Chapter Seventy-Seven: The White Horse Battle Array
Day 3.
The army officially entered the wilderness area, and the scouts who scattered out brought back a lot of news, and the scattered adventurers were more or less reaped. Some time ago, many caravans were attacked and looted, and those belongings fell into the hands of the wild creatures, and they were captured as trophies after a battle. Sauron 66 continued to kill some enemies, and the amount of killing experience he got accumulated was 3ooo points, but the two of them didn't get much Kindler by sharing one point.
"There's a village in front." Sauron looked at the road that was becoming more familiar, and said to the half-elf ranger next to him: "I passed by here some time ago, and it was attacked by the lizardmen, and I don't know if they have migrated, but now it should have become a gathering place for the lizardmen. β
If you hadn't moved, I'm afraid everyone in that village would have died, right?
He gestured to Yas on the side, and the two of them bent down along the meadow, and there was a small river next to the village, and the lizardmen liked to be close to the water. When they could see the wooden fence of the village from a distance, the Half-Elf Ranger took a cylinder out of his pocket and spun it, then put it in front of him to observe the future.
Monoculars?
Sauron paused, waiting for the other to see what happened.
"Looks like it's already overrun by the lizardmen." Yas handed the monocular to Sauron on the side, and said casually: "Alchemy knick-knacks, 1o Jindler one." β
Glass is a relatively common thing, but pure glass is a hassle to make.
The telescope is a gadget that belongs to the alchemy product, and if there is no blessing spell rune, then the value is about 1o Jindler. If some special effects are added, the price may be as high as hundreds of Jindler. Sauron picked up the binoculars and took a look, and easily saw the lizardmen guarding the watchtower, the village was much ruined, and the lizardmen had built many rudimentary sheds on the burned houses.
"Quite a lot!" Sauron put down the binoculars and handed them back to Yas, and said in a deep voice, "The two of us probably won't be able to eat, so let's go back and hand over the information." β
The Half-Elf Ranger nodded, put away his binoculars and walked back.
Wilderness adventures must have at least a fifty percent chance of winning before they can make a move, and a seasoned adventurer like him will not try too difficult challenges lightly, after all, there is only one life, and it is useless to win if a person dies and is disabled. If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts, and too risky behaviors will kill yourself sooner or later. There are no corpses here, arms and legs are missing in battle, and it is necessary to pay a high price to recover.
The two of them quickly reached back to the rear and handed over the information in front of them.
Soon, they were greeted by a large man who looked like an officer, dressed in a full-body armor and holding a steel shield in his hand, armed with a refined sword, leather gloves, steel bracers, and a crossbow. Behind him was a fifty-man White Horse City Guard, uniformly armed with iron-clad armor, iron-shielded, short swords, and light crossbows. There are relatively few archers on the Whitehorse side, but there are a lot of crossbowmen, and light infantry can be used as crossbowmen.
In addition, he also brought a gray-robed wizard, who couldn't tell the professional level, but it should be above the second order.
"Captain of the 37th Infantry Regiment of the White Horse City Guard, Hanks." The bearded man nodded at Sauron and said in a deep voice, "The upper authorities sent me over to clean up those lizardmen." β
Because of the frequent fighting, there is basically no possibility of the armies of this world slackening.
Maybe their military discipline will be corrupted, and many people within them will fall into the evil camp, but their combat effectiveness will not drop too much.
Hanks was a man of great courage, and as soon as he gathered his soldiers, he asked Sauron to lead the way. Regular warriors are basically advanced professionals, most of them have a warrior level of three or above, and Hanks in front of him is estimated to be able to reach the second order, but not the third order. As a warrior in the army, his equipment is better than that of many adventurers, although he does not have any mortal-level equipment, but his armor is already better than many low-level mortal equipment.
About an hour or two later.
The group returned to the vicinity of the village, and Hanks ordered the soldiers to rest for a while, and then said to Sauron and the others on the side, "Can you kill their sentinels?" β
Sauron and Yas nodded, and each touched it from the side.
The half-elf ranger took out the longbow, made a gesture to the right, and then quietly climbed a tree, the longbow had a long range, and the sentinel mainly handed it over to him to solve. Sauron retreated into the shadows, sneaking along the grass and pulling out the crossbow as well, dealing with the two lizardmen at the door.
The army remained hidden in the woods hundreds of meters away, and everyone waited quietly.
Tremble!
Several bursts of air rang out, the Half-Elf Ranger shot the guards next to the alarm bell, and Sauron killed the sentries near the gate with a strong crossbow.
"Forward!"
When he saw the lizardman on the arrow tower fall, Hanks immediately put on his helmet, wrapped his whole body tightly, and said in a deep voice, "Wizard." Broke! β
The gray-robed wizard's expression was visibly dissatisfied, as if he didn't like the way he commanded.
But he still flew the incantation, and then a stone golem weighing about half a ton appeared out of thin air, the stone golem stepped forward with heavy steps, and the White Horse City Guards behind spread out, holding the iron shield in front of him, and began to trot and sprint. The group moved quickly, and when they approached one hundred and fifty meters in front of the walled gate, the White Horse City Guards blocked the upper body with a shield that was one meter long and half a meter wide, and at the same time took out the light crossbow.
There was a panic in the village, and the lizardmen soon saw the enemy attack, and immediately archers climbed the tower.
