Chapter 350: Don't Take Prisoners (Part I)

The color on Duke Balde's face was even more ugly. If the first killing of cavalry was just to increase morale, the second massacre of the wounded was the habitual behavior of the Saleen army.

Ordinary armies would not do this, because it would provoke the enemy to resist to the death.

Saleen's army didn't care about this at all, and there were soldiers who did this kind of thing, and they were unified and coordinated, apparently with strict special training. Those heavily armored cavalry, if they don't have targeted weapons, it is also very difficult to break the armor and kill them immediately.

"Do you want to stop them!" Duke Bald asked Tiffany.

"Why stop?" Tiffany asked curiously.

Duke Balde was speechless, Tiffany was an eighth-level magician, and these soldiers had no meaning of mercy for her. It would be foolish to ask a mage if he should kill a captive.

Because those who offend the mage don't end well.

"Balde, we still have a stronger fight, what else do you want at this time!" Stephanie said to Balder in a tone of lesson.

Balder suddenly woke up to the attack. Definitely not a fluke. Something happened to Phoenix, and he was able to gather tens of thousands of troops and more than 3,000 cavalry, which was not done by one or two nobles.

Balde was originally a pro-war faction in the House of Commons, and he didn't have much affection for the Phoenixians. He also knows a lot about the situation in Phoenix. As soon as Stephanie said this, he immediately thought of the cause of the incident.

The scattered cavalry was pursued by the cavalry of the Royal Swordsman Battalion, long arrows fired from the crossbow barrels, and orange flames. This is true magical equipment, exclusive to the Royal Swordsman Battalion. The conical arrow pierced through the iron armor, and the orange flame immediately burrowed into the armor and burned violently.

Those who have practiced swordsmanship have a very high tolerance for pain, but the burning of magic flames, unlike fire oil, directly penetrates deep into the bone marrow.

The Phoenix cavalry screamed and fell off their horses, and could not have survived without a magician's healing.

The 6th Battalion was still injured in the battle with the Phoenix cavalry, and the cavalry of the Royal Swordsman Battalion pursued after it, which was nothing more than a massacre. The pursued cavalry hurriedly drew their short bows and turned around to shoot, but they were heavy cavalry, and their ability to shoot arrows was dozens of times different from that of light cavalry, and these short bows were only occasionally used weapons, and the feathered arrows were shot out and shot at the armor of the soldiers of the royal swordsman battalion. Bounced off one after another.

When Balde saw this scene, his heart suddenly stirred up turbulent waves. He had never seen a battle in the Royal Swordsman Battalion, and when he saw it today, he remembered his own private soldiers.

The duke can raise more than a thousand private soldiers, and these private soldiers are all cronies of the nobles, and they are extremely strong. But compared to the people of the Royal Swordsman Battalion, the gap is obvious.

After a short battle, all but the Phoenix cavalry to the north were annihilated by the soldiers of the 6th Battalion and the Royal Swordsman Battalion. The cavalry in the north did not know what was happening here, but under the battle, they lost more than 200 people on the spot, and found that the difference in weapons was obvious, and the cavalry simply turned north and circled back to their infantry position.

The cavalry on the south side, after being hit by the heavy infantry of the sixth battalion, lost most of them, and when they wanted to escape, the cavalry of the sixth battalion also rushed up and completely entangled them. Cavalry losing speed, in front of the long arms of the infantry. There is no advantage. You can only fight by personal bravery.

It was only at this time that the shield array on the south side slowly moved forward, and the infantry of the 6th Battalion took advantage of the enemy's cavalry loss of speed and pressed up.

The remaining more than four hundred cavalry were surrounded, and at this time, in the infantry camp, crossbowmen and archers began to shoot accurately. They took out their treasured alchemy arrows and shot off their horses one by one.

The number of crossbows in the sixth battalion exceeded a reasonable proportion of an army. The 100 carts and more than 200 carts that accompanied him were almost all equipped with bows and crossbows. Supplies were scarce, and the 6th Battalion was going to be resupplied on the spot after entering Phoenix. However, the Phoenix people who attacked the envoy group were not accurate enough, and only when the target was at most 5,000 military horses, all the 20,000 people in Side Star City were dispatched to annihilate the envoy group.

If the Phoenix army approaches in a pressuristic way in the rear, driving the army of the envoy group to move closer to Martian City, there are still 50,000 troops in front, and the front and rear are flanked, and the more than 10,000 people of the envoy regiment will be damaged.

In fact, Phoenix's army in the north is not elite, with 70,000 people inside and outside, and the core force is only about 10,000, most of which are concentrated in Martian City, wanting to pull Rex's nails out of Phoenix.

The tactical mistake caused the Phoenix rebels to suffer heavy losses, and more than 3,000 cavalry, only ran back less than 500. The following infantry charge naturally greatly reduced the effect. The infantry of the 6th Battalion retracted their shields. Re-prepare the bow and crossbow.

Ordinary bows and crossbows also have high physical requirements for soldiers, and a soldier, if he can shoot twenty-four arrows in a row, will basically be counted as an elite. Saleen's requirements for soldiers are not so high, and training crossbowmen requires no less time. However, he has gloves designed by magicians that allow soldiers to open the strings more often.

