Blood Dragon

No.20 six-section gun array

"The enemy is coming again!" The scout's voice came from afar.

In a blink of an eye, the originally calm team immediately started to move.The officer yelled loudly, and the soldiers ran quickly. The whole team was like a wriggling caterpillar, and every part was moving in an orderly and fast manner.

When the enemy's knight troops appeared, what they saw in front of them was a neat array of long spears.This is not an ordinary spear formation. All the soldiers did not use shields, but held ultra-long spears that were twice the length of ordinary spears in both hands.The spear in the back rests on the shoulders of the person in front.This spear formation is also far thicker and denser than ordinary spear formations.Moreover, due to the influence of the front and rear queues, the long spear naturally formed a segmented kill.Even if the spears in the first row pierced the horses and broke off the human body, there are still the second, third, fourth... spears guarding behind.

It is impossible to break through such a formation with a frontal charge of cavalry.Hard attack is death.

As expected, the enemy immediately gave up their plan to attack when they saw this terrifying gun array.Behind the gun array, the baggage vehicles began to move on.All is well.

After the vehicles receded, the gun array also began to retreat gradually.They retreated very carefully, leaving no gaps for the pursuers to exploit.

This day, it has been three times.The chasers appeared three times, and all three times they stopped helplessly in front of this terrifying spear formation like a steel hedgehog.

"Those St. Jean's cowards!" Officer Paro watched the pursuers in the distance turn around and leave, sending out a victorious challenge.

Although almost no one expected that the enemy would dare to pursue them, this spear formation had always been prepared just in case, and it actually helped a lot.Perhaps a trick of fate.The two consecutive days of heavy snow greatly retarded the speed of the Paro army, causing them to be bitten by the enemy on the fifth day.

Looking at the flying snake flag above the pursuers, almost all Paro people gritted their teeth.That Thomas was really a nightmare, a nightmare that one couldn't wake up from.Without this gun formation, the Paro army, which has lost its unified command and is in a mess inside, might really suffer a lot.

"Resume the marching ranks and keep up with the convoy!" someone ordered.

"It's impossible to break through that formation head-on." The officer reported what he saw to Aishuruffat one by one.Enemies are as overwhelming as hedgehogs.But Ashurfat showed no sign of flinching on his face.

"This seemingly solid defense is the most stupid approach. Because once something unexpected happens, they have no time to react." Ashuruffat explained. "We'll send archers up."

"No, we have too few archers left."

"It's okay, we still have horsemen." Ashuruffat looked at the sky. "Let the equestrian servants be on the front line and shoot with bows and arrows. We will attack in waves in the most classical way against spearmen."

Horsemen are not knights, but militiamen, or archers.Once the position of the militia captain is insufficient, those militiamen and archers who have made contributions and need to be rewarded will be promoted to horsemen.Their riding skills are actually not good, and they are not really capable of fighting on horseback, so they are mainly responsible for scouting, patrolling and other tasks that knights are not willing to perform.

"Shooting arrows right away requires great skills. They can't do it. And the number of horsemen is too small."

"Bows and arrows don't work, just use muskets. This kind of thing requires almost no training." Ashuruffat replied. "As for the quantity, it's not a problem... the enemy's long spear array only needs to be broken a little, which means the whole collapse!"

The horn of the scouts representing alert sounded from a distance. "The enemy is coming!" Someone shouted.But this time the Paro army has adapted to this kind of unexpected accident.They quickly changed their formation and formed a long square formation, completely blocking the way of the pursuers.Unless the pikemen in the rear are defeated, the enemy will not be able to continue their pursuit.

Surprisingly, the enemy does not seem to be planning to retreat this time.Teams of cavalry set up formation in front of the spear formation.The hooves of the war horse stepped on the snow that hadn't completely melted, making a wet rattling sound.The white mist from the horse's nose seemed to carry the haze of death.

The chasing soldiers formed a very orthodox conical formation of cavalry assault. Judging from the formation, it was clear that they wanted to directly attack the long spear formation like a steel hedgehog with war horses.Purely in terms of numbers, the Paro people actually have the upper hand.But because one person on horseback will occupy the space of three pedestrians, it seems that the formation of the expeditionary force is much thicker than that of the opponent.

The sky and the earth fell silent, and everyone held their breath, waiting for the signal to fight.

"Woo... woo... woo woo woo woo..." The horn sounded in the sky.A group of cavalry suddenly broke away from the group and began to charge forward.But everyone could see that the armor of this cavalry was not neat, and the charging team was also uneven.Obviously it was just a retinue on horseback, just a probing attack.

But in fact, it was somewhat unexpected.After the enemy's cavalry attacked, another wave of cavalry followed and followed closely behind this group of mounted retinues.Then the third team, the fourth team...these attacking troops all aimed at the right flank of the Paro people and charged away.

