I Want To Be a Nobleman

The defensive location chosen by the Land Reclamation Alliance has a good terrain. It is a hill with a relatively wide terrain and relatively large ups and downs. It can not only allow human troops to line up comfortably, but also limit the group charge of centaurs.

Although they formed an alliance to fight together, the nobles still commanded their own armies, but they had their own tasks according to the alliance's tactical arrangements.

Like the previous dynasties, the unified command of the army is indeed more effective and cohesive, but the coalition forces never thought of doing so.

Firstly, the soldiers had not been well-trained, so it was difficult to cooperate well when they were suddenly assigned to an unfamiliar team.

Secondly, none of the nobles would like their troops to be commanded by others. In the process of opening up wasteland, whoever makes more contributions will gain more territory. If you lead my soldiers to kill the enemy, whose credit is this?

The Marquis of Prague's corps alone is close to tens of thousands. He and the dwarf's 1,000-man corps are the main force in the center of the defensive formation.

The other nobles defended both sides with the Marquis of Prague as the center. The stronger ones were responsible for a longer front, and the weaker ones were shorter.

Although Marcus himself was strong and his knights performed well, but because the number of troops was too small, there were only more than a thousand people, and he did not occupy the main position.

Marcus's territory was not in the Eastern Province, so it was much more difficult to recruit troops than other nobles. Even with good conditions, he only recruited a few hundred people, counting the veterans brought from the territory, only a thousand people.

However, these thousand soldiers are all regular soldiers with relatively strong combat effectiveness, and there are no mixed soldiers.

Marcus was assigned to defend a high ground on the right wing. The terrain here was the highest, and various traps and obstacles were set up, so it was a relatively easy place to defend.

The elves followed because of the handsome elf and the good relationship between Tiona and Harold, and it happened that the high ground on the right wing was also suitable for archery.

Marcus encouraged everyone: "If we win this battle, our land reclamation plan will be half successful! Honor, status, and wealth are all waving to us!"

"Be courageous and fight! Our battle will be recorded in the annals of history and become a great achievement in the history of mankind, and will be praised by future generations! We are the heroes who break new ground!"

Marcus was very charming, this encouragement greatly increased the morale of the troops, and those soldiers who had never fought monsters like centaurs also plucked up their courage.

Harold was assigned an important task. A total of 200 elite infantrymen were under his command, including the 50 infantrymen he was originally in charge of, the gladiators and the core guards under Marcus.

It's a pity that the bald head was seriously injured and unable to play, but Harold believed that Marcus would not treat the bald head badly.

With these elites, Harold must firmly stand in front of the high ground to block the centaur's frontal attack.

Several other knights led ordinary soldiers to defend the two sides, and Marcus led the archers to shoot in the rear and led ordinary soldiers to support when the situation was not good.

The elves can figure it out on their own, and Marcus is not qualified to order them, but fortunately, these elves are more cooperative and stand next to Marcus's long-range troops.

The centaurs came very quickly, and they arrived at the alliance camp ten miles before noon. Each centaur was a huge monster weighing half a ton. More than 30,000 centaurs were several times more spectacular than the 80,000 alliance army.

Centaurs have no patience, and they are not a well-disciplined army. It is impossible to make any tactical arrangements or divide troops into battle.

After only resting for more than ten minutes, the centaur launched a general attack on the coalition forces.

Tens of thousands of centaurs charged indiscriminately. There was no formation, no cover, and no division of the battle group. They just rushed towards the coalition forces in one piece. The open hills were crowded by the centaurs, which seemed a bit crowded.

As Grand Duke Lance said, the centaur army is completely mob, with no formation and no tactics, just like the stupid tactics in the game where the whole army charges as soon as the fight starts.

Only the Thunder Tribe led by the centaur leader did not lose their position, and continued to maintain their formation in the rear without attacking.

The troops of more than 20,000 centaurs came in menacingly, overwhelming the defense line of the coalition forces. The sound of tens of thousands of horseshoes trampling on the ground and the roar of the centaurs were intertwined, which was deafening.

Fortunately, the terrain is relatively undulating, and it is difficult for centaurs to increase their speed, and the deterrent effect of group charges has been reduced by more than half.

The two sides from far away started to attack with arrows. The movement of the centaur's bow did not affect their movement at all. The strength of the centaur is stronger than that of humans, and the bowstring is also very tough. After fully pulling out, the shooting range is longer than that of most archers on the human side. Far.

Centaurs have basically shot an arrow before humans are able to fight back. Fortunately, centaurs look down on humans, and their military literacy is extremely poor. They did not take advantage of their range to bully humans remotely.

Whether or not the aim of this kind of army is accurate is not so important, and the advantage of the centaur in the accuracy of archery is not reflected.

The soldiers on the human side raised their shields to defend, and even Harold, a man with a big sword, raised the steel shield on his back above his head to resist the rain of arrows.

Although the centaur can shoot far with great strength, the arrowheads they shoot are made of stone, which has limited damage to the human side equipped with shields and bunker protection.

On the other hand, on the human side, besides bows and arrows, there were also a small amount of crossbow equipment, and the enemy was a huge centaur. A single volley shot down hundreds of centaurs.

If it weren't for the tenacious vitality of the centaur, it wouldn't be a problem to get hit by two or three arrows, and the number of people who fell would be doubled several times.

The coalition has an advantage in long-range confrontation, but unfortunately they don't have the chance to fire too many rounds to expand their advantage.

The centaur's charging speed was very fast, and even in the hills with relatively undulating terrain, they quickly rushed to the coalition forces and started a melee confrontation.

The advantage that the coalition forces had gained in long-range firefights was gone, no matter whether the centaur formation was scattered or the team was chaotic, with half a ton of weight and extraordinary strength, the human army was no match at all.

The human coalition forces were thrown into chaos at the first moment of the battle, with heavy casualties. The defensive formation formed by the regular soldiers or the elite soldiers was easily torn apart, and thousands of human soldiers in the front died tragically.

This is thanks to the fact that the centaur did not increase its speed to launch a charge on the hills. Otherwise, it is estimated that the coalition forces would have suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and it is possible that the morale would drop to zero and be defeated directly.

The strength of a centaur is three times that of an ordinary human, and twice that of an elite soldier. It weighs half a ton, and its vitality far exceeds that of a human.

In small-scale battles, humans can still fight flexibly with their bodies, but in this chaotic battlefield, strength and physique are the most critical.

The physical gap between humans and centaurs leads to the fact that humans will inevitably be at a disadvantage in a head-to-head confrontation.

Except for the central army, which was defended by the dwarf corps, all other defensive points in charge of the nobles were suppressed and beaten, and several fronts were completely pierced, and many soldiers began to flee.

The coalition forces fell into such a huge disadvantage as soon as they fought against each other. This was really beyond everyone's expectations. How could the mob's centaur army be so strong in combat?