Chapter 139: Cracked Armor! Cracked Armor!! (Additional chapter for Alliance Leader Torch)
The ambushers in the forest soon saw that the convoy had split up.
Under the leadership of four knights, about three hundred lightly armed soldiers rushed towards the fourth village.
The speed of the convoy behind them became slower as a result.
Two hundred heavily armed soldiers silently picked up large shields and erected them in front of them, solid as a fortress, moving with the movement of the convoy, like a turtle shell.
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After a night of fermentation, Count Kant learned about Baron Haas's experience and was furious.
You took action before I had time to do it?
And you also abolished my two barons?
Good!
You did a good job!
The opportunity has come!
Count Kant was secretly happy and hurriedly ordered people to assemble the conscription army.
He gave a death order and was determined to keep Roman here, so that the salt mine could be obtained without any effort.
But the problem is that it takes time to convey orders, to assemble troops, and to travel - not all militiamen carry their own weapons, and they have to be distributed on the spot.
What does it mean to be a conscripted soldier in Kant Territory?
As long as I reduce your taxes, you will be a conscripted soldier. You can respond to my call during wartime. There are no thresholds or conditions.
It is estimated that the first batch of reinforcements will arrive in the afternoon.
Moreover, you are chasing while others are retreating.
Even if the retreat speed is very slow, it is not standing still.
You advance 30 kilometers while others advance 15 kilometers, which means you only advance 15 kilometers.
It is necessary to launch harassment and attack to block the opponent's retreat speed, at least not to let them pass unimpeded.
Now, the problem lies in front of those ambushes.
Who should they attack?
After a brief discussion, most of the expedition knights advocated attacking those lightly armed soldiers.
Because those big shields are too difficult to deal with. At first glance, they look like a hard bone.
The expedition knights can't rush, the conscripted militia can't chop, and even the archers can't shoot.
What's more terrifying is that they are well-trained.
They are lined up in a row of 50 meters, and the formation is not messy at all.
When they stood in a line and advanced steadily, all attackers could only retreat!
Although those errand boys were doing rough work, they were strong and strong, and each of them had a curved sword on his waist. They looked like qualified warriors. At the critical moment, you really treated them as errand boys?
No one was willing to deal with such a force.
In comparison, the light-armed troops were much easier to deal with.
But they were not easy to fight.
According to yesterday's intelligence, two hundred light-armed soldiers defeated the conscripted troops that were nearly twice their number.
What does this mean?
To defeat three hundred such light-armed soldiers...
At the very least, at least, there must be more than six hundred conscripted troops!
And then they were defeated again.
Today's conscripted soldiers are really not better than yesterday's conscripted soldiers. It is not enough to rely on twice the number.
Without a conscripted army of a thousand people, there is no need to talk about defeating the opponent.
But the problem is that after yesterday's defeat, the loss of troops was huge, and the conscripted troops they can organize now only have a total of about five hundred people.
Can five hundred conscripts deal with the three hundred soldiers?
They felt a little worried.
Fortunately, the enemy's expedition knights were not many, only four.
And this time they gathered twelve expedition knights - the expedition knights who came from other knights overnight, riding horses is faster than walking, so they went ahead, and the main force was behind.
The two expedition knights who suffered a tragic Waterloo and escaped at a critical moment yesterday were also included.
Today they strongly opposed attacking the heavy troops.
Yesterday's strategic mistake directly lost twenty or thirty cavalrymen, so the number of cavalrymen today was even smaller.
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In the absence of formation, the victory or defeat of a war often depends on which side has more expedition knights.
Not to mention those legendary alien races and ancient monsters.
Even if they appear, as long as they are on the plains and on the land, no creature can resist the charge of the expedition knights.
They went back and forth twice, and the iron army had to collapse.
After a brief discussion of the attack plan.
Twelve knights of war, led by nearly forty riders and five hundred conscripts, chased after them.
The town of Sige was extremely poor, and the territory of Kant was not much better.
Without an industrial pillar, they relied entirely on farming to support the cavalry, and the agricultural technology of this era was very backward. The quality of the cavalry raised in the remote countryside can be imagined.
