"Chapter 37: Bluffing"
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The Parthian archers who originally followed Hakuho participated in almost every battle in which the city of Rome rose, from the battle between Rome and the Tasia tribes of the savage lands to the battle between Rome and the Tsugaru clan of the Yamato Empire.
Even if Bai Feng described this team of Parthian archers with outstanding merits, it is not an exaggeration, so the centurion of this group of Parthian archers, Assasis, naturally became the battlefield commander of the three teams of Parthian archers.
Dressed in purple leather armor characteristic of the Parthian kingdom, Assassis wields a swarthy cavalry lance and wears an iron helmet glowing with silver on his head, which in fact is the symbol of Asassis's centurion status.
The other one hundred and seven Parthian archers were also dressed in purple leather armor, but they wore leather helmets on their heads, and the galloping cavalrymen could not identify the centurion by the difference between their weapons, and the helmet on their head was the best reference for them.
After commanding three teams of Parthian archers galloping away from the fortress, Assassis did not blindly lead his archers straight to the orc army's barracks, but stopped his advance two miles away from the orc barracks.
"Upadama, you lead the second group of archers to advance from the left flank to the enemy's camp, within 500 meters, do not get close to the enemy's camp within 500 meters, and once you find that the enemy army is ready to assemble, immediately withdraw to the original position!"
"No!" Centurion Upadama, the centurion of the second team of Parthian archers, gave the order and slowly advanced from the left flank with his cavalry.
"Athos, you lead the third team of archers to advance from the right flank to the enemy camp, and you are also limited to 500 meters, and you are not allowed to approach the enemy camp without permission!"
"No!" Athos, who had acted on the battlefield without thinking, accepted the order without thinking.
It was only after Upadama and Athos had led two teams of Parthian archers from his flanks that Assassis himself led his Parthian archers to advance slowly, 2,000 meters, 1,500 meters, 1,000 meters, 700 meters, and 500 meters......
It took three groups of Parthian archers to complete the journey of 1,500 meters, and to Assasis' surprise, the orc army in the orc camp did not move, as if they were not aware of the approach of himself and the others.
Atasis, who has rich combat experience, has fought against the barbarian tribes in the barbarian land, and has fought with the powerful families of the Yamato Empire, but the orc army in front of him is the first time that Assassis has faced it, and he is not sure whether the other party is careless or has other plans.
After a moment's thought, the resolute Atasis led his Parthian cavalry to continue to advance, while the cavalry of Upadama and Athos were left in place, 500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters......
The distance of two hundred meters was enough for Assassis to see with the naked eye the deployment in the orc barracks: dozens of listless orc patrol warriors were sitting around a clearing in the barracks chatting about something, and it was unknown whether there were orcs in the other military tents.
How could there be less than fifty orcs in the huge barracks, and all the other orcs were in the tents? As soon as this possibility came up, it was vetoed by Assasis, because no matter how lazy the orc warriors were, they could not sleep in the tents in the daytime!
To find out, Assassis decided to risk the annihilation of his own cavalry archers by launching an assault on the orc army's barracks, which would be known with a little proximity.
The brave and skilled Parthian archers, under the command of Assassis, urged their seated horses with all their strength towards the orc barracks surrounded by low fences, and the great movement of the cavalry charge instantly woke up the orc warriors who were still idle in the barracks.
The fighting instincts of orc warriors are indeed much stronger than those of human warriors, one second they heard the sound of horses galloping, the next second they picked up their weapons and prepared to meet them, but they were greeted by a rain of arrows from the Parthian archers.
The arrows fired by the Parthian archers with a level 3 experience were more lethal than those fired by ordinary archers, and the physical defenses that orc warriors were most proud of were easily torn apart by the rain of arrows fired by the Parthian archers.
In the first round of arrow rain alone, a third of the orc warriors who had no time to react were shot on the spot, and then two rounds of arrow rain followed, and the orc warriors who narrowly escaped the first round of arrow rain followed in the footsteps of their comrades in an instant.
Forty-seven orc warriors were killed by three rounds of arrows from the Parthian archers, but the tent in the barracks was still quiet, and there was not even a trace of movement.
After dismounting and opening four tents in succession, Assassis was sure that there were actually only forty-seven orc warriors stationed in this barracks, which could accommodate an army of 100,000 orcs, and that such a great piece of information must be sent back to the fortress and handed over to the governor as soon as possible!
Before Atasis could sit down on his horse, he saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising into the sky not far ahead, and according to Atasis's experience, the minimum number of cavalry troops that could roll up smoke and dust of this scale was more than 30,000!
The orc army was about seven miles from Fortress No. 12, and the cavalry in front was about four miles away, and with the unusually rapid advance of the enemy cavalry, it was likely that they would catch up with their own archers before they returned to the fortress.
"You two retreat back at once, let Centurion Upadama and Centurion Athos withdraw with you to the fortress, and report the situation in this camp to the Governor in detail!"
"No!"
The two archers, chosen by Assassis, also understood how urgent the situation was, and as soon as they received the order of their centurion, they directly adjusted their horses and galloped in the direction of the fortress behind them.
Seeing their departing backs, Assassis did not choose to stay in the barracks to stop the enemy's approaching cavalry, but led the remaining archers to charge the flank of the enemy cavalry army from the southeast of the barracks.
In less than a minute, Atasis, who was charging with all his might, could see clearly what this orc cavalry army looked like, and Atasis, who had no idea about the composition of orcs, did not know that this orc cavalry was the most ferocious werewolf cavalry unit among the orcs!
The disproportionate battle of one hundred and six Parthian archers, including Assassis, against thirty thousand elite werewolf cavalry, was destined to be a tragedy from the start, and the first round of arrows from the archers killed less than ten wolf cavalry.
Even so, they managed to attract the attention of the wolf cavalry, who followed closely behind the archers, howling and screaming monstrous revenge slogans, trying to tear apart all the archers who shot them in their robes!
From time to time, the archers who were frantically whipping their horses would turn around and shoot an arrow, causing a certain obstacle to the wolf cavalry pursuing them, but the distance between the two sides was still getting closer and closer, until the archers did not even have a chance to shoot arrows.