What is the correct way for a swordsman to fight an archer?

If you throw this question to a layman who thinks he knows a lot, most likely the person will tell you some difficult techniques that seem feasible at first glance - such as splitting your opponent's arrow with a sword, even catching it with your bare hands and throwing it back, or dodging back and forth.

Most of the people who have these high-end cool skills in their minds that will actually be used as the right response plan in reality have already died.

Meaninglessly making it more difficult to implement one's own coping methods and complicating things that could have been easily solved, just because it "looks cool", is the reason why more than 90% of the young mercenaries with the world trainee and green card level in Rigal have died.

The correct answer is simple and boring: the swordsman needs to close the distance to attack, and the archers will inevitably try to stop you from approaching in the process. So all you need to do is wear armor that is strong enough to withstand arrows, or—

Take a shield.

With his broadsword in both hands, Henry did not follow his usual low-hanging style, but ran forward with the tip of his sword facing upwards in front of him.

The sage put his hands and arms close to his body to maintain his steady movement while running, and Kramer stretched forward diagonally at an angle, and the steel blade of the one-meter-five sword formed a central line of defense that was not very wide, and because of the oblique angle, it did not obstruct the vision.

Mercenaries are lightly armed professions, and the sword is more like a self-defense weapon for self-defense than the main battle weapon used in high-intensity battlefields.

For this reason, in swordsmanship, especially in the world of Rigal, each initiator has a defensive purpose in addition to being the initial stance of the attack.

Knights in full armor can almost abandon their defenses, as their attacks can be more aggressive and fierce because they are covered in shields.

But the light profession is not good, and the weapons in the hand must be considered defense in addition to attack. The weapon itself is a part of the defense, neutralizing the opponent's attack by attacking or blocking.

The sage wore a suit of plate armor that was sufficient to withstand Kazuto's bow, but he did not wear a helmet for vision, breathing, etc. Only the upper limbs are protected by lightweight soft armor, which can resist scratches, and in the face of direct hits from powerful bows and arrows, it can only have a slight effect on reducing injuries.

"Oh yes, Da Lega Da Da (Hey, someone's coming)!" the bandits clearly spotted Henry's tracks of a single-handed rush, and the road on this side of the trail was in similar condition as before, with a narrow mud trail with cliffs on the right and a high mountain wall on the left.

Unlike the one behind the completely rocky terrain, there are some shrubs growing here due to the accumulation of soil. The bandits hid there, and there were two planks outside to block the way, and a few figures could be seen in the middle.

The overall outline of the trail resembles the U-shaped letters of the Rigalese, with Henry at one end and the bandits at the other, but the curved parts are not as curved.

The shrubs and woodlines were on the bandits' side, and the dirt in the middle of the hundred-hundred-meter land was unobstructed, for the archers.

is the ideal terrain.

"Smack!" was the sound of the bowstring loosening.

"Boom-" "Boom-" followed by the slight sound of arrows.

Henry didn't dodge, and rushed over with a sword.

"Ahh The first few arrows were thrown in a huge parabola, and if you were a layman, you would be so frightened by the arrows that you would stop and try to dodge.

But Henry was not a layman.

He is an expert.

"Take, take!" the arrow landed ten meters behind him.

This is a sports battle and the best option for a swordsman to get close to the archer.

At longer distances, a parabolic bow and arrow needs to calculate the flight time difference and the landing point. So the advantage of a swordsman is speed - the series of movements from arrows, bows, aiming, and loosening the strings can take seconds even for a seasoner, and if you are fast enough and don't hesitate, you will be no longer in your original position in a few seconds.

Reaiming even with your bow already open will save you a lot of time, and your constant dash will further disrupt your opponent's predictions.

So.

The projectile of bows and arrows has always appeared in the form of a rain of arrows, shooting collectively to make up for the lack of accuracy of a single arrow with coverage.

But the bandits didn't.

