Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Ballista Makes a Move

Picking up the hand axe, a group of orcs stood on the slope again, standing stunned, waiting for Xiao Yu to continue to give orders.

The cavalry over there were completely killed.

That commander didn't know what to do now. If you continue to rush up like this, you will definitely be killed, but if you don't rush head-on, the other sides are all raised terrain, and you can't rush up at all.

When Xiao Yu set up camp, he was already optimistic about the terrain.

The cavalry commander's face was very ugly, and he also knew that Xiao Yu had a classic duel at the Colosseum in Benghazi, but he thought it was just a coincidence, he had three thousand cavalry, could he not beat the other party's five hundred orcs?

He would never have imagined that this ambush would be so twists and turns, first waiting left and right and waiting for no one, and then finally finding it, and as a result, so many people died in the first photo. Moreover, there is no way to attack at all.

"Lord Commander, if we continue like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to attack it." Next to this commander, the adjutant couldn't help but say.

The commander said coldly, "What do you suggest?" ”

The adjutant looked at the obstacles in front of him and said: "Those obstacles have completely limited the play of our cavalry, if we want to attack, we must give up our horses and attack with short weapons. The axe they had just now was really powerful, but once we relied on our shields to get forward, use those obstacles as cover, and slowly kill them, their axes would not be so useful. Those obstacles, although they are a great hindrance to us, can also provide them with cover. As long as they get close, their long-range weapons will not be used, and when the time comes, will our well-trained soldiers still be afraid of their five hundred orcs? The ten-man siege tactics we usually train are designed to deal with powerful individual units like orcs and fighters. ”

Listening to the adjutant's advice, the commander nodded, in fact, he also saw that the horses were completely useless here. It's just that if he wants to give up his horses, he is a little unwilling, after all, they are cavalry.

However, they are also elite warriors, and even if they fight on foot, they are not afraid of anyone.

Even if they died five hundred people just now, there are still two thousand five hundred people, and the other party is just five hundred orcs, what are you afraid of.

Five to one, still can't beat the orcs?

They are not unorganized soldiers, but they are usually well-trained, and a small phalanx of ten people forms a small phalanx to attack and kill, which is the nemesis of this kind of orcs.

If he had time, he could have adopted delaying tactics to trap Xiao Yu here, after all, although Xiao Yu now occupies the terrain, it is also an isolated terrain, if his three thousand soldiers and horses adopt siege tactics, block the way out, and prevent them from coming out to purchase supplies, sooner or later they can be besieged to death.

But he didn't know that if he used such a tactic, Xiao Yu could also have many ways to deal with him.

So, the commander ordered everyone to dismount, then took up shields, short swords, and prepared for melee combat, and those spears were ready to be thrown to inflict damage on the orcs.

You have throwing axes, and we have spears.

Xiao Yu watched them all dismount and prepare to fight on foot, and immediately his eyes narrowed.

"Foot combat? Think foot combat is fine? Prepare the ballista. ”

The cavalrymen were now infantrymen, with shields in their left hands, spears in their right hands, and short swords hanging from their waists.

With the experience of the last time, these infantry were scattered relatively widely, and tried not to concentrate together, so as not to suffer the exterminating blow of the flying axe again.

Moreover, they have already chosen the location of the obstacle, and they are ready to rush over, and immediately find the obstacle to hide, so that the opponent's axe will not be able to hit it.

The obstacle was made too large to withstand the charge of their horses, but it also provided good cover.

The first echelon, having reached the vicinity of the obstacle, began to charge, burrowed under the obstacle, and then prepared for hand-to-hand combat.

However, just then, when they thought the orcs were about to start throwing axes again, they suddenly found that they had withdrawn in both directions.

They were slightly stunned, not understanding what these orcs were doing, but soon, they found that after the first row of orcs withdrew, a row of orcs holding a huge giant crossbow and five thick crossbow arrows were facing them.

For a moment, their hearts throbbed.

The next moment, the bolts pierced the sky with a high-pitched whistling sound, like the chirping of a strange bird.

Puff puff......

A burst of blood dances exploded, and many soldiers were directly shot in half by the thick crossbow arrows, and then the crossbow arrows continued to penetrate, piercing several people in a row before stopping.

In such a scene, dozens of people died unexpectedly, and the death was extremely horrific.

"Charge, rush forward and cut off their crossbow arrows, or else we will all die." At this time, a hundred people shouted loudly. His judgment was correct, the range of the crossbow was too long, and if they escaped, they would all be penetrated before they could run out.

Now, instead rushing up quickly, the distance is closer, which can effectively prevent the orcs from continuing to attack.

However, what they didn't expect was that the orcs launched much faster than they thought.

After the first row of orcs finished shooting, they directly held these huge crossbows and turned around and ran backwards from both sides, while the orcs in the second row were already holding huge crossbows and shooting.

Puff puff......

Their shields couldn't resist the powerful power of the ballista, and they pierced through it directly, and some soldiers who hid under the obstacles, the orcs didn't care at all.

In fact, they didn't aim at all, but just followed Xiao Yu's order to shoot in a range-covered manner, shooting if they could, and pulling down if they couldn't shoot, so they hurried back and continued to load.

If it is an ordinary ballista, it is very laborious to operate, and it needs two people to push it, and it is definitely not so flexible, but the orcs can easily change positions by holding the huge crossbow directly, so that the back one comes up, and the front one withdraws down to load the arrows.

Xiao Yu set up a total of five rows for them, ten ballistas in each row, after the first PAI was shot, they immediately returned to the back and loaded, and then the second row followed the shooting, after the second row, the third row followed, and when the fourth PAI finished shooting, the first row was basically filled.

The accuracy of the five-slot ballista is indeed not so high, but the coverage is very wide. Ten ballistae can shoot fifty crossbow arrows at once, and as long as this kind of crossbow arrow hits, it can penetrate several.

"Ah...... They still have, why do they have so many ballistas? "The soldiers were all panicked now, either hiding under the obstacles and not daring to show their heads, or they quickly retreated out of the range of the ballista.

Now, every soldier's psychological defense line has collapsed again, and the power caused by this giant crossbow machine is much more powerful than the deterrent power of the throwing axe just now.

Because of the speed and density of the fire, the soldiers who fled were pierced one after another, and by the time they were out of range of the crossbows, more than 500 people had died.

At this time, Xiao Yu ordered the other orcs to rush down, kill all the soldiers hiding under the obstacles, and shoot with ballistas if people from a distance dared to come to support.

As a result, the soldiers who were hiding under the obstacle were all killed again.

In the blink of an eye, with just two waves of attacks, more than a thousand people had died on the other side. They only have 3,000 cavalry, and if they continue like this, if there are two more waves of charges, they will basically be dead.

The commander looked at the corpses all over the ground and wanted to cry without tears.