Chapter 31, Wild Bull
Of course, this was just the beginning, and in the following time, with Xiaoshan as the center, Zhou Mingyue dug more than a dozen trenches in the direction away from Xiaohe.
The hill is surrounded by water on three sides, and the river is not too deep in this position, but the river is very wide, and it is very difficult for the barbarians to besiege it from the river, in the absence of long-range weapons.
What's more, Zhou Mingyue also asked the soldiers to dig deep into the bottom of the river near the foot of the mountain.
And on the land side of the hill, with so many trenches dug, the impact of the brute bull will undoubtedly be weakened to the extreme!
Of course, his plans don't stop there.
The first three trenches were filled with sharpened wooden stakes, and the hoplites, hoplites, and even ordinary spearmen, infantry, and archers were arranged in the latter trenches, and all the longbowmen, monks, and priests were placed on the hills.
Cavalry, heavy cavalry was released by Zhou Mingyue to harass the marching speed of the barbarian army and buy time for this arrangement.
Of course, those cavalry, heavy cavalry, who went to harass the barbarian army, would have more or less lost some, but it was worth it.
When the barbarian army arrived, the defensive line planned by Zhou Mingyue had already been arranged.
Lying behind the hill, Zhou Mingyue leaned out, looking at the approaching barbarian army, his heart was a little melancholy.
If you have a few hundred barrels of gasoline, pour them into the trench, and when the barbarians rush over, the matches will be thrown inside, and the barbarians will probably suffer a big loss.
It's a pity that I don't even have vegetable oil in my hands, let alone gasoline.
There is probably no gasoline in this world.
Barbarians are barbarians, even if they see the defense line that the human army has arranged, they still have no fear, more than seven hundred barbarian warriors have just arrived here, the barbarian chief sitting on the back of the barbarian bull roared, and those barbarian warriors directly started the brainless pig spur tactic!
There was no need for Zhou Mingyue's order at all, the longbowmen who were squatting on the hill immediately drew their bows and arrows and shot dozens of heavy arrows.
Whew..... A series of arrows piercing through the flesh resounded on the battlefield, followed by a series of barbarian screams, when even more than twenty barbarian warriors fell on the line of the charge.
If it was changed to a battle on the plains, it would be impossible for Zhou Mingyue's longbowmen to achieve such a result in the opening battle.
It is only in this way that surrounded by water on three sides, and the barbarian warriors can only obtain such results by charging from one side.
This made Zhou Mingyue also breathe a sigh of relief.
The chief of this A3 tribe is certainly powerful, but the ordinary barbarian warriors under his command are still not out of the range of mortal things, otherwise, he should have considered letting the griffin cavalry flee with him in the first place.
After the longbowmen fired three waves in a row and more than seventy people fell, the barbarian warriors were still thirty meters away from the first trench, and this distance was exactly the effective range of the archers!
As a result, only a series of bowstring vibrations could be heard, and a dense rain of arrows rose into the air, and after cutting a perfect arc in the air, they fell into the midst of the barbarian charge.
Of course, the archers have a range of 100 meters, and when they use light arrows, their lethality is really a little different from the heavy arrows of longbowmen.
The barbarian warriors who were hit by the arrows didn't say a word, they just buried their heads and rushed forward, their plan in their hearts was not to look at you now, and wait for me to tear you to pieces in close proximity!
As for the fallen barbarian warriors, not a single one.
It wasn't until they approached the first trench that another rain of arrows from the longbowmen fell, knocking more than a dozen hapless barbarian warriors to the ground.
I go, what's the situation? I'm a man!
(; *?Д`)ノ! ε(┬┬﹏┬┬)3!
That's probably the expression on the face of the barbarian warrior when he rushes to the front of the trench.
They saw the width of the trench that they could not have jumped over, and the dense stakes at the bottom of the trench!
Even a fool knows that this jumping in didn't make a fool of himself! It's going to die!
But the barbarian warrior who rushed to the front couldn't stop himself, because he stopped, and the brother behind him didn't stop, and directly knocked the barbarian warrior in front of him into the trench, and he followed into the trench, and then heard the dull sound of the stake penetrating his body.
In an instant, more than fifty barbarian warriors fell into the first trench, but fortunately, the barbarian warriors behind heard the roar in front and stopped the charge in time, otherwise, they would have fallen into more.
Although not all the barbarian warriors who fell into it were stabbed to death by wooden stakes, only a dozen people survived, and all of them were seriously injured and could move, and it was impossible to charge like before.
What to do?
The barbarian warriors were densely packed in front of the trench dumbfounded.
They were dumbfounded, the longbowmen who squatted on the hills and trenches, the archers were not dumbfounded, they kept pulling their bows and arrows according to their own established rhythm, and raining waves of arrows on the heads of the barbarian warriors.
The barbarian chieftain, who was originally calmly riding on the back of a brute bull, watching his army charge, expecting that those humans would be killed and lose their armor and the entire army would be wiped out, was also dumbfounded.
Due to the generational gap between civilizations, the barbarians have never seen this trick at all!
Well, even in the Kingdom of Flor, there is a high probability that not many people will come up with the trick of digging a trench to resist the attack of the barbarians.
After all, even if it is the Kingdom of Flor, no matter how advanced their way of fighting is, that is, the infantry on both sides is arrayed, the knights charge, the standing soldiers press the formation, and the farmers are used as cannon fodder, and there are not even many archers, so what kind of trench tactics do you want.
What's the use of the trench blocking the enemy, and also blocking the way for the knights on their side to charge!
However, the barbarian chieftain can become a chieftain not only with a muscle stick, but also with a bit of a brain.
He immediately had the horns blown, causing the barbarian warriors huddled in front of the trench to retreat and make way for them, and then he drove the brute bulls and launched a charge!
When the three bulls began to accelerate forward, their momentum was extremely amazing.
The ground shook with it, causing the barbarian warriors who were closer to them to stagger.
At the same time, a loud howl came out of the mouth of the wild bull, like more than a dozen war drums beating at the same time!
It can be said that these three wild bulls are the killer of the A3 tribe.
In the past, when fighting with the enemy tribe, as long as three brute bulls charged, even the fiercest barbarian warriors would be frightened and panicked, and flee in a hurry, and win in one fell swoop.
But this time, when the three brute bulls charged, the other party did not have the slightest fear, and not a single deserter appeared.
Until the three brute bulls jumped into the trench with a roar, let out a terrible scream, and then a dense rain of arrows covered it.