Chapter Fifty-Five: Shame
In Wu Liang's mouth, the mountain people are equal to the bandits.
It is said that these mountain hunters do not know any martial arts, their tricks are all practiced in hunting and robbery, these people can run like the wind in the dense forest, can track the injured prey and run through several mountains, can shoot birds and finches twenty or thirty steps away in the dense woods, although they have not practiced martial arts, but the steel fork in their hands is accurate and ruthless, and it is a deadly trick to get started.
To tell the truth, compared to the apprentice armament that Chen Xian had carefully created, these hunters in front of him with rudimentary weapons and messy leather looked like they should be vulnerable, but for some reason, Chen Xian suddenly felt bottomless when he saw this group of people.
Today is different from that night, there are house walls that night to block the enemy outside, giving Chen Xian a great sense of security, at this time in the wilderness, thinking of the fate after defeat, Chen Xian's psychology for no reason slightly panicked.
The running hunters stopped two hundred paces away from the convoy.
They paused and looked at the convoy for a moment, and several people who seemed to be the leaders gathered to discuss for a while, and then the chaotic group of hunters formed a simple formation.
Some hunters with rudimentary wooden shields joined their shields in groups of three to form a small shield wall, while other hunters hid behind them.
More than a hundred hunters formed eight small shield walls, arranged in a loose array tens of meters wide in a horizontal plane, and pressed up in a semicircle towards the side of the car formation.
The four shield arrays slowly approached to a distance of more than thirty steps from the car array, stopped, and the three shield players who formed the shield wall moved the shield slightly, so that the gap between the shield and the shield was two fists wide, and then, a sharp arrow passed through the gap between the shields, accurately crossed the shield in front of the mandarin duck array, passed through the branches of the wolf, and shot at the young soldier behind.
Most of the arrows were blocked by the cloth armor on the young man's body, but a few arrows also hit the young man's unarmored parts, and some short and patient cries reached Chen Xian's ears.
This cry was like a bolt of lightning, waking up Chen Xian, who was in the battle for the first time and didn't know how to deal with it in a panic in the face of the enemy's attack.
The threat of death and the desire to survive made him overcome fear and panic, and his heart calmed down, after calming down, the scenes in the usual training exercises suddenly appeared clearly in Chen Xian's mind, and he subconsciously shouted loudly according to the experience of the usual exercises: "The crossbowmen shoot freely for a round, retreat, the first and second squads change into an assault formation, insert into the gap in the opponent's formation, change into a two-talent formation, attack the flank of the opponent's shield formation, and the three or four squads change into an assault formation, and attack from the left and right sides!" ”
Hearing Chen Xian's order, the heavy crossbow arrows in the hands of the crossbowmen in the front row and the crossbowmen on the taxi shot out angrily.
Most of the crossbowmen in the front row were blocked by the hunters' shield walls, but the heavy crossbows fired by the apprentices in the cart were quite successful.
From the high point of the cart, the crossbowmen could shoot beyond the hunters' shield walls and shoot to the team behind the shield walls, and the crossbowmen subconsciously aimed at the hunter archer who had just shot and wounded their companions.
Almost no one of the crossbowmen on the cart missed, and a dozen crossbowmen shot dead and wounded seven or eight archers behind the shield wall at once.
The sudden blow caused the attack of the hunter shooter behind the shield wall to swoop.
At the same time, the young men of the Mandarin Duck Formation, who had long been impatient, pounced towards the opponent's formation like young tigers coming out of the gate.
The arrows shot by these Orions are extremely accurate, almost every arrow can hit the target, but the arrows they shoot are not very powerful, with Chen Xian's many years of experience in playing with bows, the bow they use does not exceed seventy pounds, such a powerful arrow, if it is shot on the flesh and blood of the beast without covering, it is naturally cut through the flesh and bones, full of power, but shot on the cloth armor carefully prepared by Chen Xian for the young apprentice, but the effect is not great, even if the shot is not attached to the iron armor, it will be reduced by the ten layers of linen layered armed clothing, which can only inflict limited minor injuries on the teenager who is hit by the arrow.
These teenagers who were brainwashed by Chen Xian, with firm ideals in their hearts, coupled with the recklessness of the newborn calf who are not afraid of tigers, do not know what fear is at all, such a person, after strict training, let him develop the instinct of obedience and discipline, is the best soldier.
This group of teenagers, even if they were injured, even if they had arrows hanging on their bodies, after hearing Chen Xian's order, without exception, they rushed forward without hesitation.
Changing from a defensive formation to a two-column attack formation was as natural as breathing for these teenagers, and the change was completed in the blink of an eye.
A moment later, two small formations of mandarin ducks plunged into the gap between the enemy's four shield arrays like two sharp knives.
There was a distance of five or six meters between these four shield arrays, barely enough for the Mandarin Duck Array to spread.
After insertion, the Mandarin Duck Town split into two, and then divided into two small columns, and slammed into the crowd of hunters crowded behind the shield diagonally.
Half of the hunters were archers with bows and arrows and short weapons, and only a few long soldiers with hunting forks and knives were followed behind the group.
It is said that it is a long soldier, and the Pu knife and the hunting fork are both less than two meters long, and in front of the four-meter spear in the mandarin duck array, they can only be regarded as short weapons.
Such a short weapon, being shielded and wolf-stricken, is simply not within reach of the sought-after behind.
What happens when a group of soldiers in iron armor, rigorously trained, armed with long weapons, crash into a militia group with no armor-piercing short weapons?
It was not enough to describe the momentum, and the boys, as they usually trained, kept stabbing the spears in their hands as they usually trained, and almost did not feel any resistance, and scattered the hunters behind the shields.
At this moment, the two squads outflanked from both sides also came into contact with the two flanks of the Hunter's shield array.
With this kind of shield wall formation of the hunter, it is very difficult to turn into a change formation.
In front of the well-trained Mandarin Duck Array, the two shield arrays on the outside were quickly successfully sideways.
The almost armless hunters, except for the shields on the front, the flanks were soft as butter, and the well-trained mandarin duck array was like two red-hot blades, penetrating the two teams almost without hindrance......
From contact to collapse, it was only a short dozen seconds, and it was so fast that Chen Xian didn't even have time to be scared and nervous, and the hunters collapsed.
Chen Xian looked at all this in amazement, and there was a wave of shame in his heart, ashamed of his cowardice and cowardice, and annoyed that he had made a mistake in front of such a weak enemy because of fear.
In a moment's astonishment, the boys had already run a long way after the fleeing hunter.
When they fled, the light leather on the hunters showed their benefit, and they ran like flying, and soon distanced themselves from the teenagers.
Seeing that the teenagers had broken up the group, Chen Xian reacted and hurriedly blew the whistle on his chest.
Hearing the unique rhythm of Chen Xian's whistle, the teenagers began to recycle the team unsatisfied.