Chapter 12: The Tragic Price
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"These humans are simply insane!"
Wang Gang, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, said with a shocked face, "As a cavalryman, he didn't get on his horse when he was about to fight, but learned to line up with infantry, what is this?" And it's still a long snake formation, does this flattening the impact of my orc iron horse?! ”
At this time, Bai Keqiu finished counting the troops and returned to the city, and sneered when he heard the words: "Xu is that these people are too poor in riding, and they consume too much horsepower, and the horses are unbearable!" ”
"That's not right!"
Wang Gang's temples shook his head, pointed to the cavalry formation on both wings of the enemy army, and said: "Those human barbarians also came with them, if the horsepower is exhausted, why are they riding on horses?!" ”
It's just that Bai Keqiu is also puzzled by this: "Maybe the human race has concentrated all the horses that still have strength in the hands of these people?" ”
Wang Gang's sideburns still shook his head, his instincts telling him that the answer was definitely not what Bai Keqiu said. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info just what the answer is, he can't guess!
"That's it! None of this matters! Wang Gang's sideburns finally simply relented, "Anyway, with such a thin array, it can't stop the impact of my beast clan's iron cavalry no matter what!" ”
"That's true." Bai Keqiu seconded.
"Which tribe did you order to go out this time?" Wang Gangsideburns asked Bai Keqiu.
Bai Keqiu smiled, but did not answer, but pointed to the city and said: "They have come out, Your Highness, you can see for yourself!" ”
Wang Gang's temples hurriedly cast his gaze to the city, and a bunch of blue-green heads full of scales suddenly came into his eyes!
"It's ...... Lizard Cavalry?! Wang Gang's sideburns turned his head and asked Bai Keqiu.
Bai Keqiu nodded with a smile: "A cavalry that has the impact power that is not inferior to the heavy cavalry of the wild boar clan, but does not need to wear armor, and can withstand most attacks with only the natural scales on his body, he is one of the strongest heavy cavalry among my beast clans!" ”
Speaking of these lizard clan cavalry, there is really a bit of origin, these lizard tribes are not part of the northern eight tribes of orcs, but orcs who have lived on the southern islands of the eastern continent for generations, and did not contribute to the war of the northern beast clan alliance to conquer the hinterland of the eastern country, until the small court of the Yun clan entrenched in the south was destroyed, and they established contact with the northern beasts and took refuge under the former.
Although this race does not have any meritorious deeds at all, but Gong Dedu loves its strong force, and still gives it a high status in the new court established by himself, because the five northwestern provinces are too important, so he sent a lot of lizard warriors to the five northwest provinces to defend the border, and Shannan Province, as an important defense line facing Wushan Pass, naturally received a lot of lizard iron horses.
However, although this race has good combat power, it has a bad problem - it does not like armor!
These lizardmen thought that the Immortal Heaven had given them the best defensive armor, and that putting on another layer of artificial armor was simply a snake to add to it, and it was meaningless, so they had always abandoned the armor issued by the Beast Clan's puppet dynasty, and they didn't even bother to look at it.
And Bai Keqiu is soft in the Eight Khans of the Beast Clan, so naturally he can't resist them......
However, despite this, Wang Gangsideburns and Bai Keqiu at this time still didn't think there was anything wrong with the lizards' approach.
Wang Gang's sideburns stared at the lizard iron cavalry that kept driving out of the city gate hole, and was very satisfied with the troops selected by Bai Keqiu, and was just about to open his mouth to praise the other party, but he didn't want to, at this moment, an incredible thing happened!
"Great Khan! The human barbarians are onboard! A Tiger warrior standing at the head of the city shouted as he pointed out of the city.
Wang Gang's sideburns and Bai Keqiu hurriedly turned their heads to look, and found that this was indeed the case, and the human army's military formation had indeed begun to advance as a whole!
"It's insane!" Wang Gang's sideburns shook his head, "Even if you send you to death, you won't bring this!" ”
"Who's to say it isn't?" Bai Keqiu echoed with a strange expression.
At this time, the five thousand lizard iron cavalry in the lead had all driven out of the city, lined up in a loose cavalry formation, and the five thousand fox cavalry behind were leaving the city, but both sides on the battlefield were very clear that the victory or defeat of this battle had nothing to do with the five thousand fox cavalry, and the real killer weapon of the beast clan was only the five thousand lizard iron cavalry!
