Chapter 469: Rogue Battle Formation (Part I)
"Woo woo ............" a low horn sounded, and a touch of sky blue gradually appeared on the horizon in the distance, and as the sound of war horses running became louder and louder, the vanguard of the Water Qilin Empire, numbering about 3,000 people, appeared in front of a small wooden fort where the sun never sets.
At the head of the line are more than 500 Zante crossbowmen, these Zante crossbowmen wearing inlaid armor and holding crossbows are even lower than the Ottoman Empire's Gallia crossbowmen in terms of overall strength, after all, the Gallia crossbowmen are composed of those Gallians who specialize in using crossbows, and the Zante crossbowmen of the Water Kirin are composed of militiamen who have undergone a little training, after all, the word Zante means "conscription" in the native language of the people of the Water Kirin Empire. Of course, regardless of the overall strength of the Sant crossbowmen, they will be lower than those Galian crossbowmen who moaned and begged for mercy under the compound bows and sabers of the Cumanbiao cavalry, and the long-range lethality of these crossbowmen at close range is still very troublesome.
As the vanguard of the pathfinder force, a total of 2,300 people, including more than 500 Imu short spearmen, but most of them were the main force of Barnum's shield soldiers, under the escort of 200 Darlan light cavalry on both sides, marched at an average speed towards the wooden fort where the sun never sets, among which the sunset scouts and officers who stood on the wooden watchtower and watched, and also vaguely saw several light catapults and 1 siege mall that were protected and pushed forward by the water unicorn soldiers.
"Enemy attack!" The alarm bell sounded, and the guards were less than 1,000 people, and under the command of dozens of junior officers, they rushed to the wooden fence around the wooden fort at a slightly panicked pace and assembled in a group. It's no wonder that it's not the regular army that stays in the wooden fort now, and it's not even those who have a little combat experience, and the people guarding the wooden fort at the moment are almost all Atlantan crescent spearmen, only a small number of civilian archers recruited from the countryside.
Although they belong to the same type of Atlantan spearmen as the Atlantan spearmen mastered by the New Atlantan Kingdom before, they are all super long spear-type soldiers wearing sleeveless chain mail and equipped with iron crescent spearheads, but in fact, the Atlantan Crescent Spearmen currently recruited by the Sun Never Sets may not have beaten an Atlantan Crescent spearman of the New Atlantan Kingdom who was invaded by the 400,000 army of the Water Qilin and was wiped out not long after. After all, the Atlanta spearmen were the mainstay of the Western New Atlanta Kingdom and even its army, and the establishment of the new Atlantan Kingdom was almost a few years from the beginning of its founding to its demise, and they practiced these types of troops whose combat effectiveness was comparable to that of the sword and spear militia every day and night, and the sun never set, given that most of the Atlantan Crescent Spearmen were recruits, the time to recruit and conduct combat training was almost not long, Therefore, the sun never sets, these recruited Atlantan crescent spearmen are definitely not as good as the Atlantan spearmen of the Kingdom of Cateland. However, it is actually enough for these recruited Atlantan crescent spearmen to achieve their current performance in a short period of time, and in view of the fact that the equipment equipped by the Atlantan crescent spearmen is somewhat special, Sun Lin, who attaches great importance to the battle situation in the Western Continent, has personally designed an extremely ancient battle phalanx for these crescent spearmen.
"Boom ............" Because the civil engineering of the sun never sets has developed to the late Renaissance, so the water unicorn army used a light catapult to shoot a few rounds of real fire, and found that it could not cause damage to those low wooden fence walls in a short time, so they concentrated their fire on the wooden gate in front of the wooden fort, so that about 2,300 water unicorn advance troops began to rush towards the sunset wooden fort that opened the city gate.
The civilian archers above the wooden fort, which is less than 10 meters high, began to throw arrows at the intruders after discovering the enemy's intentions, but unfortunately, although they had a drop power bonus from height, the huge wooden tower shields equipped by the Barnum militia resisted all the arrows, and the water unicorn soldiers who fell after a few rounds of projectiles almost reached 50 people, which was still the effect after all the civilian archers used rocket arrows.
Seeing that the enemy is getting closer and closer, and their own long-range troops have not yet caused any effective lethality, they are suppressed by the incoming flying stones and cannot carry out long-range fire assistance, and the morale of the Atlantan crescent spearmen guarding the entrance of the wooden fort is inevitably low, and the pace of the Barnum militia of the Water Kirin Army, who is bullying the side that does not have war machinery, is putting on a large shield formation like a turtle shell formation to wrap the Imu short spearmen in the center of the phalanx, and marching towards the entrance of the wooden fort at an average speed. It is slowly trampling on the already low morale of the Atlantan Crescent Spearman.
Fortunately, the officers who guarded the wooden fort were all veterans who had been wounded on the battlefield of the Western Continent before, although the battle would be weaker but they had a strong ability to adapt to changes on the battlefield, almost after the water qilin side made such a situation, these veterans pulled the little nobles and lords who stayed in the wooden fort to be loyal to the sun never set appeared at the forefront of the battlefield, that is, at the entrance of the wooden fort, shouted to the Atlantan crescent spearmen: "Remember when your parents were dizzy with hunger, who brought you hope to live?" The sun never sets! Remember who rescued your wives and avenged them when they were humiliated by the bandits? The sun never sets! Remember who brought your children back to you after they were abducted and gave them the opportunity to go to the big city? The sun still doesn't set! Folks! Everything we have now is given by the sun that never sets! We were able to survive being exploited by those aristocratic vampires because the sun never set! Warriors! Now we want to let the world know the Tao, and we know what it means to know what it means to be grateful if the sun never sets! For the sun never sets! For the future of our children! ”
These shouts from the side of the little nobles and small lords who were out of trouble at the most difficult moment for all the Atlantan civilians present to seek help from the great empire on which the sun never sets, and the shouts of the little nobles and small lords really made the Atlantan spearmen who were frightened by the enemy's strength regain their confidence and determination to fight to the death, and delay time for the rear front to prepare for the enemy, and the roar they let out at this moment also made those water qilin officers who wanted to conduct a big psychological war in wartime helplessly, The tactics of their own side to undermine the morale of the side that never sets not only did not let its morale fall, but also skyrocketed to the ground.
Now that the tactics have failed, the Water Qilin officer has no choice but to choose to attack. Immediately, more than 500 Imu Spearmen rushed out of the Turtle Shell Formation and killed the wooden fort, and countless screams rang out.