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Staring at the convoy of pack beasts in front of him, Zoro's long black eyes bulged slightly and formed a plane with their sockets. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info At this point, he doesn't plan to continue wasting time.

A voice came from his ears, a little hoarse, with an irresistible tone, "My sword, - shining with silver brilliance!" ”

Draw your sword quickly, grasp the hilt with both hands, and plunge it into the dirt beneath your feet.

In an instant, Zoro's throat was blocked by the strong urge to fight in his heart. I saw that his face was flushed, his eyebrows were twisted into pimples, and his originally thin body could even see the green tendons on his arms clearly at this time.

"The order has been given! ――”

Following the consciousness of the sixth sense, this commanding tone was highlighted on the side of Zoro's mouth. Five hundred purple gold flower warriors appeared behind him in an instant.

"Loot this stock, on."

Hearing the lord's command, all the Purple Gold Flower warriors only had to adhere to a simple belief: "Advance, advance forward!" Kill every enemy you come across. ”

Focus on what wisdom and courage you have in one point, and don't need to think about anything, just charge with your instincts.

"Who?"

The Zhongpingling escort officer saw a silver light in the woods, accompanied by a rush of pace. His voice was gruff and strained.

Phew――――――

A cross-sword with a silver glow of light and shadow went straight into the escort officer's chest, causing him to fall from the horse's back.

Immediately after, five hundred Purple Gold Flower warriors rushed out of the dense forest. In an instant, the four swords immediately flashed, and blood splattered everywhere.

"It's an enemy attack! Ahead is where our army is located. ”

"Quick—blow the trumpet!"

With the miserable howl of the beast of burden, several behemoths had already collapsed. Hundreds of Zhongpingling soldiers were caught in a riot, and some sounded the horn of attack, even though the large camp where the Zhongpingling army was stationed was not far away.

But it's still a bit too late to save this batch of supplies.

"Don't chase after a fleeing enemy, kill the beast of burden, and settle the battle quickly."

The order was given.

Zoro's ears were filled with the rustle of the Purple Gold Flower Warrior's boots against the ground, and the sound of sharp blades piercing into his body, mixed with the screams of the soldiers of Zhongping Ridge. A few Zhongpingling soldiers who went in the wrong direction collided head-on, and they were immediately cut by the guard officer Leon with ease.

As some of the Zhongpingling soldiers collapsed and fled, only a small number of them remained in the fight.

The fine and dense beads of sweat filled the foreheads of the purple gold flower warriors little by little, but it did not affect their movements, and while the long sword drank blood, they let the sweat flow quietly on their backs.

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Woo――――――

About 15 minutes later, horns sounded all around.

The Zhongpingling army did not directly reinforce the battle, but sought the near and far, and consumed a certain amount of time before the two woods were encircled.

This played into Zoro's hands.

Although the voice from the other side made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Lord of the Dragon Court Woodland, you have set a trap for yourself. I promise the great Marquis of Zhongpingling that this land will be washed in blood within a month. Now it seems that I have lost my words. ”

Webley, the general of Duanmu City, has narrow eyes, red circles under his eyes, and gray eyes. There was an old man's faded and dull eyes, which were completely incommensurate with his decorated appearance.

And as his words fell, a large number of dense Zhongpingling professional warriors, holding large shields, emerged from the woods to tighten the surroundings, leaving no gap for the five hundred Purple Gold Flower Warriors to break through.

"Solid as a rock, long live Zhongpingling!"

The soldiers of Zhongpingling shouted the slogan of shaking the sky, and with neat steps, the weak branches of this forest were shaken into a sparse sound.

But contrary to what he expected, in Webley's perspective, there was not the slightest fear on Zoro's face. The perennial career as a general made him feel a little suspicious.

In fact, Webley's suspicion should be correct, and Sauron has no intention of breaking through.

Standing on the back of the dead beast of burden, one hand lifted and the other opened the return scroll.

As he sneered, Sauron's eyes lit up with mockery. "General Webley of Zhongping Ridge, it won't be long before you should cherish the few days you have left. Because your head doesn't stay on your neck for too long. ”

A silver circle of light appeared above the heads of each of the Purple Gold Flower Warriors, and Webley realized that something was wrong, and his entire face was distorted with anger.

