The decisive battle originated in the early days of the vassal system, and it was a continuation of the knightly duel. The emergence of the decisive battle marked the beginning of the vassal class to play an important role in the political, economic, and military activities of mankind, and they together with the knights and nobles constituted the ruling class of human society, and held a certain right to speak.

Originally, knightly duels and noble marriages could determine the ownership of the territory, but the vassals did not agree. Even if the knight lord is defeated and dies in a duel, the vassals will use the castle's defense to stubbornly resist the invasion of rival families to protect their property and interests. In the later stages, the vassals continued to implore the Knight Lords to stop holding unnecessary knightly duels, as they were also a force to be reckoned with.

The knight duel is no longer decisive, and the two families of equal strength each have their own castles that are difficult to attack, they attack each other, you come and go, no one can help anyone, but the territory is becoming more and more barren, both sides have suffered huge losses, and finally one party proposed: a fair decisive battle to determine the winner!

As a result, new human kingdoms emerged in decisive battles again and again. This new form of government differed from the old kingdom of the alliance of lords, emphasizing the power of the monarch, and was more centripetal and organized, and was completely an enlarged version of the vassal system.

Since small-scale decisive battles are not enough to show the true strength of the kingdom, wars between kingdoms are no longer decided by decisive battles. At the same time, in order to avoid internal friction and annexation, the king did not recognize any private fighting agreements, and the two sides fought in the decisive battle in vain, and the conflicts of the lords could only be submitted to the House of Nobles for mediation and the Senate for arbitration.

The struggle between the lords turned from light to dark, and the decisive battle also withdrew from the stage of history.

The decisive battle no longer corresponded to the needs of the times, but the credibility, bravery and loyalty it represented were advocated by the lord class. This makes duels and decisive battles constantly beautified, praised, and sacred in human poetry and literature, and form a unique ritual.

First of all, a duel or decisive battle can be launched only if dignity is trampled on, and if the provoking party refuses to accept it, it is considered a coward.

Secondly, the decisive battle is only to wash away the shame, and any agreement is not supported by the law. In practice, as long as there is no territorial annexation involved, other agreements are still valid. Because it is related to the reputation of the lord, if you don't admit it, you will be laughed at by everyone.

Finally, it is not allowed to hurt those who surrender in a decisive battle, and even if a soldier surrenders and is captured, surrender means losing his reputation and courage, and even if he is redeemed, he is no longer a vassal. Therefore, the vast majority of soldiers preferred to die rather than surrender.

In Victor's view, no matter how it is beautified, the decisive battle is a fight, a group beating, and a fight to the death. However, any struggle once it comes to the ruling class, it is a brutal war. As long as it is a war, it must have a purpose!

Barrett, the old mercenary, walked up to Victor's side, bowed down and said, "My lord, it's all arranged. Each of the 20 veterans leads a 9-man combat squad, each consisting of 6 elite soldiers and 3 recruits. They will act according to my orders and drums, strangle the ordinary soldiers of the Buryat family, and Nelson will lead 40 elite soldiers against their knights and trainee knights. Austin and their heavy crossbowmen can only be dealt with by you personally. ”

Victor smiled: "Don't worry, they'll be handed over to me." As he spoke, he asked hesitantly, "Can you remove those recruits and let my elite soldiers take them on top?" After all, they are not well trained, and I am worried about ......."

"My lord, this is the best training!" Barrett interrupted Victor, and added, "What's the use of asking them not to fight? ”

"A soldier who is afraid of fighting is waste, so it is better to go back to farming. ”

Nelson, dressed in black ant-man armor, came to Victor with two hideous adamantite battle axes.

"My lord, don't worry about the safety of the recruits. I'm just afraid that the guy in Austin won't dare come. Nelson's tone was flat, without the nervousness or excitement of the impending big battle.

"They're definitely coming. Victor said confidently.

Judy's mother and son have been found, and Victor has learned of the Buryat family's misfortune. Austen offended the surrounding lords, was disgusted by the queen, and failed to murder the family heir, and he had no way out.

Victor could see that Austin had the idea of defecting to the York family, but what did it matter to him? If Austin was really sincere, he should give up his surname, join the York family completely, and let Judy's mother and son take charge of the Buryat Territory, because the York family does not need a two-faced knight lord, and the Buryat family will become a natural ally of the York family, and Austin himself will get a piece of territory, which is in everyone's interests. However, Austin was stunned and slapped Victor in the face, which was self-defeating.

