"Celtic longbowmen?"

Viscount Talloch, who had been standing on the tower of the central camp of the formation, and observed the battle situation from a distance, naturally saw more than a thousand infantry being wiped out under ten volleys.

"That's amazing!" Seeing this, Viscount Talloch did not laugh angrily, but shook his head and exclaimed: "A few hundred longbowmen, ten salvos can annihilate more than a thousand infantry, it's incredible!" ”

Of course he was happy. Being able to use more than a thousand cannon fodder to test out the Celtic longbowmen's stock is a pretty good deal. If the Celtic longbowmen had been hiding and not attacking, and had to wait until the critical moment to suddenly exert their might and cause a large number of casualties to their important troops, then he would be in a lot of trouble.

But now, now that the Celtic longbowmen have been exposed, their threat is much less.

Tullock said, "The commander of the Imperial Army is still too tender. With a big name like the Celtic Longbowman in his hand, how can he play it so early? Shooting more than a thousand servant troops looks very majestic, but what is the significance of the battle situation? We have a lot of servants. And once the Celtic longbowmen are exposed, they lose their suddenness, they are not worth mentioning. ”

"Your Excellency is right. The Celtic longbowmen, although strong, had no less obvious weaknesses. Viscount Tullock's personal mage advisor smiled, "As long as the weather conditions of heavy rain and wind are created, the power of Celtic longbowmen will be greatly reduced, and they will become similar to ordinary archers. And a few hundred ordinary archers, in such a big battle, is not a threat. ”

To the Servant Army, and indeed to the regular army of the Holy Light Alliance in general, the Celtic Longbowmen were a great threat.

But in the eyes of Tullock and his mage advisors, the exposed Celtic longbowmen, even the royal guards, had a very limited impact on the rest of the battle.

Of course, a fortified city with Celtic longbowmen could not be defeated by servant armies alone. However, Tullock had no hope of servants. He even wished that the Celtic longbowmen would shoot more servants to drain their energy and body.

You know, using a Celtic longbow is no easy task.

Ordinary people don't have enough strength to even open a bow. And a warrior with enough strength will not be able to open the bow to the fullest due to the height and length of his arms.

Even a strong man like the Celtic longbowmen, who was more than two meters tall, had a limit to the number of times he could shoot his bow.

And even if you don't reach the limit and don't run out of energy, the power of the shot will become weaker and weaker as the number of shots increases.

It couldn't be more cost-effective to use the lives of worthless servant troops to consume the body and energy of the Celtic longbowmen.

"The Celtic Longbowmen should be the strongest ranged force in the Imperial Army in the level." Tullock said: "But with the Celtic longbowmen guarding it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to test the composition of the Imperial Army's melee troops in Guancheng." ”

Guarded by hundreds of Celtic longbowmen, the longbowmen with the advantage of the city's defense can shoot at will and easily shoot the servants of the Holy Light Alliance who charge the city. Coupled with the rest of the long-range fire assistance, with the combat effectiveness of the servant army, I am afraid that tens of thousands of dead and wounded may not be able to touch the city wall.

Even if you touch the city wall, it is difficult to climb to the top of the city. And if you can't climb to the top of the city and enter the melee fight, you can't test the melee class of the Imperial Army.

This made Viscount Talloch, who was bent on testing the composition of the Imperial Army's strength to repay the big man who admired him, feel a little regretful.

"However, it is already a great achievement to be able to test the storage of Kyle's longbowman." Tullock thought to himself: "If you don't know that there are hundreds of Celtic longbowmen, when His Highness leads the army to attack the city, I am afraid that he will be killed and injured by the Celtic longbowmen." And now that it is known, with defense, the Celtic longbowmen are of little use. ”

At this time, a herald rushed to the door and said in a loud voice: "Your Excellency, General Laprov has asked for reinforcements!" There are 500 Celtic Royal Praetorian Guards in the Imperial Army, and the regular troops cannot break through the Celtic Royal Praetorian Guard's blockade of arrows, and he needs the help of the spellcaster! ”

"There are no spellcasters." Tullock grimaced and said, "Sue Sù Laprov, I don't have a spell caster to send him. Even if there were, they wouldn't send their precious mages to use against the longbowmen. ”

Celtic longbowmen, though restrained by mages, can also threaten mages. A mage with a slightly lower level and insufficient strength in his talisman spell will have little power to fight back in front of the Celtic longbowmen. Before he could finish a spell, the longbowman had already shot a dozen arrows to turn people into hedgehogs.

To deal with Celtic longbowmen, only mages of the intermediate rank and above can do it. And it can only deal with a dozen longbowmen at the same time. The Celtic royal guards, which numbered as many as five hundred, did not dare to attack them directly, even if they were high-level mages.

In fact, the most appropriate and safest way to use mages against longbowmen is to concentrate a large number of mages and cast large-scale spells together to create climatic conditions that weaken the Celtic longbowmen. But with the number of mages that Tulok had on hand, there was no way to create such conditions.

