Lord of War

"Everyone, get ready to fight!" Lu Xiuan said. Bloodhoof glanced at the crowd, and then said in a deep voice, "The wounded soldiers protect the other rabbit girls and cat girls to evacuate, and the cat girls will form a security force.... Luo Luo, you will lead, is it okay?"

"What about you?" Luo Luo frowned, "It's not a problem for me and Younis to cooperate with others to leave, but the encirclement..."

"Leave your breath, and we will look for you after we break through." Lu Xiu'an said in a deep voice, "Also, the task assigned by Lord William is almost completed."

"I understand." Luo Luo nodded and did not continue, "Then... may the beast god protect you."

Lu Xiu'an reached out and beat his left chest, and said in a deep voice, "May the beast god protect you!"

There was a burst of loud and clear voices, one after another.

However, unlike the orcs who basically believe in beast gods, the highland elves are a branch of the highland elves, and they are the same ethnic group as the grassland elves, so the gods they believe in include the goddess of hunting and the goddess of springs. However, due to the difference in living habits, most of the highland elves believe in the goddess of hunting, while the grassland elves believe more in the goddess of spring water, but it is not absolute, so at this time there are also highland elves praying to the goddess of spring water.

"Then, let's act in accordance with the battle rules that Lord William formulated for us." Lu Xiu'an smiled, "Everyone, don't die so fast. I hope that after the battle is over, I can still drink with you."

"Don't worry, we will definitely not die before you." Someone laughed.

Immediately, the atmosphere of the entire team became heated, and it didn't seem like they were going to war at all.

After a burst of laughter, Lu Xiu'an took off the horn hanging from his waist, and then blew it.

The old, deep and dull voice slowly sounded.

Hearing the sound of the horn, everyone in the barren land felt the blood boiling in their bodies, and a hot feeling made them all look extremely excited. At this moment, everyone felt their bodies were full of a sense of strength. And because of this sense of power rising from their hearts, they feel even more fearless. Trembling with excitement, all of them couldn't help but growl.

Lu Xiu'an nodded slightly to Luo Luo, and then led the people to set off.

None of the 1,000 Catwoman and 1,000 Rabbit Girls and nearly 1,000 wounded soldiers participated in the battle.

The ones with the most complete combat strength were the 15,000 centaurs and the 3,000 highland elf sword dancers. The werewolves and leopards were more or less injured. Especially werewolves. In the case of non-plundering raids, it was Cafins' werewolf troops who were in charge of the frontal attack, so in several encounters and battles in the siege of the camp, the troops led by Caffins were under great pressure .

There were 5,000 werewolves, and more than 700 were reduced at this time.

Luo Luo stared at Lu Xiu'an, Sach Grotel and others leaving. After taking a deep breath, she said, "Then... let's go."

Soon, a thousand catgirls spread out in groups of twos, threes, and twos. In each catwoman group, there must be a rabbit girl following them, and all the groups began to move in a large fan-shaped formation. Luo Luo and Younis moved behind the large fan formation with the injured werewolves and leopards, and quickly left the encirclement that was about to close.

...

The encirclement will only be deterrent when it is fully formed.

To break the encirclement,

The method is very simple.

One is to leave before the encirclement is formed, forcing the encirclement to be changed or directly invalidated. The second is to defeat the siege of the encirclement with absolute strength. Then he left dignifiedly. The former has extremely strict requirements for speed, while the latter has extremely strict requirements for strength.

Of course, there is still a third party.

That is to defeat one of the teams before the encirclement circle is formed, forcing the encirclement circle to fail to close satisfactorily.

Give William to Lu Xiu'an. The size of the vanguard deployed by Bloodhoof, in fact, they can leave before the encirclement is completely closed, and of course the danger is not small. After all, the fascist kingdom urgently needs a major victory now, so the strength of the encirclement net will definitely be very high. This is why the fascist kingdom directly mobilized two border garrisons to implement the encirclement net siege plan.

But all of this was already in William's calculations.

So relevant action plans and coping strategies. William had also told Lu Xiu'an a long time ago. Bloodhoof is waiting.

At this time, by Lu Xiu'an. The troops led by Bloodhoof are heading in the direction pointed by Luo Luo and Younis, facing the troops carrying out the encirclement plan.

