At 2 p.m., Lorist stood on a mail tower in the middle of the third defense line, watching the troops of the four central principalities opposite and the Fisabren family armed forces gathered under the guidance of horns and flags, gathered together, and gradually arranged into battle formations to enter the position of preparing for field battle.

"Your Highness, they are too slow. It's been more than two hours since they used lunch and have not finished purging the queue and battle formation. Look, our people have all taken a nap." Schwart said, pointing to several family soldiers who had just woken up with their waists stretched under the wardrobe.

Reddy smiled and patted his shoulder: "So Your Highness asked everyone to hurry up and take a good rest after lunch. Aren't you opposed doing that? Isn't this a bit careless? He also said that if the enemy raids, we will suffer a big loss. Now you see, we slept for a nap and the enemy has not adjusted the formation. As you said, everyone stood for more than two hours and was vigilant, then everyone is guaranteed to be in no energy."

Schwart said anxiously: "But I'm saying that is just a precaution. If we all dismount and rest, then the enemy suddenly launches an attack, we will not be in a hurry. It is only more than 300 meters apart, and the rangers can sweep our positions in less than a few minutes. I'm just a little surprised, why don't they launch an attack?"

Lorist laughed: "If we were facing only that old guy, Fisabren, I wouldn't let everyone get off the horse and rest, that would be too risky. But we are facing the troops of the four central principalities now. When we set up a field formation, even if the rangers of the Fisabren family want to attack, we will be opposed by the four central principalities. Look at the opposite side, the four central principalities clearly deployed heavy troops in the middle formation, and wanted to use the advantage of the military strength to defeat us in one fell swoop to win the final victory.

However, they are infantry units with a slow speed. They have also captured the first defense line and damaged many people. It takes time to readjust it. They are worried that we will dismount and rest to lure them to launch a rash attack. Even if the rangers come to raid, if they really have a trap, these rangers who launch a raid will definitely be seriously damaged. Such failure before the war will seriously damage morale, so if it is not as good as a quiet person, they will not agree to the rangers to raid. Another reason is that they also need time to arrange troops and arrange troops. We will also give them a signal when they dismount and rest. After they have set up the battle formation, we will not launch an attack to interrupt their formation process before we can set up the battle formation."

Tiger Ross and Patchko went to the rooftop of the mail tower and gave a knight salute to Lorist.

"How are your left and right wings? Which enemy is the opposite?" asked Lorist.

Tiger Ross glanced at Patchko, and Patchko nodded to signal Tiger Ross to reply.

"Your Highness, the enemies we face on the left and right wings are the same. Judging from the banner, they are the two corpses of the Fifth Border Ranger of the Fisabren family. My side is the First and Third Corps, and the Second and Fourth Corps are the Second Corps. However, they each brought 20,000 Cao Barbarian Cavalry. Both Pachko and I faced an enemy of about 40,000." Tiger Ross replied.

"Twenty-four thousand against 40,000. Although the enemy's troops exceed you, they should not put the main attack direction on both wings. The Caoman cavalry is a mob and can only fight with the wind. As long as they withstand the previous three fierce attacks, they will be unable to bear it once the battle is entangled. With the strength and equipment of our family's Flying Tiger Legion, we are suppressing them in all aspects.

As for the Fifth Border Ranger, according to the news we received and the confession of the prisoners, this is a newly formed new legion, ranking the worst among the Fisabren family armed forces. The only thing that is worthy of is that most of the soldiers of the Fifth Border Ranger are equipped with long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows. It is said that their most accustomed tactic is to dismount the horse and form a long-range battle formation to carry out long-range attacks. So be wary when your lancers raid after the war begins." Lorist said in contemplation.

"Yes, Your Highness, we will be careful." Tiger Ross said: "But what we are worried about now is the mid-range. The enemy has obviously come out in full swing. Will the mid-range troops be a little thin?"

The enemy's left and right wings are already 80,000 troops. Judging from the deployment of the opposite central midfielder, the deployment of the four central duchesses is mainly composed of elite infantry of about 60,000, and supplemented by the reserve army of the Fisabren family, more than 20,000 troops, which is 80,000 troops, which is about twice the strength of the central army of Lorist. No wonder the tiger Ross and Pachico are a little worried.

"It's okay." Lorist smiled and shook his head: "I have already transferred Owikis's Thunderbolt Stone Camp and Terman's Knights of the Rage Bears to hide behind, and are about to surprise our enemies when the field battle begins. No matter how many enemies are about to fail, there is nothing to be scary. But you should pay attention to the left and right wings. Once the enemy is defeated, you don't need to chase them. Let the Pegasus Corps of the Filimu family pursue the enemy. They are light cavalry. You are going to lead the Flying Tiger Corps from the left and right to the middle. This time we are mainly targeting the elite infantry of the four central principalities. As long as we can annihilate most of the infantry, that old guy, Fisabren, will not be able to jump up. Do you understand?"

