Chapter 162: Dragon Eagle Fierce Fight (Part II)
So those players simply gave up long-range attacks and mobility, and began to blindly stack armor on themselves and their mounts, turning this small-scale air knight unit of the Blue Dragon Empire into a heavy knight force.
And their tactics have also changed to relying on heavy armor to directly assault the enemy head-on, and they don't fly kites like the air knights of the Golden Eagle Empire.
This tactic actually has a lot of flaws, especially when it fights independently, but when combined with those combat airships, it is unexpectedly suitable, and they become the strongest meat shield for those combat airships wearing heavy armor.
They don't need to compete with those enemies for archery skills and mobility, they just need to form a dense formation and rush all the way to drive the enemy away when the enemy tries to get closer.
At this time, they did the same, constantly gathering together and charging at the enemy forces who tried to get closer.
And those air knights of the Golden Eagle Empire are a group of lightly armored and crispy skins, but they don't dare to confront these heavily armed air knights wearing thick armor and holding long riding spears, so they can only choose to avoid the enemy's edge, and occasionally turn their heads to give each other an arrow.
However, the arrows they shot were difficult to penetrate the heavy armor on the opponent's body, but the combat airships behind the opponent kept firing high-explosive bombs at them, shooting down many comrades who couldn't dodge.
Seeing that their own air knight troops could not take advantage of it, the large forces in the rear quickly pressed down, and those black-winged eagles with the largest number rushed first, relying on the numerical advantage to finally force the enemy air knights who had been rampage there to be forced back.
But soon, a large number of the enemy's aerial war beasts also arrived, and these enemy aerial war beasts are all fire-based, either they can spit fire snakes in their mouths, or they can launch fireballs that will explode, and their lethality is very powerful.
Once you are hit by a fiery snake or fireball that the opponent spits out, even if you don't hang at the time, the feathers on your body will soon be burned in the heat and flames, and then fall from the air.
Fortunately, the Golden Eagle Empire has a larger number of air troops, and can rely on the numerical advantage to besiege the opponent from all directions, so that the opponent can only have time to repel the enemy in one direction at most, but it will soon be approached by the enemy in other directions, and then tear it apart with sharp claws.
If it continues like this, the final loser will definitely be the side of the Green Dragon Empire, but there are still twelve large combat airships on the side of the Blue Dragon Empire.
When they found that the enemy troops had gathered in large numbers and besieged their aerial war beasts, they immediately fired artillery shells at these places, and immediately exploded a large area.
In the sound of cannonballs, thousands of aerial war beasts on the side of the Golden Eagle Empire were killed at once, so frightened that the other party no longer dared to gather together, so they could only disperse again, so as not to be easily killed and injured by the opponent's artillery again.
And in this way, they could not rely on their numerical superiority to quickly defeat those air war beasts in the place, and the two sides couldn't help but stalemate for a while.
On the ground, the two sides have also begun to slowly contact each other, Guo Dafu personally led more than 5,000 cavalry troops, and tens of thousands of cavalry of the Golden Eagle Empire used bows and arrows to shoot at each other.
The cavalry of the Golden Eagle Empire is mainly composed of the primitive eagles, and most of them are archers.
Those primitive eagles relied on a pair of well-developed hind legs and ran fast, which was indeed more suitable for archers who needed high mobility.
However, the ground cavalry of the other party is also a light armored force, and the cavalry under the command of Guo Dafu is a heavy cavalry unit with men and horses, and it is not an ordinary heavy armor, but an extraordinary armor of extremely high quality, and even a sniper rifle may be difficult to penetrate the defense of these heavy armor, let alone the arrows shot by the soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire.
Therefore, although the number of cavalry troops of the Golden Eagle Empire is larger, it is completely suppressed and beaten by the side of the Blue Dragon Empire, and I see that every round of arrow rain from the heavy cavalry of the Blue Dragon Empire shoots over, a large number of cavalry will fall on the opposite side, and the arrow rain on the opposite side can only make a clanging sound on the armor of the soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire, and then it is weakly bounced away.
Seeing this scene, Agukos in the rear couldn't help but gasp, you must know that in the Golden Eagle Empire, this level of extraordinary equipment, but only those middle and high-level officers are qualified to distribute it, where are ordinary soldiers qualified to have this kind of high-grade goods!
After all, this level of extraordinary equipment can only be created by requiring at least a second-order beast to use the fierce beast body material as the main material! It was also very difficult to build, and even the Golden Eagle Empire could not be mass-produced.
I heard that in the past, there were some master craftsmen who could mass-produce this kind of high-level extraordinary equipment, but those fierce beasts secretly eliminated it in order to prevent the human power from becoming too powerful, and over the years, the number of extraordinary materials that can be obtained each year has also been strictly limited, resulting in the Golden Eagle Empire is only able to produce dozens of high-level extraordinary equipment every year, and as soon as each piece of equipment comes out, it will be snapped up by those powerful generals, and it is impossible to be like the other side. Directly get a cavalry force of thousands of people with extraordinary equipment.
Agukos didn't know that the cavalry unit of the Blue Dragon Empire was a real son, the best soldiers, the best treatment and the best equipment were all from this army, and Guo Dafu built this army at any cost.
And because the number of cavalry troops in the Blue Dragon Empire has always been very small, this cavalry unit is also destined to be a multi-functional cavalry unit, in addition to cavalry shooting, it also has to charge directly when needed, so naturally it will not be a light cavalry unit like the cavalry unit of the Golden Eagle Empire, but a genuine heavy cavalry.
Seeing that the cavalry was no match for the other side at all, Agucos was surprised and decisively withdrew it, and then let the large number of infantry begin to slowly advance forward.
