Section 18 Night Fire (I)
Standing up silently, Lao Luo warned the soldiers on duty at night, instructing them to wake up the sleeping people, prepare bows and arrows, etc., but no one was allowed to go out to inquire about the situation.
It's a good time to sneak up at night, but it's also a good time to keep an eye on the bunch.
Especially the whole camp around a light, but the center is very dim, the best archery position is in the light, if you want to shoot arrows, you have to face the danger of being counterattacked, together with the flagpole hanging people are also on the inside of the firelight, if you want to get close to the first thing you have to pass through this bright open land, in the middle of the shadows, the shadows are clearly indescribable ambushes, Knua with a group of bandits and thieves saw this situation, it was so sad that they wanted to vomit blood, this is clearly the method of the military formation, where is the campground of the caravan?
The best way to break this defense is to use a giant crossbow or trebuchet in the army, but how can you find that kind of equipment in a hurry?
There is no choice but to fill this area with human lives. Knua gritted his teeth, anyway, if the bandits hit the head, they don't care if they are injured or killed, but these soldiers are also from the barracks, and I am afraid that there will be trouble afterwards.
However, I can't take care of it.
The bandits, who numbered more than 100 people, began to gallop as fast as they could, intending to pass through the glowing area as fast as they could, but there was no life in the pitch-black camp. Fast horse to the halfway, the front of a dozen horses suddenly in front of a short, and then a sharp stop, the horse body rolled, the rider on the horse was suddenly thrown out at high speed, in a hurry only to see that the front legs of the horses that turned over have been broken, the best cavalry who fell to the ground was also knocked unconscious and fell to the ground, the rest are either broken legs or broken arms, unlucky and the head is loaded upside down into the chest, the cavalry behind is caught off guard, have stepped on the horses or people who fell to the ground, in an instant, there is a burst of people and horses rolling.
Knua, who was on guard in the rear team, and a group of bandit leaders, as well as a few officers in the group, were dumbfounded, what was going on? When I planted a flat ground, I didn't see anything like a stumbling rope or a pit, and I didn't see any structures like stakes or fences, and I lost at least a quarter of my manpower.
It's a pity that the arrow is on the string and there is no way to leave it. Knua shouted: "I can't care so much, go to the twenty people to the flagpole, save the son of Antiano, and the others will rush me, as long as you enter the camp, there is nothing to take care of, kill them all, all the treasure will be yours, and the Farrell family will not want it." ”
The officers of the rear team also understood that if they wanted to make this money, they had to put in their efforts, the money of the Farrell family was not so easy to get, and now it was difficult to ride a tiger, and it was too late to quit, and if they hesitated, when the bandits in front were killed and wounded, all the efforts would be in vain. Most of the ordinary soldiers were blindly obedient, and when they heard that the capture belonged to them, no matter what blue, green, and brown eyes were, they all turned red. This crowd didn't care about any order, and began to rush to that dark corner, lest the good things be robbed by others.
Knua is in the ranks of saving people, and he doesn't care about the treasure, but the bloodline of the Farrell family must be saved, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the family elders of the Senate.
In fact, at this time, if Antiano hanging on the flagpole is a capable person, he can definitely become the best conductor, condescending, and all the arrangements can be seen clearly. It's a pity that Antianus, a yellow-haired playboy, has qualities such as greed, insidiousness, and cruelty, but not calm, tenacious qualities.
Old Robbie, who was hidden in the dark, was clear to everyone about all the changes in front of him, the number of attackers, the configuration of weapons, he was very clear, and people began to surround outside the camp in front of him, and when more than a hundred cavalry began to charge, he saw it all. He didn't give the order to release the arrows, but he was just worried about scaring the thieves away, and when the front team of the thieves was blocked and the rear team began to charge, his order arrived, "Everyone obey the order, bow and arrow serve these bastards, no melee combat is allowed, Stan, your axe can be opened!" ”
In an instant, all the warriors on the ground began to draw their bows and arrows, and Stan yelled excitedly, quickly drawing the axe from his waist...... On one side are the cavalry of the breakout, on the other side are the archers of the guards, who takes advantage?
Supposedly less than 200 meters, the cavalry can slash at close range in less than ten seconds, and the archers can only shoot arrows three times at most, but don't forget, this is the night, and this is the home of the archers, and there are more than a thousand thick horse leg holes in the ground, and more than two meters of deep and shallow trenches, plus spikes buried in the ground and ropes hanging from them, these things are deadly fences.
In particular, the trench is very immoral, more than two meters wide, it is a very embarrassing size, and the excavated earthwork is piled on the inside, forming a dirt slope, which is high inside and low outside, and the horses rushing from the outside must jump from the low to the high place to be unharmed, otherwise they will fall into the deep ditch and be pierced by the wooden thorns or broken blades that lie in ambush below.
