Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Battle of Valor
"Stampede! Stampede!" Thousands of horses were running on the edge of the Cassano Plains, Cassano's overlord Ryan was also among them, and beside him was Roger, the commander of this popular archer.
If it weren't for the news that everything was normal from the Iron Fist Castle from time to time, Ryan even had some doubts about whether the other party had made a detour to sneak attack his rear, and now Ryan had searched all the places in Cassano that could hide, and the only thing that could continue to search was the junction of the Cassano Plains and the Vallo Mountains, where there were dense woods everywhere, and the towering trees almost blocked the view, if Senate was hiding in it, it was indeed not so easy to find.
Now Roger was leading a large group of Swift Marksmen to patrol slowly south along the edge of the Vallo Mountains, and thousands of horses were slowly moving forward in the most energy-efficient way, looking a little like a long snake from a distance. Now that Adela has led the follow-up troops to press over, Ryan and Allendo will naturally sit in the middle army, while Roger and them will focus on the main force station, and search for Sennat's traces in detail within a radius of 20 kilometers.
Roger remembered Ryan's order before he left, and then looked at the dense woods 300 meters away on his left, and couldn't help but shake his head secretly, if it was in the Taron Prairie, this area of more than 20 kilometers could be seen clearly as long as he climbed high, how could it be so troublesome now, this is already the edge of the Valo Mountains, and there are too many dense woods, although Roger has 2,000 popular shooters, but he has to get off his horse and enter these woods to find little by little, I am afraid that he may not be able to complete the search for this piece of land if he is given another ten days。
Just thinking about how to complete the task assigned by Ryan with quality and quantity, one of Roger's guards suddenly spoke boldly: "Head, the brothers have been running for most of the day, I remember that there is a stream a few kilometers to the left in front of me, and it is already noon, do you see if it is ......"
Roger immediately had a displeased expression on his face, but after looking at his subordinates behind him, Roger still sighed softly, although they patrolled in the most horsepower-saving way, but after all, they had also run for a whole morning, and it must be false to say that they were not tired, so it was better to rest first, so that even if they found something, they would have enough physical strength to fight.
Thinking of this, Roger nodded, and several of his guards immediately carried the order on horseback, and the wind archers who were already feeling a little tired were all in good spirits when they heard the news, but they still remembered their discipline, and none of them made a noise, and thousands of horses galloped, and only the sound of horses' hooves could be heard.
After ten minutes, Roger only felt that his vision suddenly widened, and the woods on his left that had blocked his vision were suddenly thrown behind, and he looked at the green grass all around, quite a bit of a feeling of running on the Taron savannah. However, this sudden mood disappeared immediately, because a team of more than a thousand people appeared in Roger's sight, because the large forest had blocked the view, and the two sides did not notice each other in advance, and the two sides suddenly met at this bend in the corner.
Roger only glanced at it, and found a familiar face from the horse team less than 200 meters on the opposite side, when he followed Ryan to participate in the Battle of Mirror Lake, he had been tracking behind this person for seven days, but unfortunately in the end he could only give up after facing a large group of hungry wolves, but the appearance of this person was firmly remembered in Roger's heart, and he almost subconsciously shouted: "Enemy attack!"
It was Kairim who appeared opposite Roger, of course, he would not forget that he was chased by Roger very embarrassed, if it weren't for the large group of hungry wolves, maybe he Kairim would have become a goshawk with broken wings, that is, at the same time as Roger raised the alarm, Kairim also shouted: "Enemy attack!"
On one side is the White Frost Legion, the most elite unit of the Clay tribe that has been famous for hundreds of years on the continent, and on the other side is the Celestial Archer Legion, the emerging elite unit of Cassano, the reaction of the soldiers on both sides is extremely fast, everyone drew their longbows almost at the same time, and shot ruthless arrows at the enemy on the opposite side, and this sudden encounter also kicked off the prelude to the Battle of Vallo.
"Boom, boom!" Arrows rained down for a while, and there were only less than 200 meters between the White Frost Legion and the Wind Archer, and the range of the longbow in their hands exceeded 500 meters, so close distance, the two sides were marching in columns, it was impossible to be too scattered, it could be said that as long as they were roughly aligned in the direction, they would almost not miss, so in the blink of an eye, the deadly rain composed of arrows fell towards the top of each other's heads almost in the blink of an eye.
"Ah!" The screams immediately rang out one after another, the White Frost Legion of the Clay Clan has been famous on the continent for hundreds of years, their formation is looser than that of the popular archers, and the archery skills are also more exquisite, so there are a lot more arrows that hit the opponent, but it is a pity that this burst of random shooting, it is the White Frost Legion that has suffered heavy casualties, because each of their opponents is wearing strong Mithril chain mail.
