The night had passed, and neither side had any small actions to disturb the night - knowing that these little tricks were useless, and the next day would be a decisive battle. The centaurs had already completed the attack formation in the camp, and at the same time changed the camps of the various troops, and after dawn they came out of the resting tent and completed the draping, they could complete the formation as quickly as possible. Moreover, their servants also worked all night to loosen the outer walls of the camp, and when they pushed it after dawn, they would collapse and fill in the trenches outside the camp, forming a flat land.

Zhou Zhongmou didn't make a fire, anyway, the carriage was windproof enough and warm, he let Misha stay in the car, and he stood on the cliff and quietly looked down - anyway, he wasn't very afraid of the cold, and the clothes on his body were not too small. He watched it like this all night, and Misha came out to see him several times, and also took a wool blanket to Zhou Zhongmou.

"Speaking of which, it's the first time I've seen a battle of this magnitude here. Zhou Zhongmou said, Misha was already standing behind him and holding his arm at this time - Misha didn't seem to sleep well at night, and now she was a little soft, so she grabbed Zhou Zhongmou's arm and stood.

"This will be a battle that will be recorded in the history books. However, according to the volume of the two sides, it is estimated that it occupies the weight of half a sheet of paper in the general history. Zhou Zhongmou was still talking about this with great interest, and Misha was a very quiet listener.

The terrain below is good for war - to be honest, there are all the best terrain for war outside of the mountains in this world, and it's no different from Earth. The width is about 20 kilometers, and the length is about 40 kilometers to 50 kilometers of trapezoidal area. There are several hills about 20 meters above sea level, and on one side of the trapezoidal side is the river that flows from the edge of this known plain as Porta. On the other side of the plain is the stretching mountain range where Zhou Zhongmou is located, which is very steep, and the height is basically thousands of meters of peaks, and Zhou Zhongmou is now standing on one of the cliffs that is more than 300 meters high.

The battle, which would later become known as the Battle of the Porta Plain, began at 10 a.m. on October 19, 244 A.D. As early as seven o'clock in the morning, the Ballan side had already torn down the outer walls of the camp, and the centaur cavalry came out of their tents nonchalantly and began to eat breakfast - the enemy camp opposite them was more than four kilometers away, and it was impossible to rush in front of them while they were eating. Of course, the same is true of the army of the Kingdom of Southern Yuktobania, who are also dressed up and eating breakfast. At eight o'clock in the morning, the two sides began to line up. The centaurs lined up. As the forward troops began to advance slowly, they were further ahead of a group of private soldiers of the nobles who had surrendered from the north.

"They're going to fill the trenches for the centaurs. Zhou Zhongmou said a word, but Misha asked at this time: "What is a trench? The word war and trench are connected together?" At this time, she had already set up the large tripod-type telescope that Zhou Zhongmou had made during his study of alchemy, looked at the battlefield in the distance, and heard Zhou Zhongmou say something she didn't understand, so she asked this question.

"Oh. It's a ditch. I was wrong. Zhou Zhongmou dealt with it casually. "There are no trenches, traffic ditches and anything like that in this world, but I think too far ahead. He thought.

The centaurs drove the guys forward. The army of the Kingdom of Southern Yuktobania did not come out of the camp, and the most they did during this period was to fortify the camp and prepare to fight this battle with a strong defensive battle. Zhou Zhongmou looked at the terrain and confirmed that the centaurs seemed to want to fight this battle, but Zhou Zhongmou, who stood high and saw far away, also felt that something was wrong when he looked at the camp of the Balan Kingdom. "Misha, count the number of troops in the Balan Kingdom. How do I think there is a clear difference in their numbers?" Zhou Zhongmou counted the number of people in the telescope - it was obvious that the number of centaur cavalry left in the camp was completely incorrect! A few days ago, Zhou Zhongmou estimated that the number of centaur cavalry in the Balan Kingdom exceeded seven thousand but less than seven thousand five hundred, and after adding their servant army, they had an army of about 20,000 - not counting the puppet army. The number of puppet armies, Zhou Zhongmou has never counted clearly

As for the army of the Kingdom of Southern Yuktopania on the other side, Zhou Zhongmou did not completely count them, and he could only judge that the kingdom's army had roughly 50,000 to 60,000 troops through a simple formation estimation method - judging from the information that Zhou Zhongmou had habitually collected over the years, the entire kingdom, including the private armies of the nobles, had almost exhausted its elite. Although the kingdom has a population of more than a few million, the mobilization capacity similar to that of the Middle Ages can only guarantee this number of troops - magic is difficult to use in a large war of this magnitude - because this usually causes chaos and uncontrollable magic, so any attempt to use space equipment to transport supplies is a dream. Moreover, the uncontrollable range of chaos is never limited to the scope of the battlefield, in most cases, the chaos zone with the battlefield as the center radius of more than 100 kilometers, and with the growth of the number of people and the assembly of the magicians participating in the war, this chaos magic zone will be further expanded.

"The Mongols are on a westward expedition. Zhou Zhongmou said such things in the language of the earth again, and Misha did not bother to pay attention to him-to say that women are indeed more capable of language than men, and Misha had already learned the meaning of several Chinese phrases-although Zhou Zhongmou had never taught her. The centaur cavalry can indeed be regarded as Mongol cavalry, and their combat mobility is much stronger than that of the real Mongol cavalry, but the strategic mobility is inferior to the Mongol cavalry in Zhou Zhongmou's opinion - the centaurs do not have the habit of grazing to meet their logistical needs, although they are also herdsmen, but they are more settled by guò to obtain food - and Zhou Zhongmou does not think that this number of centaurs can carry enough livestock to feed them all the way - The output of the plains of the Kingdom of Southern Yuktobania so far is limited, and it may not be able to meet the grass-fed needs of more than 7,000 and a half of the animals carried by the horses. Therefore, the centaurs also need strong logistical support, but in battle, they can carry dried meat and cheese on their bodies to meet tactical maneuvers, and in Zhou Zhongmou's opinion, this maneuver range is likely to be hundreds of kilometers.

What Zhou Zhongmou didn't know was that the centaurs had never shown such tactical mobility in the past, and the ancient war habits of the past had constrained their minds, and it was only now that they had just accepted a new war mentality - this was still due to the two empires, and in the border friction with the two empires in the past ten years, the Belken Empire had used a wide range of tactical maneuvers to beat the centaurs more than once, and the Ballan Kingdom had suffered a lot, and the same was true of the Yuctobania Empire in this regard It's just that they used to use the elite and extremely large number of hoplites to complete the task of teaching the Balan kingdom a lesson.

Zhou Zhongmou had almost thought of the whole battle idea of the centaurs, just like the battle of the Tissa River and the battle of Legnika on the earth, the centaurs would use their mobility and cavalry combat effectiveness to fight this battle of the Porta Plain, and the army of the Kingdom of Southern Yuktopania, which was defending to the death, seemed to Zhou Zhongmou to be on par with the Hungarian king Béla IV.

At 10 a.m. on October 19, the first heavy bed crossbow was fired from the fence of the camp of the Kingdom Army of Southern Yuctopania (to be continued......