"Knight Brund, do you see that crack in the west? Lead the eighth echelon around from the back and surround the cavalry from the side." Freya suddenly turned her head and looked at the broken glacier in the west, and said to Brund beside her. The broken glacier undulated through the entire snowfield, refracting the sun after noon and sparkling under the ice. Brund looked in that direction, somewhat puzzled, "Why, it's impossible to catch up from that direction."
"Yes, Knight Brund, your task is to force them to change direction and let the halflings flee north, preferably northeast." Freya replied.
"What's in the east?" Brund was stunned and subconsciously looked in that direction, but in his field of vision, the east and the north were the same endless glaciers – the edge of the glacier shone under the clear sky, like the edge of a mirror, piercing his eyes. He could not help but squint his eyes, somewhat suspicious.
"Brund, it's the wind." Little Pero, riding on the horse, seemed to react, "The wind, the wind is blowing from the northwest."
No one present was a fool, and Brund immediately understood. He looked at the ice dust raised by the wind slowly moving in their direction on the glacier, and could not help but marvel in his heart: the wind was blowing from the northwest, which meant that there might be a mountain pass in that direction, and the north and east were most likely in the direction of the col. These things were not learned in the nobles' tactical classes and could only be regarded as common sense, but not everyone could acutely perceive and use this to make judgments at this time.
"The guy in front may have been aware of this early on. I don't think the other commander chose to flee in this direction to leave his fate to Lady Martha," Little Pero further analyzed. He looked at Freya with some admiration, and said intermittently in the wind, "We've blocked his retreat, the other party will not sit still. Lady Freya, you want to force them to turn back and fight us to the death, don't you?"
The girl was slightly startled. She did not think that far ahead, but she had a faint intuition that the other party might turn back if she did so. But as a commander, she had at least learned how to maintain her dignity and nodded gently.
"I understand." Brund nodded excitedly. No one was willing to listen to the command of a good-for-nothing, especially for them. Mediocrity was unbearable, but at the thought of ushering in a perfect victory soon, these young people from Cruz could not help but get excited. Seriously speaking, this was their first battle.
On the entire glacier, Cruz's Knight and Aloz formed a perfect suppression of the Halflings. Arreck's Ehnhor cavalry had almost no room for resistance and were strangled on the ice. Blood flowed from the corpses of the Halfling cavalry and instantly froze into a pool of red ice. The tenth echelon led by Luo Ji and the other seven echelons were in the final battle, and on the final battlefield, the battle was about to come to an end.
Kuwu saw a cavalry with a swallow-tailed flag separating from the pursuers behind and entering the shadow of the broken glacier. He understood the opponent's commander's plan. He was actually waiting for this opportunity. There were 34 Knight guards around him, all of whom were good lads among the Ehnhor people. They were the most elite soldiers in Grand Duke Arreck's Halfling Cavalry, and the opponent's cavalry echelon only had a dozen people. He did not believe that four times the number was not enough to defeat these unknown cavalry.
The halfling knight could not help but sneer when he saw that the enemy commander still dared to divide her forces. In his opinion, Freya had made the right choice, but in a sense, it was also a mistake. The enemy was too arrogant, or rather, their frantic escape at the beginning had successfully created an illusion, causing the enemy to think that they were weak and could be bullied. Kuwu was very satisfied with the situation he had created, but he was not in a hurry to order his men to turn around. These Halfling Knight guards who were willing to fight side by side with him and did not scatter were all his most trusted subordinates. Good steel should be used on the blade. Kuwu was waiting, waiting for Brund's cavalry to be far enough away from Freya.
He cunningly pretended to continue to flee, and as Freya wished, he readjusted his direction to the north. It seemed that the Cruz Knight was fooled. He saw Brund's cavalry bypassing the broken glacier and finally understood that he had been waiting for a golden opportunity.
In fact, he knew very well that at this moment, the Halfling Cavalry's ponies were almost reaching their physical limits, and could only support one more charge at most, but that was enough. Kuwu whistled, and the Halfling Cavalry accompanying him turned a corner on the ice field, facing Freya and her first echelon.
