Chapter 538: Ran Away

"Brethren! Let's see if these turtle shells from the Western Regions of the Central Continent are hard, or if our crescent moon is strong! All charge! At the command of the Atlantic officers in plate armor, the Atlantic soldiers armed with crescent spears rushed into the phalanx formed by the Barnum militia with shouts of killing.

Perhaps because of the experience of fighting these Atlantan spearmen several times, the commander of the water unicorn side equipped his soldiers with an iron short spear, and when these Atlantan soldiers rushed to an area less than 40 meters away, they threw these short spears at them, just like the fighting method used by the ancient Roman soldiers in the original time, while throwing the short spear, he drew the short sword at his waist and counterattacked the formation of the Atlantan spear spearman.

Due to the casualties caused by the short spear, there were many gaps in the neat charge of the Atlantan crescent spearmen, and the Barnum militia who rushed up immediately took advantage of these gaps, almost knocking the Atlantan crescent spearmen in the first row of the Atlanta charge to the ground, and stabbed the fallen Atlantan spearmen with their short swords before they could react, and then ......... Then these Barnum militiamen found that the short sword in their hand could only pierce the whole body chain mail on their body at most, and then they were blocked by the fish scale inner armor they were wearing, and what was worse was that these Atlantan crescent spearmen had a faster reaction than they imagined, and they would always pull out the dagger at their waist in this situation, and even before they could stab the short sword in their chest after falling to the ground, they would pull out the dagger at their waist, and use it to accurately pierce the leather armor on their own body, and let the dagger pierce their own heart.

And with the end of the charge of both sides, the fierce, or rather one-sided, hand-to-hand combat began in the depths of the interior of the Western Continent. Previously, Barnum's shield soldiers relied on the short spears in their hands to play a certain killing role, resulting in more than 100 casualties among the Atlantan spearmen who never set. And then, when the Barnum militia used the tower shield, they also used the impact attached to the tower shield to easily knock many Atlantan crescent spearmen to the ground. Judging from the current development, it should be said that the side of the Water Qilin Empire had the upper hand in the next battle, but in fact, from the moment the Atlantan soldiers were knocked to the ground, the scale of the war tilted to the side of the sun: while counterattacking with the help of daggers, with the start of hand-to-hand combat, the Atlantan crescent spearmen also showed the changeable fighting methods of the crescent spear in their hands to the Water Qilin side.

Simple combat moves such as stabbing, picking, smashing, and sweeping, in the hands of these Atlanta spearmen who have undergone a baptism of war and half a year of military training, become vigorous after being paired with a sophisticated crescent spear, although the tower shield of the Barnum militia can protect its body behind the tower shield in battle, but not all of its protected body parts, such as the foot and other parts are exposed to the vision of the Atlantan crescent spearman.

As Atlanta soldiers who have experienced half a year of drills, these soldiers have learned a lot of very practical combat skills under the training of officers who are good at using halberds from the sun never sets, one of which is to aim the head of the halberd at the feet of the enemy soldiers, and then use it to knock down the opponent and use the weight of the halberd to smash the enemy soldiers. So after a period of hand-to-hand fighting between the two sides, more than half of the Barnum militia on the Water Kirin side have been killed or wounded, although it seems that these Barnum militias will not flee yet, but the rout is already a sure thing.

For the situation in front of them, the Atlantan nobles who were on the front line of the battlefield not only felt powerless, but also panicked and angry, because in order to prevent the 30,000 Atlantan soldiers in front of them from penetrating into the territory they had just obtained, in addition to the tens of thousands of Barnum militia left to them by the emperor before, they also paid out of their own pockets to form some Imu short spearmen and more Barnum militia with slightly inferior weapons, mixed with the front-line troops, However, it is a pity that these people recruited by them from the northwest region of the Central Continent are all composed of those peasants in the countryside, and in terms of combat effectiveness, they are not at all comparable to those Barnum militia who followed the Water Qilin army into the Western Continent, so not to mention that they can beat the Atlantan Crescent Spearmen who can beat the Barnum militia who followed the Water Qilin army to the ground, and these soldiers recruited by the nobles are nothing but looking for abuse.

As for the anger, in fact, the lords of the Western Continent of the Water Qilin Empire present all knew that his emperor Auguste not only gave Lambold the control of tens of thousands of Barnum militia troops, but also gave Lambold's elite water unicorn knights with a number of up to 300 If Lambold led this elite heavy cavalry to raid from the flanks at this time, then before the backup troops of the Atlantan Crescent Spearmen came up to support, On the other hand, if you learn that the elite knights who are specially guarding the comfort of the Water Qilin Emperor will resist the troops of the Great Empire on the battlefield, your side will have a great chance to counterattack.

The most important thing is that this cavalry unit is currently only obeying the orders of the fat chief, so if you want to let these 300 elite knights join the battlefield, you must have the fat chief to lead them, and in fact, these Atlanta nouveau riche actually became disgusted with the fat chief of the Water Qilin Empire after coming to the Western Continent, and they hoped to take this opportunity to let the fat chief die in the chaos by the way.

In addition to the aristocratic family to which he belonged was not interested in the water qilin royal family and made him dissatisfied with the royal lackeys, the main reason was that the fat governor suppressed them with his Barnum militia and the 300 elite heavy cavalry during their reign in their new territory, and often demanded money from them under the banner of collecting taxes for the empire. If it was the other thing, of course they didn't dare to say anything before, but now the troops in the hands of this fat chief are trapped in the battlefield in front of them, and as long as they exert a little pressure on their side, then this fat chief will have to go into battle to fight.

It's a pity that the upstart idea of the Water Qilin Empire is good, but the reality is very cruel, because they soon receive a message that everyone can't believe: "Rambold ran away with those elite knights!" ”