Chapter 47: Engagement
"Drive, drive"
Wei Lu led thousands of Jingbei Army iron cavalry around the ogre's loose camp for a few laps, but did not find a suitable opportunity.
If the other party was a human army, this kind of camp full of flaws might have been overwhelmed by Wei Ru and rushed forward with his army.
But the ogre is different, the ogre on the periphery is holding a two-meter-long thigh-thick wooden stake in his hands, and the sharpened one is facing the cavalry of the Jingbei Army. Several ogres more than two meters tall stood there with large wooden stakes, which might be more effective than rejecting horses.
After all, the horses can't move, and these ogres can still move.
If the cavalry rushed up and crashed into those sharp and thick wooden stakes, it would be sour and exciting to think about, and Weiru didn't want to try anything with the precious cavalry in his hand.
After a few rounds of tentative approaching and firing arrows, Weiru led the cavalry to beat their horses back to the roar of the ogre, and the effect of several rounds of arrow rain was not good, and the ogres themselves had thick skin,
Ordinary arrows rarely cause them any real damage.
Only a few knights in the army used arrows from their strongbows to kill and injure a few ogres, but they did not do any substantial damage to the ogres.
And what made Wei Lu even more uneasy was that in the ogre team, there was a special shield player who raised a large shield to defend when they released their arrows, although those big shields were inferior goods spliced together randomly by several wooden strips, but they couldn't bear it, it was heavy and thick, and the defense ability was really amazing.
In the past, only a few wooden stakes were used, but the ogres who embedded some metal maces in the wooden stakes actually learned from humans and began to use shields and horses, etc., which is not a good sign.
Watching the cavalry of the Jingbei Army turn back, the ogres didn't do more than roar, although they were a little iron-headed, they also knew that they still couldn't outrun the four-legged war horse.
After retreating with his cavalry, he did not retreat back to the main camp, but hung in the distance and wandered around the flanks of the battlefield, looking for an opportunity to cut in at any time.
I have to say that Weiru is indeed a qualified cavalry general, and the strongest thing about cavalry is its short-distance mobility and strong impact power.
It is absolutely foolish to directly use the cavalry to charge the infantry team that is waiting for the battle.
Wei Lu was waiting for an opportunity, as long as the Jingbei Army and the ogre were engaged, the cavalry would naturally find an opportunity for its formation to be loose.
The Marquis of Wade did not disappoint Wei Lu either, and soon ordered the Jingbei Army to launch a tentative attack.
"Horn, you take the First Flag Regiment up to try, and you can control the proportions yourself."
"Yes, sir."
The military system of the Jingbei Army is 500 people, and the capital is generally held by the peak quasi-knights or officers who have just stepped into the knight rank.
Ten are one flag regiment, the flag leaders are all peak knights, and the four flag regiments are one legion, and the commanders are all served by the big knights.
The Jingbei Army had five major legions and a cavalry flag regiment, and this time Marquis Wade brought four legions.
The First Banner Regiment under Horn's jurisdiction is subordinate to the First Army of the Jingbei Army, and it is a well-deserved ace flag regiment, and there are also quasi-knights serving as commanders in other flag regiments.
And the ten members of the First Banner Regiment are all knights, and the proportion of quasi-knights is also terrifying.
Such a strong army was naturally arranged by Marquis Wade to take the lead, and the troops that could be fought were to be taken out and used, and it was meaningless to hide and tuck.
"Whew, ha"
The soldiers of the First Banner Regiment, led by Horn, shouted trumpets and marched in a neat march towards the ogre's side.
The blades of the front-row soldiers slapped neatly on the shield, creating a sense of oppression.
At this time, the ogre side also reacted to the actions of the First Banner Regiment, and nearly five hundred ogres were separated from the ogre camp, and ten times the number of kobolds came out.
Compared with the uniformity of the Jingbei Army, the ogre's side was a little chaotic, and most of them rushed out in chaos with wooden stakes in their hands.
The kobolds are even more unbearable, if the ogre still maintains a formation somewhat, the kobolds are tied up in a pile and rush out,
They didn't dare to squeeze the ogre's team, so they squeezed together with their own people, and before they could engage in battle with the First Banner Regiment along the way, they trampled a few of their teammates to death.
Although the ogre side is not good in formation and discipline, it can't stand the strength of the individual, not to mention a group of kobolds for nothing, these five hundred ogre warriors are the real five hundred quasi-knights, or the stronger one among the quasi-knights.
And the total number of quasi-knights of the entire First Banner Regiment is worth more than fifty people.
If it really starts, the first flag regiment is afraid that it will suffer,
Horn naturally saw this situation clearly, but the military order was like a mountain, without the order of Marquis Wade, he did not dare to retreat in the slightest, and the First Banner Regiment still met it very heroically.
Thankfully, the Marquis Wade noticed this. This ogre is a bit strange, and it took out nearly a third of its military strength at the first test, which is a posture for a direct decisive battle.
"Wright!"
"In!"
"You take the First Legion up to support."
"The second and third legions are ready to respond."
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and Marquis Wade doesn't have time to think about the weirdness in the ogre, so he made the most modest deployment first, if there is a decisive battle, then the Jingbei army is not afraid.
"Eighty steps, fifty steps, put!"
Ahead, Horn's First Banner Regiment had already marched fifty paces to the ogre's front, and he could even smell the disgusting stench of the ogre.
As a servant army, the kobold began to grin at the soldiers of the first banner regiment, although the kobold is not strong in combat, but it is really fierce and not afraid of death, and it will cause a lot of trouble to the Jingbei army when it fights.
However, the group of kobolds who rushed the fastest were instantly put down by the rain of arrows of the Jingbei Army, and Horn knew that it was difficult for ordinary arrows to cause much damage to ogres, so it was more practical to turn the target of attack to kobolds.
There was a canine wail on the battlefield, and many kobolds who had not died were lying in the middle of the battlefield struggling and wailing, but soon they were silent.
The ogres and kobolds in the back row stepped on them mercilessly, completely relieving them of their pain.
"Guns!"
"Hah!"
As the ace army of the Jingbei Army, the First Banner Regiment changed formation quickly, the archers quickly retreated into the formation after the ogre approached, and the pikemen quickly took over the position and took the front row.
The tip of the spear pointed neatly forward, and even in order to increase the lethality of the first round, the pikemen of the first banner regiment rushed forward a few steps in unison to increase the penetration of the spear.
"Bang!"
Just like the waves crashing against the reef, the two sides collided violently, and instantly burst into a splashing wave, and the kobold was pierced on the spear like a sugar gourd, and even an ogre didn't have time to swing the stake to fire the spear, and was pierced through the body by the spear with a huge impact.
There are also soldiers of the First Banner Regiment who were smashed on the side by the stakes in the hands of the ogres and flew out, in the face of this absolute power, the stakes in the hands of the ogres were either dead or crippled when touched, and the strong ogres brought great pressure to the First Banner Regiment at the moment of engagement.
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