The reason why the long-range troops are divided into several waves is mainly to maintain the continuity of long-range strikes, to maintain the suppression of firepower in this area, and not to seek explosive firepower, but only to seek continuous and stable damage output.

The main thing is that the archers get enough opportunities to relieve the muscles in their arms, so that the number of shots they open will be improved to a certain extent.

These archers are generally equipped with hand protection archer arm guards, which are similar to the wrist guards worn by basketball players, although relatively limited, but can play a certain protective role. Not only that, but in the Sunny Kingdom's archer equipment, not only does it include a bow and a few pots of arrows, but this archer arm guard is also included, as well as a wrench on the thumb, and a standard archer glove.

The archer glove is ordinary, mostly leather, but it can only count as half a glove, not two. Because this glove can only cover half of the right hand (a small number of left-handers are also the same) and two fingers, that is, the index finger and the middle finger, these two fingers are the most powerful places with the bowstring, so the skin on the belly of the finger is the most shark skin, with enough toughness and abrasion resistance to protect this important part of the archer.

Many archers who do not have this equipment, such as ordinary hunters, often have their fingers cut or even severed. Of course, the so-called masters are in the folk, and some folk shooters have already grown calluses because they have dealt too much with the bowstring......

But you can't expect all ordinary archers to reach this level, right? So, basically, this is the most important equipment for archers besides bows and arrows.

There is also a so-called wrench that is placed at the base of the thumb. Maybe many friends who like to watch movies at the end of the Qing Dynasty know that there are many children of the Eight Banners who like to carry a jade wrench like this. Take it for show. So in a lot of people's image, it's just an object. It's a thing!

In fact, it is not the case, the children of the Eight Banners were indeed very beautiful before the Manchus entered Beijing, they were known as skilled in archers and horses, and they were the trump card troops that the Manchus were able to seize the country, and they were standard professional soldiers. It's just that as soon as he entered the capital, he was corrupted and degraded by this glamorous flower world. Moreover, because there is almost no war in the back, they are heroes. As a result, these second-generation officials have learned to carry cages and birds, and followed the ticket holders in the capital to mingle, how can they still see the shadow of a professional soldier? There are only a few things that speak of their former glory.

For example, this wrench.

The wrench is actually a very important piece of equipment for the archer, and its main function is naturally to protect the most important fingers of the archer, and furthermore, it is used for the rapid opening of the bow. With this wrench, the preparation time for the next arrow launch can be greatly accelerated. It is even more important for riding archers. But most of the so-called jade wrenches have been reduced to objects that show their identity, and they have long lost their former edge! (The bitter hands are Han Chinese, but they have no intention of advocating Manchu people at all.) Here's the matter. A little bit about the origin of this wrench. You can't beat people before, don't blindly deny and cover up. The Manchurians have been in charge of the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and the objective facts are here. If anything is pale, then we must face it squarely. Shame and courage. Whether it is for Man, or for Han. It's all true. ）

William's 100,000 archers naturally couldn't all be equipped with jade wrenches like the vast Eight Banners' disciples. In the archer standard equipment of the Sunny Kingdom, they are equipped with iron wrenches, and the beautiful ones among them have already made this iron wrench, and in the middle position, they are sharpened by the bowstring with an obvious groove. This is the trace left by the long-term use of the bow to shoot arrows......

In addition to the standard configuration above, it is an ordinary quiver and standard leather armor, which does not require too much ink and ink, everyone is the same.

In terms of weapons, these archers can also selectively choose a weapon, which can be a dagger or a short sword, and the knife is not impossible, at will. However, depending on the weapon chosen, it can reflect the archer's proficiency in close combat.

If you just choose a dagger, it basically shows that this archer can be regarded as a pure archer, and it is difficult to fight with others in melee combat, and it is really difficult for this dagger to play any offensive effect on the battlefield. Generally, it is either used to sneak up on the occasional cold attack, or it is simply a table knife used to cut meat, and at most a dagger for self-defense......

The so-called self-defense is equivalent to "self-consolation", which is used to commit suicide to avoid being captured and abused.

The short sword is basically the same as a dagger, but it is barely effective on the battlefield, and there are masters when used well......

The knife is slightly sharper, and it can be used as light infantry in case of crisis...... On the other hand, if you bring a knife, I'm afraid that your archery skills are limited! There are no absolutes in everything, God knows if this guy is good at shooting bows and arrows, and then he has his own ancestral sword technique?

In any case, in the Sword Demon Continent, there are almost no rangers who can ride and shoot arrows, and those who can shoot arrows basically belong to the infantry sequence. Even the occasional small number of cavalry that can shoot on the move, and even the flying soldiers (a small group of warriors who can shoot arrows in the flight in the former human Pegasus Knights) will be thrown into the battlefield almost immediately, and they will be lost.

This is not the case with the centaurs on the other side, who are natural rangers. Lin Tian had dealt with them many times, and had suffered a lot, and in a certain battle, he was almost caught by these centaur archers......

It's just that Lin Tian has capable people under him, and the running speed of these centaur archers is slightly worse than that of real war horses, and there is even a gap between them and high-level paladins, and they are even worse than the flying soldiers who rely on speed like the Silver Pegasus Knight, so they are helpless to hit the street. But to bully and bully ordinary human warriors, it is really reckless to eat bean sprouts, a piece of cake!

It is because of this characteristic that Deschamps does not want them to fight directly with human shooters, which is too wasteful of their abilities. And William, he is also willing to do so without interference, you hit yours, I shoot mine. At least these centaur shooters have been narrowed and turned into ordinary fixed-point shooters, haven't they?

The melee troops on both sides braved each other's arrows and fought to the death there.

Generally speaking, the orcs have to suffer a loss, after all, they have to maintain the momentum of the charge despite this rain of arrows, and once they rush up, it is inevitable that they will not be able to prevent it. At this time, the human warriors on their opposite side could concentrate on defending against the centaurs' shots, and they didn't need to move their nests, as long as they held on to this line of defense to not collapse.

The defender is always less troublesome than the attacker! (To be continued......)