Rhodok's phalanx had already been arranged, and after noticing the catapults arranged by Byron's engineers behind the troops, the Earl of Rayland doubled the square phalanx so that the catapults would not cause them too much damage. This is actually a helpless move, because although they have an advantage in numbers, the tactics and class structure of Rhodok's troops make their troops very unsuitable for launching an active attack, so although the troops are also advancing towards the other side, their speed is very slow, even slower than a normal march, and they have to stop and sort out their formation a little at every time they walk, and they don't dare to speed up and rush directly to the opponent's position.

There was no way to do it, as if the formation of the troops was disorganized, they would be overwhelmed by the heavy cavalry units on a large scale, and Byron's northern infantry could also take advantage of the situation to attack. When both sides were lined up, Rhodok's army had the upper hand most of the time. But as soon as the troops dispersed, the Nord forces would gain the initiative.

The troops of both sides advanced a distance of dozens of meters during this time, and when they saw that the other side had entered the range of their catapults, Arteman immediately ordered his engineers to pull down the ropes, and two stones the size of human heads then flew out, "accurately" slashing over the sky of Rhodok's troops, and fell a few steps behind the Rhodok phalanx, without causing any casualties to the other side. However, Artiman immediately calibrated the other two catapults according to the situation just fired, and two more stones flew by, this time, there was a lot of confusion in the crossbowman team behind the Rhodok phalanx, and one of the winning guys was directly smashed in the head, and several crossbowmen around him fell into the swamp. Slightly injured.

The long-range attack had an effect, and Artiman was ready for the next round of throwing, and Byron's soldiers were demoralized by seeing the stones from their catapults cause a commotion among Rhodok's troops. In particular, the pirate troops at the forefront of the unit were even more excited about the battle that was about to begin, and they made all kinds of insulting gestures to the Rhodok troops in the distance, and mocked each other in Nord, this atmosphere affected the other soldiers, and the original nervousness was relieved a little.

This was followed by the throwing of two catapults, and although the dodge had been made, the fixed formation still caused more than a dozen casualties, although this number was not much for the entire army, but the blow to morale was not small. The crossbowmen in the rear, in particular, were anxious to see their troops within their effective range of the mixed formation, after they had been taken care of by the catapults. As the crossbowmen pushed forward, the entire force sped up, but the formation became chaotic again, forcing the Count to order his troops to stop and regroup.

Ellene, who assisted Byron in commanding the troops, seized this opportunity, and he ordered the infantry and crossbowmen to advance quickly, and rushed directly into the range of the Rhodok crossbowmen, this seemingly reckless move was regarded by Count Rayland as Byron wanting to take advantage of their unstable position to charge, he snorted coldly, feeling that the other party was too underestimating himself, and it was impossible to break his own formation with just a few hundred infantry. He immediately ordered the standard-bearers and trumpeters to break away from the convoy and shoot at the front of the line, while the infantry line was to be regrouped in place. After a moment of confusion, Rhodok's crossbowmen squeezed to the front of the troops and raised their crossbows. The spearmen behind them were also looking for their positions, ready to stabilize their formation and set up a phalanx of spears before the opposing charge arrived.

But they were wrong, the Nords and Vecchians with their shields raised and shouting in a language they didn't understand were not really trying to charge, they were just covering for the Wikigian guerrillas and archers in the army who appeared to be holding swords and shields but were actually carrying bows and arrows. When Rhodok's crossbowmen arrived at the front of the formation, the Nord soldiers suddenly stopped and quickly formed a shield wall, and nearly a hundred crossbowmen also threw down their melee weapons and replaced them with longbows, sending a rain of arrows at Rhodok's infantry line.

Generally speaking, Rhodok's troops, which are generally equipped with wide shields, are very resistant to long-range attacks, and there were also a series of Vecchian mercenaries who followed the Swadia Swadia army in a round of raids on northern Rhodok, but were defeated in front of Rhodok's phalanx, because until they shot the quiver, they did not do much damage to the tortoise shell, which consisted of a large number of shields and thick armor.

But this is not the case, now expensive conical arrows have become common among the Wecchian army, each Vekian archer can get three to five conical arrows for armor piercing in battle, and Byron, the wealthy man, hid a carriage of conical arrows in the blacksmith shop in Kulau, and each guerrilla archer was given five, and half of the arrows on the Vecchian archers were this. And the feint just now made the Rhodok army react wrongly, the formation of the troops was not stable, the soldiers who set up shields and spears were not even half, and the crossbowmen even raised their bows and crossbows to expose their bodies, in this round of sudden arrow rain, more than twenty people were shot by arrows, conical arrows and long bows, and the arrows directly broke through the chain mail on their bodies and inserted into the flesh and blood.

Although Rhodok's crossbowmen launched a counterattack later, most of these powerful arrows were still blocked by the Nord shield wall, although a few people were killed by crossbow arrows, but Byron's losses were much smaller than Rhodok's losses. Once the crossbowmen have finished shooting their arrows and start reloading, the Vekian archers, known for their high rate of fire, will be able to rain arrows at the opposing infantry line.

Byron's follow-up forces continued to advance steadily, the catapults maintained their previous output efficiency, and at the beginning of the battle, Count Rayland's troops were at a disadvantage. But this is not to blame them, Rhodok is too far away from the north, even the northern pirates rarely reach the coastline here, all the Rhodok lords know how to deal with the terrible heavy cavalry of Swadian, but there are really few lords who know the essence of the northerners' tactics. As a result, when facing Byron's mixed troops, they fell into a disadvantage.

However, Byron did not take the opportunity to continue the offensive to break through their defenses, not because he was too cautious, but because on the other side of the battlefield, Count Mateas's troops began to move.

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