Chapter 292: The Power of the New Cavalry Crossbow
"Stop!" Suddenly, at the front of the Dick's Tomahawk heavy cavalry team, a Dick general who seemed to be the commander of these Dick's Tomahawk heavy cavalry waved his hand, so that the cavalrymen who were originally moving forward stopped in an instant between the stone paths as if the iron hooves of their mounts under their crotch were attracted by magnets, and the Mars soldiers hidden on both sides of the stone path only fell into a slump after making a few rustling sounds from the bushes, and the Mars soldiers looked at them as if they did not exist from a distance.
But despite this, the Dick officer, who had halted the advance of the whole army, frowned, and then leaned slightly towards the adjutant beside him, and said in a tone that could only be heard between the two of them, "Did you find anything?" ”
"Well, although I don't know how many people there are, if we can surround the entire army on both sides, the number of enemies is at least 1.5 times that of us, about 40,000 people, right?" For the Dick commander, his adjutant looked straight ahead with a calm face and said: "The army that the sun never sets is really strong, it seems that we have entered their pocket formation, the only thing to be thankful for is that our troops just entered the pocket formation, and they found their ambush before the sun never sets the people even closed the pocket." ”
"So what now? Do we have what it takes to defeat them? ”
"Five or five points, if those Mars cannon fodder are used properly, maybe these Mars soldiers will be able to attract some firepower for us at that time, so that our cavalry can rush forward, and then those infantry who will never set the sun will be lambs for us to slaughter, and so on, sir! Did you hear that......... What was that? ”
"Well............. voice gradually got louder、Oh bastard! It's the light cavalry unit of the empire on which the sun never sets! How did they get close? Crossbowmen return fire! Just as Commander Dick was judging, groups of Sunset Support Cavalry armed with cavalry crossbows and javelins suddenly appeared in front of Dick and Mars, and to the Dick officer's anger, it turned out that the reason why these support cavalry were able to approach him under the eyes of the tens of thousands of pairs of Mars troops hidden and in the snow forest was because these Sunset Support Cavalry not only had white horses (in fact, they were dyed with a dyed fruit found on the Northwest Continent, This kind of dyed fruit is specifically for the light industry that the sun never sets, especially the silk handicraft workshop for use), even the cavalry is wearing a snow-white robe, and now the snow is falling in the sky, of course, it is not clear from a distance, of course, this Dick officer should not know the way, the support cavalry as the best auxiliary cavalry at present, the sun does not set, their anti-reconnaissance ability, concealed forward ability is not at all what those Dick people can imagine.
At the same time, to the surprise and even horror of Officer Dick, until now he had only faintly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and most of these hooves were coming from the frightened horses of his own Dick's Tomahawk heavy cavalry unit. However, the Dick officer was forced to give up after only a few seconds of reflection on the question, for the rushing supporting cavalry had begun to throw javelins and crossbow arrows at the Dick's tomahawk heavy cavalry.
Needless to say, this powerful long-range armor-piercing weapon can definitely cause great damage to the Dick's cavalry troops, but what the Dick people didn't expect was that those weak cavalry crossbows could actually shoot through the armor of the Dick's tomahawk heavy cavalry with one blow, which made the Dick officer who was hit by two arrows in the back of his shoulder armor even more panicked. And the sharp arrows were now rubbing against his fragile skin.
"Could it be that the combat capabilities of the ranged units of the Empire on which the sun never sets have developed to such terrifying proportions?" Officer Dick said with an anxious look on his face, but then he had to devote himself to defending against the long-range fire on which the sun never sets, as the supporting cavalry had already begun to throw a second wave of armor-piercing javelins one after another. On the other side, less than 2 miles away from the stone road where the Dikmårds coalition army was located, a nimble herald of the sunset was speeding through the halfway slope section full of "minefields", and came to the side of a middle-aged officer who was observing the sunset in the distant war zone with a telescope in his hand, and reported: "Commander George, since the enemy has sensed our intention to ambush, we have to choose the second plan, using the supporting cavalry with cotton cloth on the horse's hooves to approach the Dikmårmars coalition army. Use the support cavalry to lure them into the ambush circle, and now the Dick Tomahawk heavy cavalry has been knocked unconscious by the barrage of our support cavalry. ”
"Hmmm! It's a good start, and it seems that the movement of the Dickmars coalition is still in our expectations. George nodded, and then continued with a serious face: "But you quickly use the flag to send an order, so that those support cavalry, especially the recruit-level support cavalry, do not go too far, the enemy is only temporarily beaten by our surprise attack, if the other party has a reaction back to the abnormal move, let those support cavalry not be nostalgic, as soon as possible according to the original plan to introduce them into the designated ambush circle on both sides of the stone road." ”
"Yes!" Since the herald left immediately after receiving the order, the herald didn't hear George's words muttering afterwards: "But then again, the new knight's crossbow designed and made by the Mo forging craftsman is really powerful, and it is a necessary long-range weapon for archers.......... if the weight of this knight's crossbow can be reduced, it will be perfect." ”
If the Mars, who had been in a panic by a surprise attack, could now observe the cavalry that the sun never sets, then they would surely know what George meant by this, because although the figure of the cavalry crossbow that the sun never sets is almost the same as before, and its shape has not changed, the material of the crossbow has become dwarven steel, which is all brass.
The design idea of this crossbow is derived from the crossbow installed on the left hand of the secret room guard, although the power will be weaker than the one on the back room guard, but it is still possible to shoot through the plate armor after half a centimeter, and the only disadvantage of this cavalry crossbow is that it also inherits the weight of the crossbow equipped by the secret room guard, resulting in most cases the support cavalry needs to get a rope to hang it on the shoulder while holding them to reduce the strength consumed when loading.
PS: In other words, can the little pig brazenly ask for some evaluation votes?