The Black Dragon Knights did not directly attack Uru, the capital of the Holy Desert Empire. In his rage, Chi Aotian did not lose his due sanity. His first target was Moada, an important town on the east coast of the Holy See.
Prior to this, the worried Pope implored the Red Stone Emperor to send elite troops from the Northern Federation of the Ice and Snow Continent to the east coast to assist in defense in order to prevent the Eastern Legion of Fanos from raiding the territory of the Holy See. The Red Stone Emperor considered the situation on the mainland
The emperor needed the Holy Church to stand unswervingly on his side, so he readily agreed to this request. After capturing the city of Hamburg, Barbas, one of the chief officers of the small mercenary group, made a special trip to Moya on the order of Horns.
Da hopes to get in touch with the commander of the Snow Moon Legion of the Northern Federation.
According to Horns' idea, he hopes to persuade the Snow Moon Legion to send a squadron or even more warriors into the northern part of the Fairy Forest for defense - not only to defend the Fairy Forest, but also to support the Holy Snow Mountain Theater. From a longer-term perspective, it is for
The mercenaries of the mercenary empire, which was about to collapse completely, left a safe passage. After these mercenaries entered Tongyun Pass, Horns hoped to be reorganized on the spot into a peripheral organization of a small mercenary group.
Chi Aotian's strategic steps are almost identical to those of Horns - the Black Dragon Knights had better get in touch with the Northern Federal Army, and even hope to gain command of the Snow Moon Army - after all, Chi Hanfeng and Amy's father
They were both captains of the Snow Moon Legion, and now quite a few officers of the Snow Moon Legion are under their command, and Amy's father has always had a very good reputation among the soldiers, so it cannot be said that this possibility is impossible.
There was a hint of uneasiness in Chi Aotian's heart. The Xueyue Legion could be said to have been lured to the Holy Holy See. Several months had passed. During this period, the country had undergone tremendous changes. Could it be that the Holy See wasn't plotting against the largest reserve force in the empire? At this time,
There is still a trace of luck in Chi Aotian's heart - there are more than 10,000 northern federal soldiers who have been transferred to the Holy Holy See, and there are many elite troops such as the Snow Moon Legion Knight Brigade, because there must be a large number of them in the directly affiliated brigades of the Snow Moon Legion.
There are many fantasy beast knights. Even if the Holy Holy See uses more than 50,000 troops for a surprise attack, it cannot guarantee that they will be wiped out in one fell swoop. The Holy See cannot risk leaking information to attack the Snow Moon Legion first.
Considering the sequence, the Holy See must have made a surprise attack on the Imperial City first, and then found a way to deal with this partial army. From the perspective of geographical span, in order to ensure the victory of the Imperial Capital strategy, the Holy See must have concentrated superior forces. On the night of the Imperial Capital
Before and after, the Holy See could only have a small number of troops to secretly contain the Northern Federal Army. Even if the Holy See immediately mobilized its troops eastward after completing the Imperial Capital strategy, a regular march from the Imperial Capital to the east coast of the Holy See would take at least 15 days, and there would be
The Empire is blocked by the Boundary Forest War Zone. And according to the combat power of the northern federal army, it will never be easily annihilated.
Based on these considerations, the Northern Federal Army should have just received notification from the Imperial Military Department at this time and is thinking of ways to move closer to the nearest imperial theater.
Tongyunguan passes 300 miles north and enters the territory of the Holy See.
All the way is a mainland highway, and on both sides of the highway, there are occasionally small villages of the Holy See. In any sense, these villages are extremely lucky, because until this time, Chi Changyun led 3,000 heavy knights and was still "seeing him off"
"Of course Chi Aotian knew the true purpose of his brother's long-lasting gift, and tried his best to suppress the strong murderous aura in his cold black pupils.
The residents of the Holy See saw a large-scale army marching, and their curiosity actually drove these ignorant people to stand on both sides of the mainland highway to watch the excitement.
At the front were hundreds of knights with white and delicate skin, and their slightly pointed ears immediately told everyone their identities - these seemingly extremely weak people turned out to be an extremely rare race on the mainland: forest elves; behind the elves were several
Thousands of strong human warriors, all wearing animal skin chainmail, and sharp long swords hanging on the sides of their horses. Long queues of human and elf knights were all lined up in four rows, stretching for several miles. Everyone silently moved their mounts and hoofs.
