Captain Leonardo stood on the city wall and looked at the hundreds of barbarians below who were wearing white furs, holding wooden boards and shields made of animal skins, forming several horizontal lines and slowly approaching the city wall. Followed.
There were also many ragged stragglers among them. The leader felt very strange. He turned around and said, "Palma, what's going on? When you received the order, didn't you tell us to defend against the beast tide?"
, as a result, the beast tide has not come much now, but the barbarians are coming in waves. Around this year, there have been as many as a thousand people. When did the wilderness have so many barbarians? Now it is almost a fortress.
.Besides, what is their intention? Knowing that we have city walls and mages here, why is it a field line of light shield infantry? Do you really want to use this formation to attack the fortress?"
"This has never happened before." Pam was also confused: "After the last batch of people came, I also read the previous records. Not to mention so many people, the number of times barbarians appeared after the fortress was established.
The combined total is not enough for two hands, let alone forming a queue. At most, dozens of them appear at a time, and then they swarm among the wild beasts and rush to chop them. It’s really weird now.”
Parma leaned on a large shield cart with a tower shield nailed to a triangular frame. In order to drive out enough large shield carts, Landau asked Polu to supervise the work. As a last resort, he also asked the craftsmen to remove part of the wheels of the transport carriage.
The supplies are sufficient. There are no transportation tasks. Just slowly add the wheels. The shield cart on the city wall is the result of their efforts. Behind the shield cart that Parma is leaning on,
Bolu poked his head out. Next to him was the little knight who was following the leader that he had seen last time. "These two times, nearly 1,000 people came to the battle team. Even if they are adult men, they must at least have someone behind them.
A tribe of about 5,000 people is a big target no matter what. Why have I never heard of such a tribe in the wasteland? Do we have any reconnaissance information about the wasteland? "
Palma shook his head: "No, adventurers have entered the wilderness before. Walk north for two days and you will enter the forest. You can see Lake Enriquillo in five days. To the north of the lake are huge endless mountains. All the information is
This is the end of it. Hunters, adventurers, gold diggers, and pioneers all stopped here. I heard that some people bypassed Lake Enriquillo and entered the mountains, but no one came back, so there is no information.
.It is too cold in the north, there is no food, no shelter, and strong winds blow half the time every year. The pioneers can only grow food for one season, which is not enough for rations. I have heard that many mines have been explored, but there is no manpower to mine it.
If it can't be transported back, even using slaves is not enough. The river water there flows directly into Lake Enriquillo, and there is no connection with this side. So no one has entered the wilderness in the past few years."
"Could it be that they feel that they are very strong and are particularly confident in their combat effectiveness?" Suddenly a clear voice came from under the black mask: "I think they can gather such a large group of people in such a harsh environment.
The batch of people should have been screened at all levels, right?"
Bolu glanced at the man in black in surprise, but he could only see the lake-like green eyes under his visor. This is the first time he has seen a woman in this world for so long. After all, this is a military fortress with a harsh environment.
There won’t be any beautiful girls in cool clothes shopping on the street. The genders are single.
Polu didn't even think about it in the other direction when he saw her size. Palma smiled: "No matter how strong they are, they can't be full of extraordinary knights. That would be too scary. Looking at it like this, there must be some
About 500 knights are thrown into one attack wave, who can catch it?"
"Although we don't have many knights here, we actually consume a lot of resources. We only have 200 knights, and the total number of knights is almost 2,000. Every day, the group eats thousands of gold coins. I think this wasteland
It’s impossible to afford it.” The group leader who knew the inside story spoke.
Of course, the Knights cannot be an army simply composed of knights. If the knights are calculated as soldiers, they need at least 4 auxiliaries to enter the battlefield in the best condition. Each auxiliary is actually a knight attendant.
, be responsible for taking care of the knight's food, clothing, housing and transportation
, equipment maintenance, armor piercing before battle, and a series of things other than killing people. After all, these things will greatly consume the knight's physical strength, and in return, the knight will guide them during training, giving them the opportunity to become extraordinary.
.When necessary, attendants are also needed
Wearing armor and fighting with knights is considered a graduation internship? And these five people must be full-time soldiers. Five full-time soldiers will need the tax support of about 500 people. Even if they are aggressively militaristic, these 1,500 full-time soldiers will still have to use up 15
The balance of 10,000 people per year.
While they were talking, the three ranks must have walked within stone-throwing distance and stopped. "Shall we fight now?" the leader rubbed his hands and asked excitedly. He can't wait to start using this weapon immediately." Wait.
,Don’t be impatient, Captain."
Palma found two flags from the box behind him, tied them to a rope, and then pulled the rope to raise the flags to the flagpole: a red square flag and a black square flag. As the flags were raised to the flagpole, the officers on both sides simultaneously issued
He shouted in a protracted voice: "Attention everyone! Wind up! Wait for orders!" This flagpole was also suggested by Polu. The commander's shouting was too unreliable on the noisy battlefield. It was easy to be distracted by nervous soldiers and
The officer ignored it. It was also difficult for the messenger to be there.
Run around on the battlefield to find specific people. Now as long as the flag is hung high, everyone on the battlefield will know what to do now. There are now 6 types of flags: the red square flag represents the infantry's preparation for battle, including all those who can see this flag.
The knight; the black square flag represents the crossbowman's preparation for war; the blue square flag represents the mage's spell preparation. The pennant of the corresponding color is the signal for free fire. After all, the volley seems to be too harsh on this era, and at the same time, it gave up other
Complex flag signaling.
As the red square flag was hung up, a total of 50 groups of people were busy winding up the bow in the shelter of the large shield vehicle. Pam recruited 100 recruits and 50 veterans learned how to use crossbows. Everyone's response was very positive.
After all, the recruits worked in pairs and only had to work hard to string the crossbows, while the veterans roughly aimed and fired. There were very few things to learn and each of them only had one thing to learn. They quickly learned how to use it.
In comparison, the firing steps of the big bed crossbow are much more complicated. No one has successfully mastered it yet. The three ready bed crossbows are unused. Polu has no choice but to come to the city wall to operate them by himself. Counting Parma and the regiment leader, it is finally possible.
It can fire all three crossbows. The main reason is that the soldiers have no idea how to aim, how to measure distance, and how to adjust the pitch angle. For the time being, they can only use the handwheel to do some physical work.
The group leader suddenly spoke up: "Wait a minute, look, what are those people following behind who are dressed like owls and holding sticks with goat heads on them?"
Palma looked outside, took out a notebook from the small satchel behind him, and started to read through it. He raised his head and then lowered it, as if confirming it several times, and his face became worse and worse: "Those are the shaman's flags.
How many barbarian spellcasters are there? Nine? Minato, this is troublesome. The recorded abilities include countering evocation spells, increasing resistance, and releasing buff spells. If you have a shaman,
The combat effectiveness of the barbarians will be greatly improved, and the pressure on us will be great."
Parma turned back to look at the count on the covered bridge, who was looking at him with encouraging eyes. He seemed to have made up his mind. He gritted his teeth: "Hang out the blue flag! The blue pennant! We have to use magic attacks in advance! We can't.