At this time, Luo Ming asked people to count the number of prisoners, and if only adults were counted, the result was eighty-three, and about twenty more were killed.

While the captives were housed, the rest of the carts and wagons were quickly circled outside, connected by several hemp ropes in between, and pointed-tipped stakes stuck into the ground to secure them.

The outside of the cart and carriage were also nailed with several wooden sticks, like a prison door, and the soldiers quickly took out the sackcloth from the cart and covered it with these sticks, forming a curtain.

Don't look at it, it's just a few layers of linen, it can already block the enemy's line of sight, and it can also greatly weaken the power of the arrow. Sometimes the herdsmen did not even have bronze arrowheads, but only bone arrows, which could not even penetrate the linen.

On top of that, it can hinder the enemy's movement - it takes a lot of time to chop up the sackcloth and sticks and clear the passage through them, at which point Romin's soldiers can stand behind and pop them with spears and halberds.

Of course, it would be better if the whole layer of wood was covered with cloth, maybe even a strong bow and crossbow and musket projectiles could be resisted, but now these are improvised and attached to the car, and there is no time to do it so thoroughly, and it would be good to be able to reach this level today.

Luo Ming's soldiers were originally good at digging trenches and earthen walls to hold on, although there was not enough time to dig slowly at the moment, but these cars were connected end to end, which could also play a certain role, which was equivalent to temporarily creating half of the home advantage.

Luo Ming himself doesn't know very well, but on the earth, this trick is called a car battalion, a car formation or a car fort, whether in the east or the west, it is an effective means for infantry to fight cavalry, whether it is light cavalry or heavy cavalry, it is difficult to take advantage of it.

Of course, no tactic can be invincible, but in the moment, it can make Luo Ming invincible.

In the history of the earth, what can deal with the car battalion is nothing more than enough heavy infantry or artillery, enough heavy infantry can rush up against Luo Ming's firepower and dismantle the car battalion, and the artillery with enough caliber can directly smash the wooden cart and use the car battalion as a slow live target to hit.

For pastoralists, however, neither is out of reach.

As for the heavy infantry, Luo Ming's soldiers are obviously much better equipped than the herdsmen, so there is no need to say more about which is more important.

As for the spells and vindictiveness that are unique to this world...... The probability of a strong person appearing among such a few herdsmen is not high, and even if it appears, it is extremely individual, and Luo Ming can behead the other party casually.

And this car camp is set up very close to the herdsmen's sheepfold.

Sheep can be said to be the lifeblood of herders, the staple food of herders is meat and dairy products, supplemented by a small amount of vegetables and grains (agricultural technology is insufficient), without sheep, they can not even survive for three days, naturally it is impossible to give up these sheep.

But whoever wants to come close and take the sheep away is completely within the range of Luo Ming's tiger cannon and crossbow, and it is better to fight his army directly than to bathe in arrows and projectiles and drive the sheep slowly.

All in all, then the enemy will not be able to bypass his army at all, and will have to fight him hard.

After camping, Luo Ming asked most of the soldiers to stay vigilant in shifts, and at the same time deliberately called a few soldiers to kill a few sheep, set up a large pot and began to cook mutton soup.

The hot mutton soup can naturally restore physical strength and dispel the cold. At the same time, the nomads, who have been driven out of their homes in the cold morning, with empty bellies, are bound to become more and more irritated and angry when they see their sheep being eaten by the enemy, and in doing so, curtailing their sanity.

Sure enough, in less than twenty minutes, they hurriedly assembled in the distance, and then a total of more than forty horsemen, quickly killed this side.

Theoretically, a horse galloping at full strength would have a strong impact and could knock some vehicles out of the camp, but horses are not fools, and they will certainly not crash into it at full speed when they see obvious obstacles, unless they are blindfolded - but nomads do not do this.

The nomads themselves knew very well that although they had not seen Cheying, they could roughly understand Luo Ming's thoughts at a glance.

So, the riders rushed quickly from the flanks towards the camp and, with a tentative round of arrows, then shifted direction, crossed a swirling arc, and gradually moved away from the camp again.

Dealing with such a vastly moving enemy, Luo Ming did not rashly order the cannon to fire - anyway, the opponent's horsepower and arm strength are also limited, so it is not bad for them to waste some strength on their own, as long as they show a little fatigue, after the speed is reduced, the hit rate of the tiger squat cannon will also increase.

Moreover, it is just right to observe the performance of the Che Ying in actual combat, Luo Ming does not think that he will only fight with the nomads once, since he is going to do business here, there are probably more opportunities to deal with the nomads.

Of the more than 40 arrows fired in this round, 36 were fired within the range of the camp, some were direct and some were thrown, after all, the nomads themselves did not achieve the level of prohibition within themselves.

Some of the arrows hit the curtain, only to dent it backwards and then fall to the ground, some barely penetrated the curtain, but then got stuck in the curtain, and five arrows completely penetrated the curtain, but their strength was also greatly reduced, and then they could not penetrate much deeper when they hit the paper armor on the soldiers' bodies, like stones thrown by children.

As for the arrows that are thrown, although they will not be stopped by the curtain, the accuracy of the projectile is lower than that of a direct shot. Moreover, even if the arrow landed smoothly on the top of the head of the Luo Ming soldier, it would be difficult to cause damage-

Lomin's soldiers wore paper armor and wore paper hats—or paper helmets—on their heads.

The helmet has a wide brim sticking out of the outside of the helmet, which can almost be called a large-brimmed hat, which not only provides protection from the sun and rain (this paper can withstand small rain and snow), but also protects against knives and arrows.

Of course, if a mace is smashed down, or someone uses an axe or machete to cut it with all their might, it will definitely break the defense.

However, the projectile arrow itself loses some of its kinetic energy, and when it pierces a thick layer of cardboard with dense layers of fibers, the speed drops dramatically, and finally the kinetic energy often decays to the point where it cannot hurt people.

This round of arrows only caused a minor injury and a flesh wound to Luo Mingfang, and there were arrows hanging on the bodies and heads of several soldiers, but the paper armor on these people was actually not penetrated at all. However, there was a nomadic captive who was unfortunately hit in the back by a thrown arrow, which penetrated deep into the flesh, and fainted on the spot, Luo Ming had no spare medical resources for the captive, and he estimated that he would die at the hands of his own people.