Because both sides are close to each other. So the distance between each other is constantly shortening.

The only difference is that this army of the fascist kingdom didn't know the enemy was approaching, and Lu Xiuan. Bloodhoof is aware of the enemy's movements at this time. So purely from a strategic point of view, Lu Xiu'an at this time. Bloodhoof has the upper hand.

Soon, the troops arrived at a plain.

At the end of Lu Xiu'an's line of sight, there was a fine dust. It's as if the breeze blows by, rolling up the fine sand and dust on the ground.

The dust is light, and it seems that the size of the enemy army is not large. But everyone present knew that this was because the distance between the two sides was too far away. If the distance difference was taken into account, the number of enemy troops should be more than 20,000 with this level of dust——People of the wild land , Judging the size of the cavalry unit through sand and dust often has extremely accurate judgment ability.

Luo Luo made a mistake in judging this troop through hearing, not because she was not strong enough, but because this troop is a typical mixed infantry and cavalry troop, and the distance is too far, so it can only be judged roughly. That's all.

"With 20,000 cavalry, there must be 10,000 to 20,000 infantry. Could this be the main force of the enemy's encirclement net?" Sach Grotter frowned.

"I don't know." Lu Xiu'an shook his head not very clearly, "Master William only mentioned a few tactics that the opponent might implement, and told us how to deal with them. But what kind of target is selected, we can only see We are lucky...but I guess, it is very likely that it is really the main force of the border garrison."

"Hey, what are you afraid of? I think I've made enough money from fighting these days!" Cuffins grinned, then moved his neck, making a crackling sound.

"Don't worry, I will collect your body when you die." Atlam grinned, "Your sister. I will take care of you too."

"Haha, don't worry, I will drag you along on the road even if I die." Cuffins laughed loudly, "On the way to the throne of the Beast God. Without you arguing with me, I would be bored....Besides Yes, you need someone to accompany you when you drink in the future."

Lu Xiu'an glanced at Sach Grotter who was sitting on his back, and said with a smile, "What do you say?"

The highland elf, who is not considered a low status nowadays, smiled and took off the flagon at his waist, raised his head and took a big gulp. Then hand it to Lu Xiu'an. blood hooves. The latter was not polite either, and after taking the hand, he tilted his head back and took a big gulp, a lot of wine spilled out, flowing down Lu Xiu'an's collarbone to his chest, then he boldly swung the jug and wiped his mouth: " Set off!"

The whole troop continued to advance mightily.

But this time, they didn't rush frantically, but just kept moving slowly at a constant speed.

The werewolves lined up at the forefront, their chests heaving. Every time, he took a big inhalation, and then exhaled slowly, the strength was constantly accumulating. The leopards walked on both sides of the werewolf phalanx. They did not have such an obvious and strong breathing rhythm as the werewolves, but their slightly puffed chests fully expressed the strength accumulated in their hearts; walking at the end, It's the centaur phalanx, they have taken off their bows and arrows, and are debugging while moving forward; the highland elves are following the centaurs, slightly behind the werewolf phalanx, after all, they are not the ones who will fight next Sharp knife troops.

team. Walking forward in silence, there is no smoke and dust rising, but the momentum is extraordinarily strong.

The human army in front was obviously much closer, because the smoke and dust that filled the air had gradually become more obvious and stronger.

The werewolves looked excited. With their eyesight, they have been able to see the enemy very well.

"It's Qingqi." Cuffins smirked. "There are probably more than 10,000 infantry beside them. They should be in charge of the search line. ... It should be the main force."

"Then you don't need to be polite." Lu Xiu'an nodded, and with a wave of his hand, the movements of the entire troop instantly accelerated.

The general strength of the border garrison may not be very strong. But the size of the army must be very large, at least around 100,000 people. Moreover, in order to prepare for various war situations, the legions stationed on the border are generally composed of light infantry, heavy infantry, light cavalry, heavy cavalry, and long-range attack arms. The main component is generally infantry. Mobilized to implement the encirclement plan, as the main force must be troops based on light cavalry.

