Chapter 11 Crossbows, Largebows, and Bed Crossbows
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
A scout roaming around the periphery of Ouyang Yu's army, after discovering the five thousand centaur leaders who were coming with great momentum, hurriedly shouted a warning, and then ran wildly with one of his comrades, and at the same time took out a double-barreled flare in his hand, took out two red-shelled signal flares from his belt and stuffed them into the barrel, and finally pulled the trigger with the muzzle facing the sky.
"Chirp...... Chirp...... Smack!"Two red flares rose into the sky and exploded.
The sound of flares traveled far away, and the entire army, including Gru, the hero of the Fortress Clan, who was galloping, saw it.
"Chirp...... Chirp...... "Two more flares flew into the sky, this time from due south.
"Slow down! Prepare to shoot from a distance!" Seeing that the sneak attack was hopeless, Gru had no choice but to order the attacking troops to slow down to save their bodies, he only had 15,000 people at full strength, and no matter how arrogant he was, he didn't think that Ouyang Yu's 110,000 army could be wiped out with just such a few people.
As soon as Ouyang Yu heard the sound of the signal flare, she left the carriage and flew up to observe the enemy's situation, and when the signal flare was also raised in the south, she immediately ordered: "The whole army stops advancing, cloth barbed wire, shield hands thousand, archers ready!"
With her order, the whole army began to move, some soldiers walked out of the team with two X-shaped thick wooden frames, and slammed one of the thick wooden frames to the ground, and the two feet with iron sheets at the bottom were inserted into the soil and fixed, and then the other thick wooden frame was quickly pulled to the side, and the barbed wire fence rolled together in the two thick wooden frames was quickly straightened, and finally the other thick wooden frame was connected with the adjacent one, and a barbed wire defense line was quickly formed.
In total, the soldiers quickly laid out three barbed wire fences. The spacing between the three lanes was also very particular, mainly to prevent the cavalry from rushing directly into the queue. Too far for the horse to sprint again, too close for a horse to jump over once. Therefore, the distance between the two barbed wire fences is generally eight meters, so that even if a rare BMW can jump over two barbed wire fences at once, it can't jump the third one, and when it lands, the speed is completely lost, waiting for the arrow representing death.
The three barbed wire fences that stretched for several kilometers were like a turtle shell, so that Ouyang Yu's 110,000 troops did not have to worry about the direct impact of the cavalry, and behind the third barbed wire was a row of sturdy soldiers holding a tall and heavy shield, followed by three rows of archers, and finally three rows of pikemen. All the soldiers were ready to strike a blow at the invading enemy.
Ouyang Yu's barbed wire tortoise formation was still in the distance Gru saw it from afar, although he didn't know what the enemy put in front of him, but since he took it out at this time, it must be something extraordinary, his sixth sense told him that it was better not to rush in directly, so Gru made a few gestures, and after seeing his gestures, the team of unicorn beast knights and wildebeest knights who were attacking behind him began to deform, from a triangular formation ready to attack to a long snake formation, and the five thousand centaur leaders on the opposite side also received an order from the silver pegasus in the sky。 It also turned into a long snake formation.
"Turn right, bow and arrow ready!" Gru led the army to suddenly turn as he approached Ouyang Yu's army, making a circular movement in a counterclockwise direction outside the range of Ouyang Yu's army's bow and arrows, and raised the longbow in his hand at the same time. The soldiers behind him also raised their longbows together.
"Put!"
Fifteen thousand long arrows were shot out and fell into Ouyang Yu's military formation almost at the same time, and the extra five thousand were the masterpieces of the Great Elves, and as the best archers, they could shoot two long arrows at once.
"Raise your shield!"
The human soldiers behind the third barbed wire quickly erected their massive shields the size of doors, under the orders of their respective commanders. The archers behind them raised their small round shields on their left arms, and even the pikemen at the back raised their shields on their left arms, which were modeled after Roman legions. A shield wall was erected.
"Jingle Clang...... Yes...... Ahhhhhhh
Most of the elves' arrows were blocked by their shields, but there were still some unlucky ghosts who were shot by arrows from the gaps. Screaming, he fell, and was quickly dragged down by the medics, with another person behind him stepping forward to take the unlucky man's place.
The losses caused by a round of arrow rain to Ouyang Yu's army were negligible, this small pitiful result was completely unexpected by Gru, and the human army defense he had encountered before did not have such a deformed defense.
"Shoot again!" Gru gave the order again without believing evil, anyway, the longbow in the hands of the elves has a range of about one hundred and seventy meters, which is farther than the longbow used by humans, which has a range of only about one hundred and twenty meters, even if the attack is still the same and ineffective, he is not afraid of receiving a blow.
"Whoosh...... Whoosh ......!"
The two elven armies were constantly moving rapidly around Ouyang Yu's tortoise formation in a counterclockwise direction, and at the same time, the longbows in their hands were also constantly firing long arrows.