Three hundred alchemy crossbows were dismantled and put into boxes, and now the main weapon of the sixth battalion is a heavy crossbow. The heavy crossbow also has a killing range of 200 meters, and it is mounted on the car, and a skilled crossbowman can fire one round a minute. Phoenix's rebels collided head-on with the 6th Battalion's strongbow and heavy crossbows.

The size of the three-hundred-heavy crossbow is smaller than that of the alchemy crossbow, and the iron arrows fired can also have a lethality of two hundred meters. However, with a distance of two hundred meters, even a very poor mercenary can run in less than a minute.

The Phoenix charged, killing more than 400 people in the first round of attacks, because it was not the hoplites in front, and the heavy crossbows could sometimes penetrate the enemy, inflicting continuous damage.

The 6th Battalion did not have a foot crossbow, but used a two-handed arm crossbow. This type of crossbow attacks farther than a single-armed crossbow. Can have an attack range of 100 meters. It's just that there is no fixation of the vehicle, and the requirements for crossbowmen are higher.

At a distance of 100 meters, thousands of iron arrows were shot from behind 300 vehicles. The Phoenix soldier ran forward desperately with a small square shield. If they do not approach the enemy formation, they will all be shot to death.

It's just that the soldiers of the sixth battalion shoot accurately, and it is impossible for them to aim at the vital point at a distance of 100 meters, thousands of iron arrows, which are basically scattered.

The Phoenix infantry, armed with broad-bladed swords, rushed to a distance of more than fifty meters in the blink of an eye, and the losses were about the same as the first round of heavy crossbow strikes.

At a distance of two hundred meters, nearly a thousand casualties were paid, and the Phoenix officers were red-eyed one by one.

The soldiers of the 6th battalion were no longer nervous. Because they saw that the enemy this time was much weaker than the Holy See expeditionary force, and those who were wounded by iron arrows basically lost their weapons and would not continue to advance.

"Ready, throw!"

The lieutenants of each flag regiment ordered one after another, and the soldiers put down their crossbows, took their bows and arrows, and lined up to step forward one after another. Throw it outward from the back of the car.

The commander of the 6th Battalion was convinced that his army had gained an advantage. Because of the enemy's counterattack, the soldiers behind the convoy were not injured at all. The enemy's crossbow arrows are blocked by the car array and can only be thrown, but the crossbow arrows are thrown, but they require skill, and the lethality will also decrease.

The armor of his own army can fully withstand such a counterattack.

The cavalry of the Royal Swordsman Battalion withdrew, and instead of trying to storm the enemy's infantry flanks, the cavalry of the 6th Battalion on both flanks retreated, and the cavalry hung up their weapons, reinstalled the crossbow arrows in the cavalry crossbows, and wound them.

The killing distance of ten meters on a crossbow cannot be underestimated, and no infantry long weapon has reached ten meters, but there is a large gun up to eight meters long. When cavalry encounters such a big gun, it is still a very headache, and it can only be solved by personal skill. Therefore, in addition to the enemy's long weapons, using a crossbow to strike first will reduce the damage of cavalry when charging.

"Looks like it's okay. Balde let out a long breath. He is not a military general, but he has read a lot of books, and he is no stranger to marching and fighting in theory. If he is given the opportunity and let him train more, he will also be a qualified officer.

The Phoenix made a mistake in using the cavalry, allowing the cavalry to be strangled first, and the infantry came too late and lost the possibility of victory. The sixth battalion had too many crossbows. It was unreasonably many, but because of the number of crossbows, the casualty rate of the 6th Battalion was very low.

So far in the battle, the casualties of the 6th Battalion have been less than five hundred.

Boom...... Boom......

The drums of war were beating in the middle of the army, and Phoenix's soldiers had already turned around and tried to attack again on both flanks. The frontal car formation is difficult to overcome, and everyone is learning from the Qin Yin military system and understands how powerful the car formation is. If the envoys didn't have so many bows and arrows, the Phoenix rebels would have tried to attack from three sides, but it was obvious that the number of crossbowmen in the envoys was terrifying.

The chariot formation could provide powerful damage, and the soldiers behind were able to unleash arrows at will, so the Phoenix had to bypass the front and repeat the cavalry's attack route.

The drums of war kept changing, hiding behind the car formation, the soldiers of the 6th Battalion, surrounded by shields on both wings, quietly changed their weapons, all the crossbows were put away, and a thousand archers were retained, and the rest of the soldiers were changed into their own long and short equipment, ready for hand-to-hand combat.

Balder watched the change in the battle situation from the rear, and couldn't help but ask, "Master Tiffany, if the enemy has large equipment, or can drive powerful magical beasts, how can the Metatrin army defend itself?"

He was a little puzzled, the Sixth Battalion had indeed achieved an advantage, and it would expand to victory, the problem was that this was a victory based on the enemy's lack of equipment, and if the enemy had a large golem, or a magic ballista, this advantage would probably not exist.

The 6th Battalion General saw that the enemy had already formed a formation and was about to attack, so he gave the order.

"The whole army is ready...... Attack!" he gave the order to counterattack before the enemy attacked.