Section 30: Sword and Bow

"Hide behind the shield and don't come out. Henry, who had seen all the 16 samurai on horseback in an instant, made everyone, including Mira, shrink behind the shield in Kalewa's hand, and then he raised his hand and instructed them to turn their positions and lean their backs against the walls of the shrine to achieve a defensive angle to shoot.

"Boom——!" "Boom!!Woo-whoa!" The huge bow that fluttered and flew struck the improvised wooden shield with great force, and the stunned young coffee Leyva was so frightened by the arrow that the whole shield was crooked, because he didn't know how to maintain a correct and sluggish posture. The warriors not far away immediately seized the opportunity, and two successive arrows of their bows were aimed at the young porter's exposed legs because of the tilted giant shield.

——!Luckily, the sage slashed two arrows with a single sword, and Mira glared at Galeva dissatisfied: "Hold it against your shoulder, nerd!" she shouted, but the young man was about to lean his shoulder over when she was pushed by Aya's hand.

"Be careful. As Dr. Starwing said this, Galeva looked back and realized that the improvised shield, but heavy enough, had been pierced by the arrow.

"This power is comparable to that of an armor-piercing crossbow. Mira took a breath and shouted at Henry, "Teacher, it won't last long." ”

She said this, and the sage stood outside and hung his head over Kramer, "I know. ”

——!The samurai with buffalo horns on his helmet waved his hand, and the samurai under him held bows and reins in both hands, and they nimbly commanded them to run without using their legs between their legs and the horses under them. Mira glanced apprehensively at the little unicorn she had called out to hide in the distant woods after the initial encounter, but fortunately, they didn't pay any attention to it.

They quickly divided into three groups around the shrine, one on the front and the other two in a semicircle on either side.

These men did not attack the sage who stood in front without fear, was tall and muscular, and showed great skill in cutting down two bows with ease—but that was not a dog's contempt. On the contrary, it was precisely because the sage showed enough threat that these people did not come closer, intending to solve it with a bow.

And they also target weaker others rather than sages, which is clearly intended to be a catch.

If the strongest person gets all the firepower, the others will be able to escape.

And choose to attack the weak first, solve them and then come back to deal with Henry, if you become alone, no matter how strong you are, it is only a matter of a few arrows away.

- These people are connoisseurs.

Well-trained, fast-acting, and prioritized.

They did not rush closer, and despite the overwhelming combat superiority of 16 cavalry in a Moon-Country-style squadron, they still cautiously adopted long-range attacks.

And after realizing that he could not break through the defense of the Great Shield head-on, the leader immediately gave the order to disperse. These men were divided into three groups to face the enemy on the flanks, with a large bow of more than two meters in their hands and a huge bow of nearly one meter, forming a multi-faceted angle while staggering the friendly forces.

- Classic tactics.

In the case of absolute superiority in numbers and mobile long-range projection firepower as the main component of the troops, in the face of a melee opponent with only one large shield as protection, it is not necessary to choose to rush forward and risk your own casualties, but to use angled firepower projection, so that the opponent will be attacked from multiple directions at the same time, and will be overwhelmed.

Quick response, hand-to-hand, safe and safe.

The combat power and experience of these people are, to some extent, even above the many Rigal warriors that Henry and Mira have faced.

This is an aristocratic class that is equivalent to the elite of the people, the Moon Country, and the elite knight class of the Rigal world.

Swift and powerful, if the heavy knight class popular in the world of Rigal is described as an imperial scorpion with offensive and defensive capabilities, the samurai of the Japanese people is the praying mantis, although the defense and attack power are lower than those of the knights, but they are a little more agile and fast.

Like Absera's and other regions where horseback culture was popular, the Mounted Archery culture was born, but unlike the mounted archery bows used in most regions that were small in size for ease of use, the Great Bow of the Lunar Land was even larger than the longbow of Avenella.

Bigger, means more powerful. Whether it is the penetration ability of armor and shields, or the lethality of living targets, it is not comparable to a light small bow.

But big, also means.

The rate of fire is slower.

"Whew!!" the sage kicked a large hole in the shrine wall.

Smoke and dust flew and the exterior wall of the shrine, made of mud mixed with coarse fibers, collapsed in large chunks.

