Riding and Slashing

Chapter 301 Flaws of the Silver Hand

The fighting power of the Silver Hand is actually very strong, because all the members are tall, strong and powerful men with extraordinary skills.

Most of them wield big swords, long halberds or big hammers-basically heavy weapons, and they are not lacking in lethality.

The defense on the body is not bad. Most of them wear chain armor with steel plates, that is, composite armor suitable for infantry. It is not easy to make plate armor, and it is difficult to create movable joints. The equipment has not yet been built, so naturally they cannot be equipped by all members. Only Klose and others are wearing their Mettenheim plate armor.

But a full set of composite armor actually has a very good defensive power. In this era, ordinary noble knights can only afford to wear it.

Coupled with the fact that the core personnel are all equipped with mithril gauntlets, at least ordinary swords are not a problem for them at all.

When fighting the enemy hand-to-hand, in fact, very few troops can beat them. In many cases, the opponent can be overwhelmed by strength alone-when the strong men wield big swords and hammers, the shields in the enemy's hands are basically useless. It doesn't work.

The hammer was a big iron lump of eight to twelve pounds. It was actually used to knock on the city wall, and the shield couldn't stop it.

But now, they are facing a group of fallen people...

A group of inhuman monsters far superior to them in strength.

The sledgehammer is of course very lethal to canned knights or other human beings, but when this thing hits the fallen, it doesn't achieve much results—at most it causes some fractures...

Unless it hits the head, it can't be killed at all.

The fallen are all walking corpses after all, no matter whether they are missing arms or legs or broken bones, as long as they are not dead, they can retain most of their fighting power!

Moreover, heavy weapons like hammers have a huge problem-poor balance.

This thing can't be retracted when it is swung, and it is basically impossible to adjust during the attack. It is really not easy to accurately hit the opponent's head.

The big swords of the people of Mettenheim are not bad, and they are very good at the 'New Year's greeting swordsmanship', and they are very skilled in business such as beheading.

But the problem is that the Mettenheim people's sword skills are open and closed, and they are relatively unrestrained-this kind of sword technique requires a lot of space.

In other words, the Silver Hand cannot form a dense formation to attack.

——Of course, the same goes for the halberds and sledgehammers, they need to be spread out, otherwise it is easy to accidentally injure friendly troops.

Klose encircled the troops on three sides before, in fact, because they could not attack in a conventional formation and they needed more space.

But in this way, the original number advantage did not appear to be that great—those Corrupted remained in a dense formation, and even quickly formed a shield formation when facing an attack.

Therefore, when the Silver Hand came into contact with the Fallen, it seemed that there were fewer enemies and more enemies—the enemies stood densely, but the Silver Hands were relatively scattered.

At the same time, since the enemy formed a shield formation, the stalwarts with sledgehammers all aimed at the shield for the first time.

The sledgehammer was originally a sharp weapon for breaking shields, and it was reasonable to do so by breaking one by one.

The shields in the hands of the fallen were indeed broken with one blow, but the force of the sledgehammer failed to move them at all—not even the hand holding the broken shield!

And at the same time as the enemy's shield was shattered, the hammermen faced the counterattack of the fallen.

They had just swung the hammer and hadn't regained all their strength. At this moment, their feet were temporarily unable to move.

Those fallen people slashed at the hammermen with their swords at this moment-obviously, these fallen people still possess good sword skills, or some kind of instinct.

The weapons in the hands of the fallen are actually nothing special, they are ordinary long swords, hand axes, machetes and other conventional weapons, but the counterattack that seems to be swung lightly has brought many big hammer hands to life. Armor was cut into two pieces!

Even the mithril gauntlets of the Silver Hand can't stop them—the power of these fallen ones is too terrifying!

They abandoned their souls to obtain inhuman strength, and many fallen people even cut off the sword in their hands at the first blow...

The composite armor, which was originally quite strong, was like paper in front of the terrifying power of these fallen ones!
So, just after the first wave of attacks and a brief contact, the troops led by Klose lost dozens of sledgehammers, basically all of them were killed by one blow!
"Back! Back all!"

