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The two torrents quickly collided together, and the side with longer weapons and tighter battle formations quickly gained the upper hand on the battlefield!
The Minotaur and Pig-headed hoplites who rushed to the front row quickly slowed down, and the scene they imagined of the human soldiers being crushed at the touch of a button did not appear.
As usual, they chose the most familiar combat method, quickly rushing towards the human battle formation and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
But when they rushed to a place about thirty meters away from the human battle array, they encountered a wave of baptism of arrows.
The human crossbowmen who had retreated before appeared in the center of the battle formation at this time, shooting straight at them.
Although they wore heavy armor, at such a close distance, their iron armor naturally could not stop the strong bow and crossbow of the human race, and the steel arrows on the bow could easily penetrate the iron armor and penetrate the thick skin that they were proud of.
This wave brought serious damage to the minotaurs, and the pig-headed people were better, because these pig-headed people had a problem, they usually liked to roll in the mud and take mud baths, so the skin under the heavy armor still had a thick layer of crust on it.
This layer of crust slows down the damage of those bows and arrows.
Finally rushed to a place ten meters away from the human battle array, and the minotaurs and pig-headed people skillfully took out throwing weapons such as short axes and iron hammers from their waists, and threw them into the large phalanx of humans.
But in front of the damn human battle array was a row of shield holders, and they were holding huge shields two meters high covered with iron sheets, and these huge shields were stuck in the ground, like a moving city wall, blocking a lot of hand axes and hammers.
Occasionally, there were some short axes that flew into the human battle formation behind, and they did hit a few soldiers, but soon someone came up from behind...
The human phalanx stopped moving, and the shield-bearers in the front stuck their iron shields on the ground, and the spearmen in the back rows put their spears on the shields in front.
The human phalanx immediately turned into hedgehogs, making the minotaurs and pig-headed people who rushed close to them feel overwhelmed.
The lion and leopard-headed people who rushed through the barrier behind them were red-eyed at this time, they had paid huge casualties before the barrier, and now they could finally fight these damn humans hand-to-hand, and they were going to kill hard.
He even plans to kill all these humans in order to relieve the hatred in their hearts.
Seeing this hedgehog-like battle formation, the bulky minotaurs and pig-headed people may be helpless, but they are already familiar with breaking this formation.
Accelerating from a distance of more than ten meters, ignoring the arrows shot from the middle of the phalanx, he quickly rushed to the front of the phalanx, where there was a row of lion people, standing in opposite directions with leopard-headed people, holding their hands on their chests and taking a ladder.
The lion man and the leopard-headed man who rushed over from behind screamed, raised their feet and stepped on the hands of the human ladder in front of them, and then kicked hard, plus the human ladder also exerted force with both hands at this time.
The lion and leopard-headed man, who were already excellent at jumping, immediately soared into the air, jumped more than five meters high, and volleyed towards the phalanx of human soldiers.
Some of them were fast, and they even picked up the axes in their hands and smashed them down in the air, and if there were timid human soldiers, they would instinctively disperse, so that the phalanx would immediately appear gap.
In the past, they used this way to attack the battle formation of the human imperial army, which was tried and tested, and it was easy to break the formation.
As long as a few leaders rushed in, and the back continued to follow, soon the human battle formation was back in chaos, and the heavy infantry behind cooperated to launch a frontal impact, and the human battle formation immediately collapsed.
It's a pity that their previous experience is not easy to use in the phalanx in front of them.
There were indeed a few unlucky people who were killed by the throwing axes they threw in the air, but the human phalanx did not panic.
At the stall where they flew down in the air, there were more than a dozen dense spears, stabbing towards the sky.
Dozens of heroic lion men and leopard-headed people were strung into blood gourds in the air, and then thrown back by human spearmen in the air.
Seeing that this commonly used method of breaking the formation in the past was not easy to use, the heavy armored infantry of the Minotaur and the Pig-headed people also began to exert their brute strength, and the surge of adrenaline, coupled with the boiling of beast blood, made these half-orc warriors begin to talk about life and death.
Ignoring the hedgehog-like spears in front of them, several bull-headed and pig-headed hoplites rushed towards the phalanx with a roar.
Halfway through the rush, they were already pierced into a blood gourd by the spears stretched out from the back row of the phalanx, but they did not fall to the ground screaming, but continued to charge forward with a roar.
The heavy infantry in the back row also went forward one after another, and the lion and leopard-headed men in the back kept throwing axes and short spears into the human phalanx, suppressing the crossbowmen in the middle of the phalanx.
The battle situation has entered the most tragic white-knuckle fighting stage!
However, how can the blood and courage of the orcs be worthy of the killing machines that humans have trained for a long time.
