Riding and Slashing

Chapter 191 Ranger and Ranger

In fact, when the members of the Horn Summoning Ranger Group first gathered in the large army, they were very tangled.

Because the ranger group that had been guarding Changhe Town for a long time didn't like the Noldor elves very much. After all, the Noldor elves had killed many civilians in Changhe Town in retaliation, especially Aldalian's troops.

Although there has been little conflict between the two sides in recent years, it is true that the Rangers have difficulty becoming friends with the Noldor.

But in fact, the lord just wanted the rangers to fight with the Noldor elves, and to ease the conflicts between them with the friendship of comrades-in-arms.

Perhaps at present, this is just an army of thousands of people who forcibly gathered together, and there is no cooperation between them.

But no matter what, with such a scale and elite level, it must be first-class in Pendor Continent, enough to face any strong enemy.

Leofric couldn't believe it the moment he saw the reinforcements—who would have thought that Li Ang would bring such an elite force?
"Master Li Ang, the troops of the Ravencrow Kingdom are indeed coming to Fort Valor. My scouts have confirmed that a Ravencrow army is now camping tens of miles to the northwest—but they may be scared when they see your team. Piss..."

Leofric was so relieved now that he began to laugh heartily.

"They'd better come quickly, so we can hurry up and kill them first..."

Li Ang was not at ease at all, and his face was quite serious: "The Ravencrow Kingdom fought against the Gatu people not long ago, but now they dare to cross the Gatu grassland, it is probably because of what they have reached with the Gatu people Agreement—I think the Catus are likely to make a big move too..."

The lord is not as optimistic as Leofric, because he just asked Dumbledore to go for a walk in the grassland a few days ago...

In fact, this "reasonable suggestion" to lure the Gatu people was originally intended to alleviate the hatred between the residents of Noldor and White Hart Castle - the lord originally wanted the Ebon Gauntlet Knights to attract a few Gatu people , and then led the student rangers of Vendatil to fight side by side with the people on the eastern border, and killed the attracted Gatu people.

After all, the Gatu people are the common enemy of the Noldor and the people in the east, and fighting side by side is the best way to resolve the original conflict.

And now Dumbledore only has a few hundred people under his command, and there will definitely not be too many Catus who can be attracted - the lord has actually already planned it out.

But no one expected that the Ravencrow Kingdom would suddenly cross the Jiatu Grassland and enter the Sarleon Realm.

Since the army of the Ravencrow Kingdom passed through the Gatu Grassland safely, it was obvious that there was something tricky with the Gatu people. The lord felt that this battle was not as simple as it seemed.

In addition, Dumbledore's Knights of the Ebony Gauntlets are probably doing something in the northern grasslands, so it is difficult to determine how the Cato people will react...

"I heard that something happened in Changhe Town... Shall we ignore Changhe Town? Alma sent someone to arrest me before, saying that he wanted me to go to Changhe Town for investigation. Before I had time to decide what to do, I went to I heard that he died in Changhe Town..."

Leofric turned to ask Li Ang.

"After repelling the foreign enemies, let's think about how to counter the rebellion. This is the principle... Even the original Lion King, didn't he repel the foreign enemies first and then solve the internal rebellion?"

The lord shook his head and sighed.

"That's right, that's how it should be. And... Sarleon City will probably respond..."

Leofric nodded and smiled, looking at the golden griffin flag behind the lord, his eyes were quite meaningful.

When he led the soldiers to set fire to the camp of the Three Prophets, he also wore this kind of 'honest' smile.

Li Ang's premonition was confirmed half a day later.

Rafael, who was familiar with the terrain, went to investigate and reported that the troops of the Ravencrow Kingdom did not continue to approach Fort Yongshield, but set up a camp in the grassland dozens of miles northwest of Fort Yongshield.

In fact, that place is closer to Fletcher Village, basically just north of Fletcher Village, about thirty miles across the river.

The strange thing is that the general army will choose to camp near the river - it is convenient to get water.

However, the troops in the Ravencrow Realm chose a grassland thirty miles away from the river, which made the lord sense the danger.

