The next morning, at the end of the windy season, the weak sunlight shone through the thin clouds and dried the dew. The centaur camp was boiling, and countless centaur warriors dismantled the hides in the face of the howling northeast wind. They help each other by carefully tying the hides and tying them firmly to their backs with tendons and twine.

In two months, the annual rain and snow season begins, and the adult centaurs are strong and brave, but the cubs and pregnant mares need tents to keep them warm and survive the harsh winter. Moreover, the tent is iconic for the centaur.

The contents of the tent belonged to the Centaur warriors, and the land and goblins within two spear-throwing distances around the tent belonged to the tent owner. The number of tents owned by centaur warriors represents wealth, strength, and status. The more tents, the more mates, and a young and beautiful mare without a tent centaur male will never let it ride on his body.

The centaur has just become an adult, and the parents have to prepare a tent for it. Therefore, the centaur warriors always felt that the tents were not enough.

This time, the centaurs of the Sidon Khanate poured out their nests and raided for thousands of miles, without tents at all. Their tents are trophies taken from the human kingdom. Pregnant females evacuate the front line, taking with them goblin slaves and a large group of tents. Now, the centaur warriors are ready to break out and go home, and the rest of the things can be lost, and the animal skin tent must be taken with them.

The centaurs cleaned up their tents, and the human army reacted immediately. Long or short trumpets representing various military orders reverberated over the human barracks, groups of chainmail-clad warriors followed the captain with tortoiseshell shields and scimitars to their respective positions; ballista carts were pushed forward by gunners, and their crossbow arrows were pointed directly at the centaur camp; shirtless soldiers struggled to tighten the poles of catapults, put cow dung bombs poured with fire oil in their bomb pockets, and were ready to throw incendiary bombs at the centaur charge.

"Don't panic, listen to my instructions in a moment, set up the tortoiseshell formation, support the back of your companion, and hold on to the shield and the scimitar. ”

"If the centaurs dare to approach, the knife will cut their belly, and a few centaur corpses will fall on the tortoiseshell array, and they will have no choice but to take me!"

"Centaurs are not good at melee combat, so when the time comes, we will push away the horse carcass and just jump out and slash and kill!"

"Before rushing out of the tortoiseshell formation, remember to drink the boiling blood potion...... It has jaggery added to it, it tastes good, and it's enjoyable to keep!"

"If you feel like you're floating up in the sky, don't be afraid...... Haha, congratulations, you have gone to the kingdom of God. ”

"The Supreme Lord bless us, in the name of the Emperor, fight for the family!"

"For the sake of the relatives who died, for the sacrificed companions, for the glory of the warriors...... Today, we want the blood of the four-legged monster!"

The veterans loudly encouraged the fighting spirit of their comrades, and the faces of the recruits, who were still too young, became resolute and fierce, and the whole front was filled with a daunting momentum.

Since the invasion of the centaur army, the Sassan Empire and the entire human kingdom have suffered disasters. The Eastern Frontier Territory was almost falling, the property damage was incalculable, the production activities of hundreds of families were completely suspended, and hundreds of thousands of human casualties were killed. Although the vast majority of the victims were tenants, the tenants were dependent on the lord, who in turn relied on family vassals to manage the tenants. These vassals were the first to die and die in battle, and their fathers, brothers, sons, and nephews in the army all held back a sense of grief and indignation.

So far, the human alliance has eliminated the entrenched orcs in the Eastern Pioneer Territory, but there are still hundreds of thousands of orcs who have been reduced to pieces, taking advantage of the chaos to infiltrate the eastern defense line of the Sasang Empire, and wreak havoc in the hinterland of the empire. The lords of the Sassan Empire did not choose to recall the elite of their families and eliminate the scattered goblins and gnolls, but fully cooperated with the Knights of Radiance and fought to deal with the centaur army first.

The centaurs are the ones to blame for the disaster, and they haven't paid the price of blood yet!

"Blood debt and blood payment!"

The soldiers were ready and murderous.

Porta, the new Grand Khan of the Centaur, and his spouse, the Earth Mother Sacrifice Alita, are body to body, horns against horns, and tails are also affectionately entangled. They walked calmly among a large group of ferocious centaurs, with no sense of urgency as a great battle was approaching.

"My beloved steed, the Great Khan of the Centaurs, beware of the strongest of the human race. I could feel their boiling and icy desire to kill. Alita hissed softly by her spouse's horns.

