The more the three major military cities are at this time, the more they must stand up their bones and take their own responsibilities.

At this time, more than 3 million grassland elites led by Ranri Dolan had reached the periphery of Gaokan City and launched a large-scale movement war with the mobile troops led by Philip.

At the same time, the men and horses of the headquarters sent by Ran Ridolan in this direction a few days ago are also converging here, making this snowball of already amazing size roll bigger and bigger, and it seems that it has exceeded 4.2 million people.

It turned out that the elite of the northern steppes were much stronger than the southern and western steppes, and both the lightning-fast Blue Antelope cavalry and the powerful wolf cavalry in close combat caused a lot of trouble for Philip.

If it weren't for the fact that he had witnessed the power of these strange mounts a few days ago, he would have really suffered a big loss.

Philip didn't choose to fight this diligently large elite army in the wild, after all, he was only leading the girls of the Red Rose Division, not the incredibly powerful Templars.

All he wanted was to roam around the perimeter, holding back the centaurs that were gathering here, while constantly tearing flesh of all sizes from the behemoth to make it look less outrageous in size, and at the same time slow down their progress and buy enough time to prepare for the decisive battle in Gaokan City.

Judging from the previous battles, this young man, who is about to celebrate his 18th birthday, is very good at using special terrain to fight in sports.

In this very personal style of combat mode, he even walked in the forefront of most of the outstanding commanders in the entire southeastern province, and was the best choice for the commander of this sports war.

Even several military academies, including Green Tree Vine, have meticulously restored the entire process from his death in the field to the annihilation battle outside Gaokan City, organized relevant tutors to analyze it, and put several of the classic battles into the academy's textbooks for the students to learn.

At the same time, they also plan to invite special lecturers under the Northeast Border Wind Regiment to open relevant tactical courses to make up for this shortcoming on the Southeast Border.

After all, Philip's legendary journey has given them a new direction, and with the right mounts to match, the Wardersmann GIs have a different style of combat.

As long as it forms a high and low match with the heavy cavalry of the Dragon Lance Legion, it can have a more flexible combination of defensive tactics, and with limited human resources, the combat effectiveness of the three major military cities will jump to a new level in the future.

On the other hand, while his personal ability is strong, the youngest in the steppe, Ranri Dolan, is also an excellent military commander, and the two battles between Ferretti City and Nopua City are enough to illustrate the problem.

When he and Philip meet, the battle between the cavalry on both sides is full of traps and traps, testing and biting each other.

In this tug-of-war, Philip's command ability is also improving day by day, and the theoretical knowledge and tactics learned in the classroom are no longer just rigid terms, but are more and more flexible in his hands.

Even if you occasionally suffer a small loss, you can always get out of the way, and then suddenly an inexplicable inspiration, like an antelope hanging its horns, inadvertently makes the grassland people suffer a big loss.

After all, the core main force is not his own headquarters, and Ran Ridoran also feels a little difficult in command, and he needs time to integrate those proud tribal masters.

Not to mention the fact that he could not count on the tactical literacy of these semi-nomadic steppe warriors compared to the professional soldiers of the Wardsmann Empire.

On this huge battlefield, which stretches for hundreds of kilometers, often by the time his orders are in place, the situation there has changed fundamentally.

Occasionally, he would envy the silver figure flying in the sky, at least a group of powerful and powerful subordinates.

After the portal was opened, the northern grasslands did not send enough air power, and after the loss of his own golden eagle, he had lost air supremacy, at least the young commander was helpless, even if there were more powerful assassins, he could not fly to a height of thousands of meters to carry out decapitation tactics.

Ran Ridoran could feel that as his army approached Gaokan City day by day, the young man who was said to be the heir of the Mad Lion Family in Gaokan City was also growing day by day, which could be seen from the fact that he continued to gather his headquarters, but the total strength of the entire army did not increase much.

Even so, with the arrival of the first winter snow of the year, Ran Ridoran led nearly 4 million main forces to break through two lines of defense successively, and came to the Bloodline Ridge defense line, which is only 50 kilometers away from Gaokan City.

Ran Ridolan watched the goose-feathered snow fall down and dye the whole land white in an instant, and he knew that time was running out for him.

According to the letter from outside the customs, although the ice and snow on the grassland this year came a little later than in previous years, it was much larger.

The southern steppe has just suffered a big loss, and the follow-up troops have been blocked by the heavy snow on the long supply road, and they cannot be expected to exert enough pressure on the eastern front of Gaokan City for at least 15 days.

