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Standing on the trunk of a tree, Duan Pei, the leader of the Green Crows, and the remaining dozen or so Green Crows and hidden thieves watched the fight under the tree intently, as if they had no intention of going down to assist the hundred-man team that Ran Teng was in. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

They were observing the strength and armament of the Korean swordsmen at close range.

Under the attention of a group of green crows, Ran Teng led a hundred soldiers of the merchant army to meet the Korean swordsmen who rushed towards them, and in this wooded mountain forest, both sides gave up the use of hand crossbows and chose white-knuckle combat.

"Shield!"

With the shout of the hundred generals Ran Teng, the hundred Shangshui soldiers raised the shields in their hands, and when they rushed in front of the enemy, they firmly grasped the handle of the shield with their left hand and slapped the shield in their hands towards the Han soldiers.

This is the usual killing trick used by the Wei saber and shield soldiers: shield strike.

Using the heavy and sturdy in his hand, he forcibly collided with it and destroyed the physical balance of the enemy soldiers, if the opponent was a beginner on the battlefield, then the life of the Wei army's sword and shield soldiers would be harvested in the blink of an eye.

But the Han sword and shield soldiers in front of them, they were very heavy, and in the face of the shield attack of the Wei army sword and shield soldiers, they resolutely raised the shield in their hands and confronted the latter head-on.

"Bang-"

"Bang bang bang-"

With the muffled sound of a series of collisions, a hundred Wei soldiers collided with more than a hundred Han soldiers.

Through the sound of the impact, Ran Teng could judge that the shield in the opponent's hand was not all made of iron, but should be wrapped in a thick layer of cowhide outside the sunken wood, otherwise the sound of the impact would not be so muffled.

"It's our advantage!"

After learning that the other party's shield was a wooden shield, Ran Teng perked up.

You must know that so far, the sword and shield soldiers under the command of Su Wangjun have summed up a set of efficient killing routines, as long as the first shield hit the opponent's body is unstable, then, there is a seventy percent chance that the opponent's life can be harvested instantly, at least the opponent can be seriously injured.

However, what he saw today was much more than Ran Teng expected.

"The other party's reaction...... So fast! How could it be ......?

In Ran Teng's shocked gaze, Han Bing, who had collided head-on with the wooden shield and the iron shield in his hand, although his body shook in an instant, he immediately blinked, stood firm, and quickly launched a counterattack.

The other party's sideways stabbing sword was faster than he swung his sword.

At the last moment, Ran Teng gritted his teeth, simply flicked away the opponent's long sword with his wrist armor, and swung the war knife and slashed towards the opponent.

But unfortunately, the opponent's figure was quite agile, and he jumped back half a foot at once, dodging the knife that Ran Teng struggled to swing.

『……』

Glancing at the clear scratch on his wrist armor, Ran Teng's face became a little wrong.

At this moment, he was very glad that the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau had designed the wrist armor of their soldiers to be so thick, otherwise, with Fang Cai's sword, the other party would probably cut off one of his hands with one sword.

He took a step forward and slapped the shield in his left hand at the other man again.

The hesitation was close, and Ran Teng could clearly see that the face of the Han soldier on the opposite side showed hesitation and annoyance.

It's no wonder, after all, Wei Bing's shield is heavy, and the force of that slap and collision is far more violent than the shield attack from the leather and wooden shield in the hand of the Han soldier on the opposite side.

Sure enough, the second impact between the shield and the shield was still taken advantage of by Ran Teng's side: I saw that his whole person didn't necessarily shake, but the Han soldier on the opposite side was hit by Ran Teng and took two steps back.

But the problem is that the speed of the Han army's swordsmen always seems to be faster than the Wei army's sabers and shield soldiers.

『…… It's the armor that's too heavy.'"

Duan Pei stood on the trunk of the tree and watched the battle between Ran Teng, the thousand-person general, and the Han soldier, and after watching it for a while, he frowned slightly.

Indeed, the Wei soldiers' armor was too heavy, and the heavily armed helmets and heavy shields gave the sword and shield soldiers excellent defensive capabilities, but also limited their speed.

This is only a small problem on the battlefield where tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, after all, on the big battlefield, it is actually the crossbowmen in the Wei army who are really responsible for killing the enemy, and the sword and shield soldiers only play a role in curbing the momentum of the enemy's infantry.

But in this kind of small-scale conflict between the enemy and us, encountering an agile enemy like the Han soldiers, the heavy armor of the Wei soldiers became a burden.

Duan Pei moved his gaze to the opponent of the thousand-person general Ran Teng, in fact, he already knew that compared to the sharp long sword and the powerful Han crossbow of the Han army's swordsmen, the shield and armor of the Han soldiers were not worth mentioning, the former was a wooden shield wrapped in thick cowhide, and the latter was also a light leather armor, only a few pieces of iron were embedded in several key parts.

Therefore, in Duan Pei's original opinion, Han Bing's defense ability was very poor.

You must know that the sword and shield soldiers of the Wei State, the armor on their bodies has several parts that are particularly thickened, which can resist the enemy's swords and slashes, such as wrist armor and shoulder armor.

It is precisely because of this that although these Shangshui soldiers were cut a few times by the Han soldiers and scratched the armor on their bodies, their bodies were almost unharmed.

Because of the positioning of the Wei sword and shield soldiers, that is, the heavy infantry, the armor they trusted, would never let them be seriously injured because of the cutting of the weapon.

