Concerning the conflict between arms, it has always been a favorite issue to discuss or debate among knight school students at all levels and low-level officers.
Of course, most people vaguely agree with the following cycle: Cavalry troops can move at high speed and can quickly regroup to form a strike force, so they are naturally capable of restraining infantry without long-range attack means; while infantry's standard square shields and long shields are naturally restrained of archers.
If the infantry phalanx invades the archer phalanx, the archers will inevitably be completely destroyed; the archers restrain the knights, and it is difficult for the knights to effectively use bucklers while moving at high speed. Moreover, once the arrows hit the moving knights, they will inevitably cause a greater blow.
, and even hitting the mount will cause fatal damage to the knight. Even the most expensive heavy knight cannot withstand the direct fire of a longbowman at a distance of 150 meters.
The magician troops are ignored here - due to their scarcity, in most countries, magicians in the army are only used in small-scale wars such as surprise attacks.
Interestingly, senior military generals of various countries rarely talk about issues such as the conflict between arms. When asked such questions by their subordinates, most of them simply say: It varies from place to place and time to time.
Just like our ancestor Chi Aotian fought outside Gifu City, 6,000 knights faced the main army of 16,000 comprehensive arms fighting behind the city, including more than 1,000 clergymen after transfer. If this subject is placed in any
In a knight school class, there is only one answer: the knight army will inevitably be defeated.
And the result?
"Chi Yizi's Complete Theory of the Art of War"
Chapter 27 Failure on the verge of success
Suharto was in no hurry to attack.
The Holy See rarely participates in frontal wars, but this does not mean that the Holy See does not cultivate war talents. As one of the commanders of southern Xinjiang, Suharto is one of the young heroes who have stood out in previous military exercises. Although he is a bit arrogant, the Holy See has given
His evaluation is still very high: "He uses his troops rigorously, walking on thin ice, and rarely suffers blows due to his own mistakes. His offensive is heavy, and his defense is square." This kind of evaluation can be ranked in the top 20 among more than 40 senior officers in the two major territories of the Holy See.
Facing 6,000 knights, including nearly 600 aerial archers, Suharto knew that if he took the initiative to attack and used knight troops to attack, the opponent's knight troops would exceed his own in quantity and quality, and he would easily suffer unnecessary casualties during the attack.
Heavy damage; if infantry is used as the main force of the attack, the result will inevitably be that the formation will be disrupted. After the enemy knights move at high speed, they can regroup from both sides to give the attacking infantry a fatal blow. For such a dense knight force, the best way
It is to wait for the opponent to take the initiative to attack, use infantry to contain its edge, archers and clergy to form an echelon attack, and finally the knights attack.
As an excellent commander, Suharto would certainly not ignore the archer troops above his head: "Smoke, defensive shield, magic defensive shield."
The Chinese army quickly raised the Wolf Smoke Flag, the Square Shield Flag, and the Magic Shield Flag. The light infantrymen in the rear row took out small pieces of Wolf Smoke from their bags behind them - Wolf Smoke is roughly divided into two types in military applications, one is used to attack the enemy
Yes, this kind of smoke is mixed with highly toxic and irritating substances such as croton, chili pepper, and dried puffer fish blood. Once it is lit, it will invade the enemy's position in the direction of the wind (mostly the enemy's city). If there is no prior defense, the poisoned soldiers will generally
Falling into a near-death state; there is also a kind of wolf smoke that is specially used to make smoke. After cleaning and drying, it retains the smoke-making effect of wolf dung, but is non-toxic. This kind of wolf smoke is generally used in beacon fires to convey information and in the military.
Used to confuse or conceal the opponent during retreat.
The light infantry put the wolf dung in a small leather bag, lightly sprinkled it with self-igniting powder, and threw it far away - 60 breaths later, a huge cloud of wolf smoke had formed over the entire Holy See troops.
