Chapter 215: Miscellaneous VS Regular Army (Part I)
Chapter 215: Miscellaneous VS Regular Army (Part I)
The 9th and 10th Banner Regiments were infantry. The soldiers were armed with horses. Even for a colt, the distance of fifty miles is very fast. Rex was angry because Daniel had disrupted his deployment.
If Daniel's 500 men were dead, even if Rex captured Stranburg, it would have an impact on morale.
This can't be blamed on Daniel, who turned out to be a petty nobleman, the kind of person who sat on the ground and collected money, and didn't know how to fight. So Salin asked Ge to be in charge of the battle, but Salin gave the order, and it was Daniel who was in charge of the entire army. This is a bit of a contradiction.
Ge Yi wanted to be greedy, Daniel should have stopped it, but Salin's words made him a little scruples, after all, he didn't understand the war, and he felt that Ge Yi was right, so he approved Ge Yi's request.
Geyi's men did not fight the enemy head-on, and soon the searchers in the city fell into the trap set by Geyi, on a narrow road, both sides were rocks, the barbarians hid in the rocks, and a small group of pirates in front rode skeleton horses, pretending to meet the enemy by chance. Then he fled, leading the enemy into an ambush circle.
Daniel's undead creature Pisius hid in the dirt, and as soon as the enemy army arrived, he burrowed out and cast an undead magic, the Weak Space.
Suddenly, the cavalry of hundreds of people and the war horses were attacked at the same time, and such a large range of magic made Pisius also exhausted. He also does not fight the enemy hand-to-hand, but turns around and runs. Where did those soldiers dare to chase him?
The horses fell to the ground one after another, and many of the soldiers in metal armor fell and were injured. In the chaos of stones on both sides, the barbarian jumped out, the huge axe and halberd were picked up horizontally, and the angry Geyi scolded his mother in the back.
The Stranburg soldiers were hit with axes, cut through their armor and bloodied. None of the clothes were usable, and Geichi's plan to change into the enemy's clothes failed.
Without qualified soldiers, any plan is nonsense. Daniel and Frans are all on the magic chariot, and they don't make a move, they have to conserve mental power and magic strings, and they don't start fighting until they enter the city. Now everything depends on two hundred barbarians.
The Barbarian had some problems with his brain, but at least he had the upper hand against twice as many enemies as he was. Because Pisius's necromancy hasn't worked yet, the enemy's strength is less than half of what it usually is.
These hundreds of enemies are not heavy cavalry, but they are not light cavalry, and after losing their horses, no one can run fast. A body of metal armor has become a burden to these soldiers. If they are wearing leather armor. On the contrary, it can fight on par with the barbarians.
The barbarians screamed and cooperated with each other at first, and then simply rushed into the midst of the enemy and slashed wildly. If it weren't for that widespread necromancy, at least half of these barbarians would have died, and now they are on a rampage, relying on the advantage of their armor, except for a few who were accidentally stabbed.
The armor that Salin made for these barbarians was thick and not heavy, which was most suitable for such brute force people. Even without armor, these barbarians fought in a way that slashed at each other, rarely dodging, and whoever was ruthless won. This way of fighting on the battlefield was very disadvantageous, but now the enemy was so weak that he could not wield heavy weapons, and only a straight stab with a sword could hurt them.
This is a very mentally retarded and effective way to play, and the premise is that the enemy's attack power is greatly reduced. The tailor-made weapons that Salin gave them saved them, otherwise the enemy's metal armor would be difficult to penetrate if they fought with stone weapons. The barbarians were no match for the Caucasians, and among the Caucasians there were quite a few forgers who could make sharp metal weapons. The barbarians, on the other hand, use weapons made of obsidian, which can be used against demonic beasts, but not against human soldiers.
It has to be said here that Salin gathered thousands of barbarians and exchanged his metal weapons for a large amount of obsidian. These obsidian stones have been accumulated by barbarians for thousands of years, and some of the barbarians' weapons have been worn for more than ten generations.
Both sides rejoiced, the barbarians were given more powerful weapons, and Saleen was given the precious obsidian.
Ge Yi had no choice but to let the pirates block up from behind and harvest the enemy's lives with bows and crossbows. The pirates' archery skills were manifested at this time, and many barbarians were shot and wounded by the pirates. Fortunately, their armor is good, and none of them were shot. The wounded barbarians were even more terrible, their eyes blood-red and they wielded their axes like madness.
Ge Yi was dumbfounded, he admired Saleen so much, no wonder the adults brought a large amount of repair water to his team, it turned out that he had expected this result for a long time.
A mess of battles, inexplicable victories.
After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, four hundred enemies were slashed before the undead magic wore off. Of course, the armor on all the corpses was also in tatters and could no longer be used.
Luckily, Daniel was lucky, and four hundred more infantry approached and was spotted by one of the flying undead he had released. Geichi was stunned, allowing the pirates to hit head-on.
