Warlord: King of All Clans

Even though he was mentally prepared, Basarov couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling and his breathing becoming heavier after seeing his own results.

As for the followers of the Super Knight on the opposite side, when they saw their leader being shot in the head, they could no longer resist the panic in their hearts. They shouted and turned around and ran away.

The extraordinary knights in the West are basically centurions or thousand captains under Burke, and the cavalry they command are equally elite.

The group of Western Territory cavalrymen surrounding the Extraordinary Knights were either veteran soldiers or children of nobles who were able to become the Extraordinary Knights' followers. Among them were two Western Territory Qieshu.

In the past, these elite soldiers were considered the invincible warriors of the Western Territory.

They not only endured the rain of arrows from the hostile tribe, but also charged through the spear phalanxes from the southern border.

But this terrible and unknown weapon is more shocking than having your companions shot into hedgehogs.

Bjorn, who was standing behind the river bend battle formation and commanding the longbow team, also saw the power of the musket and began to have some doubts about the longbow in his hand.

Although he has become a superhuman and can use the 200-pound longbow in his hand in many ways, and can hit whatever he points at within a hundred steps, this longbow is still a mortal object and its power still has an upper limit.

A two-hundred-pound yew longbow, combined with the best armor-piercing heavy arrows in the river bay, can penetrate ordinary plate armor within twenty steps.

Beyond a hundred steps, the speed and power of the arrows greatly decreased. Even if they penetrated the chain mail shirt of a regular soldier, the remaining power would not be enough to kill him.

This is the lethality of an extraordinary archer. If it were an ordinary wild hunter, when shooting at a target more than a hundred steps away, they would have to switch to long-range light arrows, sacrificing half of the lethality to ensure a hit.

After Bjorn was promoted to the extraordinary level, his reaction speed increased and he learned to catch arrows with his bare hands thanks to his familiarity with the bow and arrow.

This was originally a special skill of an archer. When encountering hidden arrows and stray arrows, one can just reach out and grab them, and fight back without having to draw one's own arrow.

Magnar, the great hunter stationed at Stonecrush Castle, is a generation older than Bjorn. Before he was promoted to the extraordinary level, he had mastered the skill of catching arrows with his bare hands.

The two wild hunters would usually shoot arrows at each other when they had nothing to do, and show off their skills to their younger juniors.

But after witnessing the fate of this Western predecessor, Bjorn decided not to try again.

After all, the arrow's flight trajectory is clearly visible, giving the extraordinary archer ample time to react, but the bullet arrives in an instant, catching the person off guard.

Bjorn was still young, and he didn't want to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor.

Throughout the battlefield, as the musketeers began to fire in rotation, huge roars shook the battlefield.

The smoke of gunpowder gradually became thicker and quickly enveloped the battlefield. The only thing that could be compared to it was the speed at which the corpses piled up.

After three rounds of musket fire, the view in front was blurred. The musketeers no longer aimed, but fired rapidly based on their intuition.

A large lead bullet weighing forty or fifty grams hit the warhorse, directly bursting a bloody hole in its flesh.

Hitting a person's limbs can almost break them directly.

Several armored knights who were rushing to the front under the rain of arrows were paid special attention by the musketeers. In a blink of an eye, they were beaten to pieces, and their armor was almost shattered.

Coupled with the rain of arrows thrown by the longbowmen, the Western Archers were thrown into chaos and turned into a sea of ​​blood and corpses in an instant.

This horrific scene made the archers behind completely lose the will to fight back.

Hu Hu, who luckily avoided the trap, led his troops around a circle. Seeing the situation, he did not approach again, but turned around and led his troops back to the camp.

Of the two thousand horse archers, five hundred were killed, and most of the remaining troops were frightened away by the tragic sight of the vanguard before they even approached the pit.

As for the 1,000 cavalry led by Geshu Man, seeing the battlefield littered with corpses and shrouded in fog, they did not dare to take the opportunity to charge.

As the commander-in-chief of this battle, Ivan watched the swarming archers leave in a hurry, and felt a little bored for a moment.