Or use high-level or even legendary mages to cast large-scale killing magic. However, the Imperial Army's level is well defended, hiding in a hollow enemy platform, or in a hidden cave in the corner of the city, and ordinary high-level magic cannot cause damage to the Imperial Army.

A wide range of high-level killing magic, when activated, there is a lot of movement, and it is almost impossible to conceal it. And once there is a big movement, there are also spellcasters in the imperial army in Guancheng, and they will have the conditions to intercept and disperse.

As for spellcasters like clerics and battle priests, changing the climate is not what they are good at. And although they have strong personal combat effectiveness, they are not afraid of longbowmen, but when fighting longbowmen, casualties are inevitable. Tullock didn't dare send priests and battle priests to fight the longbowmen.

After all, the Celtic longbowmen were just a bunch of exiles who had lost their homeland, and their lives were as worthless to Tulloch as his army of servants. Where is it more expensive than the priests and battle priests of the Holy Church?

When Tarlock refused Laprov's request for help, the herald added: "But Your Excellency, General Laprov said that without the caster, with the strength at hand, he would not have been able to climb to the top of the city and test the composition of the Imperial Army's melee forces. ”

"Then heap it with human life." Tullock said with an unchanging face, "How many people do he still have?" Is there 10,000 people? All sent up and let the Celtic longbowmen kill. There are still 70,000 troops in the back, and we have soldiers. Celtic longbowmen are not puppets either, they will always get tired. I don't believe they can shoot tens of thousands of people!

"Sue Sù Laprov, I allow him to drive any army of servants at will, and allow him to consume the army of servants at will. The only thing I ask of him is that the offensive cannot be stopped, and as many people as there are dead, and the Celtic longbowmen must not be given even a minute of respite. I want him to wear out the Celtic longbowmen alive! ”

……

The battlefield, which had been silent for a while due to the prowess of the longbowmen, became fierce again.

Under the cover of the long-range fire of the forward base, a large number of servants of the Holy Light Alliance rushed out howling and rushed out in a straggler line, rushing up the hillside and rushing towards the city wall.

Because the first batch of 2,000 soldiers who were wiped out in the city had a ladder, the next one to charge simply did not even bring the ladder, rushed to the middle of the way to pick up the ladder dropped by the pioneers, carried it and continued to rush forward.

Of course, the Imperial Army would not let the coalition forces storm the city, and soon the artillery of all sizes on the city began to fire one after another, and the musketeers and crossbowmen also began to fire volleys, sprinkling a metal storm on the Holy Light Alliance Army to speak for the Grim Reaper.

The sound of gunfire and shouts resounded through the sky again, the smoke of gunpowder began to thicken again, the air was full of the smell of gunpowder, and everywhere there were arrows, bullets, and shells. Every second someone is bleeding, screaming, and dying.

Of course, most of the dead were soldiers from the Holy Light Alliance. To this day, the Imperial side still suffers few casualties.

Only when the second round of stones fell into the city, one soldier was killed by a stone bullet in the head, and his bones were gone.

That unlucky soldier was the first death of the Imperial Army since the beginning of the war. Apart from him, there were no more war dead in the Imperial Army.

However, since then, the number of wounded has gradually increased.

In particular, after the bows, crossbows, artillery, and muskets in the advance base of the coalition forces below were fired at the defenders at the head of the city for a long time, even though the imperial army on the city had comprehensive defense facilities, many people were lost by stray bullets and arrows, and many of them were seriously wounded.

Fortunately, the Imperial Army defended the city and fought, and the wounded were able to be transferred to a safe environment in time and received careful treatment and care. Therefore, even if there are more serious injuries, there is no life-threatening situation.

This second straggler stormed the city, and under the blows of various long-range fires in the city, it quickly fell silent. Hundreds of people lay dead on the hillside.

Among them, the ones who killed the most enemies were naturally the Celtic longbowmen.

This time they did not fire a salvo, but fired freely, just as efficiently. Under the efficient attack of the Celtic longbowmen as the main force, the second group of servants of the Holy Light Alliance who rushed to the city were still nearly twenty meters away from the root of the city wall.

However, before the second group of Holy Light Alliance servants who rushed to the city were completely dead, another group of Holy Light Alliance servants flashed with a divine aura blessed with a glorious aura, roaring like crazy baboons, and rushed out of the forward base in a frenzy, spreading out the formation and rushing in one go.

There is no doubt that even if the aura of glory is blessed, it can't stop the heavy arrows fired by the Celtic longbowmen, the cannonballs fired by large and small cannons, and even the vital musket bullets such as straight eyes and ears.

This third group of coalition troops rushed quickly and died quickly. No matter how much you spread out the formation and how you keep the spacing, even if you can greatly reduce the firing efficiency of the volley of guns and artillery, it will not reduce the killing efficiency of the free-firing Celtic longbowmen.

As a result, the third group of hundreds of troops was quickly wiped out. The fastest rush was also more than 20 meters away from the corner. But when the third group was not dead, the fourth group of hundreds of allied troops came out of the camp again!