Chapter 14: First Victory
Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn the era of cold weapons, there is a weapon that has belonged to the mainstream of the army since ancient times, and that is long weapons!
The most representative long weapon is naturally the spear!
Since the Stone Age, stone spears have appeared in the hands of warriors of primitive tribes, and until the era of firearms, spearmen, a class that should have been eliminated a long time ago, are still active in most countries!
It was not until the advent of the bayonet that the spear officially withdrew from the stage of history!
In fact, a musket with a bayonet is in a sense just an iron spear, and even the bayonet is used in the same way as a spear!
The reason why the spear has endured for thousands of years of human history naturally contains a profound truth, simply put, it is an inch long and an inch strong, an inch short and an inch dangerous!
In hand-to-hand combat, a longer weapon means that you can attack the enemy first, you can hit the enemy, but the enemy can't reach you, in the battlefield where life is at stake, what could be more enjoyable?!
The same reason, placed on the battlefield outside Longhan Village at this time, is vividly embodied!
Kobolds are more than a meter tall, and they can only use short spears in human hands, because for kobolds, the length of human short spears is equivalent to their super long spears......
Therefore, the length of the weapon of the farmer spearman is one and a half meters longer than that of the kobold!
This distance gap of 1.5 meters is as difficult to cross as the moat of death for kobolds with small arms and legs!
When the first row of peasant spearmen are busy pulling out their spearheads, the second row of peasant spearmen will dress up the kobolds who are trying to close the distance as flesh gourds!
If that's not enough, there's a third row in the back!
The kobolds, who did not have any armor and shields, completely exposed their five short bodies to the cold spear tips, one can imagine what would happen to them......
The most terrible thing is that the kobold warriors have no concept of discipline and formation at all, the dense phalanx most commonly used in the era of cold weapons has not appeared at all, and their charge is just a loose swarm of bees!
The density per unit area is not as dense as the peasant spearmen, who are much less numerous than them!
Of course, the kobolds' charging team was pierced without resistance!
Kobolds certainly don't just stupidly ram their spears, they're good at fighting!
Some kobolds, under the cover of their companions' lives, detoured to the two sides of the farmer's spearmen, and then collided headlong with the fierce Spartan general's guard......
To say that the peasant spearmen relied on formation and unity to slaughter kobolds, the Spartan general guards relied entirely on their excellent individual combat skills and strong physical fitness, and easily harvested the lives of kobolds!
The kobold is just an alien race that follows the law of the jungle, not a brainless species that is not afraid of death, in a short period of time, the kobold who hit his head in front of the farmer's spear phalanx and broke his head and bled out, and his high morale suddenly fell into a trough!
Seeing the tragic death of their compatriots in front of them in front of the spear phalanx like a strong shield, the kobold in the charge began to hesitate and become afraid, and their greed for life made them stop the charge and begin to retreat!
All this happened in only ten minutes, and even the temporary militia in the village did not come out, and the momentum of the kobold's charge became weak!
Lei Zihao, who had always placed himself in the safest position, lost no time in shouting after seeing the kobold's retreat: "The enemy has been dispersed, warriors, attack!" ”
As the orders of the officers were conveyed, the peasant spearmen began to slowly march forward, suppressing the ranks of the cowolds who were cowering!
Where would the kobold who attacked the flanks dare to die here after seeing their frontal partners begin to rout?
At this time, the more than 20 gnolls in the back finally moved!
The first of these gnolls is not the enemy, but their vassal kobolds!
A heavy, blunt large-sized mallet can smash a short kobold's skull with a single stick, and splashes of brains are everywhere!
The whining call continued to sound, and when the kobolds heard it, they finally barely stopped the pace of the rout, and under the strong suppression of the gnolls, they swarmed forward again!
The gnolls naturally saw the lethality of the human spear phalanx in front of them, and they never expected that an ordinary human village would have a professional spearman that only human cities have!
The dense array of spears, as if evoking painful memories of the gnolls, roared and waved their thick weapons and rushed forward!
The strength of the gnolls is many times greater than that of the kobolds, and in the face of the dense spear shafts in front of them, they can use all their strength and sweep and swing violently, and they can completely knock the spears in the hands of several peasant spearmen!
Immediately, it was these gnolls who burrowed into this small gap and approached the spearmen!
Unfortunately, although this method is highly efficient, the number of gnolls is too small, and each gnolls have to face at least ten or more spears, and even if they miss the spear in front of them, the subsequent spear tips will pierce the gnolls' naked body before they can regain their new strength!
It's a naked crushing of numbers......
Few of the kobolds who had been killed in the back followed the gnolls to charge, especially when they saw the heroic gnolls in their eyes die in front of the spear phalanx, they were even more heartbroken, and the stone short spears were thrown to the ground, and they scattered in all directions!
With the addition of the Spartan General's Guard on both wings, all the gnolls were quickly cleaned up, and the real slaughter began!
The temporary militia, which had been pinned on by Lei Zihao, only later joined the battlefield at this time, oh, to be precise, joined the ranks of the slaughter......
In the cold weapon war, the number of people who are really killed face to face is not very large, and the reason why every cold weapon battle can achieve a large number of defeated heads is mainly due to the pursuit and slaughter after the victory!
Soldiers who have no fighting spirit are saved time and effort by the victor to cut into various deadly weapons from the back, easily harvesting their lives, and the killing efficiency will naturally be increased geometrically!
It can be said that on the hand-to-hand combat battlefield of cold weapons, in addition to the casualties caused by long-range strike weapons, less than one percent of the first ten of the heads are killed face-to-face, and almost all of the rest are killed during the pursuit.
What Lei Zihao is doing at this moment is an exciting and relaxing pursuit campaign!
On this day, the vacant land outside the farmland in Longhan Village was fully irrigated with dog blood......