Because only Qingqi has enough mobility to quickly enter the designated position on the battlefield within a designated time. However, in order to avoid the tragic destruction of the light cavalry unit, infantry will definitely be equipped with it, usually a combination of light and heavy infantry regiments. The main purpose is to quickly form a defense line after arriving at the destination, and carry out search and capture to narrow the encirclement net.

The team in front of them is intercepting Lu Xiu'an. The troops in front of Bloodhoof and the others were indeed the main force of the Third Frontier Army of the Fascist Kingdom in charge of encircling the net this time, consisting of 20,000 light cavalry and 15,000 soldiers. And behind the main force of the encirclement network are the most important 10,000 heavy cavalry troops of the Third Frontier Army of the Fascist Kingdom, and the encirclement network troops responsible for intercepting in other directions are composed of 10,000 to 20,000 light and heavy cavalry troops. Composed of combined infantry units.

In addition, in another direction, there is also the Fourth Frontier Army of the Fascist Kingdom coming here, which is basically similar in composition to the Third Frontier Army.

These two border garrisons were originally used for emergency support when Vangersburg was in an emergency to delay time. As a result, this time, because William adopted a barren land force whose mobility far exceeded the level of a normal human country, the two frontier troops were forced to abandon their original military missions and form a siege immediately. Annihilate this vanguard that is already making trouble behind the border.

And the few aristocratic territories closest to the border have already recruited some of the private soldiers of the territories to support here-the strategic position of Vangersburg, for William and others, is of the nature of a bridgehead. If so, the deterrent power of the Principality of the Void to the Fascist Kingdom can radiate to the three nearby territories, and at the same time form a corner with the border between the Ryan Kingdom and the Fascist Kingdom.

Any general of the fascist kingdom with a little bit of strategic vision would not just watch Vangersburg fall into William's hands.

However, the first prerequisite for preventing Vangersburg from falling into William's hands is to solve this vanguard first.

The billowing dust rose up, and it was impossible for the human troops to ignore it even if they wanted to.

However, the expected panic did not appear, perhaps as a border army. Years of fighting have long been used to this kind of sudden encounters—especially on the plains, where there is no place to hide, and once the two sides get too close, they will be directly naked. bare. Naked exposed to view. The only advantage that Lu Xiu'an and the others could have was to charge out of the enemy's field of vision. After all, the Third Frontier Army of the Fascist Kingdom is too large, and even if it wants to adjust its formation, it cannot be adjusted in an instant.

The werewolves were running fast on all fours; the leopards had already run sideways, making a big circle around them. began to detour. The highland elves would consume a lot of energy because of running fast, so they temporarily rode on the back of a centaur, and the centaur quickly approached the battlefield with the skill of following the werewolf.

The distance between the two sides is shortening rapidly.

"Arrange guns!" In the phalanx of the human legion, a commander began to issue orders.

In the barely formed infantry phalanx, the pikemen standing in the front squatted down and quickly raised their spears. The point of the spears was aimed at the werewolves who were rushing madly, and the end of the spears was on the ground. force. The infantry of other arms in the rear are also quickly entering their combat positions according to the combat formation. Although they didn't expect to encounter the enemy here, their good military quality did ensure that they didn't collapse in the first place.

The cavalry had already adjusted their direction and were preparing to charge.

However, facing the front line of guns laid out by the enemy, the werewolves did not rush forward foolishly, but ran towards the left under the leadership of Kaffins, making a semicircle. And the centaurs, who had been keeping a distance of about 100 meters from the werewolves, now followed the werewolves and entered the combat range, only about 500 meters away from the enemy spearmen phalanx.

"Peng!"

There was a strong bowstring trembling sound.

Tens of thousands of arrows. Just like that, it fell towards the enemy's phalanx from the front with a completely covered blow.

Different from the lob shooting of conventional archers, the centaur's riding shooting technique is famous for covering strikes - the centaur in the front is directly shooting flat, while the centaur in the back row will raise the angle slightly by about fifteen degrees, The centaurs in the rear row raised the angle to thirty degrees. The centaur in the last column is projectile and lob shot from 45 degrees to 60 degrees, and the order of shooting is progressive from back to front.

This gives people the illusion of a densely packed enveloping attack.