Lan Muha, the commander of the five thousand lizard iron cavalry, knew this very well, so he didn't mean to wait for the five thousand fox riders at all, and after the warriors of his clan finished arraying, he waved the scimitar in his hand and gave the order to charge the formation!
With both sides taking the initiative to advance, the distance between them was quickly shortened to three hundred and fifty steps!
At this moment, Xu Weizheng, the commander of the Fourth Cavalry Division, suddenly gave an order to stop!
Hearing the order, the officers and men of the Fourth Cavalry Division immediately stopped.
"Let them attack when they are ready!" Xu Wei was standing in the middle of the formation, taking off the saber from his waist for a long time, and ordered casually.
The bruises on the guard's head jumped, but he still faithfully carried out the order, and issued the order in the flag.
The grassroots commanders on the front line of the "front row...... dragged out their voices and "squatted!! ”
There was a bang, and hundreds of people in the front row of the 10th Brigade squatted neatly on the ground.
"Raise the gun ......"
More than a thousand people leveled the rifled guns in their hands at the same time, while the grassroots commanders raised their gorgeous straight-edged command knives!
"Aim for ......"
The soldiers of the 10th Cavalry Brigade also included the enemy who was advancing on foot into the crosshair of the scope.
Three hundred steps, the enemy suddenly raised the speed! It's a sign to be ready to charge!
"Fire !!"
With this hoarse shout, dozens of command knives swung down at the same time!
In an instant, the polished surface of the command knife was reflected red by the brilliant firelight!
Also reddened were the pupils of the lizard warriors, in their consciousness, the ridiculously thin step formation in front of them suddenly erupted a large cloud of flames and a small amount of white mist, and then there was the sound of the air suddenly being torn, the sound was extremely sharp and piercing, as if it was the sneer of death, which made people shudder!
It's just that before they had time to fear, the sound of "poof" sharp weapons entering the flesh rang out continuously, followed by the screams and ...... of countless people of the same clan who changed their tunes The muffled sound of the body hitting the ground!
It is conservatively estimated that under this round of volleys, at least more than 800 lizard warriors were shot! At least half of them rolled to the ground with their mounts, blocked by the sudden obstacles, and the lizard riders behind them were so overwhelmed that they either tripped over or crashed into each other!
It was just a salvo, and the lizard warriors' riding formation was thrown into chaos!
But what frightened these lizardmen the most was not the heavy loss of people they had just suffered, but the fact that the Immortal Armor they were proud of was as vulnerable as a piece of paper under the attack of the enemy! Many lizardmen unconsciously reined in their mounts, staring at the large body in front of them that had been pierced by bullets, and howled in frustration!
"This ...... How can it be?! Wang Gang's sideburns held his head, staring at everything that was happening in front of him with bloodshot eyes, and his shocked voice trembled.
Bai Keqiu was no better, and said in the same trembling voice: "Isn't Xiao Thief's musket lethal within a hundred steps?" That's 300 paces away! ”
"Do you know what that means? Bai Keqiu?! Wang Gang's face was gloomy and he asked.
Bai Keqiu has played cavalry all his life, how can he not know? He closed his eyes in pain: "The cavalry that my beast clan is proud of will turn into garbage from today onwards, and will suffer devastating continuous damage before entering the charging distance and raising speed, and by the time they reach the front of the enemy army, how many people will still be alive?!" What's the use of breaking through enemy lines?! ”
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Xu Weizheng was holding a knife in one hand, using a telescope to admire the frightened and painful expressions of the big cat and fox on the city wall, the corners of his mouth hooked, and he smiled contemptuously: "A beast is a beast, and you will never understand the truth that 'the times are progressing'!" It is true that we used to shoot a salvo at a maximum of 100 paces, but that doesn't mean that we will always shoot at this distance! ”
The guard was next to him with a smile and said, "Shi Zuo is right, there is a price to be paid for eating the ancients!" ”
"Then let them pay a more tragic price!" Xu Weizheng threw away the binoculars, drew his saber, pointed at the messy lizard, and said, "Forward!" ”
The 10th Cavalry Brigade began to advance again, and as they advanced in order, they were reloading their bullets at a dizzying pace, as if this process had become part of their instinct along with eating and sleeping!
Less than ten seconds later, the bullet was reloaded.
"Raise your gun...... Aim! ”
The junior officers still dragged out their voices as before, and their expressionless faces looked joyless and sad, as if they were not on the battlefield at the moment, but on the training ground.
Once again, the soldiers skillfully completed the process of leveling their rifles and putting the target in the crosshair.
"Fire!"
The command knife was waved without hesitation!