At the same time, the heavy infantry walked forward slowly, half-lifting the giant iron-clad oak shield that was more than one person tall and one meter wide, while the clergy began to chant the magic of the sacred shield. After a few breaths, the phalanx came back
Half of the shield is covered with white sheen. Even a long bow cannot penetrate the oak iron shield, and the sacred shield can effectively absorb the penetrating power of arrows. Under multiple protections, the instructors have become quite reliable in defending against crossbows.
Sex.
"I really don't know what my opponent is doing? What's the use of so many knights?" Suharto muttered softly.
The two fantasy beast knights in the sky were in a semi-confrontation with Chi Aotian, or in other words, they were monitoring Chi Aotian's movements. When they saw that the square array was lined up and the smoke slowly rose, the two knights rushed to Chi Aotian and thanked him.
: "Thank you for appeasing the innocent people. See you on the battlefield."
A sneer came from under the bone armor mask, and the Bone Dragon Knight's words echoed in the air with a hint of murderous intent: "This is the battlefield, you two don't need to go back."
The fantasy beast knight immediately noticed Chi Aotian's intention. The two horses quickly flashed to both sides with white floating light on their feet. The 2.7 knight's spear and knight's shield protected the left and right at the same time.
Unfortunately, they were facing dragon knights. With the same martial arts, only ten fantasy beast knights could compete with one giant dragon knight. At this time, the dragon knight was a necromantic dragon knight whose strength was close to that of the holy dragon knight.
Yaolilong's huge wings were vibrating violently, and yellow poisonous gas was continuously sprayed from his mouth. His huge body rushed towards a middle-aged fantasy beast knight like a mountain. There was only one Bone Dragon Knight in Pancontinent, and in Broken
The outstanding performance of the Bone Dragon Knight outside the Ice Harbor has been sung by bards across the continents. The two fantasy beast knights certainly know how powerful the knight in front of them is, and they also know that whether it is a spear or a long sword in his hand, he is an unparalleled god that a warrior dreams of.
Soldiers, ordinary shields cannot block them at all.
The middle-aged knight's face turned pale, and he leaned against the horse's back. He kicked the horse's ribs with both feet, and drove the reins with his hands, heading straight for the formation.
Another young fantasy beast knight took off the horn bow from his back and shot two arrow feathers at the dragon knight in his breath. Chi Aotian ignored it at all. The long arrow hit the bone armor almost at the same time and bounced towards the ground with two dings.
Fall.
The priests on the ground had already seen the changes in the air. In front of the flying dragon, the Phantom Beast Knight was as helpless and pitiful as a lamb. In the blink of an eye, the bright red dragon spear tip was approaching the Phantom Beast Knight's back, filling the sky.
Under the splashing sunlight, the dragon gun actually reflected a deathly black light.
More than 20 high priests with the title of bishop in the Holy See sang loudly at the same time:
"Holy light, in the name of the true god Delos, please obey my orders..."
"Holy Spirit~Evil Spirit~~Light and Shadow~~Combine your endless power..."
"O God in heaven, condemn the enemies of sin..."
Not only Chi Aotian, but everyone did not expect that there were so many high-level holy believers here, and some have even become the highest-level saints and wise men known to be priests. Chi Aotian did not understand sacred magic, so he wanted to leave.
The dragon roared without slowing down at all, and kept chasing after him. Elder Qingluo's face had become extremely ugly, and his voice had changed in tone: "Quick!!! Get out of the way!!!"
Chi Aotian has never felt that an elf has been so eclipsed. He immediately realized that he was in a bad situation and rushed up to the sky with the dragon, but... it was already too late...
Quite a few high-level believers put their palms together, and crystal bright light balls gradually gathered in their hands. The light balls turned into beams of light, shooting towards Chi Aotian like meteors, and raining on Chi Aotian like raindrops.
To fall off the dragon's trunk...
While a few believers were chanting, a strong holy light appeared in the sky. Under the illumination of the holy light, the power of the shadows seemed to become more powerful. The interaction of light and shadow made people fall into a kind of drowsiness. The light and shadow were like thunder.