Fly forward quickly.
I just saw the end of the knight team, and then I heard the thunder of boom, boom, boom... in the distance. The wide mainland highway trembled in the thunder. Two rows of 4-meter-high dragon knights drove their mounts to trot.
He rushed over, from the knight to the dragon, who was covered in thick armor. Hanging on the side of the dragon was a one-handed hammer staff as long as half a man. The red soil flying all over the sky on the road continued to fall, and the black soil continued to fall.
The knights under the visors seemed not to see the dust at all, and no one made a sound, moving forward like dead ghosts.
At the end of the team, there were three rows of armored knights. In the sky, human vulture knights and elf vulture knights rose and fell from time to time. Almost all the soldiers carried bows and arrows on their backs... and even... there were earth warriors.
The dragon knight carries a powerful crossbow as tall as a person on his back! Before this, no one had ever seen a legion composed purely of archers.
What makes it even more difficult for the soldiers and civilians of the Holy See to understand is that among the nearly 10,000 people stretching for 5 miles, there are only two colors - black and white, which symbolize ominousness and death. Slowly, some mature residents realized something and quietly carried them with them.
Their own families left the mainland highway - all they read in the eyes of these soldiers was blood feud and death.
There is an important town at each end of the mainland highway between the Imperial Tongyunguan War Zone and the southern territory of the Holy See. Tongyunguan is on the south side and Gifu City is on the north side.
On February 23, winter of the fifth year of the Magical Calendar, the eight thousand cavalry of the Black Dragon Knights could clearly see Gifu Castle in the distance.
Chi Aotian took the reins around and made the last eviction order in a dusty and emotionless tone: "Brother, please come back!"
Seeing the cold light flashing in the black pupils of his once young brother, Chi Changyun couldn't help but shudder even though he was in the subtropical region of southern China. In the past few days, he had clearly known that his brother did not want him to
Still following, but... with his little understanding of Chi Aotian, Chi Changyun could only use the excuse of saying goodbye to keep following. At this time... he could only turn back, and the soldiers of the Holy Holy See could only
How lucky he is to be able to pray to himself: "Okay, brother, we will see each other again after thousands of miles, but..." Chi Changyun knew that Chi Aotian didn't like to hear it, but he had to continue: "I won't say more, you..."
…Think more about the Chi family’s reputation of more than 600 years, it can’t be linked to cruelty…”
After saying that, the young commander of Tongyunguan turned his horse's head and led 3,000 armored cavalry to beat their horses and whip their whips and return along the original route of the mainland highway.
At this time, the last moral protection umbrella of the Holy Holy See was removed, leaving only Chi Aotian, the lawless avenger.
At 3 p.m. on February 23rd, the 5th year of the Magical Calendar, 17,000 Holy Holy See soldiers mobilized from various inland towns in Gifu City watched helplessly as the black vultures and snow-white and black armored knights silently assembled under Gifu City.
Both the soldiers of the Holy See and the Black Dragon Knights of the Amy Empire were stunned by the other party.
The city of Gifu was bloody, with dozens of heads hanging and countless corpses nailed to crosses.
In the middle of the mainland highway, among the black knights, there were four 10-meter-high avenue flags carrying four hanging flags.
Two black words on white cloth in the middle:
"It is a great shame and humiliation. The Chi family has been clinging to Tongyun for dozens of generations, and their bodies are wrapped in horse leather, but they are devoured by the ambition of the Vatican."
"Repaying kindness with hatred, the black dragon has been riding with ten thousand soldiers for half a thousand years, waiting for success, and succeeded one after another, but was stabbed in the back by the rebellious and shameless people."
Two bloody red letters on white cloth on the side:
Left: "Pool"
Right: "Kill"
In front of everyone's eyes, a huge bone dragon appeared in the barrier. Under the hanging banner, a young man in black with his head wrapped in a white filial belt jumped up. Two skeletons rose up from the bone dragon, wrapping the young man tightly.
on the back.
