The history of human domestication of wild animals as domestic animals has been at least 10,000 years old, according to archaeologists in Padrosi and Laman. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info These various livestock play a very important role in our daily lives, from the cattle and mules used by farmers on the West Coast to cultivate the land, to the long-haired cats carried by aristocratic women on the East Coast, it is not an exaggeration to say that people's lives today are inseparable from them.

And among these many domesticated creatures, if there is one that is closely related to war, it is probably horses.

From horse-drawn chariots in classical times to light and heavy cavalry today, horses have become the preferred vehicle for mankind with their gentle temperament and robust physique - although large empires such as Otolo have now tamed even the proud wurm as a vehicle, the three great powers of the West of Rigal have only two dozen wyverns in its own country.

There is nothing wrong with their decisive combat power, but their carnivorous nature and large size doomed domestication to a great price from the start.

The dragon trainers of the Ottolo Empire were all made up of slaves, and it is said that the vast majority of them would rather go to a dark pit or paddle on a warship than to go there, and choose to commit suicide as soon as they are forced to go, lest they be tormented by these big creatures who like to play with their prey like cats.

It is so difficult to keep wurms that are mammals, and it is easy to get close to people since childhood, and it is even more impossible to try to tame hybrid dragon creatures or even cold-blooded dragon lizards. Many nomadic peoples bordering their ranges have a history of trying to tame more powerful creatures, but their large size is difficult to breed, and their habits are too ferocious and difficult to domesticate, all of which have led to the fact that horses are still the most common means of warfare and transportation in the world of Rigal today.

Ordinary humans can only run at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour, and considering the extra weight of the supplies and equipment carried by the soldiers, and counting the rest time, it is already efficient to be able to walk this distance for a day.

The Avenella and Sivalier horses belong to the same family of wild horses in the southern plains of Otolo opposite the Tambul Mountains, and although we often call them mountain horses when we distinguish them from steppe horses, in fact these horses are not bred in the mountains, but are only more capable of carrying heavy loads on the mountain, and are tall and strong.

The typical Avennella horse can run at speeds of up to 80 kilometers over long distances, and their endurance far exceeds that of humans - even inferior farm pack horses or slower mules can travel faster than infantry on these mounts.

-- This way of thinking is completely new, it is different from the past, and it is as unconventional as the rest of our Sage Gentleman's approach.

To put it bluntly, although we have stressed on several occasions that their quality is higher than that of the Yugoslav Coalition Army, the top brass of the Northern Army really knows what the various acts in this war are for, and what kind of war they are fighting, and only a few core people.

And among them, Archduke Lesky, who was the core of strategic command and participated in the Ottolo-Loan War twenty-one years ago, cannot compare with our Sage when it comes to how to effectively deploy and command the whole army.

But what makes Henry great is that he is always able to think outside the box, Archduke Lesky is good at using his resources to ensure victory, and when he encounters, to put it mildly, needs a "miracle", the sage is always able to give a quick answer. It was his hand to decisively divide his forces to stretch the battle line and ambush the Otolo heavy infantry, but before using the magician apprentice to use magic in batches, he once again jumped out of the inherent thinking mode, and the way he was given to use various vehicles was also unheard of.

The use of livestock as a means of transporting or pulling baggage has existed since before the time of the Laman, but Henry's practice is different, and we can clearly understand it all by a simple comparison:

In the past, cattle and horses and all sorts of other livestock were used, except for direct combat, and the rest can be summed up as "auxiliary" - which is unavoidable, after all, the ratio of livestock to population needs to be taken into account. The use of them as an aid to the lifting of baggage in addition to manpower is already something that most poor countries are able to do with all their might.

The method used by Henry at the time of the Battle of Neila Forest is the opposite of the Raman and West Coast cultures, and is the most familiar method for those who are also in the army and are from the steppe nomadic background of Muna and his party.