The cavalry approached.The Paro soldiers could already hear the snorting and snorting of their horses.The spear array suddenly tightened, and the powerful arms with bulging veins stabilized the spear vigorously, forming a wall of spears against the invading enemy cavalry.As many spears as there are on this wall, so much death greets the charging cavalry.

The horsemen stopped their mounts, then sat firmly on the saddle and fired at the spear array.After they fired a shot, they immediately turned their horses' heads and left from the slanting spurs, making room for the second wave of cavalry behind them.

The second wave of cavalry also stopped their horses, fired a shot and left.Then came the third wave.

All the horse-riding retinues add up to only three hundred.If their bullets were scattered on the gun array, it might be like throwing a small stone into a deep pool, without stirring up any waves.But now they're all focused on one point.In this short section of gun formation, Paro soldiers have fallen in groups, forming a big gap.The spearmen on the edge of the gap also lost their formation and were pushed into a mess by the wounded. They could only watch desperately as the fourth team of knights came fiercely.

The knights avoided the front of the spear, rushed up through the gap, got close to Paro's spearman, and slashed wantonly.The inflexibility of the ultra-long gun was clearly revealed at this moment.Under the chaotic formation, they had no way to attack with long spears, they could only be chopped down in groups, knocked down by war horses, and trampled by horseshoes.

More knights rushed up and continued to expand the victory along the gap.The front of the long spear array is terrifying, but the side is too weak to withstand a single blow.

Paro's commander knew immediately that all was over.He didn't care about commanding the troops, so he turned around and ran away.Immediately, the Paro army began to completely collapse.

The Paro soldiers dropped their spears, dropped their armor, dropped everything, and ran away.And the knights of the expeditionary army rushed up in an all-round way.Now the battlefield is theirs.This is no longer a battle, but a unilateral hunt.They slashed and slashed with weapons to their heart's content, turning this wilderness into a terrible slaughterhouse in a blink of an eye.Even those horsemen who were not good at fighting on horseback came up again, and killed the fleeing Paro soldiers as they wished.Or trample them to death in groups.

Ashurfat did not chase and kill like the others.He rushed into the baggage vehicle with a small group of knights.When the gun array collapsed, the Paro army logistics soldiers who witnessed all this immediately began to abandon the vehicles, untie the horses pulling the carts, and rode away.Now there are only vehicles left in the caravan, and some chariots and horses that have not had time to get rid of them.

"Quick, search for me! Where is 'myrrh'!"

After a short while, several knights brought a captive to Ashrufat.It was a chubby middle-aged man in an elegant uniform.His hands are white and soft, obviously not a fighter who is good at martial arts.But the uniform on his body showed that he was a member of Paro's army.

"I... I... I am the logistics officer... Adjutant..." The man tried his best to explain with a smile.But Ashuruffat's stare made him shut up instantly.The logistics officer's face turned gray with fear.Dark clouds obscured the sun, and the wind was bitter, but none of this was as cold as the stare of the man in front of him.

"Where's 'Myrrh'?!" Ash Rufat asked him.

"No...no...no...not...here..." he stammered. "That's...Jane...precious...medicine...at...Blue Shield...Knights...there..."

"Blow the call for retreat immediately!" Ashuruffat ordered without hesitation for a second. "Assemble the troops and pursue them immediately. Hand over these trophies to the logistics team! Take everything you can take away, and burn everything you can't take away!"

"Where are the prisoners?" Someone asked.

"Follow the old rules!"

"However, Lord Earl. If the news we have received is correct, then the main force of Paro's army and the rear guard are far apart. It may take half a day for us to catch up. Our horsepower is already insufficient."

"All the knights change their horses to pursue. Leave the tired horses to the logistics team and replace them with vigorous ones. Now we have enough horses, enough for one person to ride two or three horses."

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In the dim light, an impromptu meeting was being held.Three or four men in armor gathered around the table, frowning.After the death of General Rudolf, the army was already showing some signs of being close to collapse.The mercenaries fled secretly in batches, the morale of the infantry was low to the limit, and now even the Knights were beginning to be unstable.There was no one in the Paro army who could replace Rudolph in terms of prestige and status, and the damned Thomas was chasing after him, repeatedly harassing the rear troops.

"The rear guard has been wiped out by Thomas. We have lost most of our supplies now!" someone whispered. "That Thomas... how can he still have such a level of combat power?"

"He looks like he's going to swallow us up now..." suggested another. "Starting tomorrow, we will make the Knights the rear, and the other troops may not be able to withstand Thomas' attack."

"If the Knights are defeated, I'm afraid we will have no chance at all..." Someone objected. "It's better to leave the infantry and let the knights retreat lightly. This can at least ensure the survival of the knights."

"But if this is the case..." The argument hadn't come to a conclusion, and suddenly, there was a shrill cry from outside.

"Night attack! Night attack!"

The people participating in the military meeting rushed out of the tents, and what they saw was that the cavalry was breaking through the simple camp, rushing into the camp, setting fire and killing people.In the light of the fire, one could see the hateful flying snake flag fluttering.