The question of the restraint of arms has always been the favorite issue to be discussed or debated by cadets and junior officers at all levels.

Of course, most people vaguely agree with the following cycle: knight troops can move at high speed and can quickly reassemble to form a strike, so they are inherently restrained from infantry without long-range attack means, and the infantry's standard square shield and long shield are inherently restrained by archers, once the infantry phalanx invades the archer phalanx, the archers will inevitably be completely wiped out; archers restrain knights, and it is difficult for knight troops to effectively use round shields in high-speed movement, and once the arrow feathers hit the moving knights, they will inevitably cause a greater blow, and even, hitting the mount will also cause fatal damage to the knights。 Even the most expensive heavy knights could not withstand a direct shot from a longbowman at a distance of 150 meters.

Mage units are overlooked here - due to their scarcity, in most countries the mages in the army are only used for skirmish wars such as surprise attacks.

Interestingly, the senior generals of the armed forces of various countries rarely talk about the mutual restraint of arms. When asked such questions by subordinates, most of them simply say: it varies from place to place.

Just as His Excellency Ancestor Ueike Aoten fought outside Gifu Castle, 6,000 knights faced the main army of 16,000 general arms fighting against the city, and there were even more than 1,000 clergy who had been transferred.

And the result?

Chapter 27 of "The Complete Theory of the Art of War by Chi Yizi" was defeated and Suharto was not in a hurry to attack.

The Holy See rarely participates in frontal wars, but that doesn't mean it doesn't train war talents. As one of the commanders of southern Xinjiang, Suharto is one of the young men who stood out in the previous military exercises. Although he is a bit arrogant, the Holy See still gives him a very high evaluation: "He is rigorous in his use of troops, walking on thin ice, and rarely suffers blows from his own mistakes." The offensive is heavy, and the defense is square. Such an evaluation can be ranked in the top 20 among the more than 40 high-ranking officers in the two major territories of the Holy See.

In the face of 6,000 knights, including nearly 600 air archers, Suharto knew that if he took the initiative to attack, if he attacked with knight troops, the opponent's knight troops surpassed him in quantity and quality, and it was easy to suffer unnecessary heavy losses in the attack; if the infantry was used as the main force of the attack, the result would inevitably be that the formation would be torn apart, and after the enemy's knight troops moved at high speed, they could reassemble again to give a fatal blow to the infantry after the attack from both sides. For such a dense knightly force, the best thing to do is to wait for the opponent to take the initiative to attack, use the infantry to contain its edge, the archers and clerics form a cascade attack, and the knightly unit attacks last.

As a good commander, Suharto certainly did not ignore the archer troops above his head: "Smoke, defensive shield, magical defensive shield." ”

The Chinese army hurriedly raised the wolf smoke flag, the square shield flag, and the magic shield flag. The light infantry in the rear row took out a small piece of wolf smoke from their bags behind them - wolf smoke is roughly divided into two kinds in the application of the army, one is used to attack the enemy, this wolf smoke is mixed with croton, chili pepper, Puffer fish dried and other highly poisonous and irritating objects, once ignited along the wind direction to invade the enemy position (most of the enemy's cities), if there is no prior defense, the deeply poisoned soldiers will generally fall into a state of near death; there is also a kind of wolf smoke is specially used for smoking, after cleaning and drying treatment, retaining the effect of wolf dung smoke, but non-toxic, this wolf smoke is generally used in the beacon fire to transmit information and the army retreat to confuse or ambush the opponent.

The light infantry put the wolf dung in a small leather bag, lightly sprinkled it with spontaneous combustion powder, and threw it into the distance with all his strength - after 60 breaths, a huge cloud of wolf smoke had formed over the entire Holy See troops.

At the same time, the heavy infantry slowly moved forward, half-raising the iron-clad oak shield, which was more than one person tall and more than a meter wide, while the clergy began to chant the magic of the sacred shield, and after a few breaths, the second half of the phalanx was already covered with white shield luster. Even a longbow can't pierce an oak iron shield, while a holy shield can effectively absorb the piercing force of an arrow. With multiple protections, the instructor is already quite reliable in defending bows and crossbows.

"I really don't know what the opponent is up to, what's the use of so many knights?" Suharto muttered quietly.

