The goose feather-like snowflakes fell quietly, fluttering, like dandelions flying all over the sky, floating in the vast sky! The north wind blew, and in an instant, silver dragons rose into the sky, flipping and wandering on the snowfield!

A team of more than 100 people walked on the bitter and cold snow field. They led war horses against the wind and snow, and walked on the snow field with difficulty. These knights were all wearing uniform silver heavy armor, covered helmets, and blue cloaks.

In addition to a standard rifle and three javelins hanging on the war horse, they carried different types of weapons, different shapes: some knights carried heavy hammers on their hands, some knights carried giant swords on their hands, and some held non-military weapons such as cavalry axes. Only the most elite army can choose weapons themselves.

The war horses pulled by the knights were all white, and they were all wearing heavy vests. Even the horses were covered with armor. Their feet had long thin hairs, and they walked like they were stepping on auspicious clouds. They were very beautiful. Moreover, these long hairs could protect the horse's hooves from being damaged by sharp weapons.

The height of the horse's shoulders reached more than one person's height. Including the height of the horse's head, it actually reached 2.5 meters. This is the famous Sharma.

The Sharma was 500 years ago, led by the Abrex Empire, Edward Glos, in order to improve the war horses, used the best quality Northern grassland war horses and the elves war horse breeding to cultivate this tall half-elves war horse, named the Sharma.

The Sharma combines the characteristics of human war horses that endure hardship and elves’ tall and agile war horses. Although they are much inferior to the elves’ war horses, their advantage lies in their strong reproduction ability and relatively low cultivation costs, which can crush most of the war horses in other human empires.

With the help of Sharma, Shar was led by the Grand Duke Edward Gloucester and the Order of the Order of the Abrex Empire, thus making up for the shortcomings and creating reputations, making the Order of the Silver Hand and the Order of the Order of the Order of the Seven Knights of the Torrel Continent.

As an important strategic material, the cultivation method is an important secret of the Abrex Empire and is prohibited from being sold to the outside world. The Abrex Empire promulgated a law on this, and any individual or group that smuggled and sold Sharmas would confiscate their property and send it to the guillotine.

A group of knights and war horses traveled through the snow without fear of the wind and snow. They did not know the purpose and intention of the trip, and no one talked without authorization. The war horses only occasionally emitted a white breath without any neighing sound.

Suddenly, a rapid sound of horse hooves came from a distance. A silver heavy armored knight riding a Sharma quickly approached the head of the team. The knight held the reins in his left hand and the front saddle bridge with his right hand. He swung his feet and rolled over and dismounted, standing on the ground, with extremely casual movements.

The knight walked towards one of the top of the team and reported: "His Excellency Iroth, a small orc tribe was found ahead. The tribe, like the orc tribe we discovered before, was destroyed. There were only a small number of adult male orc warriors' corpses, and the rest of the orcs were missing. According to the judgment on the scene, as before, the time for the destroyed time was no more than 2 days. The crow and the Broken Palm are investigating the scene and guarding, let me report to you."

The knight named Iroth wore silver-covered armor, with no appearance, medium figure, slightly thin body, and can be said to be weak among the tall knights.

The difference is that Iroth's silver heavy armor is heavier than other knights and is more well-made. The occasionally fleeting faint silver light shows that this is a set of enchanted armor. The armor is also carved with two complex but not tacky lion patterns, giving people a complex and simple feeling. There is also a relief emblem on the left chest, which is the emblem of the Silver Hand Knights of the Grand Duke of Charles. This is a team of more than 100 people, the Silver Hand Knights, one of the seven Knights of the Torrel Continent.

After hearing the report of his knights, Iroth waved his hand and asked the knights who reported the news to lead the way. He ordered the rest of the knights: "Everyone gets on the horse, be wary, keeps the marching formation, and follow Harry at full speed."

After saying that, when he gently tapped the ground, his whole body was like a fallen leaf, floating lightly with a seemingly slow but extremely fast movement, as if he was wearing heavy armor as if he had no weight. The Sharma under his crotch sniffed without the instructions from his master and galloped away with the knight named Harry. The knights behind him all turned on the horses, keeping the marching formation closely behind him.

