The disappearance of a large number of scouts finally made General Rostock into a fit of rage.
Then the commander of the Stormtroopers issued a military order, and directly pulled out two cavalry battalions, more than 4,000 cavalry, divided into four groups, along the northern part of the Kaspersky line of defense, on a long line of more than 200 kilometers, a zipper-style battle was carried out. search.
Due to lack of intelligence, since the opponent was able to eat up a small group of scouts—so many scouts could be eaten one by one, and none of them were brought back alive, General Rostock became cautious. He decided that since the opponent could eat up a small group Scout team, then the opponent must have a lot of troops, and the combat power is strong. So he ordered the four-way cavalry not to divide their troops, so as not to be defeated by the opponent one by one.
Four thousand-man cavalrymen spent three days and three nights conducting a large-scale search of the area north of Kaspersky's line of defense. They walked through hillsides, crossed woods, and crossed streams, looking for every suspicious clue .
One by one, the information was quickly sent back to the main fortress of Kaspersky's line of defense. What makes people even more puzzled is that these search teams found some places where the scouts were likely to be attacked, and found some bloodstains left on the ground—fortunately, this is the north, because of the cold weather, the bloodstains on the ground will not be there for a while. Completely evaporated, but the problem is, they didn't even find a single corpse! Be it horses or people!
Finally, on the fourth day of the search, a thousand-man search party has driven the search area to the edge of the frozen forest. Finally found the enemy track!
It can be said that this is the first head-on night battle between the human army and the criminal army since the war in the age of mythology ten thousand years ago!
The thousand-man cavalry found traces of the enemy on the outskirts of an abandoned border town on the southern edge of the frozen forest. As the last inhabited place at the southern end of the former frozen forest, that town once became a place for mercenary activities due to the prosperity of poaching activities. There are also various black-hearted caravans from the mainland to buy monster prey.
With the establishment of the Kaspersky Line of Defense and the mass migration of the imperial people north of the line of defense, this town has become an uninhabited place. After a winter time, most of the houses were crushed by snow. This town, which used to have a population of over a thousand at its most glorious time, is now as quiet as a haunted house.
When the cavalry team arrived here, it was already the longest distance they were allowed to enter in the order they received-General Rostock's military order, they were not allowed to continue to enter the frozen forest.
Seeing that it was getting dark, the captain of the thousand-man team originally planned to rest overnight in this abandoned town. As a result, he saw that most of the houses here were collapsed by snow from outside the town, so he gave up this idea, and instead of ordering the whole army to enter the town, he walked around the town for a little distance and 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 are all riding huge giant wolves, the giant wolf is covered with iron armor, and the enemy on the back of the wolf is full of iron armor, with a thick and tall figure, sharp mouth and fangs. Howling like a beast, he rushed to the search party of the empire!
The cavalry of the empire fought in a hurry, and suffered huge losses at the first encounter!
The entire rear team of fifty men was completely wiped out under the first charge of the opponent's giant wolf cavalry. Those wolf riders are huge in size, but they have powerful jumping ability! They didn't charge close to the ground, but jumped from the abandoned houses one by one in the town under the darkness of the evening, like ghosts one by one!
Imperial cavalry after initial panic. The stalwart temperament of the Storm Legion, which was cultivated from fighting against monsters for many years, also exploded! The cavalry of the northern main battle regiment, which can be called the most elite in the empire, regained their composure in the shortest time, and the deputy commander of the team leader calmly commanded all the cavalry to turn around immediately, and conducted a cavalry hedge with the opponent!
The battle was extremely fierce, and the human cavalry were very unsuited to the fighting methods of these monsters. They jumped back and forth, going up and down, and even had the super ability to leap several meters high. Let the cavalry fall into a bitter battle!
Fortunately, there are not too many wolf cavalry here. And the field battle outside the town, the flat terrain also restricted the wolf cavalry's innate and powerful jumping ability!
There are a thousand imperial cavalry, and the number of enemy knights they face is not many, only about two hundred wolf cavalry. After tenacious resistance, the imperial cavalry repelled the enemy. Those wolf cavalry left more than 20 corpses, and then they all retreated under the darkness—after the raid failed, they were very smart not to fight the imperial army.
But even so, the losses of the imperial cavalry are also helpless... According to the statistics after the war, more than 130 cavalry were killed, 40 were slightly injured, and 8 were seriously injured.
Such an exchange of battle loss ratios moved the officers of the empire so much!
The cavalry of the Empire's most elite Stormtroopers, one thousand against three hundred (according to the estimation of the human search team afterwards, the number of monsters they encountered must not exceed three hundred), such a comparison of troops, although the opponent is a sneak attack, but the wild land In the fierce battle here, the loss ratio of humans and opponents is about one to seven! This ratio is intolerable no matter what!
What made the search party even more frightened after the battle was: Fortunately, they didn't enter that town! Because in the flat field, the human cavalry can still maintain a complete formation to hedge against the opponent, but if they entered the abandoned town rashly before, then on the narrow street, there are uneven buildings on both sides. If the wolf cavalry with the ability to leap leaps and attacks from the buildings on both sides of the road, it is enough to cause greater damage to the human cavalry who are crowded in the narrow streets and cannot form a formation!
