king of the castle

Chapter 211 Perfect Defense

"Lisa, you will follow me in a while." Roger stood between the fortifications formed by the carriage, and ordered calmly: "Bonnie and Chris are responsible for protecting the others, unless the horse thief rushes in front, Otherwise, try not to make a move."

Roger has his own reason for this arrangement, every horse thief is a piece of soul power.It's better to let the soldiers under him deal with them. It would be too wasteful if Bonnie or Chris were to let go and eliminate the horse thieves.

Bonnie knew Roger's secret, so she agreed without hesitation.Only Chris was a little dissatisfied, muttering in a low voice, "It's hard to fight a battle, but it's so boring not to let others take action", but he was just complaining, and nodded heavily to express that he would obey Roger Order.

"My lord, the horse thief is three hundred steps away!" Mike, who had been on the lookout on the top of the carriage, said loudly, "They are charging!"

"Very good!" A gleam flashed in Roger's eyes, and dozens of crossbowmen appeared behind the carriage at the same time.

All the people who came to Kent Town with Roger this time were his confidantes, and they were no strangers to Roger's ability to summon soldiers at any time, so no one was surprised.

As soon as these crossbowmen appeared, they aimed their bows and arrows in the direction of the horse thief, but they all did not fire, and only waited for Roger to give the order to fire.

Even though the longbowman had stretched the bowstring to the limit, his hands did not tremble at all, which made Chris feel a little admiration, and couldn't help sighing in a low voice: "What a group of good soldiers!"

"The distance is 250 steps!" Mike on the top of the carriage loudly announced the distance of the horse thief again.These horse thieves can barely be regarded as light cavalry, without the burden of heavy armor and long weapons, their charging speed is also amazing.In just such a short while, the distance of another fifty steps was approached.

"The distance is just right." Recalling the knowledge he had learned from the knight school, Roger immediately gave the crossbowmen the command to fire.Dozens of arrows left the bowstring almost at the same time, and shot at the horse thief who was running wildly.

The maximum effective range of the longbow is about 260 steps, and the light crossbow is shorter, and it is also effective at [-] steps.Roger chose to order the crossbowman to attack at this distance, which happened to strike a perfect balance between the two contradictory aspects of lethality and range.

Those horse thieves only knew that there were only ten people in the enemy, and they didn't even think about guarding against weapons such as bows and crossbows, so they just rushed towards the hillside yelling.At this moment, they were hit head-on, and dozens of crossbow arrows had been shot over like raindrops.

At this distance, the lethality of the longbow and light crossbow is astonishing, and the arrows are easily shot to cause huge damage to the horse thief.All of a sudden, several horse thieves screamed and were shot off their horses. If they were lucky, they would break several bones;

Many horses were shot by arrows, and they neighed and fell to the ground together with the horse thief on their backs.The heavy horses rolled over their masters, making it impossible for these horse thieves to stand up again.After just one blow, the unsuspecting horse thief lost several people.

The cautious Watson dragged at the back of the line. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help being surprised and angry. He glared at Aken who was beside him and said, "What's going on? Didn't you say that there were only ten people on the other side?!"

"There are only ten people!" Aken was also full of doubts, but he quickly came up with a reason and said, "Maybe a few of them brought bows and arrows, it's no big deal!"

"What an idiot, so many sharp arrows cannot be shot by just a few people." Watson cast a contemptuous glance at the lustful Aken, and thought to himself, "Could it be a trap?"

Although Watson had doubts in his heart, he had already tried to change anything at this time.His subordinates had already received the order to charge with all their strength, and all they could hear was the sound of horseshoes and the whistling wind. At this time, it was impossible to stop them from attacking.Now Watson only hoped that the opponent's strength was only a dozen or so crossbowmen, so that when his men broke through the crude fortifications, they could destroy the caravan with minimal losses.

The horse thieves were all outlaws, and the death of their accomplice did not shock them too much, they still rushed forward in a swarm.For these horse thieves, it doesn't matter as long as the person who dies is not themselves.There are quite a few guys with dark minds who wish to kill more people, so that they can get an extra share when dividing the dirty.

The crossbowmen did not stop after a round of attack, but continued to attack the enemy.As the distance between the two sides got closer, the attacks of the crossbowmen became more precise and deadly.After almost every round of arrow rain, more than a dozen horse thieves would roll off their horses and be trampled to fractures by the horses behind them.

When the horse thief was only fifty steps away, the longbowman had already fired four to five rounds of sharp arrows, and the slower-firing light crossbowman had also shot three rounds of arrows.At this time, the horse thieves who were shot had stopped screaming, and all fell off their horses without saying a word.At such a short distance, the lethality of the arrows is fatal. Almost all the guys who were shot lost their lives immediately, and a few who were not wearing leather armor were even directly pierced by the arrows. It is enough to see that these arrows How powerful is it.