"Get in. He was concise and to the point, and Aya's eyes almost widened out when she saw the sage's brute strength for the first time. Mira and Lulu dragged her into it quickly, followed by Kaleva, and the last sage himself retreated backwards before the samurai outside finished winding. He picked up the large shield that Galawa had dropped, and pulled it up to cover the wall that he had kicked through.

Without giving the samurai a chance to complete the encirclement, several of the frustrated opponents let go of their bows and tried to try their luck to see if they could hit them in a cloud of dust.

"Take, snatch!" The bows and arrows fired one after another were all crotched by the big shield, and one of them hit the part that had been pierced before, directly destroying the fragile structure and penetrating into a length of more than 30 centimeters. But against the bow that almost hit his throat, the sage still looked calm.

"Feet?" Mira glanced at the foot that the sage had used to kick the door, and it was clear that this kind of rough behavior was not as easy for him as eating and drinking. The tough waxed linen thread on Henry's boots could not hold off under the great force, and now the sole part of the shoe opened and separated from the body like a crocodile's mouth.

"It's okay, it's going to be fine. The sage replied briefly, but the girl squatted down and pulled out the gauze from her leather bag on her waist to pack it for her teacher, so as not to affect the future actions of the cracked soles.

Henry let Mira handle his boots without looking, and his hands were tied to the top of the shield with the cloth from the shrine that Lulu and Kaleva had handed him next to him, and fastened to the sides to make sure it was tightly covered by the gap.

"What about the main entrance?" said Aya, who was hiding in the corner next to her, her tone trembling and her lips white, clearly frightened. Unlike private houses, the three walls around the shrine are thick earthen walls mixed with rice stalks to withstand the ornate and heavy decorative eaves. Enough to withstand weapon attacks. However, the main entrance is a wooden-framed papier-mâché door in the style of the Tsukino Kuni, and if the opponent shoots with a bow, it will shoot directly into the interior without hindrance.

"The money box donated at the door blocked a large part of the main entrance, keeping the body low and pinning, and the arrows they brought were also limited, so they would not waste them. "Henry is still calm, empathy is the most basic requirement of a combat professional, knowing what the enemy will think and how to act, there is a way to deal with it.

The sound of horses' hooves tickled the nerves of the group, and as the sage had expected, they did not act immediately after gathering at the main entrance of the shrine.

Because they are all connoisseurs, the patterns of action are better predicted. They don't scream like bandits - while the latter will be easier to kill, accidents are also more likely to happen because of the chaos and unpredictability.

Silence lasted for several minutes. Seeing through their plan to outflank and form a multi-faceted firepower, the sage instantly led people into the shrine to evade, which was beyond the expectations of these samurai, after all, even if it was not made of stone, the thick earthen wall mixed with rice stalks as fiber reinforcement would have to be hammered through with a pickaxe for a long time.

But the power of this sudden situation, if it is a second-rate person, may be scared away, facing a professional opponent who is bent on killing them, it will only attract further attention.

So if Henry and Mira were to say it, it was a bad move.

The answer was quickly given, and the other side took a more conservative but more decisive approach.

“....... That's not good. The sage sniffed, then frowned. The smell of smoke and burnt was immediately perceived by the others, and everyone immediately understood the samurai's plan, and their faces changed.

"How is it possible, these guys don't care about it, and they actually plan to put the shrine-" Aya's face was blue for a while and white for a while, although she didn't have the strict and fanatical obedience of the Rigal world of monotheistic beliefs, the gods of the Moon Country, which was closely connected with the culture of four thousand years, also had an extremely noble status.

They are the history of the country, even more noble than the emperor of the Moon Country. Kicking through walls like Henry is still repairable, but if it were to burn down like this, it would not only be the shrine and their group that would be burned, but also the culture of the area that had accumulated over thousands of years.

"No, I have to stop them, how can I burn down the shrine. Aya was so anxious that she burst out in her native language, muttering in the language of the Moon Country, obviously caring more about the inheritance of knowledge than her own life. But Mira and Kaleva held her back, for this was what the warriors wanted to see, and if they rushed out, they would inevitably be killed by random arrows.

"I guess everything around is surrounded, what to do, teacher. Despite verbally comforting Aya to calm down, even Mira herself became a little anxious in this situation.