The sweep was directed at Yao Lilong.
In contrast, the Holy Word spell most commonly used by low-level priests has become a low-level holy magic attack.
The undead dragon knight was struck by lightning, and countless holy light bombs exploded like meteors. In the holy light and shadow, the dragon knight struggled painfully, letting out a cry of unwillingness to leave the dragon.
Qingluo has been in the world for hundreds of years and knows very well that all elemental magic has no effect on undead races like Yaolilong. However, the sacred magic of the Holy See has a natural bonus of more than twice, especially
A high-level priest like the Saint has the ability to exorcise and destroy all undead spirits.
"There are all the mad eagle warriors, the magicians in the back row of the enemy's formation, five rounds of volley fire, and the elves, blessing the magic of nature." Qing Luo ordered loudly.
The Crazy Eagle Swordsman and the Crazy Eagle Archer lowered their mounts fiercely, and arrows of all colors whizzed down, falling like raindrops on the pure white magic shield, causing countless ripples, especially the green arrow feathers, each one fell
They all crashed deeply into the light shield. The holy magic elves and the wood magic elves made bursts of noise. After two breaths, the magic shields issued by the first few low-level priests were first destroyed by the green arrow feathers.
They disappeared with a bang. The two priests couldn't dodge and were shot through by several arrows. They didn't have time to let out a cry and fell to the ground.
The high-level priest had already felt his magic shield trembling on the verge of collapse. He had no choice but to withdraw his attack chant and instead summoned more layers of sacred shield.
Finally freed, Yao Lilong let out a long cry and quickly landed in the formation, disappearing without a trace the moment he landed. In the attack just now, although Yao Lilong withstood almost all the attacks,
The pressure of the sacred magic penetrated the bone dragon plate armor and hit Chi Aotian directly. The young man could not stand at all, staggered and almost fell to the ground. When the knight next to him fell to the ground to support Chi Aotian, he realized that Chi Aotian's nose and mouth had already
Blood oozed out, and the hands were covered with small red spots from congestion.
In any previous battle, even in a head-on fight with three dragon knights, Chi Aotian had never been so severely injured. Of course, he did not know that sacred magic would be his natural nemesis. The blood in his internal organs was suppressed.
Covered all over his body, Chi Aotian suddenly noticed that everything in front of him turned blood red - blood was also squeezed out of his eyes.
"Major General, how are you?" Man Naihai, captain of the Earthly Dragon Knights in the Tongyunguan War Zone, was unable to jump off the Earthly Dragon in full armor. He asked with a worried look on his face: "General, we only have knights. How about we
Temporarily withdraw first?”
Chi Aotian's blood-red eyes stared at Man Naihai, took his black mount from his side, turned over and said, "Revenge, how about life and death."
The young man with a bloody face finished speaking coldly, took the command flag from the guard beside him, and issued several orders in succession.
The green flag quickly rose and then fell half a width, the black eagle-wing flag quickly rose and then fell half a width, the black Velociraptor square flag raised half a width, and two black dragon-head triangular flags were raised at the same time and tilted to the left and right.
In the sky, the mad vulture elf archers and mad vulture swordsmen who were the first to receive the order simultaneously brought down the mad vultures. The elf scouts passed by at low altitude amid the billowing smoke, and rushed forward before the Holy See soldiers and priests launched their attacks.
In the blue sky, with the eyesight of the elves, this moment was enough. The scouts scattered several arrows towards the billowing smoke to indicate the direction. More than 500 mad eagle knights continuously shot 2 quivers and 48 short quivers.
Arrows, even with large oak shields, more than 20,000 short arrows still gave an almost devastating blow. In addition to the protection of heavy infantry, thousands of light infantry have been on the ground forever. The ones who suffered fatal losses were the horned bow troops.
