Warlord: King of All Clans

During this period, the Kurolov family on the opposite side also replenished their lost troops and regained their full-strength Orc Heavy Armored Corps and a full-strength Human Legion.

Fabuti obviously relied on his extraordinary strength of level eight and was invincible in Asgar City, so he led the heavily armored elite of the Orcs to attack the city.

The Asgar city area is mountainous. Although it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is not suitable for the deployment of a large army. The places outside the city suitable for a decisive battle can only accommodate a showdown between two legions.

Twenty thousand men came out in full force, either scattered all over the mountains or squeezed into a line, making it difficult to maintain organization. The best response was to continue defending the city or send an equal number of troops to fight.

The human army has never won in a melee with the big orcs in complex terrain, not to mention that the orc warriors of the Kurolov family are equipped with heavy armor.

The earl who dares to fight for world domination is no ordinary person. Fabti himself is a famous general, and he has a group of war fanatics assisting him.

In this battle with a huge disparity in military strength, Fabuti took advantage of the weather and terrain to seize the initiative.

Seeing that everyone remained silent, Leo could only say, "It's very simple. I will lead the people down the mountain and rush to the rear to block Kurolov's army. You continue to defend the city and let Fabuti stare at the city wall in a daze."

Everyone looked at the map and it seemed that this was the only solution.

Both legions of the Kurolov family are very powerful. Among the three allied forces in Asgar City, only Leo's firearms legion can deal with it alone.

The other two Count's Legions could only rely on the city walls to fight the Kurolov Legion on equal terms.

Hader's face turned red and he held Leo's hand. "Thank you for your help, brother."

Leo didn't waste any time and immediately broke camp and retreated, starting from the city of Asgar and heading towards Kitland along the road. It only took him three days to reach the town in the middle.

Because of the obstruction of the mountains, the Kurorofu army made a big detour from the south and spent a week before appearing in this small town called "Biwoheim".

Bwoheim also has stone walls and a castle, with a town population of 2,000 and a jurisdiction of tens of thousands, which is officially considered a city in the North.

But in Leo's eyes, this was just a small town, even worse than Fort Bavanach that blocked Godwin's army last time.

The outer city wall, which is more than three meters high, is not as wide as a small county town in ancient times. It is not wide enough to mount a thousand-man artillery or deploy a musketeer battle line.

So this time Leo did not choose to defend the city, but took 5,000 elite troops and chose a flat area several miles away, ready to have a fair fight with the Kurolov family's army.

The commander of the Kurolov Corps is none other than the young Lord Locke, who is protected only by a level seven warrior.

Seeing the unity flag of Hewan appear in front, we knew that this would be a tough battle, so we quickly deployed our troops according to the plan and advanced slowly.

The full-strength legion of 6,000 men formed five square formations of 1,000 men and approached the River Bend Legion under the cover of 1,000 light and heavy cavalry.

Knight Solovy took a few glances and said in a deep voice: "This is the heavy armor elite phalanx of the Isharov family. I didn't expect it to be controlled by the Kurolov family. Leo, you have to be careful."

Leo had also heard the story of Count Isharov's family. This was the first family of the original Seven Counts of the North to be destroyed. They had a world-famous heavy armored elite infantry regiment. Not only did they have a tradition of training heavy armored elites, they were also proficient in the forging technology of heavy infantry armor.

Infantry heavy armor is completely different from knight's armor. It needs to take into account infantry combat, and many structures and parts require unique craftsmanship. It is impossible for an ordinary small territory to mass produce it.

After the Kurolov family swallowed up Isharov, they not only applied the heavy armor technology to the Orc Legion, but also popularized the heavy infantry armor to their own Earl Legion.

Now, among the 5,000-man infantry phalanx, nearly half are elite soldiers in heavy armor, and at least half are regular infantry wearing heavy chain mail.

Leo looked at it for a while, then suddenly laughed and said to himself, "Isn't this the Spanish square?"

The Kurolov Legion in front of them formed five square formations of a thousand men, surrounded by two rows of heavily armored elite soldiers holding swords and shields, and three rows of spearmen in the middle holding five-meter-long spears.

The sharp steel spear heads protruded from the shoulders of the sword and shield soldiers, turning the entire phalanx into a steel hedgehog.

The four corners and the center of the square were filled with the newly trained musketeers of the Kurolov family.

But in their hands were bulky heavy matchlock rifles.

Apparently, the Kurolov family, who were secretly researching firearms, had not yet reached the standard for flintlock technology, so they had to resort to using a matchlock instead.

This situation also occurred in the early days of Hewan. Because the flintlock technology was not up to standard and the ignition rate was less than half, some craftsmen also proposed to use open flames instead - for example, like artillery, arrange an auxiliary soldier to hold a torch next to the musketeer.

Fortunately, Master Morse was helpful enough and devoted himself to research all day long. Fraser also provided a lot of ideas. Finally, the bolt structure was improved and better spring steel was used to increase the firing rate of the flintlock.

The entire Kurolov family did not have a flintlock rifle as a reference, and had only seen the shape of the Hewan musket from afar during the fifth uncle's siege.

Their starting point was even worse than that of the Talhan family in the west - at least the latter could take advantage of their neighborhood and get some kobold firearms as a reference, but the Kurolov family could only rely on independent research and development.

However, the powerful Kurolov family, with the dual blessing of goblin technology and human technology, made rapid progress in firearms. In just one year, they created a heavy matchlock gun from scratch and equipped the troops.

Heavy flintlock rifles have not yet entered the mass production stage. If you want to make their performance surpass that of strong bows and crossbows, the manufacturing cost is no lower than that of traditional bows and crossbows.

Therefore, the musketeers of the Kurolov family could not be equipped on a large scale and form line tactics like the Hewan.

Of course, this is also due to the limitations of the times of the commanders. They know that firearms are powerful, but subconsciously they do not think that they can completely replace cold weapon troops.

As expected, there is nothing new in history, and this is the law of development.

Count Fabti realized the power of firearms and quickly studied them. As an outstanding military commander, he naturally improved the military formation and placed the heavy matchlock rifles in his hands in the most appropriate position.

Such a heavy infantry phalanx can not only block the charging cavalry, but also pour down firepower to defeat the enemy's frontal forces head-on, having a crushing effect on the empire's traditional army.

Unfortunately, Leo's River Bend Legion has entered the line era.

Compared with the Kurolov family's phalanx, the River Bend Legion's line seemed much weaker.

The two musketeer regiments, totaling 3,000 men, were organized into ten lines.

In addition to the line musketeers, there are also a large number of cavalry officers, supervisors, and drummers, so the overall look is a bit messy and appears very loose.