"Leave these shameless Dragon Court people behind!"

Although he gave the order, it was too late. The Purple Gold Flower Warriors, who had been prepared for a long time, leaned against the beast cart with their backs, and the elite warriors of Zhongping Ridge who swarmed up just had just fought, and they quickly lost their traces.

Of course, along with the five hundred people who were missing, there were also ten carts full of military supplies.

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Leave half of the Return to the City Scroll in the Dragon Court Woodland in advance, so the location of the teleportation this time is below the Epic Totem Pole.

The moment Zoro and the five hundred Purple Gold Flower warriors appeared, the scroll of returning to the city turned into flying ashes.

After counting, Sauron's ears soon came the statistics of the guard officer, "Lord Lord, this batch of supplies has three carts of wheat, two carts of dried meat, three carts of arrows, and the remaining two carts are ...... Blood Bow. ”

Hearing the report of the guard officer, Zoro secretly estimated that the five carts of food, counting at least 150,000 catties of food, sounded like a huge number.

But according to the calculation of 8,000 people, each person consumes 2 catties per day, which is only enough to last for 10 days. If you count the double food of the Purple Gold Flower Legion, it can only last for 5 days.

The only thing that caught Sauron's eyes was the two thousand Blood Bows.

As we all know, among the trolls, there are two of the most valuable and coveted resources for human lords, one is totem liquid.

One of them is the Blood Bow Wood, which grows vigorously and in large quantities in the Trolls tribe, making it the most suitable wood for longbows.

And the value of a blood bow is not a problem with a hundred gold coins. Two thousand blood bows are worth 200,000 gold coins. That's another huge amount.

When I got the blood bow wood, I saved even the cost and manpower of processing and making it. Lost this batch of blood bows. It is conceivable that the Marquis of Walter in Zhongpingling will be so angry that he will not be able to sleep well for a few days.

As for Sauron's plans below, with this batch of blood bows with powerful range, as well as arrows for three major carts.

He decided to give the Zhongpingling army a gift immediately. To know. So far, they've only stayed out of the range of ordinary bows and arrows.

In the eyes of the guard officer Leon, Lord Zoro had a smile on his face, and his eyes were very pleasant, like arrows aimed at some missing target in the distance.

"Leon, gather a thousand archers of the Purple Flower Legion, Marquis Walter has financed our food, and we are going to give him a big gift."

"The military order of the lord, all the archers of the Purple Golden Flower Legion, gather in the school field, and quickly go to the tower after receiving the blood bow and arrowhead." Ares held his unsheathed crosssword, and as he loudly announced the order, he could see his Adam's apple rise and fall, and it only faded when he didn't speak and swallowed his saliva.

Hearing Ares' urging, a thousand archers' combat boots kicked the ground, almost moving their muscles and bones to carry out this military order.

After about ten minutes, all the Purple Gold Flower Shooters stood on top of the temporary wooden tower, their chests held out, standing straight, like a row of exclamation symbols.

A sound of forward, like a black wave turning angrily, like a galloping horse. A sound is upright, like a dense forest without wind, standing still.

In just five or six days, the Purple Gold Flower Legion was able to do this, and it took more than just sweat......

"Turn left - salute your lord!"

With a command, the Purple Gold Flower Shooters who stood in a row turned their heads neatly and saluted in the same direction.

Sauron, the Lord of the Dragon Court, with a blood bow in his hand, appeared in their sight.

Coming to the slightly shabby temporary structure, in Sauron's observation, the bow in front of the Purple Gold Flower Archer was in a straight line. The length of each blood bow is about 1.5 meters, which is roughly the height of the chest.

The shape is similar to that of a normal longbow, but the range of an arrow shot from a blood bow can reach about 500 meters. Moreover, even at the limit distance of 500 meters, ordinary chain mail can still be easily pierced with the use of a conical arrow.

