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Chapter 319

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Aureg led his men straight through the Redmanes' ironclad defenses.

They charged straight out of the camp and withdrew into the distance.

"Hahahahaha!" Aureg threw back his head and roared. "Knights, follow the wind! We're going home!"

The five Banished Knights behind him answered in unison.

That was right. This was how Aureg fought.

He fought by relying on the "wind." To put it plainly, intuition.

The Banished Knights had always lived alongside the storms, and Storm Eagles were their comrades.

They could be called inseparable. Among them, some might develop keen intuition, claiming they could understand the voice of the wind.

On the battlefield, they followed the wind into battle. They could keenly detect enemy movements, then disrupt the enemy's rhythm to throw them into disarray and defeat them.

Was this way of fighting effective? Very. As long as the commander was no coward and could lead the charge himself, it was especially effective.

That was because formations and coordinated movements were extremely important in large-scale battles.

When a commander issued orders about which formation to adopt and what attack to launch, the soldiers all had to respond.

Imagine a formation of ten thousand infantry moving in coordination with allied troops according to their commander's orders, only for a band of fierce men to suddenly spring out, plunge into their ranks like a sharp knife, and rampage through them.

This immediately threw the formation's movements into chaos, putting the commander's ability to adapt on the spot to the test.

Inexperienced commanders, or those who could only follow manuals and discuss warfare on paper, would often be left completely dumbfounded and led around by the nose.

Every countermeasure they could think of would be countered in turn.

In the end, the unfortunate commander would have his head cut off by

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