William's action of spitting on his knight's gloves is vulgar! But he is never ashamed, he is a soldier, a rough man, this action is nothing dirty or dirty for him, it can make him feel at ease, and that is enough.

The camp of the orcs suddenly became noisy, and all the big battalions in the three directions had warriors pouring out, and then formed a battle formation in a tense and orderly manner......

More than 200,000 orcs surrounded more than 400,000 humans, which may seem ridiculous just by looking at the numbers, but the human warriors couldn't laugh at all. These orcs in front of them have bulldozed many kingdoms, and their combat effectiveness is definitely not to be underestimated, and this is no longer a safe and strong fortress, so it cannot be said that there is no danger to defend at all, but at least this fortification is really embarrassing......

Centaur units are interspersed between battalions, which has to do with the way they fight, and the most important thing that distinguishes them from other orcs is that they can attack from a distance. This allows them not to be lined up in a strong attacking array, but to be distributed in all directions, and 50,000 talents can be more fully deployed.

Similarly, the cat-man troops camped next to the centaurs had to be directly intervened by the marshal to replenish the front of the positions vacated by the centaur archers, and although the cats were extremely reluctant, they had to take on this terrible task in the face of the strict orders of the suzerain's patriarch.

As for what to say that this is a terrible mission, it is because it means that the cat people must send at least double the cannon fodder fighters. Although Deschamps has long defined cats as cannon fodder, cat people certainly don't think so, just under pressure.

After quite some time of preparation, Deschamps ordered his troops to attack. In the passionate and dense drum beat. At the same time, the "reloaded" fighters who had been preparing for a long time rushed out from 3 directions......

The reason for this is that this reload is relative. As a matter of fact. In the battle sequence of the orcs at this time, there are only tiger warriors. can barely be regarded as hoplites, as for the rest, it can only be hehe. Equipped with a little bit of iron armor, the defense is slightly higher than that of the clan, how can this be reloaded? Is it good to wear leather armor for some cheating daddy's goods?

Long-range shooter units on both sides, speaking almost at the same time. Originally, in terms of range, the centaur shooter with stronger arm strength had a little advantage, but this advantage was beaten high by the terrain with low. And the troops in front occupied most of the positions, leveling the ground alive. The rain of arrows that came from the two attacks was fired out at almost the same time, and then fell on the enemy's head at the same time.

Quite a few orcs were shot over, but many more human warriors were shot over. The arm strength is slightly inferior to that of the opponent, the attack power is also inferior to the enemy, and most importantly, the defense of the human warrior is obviously not as good as that of the naturally thick-skinned orc warrior. Although human warriors have basically realized the mass production and standardization of equipment. However, it is clear that these armors, which focus more on quantity than quality, can hardly completely defend against the long arrow attacks of centaur archers.

Once directly hit by these larger arrows, the armor of these ordinary warriors can only act as a hindrance, reducing fatal injuries to serious injuries.

The best defensive weapon. It's still a shield. Only a warrior with a heavy iron shield can guarantee that he will not be shot through by the enemy. However, even human craftsmen whose metallurgy far exceeds that of orcs a few streets away will have difficulty equipping all warriors with iron shields. The number of metal mines and craftsmen required for this is quite staggering.

No country can equip all its warriors with iron shields, and more often use iron-clad round shields. Or simply with a skinned one, such a shield is okay against human archers in the event of a civil war. But it was a bit overwhelming to keep up with the longer and larger arrows of the stronger centaur archers......

In fact, in the round of shooting just now, many warriors' shields were shot through a little, and then they were injured by sharp arrows, and Suo Xing was slightly injured under the double effect of the shield and leather armor.

The orcs do not distinguish between attack waves in the direction of focus, which puts a lot of pressure on humans. This small slope in front of the position is not a big problem for orcs with good mobility, at most it slightly reduces the speed of their impact. But as William scolded, people will play stud with you when they get started, play full pressure, and this advantage is almost negligible......

The arrows rained down on the heads of the melee troops on both sides, and the commander tacitly understood that he did not directly engage in a long-range duel, but slightly extended the ranged troops under his own command, so that he could hit the opponent's melee troops without being hit by the enemy's long-range hits.

Humans have nearly 100,000 marksmen, but in reality, the effect of the strike is not necessarily comparable to that of the centaur marksman, who is only half the number of his own. With this in mind, Marshal Deschamps was building his side's long-range advantage and did not directly send the centaur archery troops into that desperate distance. William wanted to fight with others, but his troops were on the defensive, so he couldn't let the archers advance and fight for their lives without the protection of close combat, right?

So he had no choice but to accept the current situation, fortunately, there was not much loss, even if the centaur shooters achieved slightly more results than his own marksman troops, but this gap is actually not big...... Afford to play!

He instructed his adjutant to divide the marksman unit into several waves, and to shoot at slightly wider intervals, so as not to compete with the enemy for the first strike in this little time.

It is known that in real combat, the number of times a shooter pulls a bow is limited, which is mainly limited by arm strength and arm muscles. Human archers are not as good as centaur archers, not only in terms of attack power and range, but also in terms of the actual number of shots. People can pull the bow 50 or 60 times without stopping, but they can't, at most 30 times they have to take a break!

William, who had been in the cavalry for a long time, was also involved in cavalry shooting. It's just that his cavalry riding skills are okay, but if he wants to carry out cavalry shooting on the march, there is almost no guarantee of accuracy, which makes his idea of forming a large-scale cavalry and archery force never come true.

There is a limit to the number of attacks a shooter can have! William knew very well that even a man like himself, after a long period of opening the bow, he had to rely on the support of his fighting spirit, not to mention an ordinary archer who was countless streets worse than him, a level 8 great sword master. In order to maintain an effective output for a long time, he deliberately let his archers not compete with the enemy's archers.

Maintain your best rhythm and don't fight with you, although in a short period of time, the lethality of the output is worse than others, but the benefit is obvious, that is, his shooter troops, which can improve a lot of staying power. On the other hand, if you blindly want to fight for this breath, and you have to compete with the centaur archer troops, you will only lose in the wrestling with the ranged troops behind.

William was smart enough to realize this...... He is strong, he is strong, and the breeze caresses the hills! (To be continued......)