However, this tactic has a very strict requirement for Athens!

That is, the main defense line composed of Greek heavy infantry must not be broken, and the defensive fronts of the first and second echelons must not be confused.

This is the fatal weakness of the Greek phalanx!

Once the defensive front is broken by the enemy, the battlefield will be defeated.

As long as the front line is not chaotic, the first and second echelons composed of Greek heavy infantry will be a city wall made of steel, and the Athenian longbowers standing behind them will become cruel meat-mincing machines and kill one orc after another!

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The central army was pressing the formation, and the two wings moved forward. The two armies were 600 meters away.

Murphy stood solemnly on the platform at a six-meter high point, and the flag bearers lined up on both sides behind him, and the messengers were distributed on the left and right.

This is an era of very primitive communication, a war of more than 80,000 people! This means that Murphy can no longer command various armies as he used to. He can only hand over the tasks of each line of defense to his generals, and they will command the soldiers on the local battlefield. What he has to do is to grasp the overall situation and grasp the changes in the entire battlefield!

"Longbowman ready!"

Murphy moved the flag right, and the flag bearer began to pass the order, and the commander ran around.

With the orders delivered by the Central Army.

Three thousand Athenian longbowmen lined up under General Marcus Kane's command, advanced fifty meters, and stood in front of the Greek heavy infantry.

Before the formation battle, the formations listed by the Greek heavy infantry were evacuated formations, with a distance of nearly fifty centimeters between them, which just allowed an Athenian longbower to pass.

After twelve breaths.

The distance between the two armies was closer to 500 meters.

The giant trencher behind the front began to operate. Five trenchers threw stone bullets weighing about 20 kilograms, and the range of the stone bullets was not enough to land in front of the military formation.

No one was injured or killed.

Although the catapults of this era are amazing, their real lethality is quite limited.

After one blow, the orcs began to push the catapult forward, while the orc officers in charge of commanding the catapult began to recalculate the angle and distance.

The service life of the trencher is not high.

From the battle at Canyon Pass to the breaking of Athens Fortress, these catapults operated several times in the rain, and their accuracy and range had been greatly affected. The engineering equipment of this era did not play any effective role in such plain battles. The main force of the real battle was the soldiers, and those who had a decisive effect had to rely on those well-equipped heavy infantry troops.

The two armies were four hundred meters apart.

The half-orc sword and shield hand raised the shield flat to his chest and started charging!

The orc warriors with other equipment followed closely behind. The charge distance of 400 meters is already the limit, which is already close to the charge distance of the cavalry. In other words, only a strong physique like the orc can withstand it. If it were a human warrior, the strength would be a little tired after the sprint of 400 meters. At that time, when facing the enemy who was waiting for it, the result would probably be difficult to predict.

The distance is closer to three hundred meters.

"Boxer!"

"shooting!!!"

Under Murphy's order, twenty-four crossbows began to operate, and the soldiers were busy filling the stone bullets, and then aimed at the half-beast army that was approaching quickly.

boom!

The orc warrior who rushed in the front poured a piece of it like cutting wheat.

The shield shattered!

The orc warrior who was hit was almost knocked in half!

The range of the crossbow was about 350 meters, but Murphy waited until the distance was closer to 300 meters before ordering the attack.

All you need is a sudden burst effect!

Unlike catapults, the attack method of the crossbow cannon can be a parabolic firing or a straight line. The attack route of the catapult is a large parabolic arc, but the crossbow cannon is different. The attack route of the crossbow cannon is a small arc, and if controlled, it can even be fired in a straight line! The attack method of the Athenian crossbow cannon is a bit like a bed crossbow. After the catapult is shot, it attacks a point, but after the catapult cannon is fired, it attacks a line.

In this way, the intensive shooting of the twenty-four crossbows formed an earth-shaking effect like cutting wheat!

The warrior rushing in front was intimidated by the momentum of the crossbows and hesitated briefly.

But at this time, the orcs' central army heard the desolate horn sound again, and the orcs who were hesitant suddenly rushed up howled again.

Murphy's expression was unmoved.

Only when his eyes fell on the flags hung by the orcs' central army, did he reveal a strong murderous intent!

Two hundred and fifty meters.

The orc warrior rushed in front entered the shooting range of the Athenian longbowman.

"Longbowman is ready!"

"The right line has a 60-degree angle, intensive shooting!"

During the initial confrontation of momentum, the orcs were suppressed by Athens, and the formation had already become tilted. The angle of inclination was the right front, left back, and the distance between the front and back was no more than fifty meters.

The commander of the orcs in this line was not aware of it, because the army of tens of thousands of people and without the perspective of the sky, it was impossible to detect it at all.

But Murphy is different.

Murphy has the Total War War Assistance System.

From the beginning of the battle to the present, he will check the changes in the light spots on the auxiliary system *** map page every few minutes.

So he clearly grasped the tilt of the front angle.

Say!

Say! Say!

The Three Thousand Athenian Longbowmen began to pour fire into the right corner of the Orcs at the speed of twelve arrows per minute.

Ten arrows were inserted in front of each of them.

The distance of three hundred meters, even with the strong physique of the orcs, according to the speed standard of the world sprint champion, it takes half a minute. But in fact, they were wearing weapons and equipment and leather armor, and they could not run out of such speed! And the orc warriors who rushed in the front almost killed most of the people on the spot under the dense rain of arrows!

In less than a minute.

The three thousand Athena longbowmen poured a total of 30,000 long arrows into the formation!

In the blank area in front of the two armies, there were dense arrows and corpses all over the ground almost instantly.

In less than a minute, the orc striker suffered more than two thousand casualties.

The densely shot place covered by arrow rain was almost emptied out a death area!

Dead silence!

There was a strange silence on the entire battlefield.

The momentum of the half-beast army's charge slowed down, but it was immediately restored under the order of the officer.

As vanguards, they are all elite soldiers. Although they are deterred by the enemy's offensive, they quickly adjusted. The plain war is not a siege battle, and the first battle plays a decisive role in the morale of the army! The commander of the orcs is not so stupid that he sends cannon fodder to consume the arrows of the Athenian army in the first battle.

Although the army's forward has the highest death rate.

But the place where the elite gathers, although they are not as good as the trump card in their hands, they are the best in the army!

Thirty thousand long arrows were poured out, and at Murphy's order, the Athenian longbowmen no longer fought. After the distance between the two sides was reduced to 100 meters, the Athenian longbowmen began to retreat. They retreated from the space between the Greek heavy infantry and retreated to the third ladder of the defense line. In order to pursue short-term results, the Athenian longbowmen fell into a crisis of melee combat was a mistake that Murphy would never make.

After the Athenian longbower retreated to the second step, Murphy suddenly stood up, raised his sword high, and roared: "Change formation!"

"Change the array!!"

"Change the array!!!"

The voice of the commander Xionghun spread throughout the war, and under Murphy's order, Greek re-equipment suddenly started to move.

Their formation became dense, and the two wings began to retract, expanding the depth of the defensive line, and the vacant position was filled by the Athenian militia under the order of General Jerry Rivad!

The shield is raised high and the spear is flat.

The Greek heavy infantry was waiting for the surging half-beast army!

bump!

With a dull shield impact, the fierce melee battle began.

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Chapter completed!