With these sturdy defenses, as long as they are not particularly unlucky, being shot by an arrow in the part that is not covered by the Mithril chain mail is at most a burst of pain, which does not affect the Windrun Marksmen to continue to shoot deadly arrows, on the contrary, every time they shoot, there will be a certain attrition on the opposite side, which also greatly reduces their own pressure, so after a full minute of chaos, the Windrun Marksman actually hit the opposite Clay clan at the cost of losing less than a hundred people.
Seeing his comrades-in-arms around him fall one by one under the arrows fired from the opposite side, and even if the arrows shot by his own side directly hit the enemy on the opposite side, they could not penetrate the silver-white armor at all, Kairim sighed in his heart, knowing that what Chief Abdul said was true, his own people were on the verge of elimination in this competition for survival, he immediately made a decision, loudly gave the order to retreat, and then pulled the bowstring, looked at the gap in the armor on the windrun shooter, and shot the three windrun shooters on the opposite side with three arrows in a row.
Relying on Kairim's marksmanship to make the morale of the Celestial Archer stagnant, the survivors of the White Frost Legion of the Clay tribe immediately galloped backwards, at this time their riding skills on horseback since they were children showed their effects, thousands of people did not collide and crowded, after three rounds of arrows against the wind archer, the Clay people actually ran hundreds of meters away, at this time, even if the Pioneer Archer continued to shoot, due to factors such as distance and horse speed, it was difficult to cause a large number of casualties to the Clay people.
Roger calmly watched as Kairim pressed the rear of the entire Clay retreat and slowly retreated, he did not give the order to pursue, because a very famous tactic of the Clay light cavalry was to shoot while running, feigning defeat to attract the enemy to pursue, and then sneak attack with a rain of arrows, and then retreat to attract the enemy to pursue, he didn't want to take risks.
In a few minutes, the Windrun Shooters counted the results of this encounter, the Windrun Shooters killed 127 people on the spot, 69 were seriously wounded, and the battle attrition was nearly 10%, while the opposite Clay White Frost Legion killed more than 700 people, and more than 400 people were seriously injured and fell, almost a third of the direct attrition.
After hearing this result, Roger and all the surviving popular shooters were very grateful to Ryan, if it weren't for the lord's generosity, how could they be equipped with Mithril armor, and they didn't have such good armor, in the round of melee just now, it is estimated that the 2,000 people below Roger would be wiped out. Not to mention, Roger was also shot three times in a row by the Kairim just now, but was blocked by the solid Mithril armor, and now the place where Ryan was shot is still faintly painful, and the opponent who almost shot him three times ran for his life, which is all due to the special armor made by Ryan on his body.
"Whoosh!" a fireball flew into the sky with a sharp sound, and when it flew to the highest point, there was a sudden explosion, the sound of the explosion and the billowing black smoke were enough for friendly troops within 20 kilometers to see clearly, and it was believed that the follow-up main force would soon come over.
After the signal was released, Roger left a squad of 50 people to take care of the wounded, and then he slowly chased after the rest of the Windwalkers in the direction of Kairim's retreat. Roger was not very fast in pursuit of the other party's trap for fear of stepping into the trap, and he also deliberately let several teams out far away, so that even if something happened to him, he could be left with enough time to react.
The weather was very good, and the traces of thousands of people galloping on horseback were easily recognizable, so Roger was not worried about losing the enemy. After traveling for several kilometers, there was a sudden roar from the side sky, and Roger looked at it, but it was Cassano's unique magic signal, and from that subtle point, Roger knew that this signal was sent from Letoz's side.
"Quick, quick, Leitoz and they have blocked the direction of the Clay people fleeing north, and we are just in time to catch up with them and flank the enemy. Roger gave the order loudly, and the wind archers behind him let out cheers, everyone urged the horses, and after a while, they followed the traces left by the Clay tribe to an extremely spacious area, the Clay light cavalry that had just escaped was not far ahead, and at this time Letoz led his troops to appear in the north, although there were still several kilometers away, but the momentum of the two-sided attack had been formed.
Now the north of Kairim is the Letoz department, the south is the Roger department, and the west is the direction where Cassano's main force is located, and the only direction he can escape from is the Walo Mountains in the east, but once the light cavalry like the Clay tribe enters the mountains and forests, it basically loses the threat, and when it comes to combat effectiveness in the mountains, these Clay people who have lived on horseback since childhood may not be stronger than the ordinary army of Cassano, and the Clay light cavalry, which has been famous on the continent for hundreds of years, has been forced to such a desperate situation.