Chapter 90: Rescuing Baron Saul (Part II)
And because the cavalry force was destroyed so quickly, it was only at this time that the infantry and crossbowmen of the Svadia Kingdom, who were still in place and besieging Baron Thor, finally reacted to what had just happened.
Count Michod, who was in charge of commanding the infantry and crossbowmen, was also in a dilemma for a while, if he led his army to retreat now, without the cover of cavalry, he would easily be caught up by the enemy with a great victory, and the retreat might turn into a rout.
And if you continue to stay, sooner or later you will be surrounded and annihilated by this enemy army that comes to help.
After thinking about it for a while, Michod felt that his only chance now was to seize the small dirt slope and seize Baron Thor to force the enemy army to retreat.
After all, that army was fighting the family banner of Baron Sol, and it should also be Baron Sol's subordinates, and the other party should have forcibly launched an attack regardless of Baron Sol's life.
With this in mind, Michod immediately led his troops and launched an attack on the remnants of Baron Saul's army, which was trapped on a small dirt slope.
However, Baron Thor also knew that he could be saved if he held on for a while, so when he saw the enemy attacking, he immediately led more than 50 remnants of his army to resist vigorously.
A Swadia sergeant with a two-handed sword and a small group of soldiers rushed up the dirt slope first, and his eyes were fixed on the burly figure with a large axe above him, who had been told by Michod beforehand, and if he could catch it, then they could all be saved.
Unfortunately, before they could attack, the enemy on the opposite side threw a large wave of javelins and throwing axes at them, and the Swadia sergeant who led the charge hurriedly swung his great sword in his hand vigorously, knocking several javelins and axes flying towards him.
Other soldiers who were not as skilled as him were not so lucky, and seven or eight people were knocked down in a series of screams.
Luckily, they also had ranged troops, and more than 200 Swadia marksmen armed with heavy crossbows also fired a salvo at the enemy on the dirt slope in the rear.
Seeing this, Baron Thor hurriedly raised his shield to defend, and under the large number of crossbow arrows, the shields in the hands of many soldiers were shot violently.
Fortunately, most of the remaining remnants of Baron Thor were equipped with inferior versions of the Iron Floating Tu heavy armor sold to him by Ye Tianlong, and some even stripped off the armor of their fallen comrades, to the extent of two layers of heavy armor or even triple heavy armor, so although the crossbow bolts shot by those heavy crossbows were not weak, they could at most cause some minor injuries when they were shot at them, and they could not shoot them directly at all.
After waiting for the crossbow bolts to fall, Baron Thor dropped the shield in his hand that was already full of crossbow arrows, and then took the lead in holding the Xuanhua axe and took the initiative to rush towards the enemy infantry not far away.
Baron Thor is not looking for death, but wants to take advantage of the time when the enemy crossbowmen are reloading their crossbows to rush in front of the enemy infantry and start a white-knuckle battle with them.
In this way, after the two sides fought together, the enemy crossbowmen did not dare to shoot for a while, even if they reloaded their crossbows, for fear of accidentally injuring their own soldiers.
Baron Thor, who is more than two meters tall, is like a little giant, and rushed to the Swadia sergeant in three or two steps, and after avoiding the opponent's two-handed sword sideways, he actually grabbed the opponent's neck, and then lifted the enemy sergeant, who was also about one meter eight tall and strong, into the air, and grabbed the opponent's neck with a fierce right hand, and the Swadia sergeant's neck bone was pinched and broken.
Baron Thor then roared, and smashed his body as a weapon against the enemy infantrymen on the opposite side.
Several Swadiya infantrymen wearing chain mail and holding spears saw their commander's body smashing at them, and immediately subconsciously lowered the tip of the spear in their hands, so as not to let the sharp spear pierce the body of their own commander.
However, this caused them to fall to the ground one after another by the body of their own commander, and their weapons were also pressed down by the corpse of the commander wearing sleeveless plate armor, and they were unable to make any defense and counterattack for a while.
Baron Thor took the opportunity to rush in front of them, and the Xuanhua Axe in his hand swept violently, and the heads of these Swadian infantry were immediately slashed out by Qi Brush.
Inspired by Baron Thor's example, the other soldiers who also knew that they could be saved if they held on for a little longer also howled down the dirt slope like tigers in the mountains, and quickly entangled with the enemy army, and launched an extremely fierce white-knuckle formation.
On the other side, Ye Tianlong saw that the remaining infantry and crossbowmen of the Swadia Kingdom had launched an attack on Baron Thor so quickly, and he hurriedly urged his soldiers to rush over to the rescue.
It's a pity that most of the soldiers under his command are also infantry, and in the case of cavalry, there are only a dozen guards under his command and those players who have already practiced their riding skills, adding up to less than thirty horses!
Although there were not many cavalry, in order to relieve some pressure on Baron Sol, Ye Tianlong immediately led more than 20 cavalry under his command to rush towards the small dirt slope at full speed.
