Black Iron Crown

Earl Leyland is a qualified frontline commander. Even though the archers and crossbowmen suffered huge losses, he still did not give an order to retreat.

When the archers on both sides are shooting at each other, once one of them chooses to retreat, it will have to bear two to three more rounds of arrow rain. The blow of the enemy's infantry is minimal, while the enemy's archers can keep a certain number of arrows to attack their own infantry.

In this case, the infantry without the support of the archers will inevitably suffer. Leiner has explained his tactics to all the vassals and commanders before the battle.

That is to use the absolute combat power of Reiner's main formation to defeat the enemy's central army, which will cause chaos in the enemy's central army, and then support other vassals, attacking from both sides to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

In essence, such a tactic is very simple, even clumsy, but Leiner has enough confidence in his army. Sergeant Moreland is the strongest infantry in the formation, and the soldiers behind him have also experienced enough strength. The training of time and time is honed in blood and fire.

These are all first-class elites. If the enemy cannot be defeated in this way, then Leiner has nothing to say.

The huge flanks of the two sides fought much earlier than the central army, and the troops under the command of some lords in the Jihad coalition had already rushed to the front of the imperial army.

At this moment, the shortcomings of the lack of coordination between the command and cooperation between the coalition forces were exposed in an instant.

Some soldiers rushed into the formation of the imperial army under the leadership of their lords, while some lords ordered their troops to advance slowly, emphasizing the formation.

The uneven formation directly affected their offensive, and they should have attacked a phalanx of the imperial army with a superior force.

But when the soldiers went to the enemy, they were horrified to find that the number of the enemy far exceeded their comrades.

In contrast, the Chinese armies on both sides look much neater.

The archers on both sides set off a new round of shooting.

The archers under Leiner's command did not collapse after suffering huge losses. The crossbowmen began to pull the steel crossbows in their hands, and the archers once again took out arrows from their quiver and put them on the bowstring.

After everything was ready, Earl Ryland roared.

"volley!"

The rain of arrows, which was more powerful than before, flew into the sky. The distance between the two sides was only about 150 meters, which is the best shooting distance for recurve bows. Under this distance, crossbowmen can also give up projectiles and choose power. A more powerful flat shot.

Pushed by the steel crossbow arms with a pulling force of 600 pounds, the crossbow bolts flew out in an instant, and more than 300 crossbow bolts instantly came in front of the enemy archers.

The arrows followed closely behind the crossbows, and more than 1,200 arrows and crossbows fell on the enemy's archers.

The enemy's arrows also came above the archers of the imperial army.

For a moment, the sky above the frontal battlefield was almost covered by the rain of arrows covering the sky and the sun.

The power of the crossbow shot from the pulley crossbow is not comparable to that of a bow and arrow. Basically, as long as it hits the enemy, it will be a tragic piercing wound.

When the arrows fell, hundreds of archers from both sides fell almost at the same time. Because of the presence of crossbows, the casualties of the imperial archers, who accounted for a small number of people, were equal to those of the enemy.

More than 400 people fell to the ground.

After three rounds of brutal shooting, there were only about 600 long-range troops left on Leiner's side, and nearly two-thirds of them were lost in the shooting just now.

However, they withstood such a loss. Excellent logistics and pensions, as well as a firm psychological quality honed on the battlefield allowed them to unswervingly maintain order.

Even the archers drawn from the hunters in the territory suffered the same casualties, but showed no sign of defeat.

After several years of training and fighting, their morale and tenacity are not weaker than those produced by the system.

The same is true for the archers of the holy war army, but compared with the imperial army, they are already chaotic. Some people watched their comrades fall one by one, and the arrows or pierced their eye sockets and splashed a burst of blood. The entire head was pierced by crossbow arrows.

The blood spattered out, as well as the still-dead soldiers struggling and howling on the ground, all put tremendous pressure on the rest of the archers.

"Hold on! It's nothing! Your efforts will be rewarded! Glory be with us! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! Fight for His Majesty!" Earl Leyland was not afraid of danger at all, and rode his horse to the place where the archers came. Behind them, they touched the helmets of the archers one by one with their long swords, shouting loudly.

"Long live! Long live! Long live!"

Although the archers and crossbowmen were not defeated, they actually began to tremble. This was not because of fear, but because of the sharp rise in adrenaline caused by tension.

"Enough! Enough! Withdraw the archers! Withdraw!" Pope Rosa originally planned to be the same as Leiner, as a general commander in charge of the overall situation, but he looked at the losses suffered by the archers in front, It is unacceptable.

Every bloody confrontation between the two sides seemed to squeeze his heart hard. Now, like the archers, he couldn't bear it anymore.

Earl Leyland watched the enemy's archers retreat, so he also ordered his own archers to retreat, because the distance between the two arrays was less than 50 meters.

The Golden Lion Guards opened the shield wall, and the archers and crossbowmen filed back to the rear of the infantry formation along the gap.

After the archers withdrew, the Golden Lion Guards, who were like iron towers exuding a sturdy aura, erected their large shields again to form a shield wall.

The archers and crossbowmen withdrew to the formation, and rearranged the formation just behind the three rows of Moreland sergeants.

The distance of fifty meters is already very close, and the soldiers of the modern imperial army can see the ferocious expression on the enemy's face.

The Golden Lion Guards at the front had already made their preparations, their one-handed battle axes ready to move, and the Sergeants of Moreland were also rushing with adrenaline, making final preparations.

The fighters of the Jihad Army rushed up with spears in their hands. Their fighting style was completely different from that of the rest of the Jihad Allied Forces who rushed up in a swarm. They could only barely maintain some formations and cooperate with each other.

Holding spears in their hands, they marched side by side with their comrades in arms, and their tactics were somewhat similar to the army under Leiner's command.

The Golden Lion Guard did not dare to act wild in front of such iron hedgehogs. They put their shields in front of them to guard against the enemy's spear attacks. Their first task was to maintain the front line and protect the soldiers who used spears in the rear from being attacked by the enemy. Given up close, they choose to perform priority tasks.

The soldiers at the front had already come into contact with the Golden Lion Guard, but casualties occurred in just a split second.

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