Chapter 521: Capture the Flag

The chaotic battlefield was filled with smoke and dust.

In addition, Reina had already thrown the cavalry into the battlefield, and the cavalry rushed from the side and rear, which was a blind spot.

If they hadn't been leaving at this time, they would still not have seen these things.

After turning around and seeing them, Count Aini didn't care who the cavalry was, and hurriedly jumped down from the watchtower with Parame.

The magic cloak of the flying wings automatically triggered the floating spell, and the two landed smoothly.

After landing, Count Aini felt at ease and quickly arranged defenses to retreat.

When I looked at it from the watchtower just now, I could see that it was a very fast team, obviously cavalry.

Although Aini's personal guard cavalry were defeated by the knight commander who was trusted by him, he also trained a team of high-level infantry.

The lowest level of this group of infantry is level 6, and at least half of them are free people.

Although recruiting soldiers is more loyal, only free people can wear equipment other than basic equipment.

Magic equipment may not be too much better than blank equipment in terms of attack and defense attributes, but magic equipment has special effects and can cope with more scenarios.

For example, Reina's troops are like steel plates, without the ability to ignore defense, and can't be hit at all, whether they are mid-level or high-level soldiers.

Except for a few soldiers such as Berserkers, which have the characteristics of ignoring defense, other soldiers need to be equipped with armor-piercing weapons.

Among the infantry trained by Aini, 1,500 with the best talents were specially selected, mixed with half of the recruited soldiers, and spent a great deal of money to pass the training ground to upgrade to the highest level.

Among these 3,000 infantry, 1,000 Berserkers as killers are treated even better than the guards cavalry, because these people are used as death squads.

In addition, Aini has 1,000 sword masters and 1,000 royal guards around him.

The sword master's wind step is very useful and can be used for secret protection. Although the combat effectiveness is not as good as the 8th-level sword master in the stronghold, it is very outstanding whether it is a single fight or dealing with assassins.

As for the royal guards and guard captains, they are the real defense core.

These guys are very difficult to train even at a certain level. Among the 3,000 cores of Aini, only the royal guard captains are still dominated by level 6 royal guards.

There is no way, these royal guards have put all their limited offensive capabilities into defense.

Not only are they very good at using shields, they have armor and health far superior to those of the same level, they are also particularly good at blocking, and have the special ability to bear damage for the friendly forces behind them.

It can be said that as long as they are there, no one can hurt the protected behind them.

Even if this time, the 9th level fearless knight Tahan led the cavalry charge.

Tahan, who switched to an offensive posture, did not move with the main force.

It can be said that the real core of the entire Qingfeng Corps is not Reina, who commands the army, but Xu Lai's confidant, the only 9th level knight Tahan.

Xu Lai upgraded so many brave knights just for Tahan.

But this time, Tahan did not bring a large number of brave knights, but left half for Naaru.

He himself only brought 188 brave knights, plus 11 holy knights, a total of 200 people.

The holy knights were used to provide protection for the brave knights, and he himself did not need any protection.

With the defensive effect of Reina and the damage reduction effect of the fearless knights, he was not very worried even if it was a spell attack, and physical attacks could not cause any damage to him at all.

Moreover, the fearless armor can not only help him absorb damage, but also convert the absorbed damage into attack.

Therefore, Tahan will not use the holy armor for himself. Invincibility helps him block the attack while also reducing his damage in disguise.

Their 200 riders left the main force early, and went around for most of the circle before appearing behind Aini and his team out of their sight.

The grassland environment is really not suitable for ambushes, so the knights around Aini had been cleared out long ago. If he still had a few hundred cavalry for reconnaissance, Tahan would not have been so close to him.

Although Reina is good at dragging down the enemy, she still has to complete the task assigned by Xu Lai.

Therefore, considering that Aini has enough troops to split into two groups, she has formulated a tactical plan to use herself to attract the enemy's large forces and let Tahan raid and behead them.

Unfortunately, the situation on the battlefield changed very quickly, and Reina also did not expect Jimi to come out to disrupt the situation, forcing her to fight the enemy head-on in advance.

Therefore, the enemy's morale was quickly defeated. From her perspective, the enemy was clearly in a retreating posture.

The key is that her troops were all blocked by Aini's abandoned pawns, and they could never break through in a short time.

And beside Aini, in addition to those guards infantry, there are 40,000 to 50,000 main forces nearby.

