Chapter 47: The Battle of Revenge (2)

In a military camp near Córdoba, Commander Valov looked at the dozens of New Carthaginian cavalry who were arrogantly galloping back and forth in front of his camp, with a look of doubt in his eyes, in his military camp, there were more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, and the other party had dozens of cavalry, how could he dare to come and take the initiative to provoke! It's no wonder if there's no catty in it! So out of prudence, he did not let his soldiers attack. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Bastard! These scumbags actually burned the village! At this moment, a shout suddenly sounded behind him, it was Webb, another commander in the camp, this man was much more impulsive than him, and he had been clamoring to take the initiative to destroy those New Carthaginian cavalry, if he hadn't pulled desperately, the other party would have already led his troops to kill.

And this time, after seeing with his own eyes that the other party was actually burning, killing and looting in a nearby village, Weber obviously couldn't bear it anymore, and without saying hello to Valov, he led his thousand-man team out of the camp.

Seeing this situation, Valov couldn't help but be anxious, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to also go out with the other party, so that the strength of the two thousand troops added up is not weak, as long as the enemy's strength is less than 10,000 people, they can still hold on until reinforcements arrive nearby.

Seeing Weber and them leading their troops to kill, the New Carthaginian cavalry who had been arrogantly shouting and scolding in front of the barracks immediately turned around and fled without any hesitation. Seeing this, Valov was completely sure that this was a trick of the enemy to lure the enemy. Therefore, he immediately scattered dozens of light cavalry scouts in his troops, trying to find out where the enemy's army was ambushing, so as to reduce his own passivity.

But he wouldn't have thought that these light cavalry scouts of his had just walked out of the short distance before they were shot into a sieve by Shi Jinshui and his ironclad archers. In fact, this can't be blamed on Valov's mistakes, where would he have thought that this enemy army would be composed of cavalry.

After quickly eating the opponent's scout troops, Shi Jinshui did not stop, and led his ironclad archers to outflank the opponent's rear.

When Shi Jinshui's ironclad archers were less than five thousand meters away from this killing army, Valov and the others discovered this group of enemies, and at this time, their back road was already blocked by the other party, and they couldn't do it even if they wanted to retreat to the camp.

Almost at the same time, about five hundred hoplites appeared at the front of their ranks.

"Five hundred heavily armed lancers! Five hundred heavily armed archers! This is in trouble! After seeing the enemy's strength clearly, a cold sweat fell from Valov's head. Originally, in his imagination, even if the enemy had cavalry, it should not be much, after all, New Carthage is a sea island country, and the powerful is only the navy, and the cavalry must be weak. But the fact now is that the cavalry of the other side is not only not weak, but also looks very strong, much stronger than the Gothic cavalry they killed. In the era of cold weapons, cavalry has an overwhelming advantage over infantry, don't look at the opponent's only 1,000 cavalry, but the combat power is much higher than their 2,000 infantry.

didn't leave much time for Valov to think about countermeasures, Shi Jinshui personally rushed up with the five hundred ironclad archers, and when they rushed to about two hundred meters, the country-killing archers on the opposite side immediately threw a rain of arrows at them, but unfortunately this rain of arrows was just an itch for Shi Jinshui, who was wearing steel plate armor. In this way, under the rain of arrows shot from the opposite side, Shi Jinshui and the others quickly advanced to a place only eighty meters away from the killing army, and then took out their riding bows one after another and shot the sharp arrows in their hands at the killing soldiers on the opposite side.

Due to the maturity of the 100-steel technology, there is really no shortage of steel in Shi Jin's sailors, and even the consumables such as feather arrows are made of stainless steel. These arrows are all made of stainless steel, and the armor-piercing heavy arrows are originally stronger than ordinary feather arrows, and Shi Jinshui has reached within eighty meters before shooting, so the power is even greater. In just one round of shooting, hundreds of killing soldiers were shot and wounded, most of these guys were sword and shield soldiers holding shields on the front line, and the reason why they were injured was not because they didn't hold the shield well, but because Shi Jinshui The feather arrows they shot were too powerful, and they directly penetrated the shields in the hands of these killing soldiers, which hurt these unlucky people behind the shields.

Seeing that the enemy's arrows were so sharp, Webber and they couldn't help but be surprised, Webb, the bold fellow, rushed to the front and pulled out a feathered arrow from a shield, and when he looked at it, he immediately found that the enemy's arrows were actually made of fine steel, what a luxury!

Soon Shi Jinshui and their second round of arrow rain came, and this time the casualties caused were even greater, at least more than 200 soldiers who killed the country were shot dead and wounded. The rapid expansion of casualties made the formation of the morale of this killing army chaotic.