In the sky, the two phantom beast knights and Chi Aotian were in a half-pair, or they were monitoring Chi Aotian's movements, and seeing that the phalanx had been lined up, and the wolf smoke was slowly rising, the two knights thanked Chi Aotian with their hands: "Thank you, Your Excellency, for appeasing the innocent people, see you on the battlefield." ”

A sneer came from under the bone armor mask, and the words of the bone dragon knight echoed in mid-air with a hint of heavy killing intent: "This is the battlefield, the two of you don't have to go back." ”

The phantom beast knight immediately sensed Chi Aotian's intentions, and the two horses stepped on the white floating light and quickly flashed to both sides, and the 2.7 knight's spear and knight's garden shield protected the left and right at the same time.

It's a pity that they are facing a dragon knight, and with the same martial arts, ten phantom beast knights can compete with a dragon knight, and the dragon knight at this time is a necromantic dragon knight whose strength is close to that of the divine dragon knight.

The giant wings of the dragon vibrated violently, and yellow poisonous gas continued to spew out from his mouth, and his huge body rushed towards a middle-aged phantom beast knight like a mountain. There is only one bone dragon knight in the pan continent, and the excellent performance of the bone dragon knight outside the ice break harbor has been sung by the bard in the continents, of course, the two phantom beast knights know the power of this knight in front of them, and they also know that whether it is a spear or a long sword in his hand, it is a warrior's dream of a great soldier, and ordinary shields can't be blocked at all.

The middle-aged knight's face was pale, his whole body was attached to the horse's back, his feet desperately kicked the two ribs of the mount, and his hands forcefully drove the reins to go straight to the main formation.

Another young Phantom Beast Knight took off the Horned Bow from his back, and shot two arrow feathers at the Dragon Knight in a breath, Chi Aotian didn't pay attention to it at all, and the long arrow hit the bone armor almost at the same time and bounced off and fell to the ground.

The priests on the ground had already seen the changes in the air, in front of the dragon with its wings flying, the phantom beast knight was as helpless and pitiful as a lamb, and in the blink of an eye, the tip of the red and snowy dragon spear had approached the back of the phantom beast knight, and the dragon spear reflected a black light like death under the splashing sun.

More than 20 archricians with the title of bishop in the Holy See chanted at the same time: "Holy light, obey me in the name of Delos, the true God......

"Holy Spirit~Evil Spirit~~Light and Shadow~~ Combine your infinite power......"

"Condemn the enemies of sin, O God of heaven......"

Not only Chi Aotian, but everyone didn't expect that there were so many high-level holy cultists here, and some of them had even become the highest level saints and wise men known to be priests. Chi Aotian didn't know about divine magic, and he didn't slow down at all when he left the dragon roaring, and he chased after it. Elder Qingluo's face had become extremely ugly, and his voice had changed its taste: "Hurry up!! get out of the way!!

Chi Aotian had never felt that an elf had been so disgraced, and he immediately realized that he was in a bad situation, and rushed up with the dragon to the sky, but ...... It's late......

A considerable number of high-level believers put their palms together, and crystal bright balls of light gradually gathered in their hands, and the balls of light turned into pillars of light, shooting towards Chi Aotian like meteors, and raindrops fell on Chi Aotian's body and the dragon's torso......

While the few believers were chanting, a strong holy light appeared in the sky, and under the light of the holy light, the power of the shadow seemed to become more powerful, and the interaction of light and shadow made people fall into a kind of drowsy, and the light and shadow swept like thunder on the dragon.

In contrast, the Sacred Word Technique, which was most commonly used by low-level priests, became a low-level divine magic attack.

The Necromantic Dragon Knight slashed like thunder, and countless holy light bullets exploded like meteors, and the dragon knight struggled painfully in the holy light and shadows, wanting to leave the dragon with an unwilling sorrow.

Qingluo has been in the world for hundreds of years, and it is quite clear that for necromantic races like Lilong, all elemental magic has no effect, but the divine magic of the Holy See is born with more than twice the bonus, especially the high-level priest like the Sage, who has the ability to drive out and destroy all necromancers.

"All vulture warriors have it, mages in the back row of the enemy line, five volleys, elves, bless the magic of nature. Qingluo ordered loudly.

The Vulture Swordsman and Vulture Archer lowered their mounts sharply, and the various arrow feathers fell whizzing, raining down on the pure white magic shield, causing countless ripples, especially the green arrow feathers, each of which crashed deep into the light shield. The Holy Magic Elves and the Wood Magic Elves let out a cacophony of noises, and after two breaths, the magic shields issued by the first few low-level priests were the first to be invaded by the green arrow feathers and disappeared, and the two priests couldn't dodge and were shot through by several arrow feathers, and they didn't have time to let out a cry and fell to the ground.

The High Priest had already felt the tremor of his magic shield on the verge of collapse, and had no choice but to withdraw the attack chant and summon more layers of divine shield again.

