Chapter 657

The next morning, at the end of the wind season, the weak sun fell on the ground from the thin clouds and dried the dew. The Centaur camp was boiling, and countless Centaur soldiers demolished animal skin tents against the roaring northeast wind. They helped each other, carefully tied the skins, and firmly tied them to their backs with animal tendons and hemp ropes.

The annual rain and snow season will come in two months. The adult Centaur is strong and fearless of wind and snow, but the cubs and pregnant mares need tents to keep warm and survive the harsh winter. Moreover, tents have symbolic significance for centaurs.

The things in the tent belong to the private property of Centaur soldiers. The land and goblins within two spear throwing distances around the tent belong to the tent owner. The number of tents owned by Centaur soldiers represents wealth, strength and status. The more tents there are, the more spouses there are. For Centaur males without tents, young and beautiful mares will never let them ride on their own.

When a centaur is just an adult, its parents have to prepare a tent for it. Therefore, Centaur soldiers always feel that the tent is not enough.

The Centaurs of the Sidon Khanate poured out in droves and raided thousands of miles without tents at all. Their tents are booty captured from the human kingdom. The pregnant female evacuated the front line and took goblin slaves and a large number of tents. Now, the Centaur soldiers are ready to break through and go home. Other things can be thrown away, and the animal skin tent must be taken away.

The Centaur cleaned up the tent, and the human army responded immediately. Long or short trumpets representing various military orders came and went over the human barracks. Teams of soldiers in lock armour followed the captain to their respective positions with tortoise shields and long handled machetes; The catapult carts were pushed forward by the Gunners, and the glittering crossbows pointed directly at the Centaur camp; The strong soldiers with bare arms worked hard to tighten the tip of the catapult, put the oiled cow dung bomb in the bomb pocket, and were ready to throw incendiary bombs at the Centaur charge group at any time.

"Don't panic. Listen to my instructions later, put on the tortoise armor array, hold your partner's back, and grasp the shield and long handled machete."

"If centaurs dare to approach, the knife will cut their bellies. Several Centaur bodies fall on the tortoise shell array, and they have no way to take me!"

"The Centaur is not good at melee. At that time, we will push away the horse corpse and just jump out and kill it!"

"Before you rush out of the tortoise shell array, remember to drink the blood boiling potion... It's added with crude sugar. It tastes good. It's fun to keep!"

"If you feel yourself floating into the sky, don't be afraid... Ha ha, Congratulations, you have gone to the kingdom of God."

"The Supreme Lord bless us and fight for the family in the name of the emperor!"

"For the dead relatives, for the sacrificial companions, for the glory of soldiers... Today, we want the blood debt of the four legged monster!"

Veterans loudly encouraged their companions' fighting spirit. The faces of recruits who were still too green became firm and fierce. The whole front was full of frightening momentum.

Since the Centaur invasion, the Sassanian Empire and even the whole human country have suffered disasters. The eastern frontier was almost occupied, property losses could not be calculated, the production activities of hundreds of families were completely stagnant, and hundreds of thousands of human deaths and injuries. Although most of the victims were tenants, the tenants were attached to the Lord, who had to rely on family vassals to manage the tenants. These vassals were the first batch of war dead and victims, and their father, brother, son and nephew in the army were all choked with grief and anger.

So far, the human coalition has eliminated the entrenched orcs in the eastern development, but hundreds of thousands of ORC slaves are still divided into parts, infiltrating the eastern defense line of the Sassanian Empire and running rampant in the hinterland of the Empire. The Lords of the Sassanian Empire did not choose to recall the elite of the family and eliminate the scattered goblins and jackal bandits. Instead, they fully cooperated with the shining knights and tried to solve the Centaur army first.

Centaurs are the culprit of the disaster. They haven't paid the price of bleeding!

"Blood for blood!"

The soldiers were ready to go, murderous.

The Centaur's new Great Khan polta and his spouse, the earth mother, sacrificed to Alita. Their bodies were next to their bodies, their horns were against their horns, and their tails were intimately intertwined. They looked calm and walked among a group of huge ferocious centaurs, without a sense of urgency that a war was coming.

"My beloved steed, the Great Khan of Centaur, please be careful of the strong in human beings. I can feel their boiling and cold desire to kill." Rita whispered at her spouse's horns.

"Don't worry, my beloved Rita. I'm a horse carried by the earth. I won't step on orogal's hoof prints. My hoof and iron bar will smash all obstacles and lead the Centaur to gallop freely on the earth." Polta responded forcefully to his spouse's concerns and said softly, "protect our pony."

"I will, big Khan."

The mare and polta touched their horns, walked away from him, looked back at the Centaur soldiers carrying the animal skin tent, and whispered anxiously, "they should be allowed to leave the tent like us."