They are at a disadvantage in this battle, which is a battle in which the advantage of ranged weapons such as bows and arrows over melee weapons is unmistakable - as in the battlefields of the world of Rigal, bows are not used as precision weapons in the pursuit of one-hit defeat when both sides are fighting against each other on the frontal battlefield at the level of a squad to a legion. Rather, it is used as a strategic and tactical deterrent and coverage weapon.

It is ineffective against heavily armored targets, and the heavily armored elite level, whether it is a knight of Rigal or a samurai of Crescent, is more than capable of rushing up to slash the archers in the rain of arrows. But both Henry and Mira are lightly armed mercenary adventurers, wearing only torso armor, while the others don't even have even the most basic armor.

Even if the Great Bow of the Wagon is slower, the horses under them make up for it well. This makes it difficult for swordsmen on foot to get close to each other and buy time to shoot their bows and arrows.

And the light crossbows of the group were all hanging on the little unicorn, which was separated at the moment and could not be used. Although she also had the bow in Lulu's hand, the samurai on the opposite side were not only riding horses but also wearing full armor, which was difficult to aim when they were active, and the light ranged weapons used for hunting were not enough to penetrate their armor.

A bright flame gradually burned in the doorway, and time was running out for reflection.

"......." The sage silently glanced at the paper door that had begun to burn from the four corners, then at the cash box outside, which had begun to outline in the light of the flames, and glanced back at Mira.

"Squat down and get ready. ”

"When the next opportunity comes, I will run out of the hole in the back. ”

“...... Teacher. ”

"Hmm. Mira stopped talking, but finally just nodded solemnly, knowing she couldn't help. Although I am a little unwilling, I also understand that this is the most correct thing to do. Kaleva looked dumbfounded beside her, and Miss Luoan sighed helplessly, and then explained to the other three separately.

As soon as she finished speaking, the group suddenly saw Henry's big rough hand pressed on the ground, and the green tendons on the back of his hand burst out.

"Ahem. One by one, the runes on the sage's body lit up, and he retracted Kramer into the sheath behind his back.

"Whew-" and exhaled.

Directly stepped through the wooden floor.

"Bang-" The strong wind caused everyone to close their eyes unconsciously, and the flames in the doorway were even blown out.

"Bang!—— bang!!" The fragile paper door was smashed through, and Henry's hands were clenched on either side of the huge lottery box made of heavy mahogany, weighing hundreds of kilograms, and then lifted it all as easily as if he were holding an empty crate.

"Bang dang-" The copper coins in the chest of prayer leaked through the cracks and spilled on the ground, and every step the sage took left a deep mark on the ground.

"Onika Buckle Nuoya!!" The warriors who had been calm and calm finally panicked at this moment, because the number was sparse, in order to complete the blockade and ensure that everyone was killed, they were surrounded by a distance of more than ten meters from the hut, and at this moment, the sage suddenly rushed out, and these people had no time to react.

The horses below him were panicked by the sudden and huge movement, and several of them subconsciously opened their bows and arrows to shoot powerful bows and arrows, but the sage noticed and immediately adjusted the angle of the huge wooden box.

"Grab-grab, grab!" The thick wooden crate blocked most of the arrows, and the only one that came from the side was bounced off after hitting the sturdy plate armor. Although the huge impact caused some bruises on Henry's body under the armor, it was not in the way for him.

"Nakanosachi (the one inside will be solved first)!" the Buffalo Horn Warrior led by him was worthy of being the leader, and he immediately reacted that this tall alien was using himself as bait, and at this moment, without the cover of the big cabinet, they could easily shoot the personnel inside. But where will the sage give him this opportunity.

After a long absence, he activated the enhanced magic and replaced Henry, who had reached a critical point, with one hand grabbing the corner of the cash box and throwing it directly in the direction of the samurai leader, and the reactive buffalo horn samurai instantly drove his horse away, but one of his subordinates was a beat slower.

"Wow-" The hundreds of kilograms of wooden cabinet directly smashed the warrior off his horse and crushed him to death on the spot, and Rao was wearing armor and was meaningless in the face of absolute power. And that's not all, because this is comparable to a battering ram's throwing attack, everyone else dodged their horses, losing the opportunity to attack.