"Don't worry, my beloved Alita. I am the horse of the earth, and I will not step on the hoof prints of Orogar. My hooves and iron rods will shatter all obstacles and lead the centaurs to gallop freely across the land. Polta responded forcefully to his spouse's concerns and said softly, "Protect our foals." ”

"I will, Great Khan. ”

The stallion touched Polta by the horns, paced away from him, looked back at the centaur warrior with the tent on his back, and whispered worriedly, "Let them leave their tents like us." ”

Polta chirped with a laugh, "How can the Great Khan let the centaurs leave their precious tents behind?, and these tents of animal skins can protect the centaurs from sharp arrows, and they can also shoot those arrows back to the two-legged humans, so that they can learn the centaurs' bow skills." ”

Alita thought for a while, and felt that Porta had a point, so she stopped insisting on her opinion, and turned to the other centaur khans and shouted: "Break out of the encirclement of the humans, take your tribe to follow the hoof prints of the Great Khan, do not scatter your actions, do not leave the cluster, otherwise you will be chased by the humans and killed by them one by one." We only had to run for five days in a row to find enough food. Then, we will hunt down the human cavalry in the wilderness, bringing their corpses and horses back to the tribe for the winter. This is a revelation from Mother Earth to me, I can't forget it, I can't refuse it, the centaur who violates the revelation will be buried in the ground, and his spouse and foal will go into the tents of other centaurs!"

The Blackhorn Khan walked out of the group and said in a deep voice, "Alita Quegolow, the centaur follows the revelation of the Earth Mother and follows the hoof prints of the Great Khan. ”

The centaur commanders also lowered their left forelimbs in submission.

In high spirits, Porta picked up two heavy iron rods from behind his back, hissed, and shouted, "Follow me, step on the ridiculous traps and obstacles laid by the humans." ”

Thousands of ferocious centaur warriors followed behind the Great Khan, smiling strangely and rushing out of the camp, dust and smoke billowing and hooves thundering, converging into a torrent like a giant python pounced on the southeast corner of the human position.

The human coalition was set up on the eastern front, 7 kilometers away from the centaur camp, and the vanguard composed of all fierce centaurs rushed with all their might, which was simply instantaneous. They are as tall as heavy horses, and their galloping momentum is breathtaking.

The soldiers defending the southeast corner of the line, which had been left for the centaurs to be the diversion channel, were the weakest, and the soldiers guarding here gritted their teeth, jumped into the pre-dug hole, set up the tortoiseshell array, and raised their scimitars, ready to withstand the powerful onslaught of the centaur vanguard.

However, the centaurs did not rush towards the soldiers' tortoiseshell knife formation, they trampled back and forth in the trap area. The pit was flattened, the sharp pegs were trampled into the dirt, the rammed wall was trampled so that the dirt filled the trap behind it, the horse was smashed and pieces of wood flew everywhere, the pointed wooden spear stuck in the ground cracked and broke without incident, and the trap thought to hold back the centaur swarm could not even slow down the ferocious centaur charge.

Duke Baselius stood on a high spot, watching the centaurs rampaging through the trap area, their faces sinking like water. Standing beside him, the Golden Knight, the Marquis of Montstock, spoke:

"Your Majesty, it is not possible to go on like this. These ferocious centaurs wanted to expand the escape route in the southeast corner, allowing all subsequent centaur packs to pass through the southeast corner. We must take measures, otherwise the centaurs can go around behind the line of defense and counter-encircle us. ”

In order to severely damage the living force of the centaurs, the commander of the human coalition army made a lot of preparations, mobilized huge manpower and material resources, set up a camp step by step, and finally surrounded the main force of the Sidon centaurs.

However, with the Golden Knight and the High Clergy racking their brains, a bitter head-on battle was inevitable. Centaurs are unrivaled in the field, but what they do best is athletic warfare. Therefore, it is better for the human coalition to choose to fight a tough positional battle with the centaurs than to fight a sports war with no chance of winning.

Even so, neither the current high-ranking clergy nor the Golden Knight had actual combat experience in large-scale positional warfare with centaurs. Fortunately, the history of mankind has a long history, and scholars are well aware of the habits of centaurs, coupled with the war sand table made by His Highness Randall. The Reverend of Kent and Emperor Frederick gathered the most experienced knights and monster scholars, and after repeated deductions, developed a set of tactical tactics.

Duke Baselius led 120,000 elite troops to hold the eastern flank as bait, while Emperor Frederick and the priest of Kent led the main army to attack from the western flank of the centaurs. When the Centaur army stormed Barcelius' tortoiseshell formation, it was the moment when the Knights of Radiance and the Templars attacked in full force.

His Highnesses of the Human Realm knew very well in their hearts that the 400,000-strong army encircled and suppressed the 150,000 centaur warriors, even if they could win, it would be a tragic victory. These elite warriors are the family of various lords, and if more than half of them are lost, the Sassan Empire and the Duoduo Kingdom will definitely be greatly damaged, and victory is equivalent to defeat.

In order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, the Kent priest deliberately left an escape route for the centaurs, and tried to destroy 60,000 centaur warriors with an army of 400,000. The centaurs who managed to break out of the siege were not a big problem, they returned to their respective clan lairs and could be broken by the elite cavalry of the Eastern Pioneer Territory and the Boulder Fortress Theater one by one.

