Conan: The Mechanic

Not far ahead, a bridge was looming, and many unarmed Viking soldiers were running from there.

Wait a minute, a bridge? Does this mean there is a river ahead?

"Do these cowards still look like a man?" The robust officer said in a rage. "These cowards!"

The battle axe in his hand trembled slightly.

"My lord, do you need to use them to fight the army?" A soldier closest to him said quickly when he saw the strong officer thinking of killing deserters.

Military heart. . . Do you want to kill these deserters to boost morale? . . Chiyu frowned.

"There's no need for that," said the sturdy officer, whose expression immediately calmed down from a state of rage. "It really can't be blamed on them."

"It's the villain who was abrupt." The soldier bowed his head and expressed his apology.

"..." Qianyu looked at the soldier - did he really intend to encourage the strong officer to kill these deserters, or did he take the strong officer's character to protect the deserters from beheading?

A group of people came to the bridge and saw that there was a river under the bridge. The width was four or five meters wide, and the depth definitely exceeded the limit of wading. In other words, if Harold II's troops wanted to cross the river, they had to go over the bridge.

Only one soldier in full armor can pass through the bridge. If the Viking warriors have brave champions who can defend the bridge,

"And it's useless to rearrange them. I can withstand those enemies by myself." The robust officer pointed to the bridge. "As long as I defend this bridge, I can kill the weak chickens on the opposite side one by one like chopping melons and vegetables."

At this moment, a British soldier rushed over the bridge with a sword, and the sturdy officer rushed to the head of the bridge, and the sword-wielding hand of the British soldier who was rushing from the bridge was cut cleanly with a tomahawk. .

The British soldier mourned with his broken arm, and was kicked off the bridge by the strong officer.

The chainmail on the sturdy officer shone dazzlingly in the light of the rising sun.

If it was just an ordinary chainmail like himself, it would never be able to emit such a dazzling light. . .

The essence of chain mail is very simple, it is a kind of armor formed by a large number of iron rings interlocking, and the rings are stacked together. The stacking structure spreads the power of slashing to the other iron rings - this design can effectively resist those light weapons that are good at slashing, and the more iron rings, the stronger the chain mail's defense.

This is it! Chiyu suddenly came back to her senses and realized why the sturdy officer's chainmail was so dazzling. His own chainmail is that each iron ring is matched with four iron rings on the upper left, lower right, upper right and lower right, and if the strong officer wears more complicated chain armor (such as two If the juxtaposed iron rings cover the eight iron rings juxtaposed in four directions, or each iron ring is matched with the eight iron rings in eight directions, etc.), then his chainmail will definitely be more dazzling than his own.

At this moment, the other soldiers around him exclaimed in unison.

On the bridge, a relatively sturdy (but still far behind the sturdy officer) British soldier just stabbed the sturdy officer with his spear.

Chainmail is not a panacea, and it is even useless in the face of some weapons.

The defensive unit of chain mail is an iron ring, so if you use a sharp weapon to accurately stab the center of the iron ring, the chain mail does not have any good defense measures.

The sturdy officer deftly avoided the spearhead, then grabbed the spear body and pulled the British soldier to him.

For the second time, Tomahawk tasted the blood that belonged to the Anglo-Saxons.

Even if you use a style that can break chainmail, if your own strength is not enough to fight against the person wearing the chainmail, you will not be able to defeat him. . .

Of course, in this case, shooting at a distance with a bow and arrow is a feasible measure, but Harold II himself blocked this possibility.

In 1065, Edward the Confessor turned against the northern princes and failed to bring them down. This also led to the refusal of the northern princes to provide support when Harold II called up troops to resist foreign invasions in 1066 - cavalry not available in other regions and archers that were extremely rare in other regions.

What's more, the power of bows and arrows in this era is very weak. The English longbow, which is the number one in the world, will have to wait for at least 80 years to come out, and it will take more than 200 years to flourish with the support of the English monarch. (So ​​what an unfortunate event that Harald died of a bow and arrow...)

The battle axe was as sensitive as a knife and as sharp as the wind. One after another, the British soldiers who challenged the sturdy officers were cut down from the bridge in various postures.

But, if that's the case, what are you doing here? Watching a play?

Just as Qianyu was thinking about this, a sudden change occurred in front of her.

The sturdy officer who had just hammered a British soldier onto the chain of the bridge and his body was snapped by the chain suddenly froze.

Everyone looked at the figure of the sturdy officer in amazement~www.NovelMTL.com~ A few awake soldiers even ran to the bridge to check the officer's abnormality-including Qianyu.

Then they were stunned.

They saw that the strong officer was impaled with a spear.

If that's all, it wouldn't surprise them too much, because chainmail really doesn't do anything to spears.

Their surprise was where the spear appeared—in the wooden planks of the bridge.

Qianyu reacted immediately and looked under the bridge.

A British soldier covered in blood was floating in the water, holding half a plank in one hand, while the other hand pierced the bridge with a spear, stabbing the strong officer from below.

This British soldier looks familiar. . . It seemed to be one of the soldiers who had just been dropped by the sturdy officer. . . I didn't expect that it was not dead, and I did this. . .

However, I don't have time to think about it now. . . Qianyu looked at the British soldiers who rushed to the bridge cheering, pouted, and entered a state of battle.

Come on, let me see how powerful you computer-controlled guys are!

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(What is the concept of how strong a longbow is? The English longbow is the only known projectile weapon that deforms the bones of soldiers just by training, and it is also the upper limit of single-person projectile weapons recognized by scholars. It is recorded in ancient books Any individual cold weapon with a range that exceeds the modern imitation of the English longbow will be directly regarded as a fallacy. This horrible weapon with a length of 1.5 meters or even 2 meters can project the bow and arrow to 400 yards. If he and iron wood If you compare the real Mongolian cavalry archers... the longbowmen hanged the Mamluks, and the Mamluks defeated the Mongolian cavalry archers. And from the theory of war, the infantry bow is a Tianke to the cavalry bow.)