Zoro took a blood bow in his hand and weighed it, trying to pull it. Although it is difficult to pull it with his strength, it can be roughly judged: "If you want to exert this blood bow, you need about 80 catties of pulling force, and if you increase the strength, you will shoot farther and more powerful." ”

According to the strength of the archers of the Purple Flower Legion, they can exert 70% of the power of the blood bow. Coupled with the lack of training, the blood bow has been greatly reduced.

"Ready--"

Every shooter of the Purple Flower Legion is just wearing an ordinary sandwich tights. With a deliberately elongated tone, their gestures were neat, and the arrows were aimed at the camp of the Duanmu City army, and the bows were drawn neatly, and the strong pulling force made the strings quickly deform.

"Shoot the arrows!"

As a military order brewed, followed by a glance from Sauron, Leon roared.

Huhu――――

After the archers let go, the elastic potential energy of the bow was converted into the kinetic energy of the arrow, and a large number of arrows flashed in the darkness, leaving only the whirring sound of breaking wind.

Unable to wait for the arrow to hit the ground and react to the enemy, Sauron quickly ordered, "Second salvo!" ”

A good longbow is better than a crossbow on the battlefield, mainly because of its fast rate of fire.

In terms of firepower density, the combat effectiveness of a first-order shooter is at least equivalent to that of three crossbowmen.

A skilled black iron archer can accurately shoot 12 arrows in a minute, if it is a random arrow salvo, the rate of fire can be increased to 15, if it is a black iron level 5 or even a bronze heavy bow archer, it can be called an individual ** strength and speed can be ** 100 arrows in a minute. Such an average rate of fire can be called a storm.

"Enemy attack!"

"It's a bow and arrow. We are within the enemy's range. ”

"Hurry up—ah!"

Outside the dome, there was a lot of commotion in the army camp in Zhongping Ridge, mixed with many screams.

A thousand longbowmen fire at the same time, and tens of thousands of arrows can be shot in a minute, forming a literal storm of feathered arrows. And its ultra-long range, and powerful lethality, also surprised Zoro for the first time.

After the second salvo, Zoro gave the order to light the rocket. The target has also been changed from the ordinary Zhongpingling army to the camp of elite and heavily armed warriors in another direction.

"Precisely calibrated, we don't have many rockets, only enough for one salvo consumption."

Zoro reminded Ares, who was beside him. Spread your own commands.

Due to the rush of time.

There was no more time to prepare, and the rockets stored in the Dragon Garden's own woodland, as Zoro had predicted, were only enough for one salvo.

Rockets are different from regular arrowheads. This kind of arrow is relatively long, in order to prevent the shaft from being burned, and it is also very wide. Before archery, a special large arrow is wrapped in linen, covered with oil, and burned for a few minutes.

Wait for the tip of the arrow to burn red and then order the fuel cloth, after firing out, the burning oil cloth will ensure that the arrow will not cool down.

If the linen cloth is not extinguished, it is just right, even if it is extinguished in flight, but the temperature of the arrow is maintained, and the red-hot arrow will still ignite if it is pierced on wood or flammable materials.

As the saying goes: fire and water are merciless. The thief stole half of it, and burned it all. With the help of the wind, the fire spread endlessly into the surrounding area, even outside the range.

Standing beneath the dome, Zoro's brow furrowed.

Looking at the past at a glance, almost all of the entire Zhongpingling military camp was set on fire. The casualties that the enemy was suffering were even worse than he had anticipated. Due to the exposure within the firing range, the entire army of Zhongping Ridge, like a flock of sheep scattered by wolves and tigers, desperately ran in the fire, trampling each other.

"It's been a night. Perhaps, we will be able to defuse this crisis without the help of people at all. Sauron said.

Under the reflection of the firelight, his gaze was like a fireball, and the light was scorching.

For the first time, I saw the effectiveness of the shooter with the Blood Bow in battle. Zoro had to re-examine the importance of the Purple Flower Archer to the entire legion.

The improvement of basic attributes, although improving physical fitness and muscle explosiveness, ensures arm strength and endurance for continuous combat.

There are such unexpected results, most of them with the help of the Blood Bow.

