Chapter 447: Desperate Karui (Part I)

Although the Ottomans are good at using halberds and war knives, after experiencing the crazy invasion of the Cumans more than ten years ago, the Ottoman Empire, which was greatly injured at that time, gradually began to devote some energy to the cultivation of long-range infantry.

However, because the Ottomans on their side are from the Southern Continent according to their ancestors, and the Southern Continent races of the King Continent are generally not very interested in long-range weapons such as bows, so until now, it is not the Ottoman archers who imitate the Northern Cold archers of the Helgen people who occupy the position of long-range infantry in the Ottoman Empire, but the Garcian crossbowmen of a nation in the Ottoman Empire: the Garcia crossbowmen of the Garcian race.

As an extremely small long-range weapon, the crossbow has a very similar place with the shotguns of later generations, that is, the long-range ones not only cause very limited damage to them, but the accuracy is very low, but the close ones are one by one, that is, the soldiers wearing heavy armor can only fall down with hatred if they are hit by the arrows fired by those crossbows before advancing to the crossbowmen 30 meters.

So at the beginning, when the Cuman cavalry was pouring in like a tidal wave, Karui did not let the Garcian crossbowmen, who were hiding behind the wooden fence and firing platform, strike immediately, but let the Ottoman archers cover first: "Shoot the arrows!" Shoot the arrows! ”

Although the power of the ordinary compound bow is not strong, it is more than enough for the horses that are not covered with battle armor and the Cuman hussars who only have leather armor, as nearly a thousand arrows fell, the dozens of Cuman hussars who rushed to the front immediately turned on their backs, and in this case, the cavalry who fell from the horse, they had actually been declared dead, but the Cumans were not vegetarians. The morale of the soldiers of the Sunset Man is so strong, because they have rarely been defeated in the battles they have walked, which makes the Sunrise Man have a kind of benign pride in battle, so that the Sunset Man will never believe that he will be defeated by the enemy; In fact, the morale of the Cumans is even higher than that of the people who never set the sun, and the high morale of the Cumans is not cultivated by the people who never set the sun, but is innate, because every Cuman has a bloody nature like a steppe wolf.

The dead comrades made the Cumans angry, but they did not make the Cumans feel a trace of panic, after crossing the barrier built by the Ottomans and crushing the Ottomans set up the rejection horses, the Cuman hussars in the front row also entered their own shooting, these extremely skilled Cumans immediately began to use the powerful compound bows in their hands to tilt the Ottoman archers behind the wooden fence to rain arrows, even though those Ottoman archers had bunkers and were also covered with leather armor in the style of the Southern Continent, But these were nothing to the Cuman hussars, and in the midst of the continuous rain of arrows, the wooden firing platforms quickly piled up the corpses of Ottomans stuck with arrows.

"Do you think the Ottoman guards are hiding some secret weapons behind those wooden fences?" Seeing that the speed of the cavalry torrent began to slow down, nearly a thousand Cuman hussars with hooks and hooks broke away from the brigade and rushed to the fence, ready to pull down these wooden fences with the help of the pull of the horses, and asked several Cuman generals and large tribes of the Cuman tribe beside him.

"If I were the other guard, although I knew that the Ottomans on my side were not very good at using spears and large shields, I would still have my hand-to-hand soldiers equipped with these two weapons to guard behind the wooden fence, after all, in the narrow terrain, spears are the most effective against our Cuman light cavalry." After a moment of contemplation, an old Cuman general with pale temples but a very ruddy complexion and high spirits took the lead in answering Uda's words.

"But it's a pity, they shouldn't have thought that among the 100,000 Cuman army I led, there would be an archer equivalent to the existence of heavy cavalry, hey, that's ......... Garcia's crossbowmen? While Uda was talking to the crowd, more than 500 Ottomans armed with crossbows suddenly appeared on the city walls, and the appearance of these soldiers immediately startled the Cuman cavalry with hooks, because they found that the arrows of the crossbows were aimed at them in the cold light.

"Kill these intruders!" The neighing of the horses sounded, and the Cuman cavalry who rushed forward in the midst of a burst of people on their backs were shot down no less than a hundred people without defense, although the Cuman hussars with powerful compound bows behind these thousands of cavalry reacted in an instant, and poured all the arrows in their hands on those Gallia crossbowmen, but the death of a hundred or so armed hook raiders has become a fact.

"Assemble! Bring the breakout points together. "The one-tenth of the soldiers who were lost at once, and the patriarch of the Cuman tribe who led the thousand Cuman hussars to raid was also very distressed, but the distress was distressed, and this battle must continue to be fought, otherwise the death rate of his own Cuman warriors would continue to expand, so the Cuman officer who took the lead in the assault immediately decided to abandon the previous four-sided flowering method to destroy these wooden fences after discovering that his previous planned establishment was disrupted by those Galean hand crossbowmen, and chose to specialize in a little instead.

"Throw! Pull back! With one hook after another embedded in the back of the wooden fence, the Cuman hussars who were galloping towards the city wall immediately turned around, and pulled out the small dagger at their waists and stabbed the hips of the war horses under their crotches, and in an instant the hundreds of enraged war horses immediately galloped back, and as the war horses and the Cuman hussars continued to join this tug-of-war, many cracks immediately appeared at the bottom of the wooden fences that were only more than 5 meters high and slowly expanded, and finally the wooden fence was pulled up, and the wide Bayi hilly area behind was exposed.

"Hurry, hurry! Deploy all the spearmen to the gap! Seeing that the Cuman cavalry, which had been slowing down their advance, rushed forward again, Kalu, who was guarding the defensive belt, immediately dispatched all the spear militia and guard guards who had been hiding behind the wooden fence to avoid arrows, to the gap that was even larger than he had expected. Encouraged by the Ottoman rank-and-file officers, the spear militia with kite-shaped shields formed a thick shield wall around the gap, while the guard guards in leather armor with small round shields and spears stood cross-legged behind the spear militia. But..........

"Strange? When did the light cavalry run like the heavy cavalry? Not good! When Karui noticed that there were a thousand hussars among the galloping Cuman hussars, it was very strange, but it was too late, and as one of the leading Cuman officers blew the horn in his hand, the Cuman hussars wrapped around the perimeter suddenly turned their horses and moved towards the sides of the wooden fence, revealing a black touch of the gap in the raiding procession.