Chapter 23 The Battle of the Nameless Heights (Second, Retirement Monthly Pass)
. Seeing this scene, Artoria cried in her heart, "Not good." cào The horse wanted the horse to retreat - but the war horse under her crotch suddenly stopped and foamed at the mouth because of the rapid cycling before, and was so tired that she was intimidated by the enemy's flying arrows. She could not do such a difficult move as a retreat. Artoria gritted her teeth and was about to dismount, and saw another round of bows and arrows on the other side...
At this moment, there was no soldier standing beside Artoria. Although the light cavalry behind her tried their best to come, they were one step late because of the distance. Moreover, the speed of the horses could not catch up with the arrows. In this way, hundreds of Cossack archers all aimed at Artoria in this round of arrows.
"Don't kill her! Catch the living!" Seeing a large number of arrows shook over, Lili Annu on the opposite side was a little anxious - living people are more valuable than dead people. She wanted to capture prisoners before, but then threatened Egil.
However, it was still one step slower. How can the arrow from the string be controlled? At this moment, the soldiers on both sides almost thought that His Majesty of Norman's Queen would be shoghed into a hedgehog. There were some soldiers with a delicate mind who expressed the feeling that they had been famous generals since ancient times were like beauty, and they were not allowed to see white hair on earth. (Another statement, the general aesthetic view of Europe does not think that the queen is a beauty. But the queen is indeed a famous general. Therefore, she has this feeling).
But Artoria was Artoria after all. When her pupils shrank, she waved the sword in her hand and heard the crackling sound of arrows crackling around her. The sword of victory and the oath were like an airtight barrier, leaving the Cossack cavalry's bow and arrow fierce, but it was completely unmoved. However-
Artoria was concentrating on her breath and swinging her sword to protect her whole body, but she heard a whine from the war horse under her crotch. Xiong had been hit by dozens of arrows, and her front hooves were soft and she was about to fall to the ground. The Cossack cavalry looked at Artoria's long sword protecting her, and heard the orders of her crown prince to catch the alive, so she aimed at Artoria's war horse...
"It's really damn." Seeing the war horse losing balance, his body also fell forward with the war horse. Artoria gritted her teeth, and the double tui immediately escaped from the stirrups, lifted upwards, stepped on the horse's back and flipped back. Then the Cossacks saw the opportunity and had a small number of riders who forgot the order of their crown prince, and slapped the bow and arrows over.
"No arrows are allowed! Catch the alive!"
So Lili Annu was furious and drew out his sword and yelled: "Whoever kills that nv person, I will kill whoever!"
However, this round of bows and arrows was not useless. On the back of Artoria who couldn't block in the air, there was an arrow on each of the left small tui's small tui, which made her tremble when she landed on the ground and almost stopped. However, immediately afterwards, the queen gritted her teeth and took two steps back amid the screams of our soldiers. "Ah!" with a wild roar, she grabbed half of the dead war horses on the ground with one hand, protecting her body as a shield. Then she dragged the injured small tui and kept retreating.
"Protect Your Highness!"
"Protect the nv king!"
Seeing this, the Norman Hussars and the Celtic light cavalry were stunned for a moment and shouted like this, holding their shields to march forward, preparing to protect Artoria. On the other hand, the Cossacks rushed over - the few who rushed in front did not use their usual scimitars, but used a rope-like snare. This kind of equipment was specially used to snare horses or capture humans.
"Catch her! Hurry up and grab her!"
Seeing Artoria retreating to her camp, Lili Annu seemed to be watching the crown of the Eastern Roman Empire get farther and farther away from her. He couldn't help but shout, "Who can catch that NV man, I promise him to become the great nobles of the Eastern Roman Empire, or you don't want to go to Eastern Rome, in Eastern Europe, I promise you a large tribe with ten thousand tents!"
With such a heavy reward, the Cossack cavalry's eyes suddenly lit up. There were more than 300 Cossack light cavalry in total, and they didn't care about the Norman and Celtic light cavalry in front of them. They all rushed towards Artoria in front of them. Even a few Cossack cavalry closest to Artoria fought each other. Seeing that their position was not good, one Cossack cavalry might not be able to take the lead. As soon as he was ruthless, he took out a scimitar to stab the stomach of another Cossack cavalry next to him. Then he aimed at Artoria holding a dead horse and threw out a rope!
