Since the start of the war, Valard had never faced the enemy head-on on the plains. He had been 'defending the city' and 'attacking the city' from the start. In fact, he did not even have the chance to face the cavalry before, because the cavalry in front of him were the elites of the southern Bindu Kingdom, and had never appeared near Rashai City before.
They were riding tall horses with high endurance, and their running speed was far faster than Lassiman's cavalry.
"Formation! Hurry up! Prepare the spells! Prepare the bows and arrows! "
Valard glanced at the battle formation on his side and immediately frowned. Because the front and middle army were combat units, their orders were very thorough, and the formation was still neat. But the engineers in the back who were responsible for transporting the catapults and other parts of the army were far inferior to the other soldiers. After they hurriedly picked up their weapons and formed a formation, the formation was obviously a little messy.
Ambushing cavalry on the open plains, they either had to form a solid barrel formation and passively wait for the enemy to rush up, or take the initiative to send their own cavalry to meet the enemy. Although the losses would definitely not be small, at least the decision was in their own hands.
Valard, of course, understood this. He was currently in the middle army, and looked at the enemy in front of him who had stopped to adjust, and estimated in his heart how to deal with it.
At a glance, there were about two thousand of these cavalry. They were wearing typical nomadic ornaments, but it could be seen that they were wearing some different styles of armour. Valard used magic to identify and could confirm that the style of these guys' helmets was the type that could only be made by the craftsmen of Eska.
In other words, the foundation of this army was the Bindu Kingdom's cavalry, but after the support of Eska's military equipment, their combat power was probably much stronger than expected.
He only had eight hundred cavalry under him, and their combat power was not comparable to the enemy at all. If they took the initiative to attack, they would probably be defeated in a single encounter, but to just wait passively like this …
Valard's indecisiveness was acting up again.
This sudden encounter simply did not give him enough time to pass the information to the council to make a decision. According to the authority given to him by the council, the only thing Valard could do at this moment was to seek 'stability' and not be reckless!
The so-called 'stability', in Valard's eyes, was' defense '. In his opinion, the two thousand cavalry faced an army of forty thousand, it was not certain whether they would dare to charge. If the enemy charged, it was very likely that they would fall into a formation battle, and if they could not charge out, it was possible that they would all die here.
Therefore, he calmly decided to defend.
At this time, the morale of the army was still good, and many of the soldiers were equipped with bows and arrows. The mages also began to use magic to quickly dig a temporary trench in front of the camp. It seemed that they were not afraid of the enemy's attack at all.
Time ticked by just like that.
Two thousand cavalrymen stood a kilometer away and rested for a short while. They took better care of their horses than Lassiman's cavalrymen. The difference could be seen just from the lustrous hair on the horses. Originally, the knights of the Bindu Kingdom wore leather armor to fight, but now, they were all wearing light armor and helmets protected by iron sheets. Although they were far from the standards of "heavy cavalry", their defensive capabilities and impact force were clearly much stronger than before.
The horses had been running for a long time, so they should have been exhausted. However, there were also mages among the cavalrymen. They were wearing bird feather cloaks, but they were not druids or mages. Instead, they were more like shamans of a primitive religion. Similar to the orc shamans of the Nehemiah Plains, they used some very crude and primitive spells.
These spells weren't very powerful, but they could quickly restore the horses' stamina. Valad saw that they purposely let some of the cavalrymen walk in front of the army, while the shamans cast spells at the back. Obviously, they were trying to avoid part of the "anti-magic field".
In less than five or six minutes, the entire team had completed their adjustments. Amidst the shouts, they began a tentative attack on Lassman's army!
The entire cavalry was divided into three groups, and they approached Lassiman's army from three directions. Their horsemanship was excellent, and they didn't directly choose a position for a frontal charge. Often, after charging, they would start circling around the army of 40,000, approaching and distancing themselves from time to time, obviously looking for weaknesses in the three groups.
Of course, Valad wouldn't just stand there and watch. The archers in the army launched a group shot, but the cavalrymen were proficient in moving within range, and were almost unaffected. Unsurprisingly, the spells used by the mages were annihilated above the cavalry. These cavalrymen were obviously fearless, and didn't fear any spells at all.
At this time, there was the buzzing sound of propellers in the sky, but none of the cavalrymen raised their heads to look. They were already used to the existence of these things when they were on the other side of the river, and now they only had their minds on dealing with Lassiman's army in front of them.
After cruising back and forth for more than ten minutes, one of the groups of about 500 began to accelerate without warning, suddenly approaching the rear of the army, and launched the first attack!
Valad's expression turned ugly, because he realized that the enemy had already seen his weakest point. But now he had no choice but to immediately order the archers to shoot.
But when the battle formation stretched for a kilometer, there were only two thousand archers who could provide support in this direction. The two volleys of arrows they had shot in a hurry had indeed caused the deaths and injuries of dozens of cavalrymen, but these Knights of Bindu, who were riding on warhorses, rushed over at a speed far faster than they had imagined. After easily crossing the sparse trenches, they forcefully crashed into the army formation.
The momentum of this fearless charge was astonishing. Because the warhorses and the armored cavalrymen weighed more than half a ton, the logisticians with shields and spears were not strong enough to defend, and countless people were sent flying on the spot!
Although they gritted their teeth and held on under the roars of the supervisors, their basic skills in the battle formation were not good enough. In front of the most powerful Knights of Bindu, they could not withstand a single swing of their scimitars, and were often split apart along with their shields. The four rows of spearmen at the front were trampled flat like paper, and the knights behind them crushed them with a rumble, easily stabbing their scimitars into the army formation made up of more than ten thousand people!
The group of 500 was unusually small compared to the huge army formation, but the Knights of Bindu did not mind at all. They roared and slashed all the soldiers in front of them into pieces. The soldiers in the middle of the army formation did not hold spears in the first place. They only had swords in their hands at the last moment. Facing the cavalrymen who were more than a meter taller than them, they had no idea how to stop them at all …
In other words, these soldiers should not have participated in the frontline on the battlefield, but the current situation had forced them to do something beyond their abilities. Even if there were a few strong supervisors mixed in, they could not change the fact that the overall strength of the rear army was weak.
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