525 Breaking the Balance
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The two torrents quickly collided, and the side with longer weapons and tighter battle formations quickly gained an advantage on the battlefield!
The tauren and pig-headed heavy armored infantry rushing in the front row soon slowed down. The scene they imagined of human soldiers collapsing at the first touch did not appear.
As usual, they chose the most familiar combat method, quickly rushing towards the human battle formation and engaging in close hand-to-hand combat.
But as soon as they rushed to a place about thirty meters away from the human battle formation, they encountered a wave of arrow rain.
The human crossbowmen who had retreated before now appeared in the center of the battle formation, firing straight at them.
Although they were wearing heavy armor, at such a close distance, their iron armor could not stop the powerful human bows and crossbows. The steel arrows on the bows could easily penetrate the iron armor, and they were proud of it.
of thick skin.
This wave brought serious casualties to the tauren, but the pig-headed people were better here, because these pig-headed people had a problem. They usually like to roll in the mud and take mud baths, so the skin under the heavy armor is
It also has a thick layer of soil crust.
This layer of soil slowed down the damage done by those bows and arrows.
Finally rushing to a place ten meters away from the human battle formation, the tauren and pig-headed men very skillfully took out throwing weapons such as hatchets and hammers from their waists, and threw them into the large human phalanx.
But the damn human battle formation, in front of it is a row of shield bearers. They are holding two-meter-high iron-covered giant shields. These giant shields are inserted into the ground, like a moving city wall, holding many hand axes and iron shields.
All the hammers were blocked.
Occasionally, some short axes flew into the human battle formation behind, and did hit a few soldiers, but they were quickly replaced by others from behind...
The human phalanx stopped moving. The shield bearers at the front stuck their iron shields on the ground, and the spearmen in the back row placed their spears on the shields in front.
The human phalanx immediately turned into hedgehogs, making the approaching tauren and pig-headed people feel unable to eat.
The lions and leopard-headed men who followed them through the isolation zone had red eyes at this time. They had suffered huge casualties before the isolation zone, and now they could finally fight with these damn humans. They
Want to kill happily.
He even planned to kill all these humans in order to relieve their hatred.
Seeing this hedgehog-like battle formation, the bulky tauren and pig-heads may be helpless, but they are already familiar with defeating this formation.
Start accelerating from a distance of more than ten meters, ignore the arrows shot from the middle of the phalanx, and quickly rush to the front of the phalanx. There is a row of lion men here, standing opposite to the leopard-headed men, holding their hands on their chests to build a ladder.
.
The lion and leopard-headed man rushing from behind shouted, raised their feet and stepped on the hands of the ladder in front, and then kicked hard. In addition, the ladder also exerted force with both hands at this time.
The lions and leopard-headed men, who were already excellent at jumping, immediately jumped into the air, jumped more than five meters high, and volleyed towards the phalanx of human soldiers.
Some of those with quick hands and feet even swung their throwing axes in the air and smashed them down. If there were any timid human soldiers, they would instinctively disperse, so that a gap would immediately appear in the phalanx.
In the past, they used this method to attack the battle formations of the human empire army, and it was successful. Breaking the formation was easy.
As long as there are a few leaders rushing in, and a steady stream of people from behind follow up, the human battle formation will soon fall into chaos. The heavy armored infantry behind will cooperate with the frontal assault, and the human battle formation will immediately collapse.
Already.
It's a pity that their past experience is not easy to apply to the square array in front of them.
A few unlucky ones were indeed killed by the axes they threw in the air, but the human phalanx did not panic.
At the stall where they swooped down, there were more than a dozen densely packed spears pointing toward the sky.
Dozens of heroic lions and leopard-headed men were strung into blood gourds in the air, and then were volleyed back by human spearmen.
Seeing that the commonly used method of breaking the formation did not work well, the heavy armored infantry of the tauren and pig-headed men also began to show their strength. The surge of adrenaline and the boiling of the beast's blood made these half-orc warriors start to talk about life and death.
disregard.
Ignoring the hedgehog-like spears in front of them, several tauren and pig-headed heavy armored infantry roared and rushed towards the phalanx.
Only halfway through the charge, they were already stabbed into gourds of blood by the spears stretched out from the back row of the phalanx. However, they did not scream and fall to the ground, but continued to charge forward with roars.
The heavy armored infantry in the rear row also moved forward one after another. The lions and leopard-headed men behind kept throwing throwing axes and short spears into the human phalanx, suppressing the crossbowmen in the middle of the phalanx.
The battle immediately entered the most brutal stage of hand-to-hand combat!
