Chapter 99 True Strength
"Sally, didn't you notice their abnormality? You are my childhood friend, but I don't know what you are thinking about? If you put those idle thoughts into the right way, I think you will definitely not be just my captain of the guard now.
The more than 100 people just now, except for the dozens of people who drove away the wild beasts, the ones who stayed outside to hunt were all regular soldiers, and their strength was definitely not inferior to our army. If there was anything they were not as good as us, it was probably because they had not experienced a real war.
But I don't know if you have noticed that they are holding crossbows, not ordinary bows and arrows, but they are actually shooting continuously with crossbows. Do you know what this means? It means that if we have an encounter with them, then at the moment of contact, they can shoot twice as many arrows as us, or even more.
From my observation of them just now, their shooting accuracy is not worse than our sharpshooters, and is even more accurate. I am even wondering who will win in the end if our three divisions fight against their one division. . . . . . "
"Feng Ya, I also noticed what you said just now, but I can't believe it. How is it possible that our three divisions can't deal with one of their divisions? If this is the case, then our Fire Phoenix Corps can be disbanded on the spot...
Of course, Fengya, what you said is very reasonable, but I think they still have shortcomings. First, the crossbows they use are very powerful in encounters, but I think everyone has seen that they will reload arrows immediately after shooting three arrows, and their reload time is almost twice that of other crossbows. If we can equip light cavalry with lightweight leather shields, we will have a good chance of charging into their army.
Second, I also saw their formation when they were charging. I can only describe it in one word: chaos. This may be just as you said, Feng Ya. They are a team of new recruits. If they are given time, they may change quickly. But now, they don't have this opportunity. I think as long as we make a few detours at a long distance, their formation may be easily broken up by us, and then we can easily defeat them. "After hearing Feng Ya's words, the deputy commander of the Fire Phoenix Corps immediately began to object. Indeed, no one would want to hear such words, let alone boasting about the strength of other archers in the Fire Phoenix Corps and belittling their own!
"Raphael, I think you are wrong. Their powerful crossbows do have those weaknesses, but have you ever thought about the scene when those people were rounding up those beasts? Six teams shot and killed, and two teams processed the prey. And what were their other two teams doing? What weapons did they use? Yes, they used a super-large bow that has never appeared on our continent, a steel bow that is more than 2 meters long.
Although I don't know the details of this bow, I think everyone will remember that one of their soldiers shot an arrow through the head of the rock beast just now? Imagine, how many people in our entire legion can do it as easily as that soldier? Maybe you and I can do it, and those officers who are vindictive can do it, but what about ordinary soldiers? I don't think any of them can do it.
Imagine if the soldiers holding leather shields charged at them, and the soldiers of the Flame Legion attacked you with those big bows, what would happen to your soldiers? I don't think even the light cavalry holding leather shields, or the heavy cavalry of the Fire Lion Legion, would be able to withstand the attack of those perverted bows.
In addition, you said that the formation of those new soldiers was not neat and it was easy to cause chaos. Yes, I also saw this situation. However, I don’t think so. I don’t know if you have noticed that when those soldiers were advancing, they were advancing in a strange staggered manner. The soldiers in the front row of each row just happened to not block the marching and attacking routes of the soldiers in the back row, and the same was true for the back row.
Apart from these, there is one thing I cannot understand about them. I don't know why they have such clear division of labor and trust each other when they are hunting. The front row rushes forward to hunt the beasts, the back row provides cover, and the back row collects the spoils. There is no panic at all.
Even when the rock beast tried to attack a crossbowman who was hunting wild beasts head-on, the soldier who was hunting wild beasts did not panic at all. It was as if he thought his crossbow could not do anything to the rock beast, but he was very sure that his comrades behind him would help him deal with the threat in front of him.
If the soldier said that he didn't see it, or that he was too frightened, that would be untenable, and no one would believe it. So the only thing I can think of is that he was very sure that his comrades behind him would help him deal with the rock beast.
If this is the true situation of this army, then I can say that the Flame Legion’s strength in all aspects has surpassed us, and even far exceeded us…”
After hearing Feng Ya's words, a deputy corps commander, two division commanders, and several guards all gasped and remained silent for a long time without being able to say anything.
"Commander, look what I brought back. It's unbelievable. This arrow not only pierced the rock beast's head, but also went through a pine tree 100 meters behind the rock beast that is so big that one person can hug it..." Weimar, who was named by Feng Ya to search the scene, ran back, holding a special long arrow that was more than one meter long in his hand, very excited.
"It is about 1.3 meters long, 2 centimeters at the thickest part, and slightly thinner at both ends. The entire arrowhead is made of steel, and the tail is a double row of sword goose feathers. ... The ratio of the arrowhead to the length that penetrates into the wooden arrow shaft is strictly more than 2:3. Damn it, how can it be so hard? My sword..." The commander of the First Division, who is known as the archery master in the Fire Phoenix Legion, commented on this long arrow and even pulled out the arrowhead from the arrow body, measuring the ratio of the length of the arrowhead to the length of the arrow shaft. Finally, he drew his sword and chopped it hard, but it turned out that his sword, which was said to be carefully crafted by the imperial craftsmen, was chipped.
Finally, all the senior commanders of the Fire Phoenix Army were stunned by the long arrow. . . . .