Chapter 50: Engagement
The two sides fought together, and the advantage of equipment was quickly revealed, and in the face of a crusader army that was far outnumbered by their own, the clone soldiers were like an iron wall, and the rushing soldiers of the Middle Earth hit the scalp and bled out. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, the number of the crusading army was too large, and the enemy generals did not suppress all the troops, but they still sent most of the soldiers, probably no less than 600 people.
This means that every 1 clone soldier has to face 3 Middleland soldiers, which is obviously a bit reluctant.
After fighting for a while, more than half of the clone soldiers were killed and wounded, and if it was an ordinary army, it would have collapsed a long time ago, but they did not receive the order to retreat, and they would definitely not retreat.
This also shocked the generals of the crusading army, according to their knowledge, the casualty ratio was so high, it should have collapsed long ago.
Many generals frowned, although there were many soldiers in Middle-earth, killing 100 clone soldiers also paid the price of 200 people.
If it weren't for the generals in the back who kept reminding their soldiers that the other side was far less numerous than their own, they themselves would have collapsed.
Those clone soldiers were completely like crazy people, seeing their comrades fall one by one, they completely ignored it, still drew their knives, and slashed the enemies in front of them until they fell.
Everyone retreats or runs away!
It's a normal person, and he doesn't want to fight with such a group of crazy people who won't be afraid!
The generals of the crusading army also had the idea of retreating, these were their own soldiers, even if they had no feelings, they had spent a lot of manpower and material resources to cultivate.
It takes at least several years for a soldier to develop, and they don't want to lose here.
The 200 enemy troops in front of them were only part of them, and according to the information they had just received, the other side still had no less than 300 troops
Who knows how many such madmen are who don't want to die, even if they can win the other party, their own soldiers are estimated to be exhausted.
However, the generals are not stupid, if they order a retreat, their own soldiers will surely collapse, and the enemy will take the opportunity to kill them, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
No one dared to order a retreat, and even if they retreated, at least they had to eat the soldiers in front of them to make up for some of the lost morale.
Under the orders of the Raider General, the Raiders' offensive became fierce, trying to deal with the clones as quickly as possible and not giving them a chance to send reinforcements to their aid.
Lin Xiao didn't think about supporting the troops on the front line, and after seeing the clone soldiers make the crusaders deflated, he ordered to retreat while fighting.
His purpose is to let the feudal nobles know that they are not easy to mess with, and he does not intend to use their disadvantages all the time to play to their advantage.
By this time, the order had been passed to the clones, and they began to retreat.
The crusading army naturally pursued, but did not chase too far, after all, the enemy was about to retreat to Huangsha Town, and it was good to take it when he saw it.
Of course, not everyone accepted it when they saw it, and many generals advocated pursuit, and they also withdrew like this, and they were very dissatisfied.
"Lord Harry, your soldiers have suffered the fewest casualties and seem to be very brave and good at fighting, so how about I give you the task of the next main attack?" Ella said with a gloomy face.
He brought the most soldiers, the main attacker, and the largest casualties, so he naturally didn't want to pursue again.
Harry's face changed, and he hurriedly said, "How can that be, how can a contemptible person compare with the more noble Viscount Ella......"
Harry immediately flattered and put Ella in the position of boss, he is not stupid, who is the boss now, who is the main attacker.
As the nominal supreme commander of the crusading army, the ignored Gray Shibang: "??? ”
I have to say that Harry's words are still very useful, and Ella, who was in a bad mood, recovered a little.
After Ella calmed down, he also realized that this enemy army was not easy to deal with, and he did not dare to treat the other party as a bandit now.
There are no robbers so powerful, if there are enough of them, they have to retreat.
He looked at the generals around him and said solemnly: "This time we only brought three days of grain and grass, what do you say we should do?" ”
"Since we can't storm it, we might as well go and recover the iron ore first, there are not many enemy troops there." One of the generals suggested.
"No way!" Ella objected without even thinking about it, if he went to recover the iron ore, then these people saw the mountains of iron ore, and they would probably have to pay a greater price if they wanted to get the iron ore back.
