Lord of War

186. Lions! 【Third update】

In the darkness, arrows rained down.

But the damage actually caused was almost negligible. Except for a few really unlucky guys who were directly crucified to death, there were probably less than a hundred people who were slightly injured.

In night raids, rain of arrows is rarely used.

Because in the absence of sufficient light, the accuracy of shooting naturally has no reference, and basically can only rely on the archer's own judgment and experience.

This shooting technique is called blind shooting.

In this world, there are only four races of archers who can truly shoot blind, two on the ground and two underground. But in fact, these four races are not really blind shooting, but because even in a dark environment, they can see things like daylight, so the light has no effect on them at all.

It's just that this archer unit that launched the arrow rain attack naturally cannot be one of the two ground races that can shoot blindly. Otherwise, the number of arrows shot by this wave of arrows can basically kill as many people as possible—Alfred had never been attacked at night in seven battles, and that one was also the one that suffered heavy casualties. So it is not unreasonable not to light a fire at night.

After the rain of arrows, the ground shook even louder. Under the moonlight, at one end of the horizon, a cavalry unit could already be seen charging towards Alfred's "camp".

A sound of "enemy attack" sounded, and the voice was full of vicissitudes of grief and indignation.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of "enemy attack" rang out in unison, with a murderous intent.

Alfred mentioned the fangs of the flame lion. This weapon is still only a semi-finished product, but its sharpness is enough to surpass everything. Moreover, after fighting continuously for so long, this war halberd did not have a trace of curling. Not only was the tip of the spear as sharp as ever, even the blade of the ax was as smooth as ever. Even if the heavy armor was in front of this halberd, Alfred could still split it in half with one axe, or directly penetrate it with one shot.

Together with the halberds, the whole army seemed to have found its backbone. All the archers retreated in unison, surrounded in front of those unarmed northern barbarians, old and young. It will be more convenient for them to draw their arrows and shoot after a while. And the more barbarians of the Northland surrounded the archers with shields and guns. They stood upright with their shields upright and their center of gravity sank, tightly against the half shield in their hands. .

Almost without Alfred opening his mouth, a few veterans had already assisted in gathering the entire army, and at the same time formed a simple formation.

After seven consecutive battles, most people know that this army has dropped from more than 9,000 people to more than 6,000 people, a loss of nearly 3,000 people. But how many people know that the northern barbarians, regardless of men, women, old or young, can become soldiers? The military strength of the four thousand or so northern barbarians has not been reduced so far. If a northern barbarian falls, his father or mother, son, or brother will take over his weapons and become a new army instead of him. A soldier with steel wings.

On the contrary, there were originally more than a thousand soldiers of the White Wing Mercenary Corps, but now there are less than a thousand left.

The second wave of arrow rain poured in.

Also, there was no need for Alfred to give an order, and some veterans had already opened their mouths to command.

All the northern barbarians standing in the second and third rows quickly dispersed around their companions, and then raised their half-shields high to block the second wave of dense arrow rain for their companions behind and around them. This wave of arrow rain hardly caused any substantial damage-the Iron Wings troop,

The purpose of Xiao En's original construction was to form a steel phalanx that could resist attacks from all directions and from above.

Regarding this point, Sean did not hide it from Alfred and William, but because of their different command ideas, the Iron Wings had some small changes under the command of the two.

Alfred perfectly executed Sean's envisioned plan—so when the person who needed protection in the rear shrank down, the half-body shield raised by the steel wings just happened to form a solid steel mirror, thus perfectly blocking Under the rain of arrows from the enemy attack.

Almost as soon as they blocked the wave of arrows, all the steel-winged soldiers immediately put down their half-body shields and re-arranged into a square formation, one by one, using their half-body shields against the backs of the comrades in front of them to deal with the upcoming attacks. The incoming cavalry shock.

The troops with almost steel wings had just reorganized their formation, and all the archers began to nock their arrows and draw their bows under the command of the veterans. At the sound of a password, nearly a thousand archers suddenly loosened their strings, and the arrows were thrown out like locusts.

After a round of arrow rain, about a dozen riders were shot and fell off their horses. During the charge of the cavalry, it is impossible for the unfortunate horse fall to survive. After the horses gallop past, the fall horse has become a pool of meat sauce.

After the first wave of arrow rain was shot, several veteran soldiers visually measured the distance, and then shouted again. All the archers began to adjust the distance slightly, and then drew the arrows stuck in the ground again, followed by The second round of arrows shot out like locusts again.

This time, the dense rain of arrows immediately shot off the dozens of cavalry who rushed to the front. Although I was slightly aware of the terrifying reflexes of these archers, there was no turning back after charging so far, so all the cavalry began to cling to their horses, shrinking their size as much as possible, hoping not to be so unlucky to be caught by the third Wave Arrow Rain was shot.

But this time, the archer's shooting is no longer a projectile, but a lob!

Hundreds of arrows shot into the night sky, and then fell down at an even faster speed, truly like a torrential rain. The cavalry who were close to their horses completely exposed their backs to the rain of arrows, and were pierced through the leather armor by countless rain of arrows falling. Although there were fewer cavalry who fell off their horses than in the second wave of arrow rain, This kind of damage was much more brutal than the second wave of arrow rain.

After the three waves of arrow rain, there were less than 800 cavalrymen left in an instant, and more than 100 of them were injured before the battle.

At this time, the cavalry finally rushed to the front of the steel wings, but the first batch of cavalry had been injured, and the momentum of the cavalry had dropped a lot. On the other hand, on the side of the barbarians in the north, everyone had a tough look on their faces, their figures and the distance between them were even smaller, almost one by one, and the barbarians in the front row were close to each other Holding the half-shield in their hands, those in the second row also held the half-shield tightly, and pressed their shields against the backs of the first row of northern barbarians, and the third row against the backs of the second row, three in a row. Row quickly in a tight phalanx.