Polta said with laughter: "how can the Great Khan let the Centaurs leave their precious tents? Moreover, these animal skin tents can protect the Centaurs from sharp arrows, and can also shoot those arrows back to the two legged humans, so that they can experience the bow skills of the Centaurs."

Alita thought for a moment and felt that polta was right, so she stopped insisting on her own opinion and turned to the other Centaur Khan and shouted: "Rush out of the human encirclement, take your tribe and follow the footprints of the Great Khan. Don't disperse and don't leave the cluster, otherwise you will be chased by humans and killed by them one by one. As long as we run for five consecutive days, we can find enough food. Then, we will hunt down those human cavalry in the field and bring their bodies and horses back to the tribe for the winter. This is the revelation given to me by the earth mother. I can't forget or refuse. The Centaur who violates the revelation will be buried underground, and his spouse and foal will go into the tents of other centaurs! "

Black horn Khan walked out of the team and said in a deep voice, "Alita quiglo, the Centaur obeys the Enlightenment of the earth mother and follows the hoof prints of the Great Khan."

Centaurs also raised their left forelimb to show their submission.

In high spirits, polta picked up two heavy iron bars from behind, hissed and shouted, "go! Follow me, and first step down the ridiculous traps and obstacles arranged by mankind."

Thousands of ferocious Centaur soldiers followed the big Khan and rushed out of the camp with a strange smile. The dust and smoke rolled and the sound of hooves was like thunder. They merged into a torrent, like a python jumping on the southeast corner of the human position.

The front of the human coalition army in the East is 7 kilometers away from the Centaur camp. All the pioneers composed of ferocious centaurs sprint with all their strength. They are as tall as heavy horses, and their momentum is suffocating.

The southeast corner of the front was originally a diversion channel left for the Centaur, and the defense force was the weakest. The soldiers guarding here clenched their teeth, jumped into the previously excavated pit, arranged the tortoise armor array and erected the long handle machete, ready to bear the strong impact of the Centaur pioneer.

However, the Centaurs did not rush to the soldiers' tortoise shell knife array. They trampled back and forth in the trap area. The pit was flattened; the sharp foot nails were stepped into the soil; the compacted wall was knocked down, and the soil was directly filled into the trap behind; the horse was smashed, and the pieces of wood flew everywhere; the pointed wooden spears inserted on the ground broke unintentionally; the trap thought it could stop the Centaurs from charging The trap can't even slow down the charge of the ferocious centaur.

The Duke of Barcelona stood high and looked at the Centaur rampaging in the trap area. His face was as heavy as water. The Golden Knight standing next to him, the Marquis of monstok, said:

"Your Majesty, this will not work. These ferocious centaurs want to expand the escape passage in the southeast corner so that all subsequent centaurs can pass through the southeast corner. We must take measures, otherwise the Centaurs can circle behind the defense line and encircle us."

In order to seriously damage the effective strength of the Centaur, the commander of the human coalition army made a lot of preparations, mobilized huge human and material resources, set up camps step by step, and finally surrounded the main force of the Sidon centaur.

However, let the Golden Knights and high-ranking clergy rack their brains, a fierce frontal battle is inevitable. The field ability of centaurs is unparalleled in the world, but what they are best at is mobile warfare. Therefore, the human coalition forces choose to fight a hard positional war with centaurs, which is better than a mobile war without a chance of victory.

Even so, the contemporary high-ranking clergy and Golden Knights have no actual combat experience in large-scale positional warfare with centaurs. Fortunately, human history has a long history, scholars know the habits of centaurs like the back of their hands, and the war sand table made by his highness Randall. Pastor Kent and Emperor Frederick summoned the most experienced Knights and monster scholars to fight against them After repeated exercises, a set of tactical methods of operation was formulated.

The Duke of Barcelona led 120000 elite to stick to the eastern position and act as bait; Emperor Frederick and pastor Kent led the main army to attack from the west of the Centaur. When the Centaur army attacked the tortoise armor knife array of Barcelona, it was the time for the shining knights and the temple army to attack in an all-round way.

Your Highnesses of the human kingdom know very well that even if they can win, they will win miserably when 400000 troops surround and suppress 150000 and a half soldiers. These elite soldiers are the family property of each Lord. If they lose more than half, the strength of the Sassanian Empire and the Dodo kingdom will be greatly damaged, and victory is tantamount to defeat.

In order to reduce the casualties of soldiers, pastor Kent deliberately left an escape passage for the Centaurs and tried to destroy 60000 centaurs with 400000 troops. The Centaurs that successfully broke through did not have a problem. They returned to their respective tribal nests and could be broken one by one by the elite cavalry in the East Development Leading theater and the boulder fortress theater.

