The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth

"Gather the knights and heavy cavalry! Let all the Battanian archers who can ride horses follow them on horseback!" A cold light flashed in Roland's pupils. No matter what happened, since the other party injured someone, he must ask them for it. a statement.

"We can arm up to 200 Battanian shooters, and we don't have many horses left." Kaslo said after calculation.

"Okay, let's assemble the troops! Leave the city to Renault! By the way! Bring a priest! The wounded need to stop bleeding!" Roland said.

"Yes, sir!" Kaslo nodded.

"Boom, boom..." A total of 100 heavy cavalry and 200 Batania archers galloped toward the centaur-infested forest.

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"Let's go! Meet the knights first!" Roland urged after leaving Rapid City. Although the arrow shot into the shoulder blade was not fatal, the large amount of blood loss was enough to send them to see the Dragon God for his injuries.

"Okay! Speed ​​up!" Kaslo shouted as he rode from the front of the team to the back of the team.

With Kaslo's urging, the entire army's marching speed increased a lot. The crisp sound of horse hooves instantly broke the tranquility of the wilderness. The small beasts that originally lived in the snowy grass were frightened and fled in all directions.

"There's something going on!" The Battanian shooter, who was investigating hundreds of meters ahead, saw anomalies in the distance with his amazing eyesight.

"What's going on?" Kasluo hurriedly rode over.

"They're our people!" The Battanian shooter squinted his eyes to identify them carefully, and found the knights who were covering the retreat of the people. The cloaks fluttering behind them became their most recognizable thing.

"Welcome them!" Roland said in surprise.

The huge cavalry team instantly turned into a pincer shape and surrounded the team that was stumbling forward in the distance...

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"Be on guard! It's the sound of horse hooves! At least 300 horses!" An experienced knight captain suddenly got off his horse, put his ear to the ground and listened carefully before shouting.

"Mount! Hurry! Abandon all encumbrances! Mount! Young men, pick up your weapons! Surround the wounded!" The battle-experienced knights immediately started to move. They pulled the reins and let the horses circle the civilians. The advantage of spinning in a circle is obvious. It can not only block the arrows coming from all directions in turn, but also can rush up to the enemy at high speed to fight melee when the enemy is close, eliminating the step of speeding up.

"Your Highness is here to reinforce us!" When the dragon flag representing Lagrand appeared in front of everyone, countless people burst into tears with excitement. When they were expelled and attacked, their king personally led the troops. .

"Praise your highness!"

"Long live!"

The simple people of Raglan knelt on the ground to express their sincere respect for the lord.

"What's going on?" Roland came to the leading knight.

"See Your Highness! It's like this. Our group of knights escorted these people who were picking wild vegetables to this forest. Then we were attacked by bows and arrows! These were the arrows of the attackers! They only wounded our people. shoulder, no killing!" The leading knight said to Roland after saluting.

"Are the knights injured?" Roland looked around.

"That's not true. Their inferior arrows cannot penetrate our plate armor, and the armor on the shoulders is thicker." The knight pointed to the white spots on his plate armor.

Roland carefully looked at the arrow in his hand. The exquisite arrow shaft was comparable to that of the elves. The feathers on the tail used to stabilize the arrow's flight were also very delicate. However, the most important part of the arrow that killed the enemy was actually made of flint. The polished, black and round flint has been polished to an extremely sharp edge.

"What's the use of this thing? What else can it do besides shooting at unarmored units?" Roland tested the sharpness of the arrow with his hand and said speechlessly. His people were actually attacked by a group of enemies with such weapons. However, it was also confirmed that these attackers were indeed men and horses!

"Why did the centaurs go south from the northern wasteland?" Roland wondered. In his impression, centaurs were a race distributed in the extreme northern wasteland. They had their own tribes, and the largest tribe was comparable to a small human country.

"I don't know. People and horses are peace-loving and like to live in forests or plains. They have a strong sense of territory. It seems that they regard this forest as their territory." Kaslo said, looking at the bare forest.

"It's really weird! Come on, let's go in and take a look. No matter what, they have to give me an explanation." The murderous look in Roland's eyes flashed away. Harming the people of the empire for no reason is tantamount to declaring war! Although Roland is still unable to regain the glory of the Lagrand Empire, the flag of the empire cannot be trampled by anyone!

"Is the wounded man okay?" Roland came to the accompanying priest and asked with concern.

"Your Highness and the others are fine at the moment. Although the blood loss is serious, it is not fatal." The priest said while releasing magic to treat the injured people.

"That's good, the heavy cavalry will escort the priests and people away! The others will follow me to meet these centaurs and let me see if their bones are harder than those of orcs!" Roland said coldly.

"Yes! Your Highness!" Countless people said in unison. All the heavy cavalry immediately left the team and followed the huge civilian team. Other professional soldiers came closer to Roland.

"Let's go! Go take a look!" Roland tucked his horse under his belly and walked towards the forest.

"Cang!" A strong wind struck, and Roland subconsciously raised the Elial on his left hand to block it in front of him.

The strong force from his wrist made Roland tremble, and the feather arrow that attacked him was shattered by Elijah on the spot.

"Seeking death!" Kaslo said angrily. Someone dared to attack his lord in front of him. This was simply his dereliction of duty!

The long bow made of dragon bone wood jumped out of his hand, Kasluo stretched out his slender arms, and an energy arrow condensed from fighting spirit was instantly formed...

"Boom!" A long arrow shot out with a terrifying sonic boom. The terrifying aftermath of war energy directly tore apart the trees along the way, and disappeared into the forest in the blink of an eye.

"Damn humans! You have crossed the line!" A roar came from the forest, and then the shadows of the trees shook and people and horses emerged from the forest one after another.

"Crossing the line?" Roland sneered.

"This doesn't seem to be the territory of men and horses, right?" Roland clenched his sword hand.

"Damn humans! Why do you want to hurt my people!" The centaur led by him asked Roland instead of answering.

"Hurt your tribe? Then who shot my tribe first?" Roland suddenly laughed angrily.

"They stepped into our territory first!" the centaur leader said confidently.

"Your territory? Are you kidding? This place is less than 20 miles away from our city. When did it become your territory?" Roland asked coldly.

"Since we already live here, and no one lives here, of course it is our territory!" the centaurs said in unison.

"Haha, this place is very close to my city, so can I think that you want to invade my country?" Roland smiled cruelly.

"You! Go back and tell Renault to gather my army! I'll try to see if I can kill you intruders!" Roland pointed at a Badanian shooter and said angrily, someone can be so shameless! Can you claim it as your own territory if no one lives there?