The infantry of the Golden Eagle Empire were mainly pikemen, but their spears were only more than four meters long, which was more than a meter shorter than the blue dragon empire's phalanx spears.
This is mainly because it is very physically exhausting to fight for a long time with such a long spear in hand, and the strength of the opponent's ordinary soldiers is not as high as the field elite of the Qinglong Empire, and there is no characteristic that those zombie pikemen will not get tired, so in order to save the physical strength of the soldiers, their phalanx spears will be relatively short. In addition, the pikemen armor of the Golden Eagle Empire is far inferior to that of the Blue Dragon Empire, and even those zombie pikemen who are cannon fodder on the Blue Dragon Empire's side have a set of heavy full-body plate armor with an average armor thickness of five millimeters. And the pikemen of the Golden Eagle Empire have a set of golden iron armor on their bodies, and the specific thickness is unknown, but since they are the elite of their country, they must not be like the iron armor of the Hanhai Empire that Guo Dafu and they encountered before, just a tear that will be broken, but its defense is definitely not as good as the heavy full-body plate armor of the Blue Dragon Empire, the defense of the heavy full-body plate armor is as high as one hundred and fifty points, and the iron armor on the opposite side, even if it does not cut corners, the maintenance is not bad, That's a maximum of fifty defense, which is not bad.
In addition to the pikemen, among the infantry of the Golden Eagle Empire, there are a small number of sword and shield soldiers, the cultivation of these guys is obviously higher, the average strength of those pikemen is almost three or four times the day after tomorrow, and these sword and shield soldiers, the lowest strength has the appearance of six times the day after tomorrow, and the strength is about to catch up with the standard of the field elite troops of the Blue Dragon Empire.
In addition to being stronger, their equipment is also more luxurious, and the long sword in their hands can be regarded as extraordinary equipment, although it is only the kind of extraordinary equipment of the lowest level of the Yellow Rank, and its shield is a large oval shield with a large shield, and they also carry several javelins on their backs. The armor on the body is much more well-made fish scale armor, and its helmet is made into the shape of an eagle's wings closed, and there are special bracers and leggings, which is much more comprehensive than those pikemen who only have armor protection on the chest, abdomen and head.
Finally, there are about 100,000 crossbowmen, and these crossbowmen also have a clear class division, many of them are the same as those pikemen, with only a set of iron armor on their bodies, while others are wearing well-made iron armor such as fish scale armor or mountain armor, and the bows and crossbows they hold in their hands are also very well-made, and they look like extraordinary equipment. Some of them are at the disposal of some large, well-made bed crossbows.
Seeing that the enemy infantry began to approach, the artillerymen on the side of the Blue Dragon Empire who had just established an artillery position fired at the enemy's infantry formation, especially those enemy long-range troops, who were even more taken care of.
This time, Guo Dafu pulled out the hundreds of field guns for land warfare sent by the supply fleet, and the ammunition was also very sufficient.
In particular, those slow-moving, large-sized bed crossbows became excellent targets, and they quickly turned into a pile of fragments under the bombardment of artillery fire, and the soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire who were responsible for controlling these bed crossbows were also blown to pieces.
"Speed up, speed up! Run for me! Seeing this, Agucoth hurriedly yelled and urged his soldiers to speed up.
After all, if he continues to advance so slowly, I am afraid that it will not be long before the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command will be bombarded by the opponent's artillery fire.
Now the only way is to rush forward as soon as possible and entangle with the opponent to start a melee battle, and then the opponent's artillery will always dare not continue to fire! Otherwise, you will definitely hurt a large number of your own people by mistake.
Under the loud urging of Agucos and the officers at all levels, the soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire had to speed up their advance in unison, which caused the originally neat military formation to slowly become more and more chaotic in the process of rapid advance.
But these Agukos can't take care of it, just mess up a little bit of it! It's better than staying where you are and being blown up by the opponent's artillery one by one!
As the infantry of both sides approached rapidly, they were soon within range of bows and muskets, and suddenly crossbowmen and musketeers on both sides began to fire at the enemy troops on the opposite side.
However, the crossbowmen on the side of the Golden Eagle Empire, because they were shooting in a rapid advance, caused the target to drop sharply, and most of the arrows were blocked by the shield soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire who had been waiting for a long time with tall tower shields.
And the arrows and bullets fired by the Blue Dragon Empire were all firmly hit on the soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire.
Facts have proved that the armor defense of the Golden Eagle Empire is just like that, in the face of the Blue Dragon Empire's armor-piercing heavy arrows and those steel-core lead bullets, it is simply impossible to resist, and every wave of arrows and bullets hit, a large number of Golden Eagle Empire soldiers will burst out and fall down with bright red blood flowers.
In this short distance of a few hundred meters, at least more than 50,000 Golden Eagle Empire soldiers were shot and killed, and the corpses of different deaths were poured along the way, and even tripped some of the Golden Eagle Empire soldiers behind.
Fortunately, relying on huge casualties, the army of the Golden Eagle Empire finally approached about twenty meters in front of the army of the Blue Dragon Empire, and at this time, the two sides also used throwing weapons such as throwing axes and javelins to carry out the last round of friendly mutual shooting, in this wave of shooting, the Golden Eagle Empire's side finally caused a little effective damage to the enemy for the first time, and more than a dozen soldiers of the Blue Dragon Empire were knocked to the ground by the javelins projected from the opposite side. However, in this round of shooting, the soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire fell more than a thousand people at once. With a sturdy set of good armor, that's how you take advantage of it on the battlefield!