Chapter 282: Xiaomei Army (II) 7/10
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The shield is like a wall.
No matter how neat the shield wall is, it is inevitable that there will be gaps in the process of moving, which will be penetrated by pervasive raindrops. What's more, there are serious problems with the cooperation and tacit understanding of the coalition forces, the shield wall has no appearance, and loopholes abound, although the quality of the archers of Xiaomei Ling is average, the rain of arrows still creates a lot of trouble for the proud coalition forces.
It is not easy to train qualified archers, and there are only more than 200 archers in the Xiaomei army.
Most of the arrows were blocked by shields, but dozens of arrows passed through the interception and landed on the coalition soldiers. Although less than ten unlucky soldiers were shot directly, the chaos caused was not small.
There is no reason for the Xiaomei Army archers to shoot one round and stop.
The second round of arrows soon arrived.
There was another burst of confusion, screams and wails one after another.
Fortunately, at this time, the allied archers in the rear caught up, and in the shouts of the temporary commander, they pulled their bows and arrows and extended cordial greetings to the Xiaomei army.
General Xiaomei Wu has a lot of combat experience in the Battle of the Yellow Turban, and the archers' premise is the embodiment of experience. At the sound of an order, some of the sword and shield men rushed to the side of the archers to guard the shields, and the archers were protected, and while continuing to fire arrows at the enemy, they followed the large army and slowly moved forward.
There weren't many coalition soldiers who were shot directly by the archers of the Xiaomei Army, but they didn't care.
The fighting style of the Xiaomei army, the long-range attack of the archers only needs to suppress, disrupt and delay, the Xiaomei army has never expected to rely on a limited number of archers to create a large number of damage, the strongest link of the Xiaomei army, but the short-to-medium distance combat.
The powerful weapon that the Xiaomei Army relied on to become famous, the hand crossbow, had a range of only 30 steps.
Both armies are rapidly advancing towards the center of the battlefield and will soon break through the 30-step red line!
The momentum of the Xiaomei army's forward rush suddenly retracted, and the whole army no longer advanced to the center, but scattered on the spot, squatting in the front row and standing in the back row, raising the crossbow that had already been loaded, and spitting out short arrows representing death.
Although the sword and shield men in the front row of the arrogant coalition army hurriedly used their shields to protect their fronts, the attacks launched by the crossbows at close range did not have time for ordinary soldiers to react effectively.
What they can do is to hide their bodies behind the shield as much as possible, especially the vital parts, and at the same time approach the opponent as soon as possible, and strive to drag the opponent into hand-to-hand combat as soon as possible, so as to reduce the risk of being shot by the crossbow, as for whether they will be shot by the crossbow in the process, can only be left to the legendary ubiquitous luck.
The practice of being proud of the coalition forces was all expected by the generals of the Xiaomei Army.
The crossbow has a measly 30 paces range, but it's still a ranged weapon, and it's quite powerful. The most standard way to deal with ranged troops is to close the distance and use hand-to-hand combat to deal with the shooter. The Xiaomei Army has been possessing a crossbow for some time, and has faced such tactics many times during the campaign, and knows how to counter it.
Xiaomei Army began to retreat!
The Hand Crossbow can only be loaded with two short arrows, which need to be reloaded after firing, and it takes some time to reload. After the first few rows of Xiaomei troops shot out the short arrows in the crossbow, they immediately rushed to the rear of the team, loading the crossbows while running.
This method of warfare is simple and effective.
When the Xiaomei army sacrificed this tactic, there was only one choice for the allied forces: to charge.
In fact, there is another option, and that is to retreat, but that will make you a living target for a crossbow, and you will have to shed your skin if you don't die. What's more, today's battle is quite special, it is a decisive battle related to the fate of the two major armies, there is no point in retreating, only to move forward bravely and fight to the death.
Under the cover of the shield, the proud coalition forces rushed forward.
Although the Xiaomei army is taking the initiative to retreat and trying to keep enough distance, the all-out sprint will eventually be faster than fighting and retreating, and the distance between the two armies is gradually narrowing.
Twenty steps!
Ten steps!
