Chapter 0278 - The Rapidly Growing Will Longbow Divine Arrow
Obviously, after the raven sent the news, the vanguard army had already taken countermeasures against the large trenches on the road. In the armory, there must be loading bags, just like the armory of the Great Wall of Despair, long and short swords and shields, spears, crossbows and arrows, oil barrels, black armor, various types of combat boots, black cloaks, black antifreeze gloves, training swords, bundles piled up in the armory, but there are no such bags filled with sand.
In a few days of reconnaissance, Will grew very fast, following Blackfish and his scout team, what kind of tent to live in what soldiers, what kind of tent can live in forty soldiers, what kind of tent to live in eighty soldiers, what is the difference between the army commander's tent, the banner and family crest of the nobles in the west and the identification of the soldiers' service, how to calculate the number of cavalry through the horseshoe prints on the road, these military knowledge, Will already knows this military knowledge.
In just a few days, he learned the scouting knowledge of Blackfish. Now, at night, standing on a high ground and looking at the campfire, he can easily calculate the number of enemies.
Compared to Blackfish, he is more powerful in stealth and hidden, tracking and capturing sentinels, and sneak attacks. In personal hand-to-hand combat, Will's Night Dragon Sword is even more rarely rivaled.
What Will feels lacking now is the command skills of various formation changes.
In the engagement of the army, the advance and retreat of tens of thousands of troops, detours and outflanking, and formation changes, relying on the drumbeat of the Chinese army, how to understand the orders of the drumbeat of the Chinese army, each soldier will receive special training during the recruit period, but in the desperate Great Wall, Will has not received the drumbeat command training of tens of thousands of people.
And in a battle of thousands or hundreds, the order is not given by the beat of the drum, but by the shouting of the commander and the herald, yes, purely by the voice. This is a fantasy world where a set of iron whistles has not yet been invented to order the soldiers of the army to advance and retreat.
This made Will understand why these generals and knights were so loud.
He also learned that similar to Robb Stark being the lord of Winterfell, Eddard Stark has trained his shouting since he was a child, first two people shouting at each other, issuing all kinds of commands, then the distance between the two people is shortened every day, and finally two people standing on opposite sides of the mountain, shouting at each other, and each other can hear and understand each other clearly from a long distance ravine, and the training of shouting is completed.
Robb Stark isn't even fifteen years old, but he's been training for shouts for ten years, and he can shout for thousands of soldiers around him whenever he needs to.
In army battles of thousands, the commander's shouts must be heard by his subordinates, and shouting is one of the basic military skills that every lord and knight has to train from an early age.
The voice must be practiced like a bell, like a huge thunder, and send and receive freely.
Will finally has a deep understanding of the roar of the ancient general described in the chapter before the crossing, but he is only limited to knowing that the roar is like thunder, but he does not know that this requires special training, just like training knives, guns, sticks and swords.
From the moment he knew that he had to have a good voice, he began to learn the skills of practicing a loud voice from Blackfish. As long as you don't go out of the task, you go to the mountains and forests to practice shouting. When he was free, Will would melt the shouting orders into the iron whistle.
In this world, there is already an iron whistle, but there is no commander who puts the iron whistle in his mouth and gives orders through the whistle. This requires a whole set of whistle languages.
Will followed Blackfish and was on the front line, like a dry sponge absorbing water, quickly learning all kinds of rich military knowledge of Blackfish.
The intersection of the Mingyue Mountain Range is not wide, and there are about more than 200 people who can connect head-on, and no matter how many soldiers there are, they can only rush behind their own people, and the terrain is limited, so they cannot attack the enemy.
Behind the Lannister barricades, there is flat terrain. An army of two thousand men was stationed, and their tents were connected to the tents of the great army of the Trident.
The army tents of the Lannisters stretched for miles.
On this side of the barricades, there are some gentle slopes of the Bright Moon Mountains and valleys deeper inside.
That gave Pioneer Simon Tampton and the Blackfish the resolve to fight first.
The Lannisters garrisoning Taniguchi Avenue have received news of the arrival of the Vale's army, and crossbowers have been added to the high walls, from twenty to fifty.
Behind a short high wall were phalanx of pikemen waiting in formation. Behind the infantry phalanx, there was an array of longbowmen.