From the perspective of scale alone, the total number of that army was about 500. Raphael saw many flags, probably from multiple lords, and he couldn't tell who was leading the army for a while.

With such a scale, if the logistics personnel are excluded, the fighting power will be in the early [-]s.

This is definitely not the main force of Ravencrow's army, it's just a partial division.

But whether this partial division is for intercepting the reinforcements of the Sarleon Kingdom or for other purposes, it should be closer to Fletcher and Fort Yongshield, especially the channel of Tongtian River.

After all, it is more suitable to intercept on the river bank across the river, and the archers in Ravencrow Realm are notoriously strong.

The location where they camp now is more like that of the Catus—if there are a large number of cavalry or even all cavalry in the team, they should indeed choose to camp on a flat and unobstructed grassland.

This is to give full play to the maneuverability of the cavalry and avoid being attacked.

Perhaps most of the Ravencrow's division that appeared here were cavalry, and it must be to cut off the connection between Lion Lake City and the eastern border with the high mobility of cavalry.

This means that most of the main force of infantry and archers used by Ravencrow Kingdom to attack the city went to the direction of Lion Lake City.

Although I don't know the size of their main force, nor what their movements are, but no matter what, they need to have a force of [-] to be normal.

Li Ang felt that Lion Lake City might be very hanging...

After roughly confirming that there were no other troops near the enemy's partial division, the lord simply led the team to station near Fletcher Village—in the camp that Ralph had built before, which was the one where Li Ang had the bloody battle with the Gatus at first. camp.

Today's Fletcher Village is guarded by about [-] red arrow longbowmen, and it is relatively stable.

These Red Arrow Longbowmen are actually Charles's subordinates, but they don't pledge allegiance to Li Ang—this is how the loyalty relationship is in this era, and the subordinates are not his subordinates...

In fact, the Red Arrow Longbowmen are probably more willing to serve Godric, after all, they were established by Godric.

But they were born in the village of Fletcher, and they were the subjects of Charles.

Charles still did not return to Fletcher Village. In fact, Charles had completely lost contact during this period of time. After he ran from Changhe Town to Kewen Village, he seemed to have disappeared.

Now that Charles is not here, the Red Arrow Longbowmen are spontaneously deploying defenses. They are actually quite nervous. After all, the army of the Ravencrow Kingdom is only thirty miles away.

Seeing the lord lord's large army approaching, the longbowmen cheered one after another—they still knew the banner of the superior lord, and now seeing that their superior lord brought so many troops over, they really felt more secure.

But that sense of security quickly turned into buzz...

They saw the Noldor in the procession.

Li Ang did not come forward to appease these red arrow longbowmen, after all, the fact of fighting side by side is always more useful than persuasion, and he is not familiar with these longbowmen.

Since the troops of the Ravencrow Kingdom did not march, and there was no movement, Li Ang was worried that some unpredictable changes would occur if the stalemate continued, and he planned to take the initiative to launch an attack based on the fact that the current troops under his command were sufficiently elite.

In other words, it was a tentative attack, trying to see if it was possible to directly defeat the Ravencrow Kingdom's side division.

At present, the Ravencrow Kingdom certainly doesn't know that Li Ang has such a powerful mixed army, so the lord intends to send a small cavalry to lure the enemy, and then annihilate them in one fell swoop.

Leofric also had more than 300 cavalry in his hands. Li Ang asked him to support him from the flanks. After the main battlefield fought, Leofric would lead his troops to cut off the Ravenman's return from the side and occupy the Enemy camp.

This plan is not complicated. The lord's plan has always had a purpose - to let each team have one and only one simple and clear goal.

Some of the girl rangers under Wenda Tier and the rangers led by Raphael took on the task of luring the enemy together - this was also deliberately requested by the lord.

Let the girl rangers come forward to lure the enemy, most likely it will be effective...

But the Noldor elves may not be very used to fighting on the grassland, so let the familiar horn call the rangers to cooperate to avoid accidents.

At the same time, this dangerous mission can enable these two somewhat hostile teams to quickly establish a comrade-in-arms friendship.

