Chapter 303: The First Battle in the Valley, Part 2
Howling arrows crisscrossed back and forth, and fierce shouts echoed in the valley. The sun slanted slightly to the west, the mountains cast thick shadows, and a faint smell of blood drifted in the wind.
The black wolf Toltech stood at the mouth of the valley several miles away with a battle flag on his back. He looked at the shooting situation, and his face gradually turned cold. The canine descendants of the valley had superb shooting skills and dominated the camp and terrain. The longbow advantage of the legion's archers was offset.
, unexpectedly, he was slowly losing ground in the exchange of fire. Black Wolf looked at it for a moment longer, raised his sword eyebrows, and waved his command flag again.
"Dong dong dong!"
The sound of the war drums suddenly accelerated, accompanied by the sharp sound of the flute. The five hundred vanguard barbarian soldiers were wearing cotton armor and had been waiting for a long time. They all let out a loud roar, praising the name of the Lord God. Then, the barbarian soldiers held rattan cards in one hand and copper in the other.
Spear, from nearly a hundred steps away, launched a charge towards the camp at the mouth of the valley.
Although the terrain of Taniguchi Camp is high, it is not particularly steep. In fact, it is just a slope. The vanguard barbarians ran with great strides and quickly rushed through the loose formation of archers, approaching within fifty steps, and quickly rushed up the slope.
"Dudu! Rapid fire!"
Looking at the barbarian soldiers rushing past, Yolich blew the bone whistle again.
The arrows "swish", suddenly soared like birds, and fell on the camp in large numbers. The archers of the legion were speeding up their shooting to suppress the canine descendants on the camp. The canine descendants howled and shouted, but the arrow rain suddenly became much smaller.
Yolich removed his shield and looked carefully at the opposite side. His pupils suddenly shrank. He saw many conspicuous red-haired warriors, drawing their bows without firing their bows, gazing muffledly at the barbarians approaching during the charge, as if they were patiently waiting for prey.
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Outside the valley, Toltec was smiling. He saw that the vanguard barbarians were almost unscathed and successfully rushed within twenty steps of the camp, and were about to climb up the camp.
"Didi, ew!"
The smile of the black wolf suddenly solidified. A harsh bone whistle sounded instantly, accompanied by the shrill sound of arrows piercing the air. Then, the charging barbarians suddenly fell to the ground, and the dying screams were fierce in an instant.
At a distance of twenty steps, the red-haired warriors accurately avoided the cotton armor and shot the heads, faces and necks of the barbarians, causing more than thirty brave vanguards to fall to the ground.
Then, hundreds of canine warriors roared, holding stone spears and stone hammers in their hands, rushed out of the simple camp gate, and fought with the vanguard barbarians. A canine warrior waved a stone hammer with both hands and smashed it with all his strength.
The shield of a young barbarian soldier barely provided any defense. The barbarian soldier smiled disdainfully, blocked with his shield, and then stabbed with the bronze spear, piercing deeply into the canine's chest and abdomen.
However, the dying canine warrior was like a wild beast, advancing instead of retreating. He roared and hugged the spear that was pierced into his chest and abdomen, and grabbed the arm behind the spear. Another canine warrior immediately jumped on him, swung a stone hammer, and struck with a hammer.
It hit the barbarian soldier on the shoulder. The barbarian soldier immediately howled miserably and bowed his body, like a crouched shrimp. Then he hit the barbarian soldier head-on with another hammer, and the howl suddenly stopped.
Seeing this tragic scene, the middle-aged barbarian soldier next to him turned red-eyed, thrust out a copper spear, and stabbed the dog-born to death, who had exhausted his strength while swinging a stone hammer. Another dog-born rushed towards him again, holding a stone spear and sacrificing his life.
The middle-aged barbarian soldier took a step back quickly, raised his shield to block, then thrust out his spear with his backhand, and stabbed the dog-born to death!
After all, the vanguard barbarians were selected elite soldiers. They were skilled in martial arts, strong and agile, and with excellent equipment, they soon gained an absolute upper hand in close combat.
However, the red-haired warriors in the camp were merciless and did not care about the possibility of accidental injury. They just fired arrows fiercely down the slope. These deadly hunters squinted their eyes and continued to shoot sharp bone arrows. At such a close distance, they were accurate.
Hitting the vital points of the barbarian soldiers, the barbarian soldiers suddenly fell down with a low roar, and died together with the dog-born, with their bodies stacked on top of each other.
The rapid drumbeats continued to urge the attack, and the fighting in front of the Taniguchi camp became more and more cruel. Yolich led the archers to continue forward, approaching and shooting at the hunters on the camp, and the casualties on both sides quickly expanded. Arrows continued to take away lives.
, and also consumed the morale and physical strength of both parties.
Toltec frowned in silence and watched the fighting for two moments. The charge in front of the camp showed no sign of a breakthrough. The two sides squeezed each other and gradually became a protracted war of attrition. Although the canine descendants lost nearly 600 people in the battle,
But most of them were tribal warriors and ordinary men. The red-haired elites suffered very little damage.
