Chapter 72 Crossbow and Bow

If Ji Lin were to comment, the infantry charge in the cold weapon era was indeed very shocking.

The soldiers lined up and moved forward with shields.

The heavy and dense infantry line maintained the line step by step. Just based on the length of the infantry line, the infantry regiment had twice the number of people, so it could naturally draw a longer line than the elves. The larger line means that more soldiers can launch attacks at the same time in the contact war front.

Maintaining a longer line with the same number of people will result in the entire line not being thick enough. The people who died in the front were not replaced by others in time, and they were easily penetrated by the enemy's charge. Once the line was penetrated, it would present a pattern of rolling back the beads, and the remaining people were divided and attacked from the front and back.

Lupo, who had an advantage in strength, did not adopt the tactic of fighting alone, letting the infantry blocks rush up and fight the elves alone, and then they were defeated one by one by the opponent's stronger physical fitness.

Maintaining the infantry formation is not an easy task. Soldiers need to overcome the pressure of facing death, withstand the enemy's various long-range weapons, crossbows, longbows, and catapults, and maintain their own complete formation. Following the command of the officers, they marched in neat formations.

It takes great courage to face the front of the army, or to use military law to constrain the discipline of the army.

A soldier can only play his greatest role in the army. No matter how strong his physical fitness is, he has no room to dodge and maneuver in the dense enemy army, and can only die in the crowd.

The flesh of living things is difficult to resist the sharpness of weapons.

The square formations deployed by both sides each pulled out a distance of 800 meters, reflecting a silvery scene in the sun, and slowly approached until they entered the long-range range of both sides.

Lupo chose to let the infantry regiment directly open a wide front not only because of the advantage in numbers, but also because the crossbow troops were most suitable to play their abilities in a wide front - they were direct-fire troops, and they could not use curved trajectory like bows and arrows to hide behind infantry and projectile.

The troops in front are needed to provide them with direct output space.

The shooting distance of a normal crossbowman is 160, which is 20 points more than Ji Lin's light crossbow troops, and the weapon power is 30% more, with 22 points of long-range power.

In the confrontation with the elf guards, they will not suffer from the range.

One side is a crossbow unit of 400 people, and the other side is a mixed archer unit of 400 people.

Thousands of people slowly stopped at the sound of the horn of the leader, raised their shields, and in the gap, the crossbowmen raised the bows and crossbows in their hands that had been strung.

The defensive ability of the heavy shields held by the elf guards is far superior to the iron-clad wood they hold. These direct troops from the elven city-state are far superior to the new training troops led by Lupo in quality, and are fully capable of resisting direct shooting from crossbows.

And this is the fact.

The Elf Lord wandering at the end of the team looked at the Elf Guards who were holding up their shields in the front with satisfaction. These top infantrymen of the third era blocked all the crossbow arrows with their stable shield walls. Only a few Elf Guards were lucky enough to be slightly injured by the crossbow arrows that passed through the gaps.

The situation on the side was not so good. He deployed most of the Elf Guards on the front. Facing the same density of arrow rain, the side began to suffer a small number of casualties.

This slow battle was like a round-based system, with both sides responding to each other's moves.

The determined army moved forward.

While the crossbowmen were reloading, the infantry line continued to move forward.

The Elf Lord was sweating, and then looked at the female archer next to him with her chin raised, and he felt relieved.

The Elf Guards and the Elf Militia with bows began to stop marching and raise their bows under the command of the hero leader.

Arrows rained down.

Their bows and arrows were farther and more accurate than those of human archers. The skills learned from years of hunting made them handy in using bows and arrows.

They no longer needed to guard against the threat of crossbows from the infantry regiment, and could unleash their firepower in this short window of time.

Lupo looked at his screaming troops with an ugly face. His crossbowmen did not hold shields. Although this round of volleys did not kill too many people, the organization of these soldiers in his sight dropped directly.

Soldiers without shields faced the rain of arrows from the sky, and the psychological pressure was extremely great. This pressure was reflected in the morale bar, which meant that morale dropped sharply.

He originally wanted to keep the bed crossbows and use the four-shot heavy crossbows to break through the opponent's line when preparing for close combat. He had seen the ability of those shield guards, and the quality of their armor in hand-to-hand combat was difficult to match them. But he could rely on the heavy crossbows to break through the line, and use the infantry to completely defeat these elves while their morale was low.

These heavy bed crossbows were the strongest weapons in his hands, but it would take dozens of minutes just to reload them.

He nodded to his hero unit, and the latter immediately understood his purpose and passed the information down.

He couldn't help it.

The four slowly moving crossbows were equipped with heavy crossbow arrows specially used to kill infantry. The infantry line that received the order also slowly advanced while resisting the rain of arrows, protecting the nearby crossbowmen and leaving space for the crossbows to shoot.

The Elf Lord hiding behind the troops focused more on the beautiful elf girl beside him.

"What a beautiful battle."

The Elf Lord nodded complacently, looking at the infantry line that was suppressed by the rain of arrows and couldn't raise its head, he was even more relieved in his heart, and couldn't help but feel distracted.

He was not good at commanding, nor could he understand the battlefield. The hero borrowed from the elven city-state was really good. He only needed to wait for his troops to achieve excellent results and then check them.

The situation on the battlefield was really good.

The advantage was mine!

And Lupo was waiting, waiting for his crossbowmen to finish reloading for the second time, waiting for the infantry to enter the charging distance.

Waiting for the cavalry to enter the flank attack position.

And Ji Lin was hiding on the hillside in the distance and observing their battle with great interest. The fighting style of this human lord was unexpectedly methodical... at least it was very rigid. The tactics displayed by the elven lord were too rigid. Did they see the four bed crossbows?

Although such a dense formation of people can significantly enhance their own defense capabilities and resist the killing of ordinary crossbows, they will be pierced by this kind of siege equipment.

If he hadn't ambushed nearby, this battle should have ended with the human lord's bloody victory.

On the other hand,

Those hills were not as peaceful as they looked.

He did not need to intervene. After smelling the scent of blood, the corrupted devil crabs had already begun to stir.

The smell of war, death, and blood flowed into the swamp along the wind in the air, awakening these sleeping monsters.

The desire for corpses and blood was engraved into their instincts.

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