Mercenaries Under the Sky

shield.

It is one of the most common armor. Throughout the war of mankind, the life sheltered by the shield far exceeds that of helmets, armor and other armor. This is not to say that the shield's defense is good. The main reason is that the shield is simple to make. Any soldier or mercenary can have it as long as he wants. It is impossible for most empires to equip every soldier with a good set of armor, even leather armor, and configuring a shield is much simpler.

The most basic shield is like a wooden lid-it is not even as good as the lid in terms of material selection. The diameter is between 30 and 40 cm. Depending on the wood, the thickness of the shield is between 2 and 5 cm. One of the dumbest apprentice carpenters can make 20 a day. Such a shield can effectively prevent the shooting of the horn bow at a distance of 80 meters. Of course, such ugly things are more common in peasant uprisings, and regular empires will not take them out to make people laugh.

The first-class shields used by the regular army, no matter whether the shape is square, round or even unique, must have a feature-compound. The shield defensive bow and arrow effect of different materials and different densities is obviously better than the shield of the same texture; the effect of defending the knight's submachine gun is not much worse. The more common is the three-layer composite of iron, wood and leather, with iron as the surface, wood as the bone, and the skin as the lining; the better large shields are steel and wood composites; some special races like to use pure steel shields, This kind of guy is too heavy for human soldiers, even human heavy infantry can hardly carry a large shield of more than 80 pounds. Therefore, the general heavy shield is made of four layers of steel, wood, steel and leather. More than times, the effect is also good.

Shields range in size from 30 cm to 150 cm. In some large fortresses, there are even giant shields over 2 meters in length. Such giant shields can even be used to fight against catapults.

—— "Chi Yizi. Shield Saying" Chapter 84 Siege Warm-up Warrior Calendar January 2nd, 6th, the lord Chi Aotian, who was dubbed as the Duke of Flower Language, seems to have never happened to him, not only the face There was no smile on it, not even the humility that the nobles should have when they accepted the envelope. What's even more strange is that despite having the rights of many nobles in the territories in hand, despite the fact that there are many officers from the two major systems of the small mercenary and the Black Dragon Knights, it seems that Chi Aotian did not do it at all. Give any meaning of reward. Count Yang Yang nodded coldly, beckoning what he had heard, and then turned around and returned to the account. After a few moments, the officers returned to the account under the leadership of Tayan and others to continue the meeting. The special envoy Ming Lin from Lindu was simply left outside.

Later generations, there are two different speculations about Chi Aotian's approach. Most of the tendencies, at this time, the Northern Expeditionary Army is facing strong enemies in the fortress, and it is not good to give the title of nobility to anyone. It is better to drag the suspense longer, so that many officers and even allies There is a hope, who is the most outstanding in the siege of war, then who will be rewarded by being the best. This realization does have facts as evidence. There are also some post-general scholars who believe that Chi Aotian is quite uncomfortable with the outside world. For these rewards, he cannot make an appropriate decision at the time. Perhaps, he will entrust the matter to others. In fact, Su Wen It played a similar role in the envelope after the city was broken. In addition to these two mainstream views, there is also a voice: Chi Aotian's Northern Expedition, did not think of any fame and fortune, just like Amy pushed off many thrones, Chi Aotian was not interested in what hereditary heirs would be.

What is interesting is that after the meeting, Tayang secretly patted the shoulders of several mid-level officers, some of whom even came from friendly forces, and the words were very interesting: "Try hard, Lord General, but you are very optimistic about you Oh."

In the studies of later generations, all scholars agree on this point. According to Tayan's previous performance, this time, in order to inspire the soldiers, he was a "false preacher".

The first half of the second Rhode City offensive and defensive battle is completely a formulaic siege process. There is nothing surprising in each step, which is completely expected by the officers of both sides.

After four days of looting by the Black Dragon Knights, the war resources are much richer than before. As the day just turned on, hundreds of simple small catapults had been put up in front of Rhodes Town. Behind the catapults, there was a large black crushed car, and it did not look less than 100.

What surprised Chi Aotian and others was that they didn't know when to start on the walls of Rhodes, but they stood full of tall grassland elf archers. Qingluo frowned and whispered to the deputy captain, and came to Chi Aotian: "Deputy leader, the prairie elf alliance has always been neutral, but they also often become mercenaries of various countries or mercenary groups. Their elders The regiment did not completely obey Her Majesty the Queen, so ... "The meaning of Qing Luo's unfinished words was already clear. Chi Aotian had seen the magical skills of the prairie elves early on. Whether it is Xilin Island or the Icebreaker, the prairie elves are the most eye-catching groups on the battlefield. The role played is definitely not this number. At first glance, the prairie elves on the city wall will not be less than 1,000 people. It is estimated that they entered the city at night. This sudden weight is even heavier than the two dragon knights.

