Chapter 17: The Beginning
Maybe it was because the blue-bearded sand bandit group had already begun to covet Lin Yuan's territory, so his army had only walked less than five miles, and the smoke and dust could be seen rising in the distance.
Obviously, this Bluebeard Sand Bandit Regiment didn't take Lin Yuan's army of less than a hundred people into account at all, isn't it, twice as many troops, and besides, there are fifteen cavalry on the Sand Bandit side, if you don't run over and bully it, I'm sorry for the Bluebeard Daimyo!
"Everyone, array! Array! ”
Seeing that the sand thief group was so powerful, Lin Yuan of course would not be polite, and began to order all the soldiers to line up, speaking of which, this should also be the reason why the killing thief group was so straightforward, because on the Gobi Desert, there is no terrain that can be ambushed at all, and it is useless to ambush it!
However, soon, Lin Yuan had a headache, because at least half of the soldiers under him were recruits, and they usually looked stupid, but as soon as they arrived on this battlefield, they began to run around like headless flies, and even began to run away.
Bird feathers! Isn't this a cheat!
Lin Yuan realized that it was really not a simple matter to lead the troops to fight, and the old days of talking about the soldiers on paper were still there!
At this time, the sound of hooves in the distance rumbled, obviously the blue beard was not lined up at all, and then they had the advantage of cavalry, and they began to charge the formation without stopping, if they were disrupted, plus the half of the recruits were disrupted, it was estimated that this battle would not be fought.
For a while, Lin Yuan didn't care about going to the recruits to form a team, and directly ordered the archers array to step forward. The Kugit lancer led all the recruits to the battle, and did not seek to fight. Just ask them not to run away, and that's enough. As for whoever dares to escape, kill them directly!
After arranging these, Lin Yuan also quickly rushed to the front of the formation, fortunately, at this time, the four armored pikemen were good after all, each with two spear recruits, and stood firmly on the first array, with the spears pointing diagonally ahead.
And in the back, under the leadership of the Saarion Janissaries. The ten infantry shield soldiers who can be regarded as the main force are also very quiet, and the third row is the archers.
As long as these three rows of arrays are not chaotic, Lin Yuan is not afraid of the sand thief cavalry charging into battle.
At this time, in just a few breaths, fifteen sand thief cavalry were already in full armor, led by a glamorous man, from the smoke and dust, and behind the smoke and dust, there was a large number of shouts of killing, according to this speed. It only took another half a minute to rush in front of Lin Yuan's array.
"Whew! That's it! ”
When Lin Yuan saw the fifteen sand thief cavalry clearly, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief because of their strength. It's not high, at most it's about the same as the cavalry of the Benlei Battalion in the Han realm of the Chu River. It's not that kind of existence that is very rebellious.
However, the leader of the sand bandits, Bluebeard. It's really amazing!
At least it's equivalent to a big knight in the landlord world!
At this time, Lin Yuan quickly took out the old ox horn bow. At the same time, he felt a little regretful in his heart, if he had a hardwood longbow of at least three stones in his hand at the moment, he guaranteed that he would not be able to find the nurse who could shoot these arrogant guys!
When the enemy rode close to five hundred meters, Lin Yuan quickly stretched his bow, there was no way, the range of the ox horn bow was already good, and this was still in the case of consuming the bow power.
However, the Oxhorn Bow is better at opening the bow quickly, with a fast rate of fire, and a +15 rate of fire is not a joke!
In less than three seconds, a series of six standard feather arrows shot out like beads, and the target was the blue-bearded war horse that rushed to the front.
Yes, although Lin Yuan was very confident in his archery skills, he didn't think that he could hurt this monster whose strength was comparable to that of a great knight, so he could only shoot his war horse first! Let him become an infantry first, and then have his own more powerful Sarion Janissaries to deal with him.
It's just that Lin Yuan still underestimated the leader of this sand thief, and the six arrows were actually beaten away by this guy in one go, and only the last one was shot on the forehead of the war horse! But looking at the physique of that guy, and then looking at the fierceness of that war horse, it must be difficult to shoot to death.
Lin Yuan didn't panic at all at this time, and quickly turned on the control and balance talents, and the speed of opening the bow in his hand also increased suddenly!
It reached the speed of three feathered arrows per second, and what was even more incredible was that among the three feathered arrows, two of them must be shot at the bluebeard, and at the same time that the bluebeard knocked these two feathered arrows, the third feathered arrow would accurately fall on the warhorse!
In this way, when Lin Yuan's fourth feather arrow finally shot into the chest and abdomen of the war horse, the strong war horse screamed and fell to the ground, directly knocking the black bear-like blue beard to the ground.
And just as Lin Yuan was about to take this opportunity to snipe at the sand thief, a series of three feather arrows that flashed with light blue light actually flew out at a faster speed, and shot into the back of the blue beard.
