267, Hump Fort Attack and Defense (6)
Compared with the equipment of the soldiers under the command of Kashya, the equipment of the ordinary soldiers of the Knights under the command of Bilgard is undoubtedly a notch behind. Only two-thirds of the two centurians who were in charge of the attack were armed with standard shields covered in hardwood, while the rest were armed with homemade rudimentary plank shields.
"Prepare your bows and arrows—" As lord of the Prairly Domain, Kasha Leopold took command of the battle. After she gave the order, the archers on the walls quickly wound their arrows, and watched the army slowly approaching her, waiting for the next order.
"Sheila." After Yang Qianyu commanded the alchemy archers under his command to prepare for the attack, he quietly sent a message to his elf adjutant.
"At your command." Sheila, the elf who hid her shape so that it was invisible to outsiders, hovered in the air on the side of Yang Qianyu's face, and responded with a serious face.
"Command the alchemy archers, and after Kasha gives the order to attack, all of them will fire three rounds of precision fire, and the goal will be the hundred-man team that enters the section of the city wall that we are responsible for defending." Yang Qianyu quietly ordered.
"Yes."
About ten seconds later, the two 100-strong teams of the Manchado army under the city finally entered the effective range covered by the bows and arrows of the defenders of the city.
"Shoot the arrows!" Kashya gave a soft snort, and at the same time waved his right hand vigorously.
Following Kasha's order, the soldiers of the Rog Knights raised their bows slightly, and did not take a closer look, but only released their bowstrings after a rough estimate. Fifty arrows shot into the air in unison, drawing a row of elegant parabolas and smashing into the enemy army below the city. As soon as the arrow was fired, the soldiers, without hesitation, immediately drew a second arrow from the quiver that stood beside them, put it on the bowstring, and then shot it. Then draw a third arrow, stretch your bow, and let go of the ...... The whole process was repeated five times.
The longbow used by the soldiers of the Knights of Rogge was a standard oak longbow purchased from the regular army of the kingdom. However, this kind of oak longbow that is nearly two meters long is not something that anyone can play, even if it is an archer who specializes in bowing, there are only a few people who really dare to pat their chest in front of their lords and say that they can accurately hit a moving target from a distance of dozens of meters. Fortunately, there are many enemy troops, and defending the city is not an archery competition in the arena, and accuracy is not necessary. After all, in the face of the dense military formation of the enemy army on the opposite side, even if you close your eyes and shoot arrows forward at will, the probability of missing is much lower than the probability of hitting.
After five rounds of arrows, more than twenty men of the Manchado army of hundreds, who were attacking the section of the city wall defended by the Prareli army, fell. These unlucky ghosts who were hit by the arrows were either already lying motionless on the ground, or they were holding on to the places where they were hit by the arrows and letting out a terrible scream. Except for a few arrows that pierced through the gaps between their shields, the rest of the dead and wounded were soldiers who had no standard shields and could only use rudimentary planks as shields. The protective effect of these rudimentary planks in battle is not so much a physical protection as a psychological comfort for the bearer. Looking at the tragic situation of almost all of these guys being shot through with people with shields, you can know that such a pit daddy's full color is almost useless in actual use. Although there were some guys with planks in their hands who carried the initial projectile blow, it was only because they were lucky enough that the arrow did not fall on their heads, and God knows if they could maintain such good luck in the rest of the arrow strike.
However, compared to the hundred-man team that attacked the Xuanyuan Adventure Regiment's defensive city wall, the surviving soldiers of the hundred-man team that attacked the Prairly Army's defense line were simply the lucky of the lucky.
The Overseer soldiers who followed behind the Manchado Army's advance attack stared at the scene in front of them dumbfoundedly, disbelieving that what they were seeing was the truth.
The entire hundred-man squad of soldiers all fell within forty or fifty meters of the city wall, and the armor on the soldiers' bodies (whether leather armor, chain mail, or scale armor) and the shields in their hands (whether they were standard iron hardwood shields or rudimentary homemade wooden shields) did not stop the flying arrows. Each person has two or three arrows stuck in their bodies, and the middle arrows are all important parts such as the forehead, heart, chest, and abdomen. What's more, a single missed arrow was not visible on the ground.
There was no **, no screams, and no one even made any movement among the soldiers who fell to the ground. This first-attacking team of 100 was wiped out in the defender's first counterattack.
"Well, it seems like a little too much." Yang Qianyu looked at the scene under the city, smacked his lips and muttered in a low voice. In order not to expose the secret that the alchemy archers could use energy arrows, Yang Qianyu still equipped the fifty alchemy archers brought this time with a bundle of arrows in the armament inventory of Hump Fort, but he still underestimated the attack lethality of the alchemy archers. Alchemy archers, even when shooting with arrows, still have a little psionic energy attached to the arrows - exactly the same method used by archers-based rangers to attach fighting energy to arrows to increase their lethality and range. And the arrows attached to the energy pierce through the armor of soldiers who are not even slightly inferior to ordinary specifications. In addition, the shooting stability of the alchemy archers is also incomparable to that of human soldiers, and the shooting accuracy of ordinary soldiers can reach almost 100%, which also causes the inevitable outcome of the enemy's hundred-person phalanx being wiped out after three rounds of arrows in a wave of attacks.
The traversers had all seen the power of the alchemy archers, so although they were surprised by their results, they did not stop there. However, the sight of the hundred-man army under the city swept away and fell down, but the defenders of the city and the siege of Manchado army were all stunned.
"Unbelievable!" Kasha and the others in the city who looked at the scene in front of them were shocked and sighed, and then they cheered up. Such a strong force was on their side at this time, fending off the enemy with them. Could there be a more wonderful scene on the battlefield? As for fear, leave it to the enemy to feel.
"How so?! How so?! Mosara Birgard yelled out of faux puffs: "You actually wiped out one of my 100-man team in the first round of counterattack?!" And almost all of them were sniped?! There are so many marksmen trained by his Leopold family?! ”
The knights on either side were silent. After all, no one can answer this question.
"Herald! Let the other first attacker retreat first! The trebuchet unit will focus on smashing the wall where the opponent's marksman unit is located! Stone them to death for me! Earl Bilgard roared and ordered.
"Yes." The herald answered the order, and then quickly rode his horse to the front to give the order.
The only remaining team of 100 people who attacked first was in a dilemma at this time, and when they received the order to retreat, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then retreated back together. It moves a little faster than it did when it was moving forward.
The men pulled five trebuchets close to the limits of the bow and arrow range of the defenders of the wall, and then hammered down the fixed stakes with all their hands. Two soldiers with large shoulders and round waists worked together to place a rough spherical stone with a diameter of seventy or eighty centimeters in the shape of a rough ball in the shape of a lever, and then loosened the knot that held the short end of the lever in place. The short end of the load falls down, causing the long end of the lever to rise, and the stone is thrown out.
"Falling rocks! Avoid! Seeing the Manchado army throwing stones, the defenders on the city wall quickly dispersed under the shouting orders of the leaders of the various teams, avoiding the bombardment of the stones.