Archers, free shooting has already begun at this time.

No one paid any attention to the arrows fired by the enemy's archers, and the casualties began to increase gradually in the confrontation between the two troops.

A few seconds later, the cavalry finally slammed on the reef of the northern barbarians like a huge black wave.

But under the slap of the giant gun, what splashed out was not white waves, but red blood!

The dense cavalry troop charged, but only broke through the northern barbarian defense line in the first row, and even the second row didn't completely break through. The charge of the entire cavalry troop had completely froze. The cavalry unit, which had lost momentum, could not completely penetrate the weak line of defense formed by the northern barbarians. Instead, the northern barbarians who were already familiar with cavalry battles stabbed them fiercely with their spears—not horses. , but the cavalry who assassinated the horse.

Heavy cavalry kills horses, light cavalry kills.

The refined iron spear pierced through the leather armor of these cavalrymen without hindrance, and the tip of the spear protruding from the body was covered with bright red blood.

At the same time, the northern barbarians on both sides of the charge quickly closed their bodies from both sides. They held up their half-shields to cover most of their bodies. The enemy on the horse stabs away. Almost every spear pierced could penetrate the body of a cavalryman, but it was very difficult for the cavalrymen to hit these northern barbarians with the sabers in their hands.

At this time, Alfred had already held the fangs of the flame lion in his hand, and rushed into the enemy formation with one leap. There were enemies in all directions, and Alfred didn't need to pay attention to any situation at all. He just kept slashing or stabbing, as long as he handed out the halberd in his hand, every time he would take a life.

Among the enemy lines, Alfred advanced as if he was walking leisurely, not paying attention to what would be in front of him. He only knew that as long as he pierced through this army, then it would be this army When the troops were defeated and fled. And soon, the northern barbarians began to follow Alfred's footsteps. The cavalry unit that was supposed to cut through the formation of the northern barbarians like a sharp knife and slaughter them at will, was turned by these northern barbarians. Thoroughly cut and dispersed, forming small strands of loose parts, which were eaten away one by one.

Alfred felt that the surrounding pressure suddenly lightened, and he had completely killed the last three cavalry in front of him. There was an endless plain in front of him, and he turned his head and pierced through the cavalry. Dozens of northern barbarians rushed out after Alfred, almost everyone was covered in blood, and it was hard to tell whether it was the enemy's blood or his own.

Finally, it seemed that this cavalry unit could no longer bear this kind of fighting, and it collapsed first.

They pulled the reins in horror and began to choose to flee, while some cavalry didn't even want their mounts. After falling off their horses, they got up and ran away immediately. In a blink of an eye, the cavalry unit that launched the charge had turned into a rout, fleeing in all directions on the plain, not having the same indomitable charge attitude as before.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Alfred did not order to pursue, but turned his head to look at the other end of the horizon.

The earth trembled again.

Another cavalry unit appeared at the end.

The number of this cavalry unit is not large, probably only a few hundred cavalry, but these cavalry are all wearing heavy armor, holding a lance, and even the mounts under the crotch are also wearing vests, obviously a group of cavalry. A well-built heavy cavalry unit.

The leading commander stretched out his hand, put down the visor on his helmet, pointed his spear, and the entire cavalry unit began to accelerate slowly. Seeing this cavalry unit charge, Alfred let out a hearty laugh. Behind him, all the northern barbarians belonging to the Iron Wings began to regroup silently. Like Alfred, they There was no trace of fear on his face.

When Alfred's war halberd also pointed forward, he shouted coldly: "Kill!"

"Kill!" All the northern barbarians echoed in unison.

Immediately afterwards, under the leadership of Alfred, they also launched a fearless charge towards this heavy cavalry unit.

The leader, Alfred, stared at the commander firmly, feeling that he was full of blood and anger and had nowhere to vent, as if something in his body was about to burst out. He tightly clenched the flame lion's fangs in his hand. He wasn't sure if he could survive after this battle, but he only knew that if he dared to intercept the enemy in front of him, he would definitely tear them to pieces.

The two sides are getting closer.

The distance between each other is less than ten meters.

But at this moment, Alfred finally let out a roar of fury, as if he wanted to concentrate all his anger on the halberd in his hand, feeling the hot flames burning on the halberd, Alfred was as blessed as his soul suddenly swung his halberd out.

I saw a crimson air flow suddenly shot out from Alfred's halberd and shot towards the commander.

Fighting!

silver!

After being so close, the commander had no time to dodge, he could only watch the vindictive energy explode on his body, and then his consciousness was completely surrounded by darkness.

In the eyes of others, it was the commander of this heavy cavalry unit who was blown to pieces along with his mount by Alfred's grudge. And this fighting spirit didn't stay in the slightest, it kept moving towards the rear of this heavy cavalry unit several meters away, and all the heavy cavalrymen who were swept by this fighting spirit along the way were completely blown into a pile of blood in an instant Not even a single body was left.

Seeing such a shocking scene, the heavy cavalry subconsciously slowed down, and everyone felt a wave of fear.

But the Iron Wing troop let out a louder roar of excitement, and then rushed towards the heavy cavalry troop at a faster speed.

In the next instant, the two troops collided fiercely.

However, the expected scene of the northern barbarians being pierced by the heavy cavalry charge did not appear. Instead, the heavy cavalry troops were completely overwhelmed by the fierce and tough guys like the northern barbarians. It was like throwing a stone into a black lake, but it didn't even make a ripple!

Everyone knew that this heavy cavalry unit was also destroyed.

And tonight's night attack also failed.

Wolves?

This is a real pride of lions!

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