The bone dragon vibrated its two 15-meter-long giant wings and rose into the air with majestic waves. The dragon knight slowly rose into the air. Two mad eagle knights rushed up from behind and put on a huge black cloak that was three meters long.
On the dragon knight's back, the dragon knight slowly tied it on his chest, and the cloak was instantly torn by the strong wind and flying in the air.
Any human being who sees an earth-moving dragon for the first time must be terrified; any human being who sees a giant dragon for the first time must lose confidence in the control of his own life.
Needless to say, for ordinary humans, even for a warrior who has experienced hundreds of battles and even fought against giant dragons, the first time he sees the mount of the God of Death, the ultimate master of all things, about to leave the dragon, it is a kind of fear that comes from the deepest part of his heart.
There was silence on the 8-meter-high wall of Gifu Castle. From the top general to the nearly 10,000 soldiers below, they stared dumbly at the huge beast that slowly rose higher than their own eyesight, as well as the pair of hidden beasts on the back of the beast.
The sharp, cold eyes behind the black gem.
The news of the formal war between the Holy See and the Amy Empire was brought here by the Holy See Bishop 10 days ago.
The Bishop's performance was extremely wonderful. In broad daylight, more than 20,000 loyal soldiers and 170,000 residents of Gifu City saw with their own eyes that after many clerics cast the prayers of God, the God of Light and many angels appeared at the same time.
, the God of Light even personally announced that the descendants of the Western Emperor would once again revive the mainland. The power of the church is unimaginable to ordinary people, especially the people of the Holy See.
In just 10 minutes, in the hearts of the soldiers and civilians of Gifu City, the Amy Empire fell directly from being a close ally to an evil country that was shameless and despicable to obstruct peace for its own selfish interests and plunged the people into misery.
The Black Dragon Knights in the Tongyunguan War Zone, who guarded the southern Xinjiang floods and rescued residents during the snow disaster and delivered food, turned into demons that had been peeping at the Huayu Grassland for a long time - no one could have imagined that the power of God could be so great.
Of course, not all the words were spoken by His Excellency the God of Light. After the God of Light’s statue disappeared, the Archbishop floated in the air to preach to the residents and warriors again - about the many grievances between the Amy Empire and the Holy See. Until this time,
Only then did the believers of the Holy See realize that the Fanos Legion, which had always been described as a wild beast, was actually an ally of the Holy See, and that such a despicable race was the first to be influenced by the Western Emperor and swear allegiance.
Knowing their shame and then becoming brave, the believers burned with raging anger and even roared to attack the territory of the Amy Empire - the most martyred were the 20 officers sent by the Amy Empire's military headquarters to Gifu City for training. The funny thing is that,
It was His Holiness the Pope who repeatedly requested the Red Stone Emperor to send outstanding soldiers to fully train the instructors to prevent the surprise attack of the Fanos Legion. Now, the well-trained soldiers turned their swords and guns against the trainers...
More than 10 bloody heads were hung on the city wall. Only three officers were lucky enough to rush into the alley and were taken in by kind-hearted residents. After nightfall, they were lowered from the city wall and fled outside the city. What these three officers did not know was that because of the people who took them in,
The residents were people from the Amy Empire who had just moved into Gifu City a few years ago. When this was leaked, an earth-shattering tragedy occurred in Gifu City - the angry indigenous soldiers and civilians of the Holy See moved the people who had spent the past 20 years into Gifu in just 5 days.
All the residents of the Amy Empire in the city were slaughtered.
The bestiality is not only practiced by the instructors, but also by the civilians who claim to believe in the God of Light. They rape young imperial girls on the streets, massacre innocent imperial civilians, and throw torches into the homes of imperial residents - nearly ten thousand
A corpse was nailed to a cross outside the city wall.
Historically known as the "Gifu Martyrdom".
Later historians analyzed that the Gifu indigenous residents who served as vanguards in the "Gifu Martyrdom" were the immediate beneficiaries of this incident. As we all know, the Amy Empire was a prosperous country and its people were strong, and ordinary ordinary people became rare in the local area once they crossed the border.
