Rise In Calradia

Rodok’s phalanx has been arranged. After noticing the catapults arranged by Byron’s engineers behind the troops, Earl Leyland doubled the original square phalanx to prevent the catapults from opposing. They cause too much damage. This is actually a helpless move, because although they have an advantage in numbers, the tactics and arms structure of the Rodok units make their units very unsuitable for active offensives. Therefore, although the units are also advancing towards the other side, they The speed was very slow, even slower than the normal march. Every time he walked, he had to stop and sort out the formation a little bit.

This is also impossible. Once the formation of the troops becomes chaotic, they will be rushed by large-scale heavy cavalry troops, and Byron's northern infantry can also take advantage of the situation to launch an offensive. When both sides are lined up, the Rodok army has the advantage most of the time. But once the troops disperse, the Nord troops will take the initiative.

During this period of time, the troops of both sides advanced a distance of tens of meters. Seeing that the other side was within the range of his trebuchet, Yatiman immediately ordered his engineers to pull down the ropes, two head-sized ones. The stone then flew out, "precisely" across the air above the Rodok troops, and fell a few steps behind the Rodok phalanx, without causing any casualties to the opponent. However, Yatiman immediately calibrated the other two catapults based on the launch situation just now, and two more stones flew past. This time, there was a lot of confusion among the crossbowmen behind the Rodok square. A guy who won the lottery was directly smashed to his head, and several crossbowmen beside him fell into the swamp. Suffered a little bit of injury.

The long-range attack worked, and Yatiman immediately prepared for the next round of tossing. Byron’s soldiers saw that the stones from their catapult caused riots among the Rodok troops, and their morale was also boosted. . In particular, the pirates at the forefront of the troops were excited about the battle that was about to begin. They made various insulting gestures to the Rodok troops in the distance, and laughed at each other in the Nordic language. This atmosphere affected the atmosphere. After the other soldiers, the original nervousness eased a little.

Then came two rounds of catapult throws. Despite the evasion, the fixed formation still caused more than ten casualties. Although this number is not much for the entire army, it has a significant impact on morale. Especially the crossbowmen in the rear. After they were taken care of by the catapult, they eagerly hoped that the troops would advance within their effective range to counterattack the mixed troops. As the crossbowmen squeezed forward, the speed of the entire army increased, but the formation became chaotic again, so the earl had to order the army to stop and rearrange its formation.

Elaine, who assisted Byron in commanding the troops, seized this opportunity. He ordered the infantry and crossbowmen to advance quickly and rushed directly into the range of the Rodok crossbowmen. This seemingly reckless move was taken by Leiland. The Earl thought that Byron wanted to start a charge when they were unstable, he snorted, feeling that the other side looked down on himself too much, and it was impossible for him to break his formation just by a few hundred infantrymen. He immediately ordered the flag bearers and trumpeters to order the crossbowmen to leave the convoy to shoot at the front of the team, while the infantry line was reorganized in place. After a period of confusion, Rodok's crossbowmen squeezed to the front of the troops with difficulty, and raised their crossbows. The spearmen behind them are also looking for their own position, preparing to stabilize the formation and set up the spear phalanx before the opponent's charge arrives.

But they were wrong. The Nords and Vickias who held up their shields and shouted in languages ​​they didn’t understand were not really trying to charge. Vekia guerrilla archers and archers with bows and arrows cover. When Rodok’s crossbowmen arrived in front of the formation, the Nord soldiers suddenly stopped and quickly formed a shield wall. Nearly a hundred crossbowmen also dropped their melee weapons and replaced them with longbows, facing Rodok. The infantry line sent a round of arrows.

Generally speaking, the Rhodok troops, which are generally equipped with broad shields, are very resistant to long-range attacks. About ten years ago, there were also Mercenary troops from Vicia following the Swadia Swadia army against Rhodok. The North carried out a round of plunder, but was defeated in front of the Rodok phalanx, because until they shot the quiver empty, they did not cause much damage to the tortoise shell composed of a large number of shields and thick armor.

But today is different from the past. Nowadays, expensive cone arrows have been popularized in the Vecia army~www.readwn.com~ Every Vecchia archer can send three to five for piercing armor in battle. Byron, the rich man, even hid a wagon of cone arrows in the blacksmith's shop in Kulao. Each guerrilla archer was assigned five arrows, and half of the arrows on the Vekia archers were this. Moreover, the feint just now caused the Rodok army to make a wrong reaction. The formation of the army has not stabilized. The soldiers who set up their shields and spears are less than half of them, and the crossbowmen have even exposed their bodies by holding up their bows and crossbows. Coming out, in this sudden rain of arrows, more than twenty people were shot by arrows, tapered arrows and long bows, the arrows directly broke the chain armor on their bodies and penetrated into the flesh and blood.

Although Rodok’s crossbowmen launched a counterattack afterwards, most of these powerful arrows were still blocked by the Nord shield wall. Although several people were shot by the crossbow arrows, Byron’s loss was far greater. Less than Rhodok’s loss. Once the crossbowmen finish shooting the arrows in their hands and start reloading, the Vikia archers, who are known for their high rate of fire, can freely pour arrows toward the opponent's infantry line.

Byron's follow-up troops are still advancing steadily, and the catapult still maintains its previous output efficiency. As soon as the battle began, Earl Leyland's troops were at a disadvantage. But they are not to blame. Rodok is too far from the north. Even the northern pirates rarely reach the coastline here. All Rodok lords know how to deal with Swadia’s terrible heavy cavalry. But few lords really know the essence of the northerners' tactics. As a result, when facing Byron's mixed forces, he fell into a disadvantage.

However, Byron did not seize the opportunity to continue to attack and break through their defenses. This was not because he was too cautious, but because on the other side of the battlefield, Earl Matt Asth's troops began to move.