Chapter 405: Atlanta Crescent Spearman

Just when Sun Lin led several soldiers who never set the sun to secretly go to Atlantis City, where the old Atlantan man was imprisoned in the basement to interrogate him personally, in Atlantis City, Philadelphia and several surrounding small cities, when the Sunset Fleet and the Xiyi Assassins were fighting with the Atlantan spies and assassins who had been lurking before and the dark side of the World Continent, a battle was also being staged on the Western Continent Continent of the King Continent on the bright side of the New World Continent. The biggest collision with about one-third of the elite forces in the young empire.

As the remnants of the old empire, although it has been consumed by the previous two major wars, under its reckless attack, the military strength it has gathered can definitely make Sun Lin, who has seen a great scene, feel horrified.

Although the most elite of the Atlanta Empire is the naval force, and the army unit can be said to be only 5 scum in combat effectiveness, this is all for those large empire forces. Because even the weakest empire is powerful, they will all have the strength to mass-produce a full set of heavy steel equipment, and this time, the most elite army of Atlanta, who led more than 300,000 of the most elite army of Atlanta, and whose previous identity was the last emperor before the disintegration of the original Atlanta Empire, led the most elite army in Atlanta proved this very well.

"Isn't it? Is this really the professional army of the Atlanta Empire? It's also too ............."

"Unbelievable, isn't it? General Assal. Looking at Asal who was stunned beside him, Sherman, who smiled wryly, took what Asal originally wanted to say next: "It seems that as a great empire that can unify the entire Western Continent, no matter how many years it has not fought a land war, the army structure and troop design it left behind will definitely be extremely strong even if it is a hundred years old!" ”

As Sherman said, even if the Atlanta Empire has not fought a land war in more than a hundred years, the troops it uses to guard the interior of the empire are absolutely formidable. Under the watchful eyes of the two generals on which the sun never sets, more than 100,000 Atlanta soldiers, under the command of various junior officers in their ranks, pushed dozens of siege towers, rushed carts, and carried hundreds of wooden siege ladders towards the walls of Philadelphia.

Located at the forefront of the Atlanta Army's 4-sided army, the Atlanta Army's siege equipment unit includes two of the Atlanta Empire's famous naval warfare weapons - manatee trebuchets and shark catapults, and these siege troops are also the only troops in the Atlanta army that can convince the two generals present that the sun never sets is the truth. Although the amount of siege equipment possessed by the Atlanta army was a little too much to seem reasonable in the eyes of the soldiers who never set the sun, it was nothing compared to the Atlanta army corps behind these Atlanta engineering troops.

As before, at the forefront of the team is the cannon fodder unit composed of Atlanta farmers and Atlanta militia, but unlike in the past, the weapons of these cannon fodder units can be compared with the weapons equipped by the militia troops in the city level of the Great Empire, you must know that at this time, these Atlantan militiamen not only wore leather armor, but also the worn-out spears, wooden shields and even iron farm tools in their hands have now been replaced with sharper iron swords, long and short spears and leather iron-edged zither-shaped shields with stronger defense. Such an equipment configuration is enough to double the combat strength of these Atlanta militias, and make all the soldiers who guard Philadelphia feel a headache, and the 2nd line troops in the Atlanta army make all the soldiers who never set the sun have a solemn look on their faces.

Perhaps because there are not very few varieties of war horses produced in the Western Continent, and the Western Continent itself is not large, and the mountainous and jungle-shaped terrain structure is the main terrain of the Western Continent, so the Atlanta Empire does not have any heavy cavalry, or even light cavalry troops, but this does not mean that other peeps into the territory of the Western Continent have strong cavalry troops, which makes the spear the most popular melee weapon in the Atlanta army in addition to naval combat knives. And because most of the Atlantans were natural fishers, the spears used by the spear troops of the Atlanta Empire have also changed greatly over the course of thousands of years.

In the process of this change, first of all, as the Atlantan spearmen, which have been named the Atlanta spearmen until now, have almost abandoned the combat method of combining spear and shield weapons, so that these Atlantan spearmen generally participate in hand-to-hand combat with both hands waving the hook spear in their hands in addition to removing the kite-shaped shield behind them when facing the cavalry charge; Secondly, because of the shape of the fisherman's harpoon, the spear used by the Atlantic spearmen changed from one spearhead to two spearheads of equal length, and then to two double-headed spears of different lengths, one long and thin and one short and thick, and because its shape was a bit like a crescent, it was called the crescent spear by the world. This peculiar spear not only allowed the Atlanta spearmen to retain the spearmen's fighting style, but also allowed them to use the crescent spear like a halberd when holding the spear with both hands, because the outside of its sharp spearhead caused the crescent spear to be used like a halberd, and this kind of soldier was almost a heavy swordsman nemesis in siege warfare, plus these Atlanta spearmen were equipped with heavy chain mail covering half of their heads, these Atlanta spearmen were even more threatening than the Atlanta army in the third front, wearing heavy plate armor, The Atlantic hoplites, armed with round steel shields and naval swords, were even taller.

"It's a very peculiar and very strong pikeman, it seems that this battle is not easy to fight at all." When Asal used his binoculars to see all the Atlantan soldiers in front of him, the general who was loyal to the method of attacking against attacking and fighting hard decided to fight a defensive battle for the first time before other officers at or above the army level offered their opinions: "Sherman, when the time comes, I think our long-range troops need to focus on taking care of the tens of thousands of Atlantan crescent spearmen. Their existence is even more terrifying than the existence of manatee trebuchets and shark catapults. ”

"I agree, these well-armed Atlantic spearmen are not very strong in individual combat, but if they are of a large size, it is estimated that there is a great possibility that all our heavy infantry units will be killed, and they must be killed as much as possible before they attack the walls............ By the way, Assal, have you noticed a very strange thing? ”

"What's the matter?"

"Why didn't the Atlantan side attack Philadelphia with all its might, but split its forces to attack Philadelphia and Atlantis at the same time? Isn't the lesson they have learned before? ”

"No way, who said that the Atlantan army has a lot of brainless nobles?"