Apocalyptic Dragonborn Lord

Chapter 413 The First Knight
In the early morning of the next day, the armies of both sides began to assemble and entered the battlefield, forming formations along both sides of the river, ready to fight to the death.

When Stannis appeared on the battlefield in person, his own side erupted into shouts like a tsunami. The sound was so loud that the knights on Garcia's side couldn't help lifting their visors and competing to stand on the stirrups I want to see the demeanor known as the king of the East.

Stannis did not know where to get a set of brightly colored armor to put on his body like a male peacock during mating. Although the shape is very funny, it has indeed become the focus of the battlefield, even people on the two wings can clearly see it See him, knowing that his king will fight with them in blood.

After his debut, Stannis stood in the center of the battlefield surrounded by his subordinates, overlooking the entire war from here. On the opposite side of the river, Garcia's 3-strong army densely filled the river. For them, the number of people here is particularly small.

However, because there is a rather turbulent river in the middle, Stannis's army still has a terrain advantage. According to the battlefield rules of the Westland, it is generally the side with the superior number that launches the attack, otherwise the two sides can stand each other for a day. .

Sure enough, after the sound of the majestic and low-pitched horn spread throughout Garcia's army, the vast army on the opposite bank, like a black tide, began to move. They took the rafts that had been built before and began to cross the river in batches.

"My lord, we can attack now!" Korodov said anxiously on the side. In the pre-battle meeting, he strongly suggested that Stannis attack halfway, and make an assault while the opponent's foothold is not stable.

But Stannis, who had promised before, changed his mind at this time. Although he also knew that this kind of tactics is indeed the best way to attack the enemy crossing the river, the opponent's commander, Marshal Warren, is obviously a veteran on the battlefield. A centurion crossed the river first, and dismantled the rafts and erected at least a row of horse-repelling posts to build a landing point for crossing the river. Even if Stannis drove these guys down the river, the enemy would only lose one or two centurions, and Stannis would still Get a bad name for not following the rules of the battlefield.

Stannis held up his hands to restrain his belligerent men. Since they wanted to beat him head-on, let them do it.

"Let them set up the formation first. By the way, in a battle of this level, let the knights charge first, right?"

In Stannis's memory, this kind of knight war started with the confrontation between the knights of both sides.

After getting an affirmative answer from Korodov, Stannis issued his second order, telling his knights not to charge without authorization, and he would use spear arrays to resist the attack.

Although his order made those knights under him who were about to rush into the enemy's formation and win glory very unhappy, but no one dared to disobey his order. The knights evacuated to the two wings, while the pikemen who were originally in the rear moved forward one after another. This time, they will use their spears to reach the ground and confront the knight's charge head-on.

After the enemy on the opposite side established a landing site, the rafts and boats on the river began to take turns to transport soldiers and horses.Stannis noticed that all the knights and their heavy steeds were transported across the road. They seemed impatient to wait.

This is exactly as he expected, the masters of these battlefields have always looked down on the infantry, thinking that the militia formed by farmers or citizens are a bunch of mobs who will only take advantage of the fire and rob them. As long as the battle is not good, they will immediately abandon their masters and run away, or ambush them into the wilderness. knight.

After the knight and his retinues crossed the river, they formed a formation and charged without waiting for their own infantry. Even Warren, the marshal, couldn't restrain his subordinates. An order from a knight who was not native to Tanis.

Led by Hillier, the long spears who were supposed to be supporting roles on the battlefield began to walk forward slowly. Stannis watched the countless spear points reflecting the sun lined up in front of him, and the blood began to rush to his forehead again. .This time there was no horse-holding post, which was the best moment to test the courage of his soldiers. Facing those steel giants on the plains, mortals were not invincible, and now it was Stannis' turn to change the rules of the game.

After the cavalry crossed the 400-meter shooting scale, the longbowmen launched round after round of volleys again, and the rain of arrows across the sky neatly crossed the sky, and then fell into the tight formation of the cavalry, as usual Similarly, these arrows still cannot effectively penetrate the heavy armor of the Gendarmes, and Stannis did not expect the bows and arrows to cause effective damage to the cavalry. These continuous rainstorm blows are just to disrupt the enemy's formation.

During the charge, many knights had to deviate from the established charge route in order to avoid the bows and arrows. Many of them were forced to stand alone, which made the original tight charge formation become scattered, and the speed slowed down greatly reducing the power of the charge.

"Pikeman, get ready!" Stannis roared, and then his orders were passed to all sides one after another through the heralds around him.

After receiving his order, his soldiers shot their guns like they had been trained hundreds of times, and the spears behind them were stacked one on top of the other to form a daunting wall of guns, and aimed at the rushing guns. cavalry.

With 200 meters left, the two sides were about to confront each other formally, and Stannis' attention was attracted by a group of special guys ahead.

There was a group of cavalry who charged forward more aggressively than the others. They were all young knights fighting for glory. They called themselves the sons of Tanis. The lance will crush enemies who dare to stand in their way.

And at the front of these menacing cavalry, there is a fully armed knight who is particularly eye-catching. He is carrying Garcia's most famous lion flag, allowing it to fully unfurl in the air.

Stannis immediately recognized that guy as "Sword Wind" Labania, known as the number one knight of Tanis. As the Duke's most loyal knight, he certainly would not miss the opportunity to serve him.

During the charge, Labania also found Stannis standing in the crowd surrounded and protected by soldiers. It was difficult for the latter's ostentatious armor not to be discovered.

The first knight of Tanis immediately gave up his original charge route, turned his horse's head and rushed towards Stannis with all his strength, he actually wanted to take off Stannis' head with his own strength among the thousands of troops!

(End of this chapter)