Is Victor's face so easy to fight? In terms of conventional combat power, no lord can compare to Victor. Getting rid of Austin can not only make an example of chickens and monkeys, but also support Judy's mother and son, thus indirectly controlling the Buryat Territory. Victor has the strength.

"Here they are. "Without looking at the alchemy crow, Victor sensed movement in the woods.

More than two hundred heavily armed soldiers appeared on the predetermined battlefield, and Austin changed into Adamantite armor, armed with a Mithril Decapitation Sword, and walked majestically in front, accompanied by two armored knights. Under their leadership, the Buryat army's momentum was like a rainbow, murderous as frost, as if it had won the victory.

"My lord, I'm going!" Nelson's voice was as calm as ever, except for a hint of bloodthirsty longing in his steel-cone gaze.

The soldiers on both sides were facing each other from a distance, the cold light on the weapons and armor flickered, and the collision of iron and blood was about to be staged. The fierce fighting spirit ignited the blood in Victor's chest, and he took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.

"Go!

The combat effectiveness of the vassal soldiers should not be underestimated. Long-term exercise and abundant meat food have brought their physique to the limit of human beings, and they can carry hundreds of pounds of equipment to attack 40 kilometers and start fierce battles. Vassalage soldiers received professional military training from an early age and were instilled with the notion of courage and loyalty. Their skill in wielding a variety of weapons and crossbows, and their tenacious will to fight makes them unwavering in the face of monsters, and there have been countless cases of 22 soldiers using ballistas to kill ogres with ballistas with the support of priests. It's a pity that they are facing an even more powerful alchemy militia.

Victor was full of confidence, but the tax officials of the royal capital were not optimistic about him.

On a low hill 500 meters away, Tenis and his colleagues were watching. A nobleman's son held the hilt of his raiser and said excitedly: "I really want to fight in person, this is much more interesting than the legion competition!"

"I'm more curious about why they're fighting a decisive battle than an exciting battle?" another noble kid asked his colleague next to him, "What do you think, Larel?"

"No matter what Lord Austin is up to, since he killed the soldiers of the Randall family, and accused Viscount Randall of kidnapping the family heir in front of us, then he must fight!" Larel chuckled and shook his head, and continued: "I just don't understand, why did Viscount Randall propose a decisive battle? He doesn't have any chance of winning...... What do you think, Ezek?"

Ezek was the tax collector's captain of the guard, served in the army, and was also a cadet knight. Tax officials trust his professional vision.

Azek looked at the soldiers on both sides and said slowly: "Lord Austin's personal guard is well-trained, morale-high, and well-equipped, with steel ring chain mail and hard leather inner armor that is enough to withstand the fire of the crossbow. Their 10-man combat team, 1 squad leader is in charge, 5 spearmen are the main attacker, 4 sword and shield men are in close defense, there are no crossbowmen, and only 5 military heavy crossbows are arranged in the rear. Because, their opponents are not afraid of ordinary crossbows at all. ”

"The equipment of the Randall soldiers is generally glowing with blue light, which is characteristic of fine iron. This shows that their strength is far superior to that of Austin's personal guards. ”

"Why?" asked the nobleman, who was wielding a thin sword, curiously.

"Because it's heavy!"

"Refined iron is much harder and heavier than iron. Steel ring chain mail is made of iron mixed with a little fine iron, forged, although the defense is not as good as fine iron chain mail, but the weight is only half of it. A soldier who can carry a fine iron chain armor is definitely the best of the best. ”

"The Centaur Hills lack iron and are rich in fine iron, so it's no wonder they use iron chain mail. The fanged legion of the House of York is indeed worthy of its name, and it is not inferior to the Janissaries of the royal capital. Larrell shook his head.