In comparison, the defense ability of the Han soldier is extremely bad, no, Duan Pei clearly saw that one of his own sword and shield soldiers seized the opportunity and slashed the shoulder of a Han soldier, and suddenly, he saw blood splattered, and the armor on the chest of the Han soldier was immediately broken, and the skin was turned over and flesh bloomed.

Even one of his arms was cut off.

Kill with one sword!

"Damn it!"

With an angry curse, one of the Han soldiers reached out and took off the crossbow hanging from his waist while retreating, and shot a crossbow at the Wei soldier who had killed their companion.

Perhaps out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the other party's movements, and the Wei soldier quickly blocked the iron shield in his hand in front of him.

Hearing a "ding" sound, a crossbow bolt hit the iron shield in the Wei soldier's hand, although the strong power shook the Wei soldier's body, but the crossbow bolt failed to shoot through the shield in his hand after all.

The iron shield of the Wei saber and shield soldier is not unreasonable, it is not unreasonable to be strong and heavy, it is enough to block the Han crossbow at close range!

But just as the Wei soldier leaned back, the other Han soldier glared and stabbed the former's waist with the long sword in his hand.

"Whew-"

I only heard a penetrating sound of metal rubbing, and the long sword in the hand of the Han soldier pierced into the waist of the Wei soldier.

It could be seen that the Han soldier was a little dumbfounded, maybe he didn't expect that the sharp long sword in his hand couldn't pierce the armor on Wei Bing's waist at once.

Just when he was stunned, he saw that Wei soldier clenched the war knife in his hand in annoyance, because of the distance, he used his wrist armor to swing a fist on the cheek of the Han soldier, and hit the opponent to the ground with a hollow cheek, a few teeth fell out, and a mouth full of blood.

"Old Zhuang?!"

Another Wei soldier next to him hurriedly came to help, and asked in surprise, "Are you okay?" ”

"It's fine." The Wei soldier, who was called Lao Zhuang, looked down at his waist where blood was faintly oozing out, and said in a low voice: "It's just that the waist has been scraped, brothers, be careful of the sword in the hands of these guys, it can pierce our armor." ”

As soon as the words fell, another Wei soldier leaned over and sneered in a low voice: "Piercing? The knife in Lao Tzu's hand will kill them with one slash! After a pause, he added depressedly: "But these guys are jumping up and down like mountain monkeys, and they can't catch them...... Damn it! ”

This may be the general sentiment of the Wei soldiers present.

In terms of weapons and equipment, the weapons and armor of their Wei soldiers were obviously more than stronger than those of the other party, but this excellent defensive ability sacrificed their speed, so that no matter what they did, they were a little slower than the Korean soldiers on the other side.

And when they were secretly complaining, in fact, their opponents, those Han army swordsmen, were also anxious to secretly scold their mothers, because in their eyes, the Wei soldiers' armor defensive performance was too good, even if it was a sharp long sword in their hands, if they wanted to pierce the armor on the opponent's body, they had to work hard, and they had to find the stitching gap of the opponent's armor.

It has to be said that this was a fight between the heavy infantry of the Wei State and the light infantry of the South Korea.

The sharpness of the weapons of the two sides is actually not much different, the difference is only in the armor and shields of the two sides: the light armor on the Han soldiers makes their speed generally faster than that of the Wei soldiers, but once they are hit, they will be finished, and the error tolerance rate is extremely low; And the Wei soldiers, with the heavy armor on their bodies, it doesn't matter if they resist a few enemy attacks, and the error tolerance rate is high, but the problem is that the armor on their bodies is too heavy, so that they can't catch up with the speed of the other party.

Of course, there are exceptions, after all, there are also talented and strange warriors among the Wei soldiers, such as the one called Yang Wu, even if he wears heavy armor, but his speed is still not slow.

"Yang Wu, don't get too far ahead! Follow the team! ”

With a loud sound, Gan Mao, the former general of the Donglai Army of Qi State, saw that the Yang Wu boy who was with him had once again separated from his teammates, even though he was angry and annoyed, he still chased after him, and Yang Wu was back to back, helping each other.

Immediately, several other Wei soldiers from the same army also rushed over.

"Don't go it alone!" The soldier Le Leopard scolded in a low voice.

"Yes, this body...... This new style of thick armor is too heavy to be conducive to ...... It's not good for ......a long battle," Sergeant Li Hui added, panting.

Examples of the out-of-breath of the soldier Li Hui were not uncommon among these Wei soldiers, and it may have been the first time they had encountered an opponent like a Korean swordsman, so that they did not manage their physical strength so well that they became more and more powerless to attack the Korean soldiers.

Seeing this, Duan Pei, the leader of the Green Crows who was standing on the trunk of the tree and paying attention to the battle situation, shook his head slightly.

He knew very well that although in terms of the current battle situation, it was the soldiers on their side who had the upper hand, killing thirty or forty people on the other side with the same strength, but his own side only had a few casualties, but the problem was that his own soldiers had consumed too much physical strength, and once their physical strength was exhausted, even if they were killed by all the remaining Korean swordsmen, it was not impossible to happen.

Thinking of this, Duan Pei took out a palm-length piccolo from his arms and blew it.

Suddenly, the crows poured in from all directions.

"Kill!"

In the stunned, annoyed, and depressed gaze of the thousand generals Ran Teng, Duan Pei did not hesitate to order the Green Crows to join the battle.

"Korean Swordsman...... It's a formidable enemy.'"

Ignoring Ran Teng's gaze, Duan Pei frowned and watched as the Han soldiers were killed one after another, preparing to return to Tang County immediately and report his assessment of the Han soldiers to His Royal Highness King Su.