Chapter 63: Stalemate
The Savoy people are a nomadic hunter-gatherer people, and although they have settled in the western continent for thousands of years, they still retain many traditional ways of life. It was customary for them to carry a bundle of long, strong rope on their riding animals, often as a lasso, to catch wild beasts or untamable livestock. Even if you go to battle, this bundle of rope will not be unloaded.
So, in a hurry, the Sava people quickly soaked all the nooses with seawater, tacitly divided into groups of two, and threw the long nooses in their hands from the left and right opposite directions at the same time, and lassoed the same chain ball. Because the surface of the sphere is covered with short spines, the lasso is easily attached to the barbed chainball. Then, taking advantage of the hunter's tall size and natural earth-shaking power, they tightened the lasso in their hands, and worked together to drag up huge spike balls and rush in the direction of the Allied cavalry, or drag the spike balls directly under the gangway to block the exit of the Lepelians.
Not only that, but on the beaches north and south of the docks of Solong Harbour, many Savoy people also cooperate with each other, which is the experience and tacit understanding accumulated from ordinary hunting life. The two men pulled up the two ends of the rope and drove the hunting beasts in unison, overturning all the Allied soldiers who had washed down the shallows. You know, this is the lasso used by the Sava people to hunt beasts, and it is wrapped in tough animal skins, which cannot be easily cut by sharp weapons. Before the Allied soldiers who had fallen into the shallows could react, the Sava Knife that followed them had already beckoned to them......
The Savoyard people were frank and unruly, so the shape of their weapons and the outline of their blades were generally extremely simple and smooth straight lines or shallow arcs.
However, the weapons of the Lepelian people in the Eastern Continent were very different. In addition to those ethnic minorities who have long been assimilated by the Lepeilian people, among the three most famous indigenous ethnic groups in the world, the martial Savoy is the most robust, and the Fijian human body, which is keen on natural exploration, is generally slender and well-proportioned, and only the Lepeilian in the eastern continent has a different physique and is not uniform as a whole. The reason for this is probably due to the huge difference in the living conditions of the four major groups of nobles, soldiers, commoners, and slaves in the Eastern Continent. The character of the Lepeilian people is also extremely treacherous due to the differences in their status, religious beliefs, traditional concepts, and many other intricate reasons, and therefore, it has also indirectly affected the direction of the development of weapons in the Eastern Continent.
Perhaps in order to make up for the shortcomings of their uneven body shape and relatively weak physical strength, the Lepeilian people of the Eastern Continent created a variety of mysterious weapons to arm themselves, and committed to enhancing their military strength, conquering the enemy by force, confronting nature, improving their sense of superiority, and firmly occupying the position of dominator. As a result, not only do they possess a wide variety of weapons of mass destruction and viruses, but many of their hand-held weapons are also designed to be quite vicious and even heavy-handed.
To take the simplest example, it is just the most common spear used by Lepelian's soldiers, with many jagged barbs attached to the tip of the spear. Once pierced into the body, the spear with a barbed edge pulls the flesh from the inside out when it is pulled out, making it extremely difficult to heal, as if the maker of the weapon had strong evil thoughts before the outbreak of war. It makes it all the more difficult to tell whether people's evil thoughts lead to war, or whether war intensifies evil thoughts.
The number and variety of such ruthless weapons possessed by the Lepelian people are innumerable. Leaving aside for a moment whether their purpose is to protect themselves or whether they harbor evil intentions, in short, it has to do with their complex and opportunistic nature, but it cannot be denied that they are indeed better at scheming than other peoples. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, the Lepeilian people of the Eastern Continent have arrogantly considered themselves to be the most intelligent people in the world.
The Sava people did not make metal armor, and generally only used animal skin armor to protect a few vital points of the body, and the weaponry was extremely simple. But comparatively speaking, they are much stronger than Lepelian in terms of physique, strength and endurance. Courage is a natural strength of the Savoyards, and no one should underestimate the invisible weapons that lie deep in the soul and are fearless. No matter how powerful the weapons of the Eastern Continent Allies were, and no matter how fierce their offensive was, the Sava Men would face them head-on, and millions of warriors would not be deterred.
Looking at the long-standing and impenetrable defense line of the human wall, the Allied generals on the command ship were anxious. Many Allied cavalry were blocked near the gangway and could not land smoothly to start the battle. The Allied generals had to adjust their strategy again, and while the cavalry continued to break through the human wall, they ordered the archers to continue to shoot sharp arrows with barbs from their ships at the Savoyard soldiers on the shore.
After a long stalemate, but there was still no progress, and the Allies had to push the large weapons that were originally intended to be used after the landing to the side of the ship in advance. They tied the thin leather bags filled with grease one by one, and threw them at the Savoyard army on the shore with large throwing weapons, while the archers on the ships fired the arrows. The ignited oil bag instantly ignited a raging fire, and smashed densely from the heads of the Sava people......
The sudden and imminent danger plunged the Savoyard people into chaos. The Allies on board finally saw hope, and then intensified the oil fire attack. It didn't take long for the oil fire bags that had fallen to the shore to form a winding river of fire.
