The Clay tribe's archers have drawn their bowstrings 20 times in a row, which means that 5,000 archers have fired a total of 100,000 sharp arrows. However, in front of the shield wall of Jonas Legion's phalanx infantry, they can't defeat the enemy. The Lay's arrow rain attack had no effect at all. It only wasted the Clay's archer's physical strength.
Of course, it is impossible for the commander of the Clay tribe, Samuel, to know what the results of his arrow rain were, because he could not see it at close range. However, if the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force suffered heavy losses under his arrow rain, the entire The camp of the expeditionary force may have become chaotic a long time ago.
But what Saimir sees now is that the expeditionary camp a few kilometers away is still quiet. Usually, this effect can be achieved in fierce battles. One is that all the enemies are killed. This result is obviously that Saimir is If you don't expect it, then there can only be another result: the opponents are very disciplined, and your attacks cannot make them afraid at all.
Since the second wave of attacks was ineffective, Saimir simply ordered the offensive to be stopped. He transferred the already tired shooters away and mobilized an additional 3,000 new troops. However, this time the positions of these shooters were a bit weird. Normally, archers would line up in several rows, so that they could shoot one row at a time, which would easily form a continuous offensive, and the arrows would land closer to each other. But now these archers are standing in a big formation. A semicircle vaguely surrounded the camp of the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force.
Several carriages rushed over, and large dark wooden barrels were carried down one by one. Then a warrior pulled out the stopper at the bottom of the barrel and began to push it to roll in front of the archers who were standing. The barrels rolled past In this place, a kind of black sticky liquid slowly flowed out. Even the vibrant green grass in summer was just stuck together by this black sticky liquid.
Several Clay warriors waited until the barrel rolled past and immediately threw their torches on the black sticky gunpowder. The gunpowder immediately burned and quickly formed three semicircles. In front of the Clay tribe shooters, there were blazing flames.
"Light the fire." Following Saimir's order, the 3,000 Clay shooters put their arrows tied with linen cloth to the flames. The linen cloth had long been soaked in kerosene, and now it was ignited. Naturally, it immediately burned violently.
"Shoot without distinction, let go." After the attack order was given, 3,000 Clay shooters immediately released their fire arrows. Although the number of people now is much smaller than before, rows of flying arrows roared in the sky. The shooting stars give people a stronger sense of oppression.
After seeing the Clay tribe using fire attacks, the Sergei infantry commander of the Jonas Legion continued to maintain the shield wall defense. In fact, in terms of the attack power of arrows, ordinary feather arrows are better than this kind of ignited ones. Fire arrows are much stronger, but the burning arrows can easily ignite flammable materials near the target, causing a raging fire.
The phalanx infantry of Jonas Legion are all composed of sword and shield warriors and spear warriors. The strong shields made of metal are naturally not flammable, so the fire arrows are not much of a threat to these warriors, but Sergei's infantry, after all In fact, in the camp of the expeditionary force, even though thousands of people are arranged in a dense formation, they are still in contact with flammable objects such as tents. In addition, the wooden barriers outside can also burn, so the fire eventually Still ignited,
Although it is only midsummer, the weather tonight is a bit gloomy, and the wind is not too light. The burning fire spreads rapidly with the help of the wind, and soon turned into a sea of fire, and Jonas was in the sea of fire. Legion soldiers will inevitably be affected. No matter how tenacious their will is, they must obey their own constitution. When their arms are swallowed up by the flames, no matter how light the shield is, they will not be able to lift it.
When a person is exposed to the rain of arrows, he will naturally die quickly, and the comrades who were originally protected by his shield will also be exposed to the enemy's attacks and die. The war has reached this point, and Jonas's army has finally There were small casualties. The Sergei infantry commander who was in charge hid under his shield and cursed loudly. At the same time, he kept motivating his subordinates to maintain the morale of the soldiers. Fortunately, this critical situation lasted for a few minutes. Soon Jonas's messenger brought new instructions, asking Sergei's 5,000 soldiers to retreat 100 meters to reposition.
Sergey cursed and commanded his men to slowly retreat. This group of the most elite warriors in the imperial capital maintained the tightest formation at all times. This made the arrows flying from the Clay tribe powerless, and naturally there was nothing. There were too many casualties. After Sergey and his friends re-arranged themselves and counted their numbers, they still found that more than 200 comrades had not returned to the team. Apparently, they had all perished in the flames.
This is also the second time that the expeditionary force has suffered casualties. Although Sergey is angry, he can do nothing because Jonas has issued a strict order tonight and can only defend but not attack. Originally, when Jonas's army encountered such a situation, It is also possible to use large ballistae or even catapults, but it is a pity that since it is an expedition to the prairie, all the baggage troops are loaded with grain and grass, and they do not carry such heavy equipment at all.
Of course, Sergey's retreat and formation also brought about another problem, that is, Orlando and Ryan were exposed on the front line. Although this observation tower was not on Sergey's marching route, but now A fire broke out in this camp, and Orlando and Ryan, who were standing on the high platform, looked unusually eye-catching. A Clay shooter had already pointed his longbow in the direction of the observation tower and fired. It was just because of the Clay shooter's The range of the longbow is only about 800 meters, which is about the same distance from Sergei's original position. Now if they want to shoot at the observation tower that is nearly 900 meters away, and they are still using fire arrows, there is no way to guarantee accuracy.
Orlando didn't care about this. He was still watching the Clay attack with great interest. With his strength, he could certainly feel how the Clay commander on the opposite side set up the formation. The 3,000 shooters used fire arrows to Shooting itself is a trap, because not far behind these shooters are their war horses, and on both sides of them, there are thousands of ready warriors riding on their war horses waiting for the expeditionary force to attack.
Now the Clay tribe has carried out three waves of night attacks. Overall, the Clay tribe has killed 3,000 people, and the expeditionary force has only sacrificed a few hundred people, but it has lost a small part of the camp. The outcome can only be considered evenly matched. That's all. For the Clay tribe, they came all the way to lure the expeditionary force out of the camp, and then used their familiarity with the terrain to divide and eliminate them. Now they just set fire to it, which is obviously not enough. For the expeditionary force, , tonight is just a defensive battle, and we will not attack anyway, otherwise the attacking troops will be sent into the enemy's ambush circle due to unfamiliarity with the terrain.