The disappearance of a large number of scouts finally made General Rostock fall into anger.
Then the commander of the Storm Army issued a military order and directly pulled out two cavalry battalions with more than 4,000 cavalry. They were divided into four lines and carried out a zipper along the northern part of the Kaspersky defense line for more than 200 kilometers.
search.
Due to insufficient intelligence, General Rostock began to be cautious, since the other party could eat a small group of scouts and could eat so many scouts one by one without bringing back a single survivor.
team, then the opponent must have a lot of troops and strong combat power. Therefore, he ordered the four lines of cavalry not to divide their troops to avoid being defeated by the opponent one by one.
Four thousand cavalrymen spent three days and nights conducting a large-scale search of the area north of the Kaspersky Defense Line. They walked through hillsides, crossed woods, and crossed streams, looking for every suspicious clue.
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One piece of information was quickly sent back to the main point of the Kaspersky defense line. What makes people even more puzzling is that these search teams found some locations where the scouts were likely to be attacked, and found some remains on the ground.
Fortunately, this is the north. Because of the cold weather, the blood stains on the ground will not completely evaporate for a while. But the problem is that they didn't even find a body! Whether it was a horse or a human!
Finally, on the fourth day of the search, a search team of a thousand people had already driven the search area to the edge of the frozen forest, and finally discovered the enemy!
It can be said that this is the first head-to-head night battle between the human army and those criminal armies since the war in the Age of Mythology thousands of years ago!
The thousand-man cavalry team discovered traces of the enemy on the outskirts of an abandoned border town at the southern edge of the frozen forest. As the last inhabited place at the southern edge of the frozen forest, that town once became a tourist destination due to the prosperity of poaching activities.
In addition to the place where mercenaries are active, there are also various black-hearted caravans from the mainland who buy Warcraft prey.
With the establishment of the Kaspersky Defense Line and the large-scale migration of imperial people north of the defense line, this town has become a deserted place. After a winter, most of the houses were collapsed by snow. This once most glorious town
The town, which had a population of more than a few thousand at that time, is now as quiet as a haunted house.
When the thousand-man cavalry team arrived here, they had already reached the maximum distance they were allowed to enter according to the orders they received. General Rostock's military order did not allow them to go any further into the frozen forest.
Seeing that it was getting dark, the captain of the thousand-man team originally planned to rest in this abandoned town for the night. However, he saw that most of the houses here were collapsed by snow outside the town. So he gave up the idea and did not
They ordered the whole army to enter the town, but walked a little distance around the town, and then ordered the whole army to return the same way. This decision saved their fate!!
The battle started in an instant! Just when the rear team was ordered to change to the front team, a group of "monsters" suddenly appeared in the town!!
Those monsters all rode huge giant wolves. The giant wolves were covered in iron armor, and the enemies on the wolf's back were all armored in iron. They were thick and tall, with sharp mouths and fangs, and howled like wild beasts as they rushed towards the empire's search.
Team!
The imperial cavalry responded in a hurry and suffered huge losses at the first encounter!
A whole rear group of fifty people were all wiped out under the first charge of the opponent's giant wolf cavalry. Those wolf cavalry were huge in size, but they had strong jumping ability! They did not charge close to the ground.
Instead, under the cover of night in the evening, they jumped from one abandoned house to another in the town, like ghosts one after another!
After the initial panic of the empire's cavalry, the Storm Legion's tough temperament developed from years of fighting with monsters also broke out! The cavalry of the northern main battle legion, which is the most elite in the empire, regained its composure in the shortest time.
The deputy leader of the team immediately calmly commanded all the cavalry to turn around and engage in a cavalry charge with the opponent!
The battle was extremely fierce, and the human cavalry was very unsuited to the fighting methods of these monsters. Their super ability to jump back and forth, up and down, and even jump several meters high in one go put the cavalry in a tough fight!
Fortunately, there are not too many wolf cavalry here, and the flat terrain outside the town also limits the wolf cavalry's natural and powerful jumping ability!
A full thousand imperial cavalry. The number of enemy knights they faced was not many. There were only about two hundred wolf riders. After tenacious resistance, the imperial cavalry repelled the enemy. Those wolf riders left more than twenty corpses, and then
Through the darkness, they all retreated. After the failed raid, they were very smart and did not fight to the death with the imperial army.
But despite this, the loss figures of the imperial cavalry are also disappointing... After the war, statistics show that the number of cavalry killed reached more than 130, while 40 were slightly injured and 8 were seriously injured.
Such a ratio of battle losses made the officers of the empire extremely moved!
The Empire's most elite Storm Legion cavalry pitted one thousand against three hundred (according to subsequent estimates by the human search team, the number of monsters they encountered definitely did not exceed three hundred). With such a comparison of forces, even though the opponent was attacking by surprise, but in the wild,
In the fierce battle, the ratio of human losses to the opponent was about one to seven! This ratio is intolerable no matter what!
What frightened the search team even more about the battle was: Fortunately, they did not enter that town! Because in the flat field, the human cavalry could still maintain a complete formation and hedge against the opponent. But if they had rashly entered the abandoned town before, then in the narrow
There are uneven buildings on both sides of the street. If those wolf cavalry with super terrifying jumping ability jump and attack from the buildings on both sides of the road, it will be enough to cause even greater damage to the human cavalry who are crowded in the narrow street and unable to form a queue.
damage!
However, the opponent retreated calmly under the cover of night, and the human cavalry was unable and did not dare to pursue him!
