At a distance of 300 meters, this is still not a distance that can be used for accurate shooting, but the bows and arrows that shoot out have basically had initial lethality. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Dane had seventy archers in his hands, and there were five hundred ranged troops in Morno's army. Of course, the archers in the Morno army were not specialized archers who were skilled in shooting, and they were also equipped with short swords and log shields, which could be used as light infantry when necessary.

And in the orc army, the number of archers may be close to a thousand.

The long-range troops of both sides, separated by a distance of three hundred meters, began a collective projectile. Arrows rained down, and although the distance led to a very low hit rate of bows and arrows, it would cause some casualties.

This is also the rare time for the elite rangers under Dane to suffer losses in battle. Under three or four rounds of arrows, five or six rangers were hit by arrows, two of whom died on the spot, and the other wounded retreated to the rear to be prepared for emergency treatment by the priest's team. On the other side, the casualties of Morno's archers were almost fifty. At the same time, the orc archers on the opposite side looked like they had been shot over.

The melee infantry did not stop as the arrows from both sides exchanged arrows, and they crossed the ranged units and began to move in the opposite direction.

Subsequently, the archers on both sides invariably focused on the target and put it on the infantry who were getting closer and closer. And when the distance between the infantry was only a little more than a hundred meters, the power of the bow and arrow rose to the maximum - at least for the elven rangers!

At this distance, the average archer is still unable to deliver a precise strike. Generally speaking, archers have to put the enemy at a distance of fifty or sixty meters, or even closer, to be able to shoot with confidence. But the elven rangers don't need to, they can only shoot at 200 meters, but when the enemy enters a distance of about 100 meters, they can completely flatten the longbow and use the advantage of eyesight to shoot accurately at the oncoming orc infantry!

In this way, the attack power of the Ranger unit immediately rises to a new level! Dane, who was moving forward with the Sword Dancer troops in the rear, watched with his own eyes that before the infantry of the two sides came into contact with each other, the ranger troops led by Pehin Si preemptively shot two rounds of attacks, directly causing the loss of nearly 100 enemies! At the same time, the enemy only had time to fire a salvo at Dane's melee troops, and the losses were only a dozen or so men.

He roughly estimated that on the left flank, his troops and the Pure Sword Mercenary Regiment's coalition of nearly a thousand people would have to deal with almost the same number of enemies. Under long-range strikes, the enemy lost a tenth of the enemy's losses, which is undoubtedly a major positive news.

Obviously, if Dane wanted to crush the orc army opposite him on the left flank, the Elven Ranger were a part of the combat power he had to rely on. These sharp longbowmen, if used well, are a huge amount of combat power, and their direct damage to the enemy's living forces from a distance is far more effective than a frontal assault.

But for the time being, the final result of this contest still depends on the collision between the main armies of the two sides!

The long-range strike between the archers on both sides was just an appetizer, thousands of people collided fiercely on a battle line hundreds of meters wide, just on the left flank battlefield where Dane was, the first line of impact composed of more than 300 warriors of the Dire Mercenaries and Pure Swordsmen launched a desperate charge with the elite giant axe warriors of the orcs!

Previously, when the archers began to shoot at each other, the distance between the two forces was already very close. The interval of two or three hundred meters, under the mutual charge of the two armies, was easily crossed in just a few tens of seconds. Subsequently, the battle between the battle axes and giant swords, as well as the screams of the soldiers when they killed the enemy, and the screams of being chopped on by weapons, became the most mainstream sound of the whole battle, mixed with the urging of war drums and horns, and the tragic atmosphere exclusive to the war came to the surface!

Dane has definitely experienced a lot of battles, and he has wandered on the edge of life and death I don't know how many times. But when he was a mercenary, or after he became a lord, he had never experienced such a large-scale battle of the corps. At this moment, all the main forces of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, as well as the Orc Vanguard Army, have invested nearly 7,000 troops on the entire battlefield. When he got closer, Dane's vision was full of fierce battles between ******, and the eyes were not only steel blades, but also blood and stumps flying in the sky.

He trembled—not fear, but excitement, an excitement that he had never experienced before. He found that compared to small-scale battles with dozens and hundreds of people, this feeling of commanding thousands of troops made him more enthusiastic!

But his mind is still clear, and he has not forgotten his current identity as the commander of the left wing of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. After the whole army had attacked, Morno was in charge of the central army, and it was impossible to have a way to convey his orders to every unit. The battle on each side must be decided by the leaders of each side themselves. On the right flank, Reddis, as the first captain of the White Wolf Castle, has experience in many wars. And Dane, sitting on the left wing, must also have a perfect performance.

His attention was focused on the soldiers fighting ahead. Neither the Dreaded Mercenaries nor the Pure Swordsmen are weak troops, and they are not inferior to the Orc Giant Axe Warriors. However, after all, the number of orc armies was not in the minority, and soon, the follow-up enemies immediately pressed up. The charging footsteps of more than three hundred human warriors quickly came to a standstill under the orcs' giant axes.

Without hesitation, Dane ordered the heralds who followed him to blow the second horn.

As the horn sounded, the recruited mercenaries led by Delin, with a total number of about 500 people, also pressed up. The fighting will of this army is very unpopular, but after all, there are many people, and supplementing the frontal battlefield will naturally play a corresponding role.

With three hundred dreaded ghosts and pure sword warriors as the core, plus five hundred mercenaries, the battle line showed a solid state in the face of a thousand-strong orc army. The fierce fighting continues, but for the time being, it is impossible to see who is superior and who is inferior. And in Dane's hands, he still holds nine squads of sword dancers, as well as a squadron of dragon warriors. These forces, until he found the opportunity to win, he did not intend to throw them all into the battlefield for the time being.

However, he fought well on the left flank, but in the middle army, the White Wolf Fort troops in Morno, were being severely tested!

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