But how can the bloody bravery of the half-orcs be compared to the killing machines trained by humans for a long time?
Kyle's long-term training has made these soldiers understand one thing, that is, if they encounter an orc head-on on the battlefield, there is no need to think about running away.
Neither body nor speed has an advantage. He can't defeat the orcs alone, and he can't outrun them by running away.
So if you don't want to die or become a prisoner, then you must rely on the whole body, relying on the battle formations they have practiced thousands of times. Only comrades are the most trustworthy objects.
The human spear phalanx, which had been focused without any distractions, was now completely transformed into a killing machine. If someone fell in the front row, someone in the back row would come up to take over.
The three-meter-long spear, coupled with the 30-centimeter triangular steel spearhead in front, quickly bridged the gap in physical fitness and protective capabilities between humans and orcs.
At such a close distance, if a human was hit hard by an orc, he would definitely end up with a burp. The same goes for an orc, if he was shot by a human, he would definitely fall to the ground immediately.
The lethality of this three-edged bayonet is so strong. The special groove ensures bleeding and easy extraction. The hard spearhead can penetrate even iron armor with one stab.
After being stabbed by this thing, if the injury is on the limbs, the orc will almost immediately burst into blood and lose combat effectiveness in almost half a minute.
If you stab it in the torso, you will basically go to see God after half a minute.
At the forefront of the battle line, human soldiers and orc soldiers would fall down almost every second, and the battle fell into a feverish stalemate.
At this moment, a scene that broke the balance appeared. The fierce fire oil tanks coming out of the four corners of the human phalanx suddenly began to join the battle group.
The fierce fire oil tank, which had been lurking quietly until now, suddenly started firing from two opposite corners when it saw that the number of orcs in the front row had become dense enough.
Under the cross fire, covering the closed battlefield at such a close distance, the orcs who were actually directly opposite had almost no possibility of escaping in the future.
After three consecutive fire breaths, hundreds of torches appeared in front of the battle formation.
The orc front, which had just relied on its bloody courage to confront the human battle formation, quickly collapsed at this moment.
Countless ignited human-shaped torches screamed and began to run around on the battlefield, and then were shot to the ground one by one by human crossbowmen.
The heavy armored infantry that followed them in a steady stream were cut off by the human-shaped torches running around on the battlefield and had to slow down.
Soon, the catapults and big yellow crossbows behind the human battle formation began to aim at the only breakthrough in the isolation zone. The orcs who had just emerged from here suffered another heavy blow.
Before they even had time to set up their formation, they were smashed to pieces by stone bullets the size of watermelons that flew in from the air.
The chain hammers and large crossbow arrows flying towards each other could take away the lives of more than a dozen people every time.
The situation on the battlefield began to develop in the direction of mankind gaining advantage.
Countless tauren and pig-headed soldiers fell at the exit of this passage, and the soldiers behind also began to hesitate. Obviously, the situation in front made them hesitate.
Although their minds were not bright, the instinct of the beast told them that rushing over at this time would mean death, so they hesitated.
As he watched the balance on the battlefield begin to tilt towards humans, suddenly there were several more breakthroughs on the barbed wire isolation belt in front of him.
It turned out that the Rhinoceros and Hippo heavy armored infantry from behind finally caught up. These guys charged too slowly, so they stayed behind the large army.
At this time, they finally came to the front line. Those troublesome barbed wire fences were troublesome to rough-skinned guys like them, but they were nothing more than a minor trouble.
A few clicks of the iron knife wheel in their hands could cut through the barbed wire fence. At the same time, they also brought a lot of wooden boards, so they quickly opened several breaches in the barbed wire isolation belt.
Rushing over from behind the isolation zone, when they saw the scene on the battlefield, these hippopotamus and rhinoceros men immediately had red eyes. When had orcs ever been beaten so badly by humans in close combat?
They quickly formed a formation in the isolation zone, and the human catapults and large yellow crossbows also quickly adjusted their main attack direction and began to attack them.
Although it also caused a certain amount of damage to them, the hippos and rhino people at this time had begun to go crazy. When faced with watermelon-sized stone bullets, they did not dodge. The stone bullets hit the heavy iron frame they were wearing.
, a thumping sound, but it was not enough to kill them.
On the other hand, the giant arrows fired by the Big Yellow Crossbow did more damage to them. Similar to the giant arrows fired by the Python Longbowmen, the arrows fired by the Big Yellow Crossbow were also more than one meter long and full of force.
If you hit these rhino and hippo people, you can shoot them all immediately. Five or six rhino and hippo people were shot to the ground on the spot.
Chapter completed!