My players are all actors

Chapter 154
"This is the power of heavy cavalry..." Zhao Haiping said with emotion.

Before, the players were all on the city wall, watching the monsters forcefully drive the heavy cavalry over to attack the city. They didn't feel the threat of these big killers, but thought it was funny that they dismounted and attacked the city.

But now, when they really confronted the heavy cavalry with their flesh and blood, they realized what kind of big killers they were.

In the era of cold weapons, infantry and cavalry confrontation is almost equivalent to ordinary soldiers fighting tanks in modern warfare.

Chu Ge nodded: "Yes.

"And what we are facing is not actually the peak cavalry of the northern barbarians, but the weakened state.

"After the founding of the Dasheng Dynasty, the northern barbarians were driven back to the Mobei grassland, and for the first time since the Liang Dynasty, a strong control over the north was achieved.

"Because the northern barbarians were expelled from the Central Plains and their strength declined, the equipment of the northern barbarian cavalry was severely weakened, and they returned to a state of lack of iron, so the quantity and quality of heavy cavalry also declined.

"The northern barbarian cavalry we faced was actually the northern barbarian cavalry that General Deng encountered when defending northern Xinjiang. The equipment of these cavalry was relatively simple, and even in the middle and late stages of the Dasheng Dynasty, there were frequent cases of invaders just to rob iron pots."

Zhao Haiping couldn't help being stunned: "How terrifying were the Northern Barbarian cavalry at their peak? Don't they have nothing to fight at all?"

Chu Ge explained: "It can't be said that there is no need to fight at all. The only way is to form a strong heavy cavalry to hedge. For example, in the early days of the Dasheng Dynasty, heavy cavalry was used to hedge against the northern barbarian cavalry. Advantages to achieve dimensionality reduction strike.

"But this kind of scene, it is estimated that we will only be able to see it after the dungeon in the early days of the Dasheng Dynasty is opened.

"I don't know when the cavalry unit will be available in this game, so that players can also spontaneously organize a powerful cavalry unit."

While talking, the two continued to pay attention to the battle in the city.

The pawn players in the front row fell one by one, but soon, the pawn players in the rear also rose one by one.

Players in other areas of the city also began to continuously deploy manpower for reinforcements. The spear phalanx became larger and larger, and the two sides entered a very cruel tug-of-war.

The first batch of northern barbarian cavalrymen who charged were basically dead on the spot, but the soldiers in the front row were also basically dead or injured.Many barbarians did not die after falling off their horses. Wearing heavy armor and being blessed by the power of demons, they were still very powerful in combat, slashing directly at players with scimitars.

Moreover, the corpses left on the ground after the death of the horse also blocked the battlefield, and the subsequent heavy cavalry could no longer exert a strong impact, and it was difficult for players to directly use the spear array standing on the ground to deal effective damage to the horses of the barbarians. killing.

After the first charge of the heavy cavalry, a large number of light cavalry also joined the battle. They either shot the players on the wall with strong bows outside the city, or followed the heavy cavalry to shoot the pawn players in the city or Archers, musketeers.

The battlefield became very chaotic.

Suddenly, a Northern barbarian heavy cavalry showed signs of gathering demon energy again, and he actually drained several light cavalry and infantry around him, causing his body to swell several times!

Compared with the previous giant that drained thousands of barbarians, it still maintains the size of a normal person, with both flexibility and strength.

It held up the scimitar of the barbarians, and even chopped down more than a dozen soldiers in a row, and broke in amidst the forest of spears!
Chu Ge's expression changed involuntarily: "Quick, plug the gap!"

The players immediately rushed forward to block the gap in the line, but the heavy cavalry who rushed in was a bit difficult to deal with.

In fact, the fact that players can keep the front line from collapsing is already the dream result of many ancient army commanders.

In most cases, once the infantry line is breached by the cavalry, the gap will continue to expand and eventually collapse.After all, ordinary soldiers will be afraid and panic, and this panic will continue to be contagious.

But players can plug the gap according to the original plan without hesitation, and don't care whether they will die or not.

It's just that the strengthened heavy cavalry rushed left and right wielding a scimitar, causing chaos behind the players and even threatening the scribes behind.

Zhao Haiping jumped from a high place: "You all spread out and leave it to me!"

The pawn players surrounding the heavy cavalry retreated immediately, reminding: "Be careful, it's too tough!"

These players were trying to stab them with long spears before, but with little success.After being strengthened by the power of the demon, the heavy cavalry's ability to resist blows was further enhanced. In addition, it was already wearing iron armor. Even if the spear pierced the gap in the armor, it would be difficult to cause too much damage to it.

Seeing the surrounding enemies retreat, the Northern barbarian heavy cavalry chose to continue driving straight in.

However, Zhao Haiping rushed towards it.

The northern barbarian cavalry didn't care, just held up the scimitar in his hand. From its point of view, the man in front of him was just like any other enemy, and he could be dealt with with a few axes.

However, Zhao Hai stood still, and a brand new weapon appeared in his hand.

It was no longer the standard long knife he had been using before, but a horse-chopping knife with an extremely long handle!

