Chapter 29: The Lion Meets the Cheetah
Hyde galloped through the chaotic rout of the flowing water, looking for an opponent who dared to resist. Wherever there was any sign of the rout of chaos gathering, the brave knight of the lion leaped and rushed to the heart of the delusional resistance with his spear, trampled the beast of chaos with his steel hooves, cut off the head of the beast with his shining sword, and stabbed the beast into the air with his spear! Thirty warriors in armor and spears followed him closely, chasing the torrent of the beast's rout, like an eagle striking a flock of crows.
The crumbling beasts of chaos thrashed and trampled like gray-brown mudslides pouring down from valley to valley and spreading like a noisy ant colony. Everywhere there were shaking horns, spears and spears shaking, like groves shaking in the wind. Within a few minutes, three or four infantry squadrons on the left flank of the Chaos Beast had all been dispersed under the thunderous blow, and more than four hundred devastated Gore had fled everywhere, causing the Chaos Beast's central front to also begin to shake.
"Kill the cowards!"
The four-horned Beastmaster Krandesgol drew his scimitar and ordered his elite guards to pounce on the routs that were swarming the central array of the army. These elite warriors, who were nearly twice as tall as ordinary Gore, immediately issued a battle cry, and rushed neatly towards the rout Gore that was surging like a tide, and the battle axes fell, flesh and blood flew sideways, and more than a dozen of them were cut down in an instant, and under this terrible deterrent, some of the routs fled in other directions, and some of them regrouped, and their central front was finally stabilized.
But the blows of the human army were continuous, and just as the four-cornered beast king commanded the mid-lane front to counterattack the human cavalry, the more than 100 human cavalry infantry waving banners in the smoke and dust had already let out a deafening roar and rushed to the front of the right flank of the Chaos Beast, which made the beast shield axemen and spearmen on the right flank all frightened. In order to turn the morale, the Beastmaster's deputy, a burly Chaos Centaur warrior named Sentillegor with three large horns, immediately led his hundreds of centaur cavalry to launch a counterattack. The human infantry immediately dismounted, fired muskets in the smoke, and lined up their swords, shields, and halberds to meet them.
Muskets shoot buckshots, halberds cut off horses' legs, maces hit helmets, and the clashing of gold and iron and screams are chaotic. Rick's halberders lined up in a horizontal line, neatly raising their halberds of two and a half meters to meet the enemy in front of them, they were well-armed melee infantry, armed with full breastplates, small arm shields, handguards, and steel helmets, and the silver armor glistened in the sun. Shieldmen and musketeers dressed in different nations spread out on either side, wielding swords at the legs of the centaurs, who responded ferociously with javelins and spears, and the two armies were glued together in smoke and brimstone. This cheered up the beast shieldmen and spearmen on the right flank, and they followed with their weapons brandished and attacked the human infantry in the cloud of smoke.
"Your Excellency, the enemy's left flank has completely collapsed, but our right flank infantry has not yet advanced. Now let's get rid of the enemy's middle first, use the speed advantage of the cavalry to strike at the right flank of the Chaos Beast, support our infantry, and don't fight the enemy's elite Chinese army here, which is not good for us with few troops. ”
Loren Sr. swung his sword and slashed down a "Bystigor" that pounced on him, avoiding the shoulder armor and splitting its neck in half. Then he raised his greatsword and pointed to the right flank, and proposed to Hyde the next battle move.
"Okay, my Grandpa Loren. Wait!"
Hyde was about to respond to the old man's suggestion, but a somewhat familiar scream from the right caught his attention.
The young blonde knight turned his head to see that it was a Tara Beckland's apprentice knight--- and that skinny Robbie, who had been knocked off yesterday, was in distress. The lanky knight met a man of "Bystigor", who deftly avoided his spear, and with a swing of his great axe slashed the neck of his horse, knocking him to the ground, and a group of small Gore spearmen rushed at him and pounced on the hapless fellow.
Robbie, with one leg pinned down by a horse, sat half-seated and desperately resisted the spears and spears stabbed by the Gore with his shield and sword. In the confusion, he was hit by several spears in his body, and although they did not penetrate because of the strong plate armor, they almost scared his soul away. The sheep-headed beasts screamed and attacked him, and many spears and spears pierced him like a trembling snake's head, and he struggled with all his might, and regretted in his heart that he should not have rushed from the safety of the barracks to his death.
Although the apprentice knight of Tara Beckland was only the eldest son of a minor nobleman, his family was quite wealthy, and he lived very well, and there were two maids who had an ambiguous relationship, and they had always been obedient to him. Now he is dying and struggling, while involuntarily thinking about his beautiful and bright mansion, his gentle and lovely girlfriend, thinking that everything will no longer exist, he is almost remorseful to bite his tongue. But it was terrible to be distracted in battle, and the tall "Bystigor" saw that the spearmen were making no progress, and roared, and raised his great axe to slash at the thin man's head, and in one fell swoop his sword flew away, which caused Lord Robbie to fall into complete despair, close his eyes and wait for death to come.
