Chapter Thirty: Heavy Cavalry

  The battle had reached this point, and Carus also discovered that something was wrong. He did not underestimate the strength of the beastman soldiers, but he underestimated the powerful force of the elf archers and the dwarf riflemen.

  Indeed, without the massive casualties inflicted by the elven archers and dwarven riflemen from behind, the beastman infantry would have been severely depleted under the fierce charge led by some of Carus' warriors.

  The beastman infantry was brave, but the Carus had more people, and among them were fighters who could counter the beastman infantry, as well as mages. The mages opened up the formation, the fighters led the charge forward, and the beastman infantry would be finished off no matter how strong they were. However, their mage was taken out by Tyrande as soon as he arrived, and several fighters were driven into a flurry by the riflemen and Tyrande.

  But this was also an unavoidable thing, the elven archers could all use Shadow Walk, so they didn't even discover that Xiao Yu had so many archers at first, let alone think of the existence of dwarf gunners.

  They also had excellent archers, but Xiao Yu's side had already occupied the advantageous position of the city wall. Their archers found it difficult to pose a threat to the elven archers who held the high ground, and the elves' Shadow Concealment made it easy for them to lose their targets.

  In the remote battle, Carus was defeated miserably.

  Karus, who was in the Cold Weapon Era, wouldn't have thought much about the great power of long-range dense firepower. As a modern person, Xiao Yu understood the great effect of long-range heavy firepower all too well.

  Whether Napoleon or Rommel, they all advocated for the large-scale concentrated use of automated heavy weapons to suppress the enemy.

  As long as you suppress your opponent, you have won the victory.

  So in this battle, the orc infantry and human infantry were actually not the main killing forces, but rather the archers and gunners.

  Dwarven riflemen reap lives at a slower pace than agile archers, basically elven archers hit five while they might have only hit one.

  However, their suppression of warriors and damage to mages played a crucial role in the battle. This is the characteristic of the troops.

  Xiao Yu had once thought that in this world, there were magicians, heavy infantry and cavalry, powerful warriors, and when they deployed troops, it was directly tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, which wasn't impossible.

  Although he had elite troops, the number was pitifully small. His only advantage was the coordination of multiple troop types. Only by coordinating troop types could he gain an advantage.

  Otherwise, once the troops are not well coordinated, he will inevitably suffer a disastrous defeat under the opponent's human sea tactics.

  "Everyone retreat, everyone retreat." Karus saw that things were not going well and hastily ordered a withdrawal. He knew that if they continued to fight like this, their side would probably be completely defeated. The enemy's archers were too powerful.

  He was very depressed, originally this was his own city wall. If they started to defend the city wall, no matter how many archers the other side had, they would not be afraid, as the archers shooting from below the city wall could not exert any effect. But unfortunately, the city wall was lost, and the other side was in a superior position, the city wall became a defensive tool for the other side.

  This is also where Xiao Yu's cleverness lies, from the beginning, he planned well, occupied the geographical advantage, and fully played out the heavy firepower of his own spiritual tribe archers to suppress the opponent, and thus achieved such brilliant results.

  If it were to be on an open plain where both sides meet head-on, the enemy has thousands of people and there are also cavalry, it would be easy to bypass 300 infantrymen and attack the archers. In that case, our side will definitely lose miserably.

  If it's a positive forced city war, it's even more hopeless. The elven archers are so powerful that they can shoot at each other from the bottom of the city to the top, and still end up dying. The beastmen infantry have such a small number, and not many of them can climb over the wall before being shot dead.

  So, the reason why this campaign was won is also due to Xiao Yu's correct use of troop coordination, it's a tactical victory. In those years, Xiao Yu was also the champion of the Magic Beast Contest Elite Tournament, and his mastery of such tactics is naturally unmatched. Although there are some differences between the real world and games, as a pseudo-military enthusiast, Xiao Yu still has a very high ideological advantage in this backward cold weapon era.

  As expected, when Carus led his men out of the range of the archers' bows, Xiao Yu stopped pursuing them. Because once Xiao Yu lost the city wall as a vantage point, he was absolutely no match for the enemy.

  In just that short period of time, over a thousand of Karus' men had died, plus the six hundred who had fallen in the initial chaotic charge. In total, two thousand of Karus' bandit soldiers had been killed, including one magician and five warriors.

  Those duelists were either shot dead by Thranduil or shot dead by the riflemen.

  A warrior can withstand the feathered arrows of ordinary elven archers, but cannot withstand Thelrand's scorching arrow and the bullets of a gunman.

