Warlord: King of All Clans

The armored knights' current situation was horrific, but because of the resistance of the front row knights, the actual casualties were only around fifty.

Before they officially engaged the enemy, one-third of the knights had already been killed or wounded, and they were the core elite of the knights. This had already scared the remaining knights out.

These people were all noble lords who were used to a comfortable life in the city, rather than small village lords who had been looting and suppressing bandits for a long time. Their armor was more sophisticated, and almost all of the knights' plate armor was custom-made, rather than the ill-fitting mass-produced ones worn by country knights.

But inversely proportional to this was their fighting will. The sudden death of the mid-level knight and the core troops made them lose their backbone.

The remaining hundreds of corner flags, proletarian knights and knight squires did not dare to face the ogre artillery positions that were being urgently reloaded, and they all slipped through the weak points between the infantry shield formation and the ogre artillery shield formation, trying to escape by a detour.

The heavy armored cavalry could not stop or turn around during a charge, so they could only adjust the direction of the charge.

It's more like running away than keeping on charging.

At this time, Minotaur Strong drove his mammoth and rushed into the armored cavalry. His huge trunk and tusks swept across, directly knocking two armored knights away.

The tusks, nose and face of his mammoth were all covered with thick bronze armor, and the tip of its nose even had a string of cast iron nose rings weighing nearly a hundred pounds.

The thick and powerful trunk with heavy iron rings swinging around is completely a siege weapon. No armored heavy cavalry can withstand it.

The mammoth's huge body was like a city wall, blocking more than a dozen armored soldiers who had no time to dodge.

There is a wooden frame and two gun barrels on the mammoth's back. The dog-headed men in charge of operating them are Strong's most admired subordinates. While the mammoth is killing the enemy, they will wait for the right moment to ignite the guns.

With a loud roar, all the equipment fell down.

The remaining armored men had already passed the mammoth and were fleeing in panic.

Strong calmed the mammoth, tried to adjust his position, and fired another shot, taking the lives of several armored soldiers again.

With the support of iron and artillery, the combat effectiveness of the already powerful Goblin Mammoth Knight has increased tenfold!

Tauren Strong stood on the mammoth, overlooking the entire battlefield. He showed his muscles like a bodybuilder and roared, "I! The great goblin chieftain! Kobold shaman! Tauren Strong! The Sleeping Dragon of the River Bend! I am super strong!"

An extraordinary armored knight felt the taunting and bravely charged towards the mammoth with his lance, attempting to stab to death the mammoth that posed the greatest threat.

Strong picked up the piles of boulders nearby and threw them like pebbles, easily knocking the Extraordinary Knight off his horse.

Rigolav, who was always calm and steady, couldn't help but blush when he saw this result. He ordered again: "Third brother, lead a hundred cavalrymen to attack them and catch up with them. Don't let them escape!"

"Second brother, lead the remaining cavalry to go around the rear of the infantry formation and disrupt their infantry."

The two men took the order and left. The third brother, Solovy, led a hundred cavalrymen and chased after the armored knights, shooting down the fleeing knights one by one.

The frightened armored knights had less than a hundred men, and due to their frequent panic charges, they had exhausted their horsepower and were easily caught up by the light cavalry led by Solovy.

The armored knight charges first, but the iron armor consumes a lot of horsepower.

Although the Northern heavy warhorses were powerful, they could not withstand combat of more than five kilometers and three full-scale charges.

Therefore, the armored heavy cavalry on the battlefield was used not only to cover the infantry's operations and guard their weak rear, but also to seize the opportunity to charge and make the final blow on the front battlefield.

However, thanks to Strong's cunning tricks, the Petukhov family's light cavalry lured the armored knights in front of the cannons and were defeated by Strong in one fell swoop.

The fleeing armored men were pursued by the light cavalry. They kept whipping their war horses, but the horses kept running slower and slower. Some of them couldn't even bear the weight and rolled to the ground.

The Solovian Knights didn't even have to engage in direct combat with them. They only had to drive them slowly from behind, and they would see one armored knight after another stop, dismount and surrender.

In fact, if the armored knights are organized, they can still barely turn around and charge, or simply form a formation to defend, and they can still suppress the civilian cavalry.

The armor they had built at great expense could not be penetrated by the wooden lances and one-handed swords of the civilian cavalry.

But the knights were so frightened by the artillery and lost their organization that no one thought of this.

As the last armored knight rolled into the grass with his horse and lay on the ground, refusing to get up, the armored knights of the Adonis Legion were completely defeated.

On the front battlefield, Babik Petukhov, the second son of the Petukhov family, led another hundred riders to go around the rear of the enemy's infantry shield formation and began to attack the weak rear.

After losing the protection of the Armored Knights, only Flynn Adonis and more than a dozen of his personal soldiers were left here.

They were unable to resist Babik's cavalry and could only flee on horseback to avoid the sharp edge.

Babik's cavalry did not directly crash into the infantry shield formation, but continued to raid and harvest the loose giant shield crossbowman formation in the rear.

These giant shield crossbowmen had used up all their crossbow arrows, and were left with only giant shields and short swords for self-defense. They were completely unable to resist Petukhov's cavalry and were quickly killed and dispersed.

As the reserve force of the infantry shield formation, their collapse caused panic among the infantry in the front.

The infantrymen who were fighting fiercely with the enemy suffered continuous casualties in front, and heard the approaching horses' hooves and screams of their comrades from behind. The flag of the legion commander was also driven away from the legion, and the formation soon became dispersed.

In regular military combat, military formation is far more important than individual bravery. Although the scattered Adonis Legion seemed to be numerous, they were actually being surrounded and beaten in every part of the battlefield.

At this time, Babik led the cavalry into the scattered and disordered infantry formation, attacking the enemy, dividing the battlefield, and further expanding the advantage.

As Bjorn saw the opportunity, he led the archers to give up roaming shooting and joined the close combat. The Adonis Legion was finally completely defeated.

In Isenpol, dozens of miles away, the port outside the northeast city gate is still crowded with cargo ships and people.

Although it was wartime, there was no large army approaching, and the port on which Isenpol depended for survival continued to have prosperous trade and was not affected by the "rebels" in the southern suburbs.

The residents of Isenpol were not optimistic about either side of the war.

The news that the Grand Duke of the North recognized Hermann Frylov as the new generation of earl has spread throughout Isenpol. Sir Tariq's claim to the earl is not legitimate and is naturally not recognized by the people.

However, the Petukhov family's "blatant rebellion" also made them despise it.

In the mainstream perception of Isenbol, the Petukhov family has always been the weakest of the five major banners. Before the return of the Wind Knight Solovy, the family did not even have a transcendent knight, and was even poorer than the declining Gladstone.

Moreover, many of the soldiers of the Adonis Legion were residents of the city, and the families who participated in the war naturally hated the hostile Petukhov.

Although trade in northeastern ports continued as normal, the level of alert was greatly increased.

Merchants who came into the city to trade were subject to strict inspection.

Caravans with more than 50 people, long weapons and armor are all prohibited from entering the city.

On the day when the two major banners of Adonis and Petukhov were fighting, a caravan of the Isenkulov family of the northeastern banner came to Isenpol to trade with a large number of armors.