done in the past, but today he was desperate, when he followed the soldier to infiltrate the barracks of the human servant army, the two quickly found several generals who led the army at the middle and low levels, don't look at the official positions of these generals are not high, but they were originally the directors of the leading troops, but after becoming the beast demon servant army, the beast demon demoted them to deputy positions in order to better control this army, and the main position is completely held by the clansmen of the beast demon clan, and because they are all defeated generals, those orc chiefs naturally look down on them, so the conflict between the chief officer and the deputy is very serious, which causes the dissatisfaction of these officers...... The update is so fast.
However, after all, these people are the original commanders of this army, so their subordinates have a group of die-hard elements, and they are all the chief officers of the team they lead, plus these people turned out to be vested interests, but now they have become the death squad under the beast demon They are naturally dissatisfied in their hearts, but as the saying goes, a good person has no head, no bird, no head, no bird, no head, and now there is a lack of a leader here, everyone is at the same level, why should I listen to you, but when Helan Mingxiu arrived at the right time, this leader finally has, first of all, Helan Mingxiu is a civil official in the capital, and Xia Yuan's warriors have formed a consciousness after more than 2,000 years of domestication, that is, civil officials are educated and knowledgeable, and it is right to 'mix' with them.
And he is also a close minister of the eldest princess, these people have a certain understanding of the eldest princess after these days of siege, and in their impression, the eldest princess is a god. Female' flow, with her own strength to protect the capital for so many days without letting it fall, not a god or a man, you must know that without Cheng Xiuyi's insistence on boosting the morale of the soldiers on the city wall, the capital would have fallen a long time ago, so when these officers heard that Helan Mingxiu was sent by the eldest princess, they naturally accepted Helan Mingxiu, but because of the time constraint and such a dangerous thing, they began to discuss how to complete this mission.
Just when Helan Mingxiu was discussing the matter of surrendering to the officers of the servant army, Cheng Xiuyi had already discussed with Gao Chong and other generals a strategy to 'trap' and kill the opponent's air cavalry troops.
Originally, Cheng Xiuyi planned to serve as the commander of this 'booby-trap' mission, but Gao Chong said that the main battlefield of this campaign was on the ground, and because Cheng Xiuyi's performance had completely won the trust of the soldiers, the commander-in-chief of this campaign must be Cheng Xiuyi, so this 'booby-trap' task was served by Gao Chong, and this veteran was full of vitality under the leadership of Cheng Xiuyi.
When the plan was discussed, Cheng Xiuyi began to order troops and send generals, and the first to set off was the five hundred Pegasus cavalry, who wanted to be used as the air cavalry to 'lure' the bait troops and 'trap' the beast demon.
The air mount used by the Xia Yuan people is a kind of pegasus with huge bat-like 'flesh' wings, this kind of horse is short in size and slender in body, the height of the horse is only less than one meter seven, and the body length is more than two meters and nearly three meters, but their 'flesh' wings are very huge. The flesh's wings are stretched out and advanced into about five meters, but it is not obvious when it is usually put away, but once it is extended, it is very huge, and the flight speed is faster than that of the griffin beast but far behind the eagle, the eagle and the two kinds of air light horses, the flight speed can reach a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, but the flight speed of the griffin beast can only reach a little more than 80 kilometers, but the eagle, the vulture's air light horse can reach a speed of nearly 200 kilometers per hour, if you add the sacrifice and blessing of the beast demon wind system spell, this speed will be faster by a third, so this time' The target of booby-trapping is mainly to focus on the enemy's air cavalry, and if you can, destroy the opponent's air cavalry as well.
Pegasus's endurance is very strong, basically able to fly for five or six hours, which is incomparable to all the air troops of the beast demon, plus the air cavalry is equipped with very 'sophisticated' weapons and equipment, they are equipped with a long sword, a spear more than four meters long, a crossbow in magic, and whether it is a knight or a flying horse, the whole body is covered with monster leather armor, which is difficult to compare with the opponent's air cavalry.
