King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 603 Gold and Black (middle)
Except for two young war elephants crossing the river bank In the process of stepping on the dry riverbed, it was almost lost due to the difference in "feet", everything was carried out according to the pre-war deployment: ten Hundred Men Squad poured out of the rest area, from several directions towards the small river beach of the Land Granters The camp is encircled.

Their battle formations appear to be disordered and in a mess on the ground, but in reality they are implied. If someone can look down from the battlefield at this moment, they can find that the soldiers of the Golden Regiment who started the charge in the first batch are tightly packed in units of 100, and the speed increases continuously from the middle to the two wings, thus forming an approximate semicircle as a whole. Keep the distance between teams to prevent too much damage from shelling, and at the same time cleverly avoid being too far apart from each other... You are my striker, and I am his flank, taking care of each other and supporting each other. Keeping the pace, neither interferes with the giant beast's gallop nor stops them in their path.

Without communicating with each other, nor looking back at the flag command, the soldiers completed the commander's command wishes in bits and pieces only by a brief briefing before the war, "strongest mercenary group "The combat literacy of the soldiers is evident.

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“Boom rumble…”

As expected, a burst of white smoke rose from a string of faint flashes on the opposite bank, more than ten The door's strange gunpowder weapon opened fire immediately when the soldiers of the Golden Corps charged over the river bank. In the roar, more than a dozen iron balls flew towards the shore guards with a cracking sound.

Hours of continuous shelling did take a toll on Reach's morale, but it also gave the Golden Corps a general understanding and impression of this first-ever weapon. Thanks to the scattered and batch tactics, most of the shells landed on the river beach with a bang and drilled a small hole; because the ears of the war elephants had been blocked in advance, the impact of the bang on these sensitive big guys was also extremely Limited... The fire, sound and impact caused a brief panic, but they did not stop the mercenaries from charging, but instead triggered the opportunity for the second batch to enter the field.

"Come on!"

In the loud command of the regiment commander, the rhythm of the drums changed, and the 500 archers who were ready to go also turned down the river bank and formed a line Lei took off and ran.

After listening to the cannon fire for a few hours, Strickland has mastered the firing pattern of this weapon: the short space after a salvo is the safest moment, taking advantage of these tens of seconds, the second row of archers troop. It can quickly approach the best shooting position and provide long-range fire support for the first row of personnel.

The casualties that can be reduced by taking this time are minimal, but any experienced commander should know that sometimes the outcome of a battle is determined by the slightest difference in damage rates and morale. Lion Fight Rabbit also used all his strength to face the legendary enemy who defeated Others.

One thousand five hundred soldiers and seven war elephants rumbled on the bare, frozen beaches, golden battle flags, gilded armour, and golden blankets of war. Elephants merged into two golden waves, and the grandiose land reluctantly discharged a Defensive Array-type land-grant army—the small piece of black on the beachhead with its back against the river water rushed forward.

The second round rang out, but the result was not as good as the first round. Strickland observed the situation and couldn't find any point to lose.

Perhaps, we should put some more enemies ashore and then order a charge?
After all, even if we win now, the enemy will only lose 200 soldiers who crossed the river in the first batch. This number is by no means a traumatic or a great victory.

He raised the lens again and looked at the enemy's position, wanting to record the response of this powerful enemy to this unsolvable situation.

As expected, the shields placed their shields on the ground against each other to form a shield wall, while the second-row land-grant army soldiers hiding behind the shields quickly put the Two large iron balls were taken off, the rope was cut with a knife, and then...

Then Strickland knew why the enemy was carrying a torch in broad daylight, in the small circular field of view of the lens , he clearly saw those black clothed soldiers holding "iron balls", and pointed something close to the nearest torch, then turned around suddenly and threw those balls out!
Incendiary!
Strickland realized what it was in an instant, but the battle on the front line was approaching the hand-to-hand phase of the collision between the two armies. He could not and could no longer remind the soldiers of this key discovery at this moment, and could only hope for the winter The cold and the Warriors' on-the-spot conscious play can minimize the effect of the opponent's fire attack.

Two hundred meters, one hundred meters... Closer, the Land Granter archers on the docked ships had already thrown their first round arrows, causing double-digit damage, and the archers of the Golden Regiment also Already running to the combat position to fight back with a third round of flame hair, arrow densely packed over friendly arrays, or nailed to the giant shield of the Land Granters and fall into the back row to hit the unlucky guy who just stepped off the pontoon, Caused sporadic screams and screams.

As for the ten Hundred Men Squads that first started to charge, they also started skilled dynamic evolutions after approaching the Land Granter Shield formation on the water bank.

This is a mission that ordinary "elite" peasants and soldiers can never complete. This is an operation that can only be successfully completed when the majority of veterans of the battle are in the majority. Every officer is sober and experienced, and knows how to maximize the results and minimize casualties. The result is that the first thousand infantrymen in the first line of combat slowed down, and at the same time slowly moved closer to the nearest war elephant. After quietly charging side by side to following the war elephants, from a sparsely long and narrow semicircle line to seven conical attack formations with war elephants as pointed tips.

Fiercely headed straight for the Land Granters' shield!

Amidst the heavy breathing and shouts of killing, the commanders of each team also clearly saw the balls flying out of the opposing team over the shields, but no one was dazed and no one panicked. The Golden Corps has gone all the way to the north and has fought many battles, and it is the first time that the throwing weapons are naturally impossible. In just a moment, they made the same "incendiary bomb" judgment as the regiment leader based on the white smoke coming out of these spheres. , but was pleasantly surprised to find that the opponent's battlefield officer seemed to have a problem with the distance estimation, and issued the throwing order two seconds earlier. One by one they fell to the front of their charging road, and not a single soldier was hit!
hahaha!
No one has the lung capacity to laugh out loud, but when they saw the enemy make such a huge mistake, the Golden Corps mercenaries were all shocked, and they shouted and started sprinting with high morale. !
If it was an incendiary bomb, why didn't it shatter and catch fire when it hit the ground? The officers on the front line were not all dizzy, and a few found anomalies, but how quickly the battlefield situation changed during the charge phase, they were only a few dozen meters away from the enemy's shield array, and those big balls fell on their toes. How can there be time for them to stop and think or research? They could only be pushed and shoved by the robes behind them, shouting to remind their companions while stepping over the balls.

"Be careful to avoid incendiary bombs! Don't touch or step on—"

Before the voice could be heard, it was completely drowned out by the loud bang that was so close at hand.

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(end of this chapter)