The Xiaoling River is the dividing line between the territory of the Hunter family and the Will family, and although the weather has warmed, the ice on the Xiaoling River is still thick. More than 5,000 people led by Viscount Will easily crossed the Xiaoling River to confront the army led by Richard.

In terms of numbers, the people of the Will family had an absolute advantage, and the peasant soldiers and the city guards of Ironwood City brought by Richard combined were only 3,000 people. But war has never been a game of numbers.

Heavily armed, Richard on horseback observed the opposing formation, with Viscount Sauter and Crusader Ron flanked him.

"Father, what do you think?"

"What do I see, now that you are the commander, you will fight me wherever you want." Viscount Sauter is very self-aware, he is not a good lord, but he is definitely a brave general.

Richard choked.

Richard, who was bored with himself, turned to Ron the Crusader and asked.

Ron is very face-saving.

"Except for the more than a hundred armored warriors, their men are even more vulnerable than our peasant soldiers."

Well, it seems that I have also damaged my own home.

In fact, in Ron's heroic invincible world, it is a proper high-martial world, and the spearman is the lowest cannon fodder, and Ron's crusader is only a stronger backbone than cannon fodder, which has caused Ron's higher vision, in fact, in the Golden Dragon Kingdom, an ordinary system spearman can definitely be called an elite warrior. Like Ron, who has the same combat power as a knight, he can be a commander of 500 people even in the Golden Dragon Praetorian Guard in the royal capital.

However, Ron is not wrong about one thing, the Hunter family's peasant soldiers are indeed stronger than the Will family, and they are much stronger.

The peasants and soldiers of the Hunter family are mainly yeoman farmers with small assets, and this group of people has basically solved the problem of food and clothing, and now they only want two things, one is more land, and the other is enough military merit to obtain the breathing method.

Richard had already made a promise that in addition to being rewarded with land, those who had a certain military merit in battle could also be given basic military breathing methods, and they would be selected into the city guards of Ironwood City, and even those with good talent would have a little chance to become knights.

Under Richard, merit equaled more land and was the only ladder to the upper echelons. In a sense, the system of the Golden Dragon Kingdom where only knights can inherit the title has a bit of the flavor of the military merit system, which ensures the combat effectiveness of the noble class of the kingdom, and Richard's pie painted for everyone in Hunter is to expand the influence of this system to the civilian class.

Richard single-handedly unleashed a monster called "Plough War".

The peasants of the Hunter family lined up in fairly neat lines, and the frequent training allowed them to maintain the basic appearance of an army.

In contrast, the peasant soldiers of the Wei family on the other side were a little scattered, and they barely maintained the basic order under the constraints of the quasi-knights and personal guards of the Wei family.

Viscount Will also noticed this difference, he frowned, did not speak, in his opinion, the peasants are all cannon fodder used to consume the physical strength of the main force on the opposite side, and the real noteworthy is the city guard of three hundred people and several quasi-knights of the Hunt family, of course, the most important thing is the veteran knight of Viscount Thoth.

It is not a big trouble for the Hunter family's peasant soldiers to be able to fight a little, after all, their side still has a numerical advantage of nearly double.

At this time, I saw Richard coming out of the Hunter's army on horseback, just stopping two hundred paces away and shouting something.

Viscount Will raised his horsewhip and was about to go over, but as if he had thought of something, he put the horsewhip down and motioned for another prospective knight next to him to come forward and talk.

"Now you withdraw to Ironwood City, hand over the lumberyards and iron ore in the Ironwood Forest, and Will and Hunter will continue to be safe."

The would-be knight who stepped forward shouted to Richard at the top of his voice, and perhaps only Viscount Will himself knew how true it was.

"It's a pity."

Seeing that it was only a prospective knight who came to shout, Richard shook his head in disappointment and made a gesture behind him.

"If you resist...... Ugh"

The loud-voiced would-be knight of the Will family stopped shouting abruptly.