But a loud wail caused the thin man, named Robbie, to reopen his eyes, and he was surprised to see that the tall "Bystigor" had been pierced through the head with a spear, and lay dead in front of him. And the Gore spearmen who were still besieging them just now had already dropped two corpses and ran away. A sturdy white horse and its blonde rider immediately stood beside him, majestic as a god.
The young knight with blond hair was as handsome as a marble statue, holding a blood-stained spear and sword on horseback, his blue and white armor was stained with the blood of wild beasts, his long golden hair shimmered in the midday sun, and behind his back flashed the three-colored Valkyrie seal, like mighty wings of light and flame, and piles of beast corpses were trampled under his horse, dripping blood from his spear. Robbie was so shocked by this solemn scene that he didn't know what words to put to describe it!
"Robbie, how are you, can you still stand up?"
Hyde asked in a gentle voice about the skinny knight who didn't know him at the beginning, and when the Chaos Beast was about to launch a fatal blow against Robbie, he killed it in time, repelled the group of Chaos Beasts, and saved the skinny man's life. He was never a man who could not be saved when he saw death, and there was no reason to sit idly by and watch his companions die.
"Noble ...... Thank you, Your Highness, for saving my tiny life...... Ah, I'm fine for the rest, but my leg is crushed by the horse and I can't seem to move. ”
The thin man named Robbie tried to organize his sentences, but the incomparable emotion and shock made his words staccato, how could he not be shocked that this noble prince of Midland, who had been insulted by him yesterday, had stepped forward to save his life from the swords of the beasts?
"Okay, I'll help you. ”
Hyde jumped off his horse and crouched over to grab Robbie's left leg. The yellow horse was dressed in Gothic heavy plate armor, weighing almost a thousand pounds, but it was flipped open like a cotton bale under the pull of the blonde knight, and Robbie's leg was exposed, and the thin man struggled to stand up, and found that the leg was fortunately not broken, which was really lucky.
"Your Highness Noble Hyde, I really don't know what words and actions to use to thank you......"
"Alright, it's okay. You retreat to the rear first, and if you can still fight, you can change horses and come to fight. ”
Hyde quickly ended his conversation with Robbie, got back on his horse, and raised his spear for everyone to follow. Old Loren's advice to him just now is very reasonable, the enemy army in the middle is not easy to defeat at once, it is better to open the distance first, join the infantry on the right flank, and then deal with this stubborn enemy after crushing the enemy's right flank in front and back. Grandpa Loren is a veteran soldier who has experienced a lot of battles, and he still wants to learn more about the art of war from him.
But something amazing happened. As soon as the cavalry shook off the middle army of the Chaos Beasts and ran to the right flank for only a hundred paces, Hyde and Old Loren were surprised to see that the enemy's right flank line, which had just attacked their infantry array, had now collapsed from behind. A large number of Gore threw down their spears and shields and scattered in all directions, howling, what was going on? Who attacked them from behind?
The commander of the right flank of the Chaos Beasts, the centaur leader Sentillegor, brandished his battle axe wildly, letting out mad curses and roars. It had fought quite well, cutting down four or five human halberders and swordsmen in a row, forcing the human infantry array to retreat, and victory seemed to be beckoning to the powerful man in heavy chain mail. But the sudden change destroyed all his plans------ and at some point, a small cavalry team had already been killed in the besieged convoy, and suddenly burst into the array of Chaos beasts from behind!
Under this sudden blow from behind, the right flank of the entire Chaos Beast began to crumble like their left flank, and the cavalry moved as swiftly as lightning, and rushed into the flock like a cheetah everywhere it went. They were mere horses, but men and horses were dressed in fine armor trimmed with dark blue and gilded plates, and marched in close columns in the shape of arrows, and under their glittering spears, the beasts scattered and fled. The Rick infantry in the frontal battle also let out a joyful battle cry, cheering up their spirits to kill the panicked Chaos Beasts.
The horsemen's shoulder armor and helmets were sculpted with gilded roaring leopard heads, white and purple feathers fluttered on the tips of their helmets, bright red tassels swayed gracefully under their fine shoulder armor, blue steel shields were worn on their arms, and gold garlands of gold were crowned with heraldic patterns around the leopard's head, the Gothic armor of their horses hung parchment scrolls with gold chains and seals with dark runes and hymns, black sigmar holy crosses with gold trim were inlaid on their glittering breastplates, and dark blue handguards and heavy spears were clenched in their strong hands, and all beasts that stood in their way were thrown into the air and pierced!
