Chapter 70: Stalemate and Victory
The 'array' of the three trolls, the front, suffered heavy losses in the first few rounds of fire, but they did not immediately break up in the face of wave after wave of heavy spear bombardment, but continued to charge quite heroically.
After crossing the 'death line' of 100 to 70 meters, as more and more trolls came into range, the fangs' attacks naturally dispersed.
Although the casualties are still heavy, the perceived impact is no longer so terrifying due to the dispersion of the attack points.
When some of the enemy trolls broke into the 60-meter range, the warriors, under the command of Blade Fang, stopped throwing their spears at this time, as this distance was about to enter the range of 'oblique flat fire';
"All the soldiers! Change the shield array! 1st to 5th squadrons! Forward Defense! ”
"The 6th Squadron, the 7th Squadron, spread diagonally to the two wings! Diagonal Defense! ”
The warriors stooped down to pick up the giant shield that had been placed flat in front of them, and began to compress the array that had been widened by the shield spacing and projectile needs;
The soldiers of the 1st to 5th squadrons had different movements in the three platoons when they were arrayed;
The first row of warriors drew the heavy sword in front of the right hand, bent the knees, bowed the waist, and raised the shield to the front of the body under the eye;
The soldiers of the second row also drew their heavy swords, but instead of bowing their waists like their colleagues in the front row, they bent their knees and raised their shields diagonally above the heads of the front row, bringing themselves and the heads of their colleagues in the front row into the defensive range;
The warriors of the third row, who did not bow their waists or bend their knees, simply drew their swords and raised their giant shields flat above their heads, and began to defend against the inner upper waist of the second row of giant shields.
The two squadrons of fighters responsible for the defense of the left and right flanks also quickly deployed backwards in an approximate formation under the order.
"All of them! Stay on the defensive! Forward! ”
At the sound of the order, the fighters of the seven squadrons activated at the same time, slowly approaching forward, in an attempt to reduce the number of times the enemy could throw spears.
Soldiers are not afraid to throw spears, but the shieldless units in the rear are different...... For this reason, Blade Tooth made this decision in a hurry.
After that, after explaining the follow-up of the hunter team, he also led the reserve squadron to keep up with the footsteps of the soldiers in front.
As for the command platform that the witch doctors had worked so hard to set up for him, of course, it was wasted......
After all, Blade Tooth is just an 'amateur general', and until no one can teach him how to command a real war, or figure out a path for himself, he can only think of one play after another.
The soldiers moved forward slowly, in a three-column formation, basically only the soldiers in the front row could have a clear vision, and the latter two factions could only follow their pace.
It's not easy, but these workers who don't hunt or do any productive activities train for this on weekdays.
And now, it's time for them to prove that they haven't been eating rice all along.
The sound of 'thump, thump, thump' and the ensuing impact were constantly coming from the shield, but the lethal effect was extremely limited.
Only a few unlucky ones in the front row will be hit by spears that burrow through the gaps between shields;
Among the wounded, those who can hold on naturally grit their teeth and continue to move forward; Those who can't hold on can only fall down with their heads on the ground, so as not to become an obstacle to their teammates who continue to move forward.
And the vacant seats they left behind will naturally be filled by fighters in the back row.
Fortunately, as the two sides moved forward in both directions, the distance between them became smaller and smaller, and they soon collided with each other like a wave.
Inferior weapons do not destroy the shields of the warriors, but the impact of the enemy with all his strength can bring a great impact.
Many arrays were dented under this impact, and the soldiers in the front and rear rows involuntarily collided together.
The three arrays are obviously still a little thin, and the most serious sections of them are even in danger of being completely washed away.
Fortunately, the reserve team led by Blade Fang filled the gap in time, which stabilized the formation and did not let the Shieldless Hunters team who were following up in the rear face the front.
In fact, strictly speaking, the hunters of the own side are actually of the same nature as the enemy's 'army', and they are both half-hunting and half-soldier troops;
Even thanks to the long-term training of the 'militia', they surpassed the enemy in terms of organization.
Therefore, if you really go hard, it will not be empty.
But after all, the tribe has made a division of labor, and it is better for the soldiers to bear the responsibility of the soldiers, otherwise one day there will be a backlash from the current special treatment.
The battle continued, and the frontal front line of 40 trolls and the side line of 16 trolls were clearly not enough to completely block the enemy team that had already begun to unfold.
