At this point in the battle, Carus also found something wrong. He did not underestimate the strength of the orc soldiers, but he underestimated the powerful power of the elf archers and dwarf musketeers.
Indeed, if there were no large-scale destruction by the elf archers and dwarf musketeers behind them, the orc infantry would have only three hundred, and they would have suffered heavy losses under the onslaught led by some fighters from Calus.
Although the orc infantry is brave, Carus and the others are numerous, and among them there are many fighters who can fight against the orc infantry, as well as magicians. The magician opened the formation, the fighters led the people forward, and the orc infantry would be finished no matter how strong they were. But their magician was killed by Tyrande as soon as they came, and several fighters were forced to panic by the musketeer and Tyrande.
But there was no way around it. Even the elf archers could escape from the shadows, so they didn't realize that Xiao Yu had so many archers at first, let alone such a magical unit as the dwarf musketeers.
They naturally also have excellent archers, but Xiao Yu's side has already taken advantage of the city wall, and it is difficult for their archers to pose a threat to the elf archers who occupy a good location, not to mention the shadow escape of the elf archers makes it easy for them Lose the target.
In the long-range battle, Carus was completely defeated.
Carus, who is in the era of cold weapons, would not think too much about the huge power of long-range intensive firepower strikes. As a modern person, Xiao Yu knew too well the great effect of long-range heavy fire strikes.
Both Napoleon and Rommel advocated the large-scale and concentrated use of automated heavy weapons to suppress the opponent.
As long as you suppress the opponent, you have won the victory.
Therefore, in this battle, the orc infantry and the human infantry are not the main lethality, but the archers and musketeers are the main lethality.
Dwarf musketeers are not as quick as agile archers to reap human lives. Basically, elf archers shot five, and they may only hit one.
But their suppression of fighters and damage to magicians played a vital role in the battle situation. This is the characteristic of arms.
Xiao Yu also once thought that there are magicians, heavy infantry and cavalry, and powerful fighters in this world, and it is not impossible for them to have hundreds of thousands of troops, or even millions.
Although he has elite soldiers, the number is pitifully small. His only advantage is the cooperation of multiple arms. Only by using arms to match this path can he gain an advantage.
Otherwise, once the units are not well coordinated, he will inevitably suffer a disastrous defeat under the opponent's crowd tactics.
"All retreat, all retreat." Carus saw that the situation was not good, and quickly ordered to retreat. He knew that if he continued to fight like this, his entire army might be wiped out, and the opponent's archers were too powerful.
He was very depressed, originally this was his own city wall. If they defend the city wall at the beginning, no matter how many archers the opponent has, they will not be afraid. Archers shooting from the bottom of the city to the top of the city will not play any role. However, the city wall is lost, and the opponent is condescending. The city wall has become the defense of the opponent. weapon.
This was Xiao Yu's shrewdness. He had planned well from the very beginning, took advantage of the location, and gave full play to the advantage of the heavy firepower of his elf archers to suppress the opponent. Only then did he achieve such brilliant results.
If two sides confront each other head-on in an open field, and the opponent has thousands of people and cavalry, they can easily bypass 300 infantry and attack the archers. In that case, their own side will definitely be defeated.
If it is a frontal forced siege battle, it will be even more ruined. No matter how powerful the elf archers are, if they shoot at each other from the bottom of the city to the top of the city, they will still be finished. With such a small number of orc infantry, few can climb the wall. was shot dead.
Therefore, the reason why this battle was won was due to Xiao Yu's correct use of the coordination of arms, which was a tactical victory. Back then, Xiao Yu was also the champion of the Warcraft Elite Competition, so the use of this tactic was naturally a no-brainer. Although there are some differences between the real world and the game, as a puppet army fan, Xiao Yu still occupies a very high ideological level in this backward cold weapon era.
Sure enough, when Carus and his men withdrew from the range of the archers, Xiao Yu stopped chasing them. Because once Xiao Yu loses the position of the city wall, he will definitely not be the opponent of the opponent.
But in such a short period of time, more than 1,000 of Carus' men and horses had died, plus the 600 people who died in the charge at the beginning of the chaos, and 2,000 of Carus' bandit soldiers had died, including one A magician and five fighters.
Those fighters were either shot to death by Tyrande or shot to death by the musketeers.
Fighters can withstand the feathered arrows of ordinary elf archers, but they cannot withstand the scorching arrows of Tyrande and the bullets of musketeers.
