Chapter Seventy-Two: The Bloody Battle
The alien light cavalry circled outside the camp in an orderly manner, and there was an open space between the opposing armies, but they were not in a hurry, but waited for the other soldiers to come out. Takuya Sanada stationed his horse at the front of the light cavalry at www.biquge.info the front of the light cavalry, looking out at the dense Oslan position.
The second group came out of the camp with a whole battalion of light infantry, much less equipped than the cavalry, with simple carcass on the chest, a straw on the legs, and a hat on the head, most of which were armed with spears. The light infantry at the foremost is armed with huge shields. Sharp-eyed people can spot light infantry armed with long naginatas behind the spearmen.
Few people have seen this weapon in Osland, and Hebrew has occasionally seen this weapon in ancient books, which is very suitable for dealing with knights. This weapon with a long handle and wide width requires years of professional training before it can be used in actual combat, but this weapon is not suitable for large-scale combat, perhaps these alien soldiers are specially designed to deal with heavy cavalry.
Further back, there are three squadrons of ranged soldiers. The equipment of these soldiers is the same as that of the light infantry, but the weapons used are completely different. In fact, this is similar to the use of light infantry on the mainland, except that the light infantry with longbows used by the mainland generals are directly divided into long archers. At the very back of the archers was a small squad of soldiers armed with iron pipes.
Standing in the distance with a telescope made by a dwarf, Hebrew was shocked into a cold sweat in the early morning of midsummer. "What kind of weapon is that, how can it be placed in a ranged unit?"
"This should be a firebolt. Hebrew replied.
"What's a firebolt?"
"A weapon made by dwarves, made of gunpowder from fireworks. It is said to be able to penetrate two heavy cavalry at close range, but I've only heard that there aren't so many firearms even in the Dwarven Kingdom. I really don't know who they are. ”
Berdwin swallowed, unable to imagine what it would be like to be hit by such a thing. "Marshal, why are they so multifaceted that they are not easy to command?" asked Berdwin.
"Hehe, it seems complicated, but in fact, you didn't notice that almost every branch of their troops restrained our cavalry team, I really doubt that they are coming at us. ”
While the two were talking, the last class of the alien race appeared. Two squadrons of Taiken samurai appeared, and this data shows the strongest individual ability of the alien race.
"How can there be so many!" Hebrew blurted out, and Bodwin was also dry-mouthed. In the past six months, there have been many skirmishes with the alien forces. If they didn't have this group of Taidao troops to participate in the battle, the battle situation would still be fifty-five, and as long as there was an encounter with this group of samurai, Osland's troops would have suffered a crushing defeat. The evaluation given by the Imperial Military Department is very high, and it is estimated that the combat ability of a single unit can reach the level of a non-berserker.
If you look closely, the equipment of those samurai is the same as that of cavalry, but some have a sword at the waist and hip, and some have two swords, one long and one short. Moreover, the whole team of 20,000 people, each with several flags behind him, the entire alien phalanx was unfurled, although the colors and emblems of each unit were different, but it still gave people a sense of oppression of more than 100,000 people.
Even the battle-hardened regular army of Oslan was a little shaken, and the soldiers who passed by were whispering. Hebrew calmed down, and if even he was shaken, his morale would be irretrievable.
At noon, 70,000 men from both sides of the war stood on either side of Budapest. At this time, the two suns were in the middle of the sky, and the hot weather was very difficult, but without the commander's order, none of the soldiers wiped their sweat, allowing the sweat to drip on the dry ground and be evaporated in an instant.
Hebrew is waiting, he doesn't like to strike first in war, he always likes to strike later. Moreover, the summer in the continent of Theses is hot, and only the St. Jormain Mountains maintain a little snow. In the inland region of Budapest, the temperature is very high and arid. Judging by their equipment, as if they were coming from a damp region, the Hebrews were confident that their soldiers could drag them down.
Sure enough, the alien commander-in-chief, Tadao Kosaka, couldn't bear it anymore, and with a wave of the flag in the herald's hand, the light cavalry divided on both sides was dispatched. The aliens did not have heavy cavalry, but their light cavalry was not inferior to heavy cavalry in terms of equipment or combat level. Takuya Sanada, the first general of the alien race, did not dispatch, and this time there were only two squadrons of cavalry.
Temptation is a little trick that the commanders of all sides like to play at the beginning of every battle. In large-scale battles, the short bow of the alien hussars did not play much role, and the range was too close to the greatest weakness. Inferior to the heavy cavalry, they could be shot off at any moment by the longbowmen.
Osland's soldiers also moved, and two thousand heavy infantry smashed down the shield array at the front of the phalanx. A one-man tall steel shield was impenetrable to a cavalry archer in any case, and behind the heavy infantry, Hebrew placed the longbowmen here, and he had no fear that the alien knights would charge the heavy infantry phalanx. Two thousand against five thousand knights, under the suppression of the longbowmen, there is no reason why they cannot hold on.
The Hebrews were arranged in a very modest phalanx. The heavy cavalry in front stood in two rows, one with shields and the other with guns. On the outskirts of the flanks were the light cavalry, which were quick knights to quickly deploy support when the situation was tight. On the inside of the light cavalry were heavy cavalry units, with 5,000 men on each side, which were specially set aside by the Hebrews to target the enemy warriors. Inside, two brigades of light cavalry formed an encirclement, encircling the longbowmen and the mage-priests.
Five thousand archers stood in six rows, two in a serpentine formation. The archers in the front row drew five arrows and scattered them on the ground, holding an arrow between the fingers of his right hand and resting it on the bow. As soon as the enemy comes into range, you can start firing. The longbowmen of the Oslan Empire used a change of platoon to shoot, and if the opponent used a massive charge, they would be hit by a continuous attack from the longbowmen.
Looking at the barrel-like Oslan phalanx, Kosaka Tadao frowned, there were few such heavy infantry formations in their world, and the combination of longbowmen could strangle his light cavalry in the charging path.
With a wave of the flag in the herald's hand, the light infantry in the front row began to advance slowly, and it was still necessary to consume the shield soldiers against the longbowmen. Two thousand light infantry marched towards the center of the battlefield in orderly steps, and by this time the light cavalry had reached the maximum range of the longbowmen.
There was a sound of the bowstring loosening, and a whole thousand arrows flew into the sky.