The officer of the Storm Legion who led the team had sufficient experience, and he judged one thing very keenly: It was obvious that the monster on the other side did not seem to have any visual impairment at night! And more than half of the human soldiers, at night.
They will become blind due to night blindness! Although the soldiers of the Storm Legion are well treated, have good food, and have higher physical fitness than ordinary human soldiers, more than 30% of the soldiers suffer from night blindness.
This is already the smallest proportion among the imperial army.
After the enemy retreated, this group of search cavalry did not leave immediately. Under the order of the officer, the cavalry cut open the corpse of a monster on the spot and examined its internal organs. This is the basic experience of the dead search scouts. They need
Cut open the enemy's stomach and check the food remaining in the opponent's stomach pouch to determine whether the opponent's military rations are sufficient.
But after cutting open the stomach of a monster on the spot, everyone was shocked by the scene!
Because the soldier in charge of operating the knife saw several fingers in the stomach of a monster!
These fingers that have not been digested still retain their roughly complete outlines. Obviously, they belong to humans!
And from the stomach of a giant wolf, some other parts of the human body were also found...
This leads to a very simple conclusion: they eat humans! In other words, their food is humans!
Moreover, it is very likely that what they eat is the scout cavalry that disappeared before!
Being in a dangerous situation, the officers of this search team immediately made a decision. They could not leave the corpses of the soldiers who died in the battle here to be destroyed by the enemy, but there were more than a hundred huge corpses, if they were all taken to the ground, it would easily be reduced to
The speed of the march increased the possibility of being attacked on the road. Therefore, the officer reluctantly ordered the corpses of more than a hundred cavalry who died in battle to be set on fire and burned on the spot!
This decision filled people's hearts with grief and anger. Because of the custom in Roland, people cannot be cremated after death! Only those heretics who "enjoyed" the treatment of cremation were burned at the stake in the temple!
But in order to prevent the remains of these soldiers who died in battle from being turned into food in the enemy's belly after death, the search team had to make this helpless decision.
After setting off a large fire, the remaining human cavalry returned vigilantly.
The other three search teams later encountered varying degrees of fighting, but in comparison, their scale was much smaller. One search team encountered about twenty giant wolf cavalry, but the enemy was very cunning and could not reach the enemy from a distance.
I saw a large group of human cavalry hundreds of meters away, and they quickly moved away.
Another search team arrived at five wolf riders, and after paying the price of six killed and four injured, three of them were killed, but the other two were injured and escaped.
Six days later, when the search team all returned to the main fortress of Kaspersky and handed over all the information on this line, it immediately caused a sensation!
Many people saw the corpse of the giant wolf that was brought back, as well as the wolf cavalry!
The wolf cavalry are similar in stature to humans, but are taller and stronger. After taking off their armor, their body structure resembles that of humans with wolf heads, but their whole bodies are covered with thick fur. After analysis, the imperial soldiers found that
A sigh-inducing conclusion was drawn: This is an unknown creature. The fur all over their body makes them much more resistant to cold than humans! In other words, in the cold weather in the north, they can survive the cold weather at all.
Being able to maintain sufficient physical strength and fighting power despite the severe cold weather is a weakness of human beings.
From the analysis of the battle process, these monsters not only have strong combat effectiveness, but their individual combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of human cavalry. After analysis, the imperial army made a rough judgment that the combat effectiveness of such a wolf cavalry is enough to compete with human cavalry.
Two elite cavalry are even!
Of course, if it were just these, it would not make humans afraid, because these brave cavalry of the Storm Legion have fought with powerful monsters in the frozen forest for many years, and monsters also have strong combat effectiveness.
But the problem is that the real reasons that cause psychological changes in humans, and even a hint of fear, are the other two:
First of all, after analyzing the battle process, humans concluded that this kind of enemy possesses high intelligence! They wear armor, and even the giant wolf mounts are also covered in iron armor. Moreover, judging from the battle process, they understand the tactics of group battles!
Number two...they eat people!
In other words, this is a race of creatures with high intelligence. They know how to use tactics and weapons, and they feed on humans... At the same time, there are probably a lot of them!
Such a conclusion is enough to shake the morale of the military.
"This is just a small-scale enemy scout!" In the commander's palace, General Rostock summoned his generals, and everyone unanimously made a judgment: "This is just a vanguard scout sent to survey the terrain before the enemy invades in a large scale!"
Just like us humans use cavalry as scouts and vanguards! They use this giant wolf cavalry as vanguards and scouts! They come from the north and walk out of the frozen forest! After they have completed surveying the terrain of this area in the north
...What awaits us will be large numbers of such monster enemies."
General Rostock's face was gloomy, and he finally made a decision: "Send the order and tell General Andre to send out his airship troops. We can no longer let the soldiers ride out to reconnoiter the situation. This is too dangerous. The dispatch of the small team is just
Die. From now on, the patrols of the scout team are not allowed to go beyond the ten-mile radius around the fortress. The other areas... will be left to General Andre's air force!"
Looking at the different expressions of the generals, General Rostock suddenly stood up and shouted loudly: "I know what everyone is thinking! But I don't think this is worth fearing! We are the Storm Legion! We are invincible warriors in the snow! We are facing
We have faced hordes of terrifying monsters! And now we have better equipment, strong fortresses and fortresses, and a large number of friendly troops! We are ready for war! So... everyone, now is not the time for us to be afraid
!" At this point, Rostock stared at the generals and gritted his teeth and said: "But... it's time to fight!!"
After saying that, Rostock pulled out his sword and held it high in his hand: "Fight for Roland!!"
All the generals were in awe, and they all drew their swords and responded: "Fight for Roland!!"