Raphael respected Li Ang quite a lot. Now that Li Ang had confessed, he set off with fifty rangers.

Vendatil also started to disperse with dozens of young girl rangers, and she herself followed Raphael - she was not very familiar with the environment, and she had to cooperate with Raphael in combat.

Vendatil knew that Leon's intention was to let Noldo fight side by side with humans. She had discussed these things with the lord all night before.

This Noldor sword master is not good at tactics or stratagems, but she has a high-end advantage that most people don't have-a great sense of purpose.

After determining what she wants to do, she will be determined to do it to the end.

In order to protect the Noldo girls from the tragic abuse in the past, she honed the most suitable fighting style for the Noldo girls over the past 200 years, and has been cultivating girl rangers without slack.

In order to try to find a long-term future for the Noldor race, after deciding to try to integrate into the human world, she will be determined to the end, even if her teammate is the Horn Summoning Ranger who she doesn't like.

Li Ang's train of thought was fine, the two teams let go of their grievances and tried to cooperate.

However, the lord also has something that he didn't expect...

Originally, Li Ang hoped that Raphael, who was familiar with the environment, would take care of the Noldor as much as possible, but in the end, Raphael almost capsized in the gutter during this operation to lure the enemy.

Raphael, who had followed Ralph on missions for a long time, was originally a very good ranger. He often did things like luring the enemy when dealing with the Catus. Although he was young, he had a lot of experience.

The camp of the Ravencrows was built on the grassland, but there was no one outside the camp.

So Raphael intends to get closer and hook up. He has to find a suitable place so that the enemy can see the Noldo girls...

But in the end, before the Nodo girls approached behind, Raphael himself had just arrived within 300 meters of the opponent's camp when he encountered a large group of Ravencrowland riders and ranger cavalry rushing out—the number was quite large. Terrible, at least seven or eight hundred.

No wonder the enemy camped on the grassland... It seems that the camp may be full of cavalry, and they seem to be ready to fight at any time!

Raphael did not expect such a situation. The enemy's reaction speed was beyond his expectations. Before he had time to seduce him, the enemy rushed out...

Of course, you have to run back quickly, after all, the endless grassland can't hide people.

But Raphael was not very lucky. He was the closest to the enemy, and the enemy threw a rain of arrows at him from more than 200 meters away.

Although the arrow rain was too far away to hit him, it hindered his route - he couldn't follow the original route and turn around, he could only rein in the horse and turn around and start again.

That's what the enemy's super-long-distance arrow rain does—to make Raphael's rangers lose speed.

As a result, the turning around on the spot did not meet the horse's wishes, causing Raphael's horse to step into a pit on the grassland.

It should be a mouse hole. The mice on the grassland are very big, and the hole can just sink into a horse's foot, and it is completely invisible when hidden in the grass.

There are many rat holes like this on the grassland. Mainland horses are prone to encounter this kind of situation after they enter the grassland. It is not uncommon for mainland horses to break their legs while running.

But Gatuma and Longhe Town geldings generally don't fall into this kind of mouse hole, probably they can feel or smell it, after all, they live here.

Raphael was riding a Changhe Town gelding. It was very reliable to let the horse run by itself, but Raphael's operation of forcibly reining the horse in order to avoid the rain of arrows did not conform to the horse's own judgment. Mousehole twisted his foot.

The horse stumbled and threw Raphael far away—fortunately, it was a grassland, so it was considered good if he didn't fall.

There are a large number of enemies chasing behind. Under normal circumstances, the team that lures the enemy will not rescue them when encountering such a situation, otherwise it is very likely that everyone will be finished.

But Vendatil didn't understand the rules of human combat. When a friendly soldier fell off his horse, she turned around to rescue him.

In any battle the Noldor would surely come to the rescue of their people, for the Noldor always sought less loss.

Vendatil was extremely brave in battle, not like a woman at all.

Because it was a short distance to lure the enemy, no one brought a spare horse. Raphael lost his horse and couldn't escape, while Wenda Tier was riding a relatively small Gatum horse, which couldn't carry two people.

