Chapter 0453 - The Arrow Is Not Missing
One of the advantages of retreating in the form of a phalanx of infantry sword and shield men in a queue is that they can defend against dense pursuit arrows, and once they are out of the range of arrows, of course, it is the fastest to lose their shields and helmets and escape.
The commander-in-chief and lieutenant Tobert were the first to drop their shields and flee, which boosted the morale of the soldiers to flee, and every Clegane sword and shield bearer was a true warrior in the competition for who could flee faster and braver.
Woo-la-la!
The soldiers ran like flying.
Navy soldiers are no exception, although they may be a little worse in land battles, but when it comes to throwing away their armor and fleeing for their lives, they are also warriors among warriors, warriors among warriors, and dead warriors among warriors, shields are indeed a burden in escaping, so throw them away; helmets are discarded if they make sight and breathing difficult during escape; plates and armor are heavy, so they are not light and agile enough to escape, so they are thrown away; long swords are not thrown around their waists to run away, so they are thrown away......
The soldiers fled, leaving behind a mess: shields, armor, helmets, and even short swords and swords, thrown to the ground.
If you want to run ahead of others, it is wisest to throw away the extra iron you have with you.
The warriors are all smart people!
The Iron Breeds and the pirates chased after them, and they were fascinated by the money and swords and weapons discarded on the road, and slowed down, but even if they were of good quality and did not want to take the spoils of war, they could not be fast. Discarded shields, plates, and helmets seriously hampered the fairness of the run, and in the end, the Iron and Pirates could only watch as the runners in front of them ran farther and farther away, until the last soldier crawled away from him......
The ironseeds and pirates erupted in deafening cheers of victory!
The flags of the Clegon Legion, the King, the Lannisport, and the Lannisters were thrown all over the streets.
The famous Clegon Legion and the arrogant Lannister Naval Legion are vulnerable! Pirates and Iron Breeders raise their swords and let out cheers, and some warriors with traditional bandit qualities kick open the doors of shops on the street and loot their contents.
The fighters in the back continued to rush up, diverting through the crossroads, shouting and advancing. Crow's Eye also arrived, divided his troops and advanced along the streets of the city, heading straight for the main castle of the city lord.
Since last night, only some strong men and men have not been evacuated in the four cities of east, west, north and south, the old and weak, the women and children have evacuated to the east of the village of Kregon a few days ago, behind the village of Kregon there is the Silver Hall Mountain Range, once the battle in front of the defeat, the people climbed up the mountain in advance, the mountains and dense forests, stretching for hundreds of miles, the iron and pirates are not patient to chase and kill.
The pirates and ironclads in front continued to chase the fleeing Cregan infantry and naval soldiers, chasing through two streets, and a phalanx of pikemen in front of them silently blocked the streets and several alleys, spears like a forest. They spared the defeat of the first class and waited for the Iron and the pirates to catch up.
The iron and the pirates were so imposing that they chased for a long time, and not a single enemy was cut down, and now there were soldiers who could meet each other in short arms, and these pirates and the pirates were overjoyed, wielding long axes, and short axes rushed forward.
A short axe spun and flew out, accurately slashing at the face of a pikeman, the pikeman fell down with a scream, and a pikeman in the second row immediately filled the position, however, countless black shadows spun and flew out, all of them were short-handled axes, and the spinning short-handled axes hit hundreds of shots, and the screams came one after another, and almost everyone in the first row of pikemen was slashed in the face, head, hands, shoulders, arms, and chests by the throwing axes......
In the Iron Isles, there's a game that tests the Iron People's mettle: Finger Dance!
A pair of empty hands, facing a rapidly rotating axe, must reach out and grasp it, and if the judgment is wrong, the fingers will be cut off by the razor-sharp axe blade.
Croweye has a younger brother who was cut off by an axe blade while playing finger dancing with another brother, Elen, and was later killed by a doctor due to infection and suppuration. In this world, as long as the wound is suppurated and the high fever does not go away, there is only one way to die.
This caused a lifetime of guilt in the hearts of Elen, the youngest of the Greyjoy brothers, who has grown up to be the Archpriest of the Flooding God, the spiritual leader of the Iron People, and when the Commander-in-Chief of the Iron Fleet, Victor Talion, succumbed to Crow-Eyed Eulon, the spiritual leader Elen could not accept this, and he left on his own, and his whereabouts are still unknown.
