Chapter 39: The Decline of the Imperial Air Horse
Time passed minute by minute, and many people spent time in this tense atmosphere, but fortunately, because Cheng Xiuyi first reformed the army in the reform, and the military directors at the grassroots level were basically some veterans who had participated in the war, so those recruits slowly rested under the comfort and leadership of these veterans. , the latest chapter access:.
However, the soldiers rested, but Cheng Xiuyi and those generals couldn't rest, they looked at the map and deduced this sneak attack over and over again, they repeatedly deduced whether there was anything missing, and deduced various situations, once there was anything other than how to deal with it, these all need Cheng Xiuyi and them to deduce.
Originally, Cheng Mingci also planned to participate in this sneak attack, but both Cheng Xiuyi and the ministers of civil and military affairs were opposed, although Cheng Mingci's strength could reach the level of a swordsman when he was young, but it was more than 20 years ago, and now he has served as the emperor for more than 20 years, plus how much strength can be left in every day when he is entangled in government affairs? Whether it is magic or martial arts, these two things are good to sail against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat, Cheng Mingci has neglected cultivation for so many years, The strength has long been degraded, so the ministers of civil and military affairs do not agree, and they will not return it in the process. Quite 'strong, I have to participate in this battle, but Cheng Xiuyi persuaded Cheng Mingci in one sentence, she said to Cheng Mingci: Father, our battle this time is about the fate of us and the beast demon clan, if we win, we will win the time to retreat to the south, we will have the opportunity to make a comeback, but if we fail, then we will be surrounded by the other party in Shangjing, and the other party will be able to unify the entire north, and attack the south with the financial and material resources of the north in order to achieve the goal of unifying the entire Zhongzhou continent, so the father and emperor we cannot afford to lose this time, if you appear on the battlefield, then the soldiers need to protect youIf you make a mistake, it will hurt our morale, so you must not participate in this operation with us.
Cheng Xiuyi's words finally dissuaded Cheng Mingci, in fact, others will say this, but others dare not say so, but Cheng Xiuyi has no such scruples, and Cheng Mingci always feels indebted to this child, so he is also willing to follow the advice of this 'girl', and one thing is that Cheng Xiuyi's performance for so many days is very good, and he is also relieved to 'hand' over such a major matter to Cheng Xiuyi to execute.
The time soon came to the early hours of the morning, the Pegasus troops took the lead, the knights circled in the air and then went straight to the opponent's camp, the noble eyes at the front of the team looked closely ahead, the troops flew out of about three or four miles when they found the beast demon camp, just when they were about to approach, they heard a terrible wolf howl in the camp to wake up the originally quiet camp, at this time the beast demon camp flew out of a few black dots and the speed was extremely fast, these black spots flew to the entire Pegasus force obliquely above about forty-five degrees between a few breaths, Gao Chong fixed his eyes to see that it was the other party's eagle, the vulture air light horse, These air light cavalry black pressure is about twenty or thirty thousand, and there is a group of even more huge black spots below them, this is the other party's griffin air heavy cavalry, their number is about ten thousand, this is the beast demon brought all the air cavalry troops, originally this time the beast demon dispatched a total of 200,000 light and heavy air cavalry, but as the battle progressed, some were sacrificed, plus in order to facilitate communication and suppress those local armed forces that resisted, some more than twenty or thirty thousand and four or five thousand were left in each large town, so this time there were more than 50,000 air power, In addition, the generals of the beast demon all thought that the Xia Yuan Empire did not have air power at all, so they did not bring too much air power, and after so many days of siege warfare, they did not find that the Xia Yuan Empire had any air power, so they did not increase their troops, but even if these more than 50,000 horses were to face the enemy head-on, the five hundred horses on the Xia Yuan side would not be enough for the other party to plug their teeth.
In fact, when Cheng Xiuyi and they were planning to sneak attack the coalition army, Namur Duo was really thinking about when the opponent would attack and how to fight with him, so when the five hundred Pegasus cavalry approached the coalition camp, the green wolf scouts sent by the beast demon had already discovered the opponent, so they hurriedly sent a signal in the direction of the big camp, and these days Namur really issued an order to the commanders of the various armies, that is, to stay awake when resting, and the air cavalry is a rapid reaction force, so they picked up their weapons and boarded their mounts after receiving the information, and when they found out that the opponent only had five hundred horses, there was a kind of foolishness'Get' feeling, so the commander of this team divided three thousand light horsemen and went straight to the opponent, Gao Chong saw that the other side rushed towards him, he waved the halberd in his hand, these air knights in the air turned a corner and flew into the distance, but they began to adjust the formation in the process of flying, they formed a group of three to form a character, five hundred horses in the air formed a huge phalanx, because the speed of the eagle vulture light horse was very fast, in the blink of an eye, it flew to a place two hundred meters away from them, so the three thousand light horsemen began to split half and flew forward, intending to intercept the Pegasus troops, and the rest of the ground began to climb high with one thousand five hundred horses, planning to fly to the top of the opponent's head and use the javelin in his hand to 'shoot' the opponent to death.