"Definitely. ”

Ezek nodded and said, "Most of the soldiers of the Randall family are equipped with fine iron chain mail, and only a few use steel ring armor. If I'm not mistaken, the soldiers armed with the iron chainmail are the elite of the Fangs Legion, and the rest are the guards of Viscount Randall. Moreover, the ordinary guards seemed very nervous, while those elites were not afraid, and the gap was very obvious. ”

"You see, Randall's 10-man squad is equipped with 2 archers, 8 halberd shieldmen, and each halberd shield bears 3 throwing spears. At the rear of the military formation, Viscount Randall had 20 yew longbowmen by his side, which was terrible, even armor could not stop the longbow armor-piercing arrows. Truth be told, these soldiers were much more elite than the Imperial Guard. ”

"Once the battle begins, the longbowmen will first shoot the crossbowmen on the opposite side. The Randalls' hard archers are negligible, and unless they can shoot the enemy's face, the feathered arrows will not be able to penetrate the double armor at all. The threat of throwing spears was even greater, and if the Buryat spearmen did not remove their spears in time, they would have to die. Of course, the spear is thrown slowly, so it's easy to dodge or block. ”

"Viscount Randall has no chance of winning. If I were Lord Austin, I would be the first to kill Lord Nelson on the other side, and then rush back and forth a few times, and the soldiers of the Randall family would collapse. Larel shook his head and sighed, "I really don't understand, why did Victor let Lord Nelson die?"

No matter how elite the soldiers are, they can't stop the knights' surprise attacks, this is the consensus. Austin was not only a knight, but he also had 2 knights and 4 apprentice knights, and none of the knights in the Randall family. This is destined to be a devastating battle.

No one was optimistic about Victor, and no one could understand his thoughts.

"I see!" a noble boy stroked his palms and exclaimed, waiting for everyone's eyes to converge before he said triumphantly, "There are no knights under Viscount Randall's command, he just wants Lord Nelson and the elite soldiers of the York family to die in battle, only in this way can Lady Rose arrange family knights for him." ”

"You see that Viscount Randall wears a set of honor guards that are gorgeous and imposing, and I will make one when I go back, and maybe I will be favored by a noble lady. ”

Everyone suddenly realized that although this statement is a bit absurd, it seems to be the only explanation.

Azek said disdainfully: "The hills are vast and boundless, and the York family has territory and titles, how can their knights serve a male pet?

Tenis was silent, he always felt that Victor was not so simple, but he didn't see any turnaround. At this time, the drums of war sounded, and everyone was in high spirits, and the fierce battle began.

As expected, Randall's longbowmen took the lead in launching a volley, the feathered arrows pierced the sky and roared down on the rear of Austin's personal guards, and the five heavy crossbowmen had just shot their crossbow arrows when they were nailed to the ground by the arrows, they were not dead for a while, and they let out a hoarse scream from their mouths, and the other reserve crossbowmen either held shields or cut off feathered arrows with short swords, trying to rescue their companions, but the second round of arrows rained down one after another, and the armor-piercing cone-shaped arrows made of fine iron, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, shot directly through the iron oak shield, "poof" Poof" "Poof", arrows pierced into the body of the pre-crossbowman one after another. After the third round of covering fire, Austin's heavy crossbowmen were wiped out.

"This level of longbowman is terrifying!" muttered the chief of the guard, Ezek, turning his gaze to the battlefield again, and what he saw was a terrible slaughter.

The elite soldiers of the Randall family threw the fine iron spear in a very short time, and the deadly flying spear screamed in the air, and the spearmen of the Austin family fell like a piece of wheat, although they quickly dispersed to dodge, trying to use the spear to block the sharp throwing spear, they still could not avoid the fate of being pierced, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to avoid the flying spear were pierced by the feathered arrow. Randall's archers, running and shooting as they went, killed those who tried to fight back.

On the battlefield, spears and arrows are thrown. After three rounds of spear throwing, everyone except the sword and shield bearer was still standing, and everyone else fell to the ground and wailed loudly. At the beginning of the war, Austin's personal guard was no longer in a state of collapse.

"How so, what about Austin and his knights?" Aizek shouted in a frustrated manner, searching for Austin.

I saw that in the center of the battlefield, the two groups of people were colliding together. On the Randall family's side, dozens of strong soldiers armed with iron long knives rushed forward around Nelson, who was covered in black armor. And the Buryat family, with Austin as the arrow, two knights as the left and right wings, and the trainee knight in the center, like a sharp knife, cut directly into the opponent's battle formation.

A sharp sword light lit up, and five majestic soldiers, even with knives, were split in half, and their stumps and severed arms flew in the rain of blood. On the battlefield, a poignant blood-colored flower suddenly bloomed, and then turned into a cloud of blood mist and spread. In the blood mist, Austin slashed with his sword, a yellow air stream hovering around the Mithril Decapitation Sword, and with each sword he sliced an enemy in half.

