Chapter 75: Attack, Meet the Enemy
Looking at the map, Leon began to arrange defenses.
"Anson, take all the militia to the entrance of the village to set up defenses, you should have been familiar with the battle formation in the past few months, make good use of all the buildings - you brought people to repair them, you know how to use them!"
"Yes, sir!"
Anson is no longer the weak chicken who only hides behind the back of Sarama.
Although his martial arts skills have not improved much, he has experienced bloody battles in the border camp and witnessed the great battle in the Sava Fort, and he is no longer a stranger to the battlefield.
"Lesli, pull all the carriages to the entrance of the village and set up the chariot formation, and set up three chariot formations."
"Yes, sir! But what are our tactics? Leslie asked.
Every caravan would use a chariot formation to resist when it encountered bandits, and arranging a chariot formation was indeed something that Lesley was good at, but she didn't know how Leon planned for her and Anson to resist the enemy.
"Your tactic is to hold the entrance to the village and fire arrows when you see the enemy! When the enemy approached, he burned the carriage and retreated, retreated to the rear of the cart formation and continued to fire arrows! ”
"That's it?"
"That's all!"
Leslie sighed, this tactic is indeed simple and easy to understand, but isn't it also a little too simple?
Of course, Li Ang deliberately simplified his tactics, and there was no reliable commander under him, and overly complicated explanations would affect his performance. Besides, it's not sure that this tactic will work.
Klose is an experienced stormtrooper captain, but he can only charge into battle, and his brain is full of muscles.
"Klose! Bring the stormtroopers with me. Leon carried the map into his pocket.
"My lord, what's our plan?"
Klose was a little worried, the difference in numbers was too big.
"The two of us took the initiative with the others! Kill dozens of enemies and see what happens! Leon put a horse armor on Alice, and said lightly as he tied the belt.
"Huh?"
Klose was a little confused, the others, that is forty people? This counts, Klose will still do it......
Forty people actively attacked thousands of people? Isn't it a little inflated after the lord made a fortune?
"Brothers, follow me!"
The lord buckled up his helmet, and his face was obscured by a monstrous helmet - it was newly purchased, and the original helmet was given to Raphael.
The body is no longer chain armor, but a set of half-body armor focused on vital protection, which belongs to light plate armor.
Flanked by the Metenheim stormtroopers.
Behind him, thirty heavily armed archers.
Of course, Leon had to take the initiative to attack—since those bandits had chased Risadiran all the way, they must have been equally exhausted by now, and probably out of touch.
It's a pity that there are no cavalry in hand......
If there was a cavalry team of a few dozen people, Leon would even bring all the troops out to meet them.
With Samer leading the way, less than half an hour after leaving the village, they saw the bandits in the distance.
Eight or nine hundred people are less than what Risa Dilan said, and it is estimated that some people have fallen behind.
As Leon expected, these enemies chased them for dozens of miles, obviously exhausted, probably preparing to rest by the river.
Most of the bandits sat on the ground by the river, but they did not set up camp, apparently resting temporarily, presumably waiting for those who had fallen behind, and would soon move again.
This group of bandits could not be called an army at all—they were all sorts of equipment, ranging from cloth and leather to iron, and they sat there and made a fuss.
It may be that they are indeed too tired, they don't even send scouts, and there is no guard around them at all - of course, it may also be that they are too strong to be vigilant.
"A rabble is nothing but a large number of people."
Leon lay down in the grove next to him and peeked carefully and gave an evaluation.
Klose nodded beside him, and when he saw these bandits, he understood the reason why the lord wanted to take the initiative - these bandits didn't seem to be very good at arranging their physical strength.
In fact, there are still elites on the enemy's side, and there are seven or eight on horseback, who look like knights, and the equipment is quite well-equipped.
They should have been the ones who let the bandits stop here to rest.
They were riding around calling out to the bandits, and their scolding could be heard from afar, and it seemed that the rabble was not easy to control.
There were also a hundred or so neat-looking infantrymen sitting alone, these were supposed to be elite soldiers, not with the large crowd of bandits.
"Klose, you lie in ambush here, I'll seduce you, and you can do it when they chase them in......"
Leon confessed, and led his archers out of the woods and closer to the river.
"Put!" Leon and his archers secretly gathered near the bandits, raised his arms high and threw a wave of feathered arrows into the bandits, causing a miserable howl.
Then the lord turned and ran away with thirty archers.
The archers were not very good at archery, but they were unsuspected, and the bandits who were resting by the river were still knocked down a dozen or so.
Several knights shouted and cursed and began to give orders.
The group of elite infantry was the first to react, and when they found Li Ang's small dozens of people, they immediately got up and stood up, and they all began to raise their shields and approach.
And the bandits were very unrestrained, and they rushed directly howling.
Leon looked back and saw that two knights were also chasing after him, so he raised his eagle bow and turned around with an arrow.
Reflexive cavalry shooting, the fighting style of the steppe peoples.
The arrow was more than 100 meters away, but it still hit a knight's head with precision, and the knight turned over and fell off his horse with a clatter.
Lord Lord grinned - this is completely good luck, his riding and archery level has not yet reached the realm of rapid firing and pointing, he didn't expect to be able to shoot in the head, and being able to shoot that knight is already considered to be super high-level.
But the other knight, apparently frightened by the terrible long-range headshot, slowed down and turned back to say hello, and the black bandits pounced on him and began to chase after him, and the chaotic arrows began to fire at Leon.
It was too far away, and Leon kept running back with his men, and the wooden bows in the hands of the bandits could hardly do any harm to the well-armoured heavy archers, and thirty archers ran into the woods in a puff of smoke.
Although 'Feng Lin Mo Enter' is the experience of the rivers and lakes that should be followed most of the time, the bandits are so numerous that they naturally don't care about a small woods at the moment, and a group of people quickly rushed in with loud shouts.
Leon himself did not go into the woods, but rode around the woods, shooting an arrow from time to time—he was single-handedly luring the hoplites.
Seeing this, the knight wisely restrained the infantry not to pursue Leon, but to keep watch outside the woods.
This is what an army should look like, and you can't mess up when you are harassed, and this knight seems to be an experienced warrior.
Leon fired an arrow at him, but the knight blocked him with his shield, and several crossbow arrows from the infantry squad shot at Leon.
This kind of shooting was not cost-effective, and the lord had to ride Alice around the woods and disappear in front of the eyes of these people.
However, although the leading knight was shrewd, the bandits suffered a loss, and it seemed that it was difficult to restrain them, and a large crowd of people rushed into the woods shouting indiscriminately, saying that they would break the corpses of the cold arrows into pieces......
However, not long after they entered the woods, a group of strong men suddenly popped out from behind those big trees, followed by a large area of neat sword light!
The dappled sunlight in the woods blackened the dozen or so sturdy figures, and the big swords in their hands flickered and dimmed, and the powerful surprise attack was difficult to parry.
After a few rounds of sword light, no less than twenty bandits turned into more than forty and fell into the woods, screaming and screaming.
"Let's go!"