The wealthy residents of Gifu City have long seen the wealth of outsiders and remembered it in their hearts. In this martyrdom, it was undoubtedly the happiest thing for those gangsters who were fooling around on the streets. Killing people
Without being responsible, you can also steal women and get a lot of money. At first, the ordinary people and the soldiers who were supposed to maintain order were in a wait-and-see attitude, but when they saw the large amounts of money snatched from the rich houses, they finally tore apart the so-called believers of God.
The last diaper became the most plundered stalker.
At this time, Chi Aotian still didn't know who the person who was nailed to the wall was. When he rose into the air, he clearly saw the large burnt houses in the city, and a look of doubt quietly crawled onto his white face.
Face.
Suddenly, three imperial officers rushed down from the hill northwest of the city. Their crotch horses were dirty and unseemly, and the officers themselves were even more muddy. If it were not for the imperial uniforms, no one would associate them with soldiers.
Together.
The three people jumped off the horse in a rolling motion, and cried loudly without saying anything. Their eyes and noses were full of blood.
"Which general of the empire is leading the cavalry in front of you, who wants to avenge the more than 10,000 resentful residents of the empire..." Three middle-aged officers in their thirties cried bitterly.
When Lilong folded his wings and disappeared, Chi Aotian responded coldly: "I am Chi Aotian, from Tongyunguan. Who are you?"
Some of the three imperial officers had a clear mind. They covered their mouths and drank blood while saying: "It turns out to be Young Master Chi... We are the instructors of the Imperial Military Training Corps, the Imperial Knights Li Lafeng, d'Artagnan, and Ping Lei.
They were sent here to train their soldiers two months ago...but...more than 10 days ago, they suddenly killed the squadron leader and more than 10 other officers, and...also killed all the residents from the empire in the city.
He's dead..." The three officers spoke incoherently but explained the general matter clearly.
Later historians believe that Chi Aotian was certainly at fault for massacring thousands of miles along the way, but the Holy See, especially the officers of Gifu City and the 170,000 original residents of Gifu City bear absolutely unshirkable responsibility. 10,000 imperial civilians died tragically. Faced with this,
Such a scene, even if it is not Chi Aotian, if it is another person, whether it is Da Qingshan, Horns, Amy, Chi Changyun, Fan Zijue, etc., as long as there is some bloody people, maybe the choice at that time will be the same. If
, had Gifu not been martyred, at least there would have been noble officers who would have opposed something out of chivalry.
If it can be said that Chi Aotian's message before was somewhat far-fetched, and some soldiers were somewhat hesitant, at this moment, the only thing surging in the black and white teams was blood feud.
Chi Aotian gently lifted up his pale mask, revealing his fair face, and his faint voice sounded in the sky word for word: "I originally wanted to persuade you to surrender, and those who surrender will not be killed. But, it is not necessary now. You!"
Let’s destroy this city together.”
A middle-aged man in his thirties on the city wall snorted coldly: "Arrogant. With just a few thousand of you? Even if there are 30,000 people, so what?"
"Master Chi, this person is Gifu City Guard Suharto." Three knights from the Imperial Training Corps returned to the headquarters of the Black Dragon Knights and reminded below.
Suharto had a proud look on his face: "As long as we don't leave the city, come and attack! Gifu City is the largest city in southern Xinjiang of the Holy Sect. Let's see what you can do to me. Don't use provocation, I am
For those who are familiar with the art of war, the art of war goes like this: surround an enemy ten times, attack it five times, divide it when twice the number. The enemy will be able to fight it, if it is small, it will be able to escape, and if it is not small, it will be able to avoid it. Therefore, the small enemy is strong, and the large enemy is strong.
The enemy is the one who captures you. The husband-general is the auxiliary of the country. I will definitely drag you bastards to death."
Looking at the triumphant expression of the middle-aged man in front of him, Chi Aotian couldn't help but smile. He estimated that these words were probably learned by the city guard from the Imperial Training Brigade just now. Surrounded by ten, five
Then attack... The Bone Dragon Knight shook his head slightly.
"Crazy Vulture Swordsman Camp, Wild Vulture Forest Elf Camp, lift off, target: Gifu City Wall Soldiers, 20 rounds. All the others, move back 500 meters." Chi Aotian slowly gave the order.
5,000 regular knights lined up in a loose array and retreated. A group of wild vultures let out a low trembling cry and quickly took off into the sky. The hissing arrow rain covered the front city wall in an instant - especially the more than 300 elven archers.