"They're here!" Seeing the scene in front of him, little Pero's voice rang out. Freya saw the Halfling Cavalry turn their horses around and could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. The opponent only needed to run a short distance forward to reach the limit of the interference magic, but fortunately, it seemed that Lady Martha was still on their side. She raised her longsword high, "Prepare for battle!"
The Knight let out a restless cry and raised the shields in their hands. The Halfling Cavalry was one of Wohnde's most unique cavalry. They were not heavy cavalry who were good at charging formations. These cavalry who rode ponies and even war dogs were best at close to mid-range combat. To be precise, they were cavalry who threw spears.
The two sides launched a deadly charge on the ice field, and the distance gradually shortened to the point where they could see each other's tense faces – human and halfling. Kuwu's cavalry suddenly whistled and threw the short spears in their hands forward. A rain of short spears flew over tens of meters in a flash and poured into the thin line of Cruz's Knight. However, the expected scene of people being thrown off their horses did not appear. The shields in the hands of the human knights suddenly unfurled one after another, and when the short spears collided with those light shields, they were immediately broken into two pieces and wood chips flew everywhere.
Kuwu's heart went cold when he saw this scene. He did not make a mistake, but as the head of a noble's private army, he probably never dreamed that there was such a big gap between the inferior cavalry under his command and the most elite Knight of the powerful Empire on the continent. This kind of ignorance sometimes had to be compensated with one's life.
After a round of spear throwing, Cruz's men were unharmed. On the flat snowfield, when the two cavalry charged at each other, there was no second chance. Probably seeing the end, the morale of the elite Knight of Ehnholm plummeted, but the accumulated pride of the past made them bite the bullet and raise their weapons.
Looking from above, the Cruz Knight led by Freya looked like a thin silver blade, piercing the heart of the Halfling Cavalry.
"They're dead meat!"
Brund saw this scene and pulled the reins to stop. The battle had just begun, but he could already see the result. The blond Knight said with some regret, "It's a pity that we can't participate in the battle in person."
"Don't worry, Arreck isn't dead yet. If we clean up the battlefield quickly, we might still have a chance." A Knight behind him shouted excitedly. The Flame King once said that cavalry was an indomitable force. Hot blood and fanaticism were their symbols. Just being on the battlefield in person was enough to make these young people restless.
"Ha, well said!"
The knights were talking, but Brund turned his head. He seemed to see a flash of light on the horizon. He rubbed his eyes and almost thought he was hallucinating. The sun on the ice often causes snow-blindness, and sometimes it is not impossible for the refracted light to cause hallucinations.
But Brund felt a little uneasy. He turned to the others and said, "Did you see anything?"
"What?"
"It's in that direction. Didn't you see it? It looks like a blue light …" Brund asked with some doubts.
"Blue light?"
"No."
"Could it be that you're mistaken, Brund?"
Brund shrugged. "Probably." But as soon as his voice fell, someone in the team screamed, "Oh my God, look over there!" Brund was slightly startled and immediately turned his head vigilantly. But the moment he turned his head, his face changed instantly.
Martha above, what the hell is this …
…
The silent cave was covered in ice and snow. The ice that had not melted for thousands of years formed a blue wall. The glaciers sank down, forming lines. In the dark cave, the naturally formed holes crisscrossed. However, in this uncanny workmanship of nature, there were many man-made objects piled up.
If you looked carefully, you would find many boxes of goods from Cruz. The eagle emblem on them indicated that these boxes were once military supplies. On the other side, there were many wooden barrels piled up. These barrels came from Fort Vallenden, Lantonilan, and even further away. These barrels and wooden boxes were filled with all kinds of food. If anyone came here, they would think that they had mistakenly entered the underground storage room of a Frost Giant.
But this was a bona fide dragon's lair.
Although here, you could not see glittering gold coins, jewelry, priceless artwork, gold and silver utensils, or even the dazzling gemstones that dragons loved the most, there was only food. Pickled beef, sausages, frozen fish, yogurt, bread, fruit, and jars of honey and candy piled up together.
But this cave that looked like a witch's candy house was indeed the hiding place of Shitah the Frost Dragon Whelp.
… (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for recommendation and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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