Any available cattle brought in from the Dordogne and other nearby locations, urgently brought in by ravens, and all the soldiers who knew how to ride - this program pioneered or improved the idea of "strategic mobility", in which livestock were no longer auxiliary to the army and were responsible for relieving the pressure of logistics, but were a direct means of transportation for the march. The entire army marched on horseback, and even the infantry dismounted and fought after riding to the corresponding location.

The Northern Army was divided into three groups, and two highly mobile forces, equipped with a large number of horses and other vehicles, led by Muna and the veteran of Loan, who were over forty years old, quickly maneuvered through the trails that led to the corridors of the Neira Forest. They traveled lightly, carrying only the necessary supplies and weaponry, and marched separately from both sides to avoid too many men interfering with each other.

Henry's plan was extremely for-error, and although he managed to make it clear what the farmers of Avenella could understand, it was still a risk in itself. There were a lot of uncertainties involved, and even though they had taken the same day they received the animals in the midst of the great retreat, the reaction time they had was still so short.

It was a race to the death that risked the future of Avenella and tens of thousands of lives, and the two forces led by Muna and the others as the vanguard had to arrive at the vacant southern base camp before the Northern Army was routed by the Southern Coalition - it was not enough to just make a detour to the flank, the Northern Army had fewer soldiers and horses than the Southern Alliance, and Ashburn II was not stupid even though he was stubborn, and once this army appeared in their rear, the fact that the front was just a decoy was naturally exposed.

At that time, as soon as Ahibon II ordered the whole army to raid, the army of only 3,000 people in front of Dordogne would be completely wiped out.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a matter of seeking the near and far, but in order to preserve enough strength to deal with the future, Henry's strategy for the Northern Army has never been to achieve the goal of confrontation with forces.

As we said earlier, human beings are creatures with complex minds and individual differences. Thought determines our delicate and rich feelings that are different from those of elves and other races, and this feeling of thinking can be used as a weapon, and this invisible weapon is far more powerful than a real sword and gun.

The conflicts between the nobility and the commoners, and even between the nobility and the nobility, within the Yugoslav Army, were obviously like a city with an unobstructed view on a sunny day. Henry had said before that what he needed to do was to keep the militia of the Confederate army out of the way - the militiamen who had left their homes to fight in other distant lands were cowardly and indifferent, and they did not speak when Ashbourne II burned the houses of the villagers in the corridor of the Nella Forest, because this was not their homeland.

But this hellish situation will still touch them in the end, but people who have been obedient all their lives will choose to swallow their anger if they are not forced to the bottom line under strong pressure.

"It's okay, it's okay, our hometown is far away, and this kind of thing can't happen. They comfort themselves with such words, but the uneasiness in their hearts grows day by day.

The nobles of the Southern Coalition Army did not know all this, and even if they did, they would not take it to heart. Because even the lives of the peasants are dispensable to them, so who cares about the mood of the peasants?

The war that Ashbern II did not understand, and so did the other nobles of the Confederate army, and even Edward knew very little about it. It's a Raman thing that has a much older history than theirs, and the whole set of psychomanipulative tactics developed by those who have been intriguing on the East Coast for thousands of years can even win wars without blood.

Henry played spy warfare.

He was like the best puppeteer, at the same time using both hands to manipulate the invisible thin lines, so that the entire Northern Army was cut into parts, and everything was arranged in the right place to make people not have the slightest suspicion: the retreating Northern Army, the information inside the Southern Coalition Army was closed, and the peasants did not know the whereabouts of their opponents; they mobilized their horses and soldiers in three ways, leaving only a part of the troops to launch fierce resistance in front with the fog, while the rest of the cavalry rushed thousands of miles, aiming directly at the rear of the coalition army.

At the same time, taking advantage of the chaotic management, some militiamen from the south who had a good back-up rhetoric quietly infiltrated the barracks of the Yugoslav coalition army, and when their morale was low after a hard battle, they walked around telling rumors about chasing wind and shadows.

Henry played psychological warfare.

A few rumors can cause waves on weekdays, not to mention the farmers who have experienced a long period of chasing battles, not to mention that they are hungry and full, are becoming more and more homesick at this time.