In front of the enemy trolls that continued to stretch to both sides, the front row had already changed from three columns to two columns in many places; In order to have more enemy blocking surfaces, many rear row fighters had to be inserted into the front row;
The front slowly warped, and the distinction between the two wings and the front became more and more blurred;
Finally, at a certain moment, the left and right wings 'met' in the rear, and their own soldiers were completely compressed into a 'hollow' circle, guarding the 'amateur troops', witch doctors and other trolls inside.
This was undoubtedly not the decision of the 'two-knife war commander', but the natural evolution of the situation that forced it to be so.....
At this point, Bladefang realizes that he is underestimating the troll race.
As long as there is no gap of more than several generations in the weapon, or a decisive advantage in the level of extraordinary strength, it seems that in the face of these thick-skinned trolls, they cannot expect to achieve devastating results.
When entering the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the trolls who could even be called 'seriously injured and unable to get out of the line of fire' in the concept of the previous life can always successfully pull the battle into the stage of physical strength.
This can be roughly understood by looking at the casualties alone.
With the exception of the first few rounds of concentrated damage caused by the rethrowing spear, the trolls who died directly on both sides in the subsequent battles were rare, if not none.
Furthermore, the 'will to fight' doesn't seem to be a scarce thing for trolls who can easily get into the red-eye killing phase;
This seems to be obvious with the larger the battle, but it may be relatively easy to break out in small encounters.
The above two factors are the fundamental reasons for the failure to win this battle.... I haven't fought a few battles, or this is the first battle I participated in in the real sense, so I summed it up.
Of course, in his opinion, the dominant side at this time is still the tooth side; And the advantage is not small, but it can't be won quickly.
Therefore, Blade Fang was not in a hurry, he had already stood on the platform that had been erected again, and under the cover of the volunteer Daba, he was directing the reserves to help the various fronts in crisis, while thinking about what else he could do.
He took the moment to look around, and saw that there was no angle near the platform to throw spears, and soon the hunters would have nothing to do;
I saw some soldiers who were obviously carrying a one-meter-five heavy sword, but because they couldn't reach the enemy, they could only awkwardly go to the back of their teammates in the front row.
He realized that he seemed to have made a rather stupid mistake in the choice of weapons..... Fortunately, there is room for redress.
Bladefang ordered the hunters to stop throwing spears due to angle problems, which had already yielded much success;
Ask them to take out the remaining heavy spears and give them to a few fighters who are in the back row and are unable to attack effectively.
The 'experiments' who had received nearly 2.5 meters of heavy spears were at a loss, thinking that the commander had told them to continue throwing spears, but a few of them with fast hands had already thrown them out in an almost vertical manner.
Not to mention, there are really those who directly shatter the enemy's head....
But Bladefang clearly didn't mean that, and he jumped off the platform, took three steps and two steps to the front line, picked up a throwing spear and stabbed through the gap in his shield, and immediately seriously injured an enemy troll.....
Seeing his operation, the warriors in the left vicinity also tried the same, and found that it was much more convenient than any heavy sword..... Especially when it comes to stalemate with dense formations.
Soon, the new use of the re-throwing spear was learned by the warriors farther to the left and right, and it was successfully spread to the ears of all the soldiers in a circle.
At the same time, the order was passed on to inflict as much damage as possible, but not to kill the enemy troll completely...... The greedy blade has never given up his desire for 'labor'.
Not only the soldiers, but also the members of the Hunter Team joined one after another with extra throwing spears, sneaking up on the assassination from two meters away.
The expansion of the attack range caused the pressure in the front row to drop sharply, and a large number of enemy trolls who were on the front line fell to the thorn hits, leaving the fighters in the front row without opponents for a while.....
With such obvious effect, the spear was passed forward in rows, and finally replaced the heavy sword as the main weapon in the hands of all soldiers.
In the face of this abrupt change, it is obvious that the enemy's front is unable to follow......
The large number of casualties in the front row in the blink of an eye made these red-eyed trolls a little more sober;
Thinking about their own safety and not being optimistic about their own victory..... These negative emotions began to take root and deeply affected their combat effectiveness.
At this point, the commander of the two knives finally made no more of a second sword, and Bladetooth realized that this seemed to be the perfect opportunity.
He gave the order to the witch doctors to use the thorn vines.
The witch doctors have been playing the role of 'stacking buff mages' and 'daddys', and they are still the kind of inefficient mages who can only heal one target at a time and only add buffs to one target....
When a new order came, they immediately stopped their boring, almost endless 'repetitive work' and geared up for a big job.