"I know." Chi Aotian didn't waste a word, even nodded like this, and then waved to Su Wen around him.

"The catapult is ready!"

"Yes! Your Excellency General." Su Wen immediately took his guard to the rear of the Allied forces to oversee the war.

More than a dozen allied officers held high flags and rushed out against the catapults. All the allies affiliated with them rushed up. Now the total number of allies fighting with the North Army has reached 20,000, of which more than half Having experienced the baptism of four or five small-scale battles, several major officers have already held the title of Imperial Jazz, and titles such as the Imperial Knights of Life have been owned by more than 200 people. As for the money, it has been squandered.

Money, women, status, no regime, no one can expect ordinary farmers in their territory to resist the temptation of these three things. After all, no one can raise the consciousness of farmers to the point of a saint.

The left army ’s more than 5,000 allies are divided into two parts. Most of them lifted their shields to form a shield array-thousands of swordsmen ’s special shields with a diameter of 70 cm were arranged neatly one by one, in height It consists of three shields, which are staggered and directly protected to a height of 1.9 meters. In the horizontal direction, each row is at least 300 shields, and the spacing between each row is 5 meters. Such a shield array, even if it is a bow and arrow shot from the back, it is difficult to cause too much blow.

The remaining more than 2,000 allies ran down to the catapult with their heads down, grunting, responsible for a catapult every 20 people or so, pushing the chariot into the shield formation.

All this has been exercised once last night, and even a temporary army can easily do well.

"Ready to rush to the car, the ladder!"

"Take it easy." Tayan bounced a black and red bean out of the air, and with a smile, took four lizardman guards and strode to the residents who were wrapped up.

Ta Yang smiled and shook his jingling purse in one hand, and shook the sharp scimitar in the other: "Residents, the evil sweat mercenary corps is in front of them, that is, they force everyone to come here, it is them, After wielding a saber and hacking countless residents, I announced that the first person who rushed to the top of the city would receive 1,000 bounty coins, and the first team who would open the city gate would receive 1,000 bounty coins. Level, get 10 gold coins! Below, the first to twentieth teams, each team is responsible for a rushing car, the twenty-first to forty-one teams, each team is responsible for three ladders. After the drum is charged, the timid, Those who retreat will be executed on the spot! "From the sweet smile to the grim, the old priest turned his face faster than he turned the book.

The old priest also deliberately used two spells: loudspeaker and fear. Fear, originally a unique skill of the Holy Master, used powerful mental pressure in the war to force opponents, especially the beasts, to panic and escape. Unexpectedly, it was even used here by the old priest, plus the red tongue that was constantly spitting out behind him. Lizardmen, the innocently looted residents under the city were so frightened that their legs and feet were unstable, and weeping sounds continued in the crowd. Tayang ignored it at all and turned to greet the supervising team.

"Catapult, move forward." The brown flag quickly rose to the top.

The shield soldiers moved forward in small steps, the catapults wrapped in the shield array thundered forward, and the men behind pushed the stone-filled car closely.

Many officers of the Black Dragon Knights frowned slightly. After all, it was not a regular army, and even a shield formation could not go well. More than 30% of the shield formation had been slack.

Looking at the slowly moving catapult, the large city wall seemed to be silent, and the prairie elves standing in the first row occasionally reached out to measure the distance. For ordinary prairie elves, after blessing wind magic, the range can be reached 600 meters, but no one will do so unless forced to do so. Once blessed with magic, the wind elves will continue to echo the wind in the sky. This is not controllable by the shooter. The accuracy of the arrow suddenly drops sharply, which can bless The magic arrows of the wind system can be regarded as super archers when they are shot in a 10 meter circle.

400 meters ... this is close to the range of the prairie elves.

"Prepare—" the elf captain of the city wall ordered loudly, and the beautiful elves pulled the brown arrow feathers out of the quiver and scattered them in front of their eyes.

"Buzzard Swordsman and Buzzard Archer lift off!" Chi Aotian narrowed his eyes and looked at the distance, watching the elves on the wall move neatly, and the young general had to prepare the two troops that were originally prepared. Enter the battlefield in advance to contain the enemy's god-like archers.

