Imperial Crown.

Chapter 483 Arrow Array

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The wet and sticky drizzle continued, and the pitch-black night provided perfect cover for the rapid march.

A little over an hour later, Thor finally arrived at the Goblin Legion's logistics department with a group of light cavalry, archers, crossbowmen, and heavy infantry, which was also the lair where Jiujiulinga was hiding.

"Haha, hahaha..."

After the last lesson, Thor learned his lesson and didn't wear sunglasses to show off. He wore his helmet obediently. The main reason was that his sunglasses were damaged in the brutal collision with Urga, so he couldn't wear them even if he wanted to. Through the heavy and hard helmet, Thor's laughter sounded obscene and dull. It was like the obscene laughter of an evil person.

Real-time reports on the latest battlefield developments were sent to Thor. With such a favorable situation, how could Thor not be happy and laugh like a pig?

This was also the first time since he took over the army that he had mastered the direction of the war and influenced the situation of the war. From this point of view alone, the head of the family was simply a genius in war! He was indeed many times better than his father.

The tall stature, the strong body, the black and gold cloak, the sturdy armor... made Thor look so high-spirited. He struggled to buckle a gold coin from the connection of the armor, "Old rules?" he asked to the person beside him.

Hoyaz nodded, "Okay."

嘣

The gold coin was flicked into the air by Thor, and because of the armor on his fingers, it made a crisp and pleasant sound. With a loud "pop", the gold coin fell and was covered by Thor on the armor on the back of his left hand.

"Emm..." Through the narrow and divided hollows of the helmet, Hojaz carefully observed Thor's eyes, "I guess... it's father!"

The gold coin in Thor's hand was not a gold coin from the Keynes Empire, but a "lucky gold coin" that he had made privately. One side was engraved with a lifelike head of Raven, and the other side was engraved with the image of the goddess of luck. However, the goddess of luck had long fiery red hair, and in Hoyaz's opinion, she looked more like Mrs. Nancy.

"Haha! You lose, kid! It's the goddess of luck!"

Thor opened his palm, laughed happily, kissed the goddess of luck through his helmet, and stuffed the gold coin back into the groove at the connection of the armor, "Little brother, just watch your brother harvest merit points handsomely!"

It is precisely because Thor has such a quirk that Hoyaz can only try hard to convince himself that the goddess of luck does have long fiery red hair exactly the same as Mrs. Nancy's.

"Sigh" Heyaz let out a breath and shook his head in annoyance.

In fact, they were both young men of similar age, so how could he not want to charge into battle? But he knew that as an orphan, he did not have the qualifications and conditions that Thor had to be so willful, so he could only suppress his inner throbbing and show a "maturity" that was very inconsistent with his age.

"Everyone listen up! Charge with the sharp arrow formation!"

Arrow Formation

Thor spent 741 gold coins to buy the "tactical formation" from the owner of the family, Raven. Otherwise, how could he only buy less than 30 merit points? Because of this, Thor asked Eric to borrow money again. The father and son broke up and stopped talking to each other.

This made Thor feel a little disappointed and emotional. He didn't expect that the blood relationship between father and son was only worth less than 800 gold coins. His father Eric was really stingy! He didn't care about his title at all.

Fortunately, the master of the family trusted him enough, not only letting him become the coach to lead the battle, but also selling him the "tactical formation" originally worth 1999 gold coins at a special discount! This made Thor feel that he had taken a huge bargain! It seemed that the master of the family loved him a little more than his father Eric. After all, after searching his body and taking away the last gold coin, the master of the family did not care too much and taught him the [Sharp Arrow Formation] in detail.

You know, there is a difference of 1258 gold coins!!!
The so-called front arrow formation is a charging formation composed of heavy infantry as the center and cavalry as the wing! It is mainly used to restrain the enemy's heavy cavalry! However, the orcs are all powerful guys, so this formation can also play the desired effect!
The complete front arrow formation is in this formation - "▄〓▄". The upper bar in the middle is the heavy infantry corps, the lower bar is the archer corps, the left and right sides are the light cavalry corps, and the rear is the crossbow corps.

The so-called difference between horse archers and crossbowmen can be explained in a simple and rough way: crossbowmen are equivalent to pistol corps, while horse archers are equivalent to AK47 corps.

Therefore, the role of the light cavalry and crossbowmen on the left and right sides of the vanguard formation is only to harass the enemy and assist the central army. They are not true flank legions in the traditional sense.

