Chapter 660

The sheep depend on the leader of the head sheep. If the head sheep falls off the cliff, the sheep will jump down with it. In fact, this is caused by a strong group consciousness. Group consciousness can easily dominate individual will and even make members of the group forget their instinct of fear of death. Even if some individuals are aware of the danger, they have no room for struggle and can only be pushed down the abyss by the group.

Social creatures are influenced by group consciousness, and highly socialized humans are no exception.

In a cruel war in the earth world, 60000 soldiers fell under the muzzle of heavy machine guns in one day. Behind the tragic casualties, the military commander made a cognitive mistake, which was magnified infinitely by the group consciousness.

This is true of the most intelligent humans, not to mention centaurs.

In addition to the blue eye tribe, the newly appointed Great Khan polta called on the violent leaders above the silver level of other tribes to jointly expand the escape route in the southeast corner. On the one hand, it did so to let the Centaur army break through from the southeast as soon as possible and avoid trampling and chaos. On the other hand, it has not yet secured the seat of the Great Khan and brought the Khan of various tribes, the commander of thousands and the ferocious commander of the silver rank around, which means threatening the hostages.

Even if the Centaur army breaks through smoothly, polta and Alita don't want the tribal coalition forces to break up in this way, otherwise polta can only be a big Khan for one day. Coerced the Khan and commander of each tribe, delayed the end of the war, and led the Sidon Centaur to fight a few more wars with mankind. As long as they did not make serious mistakes, the sacrifice of bota Great Khan and Alita would be well deserved.

Only by kidnapping the head horses of various tribes, more than 100000 Sidon Centaur soldiers will run with the Great Khan.

Polta and Alita thought and did the same. But they missed the Centaur commander of the blue eye tribe, which is also the head horse.

Waves of cow dung incendiary bombs fell from the sky, dragged thick smoke and hit the southeast corner of the Centaur camp. Although the power was small, it ignited the animal skin tent on the Centaur's back, bringing choking odor and thick smoke. The Centaur on fire jumped wildly, spreading panic, and the evacuation, which was smooth, suddenly became chaotic.

It doesn't matter. The range of the catapult on the eastern front of mankind is more than 700 meters. It won't take polta and the centurion much time to destroy the catapult. As long as they destroy half of the catapults, the evacuation of the southeast passage can restore order.

The human Knights crossed the block of the blue eyed Centaur and attacked the Centaur camp. This is not a big problem. Although the Centaur commanders above the silver level are concentrated near the channel in the southeast corner, they can't run back for a while and a half to compete with the extraordinary strong men of mankind. However, the general ferocious commander of each tribe has carried out circular defense maneuver with ordinary Centaur soldiers. There are only more than 3000 knights in the knight cluster composed of extraordinary knights, knights, middle and high-level paladins and combat priests. This number of strong human beings can only be regarded as a whole in a battle of this scale. Ordinary centaurs can't beat these strong human beings. Won't they run around them?

The Duke of Barcelona opened the channel at the northeast corner of the defense line, and some Centaur soldiers ran out from the Northeast gap under the pressure of human knights. The Great Khan polta looked very happy. The head horses of all tribes were around him. The Centaur soldiers fled from the other direction first and made a big circle. After getting rid of the pursuit of the human army, they would still take the initiative to run to find their respective tribal leaders.

The remaining clan members led by the blue eyed commander also withdrew from the battlefield from the northeast corner, and everything changed.

More than 20000 blue eyed centaurs gallop across the battlefield, and 160000 elite soldiers on the west front really dare not act rashly. In battle, it is not certain that a large number of people can win. The key to victory lies in the effective use of space. Everyone takes up a certain space. All 160000 troops end up. More than half of them can't touch the Centaur at all. Instead, they will hinder the movement of the temple army, which is equivalent to serving as a shield for the Centaur.

Who told a two legged man not to run four?

As soon as the broken Centaur left, the 160000 army attacked the left and right wings of the Centaur camp. Due to the lengthening of the front, almost every soldier gave full play to their combat effectiveness. With their excellent armor, they rushed forward against the arrow rain of the Centaur, threw two rounds of Javelin first, and then killed them in close combat with the Centaur.

Centaur warfare requires more space than medium-sized humans. They could still entangle with the knight cluster. With 160000 elite infantry and 60000 Temple armies squeezing their battle space, the killing efficiency of the knight doubled, and the Centaurs were completely flustered. There were also some ferocious centaurs who led their circular arrow array into a cluster charge and fought several small counterattacks. But they could not form tens of thousands of clusters, and only two or three thousand centaurs were soon extinguished by the human army. In addition, the green eye tribe rushed out of the encirclement with the head horse, and many centaurs almost instinctively ran out with the green eye tribe.