And when the distance between the two sides was still a few hundred meters away, his master Li Rufeng took out the strong bow that Murong Jie had specially customized for her after she became an innate master, and aimed the bow and arrow at the middle-aged man who looked like an enemy commander in the distance.
After aiming a little, Li Rufeng shot out this armor-piercing heavy arrow that blessed her with a lot of innate true qi.
The arrow shot by Li Rufeng, whose strength value had already broken 100, was really fast as lightning, and the air along the road was easily torn apart by this arrow, causing it to emit a terrifying sonic boom during the flight. It doesn't look like an arrow, but rather a small-caliber cannonball fired from an electromagnetic cannon.
When Michod heard the terrible sonic boom, he immediately felt bad, and immediately grabbed one of the soldiers beside him and pulled him in front of him as a shield.
However, this did not save his life, and the body of the Swadia sergeant, who was wearing thick sleeveless plate armor, was blasted into the chest by the heavy armor-piercing arrows that shot at him.
The heavily weakened armor-piercing arrow then moved forward, striking Michod in the chest, sending it through a fist-sized hole in the chest.
"How is that possible..." Mijod felt the pain and looked down at the huge bloody hole that had been pierced through his chest, and slowly collapsed with an expression of disbelief on his face, and then was weighed down by the corpse of Sergeant Svadia who fell closely, and he completely choked.
Ye Tianlong was also shocked to see that his master had actually shot the enemy commander with an arrow from such a distance.
It seemed that seeing Ye Tianlong's surprise, Li Rufeng also specially explained to his apprentice, but not all innate martial artists who had just broken through to the innate realm could be as strong as her.
This is because she has been trapped for many years in the late stage of Huajin, and her accumulation has long been enough, so after breaking through to the innate realm, under the accumulation, the quantity and quality of the innate true qi in her body are not comparable to those ordinary martial artists. This is because after all, she is also a genius martial artist with a heavenly qualification, and she is practicing the heaven-level exercise "Vientiane Decision", which can be switched at any time according to different combat needs, so she can successfully snipe the enemy commander of Nasvadia with one arrow from a distance of a few hundred meters.
At the same time that Li Rufeng explained to Ye Tianlong, the enemy troops on the opposite side were in chaos for a while because of the sudden death of the commander Count Michord, and the Swadia infantry who were fighting fiercely with Baron Sol and them were not able to get friendly support from the rear in time, and they were even beaten back by Baron Sol for a time, looking like they were about to be completely defeated.
After Ye Tianlong saw this situation, he immediately saw the fighter plane, immediately raised the horse speed to the highest, and led more than 20 cavalry under his command to quickly approach the Swadia soldiers who surrounded the small soil slope.
When there was still a distance of more than 50 meters between the two sides, Ye Tianlong and the others released arrows one after another, throwing a wave of sparse arrow rain towards the enemy.
Although Ye Tianlong's rain of arrows shot by them is a bit sparse, the lethality is not low, after all, most of them have already pointed their strong bow skills to more than seven points, and combined with the riding bows and arrows made of various modern materials and processes, as long as they hit, they will immediately seriously injure or even kill an enemy in seconds.
And the crossbow bolts shot by the enemy crossbowmen hit Ye Tianlong and the few of them rushed to the front of the green python battle armor, and they could only splash a little spark before they were bounced away, and they couldn't cause any effective damage to Ye Tianlong and them at all.
Faced with this situation, the crossbowmen, who were not strong in melee combat, immediately panicked, and shouted for their infantry to come back to protect them.
But those infantry are also panicking at this time! After all, as soldiers of the Svadian Kingdom, they naturally knew the terrifying power of the hoplites charging at full speed. So at this time, in the face of Ye Tianlong's heavy cavalry charge, which was armed to the teeth, they really didn't want to come up and be the first wave of cannon fodder to die!
Seeing that the infantry was still grinding there one by one, some Swadia officers with knightly titles shouted loudly, and even reached out and pushed the infantry to step forward with spears in hand, ready to resist the onslaught of those enemy cavalry.
And just when those enemy infantry came to the front of the formation one by one with trepidation, and reluctantly laid down a twisted gun array, Ye Tianlong and the others fiercely divided into two groups in front of the enemy formation, and bypassed the enemy formation on both sides, and did not forget to shoot arrows at those enemy infantry when they passed by, killing and injuring the enemy's living force.
The reason why Ye Tianlong chose to give up the charge at the last moment was because the enemy army had not completely lost the will to fight, if the other party was really frightened just now and failed to deploy the gun array in time, he naturally didn't mind rushing up with his cavalry.
But since the enemy had laid out the gun array in time, he naturally would not take the only cavalry under his command to charge the gun array and send him to death. After all, the purpose of his coming here this time was only to relieve the defensive pressure on Baron Thor, and now that he has attracted so many enemies here, the purpose has been achieved, and there is no need to rush to fight with the enemy army at all.