96. Rush to the aid of Lena Village
The village of Lena is located somewhere in the southern region of Prailly. The establishment of this village is not for people's livelihood, but more for military purposes.
Brettnia is the southern frontier county of the kingdom of Tristram, and Prailly is the southern frontier noble domain of Brettnia. Naturally, the village of Lena, located in the southernmost part of the Prairly Territory, became one of the southernmost border villages in the kingdom.
Although it is also a vast plain landscape, the land is also very fertile. However, due to the sparse proximity to the borderlands, and the fact that the centaurs invade, plunder, and destroy almost every year, this is the only one of the more than 30 villages in the entire Prareli territory that does not produce food crops. The main industries in the village are animal husbandry and hunting, and the village is sustained by hunting animals and raising meat, dairy and leather products from cattle and sheep. The population of the village is small, only about 20 households, and the total number is more than 100 people. However, because of the company of wild beasts and foreign races all the year round, the leaders of Lena Village, both men and women, young and old, were able to ride healthy horses and shoot arrows with bows. Every year, when the centaurs come to raid, in order to defend their homeland, everyone in the village fights against the aliens. The fierceness of its folk customs can be seen.
Fifty or six of the Roger Knights of Kasha were born in the village of Lena. And almost all the sergeants were sent to the village of Lena to participate in actual combat during their time as warrior trainees of the Knights. Therefore, the positioning of Lena Village is not so much a border village that guards the border with animal husbandry, but rather a combination of a soldier supply place and a training ground.
Now there are 200 Rogge Knights stationed in Lena Village, as well as a mercenary group of 100 people, plus more than 100 militia in the whole village. More than 400 people guard a village, and the guard force is not insignificant.
It's just that the attacking centaur tribe is more numerous.
"Hell yes! At least 800 people! "Look at the centaurs that appear in the distance. Flavi Quinn, who led the team, clenched the wall stack tightly, and with a "click" he split a piece of the hardwood wall stack.
Although Flavi was mentally prepared for the fact that this year's centaur invasion would be more intense than in previous years, she was still taken aback when she actually saw the number of them.
In the past year or so, although the number of attacking centaurs was almost the same, it was the sum of the number of several centaur tribes, unlike this year, where such a tribe came so much. Looking at this posture, this tribe is all out to invade the realm of human city-states, and it is a desperate plan.
"Moreover, this is the first wave of enemies." Flavi's face was gloomy. "In the future, maybe there will be other centaur tribes here...... This battle is not easy to fight. ”
However, no matter how difficult it is, this battle must be fought.
"Archers! Shoot with all your might! ”
With Flavi's command, more than 300 people on the village wall drew their bows and fired arrows, and locust-like arrows shot at the centaurs galloping in the distance.
The centaurs who rushed to the front row immediately raised all kinds of shields to resist the falling arrows, and the slow reflexes were just covered with arrows in an instant, and his legs and feet fell to the ground before he weakened. The clansmen in the back raised their hooves over the corpses of their dead fellow clansmen and continued to charge in the direction of the village.
When they reached a short distance from the village, the centaurs screamed and threw their javelin axes at the wall. The human defenders on the wall either raised their shields to block or dodge, but they were not hurt by the centaurs' throwing weapons, but the defense against the centaurs' attacks also weakened the bows and arrows on the defenders' side. More centaurs swarmed up, brandishing heavy tomahawks and sledgehammers to smash down the village walls.
Because of its location on the border, the defenses of Lena Village are actually almost fortified, and there is a stone wall about two meters high on the outer base of the wooden wall at a height of five or six meters. The centaurs who approached the village tried their best to smash the wall, but after a few rounds of hammering and axe slashing, the stone wall only showed a few cracks and shattered some stone chips, but there was no damage to it.
While the centaurs were busy smashing the wall, a dozen or so strong sergeants picked up the small human heads, as large as millstones, piled up on the wall, leaned out and threw them at the centaurs outside the wall.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Flutter-" "Click-" "Click-"
With the muffled sound of stones falling to the ground and the crisp sound of bones and bones being smashed, more than a dozen centaurs who rushed to the wall and smashed the wall were smashed with broken bones and broken brains. The rest of the centaurs retreated from under the wall with a 'whoop', and started a long-range attack with the humans on the wall from the distance that their javelin axes could effectively attack. For a while, the two sides exchanged arrows and guns, and the arrows and blades were very happy. When the centaurs fought back, they did not blindly resist the arrows of the human defenders, but used their high mobility and quick reaction, coupled with the advantage of the open terrain to dodge the arrows of the humans on the wall.
In this way, while the human side can rely on the wall battlements to fend off the centaurs' throwing weapons, the centaurs can also use the open territory to dodge human arrows. The two sides were at a stalemate for a while.
"Damn! will hide and hide! Flavi stretched out his bow and aimed at a centaur for a long time, and then let go, and the arrow struck the target dozens of meters away with a green glow. The centaur who was hit by the arrow was injured and his reflexes were greatly reduced, so he was unable to dodge and was killed by the other human archers.
Flavi swung his bow with a quick swing of his arrow, threw a javelin at him and struck it away, then ducked down behind the battlements. The arrow she had just shot was intended to hit the target's heart, but it was dodged by the other party. Although he still shot the opponent in the leg, causing him to lose his ability to dodge and was killed by his subordinates, it was considered a kill in terms of the result, but in fact this kind of killing efficiency was very low. You know, Flavik is a high-level mid-rank ranger warrior, and even she can't kill a centaur with one arrow, and the rest of the ordinary warriors will naturally have a harder time doing it.
"Even if I can create a chance for my subordinates to kill the enemy, how many people can I take care of alone?" Flavi gritted his teeth and whispered hatefully. "It's a pity that I am the only one among the knights under your command who is practicing the rank of 'Hunter'. If only there were a few more people......"
Just when Flavi was helpless.
"Brush!" A ball of energy smashed into a leader-like centatrium, and in an instant, the centaur's torso deflated and turned into a withered corpse.
Immediately afterwards, there was a series of "poof! "Poof!" "Poof!" "Poof!" The sound of breaking the air sounded. More than a dozen centaurs who were in the front positions were all shot in the forehead and fell to the ground and died.
The sudden change shocked both the defenders on the wall and the centaurs below the wall.
Just as Flavi was stunned, two figures appeared on the wall. One was heavily armoured, with a heavy fur cloak over his shoulders and a large sword in both hands. The other was armed with a hunting bow and mounted on a tiger with white skin and black spotted mosquitoes.
The person who came was none other than the 'Death Knight' Liu Tianyu and the 'Priest of the Moon' Yang Lixue.
"Master Flavi, we're not late, are we?" Liu Tianyu looked down at the centaur outside the wall and asked proudly.