The five hundred hoplites who were not far in front of them saw this and were ready to move, ready to charge at the first opportunity.

"Bastard! Stabilize the formation for me, and the pikemen will step forward for me to guard against the charge of the enemy lancers! At Valov's shouting, hundreds of Germanic pikemen hurried to the front and set up a phalanx of pikes.

Seeing this situation, the five hundred hoplites who were already preparing to charge had to give up their original plans, after all, if they charged the spear formation, even if they were as well-armed as them, there would definitely be a lot of casualties.

However, the gun array can stop the charge of the lancers, but it can't stop the sharp arrows that Shi Jinshui and their hands continue to shoot, under the attack of their arrow rain, the killing soldiers are still constantly showing casualties, if the current situation continues to develop, maybe as long as it takes another ten minutes or so, these two thousand killing soldiers will be shot to death by Shi Jinshui and them here.

Faced with this situation, Valov was almost completely desperate, but when his eyes swept over the corpse of a soldier beside him, it suddenly lit up, and then he saw the killing general tear open his throat and shout to the soldiers around him: "Collect all the corpses and pile them in front of you, maybe you can block the enemy's arrow rain!" ”

When the soldiers who killed the country heard this, they hurriedly followed Valov's words, dragged the corpses of their comrades around them, piled them in front of them, and finally formed a bunker more than half a person high.

Half-crouched behind this bunker made of the corpses of their comrades, these soldiers were pleasantly surprised to find that the enemy's arrows really couldn't shoot them.

When Shi Jinshui saw this scene, he couldn't help but feel a little helpless, and at the same time, he also had a little admiration for the killing general opposite, in this almost desperate situation, he was able to come up with this method to block their arrow rain.

And since the rain of arrows couldn't penetrate the thick pile of corpses of the other party, Shi Jinshui and they quickly stopped shooting. After putting away the riding bow, Shi Jinshui pulled out his saber with his backhand, and instigated his war horse to charge towards the enemy on the opposite side.

"Do the archers dare to charge into battle?" Seeing that Shi Jinshui and their group of archers actually launched a charge towards their own side, Weber, a stupid guy, was still there muttering to himself in confusion.

Valov, who had a much better head than him, turned pale in an instant, because he suddenly realized that he had made a fatal mistake, because of the experience of previous wars, they all thought that the archers were only suitable for harassing the enemy, and could not be used to attack the enemy's formation. But that's just for the lightly armed archers, who look thicker than their Gothic cavalry, so why can't they be used to storm the enemy's formation!

But even if he figured it out at this point, it was useless, because just now he had transferred all the pikemen in his army to the front to guard against the enemy's heavy lancers, and it was too late to transfer them back at this time.

"Kill!" After Shi Jinshui's roar, the five hundred ironclad archers entered the Killing Army with a thunderous momentum, without the threat of those enemy pikemen, they were simply like entering a no-man's land, and the sword light was everywhere, and a puff of blood continued to splash up. Shi Jinshui, who rushed to the front, held a double knife, and the speed of harvesting the enemy's lives was far beyond those ordinary ironclad archers, among which even Valov, the enemy general, could not block his blow, and was cut in half by his armor.

With the death of the two commanders one after another, the morale of this killing army finally collapsed completely, and the spear phalanx that was originally arranged in front of the formation naturally broke quickly with the escape of the soldiers, and the five hundred hoplite lancers saw this situation, and hurriedly launched a charge and entered the enemy formation. But at this time, there was actually nothing to do with them, most of the country-killing soldiers had been completely defeated by Shi Jinshui and them, and all that was left was the finishing work of chasing the defeated soldiers and cleaning up the battlefield.

At the same time, similar scenes are also being staged in several other places near the state-run villages. Shi Jinshui knew that compared with killing the country, his biggest disadvantage was the lack of troops, so he had to take advantage of the time when the killers had not yet reacted to destroy the enemy's living force as much as possible.

The hundreds of thousands of troops who killed the country, once they were gathered, if they wanted to completely wipe out, then the difficulty would become very high, but fortunately, because of the existence of Howard, the leading party, Shi Jinshui and they could take the lead in launching an offensive before the enemy had time to react. At this time, the vast territory of the killing country has become a place where Shi Jinshui can use it, and the army is distributed on such a large territory, it will always take some time to assemble them all! Therefore, he decided not to give the enemy this time, divided his cavalry into several teams, fought an ancient blitzkrieg, and wiped out the enemy troops in the nearby killing camp as quickly as possible. This goal has been basically achieved, and his next plan is to use the speed advantage of the cavalry to divide and surround several nearby killing cities, so that they cannot send troops to support each other. If Howard's intelligence is correct, the troops in these cities together are almost about 100,000, so Shi Jinshui can't let them gather.