The black two-winged rattlesnake flag and the cyan two-winged rattlesnake flag took off at the same time. In addition to the guarded knight eagle, the remaining knights were led by Qingluo and Changqing.

Qingluo knew quite well the range of the prairie elves, and he commanded the knights around him to raise up loudly and kept raising the height above 600 meters.

咻 ——A light green arrow shot from the wall, drawing a nearly straight arrow, a young soldier in the middle of the shield suddenly solidified, and stood for a moment, the mouth was spurting blood and fell. on the ground. This long arrow opened the second offensive and defensive battle in Rhodes Town.

"Shoot!" The city wall and the sky simultaneously issued orders.

At 300 meters, the brown arrow feathers pulled out a faint shadow in the air and rushed towards the shield formation. The first row of shield formation collapsed in an instant-human soldiers could not imagine that at such a long distance, the arrow turned out to be Able to hit the key against the gap between shields.

The peasants who had just joined the army were suddenly beaten, especially the first row of allies, throwing their shields in a panic, rushing towards the second row of shields like a chicken with no ass. The catapult riders were knocked down by the third wave of arrow rain.

"The escapers will be executed on the spot!" Su Wen, wearing heavy armor, cursed Mercedes with his guard, and the old soldiers screamed from the armor regardless of the sharp bow and arrow, and the moon-washing scimitar waved in hand. More than a dozen deserters were cut down to the ground, and the blood of the collapse stained the silver armor with blood.

"The first shield formation was incorporated into the second shield formation, catapulted, and fired smoke!"

Under the sky of arrow rain, the young farmer soldiers panicked the black wolf smoke block into his pocket, put a large stone in the bowl to weigh the weight, and then put it in the bowl of the catapult, sprinkled with spontaneous combustion powder .

Boom ... Boom ... Boom ... Almost a hundred trebuchets fired smoke-filled pockets in turns. This simple trebuchet does not have a fixed range, and the weight of the stones is not balanced. , The farthest has been shot into the city, the nearest is only 150 meters. After each catapult fired for five rounds in succession, smoke rose in front of the city wall. These coyote smoke collected from the residents of the villages and towns must not be specially treated, and they are full of toxicity. The stench stimulates the sense of smell while stimulating the eyes. The spring of the Eminor mainland is blowing the southeast wind, and the city wall suddenly sounded. A coughing sound. "Ah--" Some people screamed and fell off the city wall after screaming.

Originally, the prairie elves were all masters of wind magic, and 1,000 prairie elves joined forces to release wind magic. At the very least, they could prevent the spread of wolf smoke. Unfortunately, the knight eagles had started shooting arrows down. At a height of 600 meters, the forest elves There is no way to maintain the correct accuracy. UU reading www.uukanshu.com is even more so, and it is still full of wolf smoke. The elves have all changed their horns and arrows, and they are scattered against the city wall.

The wall of the city was already in chaos. The prairie elves recognized the sound of the wind and jumped away from the bow and arrow that fell vertically.

"Quick! Falling into the water!" Duke Jiang called out and shouted loudly from the tallest arrow tower.

The strong men in the city wall were under the arrow rain, carrying the prepared cold water and ran up the road. The bucket of water splashed down the city wall, and the black wolf smoke under the city wall was pressed by the water.

"Prairie archer, target sky knight, shoot! Swordsman camp, rocket! Goal, catapult, shoot!"

The pale blue light shone on the tail of the feather arrow, the wind elves danced in the sky, and the dense arrow rain pounced on the knight eagle.

"Flash!" The knight eagle pulled the mount and flew in the direction of the arrow rain.

Bashing ... There are still more than a dozen knights who can't dodge and miss the target. Fortunately, at this height, the vultures were not seriously injured, flapping their wings, and the raptors fell towards the array. Several of the elves blessed themselves and their partners in mid-air.

More dense rockets fell from the sky with the hot wind blowing, and the wooden shield was instantly covered with flaming oil. The shields in the first few rows were scattered immediately, and the rows of catapults ignited a raging fire. In the fire, almost all shields tended to collapse.

The sound of the horn sounded in the Black Dragon Knights, and two consecutive flags were raised. "Retreat!" Allied officers rushing to the front line immediately directed the allies to withdraw, and the people who were wrapped up behind the shield were also roped. Pulling back.

The first wave of attacks in the second Rhode City offensive and defensive battle, the sweat-blooded iron riding mercenary regiment only killed more than 40 people and was wounded and burned by more than 100 people. They killed more than 1,000 people of the Black Dragon Knight Expeditionary Force and destroyed more than 30 catapults .