These troops are both chasing Jimi's troops and taking advantage of the situation to retreat.

Although they are somewhat out of touch with Aini, they are still nearby after all.

This means that once Tahan misses a shot, he will immediately fall into the endless encirclement of the enemy's soldiers. .

It is not easy for 200 cavalry to break through an army of 50,000, even in a magical world with heroes.

If the Fearless Knights, which Xu Lai valued the most, were to be destroyed in order to win this battle, she would probably never get the chance to lead the army independently again.

Reina couldn't help but frowned and ordered Brandi to not worry about the rear and rush at full speed towards the direction of Aini's flag.

However, Brandi led the infantry, which had strong defense capabilities but relatively weak attack power.

After thinking about it, Reina simply asked the direction to follow closely and rush out at full speed from both sides of the infantry.

The troops that had already begun to collapse were suppressed so strongly that the collapse became more serious.

However, the cavalry led by Joseph and Naru were near them. Even if these people wanted to run, they could not run faster than four legs.

Naru and his men didn't have to do anything. They just needed to rely on their speed advantage to crush and impact back and forth. Many of these fleeing soldiers could be trampled to death by themselves.

"Surrender and save your life!"

At this time, at Reina's signal, the charging knights shouted the slogans they had prepared long ago.

Anna led the priests to receive and treat the surrendered soldiers.

There was no way to recruit soldiers. After they fled for a period of time, even their former masters needed to recruit them again or let them become wild monsters.

But most of the recruited soldiers under Aini came from conscription and hiring, and at least half of them belonged to other nobles.

Most of these people had no loyalty to Aini. They were just limited by the strict laws of the empire over the years and the influence of the temple, so they did not dare to rebel easily.

Otherwise, the conditions on Xu Lai's side were so good, and the battle was slightly sluggish. Most of the soldiers from civilian origin might have thought about how to defect.

However, no matter how strict the laws were, no matter how great the influence was, it was not as important as staying alive.

The morale had already been emptied, and even the recruited soldiers were scattered. Why didn't they surrender?

It was also fortunate that the recruited soldiers were constantly disintegrating, otherwise with only one or two thousand people left in Reina's hands, they could not suppress so many surrendered soldiers.

There was no other way. The two cavalry teams in Reina's hands had to be split up and used. One team was used to cover and drive away, and the scattered recruited soldiers were used to attack the troops in the rear whose morale had not yet returned to zero.

The other team was used for intimidation and patrol, and was really unable to support Tahan.

It was a pity that in order to prevent the healing spells of the priests and pastors from failing, Reina did not equip the magic ball after all.

Otherwise, when Aini jumped down from the watchtower dozens of meters high, he might have fallen to death on the spot.

Aini was not killed by the fall, but his life was definitely not easy.

Under the waving of the flag, he found that there were only a few troops who turned back to rescue him.

Some people really didn't see it, and they chased Jimmy for who knows how far they ran.

Some used the excuse of pursuit to chase instead of escape. After all, according to the information they got from them, Aini was really in danger this time.

And even if Aini himself could escape this time, he would not dare to boss them around after losing his troops, but would rely on them more.

And they themselves don't need to cling to Aini's not-so-strong thigh.

When Jimmy chose to rebel before, in addition to Aini feeling humiliated, everyone was equally puzzled.

They couldn't figure out why Jimmy would betray Aini and choose an unknown advent hero, although this adventer had just demonstrated his strength.

Now they do regret it a little. They regret that they knew that the advent hero who had a weapon like the Doomsday Blade was definitely not simple, but they had to follow Aini to die.

After a lot of trouble, not only did they lose the soldiers accumulated after the war with the orcs, but they also lost a lot of their old foundation.

The key is that I don't know if Xu Lai will care.

With the strength shown by the female elf today, it may not be possible to occupy too many cities, but occupying one or two major cities should not be a problem.

At this time, it is estimated that only Aini's confidants are willing to work for Aini.

At this moment, if no one comes to rescue, it can only mean that Aini is too unsuccessful as a person and has no one worthy of trust.

Even if someone came to rescue, the speed of this team of knights' charge was too fast and too amazing.

The troops blocking their way were almost all made of paper, and they were shattered into pieces by a stab.

However, the enemy's speed did not seem to decrease at all after breaking through layers of obstacles.

