Chapter 98: Facing the Enemy
After the army was integrated, Sun Lin did not first send a team of feudal knights out of the customs to riot the orcs, so that they suffered a sudden attack from an army of 10,000 in a panic; He didn't send an envoy out of the city to write a war like a head-to-head battle in the Middle Ages, and Sun Lin wouldn't do it, because Sun Lin knew that if he really did this, it was estimated that those orcs' camps would have an extra skull ornament. But Sun Lin was not ready to hide it, but under the gaze of many orc wolf cavalry scouts, he let the standard-bearers of each team in his army hold high the three lion flags, marched out of the city at an unhurried speed, and moved towards the orc tribe garrison in front of him step by step.
The troops marched in a more traditional large phalanx, with 7,000 Yoman longbowmen and 3,000 orcs on the outermost perimeter, followed by 10 large phalanxes of 4,000 hoplites and 1,000 hook scythes, and 2,000 hoplites on either side of the hoplites and ranged infantry (for safety reasons, Sun Lin recruited 1 more team of spearmen and converted them into heavy soldiers with the remaining war value of the last army) formed a slender but relatively strong line, while on the periphery of the foot army was a defensive belt of Hobila rangers and feudal knights, while Sun Lin and Bobby were surrounded by a large army with a total of 40 newly improved scorpion crossbows and 10 heavy catapults that had just been launched from the city.
The silver-white and red armor was particularly dazzling on the ground, and the golden glow in it gave the orc troops that followed it a feeling of being targeted by wild beasts, especially the 4,000 heavily armed swordsmen at the rear of the entire column, and the armor like an iron pot alone was enough to make these uncivilized races feel a deep chill emanating from their bodies.
However, the orcs were the most belligerent race, and after a few seconds of pause in their heads, the orcs recovered, and with a high battle, they gathered a larger, but somewhat scattered formation in the direction of the front of Sun Lin's army. Don't think that orcs look very stupid, do things with one tendon, and act very impulsively and think that they are hopeless, in fact, orcs are also very good at imitating like humans, and this slightly scattered large array in front of them is a copycat created by these orcs after seeing the shield advantage displayed by the heavy sergeant troops when humans defend the city.
After a long period of wear, although the orcs gathered a total of about 10 large tribal armies and 20 small and medium-sized tribal armies at this time, in fact, the number of orcs participating in the battle did not exceed 50,000, but only stayed at about 35,000 people, and the number of cavalry troops was less than 4 or 5,000 people, and all of them were light cavalry, which belonged to the kind of troops that were completely abused by heavy cavalry. What even made Sun Lin want to laugh was that because the orc troops were good at martial arts but did not like to play yin, especially this kind of thinking was a dominant idea that ordinary orcs were accustomed to, so there would be no so-called long-range troops in the orc tribe in general, and only those special tribes (generally referring to those tribes composed of special orcs, such as the wolf clan, the leopard clan, the Beamon clan, etc.) could have a long-range unit of the orc race, and the centaur javelin team was one of the representatives.
It is precisely for this reason that among the 35,000 or so troops assembled by the orc tribe this time, none of them are long-range troops, not even spear-throwers, they say that they only have light infantry, heavy infantry and light cavalry, which are the three basic arms, and the only special type of troops is the lightly armed assault troops composed of more than 3,000 wolf warriors, as for the goblins who attacked the city before............... Let these goblins who are extremely afraid of death participate in this kind of battle, it is better to let them play against the walls of Nottingham with the instability potion created by the master goblins of the clan.
Of course, the only thing that worries Sun Lin and may become a variable in this war should be the number of heavy troops in the orc side army with about 10,000 people shown in the system information, and their number has reached about twice the number of human heavy troops, all of them are light orc heavy infantry, these tall orc warriors are either carrying giant stone axes in their hands, or holding a wooden stick as big as an ordinary young man in both hands, maybe their attack speed is not fast, It will be pierced in the chest by those heavily armed swordsmen who are more agile before they can make a move, but it is estimated that if any soldier is hit by these weapons, in addition to the heavy swordsman, other troops, including the hook and sickle soldiers, will be killed by one blow, and even the steel shield in the hands of the heavy swordsman may not be able to withstand the blow of this weapon, and the most important thing is that these orc heavy infantry are equipped with leather armor to a certain extent, which resists the long-range attack from the Yoman longbowmen to a certain extent.
"It seems that this war will ultimately depend on those feudal knights, the sooner the cavalry troops of the crippled orcs are defeated, the sooner they can detour to the rear of the orc infantry troops and launch a charge, rushing back to the back of the orcs' most rearmost trace of fighting spirit; On the contrary, if the time drags on too long, the victory rate of our army will gradually decrease, and it may even be crippled by these orc heavy infantry, eh............... It seems that the offensive is no longer working, so let's turn to resist the attack of the orc troops, and the whole army will stop advancing! Yoman's longbowmen are back and forth! And prepare to carry out long-range strikes with large weapons units! The Half-Orc Legion guards the front! Heavy sergeants guard the wings! Hook Scythe Steady the Rear! Heavy swordsmen are on standby, ready to attack and support on all sides! ”
"Drink!" All the soldiers shouted in unison in response to Sun Lin and the members of the general guard who sent the order, and 7,000 Yoman archers were there
After hearing the order, he hurriedly marched forward, and in a slightly undulating wasteland area, he put down the thick and sharp wooden stakes behind him, and inserted them deep into the gray earth to form a brown low wall, and then immediately withdrew to the rear, and the heavy sergeants, hook scythes, and half-orc legions also escorted the scorpion crossbow and catapult to the front of the formation after the Yoman longbowmen put their horses away, and at this time the heavy swordsmen also stepped into the array in neat parts, The feudal knights and Hobila Rangers slowly moved to the flanks of the array at the back of the line, and aimed their spears at the growing orc cavalry in front of them.
At the same time, the orc troops in front of them, which were originally on normal march, also entered a state of rapid march when they saw that the human army was about to set up a formation, and the first to rush out of its array was the wolf army with a number of more than 3,000 or so.