Bang bang bang!
More than a dozen arrows were fired one after another, and the advance of the White Horse City Guard did not slow down in the slightest, and the shield effectively blocked the enemy's attack.
The stone golem, which was not small, didn't care about Cheng DΓΉ's damage at all, and walked directly to the front and slammed into the gate. With a loud rumbling sound, the wooden gate had not been supported for a minute before it had been breached by the stone golem.
"Battle formation." Hanks raised his steel shield, slowed down a bit, and shouted, "White Horse Tactics." β
The fifty-man guard was divided into ten small phalanxes, and the three infantrymen raised their shields, drew their short swords and began to charge, while the two soldiers in the rear continued to reload their crossbows and shoot at the lizardmen in front of them. Hanks raised his shield and charged violently with a loud shout, even if he was wearing armor all over his body, he reached the level of a 100-meter sprint, and he rushed directly into the village, smashing a lizardman warrior head-on and flying out.
The wizard stayed behind and didn't mean to do anything at all, and even the stone golem stayed in place.
The White Horse Guards quickly took the gate, and after killing three lizardmen in succession, Hanks retreated back into the infantry phalanx, and immediately shouted, "Regroup." β
One by one, the lizardmen fell, and the White Horse Guards raised their shields and advanced steadily, and the formation strictly maintained a small phalanx, and did not pursue because of the enemy's panic and retreat. The light infantry equipped with shields covered the two wings, and while parrying with shields, they also used short swords to assassinate, and the soldiers in the rear constantly shot with crossbow arrows, and occasionally someone was quickly dragged to the rear by their comrades when they were hit by arrows. Hanks was also shot several times, but it had no effect on his full body armor, so he picked up his crossbow and shot back, then raised his shield to protect his head.
After the initial panic, the lizardmen warriors have gathered.
The archers were less lethal to these iron-clad shield-equipped enemies, and the advanced lizardmen warriors in the rear roared and rushed forward.
"Defensive formation." Hanks raised his steel shield and roared, "Charge!" Shield Strike! β
The White Horse Guards on all sides began to assemble, and the light infantry lowered their crossbow arrows, and they raised their shields and began to advance in a horizontal formation, and when the distance was close to thirty meters, everyone let out a roar of rage, and then charged forward. The warriors held their shields to the front and slammed into the lizardmen as they pounced.
Bang bang bang!
A series of muffled sounds echoed, and the warriors covering the flanks began to shrink their formation, forming a shield formation of ten men in a horizontal formation, and stabbing the enemy with short swords as they coordinated to block the lizardmen's attacks. The warriors of the lizardmen fell to the ground in large pieces as if they were cutting wheat, and the damage of the short sword was not enough to kill, and many of the lizardmen were stabbed and knocked down. The shield warriors at the forefront were still advancing slowly, and the light infantry in the rear began to replenish their swords, stabbing the enemy who had not yet completely lost their breath.
The warriors of the fifty-man phalanx acted like a wall, keeping out wave after wave of lizardmen's counterattacks.
There were already dozens of lizardmen's corpses on the ground, but the phalanx of fifty people was still standing still, although three or four people were injured and retreated, but the formation still did not have the slightest panic, not retreating because of the enemy's onslaught, nor pursuing because of the enemy's retreat, just like a wall, forcing the lizardmen in front of them little by little to the dead corner in the village.
Sauron's figure walked around from the side, and the half-elf ranger quickly converged, he pulled out his boning knife, glanced at the back and said: "The guards of White Horse City have trained shield blocking since the militia, and they have used short swords to assassinate, and the attack of the lizardmen can't break through their phalanx. We go around from the side and find a way to take out the lizardmen's collar. β
Drink!
There was a loud shout from behind, and the warriors of fifty men roared at the same time, pausing every thirty paces, and the number of them was only one-third of the opponent's, but they forced hundreds of lizardmen to retreat little by little. Any attacker who rushed at him was either stabbed head-on or killed by a crossbow bolt. After each attack, the shield phalanx did not waver in the slightest, only the corpses of more than a dozen lizardmen were left on the ground.
The number of archers is decreasing, and light infantry with helmet shields in full tin armor play as a lizardman archer when shooting head-on.
"Hand axe!"
Probably a forced madness, a very strong lizardman warrior roared, and led more than a dozen of his kind to pounce from the side, trying to break through the infantry phalanx from the slightly weaker defense. Hanks also let out a low roar, and took out a small hand axe from his waist, which was less than twelve centimeters long, and he spun it in his hand and threw it straight ahead. In the infantry phalanx, there were also more than twenty apparently well-trained warriors, who felt out from behind and threw a hand axe.
Bang bang bang!
The lizardmen who rushed over fell directly to the ground, and the lizardman warriors who rushed to the front were hit by five flying axes on the spot, and hung up without letting out a single fart.
The morale of the lizardmen has finally collapsed, and some of the warriors have begun to flee out of fear.
In less than fifteen minutes since the frontal breach of the gate, the White Horse Guards had advanced five hundred paces forward, killing more than a hundred lizardmen, and wounding less than seven of them, most of them from arrows. None of the enemies in the frontal attack broke through their formation, and some stupid lizardmen jumped into the phalanx and were instantly stabbed before they could hit the ground.
This is a massacre at all!
A merciless massacre of a rabble by a regular army.
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