So Wenda Tier shot the fastest enemy with an arrow, and rushed forward to take away his horse, then turned around and ran away - a large number of enemies chased her a hundred meters behind her!

Raphael did escape because of this, he took the opportunity to fly on the horse while running, and began to ride and shoot with Vendatil.

Seeing that the teacher was in danger, the girl rangers who were scattered around gathered together and gradually approached Vendatil.

And those rangers who were able to run away unscathed, seeing this situation, naturally gathered around the Noldor elves - those Noldor girls who seemed to be all young girls were fighting and killing the enemy. Of course, the rangers can't be cowardly as men, otherwise they will lose face...

As a result, the expected lure turned into a fierce chase.

The girl rangers and horn call rangers add up to close to a hundred of them. They are all top elite cavalry who are good at cavalry and archery. It is actually difficult for any troops to chase them - the easiest way to obtain results in cavalry and archery is to chase after them with reflexive shooting own enemy.

The rangers called by the horn also saw the combat effectiveness of these Noldor girl rangers and their reliability on the battlefield.

It goes without saying that the Noldor elves are good at bows and arrows. The rangers already knew it, so they were not surprised by the girls' precise shooting skills.

But what they don't know is that the Noldor are always used to take the initiative to help their comrades out of danger in battle.

This is the habit of the Noldor. They always try to avoid losses. In the culture of the Noldor, killing the enemy is not a great merit, but rescuing the companions is more meritorious. I also said that killing the enemy cannot atone for sin, only saving the tribe or bringing back knowledge.

Therefore, the girl rangers took the initiative to use their shields to help the rangers block a lot of arrows, and some girl rangers took the initiative to go to both sides of the team to defend.

The rangers who had never fought this kind of security battle suddenly had a new look at the Noldor elves.

In addition - the one who is protecting himself is actually a girl!

What a beautiful young girl!

Which man can let a girl protect herself on the battlefield?
In addition, Raphael was just rescued by Wen Datil...

So the horn summoned the rangers to take the initiative to slow down and stand behind the team to block arrows—they carried shields on their backs, rode larger and armored Changhe Town geldings, and blocked the enemy from shooting at the end of the team. Arrows coming.

In high-speed pursuit, the power of the arrows in the same direction is not high, just like after Leofric set fire to it, it is no problem for larger or armored horses, and will not cause too many casualties.

But those who ran in front turned around and shot backwards, the power was completely different, and the arrows of the Noldor were too accurate...

The rangers realized that if they were shields, it would be more effective for the Noldo girls to output all their strength, so the rangers stopped shooting arrows and focused on protecting the girl rangers.

This kind of protection has gradually turned into an unexpectedly good cooperation-the rangers will walk between the enemy and the girls, using short spears and shields to reduce damage, and the girl rangers use bows and arrows to output, slow down the enemy's footsteps and kill enemy.

Since they all know more about riding and archery, the rangers will get out of sight and arrow trajectory when the girl ranger draws the bow backwards, and the girl ranger will constantly adjust their positions so that the rangers can block.

Occasionally, an enemy who is chasing close will be shot and killed by Vendatil precisely...

This force of less than 100 people has made at least 700 Ravencrow cavalry helpless!
Therefore, the cavalry in the Ravencrow Realm did not chase for too long. They quickly realized that it was not worthwhile to go on like this. The chasing party suffered a lot of casualties, but the chasing party did not have much loss. are two concepts.

After chasing for several miles and paying the loss of at least 50 people, the cavalry of Ravencrow Kingdom stopped pursuing.

However, when the Raven Cavalry began to retreat, Vendatil and Raphael simultaneously remembered the request of the lord—the mission goal is to lure the enemy!
What if the enemy doesn't chase?
At the same time, they both realized that their troops seemed to be too strong, and they might not be able to complete the task of luring the enemy...

So the two of them turned back quite bravely and began to attack actively.

The lord did not expect at all that before he taught Raphael and Vendatier to fight guerrilla warfare, the two of them spontaneously understood the essence - the enemy advances and retreats, the enemy camps and harasses the enemy, fights when the enemy is tired, and pursues when the enemy retreats ...

(End of this chapter)