"Master, there is danger above, please come down!" Doris, the center of the turtle formation, shouted worriedly to Ouyang Yu, who was still floating in the air.
Ouyang Yu obediently fell to the roof of the carriage and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"Yes, just now Adbes came and said that our 110,000-strong army was surrounded by 10,000 and could not be defeated, and the morale of the soldiers was declining. "Long ears are a contemptuous term for elves and greenskin for orcs, and elves and orcs in turn call humans monkeys.
Ouyang Yu thought with her chin crossed, it was really demoralizing to be beaten like this and not fight back, she had prepared some secret weapons, but they were intended to be used in the decisive battle, not in the current inconsequential encounter, but if she didn't need to, she was constantly besieged by the elf army like this, not only the morale of the soldiers was completely lost, but 110,000 people were surrounded by 10,000 people and couldn't fight back, this kind of thing was spread out later, her face was not good-looking, after thinking about it for a while, Ouyang Yu still decided to take out one or two secret weapons to fight back.
"Order the three field legions to concentrate all the crossbow archers to counterattack on the left and right flanks!" Ouyang Yu ordered.
"Yes!" Adembes, who had been waiting, immediately turned to deliver the order.
Soon, six thousand crossbow archers and three thousand crossbow archers came to the front under the protection of shield bearers, and these crossbow archers held one of the secret weapons that Ouyang Yu had restored according to the Song Dynasty's divine arm crossbow. The name is also called the Divine Arm Crossbow, and this kind of cottage Divine Arm Crossbow is one meter long. At the very front of the crossbow is a footrest, and the crossbow archers place the crossbow vertically on the ground. Step on the left foot to fix the crossbow with the foot pedal, and then pull the winding with both hands, because there is a gear set inside the crossbow that can put a lot of strength, so the winding is much easier than the original, after the string is good, put the crossbow arrow of the half-meter-long, iron arrow into the launch slot, and finally hold the crossbow body with both hands one after the other to aim steadily.
Six thousand crossbow archers who had already been prepared hid behind the giant shield, and aimed their crossbows at the elven army that had been running around again.
"The enemy is four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters away, launch!"
"Whoosh ......!"
The rain of black-pressed two crossbow arrows shot towards the two elven armies that were circling in circles. The crossbow arrows with a range of up to four hundred meters give full play to their power at a distance of two hundred meters, and the arrows of fine iron can be pierced even by heavy armor, and the defense of centaur leaders, elves, ordinary elven warriors and unicorn beasts is all ineffective under the blow of this arrow, and the elven warriors who are hit by the arrows either fall to the ground with their mounts, or roll off their mounts and be trampled into pulp by their comrades behind, in addition to the powerful unicorn beasts, more than a thousand centaur leaders, The Great Elf and the Normal Elf became the result of the debut of the Divine Arm Crossbow.
The sudden sharp blow knocked Gru unconscious, but he immediately came to his senses and hurriedly gave the order to retreat, under the "farewell" of the Divine Arm Crossbow, which had a maximum effective range of 400 meters. After three rounds of attacks, Gru's army escaped from the terrifying Divine Arm Hell, and after the count, they lost more than 2,000 centaur leaders, elves and ordinary elven warriors, and almost vomited blood in anger.
Originally, the strongest unicorn beast and the elven knights above in Gru's plan should directly attack the defense line of Ouyang Yu's army like the heavy armored cavalry of humans. With their powerful combat power, they tore a hole in the defense line, and then let the five thousand wildebeest cavalry who followed behind play the role of human light cavalry, expanding the torn defense line, and finally dividing Ouyang Yu's 110,000 army into two halves. Five thousand elves riding centaur leaders were constantly roaming around the periphery, attacking and creating chaos and demoralizing the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army. Forcing the soldiers to flee and fight a rout, the Gru army with high mobility can hang behind and easily harvest the lives of the defeated human soldiers. Thus destroying the greatest human reinforcements along the way.
As for how Ouyang Yu dealt with her, Gru, who had never fought with her, thought that the magic he learned in the fifth-level magic tower could definitely defeat the so-called human super magic master, and the reason why he felt this way was that in the past few battles, he had easily killed several saint-level mages on the human side, and he thought that Ouyang Yu was definitely just like that, and his magic was definitely easy to catch.
It's a pity that the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, Ouyang Yu's barbed wire tortoise formation first made his plan stillborn, and the divine arm crossbow made him lose his troops, and he had to change his strategy to attack Ouyang Yu's army with the positional warfare that elves are best at.
The elves riding on the centaur leader went down to the ground, and the eight thousand battle dwarves with the shortest legs and feet were sent by Gru to protect the elves, and the battle dwarves who were more powerful than the human heavy infantry If they had enough long-range protection, they would definitely be bulldozer-like on the battlefield, and ordinary human soldiers would never be able to stop them.