At this time, Pisius regained some energy and took the lead in rushing forward. Pisius is an eighth-level undead, although the magic is limited to seventh, but the strength and strength of the body have not decreased too much, this impact. The formation of the infantry was reopened. It was also Nash's bad luck that he didn't send a magician with the army, and these infantry didn't prepare in advance.
In Qinyin, most of the infantry were also on horseback, but they were not excellent war horses. The horses of these infantry carried heavy equipment of the infantry, such as iron shields. If these infantry were to be organized and form a three-tiered iron shield for defense, it would be impossible for Pisius to attack directly from the beginning to the end.
There are also many swordsmen in this infantry, and facing Pisius who can't use magic will definitely hurt Pisius's roots. If even one quasi-Juggernaut was hidden among the infantry, it might even kill Pisius. If there was a great magician, Daniel would have cried.
There was no if on the battlefield, Nash's orders were negligent, the two groups came out to search, the infantry and cavalry were separated, and there was a serious disconnection, and there was no magician with him. The previous cavalry was killed by necromancy, and the infantry was pushed out of formation by Pisius, and then the pirates rode skeletal horses and wielded long knives to kill them.
Strictly speaking, even with Pisius in the presence, these pirates were no match for the four hundred infantry. After Pisius killed dozens of soldiers in an instant. More than a dozen swordmen surrounded him, and one of them struck one of Pisius's heads with a long sword in his hand, causing him to rush forward in frenzy, no longer fighting with the soldiers.
This Pisius is a bit special, he is trapped in the plane of the Myers continent, and it is difficult to return to the plane of the undead. If he dies in battle, his soul will dissipate, unlike those summoned skeletons, which can be resurrected on the undead plane.
It was a tragedy for the cavalry to fall into the infantry, and if they could not increase their speed, they would be strangled by the infantry. Especially Qin Yin's elite infantry. Can instantly kill stopped horses. Each infantry had three short weapons, one of which was designed to deal with war horses.
However, Ge's pirates rode undead horses, metal spikes more than a foot long, and they could not be killed at all, unless they were enchanted weapons.
But how can this weapon of ordinary soldiers be enchanted, these well-trained soldiers have already cut down dozens of people after a short period of discomfort.
These pirates were not as elite as Qin Yin's infantry, but their eyes were excellent, and when they saw Pisius fleeing, they immediately made a decision and rushed out of the infantry siege with Pisius. It's a pirate's instinct, and it doesn't need to be trained at all. Ge Yi is going to cry when he looks at it from a distance, the army he has worked so hard to train, is this virtue?
But it was this kind of escape without a fight that saved the pirates, and the skeleton war horse would accelerate suddenly, and Nash's men did not know that they did not organize an effective interception for a while, and the pirates fled after dropping a few corpses. This was only a matter of ten seconds, and Ge Yi had never given such an order at all.
In a dozen seconds, the pirates were killed by four unprepared enemies, and now the pirates were also furious, and they no longer dared to rush into the infantry to fight, but shot arrows from a distance.
If Nash's infantry and cavalry were not disconnected, this tactic would not have worked, but now they are facing infantry on horses, and they can't catch up with skeleton horses at all. But infantry was more difficult to shoot than cavalry, and all infantry had two shields, an iron shield to organize the defense of the position, and a wooden shield to defend against bows and arrows.
Wooden shields can't defend against alchemy crossbows, but they still have some defense against steel crossbows and longbows. Moreover, these infantry were very combative, and only a dozen people were killed in the random arrows.
The infantry took out their crossbow boxes and fired back, but the range of the crossbow boxes was not as good as the steel crossbows in the pirates' hands. During the counterattack, more than a dozen were shot dead by pirates. In less than two minutes, the four hundred infantry were reduced to nearly a hundred. If it had been a rabble, they had now scattered and fled, but the infantry of the two brigades was still retreating to Stellanberg under the orders of the officers. Soldiers use wooden shields to block crossbow arrows.
Three hundred infantry abandoned their horses and retreated on foot, in an orderly manner. After all, there is Stranburg behind, and no matter how strong the enemy is, he will not dare to approach. How did they know that the enemy in front of them had planned to rush into the city.
Ge Yi also felt wrong, and at first the four hundred cavalry died very unjustly, because in a narrow place, they were strangled with the barbarians, and they were hit by undead magic. But the infantry in front of him made Ge Yi's heart tremble.
The regular army is really strong, the pirates have already shot the steel crossbows they carry with them, replaced them with short bows, and began to shoot feathered arrows, half of the pirates have no strength to open their bows, and if this continues, these hundreds of infantry can really escape back to the city.
As a last resort, Ge Yi Hao came to Daniel's hiding place, the chariots were hidden in the dry grass, Ge Yi knocked on the carriage, and said in a low voice: "My lord, the enemy can't take it down." ”
Daniel was also observing the battlefield, and he knew that if he didn't make a move, the pirates would have to retreat and let the enemy escape.
"Well, you gather the barbarians, protect the chariots, and we will hit head-on. "Daniel gave the right order, otherwise his fight today would have ended in a comedy and a tragedy.