"I understand, your highness." Tiger Ross and Patchko straightened their chests.

"Okay, you go back to command the troops. Seeing that the arrangement of the opposite battle formations is almost completed, the battle is about to begin. You should pay attention to the battle and protect yourself while making contributions."

"Yes, thank you."

A whimpering sound of horns with a long tone sound came, and then a rumbling sound of war drums came from the battle formation opposite, like muffled thunder. Looking from the whistle tower, the battle formation flags on the opposite side were waving, and the sounds of cheers and slogans were spreading...

Lorist was excited: "It's finally started, Schwart, what time is it?"

Schwart ran down and ran back soon: "Your Highness, it's three o'clock."

"Blow the trumpet, the whole army is on guard, waiting for the enemy to launch an attack."

No envoys came to read the war, and no knights came out to challenge. The elite infantry and the Fisabren family armed forces of the four central principalities rested for less than half an hour before launching an attack. Countless double-wheeled shield cars made of logs formed three horizontal lines and were pushed to the front and rolled towards the third line of defense where Lorist was located.

"Your Highness, we can order the Pili Stone Cavalry to launch the stone ball, now it has enough range." Schwart said, looking at the log shield car like a wave.

"No hurry, they have just started to set out. It's not too late to launch a catapult when they cross the center line. I have ordered Owikis to calculate the range. In another ten minutes, you can go and dance the black flag to send a signal." Lorist said with a flaw: "Also, order Suremes to prepare for the enemy. His heavy armored corps are the first line of defense in our mid-range."

Suremes is a family knight of Duke Kenmas, and the fighting rank is one golden star. It is said that he was once a slave gladiator in the Kingdom of Hanejabata. At that time, Kenmas was still a viscount. His father went to the slave kingdom to see the bloody gladiator because of his business. He became interested in the winner Suremes and spent a lot of money to redeem him. Suremes, who was free, became a knight of the Kenmas family because of gratitude, and was also the commander of the heavy armored corps of the Kenmas family who were transferred to the southern province this time.

The infantry battle formations of the four central principalities that took the initiative to attack seemed aggressive, but the attack speed was not very fast. It was not easy to push the log shield cars in the first three rows to reach the third defense line. This was nearly 300 meters away. These log shield cars were made randomly and thickly. Even the two wheels were difficult to be round, and some of them were even different in size. After only fifty or sixty meters, some of them were pushed. Some log shield cars were already unable to bear it, and several of them had problems and fell down.

Lorist was expected to be about ten minutes, but in fact, it took nearly half an hour to approach the first log shield car in twenty minutes before the first crossing line was approaching the center line. At this time, several battle formations followed by these log shield car stopped. They were all longbower battle formations. Now that they had reached the range of the lifting shooting, they were going to launch long-range hoisting cover shooting at the family armed forces of the four alliances in the Northland alliance on the third defensive front.

"Order the Pili Stone Catastrophe to launch stone balls to destroy the log shield vehicles ahead, order Malek's chariot and steel crossbow corps to raise the shooting range, focus on attacking the longbow corps, and order Suremes' heavy armored corps to do a long-range defense!" Lorist quickly gave three orders, and Schwart and Reddy rushed to the rooftop of the sentry tower and began to shake the flag to issue orders.

When the first batch of five hundred stone balls flew into the sky and fell towards the infantry battle formations of the attacking four central principalities, everyone who didn't know what it was was staring blankly as these huge stone balls fell from the sky and smashed down...

These two-wheeled shield cars built with logs can block the shooting of steel crossbows, but they cannot block the huge stone balls falling from the sky. Dozens of log shield cars were smashed directly by these stone balls. What's more, a huge stone ball hit a log shield car. The log shield not only cracked, but even the two-wheeled truck was smashed to fly. As well as several defenseless soldiers landed seven or eight meters away, and then smashed over a dozen unlucky guys.

These were the huge stone balls that hit the wooden shield cart. More of the unsmashed stone balls fell to the ground and bounced up again, rolling towards the neatly arranged infantry battle formations. For a moment, the area where the stones were thrown was in chaos. No one could stop these huge stone balls that were spinning. No matter what was ahead, as long as the soldiers hit by these stone balls were hit, they would be in trouble. They were either killed or injured. The dozen battle formations in the middle were connected into a group of screams...

