Chapter 242.
I have to say that the salvo of more than a thousand skeleton archers is undoubtedly quite shocking, both in terms of momentum and in terms of the real lethality caused. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The rain of arrows like locusts came in waves, and under the embellishment of that crystal light, like a flickering meteor shower, the dotted bone arrows kept swaying down from mid-air, and under this dense attack, whether the Mamluk knights who charged forward at great speed could survive the dense wave of bone arrows was completely up to luck.
In the face of this surging rain of arrows, these absolutely elite Mamluk knights also immediately had a coping strategy, and the originally dense Mamluk knights quickly dispersed along this plain, and then quickly opened like a fishing net, and shrouded towards the skeleton archers in front of them.
The scattered formation undoubtedly weakened the rapid offensive of these skeleton archers to a certain extent, and if they had rushed forward at such a rapid pace, I was afraid that these Mamluk knights would suffer heavy losses before they could get closer.
It's just that the bone arrows shot by these skeleton archers with all their strength are amazing, but for the cavalry that charges at high speed, the accuracy is the same as the lead bullets fired by the tunnel guns, which makes people cry and laugh.
However, once they were hit by these bone arrows in the heart and other vital parts, even with the protection of strong armor, these cavalrymen were certain to die.
However, under the fire of more than a thousand skeleton archers, although these Mamluk cavalry had dispersed at the first time, the damage caused by the bone arrows that fell like locusts was still quite amazing.
In just the first round of shooting, dozens of Mamluk corpses were nailed to the ground, red blood mixed with broken flesh and blood, and began to dance wildly in the sky, and one after another screams of pain crossed the sky like meteors, short and high-pitched.
The Mamluk cavalry summoned by Chopin were all heavy cavalry, wearing helmets made of stainless steel and chain mail, and the armor on his body was much lighter than the full outfits of European knights, but the protective effect was not bad at all.
However, these so-called "protective measures" are not worth mentioning at all in front of those bone arrows.
After the first few rounds of firing, the distance between the two sides was also rapidly narrowing, and the Mamluk cavalry, which was originally open like a fishing net, began to shrink rapidly inward when they broke through to an invisible critical point.
If the Mamluk cavalry in the previous state of charge was a storm of wind and thunder, then the more than 400 cavalry that regrouped together and advanced forward at this time were like a giant fortress made of steel, carrying unimaginable heaviness and majesty, mighty and mighty, crushing everything.
And this is the strength of the Mamluk cavalry!
From the time of the Crusades to the Napoleonic Wars, the Mamluk slave soldiers were a formidable army, and the most famous battle was undoubtedly the defeat of the Mongols at Ain Jarut with a ratio of 20,000 to 20,000.
In 1261, the Mamluks defeated the Mongol army at Ain Jalu near Palestine and Syria, and the Mongol army was completely annihilated in the first field battle in the history of the Western Expedition!
This war, which marked the end of the vigorous Mongol expedition to the west, prevented the victorious Mongol army from capturing the holy land of Jerusalem and prevented the Mongol army from finally setting foot in African countries.
In the Middle Ages in Chopin's world, the Mongol cavalry once became a nightmare for everyone in the whole world.
As a well-trained, disciplined, tactically flexible, intelligent and formidable whirlwind force in the Middle Ages, the Mongol cavalry broke free from the shackles of traditional European military thinking and built a magnificent empire of unprecedented scale in the world.
And the most important thing to ignore is the strict discipline system formed in the course of training, so that everyone obeys orders and is rigorous, which is unheard of in other armies in the Middle Ages!
Under the surging tide of the Mongol iron horse, the largest Mongol Empire in the entire history of mankind was established, which once spanned the two continents of Europe and Asia, even the ancient Roman Empire, which once spanned Europe and Asia, or the United Kingdom, which was known as the "empire on which the sun never sets" in modern history, in terms of land area, it is far less than the Mongol Empire.
When the Mongol Empire was at its strongest, it once covered an area of more than 30 million square kilometers!
The reason why the Mongol Empire was so brilliant was that it relied on the Mongol cavalry that swept almost all of Eurasia, but such a powerful cavalry was ultimately defeated by the Mamluk cavalry, and it was in the case of the same number of participants.
Although the defeat of the Mongol cavalry had many factors, the strength of the Mamluk cavalry was beyond doubt.
Later, because of internal decay, the Mamluk cavalry gradually disappeared into the long river of history, but the Mamluk cavalry recruited during the Napoleonic period once again bloomed brightly.
And this time, in front of this terrifying immortal spirit in the other world, these Mamluk cavalry are going to show their former glory and invincible posture again!
Losing the cover of the skeleton warriors in front of them, and these skeleton archers did not give these Mamluks a fatal blow before the two sides encountered, which means that the end of these skeleton archers has come!
The most typical way of fighting cavalry is to hold a spear or saber steadily, urging the horse to gallop towards the enemy. This mode of combat uses the impact of the horse to give the enemy a fatal blow and is extremely lethal.
On the battlefield, in order to give full play to the power of the spear charge, the knights often fought in dense formations and divided into several small phalanxes to organize the charge.
And the Mamluk cavalry at this time, it was like this.
"Click-"
Sharp sabers constantly cut through the bones of a famous skeleton archer, these skeleton archers are more advanced than cannon fodder skeleton warriors, but they are only "some", these Mamluk cavalry with the help of the horse shock force of the swords wildly, these skeleton archers can not resist.
And under the frenzied killing of these Mamluks, a skeleton archer also fell quickly, and every Mamluk knew very well at this time that this was a hard-won fighter, so at this time, each of them turned themselves into the most efficient killing machine.