The short arrows shot out trailed green smoke in the air.
"Put up the shield -" the officer on duty on the city wall shouted loudly.
Wow, wow... Hundreds of square shields were raised to the sky at the same time, forming a tiled square wall.
Raindrop-like arrows hit the shield. To the instructor's surprise, the free fall speed of the arrows falling from an altitude of more than 600 meters plus the initial shot speed, bang, bang, bang, all shot through the shield, causing screams.
Sounds came one after another - looking from the air, the shield in the middle, which was hit by the most dense arrow rain, paused for a moment and fell to the ground in despair, bright red blood wrapped in snow-white brains seeping out from under the shield piece by piece.
The officers in the city tower keenly noticed the tragic scene and shouted: "Quick! Retreat into the archery tower! Block!! Everyone retreat into the archery tower!!"
The soldiers hid in the city towers and arrow towers like a tide. If they couldn't squeeze in, they followed the horse path and hid behind the city wall. After 20 seconds, there was not a single soldier on the city wall - except for the more than 300 shields in the center that were spread out at different angles.
On the bluestone bricks, blood dripped and dripped down the horse path. Three hundred square shields... meant at least six hundred soldiers...
"Shoot! Shoot!!" Mr. Suharto ordered loudly while hiding in the tower.
"Sir! We! We can't shoot that high!" The soldiers in the archery tower in the distance answered loudly.
The height of 600 meters is not to mention the standard horn bow of the Holy See. Probably, except for the legendary ice crossbow, no crossbow can shoot beyond 600 meters, let alone 600 meters high.
"Asshole! So what if you can shoot arrows from the sky? If you have the ability to attack the city, if you have the ability to shoot through the archery tower! Just wait, His Majesty the Pope and the Western Emperor will definitely come with their armies. When the golden dragon appears here, that is
Your death... I will drag you to death here!" Suharto pointed at Chi Aotian in the tower, with disdain written on his face.
Chi Aotian looked back at the Wild Eagle Swordsman Battalion Captain Yu Ling and Elf Elder Qing Luo who were following him, and issued a new order in a deep voice: "Target, buildings in the city, no distinction, rockets, 20 rounds."
Both captains were stunned. There was no difference. Are they facing civilians? Their sharp eyes swept over the back of the bone dragon. The two men no longer hesitated and quickly rose up and shouted orders.
It was obvious that the elven archers could feel the protesting elvish language coming from their hands, followed by the command-like words of Elder Qingluo, and the elves obeyed.
The warriors in the sky skillfully inserted the arrow tip into the self-igniting powder arrow gourd. When the arrow feathers were pulled out again, the self-igniting powder immediately burned in the air. In the surprised eyes of the soldiers and civilians of Gifu City, rockets fell like raindrops...
Gifu Castle is located in the southern half of the continent. Winter is the dry season in the subtropics. Often there is not a drop of rain for ten months. From the fields to the city, the thatch growing on the houses is dry. When the sparks fall, the flames suddenly appear.
It rose up, devouring all the flammable houses around it. The cries for help from adults and the cries of children soon came from the burning house. One, two, three... dozens of people covered in fire
They rushed out of the house, rolling on the ground and crying. Some of the people who escaped sat on the ground and cried into the house... Is there anyone who escaped in the house? There is no way to escape. It must be
He was nailed to the ground by a hail of arrows.
"It's flooded... put out the fire quickly..." As soon as the surrounding residents broke off the wooden basins and rushed out of the house, the arrows changed their targets. The arrows shot from an angle bow from an altitude of 600 meters were already so fast that
It exceeded the speed of sound, puff, puff, puff. It penetrated from one human body and then penetrated into another human body. Lines of blood burst out. Before the fifth round of arrow rain fell, there were already nearly a thousand corpses on the street.
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Thick smoke billowed up and flames burned, devouring corpses one after another. The stench of burning flesh spread southward along the wind, and the soldiers of the Black Dragon Knights 700 meters away and downwind could smell it.
"Asshole!! You are attacking civilians!! Are you still a knight?" Two young phantom beast knights flew into the air from the tower: "We demand a decisive battle between the armies!"