Three flags were erected in the army, the first being the Crown Stag Banner symbolizing Joffrey Baratheon I, the second being the Lannister Lion Banner of the West, and the third being a black and white boar on a brown background.
The Wild Boar Banner is the banner of the Craich family in the Westlands. The Craich family is located in the Chicken Hall in the southern part of the West. The Chicken Hall is nestled between the sea of sunsets and a vast expanse of primeval forest. The Craich family is known for being tough and strong, like a wild boar on their banner.
The wild boar is strong, the fangs are deadly, and even the lion is scared for three points when facing the wild boar head-on. The key to killing a wild boar is not to face the enemy head-on, because it is too dangerous. The first king Robert was killed by a wild boar while drunk, and he was facing the enemy head-on. If you want to provoke a wild boar, just go directly opposite the boar, and it will be furious.
The Craich family and their soldiers are like wild boars in the forest that cannot be faced.
They are the strongest and capable army in the West, but are often ridiculed as brainless boars by the other nobles of the West.
This wild boar army was led by Count Roland Craich of the Chicken Hall, and its three generals, the eldest son Tybert Craich, the most brave and warlike second son, Lile Craich, and the third son, Melon Craich.
Suddenly, the sharp whistle of an iron whistle sounded in the air, the Lannister archers on the high wall looked at each other, and on the avenue in front, the enemy was busy from afar, and it was not within the range at all, where did the whistle come from in the air?
The soldiers stationed on the high wall looked up together, and a dark shadow appeared in the sky, which seemed to be slow, but in fact it was surprisingly fast, and when everyone first saw it, the whistle pierced their ears. A long, sharp arrow, with an iron whistle at the end, and a poignant and moving voice.
Burst!
One of the crossbowmen couldn't dodge, the arrow pierced through his chest, and the arrow came out of his back, and the force of the fall was so strong that the soldiers on the entire high wall were in an uproar.
"There's a longbowman on the other side!" shouted the captain, "watch out!"
"Where's the longbowmen?" shouted more soldiers, panic already in their voices.
On the avenue outside the trench, there was no shadow of a longbowman.
Moreover, the arrow just now came from the sky.
"Calm down!" said Lile Kreich, a strong pig, behind the wall.
He was in black armor, wielding a long sword, and in his left hand was a shield with strong teeth, on which a strong, toothy boar looked like himself. The Craich family's language is fearless, and Lehrer is a fearless tough guy.
Shout!
In the sky, the iron whistle sounded again.
An arrow fell from the sky, the speed was incredible, this longbow and hard arrow, the armor was easily pierced, and it fell from an invisible height, and the iron whistle sounded, and the sharp arrow seemed to be faster than the whistle, and it fell from the sky with a bang-
Burst!
A sharp arrow pierced a soldier's head, falling with the soldier's corpse and pinning the soldier to a high wall.
On a lonely, high wall a few feet wide, there were more than fifty crossbowers crowded together, and suddenly there were a little too many.
"The enemy is on the ridge on the left. Lear saw a figure standing on a boulder in the mountains.
"Shield defense!" shouted the captain.
There was a hula sound, and the crossbowmen raised their shields together.
On the mountain boulder, the figure was not in a hurry, and once again opened his bow and drew arrows, throwing them into the sky.
Shout!
When the iron whistle sounded in his ears, an armor-piercing arrow fell from the sky, piercing a shield and piercing the crossbow soldiers behind the shield on the shield, and the screams made the soldiers on the high wall pale and panicked, but they did not dare to escape from the high wall. - Because the strong pig Lile is here!
Although the high wall is high, under the subduing of the mountain boulders, the soldiers on the wall are targets.
It's just that what kind of bow and arrow can shoot so far?
At least three hundred yards away!
"Arrows of black magic!" said Lile Kreher, the pig.
"Sir, our longbowmen are the ones who put it together. Seed it down. The captain said, his voice full of uncertainty.
"Shoot from the back? impossible, it doesn't threaten him, his position is a little too high. Lehler said.
Before the words fell, another whistle sounded, and before the sound stopped, the arrow had fallen, and with a pop, the sharp arrow easily pierced through the wooden shield, and a miserable howl sounded.