If you are prepared, elephants are not invincible. There are many ways to defeat them. What you are afraid of is this sudden encounter.
After easily scattering Dorn's cavalry, the armored elephants rushed into the infantry phalanx behind them.
Cooperating with the cavalry following behind, they swept through the dense infantry phalanx. The archers on the elephant's back could also sit on the elephant's back and shoot from a high position.
Large swaths of Dornish soldiers fled in all directions, and there was no longer any formation to speak of.
Arianne looked at the one-sided battle with red eyes! The elephant suddenly appeared on the battlefield and broke up the cavalry charge.
She did not give up and kept looking for opportunities to get close to it. The elephant was not invincible. Although it ran faster than the infantry, it was still too slow compared to the cavalry.
As long as the distance is appropriate, the cavalry can use bows and arrows to shoot from a long distance and slowly pull the elephant to death.
The key is that the Golden Company also has cavalry. They will not let Arianne shoot arrows easily. If she wants to rush forward, it is even more impossible. The heavy infantry of the Golden Company has been following the elephant. As long as Dorne's cavalry is close, it will be easy.
Caught in a siege of advancing soldiers.
Arianne could only watch helplessly as the Golden Company broke up Dorne's infantry phalanx bit by bit.
Collapse is inevitable!
Dorne's soldiers began to flee,
The cavalry of the Golden Company chased them one after another, and countless Dornish soldiers were driven and hunted like sheep!
Duke Tyrell on the city wall looked pale and regretted more than once in his heart, especially after hearing his servants report to him that the Lannister on the other side of Highgarden also began to attack the city!
Maybe we should really take the risk and try to keep the Dornish people in the city. Anyway, the worst result is that Highgarden is breached, just like now!
The Duke's fat body couldn't help but tremble!
"It's over! The Tyrell family will end today!"
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Ohh Ohh ohh!--
It was as if dozens of trumpets were blowing suddenly at the same time!
The low and broad sound of the horn instantly spread throughout the battlefield, and the originally chaotic battlefield suddenly became quiet for a moment!
Duke Tyrell's eyes turned to the direction where the sound came from, and everyone's eyes unconsciously turned to that direction!
In the distance, I saw a black line suddenly appearing at the end of the earth!
The tide is coming here,
Look carefully, where is the tide? They are black cavalry! They are all covered in airtight black armor, and even the horses under their crotches are covered in black scales. They are pacing slowly, slowly pressing up.
!
At the front of the team is their flag - a black iron fist piercing the sky under the thunder and lightning!
"Heavy Cavalry of Storm's End!!!"
"Form up quickly! Form into formation immediately!" the commander of the Golden Company shouted at the top of his lungs, and the infantry who had just dispersed to chase the Dornish people quickly gathered together!
At the same time, the second horn sounded!
The Dornish cavalry who came into sight began to accelerate,
The rumble of iron hoofbeats slowed down and became faster, from comb to dense, until they became one continuous sound, shaking the earth like muffled thunder in the sky!
The iron hooves of ten thousand war horses trampled the earth, and the deafening sound seemed to shatter the mountains!
"No, you can't rush in like this!" Arianne gritted her teeth. She was saved from a desperate situation and had no time to rejoice in Lin En's feeling. She saw the heavy cavalry preparing to charge into the battle!
The nearly 10,000 heavy infantrymen of the Golden Regiment have formed a dense formation. If the cavalry rushes in directly, it will be a battle between spears and shields. If the cavalry can penetrate the enemy formation, they will naturally divide the battlefield and gain a complete advantage.
But in most cases, you can't break through the dense formation! You will be blocked by dense human walls layer by layer. Until you lose speed and are trapped in the formation, you will be stabbed into a hornet's nest by countless spears around you!
Everyone understands this simple truth, and Duke Tyrell and the commander of the Golden Company also understand it.
Unlike Arianne and Duke Tyrell who were worried and anxious, the Golden Company was overjoyed. There were elephants in his army. As long as the opponent's cavalry rushed over, they would get credit easily. The armor on the opponent's body alone would be enough.
Allow the Golden Company to recruit another 10,000 mercenaries!
Before the joy in his heart fell to the ground, a dark cloud suddenly rose on the horizon in the distance! No, no, it's not a dark cloud, that's a white cloud! That's not right, it's a dragon!!!
"dragon!!!"
The slowly rising dragon is like the cold wind in the north in fairy tales. Just one blow can freeze the relaxed expressions on people's faces. The breath of fear drives away laughter and instantly fills the entire battle formation. A second ago,
The commander of the Golden Regiment, who was still planning to take off the armor of the enemy's cavalry, made unconscious noises from his mouth.
No one present had ever seen a dragon. They opened their mouths wide and watched the pure white dragon flying closer and closer. Its wings covered the sun and cast a huge gray shadow on the ground!
The dragon's shadow passed over the army, like an emperor inspecting his childhood toys. Lord Tyrell saw the flames falling from their mouths. It was dragon flame, orange-red mixed with dazzling gold.
The wind roared, and the flames instantly covered the dense heavy infantry phalanx of the Golden Company! The shuddering screams and the smell of burnt flesh filled the air everywhere.
The dense formations were gone, the huge war elephants were gone, and the golden armor, spears, and bows and arrows were all gone! Instead, there was a sea of fire, and thick black smoke soared into the sky.
Arianne and her soldiers stood there blankly, looking at the pure white and noble dragon. In just a few breaths, they destroyed the invincible and invincible enemies that were chasing them!
Of course it was destroyed. After the dragon's flames, only the loose and fleeing soldiers were left. The heavy cavalry at full speed was like a torrent of steel, easily piercing through the loose light cavalry. Countless Golden Regiment cavalry fell to the ground, and were beaten by iron hoofs.
Grind it into minced meat!
Facing the charge of heavy cavalry, a loose formation is simply vulnerable, but the denser the formation, the more suitable it is for the dragon to breathe out flames!
Such tactics are simply rogue!
The light cavalry of the Fourth Flag Regiment began to move in to harvest!
This time, they were chased like sheep, and those who were killed became the golden group!
At this time, among the Lannister army that was attacking on the other side of Highgarden, James received the news, "The Golden Company on the opposite side encountered a heavy cavalry attack from Storm's End! I didn't expect them to be so fast. I thought
It will take at least three days to arrive!"
"What a pity. Since the support from the other side has arrived, it means that the enemy troops behind us are also arriving soon!"
"Let all the scouts out, let the soldiers attacking the city withdraw first, and the cavalry will be on guard!"
James's series of orders can be said to be prudent and reasonable, but that is based on the fact that there is no dragon present.
When a giant dragon appears on the battlefield, this extraordinary power is enough to destroy any conventional tactics!
After a while,
When the First and Third Banners appeared on the horizon, Jaime's Lannister army was ready!