"By Midai, Meyer (archer, forward)!" the speaker was dressed in armor and holding a fan. Under his command, the bandit archers who had been hiding behind cover all ran out and stretched their bows at Henry, who was charging head-on.

This is a consideration made by weighing many factors in just a few seconds -

There are only a dozen bandits in ambush here, and if it is a samurai who charges over, even if the horses may have a faster pace than Henry, they have a fatal flaw-

The goal is too big.

The projectile of a dozen people has to hit a person and a horse, and the difference is quite large. As long as the war horse is hit by an arrow, even if it is not fatally wounded, there is a cliff on the side of such a narrow road, and if it is not controlled during the charge, a stumble will cause people and horses to fall into it.

It was precisely because the samurai saw through this that they preferred to charge head-on with more numbers, and it was precisely because the bandits knew this that they chose to guard the trail in this way.

But Henry rushed over.

One man and one sword, just like that, he came with a step no less than the speed of a war horse's charge.

A few seconds is only enough time for two rounds of arrows, and if the second round is projectile, the hit rate against a smaller target like the human body is lower, and more importantly, he has rushed to a distance of about 30 meters.

"Oh Horse and Wait (Wait)—" The commander made the right choice in the pressed time, and he ordered his archers to stand out from behind cover, stand side by side at the exit of the road, draw their bows and ask them to wait, without asking them to shoot immediately in a hurry.

He was calm.

He also has a lot of experience.

Able to hit a target the size of a human head at a distance of about 25 meters is already one in a hundred archers.

The accuracy of the flat shot was far higher than that of the projectile, and everyone stood side by side in front of Henry, and the already narrow path would be covered by a dozen oncoming arrows the moment they let go of the bowstring.

Don't be anxious, even if you are an expert, even if you are an opponent who has seen blood, it is too small to break through alone.

The bandit commander thought.

The distance has narrowed.

"Hanata (let go) ——!", "Bang Bang

Sparks flew, and in an instant, the sage, who had deflected the blade, accurately flicked two arrows with the shield of the broadsword, while the other three sliced through the velvet on the surface of the plate armor and even cut deep marks through the copper flower rivets, but they were not able to penetrate it.

"Boom-" The remaining arrows missed, falling sixty meters away.

"Bagana—" The commander, who thought that there was no chance of survival in this wave of shooting, was stunned, and the attacking bandit archers looked at each other as if they barely knew what was happening.

What is the correct way for a swordsman to deal with an archer?

Even if you know the method, those who can't do it still make a lot of money.

Sounds stupid, also very untechnical, and even less dreamy, but.

Superb eyesight.

Best-in-class reaction speed.

Top-notch judgment.

Without one of these elements, you will be the one who dies in battle.

Fighting is such a thing, it shouldn't be reciprocal.

Its purpose was to win, its own survival, so the kind of duels that were prevalent among the Rigal nobility with strict reciprocal conditions were often scoffed at by the old mercenaries.

"Only a fool wants to put the other party against him on an equal footing. ”

Experience, weapons and armor, physical abilities.

It's an all-round crushing -

The sage raised his gray-blue eyes, the time that the bandits were momentarily stunned was only a tiny loophole, but it was the small opportunity to enlarge it and fight back.

is the reason why a first-class swordsman is a first-class swordsman.

"Untie the bowstring, melee combat, spear team forward!!" the commander shouted, and the bandits, who showed no less ability than the samurai, decisively took out their short knives and cut the bowstring, and the two-meter-long bow made of multi-layered bamboo bounced back to a slightly bent straight state after losing the string to pull, forming a temporary spear.

"Haaaa

"Qiang—"

Kremer.

That's it.

Unstoppable.

The name of the all-encompassing great sword.

"Click!!" waved their hands and severed several in an instant, and with a turn of the sword struck away others, the bandits decisively let go of their weapons and drew their swords or daggers, but they had no chance of victory after losing the safety factor of distance.

