The spear militia is one of the most common types of troops, using a zither-shaped shield made of iron and planks in their left hand and an iron spear in their right hand, preferring to fight melee cavalry in difficult terrain rather than against infantry armies, and the hedgehog formation is a tactic they use to deal with cavalry charges. They may not even be able to defeat the town militia in hand-to-hand combat, but the sturdy kite-shaped shield makes it easier for them to absorb damage from ranged weapons than the town militia with small round wooden shields and wielding short spears, and the hedgehog array is more effective at resisting these damages, provided that none of these ranged weapons are armor-piercing weapons such as throwing axes, crossbow arrows, or throwing short spears.

Although Captain Richard's guard is better at fighting cavalry, as a spearman who exists as a natural enemy of cavalry, Richard has studied this type of unit in detail, including their advantages and disadvantages. Although Richard didn't know what kind of enemy was attacking him, he had already prepared for the worst from the time when the enemies could quietly approach his own warriors in the dense forest—the prospecting team had been surrounded! So after weighing the pros and cons, Richard immediately ordered the spear militia to form a hedgehog formation, although this would make the long-range attacks of his own personnel more concentrated, but the same trick could use the circular shield wall formed by the hedgehog array to resist those weapons flying from all directions as much as possible.

"Ding Ding Ding Ding ............" raindrops of long-range weapons hit the shield wall of the spear militia, but the spear militiamen who were originally a little swaying suddenly found that those flying things were not as terrible as they imagined, although they did not dare to look up, but the militiamen could feel from the impact transmitted by the hand equipped with a kite-shaped shield, as if their flying weapons were not strong bows and crossbows, but small stones.

At this time, the captain of the Richard Guard, who was surrounded and protected by a group of spear militia, calmed down and was pleasantly surprised to find that the young Leo who was shot by the wooden stick with a sharp stone tied to his head was not dead, and he was not hurt much. Although the sharp stone pierced Leo's Mai, it did not really penetrate Leo's body, but stuck in Leo's back after cutting off a piece of flesh from Leo's waist, and the blood that flowed into Captain Richard's body was just the blood that slipped down the wound on Leo's body, but due to the fact that his head accidentally made zero contact with Captain Richard's steel helmet in the process of flying to rescue Captain Richard, causing a slight concussion and passed out.

Captain Richard, who calmed down, hurriedly took out the "throwing spear" that was inserted between Leo's outer layer of skin and flesh and Mai, and then tore off the Mai on Leo's body and pressed half of it on Leo's injured part, while the other half circled Leo's body and tied a knot, making a simple wound bandage for Leo. The intense pain also caused Leo to wake up from his coma: "Captain? Haven't I been shot to death by a flying spear? And I remember you've been pushed away by me? But why did you go to heaven with me? ”

"Stinky boy, I said I would make you the king's herald, how could you die with the king's protection? Give me a good life now, if you die, don't talk about the king, even I can't get along with you, understand?! ”

"Yes! Captain of the Guard! Young Leo did not shed tears of emotion, nor did he react excessively, but opened his opal-like eyes and looked at the awesome captain of the guard in front of him with a smile, and it was this smile that made Richard firmly believe that he was going to bring the young man in front of him to Sun Lin, because Richard knew that this young man named Leo would definitely become the most loyal guard beside Sun Lin, and would continue to guard Sun Lin in his place after he left.

At the same time, a layer of short spears similar to the work of attacking Leo has been piled up on the ground outside the shield wall formed by the spear militia with hedgehog arrays, but these short spears made of wooden sticks and sharpened stones are for the spear militia with kite-shaped shields, as long as they take advantage of the shield wall, they can completely resist these weapons flying from all directions, because the lethality of these short spears is too small, and from the sound caused by the short spear heads hitting the zither-shaped shield, Captain Richard, who had just finished dealing with Leo's wounds, and the miner, who was surrounded and protected by the spear militia, all had strange expressions on their faces............ Sir, although the workmanship of these short spears thrown is very similar, it seems that ......... It seems that except for the short spear that attacked the Leo brothers, which was thrown by an adult, the arm strength of the other short spear throwers is not even as strong as that of a child, what is the situation?! ”

