Chapter 72 Crossbow and Bow

If Ji Lin were to comment, the infantry charge during the cold weapon period was indeed very shocking.

The soldiers lined up and moved forward with shields.

The thick and dense infantry line maintained the line step by step. In terms of the length of the infantry line alone, the infantry regiment had twice the number of soldiers, so it could naturally draw a longer line than the elves. The larger the line, the more soldiers that could attack at the same time in the front line.

Maintaining a longer line with the same number of soldiers would result in the entire line not being thick enough. The soldiers who died in the front were not replaced by other soldiers in time, and were easily penetrated by the enemy's charge. Once the line was penetrated, it would present a pattern of rolling back the beads, and the remaining soldiers would be divided and attacked from both sides.

Lupo, who had superior forces, did not adopt the tactic of fighting alone. He let the infantry blocks rush up and fight the elves alone, and then they were defeated one by one by the opponent's stronger physical fitness.

It is not easy to maintain the infantry formation. Soldiers need to overcome the pressure of facing death, withstand the enemy's various long-range weapons, crossbows, longbows, and catapults, and maintain their own complete formation. Following the command of the officers, they marched in neat formations.

It takes great courage to face the front of the army, or military law to restrain the discipline of the army.

A soldier can only play his greatest role in the army. No matter how strong his physical fitness is, he has no room to dodge and maneuver in the dense enemy army, and can only die in the sea of ​​​​revenge.

The flesh of a creature is difficult to resist the sharpness of weapons.

The square formations of both sides were stretched out to a distance of 800 meters, reflecting a silvery scene under the sun, and slowly approached and entered the long-range shooting range of both sides.

Lupo chose to let the infantry regiment directly open a wide front simply because of the advantage in numbers, and the crossbow troops were also most suitable for exerting their abilities in the wide front - they were direct shooting troops, and they could use curved ballistics to dodge infantry and then projectile like bows and arrows.

The troops in front needed to provide them with direct shooting space.

The shooting distance of a normal crossbowman is 160, which is 20 points more than Ji Lin's light crossbow troops, and the weapon power is 30% more, with 22 points of long-range power.

In the shooting against the elf guards, they will not suffer because of the range.

On one side was a 400-man crossbow unit, and on the other side was a 400-man mixed archer unit.

The horn sound of the thousands of leading troops slowly stopped, and they raised their shields. In the gaps in the air, the crossbowmen raised their already strung crossbows.

The heavy shields held by the elf guards had a much better defensive capability than the iron-clad wood they held. These direct troops from the elf city-state were much better in quality than the new training troops led by Lupo, and were fully capable of resisting the direct shooting from the crossbows.

And this was the fact.

The elf lord at the end of the wandering team looked at the elf guards who had raised their shields in the front with satisfaction. These top infantrymen of the third period blocked all the crossbows with their stable shield walls. Only a few elf guards were lucky enough to be slightly injured by the crossbows that passed through the gaps.

The situation on the side was not so good. He deployed most of the elven guards on the front. Facing the same density of arrow rain, the side began to suffer a small number of casualties.

This slow battle was like a turn-based system, and both sides responded to each other's moves.

The resolute army moved forward.

While the crossbowmen were reloading, the infantry line continued to move forward.

The elven lord was sweating, and then looked at the female archer with her chin raised beside him, and his heart was relieved.

The elven guards and the bow-wielding elven militia began to stop marching and raise their bows under the command of the hero leader.

Arrows rained down.

Their bows and arrows were farther and more accurate than those of human archers. The skills learned from years of hunting made them handy in using bows and arrows.

They already needed to guard against the threat of crossbows from the infantry regiment, but they could not pour out their firepower in this short window.

Lupo looked at his troops screaming with an ugly face. His crossbowmen did not hold shields. Although this round of volleys did not kill too many, the organization of these soldiers in his sight directly dropped.

Soldiers without shields faced the rain of arrows from the sky, and the pressure was reflected in the morale bar as a sharp drop in morale.

He originally wanted to keep the bed crossbows and use the four-shot heavy crossbows to break through the opponent's line when he was ready for close combat. He had seen the ability of those shield guards, and the quality of their armor in hand-to-hand combat was difficult to match them. But he could rely on the heavy crossbows to break through the line, and use the infantry to completely defeat these elves while their morale was low.

These heavy bed crossbows were the strongest weapons in his hands, but it would take dozens of minutes just to reload them.

He nodded to his hero unit, and the latter immediately understood his purpose and passed the information down.

He had held back.

The four slowly moving crossbows were equipped with heavy crossbow arrows specially used to kill infantry. The infantry line under the command also slowly advanced while resisting the rain of arrows, protecting the nearby crossbowmen and leaving space for the crossbows to shoot.

The Elf Lord hiding behind the troops focused more on the beautiful elf girl beside him.

"What a beautiful battle."

The Elf Lord nodded complacently, looking at the infantry line that was suppressed by the rain of arrows and raised its head, he was even more pleased and could not let his mind run wild.

He is not good at commanding, but how can he understand this battlefield? The hero borrowed from the elven city-state is really used wrongly. He only needs to wait for his troops to achieve excellent results for him and then check it out.

The situation on the battlefield is really good.

The advantage is mine!

And Lupo waited for his crossbowmen to finish reloading for the second time and for the infantry to enter the charging distance.

Waiting for the cavalry to enter the flank attack position.

And Ji Lin was hiding on the hillside in the distance and observing their battle with great interest. The fighting style of this kind of lord was unexpectedly methodical... at least it was rigid. The fighting method displayed by the elven lord was too rigid. Did they really look at the four bed crossbows?

Although such a dense array of soldiers can significantly enhance their own defense capabilities and resist the damage of ordinary crossbows, they will be pierced by such siege equipment.

If he hadn't ambushed nearby, this battle would have ended with a bloody victory for the human lord.

On the other hand.

Those hills are not as stable as they look.

Without his intervention, the corrupted crabs have begun to stir after sniffing the smell of blood.

The smell of war, death, and blood flows into the swamp along the wind in the air, awakening these sleeping monsters.

The desire for corpses and blood is engraved in their energy.