He paused before explaining: "This gang of thieves is so arrogant, we should destroy the other party first, so as to show military might!" ”
Ella, as the current boss, wanted to continue the attack, and those generals did not object, so as not to let go of the wronged boss.
In that case, they will have to choose a new boss, and it looks like the boss is very cool, but in fact, it will have to pay a considerable price.
After seeing Ella's tragic situation, no one wants to be the boss.
Is Ella stupid?
He is currently in a dilemma, originally thought it was just a group of robbers, who knew it would be so fierce.
Since the loss cannot be avoided, it is best to minimize the loss now, so I only listened to Ella: "Since the anti-thief armor is thick, it is better for us to concentrate the archers, so that we can not only reduce our losses, but also inflict heavy losses on the other party." ”
Hearing Ella's words, the surrounding generals did not immediately agree.
Archers take longer to train than infantry and devote more resources.
If the loss of infantry is distressing for them, then the loss of archers is cutting meat, so for every archer, it is very precious!
If you don't gather the archers, it will be difficult to cause effective losses to the anti-thieves, after all, the archers they brought over this time are less than 100 people.
And Ella's attitude is also very tough, if they don't give it, the other party is probably going to leave it alone.
In order to stabilize Ella, these generals had to reluctantly cut their love and withdraw all the archers.
With nearly 100 archers, Ella's confidence was greatly increased, and after resting the army, she officially began to call for battle.
It is nothing more than persuading the other party to surrender, and it can also avoid the capital crime, otherwise it will be a dead end.
What Ella didn't expect was that as soon as the crusading army approached Huangsha Town, it was covered by a rain of arrows, and more than 20 soldiers were shot and killed in an instant, with more wounded, causing a lot of chaos.
"Damn, I should have thought that the other party had archers." Seeing that the dead were all her own soldiers, Ella was very distressed, gritted her teeth and said, "Archer, release the arrows!" ”
The raider's counterattack was not long in coming, and since the archers of the raiding army were projectiles, there were many soldiers in front of them with shields to defend.
It is difficult for the clones to fight back, and their range is not long, and even if they hit, the projectile will not have much power, and they will kill the infantry standing in front.
Although the clone soldiers are also protected by infantry, their numbers are far from enough, and they fall into disadvantage.
Now it was Lin Xiao's turn to suffer heavy injuries, and he was also a little helpless, his quality as a short bow soldier was not bad, but he lost in range.
The crusading army that had suffered losses did not launch a white-knuckle battle in time, and Lin Xiao's clone soldiers were suppressed all the time, and the damage was getting bigger and bigger.
Under the overwhelming rain of arrows, the archers of the crusading army shot 500 arrows in nearly a minute, and most of the soldiers hid in the low walls to no avail, and they lost their combat effectiveness due to arrows, and died of excessive blood loss in a short time.
Even the infantry in steel armor could not stop the bow and arrow, but fortunately, there were not many arrows that could shoot through the armor, indicating that the armor was still very useful.
With the passage of time, Lin Xiao's shortbow soldiers became fewer and fewer, and he completely lost the ability to fight back, and the morale of the soldiers of the crusading army increased greatly.
The infantry, with the cooperation of the archers, stormed the city wall and fought again with the clone soldiers, who could fight less than 200 hundred.
The crusaders did not have any more reserves, and the strength was fully pressed, and each clone soldier had to fight against almost 4 people!
This time it was beyond the limits of what the clone troopers could bear, and it was clear that their numbers were decreasing.
The casualties soon exceeded 50, and the crusade army also suffered casualties, but there were still more than 700 people.
The pressure of 150 people against 700 people is much greater than 200 people against 800 people.
Seeing that he was about to be defeated here, Lin Xiao still did not retreat, and even Ella, who was the main attacker, was a little puzzled.
Judging from the previous situation just now, the old brains of these anti-thieves should not be stupid, and with such heavy casualties, retreating is the only option.
Could it be that they have already abandoned these soldiers?