Chapter 189: Territorial Suppression
20,000 Warsaw heavy cavalry finally succumbed to the purple-shirted longbow of 20,000 Yoman longbowmen, although the loss of the cavalry on both wings was only 4,000, but the frontal 8,000 Warsaw heavy cavalry was blocked by the pointed wooden stakes and the Papal Guard, only very lucky to borrow the charging power of the heavy cavalry to kill and cripple a total of less than 1,500 Papal Guards, because of the battle attrition of more than 3 points 2, many comrades-in-arms died unexplained and collapsed, after retreating at the same time, there were constantly comrades suddenly fell and died, In the end, only about 2,000 of the Warsaw heavy cavalry who charged head-on were withdrawn, and 6,000 men, including the commander of the pure cavalry vanguard, and their horses were left forever in the Badba Basin to become fertilizer for the future Badba vineyards.
Although the death of the main general has not been transmitted to the minds of the Warsaw heavy cavalry who are outflanking on both sides, the complete rout of the frontal troops has also greatly weakened the morale of the Warsaw heavy cavalry on both sides, and the comrades are constantly falling down from arrows through the armor, and the neighing sound of the war horses directly causes all the Warsaw heavy cavalry to be unwilling to make unprovoked sacrifices, or turn their horses' heads to retreat, or turn their horses' heads to rush towards the Yoman longbowmen who are in a state of direct free fire to the left or right. Of course, the final result of the Warsaw heavy cavalry in the second case was similar to that of the Warsaw heavy cavalry in the front, blocked by the pointed wooden stakes hidden in the bushes and the Papal Guard, which did not go to the frontal battlefield, and these Warsaw heavy cavalry who turned their horses and committed suicide did not even achieve half of the frontal results, only less than 100 members of the Papal Guard died directly, and more than 300 were wounded.
At this point, the vanguard of Warsaw, composed of 20,000 pure cavalry, only let the Aegis troops suffer a loss of 2,000 men in less than 20 minutes. At the same time, when the heavy armoured corps of the Immortal Army began to assemble, the direction of the vanguard of Warsaw, where the enemy appeared, appeared, and 10 minutes later turned into a torrent of silver-gray steel, although there was no steel in this torrent.
Although before that, the Sunset Army and the Warsaw Army had fought in the Warsaw Alliance and the northeast defense line of the Mars Empire, but the former was a surprise attack and destruction, although hundreds of thousands of Warsaw people were killed in more than half a month, including tens of thousands of Warsaw soldiers, but it was all in the case of sneak attacks, and there was no confrontation with the Warsaw regular army on the frontal battlefield at all. As for Mars's side, the Sunset Army only sent engineers to the war, and the main ones were the Mars Army and the Warsaw Army, so it didn't count.
After seeing the Warsaw military appearance, Sun Lin had to admit that this Warsaw alliance did have certain qualifications to confront the Sunset Empire, which had no fortress and large cities before. The heavy infantry wore a uniform style of heavy iron armor with a layer of chain armor, and the weapons were also the mainstream weapons used by the heavy infantry of the King Continent, the sword and knight's shield, and the crossbow used by the Warsaw crossbowmen was better than the original treaded crossbow used by the Sunset Empire, and the more powerful cross crossbow was also more luxurious than the armor of the hunter archers and compound archers of the Mars or Michael Empire, all of which were sleeveless chain mail with better equipment, although these equipment were all products of the Iron Age.
"Shoot the arrows!" As the main forces of the Warsaw Alliance approached, the Yoman longbowmen at the forefront of the frontal battlefield began to shoot in an orderly manner, and then under the assignment of the centurions, the Yoman longbowmen in the two rows at the front began to shoot freely, while the Yoman longbowmen in the rear formed a dense formation and began to shoot in the form of hundreds.
With the increasing diversification of the arms in the Imperial Army, in the absence of mixed legions, the division of labor between the various arms of the Sun Never Set has become more and more detailed, just like the longbowmen and crossbowmen, when the potential of the two long-range infantry is more and more perfect, the nickname of the longbowmen is also equipped with the marksman as the "Suppressor", and the giant shield crossbowmen are not only called Wang Ba crossbows, but also receive the title of "Striker".
The origin of the nickname "Striker" is simple, meaning that the long-range ability of the Giant Shield Crossbowman allows the enemy to taste the most violent long-range strike, while "Suppressor" refers to the fact that when the Longbow Legion appears, the enemy will be immobilized by its continuous long-range fire, yes, continuously.
With the continuous increase in the number of combatants, the ability to strike accurately has become less important, because so far Sun Lin has not seen any army learn the mode of skirmishers, in order to improve the ability of the longbow soldiers, Sun Lin carried out military improvements to the longbow troops, with the success of the military improvement, the recruitment cost of the longbowmen has decreased by 5%, and the accuracy of its skirmishers (not under the dense array) has decreased by 10% at the same time, but at the same time, the longbowmen have learned a new battlefield skill - regional suppression, While reducing accuracy and 50 meter range, it increases reload speed by nearly half, and causes the attacked troops to panic and prevent them from advancing due to the dense number of arrows.
The longbowman who was suppressed under the opening of the territory was transformed into a nightmare for melee infantry, whether heavy or lightly armed. Think about it, when a heavy infantry is only less than 40 steps away from the longbowmen, the longbowmen suddenly turn on the regional suppression mode, how terrifying the consequences are, it is estimated that those heavy infantry come out and stand in place to become the longbowmen's practice fixed target There is no other choice.
Of course, this mode must be very exhausting of the longbowman's physical strength, each use of the maximum 1 minute, at least 5 minutes of rest in between, if you use it more than 3 times in a row, it is estimated that these longbowmen do not even have the strength to pull the bow, then if the Yoman longbowmen do not have a guard melee troops around them, and as long as there is a squad of enemies in front of them, then what awaits the Yoman longbowmen is only the end of being slaughtered at will. However, in any case, the power of this technique is indeed very powerful, as long as it is used well, whether it is in a storm, siege warfare, or ambush warfare, it can produce a qualitative effect, and the heavy infantry of the Warsaw army is very fortunate to taste the power of this terrifying skill on the battlefield in the Badba Basin.