This is to bully the Centaurs. The lack of food, the excessive loss of male members and armaments, and the pregnancy of mares lead to a great reduction in combat effectiveness... Most importantly, the Centaurs have no big Khan and lack cohesion and organization. Once they return to the hinterland of Sidon khanate, they will immediately become a mess.

The Duke of Barcelona personally participated in the discussion of these strategic arrangements and was also recognized by him.

However, no one expected that the Centaur would concentrate the fierce and powerful in the tribe and try to expand the channel in the southeast corner of the front.

Prince Basilius closed his lips and looked dignified. After a while, he said calmly: "monstok, do you want to open the escape passage in the northeast corner now to divert the Centaurs? No hurry! I want to see the strength of these centaurs first..."

"Archer, shoot a rocket and light the horse. 10 crossbows shoot freely at the Centaur pioneer in the southeast corner!"

When the order was conveyed to the front line, a long line of archers marched forward, lit the tarpaulin of the arrow with a brazier, aimed at the intact horse hundreds of meters away and fired a rocket.

Those resisting horses were wrapped in hay and soaked with fire oil in advance. They were shot by a rocket and immediately burned. The orange tongue of fire rushed out for several meters, and the heat wave and thick smoke temporarily obscured their vision.

The crossbow gunner took the opportunity to reach the front and shot a fine iron crossbow arrow with the thickness of an egg through the thick smoke. Thousands of ferocious centaurs rush back and forth. As long as they are in the right direction, they can shoot several heads even with their eyes closed.

Sure enough, a few screams of centaurs came from behind the smoke, but before the crossbow gunner stringed again, a bodybuilding Centaur warrior smashed the burning horse. It holds the burning broken wood in its hand, like a demon stepping on the fire. He raised his hand and waved a remnant. Two pieces of horses broke two crossbows with fire. The powerful impact made the surrounding crossbow men dead and injured. Then, more than 30 centaurs broke through the flame to resist the horse, and destroyed the rest of the crossbows with broken wood at a distance of hundreds of meters.

The Duke of perselius collided with the Centaur with yellow enamel horns and watched it retreat to the rear and continue to destroy the trap.

"That's the Centaur's divine dependents... Even if it's not a legend, it's not much worse." The Duke of Barcelona frowned.

Yesterday, baselius felt that the Centaur camp had strong ground element fluctuations. Although it was not long, it reached the legendary level. This made him worried and confused. The terrible thing about the legendary Centaur is not only its strong individual strength, but also the cohesion of the legendary strong to the ethnic group. The Centaur army is beset by internal and external difficulties and falls into the Jedi. If a legendary Centaur appears at this time and can suppress different voices, the human coalition will face a centaur army and break the strategic goal one by one, I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve.

However, Basilius was skeptical about the emergence of the second adult horse among the Centaurs so soon. Centaur God dependents did not show the remarkable characteristics of earth armor, which made him secretly relieved.

In fact, Baltar and Alita were afraid of the human giants who killed orogal and deliberately hid their legendary talents, which caused the misunderstanding of the Golden Knight.

The most important thing is that the golden paladins and two legendary priests of the shining knights are mainly concentrated on the west front, while the Centaurs lead thousands of ferocious centaurs to the East. Those who want to kill the Centaurs are also powerless, and maybe some Golden Knights will die on the spot.

"It's all the disaster caused by great prophecy..."

The Duke of Barcelona shook his head. As the successor of the iron mountain Empire, he knew some disadvantages of great prophecy. However, now that we are on the line, we have to start, and it is too late to change our tactical objectives. In short, it must be the right idea to kill ordinary Centaur soldiers as much as possible.

"The strong centaurs are concentrated in the southeast corner. If you want to expand the escape passage, the west front will be empty." Pointing to the Centaur vanguard, Basilius said to the Golden Knights on the left and right: "Frederick and pastor Kent will not miss this opportunity. When their whole army is pressed and attacks the rear array of the Centaur army, we will immediately open the channel in the northeast corner, throw incendiary bombs with a catapult, narrow the channel in the southeast corner, and force the Centaur to divert in two different directions."

"Once the Centaur runs and the army is kidnapped, the legendary Centaur has to run forward... Let these violent fools leak out first, and the backward Centaur army will be killed with us."

Just then, a white golden dazzling light column was lit on the west side of the Centaur camp. It was bright, strong, sacred and solemn. It rushed hundreds of meters into the sky and turned into a white golden curtain, covering hundreds of square meters.

"Heroic curtain of heaven!"

The Golden Knights under the eagle lion looked at each other and smiled. They understood that the shepherd frides had shot himself.

Bravery is the prelude to the battle.