After galloping for half a quarter of an hour, a destroyed orc tribe stronghold appeared in front of everyone.

This is a small stronghold that can accommodate about 500 orcs. Dozens of simple houses built with large Kodo beast skeletons and fur have been burned out, and are basically covered with heavy snow, with only the remaining wreckage coming out of blue smoke.

Without the knight leader's words, some knights go around the orc stronghold and scatter around to guard the situation, while the remaining knights form formations in front of the stronghold and stand by.

After seeing the knights arrive, two knights walked out of the orc stronghold, which were the scout crows and Broken Palm who had sent for reconnaissance.

They walked forward and the crow said to Iroth on the horse:

"Grandmaster Iros, the orc tribe is about 500 people. What's strange is that this stronghold was destroyed, but the number of orc warriors was killed is relatively small. Logically speaking, the battle between orc tribes has always slaughtered all the adult male orcs on the failed side. There are only more than ten adult male orcs who died in battle in this stronghold. Judging from the decoration, it is an orc tribe chief and his personal guard. There are no other orc corpses. In the ruins, except for the inconvenient items to take away, all the items used for orc life were taken away. It seems that they are not panic and orderly when leaving, and it is the same as the stronghold we saw a few days ago."

After listening to the crow's report, Iroth turned over and dismounted, and walked into the stronghold with the still smoke emitting green smoke under the guidance of the crow and the broken palm.

On the clearing ground in the center of the stronghold, more than ten male orcs were half buried in the snow. The orcs had green skin, two fangs growing from the inside to the outside of their mouths, and their eyes were dying with eyes closed, which was very ugly.

One of the corpses was wearing a simple armor made of unknown beast bones and metal made of unknown materials. The gap between the armor was very large. In the eyes of the Silver Hand Knights, this simple armor had many loopholes in defense and limited protection ability. It can only be said that it was better than nothing. It was barely available in the orc group under productivity.

There was a huge wound on the neck of the corpse, which was almost cut off, and only a layer of flesh and blood remained connected to the back of the neck.

There was also a broken and simple flag on the back of the corpse, with extremely simple patterns painted on it. It was barely distinguishable that it was two crossed axes. According to the naming habits of orcs, this orc tribe should be called the Axe Blade Clan.

The other orcs had no armor, only leather armor made of wild beast fur. The wounds were almost decapitated, and only a little flesh was connected. According to the differences in costumes, the dead orcs with armor should be the chief of this tribe.

Iroth pondered for a moment, "The strength of this tribe chief should be at the level of a mid-level warrior. He can be fatal by one blow, and also causes the same damage to his personal guards. It is not bad at all. The person who attacks are at least a high-level warrior. He is quick and neat, and he will kill with one blow when fighting head-on."

"Yes, and the invading enemy only killed the chief of this tribe and his personal guards and controlled the situation. Logically speaking, the orc tribes annex each other and massacres are more common, but generally, the other party's adult male orcs are slaughtered, with only women and young orcs remaining. According to the size of this tribe, there should be at least more than 100 corpses of adult male orc warriors here. Tsk tsk, it's really strange."

Broken palm sighed.

"Also, the teams of Rangers who had sent patrols before have not found any traces. The damn heavy snow covered everything."

The crow said with a heavy and puzzled look: "Although the heavy snow has covered the footprints and other traces, I can vaguely smell the scent of the wolf raised by the orcs. According to the degree of intensity, there are at least 50 wolf cavalry. I am sure that our rangers must have been killed by the orc wolf cavalry, and both the human and war horses have been eaten by the wolf. But what is strange is that the orcs' wolf cavalry did not eat their similar corpses. Generally speaking, in order to save meat, orcs even let the same corpses go. They should have eaten all our people and horses. The wolf is full, and the armor and weapons are also good things for them, and they are also plundered and taken away. These damn animals!"

Speaking of this, the crow's eyes turned red and a murderous aura filled with it.

"In the past few days we have come out, we have almost penetrated into the core area controlled by the orcs. The scattered orc tribes have encountered these situations. Moreover, the orcs have not gathered together to harass and loot the border this year. This is too abnormal. It seems that we must continue to pursue the matter. Among these orcs, there are many female orcs and young orcs, and they should not go far." Iroth turned over and said solemnly. "Tell me the order and attack the entire army in the north."

