You were made to farm, and now you're the emperor of an empire?

Chapter 140 Swift Horse and Light Blade
Roman's expression was cold and hard as he accepted the third magic steel arrow that Káo handed him.

In this barbaric and dark age, everything is fake, only force is real!
He received various family trainings from a young age, never slacking off and working extremely hard.

How terrifying it can be for a transmigrator to become self-disciplined from birth!
At least among his peers, Roman can be considered outstanding and one of the best.

The Greatbow with its massive weight and extraordinary properties increased his shooting power several times over.

Piercing armor is as easy as tearing paper!
It's practically a human-shaped heavy sniper rifle!

This power was only the result of him barely managing to pull the armor-piercing bow.

Before Roman set off, he specially asked Ruto to forge thirty magic steel arrows for him.

Its powerful penetrating force is enough to pierce through steel plate armor. Unless one is wearing mithril or adamantite armor, they will definitely not escape the sniping range of 150 meters.

He didn't even bother dealing with ordinary cavalry.

These magic steel arrows are extremely valuable; they are only worth using to kill extraordinary individuals at the level of conquering knights.

"Everyone scatter! Charge!!"

The group of knights eventually regained their footing after a shout from one of them and charged again.

The count gave a death order: a huge reward for capturing Liejia!

And we absolutely must take it!
Otherwise, it would be a disservice to all the white bread they used to eat!

There's only one Split Armor!
There is nothing to be afraid of!

Because of Roman's intimidation, they immediately began a full-speed charge, without any time to warm up.

The wide arrow shot from the opposite side sliced ​​through the air, carrying with it a whistling sound, like the Grim Reaper taking lives.

puff!
The third knight was launched into the air by an arrow and then crashed to the ground!

puff!
The fourth knight fell to the ground, his abdomen pierced through!
Less than ten seconds!

Two more knights have been shot dead!
Their hearts bled as they listened, and they were filled with fear!
This is a huge loss!

The closer we get to this point, the less we can retreat, otherwise those people will have died in vain!

With their colleagues' lives providing cover, they finally closed the distance enough.

Roman didn't have time to continue shooting.

His muscles were a little sore. He mounted his horse, took the lance from Kao with his left hand, and led the white horse to meet the enemy head-on.

Green and Aaron flanked Roman, the three of them riding side by side.

But it was Dick who initiated the charge.

Wearing a steel mask and holding a lance, he rode alone into the cavalry with great ease.

Because of Roman, the cavalry was not concentrated but rather dispersed, in the hope that this would increase the difficulty of Roman's shooting.

Therefore, Dick's charge was only directed at one knight and four or five cavalrymen.

His posture was relaxed, his hands firmly gripping the lance, his arms steady, and even on the bumpy horseback, he could still accurately hit the target.

Click!

boom!
The knight who was charging at Dick was immediately knocked to the ground by his lance. The tip of the lance nimbly pierced through the crack in the throat guard and went straight through the knight's neck.

Dick was also struck by a lance during the exchange, but he swayed, absorbed the force, and did not fall off his horse.

He threw away his broken lance and met the second cavalryman.

With a clang, he drew his sharp, magic-steel longsword, spread his right arm, and swung it lightly, without even using much force.

The cavalryman brushed past Dick, and when the horse had galloped ten meters away, the rider staggered, his head and body moving in opposite directions, both landing at the same time.

The phrase "fast horse and light knife" refers to a technique that doesn't require slashing; instead, it involves making a sweeping motion using the momentum of the impact while moving at high speed.

Dick's body was severely depleted, but with Roman's meticulous care, he regained some of his former physical strength.

Although he was far from his peak, this change still surprised Dick quite a bit.

He thought that as he was about to enter old age, his condition would only decline year by year, and in another ten years or so he would only become a useless old man.

It seems that this body still has potential to be exploited.

He was no stranger to the battlefield, but now, returning to the scene of cavalry charging, he was not excited, but only felt nostalgic and sad.

He was forty years old. Before he fled into the deep mountains, he was quite famous. He had participated in many martial arts tournaments and fought in battles with the army before he was thirty. He had fought in far more battles than the country knights in the territory of Kant who had never seen the world.

Now, the first battle after leaving the mountain is against this bunch of oddballs.

He fought his way through, swiftly killing one war knight and three ordinary cavalrymen. The fourth cavalryman, seeing him cutting through everything, hurriedly bypassed Dick and fled the battlefield, fearing he would also be slaughtered.

……

True.

Dick, Roman, Aaron, and Green. These four knights intercepted a third of the cavalry force head-on.

The two sides fought fiercely on horseback, and people were constantly dismounting and falling to the ground.

But this couldn't stop all the cavalry.

More than twenty warhorses regrouped and charged to the front lines.

At this moment, all the cavalrymen were on the verge of collapse.

too difficult.

They would never have dared to launch such a charge if not for the Earl's death order.

Lightly armed troops have little ability to resist cavalry.

Let alone a line of one hundred men, even three hundred men would be breached; the main problem is that they simply cannot stop the conquering knights.

When more than ten cavalrymen broke through the encirclement with the speed of their horses, they swung their weapons and slashed and killed along the way, leaving corpses everywhere. At least 30 to 40% of the archers were killed or wounded.

However, to their astonishment, these heavily wounded archers did not break down.

This is why the cavalry did not all charge out.

……

What does a hundred archers mean?
When the formation is deployed, it is more than 20 meters long and more than 10 meters wide, forming an array; otherwise, it would be impossible to fire a salvo.

This means that cavalry will also be unable to attack all archers.

Unless they disperse their forces and launch a full-scale attack—forming a neat line and crushing everything in their path like a rolling pin.

However, this requires a high level of skill from the cavalry.

The territory of Kant was very poor, and most of the soldiers rode only packhorses, which were not able to maintain a uniform speed in a single rank.

In a full-speed charge of 100 meters, the conquering knights have already reached the finish line, while the ordinary riders on packhorses are still more than 30 meters away.

Such ragtag cavalry had no formation whatsoever.

Moreover, they would never be willing to charge into battle alone, as they could follow the path cleared by the cavalry ahead.

Therefore, at this point, it is necessary for the enemy to take initiative.

When regular conscripted soldiers are attacked like this, they are basically all routed and flee.

Use long shots to hit short ones, high shots to hit low ones, and heavy shots to hit light ones.

This was a war that was crushed.

However, these archers were not conscripts.

They weren't even professional archers.

I practice for two hours a day, shooting in stages each time, shooting a total of one hundred arrows.

The rest of the time was spent training in queues and physical fitness.

Three months is not enough to forge an iron-willed army, but it is enough to lay the foundation for them and etch discipline into their very bones through physical hardship.

Roman also gave a pre-battle pep talk.

All those who fled were executed!
Those who die on the battlefield receive generous compensation, while deserters are executed and receive nothing.

Their beloved lord has no soldiers like that!

They had nowhere to go in Sig Town either!
Roman himself charged forward right in front of them! They engaged in a fierce battle right there.

Even if they are scattered, they will not easily flee.

This is the military's bottom line!
Fear, panic, will to survive, sense of honor, discipline, wild thoughts, cold hands and feet, blank mind. A mix of emotions.

Ultimately, when the cavalry charged in and their teammates were knocked away, they were able to move again.

They carried a variety of weapons, including hook-and-sickle spears.

The archers on both sides, suppressing their fear of facing the cavalry head-on, used their hook-and-sickle spears to either slash the horses' legs or hook onto the cavalrymen's armor.

(End of this chapter)