The reason why heavy infantry can "strongly restrain" heavy cavalry is, to put it bluntly, because the cost and price of risking their lives are not equal. In fact, if it is a one-on-one fight, a heavy cavalry can at least kill 3-5 heavy infantrymen in succession!

Heavy infantry relies on a complete formation to form a shield wall, which is actually using human lives as living "mobile barricades", and then relying on longer weapons to create more dense killing points! If a heavy infantry corps has 500 people in the front row, it can create at least 900+ killing points! Once the heavy cavalry charges, it is difficult to maintain a unified charging formation, which leads to the density of heavy infantry killing points far exceeding that of heavy cavalry, which has become one of the factors of "restraining" the opponent.

The cost and time required to train a heavy cavalryman far exceeds that of a heavy infantryman!

Just a mount that can carry heavy cavalry and quickly charge would cost around 280-350 gold coins. The overall cost is 3-5 times that of a heavy infantryman!
Therefore, even if the casualties were maintained at 3:1, let alone 1:1, no lord could afford such a high price!

All of the above is the truth behind the so-called "restraint" of heavy infantry over heavy cavalry!
"As orcs, you should have been killed on the spot by me! But I spared your lives, gave you food, and let the priests heal your wounds! Now, this commander will give you another chance to regain your freedom! Just pick up your weapons, walk in the front and charge, and kill 10 goblins, and you can regain your freedom!"

Thor said coldly to the captured orcs, "Those who disobey will be killed immediately!"

In order to directly attack the goblin logistics and lair, Thor was marching at a fast pace all the way, running 1-4 miles in more than an hour, even on a rainy night. In order to save the energy of the heavy infantry, Thor added a few wooden wheels to the raft he had built before and transformed it into a simple wooden cart. He let this group of cannon fodder wild boar captives with well-developed limbs work as coolies, and equipped them with a large number of war horses to pull the heavy infantry on the march.

At this time, the more than 200 wild boars were already panting and out of breath, and they all showed anger but dared not speak. Yes, they were indeed strong and simple-minded, but that didn't mean they were all fools. Who couldn't hear that Thor wanted them to die?

Your limbs are already sore from exhaustion, yet you still have to go on stage and take the lead. What's the difference between this and committing suicide on the spot?
But they did not dare to resist, not to mention that the conditions offered by Thor were indeed tempting! "Can we leave if we regain our freedom?" one of the boar people asked.

It seemed like a good deal if they could leave this devilish place that gave them, the orcs, nightmares at night.

"Oh, of course!" Thor showed an extremely open-minded attitude, "I can hardly afford to support you if you stay here!"

The surrounding Eagle Army burst into laughter.

"Then I do!" The boar man who asked earlier agreed and picked up a long knife from the wooden cart.

The herd mentality is an extremely mysterious and magical existence, especially in a group with lower IQ but larger number of people. When the first obedient person appears, the subsequent boar captives also begin to choose their own weapons one by one.

They will serve as the vanguard assault team and appear in front of the [Sohei's Blade] legion.

Sohei's Blade

This is the elite heavy infantry corps that Thor brought this time. This group of elite soldiers were selected from the original heavy infantry corps. Each of them is extremely powerful and can be compared to humanoid beasts!
The Thorn's Blade is about 6 meters long and is extremely heavy due to its special design. If you don't have enough strength, you won't be able to sustain combat for long!

Therefore, the heavy infantry corps of the [Thorne's Blade] has a total of only 2300 people, less than half of the normal corps of 5000 people!

"The general's banner moves forward! Fight to the death!"

Thor swung his greatsword and the entire army rushed towards the goblin logistics camp.

There were originally 5 goblin legions deployed here, with a total of more than 26000 goblins. In addition to the goblin legions coming from the rear to provide support, a conservative estimate is that there are at least 3 to 4 goblins!

On Thor's side, excluding the orc prisoners, there were only 13000 Eagles! Almost three times the number of troops! But Thor's face did not show any solemn expression, but was filled with joy.

As the army approached, the Goblin Legion finally discovered the Eagle Army that was launching a surprise attack. The one in command at the moment was none other than Jiji Linga's confidant - the earth goblin Pujiji.

"These hairless monkeys dare to come and die!"

Pujiji touched his bald head and said, "Order the two bugbear armies to charge together and defeat them in one wave!"

Although there was no Magnubiye sacrificial ceremony arranged by Jiujiulinga, there were 5 goblin legions guarding the logistics and the nest, 3 bear goblin legions, 1 hobgoblin legion, and 1 bat goblin legion!