If someone spread in the army at this time: "The Northern Army, which has always seen the head and the tail of the dragon, has actually divided its troops to attack the hometown of the southerners." Even if the peasants do not flee directly under pressure, similar concepts will be deeply rooted in their hearts and will not be able to disperse.

There is a saying that the best lie is not telling the truth, and these rumors spread by Henry and his southern militia actually caught the gap between the militia and the nobility within the Southern Coalition Army as an entry point - they did not need to worry that this matter would expose their own maneuver, because the repeated defeats of the Northern Army in front of them had raised the arrogance of these Southern nobles to the fullest. These people, who already have a high attitude towards the peasants, must also pass on the information through the maids of the lower ranks, and if the peasants really go to their lords to confirm the news, the result is likely to only lead to more and more internal contradictions.

This is one-way transparency on the battlefield.

All kinds of rumors and subtle contradictions within the Yugoslav Coalition Army have never escaped the attention of our Sage Gentleman.

And as he expected, when some of the southern peasants could not resist running to try to confirm the news from the lords, they were either indifferent or ridiculed for their ignorance and stupidity.

The fog came and went, and people began to notice that the fog seemed to have a spirit at the mercy of their opponents, and that the supernatural help of the Northern Army caused the expected panic in an era when magic was not yet overspread. Henry's free-spirited, unwarlike arrangement caused Ahbourne II and the rest of the Confederate military leaders to fire a rain of arrows into the fog after realizing that it was magic.

The nobles of the Confederate army woke up after the riot became apparent, shouting in Sivalyya to try to maintain order: "It's just magic, it's just a ploy, they're also human and can be killed!"

They shouted like this, but how could the militiamen, who had never seen the world, know all this—they were ghost soldiers in the mist, and they must not be real! Because if they were living people, then why did all the arrows shot at the fog go up in the air?

Like other psychological factors, traditional superstition is one of the invisible weapons that Henry can use.

"That's the Ancestor's ghost on Prince Edward's side, and he's the king Avenella deserves!"

Combined with the rumors he had heard about the prince's actions in the north, and the terrible actions of Ahibon II, Henry combined all the factors that had been investigated in the first place, allowed them to ferment, and even secretly promoted, and laid a wide net.

And that's just his first step.

Although the two troops sent by the Northern Army were heading for the south, their task was not to attack the peasants' hometowns - all that was needed to achieve this was rumors, and if they did, they would be forced against each other.

These two cavalrymen were precise cleavers, and the final point they headed to under Henry's instructions was where it all began.

The militia of the Southern Alliance, after all, was formed under the pressure of the aristocracy, and those rumors and superstitious legends were used against them. And the actual force is aimed at the base camp of the nobles of the Southern Coalition who are defending the vacancy.

On July 25, 192 Avenella Calendar, thousands of men and horses invaded from the northern horizon, and they drove straight into the mansions of the nobles who had a large number of defenses vacant.

And what these menacing and terrifying soldiers of the Northern Army did was to ask the wives and daughters of a large number of southern nobles to write a handwritten letter with the family crest, and then confirm the issuance.

They came and went as fast as they could, and the only things they took with them were the flags and crests of the various families, and apart from a small amount of supplies, they did not hurt anyone.

Dubbed "the most failed robbery" by later historians, this seemingly pointless strategic maneuver was a waste of time, but in fact the impact was far more profound than any visible damage.

"Everyone has something to cherish. ”

"This weakness is common to all human beings. ”

Standing at the entrance to the Dordogne's Nella Forest, Henry said as he handed the letter back to Edward.

"It's time for a full-scale counterattack. ”

He looked back at the rising sun behind him, it had been 10 days since the Misty Plains launched a counterattack on the 21st, and it was the last day of July.

The Northern Army inflicted a 10-day hindrance on the Confederate army with minimal damage, and they bought enough time for the Dordogne to reorganize a force of several thousand men.

And another army, carrying a large number of tokens of southern aristocratic families, also drove straight into the empty and uninhabited area of the Neira Forest Corridor, aiming directly at the rear of the coalition army.

All.

It's a foregone conclusion.