At this time, Tucker, the raven who served King Thorin II of the Lonely Mountain, was flying in the sky with difficulty. Even if it grew up in the Lonely Mountain and experienced many cold winters, it could not survive in such a cold winter.
Normal flight under weather conditions.
Compared to the morning, the weather is colder at this time.
Tucker's mission was very simple, which was to observe when the two teams under him started to engage in battle, and then fly to the north and report to Thorin II.
Although the task is very simple, it can only be done by the larger ravens that are more resistant to the cold. Those smaller birds are no longer able to withstand the increasingly cold airflow in the sky.
And the two teams under Tucker are indeed getting closer and closer as Thorin told him, and it is estimated that they will come into contact before long.
Coming towards the Dongyi people from the east was naturally a coalition of dwarf and human infantry. At this time, the elite dwarf infantry stood at the front of the phalanx. They carried strong steel shields and sharp steel axes.
The tough frontal troops are always ready to meet the enemy's charge. Of course, if the Dongyi people on the opposite side do not charge, then they may become a heavy hammer to attack the enemy, because the brave and capable dwarves are never afraid of war.
And leading them was Dyne Ironfoot, the former King of the Iron Hills and now the second-in-command of the Lonely Mountain.
The elite infantry under Allen's command stand on both sides of the dwarves, guarding the sides of the dwarves as auxiliary troops. In all aspects, their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the dwarves, but is better than that of the levies standing behind them.
Much stronger.
Nearly three thousand militiamen are only equipped with leather armor, but the spears in their hands are sharp enough, and they can harvest the lives of their enemies to their heart's content under the protection of the dwarves.
As for the Dongyi people, they gradually gathered together under Ashur's order. This time he brought tens of thousands of soldiers, so Ashur did not intend to gather the soldiers together.
A waste of combat power.
Ashur, who was experienced on the battlefield, divided his soldiers into four parts and placed them in front of the human and dwarf armies.
His main formation consists of a dozen two-wheeled chariots that are ready to go. In addition to the driver, each chariot also has four members. Two are archers holding longbows, and the other two are holding long bows.
Soldier with war spear.
In addition, they all wear short swords on their waists. Even if the chariot stops, they still have enough power to engage the enemy at hand-to-hand combat.
Distributed around the chariot are more than 300 Dongyi cavalry, who will guard the rear of the chariot during the battle.
Ashur, who has many years of combat experience, clearly knows that when chariots attack the enemy, due to their inflexibility, they are easily harassed by enemy cavalry, especially mounted archers, so a small number of their own cavalry is needed to entangle those who come over.
Harassing enemy cavalry.
In the middle phalanx, Ashur, there are heavily armored soldiers, about two thousand in number. They are equipped with metal armor stomachs made of bronze, and a large entire deck protects their armor.
The chest and back, as well as the legs and hands are made of stacked pieces of armor, which are enough to defend against slashes from ordinary weapons.
And their full-face helmets are even more peculiar, with only the eyes and the bridge of the nose exposed. Some Dongyi elites with strong records will decorate their helmets with prey or trophies from the enemy, mostly sharp teeth.
There are sharp claws and some are human fingers. These things will not only display the master's achievements, but also form a certain deterrent to the enemy.
As for the areas that were not covered by the armor and stomach, these Dongyi soldiers were thickly wrapped with silk-like cloth to guard against some tricky attacks and missing arrows.
The weapons in the hands of these people are strange-shaped spears and large square shields inlaid with copper nails. Some of the soldiers wear dwarf-style short swords around their waists, which are obviously made by the captured dwarf slaves.
, while the others were short, strange iron daggers.
The only parts of their bodies that were exposed were their eyes, and at this moment their eyes were full of desire for blood and killing.
These soldiers are elites that Ashur has trained over the years. Only in times of crisis will Ashur send them out, and this is the time.
The task assigned to them by Ashur was to attack the front of the dwarves and entangle the powerful dwarves. Because he knew that he could only entangle these dwarfs with elites. If he arranged those cannon fodder to attack the dwarves who were well-equipped and had high morale,
The dwarf infantry might collapse in a short time, which would not only deal a blow to the morale of our own soldiers, but also if the victorious dwarves make a breakthrough in the middle and then surround them on both sides, it would be very difficult.
There may be situations that are detrimental to you.
Anyway, our number is three times that of the opponent. As long as we use elites to entangle the dwarves, then the situation is set. Each of our other two phalanx soldiers has four to five thousand people, allowing them to attack those fighting forces.
It should be very easy to defeat the northerners.
When the battle reached a stalemate, Ashur planned to drive his chariot around behind the enemy, and then rush into the phalanx of the northerners. However, he was a little strange as to why the enemy would pose like a hedgehog.
formation, which is obviously unwise.
If nothing else, the thousands of archers he placed at the front of the phalanx would cause a lot of damage to the poorly equipped northerners once the formations of both sides were close enough.
Not to mention that with such a formation, it would be easy to be surrounded by oneself with superior troops, resulting in a deadlock.
