"Hurry! We need to notify the Grand Duke! It's no longer safe here! We need to retreat!" Ravian looked serious.
"Hiss! My lord, I suggest you find a way to get rid of that thing in the sky first! With that thing around, our whereabouts will be transparent to the enemy! The pursuers behind us were all attracted by that guy!" Huo Lin said weakly, lying on the horse's back.
"He's too far away! I can't reach him!" Ravian's mouth twitched. This two-headed dragon sky knight was really disgusting. He could obviously fight with them back and forth, but he just refused to come down and hung behind them like a fly.
"Alas! What a pity we don't have air knights!" Huo Lin sighed.
"Even if there is, we can't defeat it! It's a sub-dragon! Although its bloodline is a bit mixed, dragon blood is still flowing in its body. What are you going to use to deal with it? Unicorn? Griffin?" Ravian glanced at the two-headed dragon in the sky and suddenly felt a tightness in his chest!
Indeed, the entire Crusade lacked the means to counter the Sky Knight. If it were Roland, it would be much easier to deal with. Kaslo would show him the majesty of a dragon knight! Having consumed the dragon blood potion, Cardo had broken through the limitations of his bloodline and evolved into a dragon! To deal with a sub-dragon of mixed blood, he only needed to unleash his dragon might to bring him down from the sky.
"Lord Lavian! It seems that the people in front are ours!" Huolin narrowed his eyes, and a group of light cavalry wearing dark purple leather armor appeared in the pupils of the two men.
"It's the Bauhinia flag! Our cavalry!" Ravian breathed a sigh of relief.
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"Soldiers! I am Ravian, the Knight Commander of the Cross Bauhinia Knights! Now obey my orders! Retreat the same way you came!" Ravian had no time to explain and had to give the order quickly.
"...We will obey your orders, I hope you know what you are doing!" The leading cavalry captain was silent for a moment, then spoke.
"If you don't want to be corroded by the two-headed dragon's acid, you'd better follow us and retreat immediately!" Huo Lin straightened up, supported his injured left arm with his right hand, and nodded in the direction of the two-headed dragon circling in the sky.
"Dragon God! Two-headed Dragon Sky Knight!" The cavalry captain's face changed immediately.
"Let's go! Take me to see the Grand Duke!" Ravian said concisely.
"Okay, Lord Knight!" The cavalry captain immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. The appearance of the Sky Knight meant that they were under enemy surveillance from beginning to end...
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"What's wrong, Lavian?" Nyx crossed her legs elegantly and casually took the cup of Dowinian ground coffee offered by the servant.
"Your Highness, we should retreat!" Ravian's face looked very ugly.
"Why?" Nyx looked at the Knight Commander whom he trusted the most. You know, in the entire Principality of Nyx, Lavian's rank is one of the best, and his words have a great influence in the army.
"I'm afraid we've been under enemy surveillance. I took a knight to investigate, but ended up being hunted down by a two-headed dragon knight! We were even ambushed by the charioteers on the way back! So I have reason to believe that our situation is very dangerous!" Ravian blurted out quickly.
"Is that so... Then what do you think we should do?" Grand Duke Nix was at a loss when he heard this. After all, it's okay to ask a little girl to be beautiful and cute, but asking her to lead an army to fight is a bit too much.
"My suggestion is to retreat immediately!" Ravian said firmly.
"Why? Can't our Crusaders defeat them?" Nyx was puzzled.
"It's not a question of whether we can win or not, but we know nothing about the enemy... We can't even effectively target the enemy's two-headed dragon sky knight!" Ravian poured cold water on him.
"Is that so..." Nyx sighed.
"So... there's no hope for us to restore our country?" Nyx's voice was already filled with a hint of tears.
"Your Highness, we should accumulate strength now and plan for the long term. You must know that we are rootless now! We can't even properly maintain our weapons after a battle! There are only 24 knights left in our knight order! We can't even put together a decent knight order of a hundred." Ravian could only explain.
"Then order the soldiers to retreat, but where should we retreat to?" Nyx raised his head and asked.
"Well... we can only retreat to the west first. If the situation gets serious, we can only retreat all the way to Shire!" Ravian sighed. After all, there were only a few human gathering places in the north, and now they were unfamiliar with the place, so they could only take it one step at a time.