The Allies, however, did not last long. After a brief period of confusion, the Savoyard people, far from being deterred by the spread of the fire, tacitly leaped across the river of fire with the hunting beast and rushed forward without fear. For at the other end of the river of fire was the shallows, and the splashes of the tall hunting beasts in the shallow water, drenched the Savoyard and quickly extinguished the clothes that had been set on fire on their bodies. What's more, the closer you got to the shoals, the easier it was to dodge the arrows and oil bags that the Allies threw from the ships. After all, it is very difficult for heavy long-range throwing weapons located in high places to hit close targets, especially targets near and below.
At the same time, the Sava people on the shore of the harbor used the power of the hunting beast to drag the long gangway of the Allied forces with lasso, almost out of the hull. Some of the Allied soldiers who were trying to get off the ship were forced to retreat, and those who had already walked up the gangway had to roll down. Many of the gangways were vandalized, and the Allied soldiers who had disembarked were unable to get backup in time, and gradually showed signs of defeat.
The warships of the Eastern Continent are very large, but the heavy long-range throwing weapons on the deck are difficult to hit close targets in front of the hull, especially this kind of top-down, almost vertical tricky angle, even more difficult to use. Thus, when the Savoyard people rushed into the shallows, the oil and fire bags thrown from the ships were almost ineffective. Since the Allies were unable to land smoothly, could not collect stones on the spot, and the limited projectiles they brought with the ships were soon running out, they had to rely on the most flexible and effective bows and arrows for the time being until a new solution was found.
The stalemate of the war has exhausted both sides. The fighting had been going on for almost a day since the attack was launched, and no one seemed to have made any breakthroughs, but hunger and fatigue inevitably struck. It was not until dusk that the two armies coincidentally raised their flags and ceased fighting.
Although the coast of the Western Continent was at the foot, the Allies of the Eastern Continent could only spend the night on the ship this night. Of course, the Savoyards did not dare to go far easily, and continued to rest on the shores of the river of fire, which had long been extinguished.
Since the half-bloods gained the right to farm freely in the Western Continent, they have also begun to slowly become more proactive. Although the docile and cowardly personality cannot be changed for a while, it is no longer as humble as before. The brave Savoyard took on the responsibility of guarding the Western Continent alone, and the half-bloods were grateful, even though they knew that they were useless on the battlefield, and they no longer had nothing to do with themselves, cowering and hiding in the city of Limbo, enjoying the peace that others had bought with their lives. This time, they spontaneously came to the rear of the battlefield to prepare food and bandage the wounds of the Sava people in the truce.
These half-blooded people, who once crossed the West Sea on simple rafts and humbly traveled north and south just to survive, came all the way through hardships, and hunger and disease also tempered their will, but nature did not blindly treat them, and they also obtained many ways to save their lives from nature. This is one of the reasons why these half-bloods, who have been inferior to anyone else, have been able to survive tenaciously for thousands of years.
Now, the half-bloods have taken the initiative to use the survival wisdom they have learned from nature to help the Savoyans who have generously accepted them and are willing to share the land with them in peace. These two races have unconsciously used their respective abilities to protect the land of the Western Continent.
Perhaps it was really too tired, and the two armies spent the night without incident.
The difference, however, was that the simple-minded Savoyard people woke up in good spirits and had eaten and drunk before coming out for a new round of fighting, while the morale of the Allies on the second day was somewhat depressed. Because, these scheming Lepelians were anxious almost all night, and they were always worried about the Savoy raids at night. Had it not been for the fact that he had been too tired yesterday, and that there were not enough throwables on board, how could the self-proclaimed resourceful Lepelians have missed the opportunity for a night attack?
Today, the Allies did not seem to be in a hurry to land, but instead let all the great warships retreat from the shallows, and continued to carry out long-range fire and arrow attacks on the Sava people on the shore, intending to force the Sava people from the shallows to the shore. Perhaps having learned the lesson of yesterday, the Allies temporarily abandoned the use of long gangways to land, and instead lowered many small assault boats from the great ships. These small assault boats usually could only carry about twenty soldiers. In order to increase their forces, hundreds of small assault boats, under the cover of a rain of arrows, gradually approached the coast, and once again started a shoal battle with the Savoys.
The Savoyard people were uncompromising and always held their ground. Although it was difficult for the Allies to break through the defensive line in a short time, as time passed, the number of troops descending to the shallows would also increase, and the two armies gradually became inseparable, almost all intertwined. Therefore, those long-range projection weapons on the ships of the Great War also had to suspend their attacks, so as not to lose more than they gained. However, without the cover of large weapons, the allies, who were already inferior to the Savoyard in individual combat, did not actually have much advantage to speak of. The war has been going on for a long time, and they still haven't made any surprise breakthroughs.
The Allied generals on the command ship were anxious, and in order to break the deadlock, they finally made one of the most horrific decisions in the history of Lepelian's world infighting. This terrible decision almost wiped out the entire Savoyard from this world.