Warlord: King of All Clans

The Isenbol Legion is now only a few miles away from Frovald, and can already see the tall city walls from afar.

The messenger who returned early reported the whereabouts of the wolf cavalry half a day ago.

The armored knights stationed in the city rushed out urgently and appeared on the flank of the Isenbol Legion just in time to be caught up by the wolf cavalry.

The tall heavy warhorses of the North carried the burly Northern knights. The cold and heavy knight's plate armor and metal horse armor almost completely covered the bodies of the knights and horses.

An equal number of human heavy cavalry and orc wolf cavalry were in a standoff.

They are mainly composed of family knights trained by the Northern Earl's family, and there are also many local knights in service.

Following the example of the Northern Duke's Knights of the Wind, the Earls of the North also formed their own knightly orders, with sizes ranging from three to five hundred, including many powerful extraordinary knights.

After the Grand Duke of the North appeared in Frovald, the other earls of the North received conscription orders and had to send their elite troops to respond.

In today's Frovald, not counting the knights provided by the local lords' legions, there are as many as two thousand regular heavy cavalry troops provided by the earl's standing army alone.

But there is no doubt that these regular legions are much stronger than local armed forces such as the Isenbol Legion.

It's not that their armor is more sophisticated or their weapons are sharper, but that their fighting quality is higher and their legion combat capability is better.

If it was just a one-on-one lance duel, the local corner flagman, who had been trained since childhood, would not be at a disadvantage.

However, in a battle with more than a hundred people, the strength of the Armored Cavalry Regiment was fully demonstrated.

A thousand armored knights who came out of the city to provide support, under the leadership of their captain, formed into square formations and advanced in unison in small steps.

The first row of cavalry had their lances raised, ready to charge at any time.

A long row of sharp and slender cavalry spears were almost maintained in a horizontal plane.

Once the charge was launched, the armored knights with lances would rush forward like a tide, thrusting their lances into the orcs' chests.

It surges endlessly and never stops.

Looking at the Orc wolf riders again, they were all scattered on the hills and mountains, densely packed together. In addition to the intact wolf riders, there were also many wolves that had lost their masters, following beside them and howling.

They do not care about formations and military appearance, and rely entirely on personal bravery. Some Wolf Knights have obtained armor through military merit, but they keep it in the tent and are unwilling to wear it. They insist on exposing the scars on their chests to show off their battle glory.

They only like to wear horned helmets or bone masks, and heavy iron shoulder armor lined with coarse fur.

The leader of the wolf cavalry, the orc warrior, looked at the hateful metal lumps in front of him, his gaze lingering on the fat piece of meat of the Isenbol Legion, and finally blew the retreat horn in hatred.

Thousands of wolf cavalrymen reluctantly retreated back into the mountains and forests, disappearing into the sea of ​​woods.

Because the orcs have a hard time surviving in the northern snowfields and lack iron ore and iron smelting technology, they are unable to produce iron armor in large quantities. Although the wolf cavalry looks strong and terrifying, they are actually still a light cavalry.

The orc soldiers and giant wolves had almost no armor, and were able to suppress the human armored knights simply by virtue of their individual strength being one level higher than the other.

Moreover, there were not many orc clans in the northern snowfields that could tame and ride wolf packs. Over the years, due to food shortages, many powerful wolf-taming clans had disappeared, and even the strength of the wolf packs had gradually declined.

Two thousand wolf cavalrymen are the entire cavalry force of the entire orc tribe, and every death means one less cavalryman.

They are not the Orcs' frontal combat force, and mainly rely on their mobility and off-road capabilities to carry out interference, reconnaissance, and looting behind enemy lines.

Exchanging lives on the front battlefield is the mission of the huge number of Orc infantry.

The last tough battle to attack the Varanger grain route alone resulted in the loss of more than 400 Orc Wolf Cavalry.

Count Fruilov, who died in the battle, was no fool. In order to guard against the attacks of the wolf cavalry, he sent his elite armored knights and the only high-ranking grand knight to protect the grain route.

The only reason for Count Fruilov's defeat was that he was alone in fighting against the entire western main force of the Orcs in Varanger.

Compared to the low-yield Wolf Knights of the Orcs, the Armored Knights of the Humans are different.

The human race occupies the most fertile land in the entire continent, and there is a knight in almost every corner.

Once a racial war breaks out, by recruiting thirty to fifty men here and a hundred to eighty men there, a new heavy cavalry unit can be quickly formed.

In the North alone, each earldom has dozens of square flags, hundreds of corner flags, countless manor knights and proletarian knights, and their knight squires.

This is because the Northerners are too tall and there are not enough high-quality Northern heavy war horses to carry them into battle, so most Northern warriors fight mainly on foot.

Like many local corner flag knights, they are similar to Urian and Rio, all of whom are infantrymen, and their horse combat capabilities have only gradually improved after they became knights.

Some northern knights would rather dismount and join the heavily armored elite infantry to fight on foot and kill the enemy.

In comparison, there are more armored heavy cavalry in the southern border of the empire.

Five hundred years ago, the Orlantis Empire was at its peak, boasting a force of 100,000 armored cavalry and 100,000 heavily-armored elite soldiers.

Conquering the Western Territory was like destroying dry weeds with great ease.

Leo breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the wolf cavalry retreat like a tide.

If the Orc Wolf Cavalry had become more ruthless and started a war with the Armored Cavalry, the Isenbol Legion that was caught up in it would undoubtedly suffer the worst fate.

If any one or two hundred wolf riders rushed into the crowd and killed people, a large number of Isenpol's low-level infantry would be killed or wounded.

Hewan’s strength is still too weak.

Looking at Vic not far away, Leo could see the same worry in his eyes.

To Vic, the River Bend Infantry were his own sons, but when faced with the Orc Wolf Cavalry, they had almost no power to resist.

The orc soldiers can easily knock the powerful heavy javelins away with their weapons, and the stronger orcs can even catch them and throw them back.

After this war is over, I will go back and study muskets and artillery!

Before this, Hewan was still a village-level town with almost nothing and couldn't even build a gun barrel.

Researching muskets in advance was a joke, Leo never even thought about it.

Leo had already given Fesa the principles and ideas of the musket, as well as the blueprints, and she had successfully forged an iron musket.

However, this thing cannot be mass-produced and requires a large amount of manpower and iron materials. The combat effectiveness obtained from it is not as effective as the yew longbow of the wild hunters.

Fraser's musket was as thick as a human arm, with an effective range of no more than twenty meters. It was basically a handheld shotgun.

Not only is it very time-consuming to use, but it is also difficult to reload, making it completely unusable in actual combat.

An iron-cast musket consumes enough iron to make a hundred heavy arrowheads and three thick-ridged broad-bladed swords.

The former allows a wild hunter to kill a large number of enemies from a hundred meters away.

The latter can arm three infantrymen and let them kill the enemy with sharp blades.

But now, the number of craftsmen and basic technology in Hewan have increased, and there is finally a foundation for research.

Although it cannot be mass-produced, at least a small batch can be produced as a secret weapon.

If the infantrymen of the river bend were each armed with a shotgun, they might not be able to kill the human knights with armor, but they could at least fight back against the unarmored orcs.

Returning to Frowald again, Arnold, the commander of the Isenpol Legion, was immediately summoned by the Grand Duke of the North.

Also summoned was Rio Mundo, who performed outstandingly.