Klose realized that he had made a mistake, he shouldn't have faced the Fallen in a conventional way of fighting!
Moreover, these fallen people are quite different from those encountered in Changhe Town before-they don't seem to have completely lost their minds.

Those fallen people did not chase after the retreating Silver Hand, but still lined up neatly, still extremely quiet.

After Klose led the people back for tens of meters, the fallen ones even restored the circle into a horizontal formation, and began to approach slowly like a wall.

"If only those Noldor were here..."

Summer looked helplessly at the approaching flesh and blood monsters, and said something to Klose.

Indeed, if the Noldor elves were here, these fallen people would only be shot through their heads with precise arrows, and they would not pose any threat at all.

But now, there are only the Silver Hand and the Freedom Legion—there are not many long-range attack methods.

The Silver Hand, which uses strength as its main means, is really not worthwhile in close combat against a fallen person whose strength is far superior to its own, and it will definitely suffer heavy losses...

Sometimes it's just like this. When facing the Legion of Dread by the sea, the arrows of the Noldor didn't play a big role; and when facing the Fallen in the wilderness, the Silver Hand is really difficult to operate.

"Throw the spear up!"

Klose frowned and greeted the people from the Freedom Legion to come forward.

There are indeed many men in the Free Legion who are equipped with throwing spears, especially those gladiators from the Bacchus Empire.

So a wave of javelins flew over.

But almost no one fell on the other side...

A lot of javelins did go into those Fallen, but they didn't respond at all - a little puncture wound doesn't matter to the Fallen...

It is obviously not easy to accurately hit the head with a javelin, and more than half of the fallen people on the opposite side have shields in their hands. Although they seem to react slowly, they can still hold their shields to protect their heads.

As a result, Klose immediately regretted it after throwing a wave of spears.

The Fallen on the opposite side had almost no losses, and they picked up the throwing spears at their feet or on their bodies, and threw them back!

Although their throwing level is not very good, most of the javelins deviated from the target, but the few javelins that were facing the target caused death and injury without exception-under the inhuman power of the fallen, the thrown back The javelin is so fast you can't even see it!

The mighty javelin can even penetrate the human body completely—it can't be stopped at all, and there's no time to hide!

This is really troublesome.

Although the brothers have all seen the more difficult fear legion and have no fear of the fallen, everyone is aware of the troubles of these enemies...

It's not easy to fight in close combat, throwing spears will be counter-killed...

There are some crossbows, but only Sigismund's scouts are equipped with them. The number is relatively small, and most of them are not very good at aiming. It is difficult to cause any effective results against the walking dead.

It doesn't seem to work to avoid but not to fight. Klose has already avoided it before, but they can still miraculously block large troops in the wilderness.

And the biggest problem is that at this moment, another group of enemies came from afar...

There are still fallen people, not many, about one or two hundred—but this means that fallen people will continue to gather here!

"Sinclair, do you have any good solutions? If this continues, there will be more and more fallen people, and we seem to be unable to solve them in a short time!"

Klose turned his head and asked the scout captain Sigismund.

"We can't waste time... How about we let the big troops disperse? Divide into small groups to bypass them. I will bring the scout team here to lure them. You go directly to the Fox Town!"

Sigismund did indeed give a reliable solution.

"You can give it a try... Take the squadron as a unit, disperse all, and go to the vicinity of Guihu Town to watch the arrows gather!"

Klose also felt that this method was good, so he immediately issued an order.

After all, the more important task now is not to kill these fallen people, but to get to Amy as soon as possible.

A squadron is actually composed of more than ten knights and thirty sergeants. The Silver Hand and the Freedom Legion were divided into thirty teams. Each team had about 40 people. They each followed their captains and detoured in various directions. .

Only Sigismund did not move, and he had the scouts fire a few rounds of crossbow bolts, pinning the Fallen temporarily in place.

