The "wall of fire" more than 2 kilometers long around the outer battlements effectively blocked the general attack of the Celtic coalition forces; The heavy arrow storm that the Roman infantry archers continued to create made the Celtic warriors on the periphery of the wall of fire have to choose to retreat, although the consequences of falling short are quite tragic, but it is better than letting these tens of thousands of people stand on the periphery of the wall of fire and bathe in the rain of arrows!

As Clark's 1st Reserve was thrown into battle on the outer battlements, the few Celtic warriors who could climb the outer battlements were quickly emptied; The Celtic warriors, trapped on the inside of the wall of fire and having not yet had time to climb the outer battlements, had nowhere to hide in the bright light of the fire, and were called one by one by the Roman soldiers with bows and crossbows and javelins without resistance.

The Celtic warriors who participated in the general attack had retreated to a distance of 300 meters, and the wall of fire up to 5 meters wide and the deadly rain of arrows made these strong warriors helpless, so they could only watch and listen; Under the glow of the wall of fire, the ground, which is more than 200 meters wide, is covered with corpses that cannot be seen at a glance.

From the launch of the general offensive to the retreat to a safe area, in just 4 minutes, the Celtic coalition forces participating in the general offensive lost nearly 10,000 soldiers; And the 20,000 Celtic soldiers who rushed up in the first wave before the general offensive were all wiped out only a matter of time.

In this round, all the warriors of Dukaru's own tribe participated in the battle, originally thinking that they could pick up a bargain, but they lost nearly 4,000 fighters; From the arrival of the soldiers to the present, the Celtic coalition army has lost a total of more than 34,000 soldiers, which is equivalent to the fact that the coalition army with a total strength of more than 60,000 troops has been beaten to a half-crippled state by the royal army.

Time slipped by, the edge of the Roman camp slowly quieted down, and the wall of fire slowly faded.

Because the battlefield was quiet, everyone could clearly hear the screams of the wounded Celtic soldiers on the battlefield; None of the Celtic warriors dared to go deep into the battlefield to rescue their comrades, and they were finally afraid.

The coalition of dozens of tribes finally stopped making noise, and they just stayed where they were; The soldiers who were alive could not believe that more than half of their 60,000-strong troops had lost more than half of their troops in two hours; What is even more tragic is that the warriors have not even seen the faces of the enemy clearly, and those who have seen clearly have ......

Wang Jun relaxed his body and exhaled a long breath, almost giving up the outer battlements; If the enemy who launched the general attack also carried a large number of huge wooden platoons, it was not impossible to break through the wall of fire.

One by one, the archers sat down, their fingers and arms aching and sore; For more than 6 minutes in a row, they kept firing bows and arrows, and they had to maintain their speed, if it weren't for the fact that these soldiers were trained every day, they really couldn't bear it. Not counting the warm-up battle two hours earlier, the infantry archers fired twice at high speed; The first time was 2 minutes, the second time was more than 4 minutes, and the rest was less than 2 minutes in between, and each person shot at least 90 arrows.

90 arrows per person seems to be not much, but it is only 4 quivers and half a quiver (generally 24 arrows are loaded with arrows, but Wang Jun has always had a dream of being a local tyrant and hates 4, so the craftsmen in the army did what they liked. ）； But the Fourth Legion had 2,400 foot archers, and in 6 minutes 216,000 arrows were fired, a full 216,000!

As long as the materials are sufficient, thousands of craftsmen can provide 24,000 arrows a day according to the flow operation method provided by Wang Jun, and the arrows have a great advantage over the bullets of later generations, that is, they can be recycled and repaired. Arrows do not occupy space, 300 quivers do not occupy a cubic space, usually there are 500,000 arrows and 300,000 crossbow arrows in the arsenal of the inner battalion, and the recovery and repair rate of arrows is as high as 85%; In other words, as long as the enemy retreats or dies, and the soldiers can clean up the battlefield, then the king's army will be completely consumed.

Don't think that the stock of hundreds of thousands of arrows is very large, now the inventory of Wang Jun is only enough to support a battle that is slightly stronger than the one just now; Moreover, in this situation, Wang Jun did not want to send people over the trench to clean up the battlefield.

What is the concept of hundreds of thousands of arrows stuck in the ground?

A large field of reeds seemed to suddenly grow on the flat grass, and the arrow feathers at the end of the tail swayed slightly in the wind.

The lethality of heavy arrows is terrifying, Celtic warriors who are hit by flying arrows to non-critical positions may be able to continue running, but if they are hit by heavy arrows, no matter which part of their body is hit, they will immediately lose their combat effectiveness; Running through the body, this is a very small thing for a heavy arrow.

