Although Peace Haven's two legions do not directly participate in the war, they still provide Clifford's legions with huge help.
First, there is the supply convoy stretching for dozens of li. Because of it, Clifford does not need to worry about supplies, and he does not need to send troops to protect them.
Clifford simply takes the seal given to him by Second Prince Obilian and keeps issuing IOUs to Peace Haven.
His own army carries only five days of supplies. Once only two days remain, they slowly retreat and buy supplies directly from Peace Haven's convoy.
With this convenient mobile logistics store beside him, Clifford can use his troops in far more flexible and varied ways.
His mobility far surpasses Ogiro's. Often, he reaches the most favorable positions before the enemy does.
After striking hard, he turns around and pulls back toward Peace Haven's convoy.
Henwell, who is in Rainze City in Peace Haven's southern region, also announces that this convoy is carrying supplies to his people in Saltwater Town to the south.
No matter who they are, no one may fight within five kiloters of the convoy.
Anyone who ignores the warning will face Peace Haven's harsh counterattack.
One Ogiro legion is particularly stubborn. Ignoring the warning from Peace Haven's mounted scouts, it insists on pursuing one of Clifford's legions.
Then, in the middle of that pursuit, it runs straight into three cavalry battalions from the First Cavalry Legion. The legion is smashed apart, suffers heavy losses, and flees.
Peace Haven's cavalry, just as Henwell said, does not leave the convoy's five-kiloter range.
But the convoy is simply too long. It uses almost one-fifth of all Peace Haven's four-wheeled transport wagons.
The convoy moves and stops, constantly placing itself across the routes Ogiro reinforcents need to take.
It looks more like Peace Haven is deliberately cooperating with Clifford's army group and raising an artificial wall for them. In practice, it becos a moving safe zone.
Ogiro can see that Peace Haven is making trouble on purpose, and Ogiro is not known for its good temper either.
A few days later, Ogiro transfers the Gloomwood Knights and three cavalry regints to form a cavalry cluster.
At the sa ti, it gathers five infantry legions, including the Sharp Spear Legion.
This elite force moves onto the left wing of the supply convoy.
Seeing this posture, the convoy imdiately begins contracting. The convoy personnel draw swords, raise shields, and pull the rain covers off the cart-mounted ballistae.
With the Death Herald Legion as the core, Clifford's four legions guard both wings while the cavalry legion seizes favorable ground for a charge.
Both sides form up, ready for a brutal fight.
The Sharp Spear Legion advances first, and the Death Herald Legion ets it head-on.
On both sides of the two formations, part of the flanking forces defend while the rest advance along with the core legions.
This is a hard clash, the most brutal and bloody kind of frontal charge.
There is little room for tactics. What matters is the contest of overall strength.
After a dozen minutes, the cavalry battalions and cavalry companies of both armies begin skirmishing and grinding against each other.
Half an hour later, the vanguards of both armies collide.
Blood, screams, the clash of weapons, roars, and howls fill the battlefield.
As soon as the battle begins, it enters a white-hot state. The core strength of both sides charges and kills without fear of death.
The commander of the Gloomwood Knights decides the timing is right and imdiately orders his n to prepare to transform into charge waves and crush the allied army's flank.
Simon, commander of Peace Haven's cavalry legion, imdiately senses the enemy's intention.
The sound of horns combines with changes in the flags, and the cavalry cluster imdiately changes formation.
Their target is the flank of the Gloomwood Knights.
At first, the commander of the Gloomwood Knights pays it little mind, but when Peace Haven's First Cavalry Legion starts forward and accelerates, he imdiately realizes sothing is wrong.
They should have been ordinary cavalryn, but starting from Simon at the tip of the formation, bloody flas rapidly spread across the entire cavalry cluster.
The glow is much dimr than the eerie green flas on the Gloomwood Knights.
But as a knight-order commander, he can tell that these are not ordinary cavalry at all. They are a knight order.
Even if this knight order is still sowhat immature, there is no doubt that it has entered the extraordinary sequence.
Considering their numbers and their excellent tactical discipline, they can already pose a fatal threat to the Gloomwood Knights.
As for the cavalry regint he sent out, it is flattened before it can even make a ripple.
As Henwell's forr captain of the personal guard, Simon can be considered Henwell's student. Naturally, he uses a war spear instead of a standard cavalry lance.
As the war spear flies, he kills more than ten enemy cavalryn in a single exchange.
Behind him is Simon's personal guard, more than three hundred people, all of them knights.
They carry Heart-Piercing Lotus. During the charging collision, the spearheads burst open and spit fire.
Every officer knocked from the saddle has a fist-sized hole punched through his chest, large enough to see through.
This Ogiro cavalry regint cannot even slow the First Cavalry Legion before being flattened.
Only a few lucky survivors escape. Everyone else dies here.
Without slowing, the First Cavalry Legion charges straight toward the flank of the Gloomwood Knights.
That forces the commander of the Gloomwood Knights to give up his attack on the infantry cluster and adjust direction to avoid Simon's charge.
Afterward, the commander of the Gloomwood Knights imdiately signals the remaining two cavalry regints to leave the impact zone and avoid engaging Simon.
The cavalry of both sides almost trade positions, each ending up on the flank of the enemy infantry cluster.
Yet neither side dares charge the enemy infantry right in front of them.
If one side moves first, the other can imdiately counter. While the first side is charging the infantry and unable to change formation, the other will strike its flank directly.
These two cavalry forces are both aces among aces.
If either one suffers heavy losses here, this battle may be lost, and the entire war may be affected.
As a result, the scene that follows becos rather strange.
The infantry fight in blood, but the cavalry keep maneuvering and pulling at each other, each trying to find a flaw.
In the contest of endurance and repeated changes of military formation, Peace Haven's cavalry never falls behind.
Peace Haven's several horse farms have begun to take shape, and the breeds of horses there were already quite good.
Combined with the analysis and developnt of extraordinary potions, Peace Haven now has even better horse breeds.
Rember, horses have very high poison resistance, making them very suitable for using poison to stimulate extraordinary potential.
In potion experints, the loss rate among horses is not even as high as it is among human subjects.
After all, the human body is too precise, which also ans it is fragile. Finding a stable balance point is very difficult and can only be done through repeated trial and analysis.
So before Peace Haven's extraordinary potions are successfully developed, several kinds of potions that improve horse quality are developed first.
Over these years, Peace Haven has begun exporting very fine horses.
This breed, nad Daoli by Henwell, is already close to an extraordinary breed in quality.
But the price is high, and in Peace Haven only officers are equipped with them.
Most Daoli are sold outside. After all, the research costs need to be spread out. As developnt continues, Daoli will eventually be issued to all of Peace Haven's cavalry.
Although the First Cavalry Legion's horses are not Daoli, they are still far superior to ordinary warhorses.
Both their endurance and explosive power are astonishing.
That is why Simon and the others are not shaken off by the Gloomwood Knights at all, and remain locked in the process of tailing each other and fighting for better positions.
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