The human army is like a clenched fist, squeezing the sponge. The Centaur is like water in the sponge, flowing out of the gap of the fist.

Polta, the Khan of each tribe, and the centurion were also pushed away by the Centaurs. In this case, they had nothing to do but run out with the Centaur soldiers.

A general who cannot control the army but is coerced by the army is called rout.

More and more centaurs fled, and the pressure of the human army became less and less. The soldiers on the north and South wings sealed the escape passage again, and the remaining centaurs became a turtle in a jar. The catapults and catapults on the eastern front opened fire, and incendiary bombs bombarded in turns, turning countless centaurs into fire horses, but panic and chaos were more deadly than fire. At this time, the battle priest cast chaos and fear on the Centaur. The effect is amazing. A spell can make a small group of centaurs kill indiscriminately regardless of the enemy and ourselves.

Fear and despair spread like a plague in the army, so that soldiers had to cut down blindly. This is called bombing camp.

After the defeat, they came to blow up the camp again. The Centaurs had returned to the sky and were weak. A few sober centaurs sacrificed their lives to attack the tortoise shell knife array on the west front, which was also a suicide without suspense.

Ordinary soldiers and paladins can't see the overall situation of the battlefield and just concentrate on fighting. The high-level knights and high-level clergy saw the bombing camp on the battlefield for the first time. They were surprised and did not forget to protect the flanks of the army.

The shining knights and the blood wolf Knights left the battlefield and joined the eagle lion knights and the moon bear knights on the Duke of Barcelona, the iron wall Knights of dodor and the fast Dragon Knights of Gambis, wandering on the left side of the battlefield to prevent the ferocious Centaur from leading his men to attack the side and rear of the human army.

In fact, polta and Centaur Marco Khan are not in the mood to counter attack the human army. The blue eye tribe disappeared and abducted tens of thousands of Centaur soldiers from all tribes. It seems that they do not intend to join the Great Khan of Balta. The Centaur Khan of each tribe denounced the blue eyed commander as a traitor and encouraged polta Da Khan to punish the blue eyed traitor.

For them, the top priority is to gather the Centaurs abducted by the blue eye tribe, rather than fight the human knight to the end.

The blue eyed Centurion knew that Baltar would not let go of himself. He coerced the Centaur army to flee all the way north without stopping at all. Polta took the half man mark Khan around in a big circle. In the end, he didn't catch up with the blue eye tribe, but chose to move eastward.

In short, the two centaurs ran without a trace. The human army had no worries at home and made every effort to kill the trapped centaurs.

In the evening, the last Centaur fell in a pool of blood, and the soldiers cheered for victory.

In this battle, more than 7000 coalition troops were killed, more than 3000 were seriously injured and disabled, and a total of more than 11000 troops were damaged. However, the human coalition annihilated more than 48000 centaurs in total. Compared with the previous achievements, it can be called a great victory that human beings have never had against orcs in thousands of years.

Of course, the war is not over yet, but this victory means that the Sassanian Empire has changed from strategic defense to strategic attack, and the human coalition has won the initiative of the war.

The soldiers who took part in the battle returned to the camp to rest and recuperate, ready to hunt down the Centaurs who fled the battlefield the next day; The garrison of castles, barracks and sentries came out to clean the battlefield; The Knights are responsible for the battlefield vigil to prevent accidents.

The coalition leaders gathered by a campfire to discuss the gains and losses of the war and the subsequent changes of the war.

Pastor Kent's face was flushed by the fire. His eyes were excited and his voice said loudly: "Praise my Lord! I have only read the relevant war history documents in the ivory holy Castle archive before. For thousands of years, we are the only commander who has commanded large-scale battle and won. To tell you the truth, my highness and I lack the experience of general war. It is the supreme glorious Lord who guided us to win!"

Reverend frides said with appreciation: "The Kent brothers are right. In the past, when human soldiers clashed with centaurs, they were always at a disadvantage. Without the support of high-level knights and high-level priests, 1000 cavalry against 1000 centaurs, the soldiers would basically lose; 8000 cavalry against 80000 centaurs, the soldiers would certainly lose. We always think that Centaurs are naturally stronger than humans, and one Centaur can equal two soldiers, To defeat the Centaur, more troops must be invested. In this battle, long-range fireball projection and spiritual retribution have played a vital role. Thousands of centaurs died from attacks and trampling by their companions. "

"This is the Lord's punishment of the orcs through our hands, and it is also the precious revelation given to us by the Lord."

The shepherd paused and asked with a smile, "brother Kent, how did you think of using a catapult to focus on throwing cow dung incendiary bombs on the Centaur army?"

