Hakai no Miko

"... Is that a cavalry?

As General Lakius muttered, it was the elves who kicked the earthquake and jumped out of the enemy's troops, spanning roughly hundreds of horses.

The first thing that came to mind about that sight was whether it was a military ambassador stating the mouth of the war.

But after already beating each other the drums of war. Yet it is still the mouth of the war.

Next, I wondered if you had come to offer to surrender early, but that would not be the case either. No matter how much, I don't think they're going to surrender without firing a single arrow.

If you surrender to it, it is a lesson to fly a blue flag that shows Kyoujun. That's not listed, which means those cavalry men are willing to fight.

But then I couldn't figure out why it was only a hundred rides.

Horses are originally cowardly creatures. If you put a shield in front of the soldiers who formed the formation, you would tread frighteningly in front of them. When it comes to being able to do it to a cavalry, it is enough to overwhelm the enemy in the form of a person on a horse or to attack it by throwing a spear with horse thrust.

But if that's the case, it's weird that you're not accompanying the infantry. Even if you were overwhelmed by horseback riding and disturbed this formation with a spear, you can't poke that disturbance with a cowardly horse. There's no point in letting them get into the mess of formation without infantry spreading their wounds.

So, what the hell is that cavalry?

Even with that in mind, the elf cavalry comes packing the distance.

"All hands, stop! The enemy is a light cavalry!

You can't afford not to deal with an approaching cavalry like this. General Lakius decides the coming elf cavalry to be the light cavalry attacking him by throwing a spear and gives instructions to the soldiers.

"Archers, follow the arrows! Lightweight infantry, put up a shield! Raise your voice and let the shield ring!

The light cavalry, which uses its mobility to turn to the sides and back to attack, is a difficult enemy. But if you're coming straight from where this one stands, then the story is different.

Light cavalry is at best wearing light armor so as not to compromise its agility in any way. First, it rains an arrow just as we enter this range. If you're still coming in, I'll pick you up with a lightweight infantry spear. That's enough for about a hundred rides.

As soon as the elf cavalry entered the range of arrows, General Lakius raised his right hand to issue the decree of shooting.

but is.

The Elves' cavalry accidentally changed course to the side before entering the range of arrows.

General Lakius is puzzled by the elf cavalry who runs to show us the horse's flank.

If you're going to attack with a spear, you have to put the enemy in the front. Because with your hips fixed across the horse, you can only use upper body force to throw spears as well. Then if you don't carry the horse's propulsion, you can't throw it with enough power to kill people.

Surprised by the intimidation of these soldiers, I also wondered if the horse had fled on its own.

But it doesn't look like he's trying to change the course of the horse to the elves that span its back.

Yeah, what am I supposed to do, show him the horse's side?

Confused, he was General Lakius, who narrowed his eyes to see how the elf cavalry was doing, but sees incredible sights there.

On the back of a running horse, the elf cavalry twists its torso and points something at us. The outfit is not a spear thrower.

It's like...

General Lakius realizes, haha.

"... bow? No way, a bow on a horse...?

When the correct answer leaked out of General Lakius's mouth, the elf cavalry unleashed an arrow at all costs.

Sometimes the distance was still far away, and many unlucky soldiers who were putting their bodies out of the shadow of their shields to see how the elves cavalry came out fall to the ground with a bitter roar against their arrows.

Now the elf's cavalry hurries to hide behind the shield and shoots an arrow from one horse to the next, straddling the running horse.

Besides, that's not just an arrow. The arrows of the elves' cavalry were powerful enough to keep their tail feathers trembling for a while when they stood on a shield erected by a lightweight infantry.

General Lakius was wary of the sight.

From a distance, the elves only have a bow the size of a short bow. Yet, in addition to the range above this bow, this power. This can only be a rumored elphin bow.

But it was not the presence of Elfinbow, which could be considered a legendary weapon for the archers, that drove General Lakius into battle.

"Bullshit, you idiot! Why are the cavalry arrows?! What do you mean!

General Lakius yelled at no one with confusion and fear.

Perhaps many modern people will not understand the surprise and perplexity of General Lakius at this time.

The use of bows and arrows on horses was unlikely in this world.

