The weather changed in an instant, and heavy rain started falling in an instant.
Halford squinted his eyes, God help him! The heavy rain turned the red soil in the dry southeastern hilly area into mud within a few seconds.
What's more important is that the warriors of the centaurs and horses all wear thin leather jackets. In this cold winter, a soaked person's hands and feet will become stiff in less than ten minutes!
Compared with the backward equipment of the centaurs, it is obvious that the soldiers of the Seventh Legion have a greater advantage! Their uniform uniforms, thick outer armors with good defensive properties, and lighted leather armors and linings on the inside, even in heavy rain
It can also play a very good role in keeping warm!
The charging army was obviously greatly affected. The speed dropped again and again. Otherwise, they would fall, and the consequences would be terrible!
However, as an infantryman, the Seventh Legion did not have so many worries and continued to trot towards the army of men and horses.
Close! Close!
When the two armies were less than three hundred meters apart, the soldiers of the Seventh Army made the first change!
The spearmen suddenly stopped and formed a multi-line formation. The soldiers who followed in the back row took off the two short spears on their backs, inserted one upside down at their feet, and the other tightly.
Hold it tightly in your hand.
The vanguard army lost a lot of speed in the heavy rain, but they still rushed towards the front of the Seventh Army Corps.
Fifty meters!
The soldiers at the front of the Seventh Legion tightly held the four-meter-long spear in their hands, and rainwater slid down the edge of their helmets. The soldiers stared at the army rushing forward and took a deep breath of the cold and wet
Air, "Long live the Empire!"
Twenty meters!
"Hold up!" the frontline officers in each formation shouted loudly. As they shouted, the soldiers in the front row turned their spears into a dense forest of guns!
"Throw!" The sword and shield soldier in the back row of the spearmen threw the short spear in his hand forward with all his strength.
Looking down at the sky, when the two crescent moons were about to collide, suddenly a spear composed of short spears flew out from the formation of the Seventh Legion, and instantly tore the charging front line into pieces!
The thin protection of the centaur soldiers was vulnerable to the thick short spears. A large number of running centaurs were pierced and killed by the flying short spears!
At one point, the half-moon arc of the men-horse charge came to a standstill! Many men and horses following in the back row stumbled because of the fallen soldiers in front!
What does it mean once a cavalry loses its speed?
The spearmen forming a phalanx will tell the centaurs that the invincible charge three hundred years ago is a thing of the past!
Compared with the heavily armored knights riding on war horses, centaurs are still much shorter. Centaurs are just over 30 centimeters taller than ordinary human soldiers!
An average soldier from the Rus continent is about 180 centimeters tall, orc soldiers are generally about 2.5 meters tall, and centaurs are about 2 meters tall!
In the current situation, the centaur charging team had lost their speed and lacked discipline. They had no tactics at all. When they got hot-headed, they only focused on killing themselves.
"Prepare for impact! Stab the spear in the back row!"
Accompanied by the methodical movements of the Seventh Army, the broken forwards that hit the front were like cars hitting the thick city wall at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. In addition to taking away some first- and second-line soldiers, all that was left behind was blood and life!
The battle lines were intertwined, and the Seventh Legion withstood the charge of the centaurs and used mechanical movements to harvest the aliens in front of them.
Halford stared at the strangled line between the two armies, calculating the time in his mind.
"Let's start, let them in."
As more and more Centaur soldiers who had lost their speed were fighting with the soldiers of the 7th Legion after a few minutes, Halford launched a plan to change formations.
After receiving the order, the forward spearmen opened an opening about a few meters wide every fifty meters, allowing the centaurs and horse soldiers to flow into the inner formation of the Seventh Army!
The sword and shield soldiers who had been waiting in the inner formation for a long time, after throwing out the only two short spears they had, lined up in a pocket formation, waiting for orders to intercept the centaurs that came in!
On the crowded front, the centaur soldiers discovered the pockets exposed by the humans and swarmed in without thinking. However, the large number of spear arrays on both sides of the gap kept the number of centaurs passing through always at a not too many and not too little.
The centaurs who rushed into the inner formation found that they were no longer intercepted by the spear array, and were about to start a killing spree. However, they were greeted by countless sword and shield soldiers who cooperated with each other tacitly!
Through constant formation changes, the centaurs introduced into the formation were diverted again and again. Often, one centaur would eventually have to face the coordinated attacks of three to five sword and shield soldiers.
The centaurs do not have their own weapons production facilities, and most of them only hold simple iron tools. These old-fashioned weapons can only inflict damage to well-equipped sword and shield soldiers with some blunt instruments.
On the other hand, the Seventh Legion, which cooperates closely, can work together in two or three to cover all aspects of defense and offense!
Suddenly, in the entire human military formation, centaur soldiers were constantly diverted and then killed. Although the Seventh Legion also suffered some casualties, its absolute superiority in strength gradually eroded the numerical advantage of the Centaur army!
Oris was very happy when he saw the large opening on the battle line before. As long as he could break into it, he could defeat the human defense line in one breath.