Kent habitually touched his neat short beard and said with a smile: "I have lived in Raven for a long time and have a friendship with his highness Randall. Ant disaster is a big problem in the human horse hill. His highness Randall often discusses with me the tactics to deal with ant tide. Because ant people are afraid of fire, the fortifications of human horse hill pay more attention to fire attack. Cow dung incendiary bomb is the standing combat material of the three anti ant walls. It is light, convenient for transportation and has a longer projection distance than stones It's far away. It's very effective to deal with the ant tide. Hit the Centaur... The most you hit on your head is that you're stunned by the smell of cow dung, but who wants the Centaur to like to carry a tent? "

Emperor Frederick, the two Duchess of Barcelona, and the royal highness of the shining Knights all looked at Kent quietly. They fully expressed their intentions with patient eyes.

Throwing stones and incendiary bombs should have the same killing effect on centaurs. On the battlefield, the number of centaurs burned is actually very limited. If the incendiary bombs are replaced with stone bombs, the number of centaurs directly killed by the stone catapult may be more. However, the negative impact of incendiary bombs is far more terrible than its lethality. The Centaurs kill each other from their burned companions, Finally, it affected all the Centaurs in the rear. At first, the Centaurs wanted to try their best to put out the fire on their companions' backs, and they could endure being kicked by each other. When the front of the camp was oppressed by the human military line, the space became narrow, because they were afraid that the fire would burn themselves. The frightened centaurs killed their companions. Whether they were burned or not, they caught the Centaurs around them Kill and lead to the final bombing.

Pastor Kent's idea of using cow dung incendiary bombs is really wonderful. However, your highness valued not a wonderful idea, but the principles of the battle, or the know-how that must be mastered.

Since the vassal system, there have been few large-scale battles between human countries and orcs. There are two internal and external factors in this. On the one hand, the long-term conflict between the Pope and the forces of knights and nobles makes the Legion of clergy and secular lords unable to fight together; On the other hand, except for the goblin king, the vast majority of ORC kings do not have the objective conditions to launch the general war. The infiltration, destruction, reproduction and expulsion of small orcs are the main reasons for the continuous loss of soil. According to the needs of the actual situation, the human war mode basically applies two methods: knight team reverse osmosis and Castle joint defense. People vividly compare it to the tactics of wolves and wolf nests.

The knight team of the Sassanian empire is equipped with 1 knight, 4 trainee knights, 1 combat priest, 6 paladins and 20 elite cavalry, a total of 32 people, which can be expanded to 68 cavalry and 100 people. The 8000 member Legion composed of 80 full-size 100 member Knight teams is already the largest combat cluster in the human country, led by a Golden Knight.

The whole human nation was shocked when an army of the Sassanian empire was completely annihilated by the legendary Centaur orogar.

If the Sidon centaurs had not made a collective attack on the eastern development leader, the shining knights and the Sassanian Empire would not have to call 400000 troops of the human country to fight it.

Now it seems that the Centaur launched an unwise all-out war is a conspiracy of the Centaur gods to unify the Sidon Khanate and clean up the surplus goblin slaves in the territory.

In any case, neither centaurs nor humans have fought a large-scale battle.

The Centaur's poor logistics ability determines that they have no chance of winning. In fact, the Centaur is not ready to fight with humans. They have to give birth to babies and rob tents. After these things, they are ready to go home for the winter. They run fast on their four legs and don't pay attention to the short legged human army at all, but the Sassanian Empire won't let the Centaur escape easily.

Pastor Kent's battle strategy is novel and bold. He separately organized the middle and high-level extraordinary people into Knight clusters, took the temple army as the main attack force, and the elite cavalry as the reserve team, and put them into the battlefield in batches. This method completely overturned the traditional wolf pack and wolf nest tactics, but we listened carefully to Kent's opinions. After careful study, we found no loopholes, so we agreed to adopt his battle strategy.

Facts have proved that Kent's combat strategy is effective and very effective, and the casualties of the coalition forces are far lower than that of the Centaurs.

Beating the Centaur met everyone's expectations, but why did it win so beautiful?

"Big mouth" Kent asked with a beaming smile, "have you all heard of the big Legion strategy Victor has been thinking about?"

We have long heard of Victor's encouragement of the grand Legion strategy. The Randall family first enlisted the support of Pope Clement in recruiting the mercenary Corps. At first, the major forces took this matter as a talk after dinner. It was not until Victor's reputation grew that they really attached importance to his big Corps strategy.

However, the great lords generally believe that the political significance of the great Legion is higher than its practical value. Because the great Legion itself represents the prelude to the era of great development, and the refugee groups are legally included in the development link.

As for, how much combat power can mercenaries have? No one can explain this problem clearly without actual combat test.

Emperor Frederick turned his face and asked incredulously, "Kent, do you mean... His highness Randall has improved the fighting principles of the great Legion?"