"Please—" "Grab it!!" flew out of the dagger and hit the throat with unmistakable accuracy.

"Ahem-" And the weakness of the lack of throat protection in the armor of the people, how could Henry let it go.

The squad commander who captured the thief first captured the king, showing outstanding command ability and situation judgment ability, even after being in the defense line of more than a dozen people, the sage still gave priority to killing with the short knife he captured.

"Chisama!!!" shouted the bandits continued to kill, but it was only a matter of time before they were defeated and killed without their commander.

"When—Qiang—" The road was narrow and surrounded on all sides, and the bandits wielded short knives and one-handed knives, while Henry held a one-meter-and-a-half sword.

The invincible greatsword in open terrain can be difficult to play in a narrow area, and even if they lose their commander, they can still judge this, so they desperately close the distance.

But it didn't work.

"Smack-" Hold the handle in one hand and grasp the blade in the other.

The name of Rigal's swordsmanship is: half-sword style.

"Boom!!" The bandit who was hit in the face by the counterweight ball flew out with his broken teeth and fell backwards.

Henry then pushed his sword forward, like a carpenter's planer, slammed the middle of the broadsword into the forehead of another person opposite, directly knocking him to the brain, and then blocked a man's short knife with the left side of the tip of the sword, and stabbed him in the armpit, and then lifted him up and kicked him into the air, smashing two people together.

After emptying the closest people, the sage let go of his left hand and held the sword in one hand in his right hand, and directly slashed with a large horizontal slash-

"Bang!dang!!!"

Broken weapons, blood gushing out.

"Ahem—" The ground was littered with dead bodies, and the Commander didn't take his last breath until then.

"Wow, a

Including the dash, the battle lasts less than 30 seconds.

When Mira and her party emerge from the other side, the bows and arrows that threaten them have all been disposed of.

"Yes, that's how it is. The Luo'an girl, who instructed everyone to prepare for the response, had a slightly subtle expression.

"Whew-" Henry exhaled, wiping the blood off Kramer with the dead bandit's clothes.

"How strong does this person have to be. "Allagami. A subtle discussion came from the back of the group, and the girl Luoan, who led the little unicorn to Henry's neighborhood, and was about to say something to her teacher, suddenly changed her expression in an instant.

"Teacher ——!!"

The huge javelin that struck "——!" in mid-air was so fast that even Henry couldn't dodge it.

- No, not unsuccessfully.

Yes, you can't.

Mira figured it out in a split second.

"Click——!!" Kramer scraped the surface of the javelin and sent out bursts of sparks, and then the cotton armor on Henry's left shoulder, which was scratched, was easily broken, and the blood was soaked, but the javelin also pierced into the mountain wall with a "——!!bang" sound due to the sage's reaction, which was half a meter deep.

The blow was so powerful that small rocks were shaken down the mountain.

"Teacher......" The sage turned his back to this side and held out his hand, motioning for Mira to step back.

He can't hide.

Because behind you are other people.

"Boom-"

"Ahh Aya, who was weak in her hands and feet, almost crouched down before she could stand still, but Kaleva stepped in to help her.

"Ha ————" The newcomer with huge fangs exhaled a white breath, and his body, which was nearly three meters high, was wearing black armor with paint peeling, and the top of the reddened skin was at the top of his forehead, and two miserable white horns stretched out and pointed straight to the sky.

"Oni. "No one else needs to explain, and at a glance, Mira knows what kind of character it is.

"Stand back. The sage didn't look back, for Oni was accompanied by several bow-wielding bandits, and judging by their new outfits, they should have been reinforcements from nearby rather than those who had just fled.

Powerful, armoured melee hands, harassment and support from ranged units.

Even he would be a little tricky - Mira, who was thinking like this, chose to refute her teacher's arrangement.

"Nope. The girl grabbed her long knife and turned over and rode on the little unicorn.

"I'm going to fight too. ”