If this situation continues, it will be detrimental to the Clay tribe, because the darkness will pass sooner or later. Without the protection of the night, the Clay tribe's night attack tonight will expose the shortcomings of their own insufficient strength. When the time comes, the Imperial Capital Expedition The army can be dispatched in large numbers. Although their riding skills are not as good as ours, the 20,000 to 30,000 they bring are still enough to offset the mobility of the Clay cavalry. By then, the raid will become a war of attrition, and if they are not careful, they will all be killed. The army was destroyed,
Clay commander Samuel looked up at the still gray sky and issued the fourth order tonight. 6,000 Clay warriors were divided into two teams and surrounded both sides of the expeditionary camp. They kept a distance of about 300 meters from the expeditionary camp, and then controlled the horses to run slowly and unhurriedly.
After all the warriors entered the attack range, these Clay warriors who had lived on horseback since childhood took out their short bows and began to pour arrows towards the expeditionary camp, shooting while riding on galloping horses. , due to the turbulence, the accuracy is naturally much worse. It's just that 3,000 people are shooting at the same time, and they are shooting at a fixed target, so it is not a big problem.
The fragmentary and crisp sound of horse hooves was particularly clear in the silent night. The Clay warriors who were ordered to shoot around the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force camp, led by their respective captains, methodically fired at the target 300 meters away. The long and sharp The arrows fly relentlessly towards their target, piercing everything they can penetrate,
The feathered arrow shot by someone unknown happened to hit the temporary stable of the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force. The feathered arrow penetrated directly into the head of a war horse, and the warhorse immediately screamed and fell to the ground. Then another arrow penetrated the tent and shot into the stable, but this time it only scratched the ear of another war horse, leaving a long bloody mark on the horse's head.
The war horse was frightened and in pain, and of course it instinctively struggled desperately. It quickly broke the reins that tied it. After losing its restraints, the injured war horse jumped wildly, rushed out of the temporary stable, and was brought down at the same time. Most of the tents were occupied, and the frightened horses that ran out also caused a little chaos in the expeditionary camp.
The few Clay warriors who caused this result were about to ride close to the camp of the Imperial Capital Expeditionary Force in order to achieve better results. However, their leader shouted loudly and ordered them to stay in their original position and continue to move forward, because the Imperial Capital The performance of the expeditionary force was really abnormal. Even if some war horses were frightened and ran around in the camp, they were quickly killed and the entire camp remained calm.
The Clay warriors running outside the expeditionary camp continued to keep up the rhythm of running and shooting. In just ten minutes, they met on the east side of the expeditionary camp. In order to facilitate bow and arrow shooting, the Clay warriors used The formation was in a loose formation, with a distance of 4 or 5 meters between each warrior. Such a wide distance was enough for another Clay warrior to ride through, so the leaders of the two groups of Clay warriors had no intention of turning around. Or the whole team, directly blowing a series of whistles from their mouths, and leading their men to meet their companions coming from the opposite direction. It is obvious that they are preparing to pass directly through the gap in the opposite team.
Even in the daytime with good visibility, this kind of crossing is not easy, not to mention it is dark late at night. However, these Clay warriors have grown up on horseback, and such a thing is not easy for them. It was easy to speak, because every Clay warrior seemed extremely relaxed.
The two captains who led the team were naturally familiar with each other. They ran at the front of the team. At the same time, they also drew their scimitars and began to cross between the two opposing teams, rubbing shoulders with their companions. As they passed, the two captains struck each other's weapons with the backs of their scimitars to show their respect.
The trilling sound of the machetes hitting each other was extremely clear at night. Even the crisp sound of horse hooves could not cover up its spread. Unexpectedly, after the crisp knocking sound, there was a slight sound in the sky. The two captains who were commanding their subordinates with whistles were suddenly startled by the suppressed whistling sound. Of course they understood what this whistling sound meant, so the two captains no longer had the complacency they had before, but shouted with all their strength: " Enemy attack, enemy attack, disperse immediately, disperse immediately.”
When the two captains shouted, the two teams of 6,000 Clay warriors happened to overlap. The original loose formation also turned into a tight formation at this moment. After hearing the captain's order and the voice in the sky, After the slightly suppressed roar came, these soldiers immediately began to evade, but found that there was not much space for them to move around.
"Woo." A large black cloud roared down from directly in front of the Clay warriors. The Clay warriors who saw this scene all had pale faces. Some of them tried their best to escape, but they bumped into their companions. Both of them fell to the ground, while some waved their scimitars desperately and made some instinctive reactions.
When the rapidly flying "black cloud" turned into a "heavy rain" and poured down on these Clay warriors, the Clay warriors finally saw clearly that the "black cloud" was made up of countless thick branches. Made up of short crossbow arrows, the range of this type of arrow fired from a hand crossbow is not very long, but its penetrating power is extremely strong. It can even penetrate mail armor at a close range of one to two hundred meters, not to mention At a range of just over 300 meters, Ti passed through the bodies of the Clay warriors who had almost no leather armor and their ** war horses.
"Ah." Screams echoed one after another on the silent prairie. Each crossbow arrow continued to fly after mercilessly penetrating the bodies of the Clay warriors and their horses. If there were anyone on their flight path, , continue to penetrate through, and finally penetrate deep into the ground diagonally,
"Huh." Another black cloud rushed over, and another heavy rain poured down on them. The archers of the Imperial City Expeditionary Force who had been patient finally waited for the opportunity to vent their anger. Under the command of the archer commander Thomas, 5,000 soldiers The crossbow shooter repeatedly pulled the trigger of the crossbow, pouring a total of 200,000 crossbow arrows onto the heads of the Clay warriors.
Directly west of the expeditionary camp, Archer Commander Thomas immediately ordered his longbow archers to attack the Clay archers who were still firing fire arrows outside the camp after Colin launched the attack. The warriors fired fire arrows, so their range was only 800 meters at most, while Thomas's men were the best archers in the imperial capital. The longbows in their hands were enough to shoot a distance of more than 1,000 meters. The difference in range was enough Decide the outcome of a battle,