The moment they were attacked by short arrows, some of the horned archers could not help but shoot arrows into the sky. Although this blind shooting shot down the two mad eagle warriors from the air, the nearly ten thousand short arrows that followed were completely
Covering the horned bow position. It is impossible for the heavy infantry to protect them all. When the arrows no longer fall from the smoke, more than half of the horned archers have lost the ability to fight again. If each mad eagle knight can carry more
With too many quivers, perhaps all the horned bow troops would be buried in one fell swoop. Of course, if such a situation really existed, the Gifu Castle defenders would definitely not go out to fight.
After the vulture archers attacked, the Velociraptor brigade beside Chi Aotian moved. Amidst the roar of thunder, 600 knights from the first squadron of the Velociraptor brigade neatly pulled down their masks, lined up in 200 rows, and trotted to the
The position 200 meters in front of the Holy See soldiers suddenly stopped standing. This position is the limit of the angle archer's shooting. The angle bow shooting here can only cause harm to ordinary light infantry at most.
The trainee knight brigade behind Chi Aotian was activated urgently. The two downgraded brigade captains each led a squadron, roaring and rolling behind the Velociraptor squadron in the form of wild goose wings.
"Shoot!" Suharto could not tell what Chi Aotian was going to do. He looked at the group of light knights passing by within the effective range of their bows and arrows, hoping that a round of rapid fire could test the enemy's reaction, and perhaps gain some results.
Bang...
Nearly a thousand white arrow feathers shot up into the air. After a few breaths, they threw themselves into the knight camp like locusts. The flat ground seemed to have suddenly fallen under a heavy snow. The dozen or so knights on the outermost side were suddenly thrown out, and their mounts screamed.
He fell to the ground and convulsed helplessly, blood spurting out along the horse's body.
"Backfire!"
The two former captains ordered at the same time. There was no need to aim at all. More than 2,000 knights were running and shooting at the enemy camp. The accuracy and accuracy of the knights' shooting were definitely incomparable to those of the horn archers. Therefore, the closer distance of the sacred
The Vatican's light infantry had been dealt a huge blow. Before a gourd of arrows had been fired, the light infantry camp was already showing signs of wavering - no matter how strong their nerves were, they could not bear to be beaten and unable to fight back when death was right in front of them.
Two squadrons of knights have already passed by the front camp. On the side, the powerful crossbows on the city wall can be fired freely without worrying about accidental damage, which should suppress the opponent's mounted fire.
What I didn't expect was that the two squadrons of knights drew an arc and returned to their own team again, and the remaining squadron of light knights actually fired 12 times again along the lines of the two knights, and more screams were heard.
Rumors spread among the soldiers of the Holy See.
Terror spread slightly among the soldiers like a plague. Suharto frowned and waved his hand, ordering the low-level priests to walk to the light infantry camp under the protection of heavy infantry and provide treatment.
"In the name of Deniya! Holy elf~ use your power!"
"In the name of Deniya! Holy elf~ use your power!"
"Great Holy Spirit, I beg your Holy Word to send down the blessing of stability to the lost..."
The white holy light fell from the sky, gently oscillating the injuries of the injured soldiers. The instructors once again felt the favor of God. Minor skin injuries were healed almost instantly, and the seriously injured soldiers were stopped from bleeding and fainted by the holy power.
Fall asleep.
Commander Suharto has realized that blind defense will be wiped out layer by layer by the enemy like peeling bamboo shoots.
The heavy infantry flag flew with the wind, and 2,000 heavy infantry were activated across the board. 500 oak shields formed a convex formation, layered like dark clouds; then the remaining half of the light infantry camp followed closely; and behind them were the horned bows.
camp and the priest camp. Except for the knights, Suharto used almost all the power in his hands.
"shoot!"
The commanders on both sides shouted orders almost simultaneously.
The arrow feathers cut through the air and made a hissing sound, forming a point. The 0.79-meter-long standard-angle bow arrow and the slightly shorter crossbow arrow were shot out at the same time, and even collided in the air. After a few breaths, they fell like raindrops.
As far as the actual situation is concerned, both the horn archers and the velociraptor knights are wasting resources needlessly.