This is actually the Livingston Ranger who was said by Xiao A, very powerful, his three consecutive shots are obviously more powerful than Lin Yuan's shots, and Lin Yuan can even see the splashing blood!
And almost at the same time, the sound of the bowstring continued to vibrate, and the array of archers behind finally began to shoot, forming a spectacular rain of arrows in the air.
However, including the nine lightly armored forest rangers, this wave of arrow rain was unexpectedly unhit, after all, the remaining fifteen sand pirate cavalry were all fast-moving, this kind of moving target, in the absence of dynamic capture and tracking vision, but it was very sophisticated archery.
However, Lin Yuan had a great advantage at this time, one after another feathered arrows shot out quickly, not shooting people, shooting horses, and in less than ten seconds, at least five war horses were killed, and although the archery skills of the Livingston Ranger were powerful, they couldn't do it so quickly, only shot two war horses.
But this is enough to reduce the power of the Sand Bandit's cavalry charge by half, and only eight cavalry are left!
At this time, Lin Yuan could be regarded as having personally seen why the cavalry was the king of the cold weapon war, just eight sand pirate cavalry, and the momentum brought up by it made people feel like a flash flood.
In just an instant, five novice pikemen were killed, and their spears didn't work at all.
The four armored pikemen stabbed two horses to death, but they also paid the price of one dead and one seriously wounded.
And the remaining six cavalrymen were not affected at all and went directly into the formation!
"Kill!"
The thunderous shout suddenly sounded, and Lin Yuan only had time to see it, there was a flash of snowy knife light in the corner of his eye, and then blood splattered, and a sand thief cavalry was actually cut in two by a man and a horse in the blink of an eye!
This is the king of the infantry, and the Sarion Praetorian Guard has finally struck!
On the other side, the heavy shield armored infantry also easily stopped a cavalryman with the strength of one person, and with the cooperation of the other two shield-wielding light infantry, he killed him in the blink of an eye!
The last four cavalrymen were trapped by the remaining shield-wielding assault infantry, and they were all killed with a burst of swords, coupled with the cooperation of the archers!
"Lancers, charge! All charge! ”
This kind of clean and neat result also made Lin Yuan's blood boil, if he didn't charge at this time, let alone when!
Moreover, this kind of victory is good for stabilizing the recruits.
In particular, because the blue beard was too careless and confident, the nearest hoplites were still 800 meters away, and it was too late to rescue, this is when the water dogs were beaten.
For a while, the morale of the soldiers on Lin Yuan's side rose rapidly, while Lin Yuan and the other archers hurried up and shot at the blue beard, whether they missed or not, they needed to consume his strength and health anyway.
At the forefront, the Sarion Janissaries were surrounded by the rest of the infantry and went straight to Bluebeard, the leader of the sand pirates, while the Kugit lancers used the advantage of their own cavalry to deal with the sand pirate cavalry who were lone and had lost their horses.
But at this time, what Lin Yuan didn't expect was that the blue beard actually turned his head and ran, and his legs were like stepping on Hot Wheels, which was amazingly fast, and he threw everyone away in a moment, which was a scoundrel!
"Array, array! Stand in place! ”
Lin Yuan didn't dare to chase down, because the charge would consume physical strength, and the charge of nearly a thousand meters was enough to tire the elite soldiers half to death.
And the main force of the blue-bearded sand thieves didn't suffer too much damage, so they can't be reckless!
Of course, the most important thing is that Lin Yuan's side has already killed fifteen sand pirate cavalry, so he contributed a total of 50 Chaos Rule energy to Lin Yuan, plus 1,000 experience points, and a number of drops.
These 1,000 experience points, Lin Yuan did not hesitate, and immediately added all these experience points to the 16 hunters, thus obtaining 16 skilled longbowmen, although it is only a level, but there is no doubt that this is more effective for improving the power of the rain of arrows.
Unfortunately, there wasn't any equipment in the drops, which was unfortunate.
On the opposite side, after the bluebeard fled all the way back, he quickly regrouped the array, led by the heavy infantry, and began to advance slowly, however, there were no archers among the sand thieves under his command, which was a great advantage for Lin Yuan's side.
Especially for Lin Yuan, he was even more happy, when those sand thieves entered the range of five hundred meters, he kept opening his bow and shooting, the twenty heavy infantry he couldn't shoot through the defense, but those ordinary sand thieves were no problem, almost one arrow, and that Ravenston Ranger, as well as nine light-armored forest rangers, also launched a point shot at the same time, and after a while, he actually shot more than 30 ordinary sand thieves, but unfortunately this ordinary sand thief gave too little experience value, one was only five points.
But even so, it's enough.
Lin Yuan simply ordered the entire array to start retreating slowly, always maintaining a contact distance of three hundred meters, unless the bluebeard gave the order to charge, but once he gave the order to charge, his twenty heavy armored infantry with the strongest combat power would undoubtedly fall behind again. (To be continued......)