Finally freed from the dragon's long roar, he quickly landed in the formation, and disappeared without a trace the moment he landed. In the attack just now, although the dragon had withstood almost all the attacks, the pressure of the divine magic penetrated through the bone dragon plate armor and reached Chi Aotian's body, and the young man couldn't stand on his feet at all, staggering and almost falling to the ground. When the knight beside him landed to support Chi Aotian, he found that Chi Aotian's nose and mouth had oozed blood, and his hands were covered with small red dots after congestion.

In any previous battle, even in a head-to-head fight with the three dragon knights, Chi Aotian had never been hit so hard, and of course, he didn't know that divine magic would be his natural nemesis. The blood from his internal organs was pressed all over his body, and Ji Aotian suddenly noticed that everything in front of him had become blood-red—and blood was also pressed out of his eyes.

"Young General, how are you?" The captain of the Earth Walking Dragon Knight Brigade in the Tongyun Pass Theater couldn't jump off the Earth Walking Dragon with his whole body armor, and asked with a worried face: "General, we only have the knight troops, why don't we temporarily retreat first?"

Chi Aotian's blood-red pupils stared at the barbarian boy deadly, took over his black mount from his side, and turned over: "Revenge, how to talk about life and death." ”

The blood-stained young man finished coldly, took the order flag from the guards beside him, and issued several orders in succession.

The green banner rose sharply and then landed half a width, the black eagle wing banner rose rapidly and then landed half a width, the black dragon square flag rose half wide, and the two black dragon head pennants rose at the same time and tilted to the left and right respectively.

In the sky, the first to receive the order of the vulture elven archers and vulture swordsmen at the same time pressed down the vulture, the elven scouts swept low from the billowing wolf smoke, and rushed into the blue sky before the Holy See soldiers and priests attacked, with the eyes of the elves, this moment was enough, the scouts scattered several arrows to the smoke to indicate the direction, more than 500 vulture knights continuously shot 2 quivers 48 short arrows, even if there was an oak shield, more than 20,000 short arrows still gave a blow that almost collapsed, in addition to the heavy infantry protection, thousands of light infantry have been on the ground forever。 The fatal loss was the Horned Bow troops, and the moment they were attacked by the short arrows, some of the Horned Archers couldn't help but shoot their arrows into the sky, and although this blind shot shot the two Vulture Warriors out of the air, the nearly 10,000 short arrows that followed completely covered the Horned Bow position. The heavy infantry could not be fully protected by any means, and by the time the feathers no longer fell from the smoke, more than half of the horned archers had lost the ability to fight again. If each vulture knight could carry more quivers, perhaps all the horned bow troops would be buried in one fell swoop, and of course, if such a thing existed, the defenders of Gifu Castle would certainly not go out of the castle to fight.

After the Vulture Archers attacked, the Athlon Brigade beside Chi Aotian moved, and with the roar of thunder, the 600 knights of the First Squadron of the Athlon Brigade neatly pulled off their masks, lined up in 200 columns, and trotted to the position 200 meters in front of the Holy See soldiers, and suddenly stood still. This position is the limit of the shots of the horned archers, and the horned bows can only cause harm to ordinary light infantry at best.

The apprentice knight brigade behind Chi Aotian was urgently activated, and the two demoted captains each led a squadron, whistling in their mouths and rolling to both sides with goose wings behind the Athlon squadron.

"Shoot!" Suharto couldn't tell what Chi Aotian was going to do, and looked at the light knight brigade that passed by with an effective range of bows and arrows, hoping that a round of rapid fire could test the enemy's reaction, and perhaps, there was still some gain.

Boom......

Nearly a thousand white arrow feathers broke through the air, and after a few breaths, they threw themselves into the knights' camp like locusts, and the bare earth seemed to have a sudden heavy snowfall, and more than a dozen knights on the outermost side were thrown out violently, and the mounts neighed and fell to the ground helplessly, and blood shot out along the flesh of the horses.

"Shoot back!"

The two former captains ordered at the same time, there was no need to aim at all, more than 2,000 knights galloped towards the enemy camp, and the accuracy and moment of the knights' shooting were definitely not comparable to those of the horned archers, so the light infantry of the Holy See, which was closer, was hit by the pond fish, and before the arrows were fired, the light infantry camp had a tendency to waver - no matter how thick the nerves, they could not bear the death in front of them but could not fight back.

The knights of the two squadrons had already swept past the frontal camp, and on the flank, the crossbows on the walls could fire freely without fear of accidental damage, which should have suppressed the opponent's cavalry.