The unicorn beasts and their knights are still used as a killer weapon to the back, more than 4,000 wildebeest knights temporarily make cameo appearances as magicians, and these elves who specialize in melee combat can also release low-level magic, but they can't be released on the horned horses and the control mounts can't be released, they must go down to the ground, and the elf army also relies on powerful magic power to push all the way, and the human western coalition army has retreated all the way.
After more than an hour, the Gru army, which had been prepared, regrouped and slowly advanced towards Ouyang Yu's army in a neat formation, and the army of more than 20,000 people actually took the initiative to attack the army of 110,000 people.
The Gru Army stopped almost fifteen hundred meters away from Ouyang Yu's Army, and Gru rode on a unicorn beast and began to unleash buff magic for his army.
"Attack accelerated!100 shots!Atmospheric Aegis!Body Protector Aegis!"
As soon as the four magic spells came out, the combat power of his soldiers immediately increased, "Start attacking!" Gru waved his right hand, and all the more than four thousand elves began to chant magic spells.
As soon as Gru's magic was released here, Ouyang Yu felt it, she didn't expect to meet the heroes of the Barrier Clan here, and thought that it was just ordinary elves who commanded these Barrier Clan troops to fight.
"Order the soldiers to be careful of the enemy's powerful long-range attacks, push the bed crossbow up for me, so many live targets are standing there, don't shoot it, I'm really sorry for the other party's pain!" Ouyang Yu issued a new order.
Half a minute later, the more than four thousand elves were ready to magic, "Free attack!" With Gru's order, more than four thousand fireballs, wind blades, water bombs and stone balls, four series of low-level magic were shot at Ouyang Yujun, and after firing this round, the elves began to chant spells again to prepare for the second magic attack.
This time the magic attack made Ouyang Yujun lose a little bit, the heavy shield could block the long arrows that came from shooting, but it couldn't stop the magic that flew in, and the magic bullets that flew exploded on the shield, or penetrated, or hit hard, in short, many giant shields in the front row were shattered, and the shield players in the back also fell a lot.
"Get the bed crossbow ready!"
Two hundred large bed crossbows equipped with four wheels were pushed to the front line by the soldiers from the baggage team, this kind of bed crossbow is called the three-bow bed crossbow, which is a kind of bed crossbow in the Song Dynasty, in order to have a larger shooting distance and power, the three big bows are combined, and three crossbow arrows can be shot at a time, which originally required thirty people to pull it away, but Ouyang Yu improved it, not only adding the same power amplifier as the god arm crossbow (gears, Pulleys), which can be quickly wound with only four soldiers, and a simple sighting device and rangefinder are also added, and two launch rails are added, which can shoot five short spears the thickness of a baby's arm and a meter long at a time.
Ten soldiers were required to operate the three-bow bed crossbow, one for aiming, four for winding, and five for loading, with a maximum effective range of up to two thousand meters. (The original version is 1,500 meters, don't believe yourself to ask Du Niang)
The two thousand soldiers were finally ready to fire after the third round of magic strikes, and one by one the glowing short spears had been lowered into the firing rails, just waiting for the commander's order.
An officer with a simple rangefinder shouted after some measurements: "The enemy is 1,500 meters away, and the wind speed is a slight southwest breeze!"
The officer's words were passed down to the ears of all the soldiers in charge of aiming, and the soldiers in charge of aiming began to shake the wheel in their hands, and the bed crossbow slowly raised the angle of fire.
"Put!"
"Huh!"
A thousand short spears, propelled by mechanical energy, flew towards the Gru army at great speed.
Gru looked at the short spears flying over densely, and was frightened and quickly shouted: "Disperse, disperse quickly!"
The more than 4,000 elven soldiers who were preparing to cast spells, most of them didn't care about the spell backlash and immediately stopped the spell and ran back, and a small number of them continued to stand in place to prepare the spell with luck in their hearts, and then .......
"Boom...... Puff puff puff ......!"
The sound of the short spear inserting into the ground and the body continued to sound, and the elven soldiers who were holding luck in their hearts, except for a few extremely lucky guys, were all shot to the ground by the short spear, and those who were not dead were nailed to the ground and screamed miserably, hoping that their companions could come to the rescue, but unfortunately, except for some people with particularly good feelings who stayed to rescue, most of the elven warriors turned over and ran towards the rear.
"Boom...... Puff puff puff ......!"
A second wave of short spears followed, and the elven warriors who had stayed behind to save them returned to the arms of the gods along with their friends, relatives, or comrades in need of their rescue.
"The whole army stopped attacking and sent a signal for help to Her Royal Highness the Princess, we are in serious trouble. Gru looked at Ouyang Yu's army in the distance, and the sixth sense in his heart once again told him that if he let this unique army and the western coalition army converge, the elven army's overwhelming offensive would probably stop, and it would pay a great price. (To be continued......)