This victory was too hasty.

He attended literacy classes at Riverbend Elementary School last year and also participated in officer training courses offered by Leo Jean Wood, which further enhanced his command abilities.

Normally, he would lead troops to fight a small battle with only a few hundred people, and he looked very professional.

However, the appearance of muskets and cannons made him feel that the knowledge he had just learned seemed to be unable to keep up with the changes.

Originally, Strong's artillery team also requested to go into battle, but he refused.

No Rivermen soldier would be willing to fight alongside a kobold man after witnessing a cannon or musket explode.

As the mayor of Hekou Town, Ivan, who has close contacts with Strong, has witnessed this seven or eight times.

He didn't want his carefully trained River Bend infantry to suffer all the casualties on the battlefield at the hands of their ogre neighbors.

Compared to the shoddy homemade guns and cannons of the gnolls, the products of the River Bay Firearms Workshop are more stable and reliable, and are qualified military products.

Because Leo's initial requirement for the musket was to be able to penetrate plate armor, and the skills of the River Bay gunsmiths were really limited and they were unable to lighten the barrel of the musket, so this musket was thick, heavy, and had a very large caliber.

If someone with less strength were to hold this heavy musket weighing more than ten pounds horizontally, his hands would become sore after firing two shots, and the huge recoil would make it too much for most people to bear.

But Basalov's musketeers were all converted crossbowmen from the regular soldier level. In the past, they did not feel tired when shooting a whole bag of arrows with a foot-operated crossbow. Now, it is even easier with this type of musket.

Although the drill manual for the musketeers at Hewan still ordered them to fire accurately within fifty steps and only fire at crowded areas beyond fifty steps, as the shooting accuracy of the muskets improved, many musketeers placed heavy muskets on giant shields and aimed, and could actually hit targets a hundred steps away.

However, the environment on the battlefield is different from that on the shooting range. Except for the first three bullets that can be aimed, the rest can only be suppressed by firepower.

The power of the River Bend is actually excessive for dealing with heavily armored musketeers and for harvesting lightly armored archers in the western border.

Seeing the enemy retreat, Ivan waved his hand and ordered the troops to withdraw.

His troops, the melee infantry continued to form a formation, while the musketeers and longbowmen retreated first.

After everyone returned to the fortress and the other side withdrew to the barracks, two militia regiments of 100 men went out of the city to clean up the battlefield.

The Minotaur Strong on the top of the city wall came down from the wall early, stood guard at the city gate, and applauded his comrades who returned victoriously.

Ivan smiled slightly when he saw this. This cunning bull-headed goblin dog coveted the wealth of his river mouth town, so it came to curry favor with him whenever it had the chance, trying to bring some good things back to the dog-headed tribe.

After a few interactions, the two became familiar with each other and were no longer restrained with each other.

Ivan is also an easy-going person, and he tries his best to help Strong within his authority.

Ivan was about to speak, but this time Strong ignored him.

Strong passed Ivan and approached Basarov, very warmly, "Basarov, my old friend, we have returned victorious! Strong has hidden two bottles of wine! Strong, please have a drink with me, old friend!"

In fact, Basarov had little friendship with this bull. Strong was a notorious snob. He fawned over the core generals of Hewan, but paid little attention to middle and high-level officers like them.

But Strong was also a popular figure around Leo, so when he tried to curry favor with him, Basarov of course accepted the favor.

The two men flattered each other in a mercenary manner, walked away arm in arm, and left Ivan where he was.

Ivan was immediately dissatisfied and complained to the Solovyvian knight who came down to greet him: "How can such a powerful new weapon be given to an old man like Basarov? I don't care, I want it too!"

Solovie was also interested in the River Bay muskets, but he was a traditional knight and still had fantasies about knightly armor. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Aren't you the head of the infantry regiment? The largest force in the River Bay is under your command. What are you complaining about?"

Ivan looked back at his own infantry regiment, which had been serving as mortars in the front row the entire time and had not touched a single enemy. He shook his head repeatedly, "Infantry? What kind of infantry are they without guns?"