Unexpectedly, the two squadrons of knights drew an arc and returned to their own team again, while the light knights of the remaining squadron actually carried out another 12 rapid fire along the two knight teams just now, and more screams were heard among the Holy See soldiers.

Terror spread slightly among the warriors like a plague, and Suharto frowned and waved his hand to order the junior priests to walk to the light infantry camp under the protection of the heavy infantry and give them treatment.

"In the name of Denya! Divine Elf~ Unleash your powers!"

"In the name of Denya! Divine Elf~ Unleash your powers!"

"Great Holy Spirit, I beseech your Word to send down a blessing of stability for the lost......"

The white light fell from the sky, gently oscillating the wounded soldiers' injuries, and the soldiers felt the grace of the gods again, and the minor skin injuries were almost instantaneously cured, and the seriously injured soldiers also stopped bleeding and fell asleep under the holy power.

Commander His Excellency Suharto has realized that the blind defense will be wiped out by the enemy layer by layer.

The heavy infantry banner rose in the wind, and the 2,000 heavy infantry were all in motion, and 500 oak shields formed the glaive formation, layered like a dark cloud, followed by the surviving half of the light infantry camp, followed by the horned bow camp and the priest camp. With the exception of the knights, Suharto used almost all the power in his hands.

"Shoot!"

Commanders on both sides shouted orders almost simultaneously.

The fizzing sound of the arrow feathers through the air was connected into a point, and the 0.79-meter-long standard horned bow and arrow and the slightly shorter crossbow arrow were fired at the same time, and even collided in the air, and after a few breaths, it rained down.

As far as the actual situation is concerned, both the Horned Archers and the Athlon Knights are wasting resources needlessly.

Unless they are super unlucky, arrows less than 1.2 meters long have no effect on heavily armored Athlon Knights and Heavy Infantry, and at most the iron tips of the arrows cut through the cast-iron armor and cause hearing pain to the soldiers.

After 20 breaths, the distance between the two sides is only 130 meters.

The Athlon Knights suddenly turned around their mounts and trotted towards their main formation.

There was a slight pause in the defenders of Gifu Castle - according to what the soldiers of Gifu Castle knew about the Imperial soldiers, there was no precedent for the Knights of the Land to flee from the battle. The commander at the front subconsciously glanced back at the command flag of his own formation, and once again issued the order to advance.

The Black Dragon Knights Trainee Knight Brigade retreated on all fronts, and then, against the rain of arrows, the Dragon Knights slowly retreated across the board.

Suddenly, the earth trembled, and the inexperienced trainee knights subconsciously turned their heads to see that the Gifu Castle knight troops had moved, and they were all in action.

Sticking to the ground, the silver light knight troops outflanked from both sides, the infantry phalanx in the middle suddenly cracked, and 1,500 heavy knights lined up in 100 columns rolled out like a wall of fire.

"Withdraw!" not only issued the command, all the command flags were all down, and the Black Dragon Knights retreated like a tide.

The Black Dragon Knights, who were being closely pursued, suddenly bombed the camp, and the team of trainee knights with the swallowtail banner left the main formation and fled to the left and right in a hurry in order to get rid of the pursuit, and the dragon knights in the middle were chased by the silver light knights after just 100 breaths due to the slow speed of heavy armor, and they had lost their neat team and turned into a skirmisher line.

Suharto and the generals did not expect that the outcome of the battle would be so easy, and it seems that the imperial commander had a wrong understanding of the strength of both sides. Without any hesitation, Suharto personally led the last 100 knights of the guards to outflank him from the left.

The tide of battle changed dramatically in an instant.

Among the nearly 100 knights at the front of the Black Dragon Knights, a huge black dragon banner suddenly unfurled, and all the speed dragon knights turned around and pulled the crossbow in their hands during the run, and at a distance of 30 meters, the crossbow could penetrate all defenses outside the all-steel cast plate armor.

Each of the hundreds of light knights in front was pierced by a different number of crossbow bolts at the same time, and the huge force lifted the knight's unconscious body from his horse like a kite, and smashed heavily on the knight behind him, and the bones cracked into a loud sound. The knights behind them hurriedly lifted the reins and dodged to the sides.

The Speeddragon Knights hung their crossbows by their side, and rushed into the chaos of the light knights with a laugh with a one-handed club, and before the hammer staff fell, the sharp claws and spit teeth of the Speeddragon were already in close contact with the neck of the light knight's mount, and the torn arteries shot out blood arrows, and the hammer staff immediately fell on the light knight's body, and after the dull bone cracking, the mouth of the knight who was beaten spewed out a piece of blood mist.