Finger dance is a kind of brave game popular on the Iron Islands, when the axe is thrown quickly, people who dodge or are too timid to reach out will be laughed at and will never be able to raise their heads. This brutal game has shaved off many people's fingers, but it has also honed a unique new skill for the Iron Folks: the Short-Handled Throwing Axe.
Once they are rushed to the right distance by the Iron Bell Warriors, these Iron Finger Dancers will throw throwing axes, and the warriors who can't finger dance can't reach out to catch the spinning axe, but can only block it with a shield, and if there is no shield, they can only block it with their body parts, such as the wide face.
The iron species who can catch the flying axe are also masters of throwing the flying axe, and the flying axe combat skills are perfect, and they can hit every shot.
Raven's Eye is an absolute master of finger dancing, throwing axes and hitting targets from afar, and catching axes is also a must. During his days as a pirate leader, under his influence, the most ferocious of his pirate warriors all played finger dancers. It is also for this reason that the vast majority of Euron's pirate warriors are armed with axes.
Heavy axes, double-edged axes, and short axes that everyone has pinned to their waists: throwing axes. As soon as the pirates and ironseeds went ashore and entered the streets and streets, the archers were the worst fighters, and these ironmen and pirates were replaced by axe men, the archers stayed on the battleship, and the axe men went ashore to kill the enemy. Their flying axes are incredibly powerful.
The big head and the naval warriors fled towards the east gate, and the pikemen broke off, and as soon as the battle began, the iron and pirates threw their axes one after another as they charged, and the pikemen held spears in both hands, and there was no shield to block, and they were slashed by the extremely sharp short-handled axes that hit the door, arms, and wrists, and they all fell down or staggered back from their injuries.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the centurion of the pikes shouted to resist. So the long-handled soldiers in the back row quickly filled their positions, but the pirate warriors who had been trained by Croweye to win a hundred battles were not a rabble, but an elite division, and they rushed to the front of the pikemen, but did not enter the distance of the spears, but suddenly separated to the two sides, and switched places with the brothers in the back, so the pirates and ironmen in the back appeared in the front, and another round of axes was thrown.
The axe, which had a high hit rate, slashed and routed the front row of pikemen again, either slashing them or slashing their arms and wrists, making them unable to hold their spears anymore.
After throwing the axe, the iron and pirates retreated again, and the warriors behind changed to the front, which seemed to be a smooth cycle, with short axes in hand, black shadows flowing, axe blades whistling, and screams one after another.
Pikemen because of the length of the spear, so it is inconvenient to turn, in the streets, there is no need to worry about being copied by the cavalry, facing the enemy head-on, an inch long and an inch strong, should have an absolute advantage, but no one has ever encountered an axe battle, this is the first time, finger dance, axe skills, unique to the Iron Islands.
In the first hand-to-hand battle in Lannisport during seventeen years of peace, pikemen from the great families of the Westlands were the target of a steady stream of axes against iron and pirates.
The pikemen could not predict when the enemy's axes would be thrown, and their troops advanced at a rate that was too fast for the iron and pirates to advance and retreat, and the centurion ordered a retreat amid the incessant screams of the pikemen.
The pikemen raised their spears high, the tips of their spears pointed to the sky, and those behind them turned and fled. The gun is too long, and if you flee or march, the tip of the gun can only run towards the genius, which is the only correct posture. The pikemen, a total of three hundreds, took advantage of the convenience of the streets to block the enemy, and no matter how fiercely the iron and pirates charged, they could not cross the dense forest with their spears.
Anyone who dared to rush close to the hand-to-hand fight was instantly pierced through the body by at least three spears, turning it into a bloody hole. Although the pikemen of the Western Realm come from the major families, they are the guards of the nobles of the major families, and in order to cover the safe evacuation of most of them, everyone will not retreat.
When the three centurions and the centurions were all killed, behind them, nearly 2,000 pikemen had fled far away. Target: East Gate!
Raven-eyed Eulun brandished his spiked stick and charged all the way, and was intercepted by a longsword army at a crossroads, and Raven-Eye laughed and did not attack immediately, the two sides were about three spears away, each raising his weapon, and staring at the enemy.
Raveneye smiled, "Are you the Klegon Army of the Magic Mountain?"
This team has no flags.
"You're Croweye?" snapped a young knight.
Crow's eyes smiled, resting the spiked stick in his hand on his shoulder, and his attitude was relaxed: "Yes, I am the king of the Iron Islands, boy, get out of here, I am at the request of the Prime Minister, Lord Kaivon, to only kill the Clegane army." Where is the Magic Mountain?!"
