Chapter 5: Outpost
Total War of the Empire
——How can the benefits brought by peace be worse than war?
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Ten thousand people shouted together like a tsunami, and the army of French will divided into three groups and quickly rushed to a location more than 300 meters away from Pulun City.
"Cloud Ladder Formation! Quick Attack!"
With the loud shouts of the commander and the soldiers around him, the French army's charge formation began to change hastily. Teams of soldiers with ladders rushed out of the formation and ran in the front, and the infantry formation was arrested. Although the entire army was a little confused, they still barely changed the formation.
This is very rare in this world where individual combat is strong and team combat is low. Good military discipline is reflected in the army of law and will. Moreover, it can be said that the French army is the only national army in Europe that understands the importance of combat discipline.
However, this change is still very ugly in Xia Ya's eyes, and it can even be said to be bad. People who were used to the model of "Shit the Order of the Army" in the later period will find it difficult to understand the poor combat discipline of the European army in the medieval period. It can even be said that if they were not still wearing the name of the army, they would be no different from the bandits who went down the mountain to rob.
Of course, in fact, medieval Europe was indeed the world of bandits and nobles.
Seeing that the ladder soldiers were carrying the ladder and wanted to rush over to build the city wall, Xia Ya raised her arms and turned on the system broadcast at the same time (ps: The system broadcast can transmit sound through vibrations in the air. As long as they are a member of Xia Ya's army, they can hear it, but other troops cannot.)
"Arrowman!!"
Hulala rows of archers suddenly appeared on the city wall. They were just hiding behind the peasant soldiers to block the French army's sight. When the French launched a siege and entered the effective shooting range, Xia Ya called the order and directly hit the French army's forehead with a stick.
Eight hundred archers pulled their bows and arrows at the same time. Although they were just the most ordinary militia archers, they still had good defensive power in this kind of city defense battle.
Wow, buzzing~! The bow and arrow Li Xuan made a burst of bounce sound, and nearly a thousand bows and arrows descended from the sky against the defenseless French army!
The French army on the ground looked pale, especially the Yunti team rushing to the front, with a look of disdain. You should know that they don’t even have a shield on them! It is a very, very sad thing to encounter archers shooting volleys but not shields to lift, especially when you see the rain of arrows covering the sky and the sun hit you, the inner despair and powerlessness quickly disintegrate the French army’s fighting will.
——Puchi! Puchi! The sounds of piercing through the body and shooting into the body are endless on the battlefield.
The French army, which had just launched the charge, ushered in the first plot of Charia, and hundreds of French troops who were screaming fell on the road to attack Pulun City.
"Prepare! Let it go!"
Before the frightened French army turned around, another rain of arrows shot in Pulun City! The sound of breaking through the air almost scared the French army on the front line. They piled up their comrades around them and wanted to retreat, but in the end they could not run away with their two legs.
"Ahhhh!"
"My eyes! My eyes!"
"My legs!!"
"Help, who will help me!"
The French army charging in the middle was quickly repelled by the scattered volley of seven hundred archers, and the strategy of siege of the cloud ladder was completely reimbursed. But this was not over. Although the appearance of the early archers did surprise the French generals, he responded after years of fighting.
"Transfer, the first column of the front line retreats, the shield player advances! The first column follows the shield player and moves steadily!"
The French camp changed again, and rows of shield hands holding huge shields in front rushed to the front line. They held up their shields and formed a small bunker together. The rain of arrows made by civilian archers again made a thumping sound on the shield. Except for the small number of people without shields who were shot and killed, they were no longer as harmful as the two volleys.
With the help of the shield player, the French army moved forward steadily again, which made Xia Ya, who was standing on the city tower, look slightly dark.
But soon, after the French army entered the castle more than 150 meters away, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Charia's mouth. This was when he opened the second temporary trump card.
"Giant crossbow!"
The French army, who had finally approached the city, would never have expected that they had just resisted the attack of arrow rain to take a breath, but in less than 5 minutes, they would have to welcome Xia Ya's second move. Moreover, this time it was different from the attack of arrow rain just now. This time, real fear and death came at the same time.
——————Puff!
With a loud explosion, a thin black line suddenly appeared on the arrow tower in Pulun City. From a distance, the black line came out of the arrow tower and rushed into the sky with an elevation angle of 160 degrees and then slid down to the French army. The shield man, who had been accustomed to resisting the rain of arrows, subconsciously raised his shield again, and the soldiers of the nearby French Will Empire also quickly drilled into the bunker composed of shield hands to hide themselves.
This was a very correct thing, but for some reason the general on the front line of the battlefield felt a little bad.
As he looked up, he saw that the original black thin line was gradually getting bigger as it approached the French army. First, it was a thin line, then it went to the branches and then to the stick and finally to...
"It's the death crossbow! Go away!! Is this the capital of England??"
He had the honor of seeing such a terrifying weapon let out a shrill scream. He knew very well that the huge power of this giant crossbow would choose to destroy it without any consequences if he encountered an army with a stable formation on the battlefield! In addition to its terrifying lethality, it was also fatal to destruction of morale.
When the general issued an order and urged the soldiers to scatter, it was a pity that it was too late at this time. The god of death, who had swung down from the sky, plunged into the shield formation!
Sixteen shield players were shot through their bodies by dark and thick crossbow arrows on the spot, and the sprayed blood poured over the soldiers around them. One of the soldiers looked at the rock-stable shield array in a blink of an eye and was torn to pieces by the "black stick" falling from the sky. The shield players around them were directly stabbed into skewers, and the organs of more than a dozen people were shot out, including the large intestine, small intestine, heart, and kidneys mixed with blood flowing all over the ground.
All the French soldiers were shocked. They had never attacked a giant city and had no idea what the big crossbow was, or they didn't even know what the giant crossbow was in their cognitive ability. They only knew that what caused all this was the big and long black stick in their eyes, which was simply the sickle of the god of death! Whoever encountered it would definitely be taken away by the god of death!
—————Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!
A neat sound of tearing the air, seven arrow towers inserted behind the city wall attacked at the same time! Crossbow arrows with the smile of death roared and rushed towards the French position.
"Oh my god! Run!!"
A soldier who came to his senses suddenly shouted, and turned around and ran backwards, even throwing his weapons aside. The other soldiers looked at me and I looked at you, and then looked at the crossbow arrow with bright red blood while tacitly, and they screamed very wisely and turned around and ran away!
The French army was scared by this giant crossbow, a strategic weapon that could be said to be the age of cold weapons, and the will to fight had been destroyed under the huge power of the crossbow arrows.
More than 4,000 French troops in the middle line collapsed! They rushed to escape from this hell, throwing their guns and armor away and fleeing!
Chapter completed!