Pujiji didn't believe that the other party could beat him! What's more, the other party only had over 10,000 people!

There are also differences between the Bugbear Legions. Those who can stay behind to guard the logistics are naturally the Bugbear Legions with stronger strength, more complete armor, stricter military discipline, and higher intelligence. That’s why Pujiji is very confident that using two Bugbear Legions will be enough to overwhelm the opponent! With the help of the aerial harassment of the Bat Goblin Legion, the opponent will only collapse faster!
To put it bluntly, with such a configuration, let alone the human army, even if facing a full-strength army of the Tiger People, Pujiji can win!

The elite Bugbear Legion is worthy of being elite, as orcs, they displayed stricter discipline than mercenaries. Even when charging, they did not rush forward in a swarm, but maintained a basic formation. Although they could not enforce discipline like the Eagle Army, it was already surprising and shocking enough!
The first ones they came into contact with were naturally two groups of orcs, the bear goblins and the boar captives.

"You are a bunch of traitors! You are even more hateful than the human race! Have you forgotten the ancient precept that we orcs will never be slaves?"

The contact between the two armies was like the explosion of gunpowder. Screams, curses, and shouts... suddenly exploded in the quiet rainy night.

The bear goblin cursed, raised his weapon, and slashed at the boar man.

These more than 200 wild boarmen, who had already lost any way of retreat, also burst out with unimaginable amazing strength and fought against the goblins.

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The shields as tall as a person fell in unison, and the inverted triangles designed below were inserted into the ground fiercely, providing a solid and reliable grip! The soldiers behind him placed the Thor's Blade in the ingenious groove designed on the edge of the shield and began to slide forward, which greatly saved the soldiers' strength. As the Thor's Blade slid back and forth, these bear goblins were quickly killed without exception! The pressure on the wild boar captives was immediately relieved! There were also bear goblins who had awakened their fighting spirit, shining with fighting spirit, roaring and struggling to crash into the shield, trying to break a gap in the shield wall composed of shields, but it was obviously in vain. They were often killed by the more flexible wild boar captives or the Thor's Blade behind the shield wall, and became the minced meat in this meat grinder.

Next came the archer corps behind the heavy infantry, drawing their bows and shooting arrows at a terrifying speed of 6 rounds per minute, becoming the star corps on the battlefield that harvested the lives of goblins! Although the bear goblins were thick-skinned and wore armor, such a close distance and such a fast speed immediately made the bear goblin corps pay an unimaginable tragic price! The arrows were like ghosts in the dark rainy night, and it was hard to defend against them. In just a dozen minutes, the disciplined bear goblin corps began to show signs of collapse! It was no longer possible to maintain the army formation, and chaos began to break out!

The light cavalry on both sides, wearing special beast leather armor, moved back and forth at the edge, swinging their long swords repeatedly to disperse the goblins at the edge of the bugbear army! If these bugbears formed a team and turned their weapons towards them, the light cavalry would immediately turn their horses around and run away, disappearing in the rainy night! They couldn't defend against them, and they couldn't catch up with them, so angry that the bugbears roared!

However, before their roars ended, crossbow arrows shot out from the darkness, killing the relentless bugbears that pursued them one by one. Each fallen bugbear had no less than 15 crossbow arrows on his body. From a distance, they looked like enlarged versions of porcupines, which was enough to prove the powerful strength and tenacious vitality of these bugbears!
"Archers, listen up! Shoot arrows into the sky and shoot down those flying green beasts!"

But soon, the opponent's bat goblin army was dispatched. In the rainy night, the scarlet eyes looked like compound eyes growing from the sky itself, which looked both terrifying and gloomy! As the archers continued to shoot arrows, these bat goblins were often shot down like rain before they could fly to the front battlefield, becoming the targets of the ground bear goblin army's trampling, which in turn caused them a lot of trouble!
"Brothers! It's our turn!"

Seeing that his sharp arrow formation was working stably, Thor felt relieved, and the fighting spirit ignited on his body. With a loud shout, he led the second-generation extraordinary people from both local and foreign factions and rushed towards the battlefield!
They are the correctors and fault tolerance of the sharp arrow formation. Once a loophole appears anywhere, they will quickly fill it up, allowing the Eagle Army to fill the gap.

Only Hoyaz was sitting alone in the center, observing the situation on the battlefield with a telescope.

However, in the night, most of them were not clear enough, and only the fighting spirit emitted from Chaofan's body could be appreciated by him for a moment!

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(End of this chapter)