  "Alright, alright, you're Xiao Yu, I've remembered that. Just wait and see how I'll slaughter the Lion King's territory later." Karus was extremely furious, this was his greatest defeat since becoming a bandit, in less than half an hour, more than 2,000 people had died. To think that his mountain stronghold only had less than 5,000 people in total, and now half of them were already gone.

  Xiao Yu watched them exit the archers' range, and smiled slightly, saying: "You half-breed bastards, you think a small thief like you can fight me? And slaughter our Lion King's territory? Ridiculous! I am the king of this era, appointed by the gods of the elves, beasts, and dwarves, possessing the great fortune of heaven and earth. You either surrender or die. Fighting me? You're not even worthy."

  As for scolding, Xiao Yu is absolutely not unfamiliar with it. In the past, when playing online games, encountering some SB players, they would scold each other, which was simply a century-old war. After going through countless rounds of life and death, Xiao Yu had honed his skills to become invincible in scolding, so how could this Karus be his opponent?

  "Hmph, now, the king of this era? You think you can be it? Today, I'll let you die here. Let's see what great luck you have! Come, summon the heavy cavalry." At this time, Karus' face turned sinister, he waved his hand and took out his final trump card.

  The heavy cavalry needs some time to gear up, and in the dark of night, they won't rush out immediately. They all received Carus' order to put on their equipment first, get ready, and wait for the right moment to appear.

  Otherwise, heavy cavalry would also go out individually like other infantry and completely lose the effect of heavy cavalry.

  Heavy cavalry was the absolute master of the battlefield in the era of cold weapons. A charge by a formation of heavy cavalry could directly break through the enemy's formation, and the infantry behind would follow up, making it easy to achieve final victory.

  Many great battles were fought with both sides facing each other head-on, just to see whose heavy cavalry would gain the upper hand and crush the enemy.

  Ordinary bandits simply don't have the money to build a heavy cavalry unit. Because, although heavy cavalry has great power and is the master of the battlefield, it is also an absolute money-burning machine.

  A qualified heavy cavalryman, including the training of soldiers, the selection of horses, the forging of armor, and the honing of battle arrays, costs an average of several thousand gold coins per person. Without money, don't even think about raising heavy cavalry.

  Carus had accumulated capital for over a decade, and only then did he cultivate a heavy cavalry corps of 300 people. However, this heavy cavalry corps of more than 300 people had once made many of his opponents tremble with fear.

  The heavy cavalry charged forward, just like countless chariots rushing by, and ordinary infantrymen were directly crushed into mud. In this bandit group, having such a heavy cavalry unit was an absolute symbol of strength.

  At this time, the back of the mountain village had already caught fire in all directions, burning everything to ashes. Although someone went to deal with it, setting fires was absolutely easier than putting them out.

  One man can set fire, and one hundred men will be busy putting it out.

  So now the main buildings in the village are almost burned down, Karus must end the fight as soon as possible, defeat Xiao Yu, and then go to put out the fire. Otherwise, his hard work for over a decade will be completely destroyed.

  A long, mournful cry...

  With the whinnying of war horses, three hundred heavy cavalry had gathered, their strong hooves trampling on the ground, producing a rumbling sound, gathering into a piece, like thunder rolling over.

  War horses capable of carrying heavy cavalry are not ordinary war horses, but one in a thousand, and must be extremely strong to bear such heavy armor.

  Buying warhorses for heavy cavalry is a very big problem, and it's also the first hurdle to build heavy cavalry. Without good warhorses, there's no point in talking about heavy cavalry.

  At this time, the heavy cavalry had assembled and, under the command of their officers, slowly came to a halt at a distance of three hundred paces from the city wall, forming into line.

  "Prepare to charge, wipe out these beastman soldiers." Karus's face twitched as he gave the order. Even if he annihilated Xiao Yu today, his losses would still be enormous.

  Xiao Yu was too despicable, he actually sent someone to set fire and burned down his entire house.

  He would grind Xiao Yu into meat paste and still wouldn't be satisfied.

  Xiao Yu looked at the opponent's heavy cavalry, but narrowed his eyes and flashed a treacherous light.

  "Fortunately, I had prepared two chariots and a gunner, otherwise, relying solely on the beastman infantry and elven archers to deal with these heavy cavalry would be impossible."

  Xiao Yu waved his hand, and two blade cars hidden behind were quietly carried out by four beastman soldiers and boarded the Moon Blade.

  "Charge!" Karus bellowed out the order.