Even in the leaderless southern grasslands, the major tribes that have struggled to support until now have the idea of retreating, and at least more than 20 small and medium-sized tribes with a population of less than one million are destined to not survive this harsh winter.

He knew that he had actually failed, and the only suspense was whether he could destroy the city of Gokan, or even the city of Verladi, and leave a hope for the future.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, but without much trimming, Ran Ridoran launched a general attack directly on the Bloodline Ridge defense line.

Now that Philip's department is 70 kilometres away, he will use the time to quickly kick the last stumbling block before the city of Gokan.

Fifteen thousand combined heavy cavalry troops of the city of Gokan and Viladi, led by Anne and Francis, and five thousand knights of the Red Rose under the command of Caritan, were already waiting for them there.

They abandoned the tactic of defending the city completely, and chose to use up a large amount of the enemy's living force in the field, at the doorstep.

I have to say that the strategic concept of the four masters of Gaokan City, led by Brad, is extremely bold, and it has proved to be a very smart decision.

When the vicious steppe people shouted and charged towards the Bloodline Ridge, they found no heavy defensive machinery such as trebuchets or bed crossbows, nor any of the nasty barbed wire and tripwires, except for the clouds of feathered arrows.

But before they could be happy for too long, they had already rushed to two hundred meters outside the defense line of the Blood Line Ridge, and suddenly saw that the entire camp wall fell down with a loud bang, revealing thousands of large round balls behind them.

Each ball was a meter and a half in diameter, and it was unknown what was inside, and it looked like it was made of wood, but on the outside was wrapped in two criss-cross steel belts, which were inlaid with inch-long triangular steel nails.

Lost from the barracks wall, the balls rolled down the sloping hillside with a deafening sound under the force of gravity.

Only then did the steppe people realize that the slopes of Bloodline Ridge looked too wide and flat.

Even if they were made of wood, the balls were heavy enough, leaving deep indentations on the snow-white slopes, tumbling into the ranks of the steppe men.

No one counted how many people had died under the crushing of these balls, but after a quarter of an hour, the six or seven hundred meters long hillside was cleared, and all but the large balls that had stopped sporadically were the bodies of fallen men and mounts.

The big balls roared into the array of the sloping steppe people, slicing the originally dense formation to pieces.

Before the steppe people could regroup, they saw a majestic team rushing down from the hillside, more than 10,000 heavily armored knights, riding on the back of the tall beast land dragon, rushing down the hillside to this place.

Each of these knights was armed to the teeth, not only were they wrapped in steel armor in important parts of the beast dragons, and they wore ramming horns on their heads, but even their huge hooves were wrapped with wires and steel nails, which not only prevented the snow from slippery, but also brought great lethality.

At the same time, five thousand heavily armored cavalry also rushed out from the right flank, cutting horizontally into the ranks of the steppe people.

Taking advantage of the acceleration of a few hundred meters of hillside, the heavily armored knights achieved sufficient speed with little effort, and the steppe people did not have time to recover the neat queue and suffered a heavy loss.

What made the steppe people even more depressed was that those big balls were behemoths to them, but for the giant beasts with an average back height of two meters and a weight of 3 tons after wearing armor, they could continue to charge without being affected by just a light bump or kick with their heads, and those wooden balls that rolled and smashed in front of them would also bring secondary damage.

In just half an hour, the first three hundred thousand steppe clusters began to collapse under this unstoppable charge, and the follow-up forces began to gather forward, trying to overwhelm these bulky knights by their numbers.

It was the few remaining men of the headquarters who were undergoing a bloody massacre, and although he was in terrible distress, he instinctively felt that something was wrong.

Urgent orders were given to redeploy ground troops from the left rear flank to the right rear flank to fill the gaps that had leaked there.

Ran Ri Dolan's keen sense saved the fate of the steppe people, taking advantage of the gap leaked by the emptiness of the army, Philip's department went on a rampage, breaking into a place less than 10 kilometers away from the Golden Horde of Ran Ri Dolan, and was blocked by a large number of steppe people who came with urgent reinforcements.

Seeing that the intention had been recognized and the possibility of beheading was lost, Philip did not fall in love with the battle, and retreated decisively, and used the involvement of the two divisions to tear the heavy strength of the steppe people into a gap.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he not only brought ninety and a half of the troops out of the encirclement, but also burned more than 2,000 carts full of supplies and baggage and more than 500 siege equipment of various types of siege equipment of the steppe people in one fell swoop.

This is not only the ration for three days for a million people, but also the fire oil used in the siege of the city, which occupies more than half of all the stocks.

The sky was reddened by the raging fires, and the pungent smoke dispersed the hawk-feathered birds above.