"Chapter 142: Victory in Hold"
As I struggled aimlessly through a vague space, I began to experience a feeling that I could no longer escape, that a demon had locked me in this mortal world and weighed me down. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
- Massimo Gramelini (Vice-President, Journalist and Columnist, Italian newspaper News)
Javelinmen are one of the most powerful units against the pikemen, especially under the premise that the pikemen who form the pikemen are defenseless, the javelinmen's close shooting javelins is definitely an excellent way to effectively kill and injure pikemen.
War is like this, an unexpected act of an ordinary soldier can change the outcome of a battle, and the spear insignees of the Spo family, because of that almost desperate pikeman, have found a good way to attack the pike.
The Macedonian royal pikemen and the Spartan hoplites were both pikemen in the hoplite sequence, and their armament was much better than that of ordinary pikemen, and in addition to the extra-long spears used in battle, the sturdy round shield was also a must-have equipment.
The lucky spear Ashigaru was able to get away with it because the royal pikemen had developed a bad habit in their battles with the barbarian warriors, and that was to hang their shields on their arms.
The barbarian warriors with strong combat effectiveness will not use any bells and whistles to deal with the spear phalanx of the Roman army, they will only use their bravery and fearlessness to attack the spear phalanx again and again, even if they are all killed, they should not change the way of attack.
The upright barbarian warriors forced the pikemen of Rome to lay down their shields and hold the spears in their hands with all their strength to cope with the fierce onslaught of the barbarian warriors.
Real warfare is not a virtual online game, and these pikemen armed with super spears and round shields are not rigid system NPCs, they know how to adapt to war by changing themselves, which is their advantage, and sometimes it can bring them a crisis.
The Yamato Empire's ashigaru troops were more than a star and a half inferior in combat effectiveness to the barbarian warriors, which was a disadvantage for them, but sometimes it also brought them a turnaround, because they were more flexible and flexible than the barbarian warriors.
The death of a royal pikeman awakens the royal pikemen and Spartan hoplites, who have not changed their habits, and realizes that as the enemy changes, so does their way of fighting.
So they took up the shield that they hung on their arms again, and held it high in their hands to deal with the enemy's special javelin attack, and the heavy pikemen who picked up the shield in time paid a great price.
Most of the spears that were thrown in dense numbers were bounced off by the shield walls erected by the pikemen, but there were also a considerable number of fish that slipped through the gaps in the shield walls, killing the hapless royal pikemen inside.
Wave after wave of flying spears killed about thirty royal pikemen, but more than half of the enemy pikes lost their weapons, and the empty-handed enemy army was the equivalent of lambs to the slaughter!
"Thales, you immediately rush up with Nanbu Rizhi and Izumiyama Masayoshi, as well as the hundred samurai under their command, I don't need you to complete any special tasks, you just give me as many kills as possible!"
"Yes!" Thales, who was on his horse, turned his horse's head and led his warriors out to kill him.
The precise strikes of the Parthian archers had already strangled the warriors in the Spo family's army, and there were almost no more samurai among the remaining Spo family soldiers who were still fighting, which was why Bai Feng was relieved to let Thales attack.
The strength of Nanbu Rinao and Izumiyama Masayoshi is not very good, that is, they are slightly stronger than ordinary samurai, and in such a chaotic battle, only to ensure their safety Bai Feng will let them out, otherwise if they die in battle, it will be troublesome.
The Yanhuang family did not lack two high-ranking warriors of average strength, but Nanbu Xinzhi and Quanshan Gukang could not lack their eldest son, otherwise, even if they did not complain about Bai Feng, their own family would be caught in the battle for the heir to the family governor.
This is more than worth the loss for the Yanhuang family, so Bai Feng wants to send them out to fight on the premise of ensuring the safety of the southern Lizhi and Quanshan Zhengyi;
Hundreds of samurai rushed into the battlefield under the leadership of Thales, and slaughtered into the army of the Spo family like a flock of sheep, neither the ashigaru with the weapon in his hand nor the ashigaru with the spear in his hand could stop the fierce attack of these samurai.
With the samurai under the command of Thales to suppress the offensive momentum of the enemy army, Maxi also grasped the opportunity and ordered his hoplites to advance slowly, and used the spear phalanx to compress the enemy's combat range and cooperate with Thales to defeat the morale of the enemy army.
At this point in the battle, there was actually no suspense, and among the 4,000 troops of the Spo family who took the initiative to attack, 3,500 spearmen had already suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and if they were not for the most elite soldiers of the Spo family, I am afraid that the entire army would have collapsed long ago.
Even if they were barely resisting, it would not be enough to change the tide of the battle, the slowly advancing phalanx of spears, the hundreds of warriors struggling to assault, and the Parthian archers who had been cruising on the edge of the battlefield with bows and arrows, the Yanhuang family had all the advantages!
As for the archers and arrows who were scattered at the beginning, the closed city gate did not open no matter how much they cried, and the Shitian Quantai on the city wall was also shocked by the combat effectiveness of the Yanhuang family's army, he didn't expect the Yanhuang family's army's combat effectiveness to be so strong!
In fact, the reason why Shikuda Kantai came up with a plan to cooperate with the outside was not that he had no way to directly capture Gaoshui Temple City, but that he wanted to test the combat effectiveness of the Yanhuang family's army in this way, so as to position the capital in his hands.
Bai Feng, who had received the secret letter from Shikita Kantai, saw through the little trick played by Shikita Kantai at a glance, so he deliberately blocked the most combat-effective personal guard battalion under his command at the east gate of Takamizu Temple Castle, and used a massacre to deter Shikita Kantai who had distracting thoughts.
Shikita knew that the governor of the Yanhuang family was in the army outside the city, and Bai Feng also knew that Shikita was on the walls of Takamizuji Castle, and both of them were watching each other until the bows and arrows were blocked outside the city by the closed gates.
Bai Feng, who did not want to waste such a great opportunity, ordered Darnell to lead his companion cavalry and ironclad cavalry to pursue these arrows and arrows that had no way out, and Darnell, who received the order, immediately led the cavalry to roar out and gallop towards the east gate of Gaoshui Temple City.
The arrows fired by the crumbling archers were tickling for heavily armed hoplites, and the archers surrendered with heavy casualties.