"Brothers, the time to win glory and make a name for ourselves has come!!"
The moment the Great Zhou troopship docked and the gangplank was lowered, Tash's shout came from inside.
In an instant, led by five hundred Dragon Blood Warriors, a total of one thousand Raptor Cavalry streamed out of the troopship.
They had received their orders before disembarking and now charged straight into the city along several roads.
From Hans and Harar, White Butcher and Soros had long since learned that, as an archipelago nation, the Barton Empire had no horse resources to speak of.
In other words, they had no cavalry.
As for naval warfare, they had indeed possessed a huge fleet before, but their army was pitifully weak.
Strictly speaking, they did not even have a proper army.
Their army was actually the island guard force, which was used to maintain everyday order on the islands.
Whenever the island nations went to war in the past, losing a naval battle basically meant total defeat. There was no such thing as land warfare.
The fundamental reason was simple: their land area was not large.
Take the island they were currently on, for example. Standing at North Sea Harbor, they could see the Governor's Palace in the center of the island from far away.
It was called an island, but in Great Zhou, its area was basically equivalent to that of a medium-sized city.
Before the island's crossbow unit could even act, it was bombarded by the Wyvern Riders outside the harbor. By now, it could no longer form a fighting force, leaving only those pitiful island guards struggling on in desperation.
And even that struggle was extremely limited...
"Monsters! There are monsters!!"
As a special troop type, the Raptor Cavalry would have been an elite combat force