Chi Aotian did not accuse the other party of attacking civilians before, but waved slightly to ask the Vulture Knights to stop attacking.
The suspension bridge outside the south gate of Gifu Castle was lowered, and a large group of knights roared out of the city, followed by light infantry, archers, heavy infantry, and heavy cavalry in sequence.
Seeing the enemies skillfully gathering into giant phalanxes, the knights of the Black Dragon Knights were slightly agitated. Unexpectedly, the main defense general of the Holy Holy See knew how to use troops, and his skills were no less than those of Tong Yunhou and Chi Changyun.
level, a square matrix arranged in a regular square shape.
The light cavalry forms a square formation on each side of the team. The light cavalry is the area that changes the most in the war. If the war falls into a phase of mutual balance, the light cavalry will be the most effective chess piece for the commander to break the deadlock. He can move the whole body by pulling one.
It's the most appropriate description.
The light infantry formation is located at the forefront of the entire battle formation. In battle, the application of light infantry should be like the tentacles of an octopus. "When encountering a strong enemy, it becomes weak; when encountering a weak force, it becomes strong." When encountering a powerful enemy charge, immediately cover back.
Under the protection of heavy infantry, they use the long spears in their hands to attack the enemy; if the enemy's troops are about to break through or collapse, they will immediately rush out like a tide, following each other like maggots attached to bones, rushing to surround and annihilate all enemies.
A large-scale archer formation must be a snake formation. Even an archer formation composed of tens of thousands of soldiers must be a snake formation. Any war commander's arrangement of the archer formation must follow the principle of "not thinking about progress, only seeking retreat". One
An archer array with a thickness of 20 layers definitely means that the commander is incompetent - each archer must reserve 3 meters of activity space in front and back. 20 layers means that the archers in the last row are more than 60 meters away from the archers in the first row.
What is the effective range of bows and longbows? 60 meters. In order to ensure the effective range of the last few rows of archers, how much does it need to advance the entire battle formation towards the enemy? A 20-story archer formation means that all archers after the 5th row have no angle.
Shoot the bow and arrow flatly. Once the opponent launches an attack, the distance of 200 to 300 meters is only 7 to 10 breaths for the knights, especially the light knights on the two wings. After 7 to 10 breaths, all archers lose their meaning of existence.
The heavy infantry phalanx is the foundation of the entire battle formation. A steady commander will put this phalanx in a place where he will risk his life before reviving. In a battle, the heavy infantry phalanx can only advance and not retreat. In a war, once it is heavy infantry phalanx,
If the infantry phalanx moves backward, it only means the collapse of all phalanxes.
The heavy cavalry phalanx is generally located behind the light cavalry phalanx and cannot be dispatched easily - in fact, for any army in any country, heavy cavalry is the most expensive unit. If it is not used well and once defeated, it will be necessary to rebuild again.
Therefore, the heavy cavalry can only deliver a fatal blow after the light cavalry pulls the enemy and shows an overall weakness.
Facing the phalanx of Gifu City, no matter how outstanding the famous generals are or which elite troops they are, if they want to truly defeat the opponent, they will have to pay at least about the same price.
The three officers of the Imperial Training Brigade at the front of the Black Dragon Knights looked at each other with a wry smile - the formation in front of them was what they had taught the soldiers step by step in the past two months. Unexpectedly, they immediately returned it fiercely.
The knight guerrillas directly under Chi Aotian and the elven archer guerrillas directly under Chi Aotian waved their flags to Chi Aotian at the same time, reporting the enemy's total combat strength.
The most holy Holy See's first line of defense, and the largest army assembled in the shortest time on the southern border, all the elite troops were sent out of the city.
3,000 light knights, 6,000 light infantry, 2,500 horned archers, 2,000 heavy infantry, 1,500 heavy knights, and 1,000 clergy. This was the most luxurious lineup Suharto could come up with. Although he was not a natural expert in using troops, he was an excellent
The confused disciples who are good at learning and inquiring certainly know the famous saying "concentrate superior forces to defeat them in one fell swoop".
Outside Gifu City, Chi Aotian, who led an army of 6,000, faced 16,000 elite enemy troops who were waiting for work. He was destined to fight an unbalanced war.