The two battalions of Celtic infantry were now glad that they had taken refuge in the Romans, and did not feel at all wrong with their own hands using javelins and daggers to kill their compatriots who approached or climbed the outer battlements. Not to mention that these so-called compatriots actually bloodied Belfast and slaughtered the old and weak women and children of the same Celtic nation; Not to mention the fine armor on his body that he was reluctant to take off when he put it on, and the sharp Roman short sword in his hand; It only took one look at the corpses of Celtic warriors everywhere outside to show them how right they had been, not to mention that Clark had sent their families to Britain and escaped the massacre of the city tonight.

Dukaru was angry, and the 60-year-old hadn't been so angry in years.

A mere wall of fire stirred up the general attack that Dukaru was determined to achieve; Of the more than 60,000 coalition troops, only a little over 30,000 remained; The warriors in his own Babataean tribe could have successfully picked the fruits of victory at a very small price, but now not only did the fruits not be picked, but thousands of people were hanging!

Not only that, but the tribal leaders who are still alive seem to be starting to feel a little less convinced of themselves, which is the result of their own unacceptable results.

The tribal leaders gathered together again, and the number of people attending the meeting was reduced by a dozen, and there was no longer any vigor or word in the meeting, and many tribal leaders began to retreat.

"The Romans were better than we thought, and we paid a heavy price."

"But have you ever wondered what will happen when we all come together and defeat the Romans?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, what is going to happen next is not difficult to predict; The Romans slaughtered us one tribe after another, and we would have no power to resist......"

"If we continue to fight, maybe we will die more people, and the result may be victorious or defeated; However, if we choose to give up at this time, then we have only one result, and that is to wait for death! ”

"The fact that the Romans did not dare to go out of their camps to engage us shows that they were not very good at close combat; Now what stands in the way of our warriors is nothing more than that wide ravine, and wooden battlements... As long as we warriors can fight the Romans face to face, we can win this just war. ”

"Leader Dukaru, what you say makes sense, but how do we get over these obstacles?" A motivated leader asks the question of how everyone wants to be alive, especially those with power.

"Well, there is a way, of course, there is a ......"

Jiang is still old and spicy, Dukaru not only succeeded in regaining everyone's confidence, but also through some demagogy, the confidence of the leaders directly exploded, and Dukaru himself was a little proud; Perhaps, after dawn, his prestige will once again spread throughout Ireland.

Dozens of minutes later, the demoralized Celtic warriors began to come alive again, and the noise once again drifted through the night sky.

Wang Jun was very puzzled, these guys had died so many people, why didn't they bother to find a place to lick their wounds, what else did they want to toss?

The Celtic warriors were very excited, this time everyone was full of confidence, they must break through the camp on the opposite side, teach the Romans hiding inside, and once they are caught, they will be destroyed first and then killed...... Phew, it's fried first and then killed. The Celtic warriors were ordered to divide into several groups, the horses of the horses, the logners, and some of the warriors entered the town of Belfast to collect oil and everything that could be burned.

Animals are afraid of fire, this is a natural surname, it is instinct. Even tamed horses still have an instinctive fear of fire, unless they are trained every day to drill into fire rings, jump over fire walls, and so on, as the circus does; Obviously, the Celts, who live a simple and happy life, have absolutely no interest in doing this.

It didn't seem to be so dark anymore, and the view was a little wider.

The earth began to shake faintly, and the officers and men of the Ninth Army were very familiar with this kind of tremor, and the collective charge of the cavalry regiment directly under it was like this; Before the battle began, the cavalry regiment was sent out by the commander, could it be that they rushed back in the dark?

The officers and soldiers standing on the battlements outside soon found that it was not the case, and one by one they held their weapons tightly, as if they were facing a great enemy; The commander has always laughed at the Celts for what kind of "infantry control", and the officers and men in the collective army know it, but how to explain this scene now?

The huge herd of horses, which was too large to be counted, rushed madly in the direction of the military village, and the speed became faster and faster; Behind the herd, huge fireballs were rolling; The soldiers on the battlements were nervous and puzzled, what did the enemy want to do?

In other words, Dukaru's idea is still quite good, as a Celtic who is mainly engaged in herding, there are no other things, but there are many things like horses, wild cows, sheep, and dogs.