"Your Highness! My Lord! It's bad! Those Dongyi people driving chariots are catching up with us... My Lord, you'd better come and see for yourself..." Huo Lin lifted the tent with an ugly look on his face.
"Asshole! You're following me so closely!" Ravian cursed, then immediately stood up and walked out quickly.
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"You really think highly of us!" Ravian said gritting his teeth as he stood on the sentry tower of the camp. The scene that came into his eyes almost made him break his back teeth!
Nearly a thousand chariots were lined up in a massive formation stretching for a kilometer. Halberds adorned the three-man chariots, their gleaming cold and sharp. The entire army consisted of at least three thousand men.
"We're in big trouble!" Huo Lin leaned on his crutch with one hand, his face icy. Although they had the advantage in numbers, the Crusaders, who were mainly infantry, were still powerless against the Dongyi people with thousands of chariots. The powerful chariots could easily crush their army formation...
"What should we do?" Nyx appeared behind Lavian at some point, wearing a mink coat and said in a panic.
"All troops, listen up! Form a battle formation with your backs to the camp!" Ravian gave the command helplessly. Although holding the camp could effectively reduce losses, the densely packed camp also limited the Crusaders' ability to perform. The narrow aisles would block their formation and affect the transmission of orders. If they were really trapped in the camp, the entire Crusaders would be in the embarrassing situation of losing command. So, choosing the lesser of two evils, Ravian had to let the army fight with their backs to the camp.
"Assemble! Prepare for battle!"
"The time has come to serve His Highness! The Crusades are on!"
"Fight for the Principality!"
"Assemble! The enemy is coming to attack us!"
Nearly five thousand Crusaders quickly assembled under the command of officers at all levels. They put aside their tasks, put on armor, picked up weapons, and poured out of the camp like a tide, forming a huge square formation with their backs to the camp.
Linen robes emblazoned with blood-red crosses, lavender leather armor, zither-shaped iron-clad broadwood shields, one-handed fine iron swords, three-meter-long ashwood spears, and one-meter-long single-edged skull-crushing axes—the light infantry, equipped with these modest equipment, comprised the Crusaders, the primary branch of the Eastern Crusades. At this moment, the Crusaders lined up in neat formations, preparing to face the continent's most terrifying mobile force—the Dongyi chariots.
"Woo-wa-wa!" The Dongyi people roared madly, making meaningless shouts from their mouths. Their devilish howls brought great pressure to the Crusaders.
"Hold steady! Prepare for the attack!" The officer standing in the front row shouted as he watched the horses pulling the chariots slowly speed up. The formation must not be in chaos at this moment. Once the orderly formation is lost, these ordinary soldiers in light armor will be the best targets for the chariots!
"Archers, get ready!" Ravian raised the lance in his hand. In the entire Crusade team, in addition to these nearly 4,000 main Crusaders, there was also a mixed team of archers and shooters with a thousand people. They were the most valuable long-range strike force in the entire Crusade team.
"Shoot!" Ravian pressed the lance in his hand down hard, and suddenly a rain of arrows flew out. The arrows mixed with the archer's skills were even more deadly. The chariot army that had just started running was immediately hit head-on.
Some charioteers, wielding halberds, were shot and tumbled painfully out of the chariot bed, only to be run over by the wheels behind them. Other charioteers were pierced by long arrows, and their chariots, losing control, slammed head-on into the chariots beside them, sending the soldiers and horses careening off in a flurry of activity.
"Hold on!" the officers roared at the top of their lungs.
"Boom!" With the impact of the steel torrent, the originally intact square formation suddenly seemed to have been bitten, and it immediately broke into pieces. The soldiers in the front fell to the ground as if they had been harvested...
The blades of the chariot axles sliced through the Crusaders' shields, leather armor, and flesh! Steaming entrails covered the ground, and the wails of the wounded echoed through the air, countless wounded struggling in their last moments...
The Dongyi people suffered equally. Although they inflicted horrific casualties on the Crusaders, the Crusader phalanx ultimately managed to stop them. Countless broken ash spears told the story of their fate... Countless Dongyi soldiers and their horses, pierced by spears, lay sprawled in all sorts of strange positions...
There was no winner in the collision just now...
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