After witnessing the power of the Blood Bow with his own eyes, Zoro couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "Suppose, the Purple Gold Flower Legion cultivates both warrior and archer professions, or swordsman and archer professions. Take hand-to-hand combat with a longbow at a distance and at close range. Coupled with physical toughness and heavy armor, it will definitely become a dominant presence on the battlefield. This will be beyond doubt. ”

The Marquis of Zhongpingling was defeated by the blood bow he 'sent' to the Purple Flower Legion.

This is a great irony.

The attitude towards the Marquis of Walter in his heart turned to mockery, and in Zoro's perspective, the combination of the archer and the blood bow was so efficient.

However, most of the lords of the human race rarely have such elite formations in their armies.

Aside from the expense of the blood bow, let's not talk about it for the time being. There is also the problem of concept, most of the human lords worship chivalry and aristocratic demeanor, and think that ordinary archers, and even archers, have a lowly professional background and a despicable way of fighting.

A professional shooter with melee ability as a scum, as long as he has strong equipment. Standing far away, or hiding in the grass with a cold arrow, can take the noble life of a knight, which is extremely immoral and tantamount to cheating in battle.

Even with the support of the elves, for nearly a hundred years, human beings have only cowered in the limited land of the human world.

This is inevitably related to their lack of pragmatism.

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The casualties of the Zhongpingling army can only be counted after dawn.

Return to the Lord's Residence. Zoro's mind was still immersed in the storm of arrows just now, calculating what to consider. Playing with a blood bow in his hand, he felt that the weight in his hand was less than 20 catties.

It's just that whenever Sauron wants to try to pull the bowstring, he feels that it will require no less than 80 pounds of tension. With the current thin physical fitness, it still seems a little reluctant to pull the blood bow apart.

"The one who bows, kneading the wood and the string is the arrow".

According to Sauron's knowledge of bows, the most important process of making a bow is how to bend it.

Each Blood Bow is in a simple circular shape, and in doing so, skilled craftsmen do not use fire to roast it, which would reduce the tension of the bow.

But it can't be bent into place all at once, in that case, even if the arched back is not broken, it will cause internal injuries and lose its elasticity, and the previous busy work will be in vain.

The process of bending is often referred to as 'taming the bow', which is the process of getting the back of the bow to adapt to the bending.

Doing this requires a specialized bracket, and the hardness and elasticity of Bloodwood can easily do the job a little. As for the bow foot head, it is carved from the horns of animals, and the bowstring is made of ** fibers kneaded with animal tendons.

His eyes were fixed on the Blood Bow in his hand, and Zoro hoped that this powerful ranged weapon could be mass-produced by Lorkadan, of course, if there was enough Blood Bow Wood.

When dawn comes, most objects in the wild can already be identified by the naked eye.

"Lord Lord, the Duanmu City army lost more than half of it last night. Of these, more than 2,000 were killed by arrowheads, and 500 were burned to death and wounded. ”

As he listened to the guard's report, Sauron's eyes were half-closed, as if he was in a state of half-wandering and half-conscious fatigue.

"There are only an army equal in number to the Purple Flower Legion left in Zhongping Ridge, so we can welcome our enemies, and there is no need for dome defense. What do you think, my officer of the guard? ”

Zolon, who closed his eyes and recuperated, opened his eyes slightly, blinked his eyes, outlined the corners of his mouth, and showed a light sense of humor to his guard officer in his tone.

The fact that Zoro felt relieved was that the Zhongpingling army, which had lost its morale, wanted to besiege the Longting Woodland, and it had become impossible.

Even if Webley loses his mind, he insists on attacking. Then Zoro would be happy to use those temporary fortifications to consume his remaining strength.

In fact, Webley's fate was told by Sauron as early as last night.

Half a day later, Zoro learned that Webley had been directly executed in the name of dereliction of duty by the knights sent by Zhongping Ridge. The remaining two or three thousand soldiers, with the heads of their commanders, left the Dragon Court Woodland in a gloomy manner.

Zoro wrote in his lord's journal: "A thousand blood archers, the defeat of the Zhongping Ridge army, will be a wonderful example. It was also an epic victory. ”