Unless you are super unlucky, arrows less than 1.2 meters long will have no effect on the heavy armored Velociraptor knights and heavy infantry. At most, the iron arrow tip will scratch the cast iron armor to bring hearing to the soldiers.
The pain on.
After 20 breaths, the distance between the two sides was only 130 meters.
The velociraptor knights suddenly turned their mounts and trotted away towards the formation.
The Gifu City defenders paused for a moment - according to the knowledge of the Gifu City soldiers about the Imperial soldiers, there was no precedent for an Earth Dragon Knight escaping from battle before. The commander at the front subconsciously glanced back at the command flag of the formation.
The order to advance was given again.
The entire trainee knight brigade of the Black Dragon Knights retreated, and then the entire line of Velociraptor Knights slowly retreated under the rain of arrows.
Suddenly, the ground trembled, and the inexperienced trainee knight subconsciously turned his head to look - the Gifu City Knight Troops were moving, and they were fully engaged.
Close to the ground, the silver light knight troops surrounded it from both sides. The infantry square in the middle suddenly split open, and 1,500 heavy knights lined up in 100 columns and rolled out like a wall of fire. The red horses, a specialty of Huayu Prairie, were all in one color, and the Holy See was in one color.
Special red heavy armor, a flame-like cloak of the same color, the same red horse hooves lift up the green clothes of the earth, and dozens of red Teutonic flags dance above the flames.
"Retreat!" was not only a command, but all command flags were lowered, and the Black Dragon Knights retreated like a tide.
The camp was blown up! The Black Dragon Knights, who were being closely pursued, suddenly blew up the camp. In order to get rid of the pursuit, the trainee knights with the swallow-tail flag left the main formation and fled to the left and right sides. The speed dragon knight in the middle was slow due to the heavy armor.
, after just 100 breaths, they were actually chased end to end by the Silver Light Knight, and they had lost their neat team and turned into a line of skirmishers.
Suharto and the generals did not expect that facing a powerful enemy would turn out to be so easy. It seemed that the imperial commander had a wrong understanding of the strength of both sides. Without any hesitation, Suharto personally led the last 100 knights from the left
Surround them from the side.
The situation of the battle suddenly changed dramatically in an instant.
The nearly a hundred knights at the front of the Black Dragon Knights suddenly unfurled a huge black dragon flag. All the Velociraptor Knights turned around and activated the crossbows in their hands while running. Within a distance of 30 meters, the crossbows could penetrate all steel.
All defenses except cast plate armor.
Each of the hundreds of light knights at the front was pierced by varying numbers of crossbow bolts at the same time. The huge momentum lifted the knight's unconscious body from the horse like a kite, and hit the knight behind him hard, making the sound of cracking bones.
There was a scene. The knight behind him hurriedly picked up the reins and ducked to both sides.
The velociraptor knights hung their powerful crossbows beside them, danced with one-handed hammer staffs and one-handed square shields, and rushed into the chaos of light knights with wild laughter. Before the hammer staffs fell, the velociraptors' sharp claws and hanging
The spitting teeth were in close contact with the neck of the light knight's mount, and blood arrows were shot out from the torn arteries. The hammer staff immediately fell on the light knight's body. After the dull bone cracks, the beaten knight's mouth
Spewing out blood mist.
The huge inertia of the heavy knights who followed closely did not allow them to make any evasive movements at all. Facing the already chaotic light knight companions, the heavy knights had no choice but to throw the knight's war lance on the ground and pull it out from under their ribs.
He drew out his scimitar and slashed at the enemy fiercely. However, the chainmail plate armor on the Earth Dragon Knight didn't care about the chopping of the sharp weapon. The whistling war hammer effortlessly knocked the scimitar away from its original appearance and flew away.
Going out, the hammer staff with a pointed end and a square slap on the pure steel plate armor made a dull sound. Some strong dragon knights even directly knocked the heavy knight and the mount hammer to the ground - the power of the heavy knight's joint charge can completely compete with the ground.