Kyle's long-term training has taught these soldiers that if they encounter an orc head-on on the battlefield, they don't have to think about running.
Neither body nor speed has an advantage, and you can't beat the orcs alone, and you can't run away from them.
So if you don't want to die, and you don't want to be a prisoner, then you have to rely on the whole, rely on the battle formation that they are familiar with and practiced thousands of times, and only their comrades-in-arms are the most trustworthy objects.
The phalanx of human spears, which had already achieved no distractions, was completely transformed into a killing machine at this time, and someone in the front row fell, and someone in the back row made up for it.
The spear more than three meters long, coupled with the three-edged steel head thirty centimeters in front, quickly made up for the gap between the physical fitness and protection ability of humans and half-orcs.
At such a close distance, if a human is hit hard by a half-orc, it will definitely be the end of the burp, and the half-orc is the same, if a human is stabbed by a gun, it will definitely fall to the ground immediately.
The lethality of this three-edged bayonet is too strong, the special groove ensures bloodletting and easy extraction, and the hard spearhead can be pierced even if it is on the iron armor.
And after being stabbed by this thing, if the injuries are in the limbs, the half-orcs will basically immediately have blood gushing like a spring, and they will lose their combat effectiveness within almost half a minute.
If you stab yourself in the torso, after half a minute, you're basically going to see God.
At the forefront of the battle line, almost every second, human soldiers and half-orc soldiers fell, and the battle fell into a frenzied stalemate.
And at this moment, a scene that broke the balance appeared, and the fierce fire oil tanks from the four corners of the human phalanx suddenly began to join the battle group.
The fierce fire oil tank, which had been lurking silently before, suddenly started to launch from two opposite corners when it saw that the number of orcs in the front row had been dense to a certain extent.
Under the crossfire, such a close distance covered the closed battlefield, and the orcs who were really directly opposite had almost no possibility of escaping in the future.
Three times in a row, there were hundreds of more torches in front of the battle array.
The half-orc front, which had just relied on a mouthful of blood and was fighting hard with the human battle formation, quickly collapsed at this moment.
Countless lit humanoid torches screamed and began to scurry around the battlefield, and one by one they were shot to the ground by human crossbowmen.
The heavy infantry that kept up behind was also cut off by the humanoid torches scurrying around on the battlefield at this time, and had to slow down.
Soon, the catapults and rhubarb crossbows behind the human battle array began to aim at the only breach in this barrier, and the orcs who had just come out of here were hit hard.
They didn't even have time to set up a formation, and they were smashed by a volley of watermelon-sized stone bullets.
The chain hammers and large crossbow arrows that flew over could take the lives of more than a dozen people with each blow.
The situation on the battlefield began to develop in the direction of human superiority.
Countless Minotaur and Pig-headed soldiers fell at the exit of this passage, and the soldiers behind also began to hesitate, obviously the situation in front of them made them hesitate.
Although they didn't have a bright brain, the instinct of the beast told them that rushing over at this time would be to die, so they hesitated.
Seeing that the balance on the battlefield began to gradually tilt in favor of mankind, suddenly there were several more breakthroughs on the barbed wire barrier in front of it.
It turned out that the rhinoceros and hippopotamus hoplites in the back finally caught up, and these guys were too slow to charge, so they were always behind the large army.
And at this time, they finally came to the front line, and the barbed wire fence that annoyed those people's families was also a trouble for them who were top-notch and thick-skinned, but it could only be regarded as a minor trouble.
With a few clicks on the iron knife wheel in their hands, they could cut through these barbed wires, and at the same time, they also brought a lot of planks, so they quickly opened several breakthroughs in the barbed wire barrier.
Rushing from behind the barrier, as soon as they saw the scene on the battlefield, these hippopotamus people and rhinoceros people immediately had red eyes, when did the orcs be beaten so badly by humans in close combat?
They quickly spread out their formation in the Quarantine Zone, and the human catapults and rhubarb crossbows also quickly adjusted the direction of their main attack and began to attack them.
Although it also caused them some damage, but at this time the hippopotamus and rhinoceros people had begun to go berserk, in the face of watermelon-sized stone bullets, they did not dodge, stone bullets smashed on the heavy iron frame they hung, clang, but not enough to kill them.
However, the giant arrows fired by the big yellow crossbow hurt them more, similar to the giant bow fired by the python longbowman, the bow fired by the big yellow ballista is also more than a meter long, and it is full of power.
Hit these rhinos and hippopotamus people, and you can shoot through them instantly, and five or six rhinos and hippopotamus people are shot to the ground on the spot.
But after such a while, they have quickly adjusted their formation and rushed towards the human phalanx...