Then the huge inertia of the heavy knights who followed closely did not allow them to make any evasive actions at all, and in the face of the light knight companions who had become a mess, the heavy knights had no choice but to throw the knight war spear in their hands on the ground, pull out the scimitar from under the ribs, and slash at the enemy, but the chain plate leaf armor on the earth dragon knight didn't care about the chopping of the sharp weapon at all, and the whistling war hammer effortlessly made the scimitar lose its original appearance and flew out, and the hammer staff with a sharp end and a square end slapped on the pure steel plate armor with a dull sound, Some dragon knights with great strength even directly knocked the heavy knight and the mount hammer to the ground - the power of the heavy knight's combined charge can be as long as that of the earth-walking dragon knight, but in this kind of close combat, especially after the opponent has chosen the heavy hammer, all that is left is time for rout.

At the same time as the light knight brigade was completely annihilated, the apprentice knights of the Black Dragon Knights suddenly returned from their horses' heads, and pounced on the enemy's infantry phalanx from the two flanks like a sea of mountains, and the young knights roared and frantically tugged at the bowstring in their hands, without even aiming and scattering at the opponent's camp. Discord's arrow feathers let out a piercing screech and fell like thatch.

The Gifu defenders' phalanx had already been stretched into a horizontal brigade, with heavy infantry, light infantry, archers, and priests each lined up in four horizontal rows, and the enemy suddenly changed the direction of attack, and the giant phalanx did not have time to turn around at all, and the senior officers desperately shouted to order the soldiers to assemble again, but alas...... It's all late......

The rain of arrows knocked over one soldier after another, the light infantry and archers dodging the arrows in panic disrupted the heavy infantry camp and knocked down the weak priests, and the two captains of the group cut down several soldiers in succession but to no avail.

The Gifu army on the east side was the first to collapse, and the panicked soldiers turned their heads and ran towards the city wall, and the officers on the west side were still holding the camp, but after a few breaths, more than 200 vulture knights suddenly descended, and the extremely agile teenagers jumped from a height of more than 2 meters into the archer camp and the priest camp, and the pitch-black thin sword pierced the body without any melee ability.

Although, in the large-scale battle array duel, the attack power of the swordsman battalion was extremely weak, but when it fell into the melee of people, weapons such as spears and halberds were greatly restricted, and the attack power of the long sword was suddenly revealed. Three or four young swordsmen wearing white filial piety belts on their heads and wearing black leather armor formed a straggler formation, and the black thin swords in their hands trembled and pierced into the white sacred shield, picking out countless blood lines, and after 10 breaths, there was no longer a single clergyman standing in the battlefield.

The moment the cadet knight brigade hung up its horned bows and rushed into the infantry camp with swords and scimitars in hand, the Gifu camp finally collapsed.

The panicked soldiers rushed towards the Gifu city walls, and the heavy soldiers waved their maces in vain, but unfortunately, they were confronted by the knights who swept through like gusts of wind, and the meniscus and swords pierced through the twist of the heavy infantry armor with great speed, and the blood spurted out intermittently.

Suharto's face became extremely ugly, even a commander like him, who had never experienced any battle formation, knew that the total collapse of the phalanx had lost the meaning of salvation, and this was no longer the time to act on his personal prestige, he took the remaining 100 knights, turned his horse's head and rushed towards the city gate. He forgot that he had rushed out of the city wall for more than 400 meters in the protection range of the bow and arrows just now, and at this time, outside the range of the bow and arrows, more than 300 forest elves did not know when they were already in battle, all the elves held green short bows in their hands, and there were still one or two short arrows left on the short bows.

"Holy Spirit of Heaven, grant me divine defense......

The many knights chanted at the same time - no wonder these knights did not rush in just now, these knights were selected from the more powerful clergy who could not further develop in divine magic, and controlled the whole battle as knights.

The red and white magic elves clamored to form a series of glowing magic shields, and then the knights pulled down their shields in turn—no one doubted the double defensive effect of the magic shield and the metal leaf armor. Suharto believed that if he broke through the forest elf defenses, he could rely on the remaining 4,000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of devout residents to enter Gifu Castle.

Charge...... Combined Charge...... 300 m ...... 200 m ...... 150 m ...... 100 m ......

"Gun-gun-" The outermost knight roared, and 100 knightly spears of 2.7 meters were lowered at the same time, and the tips of the spears shone under the hot sun.

50 m ......

Under the mask, all the knights showed a hint of luck on their faces, 50 meters, for a galloping war horse, only need four breaths, after four breaths, even the best elves with bows and arrows lost control.