The Dragon Knight is short and long, but in this kind of close combat, especially when the opponent all chooses the heavy hammer, all that is left is time for defeat.
At the same time that the whole light knight brigade was wiped out, the trainee knights of the Black Dragon Knights suddenly turned back from their saddles and rushed towards the enemy's infantry square from two flanks like an overwhelming force. The young knights roared and tugged at the bowstrings in their hands frantically.
There is no need to aim and scatter towards the opponent's camp. The disordered arrow feathers make a piercing scream and fall like thatch.
The Gifu garrison formation had been stretched into a horizontal formation, with heavy infantry, light infantry, archers, and priests each arranged in four horizontal rows. The enemy suddenly changed the direction of attack. The giant phalanx had no time to change direction. The senior officers shouted desperately
He ordered the soldiers to assemble again, but unfortunately... everything was too late...
The rain of arrows knocked down soldiers one after another. The light infantry and archers who dodged the arrows in panic disrupted the heavy infantry camp and pushed away the weak priest. The two captains who led the team chopped down several soldiers in succession.
Has no effect.
The Gifu army on the east side collapsed first. The panicked soldiers turned around and ran towards the city wall. The officers on the west side were still holding on to the camp. However, after a few breaths, more than 200 wild eagle knights suddenly arrived. The extremely agile
The teenagers jumped from a height of more than 2 meters into the archer camp and the priest camp, and the dark swords penetrated the bodies without any melee capabilities.
Although the swordsman battalion's attack power was extremely weak in a large-scale battle formation duel, when caught in a close-up melee, weapons such as spears and halberds were greatly restricted, and the attack power of the long sword suddenly became apparent.
Three or four young swordsmen with white mourning belts on their heads and black leather armor formed a skirmish formation. The black thin swords in their hands trembled and pierced into the white sacred shield, picking out countless blood lines. After 10 breaths,
, there is no longer a single standing clergy member visible on the battlefield.
The moment the trainee knights hung up their horned bows, held long swords, and machetes rushed into the infantry camp like a flood, the Gifu camp finally collapsed.
The panicked soldiers rushed towards the Gifu city wall. The heavy soldiers waved their maces in vain. Unfortunately, they faced the knights who were swept by the gust of wind. The meniscus swords and rapiers quickly broke through the joints of the heavy infantry armor.
The thrust was so violent that it was brought out, and blood spurted out intermittently.
Suharto's face became extremely ugly. Even a commander like him who had never experienced any battles knew that the completely collapsed phalanx had lost its meaning of saving. This was no longer the time to show off his personal prestige. He took the remaining
The 100 knights who came down turned their horses and rushed towards the city gate - he forgot that in his triumph, he had already rushed out of the city wall's bow and arrow protection range for more than 400 meters. At this time, outside the bow and arrow range, more than 300 forest elves did not know where they were.
They were already ready, and all the elves held green short bows in their hands. There were only one or two short arrows left on the short bows.
"Holy Spirit of Heaven, grant me divine defense..."
Many knights chanted in low voices at the same time - no wonder these knights didn't rush in just now. These knights were selected from the clergy who were relatively powerful but unable to make further progress in sacred magic. As knights, they controlled the entire battle.
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Red and white magic elves noisily formed gleaming magic shields. Then, the knights pulled down their face shields one after another - no one doubted the dual defense effect of the magic shield and metal plate armor. Suha
Tuo believed that as long as he broke through the forest elf defense line and entered Gifu City, he could rely on the remaining 4,000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of devout residents to hold on to reinforcements.
"Gun - gun -" the outermost knights roared, and 100 2.7-meter knight's long battle spears were lowered at the same time. Under the scorching sun, the stars on the spear tips twinkled.
50 meters……
Under the masks, all the knights showed a trace of luck. For a galloping war horse, it only takes four breaths to reach 50 meters. After four breaths, even the elves who are best at bows and arrows lose control.