"We're all Clegane Army, and we're all Army of the West. A middle-aged knight said coldly. He is Norris, a dead soldier from the Magic Mountain Guards, once a member of the refugee pikemen, and his wife, Anna, is now a taster, armor repairer, and sword sharpener of the Magic Mountain. His youngest daughter is also one of the many adopted sons and daughters of Magic Mountain.
Norris's family is a dead soldier in the Magic Mountain, from Norris to Anna to Little Girl.
"You are a bunch of fools, Count Ode, tell him to get out, I have something to say to him. Raveneye pulled the black blindfold up, revealing a dark red black eye, a strange and terrifying eye that caused a slight commotion among the sword warriors on the other side.
"Count Ode is not here, if you want to make peace, exit Lannisport first. Norris snapped.
"Who the hell are you?" Raven's left eye began to turn blood-red, and a cruel smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"I'm Norris, Lord Magic Mountain's bodyguard. Norris was not afraid. He has long put life and death out of the way. There were many Clegane swordsmen in this longsword team, and everyone was ordered to be defeated, not defeated. Although the nobles of the Western Frontier could not form an army independently, everyone combined together and pulled up a Western Army that was not small. The Western Army was mixed with the Clegon Army, with Cregans in each army and other noble knights in each of the Clegane Army.
"Demon Mountain, hehe, I'm here to kill Demon Mountain. Raveneye slowly pulled the blindfold back to cover the horrible left eye, and he stepped back, but the spiked stick pointed forward, "Kill them!"
The dead soldiers around Crow's Eye brandished axes and slammed into them, and Norris and the others shouted loudly and rushed over.
The red cloak and the black cloak collided together, and the axes and swords slashed desperately at each other, and soon, people were crowded, and the long-handled battle axes could not be raised, and short knives and daggers came in handy. Crow's Eye stood in the midst of the crowd, carrying a spiked stick.
It didn't matter which side of the person fell, he didn't care.
What he cared about was that what Kaivon had promised him had changed, and Count Ode had not brought troops to meet him, and then went to the village of Queligon together, and these people became one with the Cregans to deal with him.
Croweye was not afraid, he knew that the Western Army had suffered heavy casualties in the three years of war, and the number of troops was small. The generals and great knights who could fight were basically dead, otherwise, he would not have divided his troops, and let the most capable of fighting Viktarion lead the iron fleet to simultaneously attack the shield islands of the Riverlands, he knew that even if he entered the palace, the most important thing to raise such a large naval fleet was not gems, but food.
The Riverbend is the least short of food, and from the Shield Islands, the entire rich Riverbend is within the attack range of Victorion, and the Riverbend Plains are not dangerous to defend, and they can be attacked at will everywhere. And in the great rivers and seas, three hundred warships were enough to crush any disobedience of the Tyrells.
Soon, the Iron Breed and the pirates gained the upper hand in a stalemate of bloody hand-to-hand combat, with the black iron currents pushing the red river backwards.
On the roof of the street in the distance, someone blew a sharp iron whistle, which was the military order to retreat.
The red cloaks fought and retreated, the pirates and iron warriors fought more and more, and the fallen warriors of the West were all chopped into blood clots.
Shout!
An arrow struck an iron seed in the throat.
Iron rolled over and fell, the axe in his hand thrown into the air.
The axe was still whirling, and with two loud sounds, two sharp arrows hit two iron key points again, one in the face and one in the head. The action of the two men chasing and slashing the enemy immediately stiffened and froze.
Woohoo!
Three more pirates were hit by arrows fired from above, one in the eye, one in the face, and one in the throat.
"There's an archer up there!" shouted an iron breeder.
Crow's eye also saw that on the tower not far away, there were two archers, with a full quiver in their hands, and the two archers, a man and a woman, were not in a hurry, constantly pumping arrows and releasing arrows, and they hit every shot.
In just a short time, more than a dozen of the iron and pirates who rushed in front fell, and the enemy took the opportunity to escape from the pursuit and fled in panic. As long as the iron and pirates stopped, the other party did not shoot, but as long as anyone dared to take a step forward, they would inevitably be shot to death, either in the face or in the throat, even if they made a dodge action, it would be useless, the other party was a sharpshooter, and the arrow was not missed.
These two archers, one is Julie Cregan and the other is Anga Cregan!