Chapter 1036: Fuward Runaway
The Sun Knight didn't even blink in the face of the rain of arrows.
The rays of sunlight are their best shield.
Fu Ward found that something seemed a little wrong. The opponent was not the Xiliang Cavalry, but it seemed that their defense against arrow attacks was ridiculously high.
"Throw a spear!"
Subconsciously, Fu Ward still ordered the camel cavalry to launch a second wave of long-range sniping. Although it would most likely be defended, it would still have some impact.
But when he saw the Sun Knights calmly deflecting the javelins with their weapons and continuing to charge forward without changing their expressions, Fuward knew that he had hit a wall again.
This kind of quality is definitely possessed by top elites who can remain calm in the face of emergencies.
In other words, this legion was most likely sent by the Han Dynasty to deal with him.
"Hmph, in the desert, eight thousand versus five thousand, the advantage is still on me!" Fu Ward snorted coldly, released his war heart, and then rushed forward with his legion.
Anyway, they have fought with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry many times. Since long-range means are ineffective, they will resort to close combat.
"Shoot! Kill!"
In just a breath, the moment the Sun Knights rushed in front of the Camel Knights with spears in hand, the Sun Knights in the front row took out a crossbow with their other hand and pulled the trigger.
As Guo Hao's personal guards, they are naturally equipped with the best equipment. The top-level crossbows are equipped with arrows engraved with erosion patterns, which maximize the lethality.
Although Li Que and his men are very powerful, due to Li Ru's deliberate polishing, their equipment is completely not on the same level as the Sun Cavalry.
But it is also because of this that Li Que and others have been able to go so far in self-breakthrough.
However, for this war, Guo Hao took out all these things. Usually they were used for training. If they were not even used in this kind of war to annihilate a nation, wouldn't it be a waste of money to research these things?
Although Fuward is considered an elite of the Kushan Empire, he is even one of the top few in the entire Kushan Empire.
However, there was a huge gap between the Kushan Empire and the Han Dynasty. Fuward's camel cavalry was only at the level of a royal guard after all, and could not compare with the prince's legion such as the Sun Cavalry.
The gap in equipment between the two sides is extremely large.
At the first encounter, hundreds of camel riders were knocked down by crossbows, and then the Sun Riders charged forward with guns.
Relying on the close-range burst of crossbow arrows, the Sun Knights easily crossed the vanguard of the camel cavalry and successfully broke into the camel cavalry formation in just a few breaths.
The long lances exerted unexpected power in the hands of these elite veterans. There was no need for any unnecessary movements. A single piercing was enough to end the cavalry charge.
The camel cavalry was almost completely defeated. The skills of the Sun Cavalry were almost instinctive reactions, which were skills they had developed under the high pressure of the Yulin Army. The camel cavalry soldiers had never seen such a battle before.
However, the camel cavalry were elite troops after all. Even though their heads were confused, their bodies still spontaneously launched a counterattack.
"Crack!" With a crisp sound, many Sun Knights' lances broke after piercing the first opponent because they could not keep thrusting forward.
Although a big reason for this is that the production of the lance itself has to take into account the soldiers' ability to withstand it, so most of them are easy to break to avoid the recoil force causing harm to the soldiers.
But the fact that they were able to break the Sun Cavalry's lances was enough to show what level of opponent this was.
Therefore, at the moment before the lance broke, the Sun Cavalry soldiers relied on the cover of their opponent's broken body to let go and picked up their close combat swords. At the same time, the Camel Cavalry also drew out their scimitars to fight back, and sparks flew at that moment.
The splashing flames allowed both sides to see each other's faces at that moment, feel the recoil force transmitted from their respective weapons, and almost instantly judge the opponent's level.
"Top Guards Corps!"
"Suspected to be the Three Talents Legion?"
When they got completely close to the camel riders, even the soldiers who still had their lances in their hands decisively threw away their lances, drew out their swords and started dancing in a chariot.
There was a huge disparity in strength among the camel cavalry led by Fu Ward, and there were even some soldiers with dual talents mixed in.
This is also Fuward's usual way of training soldiers, using the old to guide the new, so as to maximize the growth of soldiers.