In fact, the speed of the charge did decrease, but Tahan and his men were getting closer and closer to Aini, and Aini felt that the enemy's speed was getting faster and faster.

In a hurry, Aini did not care about looking for any spells, and instinctively released a slow spell.

The effect of the slow spell was obvious. It reduced the basic movement speed, so even the acceleration effect brought by the charge was weakened a lot.

Tahan was not a hero or a mage, and there was no good way to remove the effect of the slow spell.

Fortunately, there were 11 holy knights in the team, and the sacred armor of each holy knight could cover 18 units.

And this army, including Tahan, only had 189 people, and there was still room for error for 9 people.

Tahan was very particular about the arrangement of the Holy Light Knights, basically ensuring that everyone was covered.

After the invincibility was activated, neither the slow debuff nor the damaging spells would be effective.

The knights, who already had strong defense, could not be harmed for one minute after the invincibility effect was activated.

Now, all the enemies in front of them could no longer form an obstacle.

They had no ability to resist at all. If they were a little slower in dodging, they would be trampled by the war horses.

"Mage, please stop them immediately."

There were still a thousand royal guards and the chief guards around him, but looking at the invincible cavalry, Aini was panicking from the bottom of his heart.

Of course, Parame did not dare to delay. While chanting the spell, he quickly took out a scroll from his arms.

He knew that one or two spells could not stop the opponent. At this time, he had to tear the scroll and cast two spells in a row.

Unfortunately, in a hurry, they all ignored the failure of the slow spell just now.

Sure enough, Parame's two powerful spells, a powerful version of the Burning Sky Wall, and a flame more than ten meters high, did not affect the knights at all.

The remaining Hellfire was even more ridiculous. Not only did it fail to affect the knights, but many of their own soldiers were burned to death by the huge Hellfire.

Compared with the enemy's attack, dying from their own attack has a more fatal impact on morale.

Of course, Aini no longer cared about losing that little bit of morale. Seeing that two consecutive spells failed to stop the opponent, he chose to let the royal guards take the initiative to intercept.

He hoped that these royal guards could buy more time for him so that the follow-up troops could come to support.

But the royal guards, who he had high hopes for, were okay against ordinary infantry, but against the brave knights who were in an invincible state and whose attacks were increased by 4 or 5 times by the charge, it was simply an ant stopping an elephant.

On the wide grassland, 200 knights were divided into 4 rows and 50 columns, charging forward in parallel.

The royal guards blocking the front fell in rows, and the two in front were like being mowed, with no effect at all.

But they used their lives to offset the damage accumulated by the knights with their speed.

By the time the knights approached again, they would not be able to speed up in time.

Once they were caught in a melee, the knights would not be able to speed up, and they would never be able to get the attack bonus again.

However, seeing that his 600-plus royal guards had only held off the enemy for about half a minute, Aini was completely desperate.

Although Tahan and his men's invincibility time had ended, Aini only had more than 300 royal guards around him.

As they got closer, Aini, who was good at using cavalry to fight, knew exactly what kind of people were rushing over.

They were rank 8 brave knights and rank 8 holy light knights. Not only were their ranks higher than his 300-plus royal guards, but the bonus from the heroes was also greater than what Aini gave them.

Therefore, a rational analysis would show that he and these 300-plus guards could not resist these knights at all.

Then, the only way was to find a way to leave here before the enemy beheaded him.

Aini's health was quite high, and his defense was also very strong, but no matter how strong his defense was, it could not withstand the charging cavalry.

Fortunately, Reina didn't have the magic ball, which allowed Aini to let Parame use the teleportation spell to take him away at this life-and-death moment.

Unfortunately, Parame could only take a small number of people away, and almost none of the guards that Aini had carefully trained could be taken away.

Moreover, although the Aini people left, the big flag representing him was still there.

In a hurry, Aini didn't care about his flag. Anyway, as long as he left, the soldiers who lost his attribute blessing would be even less likely to be the enemy's opponent.

Besides, he had already escaped, and the troops here were obviously impossible to recover.

But he didn't know that just because he couldn't recover, it didn't mean that others couldn't either.

Tahan charged ahead, with the defense-ignoring effect brought by the giant beast flag, even the 7th-level guard captain was as weak as paper.

But no matter how fast he rushed, he couldn't catch up with Aini after all, and only had time to stab the knight holding the flag to death with a hasty shot. (End of this chapter)