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"My lord, we should let the shield advance first, and then order our archers to keep up with the musketeers who shoot arrows to protect our shield soldiers and kill the opponent," suggested the counselor sitting on the side
"That's fine, let's do it," said the nobleman.
"The shield soldiers go forward and the archers follow," the strategist said to the general behind him.
"Here" a general agreed to leave the order to pass on quickly
The battle begins in an instant
The army of the Wei army is still advancing slowly. They are still in the process of testing, but the shield soldiers and archers are the first to fight. The spearmen and halberd soldiers are closely behind.
On the opposite side, the formation of the Republican Army is quite simple, they don't know how to line up their troops, their commander is just a veteran who has participated in the battle, and he entrusts him with a heavy responsibility to participate in such a tragic battle.
The Republican Army's line is very simple, that is, the musketeers and the ordinary infantry behind are spread out in a flat line. The tactical arrangement is that the musketeers shoot to disrupt the opponent's formation, and then launch a charge to rush forward in a swarm to take advantage of the number. The tactic of defeating the opponent is very simple, because if it is too complicated, if the arrangement of more than 4000 people without any military training is too complicated, the whole tactic cannot be completed, so the arrangement of the veterans still makes sense, but I don’t know how strong the combat power is.
"It would be a disaster to put such a group of people with no military training into battle," said the commander, who had no interest in winning such a battle.
"Stop" At this time, the Wei army stopped advancing, and the shield phalanx and archer phalanx in front were ordered to continue moving forward. As the forwards of the formation, they left the formation alone.
"Huh la la!" Those shield soldiers with heavy shields approached the opponent slowly with heavy steps. The combat distance between the two sides is [-] steps. They need to complete these [-] steps before they can approach the opponent's combat distance.
"It's not good that the opponent sent shield soldiers and archers. They seem to want to kill our personnel before fighting us," said the chief of staff of the commander on the side.
"Is there anything we can do?" asked the commander
"This" chief of staff can't answer
"How can we fight with nothing?" asked the commander
"We don't have cannons. If we had cannons, we could stop them, but we have nothing. We only have infantry. A group of infantry who can't do anything. I really don't know if we will win such a battle." The commander said a little frustrated.
"But we have to do something," said the chief of staff
"What can we do? We can't do anything, wait." The commander said negatively. The chief of staff has nothing to do with it, he doesn't know what he can do. They only have infantry in their hands. They don't know what the infantry can do. If the infantry is allowed to move forward He really doesn't know if those soldiers have the courage to go on like this
"Advance" Wei's private forwards are still slowly approaching them, while the soldiers of the Republican Army just stay where they are.
"Are we here to stay?" a republican asked
"I didn't know that we ran as soon as the battle started," said a soldier.
For a while, the battle fell into a silent confrontation, and both sides were quietly waiting for the moment of contact.
"Dong dong" the drums of the Wei army kept ringing, the Wei army was constantly approaching the Republican army, and the soldiers on both sides repeated in their hearts that they didn't hear anything. They were waiting for the moment when the battle started.
"Do you think we will win this war?" the nobleman asked his counselor
"They will definitely win. Although they have muskets, they are a bunch of lowly slaves who can't fight. They are not our opponents," said the counselor.
"Very well said," the nobleman nodded.
"We have to beat them hard or they won't know anything," said the noble
"Yes" said the counselor
The shield soldiers and archers of the Wei army have reached the position of 150 steps during the conversation between the nobles and the counselors. This position is exactly the distance for the archers to attack.
"Order our archers to release arrows" the noble ordered loudly at this time
A flag-bearer at the back of "Hua Hua La" waved the flag
"Stop the archers!" A man who looked like an officer in the archer phalanx shouted loudly
"Crash!" At this moment, the archers stopped moving forward.
"Ready" the officer shouted loudly
"Clatter!" The archers took out their arrows and put them on the bowstrings. They used all their arms to pull the bows and arrows, and then pointed towards the Republican Army at a certain angle.
"Release" Archers need good arm strength to release arrows, and drawing the bow for a long time will lead to poor accuracy and physical recovery of the bow, so the archers can only open the bow once, they will not let the archers maintain such a posture It's a detriment to them for a long time like this
The arrow released by "Hua La" flew out all of a sudden.
The "whoosh" bow and arrow quickly drew a beautiful curve in the sky and fell towards the Republican Army, but most of the arrows fell in front of the Republican Army, only a small part fell in the Republican Army, but for the Republican Army they were encountered a loss
"Ah" "ah" "poof" the arrows kept hitting the Musketeers who were waiting to shoot. combat mood of other soldiers
"Order to carry away those soldiers who were shot," the commander said.
"Release" the officer waved the dagger again and ordered the archers to shoot
"Whoosh" the archer released the bow and arrow again, this time the weak point of the bow and arrow was a little closer to the position of the Republican Army, and many more Republican soldiers fell from the arrows, but the Republican soldiers still did not show a large-scale rout, they were still standing in place
"Don't move, stand still, we will win as long as we shoot" the officer kept shouting in the crowd, and people kept getting shot and fell, and the infantry behind would carry away the wounded, and their wailing would seriously affect Morale
There are not many archers in the Wei army, only more than 300, and their shooting skills are not in place. Archers need a certain amount of training and are improvised. Factors will seriously affect the stability of archery
The damage caused by the archers of the Wei Army to the Republican Army was not great, but it was not too small. Many soldiers were shot and fell down, which made many musketeers realize that this was a real war. The splattered blood made them feel deep in their hearts for the first time. to the brutality of war
"Huh la la!" The shield soldiers of the Wei army who continued to advance were only [-] steps away from the Republican army at this time. The combat distance between the two sides is already relatively close.
"Shoot" the commander gave the order at this time
"Clatter!" A Republican soldier waved the flag in his hand
"Is it too early to shoot now?" The chief of staff asked loudly at this time
"It's too early to shoot," said the commander
"Let's shoot within thirty paces so we can kill more people," suggested the chief of staff
"Someone will fall at fifty paces," the commander said.
"It will do them good to let those lads shoot a little more," said the commander.
"That's not good," objected the chief of staff.
"The war has begun," the commander said directly
"Raise the gun!" At this time, the Republican phalanx has begun to shout loudly from officers
"Clatter!" Musketeers lined up in three rows and four rows, they raised their muskets densely
"Target" the officer yelled again
"Clatter!" All the soldiers obeyed the order to open the fire door
"Let go" the officer shouted loudly