This is a horse-chopping knife improved by General Deng in the late Dasheng Dynasty. It is built on the basis of the traditional horse-chopping knife and also absorbs some advantages of the barbarian knife. The handle reaches about half of the length of the blade, about four or five palms, and it is very comfortable to hold with both hands.

Of course, Zhao Haiping bought it from a blacksmith with the money he had saved for so long.

Seeing that the northern barbarian cavalry was about to rush forward, Zhao Haiping took a deep breath, and held the saber in both hands to meet them.

The sound of piercing the air came, and the barbarian scimitar slashed towards Zhao Haiping, but Zhao Haiping accurately calculated the distance, and dodged sideways at the critical moment.

Then, he happened to use his strength to twist his body, and the saber he held in both hands slammed into the horse's front leg!
With a sound of "shua", the horse's leg broke in response!

It has to be said that the power of this saber is indeed powerful, and it is not in vain that Zhao Haiping spent so much savings.

The strengthened northern barbarian cavalry stumbled instantly and fell to the ground.

If it was an ordinary cavalryman, he would have suffered a concussion from the fall, but after all, this cavalryman was strengthened by the power of a demon, and he stood up quickly. He rushed towards Zhao Haiping again.

With the blessing of the power of the demon, it is over two meters tall, and even if it is dismounted, it still gives people a strong sense of oppression.

However, its scimitar had just been raised, and Zhao Haiping's horse-chopping knife had already slashed at its right hand at an extremely fast speed.

The armored right hand was not cut off, but the scimitar that was intended to be swung was missed.

The length of the weapons on both sides is indeed quite different.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Haiping turned his body around and changed his move at a very fast speed, cutting off the head of the heavy cavalry with a saber.

It was so smooth that Zhao Haiping didn't even react.

It wasn't until he saw the devilish energy on the heavy cavalry gradually dissipating that he was sure that the dismounted heavy cavalry was so vulnerable.

"My evaluation is... not as good as the Dongyi bandits."

Zhao Haiping was quite disappointed with the fighting skills of this heavy cavalryman.

Obviously, these northern barbarian heavy cavalry are basically trained on horseback. Its physical fitness is really strong, and it is enough to reduce the dimensionality of infantry when charging on horseback.

But once it falls, its disadvantages will be magnified.

On the one hand, they are fully armored, inconvenient to move, and have not received special training in foot combat. The actual skills of foot combat are much worse than those of the well-trained Dongyi thieves; on the other hand, it is because their main weapons Brutal swords and scimitars are both one-handed weapons, because you must hold the rein in one hand when fighting on a horse, otherwise you may be thrown off the horse with a collision.

As for the armor, although the northern barbarian cavalry wore heavy armor, they did not pack themselves into cans, and there was not much protection for the neck and other positions.

Therefore, once it landed, its weapon length and combat skills were at a disadvantage. Even with the strengthening of the power of demons, it couldn't last long.

In fact, the most dangerous moment for Zhao Haiping was when he confronted the heavy cavalry. If he hadn't avoided the cavalry's scimitar and cut off the horse's leg, he might be the one lying on the ground now.

It's just that Zhao Haiping's sword skills have been improved after fighting so many times with those bandits with excellent sword skills, so he was able to successfully defeat this heavy cavalry soldier.

He simply wiped the blood on the saber, and continued to cooperate with other players to defend the west gate.

……

The battle gradually approached white-hot.

Under the constant impact of the northern barbarian cavalry, the players' gun array could only be forced to retreat continuously.

Fortunately, when designing the West City Gate, this situation had been thought of in advance, and a large buffer space was reserved. Therefore, although the Northern Barbarian cavalry broke in, they could not continue to expand their formation, and could only follow in a relatively narrow area. The players are dead.

The refusal horse made by Li Weiyi and other players together with the craftsmen has been transported to the west gate. This kind of sharpened and cross-fixed wooden frame can hinder the movement of the army horse to the greatest extent, and stabilize the players' defense line that is tending to collapse.

The pawns had died one after another, but they finally managed to block the charge of the northern barbarian cavalry.

The monsters did not give up on the other three directions. There were still sporadic barbarians attacking at the south gate, north gate and east gate, but they were all repelled by the players who were waiting for work.

The battle had been fought for hours, with heavy losses on both sides.

But it is obvious that the brutal soldiers on the demon's side suffered greater losses and were more unacceptable!
If the fight continues like this, there will only be one result, that is, the players will use up all the barbarians alive by relying on the favorable terrain of the Fortress of the Ordered.

Seeing that the barbarian's new round of offensive did not come, Chu Ge hurriedly directed the players to move the horse forward and rebuild the line of defense.

However, at this moment, the players on the city wall discovered that the monster's tactics had changed again.

In the barbarian army formation, a large amount of demonic energy was drawn from the barbarians and merged into the bodies of a few elites.

Soon, several giants of the same size as the commander who broke through the Ximen appeared in the Beiman army!

With heavy steps, they headed towards the Fortress of the Orderers.

(End of this chapter)