The first batch of Ashigaru teams had slowly pressed forward, and as they moved forward in an orderly manner, when they were more than 30 meters away from the other Ashigaru team in the rear formation, the Ashigaru teams behind them also slowly followed suit. go ahead.
Decisive battles on the frontal battlefield do not always involve everyone swarming forward at once. Instead, they constantly adjust their formations and slowly use fueling tactics to continuously find flaws on the entire battlefield in order to break through the enemy's formation.
Now these thousand ashigaru are the first wave of testing, followed by the second wave, the third wave, and even more.
And the entire battlefield will slowly expand as the number of people continues to increase, eventually forming a vast area covering everyone.
A wise commander will look for flaws in the enemy's fighting within this vast area. Then send your elite troops to break through, thereby disrupting the enemy's existing formation.
Because battles are fought in a formation, it is rare for two people to fight against each other on the battlefield.
Most of them form a combined attack with their comrades, and then work together to attack the person opposite them.
And this kind of cooperation relies on countless people connected together to form a formation.
If this formation is broken, the situation where you are surrounded by comrades to help you will disappear, and you will fall into a situation where you are attacked by countless enemies around you.
Think about it, if you are fighting with others, and suddenly one or two spears come next to you and stab you, what a terrifying situation it would be.
When you are desperate, your attention is focused on your opponent, and you have no spare time to pay attention to the situation around you. Therefore, a lone person often cannot escape death when faced with such a coordinated army.
This is also why when the so-called martial arts masters in ancient times faced armies, even if those armies were weak, they would avoid them.
Because even if he is a martial arts master, if he really lets go and kills, he can kill dozens or hundreds of people.
But every time he kills someone, what he can really notice and focus on is the three or four people in front of him.
But there were more people surrounding him, hiding in the shadows to give him a chill or two. I wonder how these people could stop him.
As for those mentioned on TV, when dozens of people are besieging them, they can still perform some fancy moves, and then choose and avoid them with great difficulty. That is completely an artistic act and cannot be taken seriously.
The thousand people in front walked for more than ten minutes and soon approached the enemy formation on the opposite side.
At this time, the enemy's formation had already been arranged neatly, and countless archers at the rear had already drawn their bows and arrows, and their targets were pointed at the thousand cannon fodder in front.
The gleaming arrows were extremely dazzling under the sunlight. The thousands of cannon fodder walking at the front all turned pale, and cold sweat fell from their foreheads.
They could vaguely see a sneer on the face of the archer who was one or two hundred meters away from them. His indifferent eyes were like the god of death. He kept shooting at them, as if he was thinking about when to draw his sickle and draw away. their lives.
They are also human beings. Even if they are a soldier now, they have only become soldiers for half a year, or even less.
And even a veteran cannot say that he has no fear at all when faced with such a situation of constant death.
Knowing that if they continue to walk forward, they are likely to die, the pressure in their hearts is also extremely huge. For those soldiers, it is like a huge stone pressing on a thin thread. I don’t know when. It will break.
This is why during wars, soldiers often brutally kill prisoners and even harass the people.
It's just that they are under too much psychological pressure and urgently need to vent.
And those prisoners who have lost their ability to resist, or the common people who are so lost that they dare not face the army directly, are the best targets for venting.
Because the torture and killing of these weaklings can create an illusion in these psychologically scarred soldiers, making them think that they are incomparably powerful, thus covering up their fears and getting a perverted comfort.
"Archer, release."
Vaguely, they seemed to hear such a voice coming from the opposite side, and then the pupils of all the moving Ashigaru suddenly tightened, their eyeballs enlarged, almost bulging out, and their complexions became frighteningly white.
But the steps under his legs continued to move forward with inertia. This was an instinct trained under countless sticks in the past period of time.
Brush brush brush.
The arrows shot by the 3,000 archers in front fell, and more than 100 Senshigaru who were advancing fell down at once, and more than 100 of the remaining people suffered some minor injuries.
The casualties were huge. The power of these arrows was very small and the distance was too far. Most of them were weak when they hit the soldiers.
The reason why this effect can be achieved now is probably because there are many excellent archers among the first batch of shooting archers, so that this effect can be achieved.
The purpose should be to intimidate the advancing soldiers and cause them a kind of psychological pressure.
As expected, the enemy adopted a three-stage design. After the first wave of arrows fell, the second and third waves followed one after another.
However, the power of these two waves was indeed much smaller. When it was shot at the remaining 800 ashigaru, only a hundred or so people fell down after two attacks, which was not even as good as the people who died in the first wave.
But after so long of shooting, half a minute has passed.
When they first started shooting, the Senzugaru were only about two hundred meters away from the opponent's camp.
For such a short distance, an adult can reach it in about one or two minutes by walking normally.
Nowadays, in order to maintain their formation, it is impossible for these soldiers to run and move, but they can also walk quickly.
So when the second round of shooting was completed, the remaining nearly 500 soldiers were close to the enemy's camp, and they quickly collided with each other hard, resulting in the first hand-to-hand combat.
In order to cross this death line, nearly half of the 1,000 people were killed or injured. It must be said that the damage was heavy.
But this was the first time. As these one thousand people were detecting mines and then contacting the enemy, they diverted a lot of energy from the opposing coalition forces and slightly disrupted their formation.
When the people behind moved forward again, they encountered very little resistance. At least the formation of the bows and arrows fired was not as strict as before, and the number was also much smaller.
So when the second thousand-man team joined the first thousand-man team in the battlefield that was about to disappear, there were still more than 600 of his people, nearly a hundred more than the first wave.
Subsequently, more and more ashigaru joined the battlefield. Gradually, eight batches of ashigaru, totaling 8,000 people, entered the battlefield under the orders of their general.
It is said that a thousand people fill the city, and ten thousand people fill the fields.
Although there are not 10,000 people in the dojo army currently participating in the war, there are only about 5,000 people left after the previous consumption.
However, there are more enemies on the opposite side, more than ten thousand in total. The black waves are spread out, and they are connected to the sky from a distance, especially the continuous shouts of killing. No one can see it. Be afraid when you arrive.
By now, the first batch of testing and formation-disrupting troops have all been dispatched.
The first step of this decisive battle has also been completed.
(End of chapter)