Watson, who had stopped moving forward, looked at this scene from a distance, only feeling that his heart was bleeding from the pain.Before his men rushed to the front of the fortifications, they had already lost around fifty people, which was already a quarter of the men brought out this time.Although Watson doesn't care about the life and death of his subordinates, these people are all forces under his control. Every time Watson dies, the power of Watson's hands becomes weaker. This is what really makes him feel distressed.

At this time, even Aken was in trouble. He secretly watched Watson's horrified expression, and was so frightened that he didn't even dare to fart, for fear that if he made a sound, Watson would pour his anger on him.

For a lightly armed horse thief, the distance of fifty paces is short, which is only enough for a crossbowman to shoot a round of arrows.After losing another twenty people, the horse thieves finally rushed to the fortifications.

After paying such a high price before, the horse thieves were all holding their breath.Everyone knew that crossbowmen were no match for cavalry in close combat. At this time, the horse thieves just wanted to rush over those carriages, and then kill the caravans, turning everyone into meat sauce.

So when there was enough space between the carriages for a horse to pass through, the horse thief who ran ahead did not hesitate at all, and rushed directly towards those passages.These horse thieves have already raised their sabers high, just waiting to pass through the obstacles formed by the carriages, and start a massacre of those behind them.

The first horse thief rushed into the gap on horseback. Just when he thought that the saber in his hand was about to drink the blood of the enemy, his pupils dilated due to excitement suddenly shrank smaller than the tip of a needle.

Without any warning at all, a row of iron spears suddenly appeared on the other side of the gap.The sharp spear tip reflected cold light in the sun. To the horse thief who had no time to stop, this sight was tantamount to announcing his death.Before they could even scream, the horse thieves had already bumped into Lin Li's iron spears.

The sharp point of the spear pierced deeply into the horse's body, and the horse raised its head and neighed miserably, and fell forward as soon as its four legs gave way.The horse thief was thrown straight forward by the huge inertia, and after drawing an arc in the air, it landed directly on the iron spears lined up. His body was instantly pierced by several iron spears, and his limbs hung limply. will move.

The horse thief running in the front suddenly bumped into the iron spear formation and stopped, and the accomplices who followed him had no time to react and bumped into them one by one.The horse thieves were all charging at full speed, and hitting the people in front at such a fast speed was not much different from hitting a concrete wall at high speed on a motorcycle.All of a sudden, many horse thieves were hitting people on their backs. Although it was not fatal, it also made these horse thieves completely lose their fighting ability.

The same thing happened again in the cracks of several other horse workshops. Many horse thieves died in the death trap set by Roger without realizing it.

However, this kind of trap can only be used once, and the other horse thieves will naturally not rush in after seeing the misery of their accomplices, but spread out to both sides of the hillside with whistles, intending to find the weakest link in the fortifications before launching attack.

"Humans are indeed much more cunning than undead creatures!" The horse thief's reaction made Roger secretly sigh, and at the same time ordered the iron spear soldiers and long sword fighters to quickly change their formation and go to other directions to defend against the horse thief's attack.The crossbowmen also dispersed, and continued to shoot sharp arrows at the horse thieves who surrounded them.

At this close range, almost every arrow is fatal.From time to time, the horse thief who was shot screamed and fell off the horse, and after falling heavily to the ground, he never moved again.

Some horse thieves who are good at riding also take out their short bows to fight back, but it is difficult to shoot a target on a galloping horse. In addition, there are fortifications on Roger's side as cover, and every soldier has a small Shield and leather armor and other armor protection, so the sparse arrows shot by the horse thieves are almost no threat, only a few iron spearmen were injured, which has no effect on the overall battle situation at all.

However, those horse thieves who attacked with short bows were immediately taken care of by the crossbowmen. After several people were shot off their horses in a row, no horse thief dared to fight back with short bows.

There are also a few particularly fierce horse thieves who try to urge their horses to jump in from places where the fortifications are relatively weak to launch a strong attack, but without exception, they will immediately be hit head-on by the iron spearmen.These particularly courageous horse thieves were either directly impaled on the iron spears, or fell into the fortifications by chance, and were cut down by swarms of longsword warriors. None of the strong attacks posed an effective threat to Roger and others.

After several violent attacks failed, and many people were killed instead, the morale of the horse thieves plummeted.They were originally a gang of mobs, and it was okay to bully the weak by relying on their numbers and arrogance, but they were not opponents at all when they encountered an enemy with a good command and high morale like Roger.

After paying the price of nearly half of the men and horses being either dead or injured, the remaining horse thieves finally began to retreat in chaotic directions.