But the opponent retreated calmly under the cover of night, the human cavalry couldn't do it at all, and they didn't dare to pursue it!
The officer of the Storm Legion who led the team had sufficient experience, and he judged one thing very keenly: it was obvious. This kind of monster on the other side seems to have no visual impairment at night! And more than half of human soldiers will become blind under the effect of night blindness at night! Although the soldiers of the Storm Legion are treated well, the food is also good.
The average quality of the body is higher than that of ordinary human soldiers, but the proportion of soldiers suffering from night blindness is more than 30% - this is already the lowest proportion in the imperial army. Under the order of the officer, the cavalry cut open the corpse of a monster on the spot and checked their internal organs. This is the basic experience of death search scouts, they need to cut open the enemy's stomach. Check the remaining food in the opponent's stomach pouch to determine whether the opponent's rations are sufficient.
But after cutting open a monster's stomach on the spot, the scene shocked everyone!
Because the soldier in charge of the knife saw a few fingers in the stomach of a monster!
These few fingers that have not been digested. The roughly complete outline is still preserved, obviously, it belongs to human beings!
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 are cannibals! In other words, their food is human beings!
and. It is very likely that what they ate were the scout cavalry who were missing before!
Being in a dangerous place, the officers of the search team immediately made a decision that the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle cannot be left here to be ruined by the enemy, but if they bring all the corpses of more than a hundred giants, it will easily reduce the speed of marching. speed, thereby increasing the possibility of being attacked on the road.
So the officer endured the pain. People set fire to the corpses of more than a hundred cavalrymen who died in battle!
This decision filled people with grief and anger. Because of the customs in Roland Continent, people cannot be cremated after death! Those who "enjoy" cremation treatment are only those heretics who were burned to death on the stake in the temple!
But in order to prevent these dead soldiers from being turned into food in the stomach of the enemy after their death, the search team had to make this helpless decision.
After setting off a big fire, the remaining human cavalry returned vigilantly.
The other three search teams also encountered battles of varying degrees later, but in comparison, the scale was much smaller. A search party encountered about twenty wolf cavalry. But the enemy is very cunning, far away hundreds of meters away. Seeing the large group of human cavalry, they quickly went away.
Another search team arrived at five wolf riders, and after paying the price of six dead and four injured, they killed three of them, but let the other two escape with injuries.
Six days later, when the search team returned to Kaspersky's main stronghold, they handed over all the information on this line, which immediately caused a sensation!
Many people saw the corpse of the giant wolf brought back, and those wolf cavalrymen!
The stature of the wolf cavalry is similar to that of humans, but they 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—and after analysis, the imperial soldiers A sighing conclusion was drawn: this is an unknown creature, and their fur all over their bodies makes them much more resistant to cold than humans! That is to say, in the cold weather in the north, they can not care about the severe cold weather at all, and can maintain sufficient physical strength and combat effectiveness in the severe cold-these are the weaknesses of human beings.
From the analysis of the battle process, these monsters not only possess strong combat effectiveness, but their individual combat effectiveness is far stronger than that of human cavalry. After analysis, the imperial army has made a rough judgment that the combat effectiveness of such a wolf cavalry is enough to compete with human cavalry. Two elite cavalry tied!
Of course, if it’s just these things, it won’t make humans afraid, because these brave cavalrymen of the Storm Legion have fought against powerful monsters in the frozen forest for many years-the monsters also have powerful combat effectiveness.
But the problem is that there are two other reasons that really caused human beings to have psychological changes, and even a trace of fear: First, after analyzing the battle process, human beings concluded that this kind of enemy possesses advanced intelligence! They are wearing armor, even the mount giant wolf is also covered with 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 biological race with high intelligence, they know how to use tactics, know how to use weapons, and they eat humans... At the same time, there are probably a lot of them!
Such a conclusion is enough to shake the hearts of the soldiers.
"This is just a small-scale enemy scout!" In the Commander's Office, General Rostock gathered all the generals under his command, and everyone made a unanimous judgment, "This is just a vanguard scout sent to survey the terrain before the enemy's massive invasion! Just like us humans use cavalry as scouts and vanguards! They use this kind of giant wolf cavalry as vanguards and scouts! They come from the north and walk out of the frozen forest! After they survey the terrain of this northern area …Waiting for us will be a large number of monster enemies like this.”
General Rostock's face was gloomy, and finally he made a decision: "Send the order, tell General Andre, let his airship troops dispatch. We can no longer let the soldiers go out on horseback to scout the situation. This is too dangerous. The dispatch of the team is just Send it to death. From now on, the scout team's inspections must not exceed ten miles around the fortress, and the rest of the area... Leave it to General Andre's air force!"
Seeing the different expressions of the generals, General Rostock suddenly stood up and shouted: "I know what everyone is thinking! But I don't think it's worth fearing! We are the Storm Legion! We are the invincible warriors in the snow! Facing 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! "Speaking of which, Rostock stared at the generals, gritted his teeth and said, "It's time... to fight!!"
After finishing speaking, Rostock drew out his long sword and held it high in his hand: "Fight for Roland!!"
All the generals stood in awe and drew out their long swords to respond: "Fight for Roland!!"