This is the bullying of the centaurs for lack of food, excessive loss of male members and armaments, and a great reduction in the combat power of the mares due to pregnancy...... On top of that, the centaurs did not have a Great Khan, lacked cohesion and organization, and immediately turned into a plate of scattered sand as soon as they returned to the hinterland of the Sidon Khanate.

These strategic deployments, in which the Duke of Barcelius personally participated in the discussion, were also approved by him.

However, no one expected that the centaurs would actually concentrate the fierce and strong men of the tribe in an attempt to expand the passage in the southeast corner of the battle line.

Duke Baselius pursed his lips, his expression looked solemn, and after a while, he said calmly: "Monstock, do you want to open the escape passage in the northeast corner now and divert the centaur cluster......?

"Sharpshooter, shoot rockets and ignite the horses. 10 ballistas from the southeast corner are free to fire at the centaur vanguard!"

The order was conveyed to the front, and a platoon of longbowmen stepped forward, lit the tarpaulin of the arrows with braziers, aimed at the intact horses a few hundred meters away, and fired rockets.

Those horses were wrapped in hay and soaked in fire oil beforehand, and when they were hit by rockets, they immediately burned, and orange tongues of fire flew out for several meters, and the heat wave accompanied by thick smoke temporarily obscured their vision.

The ballistamen took the opportunity to arrive and shot through the smoke a fine iron bolt the thickness of an egg. Thousands of ferocious centaurs rushed back and forth, and as long as they were in the right direction, they could shoot a few with their eyes closed.

Sure enough, there were a few neighing centaurs from behind the smoke, but before the ballista could wind up again, a well-built centaur warrior smashed through the flame-burning rejection. It held a burning broken wood in its hand, like a demon god stepping on flames. I saw it raise its hand and wave an afterimage, and the two rejection horses shattered the two ballistae with flames, and the powerful impact caused heavy casualties to the surrounding ballistaemen. Immediately afterwards, more than thirty centaurs broke through the flames and repelled the horses, destroying the rest of the ballistas with broken logs from a distance of several hundred meters.

Duke Baselius met the centaur with horns like yellow glazed rock, and watched as it retreated to the rear and continued to destroy the trap fortifications.

"That's the centaur god...... If it's not legendary, it's not much worse. Duke Barcelius couldn't help frowning.

Yesterday, Barcelius felt that the Centaur Camp had strong Earth Elemental Fluctuations, and although it was not for a long time, it had reached the Legendary level. This worries and puzzles him, the terrifying thing about the legendary centaur is not only the strength of the individual, but also the cohesion of the legendary strong to the race. If a legendary centaur appears at this time and can suppress different voices, then the human alliance will face a centaur army and break the strategic goal one by one, which may be difficult to achieve.

However, Barcelius was skeptical that a second centaur would appear so soon. The Centaur Divine Favor did not exhibit the distinguishing features of the Earth Armor, which made him secretly relieved.

In fact, Porta and Alita were afraid of the human powerhouses who killed Orogal, and deliberately hid their legendary talents to cause the Golden Knight to misunderstand.

The most important thing is that the Golden Paladin and the two legendary priests of the Radiant Knights are mainly concentrated on the western front, while the centaur captains lead thousands of ferocious centaurs to dominate the eastern side.

"It's all the fault of the Great Prophecy......

Duke Barcelius shook his head, as the successor of the Iron Mountain Empire, he knew some of the drawbacks of the Great Prophecy. It's just that now the arrow is on the line, it has to be sent, and it is too late to change the tactical goal. In short, it is definitely the right idea to kill ordinary centaur warriors as much as possible.

"The strong centaurs are concentrated in the southeast corner, and if they want to expand the escape route, then the western front will be empty. Barcelius pointed to the centaur vanguard and said to the golden knights on the left and right: "Frederick and the priest of Kent will not miss this opportunity, and when their whole army presses down and attacks the rear of the centaur army, we will immediately open the passage in the northeast corner, and use trebuchets to throw incendiary bombs to narrow the passage in the southeast corner, forcing the centaurs to divert in two different directions." ”

"Once the centaurs run, the army will hold them hostage, and the legendary centaurs will have to run with them...... Let these ferocious fools leak out first, and the army of backward centaurs will be slashed with us. ”

As he was speaking, a white-gold dazzling pillar of light lit up on the west side of the centaur camp, brilliant and fierce, sacred and solemn, soaring into the air at a height of hundreds of meters, turning into a white-gold canopy hanging down, covering hundreds of square meters.

"Heroic canopy!"

The Golden Knights of Gripen looked at each other and smiled, knowing that Patriarch Friedes had personally intervened.

Heroism is the prelude to the battle.