Chapter Seventy-Eight: Shooting

If Manius had read the Three Kingdoms, he would have felt that the group of enemies in front of him was the same as the group of yellow turban thieves who were wandering around when the Yellow Turban disaster broke out in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

However, now on the other side of the world, the Eastern Han Dynasty will not take place until the Yellow Turban Rebellion takes place, so it is impossible for him to know this.

However, this did not prevent him from knowing one thing, that is, the soldiers on the other side were all scum.

"I started running from such a distance, and the formation was scattered, I really don't know what the leader of the other side thinks." Manius chuckled.

Hearing his words, the surrounding soldiers also burst into laughter, and the enemy who was running wildly hundreds of meters away was full of contempt, as if he was just waiting for the other party to run in front of him out of breath, and when he was too tired to wield a knife, he was slashed and killed by himself at will.

But this contempt gradually turned into surprise, shock and even fear as the other party continued to approach.

"Damn, aren't these people tired? Array! Array! Archers ready! Manius roared.

However, before he could shout the order to shoot arrows, the imperial archers who had already run within a hundred meters suddenly froze in place and began to draw their bows and arrows.

"Buzz!"

The three thousand bowstrings tensed almost simultaneously, and it seemed that even the air vibrated with them.

Looking at the rain of arrows in the sky that covered the sky like dark clouds, a trace of horror finally rose in Manius's heart.

"What? No way! Raise your shield! Raise your shield! Amid the screams, Manius quickly jumped off his horse, and the guards around him immediately gathered around him, and a huge shield protected him from below.

The next moment the rain of arrows fell, and Manius was surprised to hear the sound of arrows popping on the wooden shield.

This group of people, after running for hundreds of meters in a row, can immediately open their bows and arrows, without even gasping for breath, and can shoot so accurately? Are these people all monsters?

At this time, he suddenly remembered that the other party's group of people was able to build such a tall and stretching city wall for several kilometers in just one month, and now he was looking at the other party's perverted body and combat methods, and he even looked down on them before, thinking that this group of people was not to be afraid.

Now it seems that his group of people is likely to be lost here because of his carelessness.

However, he didn't know that the surprise in the heart of this group of enemy leaders, whom he called perverts, was not much lower than him.

Standing on the high city wall, Qi Lin saw far more clearly than him, and more than three thousand archers who were running rapidly went from the state of rapid running to the sudden stop, and then almost simultaneously shot arrows, Qi Lin felt his heartstrings tremble.

Because it was only then that he noticed that this group of seemingly disorganized troops was actually running at the same speed in every unit.

And when one archer arrives at the attack position, the other archers almost all arrive at their attack position.

After that, these archers who stood in their positions kept shooting bursts of arrows at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people, directly suppressing the group of Roman infantry who only dared to curl up under their shields, not daring to show themselves to counterattack.

The two hundred archers, who had no shields, were all shot after a few rounds of arrows.

It was only at this time that Qi Lin understood that it was not the other party who looked down on him, but even himself, who looked down on these soldiers in his hands at the beginning.

Under the rain of arrows from the archers, the Romans could only rely on the turtle shell formation to defend passively, and the soldiers clutched the deadly javelins in their hands, but they had no time to throw them.

The rain of arrows crackled and nailed to the shields, and they also continued to knock on the hearts of these once determined Roman soldiers.

"It's been so long, and the archers on the other side still don't stop? Are they going to shoot all the arrows in one go? Guarded by the guards, Manius curled under his shield and cursed.

Under this continuous, torrential rain of arrows, he did not dare to let the guards move even the slightest gap in their shields to check the situation outside.

This made him unaware of the enemy's movements, and it made his heart even more uneasy.

"Boom !!"

A dull crash sounded not far away, and Manius could hear it as the sound of his body striking his shield.

Then, the sound of slashing also sounded.

The enemy had already begun to make contact with his own people, but to his surprise, the rain of arrows did not stop.

"How is this possible? Do they have no regard for their own people and intend to shoot them all? ”

However, before he could think about it, another dull crash sounded in his ears.

And this time, the sound is closer.

But the sound of arrows nailed to the shield above his head still did not stop.

The other party, really a person who doesn't care about himself at all?

Soon, as if to confirm this suspicion, the shield array guarding him was violently impacted, and the shield shape was broken in an instant, and one by one, the enemies holding long swords and wearing armor rushed into their formation, waving the long swords in their hands and slashing wantonly in their own guards.

And the rain of arrows overhead still hasn't stopped.

"Puff puff!"

The shield array dispersed, the sound of arrows entering the flesh continued to sound, and Mannius' last sight was the enemy soldier who was full of arrows, but still brandished his sword at him.

"Demons!"

It was the only voice that sounded in his head when he was dying.

……

On the city wall, looking at the battle in the distance that was gradually coming to an end, Qi Lin looked at his team list in disbelief.

"Are there so few casualties?"

He had seen with his own eyes that his archers had joined the enemy and his own troops, but now, looking at the statistics given by the system, Qi Lin found that only a few hundred swordsmen had been killed.

This is a big opposite of the crowd tactic he originally envisioned to rely on human lives.

Even Qi Lin began to wonder if the system had counted the wrong number jΓΉ.

"System, what's going on?"

If you have a question, ask the degree...... system, this is a creed that Qi Lin now grasps.

In the face of Qi Lin's puzzlement, the system quickly gave an answer.

"Friendly weapons attack no damage! However, this is only between soldiers produced by the Age of Empires system, and soldiers from the Mounted and Blade system will not be protected by this rule. In addition, siege weapons such as trebuchets and ballistas are excluded from this category. ”

"This ...... This also ...... It's too buggy! It can't be a bug, right? It won't be fixed because of an update or something in the future, right? Qi Lin thought secretly in surprise in his heart.

Of course, he just thought about this sentence in his heart, and didn't dare to open it to the system, otherwise if it was really a bug, it was likely to be fixed by the system in a blink of an eye.

Bugs.,It's good to know about it.,There's no need to sue the system.。

As for why he was sure that his thoughts would not be known by the system, because when he was thinking about something discordant to a peasant woman before, the electronic synthesized voice of the system suddenly said coldly in his head:

"Mr. Commander, please block access to me if you are thinking of something discordant, so that I don't read your thoughts."

Although this sudden sound almost scared him away, he also mastered a new 'skill', didn't he?