But they suffered a heavy loss at this time. Training soldiers also depends on the occasion. At least Fu Ward did not take into account the abilities of these new recruits in the clash of such super elite legions.
Blood splattered everywhere. Although these new camel riders were considered elite, they had no way to resist the powerful Sun Knights who had rushed into them at close range and were swinging their swords around.
Even the soldiers in the back row had not yet changed their weapons into melee weapons before they were attacked by the Sun Knights.
The sparring partners of the Sun Knights are the Yulin Army. Even though the Sun Knights have never made the final leap to elevate themselves, all other aspects have been polished to a terrifying level by the Yulin Army.
Fu Ward felt a chill in his heart. The two sides had a huge difference in their head-on combat capabilities, and the golden light on the opponent's body actually had a significant bonus to both attack and defense.
Even the most elite soldiers under his command had a considerable gap with the enemy, not to mention the newly recruited ones. The enemy was definitely super elite.
Not only the soldiers, but also the enemy's generals are not simple characters.
Fu Ward knew something about the culture of the Han Dynasty, and he knew very well that the mount under Guo Hao's crotch was a mythical beast called Pixiu, and judging from its aura, it might be a realm-breaking mount.
He knew from the beginning that a general with such a mount was definitely not simple, but after the result of the head-on collision, he realized more clearly how simple he was.
The warhorse under his crotch was also a camel of the realm-breaking level, but it was very resistant to the divine beast approaching. Normally, it was the king of beasts, but at this moment, it had lost all its momentum.
"Teams 10 to 20 will charge and fire, and spearmen will be divided into groups of five to perform sniper suppression. The flank guards will defend the line and not launch a counterattack! Try to avoid direct confrontation with the enemy and stay away from their sharp edge!"
Fu Ward took a deep breath and took a quick glance, and he knew that the camel cavalry had lost nearly a thousand people. Fortunately, most of the losses were newly recruited soldiers, and the losses of his main veteran soldiers were not large.
However, the other side's losses were minimal, so a head-on confrontation must be avoided.
Fu Ward was also an experienced officer. Even though he was at a disadvantage in a head-on confrontation, he did not panic.
Since the enemy's frontal charge combat effectiveness is amazing, then we should avoid direct combat with the enemy. The camel cavalry's rich combat methods can be used at times like this.
Just like dealing with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry before, if they have strengths, then avoid them and find their weaknesses and target them.
Camel cavalry is an almost all-round military force with no weaknesses, which is why they can disgust the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in the desert.
This is also the reason why Fuward firmly believes that even if the camel cavalry fails in a head-on confrontation, they can still win.
As the military order was issued, arrows rained down on Guo Hao in front of him almost like rain, and there were attacks from camel cavalry from all directions.
The defense brought by the golden light also began to break at this time. After all, it was just the effect of the legion's talent blessing. Even if the effect was amazing, it could eventually be broken.
This is completely .
To put it simply, the glory of the sun is a barrier with defensive capabilities.
When the attack exceeds a certain limit, the barrier will break.
"The first battalion, charge with me, and the other battalions, shoot arrows and counterattack!" Guo Hao raised his hand and once again painted a layer of barrier on all the Sun Riders, then gave the order loudly.
Fu Ward's command was very experienced. He directly split the legion into small teams. Even under such circumstances, the cloud did not collapse.
It can be said that he is worthy of being the most famous general of Kushan.
If it were an ordinary Royal Guard Corps, it might have been defeated in this kind of repeated tug-of-war, but unfortunately the Sun Knights were not an ordinary corps.
He, Guo Hao, is not an ordinary officer.
Although it is a bit of cheating, he is, after all, a man carrying the will of the empire. If he wants, he can even infuse his will into the Sun Riders and directly crush the uninjured Camel Riders.
However, this ultimate move is only suitable for dealing with three talents and military souls. When dealing with a group of guards, there is no need to use such a hidden ability.
In other words, it would be more convenient to directly call on the Yulin Army to join the battle than to use this ability.
Upon hearing the order, the Sun Knights drew the bows and arrows on their horses and began shooting at the camel riders.
Camel Cavalry is an all-round troop. Coincidentally, their Sun Cavalry is also an all-round troop.