However, at the same time as this skeleton archer fell, there were also Mamluk cavalry whose lives came to an end, no matter how strong they were, they were flesh and blood after all, and while madly wielding sabers and causing a large number of casualties, the physical strength of these Mamluk cavalry was also rapidly consumed, and then, the speed of killing was inevitably slowed down.
These skeletal archers, who had no idea what fear and death were, suffered huge casualties, but their counterattacks were still fast, efficient, and powerful, and at such a close range, every bone arrow shot out would surely cause a Mamluk knight to fall forever.
The siege after the skeleton warriors around them got up greatly hindered the charge of these Mamu cavalry, and their casualties began to rise rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
And as the collision became more and more intense, this dark black land was also completely transformed into the bloodiest and most crazy slaughterhouse, and the fresh lives turned into broken minced meat under the rotation of the death mill.
And when the Mamluk cavalry, which was less than 200 left, stood out, the original more than 1,000 skeleton archers were now less than 300 left, and as for those skeleton warriors who were destroyed back and forth under the artillery and muskets, there were even fewer in the rush of the Mamluk cavalry.
Scarlet blood was flowing, a large number of bone fragments, blurred flesh, and broken limbs were spread all over the ground, and the originally dark black ground had already been dyed a thrilling blood red.
The air was filled with bloody, rancid, choking smells, and in the haze-like closed sky, the smoke of gunpowder continued to rise, and finally turned into a dead knot that could never be untied.
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Just as those Mamluks were charging at those skeleton archers, the hundreds of skeleton knights who had been inactive seemed to have received some instructions, and then they all moved.
"Dada-da-"
The undead horses stepped on the dark black ground, whether it was the solemn and suppressed momentum, or the roar of the horses' hooves hitting the ground, it was not inferior to the six hundred Mamluk cavalry.
However, before they could meet the Mamluk cavalry, the spearmen who had previously been injured by desperately blocking the skeleton dogs were intercepted in front of these skeleton cavalry again.
A hundred skeleton knights against more than 800 spearmen are at an absolute disadvantage no matter how you look at it, but in terms of power alone, the momentum generated by the skeleton knights on the side with fewer numbers is forced to suppress those spearmen in front of them.
And in the face of these skeleton knights in front of them, who seemed to be extremely elite, these spearmen did not dare to be careless, and immediately put on a "solid phalanx", a typical formation of defensive cavalry.
Of course, this "solid phalanx", which may be quite effective against ordinary cavalry, is of no use in the face of the hundreds of skeleton knights in front of him.
And the first time he saw these skeleton knights make a move, Chopin's heart tightened.
Although he had only recently entered this strange world of the undead, Chopin was not particularly clear about the hierarchy of these undead spirits, but he made it clear that there was no so-called emotional fluctuation among low-level undead spirits, such as the skeleton warriors and skeleton archers they encountered, and the soul fire of these undead souls was like a dead silence of the Dead Sea, no matter what the situation, there would be no waves.
And these skeleton knights in front of him, although their jumping soul fire did not seem to fluctuate in the slightest, but Chopin could vaguely sense the emotions expressed in these skeleton knights at this time, it was - fear!
Although it is not clear what these skeleton knights are afraid of, it is certain that the strength of these skeleton knights is definitely not comparable to those low-level troops such as skeleton warriors and skeleton archers.
And it is, it is.
Although these skeleton knights are undead, in a way, their degree of evolution is much higher than that of ordinary humans.
In terms of physical qualities such as strength and agility alone, although there is still a big gap between their strength and the "Shengyao Warriors", the strength of their skeletons and bodies is much stronger than that of ordinary "Shengyao" warriors.
Although there is no "Dou Qi" energy that can instantly burst out with powerful power, to a certain extent, with its own strength comparable to steel's solid body, every skeleton knight can barely be called half a "Saint Yao" warrior.
And in the face of the charge of hundreds of strong men who are almost equivalent to hundreds of peak levels of fighting spirit, the only thing these spearmen can pose, or the only thing they can do, is to stop these skeleton cavalry and stop them at all costs.
It's just that although the dream is beautiful, the reality is extremely cruel.
This collision between the two sides - not so much a collision as a "massacre" is better described as a massacre, and it is a complete slaughter!
The absolute asymmetry between the combat power of the skeleton knights and the spearmen has led to all the madness and hideousness, all in vain, even if these spearmen still can't change the desperate situation of the battle.
The high-speed rush of the skeleton knight blew like a whirlwind, and the slender scimitars of the meniscus were constantly swung, and with each swing of this scimitar, the pupils of a spearman lost all their brilliance.
And just when these spearmen were desperately blocking, a famous line infantry didn't care about resting at all, and once again aimed the black muzzle in his hand at the group of skeleton knights in front of him.
"Bang bang-"
Only this time, the expected signs of the skeleton crumbling or even falling directly did not happen, but instead there were pits of different sizes and shades, although these pits also caused a considerable degree of damage to these skeleton knights, but they were not fatal, or rather, one or two such attacks were not fatal.
It's just that just when all the line infantry were a little stunned, a somewhat unusual buckshot roar suddenly sounded, it was the roar of the Mine's bullet!
Before the skeleton knight who rushed to the front could react to what was happening, a deep hole was carved out of his chest, and a crisp and pleasant sound sounded.
"Click-"
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At the end of the exam week, it's really tiring that all kinds of things are mixed together, but in any case, today's update is still there, and it has been revised a few times, so it's relatively late, so forgive me.
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