Chapter 543: Shooting
Leo was never worried about how powerful Ao Bai and his Yellow Banner were, and whether they would be able to defeat the Centaur Army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info may be because deep in his heart, he has never disliked or disagreed with those Manchurian Eight Banners, no matter how strong their combat power is, it is far less intimate to Li Ao than the Tang Army.
Therefore, Leo did not interfere much with the Centaur Legion for taking the initiative to seek a decisive battle with the Eight Banners Legion, whether this battle was won or lost, in Leo's opinion, it didn't matter, the important thing was that Ao Bai only needed to kill as many orcs as possible, so that he could replenish the lost gods' pleasure points.
Gazing from the towering walls of the Dawn Fortress, two dusty warbands approached at great speed. The overwhelming sound of horses' hooves was like bursts of thunder rolling continuously, and the powerful momentum of thousands of horses galloping straight to the face like a mountain and a sea.
From the perspective of the Eight Banners Legion, with the sound of earth-shattering hooves, a black line appeared on the horizon in the distance, and the speed from far to near was extremely fast. Without a cup of tea, he was already vaguely able to see the figure of the cavalry on the opposite side. The strong arms, strong chests, and beards and bloody mouths of those monsters with human-like upper bodies and horse-like bottoms are enough to make children stop crying. They were spear-wielding, their hooves flapping like beasts of prey, with a ferocious and furious aura like a demon god, as if to destroy everything that stood in their way.
When those Eight Banners disciples saw that the enemy took the initiative to meet them, not only were they not timid, but they let out bursts of excited screams and waved their weapons vigorously to provoke and demonstrate against the enemy.
Don't look at Aobai's bearded face that is unexpectedly calm, but in fact, his heart is constantly churning and excited. Because of his previous raids, he knew that he had annoyed his master, so he must go all out in this battle, strive to win beautifully, and let the master see that the sons and daughters with yellow flags are not bad breeds!
These Eight Banner Cavalry with yellow flags are all grown between the white mountains and black waters, and they are skilled in fighting with bows and horses since childhood, and they can be called the best among human cavalry. But the centaurs opposite them are even stronger, they have learned to run with their four hooves since birth, and the charge of the cavalry is simply commonplace for them, coupled with the strict military training of the leader Garo Treadwind, the comprehensive strength of these centaurs is among the best even in the orc empire where the powerful race is like a cloud, and even the wolf clan of the Wolf Cavalry Civilization Continent does not dare to grab it lightly.
"Bow and crossbow ready!" Ao Bai raised the longbow in his hand and drew a few circles in the air, and the Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen behind him shouted one after another.
The two legions galloped at high speed and began to approach the range of the bow and arrow. Ao Bai estimated the speed of the two armies and ordered in advance: "Release the arrows!"
With the collapse of the bowstring, a canopy of arrows rose from the Eight Banners Legion, and flew swiftly towards the galloping centaur army like a dark cloud. The longbows of these Eight Banners were crafted by countless skilled craftsmen, and the bows were powerful and long-range, and the shining steel arrows swooped down on the enemies in the distance with a series of sharp rays.
Although Ao Bai was experienced in a hundred battles and could judge the distance between the two sides, and preemptively strike based on his own strong bow and advance amount, he still underestimated the sensitivity of the centaurs who had been struggling in the wasteland since birth. Almost as soon as the arrows of the Eight Banners Legion left the string, the centaur leader Garo Treadful immediately swung the spear in his hand to the left and right, and the centaur legion behind it immediately turned to the left and right, and the entire centaur legion split into two teams, outflanking the left and right wings of the Eight Banners Legion respectively.
Due to the timely dispersal order of Garo Twind, by the time the arrow rain of the Eight Banners fell, most of the centaur army had already left the area covered by the arrow rain, and only a few unlucky people who could not dodge were in the edge area covered by the arrow rain, and were firmly nailed to the ground by the arrows falling from the sky, and could only neigh and howl a few times weakly.
The galloping speed of both sides was extremely fast, and the Eight Banners Legion only had a chance to take the lead by one arrow, and it had already entered the range of the Centaur Legion's bows. The centaur leader, Garo Twind, had a brutal and ferocious look in his eyes, and a loud cry in his mouth was enough to be heard clearly among the hosts.
Except for the centaur scouts who were on guard on the periphery, all the other centaurs, young and old, all took their bows and strings, and their bows and arrows kept shooting. If the previous salvo of the Eight Banners was like a dark cloud covering the top, then the cavalry of these centaurs was like a torrential rain.
As soon as the centaurs' cavalry fired their bows and arrows, they continued to pour water like water, and the defenders on the Dawn Fortress let out a burst of exclamations. These soldiers of the Holy Griffin Empire have been fighting with the Orc Empire for many years, and they hate the centaurs' hand-mounted shooting skills, but unfortunately there are no good restraint methods other than using griffin knights to raid in the air.
Seeing that the Eight Banners Legion was caught in the cavalry hunt of nearly 10,000 centaurs, the generals of the Holy Griffin Empire all looked at Leo with sympathy, pity, regret or schadenfreude, obviously not thinking that the Eight Banners Legion would be spared.
Leo ignored all the gazes of these people. He knew very well in his heart the strength of the Eight Banners Legion, the yellow flag under the command of Ao Bai was one of the three banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and belonged to the direct command of Huang Taiji, but Huang Taiji moved by his own order, so their weapons and equipment can be said to be second to none among the eight banners. Slice fish scale armor and inner soft armor are necessary for everyone, and with the addition of helmets and wide neck guards, the whole person can almost be said to have an armor cover rate of more than 90% except for one face exposed, and their war horses are also covered with thin iron vests. Judging from the equipment alone, the Eight Banners Legion is enough to throw off centaurs for more than a dozen streets.
The bowstrings of the centaurs were twisted with some tendon and hemp rope, and the bows were not very strong, and their arrows were not made of steel, but only sharpened branches. Don't look at the centaurs' left and right attacks, shooting like a jade plate in the Eight Banners Legion. Those Eight Banners disciples are proud of their riding and archery on weekdays, and they have always used riding and shooting to suppress others, where did they think that there would be today, and they didn't even dare to straighten their waists when they were shot by these monsters.
The two armies staggered, and in this short staggered time, some of the centaurs with fast hands and high firing speed even shot all the arrows in their quivers. Garo Twindle haughtily turned back, intending to confirm the results of the right shot. But it was this glance that made Garo Tread his eyes out.