Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 232: Wildfire Starts a Prairie
Half an hour later, Rhodes and Duke Ulver stood on a high ground looking at the two armies that were confronting below.

"It's a coincidence that we came here." Duke Ulver sat on his horse and smiled, and he put away all the wolf spirits again.

"Why did the king of Nord fight the army of the Roman Empire on this plain?" Rhodes was very puzzled by this. He saw that the army of the Roman Empire was almost all cavalry.

"The king must have his own considerations, let's just watch here." Duke Ulver seems to have great confidence in the king of Nord...

Duke Elvis sat on his horse and looked at the Nord army not far away. He wanted to order an attack, but before that he had one more important thing to understand.

"My brother really died in the fortress?" He looked down at Kai Leno who was half kneeling below and asked earnestly.

"Yes, Your Excellency the Duke, oh no, His Majesty the Emperor. We were performing a special mission arranged by Marquis Eric for us. When we rushed back to the fortress, had the entire fortress been under the control of the Nords? We secretly Sneaked into the fortress to rescue your brother, but after inquiring, the residents told us that your brother was nailed to death in the carriage with a bed crossbow when he broke through." Kai Leno replied sincerely.

"Don't call me Your Majesty the Emperor, my elder brother has a son, he is our emperor." Duke Elvis scolded angrily.

"You can ask the brothers next to you who is their real emperor. Your Royal Highness is too young to take on such a heavy responsibility. If he becomes the emperor of the empire, the empire that has been passed down for thousands of years may perish." Keleno said again.

"You see, isn't the current king of Nord also the second son? His elder brother who died young has a young son, and his throne does not conform to their traditions and laws. After he became king, he also No one opposed him, and they all supported him. You can be like him, and no one will accuse you of your mistakes..." an old man in a gorgeous mage robe beside him echoed.

"There is a special reason for that incident. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. I plan to follow the tradition and serve as the regent to replace the young emperor and manage the country until he reaches adulthood." Duke Elvis interrupted the others who wanted to persuade his people.

"Let's get rid of these Nords first, avenge my brother, and talk about other things later." Duke Elvis pulled out the sword hanging from his waist, "Give me an order to make everyone charge ready!"

"Yes!" A few nobles nearby answered loudly...

The desolate horn sounded, and the knights of the empire lined up and charged towards the Nord army.

Nord's army had already set up a formation and waited for it. The archers standing in the front row opened their bows and arrows, and countless arrows flew towards the imperial cavalry who was rushing forward.

The imperial cavalry fell one by one, but the remaining cavalry stepped on the corpses of their companions and continued to charge forward.

Duke Elvis rushed to the front of the team. He held up a shield to protect his head. The horse under him had the blood of a dragon, and its strength and endurance were much stronger than ordinary horses.

Even though the dragon's blood horse was wearing thick armor and carrying a steel can-like knight on its back, it was still faster than ordinary war horses.

"Hold on! As long as we can get in front of them, they are just lambs to be slaughtered!" Duke Elvis shouted.

The knights who followed him were silent, but it could be seen from their determined eyes that they were not afraid of sacrifice at all.

Countless arrows flew past Duke Elvis' ears with the sound of tearing the air, and he began to whisper the spell silently, and a golden light shone on his armor.

He lowered his shield and raised his gleaming golden lance, staring at the Nord archers ahead.

Arrows fell on his gleaming armor and all bounced to the ground.

Duke Elvis stared at the front and clamped the horse's belly tightly, and the speed of the dragon's blood horse under him increased a bit, throwing all the knights around him behind.

Less than ten meters away.

He raised his spear and stabbed at the Nord archer in front of him.

After the archer let out a scream, he was worn on the lance. The strong dragon blood horse carried Duke Elvis on his back and passed unimpeded in the dense battle formation. The gun quickly harvested the lives of the surrounding archers.

The greatsword, gleaming with gold, could kill two or three Nord archers with every slash.

After fighting for a while, Duke Elvis felt something was wrong. Why is he still fighting alone after so long?

He looked back, and there was a sea of ​​flames behind him. At some point, these Nords ignited the dry weeds on the ground.

The screams of imperial cavalry behind the wall of fire and the painful neighing of war horses could be heard in the distance.

He glanced at the bare wet soil without any weeds under his feet, cursed secretly, and rushed out of the crowd, leaving countless corpses along the way.In the distance, Duke Elvis took off his helmet, wiped off the rain that had flowed into it, looked back at the Nord army angrily, and then rode to the south...

Rhode looked at the distance in disbelief, he had never thought that he could fight like this before.

Over the Nords were dark clouds, and it was still raining heavily.On the other side of the imperial army, the sky was clear, and behind them was a huge wall of fire.

Dry weeds are easy to ignite. After Rhodes saw an imperialist broke away from the team and broke into the Nords' battle formation, the Nords lit the dry grass in front of them. At the same time, a heavy rain fell on their heads, preventing The flames spread towards them.

And those imperial cavalry who were charging saw the wall of fire rushing towards them, and the horses under them were frightened and confused, many people were squeezed into meat sauce, only a few turned their horses' heads and ran behind.

There are also some cavalry, gritted their teeth and continued to charge. They rushed through the tall wall of fire, but in the end they were also dying from the heat and smoke, and were easily killed by Nord archers.

"I didn't expect us to have no chance to make a move." Duke Ulver smiled at Rhodes. Although he was eager to fight, he hoped to see such a big victory.

Rhodes felt that his thinking was a bit rigid. In this world with countless mysterious forces, the means of war have also become various. It is not enough to just go up and chop with a knife.

If there are many mages who are good at ice on the imperial side, although they can't extinguish all the flames, they can at least extinguish some of them, reducing more than half of the casualties.And for those Nord troops whose clothes were wet by rain, ice magic can also cause more damage to them.

"Why are you in a daze? Follow up!" Duke Ulver turned back and shouted to Rhodes. He couldn't wait to go down and celebrate this great victory that can be recorded in history...

(End of this chapter)