They did not fall from the sky, but the warriors of the famous Cheetah Knights of the Empire, the convoy that was besieged by the beasts just now was escorted by them, in the bloody battle of the outnumbered, they fought desperately to resist the onslaught of thousands of beasts, but they were also killed and wounded, and only ** people remained. Just when these warriors had already made up their minds to die, the reinforcements led by Hyde and Old Loren arrived, and at once attracted most of the forces of the Chaos Beasts, which was like an angel descending on the hearts of these warriors! When they saw that the reinforcements were stuck with the right wing of Chaos, they immediately seized this opportunity to break through the containment of the two hundred beasts neatly, and hit the back of the Chaos Beast's right wing array like a thunderbolt and lightning, instantly reversing the passive situation of Rick's infantry.
The tall centaur leader named Sentillegor angrily raised his battle axe, and led his cavalry to turn against the daring enemy. But the constant rush of chaotic beasts in front of it blocked its path, and it swung its axe to chop down a few, so that these collapsed "Gore" could make their way, but something worse happened---- Hyde and Old Loren had already led more than forty cavalry cavalry to kill from the flank, directly impacting the flanks of this group of chaotic beasts, and suddenly the head and body flew wildly, blood light and miserable howls roared in unison, and the right wing of the entire chaos beast suddenly completely collapsed. And the outcome of this fierce battle on the grassland was finally decided!
As the four squadrons of Gore on the right flank were all scattered and fled in three flanks, the centaur leader Sentillegor also fell into a rage and despair, and he cut down several routs in succession, but to no avail. It ordered its retinue to send a signal to the Chinese army, but found that the Chinese army had also abandoned the battlefield, holding the battle flag diagonally, and "turned in" in a more organized hurry. This is the decision that His Excellency the Beastmaster of Krandesgore has just made, and it can survive the many encirclements and suppressions of the empire, and it is this trick that fights--- "If you can't beat it, you can leave, and you will stay in the green mountains". Now that the left and right wings of the uncompetitive have completely collapsed, there is no need for His Excellency the Beastmaster and his elite guards to stay on the battlefield to face the vicious and vicious humans, and they must be strategic......
The tall centaur did not flee, and it ran feverishly towards the nearest enemy, a cheetah knight in blue armor, who seemed to be the leader of the group of knights escorting the convoy. It met the knight head-on, and the spears of the two men struck a brilliant spark in the air, the knight's helmet flew into the air, revealing his red-haired head, and one of Sentilgare's large horns was broken off at the root, and blood splattered. The two riders spun and charged at each other head-on again. It seemed like a fair solo duel, with no other people or beasts joining in.
The Cheetah Knight and the Chaos Centaur rushed at each other with flat-ended spears, and the life-and-death duel between the two was about to be decided in an instant. But a sudden spear interrupted all this------ a small Chaos Beast spearman seized the opportunity of the cheetah knight passing by, and stabbed the knight's armored war horse into the side of the armorless armor protection, and the tip of the spear with a curved hook pulled down the internal organs, and the flesh and blood splattered!
The tall armoured horse fell to the ground with a wail, and threw the red-haired knight to the ground, and the spear flew five or six paces away. The centaur leader Sentillegor let out a howl of victory, clenching his spear and tomahawk and charging at the fallen knight, who was to slay another human before retreating, to ease the resentment in his heart. But a white figure rushed in like lightning, blocking its final onslaught, and sparks from the clash of spears flew everywhere.
With a resentful roar, the ferocious centaur leader frantically took the last three or four steps, then fell heavily to the ground, threw the tomahawk and spear far away, and reluctantly closed its blood-red eyes, and in that moment its neck was pierced, and it was completely finished.
This lightning-fast figure was none other than Hyde, who didn't want to interfere in a knight's fair duel, but since the Chaos Beast had sabotaged the duel by sneaking up on it first, Hyde would never have looked at the reason why this Chaos Leader wanted to take advantage of people's danger. So he rushed forward at the last moment and stabbed the fierce Chaos Centaur leader with one shot---- of course, he also paid a price, his left shoulder armor was knocked away by the Chaos Centaur with an axe, and the chain mail below was also hit hard, and he suffered a slight injury to the shoulder, but what is this compared to saving the life of a brave friendly comrade?
"Thank you, valiant knight, for your noble help to our convoys!
The red-haired knight struggled to get up, bent his knees and drew his sword to salute Hyde with the highest knightly salute, he raised his head and looked at Hyde, at the white wolf coat of arms on the blonde knight's blue and white armor, at the glorious Valkyrie Divine Seal behind the blonde knight, at the handsome and mighty face of the blonde knight, slowly widened his eyes, and suddenly froze!
"Do you ...... Do you ...... Are you the noble Highness Hyde??Holy Sigmar, it was you who stretched out your noble hand and saved my life for the second time!"
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