Chapter 373. Enemy forces that began to crumble
They are indigenous archers, the indigenous people from the American continent, who were once conquered by Spain, but now they have become accomplices of this empire, using their exquisite archery skills to sacrifice their modest strength for the reconquest of the Spanish Empire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
That's right, even if they are meager in strength, no matter how superb their archery skills are, in this musket-based war system, there is no superfluous identity at all, or they can only be used as a third-line force to maintain local security, or hunt in the dense forests to provide meat for Cape City.
Because after the invention of the musket, the status of the bow and arrow has begun to decline rapidly, except for certain occasions, these archers have long lost their transcendent status in the ancient era of cold weapons.
There was a reason for this, when more than 240 native archers, no more than 30 meters from close range, drew their bows and arrows, and fiercely formed a rain of arrows towards the hoplites who were at a loss for their hands and looked extremely panicked due to the front and rear attacks, and the enemy fell very few, not even more than a dozen.
Most of the feathered arrows were covered by the iris shield on the arm, and even a small part was bounced off by the heavy and sophisticated armor on the body, and even if there were unlucky enemies, most of them were shot in the unprotected places of the cheeks, which caused fatal wounds.
However, there were no more than fifteen people with arrows in the cheeks, and the others, even because the indigenous archers shot closely, and the arrows in the body pierced the scale armor and chain mail into the muscles, and they went in less than half a centimeter, and then they lost the possibility of continuing to move forward, and they were still next to them when they pulled them out, which was simply a flesh wound.
This is also the reason why bows and arrows were eliminated by muskets, although this weapon has a long range and can be thrown, but the power is really not as powerful as lead bullets that can kill with one hit, as long as they are worn thicker, then bows and arrows are almost useless.
In the history of the earth, there was such an interesting phenomenon, that is, the higher the leather armor rate of those armies, the lower the number of shields, which undoubtedly proves that this long-range weapon in the era of cold weapons is so pale and powerless in the face of well-made armor.
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Now, the hoplites on the ruins of the city wall also reacted, and raised their irises and shields towards the area of the five light Canadian warships, which were used to resist the continuous rain of arrows.
After all, it is a bow and arrow, and the frequency of shooting can reach five to six times a minute, especially in the hands of these indigenous archers who are good at hunting wild beasts, and they draw their bows and shoot arrows again and again, forming a dense torrential rain in a short period of time, crackling on the ruins of the city wall more than thirty meters away, and forcing the hoplites who are still panicked one by one.
These hoplites were all holding their shields, trying their best to block the rain of arrows that shot straight ahead, and even the kite shields of the outermost hoplites were densely packed with hedgehog-like feathered arrows.
They did their best to protect the light infantry behind them, the crossbowmen, for even in the light gallean warship, scattered crossbow and feather arrows were fired in a series of arrows, inflicting several minor injuries on the native archers.
"Boom Boom T
The roar of the artillery was deafening, and the violent iron balls flew into the ruins of the city wall, and the hoplites who had originally raised their irises and raised their large wooden shields and began to reorganize themselves to wait for rescue, but with the violent explosions, they were continued to be bombarded into corpses left here by those fist-sized cast iron cannonballs.
The rate of fire of the 7-pounder light gun is quite fast, and the reloading of the chamber and the ignition of the fire in one go is tantamount to death beckoning to those hoplites.
But what really overwhelmed them was the town militia inside the fortress, which had regrouped and began to approach slowly, and the ten 7-pounder light guns, which were driven by several artillery pieces and moved forward quickly, continuing to aim the muzzle of the black hole at them!
Outside was the rain of arrows and artillery bombardment from the Galie warship, and inside was also the shelling and the denser volley of guns, and the group of hoplite soldiers in the ruins of the city wall could not resist at all, and the scale armor and chain mail on their bodies, even if they could resist the shot of the feather arrows, could not stop the large-caliber lead bullet of the flintlock pistol at all!
Blood flowers bloomed on the chain mail, and one by one the hoplites on the inside fell, and a large number of corpses almost covered the ruins of the collapsed city walls, and thousands of troops were now surrounded, like lambs in steamers.
"Kill—"
But in the distance, two heavy galleon warships also stormed into the edge of the hundreds of warships and transports, and slammed into the side of the ship that had no time to dodge, and with the sound of the clattering of the wood, the sailors who stayed on it were also shocked to find that the enemy with a scimitar rushed forward!
The main force of hand-to-hand combat has all entered the fortress of the island in the middle of the lake, and it is difficult to protect itself at present, and the people who remain on these transport ships and warships are either sailors or the guys who are responsible for controlling the ballistas and trebuchets, and they belong to the second-line combat personnel, and they are not fighters who are fighting the enemy in the first line at all!
But the Barbary pirates who got on the ship didn't care at all, because they were ordered to kill the enemies on these ships and let them know what a terrible price it would be to invade Cape's sphere of influence!
"Kill them!"
The flintlock pistol in Levi's hand also fired, killing an enemy sailor who tried to rush over for hand-to-hand combat, and looking at the Barbary pirates jumping over from the warships in front of him, he also raised his voice and ordered loudly: "Kill!" ”
"Kill—"
The Barbary pirates responded frantically, the scimitars in their hands flying up and down, and the bright blades were also covered with bright red blood, and the stumps that accompanied the flight.
Behind him, the two teams of supporting town militia were also shooting, but instead of firing a volley of guns, they found their own target, and pulled the trigger, so that the enemy sailors, who had little resistance at all, fell to the ground from a long distance and died miserably.
Although they were only 400 men, even the sailors who stayed behind on these warships and transports were no match for them, and they were killed by these murderous Barbary pirates and the town militia who also joined the battle with bayonets, and began to fall back and flee as they rowed their warships and transports in a scattered manner.
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