Section 131: Indiscriminate shooting
The battle gradually became fierce, and the hand-to-hand combat often made the commander lose his mind, but Jeffrey looked at the battlefield very calmly, he knew that the basis of his victory came from two aspects, on the one hand, Bruce could not mobilize his vassal forces, but now two vassals joined the battle, and on the other hand, the support of the Duke of Bemessi, but now it has also come to naught.
"Lord, their men have the upper hand." An adjutant looked nervously at the battlefield and said to Jeffrey worriedly.
"Archers ready." Jeffrey licked his dry lips and waved his hand to the adjutant.
"Archers? Now? The adjutant looked at his lord in surprise, the archery team is usually used before the battle, the intention is to weaken the enemy's strength, but now that the soldiers on both sides have been mixed together, if they use bows and arrows, I am afraid that they will accidentally injure their own people.
"Yes, do as I say." Jeffrey glared at his lieutenant and yelled at him.
"Yes, my lord." Seeing that the lord was angry, the adjutant hurriedly bowed and went to the archery team to issue the lord's order.
The lieutenant went to the archery team, and at this time the archers of the archery team were looking at the battlefield with boredom, in the war the archers are undoubtedly the best class of troops except for the knights, far from the horror of the short combat.
"Archers, forward." The adjutant issued an order to the archers, and the archers who had been watching the battle immediately took their bows and arrows and lined up in two columns to follow the adjutant.
They advanced about a hundred meters in the direction of the battlefield and stopped, and after the archers formed a formation, they stuck their arrows in the dirt in front of them, so that they could draw arrows at any time and shoot them, and indirectly caused the head of the arrows to be contaminated with more bacteria, which could kill and injure enemy soldiers.
"Prepare for battle." The adjutant stood at the left end of the archery, he raised his sword in his hand and ordered loudly.
"Whoa." The archers drew their arrows, placed them on the bowstring, and drew their bows forty-five degrees to the sky.
"Launch." When the lieutenant saw the archers resting their arrows on the bowstring, he waved his sword and commanded loudly.
"Brush~~, whoosh." The archers immediately let go of their fingers and the arrows flew into the sky.
Bruce, who was watching the battlefield, suddenly heard a sound like rain, and he looked at the sky in surprise, only to see arrows raining down from the sky.
"Damn bastard, that's that?" Stukov, who was beside Bruce, said in surprise.
"Ahh~~." When the rain of arrows fell on the battlefield, not only Bruce's vassal soldiers, but even Jeffrey's soldiers who were fighting were shot, and the battlefield was immediately chaotic.
"Bruce asked me to lead the cavalry to kill the archers." Watching Jeffrey's archers shoot indiscriminately, Stukov said angrily.
"No, the other party's noble cavalry has not been consumed, and our light cavalry composed of yeoman farmers will be wiped out." Bruce shook his head and said to Stukov.
"Damn, then just watch them shoot us like rabbits?" Stukov said indignantly.
Bruce ignored Stukov, he frowned and closed his eyes slightly and thought carefully, Jeffrey's cruelty was beyond Bruce's expectations, after all, his soul came from a later life that paid more attention to human nature, and this kind of indiscriminate killing was something he did not expect.
Because of this, Jeffrey actually still has a great advantage, although his infantry is inferior in numbers, but the loss of noble cavalry and archers is not large, as long as the noble cavalry is dispatched, the infantry of the vassals may not be able to resist.
"Stukov, Edward come with me, we'll attack." After Bruce opened his eyes, he drew his sword and said to Stukov and the others.
"You're attacking yourself, it's too early, isn't it?" Edward said in surprise that although it was not uncommon for the commander to attack in person, Bruce was not a reckless type of nobleman.
"It's not early, follow me." Bruce looked left and right, and he said to his retainers.
With the neighing of a war horse, Bruce kicked the horse's belly and rushed to the battlefield, the baron's sudden entry into the battlefield was beyond everyone's expectations, and when the soldiers of the two vassals were fighting hard, they suddenly saw the cheers of their own side, and found that Bruce's participation suddenly increased morale, while Jeffrey looked at Bruce's behavior in confusion.
"What's going on, did the Baron personally join the battlefield?" Even Jeffrey's lieutenant was so surprised that he forgot to let the archers continue shooting.
"Oh, I didn't expect Bruce to be so breathless." After a moment of silence, Jeffrey burst out laughing, and he said proudly to the nobles around him.
"My lord, their morale has increased greatly, and our people will soon be defeated." But the nobles were pessimistic about Jeffrey.
"Hmph, don't worry, I order you, my cavalry will attack immediately and be sure to kill or capture Bruce." A smile tugged at Jeffrey's lips, and he thought he had the win.
"Do you want to send out cavalry now?" The nobles asked curiously.
"Yes, it's a great opportunity and can't be missed." Jeffrey immediately ordered the noble cavalry to attack, and with a clear order, that is, to aim directly at Bruce.
When the mounts of the noble cavalry made a rumbling sound on the ground, the archers were told to stop firing, and it was okay to attack the infantry indiscriminately, but these noble cavalry were very expensive, and Jeffrey was reluctant to let them be killed by mistake.
"Bruce, the other side is sending cavalry." Stukov, wielding the sword in his hand, hacked to death one of Jeffrey's soldiers who was approaching, and when he heard the roar of cavalry, he immediately said to Bruce.
"Very well, let them come." Between the brave men waving his hand on his horse, Bruce took the time to glance at the noble cavalry rushing up, and he nodded slightly.
"Attack, attack." Jeffrey's noble cavalry shouted wildly, they rushed into the battlefield with the bumps of the war horses, everything around was messy, the corpses were scattered all around, and the soldiers who rushed to catch and kill each other from time to time made the noble cavalry have to slow down the impact, but even so, these heavily armored cavalry boosted the morale of Jeffrey's soldiers.
"Look, it's the nobles, we're saved." The Jeff Swiss soldiers, whose faces were covered in blood, shouted excitedly as they looked at the nobles in heavy armor.
"Kill these abominable Grintons." The soldiers shouted with joy.
Bruce looked at the noble cavalry rushing over, he glanced back at Eve standing behind, and Eve was watching Bruce's order, but Bruce visually measured the distance of the noble cavalry and felt that he needed to wait a little longer.