The more than 30,000 Celtic troops surrounding the Roman camp retreated more than 300 meters from the outer battlements, leaving a large area to be vacated. The Celtic warriors drove more than 30,000 horses that had lost their owners to the front of the position, and then set fire to large balls made of twigs, sticks, animal skins, fire oil, and other materials; The excited warriors held long wooden sticks, and with one stab, the fireball, which was more than 2 meters in diameter, rolled towards the herd of horses that were bowing their heads to eat the night grass in front of them.

Looking down from the sky, the fireballs at a distance from each other formed a large circle and were gradually shrinking inward; Countless torches were lit outside the circle, and the Celtic warriors roared loudly to scare the horses, and followed the fireballs rolling in front of them. The frightened herd of horses, from sparse to dense, cried like thunder, like a gray wave, surging towards the center of the ring of fire...... In the center of this huge ring of fire, which is nearly 6 kilometers in circumference and shrinking, is the camp of Wang Jun's army.

I have to say that the Celtic warriors are indeed not the material for fine work, and the quality of this fireball is generally not good, and most of the fireballs are only rolled for a hundred meters before being laid off with honor; The fireball cracked and scattered on the grass, and the fire dropped sharply, and was soon trampled by the impatient Celtic warriors in the rear.

However, this was enough to complete Dukaru's plan.

Once the panicked horses run, they don't care whether the terrible fireballs that roll behind them are extinguished or not, and they just run towards the safe area they identified when the "fireball crisis" breaks out; The distance of a few hundred meters is enough for the horses to pull up the speed, and more than 30,000 horses are galloping together, and the scene is quite amazing. Horses have a wide field of vision, which can reach 330 degrees, which is more than a human bull's nose; But the tragedy is that the overlapping area of the horse's eyes is only 30 degrees, which leads to the horse's ability to judge the distance of objects is very weak, and what is even more tragic is that when facing a static object, the horse's weak ability to judge the distance and proximity will be further reduced! God compensated the horse by giving it a pair of highly sensitive ears, but this could not solve the huge problem that the horse is facing now.

Poor horses!

It's really not your fault that you were born with myopia, and it's not your fault that you're afraid of fire and noise, but you already know that you're short-sighted, why do you still play naked at night?

A horse with the best eyesight has noticed that something is wrong ahead, and if it is during the day, it is better than those who are highly myopic and should be able to detect the abnormality a little earlier; So the fine horse tried to take urgent measures.

Veer?

There are all running friends on both sides, how to turn?

Emergency stop?

The back is full of friends running wildly, how to stop?

Unable to do two things at a time, the poor horse did not notice that his speed had slowed down imperceptibly.

"Bang!" A rare rear-end collision accident occurred in the animal world.

The tragic horse was pushed straight to the black wall by countless friends, and the horse thought it was a black hillside before; The horses tried to stop the momentum of the horse's life, but it seemed to be useless; Wo Cha! It turned out that there was a deep black ditch on the ground that I didn't find!

"Bang! Pounding! ”

A horse screamed and was pushed down the trench by the "unknown truth" companions behind him, of course, there were also horses jumping over the ditch, but after running through the 5-meter trench, only a few meters away is the solid wooden wall of the outer battlements, the result of this is even more tragic, the horse hit the bones and bones.

Dukaru is wise, Wang Jun is not stupid, not to mention that he also has a strong sense of perception; When the fireballs were ignited, Wang Jun immediately judged the enemy's plan; With the substantial increase in spiritual caste, Wang Jun's current IQ has long been abnormal, which can be regarded as another unexpected joy.

Knowing what the enemy wants to do doesn't mean you know how to fight back.

Shoot a man or a horse?

There are not many arrows in stock, only enough for a high-intensity battle; And a large circle formed by tens of thousands of Celtic warriors followed behind these tens of thousands of crazy horses; What to do against the Celtic warriors after taking out the herd? But if the horses are not killed, the trenches will soon be filled, and even the outer battlements will be destroyed.

There is also a very serious problem, the speed of the horse charge is not comparable to that of humans, and the Wang army does not have a large number of infantry archery troops, relying only on the rapid shooting ability of infantry archers; The small number of infantry archers takes a certain amount of time to complete the shooting of the covered surname, and the infantry moves slowly, so they can have a proud record before; Now facing a herd of horses galloping at high speed, how many rounds can the foot archers shoot? As for crossbowmen, trebuchets, and bed crossbows, which have a low rate of fire, they are all redundant to consider.

Under the cover of huge spiritual power, Wang Jun sensed that the horses were frightened and were running in a panic, and slowly formed a unified direction, pointing directly at the camp of the group army!

Time is of the essence!

Wang Jun immediately turned his head and roared loudly: "Operation Broken Arm!" ”

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