Artoria gritted her teeth and then threw the horse corpse out. At this moment, she also heard that the other party did not seem to want to kill her, so she would not use the bow and arrow. Since this is the case, this horse rou shield is no longer needed.
"God! Is this NV man really a human?!" Seeing the horse's body breaking open, it became bigger and bigger. The Cossack cavalry was so surprised that he couldn't even escape. He couldn't help but shout. Then he was hit by a horse weighing hundreds of kilograms from the sky. The war horse under his crotch whined, unable to withstand such a great force. His whole spine was broken into two halves with a "cracked" sound, and the Cossack cavalry was even more miserable. Half of his head was broken, and his cervical vertebrae also "cracked" sound was broken into several sections, and he was swallowed on the spot.
Seeing that his queen was so brave and seriously injured, she could do such an inhuman thing. Norman and the Celtic cavalry were greatly motivated, but in contrast, the Cossack cavalry were really scared. Then they were slashed by the oncoming melee Hussars. Then they ate the Celtic light cavalry a round of javelins, lost a lot of manpower, and then retreated.
"Damn it! What a waste!" Lili Annu angrily punched the war horse in his crotch, thinking: As expected, he could only rely on his own Eastern Roman army.
"Infantry advance! Archers cover!"
Immediately afterwards, the Eastern Roman army, which had 4,000 people, the regular heavy infantry, the hammer soldiers, the short sword soldiers, the guards and the imperial guards, advanced with the Yanyue Formation, forming a trend of a half-encirclement, and rushed towards the Norman and the Celtics.
Artoria gritted her teeth and ordered a Norman melee Hussar to swing her sword, cut off the arrow shaft behind her, and then swung her sword to cut off the arrow shaft in the small tui. She turned over a war horse left by the Cossacks just now.
If Artoria, who had not been influenced by Egil, had suffered such a great loss, would have been furious and directly commanded the army to attack and fight to the death with the enemy. However, Artoria had grown a lot at this moment. Although she was angry, she knew that the number of enemies was more than ten times that of our side at this moment, and she was willing to work hard, and she had no time to wear armor and was hit by two arrows, and she was in poor health. After several consecutive days of travel, the physical strength of our side's light cavalry was not very good.
"Don't argue for a long time. You know, retreat is also an art." Egil's voice sounded in Artoria's mind again. His Highness gritted his teeth and shouted, "Retreat! Retreat for the time being!"
Norman and Celtic light cavalry responded with a loud bang, then turned their horses and prepared to retreat. However, such a person as Lili Annu, how could he have no backup plan? A total of thousands of nomadic cavalry in Eastern Europe had already blocked Artoria's retreat. However, this group of cavalry was not the same as the Eastern Romans, and did not follow the orders of His Royal Highness Lili Annu and capture Artoria alive. He did not have the political mind to take Queen Norman as a hostage and make conditions with the Norman Empire. They just thought: this guy was the damn hun egg who had defeated us before! We should take the opportunity to kill her so that our brothers can avenge us!
In this way, the nomadic cavalry rushed over with shouts and shouts. On the wings and behind Artoria, thousands of Eastern Roman troops and hundreds of Cossack cavalry gathered again gradually became closer and closer. A total of nearly 5,000 troops surrounded the Artorian light cavalry units with less than 500 people. As the encirclement became smaller and denser...
"Break through!" Artoria snorted lightly, then took the lead, turned around and rushed towards the right wing, which is the northern part of which the number of enemies is relatively rare.
Immediately afterwards, Norman and Celtic light cavalry rushed over with their queen - the Roman soldiers in that place had neither super spears nor shields and contradictions, which could resist cavalry charges, and were not many. Seeing hundreds of cavalry rushing over, I was a little confused at the time. The light-armed javeliners and stone-casters plucked up the courage to attack in one round, causing the light cavalry to lie down a few, but they could not change the form at all. At the forefront and in a very bad mood, Artoria slashed over with a sword. The sword of victory and oath went straight down from the neck and shoulder blades, splitting the man into two oblique segments, and the internal organs flowed all over the ground. The light cavalry also fought for the first time, and rushed out with an assault.
"Catch up! Hurry!"
Chapter completed!