Chapter 571: Meeting on a Narrow Road
The barbarian infantry battle regiment marched all the way under the fire of the long-range regiment, although it seemed that their momentum was not as fierce as that of the cavalry phalanx, but it was this state of calm and unhurried that made people feel even more depressed.
The mixed group players guarding in front of the first line of defense had already felt the pressure, and they involuntarily moved towards the middle settlement, leaning on each other and huddled together, trying to defuse the killing aura from the opposite side as much as possible through close contact with each other. The support team players, who are in charge of refueling in the back, are constantly switching between several of their teammates, trying to distract them with this fast-paced visual jump without getting too nervous.
Now whether it is a barbarian soldier or a player in the No. 1 defense line, both sides have reached the point of saber rattling, and the last 100-meter sprint distance is the first decisive point that both of them seize.
Seeing that it was about to enter the last fifty meters, the barbarian infantry battle group suddenly raised the shield in its hand, and then leaned over and sprinted towards the No. 1 defense line. This group of spear-armed forward heavy infantry fighters used their sprint speed beyond common sense to advance more than twenty meters in an instant, and then suddenly set up their shields in front of the No. 1 defensive line.
The nerves of the players in the first line of defense were frozen in an instant, and their brains went blank for a moment, and they couldn't figure out what was going on for a while. However, the barbarian infantry did not intend to give them a chance to react, and the spearmen in the front row immediately dispersed into several defensive formations after completing the shield erection.
It was obvious that through such a cascading defense, the barbarian infantry warband in the front line instantly formed a temporary position in front of the No. 1 defense line, and pointed straight ahead through the horse rejection formation made of spears. After completing this formation, the sword and shield soldiers wearing fish scale armor rushed out from between the gaps in the shield phalanx, directly climbed through the dirt slope in front of the No. 1 defense line, and attacked the fortifications above.
"Attention everyone! Defend with all our might, our task is only to withstand their attacks, do not risk leaving the fortifications, and leave the task of clearing the enemy troops to the nearby remote regiments! The commander in charge of the command shouted to the nearby players, and after looking around to make sure no one objected, he looked down, keeping a close eye on the movements of the barbarian infantry.
The goal of this group of barbarian swords and shields is obviously to clear the defenses that stand in the way, and these improvised earthen walls and improvised traps built by the player, although they can't do much to stop the large army, still have a certain interception effect in hindering the rhythm of the attack. Therefore, the first task of this group of barbarian sword and shield men was to dismantle these fortifications in order to make room for the siege equipment behind them.
The players of the first line of defense are all veterans in the game, so it is also the first time to participate in this kind of positional warfare, and they are already familiar with the routines in the offensive and defensive battles of the guild station, so they are not in a hurry to attack the barbarian sword and shield men who climb up, but calmly guard behind the fortifications and maintain the stability of the formation.
However, the players of the mixed regiment did not move, it did not mean that they intended to put the barbarian infantry in just like that, and the ranged regiments on both sides did not sit idle, but turned to the side and carried out long-range attack coverage towards the position diagonally opposite. Since their attacks were released diagonally, they directly caused great damage to the weak flanks of the barbarian sword and shield men.
The Barbarian Sword and Shield Men kept falling, and except for the first group that managed to reach the top of the dirt slope, all the other Barbarian Sword and Shield Men were blasted away by long-range attacks. These sword and shield hands, whose defense and HP are inferior to those of the heavy cavalry, are simply consumables for the barbarian army, and any player with an average equipment level can easily go head-to-head.
It's just that the number of these barbarian sword and shield hands is indeed exaggerated, and although the firepower of the remote regiment is endless, there is still no way to completely clean up the sword and shield hands that rush out of the formation. As more and more sword and shield men rushed out of the phalanx, the speed of the long-range regiment's clearing was clearly no longer able to keep up, and the sword and shield men soon crossed the fortifications and entered the position of the first line of defense.
The players of the mixed group finally entered the battle state, although their respective sects and professions were completely different, their attacks and cooperation were quite tacit.
Since Lie Yu Hongtu had already designed the arrangement of the phalanx according to the attack distance, their respective regiment commanders had refined their grouping according to their specific strength divisions. Therefore, when the players of the mixed group attacked, they found that their attack rhythm was very smooth with the nearby players, and their output effect was also higher than usual.
At this time, the No. 1 line of defense has become a large meat grinder, those barbarian sword and shield men rushed into the position of the No. 1 line of defense without their lives, and then they were instantly strangled by the players inside, among these barbarian sword and shield men who rushed in, only one of the ten barbarian sword and shield men could be desperately slashed, even so, their offensive was still not weakened.
Players in Line 1 memorized the instructions of their respective commanders, and all those who were bloodied by the attack of the sword and shield men consciously retreated to the rear, and nearby players took their place to continue the defense. Those who have recovered are inserted from the flanks of the mixed group phalanx and stand on either side of the column waiting for the next rotation.
I have to say that the tactics adjusted by Lie Yu Hongtu are very effective, those barbarian sword and shield men who act as cannon fodder have no way to break through their formation, and in the positional battle that lasted for more than half an hour, although the two sides had some small-scale mutual tilting, but soon the players of the first defense line will seize the initiative again.
After fending off the previous cavalry phalanx onslaught, the number of players in Position 1 was only about two-thirds. Coupled with the fact that the Musou Barracks Band, which was the backbone of the frontal defense, was heavily damaged by the other side, they didn't have much hope for the defensive battle, but now these players who participated in the defensive battle gradually saw the hope of holding on.
Just seeing hope does not mean that they must have the conditions for victory, although the barbarian sword and shield men cannot break through the position of the first line of defense at the moment. But the inexhaustible enemy did not forget their original goal, and the fortifications of Line 1 unknowingly crumbled, and the traps buried in them were gradually depleted.
The countdown to the final battle has begun, and the players of Line 1 are gradually realizing that the fortifications they rely on are losing their original purpose. More and more barbarian sword and shield men successfully climbed the dirt slope, attacking the formation of the mixed group with an even more rapid attack.
At this time, in the rear of the barbarian army, a low horn suddenly sounded, and the archers, who had been holding off the attack due to the advance of the barbarian infantry, began to rush over. They didn't seem to care that the barbarian infantry phalanx was also within attack range, and threw their bows and arrows directly from two hundred meters away.
Lie Yu Hongtu, who had been paying attention to the battle situation, trembled when he saw this, and an ominous premonition came to his heart.