"Okay, okay, your name is Xiao Yu, I'll remember it, let's see how I will slaughter your lion king leader in the future." Carus was extremely angry. This was a big failure he had never had since he became a robber. In less than half an hour, more than 2,000 people died. You know, his cottage has a total of less than 5,000 people, which is already half of it.
Xiao Yu watched them get out of the range of the archers, smiled slightly, and said: "Human-animal hybrid guy, even a little bandit like you wants to fight with me? And slaughter our lion king collar? A joke, I am an elf The king of this era appointed by the gods and beast gods, as well as the gods of the dwarves, has the great fortune to overwhelm the world, you either surrender or die, fight with me, are you worthy?"
Xiao Yu is absolutely no stranger to scolding. In the online game, he met some SB players and scolded each other. With his invincible ability to swear, how could this Carus be his opponent
"Hmph, now, the king of this era? Just rely on you? I will let you die here today. I see what kind of luck you have? Come, call the heavy cavalry." At this time, Carus' face was grim, and he Waving his hand, he took out his last trump card.
It takes a certain amount of time for the heavy cavalry to equip. If they are attacked in a hurry in the dark, the heavy cavalry will not go out immediately. They are all ordered by Carus to put on the equipment first, get ready, and wait for the need. Appear.
Otherwise, the heavy cavalry will go out to fight individually like other infantry, and the role of heavy cavalry will be completely lost.
Heavy cavalry, in the era of cold weapons, is absolutely the master of the battlefield. The charge of a group of heavy cavalry in formation can directly break through the enemy's formation, and the infantry behind can follow up, and it is easy to win the final victory.
In many major battles, the two sides confronted each other head-on, just to see whose heavy cavalry gained the upper hand and overwhelmed the opponent.
Ordinary bandits simply don't have the money to build a heavy cavalry unit. Because although the heavy cavalry is powerful and dominates the battlefield, it is also an absolute money-burning machine.
A qualified heavy cavalry, including the training of soldiers, the selection of horses, the making of armor, and the running-in of the battle formation, is worth thousands of gold coins on average. If you don't have money, don't even think about raising heavy cavalry.
Carus had accumulated capital for more than ten years before he cultivated a heavy cavalry unit of 300 people, but the heavy cavalry unit of more than 300 people once made many of his opponents fearful.
When the heavy cavalry ran, it was like countless chariots rushing past, and ordinary human infantry were directly crushed into meat. In this kind of bandit gang, being able to have such a heavy cavalry unit is a symbol of absolute strength.
At this time, fires had broken out everywhere in the back of the cottage, and it was a complete mess. Although there were people to deal with it, it was definitely easier to start a fire than to put out a fire.
One person setting fire can exhaust a hundred people.
Therefore, now that the main buildings in the cottage are almost burnt out, Carus must end the battle as soon as possible and defeat Xiao Yu before he can go to fight the fire. torched.
Hissing high...
Accompanied by the neighing of war horses, the three hundred heavy cavalry had already gathered, and the strong horses stepped on the ground with iron hooves, making a rumbling sound, and gathered into one piece, like thunder rolling past.
The war horses that can carry heavy cavalry are not ordinary war horses, they are one in a thousand, and they must be extremely strong to be able to bear such heavy armor.
Buying horses for heavy cavalry is a very big problem, and it is also the first difficulty in forming heavy cavalry. Without good horses, it is impossible to talk about heavy cavalry.
At this time, the heavy cavalry had assembled, and under the leadership of the commander, they slowly stood at a distance of three hundred steps from the city wall and formed an array.
"Prepare for me to charge and kill these orc soldiers." Carus gave the order with a twitching face. Even if Xiao Yu is completely wiped out today, his loss will be huge.
This Xiao Yu was so despicable that he sent someone to set fire to all his belongings.
Even if he chopped Xiao Yu into meat sauce and ate it, he couldn't let go of his hatred.
Xiao Yu looked at the opponent's heavy cavalry, but squinted his eyes, flashing a treacherous light.
"Nimma, it's a good thing I prepared two bladed chariots and musketeers. Otherwise, it's really impossible to rely on orc infantry and elf archers to take these heavy cavalry."
With a wave of Xiao Yu's hand, the two blade chariots hidden behind were quietly lifted out by four orc soldiers, and mounted on the moon blade.
"Charge." Carus roared and ordered.
(end of this chapter)