"Hmm............ I can't say for sure what this is going on, but if I'm not mistaken, I'm sure the spear-thrower who attacked Leo must have been the leader of the enemy or something, because that's the most plausible explanation......... But we still can't let our guard down, because until now we have not been able to confirm how many enemy forces there are. Do they have reinforcements? And what about hand-to-hand combat abilities? And I don't believe that with our little strength we can push the enemy back, the most important thing now is to join up with the other two teams. After Richard looked down and thought about it for a few times, he immediately decided to bring the 2nd team to join the 1st and 3rd teams, so Richard quickly took out the horn on his waist and blew it with all his breath. Since this is the period of flag language has not yet been invented, the general army uses the sound of the horn to distinguish the tasks assigned by the commander when fighting, such as blowing one long sound is attacking, blowing two short sounds is the assembly of the whole army, etc.

"Woo! Woo!" Two hurried trumpets sounded in the dense forest, followed by several hurried trumpets in the distance from two directions: "It seems that our enemy has not discovered the existence of the 1st and 3rd detachments, which is a good sign." Richard's originally solemn face finally showed a hint of joy: "All the members of the 2nd detachment obey the order!" Now in the form of a hedgehog array! Slowly want to move forward in front of the left! Remember! Be sure to stay in formation! ”

Although the same number of spear militia may not even be able to defeat the town militia in hand-to-hand combat, due to the long-term training of the hedgehog formation and dispersion, the spear militia is more orderly in discipline than the town militia, and can better obey the command of the commanders, and the simulation of the cavalry charge during the drill also makes them a little higher than the town militia in terms of psychological quality, making the spear militia more difficult to collapse, plus because the spear militia is equipped with a kite-shaped shield that is easier to absorb long-range firepower than the small round shield, The enemy's long-range firepower was completely unable to inflict any substantial damage, and other factors, which made the 25 spear militia under the leadership of Richard shaken the army that had been shaken by the enemy surprise attack at the beginning, and regained their morale in a state of high morale in just a few minutes. And from a long-term perspective, the enemy who attacked them has at least projected more than 10 rounds of short spears, even if an adult has used all his strength to project so many rounds, his physical strength will be somewhat depleted, and the spear militia has been in a semi-defensive and semi-casual state from beginning to end, these more than 10 rounds have not consumed a trace of physical strength except for the left hand of the shield is a little sore, and it is precisely because of this that Richard has decided, after the 3 squads returned, It is about the time when the attacker has consumed half of his own physical strength to carry out a counter-charge, and when the time comes to kill the attacker who injured Leo, the enemy will definitely enter a state of collapse, and then it will be the meat on the meat cutting board that should be killed and the prisoner is up to him.

The idea of Captain Richard's guard with Leo on his back is good, if Sun Lin is here, he may do it, but Richard forgets one thing, his thinking line is to stay at the stage where the enemy is human, but what if their enemy is not human?

"Squeak! Creak! "When the 2nd detachment retreated more than 100 meters to the left, a mournful sound like a mouse suddenly sounded from the direction where the short spears were flying, and then this sound became more and more crossed, if you judge from the sound alone, the number of creatures making the sound was definitely not less than 100, and the gradually clear sound of running and climbing told all the members of the second detachment that the attackers had launched a charge!

"Stop! Stop it! Hold your ground! Wait for reinforcements to approach! Richard hurriedly asked the 25 spear militiamen to stop the retreating part and form a new strong hedgehog formation, hoping to resist the surprise attack of more than 100 attackers: "Is the enemy fighting in the same way as those Spanish assault soldiers?" The enemy is the Spaniards?! "This is the current thinking of everyone in the 2nd detachment, because tactically speaking, in addition to the Byzantine infantry, there is only the Spanish raiders, and the troops like this can shuttle and charge quickly in the dense forest at will cannot be the fighting style of those Byzantines, so there are only Spanish Aragonese raiders.

But what happened next made the jaws of all the members of Squad 2 drop in surprise because they finally saw the true face of the attacker, but: "What the hell is this, my God! It's that the gnomes in those circuses are 1,000 times cuter than them! Wrong! They are not human at all! "Richard and Team 2 were right, it wasn't humans who attacked them, but rat people with the largest population of the indigenous tribes living on the New Delhi Peninsula!