Ashur was a little confused, couldn't the commander on the other side have thought of this? But for him, this was a good thing. He had no obligation to remind the other side and would never show mercy to the enemy.
At this time, the distance between the two sides has become closer and closer as time goes by, and it is close enough for the elven longbow to launch an ultra-long-range shot. At this time, Bandak, who is responsible for commanding the shooter, has calculated the distance between the enemy and ourselves.
, quickly waved the red flag in his hand, and with shouts, the entire advancing team suddenly stopped.
Ashur, who was always staring at the battlefield, naturally saw the movement on the opposite side, but at this moment the distance between the two sides was not within the range of his long archers, so he did not issue an order to stop. Several Dongyi people
The phalanx is still slowly advancing.
Soon, Ashur's sharp eyes saw a scene that shocked him extremely. In the enemy's square formation, there were actually nearly a thousand soldiers who originally held spears. They took out longbows with elven characteristics from behind.
, and then he seemed to hear an angry cry of "shoot arrows" faintly in the wind, followed by a shower of arrows that covered the sky and hit his longbow troops.
The Dongyi long archers standing at the front of the team looked at the missing arrows flying in the sky, and most of them showed indifferent expressions.
They simply don't think that the enemy's shooting can hurt them, because the distance is too far, and the longbows in their hands even have to walk dozens of steps forward before they can even reach the point where they can shoot.
But there were also a small number of long archers who looked at the missing arrows in the sky with a look of horror. They curled up as much as possible behind others and continued to walk forward, because there was no stopping horn sound behind them.
, no one dared to disobey military orders under Ashur's eyes.
What no one noticed was that a gray raven flew towards the north at this time.
Soon, this wave of arrow rain came in front of these Dongyi people with the sound of "swish" and "swish", and then the Dongyi long archers at the front of the phalanx lay down like wheat knocked down by hail.
Suddenly, there were unbelievable exclamations and a lot of crying.
This wave of arrows from the conscripts caused at least a quarter of the Dongyi long archers to lose their combat effectiveness.
Being able to cause such huge damage to the enemy unexpectedly at the beginning of the battle was also due to Allen's reassignment of the elf longbow originally assigned to the northern ranger to the forest dwellers who were good at archery among the levies.
Replaced their hunting bows.
After seeing this scene, Ashur immediately gave the order for the longbowmen to disperse, and then asked the guards around him to beat the drums for the entire army to attack.
He knew that his longbowmen were at a disadvantage in terms of range and could not cause any damage to the enemy in the confrontation. Under such circumstances, the right thing to do was to give up shooting and let the infantry charge directly to interrupt the enemy's shooting.
"Woo, woo woo woo..."
Amidst the blasts of horns, the Dongyi longbowmen who had been severely hit but were still moving forward had expressions of relief on their faces, and they moved their steps away from the people they identified as they continued to move forward.
The more spread out they are, the more likely they are to survive intense coverage.
At this time, the second wave of arrows launched by the residents in the forest once again attacked the Dongyi longbowmen. However, this time the coverage shot was far less effective than the previous wave. However, many people were lying injured.
The Dongyi people on the ground lost their voices in this blow.
"Winter" "Dongdong" "Dongdongdong..."
With the increasingly fierce drumbeats, the three infantry phalanxes that were originally lined up in front of Ashur's main formation and slowly moved forward gradually accelerated their pace. The more than two thousand heavy infantry equipped with full armor
, quickly passed through the loose formation of the Dongyi long archers, raised the broad shield in his hand, and blocked the third wave of arrows ordered by Bandak.
Seeing that the missing arrows were ineffective against the heavily armored soldiers, Bandak quickly asked the archers to change their targets and aimed at the enemy phalanx further south. At this time, the distance between the two sides was close enough. With his sharp eyes, he could already see
I could clearly see the large white air exhaled by the enemy.
"Right, free fire."
Bandak roared and issued the order, then chose a suitable target for the siege crossbow in his hand and pulled the trigger hard.
At this moment, amidst the increasingly rapid drumbeats, the Dongyi infantry ran faster and faster, especially the soldiers on both sides. Their armor was lighter and they quickly surpassed their heavy armored infantry and headed towards their goal.
Rush away.
Facing the shooting of Allen's bows and arrows, these Dongyi soldiers also had their own way of coping. Their originally dense formation had become extremely loose during the run. At the same time, these people also used a light round shield tied to their arms to protect themselves.
own key position.
It's just that this crude defense method can only ensure that those targeted by the shooter will not die on the spot in the attack of missing arrows.
In the dense rain of arrows, someone will always be injured. There are more than 5,000 soldiers in the phalanx to the south of the Dongyi people. A quarter of them are lying on the spot, covering the place where the arrows missed and wailing.
Some people were trampled to death by their quickly running companions and lost the ability to cry.
Soon, the distance between the two sides was close enough to see the angry faces on the opposite side. The Dongyi people's counterattack also started at this time. Spears, spears and even large stones were thrown from their hands to those
Northern shooter taking aim.