But the reality was not what he thought. The soldiers who were placed in the defense line were killed continuously, but the effect was very small. Oris knew that if the situation at hand could not be changed, then once the stalemate of the front forces appeared,
After a brief disadvantage, the human side will definitely not give up this opportunity to counterattack!
"Let the frontline warriors attack the gap with all their strength. Since they want to divide us little by little, let them do it without haste!" Oris gave the order after thinking briefly.
Following his order, the centaurs from the rear group rushed towards the gap opened by the Seventh Army. For a time, the Seventh Army's defense line was in danger!
Halford was also keenly aware of the centaur's movements. He frowned slightly and immediately issued an order to the herald.
"Ask the forward line to launch a counterattack, and the sword and shield fighters form a secondary defense line to open the gap wider! Let them in!"
One side is enlarging the impact gap, and the other side is opening the gap. Who can gain the advantage?
The rain accompanied by bloody water completely turned the land at the battle site into a blood-colored swamp. There were countless small pools, and when you stepped on them, dark red liquid splashed out.
In the stalemate front line, both sides accumulated a large number of corpses, including centaurs and those of the Seventh Legion.
Many centaurs were fighting crazy, howling and rushing towards the gun forest, but the soldiers of the Seventh Legion were still like machines, strictly executing every order.
On one side is a calm and terrifying soldier, on the other side is a crazy warrior. Who can survive to the end?
Both Halford and Oris focused their attention on the gap that opened. The advantage here determines the key to this battle!
"Hold on! You must hold on!" the frontline commander roared loudly, but the roar on the battlefield in the heavy rain was so loud that not many people could hear it.
One after another, the sword and shield soldiers used close cooperation to constantly offset the attacks of the centaurs and horses.
Both Halford and Oris devoted their last troops to the battle to suppress the other side. The battle line of the Seventh Legion was completely entangled with the forward line of the Centaur army.
In the fight between the soldiers, I am among you, and you are among me.
Those who chop people will be hacked immediately, and you don't know whether you can survive the next moment. All you have to do is scream and swing the weapon in your hand, hacking the enemy to death, or being hacked to death by the enemy, it's that simple.
The battle has lasted for more than half an hour in the rain, with nearly 200,000 troops on both sides engaged in the battle!
Countless bodies were scattered along the two-kilometer battle line.
Although at the beginning, the Seventh Legion suppressed the Centaur tribe's charge and used hedging to force the Centaur tribe to charge head-on. The subsequent heavy rain and phalanx minimized the Centaur tribe's advantage. Through good cooperation, the Centaur tribe effectively
The largest number of centaurs killed!
It was this series of measures that allowed the Seventh Legion to capture Centaur twice as many as its own with only half its strength!
Halford was riding on his war horse, watching the soldiers fighting in the distance. The tactics that could be strengthened in the past training allowed the Seventh Army to persist with a battle loss ratio of one to ten until now!
Compared with the initiative of the human side, the centaur Khan and Oris are much more distressed.
The increased investment in troops previously made the stalemate frontline face less and less pressure, and the soldiers pouring into the gap did not gain the advantage as imagined. Now the army is very difficult to dismount!
After Marshal Derek, who was at the rear of the Seventh Army, learned that the legion was in a stalemate with the centaur army and had gained a certain advantage, he decisively divided the army into left and right wings, replaced the cavalry, and surrounded the centaur army with mountain troops! In an attempt to absorb this power in one fell swoop
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Looking down from the battlefield, it can be seen that the Byron Empire's Southeast Army is like a pair of pliers, waiting for the opportunity, and then fiercely attacks the army of men and horses in front!
Oris, standing on the high soil, suddenly felt a flash of alarm in his heart, and suddenly remembered that the Seventh Army was just a vanguard! There were nearly 200,000 southeastern troops behind it!
The battle has lasted for almost an hour. If the Southeast Army moves quickly, its own army may really fall here!
When he sent out scouts to explore the two wings, it turned out that as he expected, Marshal Derek's timing was quite accurate. Jiang was indeed very old!
"If you want to eat my 200,000 troops, it depends on whether you have good teeth!" Oris took out the trump card that he had hidden until the end!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Waves of drumbeats came, and both Halford and Derek were slightly startled. They seemed to feel that something was not good, but they had to shoot when the arrow was on the string!
Behind Oris, a creature with a bull's head came out, carrying a huge log on its back, with many ancient words and patterns carved on the wood.
If Zhou Yunfei were here, he would definitely exclaim: "Tauren!"
Yes, this is the tauren clan that Oris found from the central mountains within a few months.
"Ryan Snowhoof, my old friend, the next step is up to you." Oris turned his head and looked at the tauren behind him.
"Oris, during the holy war three hundred years ago, we, the Tauren, avoided the battle and retreated, but now we have to take up arms and fight for the right to survive. The earth will bless us!"
After Ryan Snowhoof finished speaking, he slammed the giant tree behind him to the ground, "Boom!"