The attack began, and for a moment bows and arrows and axes flew, and spears were occasionally interspersed, and on the other side they were restrained by the constraints of the ground, and the men and horses were turned over, and the men and horses exposed to the light were Shang Jia's targets.
Those who fell off their horses, those who were hit by arrows, those who were pierced by throwing spears, those who were cut by throwing axes, and those who were planted in trenches, all the unlucky ghosts met here, but the cavalry behind them couldn't see clearly and didn't have time to dodge, so they had to lie down on the back of the horse and charge, Lao Luo's second order came, "The sword and shield hand erects the shield, the dense array, rejects the horse, and the spearman covers the back row to kill......"
The sword and shield bearers who did not have bows and arrows were invigorated, and there was no need to raise their shields at this time, but only to stand the chest-high shield diagonally behind the trench, and the unlucky ghost who bumped into it would be pierced by the spearmen behind him, even if he was not knocked back into the trench.
The fact is also the same, at this point, it is no longer a question of numbers, nor is it a question of how each person's combat strength is, the right time and place are on Lao Luo's side, and the rest is only to destroy the remaining enemies.
The night could not stop Lao Luo's sight, half of the incoming enemies suffered a big loss on the ground, and the rest were disrupted by bows and arrows, etc., and the sword and shield hands did not have much strength to resist.
He didn't need to command the next battle, he had Gonzhas to take over, and Lao Luo began to name some enemies with the iron bow in his hand, including the one who went to the flagpole to rescue Antiano's unlucky ghost, and the lucky one who crossed the trench, under his iron arrows, there was no fish that slipped through the net, and Knua, a loyal servant, was directly shot through two legs and nailed to the ground by Lao Luo - this guy who has been pointing at the enemy team from the beginning has long been seen by Lao Luo, how can he be allowed to escape?
In fact, Knuya's sneak attack was doomed to defeat from the beginning, the husband fighter, the first thing to know is to know himself and the other, Knua knows himself, but he doesn't know Lao Luo's team, but the later tactics have changed from sneak attacks to open attacks, there is no chance of winning!
The battlefield of the boiling horses was quieted down, the charging horse team was no longer nine out of ten, there were a few shadows in the distance that could not be seen clearly, and in the light around the camp, there were dozens of war horses with no one on their backs wandering there, and the original riders were probably lying on the ground, and occasionally there was a sound of ** coming from there.
Gonzhas ran from the edge of the trench, "Master, there is an enemy who has fled, do you need to chase it?" ”
"No, what about our casualties?"
"There were more than a dozen injured, but none of them were serious, and none of them lost their lives." Gonzas's expression was bright, something he had rarely achieved even when he was in the army.
"That's good, treat the wounds of our people, clean up the camp, don't care about the outside, pay attention to vigilance, and prevent the enemy from attacking again." Lao Luo doesn't care about the life and death of the enemy at all, it's not that he's cold-blooded, but since those people dare to attack him, they must have the consciousness of being eliminated by themselves, and there is no Geneva Convention or anything like that in this era.
With the end of the battle, the wounded soldiers of this team did not have a sad face, their injuries were indeed as Gonzhas said, not serious, most of them were injured by the impact of the war horse, or trampled injuries caused by crowding, and there were very few bleeding injuries such as knife wounds. The lucky ones who could break into the camp were now dead, the horses and dead bodies in the trench were almost full, and no one cared about the ground outside the camp, a trench that brought together the stark contrast between life and death.
No one cares about the losers who fall to the ground, and some of them may be lucky enough to be rescued at dawn, but even then they will face condemnation and judgment, and most of the wounded will probably bleed from their wounds and die quietly on the land of the night.
Lao Luo checked back and forth around the camp, this is not the time to rest, if the enemy is cunning enough, it is likely to take this opportunity to attack again, when the enemy is dark and I am clear, attacking and defending in different positions, his side will suffer a big loss.
Sheriff Hucks, though he had a good conversation with him over dinner, could not expect him to send troops to the rescue, for in the dark and chaotic battlefield, there were no clear signs, let alone a drill to cooperate with the battle, and the chances of accidentally killing and injuring his own people were too high. What's more, his side is just a caravan that can be communicated, and as a sheriff of a city, it is too insignificant.
But fortunately, Lao Luo's miscalculation this time, the guy who led the attack was nailed to the ground by him, and there will be no more enemies to disturb him.
Several caravan camps a few hundred meters away were also noisy for a while, but no one came out to visit, perhaps they all hid in the shadows and watched here, like indifferent passers-by or quails in the grass. After a chaotic fire on the fortress of Ankara in the distance, there was no garrison to open the city gate to investigate, let alone expect to come to help, and as the fighting on this side came to an end, it didn't take long for the city to regain its calm, until the distant eastern sky revealed a faint white.