The debris thrown by the Dongyi people temporarily disrupted the rhythm of most of the enemy's shooters. Taking advantage of this opportunity, these Dongyi people quickly crossed the last dozen meters and collided with the enemies who were also rushing towards them.
together.
Those who launched the counterattack against the Dongyi people were naturally Allen's elite infantrymen wearing chain armor. They were closely followed by conscripts holding spears. Allen couldn't let his infantry meet the Dongyi people forcefully.
The impact of the barbarians.
Because there are too many enemies, standing still and defending passively will only lead to more and more Dongyi people oppressing the battle space. He needs to let the infantry rush out to compete for some space with the enemy and wait.
A change of timing.
Allen has equipped each of his elite infantry with heavy broad shields with a large defensive area, as well as sharp machetes that are good for close combat. At this moment, they are constantly fine-tuning the shields in their hands to resist the Dongyi people's attacks.
He launched an insidious attack with a dagger and a spear in his hand. While moving up and down the shield, the machete in his hand slashed at the enemy's arms, shoulders, and legs from the gaps. A large amount of the enemy's blood spattered on the front of the shield.
Under the protection of elite infantry, the conscripts kept poking the spears in their hands at the enemy on the opposite side. They took back the spears in their hands with howls of misery, and then continued to poke them out.
This back and forth, through this fighting method, caused a lot of damage to the Dongyi people in a short period of time.
But the number of Dongyi people was too great, more than three times more than them. Even the archers whose arms had begun to ache and numb, picked up their spears and joined the defense line, could not stop the Dongyi people from gradually
Surround their footsteps.
At this time, the three infantry phalanxes of the Dongyi people were in full contact with the coalition of humans and dwarves, especially Ashur's two thousand elites and one thousand heavily armored dwarf infantry. The battle between them was extremely fierce.
When these elite dwarves were attacked by the Dongyi people, they did not launch a counterattack like humans. Their thick and sturdy chassis were extremely stable, and they could easily block the charge of the Dongyi soldiers with the steel shields in their hands.
After some dwarves pushed away the enemy's weapons, they immediately swung the ax in their hands with all their strength and directly smashed open the breastplate of the soldier in front of them, followed by the opponent's ribs and heart.
Some dwarves used the shields in their hands to directly hit the enemy's abdomen. Although they could not cause direct damage to the enemy, the huge force still shook the internal organs of these Dongyi people. The severe pain made them bend down, and then a
The ax grew bigger and bigger before their eyes, until it took away their lives.
The moment the two sides came into contact, the dwarves took an absolute advantage and beat the enemies in front of them to pieces.
It's just that these Dongyi people in heavy armor were elites who had survived hundreds of battles. Seeing that frontal confrontation was ineffective, they also began to use the large shields in their hands to resist the dwarves' slashes, and at the same time used their short swords to attack them.
The swords and spears were attacking the dwarves' unprotected faces insidiously. They were helpless in this situation, because except for this position, their attacks on other places had almost no effect.
Facing the large shield inlaid with copper nails, the dwarves could not strike the enemy in a short time like they did at the beginning. They could only wait for opportunities to attack the enemies who were increasingly focusing on defense without exposing their flaws.
Yi people.
At this point, the battlefield has become stalemate, but the balance is gradually falling towards the Dongyi people, because at this moment, the Dongyi people are constantly expanding the front line, trying to use their numerical advantage to complete the encirclement of the enemy, or even directly break into the enemy
Forming a pincer advantage behind them, just like Ashur planned.
In order to prevent this from happening, Alleyn kept sending fewer and fewer reserve troops around him to block the Dongyi people who kept pressing forward. While he was commanding, he kept looking at the north.
It was almost over, he almost couldn't resist anymore.
At this time, Ashur, who saw that the situation was decided, led a dozen two-wheeled chariots and hundreds of cavalry in his formation to slowly press towards the battlefield. He wanted to watch the enemy's defeat at close range.
.
The several chariots on the dwarf side, seeing that the infantry could not resist, finally started to move. Within ten seconds, they increased their speed to the limit and rushed towards the Dongyi people in the north, hoping to slow down the attack of their own phalanx.
The pressure was on, but the cavalrymen who followed him hesitated and hesitated, and finally did not take action.
Ashur didn't pay attention to those dwarf chariots. He was an expert in using chariots. He waved his hand and more than a hundred cavalrymen armed with short bows moved and rushed in the direction of the dwarf chariots. As for the silent enemy,
Ashur also has enough strength to deal with the square cavalry.
And just when the Dongyi commander was satisfied, the rumble of horse hooves sounded from the north, and a large group of cavalry suddenly appeared in the north. They charged at full speed and quickly approached the battlefield.
But the person at the front of this wave of cavalry was actually Ashur's personal guard captain Mader. As he galloped, he shouted loudly: "Ambush, ambush, Lord Ashur, run!"