Chapter 196: The Aztecs return the fire

When a large number of Aztec warriors came within 300 meters, the Boghall riflemen, who had already cleaned up all the ammunition, threw their Mauser rifles behind their backs and ran towards the Boghall pikemen.

Under the command and mobilization of Zhu Henghong and the flag officer beside him, the Boghall pikemen divided several gaps between platoons, and after the Boghall riflemen quickly poured into the ultra-long spear hollow phalanx, they merged again, and re-formed an airtight Rulin gun formation.

Zhu Henghong's hands holding the hilt of the sword and the handle of the shield were already sweating: although he knew that he would definitely go to the battlefield and kill with his own hands when he entered the ranks of these Boghall recruits, but looking at the large number of Aztec warriors who were getting closer and closer to him and the others, Zhu Henghong felt that his legs were still trembling violently uncontrollably.

Gritting his teeth and glancing at the crowded Boghall riflemen in the hollow phalanx and Caroline who was sitting cross-legged and meditating with her eyes closed, Zhu Henghong forcibly suppressed the fearful emotions in his heart, raised the hand in his right hand and grinned: "Boghall!"

"Teuton!Teuton!!Teuton!!" Hearing the roar of his company commander, the Boghall pikemen pressed closer to each other, forming a mixed formation of guns and halberds while shouting slogans with all their might.

As soon as Zhu Henghong put down the raised hand and half sword, he saw Caroline suddenly stand up, and her face was as delicate as a doll without an expression on her face without putting down the armor on her wing helmet.

Just when Zhu Henghong was wondering what she wanted to do, Caroline's blue pupils suddenly widened, and in an instant, they seemed to turn into golden vertical pupils.

A wave of soul fluctuations spread out in all directions from Caroline's origin, covering all the assembled Boghall soldiers, and an invisible spiritual interference secretly reacted in their souls.

It was as if at the same moment, all the Boghall soldiers felt as if they had confidence in their hearts. The nervous mood and the trembling hands holding the weapon calmed down a lot.

"Come, come!!" Soon there was a sudden cry of war from among the Boghall soldiers, and soon all the Boghall soldiers were shouting in the same way, looking as angry as a drugged bull.

Seeing that her actions were having an effect, Caroline nodded slightly, then sat cross-legged and continued to meditate, closing her eyes.

Spiritual magic. Morale is high. Using the caster's own powerful soul to mentally interfere with the target being cast, so that the target subconsciously throws away any emotions that have a negative effect and increases any emotions that have a positive effect - for these Boghall pikemen who have not yet had blood on their hands when they first set foot on the battlefield, Caroline blessed all the Boghall soldiers with this spiritual magic for the sake of safety, so that they at least do not collapse because they are frightened by facing so many enemies for the first time.

The current ultra-long spear hollow phalanx has completely turned into a solid phalanx after the interior is crowded with Boghall riflemen who have run out of ammunition, and the phalanx with heavy spear heads at 360 degrees is like a large hedgehog covered with metal thorns, which makes people feel pain all over their bodies when they look at it from a distance, and they react to seeing nettles.

The last three hundred meters were unhindered by Caroline's muddy swamps, so soon the Aztec warriors were close to the phalanx of the Boghall soldiers, all dressed in all shapes and sizes. It looks like a bunch of human-like and fully transformed adult animals have popped up from the rainforest.

The Boghall pikemen held their breath and tightened their grip on their weapons: even though the Boghall riflemen used line tactics to kill more than half of the enemy with their front feet in the hollow phalanx that retracted into their own hollow phalanx, they were still surrounded by nearly four thousand Aztec warriors, nearly thirteen times the number of people, so that they would not be frightened with the blessing of high morale, but they would still be very nervous.

When the Boghall pikemen thought they were about to face a charge from the Aztec warriors, the Aztec warriors stopped, shields and various obsidian weapons in their hands, while some dressed in simple clothing or cotton armor continued to approach them. It doesn't seem to be a melee weapon in hand-to-hand combat.

"Damn!Damn!!Damn!!" After seeing clearly the weapons in the hands of these Aztec warriors who began to stop almost a few dozen meters away from him, Zhu Henghong's face suddenly became much whiter than any face of all the Germanic Boghall soldiers around him. "Shield wall! shield wall!"

After hearing the order of his company commander, all the Boghall soldiers, whether pikemen or riflemen, reflexively untied the belt of the kite-shaped shield from their backs, held it in their left hand, and overlapped the shields with their companions as fast as they could, forming a barrier composed of a large number of thick iron and wooden kite-shaped shields.

It was not for nothing that Zhu Henghong was so nervous: he saw that the Aztec warriors who were the first to rush forward were holding single bows, slings, javelins, and pikes in their hands. Zhu Henghong didn't want himself and his colleagues to experience the armor-piercing effect of this stone weapon on the light steel chain mail and steel pot-shaped helmet forged by the Teutonic process on their bodies.

While the Burghall soldiers formed an all-round shield wall formation as fast as they could, these Aztec warriors with various projectile and projectile weapons took the lead in the attack, and a dense mass of obsidian arrows and arrows and obsidian spearheads, javelin pikes and darts whizzed towards the Burghall soldiers who were close together.

With a crackling crash, a large number of arrows, javelins, and pikes were inserted into the overlapping shield walls: thanks to Zhu Henghong, a company leader who was very familiar with the Aztecs, reacted quickly, even if he was slow to react for a few seconds. Then even if you can successfully form an airtight shield wall formation, it is inevitable that someone will be directly attacked by these weapons.

