total war rise of empire

Chapter 12 First Victory
In the era of cold weapons, there is a weapon that has been the mainstream of the army since ancient times, and that is the long weapon!

The most representative long weapon is naturally the spear!
Since the Stone Age, stone spears have appeared in the hands of warriors of primitive tribes. Until the era when firearms sprouted, spearmen, a unit that should have been eliminated long ago, were still active in most countries!

It was not until the appearance of the bayonet that the spear officially withdrew from the stage of history!
In fact, a musket with a bayonet is, in a sense, just an iron spear, and even the bayonet is used in a similar way to a spear!
The reason why spears have survived thousands of years of human history naturally contains profound truths. Simply put, an inch is long and an inch is strong, and an inch is short and an inch is dangerous!

In close combat, longer weapons mean that you can take the lead in attacking the enemy. You can hit the enemy, but the enemy cannot reach you. On a battlefield where lives are at stake, there is nothing more pleasurable than this. Of? !

The same principle is vividly reflected in the battlefield outside Longhan Village at this time!

Kobolds are over one meter tall, so they can only use short spears in human hands, because for kobolds, the length of human short spears is equivalent to their super long spears...

Therefore, the length of the farmer's spearman's weapon is a full meter and a half longer than the kobold's weapon!

This 1.5-meter distance gap is as difficult to cross as the moat of death for kobolds with small arms and legs!
The peasant spearmen forming a phalanx can cooperate with each other to stab forward. When the peasant spearmen in the first row are busy pulling out their spearheads, the peasant spearmen in the second row will take the opportunity to try to pull out their spearheads. Kobolds at close range, dressed as gourds of flesh and blood!
And if that's not enough, there's a third row at the back!

The kobolds without any armor and shields completely exposed their short stature to the cold spear point. One can imagine what will happen to them...

The most terrible thing is that the kobold fighters have no concept of discipline and formation at all. The dense phalanx most commonly used in the cold weapon era has not appeared at all, and their charge is nothing more than a loose swarm!

The density per unit area is not as good as the Peasant Spearmen who have far fewer people than them!
As a matter of course, the kobold's assault team was pierced through without any resistance!

Of course the kobolds wouldn't be so stupid as to hit the spear, what they are good at is siege!
Under the cover of the lives of their companions, some kobolds turned around to the sides of the peasant spearmen, and then collided with the capable general Spartan guards...

To say that the peasant spearmen slaughtered the kobolds relying on formation and unity, while the Spartan general guard relied entirely on their excellent personal combat skills and strong physical fitness to easily harvest the lives of the kobolds!

The kobolds are just a heterogeneous group that follows the jungle law of the jungle, not some brainless species that is not afraid of death. In a short period of time, the kobolds who were smashed in front of the peasant spear phalanx, the high-spirited Morale suddenly plummeted!

The kobolds who were charging saw their compatriots in front of them die miserably in front of the shield-like spear phalanx, and began to hesitate and become afraid. Their greed for life stopped them from charging and began to charge. Back off!
It took only ten minutes for all this to happen. Even the temporary militiamen in the village hadn't come out, and the Kobold's charge became powerless!

Lei Zihao, who had always placed himself in the safest position, saw the Kobold's retreat, and lost no time in shouting: "The enemy has been defeated, warriors, attack!"

As the orders of the officers were conveyed layer by layer, the peasant spearmen began to step forward slowly, suppressing the line of kobolds who were cowering!
The kobolds attacking the flanks dared to die here after seeing their partners in the front start to flee?

At this moment, the 20 or so jackals behind finally moved!

The first target of these gnolls was not the enemy, but their vassal kobolds!

The thick blunt large mallet can smash the head of the little kobold with a single blow, and the brains are scattered everywhere!
The wailing calls kept ringing out, and after the kobolds heard them, they finally managed to stop their rout, and under the strong suppression of the gnolls, they swarmed forward again!

The jackals naturally saw the lethality of the phalanx of human spears in front of them. They never expected that an ordinary human village would have professional spearmen that only human cities have!

The dense phalanx of spears seemed to bring back painful memories for the wolf man. They roared and waved the thick weapons in their hands, and charged forward!

The strength of the jackals was many times greater than that of the kobolds. Facing the dense spears in front of them, they used all their strength to sweep and wave them, and they were able to completely knock out the spears in the hands of several peasant spearmen!
Immediately, these jackals got into this small gap and approached the spearmen!
Unfortunately, although the efficiency of this method is high, the number of gnolls is too small. Every gnoll has to face at least ten or more spears. The sharp point will also pierce the naked body of the gnoll before its new strength is born!

This is a blatant crushing of numbers...

Few of the kobolds who had been killed in the back charged with the wolf man, especially when they saw the heroic wolf man in their eyes die in front of the spear phalanx. All over the place, barks and dogs fled in all directions!
With the addition of the Spartan general guards on both wings, all the gnolls were quickly cleaned up, and the real massacre began!

The temporary militia that Lei Zihao had placed high hopes on finally joined the battlefield belatedly, oh, to be precise, they joined the ranks of massacres...

In cold weapon wars, there are not many people who are actually killed face to face. The reason why a large number of loser heads can be obtained in each cold weapon war is mainly due to the pursuit and massacre after victory!
Soldiers without the will to fight, saved time and effort by the victors, cut into various deadly weapons from the back, harvesting life easily, and the killing efficiency will naturally increase geometrically!

It can be said that on the battlefield of hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons, except for the casualties caused by long-range strike weapons, less than [-]% of the heads of [-]% were killed face to face, and the rest were almost all beheaded during pursuit. With cavalry, it is even more a nightmare for a defeated army!
What Lei Zihao is doing at this moment is an exhilarating and relaxing pursuit!

On this day, the open space outside the farmland of Longhan Village was fully irrigated with dog blood...

(End of this chapter)