Heroes of the Invincible call a thousand troops

The act of William spitting on his knight gloves is very vulgar!But he has never been ashamed of it. He is a soldier and a rough man. To him, this action is nothing dirty. It can make him feel at ease, and that is enough.

The orc camp suddenly became noisy. All the big camps in the three directions had soldiers pouring out, and then they formed a battle formation nervously and orderly...

More than 20 orcs surrounded more than 40 humans. It might seem ridiculous just looking at the numbers, but the human fighters couldn't laugh at all.The orcs in front of them have flattened several kingdoms, and their combat effectiveness must not be underestimated. Moreover, this place is no longer a safe and strong fortress. It cannot be said that it is completely safe from danger, but at least this fortification is really embarrassing to use...

The centaur troops interspersed between the battalions, which was related to their fighting style. The most important difference between them and other orcs was that they could attack from a distance.This allows them to be distributed in various directions instead of being placed in a strong attacking formation, and the 5 talents can be fully deployed.

Similarly, under the direct intervention of the marshal, the catmen camped next to the centaur had to supplement the front of the position vacated by the centaur archers. Although the catmen were extremely reluctant, they had to face the strict order of the suzerain patriarch Do not take on this dreadful task.

As for why this is a terrible task, that is because it means that the cat people must send at least double the number of cannon fodder fighters.Although Deschamps has long defined the cat people as cannon fodder, but the cat people certainly don't think so, it's just under pressure.

After a considerable period of preparation, Deschamps ordered the troops to attack.In the sound of passionate drums. The "reloaded" fighters who had been preparing for a long time rushed out from three directions at the same time...

The quotation marks are put in because this reinstallation is relative.Actually.In the battle order of the orcs at this time, there are only tiger warriors.Only then can barely be regarded as heavy infantry, as for the others, it can only be haha.Equipped with a little iron armor, the defense is a little higher than that of the family, so what about heavy equipment?Is it better to wear leather armor for some cheating goods?

The long-range shooter troops of both sides spoke at almost the same time.Originally, in terms of range alone, the centaur archer with stronger arms had a little advantage, but this advantage was magnified by the low terrain.The troops in front occupied most of the positions and evened them out.The two incoming arrow rains were fired almost at the same time, and then landed on the enemy's head at the same time.

Many orcs were shot down, but more human fighters were also shot down.Arm strength is slightly inferior to that of the opponent, and the attack power is also inferior to the enemy. Most importantly, the defense of human fighters is obviously not as good as that of orc fighters who are born with thick skin.Although human fighters have basically realized the mass production and standardization of equipment production.But obviously, these armors are more focused on quantity than quality, and it is difficult to completely defend against the centaur archer's long arrow attack.

Once directly hit by these larger long arrows, the armor of these ordinary soldiers can only act as a hindrance, reducing fatal injuries to serious injuries.

The best defense weapon.Still a shield.Only a warrior with a heavy iron shield can guarantee that he will not be shot through by the enemy.However, even if the metallurgical process is far superior to human craftsmen who are a few blocks away from the orcs, it is still difficult to equip all warriors with iron shields.The amount of metal mines and artisans required for this is quite staggering.

No country can equip all its soldiers with iron shields, and more of them use iron-clad round shields.Or simply use skinned shields. Such shields are okay against human archers during civil wars.But to fight against the longer and bigger arrows of stronger centaur archers, it is a bit powerless...

In fact, in the round of shooting just now, many soldiers' shields were shot through a little bit, and then they were injured by sharp arrows. Fortunately, under the double-layer effect of the shield and leather armor, they all suffered minor injuries.

The orcs don't distinguish the attack waves in the key directions, which puts a lot of pressure on humans.This small slope in front of the position is not a big problem for the orcs with good mobility, at most it slightly reduces their impact speed.But just as William scolded, if someone starts playing stud with you, playing all-in, this advantage is almost negligible...

The arrows fell on the heads of the melee troops of both sides like rain hitting plantains. The commanders tacitly did not directly engage in long-range duels, and pulled the long-range troops under their respective hands a little farther away, so that they could hit the opponent's melee troops at the same time. , and will not be hit by the enemy's long-range attack.

Humans have nearly 10 archers, but in fact, the strike effect is not necessarily comparable to the centaur archers with only half the number of themselves.Just because of this consideration, Marshal Deschamps was constructing his side's long-range advantage, and did not directly send the centaur troops into that desperate distance.William wanted to fight desperately with others, but his troops were defending, so they couldn't let the archers rush forward and leave the protection of melee to fight for their lives?

So he had no choice but to accept the current situation. Fortunately, he didn't lose much. Even if the centaur archers achieved slightly more results than his own archers, the gap was actually not that big...it was affordable!

He ordered the adjutant to divide the shooter troops into several waves, and the shooting interval was slightly increased, so as not to compete with the enemy for this little time advantage.

As we all know, in a real battle, the number of times the archer can draw the bow is limited, which is mainly limited by the strength of the arm and the muscles of the arm.Human archers are not born with good physical fitness like centaur archers, not only in attack power and range, but also in the actual number of consecutive bows.People can draw the bow five or sixty times without interruption, but they can't, they have to stop after thirty times at most!

William, who had been in the cavalry for a long time, also dabbled in cavalry and archery.It's just that his cavalry riding skills are not bad, but if he wants to mount and shoot while marching, he can hardly guarantee the accuracy. This makes his idea of ​​forming a large-scale cavalry and shooting force never come true.

The number of attacks of the shooter is limited!William knew very well that even someone like himself had to rely on grudge support after a long time of bowing, not to mention ordinary archers who were countless blocks behind him, a level 8 great swordsman.In order to maintain effective output for a long time, he deliberately let his archers not compete with the enemy's archers, you hit yours, I shoot mine.

Keep your own best rhythm and don't compete with you. Although in a short period of time, the output of lethality is worse than others, but the advantage is obvious, that is, his shooter troops can greatly improve the endurance.On the contrary, if you just want to compete with the centaur troops, you will only suffer a crushing defeat in the wrestling of the long-range troops behind.

William was very smart to realize this point... He forced him to be strong, and the breeze caressed the hills! (To be continued..)