Chapter 407: A Satisfied Smile

At night, the sound of "poof" and "poof" sharp arrows into the flesh continued to sound, often accompanied by one or two short and miserable cries, which spread far away in the empty plains, doubly strange and sad, and if you feel it carefully, you can faintly smell a trace of conspiracy from it.

Henry VI fell asleep peacefully under this intermittent miserable scream, and Zhao Gao also closed his eyes and slept happily under this cry. As long as someone is dying, both sides of the war are at ease and happy.

After this battle, if it is said that there is no virtue in the yin, Zhao Gao can probably live up to his name.

Judging from the comparison of combat strength, even if the British King's Guards were overshadowed by him, most of the Royal Knights' Battalion was still more than twice as strong as him in terms of overall strength, and the frontal attack could basically be eliminated at the first time.

This double, still not counting the special aura effect of King Henry VI, the special attribute skills of the royal guard camp and the special plot characters of the royal family, if these factors are really counted, the gap in strength between the two sides is likely to reach more than three times!

With the guards battalion and the royal knights, and the camp has been set up in advance, the firepower regiment composed of three hundred longbowmen can instantly carry out a covering and indiscriminate strike on a certain area within the firing range, not to mention that Zhao Gao only has two hundred "Wei Wushu", even if there are two hundred, in the face of the same level of troops with terrain advantages, it will not be good to go.

With the Crown Guard camp heavily armed, any night raids and the like are no longer useful, and the act of stealing chickens and dogs to take advantage of a small advantage is of little value - no matter what you do, the other party will be a rain of arrows, and no matter how many thoughts you have, it will be solved so rudely.

When it comes to the defense of positional warfare, the longbowmen boast of being "invincible", and there are not too many troops that can stand up against it, even if there are.

In contrast, Zhao Gao's method of breaking the game was simply rough to the extreme, and shameless to the extreme.

Although he lay far away, the army of King Henry VI of England never ceased. There were constantly Wei Wushu riding archers and crossbowmen to pull out all kinds of plot units from distant villages, all of them were serfs with very low intelligence level anyway, and occasionally a few landowners, all dressed in the clothes of strong men, lined up to march to the camp at night, until they were shot into a sieve.

After a wave of death, a wave will be changed, anyway, in addition to leaving some personal guards and followers around Zhao Gao, even the garbage troops in the talisman that have not been used for a long time have also been summoned, and they all went to the surrounding area to sweep the various farms and castles, and all the units that looked like humanoid troops were all taken captive, and they lined up to send them to death at night when the moon was dark and the wind was high, without a moment's pause.

For three days, it is not known how many serfs died in this place. The dark black blood was centered on the British camp, and the longbowmen drew a large circle with a radius. The corpses that had been shot were naturally dragged away by a second wave of peasants, but even so, the thick smell of fish still emanated from the blood that had penetrated into the ground, so that some of the serfs who were forced to attack later would rather die than take a step forward.

However, under the bright long knife, they do not have such freedom of choice, and the fate of not being firm and kneeling on the ground is to be hacked to death. After a few times, the rest had to go to death knowing that they were going to die.

Fortunately, Zhao Gao was very careful in his calculations, and the number of serfs every time he stepped forward was between tens and hundreds, and the consumption in one night was only two or three thousand, and in three days, it was ten thousand. In this era, the land is vast and sparsely populated, even if this is a plain, so many serfs are not easy to get, and the outer circle under Zhao Gao's command has been plundered for more than fifty miles, and if it is farther, it is okay to get together one or two thousand, but it is more difficult.

Aren't longbowmen invincible? Then make you invincible! Anyway, under the attack of the longbowmen, there is no difference between the high-level troops and the low-level ones, and the huge damage overflow makes it impossible for them to judge the strength of their opponents at all.

Under normal circumstances, the way the Royal Guards Regiment fights is a combination of three battalions, and at the moment the Guards Battalion and the Royal Knights' Battalion are like a broken hand and a foot, and after the early two battles, as long as there is a cavalry archer with that kind of speed that can be called a pervert, Henry VI and Prince Philip will never take the initiative to choose to attack.

Anyway, the longbowmen have had a brilliant battle in the past two days. Listening to all kinds of screams from a corner outside the barracks every night, you can see that the only thing to worry about is that these Frenchmen who are not afraid of death are too immoral.

Every night, even if there are five, six, seven, or eight waves of attacks, I don't know where to get some gongs and drums, and all kinds of noises come from afar, making people toss and turn and can't sleep. Even more frightening were the very elite-looking cavalry archers in the outer ring, always circling outside the maximum range of the longbowmen, as if waiting for an opportunity to rush in. However, the longbowmen made several very covert ambushes, and on two occasions they seemed to be almost successful, but the cavalry archers escaped quickly.

The opponent's intentions are clear - the longbowmen are invincible in defense, we can't beat them, but the longbowmen also have to sleep.

These longbowmen have been professionally trained for decades and only need a few hours of rest for every five minutes of shooting; If you shoot continuously, the rest time will be doubled, otherwise your attack power and attack speed will drop by one level.

But for three days, there was only a handful of time to provide them with rest.

The battalion of the royal knights who had been killed was already like a frightened bird, and the main duty of the knights of the guard was to guard Henry VI, and many nobles also needed to be guarded outside the camp tent to be at ease, otherwise the loud noise would not make it possible to sleep at all.

This is the right of the nobility, and even Henry VI has no right to deprive it.

On the first day, the longbowmen fired almost all of their troops in a volley, keeping them on alert both day and night; By the evening of the next day, the longbowmen of the whole battalion were divided into two shifts by the chief and deputy battalion commanders, and were on duty alternately; On the evening of the third day, the chief and deputy battalion commanders once again divided the ten squads under their command into two groups, each on duty for six hours, so that their energy consumption and recovery could barely keep at an average level.

It's just that in this way, the strength and scope of the attack of the five squads and sixty longbowmen have been reduced a lot, and the security of the entire camp has also been greatly reduced, and it will inevitably collapse after a long time, so in desperation, after the discussion between Prince Philip and the other two battalions, two squads from each of the two battalions will be used as a countermeasure. In the event of any change, two squads and longbowmen will temporarily guard the camp, and then all the troops will go into battle to ensure the safety of the camp.

This method is actually to spread some of the pressure on the other two battalions, which is not a foolproof solution, but it is a means that can support for a longer period of time in the situation in front of the enemy army.

That's enough!

Since they are the royal family's guards, they can naturally spread the news of the siege. At present, the whole of France is already a British-occupied area, it will not take a long time, there will be troops from different angles to Qinwang, and then the attack and defense will change momentum, maybe the crossbowmen and horse archers can be called the elite of the elite, but their number is not much, once they fall into the situation of two-phase attack, it is only a matter of time before they are dragged to death by countless low-level troops.

Invisibly, both sides are waiting for such an opportunity. Zhao Gao used the tactics of exhaustion to increase his chances of victory, while the British army, under Philip's plan, planned to buy more time.

Driven by this mentality, the warring sides smiled with satisfaction as they listened to the miserable cries outside the camp.