However, the thousand-man battalion that went into battle fell down with a total of 300 people. Half of them were militia archers who fired at each other, and half were samurai barbarians who charged. The lightly-armed archers were easy to supplement and had simple equipment, so the casualties were actually insignificant. But the vanguard barbarians were
The selected royal guards are his direct troops, how can they be so consumed!
Thinking of this, Hei Lang clenched his hands and slowly shook his head.
The special valley terrain restricted the delivery of troops from both sides, limiting the scale of the frontline battle. Although the middle legion had 8,000 people, only about 1,000 people could be put into the front line of the battle. The same was true for the Dogborn, with a large number of warriors gathered there.
Wait after the camp. Once the battle is carried out as a tribe, it will cover up the weakness of the canine people who are not good at cooperation, and instead bring into play their advantage of being good at small-scale battles.
"We can't continue fighting like this. The crossbowmen move forward to cover! Sound the conch horn and the thousands of forward troops retreat!"
Toltec took a deep breath and waved the command flag. The five hundred temple crossbowmen strode forward and advanced to more than a hundred steps from the valley entrance. They spread their legs and stood still, holding up the heavy crossbow with both hands. In front of the canine descendants,
With doubtful eyes, they all suddenly raised their heads and fired a wave of ferocious crossbow bolts.
"Boohoo!"
Sharp crossbow arrows came from the sky, shot at the top of the camp, and then nailed them to the wooden base. More than a dozen canine hunters died on the spot, including several red-haired warriors. The canine hunters on the camp were instantly killed
The conch trumpet to suppress and retreat was sounded immediately. The vanguard barbarians retreated while fighting, shouting to each other, and retreated out of the shooting range of the camp.
The attacking canine warriors wanted to continue to fight. However, once they left the narrow valley mouth and escaped the cover of the camp hunters, the exchange ratio with the barbarians increased significantly, and their morale also dropped rapidly. The vanguard barbarians retreated while
After waving their weapons and killing hundreds of canine descendants, the retreat horn sounded in the camp.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The temple crossbowmen fired ten rounds in a row and then stopped shooting. The temple crossbowmen retreated with the archers, and the heavy crossbows and longbows were mixed together.
, making collision sounds from time to time. The crossbow arrows used in the heavy crossbow need to withstand several times the pressure and must be made of strong hardwood. Compared with the wooden shafts and reed rods used for ordinary bows and arrows, the arrow shafts of crossbow arrows are more expensive and difficult to manufacture.
More laborious.
In this Northern Expedition, facing the lightly armored or even unarmored canine descendants, the power of the longbow was sufficient. For these reasons, the crossbow bolts carried by the coalition forces were very limited and they could not shoot indiscriminately.
"Red Fox Valley, Red Cat Tribe..."
Toltec stared at the lynx flag on the camp and fell into deep thought. There were tens of thousands of canine descendants in the valley. Now they were occupying the ground and holding on, but it was really difficult. The black wolf frowned and thought for a moment, then looked at Mesper next to him again.
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"Mespa, call the nobles you mentioned before. I want to inquire carefully!"
Mesper summoned several nobles who had escaped from the valley, and explained in detail the events that happened that day, the fighting situation of the dog descendants, and the surrounding terrain.
After listening for a moment, Black Wolf's eyes lit up. He grabbed the middle-aged Otomi noble in front of him.
"Iko, you just said that there are narrow mountain roads in the north and south mountains of the valley, which can pass hundreds of samurai?"
"Yes, Captain Black Wolf. Although the mountains in the north and south are high, there are mountain roads that have been explored. It's just that the mountains in the north are slightly gentler and easier to navigate than in the south. The Parmus scouts often used mountain roads to scout the valley. That day in Guaji
The Li people also sneaked into hundreds of red-haired soldiers from the northern mountain road to create chaos in the valley. In the past half month, scouts from both sides have been fighting in the mountains. In order to complete your investigation order, I have killed several elite soldiers.
Family warrior!"
The middle-aged nobleman Iko felt a little distressed. Toltec thought for a moment, grabbed Iko's arm, and asked him a question that frightened him even more.
"Iko, you are an Otomi noble who was born in the valley, and you are very familiar with this place. The Guakili dog descendants occupied your fiefdom, killed your tribesmen, and have a huge hatred for you! Don't you think so?
Don’t you want revenge?..."
Black Wolf paused, stared into Iko's eyes, and said in a deep voice.
"I will give you five hundred Parmus warriors who are familiar with the terrain! You rush in from the mountain path, cooperate with the army inside and outside, and take advantage of the darkness to attack the camp at the entrance of the valley from behind. Although this attack is dangerous, as long as it succeeds, it will be a great achievement.
Piece! I will personally report your name to His Highness! How about it, do you dare?!"