It turned out that the arrows, javelins, and pikes spilled by the Aztec warriors were not very effective in the face of the Boghall troops, who had completely formed a shield wall formation, even if a dozen or so thick iron kite-shaped shields were overwhelmed and damaged. There will also be other Boghall soldiers who will immediately replenish it with their own shields, once again forming a protection without dead ends.

However, these Aztec warriors did not stop this short-range fire coverage, but continued to pour javelins and pikes while the Aztec warriors with single bows and slings found that the shield was finally damaged somewhere, and desperately threw arrows and stones there in the short time before the follow-up shield was replenished, so that the muffled snort of the Boghall soldiers who were hit from time to time sounded.

"Damn" watched as another zither-shaped shield in his hand had just been blown up, and before he had time to switch places with his companions behind him, the Boghall pikemen were hit in the face by several catapulted stones, and fell directly to the ground. Zhu Henghong scolded and then pushed the other Boghall pikemen around him to quickly pull him away and fill the vacancy, "Damn, these Aztec stones really hurt enough."

The arrows of the obsidian arrows were as unmistakable to the Boghall soldiers in light steel chain mail and cotton armor as children's toys, but the cobblestones that were specially made for them with the slings made the Boghhall soldiers have to be treated with care: unlike the arrows, Javelins and pikes can either be easily blocked by shields or can only be hung on light steel chain mail and thick cotton armor to do little damage, and it is rare to see blood, and these whistling stones can cause impact injuries even on the bodies of Boghall soldiers wearing thick armor, and from time to time there is a muffled grunt of Boghall soldiers who have been hit by these stones because the shield has not had time to be repaired, and even a few unlucky people have been hit by these stones on their helmets and faces and fall to the ground wailing and dying。

The hapless Boghall pikeman, who had been hit in the face by a few stones, struggled for a moment as he was dragged by his companions to the center of the phalanx, apparently of limited use against the man in metal armor. However, judging from Zhu Henghong's feelings, his unlucky colleague is likely to have been beaten out of the concussion

The rest of the Boghall soldiers who had been attacked by the slings were not feeling good either: they couldn't see it on the surface, but they were sure that the place on their bodies where the stones were concentrated had begun to turn blue and swollen and ach at this moment, but this did not prevent them from maintaining their formation and preparing for battle.

Perhaps the Aztec warriors' chaotic projectile and projectile weapons were a mortal threat to the Amerindian forces in a similar situation to their own, but for the Boghall soldiers with two layers of chain armor and thick wooden shields, they were at most annoyed by the hits - in the Battle of Otuba, in the face of the Aztec army's baptism of arrows, stones, javelins, pikes, and darts, each Spanish colonist had an average of a dozen arrows hanging on his body, and one master was the best. Nearly thirty can be said that if all the Spanish colonists at that time did not have high helmets and half-body plate armor, they would not have been crushed by absolute numbers. The Aztecs' massive long-range firepower alone was enough to blast these white conquerors into the sea.

In the same way, due to the protection of the Boghall soldiers, the long-range strikes of the Aztec warriors could only keep them in place - in the early days of the Crusades, the Islamic archers who were far more skilled in making bows and arrows did not do much damage to the Crusader Frankish knights in chain mail and iron armor, let alone the Aztec warriors with Stone Age-level craftsmanship against the Boghall soldiers in chain mail and cotton armor.

Within ten minutes, the Aztec warriors, who had all kinds of projectile and projectile weapons, had stopped attacking. Begin to evacuate backwards: They have limited ammunition on them, and even if the rope is made of stones, they can't find it on the ground first, so they have to change people.

Next to the front were a large number of Aztec warriors dressed in cotton armor and animal skins, mixed with a number of Aztec Eagle and Aztec Jaguar warriors wielding Macquavit swords, spears, and shields. Even Zhu Henghong was sharp-eyed to see that among them, there were more than a dozen people who painted their bodies black to symbolize religion and war, and had hair dyed with human blood, the teeth exposed from their mouths were artificially sharpened, and their eyes were bloodshot for unknown reasons, and they looked like they were in a state of religious excitement.

"TM, it's actually an Aztec priest. Zhu Henghong recognized the identities of these crazy guys wielding obsidian daggers, and directly waved the half-sword in his hand and howled loudly: "Boghall pikemen, collect their shields!

"Boghall riflemen! bayonet!" At the same time, the company commander of the Boghall riflemen gave his own order.

"Drink!" the Boghall soldiers quickly adjusted their positions and switched weapons in accordance with the order, and moved skillfully according to the procedures of the previous two months of training.

While busy giving orders and supervising the actions of the Boghall soldiers, Zhu Henghong also looked at Caroline who was sitting cross-legged on the spot: when she was covered by the long-range fire of the Aztec warriors before, he deliberately asked the nearest Boghall soldiers to use shields to shield her;

But seeing that Caroline was still motionless, Zhu Henghong also gave up this plan, and could only wholeheartedly take the Boghall soldiers to prepare to meet the enemy.

"I must not die here, I must not die here" Staring at the large number of Aztec warriors who were eager to try under the religious blessing of the Aztec priests, Zhu Henghong muttered to himself words that only he could hear, "Since I have come to Gensokyo, I must not die like this before I have done anything!!"

At this moment, the Aztec warriors standing at the front had already received the religious blessing of the Aztec priests, and issued a declaration in the Aztec language for themselves and others: "Glory to Quizelquato (Quetzalcoatl) and Tonatiu (Sun God)!"

"Teuton!Teuton!!Teuton!!"

With a wild and brutal battle howl, the soldiers and warriors on both sides collided savagely, letting out the clashing of weapons and the sound of wailing and screaming. (To be continued......)