Because from the Hunter family's military formation, five huge arrows nearly two meters long flew towards him. He tried to pull his horse out of the way of the arrows, but the arrows were too fast.

"Sss

An arrow shot directly into the horse's belly, and a huge arrow pierced the horse entirely. The horse let out a wail.

The knight on the horse did not escape the catastrophe, he tried to turn around to avoid the vital point, the arrow shot through his shoulder heavily, the heavy iron armor and the strong physique of the quasi-knight did not help him block this powerful arrow, the powerful power brought him off the horse, and the penetrated shoulder hung on the body, even if he did not die, this arm could not be saved.

All this is naturally Richard's arrangement, the five giant arrows are issued by Hunter's bear hunting crossbow, in the past, Richard was only used to hunt bears, but now they are used to shoot people to show greater value.

"Roar!"

It all happened so quickly that the would-be knight, who stepped forward to shout, was shot off his horse in full view of everyone.

The pause of several seconds was broken by the cheers of Hunter's side, and although most people didn't know why, they must have taken advantage of seeing someone on the other side being shot off the horse.

Although the Golden Dragon Kingdom respects knights, it seems that everyone does not have any chivalry. They are all elated about the success of their own sneak attacks.

Only Ron and Viscount Sauter looked at each other tacitly, revealing an awkward smile.

Seeing that the other party was shot off the horse, Richard also quickly turned the horse's head back into the formation, he didn't think about it so much, but unfortunately the person who came out was not Viscount Will, he personally went out to fish out the important people on the opposite side, which can not only directly lay the victory or defeat, but also try whether the bear hunting crossbow can cause substantial damage to the knight.

The atmosphere on Will's side was a bit dreary.

Viscount Will was angry and then a little afraid, and he was not sure if he could withstand such a huge arrow.

Suppressing the emotions in his heart, Viscount Will waved his hand and gave the order to take the initiative to attack.

He knew that this kind of giant arrow should be able to shoot directly into his own camp, and if he didn't attack, he would wait to be beaten, although the opponent's giant crossbow didn't seem to be numerous, and it shouldn't be accurate if it was far away, otherwise Richard wouldn't think about tricking people closer. But there are too many of them, as long as they shoot arrows at the range of their military formation, they can cause some casualties with the power of that kind of huge arrow, and the casualties may not be high, but the blow to morale is very great if they can't fight back just by being beaten, so it is better to pounce on them as soon as possible and engage them in close combat.

"Woo, woo...... Woo"

With a muffled trumpet, the would-be knights and guards of the Will family began to drive their peasant soldiers to attack the Hunter family's military formation.

"One hundred steps!"

"Eighty steps!"

"Ready!"

"Put"

"Wind, wind, wind!"

In a strange roar from the Will family, hundreds of arrows landed in the Will family's military formation.

Even if the soldiers in the front row raised their shields in time, because most of the peasant soldiers did not have qualified armor, this wave of arrow rain still caused nearly 100 casualties in an instant, and suddenly a wail sounded in the military formation of the Will family.

This roar was naturally made by Richard, perhaps it was a tribute to the strength of the Qin army, or a reminiscence of the past life......

The fighting remains intense.

There were also people in the Will army's formation who fired back with arrows, and several people in the Hunter's army's formation were also shot, but the casualties caused were too small to cause even a little riot.

"Rush forward, don't hesitate"

"Death to those who retreat!"

This rain of arrows caused the peasant soldiers of the Will family to panic a little, but they were still suppressed by the quasi-knights and personal guards of the Will family, and continued to attack the military formation of the Hunter family.

"Wind, wind, wind!"

Soon a second wave of arrows struck, this time with more arrows, because they were close enough that many of Hunter's Orion-born militiamen also shot arrows with shorter-range hunting bows.

This rain of arrows caused even more casualties to the Will family's army, and even many of the guards next to the would-be knights were shot to the ground.

This time, however, there was no obvious commotion in the Will family's military formation, because the enemy was already close at hand......