Chapter Ninety-Seven: Confrontation
"Archer!"
"Put!"
There was a rain of arrows, and hundreds of kobolds were crucified to the ground.
After a low whimper, the kobold, who had just been fearless to attack the coalition front, retreated like a tidal wave.
"It's still the same old thing, let the cavalry chase it properly."
"Yes, sir."
With the fluttering of the command flag, thousands of horsemen rushed out of the coalition camp to chase the retreating kobolds, and after a burst of slashing, they retreated back to the coalition camp almost unharmed, leaving only the corpses of the kobolds on the ground.
The two sides met on this plain early the next morning, and the ogre was still the same old thing, first using the kobold to test it a little, and Richard also unceremoniously harvested a circle of dog lives, and should give the cavalry a warm-up exercise.
The quality of this ogre army Richard has already detected quite clearly,
The total number is about three thousand, of which 1,000 are in armor, 1,000 tribes are young and strong, and there are still some old and weak who are not weaker than the ordinary elites of the coalition army.
Except for the 1,000 old and weak who are not a big threat, the rest of the ogre young men are basically the strength of quasi-knights, especially the 1,000 heavy armor ogre elites, and it is normal to defeat ten times the number of human troops on the plain.
Compared with the basic army, the coalition side will definitely have no chance of winning, but the coalition side still has a huge advantage in the middle and high-end armed forces.
Among the three thousand ogres, under the normal number, the number of ogre warriors will not exceed two hands, and the strong men of the knight level on the side of the coalition are close to forty.
If there is no advantage in mid-to-high-end force, Richard will not be thinking about how to win this battle, but how to slip away.
"Bang, bang, bang......"
A drum beat rang out in the ogre camp.
"Ready!"
"Hah!"
As the drums in the ogre array sounded, Richard, who was an old rival with the ogre, could naturally understand that this was a signal that the ogre was going to attack.
The pikemen in the front row half-crouched down with their spears in hand, and the head of the spear was pointed at the ogre who was about to go out.
"Let the warriors of this formation go ahead, and let the warriors of the tribe see how we fight."
Wearing a heavy armor much more delicate than ordinary ogres, Hello walked at the front of the attack team, followed by a thousand ogre warriors in heavy armor,
Behind them are the conscripted tribal warriors, and although it is easier to lose the strength of their own descendants, the morale improvement is visible to the naked eye.
If Ha Hao arranged these conscripted tribal warriors to be used as cannon fodder in front, even with the courage of the ogre, it is estimated that the morale will be low.
If you divide it according to Richard's criteria, it is estimated that all the ogres except for Grugosh are brave fighters.
After a little temptation to meet, the Lord will bring people directly to come up, and those who can line up a little bit and then rush are already exquisite.
It also bullies the poor quality of human individual soldiers, otherwise I will be divided and interspersed, and I will ......
Anyway, the ogre's style of play now seems to be the same as punching the master to death, which is to engage in a dignified and upright situation, and Richard can only press his hole cards as soon as he comes up.
In order to stabilize the line, the Crusaders and Lancers were evenly distributed among the ranks of ordinary soldiers.
The lords of each family also pressed in their own ranks, and whoever ran and cut whom.
Richard didn't dare to engage in any elite centralized use and breakthrough operations this time.
With this gap in the quality of individual soldiers, it is very likely that the system army has broken through in a concentrated manner, but the ogre brigade has already broken through its own formation.
"Bear Hunting Crossbow!"
"Eight hundred steps to prepare!"
"Seven hundred steps!"
"Six hundred steps!"
"Put!"
In this plain battle, the Hunter family's unique bear-hunting crossbow finally caught up with the battle.
The 10 bear hunting crossbows brought by the Flying Bear Army are lighter than the traditional bed crossbows, and the base is equipped with wooden wheels, which can barely follow the army on the field battlefield.
"Boom ......"
With a dull whisper, ten two-meter-long arrows galloped towards the ogre.
"Poof! ……”
A giant arrow pierced through the ogre's heavy armor and pinned it to the ground.
With his strong vitality, the ogre who was pinned to the ground had not even lost his ability to move, and struggled to get up, but was soon trampled on the ground by his companions behind him and completely lost his life.
This round of bear-hunting crossbow attacks took the lives of at least four or five ogres, although these ogres have rough skin and thick flesh, and some of them are heavily armoured, and they are basically immune to the attacks of ordinary arrows,
But in the face of this basically unreasonable shot of heavy crossbow arrows, it is still touching and falling, and only a good player of the level of an ogre warrior has the ability to escape from the giant crossbow.
"Boom!"
After a low thud, ten more giant crossbows burst out.
In the blink of an eye, several ogres were crucified to the ground,
Several of the lords who were pressing the formation looked back in surprise,
The firing frequency of this bed crossbow is a little high, and the lords of each family have never seen a bed crossbow, but if the number of that thing is not enough, the deterrent significance is greater than the actual significance,
The reloading speed is too slow, and it can be fired once after a battle, and it is quite cumbersome, and more can only be used as a weapon to defend the city.
Because of the use of pulleys, the bear hunting crossbow basically solves the problem of loading speed, and also solves the problem of power after lightweight, which is a unique weapon in the hands of Hunter's family.
"Boom!"
As the ogre had reached nearly a hundred paces, the bear-hunting crossbow made another low noise.
The lords, who had become a little accustomed to it, thought that this low sound of the machine was unexpectedly good, anyway, it was a sharp arrow shot at the enemy, even if the sound made was a scream to kill the pig.
On the ogre's side, Hello's mood was not very good, and the three rounds of the bear hunting crossbow caused more than a dozen ogre warriors to be killed and wounded.
And because Hello put his descendants at the forefront, these fallen ogres are basically elites wearing heavy armor, even if this casualty does not affect the battle situation, it still makes Hello a little distressed.
This is different from the human armies he encountered in his previous battles, if every human army had such a sharp weapon, then according to the population of the ogre, it would not be enough to die.
But now is not the time to think about this, the two sides are getting closer and closer, and Hello can already see the sharp spear heads of the human soldiers in front of him reflecting cold glow in the light.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"
After the ogre entered within a hundred paces, the archers of the coalition army also began to shoot, but compared to the bear hunting crossbow just now, this rain of arrows seemed a little weak, except for causing some casualties to the kobolds, it was almost like tickling for the ogre,
It was only the Marksmen who did some damage to the ogres with the bonus of Richard's offensive skills.
"Fifty steps, fifty steps!"
"Put!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"
Because the distance was close enough, this round of arrow rain was the wave that caused the most damage to the ogre, and at least ten ogres fell with arrows,
The Bear Crossbow also synced with the archers, firing ten arrows at the final distance.
"Retreat!"
The archers retreated into the middle of the formation along the gap, and the bear-hunting crossbows in front of the formation were dragged back as fast as possible by the auxiliaries who had been waiting on both sides.
"Spear!"
"Kill!"
The ogre got closer and closer, and the soldiers in the front row began to shout loudly to dispel the fear in their hearts.
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