But this was just the beginning. Countless black shadows came again with the ominous "swooshing" wind. Following the gap in the smashed log shield truck, the crossbow arrows fired by the chariot steel crossbow corpses directly swept the uneasy soldiers who survived the stone ball. The corpses were piled up like mountains and blood flowed into a river, which was terrible.

Although this was just a small gap on the long front, the infantry battle formations of the four central principalities became a little hesitant as if they were hit by a heavy blow. The soldiers who were pushing the log shield chariot in the area not hit by the huge stone balls all looked up at the sky. Not only them, but even the soldiers who followed the infantry battle formations behind also focused on the sky.

They were not disappointed, and dense stone balls appeared again in the sky. The soldiers who determined the stone balls landed in the area were immediately confused. The soldiers who were pushing the log shield cart dropped the car and turned around and ran. The soldiers lined up behind them also collapsed. They screamed and ran around. Several centurions who came to stop them were even pushed to the ground by them, and then dozens of feet stepped on without hesitation...

"Well...what is that?" Grand Duke Feisabren, standing on a whistle tower in the middle of the second defense line, looked at the infantry battle formation on the front line in surprise and was stirred into a pot of porridge by huge stone balls falling from the sky.

"I once heard that when the Norton family armed forces drove Queen Carrie off the stage when conquering the Kingdom of Andinak, they used a kind of equipment that could throw huge stones along the way to capture the castle fortresses, which seemed to be called a catapult. The stone balls that were thrown over should be the function of those catapults." Grand Duke Sabaji answered with a serious expression on the other side.

"What should we do now?" Grand Duke Handra was very anxious. The elite of his Principality were smashed in the front.

"Why do we get the retreat trumpet, we will retreat first and wait until we come up with a way to deal with these catapults before launching an attack." Grand Duke Fakel, who was standing by, suggested.

"No!" Grand Duke Feisabren was anxious: "You see, the front is almost in chaos. When the horn of retreat is blown, the central army will collapse, and the enemy will definitely pursue it. You are all infantrymen with two legs but not their four legs. I think it's better to have a charge and kill Yibo. We have the advantage of our troops and the loss is not big. There is still hope of victory in the full attack!"

"What are you talking nonsense!" Grand Duke Handra was anxious: "Look at the battle formation ahead that can't even maintain it. Is it possible to launch a full-scale attack? While most of the battle formations can be maintained in the future, we should quickly retreat and reorganize. Only when the enemy has superior forces will not launch a pursuit..."

Just as several grand dukes were quarreling over whether to advance or retreat, the situation on the front line had become increasingly uncontrollable. Without most of the log shield cars, the steel crossbow corps commanded by Malek had already allowed the infantry battle formations of the four central principalities to see what a steel crossbow storm was. The continuous crossbow arrows swept through the dozen or so battle formations in the front line like a storm, and the soldiers of the Principality fell under the crossbow arrows.

Faced with the huge stone balls falling from the sky and the stormy crossbow arrows, the dozen infantry battle formations in the middle collapsed. The soldiers abandoned their weapons and turned around and fled. The infantry battle formations lined up in the rear also began to become restless...

"Blow the trumpet and order the Knights of the Angry Bears to attack. The Kenmaith Family's heavy armored corps followed and ordered the Marlek's chariot and steel crossbows to come forward to respond, order Owikis's Thunderbolt Catastrophe to move forward, launch a maximum catapult range attack, and block the enemy's retreat." Lorist ordered again.

The attack of the Knights of the Rage Bear led by Terman accelerated the collapse of the infantry battle formations of the four central principalities. The heavy knights rushed into the retreating infantry like tigers like sheep. But the enemy also responded very quickly. The reserve regiment of the Fisabren family quickly rushed up and entangled with the Knights of the Rage Bear to cover the retreat of the infantry.

Lorist was very anxious. If most of the infantry in the four central principalities were withdrawn, the outcome of this war was still uncertain. Even if he had the upper hand now, as long as the enemy reorganized the withdrawn soldiers and threw them into the battlefield, the enemy's advantage might be able to recover. The most urgent task is to completely defeat the enemy. If the guard battalion was around, he would have led the guard battalion directly to the battlefield.

"Prepare the horse, let's go into battle." Lorist said that one more point of combat power is one more point of combat power.

As soon as I got off the mat and got on the mount, I heard the thunder and thunder on the battlefield.

"Your Highness, we won, we won!" Schwart shouted excitedly.

Lorist looked up and saw battle flags of two Flying Tiger Corps appeared on the left and right wings. Tiger Ross and Pachico lived up to Lorist's expectations and were leading the lances to the enemy's retreat from both sides.

Lorist smiled and said, "Yes, we won, blow the trumpet, and the whole army attacked!"

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Chapter completed!