Chapter 161: Cavalry Raid

Although the Harpy is only a third-order, because it is an air class, it is actually very difficult.

The scouts in small groups met the Harpies, who were no match at all, could not dodge, and generally disappeared and died.

A large group of scouts, who are easily discovered by the Harpy, have no intelligence advantage and fall into the trap of the orcs.

Only sharpshooters like Richard and Soros have a chance to shoot the Harpy.

But Richard is the lord of the Haaland family and the commander of the whole army, and Soros is also a sixth-order warrior and the commander of the Warcraft cavalry, and it is impossible for the two of them to participate in every reconnaissance mission.

In the entire northern Xinjiang region, counting the three main army corps and more than 200,000 officers and soldiers, there are no more than 100 marksmen whose archery skills can reach the sixth order.

These people are basically mid-to-high-ranking military officers, and rarely participate in front-line reconnaissance missions.

Moreover, there are only more than 100 archers in the northern Xinjiang region who can deal with the harpy people in a total of nearly one million square kilometers, and there is no way to take the large number of harpy people.

As long as the harpy man is careful and flies at high altitude to reconnoitre, even if he is a sharpshooter, he will not be able to threaten the safety of the harpy. Unless there are demonic beast cavalry such as the lion and the two-legged wyvern, the harpy can be restrained.

Without the power of the Aerial Warcraft, the battlefield information is almost transparent to the Orcs.

If we lose the initiative in information, we will of course be uncomfortable and passive when we start a war.

The orcs marched and fought, relying heavily on the detection of the harpy, and now the harpy was shot by Richard and Soros, and the orcs were unaware of it and did not send other scouts.

Richard came out with his troops at four o'clock in the afternoon, shot the harpy, and ran all the way to the orc station, and by the time he arrived at the orc station, it was already evening.

This time, Richard and Soros personally arrived to investigate, and the two observed the amount of cooking smoke in the orc camp, and after a little calculation, they found that the number of orcs in the station was indeed small, only a little more than a complete brigade.

It's time for the orcs to have dinner, and the guards at the station are not very strict.

Seeing the opportunity, Richard secretly thought in his heart: "The opportunity is rare, and there will be a good chance of winning if you carry out a sneak attack." ”

Richard's character was very decisive, and after discovering the fighter, he did not delay, and immediately commanded a cavalry squadron to raid the orc station.

The cavalry of the Dawn Continent, ordinary cavalry are divided into three types: heavy, medium and light in terms of the degree of armor.

Heavy cavalry, naturally, is a tall horse, with men and horses in armor. Medium-sized cavalry, men in iron armor, horses without armor. Light cavalry, men wear leather armor, horses do not wear armor.

If you talk about long-distance marching, the light cavalry is faster, but the short-distance explosive power, the heavy cavalry because of the best horses, the explosive power is stronger.

The Warcraft cavalry also had to wear heavy armor, and the armor on the iron wildebeest was more than 180 catties, and the knife could not be cut, the spear could not penetrate, and the arrow could not penetrate.

Coupled with the powerful power of the iron wildebeest, it is like a tin can on the battlefield.

Ordinary soldiers have no way to take the Warcraft cavalry at all, and dozens of soldiers can be earned by exchanging one horse.

Only professional officers, enchanted bows, alchemy bombs, magicians and other extraordinary powers are suitable for dealing with the Warcraft cavalry, so that the Warcraft cavalry will have casualties and attrition.

Baron Harden, a squadron of Warcraft cavalry, attacked the orc brigade several times, making Gunderson exhausted.

Of course, if the Warcraft cavalry is hit by a stone bullet dropped by a heavy trebuchet, it will be difficult to survive.

The cavalry unit under Richard was a mixed squadron, consisting of forty Warcraft cavalry, eighty heavy cavalry, and two hundred medium cavalry.

Forty Warcraft cavalry, plus Richard, a total of eighteen professions, and in recent months, four more veterans in the Haaland territory have advanced.

These advanced professionals, as long as their riding skills were barely passable, were all transferred by Richard to the cavalry squadron, enriching the Warcraft cavalry personnel.

The remaining twenty-two Warcraft cavalry were almost all high-level apprentices.

Among the heavy cavalry, there were also many middle apprentices and high apprentices. Among the medium-sized cavalry, the majority were junior apprentices.

By this year, the strength of the cavalry in Haaland's territory has been very close to that of Baron Harden.

The Warcraft cavalry charged, and the momentum was like thunder, stirring up a large cloud of dust and smoke.

Richard took the lead and rushed to the front.

In the orc station, most of the orcs had not finished eating, and suddenly there was a fierce horn sound in the camp.

Countless orcs panicked and began to assemble outside the tent.

It's a pity that the orcs are not organized, and the emergency assembly is very chaotic.

Richard raised his hand and fired a standard magic missile, blowing up the barracks gate.

The professionals who rushed to the front row also threw out two alchemy bombs one after another.

The orc soldiers who had just organized and climbed the wall were attacked by twenty alchemy bombs, killing and wounding them in an instant.

The Warcraft cavalry was like a fierce tiger, and easily broke through the camp gate into the orc camp.

Soros struck his bow and shot an orc commander who was about to entangle his troops.

Richard swept around, and saw that the orc captain had successfully organized two squadrons, and immediately turned his horse's head, trying to lead his troops to disperse this group of enemies.

The Iron Wildebeest snorted incessantly, and under the command of the knight, it sent out energy missiles in almost no particular order.

Forty energy missiles fired at the two orc squadrons, killing and wounding seventy or eighty orcs in an instant.

Before the two sides could meet in close quarters, the orcs experienced serious attrition.

The orcs used slings and threw stone projectiles, and some orcs who could use bows and arrows also pulled the bowstring at the same time.

The stone bullet hit the armor of the Warcraft cavalry, making a clanging sound, making the muscles of the dozen or so cavalrymen dark. The arrows did not penetrate the steel plate armor and did not cause any attrition.

The speed of the Warcraft cavalry was extremely fast, and it slammed into the orc formation in an instant.

Richard held the spear in his hand and picked up the orcs who stood in his way, so close that he even saw the frightened eyes of the orcs and heard the miserable wails of the orcs.

Richard had no sympathy for this tragic scene, and the perennial war in northern Xinjiang made his heart as hard as iron.

When Richard first crossed over, he still couldn't fit into this world.

Seeing many people selling their sons and daughters, I also used to feel miserable, and on the streets of Heihebao, I saw poor people and even gave some money.

Unexpectedly, just because a few silver coins were exposed, a few thieves would kill him and rob him of his money, if it weren't for the secret protection of his second uncle Powell, Richard probably wouldn't have survived to adulthood.

Since this incident, Richard has no longer been full of sympathy, he has taken the initiative to integrate into the times, and he will not be soft on killing.

This is true for humans, and even less sympathetic to the orc Richard, and he will not hesitate to give the order to slaughter the city when necessary.

In this racially competitive world, if you don't kill someone, others will kill you.

In the Dawn plane, people are not ruthless and unsteady, and Richard has recognized this since he was thirteen years old.

(End of chapter)