To explain it, we must tell the history of the cavalry and tanks of the Continent of Cerdeas.

When it comes to riding animals on the battlefield in this world, it is about horses or dragon riding.

However, there were no horses or dragon riders in the western Serdeas in ancient times.

Instead it was the cows who were many. But a cow that runs at quite a speed if it feels like life is in danger, but its normal legs are slow, as you would call it a "cow walk" to walk slowly. It was therefore a less suitable animal for riding.

Dragon riders were the first to be brought into such a western region.

Though inferior to cattle in strength and persistence, dragon-riding with two legs was able to run at a crowd rate or faster. The kings and generals of many nations rejoice in this. Using this Dragon Cavalry to move soldiers quickly on the battlefield will increase the range of tactics beyond any comparison. The nations tried to compete ahead and bought this dragon rider.

But it wasn't for riding, it was for towing tanks all the time.

This is because dragon riding also, as an animal for riding, had major drawbacks.

A dragon rider who runs on the back leg of two thick, rough legs, but when a person tries to ride for that shape, he has to lower his back around the top of his leg. But then the shock and sway when a dragon rider runs is passed directly on to the person who rode it.

The shock and wobble is so great that when you are letting them walk, when you are letting them run, you have to stick with them rather than span them anymore.

It will be the octopus race taking place in this world that will help you think of that sight.

The footage that shows the sight of this race using ostriches that run on the same two legs as a dragon rider can be viewed at any number of video posting sites. As you can see from watching them, most riders are shaken down along the way, and only the ostrich will score a goal. Rather, it is no exaggeration to say that the horseman is a race to compete for being able to hold on without being shaken down to the goal.

You can easily imagine how difficult it is to ride a two-legged dragon rider, even though you have a bigger physique than an ostrich and also a independently developed saddle (kura) in this world.

Also, running people on their backs is not a big deal for a dragon rider. The burden is enormous because you have to carry each person wearing armor with only those two legs.

Compared to that, it's much easier to tow a box with wheels - a tank.

That is the same for humans.

Rather than desperately clinging to the torso of a dragon rider using both hands and feet, a tank that can stand and balance on its own feet is all that burdens or widens the range of options for action.

For this reason, tanks first developed in the West.

But that's not why there were no cavalry.

Tanks cannot operate where the ground is highly uneven or where there are many obstacles such as forests, and there are many drawbacks such as poor turnaround. In places where such tanks are difficult to operate and where more agility is required, cavalry directly spanning dragon rides have been used.

That would not have changed dramatically afterwards, even if horses much easier to ride than dragon-riding had been brought to the West End.

Even a horse whose backward position is between the front and rear legs and whose impact or swing is less than that of a dragon rider must be able to tighten the horse's torso with his thigh and even grasp the protrusion of the saddle with one hand when making him run.

For this reason, cavalry weapons were limited to those that could be handled with one hand. Like comics and movies, you can't possibly wield a long weapon, let alone a bow with both hands, which is out of the question.

But the Ethereal Horse, a modern Japanese, was different.

Even in modern Japan, the quickie horse (yabusa), which was an archeology of shooting, remains in the form of divinity, competitive competitions, and so on. It is a famous story to be a bow cavalry that has also become the foundation of the Mongolian Empire, which boasts the largest prints in the world.

It was inevitable for such a pale horse to create a bow cavalry that would be a great force in future battles.

For this reason, the Ethereal Horse had already purchased a large number of horses through the Jeboa merchant Joash since five years before he came to rule Bornis, putting a huge budget into its rearing and breeding.

But just because we had tons of horses that way, it wasn't so easy to make a bow cavalry.

Because make it bow or equestrian, it takes an amazing amount of time to master it. Not to mention, when I had to combine those two, I didn't know how many decades it would take.

It is the women of the elves that the pale horses, still unable to give up the bow cavalry, set up the arrows of the white feathers.

If they already have enough bow and arrow skills, they can only wear equestrian skills later. Simply put, the women of the elves would soothe in half the time rather than raise a bow cavalry from scratch.

It was training as a bow cavalry that I thought so and let the elf women do it, but there they showed unexpected power.

They were supposed to shoot at will different from the ground, but they were able to easily shoot arrows directly behind them by twisting their bodies back and forth, left and right, of course, on horseback.

