Chapter 403: Shield Wall & Turtle Formation VS Japanese-style Arrow Rain

"So? I see, boss, that's what I'll do. Zhu Henghong, who was originally frowning and staring at the Japanese samurai and ashigaru shouting in the distance, brandished various weapons in his hands, almost startled when his soul fire suddenly received the soul message from his boss, but after understanding the information that Feng Longde sent to him, his brows relaxed, "It's really annoying to listen to the howls of these little devils on the other side, and it's a little easy for those rookie recruits to get weak on the soles of their feet."

After stabilizing his mind, Zhu Henghong held the fan-shaped shield handle with his left hand to straighten the armed belt on the left side of his waist, and pulled his one-handed long sword out of the scabbard with his right hand, making a smacking sound.

When the Boghall pikemen in the Boghall pikemen company led by Zhu Henghong turned their attention to him, Zhu Henghong raised the one-handed long sword in his right hand above his head and let out his own angry howl: "Boghall!"

"Teuton!Teuton!!Teuton!!" After hearing the angry howl of their company commander, the Boghall pikemen shouted in unison the unique battle cry of the Boghall troops, especially loud in the silence of their own positions.

"Boghall!"

"Teuton!Teuton!!Teuton!!"

At the same time that the Boghall Spearmen Company led by Zhu Henghong roared out their battle howls for the second time, the Boghall Riflemen who were in the second line of defense also joined in the ranks of roaring in unison, and successively led the other two Boghall companies composed of pure recruit eggs to start shouting loudly in the same way.

"Mut undEhre (Courage and Glory)!" As the battle cries of the Boghall district team gradually sounded in unison in the three lines of defense, the five Acropolis detachments that were also in the first line of defense also began to roar out slogans that only belonged to the Acropolis soldiers, and began their unique movements.

"Hey-ha!hey!!hey-ha!!"

"Knock! knock!!knock!!"

The soldiers of the Acropolis clenched the heavy throwing spears in their right hands to strike the steel circular protrusion core in the center of the large tower shield they held in their left hand with a loud metal crashing sound, and at the same time they neatly proved their strength to their comrades and the enemies opposite them with the cries of the ancient Teutonic tribesmen from long before the Teutonic Empire and the ancient Germanic warriors of this era of human civilization imitating the howls of wild beasts, and the roars and metal clashing were incessant.

As if not to be outdone, the Boghall pikemen in the defensive phalanx clenched their spears or halberds and shook violently, making violent vibrations, just like the heavily armed pikemen of the ancient Chanai city-state in classical times.

The Boghall riflemen and Boghall two-handed swordsmen in the second line of defense could not use the weapons they now had at hand to make movements similar to those made by their colleagues, so they could only continue to roar and howl as much as they could, so that the roar of the Teutonic troops in the three lines of defense went straight into the sky, making the shooter Marufumi, who had just descended to a low altitude, startled, and almost failed to grasp his balance and continued to slip away.

Within the three lines of defense, only the Teutonic artillerymen and the Lich Mages did not join them, and they either continued to be busy assembling various ammunition or preparing to use the heavy weapons around them at any time, or they just watched the battle situation in front of them with a cold eye, especially since the Lich Mages did nothing at all. The key is that the Lich Mage's duty today is not to fight but to deliver the orders of the Undead King and to apply psychic magic to the Teutonic troops and heal the wounded when necessary, in other words, they and the Teutonic artillerymen are not pure combatants but auxiliary, so naturally the Teutonic artillerymen and the Lich Mages will not be involved in this kind of thing to see who is louder and who lasts longer.

The howls and shouts of the two sides were-for-tat for a while, but it was clear that the uniform cries of the Teutonic troops and the clashing of weapons and shields gradually overpowered the simple shouts of the Japanese army in the Warring States period on the opposite side. Although the Teutonic forces were counted as a quarter of the total number of enemies who stayed in the pre-war camps and did not join the shouting armed human workers who were on the supply lines, unlike the Japanese army of the Warring States period on the opposite side, which was filled with a large number of ashigaru and civilian workers, the Teutonic troops in the three lines of defense can be said to be all professional soldiers, and formed a vivid contrast with the enemy who only had a small number of battle-hardened veterans and Japanese samurai could be considered professional soldiers: not to mention anything else, in terms of the neatness of the collective shouts, the words of each of the 8,000 people were not as shocking as the uniform angry howls of the 1,000 people, not to mention that the latter is also striking his own weapon shield, making a sound that is therefore superior.

It seemed that the commander of the other party sensed that if he continued to howl like this, it would obviously be detrimental to his own people, so after howling for a while, several Ashigaru people dressed in full suits and carrying backrest flags ran out of the forest, and passed the latest orders of their lord to the Ashigaru troops commanded by more than a dozen Japanese samurai outside the edge of the forest. Although the ashigaru people will also pass on the orders issued by their own lords or generals, in the battlefield where the situation is constantly changing, the backrest flags depicting and writing special patterns and inscriptions can let the troops know the latest orders as soon as possible, and who knows if things will have been delayed after the breathless ashigaru people run over.

"Bow and arrow ashigaru step forward!" With the shouts of several Japanese samurai wielding swords, the ashigaru troops in the ashigaru troops, who were dressed in carcass, simple or simply cloth clothes, and held bamboo bows, ran in the direction of the Teutonic troops, stopped at a distance of about two or three hundred meters from the first line of defense of the Teutonic troops, and began to draw their bows and strings under the command of the Japanese samurai leading the team.