They had no ability to ride and shoot, and even if they could, they were neglected in training, their accuracy was worrying, and it was difficult to cause significant casualties to the enemy.
Archers need a suitable environment to be cultivated.
Most riders in Kant rode pack horses or inferior horses worth only two or three gold coins.
Only the knights of war rode taller war horses.
They chased for three or four miles and soon saw Roman and his light troops.
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There was basically no combat rules for a war involving hundreds of people.
It all depended on combat awareness and fighting skills - that is, following the routine of group fighting.
It can also be said that the brave wins when two meet on a narrow road!
As long as you are brave enough and fight hard, the difference in numbers is secondary.
But Roman went on a light-armored plunder this time and took away all the light-armored longbowmen.
One hundred longbowmen were responsible for cover, while the rest of the light-armored soldiers went to rob people.
"Free fire!"
Seeing the cavalry enter the range, the longbowmen fired a round of volleys.
Roman's longbowmen were not elite or professional.
But at least they had been training diligently for more than a month with plenty of arrows, and practiced shooting 100 arrows every day, so they still had basic shooting skills.
With just one round of volleys, more than ten people were killed or injured, most of them were injured. Although they would not die after being shot, the injured would inevitably scream miserably, which would destroy morale.
The archers of the conscripted army were furious and fought back.
However, they were not good at forehand and backhand, and none of them were decent. They shot in all kinds of ways, and the arrows were crooked and had zero lethality, and they didn't even hit the Roman line.
It was very embarrassing.
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The cavalry was supposed to wait until the two sides started fighting head-on, and then they would attack from the flank and defeat the enemy formation.
This tactic is the most common, and simplicity means effectiveness.
But it doesn't work now.
The conscripted army was suppressed by a hundred enemy longbowmen.
They really had to bite the bullet and rush forward.
With their shooting speed, each archer can shoot at least six arrows per minute, and they will have nearly a hundred casualties, and they will collapse before they can fight hand-to-hand.
They can only rely on knight units to open up the situation.
The terrain here is open, and the longbow poses little threat to them.
"Disperse them!" shouted the leading knight.
The leading knight held a lance, and many riders followed behind him.
The sound of hooves rumbled!
When they rushed within a distance of 150 meters.
A magic steel arrow as wide as a razor tore through the air and whistled at lightning speed.
Puff! !
The plate armor, chain mail, leather armor, soft armor, and cloth armor worn by the pioneer knight were pierced one after another, and even the chest was pierced.
The cold and shining arrow pierced out from his back ferociously, and a large amount of blood mist burst out.
The huge force drove his body high up from the back of the warhorse, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks tilted, and there was no sound.
The knights behind were horrified.
Everything happened so fast that they didn't even know what happened.
Looking carefully, they saw a knight standing in the enemy army, holding a blood-red bow and drawing an arrow.
The arrows made of steel weighed a pound, and they started shooting for the second time.
His shooting movements were really fast, with a sense of elegance, and for the enemy, they only felt the fog of death surging.
Whoosh! !
The heavy arrow rushed at a fierce speed of over 100 meters per hour!
Bang!
The second knight who rushed in front was pierced through the body, and the steel plate armor was shot through like a piece of paper, and he also fell off the horse.
"Splitting armor bow!!"
I don't know who is shouting.
For a moment, the knights who had not yet started to charge at full speed were in a mess, and the horses' running turned into a fast pace, slowing down.
They all thought of the legend of more than a hundred years ago - the first generation of the Split Armor drew a bow and shot a dragon.
Everyone's body was numb, and they felt their scalps exploded.
That was a legendary title knight, a household name, a great duke who followed the conqueror to conquer the world!
There is no doubt that the knight in front of him is his descendant.
The Split Armor family is famous for its sharpshooters.
Every Split Armor has to apply some extraordinary resources to his eyes since childhood to enhance his vision and protect his eyes.
Therefore, the eyes of the Split Armor are extraordinary, and it is common for them to see things in the dark.
And the eyes are often very cohesive.
The powerful Split Armor can make others tremble just by staring at them.
It is no legend that the first generation of the Split Armor stared a farmer to death with his eyes!