The combat effectiveness of the air cavalry mainly depends on the ability of the riding beast, because in the past, such as the Pegasus Force and the eagle, the two light horses of the vulture were not the main battle mounts in the Xia Yuan Empire or on the side of the beast demon, at that time, the main combat force of the air of Xia Yuan was Ying Long and the giant dragon of the west, and the main combat force of the beast demon was also a monster called Qiqi similar to a tiger with a pair of huge wings, and the power of these three flying monsters can reach the strength of the peak of the holy level, so in the air of the border, you can often see the majestic posture of these main riding beasts fighting in the air, and the knights who can partner with these powerful flying monsters are basically the powerhouses of the peak of the holy level, It was an era of heroes, but as time went by, the three Ying Dragons enshrined in the Xia Yuan Empire took the lead in turning into human form and retreating, and their partner knights also retreated to find a way to master the power of the law, and later the two Western dragons also retreated, and the Xia Yuan air force, which originally occupied the overwhelming 'sexual' power, only had some flying tiger beasts to fill it up First of all, in terms of size, the size of the Flying Tiger Beast is similar to that of an ordinary tiger, but it has a pair of huge 'meat' wings, but a poor beast can break thirty Flying Tiger Beasts, and the poor beast' on the body' Mao's hair is like a hedgehog, whether it is a physical attack or a magic attack, there is nothing to do with it, but the good times do not last long, the twenty poor strange monsters of the Beast Demon Alliance are also nowhere to be found after the Xia Yuan Empire's dragoon will retreat, at this time the Xia Yuan Empire's Flying Tiger Beast began to control the sky, but fortunately, the Griffin Beast of the Grassland Alliance can compete with it, and the number of Griffin Beasts is very large, the combat effectiveness of the Flying Tiger Beast is stronger than the Griffin Beast, but the number is not enough, so the two sides can also be said to be evenly matched, but the good times are not long, due to Xia Yuan's financial difficulties, the Flying Tiger Beast's appetite is amazing, and the Xia Yuan Empire does not produce Flying Tiger Beasts, those flying tiger beasts are produced in the 100,000 mountains, they are all provided by the 'spirit' spirit empire, so in the case of the Xia Yuan Empire's financial difficulties, it can no longer pay for the purchase of flying tiger beasts, so after the rest of the old age, the Xia Yuan Empire's air force is left with Pegasus, the original alternate air horse, to support it. The door is faced, but in terms of individual ability, Pegasus is difficult to compete with griffins, so Xia Yuan people make up their minds on equipment, although Xia Yuan's financial difficulties, but that is relatively speaking, so Xia Yuan people are equipped with powerful monster leather armor and magic crossbows for Pegasus, the magic crossbows used by the Pegasus troops are different from the magic crossbows used by the ground troops, and the crossbow attack methods of the ground troops mainly rely on manpower, and the crossbows used by the Pegasus troops use the power of the wind element generated when the Pegasus flies. The crossbows were fired to attack the opponent, so the crossbows of the Pegasus troops had a longer range and faster speed, and the number of crossbows equipped was also larger, and the number of Pegasus troops at that time was quite large, probably tens of thousands.
The production of griffons of the beast demon is limited, and because the griffin itself does not have any protective equipment, the main means of attack are only the javelin used by the knight and the scimitar in his hand, so in this case, the beast demon began to use the eagle as a scout and a credit send, and the vulture training became the main air combat class.
However, with the increasingly serious atmosphere of the Xia Yuan Empire's emphasis on literature and light on military force, this wind 'tide' naturally swept away the air cavalry troops of the original air pride, so the number of Pegasus troops decreased day by day, and finally these five hundred horses remained, and at the same time, the number of air cavalry troops of the Beast Demon Empire was increasing day by day, and why the beast demon was able to occupy so much territory of the Xia Yuan Empire so quickly was not unrelated to the strength of his air power.
Gao Chong thought of the decay of the Imperial Air Cavalry Force, and his heart was a burst of resentment, Gao Chong was an excellent Flying Tiger Knight when he was young, and later the Flying Tiger Force was abolished by the Empire, so he changed to a Pegasus Knight, and later the number of Pegasus troops was also constantly decreasing, but at that time, he was not able to speak lightly, and then he became a senior general of the Empire, and then he worked all the way to the left of the Empire, and when he was in charge of the Empire, he made up his mind to rebuild the Empire's Air Cavalry Force, but unfortunately when he decided to do so, the damned beast demon actually began to attack the Empire。
So when Cheng Xiuyi decided to send an air force to 'trap' the opponent's air cavalry, Gao Chong volunteered to be the commander of this 'trapping' force, and Gao Chong was also the supreme commander of this team, so he was very familiar with this team, and the application of various tactics was also handy, and now he didn't feel panicked at all in the face of the opponent's pursuit, Gao Chong wanted to let these beast demon barbarians know the power of the empire's air cavalry.