", the little devils are ready to release their arrows, why haven't the Teutonic artillery brothers who are operating those big guys behind us have not moved?!" Seeing that those bows and arrows were ready to release arrows, and even the Japanese samurai who led them put away the katana in their hands and took off the sword on their backs and planned to go up with the bow, Zhu Henghong's face changed, "Damn, shield wall!"

Although Zhu Henghong personally felt that the bamboo bows and other standard bows and arrows commonly installed in the Japanese army during the Warring States Period could not be very lethal to the Teutonic soldiers who started with at least heavy chain mail and plate armor accessories, but there was no room for speculation on the battlefield that had not been tested in actual combat, so Zhu Henghong immediately shouted his orders to his subordinates, and he first put the fan-shaped shield in his left hand on top of his head.

"Shield wall, shield wall!" After Zhu Henghong shouted his order, the Boghall pikemen shouted this simple word one after another, especially Abe Gao and the fellow who was also the captain of the Boghall pikeman company.

At the same time, the Boghall pikemen dropped their spears or halberds on the spot, and then untied the fan shield they had been carrying from their backs and 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 iron thick wooden fan shields.

Having learned the lessons of the battle with tens of thousands of Aztec warriors, the Boghall pikemen instead of just holding their spears or halberds with one hand and holding their shields in their left hands, instead discarding their spears or halberds to defend themselves against the enemy's roaring rain of arrowsIf an enemy does approach their shield wall, you will know that the Boghall pikemen wielding fan shields and one-handed maces are still quite tricky enemies in hand-to-hand combat, even without spears or halberds.

While two companies of Boghall pikemen formed a shield wall to defend against a rain of arrows, the five Acropolis regiment detachments also turned on their own defenses.

"Form a turtle-shaped array!" In the shouts of their respective detachment leaders, the Acropolis soldiers docked the large tower shields in their hands with each other, and the originally neat Acropolis Legion phalanx was suddenly covered by a forest of large tower shields, densely packed with almost no dead ends, only the place where the large tower shield and the large tower shield docked with each other had a little gap, providing space for the Acropolis soldiers who were waiting in the turtle-shaped formation to peek out.

Zhu Henghong's Bogughhall pikemen company formed a tight shield wall as quickly as possible due to the actual combat experience, in addition to them, another Boghair pikeman company and five Acropolis corps detachments were obviously a beat slower, but fortunately, although these Teutonic companies and detachments composed of pure recruit eggs were a little hurried when forming the shield wall and turtle-shaped formation, but the strict training of the past daily had an effect at this time, and they had just formed a shield wall and turtle-shaped formation before the first wave of arrows roared towards them。

After a crackling sound, the fan shields of the Boghall pikemen and the large tower shields of the Acropolis soldiers were unevenly inserted with a varying number of arrows, only the extremely unlucky one that was lucky enough to fly into the gap between the shields hit the face in the face, but it was protected by a cotton chain mail mask, and these arrows were at most bruises or scrapes on the faces of these unlucky people: if the target of these bows and arrows was other Japanese Sengoku period armies or cold weapon era armies in the same situation as them, then this wave of arrows was pleasant enoughHowever, the target of their rain of arrows was the heavily armed Teutonic troops, and they also had a shield and formed a tight formation, which was considered a good thing to inflict minor injuries on them

This wave of arrows in the rain of arrows is rare to have some effect is the arrows held by the dozen Japanese samurai and the bow released, these dozen arrows all hit the shields of the Teutonic soldiers with relative accuracy, which can penetrate the iron sheet and thick wood, if it is not for the fact that both the Boghall soldiers and the Acropolis soldiers are equipped with plate armor bracers, I dare not say that the injuries are too serious, but at least the penetrating injuries are not running.

"Damn, why don't our own people fight back" Seeing a cold and glistening shoulder trembling gently at a distance from his eyes, Zhu Henghong's cold sweat flowed down to his backbone: thanks to his fan-shaped shield being strong enough, and he habitually kept his head away from the fan-shaped shield in his hand for a long time, otherwise he didn't dare to say anything else, it was absolutely no problem for this arrow shot by the bow to blind himself in one eye, "Boss, hurry up and let those big things on the third line of defense fire!" Why don't you let us be beaten here, even if we have a great advantage in armor, shields, and formations!"

"Shut up, Zhu Henghong, I have my own arrangements, now you don't need to talk too much. "Through the soul connection, Feng Longde's soul fluctuations vibrated within Zhu Henghong's soul fire, transmitting information instantly," Anyway, the bamboo bows they are generally equipped with will not do you any harm, just honestly maintain the current defensive formation, that is, the bows in the hands of the dozen or so Japanese samurai may penetrate the iron thick wooden shields in your hands in their hands, so keep your heads at a certain distance from the shields in your hands, otherwise if you are blinded by a shot or killed by a headshot, don't blame me for not reminding you. ”

"Yes, boss. After Zhu Henghong held back for a while, he could only reply in the soul connection: Maybe the usual Feng Longde is more easy-going and easy to talk, and you don't care much about contradicting or ridiculing him, but if it is in an absolutely serious occasion like fighting, then don't think about disobeying Feng Longde's orders, if you disobey it, either Feng Longde will come and personally clean you up, or you will not obey his orders and suffer the consequences.

After passing on the orders of their immediate superiors aloud, the Boghall pikemen and Acropolis soldiers in the first line of defense kept their heads at a distance from the shields in their hands according to the orders of the undead king, and then silently maintained a defensive posture, listening to the continuous sound of arrows hitting the shields on their shields.

After the dense rain of arrows continued for a while, several more Ashigaru men with back-to-back flags ran out of the forest, giving new orders to the Ashigaru troops who were about to fire the arrows clean. (To be continued.) )