Bloodline Lord of War

  Chapter 53 Cavalry and Shooting Attack

  The entire caravan panicked immediately, and the guard asked anxiously, "Captain, what should we do?"

  Jana stabilized her mind. She told everyone not to panic, and then directed the caravan members to immediately form a circle of thirty carriages on the grass to form a defensive formation.

  The speed of the horse bandits was very fast. As soon as Janna surrounded the carriage, the horse bandits rushed in front of them.

  More than a hundred horse bandits flicked their whips and circled around Janna and the others a few times while yelling "Aww". The hooves of the horses trampled on the grass, kicking up a burst of grass clippings and dust.

  Then, the bandits stopped and surrounded Janna's side. They are like a group of ferocious wolves, and the caravan is like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered in their eyes.

  The caravan guards were hiding behind the carriage. They had already drawn out their weapons, their swords were out of their sheaths, and their bows and arrows were stringed up. Everyone looked prepared.

  They seemed to be ready for a desperate fight, but in the face of a large number of horse bandits, no one could guarantee that they could win this battle, and panic spread silently in the hearts of everyone.

  Janna also pulled out her saber, and she had ten thousand doubts in her heart, why did the Earl of Saber come to Youshang Road?

  Suddenly, Janna figured it out: Could it be that Buck ordered it?

  She regrets it very much now. If she had listened to Robin at that time, she would have waited for half a day in Raging Waves City and let the iron guards **** her.

  Saber came out from among the bandits. He was riding a tall brown short-tailed horse, holding the rein with his left hand and holding the saber in his right.

  He yelled at the caravan: "I am the Earl of the Saber, and I am here to rob you. If you want to survive, you must keep these goods and valuables on your body, or your heads will be cut off!"

  Janna is quite calm. She has been traveling all over the country for so many years, and this is not the first time she has encountered bandits.

  Bandits are like leeks in the field. Once they are cut, there will be another crop, always one crop after another. Even within the empire, in some remote areas, bandits were banned repeatedly.

  Janna has her own logic for dealing with bandits. She took out a big money bag from the saddle bag. This is the activity fund for their trip. Janna currently has so much money on hand.

   Then, she threw the purse forcefully in front of the saber.

"Master, we are just a small business, please be merciful, I give you this little money as a filial piety, the days to come are still very long, please help me." Janna hid behind the carriage and said shouted at the top of his voice.

  If it is an ordinary robber, blocking the road and robbing is nothing more than money. At this time, if you break your arm to protect yourself, if you feed him, you might let him go.

   But the saber is no ordinary robber, he came with Buck's mission.

   As soon as he pouted his saber, one of his subordinates immediately rode forward, showing off his superb equestrian skills. Before getting off the horse, the man turned over on the horse's back and picked up the money bag on the ground.

   Then he went back to Saber and threw the purse to Saber.

   Saber opened the purse and took a look inside, with a greedy smile on his face.

  He put the money bag into his arms and shouted to Janna: "It's not enough, you have to keep your goods."

  Jana hesitated. Compared with the bag of money, the iron ore on the carriage was the real big deal. She didn't want to give up so easily:

"Hero, it's troublesome for you to take these goods. You can't find buyers in this vast wasteland. I often take this road. Next time I will bring more gold coins to honor you. We will As a friend."

   Saber smiled disdainfully: "Do you think I'm a fool? Since you don't want to hand over the goods, don't blame us for being rude."

  He raised his saber and pointed at the caravan. "Kill them."

  Seeing that the negotiation broke down, Janna had no other choice but to bite her lip fiercely, and turned her head to shout to the caravan guards: "Get ready to fight!"

   Enclosing the carriages as fortifications to resist foreign enemies is almost a routine operation of caravans on the wasteland, and every caravan will use this trick. So the horse bandits have seen a lot, and they already have a way to deal with it.

  The horse bandits started to attack. Instead of directly attacking the defensive formation that Jana had set up with the carriage, they chose to circle around the formation.

  Then, they bent their bows and arrows on horseback, and began to throw arrows into the chariot formation.

  The horse bandits used this tactic very skillfully. Obviously, they had dealt with caravans like this more than once, and they didn't even use sabers to command. The horse bandits just acted like this spontaneously.

  Horse bandits have been looting on horseback all year round, and everyone has developed superb riding and archery skills, and their quiver is hung on the saddle.

  On the back of a galloping horse, they let go of the reins with both hands, hold the bow in one hand, and put an arrow in the other.

  In an instant, there was the sound of the horse bandit shouting "嗤嗤", the sound of the horse's hooves stepping on the grass "哔哒", and the sound of "boom-boom" when the bowstring was released. All kinds of chaotic sounds rang out together.

  While turning around, the horse bandit fired arrows into the chariot formation, and the arrows immediately shot into the chariot formation from all directions.

  Janna and the caravan guards could only stick close to the carriage, trying to hide behind the carriage, and some even climbed under the carriage in fear. Arrows fell from the sky like rain, and the whizzing sound of piercing through the air made one's scalp tingle.

  The fortifications surrounded by the carriages were not that big. There was only such a large area inside the carriage formation. The horse bandits didn't even need to aim at them, they just needed to throw their arrows into the carriage formation.

   But Janna and the others had no way to maneuver, so they could only shrink in the corner, biting the bullet and being bombarded by the rain of arrows.

  The arrow landed on the ground, making a "pop" sound, and shot on the carriage board, making a "peddling" sound.

  Under the dense rain of arrows, wounded soon appeared on the caravan side. An unlucky guard was shot in the shoulder by an arrow falling from the sky, and fell to the ground, crying in pain.

   Of course, the caravan also launched a counterattack. Under the command of Janna, the archers in the guard also started to fight back against the bandits.

   "You can't be beaten by them all the time, archers, shoot!" Janna hid behind the carriage, shouting hoarsely.

However, the number of archers in the caravan is too small. There are 50 of them in total, and only 30 of them can use bows and arrows. Compared with the 150 horse bandits on the opposite side who all know how to ride and shoot, their firepower is too sparse. .

  Secondly, the horse bandits are constantly moving. They ride horses and circle around the car formation. Shooting a moving target is several times more difficult than a fixed target.

  The level of the caravan archers is very average, and it is extremely difficult to shoot the horse bandits who are running on horseback. Whether the arrows shot can hit depends entirely on luck.

   On the contrary, the caravan guards can only stand in the car formation for output. They are fixed targets for the horse bandits.

  Even if the caravan guards hide behind the carriage, because the horse bandits shoot arrows while circling, they can quickly move to the other side of the caravan by virtue of the high mobility brought by the horses, and shoot at the caravan guards from behind.

   This is why cavalry can always defeat infantry. Cavalry can not only charge in groups with heavy armor, but also because of the high maneuverability of horses, cavalry can always take the initiative on the battlefield.

  They fight when they want, and withdraw when they want. The infantry can only be like a slow tortoise, slowly consumed by the cavalry like flying a kite, unable to catch up or escape.

  In the history of the empire, those who can use infantry to defeat cavalry are often famous generals of a generation.

   Right now, Janna is in such a desperate situation, they can't beat them, and they can't escape.

  (end of this chapter)