Many infantry who had no time to react quickly fell in this wave of centaur harvest, especially the spearmen standing at the forefront. The situation of the soldiers slightly behind and the heavy infantry with shields and armor is a little bit better. Others can't escape the overwhelming arrow rain like locusts, even if there is a commander screaming crazily With slogans such as holding up shields and covering up. But the casualties are still tragic.

The formation of the infantry regiment began to become chaotic.

Whether it is Lu Xiu'an. Bloodhoof, or Thatch Grotter, or Caffins, Atram, all the orcs and highland elves have a sense of excitement at this moment. This head-to-head confrontation in the field, after completely following William's designated battle formation skills, unexpectedly achieved such an unexpected result, which was beyond their imagination anyway.

Because staying in the depths of their memory, the human army has very strong combat and defense capabilities, and their equipment is very sophisticated. Moreover, they usually hide in the fortifications, and they are almost as helpless as turtles shrunk in a hard shell.

But now, in just a covering arrow rain attack, the enemy's infantry formation was chaotic, which made this vanguard instantly gain extremely important and affirmative beliefs!

During the process of running and shooting, the centaur troops did not follow the werewolf's direction and ran to the left, but moved quickly to the right side of the leopard's detour. But this kind of high-speed movement also has a difference in speed. The formation of the entire centaur army began to become longer, just like a silk thread being pulled out of a ball of thread.

There was another bowstring trembling.

This time, the centaurs shoot from the right side, and the shooting method arranged in a straight line ensures that all the centaurs can shoot straight out, and there is no need to attack with a completely covered strike as before. . But this time. Because they had prepared in advance, the casualty rate was actually not as high as the first covering strike before, but the centaurs put all their attacks on the right side, which naturally caused the entire enemy The formation was pulled and deformed more seriously.

The enemy commander finally understood. How terrifying is the deterrent power of the centaur on this battlefield.

So, without hesitation, he ordered the cavalry to charge towards the centaur.

Almost as soon as the cavalry started to run, the werewolves on the left also took advantage of this time to rush into the deformed and chaotic infantry phalanx.

Almost all the main defense forces are concentrated on the right, so the defense on the left is relatively weak. And werewolves are famous for their physical strength. Their individual strength and attack power are definitely stronger than ordinary humans, especially at the moment when their confidence is extremely strong, their combat power will explode to a higher level.

Like a sharp and warm knife slipping into butter, Kaffins grinned grinningly and led his troops into the infantry phalanx. Although they are still slightly at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, the pressure they need to face when rushing into the phalanx is extremely high. But what is incredible is that the entire infantry phalanx can't stop the charge and killing of these werewolves at all, and it can't even slow down their speed of breaking the formation.

On the other side, the light cavalry who charged out were unable to return to help at this time-even if they were willing to return to help, they had already entered the middle of the infantry phalanx. It can be said that they were werewolves who were integrated into the entire infantry phalanx, and they were also powerless. The only thing that can be done at this time is to catch up with the centaur army, after inflicting heavy damage on them, turn around and deal with these werewolves.

But what everyone didn't expect was that those centaurs that should be made of cavalry in the eyes of humans-the highland elves riding on the back of the centaur, all dismounted at this time, and when they dismounted, they Already relying on his sensitive body reaction ability and balance ability, he quickly landed on the ground and at the same time formed a defensive phalanx unique to sword dancers.

And after losing the burden of the highland elves. The speed of the centaur troops suddenly increased a lot, especially the part of the centaur that was originally lagging behind in a straight line also accelerated their running speed, and the whole troop quickly fell into pieces again. But this time their integration time is not long. Almost as soon as they were integrated, they immediately turned around and dispersed into two left and right troops, galloping out from both sides of the highland elf troops.

At this moment, the highland elf troops also met the 20,000 light cavalry who charged.

Three thousand against twenty thousand.

With such an extremely disparate gap ratio, on any battlefield, all commanders know that it will be a matter of time before the entire formation is pierced.

But. The development of reality gave the entire cavalry unit an unexpected deviation.

The hundreds of highland elves at the front were indeed unable to block the charge of the cavalry. Even if these cavalry were light cavalry, many highland elves were still knocked into the air. However, the bloodiness and arrogance unique to the wild land also made these elves try their best to leave a scar on the enemy while being knocked into the air.

