Yuri's arm was slashed with a sword

But the wound is not very serious, the armor jams the sword, and weapons such as sledgehammers or iron rods will appear effective against armored enemies, especially the armor of the Vya boyars, which is often extremely protected, with almost no gaps at all

Yuri had been fighting for two hours, and although the scouts had told him that reinforcements were approaching, he had exhausted himself from the time, and he shouted encouragement to the soldiers around him, telling them that hundreds of soldiers were rushing to rescue them, but the encouragement did not arouse much enthusiasm, and the soldiers were nervous and confronted by the influx of enemies

The soldiers on the opposite side are holding the banner of Little East Lake City, which is obvious, several villages around this are serving Little East Lake City, but this is a bit strange, because many times, the villages are silently neutral, and these farmers will try their best to meet the needs of the passing army, in exchange for the promise not to be plundered, even after the Burks enter Vekia, most of the villages will do this, but these farmers attack Yuri like crazy, which makes Yuri a little frightened

If every village and town on the road ahead had resisted like this, the number of battles would have to be recounted, and it would have been tens of thousands of inhabitants who would stand in the way of the parliamentary coalition forces

Yuri has never encountered such a war

In the west, it is very common for lords to fight each other for their territories, and the peasants across the river are likely to fight because of the discord between the two lords, and often after each side has killed and wounded more than a dozen people, the lords will sit down to negotiate, and it is not uncommon for all the inhabitants to fight, but only when the city is about to suffer the fate of the slaughter, there will be occasional births, such as the Kugit in Swadia, when they were angry resistance from the residents of the town of Amir, more than 100 residents attacked the Kugit without fear of death, To the surprise of the Kujits, although in the end the Amir army was wiped out and the villages and towns were burned, the Kugit people seemed to hesitate because of this

How could such a thing be?

Yuri was a little curious

While he was hesitating, no soldier had been forced into a swamp where the newly melted snow made the swamp muddy, which was the most common sight in the fields of Vecchia, where both men and horses quickly lost their strength: on this kind of mud, even just walking, it would soon make people breathless, let alone fighting

The soldiers of Xiaodonghu City have also realized this at this time, and they have mustered all their courage and strength to drive these invading enemies into the swamp, as long as these soldiers enter the swamp, their formation will collapse, and at that time, the soldiers of Xiaodonghu City, which has a large number of crossbowmen, will be able to calmly slaughter these damned Valan soldiers

Yuri must be feeling hopeless

There were more than fifty casualties among the Valans for most of the time, and the people of Little East Lake City were rushing up in a scattered manner, throwing a flurry of crooked javelins, or organizing a weak breakthrough, and then they would disperse, and these attacks were all chaotic, and those were not real soldiers at all, which was the reason why Yuri had held on until now

It was a strange battle, and the soldiers of Little East Lake City seemed to be a group of crossbowmen mixed with a group of peasant soldiers, about four or five hundred men, who were standing densely packed in the clearing between the forest and the swamp, and were trying to drive the Valans away

If these soldiers had fought in a disciplined manner, they would have been able to disperse the Valans long ago if they only needed to maintain a constant onslaught in one direction, but now, these people were like a basin of shaking water, flapping a wooden ball floating on it loosely and weakly, and the Valans realized their numerical inferiority, and could only maintain their formation, constantly defeating the invading enemy

The command of the people in Little East Lake City is very chaotic, which makes it a little funny that there are often different commanders who give different orders, so that the farmers who are hurriedly armed are confused, the farmers are yelling, some people are picking up stones and smashing the Valan soldiers If in the past, the Valan soldiers will definitely draw their long axes and rush out with a shout, but Kalinin brought a group of junior officers, these people are trying to maintain order and formation Kalinin had already told these soldiers when he was in Valankov that if there were people who charged without permission, Regardless of whether the enemy was killed or not, they were to be hanged immediately after the battle, which caused a great deal of resistance among the Valan soldiers

During the winter training camp, all kinds of conflicts emerged one after another, but through severe punishment and generous rewards, the Valan soldiers gradually felt that there was no need to get along with themselves, although they despised this kind of self-preservation behavior, but under the supervision, they were still able to endure their impulses and not rush out to fight

Yuri looked at the dense and shiny helmets around him, and felt a lot of comfort, these soldiers gathered densely, their helmets were shiny and heavy, like the hardest joints on the fist, the javelinmen of the Valan people could injure or even kill the enemy with every concentrated projection, and the people of Xiaodonghu City were a little confused, the Valan soldiers in their memories were not like this, those Valan soldiers advocated one-on-one combat, not the spineless formation of the current one

These angry farmers tried to attack the round army formation of the Valans, but they were blocked by the outermost shields, and the axemen or spearmen standing behind the shield bearers would look for opportunities to attack the people outside, this was not the way the Valans fought at all, and even the shields of the Valans changed from pine shields to oak shields, this kind of shield was thick and wide, although it was not flexible, but it could provide more protection, and the soldiers of Xiaodonghu City were greatly enraged, and the Varan soldiers had obviously fallen into an ambush, But now it's huddled together like a turtle, and you can't bite its flesh anyway