In a moment, all the knights heard a rapid formation, like a silver giant python, passing through the wind and snow, and galloping northward.

The knights galloped for nearly half a day, and the footprints left by the orcs became more and more obvious, indicating that they were getting closer and closer to most of the orcs. When they were about to cross a snow beam, Iroth, who was in front, stretched out his right fist and made a stop. All the knights pulled the horse pill and clamped the stirrups together, and stopped silently.

Iroth said: "Everyone rests on the spot for a quarter of an hour, eats, feeds the war horses, and then crosses the snow beam to see the tails of most orcs. After a quarter of an hour, we launch an attack, remember to leave at the touch, and at the same time, catch a few living orc warriors or shamans and take them back for interrogation."

After hearing this, all the knights dismounted and took out jerky, oats, eggs and other food from the bags behind the Sharma to feed their mounts. After their mounts were full, they took out black bread and jerky and swallowed them in the snow.

A knight wearing a slightly different armor from other knights came to Iroth. Judging from the several more patterns and more sophisticated workmanship and military rank emblems than other knights' armor, the knight was a squadron leader.

The military organization of the Torre Continent is based on the Knights' Order, and is generally divided into gradual organization structures such as squadrons, squadrons, brigades, and knights. The number of squadrons is about 10 people, squadrons are between 100 and 200 people, the brigade is about 800 to 1,000 people, and the Knights' Order is usually between 4,000 and 5,000 people.

Among the seven Knights of the Torrel Continent, six of the official knights are around 4,000 to 5,000, and only the total number of official knights of the Holy Empire is more than 20,000, ranking first in the Torrel Continent.

The reason why the knight orders of various empires generally remain at around 5,000 is that the official knights are all nobles. Although they are only the lowest aristocrats, they are also privileged classes after all. The limit that the major empires can maintain is about 5,000 people. It is not just the fiefs and fiefs of the knights. The equipment, armor, war horses, salary and other expenses of heavy knights are astronomical. The official knights of the seven major knights spend up to 200 Jin Jialong a year, which is enough for an ordinary family to have no worries about food and clothing for half their lives.

The reason why the Holy Empire can support a knight order of more than 20,000 people is because the Holy Knights are the most loyal believers of the God of Light and proletariat. As long as the Holy Empire meets the most basic food, clothing, housing, transportation and equipment, it can maintain the size of the knight order of more than 20,000 people.

Not only is the Sacred Knights a large number of people, but the faith of the Sacred Knights is also deeply rooted. They are all extremely fanatical believers of the God of Light. They charge forward without fear of death. Therefore, the Sacred Knights is the strongest knight in the Torrel continent.

The leader of the Knight Squadron said to Iroth: "His Excellency Iroth, I just crossed Xueliang to check. There were all the old, weak, women and children of orcs in front of me, about 5,000, and about 200 adult orc warriors, including 50 orc wolves."

"After the rest, we launched a charge, killed all the orc soldiers and captured several prisoners and took them back. The orc army should be not far ahead. We should end the battle as soon as possible to avoid encountering the orc army. We have been out for so many days and the supply is about to bottom out. Return to the Storm Fortress as soon as possible to report the orc actions to Grand Duke Glos."

Iroth nodded to the Cavalier Squadron Captain.

All the Silver Hand knights acted quickly, sorted out their armor and the war horses, checked their weapons, formed a formation according to the front arrow formation, waiting for the commander's order. With Iroth's gesture, the Silver Hand knights began to control the Sharma under their crotch to slowly speed up.

Before the knight charges, he does not always charge at the highest speed of a war horse, as it will exhaust the war horses. After all, the heavy-armed knights' war horses are loaded with high loads.

The knight's own weight, full-body heavy armor, weapons and war horse vests can reach 500 pounds. The early stage of charge is to advance in a uniform array. Only when the enemy's long-range weapon strikes will it start to speed up the charge. When the heavy knight who reaches the peak of speed will reach the highest level, it will be a nightmare for any enemy.

Therefore, only by using the heavy knight can we compete with the heavy knight.

[Author’s off-topic]: I am a new writer. I hope all readers will make corrections. Thank you.
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