The 1,000 Xiaomei Army who fought was a veteran recruited during the township period, with tacit understanding and well-trained. Although the coalition forces were advancing step by step, they still retreated without chaos, and their crossbows always maintained the suppression of the coalition forces, constantly killing and injuring the living forces of the coalition forces. The range of the crossbow is not very good, but the lethality is not to be said, the accuracy of the close-range application is high, coupled with the archers in the rear to help the fun, the road to the advance of the coalition forces is difficult.
People kept falling, and the sword and shield men who rushed to the front suffered heavy losses.
Despite this, the sword and shield soldiers were still able to barely protect the front of the coalition army, because there were as many as 600 sword and shield soldiers!
Yu Buzhi reminded the Star Thunder Heavenly Army and Xiao Ye, Xiaomei comprehended the participation in the battle on behalf of the White Feather Army, and when she selected the battle troops from several friendly territories, she consciously selected more sword and shield soldiers, just in order to be able to approach the enemy army under the cover of a large number of shields and start hand-to-hand combat in the battle with Xiaomei Army.
The idea is no problem, but the power of the crossbow in actual combat still makes Ao Zhi sweat here.
The Xiaomei army fought and retreated to fly the kite, which hurt the coalition side very much. By now, the coalition sword and shield men had lost at least two-thirds, and only about 200 sword and shield men were still at the front.
Their sacrifice brought the two armies closer to ten paces.
What's more, the venue for the martial arts exercise is limited, and at this time, everyone found that Xiaomei Ling was about to return to the starting point, and soon there was no way to avoid it, and he had to fight hand-to-hand with the arrogant coalition forces.
It is common sense that the end is usually extremely miserable when the distance is close!
Many players are aware of this problem, and seeing that the Xiaomei Army has been forced to the starting point and is about to get closer, is it possible to create a miracle against the miscellaneous army and defeat the Xiaomei Army, which is known as the strongest in Sili?
If that happens, it will be terrifying......
Seeing the hope of victory, the pride of the preparation area rushed to the sidelines, hoping to see a miracle.
A few players who have seen the combat style of the Xiaomei Army are a little more sympathetic to the arrogance.
Hand crossbows are ranged weapons, and there is nothing wrong with that.
But the hand crossbow is only an auxiliary weapon, if it is simply judged that they are a long-range class because the Xiaomei army is equipped with a large number of hand crossbows, it is a big mistake. In fact, the Xiaomei Army's melee combat ability is not bad at all, they are just used to using crossbows to solve battles and minimize their own losses, which does not mean that they are not good at close combat. Using tactics to deal with purely long-range troops against the Xiaomei army, the result can only be a cup......
Inside the arena, the battle continued.
The coalition forces forced the Xiaomei army to the starting point, and there were less than a hundred sword and shield men left.
Less than 100 of the 600 sword and shield men remained, which meant that half of the Proud Coalition had been shot and killed. The price is so heavy, just to get close to the enemy army and force the enemy army to fight hand-to-hand.
The remaining coalition sword and shield hands pounced on the Xiaomei army with murderous vigour.
So many people sacrificed in exchange for a chance to fight in close combat, how could you kill a few more to comfort your comrades!
The next moment, the sword and shield soldiers were stunned to find that the enemy in front of them was not panicked at all, put away their crossbows, picked up their swords and guns, and counterattacked them with an even more fierce and fierce momentum. As soon as they fought, more than a dozen sword and shield soldiers who had gone through hardships and overcame all odds and longed for melee combat were put to the ground by them......
The surviving coalition sabers and shieldmen all want to die, and they are all hard stubble!
During the fight, spearmen arrived.
Running wildly all the way, the formation of the spearmen actually remained roughly neat, which made the coalition commander quite comforting. From a professional point of view, if the dozens of spearmen on the periphery who were dragging their feet were fired, the formation of the spearmen in the center of the team would be perfect.
"Which spearman?" The temporary master was puzzled.
At this moment, the spearmen suddenly accelerated without warning, and their spears were like a forest, and they launched a charge!
"Immovable as a mountain!" (To be continued.) )