It was possible because the elves lived on trees in the deep woods.

The elves didn't even go down to the ground when hunting, they were hunting their prey from the trees.

For this reason, it was not uncommon to scaffold a swinging branch and then flick or twist the body to aim at the gaps in the branch leaves blocking radiation from it, and sometimes just hold the body in place and shoot arrows at the trunk of the tree by making fun of its feet.

The elves were equipped with the stunt of being able to fire an arrow accurately even in such precarious conditions.

For those elves, shooting from a horse with a horse, a groundbreaking tool to aid horseback riding brought to the world by the Ethereal Horse, was not so difficult.

To the elf, a pale horse.

Together, the two were born for the first time.

However, as for the elves, the Ethereal Horse did not keep the existence of the Horse secret, and a bow cavalry could have been born in the Holmeer country as well. In fact, over the past five years, the usefulness of the bullion was also spreading to the Holmeer country via the merchants of Jeboa.

However, the Holmeer nation did not dare to introduce a cavalry.

It is to protect vested interests.

As I have said many times before, learning horseback riding skills required training from an early age and just enough wealth to maintain horseback riding. As a result, they received assistance from the state or were limited to their descendants, such as nobles and millionaires.

In other words, being able to ride a horse was in itself a kind of status.

However, making horseback riding easier is nothing more than an infringement of a vested interest. For this reason, the nobles of the Holmeer kingdom despised and had to deny them as "savage tools" or "wands of the immature".

And the Holmeer nation is now going to pay a high price for that insult (ah, etc.).

"What's the matter, you guys! Why can't I hit the arrow?!"

General Lakius can't help yelling at his archers.

I swallowed my own upset, scolded the soldiers, and finally I could fly arrows from this one, but most of those arrows didn't even reach the elf bow cavalry. The arrows that finally arrived also just burst into the ground after the elf bow cavalry passed by, and there's no sign of hitting them this way.

By comparison, Elf's bow cavalry arrows would piss you off, even if it wasn't General Lakius, when they hit us like they were funny.

But this result was also natural.

There is a huge difference in difficulty between hitting motionlessly from moving vehicles at high speeds and vice versa. Naturally, it's easier not to move from a moving vehicle at high speeds.

Not to mention the armies of the bowmen of the Holmeer National Army, a state densely populated with humans from two thousand for the purpose of letting that number say something and send down a large number of arrows to the enemy. The Elf Bow Cavalry can fire without aiming as long as they only hit an arrow.

This can't be a battle.

Plus, good thing this arrow didn't hit us, the elf cavalry was just packing the distance as they ran their horses to snake. No serious damage has been done now thanks to the Great Shield, but if the distance continues to shrink and the accuracy and power of the arrows increase, this one will be devastated.

But still, General Lakius couldn't find any effective hand against the Elf Bow Cavalry.

And to this sight, not only General Lakius, but also Prince Alexius and the Hordes, who were hitting the rear of the Crusading Army, but also the officers of the "Black Wall" of Hundred Wars Smelting, remembered the severe shock.

They also spanned horses and dragon riders themselves, and just to know it, they knew how the elf bow cavalry was out of standard in this world.

Once hostile to the ancient Roman Empire, the Parthians were specializing in tactics of retreating in disguise and shooting arrows backwards on horseback at the Roman soldiers they had been chasing. This is called Partien Shot, and in modern times it also means "discarded dialogue".

There is also a theory that the half-man and half-horse monster Centaur, also known as Sagittarius, was born out of fear for the nomadic Skittai, who ride ancient Greek horses and use bows and arrows.

In other words, riding was such a shock that from ancient times onwards, modern idioms were created and the monsters of the human horse that became legends were created.

There can be no reason why humans in the Holmeer country have become more upset.

But there was one man among those upsetting Holmeer Nation officers who calmly stared at the Elf Bow Cavalry.

"... Your Excellency would say this"

The man says as he looks at the elf bow cavalry who keeps firing arrows as he drives his horse to the right and left in front of the First Army.

"- Nonsense. He said," It's nothing more than a mess. "

He is Huakis, deputy commander of the Black Wall, the strongest regiment in the Holmeer country.