This is a good idea to say, because those fallen people did not pay attention to the scattered small teams, nor did they divide their troops-all the fallen people started chasing Sigismund's scout team.

From the looks of it, these fallen ones may have been ordered to block large-scale troops.

Maybe they can sense the position of large-scale troops through some special guidance, and even perform some simple tactics, such as fighting in formation or ambushing in dense forests.

However, they probably can only obey instructions to a limited extent, and do not have any flexibility to respond to actual situations.

After everyone dispersed, Sigismund's 80-member scout team became the largest team, so the fallen ones were still carrying out their original orders-to block or destroy large-scale troops...

So, Sigismund led the scouts and began to retreat quickly—to the opposite direction of Fox Town, so that the large army could get rid of these difficult monsters smoothly.

But it didn't take long for Sigismund to discover that his own idea got him into big trouble—he couldn't get rid of these fallen ones!
The fallen ones don't actually run fast. When they gain strength, they must also lose part of their dexterity and agility.

But the thing is...they're not afraid of getting tired!

Moreover, none of them carry any weight—not even skin, less weight than a person wearing nothing...

Sigismund and the others are not this kind of monsters who don't get tired, and they have a lot of equipment on them.

Although they were faster than the fallen ones, they couldn't get rid of the fallen ones who had been chasing them after running and stopping. They were basically turned into dogs.

As a result, Sigismund had been driven out for more than a dozen miles. He felt that he could not go to Fox Town, so he simply led the team straight to Talboya.

……

On the other side, Klose raised the golden griffin flag when he could see Fox Town from a distance after the division of troops, and shot a loud arrow into the sky as a signal.

He intends to reunite the scattered teams here, and then enter the Fox Town.

Klose has now realized that there is a big problem with the Silver Hand team.

But as long as they can merge with Amy, these problems will no longer exist. Amy's griffin claws can just make up for the shortcomings of the Silver Hand.

However, before he could regroup the troops, several strange small teams appeared in front of him.

There were several cavalry squads, and each squad seemed to be quite elite cavalry.

Although the equipment of these cavalry teams looks varied, Klose can tell that each of them should be a battle-tested fighter, but... the discipline of these people looks very poor, quite poor.

Each of them carried some random things, such as vases with silver foil, copper pots, leather and the like, and even women's skirts and underwear...

There are also people with people, all of whom are wounded with incomplete limbs. They are basically dressed up by villagers, and there are children among them, who are probably their captives.

Apparently, the cavalry had just completed a separate raid, and it must have been very violent—most of each cavalry team, including the horses, were covered in blood.

"Who are you?!"

Klose faintly felt that he might be in trouble again... These cavalrymen were probably not good people, but the scattered troops had not yet arrived.

"It's not our people... assemble!"

The cavalry on the opposite side did not respond to Klose's question, but started to join together with yelling.

Klose suddenly realized that these cavalry also came to gather after seeing the loud arrows...

Those cavalry were obviously the enemy, and with all their cavalry, the gathering speed was naturally much faster than the Silver Hand.

Then, the cavalry released the mutilated villagers, and uttered harsh words to Klose: "Surrender! Or be like them!"

Those wounded limped and ran towards Klose, as if they wanted to get away from the cavalry on the opposite side as soon as possible.

And those cavalry followed the wounded, laughing and driving their horses to surround them, and from time to time shot an arrow or two at the wounded, as if to make them escape faster.

"What's going on? What are they doing?!"

Klose drew out his sword and asked those villagers who fled to his side in a panic.

"That's Urswood of Fleur! The tyrannical executioner!"

A barely sane villager quickly replied, his face was full of tears, his body was covered with various scars, and one ear had disappeared, leaving only a bloody ear hole.

Evidently had been brutally abused before.

"What? Is that guy famous?"

Klose obviously has never heard of this name, and none of the members of the Silver Hand have heard of it—there is no native of Sarleon in the Silver Hand or the Freedom Legion, or they are from Mettenheim, Either a person from the Bacchus Empire, or Sigismund was born in Ravencrow Realm from Filzway...

(End of this chapter)