Chapter 162 – Cavalry Raid

Chapter 162 – Cavalry Raid
Although the Hawkman was only of the third rank, because it was an aerial soldier, it was actually very difficult to deal with.

When a small group of scouts encountered a Hawkman, they were no match at all, they couldn’t hide, and would generally go missing and be killed.

A large group of scouts will easily be discovered by the Hawkmen, and without the advantage of intelligence, they will fall into the traps of the Orcs.

Only divine archers like Richard and Soros have a chance to shoot the Eaglemen.

But Richard was the Lord of the Harland family, the commander of the entire army, and Soros was also a sixth-ranked warrior, the commander of the Wraith Cavalry, it was impossible for the two of them to participate in every scouting mission.

In the entire Northern Border Region, counting the three main legions, more than two hundred thousand officers and soldiers, there were no more than a hundred divine archers whose archery skills could reach the sixth rank combined.

These people were basically middle and senior officers, and rarely participated in frontline scouting missions.

Moreover, the Northern Border Region was close to a million square kilometers of land, and there were only a total of a hundred or so divine archers that could deal with the Hawkmen, and there was simply no way to take the large number of Hawkmen.

As long as the Hawkmen were careful and flew at high altitude to scout, even the divine archers could not threaten the safety of the Hawkmen. Unless there were magical beast cavalry like Lion Rush and Bipedal Flying Dragon, they could restrain the Eagle People.

Without airborne Wraith power, the battlefield information was almost transparent to the orcs.

Losing the initiative of information, it was of course difficult to fight passively.

Orcs marching and fighting, very dependent on the eagle man’s reconnaissance, now that the eagle man was shot by Richard and Soros, the orcs unexpectedly did not notice and did not send other scouts.

Richard led his troops out at four in the afternoon, and after shooting the Hawkman, he ran all the way, and when he arrived at the orc military station, the time was already late in the evening.

This time Richard and Soros personally arrived to scout, the two of them observed the amount of cooking smoke in the orc camp, did a little math, and found that the number of orcs in the military station was indeed not much, just a little more than a full brigade.

It was now time for the orcs to eat dinner, and the guards at the military station were not very strict.

Seeing the opportunity, Richard thought in his heart, “It’s a rare opportunity, making a sneak attack will have a good chance of winning.”

Richard’s character is very decisive, after discovering the opportunity there was no delay, and immediately commanded the cavalry squadron to raid the orc military station.

For the cavalry of the Morning Sun Continent, the ordinary cavalry is divided from the degree of armor, while there are three kinds of heavy, medium, and light.

Heavy cavalry, naturally, is a high horse, and both men and horses are armored. Medium cavalry, people wearing iron armor, horses do not wear armor. Light cavalry, people wearing leather armor, horses do not wear armor.

If on long-distance marching, light cavalry to be faster, but short distance explosive power, heavy cavalry because of the selection of the best war horse, explosive power instead of stronger.

Wraith cavalry should likewise be clad in heavy armor, the armor on the Iron Horned Horse is more than one hundred and eighty pounds, the knife can’t be cut, the gun can’t be stabbed, and the arrow can’t be shot through.

Coupled with the powerful strength of the Iron Horned Horse, it was like a tin can on the battlefield.

Ordinary soldiers can’t do much about the beast cavalry, and dozens of soldiers can exchange one horse for another.

Only professional officers, enchanted bows and crossbows, alchemy bombs, magicians and other extraordinary powers were suitable to deal with the Wraith Cavalry, allowing the Wraith Cavalry to suffer casualties and attrition.

Baron Harden, a squadron of Wraith Cavalry, had stormed the orc brigade several times, causing Gunderson to be exhausted.

Of course the Wraith Cavalry would hardly be spared if they were hit by stone bombs coming down from heavy stone throwers.

The cavalry unit under Richard’s command was a mixed squadron, consisting of forty Wraith Cavalry, eighty Heavy Cavalry, and two hundred Medium Cavalry.

The forty Wraith Cavalry, together with Richard had a total of eighteen professionals, and in recent months, four more veterans had advanced in the Harland Territory.

These advanced professionals, as long as their riding skills were barely passable, were all transferred to the cavalry squadron by Richard, filling up the Wraith Cavalry personnel.

The remaining twenty-two Wraith Cavalrymen were almost all Higher Apprentices.

Among the heavy cavalry, there were also many medium apprentices and high apprentices. Among the medium-sized cavalry, there were mainly junior apprentices. By the end of this year, this cavalry of Harland’s territory, its strength was already very close to Baron Harden’s cavalry.

When the beast cavalry charged, the sound was like running thunder, stirring up a large area of dust and smoke.

Richard was at the forefront of the charge.

In the orc military station, the vast majority of the orcs had not finished eating, when suddenly a fierce horn sound came from the camp.

Countless orcs put down their rice bowls in a panic and began to gather outside the camp.

Unfortunately, the orcs’ organizational strength was average, and the emergency assembly was very chaotic.

Richard raised his hand and fired a standard magic missile, blowing up the barracks door.

The professionals rushing in the front row also threw out two alchemy bombs.

The orc soldiers who had just organized and climbed up the wall of the fortress were attacked by the twenty alchemy bombs, instantly killing and wounding one after another.

The Wraith Cavalry was as fierce as a tiger, easily bursting through the camp gate into the orc camp.

Soros opened his bow and arrow and shot an orc commander who was preparing to gather his troops.

Richard swept around and saw that the orc brigadier had managed to organize two squadrons, and immediately turned his horse’s head, wanting to lead his troops to disperse this group of enemies.

The Iron Horned Horses continuously snorted loudly, and under the rider’s command, they sent out energy missiles almost in no particular order.

Forty rounds of energy missiles struck at the two orc squadrons, killing and injuring seventy to eighty orcs in an instant.

Before the two sides had even engaged at close range, the orcs had suffered severe attrition.

The orcs had used their throwing ropes and thrown stone bombs, and some of the orcs that could use bows and arrows had pulled their bowstrings at the same time.

The stone bombs hit the Wraith Cavalry armor with a clanking sound, making the muscles of a dozen or so cavalrymen black and blue. The arrows couldn’t penetrate the steel plate armor either, causing no attrition.

The speed of the Wraith Cavalry was extremely fast, and in moments it crashed hard into the orc formation.

Richard held his lance in his hand and picked up the orcs blocking the front, so close that he even saw the orcs’ fearful eyes and heard their miserable wailing.

To this miserable scene, Richard did not have any sympathy, the perennial battles in the northern border, let has honed his heart hard as iron.

When Richard just crossed over, he was still somewhat unable to integrate into this world.

Seeing a lot of people selling their children, also used to feel miserable, in the streets of Black River Fort, see the poor people will even give some money.

I did not expect that just because of revealing a few silver coins, a few thieves killed his life and robbed him of his money, and if it is not the second uncle Powell in the dark protection, Richard is afraid that he will not live to adulthood.

From this incident later, Richard no longer sympathy flood, he took the initiative to begin to integrate into the times, killing people will not be soft.

To the human is still so, to the orcs Richard will not be sympathetic, when necessary to give the order to slaughter the city, Richard will not be hesitant.

In this world of fierce racial competition, you do not kill others will also kill you.

In the morning sun realm people are not ruthless stand unsteady, from the age of thirteen Richard recognized this point.

(End of chapter)