Thus, when the charge of the 20,000 cavalrymen was reduced step by step, until nearly 2,000 highland elves were either directly knocked into the air and seriously injured, or died in battle, or were trampled or thrown to death, they broke into the Nearly two-thirds of the cavalry's charge force disappeared just like that!

Their charge was completely stuck!

"Whoosh!"

A short spear pierced through the air, and then pierced the neck of a cavalryman.

With an expression of disbelief, the cavalryman slowly slipped off his horse and fell down.

A ray of sword light struck head-on.

A highland elf swung his sword and jumped, and the blade struck from bottom to top, chopping down a cavalryman to the ground. But before the highland elf landed, a lance pierced the highland elf's body diagonally from the side, piercing him on the lance like a skewer, but before the cavalryman showed his Because of the joy of assassinating the enemy, the highland elf who had been pierced through his body showed a sinister smile, and pierced the cavalry's heart with a backhand sword.

Then, countless short spears were thrown out through the air.

The centaurs on both sides have already started to attack. Only this time, instead of using bows and arrows, they threw short spears on their bodies - at a distance of less than two hundred meters, for centaurs, this kind of throwing did not need to be aimed at all. The attack can definitely make the short spear hit an enemy, and most of the attacks are enough to kill the enemy with one blow because of the terrible penetration power of the short spear.

The roundabout leopards did not come to help the centaur

And the highland elves, they rushed diagonally towards the infantry phalanx at the rear of the battlefield as swiftly as the wind.

Although the infantry, who were already dealing with the werewolves' attack, had expected this leopard army, but because the enemy commander was not used to the cooperation and fighting style of these orcs, he thought that these leopards should be similar to the reserve cavalry. Even if they go into battle, they should support the highland elves and centaurs and attack the light cavalry. After all, the phalanx of the highland elves has almost been pierced through, and once the phalanx is pierced, if the cavalry unit charges again, it will be too late. Enough to give this vanguard another heavy blow.

Therefore, in their conventional tactical thinking, they must give priority to the cavalry units that did not cut out the formation in the first place.

Unexpectedly, these leopards ignored the cavalry at all, but broke into the infantry phalanx, forming an alternative internal and external offensive with the werewolves who were constantly charging.

This time, the entire infantry phalanx finally failed to withstand this two-way pressure and was completely pierced through.

However, the werewolves who pierced through the formation did not turn around and penetrate in the opposite direction like the cavalry - all the werewolves who broke through the formation put their weapons into the wolf's mouth, and then jumped forward again. Running on all fours, this time their attack target was the cavalry unit, and they still broke in from the rear.

The Leopard troops led by Atlam immediately dispersed after breaking out of the formation, and directly cut the entire chaotic and incomplete infantry phalanx in the form of small groups, so that every part of the enemy army must Surrounded by two or three squads.

This type of cannibalization tactic is most often used by infantry who have fallen into intense combat after the cavalry has pierced through the enemy's formation.

Usually, once the encroachment tactic is launched by a certain party, it often means that the phalanx is not far from being defeated.

As for the stagnant cavalry units, after the werewolves in the rear also joined the battle, the entire formation became even more chaotic in an instant. Especially the werewolf's completely unruly style of play: they either leaped and threw the cavalry off their horses, or exuded a wild wolf breath that scared even the horses, or slashed at the horses and their vision with blood-red eyes. The cavalry inside, or simply the enemy who only kills the horse and ignores the fallen horse.

The battlefield is already in chaos.

Accompanied by this chaos, the tragic bloody atmosphere completely spread on the battlefield. (To be continued.)

PS: Well, regarding the massacres in the previous two chapters, I seem to have seen some people express their displeasure. ...Actually, to be honest, I thought about it for a long time, and finally wrote this paragraph according to the original manuscript, mainly because of the practice of "war is inherently cruel". Due to the special geographical conditions of the barren land, the barren land is often slaughtered and captured by human countries. Therefore, William led the troops of the barren land to fight this time. It cannot be reversed, and William, as a real commander, sometimes needs to be ruthless. Since this state cannot be prevented, then treating this as a tactical use has become his first consideration. ...Of course, this kind of plot that I also find disgusting, I will definitely not write in detail or write more, just mention it in one stroke.