There was no substantial transformation, but their abilities in all aspects improved rapidly under the destruction of the Yulin Army.
And because of the special talents of the entire legion, by drawing on the war horses, they can immediately transfer to become the Sun Infantry Legion and the Sun Archer Legion.
"Chirp!" The air was torn by the arrow, making a sound like the cry of a bird, and then there were dozens of sharp screams. The camel knight looked at the big hole in his chest with horror.
The remaining camel riders all raised their small shields and looked alert, but such actions were completely meaningless.
It was completely nailed into the ground, even the arrow feathers were embedded in the ground. This kind of terrifying penetrating ability is not something that ordinary archers can possess. This is the effect that only large crossbows can have.
The Sun Knights under the sun can exert the power of the Royal Guards in every aspect. Even if each item is not the best, but when combined together, they are a legion with no shortcomings at all.
The reason why they were pinned to the ground by the Yulin Army was simply because their opponents were the Yulin Army.
In fact, the Sun Knights are no match for any other legion.
In the eyes of all the Sun Knights, their biggest problem was not their own problem, but the fact that they did not have a suitable commander on the battlefield.
The several commanders could never reach a consensus, and every battle was always a mess.
Their situation was a bit like that of the Xianzhen. They were clearly Lu Bu's personal guard corps, but later on Lu Bu almost never brought the Xianzhen along.
Fortunately, there is a Gao Shun in the vanguard formation who can take on the command of the vanguard formation and become the commander of the vanguard formation.
But they didn't. On the battlefield, Guo Hao didn't go to the battlefield most of the time, and even if he did, he brought the Yulin Army with him.
They are like unwanted children, aren't they unlucky?
This time, they finally had a chance to charge into the battle together with Guo Hao. Almost all the Sun Knights were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
They couldn't wait to show their growth to Guo Hao, but the camel rider who was showing their growth was in bad luck.
The almighty legion has no weaknesses. The only legion that can restrain them is a legion that is more almighty than them, and this is the case with the Sun Cavalry to the Camel Cavalry.
If there weren't more camel riders, they would have been defeated by now, and there would be no fighting like now.
However, even though there was a back and forth, Fu Ward clearly sensed that the situation was tilting towards Guo Hao.
"Follow me!"
Fu Ward roared, and forced his own heart abyss talent to burst out again, blessing the guards around him with the most extreme effect.
With these most elite camel knights around him, Fu Ward burst out with his ultimate power and suddenly rushed in front of the Sun Riders in front of him before they could react.
Fuward realized that even if they scattered and avoided a head-on confrontation with the Sun Cavalry, if they continued to shoot at each other, the demise of the Camel Cavalry would be just a process of boiling a frog in warm water.
So they might as well go all out and launch a sudden attack to kill the commander Guo Hao. That way they still have a chance of turning the tables.
But Fuward's plan failed before it even started.
The Sun Knight was hit in the face by a wave of attacks from the Camel Riders at high speed. He almost instantly displayed his due qualities and used his weapon to deflect the opponent's attack.
Then he would naturally move forward and casually turn his weapon around to launch a counterattack, as if both sides had rehearsed it hundreds of times.
This is the smoothest way of counterattack they have figured out when facing the Yulin Army. Although the effect is minimal, there is a 99% chance that it can be avoided.
But for the Sun Knights, being able to fight back and punch the Yulin Army is a huge improvement.
Even before their brains could react to the burst of camel riding, their bodies had already completed these movements spontaneously.
However, it is different from the Yulin Army, who would receive their attacks and take advantage of the gaps in their attacks to strike their vital points.
Before the Camel Riders could recover from their outburst, the Sun Riders' counterattack had already arrived.
A wave of explosive thrusts not only failed to achieve the results that Fuward had expected, but also accelerated the process of the camel riders' deaths.
"withdraw!"
Fuward shouted this without hesitation and started running.
For him, running has become a habit, and most of the camel riders under his command have also adapted to this rhythm.
After all, the confrontations between Fuward and the Xiliang Cavalry almost always ended with Fuward's retreat.
To a certain extent, these camel riders of Fuward have become completely immune to the problem of running away after suffering a loss, to the point where their morale will not drop at all.