The blood mist was thickening, obscuring Ezek's vision, and he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said to himself, "That's it! How could a knight lose!?"

Out of jealousy and contempt, Ezek didn't want Victor to win, but he didn't realize that Austin had just begun to embody the Earth Element.

Embodying the Void Element will make the High Knight indestructible and unstoppable, but the fighting spirit will also quickly dry up. Just as the Golden Knight does not easily channel the Elemental Sea, the Silver Knight only manifests the Void Elemental when it explodes.

Austin had no choice, he found that these elite soldiers were terrifyingly strong, and 5 long knives slashed head-on, and with the strength of the knight, he couldn't catch it at all. Fortunately, the knight's body and mind were one, and as soon as the weapon came into contact, Austin decisively broke out his fighting spirit, and cut off 5 people with a horizontal slash, but the enemy behind did not flinch at all, and pounced one after another, quickly filling the gap in the battle. Each of them was as powerful as a knight, and Austin had to maintain the elemental manifestation and slay his opponents one by one, as the situation on the battlefield became terrible.

Austin didn't have time to think about why there were so many fierce warriors who were not afraid of death, his personal guards had already lost nearly half of them, and the huge force field formed by the Void Earth element not only squeezed the enemy's blood into a mist, but also made his knight a little unable to exert it.

"Let's go, go to the soldiers' aid, and when I've killed them all, I'll join you!"

Austen's greatsword slashed a half-moon-shaped blade that slashed the two soldiers on the left, tearing a gap for his knights. The two knights did not hesitate and went out directly with the trainee knights. Nelson smiled coldly, and with 5 barberry militiamen, he greeted the knights who broke through.

The battle was instantly divided into two parts, Austin was besieged by more than 20 soldiers, and Nelson and the knights of the Buryat family were in a mess.

The tax collectors, who were 500 meters away, could not see the blood-filled battlefield clearly, and they could only see large blood fountains spraying out from time to time.

The noble son with the sword in his hand gloated and said, "What's the use of the soldiers of the Fangs Legion no matter how strong they are? Lord Nelson should be dead, and Austin's sword and shield soldiers are also forming a formation to protect themselves, and it won't be long before the battle is over. Hehe, I really don't know how Viscount Randall is going to face Lady Rose?"

"Those soldiers are really heroic, they haven't collapsed yet, did they use secret medicine?" asked Larel next to him.

"Yes, Viscount Randall is really vicious. Ezek bowed.

"Look! That's the embodiment of the Grand Knight's element, isn't it?! The power is amazing! It seems that Lord Austin is not going to drag it out any longer. A noble kid shouted excitedly.

A circle of yellow air burst out from the center of the blood mist, and everyone could feel the surging power from afar, and the blood mist turned into a rain of blood, shooting out in all directions, and the soldiers besieging Austin were thrown out like broken pockets. The blood mist cleared, and Austin was spotless from top to bottom, holding a giant sword, standing in the middle of the battlefield.

"That's not right......"

Azek whispered as he saw several Randall's soldiers staggering to their feet, past the immobile Austin, and toward another battlefield.

Austin stood there in disbelief as the crowd watched, unresponsive, and then fell to the ground with his head up, motionless, as if dead.

"What's going on?"

"Look at Victor!"

A nobleman pointed to the rear of the battlefield, and Victor was gracefully taking a heavy crossbow, and a dark blue streamer shot out, cutting a distance of 30 meters, pointing directly at a knight in battle. In the next moment, the knight was struck by lightning and slowly fell to the ground.

One of the remaining knights let out an earth-shattering roar and slashed at Nelson with his sword. Nelson roared as well, and the adamantite tomahawk slashed straight at his opponent. Fireworks flew and Nelson was slashed by the heavy sword, while his adamantite battle axe was embedded deep in the knight's head. The soldiers swarmed up and knocked the remaining midshipmen to the ground.

The tax collectors turned a blind eye to this, and their eyes were only the blue light that hung in the void. As the blue light faded away, a ripple appeared in the air visible to the naked eye.

"Wind Knight......" Larel whispered in disbelief.

Tenis stepped forward and stared at Victor in silver armor.

"No! Victor is a popular shooter! like the Sword Saint Ravin ......"