Pegasus can fly at an altitude of 1,200 meters, and griffins can only reach 800 meters, but eagles and vultures can reach about 2,000 meters, and with the blessing of magic, they can even reach more than 3,000 meters.
And this highly formal empire's anti-aircraft repeater is within the optimal 'firing' range, so the task of these Pegasus knights is to lead the enemy's eagles and vultures into traps and use anti-aircraft repeaters to 'shoot' them.
And in order to be able to successfully complete this mission, Cheng Xiuyi also asked all the warlocks in the capital to participate in this mission of 'trapping' and killing the opponent's air cavalry.
Since the siege of Shangjing, Cheng Xiuyi has not let the empire's air troops dispatch in order to preserve her strength, in fact, Cheng Xiuyi does not want the air troops to attack, but whether it is in terms of number or personnel strength and the speed and height of the beast, it cannot be compared with the other party, so Cheng Xiuyi can only use the air defense crossbow to cooperate with the imperial warlocks for air defense, but in this way, many air defense crossbows and some magicians are destroyed by the opponent's air forces using javelins and boulders to 'shoot' and kill.
The Xia Yuan Empire actually had a powerful air force in history, the leader of this army was composed of three Ying Dragons and two giant dragons, and the rest of the Flying Tiger Beasts rode a hundred, and the Dapeng rode a thousand, as for the Pegasus troops, they could only serve as air knights 'squire', that is, alternate knights.
Such a powerful air force can be said to be proud of the whole world, and many major battles of the empire have been completed by just dispatching this air force, but now the three Ying Dragons and the two giant dragons have been cultivated into real Divine Dragons and Soaring, and the remaining Flying Tigers, the Dapeng Beasts have no ability to feed them due to the depletion of the empire's finances, so they can only be released, and they can' the knights who control such a fierce beast in the air, their strength must be at the saint level or the grandmaster level, and now they are either retreating and cultivating in order to break through to become gods, or they are slowly aging in the wear and tear of the years, and now the Pegasus troops, which were originally the knights' 'squires', have become the main force of the imperial air forces, and there are only more than five hundred horsemen left, which is really pitiful.
Looking at the five hundred Pegasus knights, Cheng Xiuyi felt a lot of emotion in her heart, she sorted out her emotions, and said in a sonorous voice: Soldiers of the empire, today you are going to carry out a very dangerous mission, your opponent is very strong, if any of you want to quit, no one will look down on him, because life is precious to each of us, because it is only once, even the lives of those saints, but your mission is related to the survival of the empire and the people, and your mission isIf it succeeds, it will create a very relaxed environment for the evacuation of the people of the Empire, and if it fails, the people of the Empire will be 'shot' by those air demons one by one, and you may be shot down by the other side in this mission, so I hope you can think about it carefully.
Cheng Xiuyi and the more than 500 Pegasus knights in front of Gao Chong looked at each other, then clenched their right hands into fists and released an imperial salute in front of their chests, and then said in unison: Your Royal Highness Princess, for the safety of the empire, we are willing to serve the dead.
After hearing this, Cheng Xiuyi nodded and said: Now you rest, set off tomorrow, use the cover of night to lure the opponent out, and then you introduce the opponent into our ambush circle and 'trap' the opponent in one fell swoop, do you understand?
These knights nodded, and Cheng Xiuyi saw that everyone already understood, so she said to Gao Chong beside her: Gao Zaizhi will leave the rest up to you to talk to them specifically, we will attack the other party half an hour after you set off, I hope that at that time you can join us as soon as possible and launch an attack on the other party.
After arranging these, Cheng Xiuyi led the rest of the generals to the school military field, which covers an area of more than 500 acres in the outer city.
At this time, the school military field was already full of all the soldiers, Cheng Xiuyi looked at these soldiers and waved her hand without saying a word, the soldiers did not speak, everyone sat down and began to rest, this is a terrible silence, every soldier knows what kind of mission they will perform today, no one here makes a sound, they are waiting, waiting for the last moment to come.