In the middle of the forest, another much larger group of Valan soldiers was coming, but fortunately, they were blocked by a mercenary infantry between the rivers, and now the city of Little East Lake no longer cared about revealing their home background, they took out the armor of the Burke support, sent the mercenaries of the Riverlands, strengthened the city with the Salanders, and began to send messengers several times a day to ask for the support of the Burkes

The officers of a small East Lake City finally gathered a group of peasant archers, these archers were irritable and led by the officers to a slightly higher slope, there were about forty of these people, no matter what was going on around them, these archers would be curious to take a look, if the soldiers around them were in the middle of the battle, they would not help but shoot a few arrows to show their support; If one of the peasants broke up, they would also shout, thinking that they had been defeated

The peasants were almost at the touch of a button, they simply couldn't hold on to a meat grinder-like front for long, but it also gave them another characteristic, that is, they could easily regroup, once they were frightened, they would run away with shouts, but after running a few hundred yards, they would stand again, look back and watch carefully, and when there was not much danger, as long as there were people around them to encourage and encourage, they would return to the fight

Compared with the Valans, the casualties of the peasants and soldiers are a little ugly, there are a hundred wounded or dead A few officers and a small number of mercenaries in charge of commanding these peasants feel very frustrated, they don't expect these peasants to be so useless These mercenaries are the real enemies of the Valan soldiers, but these people can't even wave their own combat effectiveness, their strength is mainly used to maintain the battle line of the peasants and soldiers and communicate with each other, they can't see how the battle is going, and they can't command all the people in a unified way

The officer who had gathered the archers was full of bitter water, and the Valans were unable to hold on to them on several occasions, and there was a huge gap, but none of the soldiers dared to rush in, and several soldiers jumped into the middle of the Valans, hoping to tear their formation apart, but the peasants behind them only retreated passively, except for their amazement, and watched as the Valans gradually closed in, swallowing up the soldiers who had taken the lead

But now, the officer felt a glimmer of hope, he had gathered enough archers, these people were still good at archery, it should be able to cause chaos and chaos among the Valan soldiers, it was enough that the soldiers often couldn't see the overall situation of the battlefield, as long as a part of the people was scattered, it was enough to make the people around them tremble, and the troops after the collapse would be much easier to deal with

The archers barely stood in a wedge-shaped triangle so that they could occasionally see the direction in which the short sword in the officer's hand was pointing

They pulled the bow pot from their waist to the side to facilitate the fetching of arrows

"Loading" the officer shouted

The archers bent down one after another, took their arrows, and tied the strings

"Ready"

The archers aimed at the circle of the Valans, trying to fill their bows, and dozens of bows made people excited, and a uniform bow opening action appeared, which played an inspiring role in the chaotic military formation, and some of the farmers around began to shout, not knowing whether they were cheering on the archers or warning their own people in front of them to disperse

The officer felt a hint of anger: it was imperative to teach the peasants to shut up, undisciplined fellows

The "shooting" officer waved his short sword in a matter-of-fact manner

Most of the dozens of arrows pierced the Valans' far array, but due to the distance, these arrows did not reach too many in the end, but there was still a commotion among the Valan soldiers, some of them were hit by arrows in their helmets and brushed away, and some were hit on the armor A young man next to Yuri was not very lucky, and an arrow that had not weakened pierced his left shoulder: from the side of the neck to the shoulder, the young man screamed and tried to pull the arrow, but the severe pain made him fall to the ground, He disappeared in an instant at the feet of his comrades, and if he couldn't get back up, he would be finished, but it wasn't long before Yuri saw him on the other side: an old man of Varan with his shoulders on his shoulder

The old Valan had a white beard, and he looked majestically at the source of the arrows, and then shouted at them

Yuri saw it too

Soon after, the Valans' formation suffered a second rain of arrows, but by this time, the Valans had adjusted their direction and moved slowly towards the hillside

The soldiers of Little East Lake City saw the intentions of the Valans, and they organized several resistances, but to no avail, their front was as soft as butter, and everything was immediately opened

When the Valans had advanced more than a hundred paces, there was a commotion among the archers, who looked at each other in horror

Yuri was curious, even if his morale was low, he would not break up just because a military formation was slowly approaching him, and the Valan soldiers continued to advance with axes and spears, escorted by shield bearers

At this time, a clear horn sounded, and Yuri didn't know what was going on

Countless soldiers in gray armor appeared faintly in the forest, Yuri felt a trance, Yuri saw several light cavalry on horseback galloping among the soldiers of Xiaodonghu City, these people shouted something, Yuri didn't hear it too clearly, but these people were like hot water poured on the snow, and in an instant, the soldiers of Xiaodonghu City collapsed, and they turned around and fled one after another, and the performance of the people in Xiaodonghu City let Yuri know that this was reinforcements

The earth began to tremble and roar

A troop of Iron Shield River cavalry rushed out of the forest, their sabers shining as white as snow

Vekia cavalry

Yuri did not hesitate and immediately gave the order to attack

The Varan soldiers drew their long knives and broad axes, disbanded their formation, let out a cry of terror, and began to slaughter the enemies who had tormented them for hours.