Chaos began to arise in the middle of the battlefield, and the siege was broken and the samurai were huddled together, which was what Henry was aiming for.

"......" His left hand, which was temporarily weak due to side effects, hung down beside him, and the sage drew Kramer with his right hand as he ran, holding the great sword in one hand, and then rushed to the samurai closest to him with one step, and swung a sword from the bottom up.

The head of the "Qiang ——!" war horse and the large bow in the samurai's hand were cut off one after another, followed by the arm of the armor that stopped in front of the sword. The swift and powerful blades of Kramer struck the Moonland-style strips, and despite their best efforts, they were still cut in half by the crushing hardness and sharpness, and the rest were twisted and deformed by the impact.

The samurai's habitual weapon, his right hand was directly crushed by the cut tendon, and the forearm bone was thrown into the air like a rag, and he endured the pain, and was about to use his left hand to draw the short knife at his waist to attack the sage, but in a change of position, a sword had already pierced his throat through the gap under the armor.

"Ahem-" "Boom-" After drawing out Kramer with blood, Henry still held the sword in one hand, and he decisively rushed to the other side of the fallen war horse, and used the body of the war horse to block the shots of other samurai on the left side, and at the same time grabbed the fallen samurai with his left hand, which had finally regained consciousness, and directly lifted him with one hand to block the other side.

——!Two more bows were fired, but only the bodies of their dead companions were hit.

"Hah——!" Henry glanced at and then carried the samurai as a shield to the side where there were more people, and then ran towards the part with fewer people.

"Distance!!" The leader of the Horned Warriors shouted to warn the two on the other side, but it was too late, Henry lifted Kramer directly and let go of the blade, and then shook the great sword in his hand with the blade.

"Boom!!

"Ahem—" The samurai who fell from his horse fell to the ground and lost his breath, and the other samurai realized that the distance was no longer enough for him to fire again, so he threw away his big bow and drew his long knife and drove his horse forward.

"Death, Nanban bastard!" shouted a word of encouragement, and he slashed at the sage's head with a long two-handed knife with a very scimitarous blade, and Henry, still using the corpse of the dead warrior as a shield, drew the dagger at his waist and easily blocked the powerful attack from the top down with the impact of the horse.

"When!" After the ——!dagger blocked the attack, Henry deliberately deflected the blade, causing the samurai's whole body to be carried by his own strength and drifted towards this side, while his other hand let go of the death samurai who was used as a shield and drilled directly under the belly of the war horse. After running to the other side, he grabbed the panicked samurai by the leg and tore him off his horse.

"Tooth!" roared, the samurai, still trying to fight back, was thrown to the ground by the Sage and crushed his neck with a kick, before picking up his opponent's long knife, throwing him back on the horse's back and slapping the horse's ass hard.

"Whoa!" the frightened horse began to gallop towards the other warriors, and the sage began to approach them, using the horse as a moving shield.

"Stalp, trample—" The samurai who heard the commotion in the rear finally began to surround the front at this time, and Mira, after listening carefully to the sound, drew her short sword, cut the strip of cloth that bound her, and carefully held the large shield to look out, confirming that they had left to support her teammates before calling for the others to hurry up and run.

"Ha-ha-" The four of them snuck up with the little unicorn, and Galeva lost his large shield, while Mira took the light crossbow from the little unicorn and began to wind it.

"Go back and inform the three that it's time for us to evacuate. She said to the only young male at the moment, Kaleva.

"What about you?" said the young porter, looking worried.

"I have to go back to help the teacher. Mira said without looking up, and quickly placed two crossbows on the ground, and inserted the spare crossbow bolts into the inner belt of her sword.

"But he seems to be able to handle it. Caleva was still hesitating.

"Have you forgotten what magic fluctuations can cause?" Mira gave him a blank look. "Ahh

"Make a rope and evacuate?" Lulu said to the Loan maiden before leaving, and there were quite a few ropes on the other side of the hut that were used as bowstrings and multi-purpose reserves, as well as some of them carried on their own. Despite the steep terrain, it is possible to escape by hiding in the woods and using ropes.

"Hmm. The girl nodded, then grabbed two light crossbows and ran back in the direction of the shrine.

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