The Witcher: Make Witcher Great Again

Chapter 320: Beach Landing (Part )

At the sound of the horn, the sampans were lowered. There were more than a dozen soldiers on each sampan. More than half of the soldiers took up the oars, and the rest raised their shields and rowed the sampans desperately towards the coast.

Seeing that the Nilfgaardians had launched an attack, the troops of the Quet family lined up on the beachhead also began to move.

Forty archers lined up in front, divided into two teams, and under the command of Kratz, the young head of the Quet family, they drew their bows and loaded arrows.

"put!"

The next moment, the sound of arrows breaking through the air was endless. Forty arrows first flew into the sky and then fell from mid-air.

Although the number of arrows was small, they still shot several Nilfgaardian soldiers off the sampan.

Hearing the screams of their companions, every Nilfgaardian subconsciously shrank back.

The non-commissioned officers shouted and cursed at the soldiers rowing the boats. In fact, even if they had not done so, the Nilfgaardians holding the oars would have quickened their movements for the sake of their own lives, and the remaining soldiers tried their best to raise their shields for defense.

But there was not much space on the sampan and people were crowded together, so it was impossible to cover everyone under the protection of the shield.

Despite their best efforts, some Nilfgaardians were still hit by arrows one after another.

It’s not that the Nilfgaardians didn’t think about fighting back, but shooting on the turbulent sea surface is much more difficult than shooting arrows with a bow on flat ground.

The scattered counterattacks almost all missed the target, either missing by a huge margin or falling into the water or sand.

However, after killing and wounding more than twenty Nilfgaardian soldiers, the good days of the archers of the Quet family finally came to an end.

As the sampans got closer, the archers of the Quet family could even see the faces of the southerners clearly.

It would be unwise to stay on the beach any longer.

Kratz drew his sword from his waist and shouted, "Archers, retreat to the palisade. Heavy infantry and spearmen, prepare to meet the enemy!"

So the archers put away their bows and arrows and retreated all the way, but not to the back of the infantry phalanx. Instead, they ran further back to the beachhead, stepped on the wooden boards placed on the trench, and entered behind the fence.

The Drummond troops guarding there quickly made way for them.

At the same time, sixty spearmen formed three rows, with their spear tips lowered and held horizontally. The spearmen in the second and third rows passed their weapons through the gaps between their companions in the front row.

In an instant, the phalanx turned into a hedgehog.

Fifty heavy infantrymen were deployed on the left and right of the spearman phalanx to protect the flanks of the phalanx.

Lin En was also in the heavy infantry ranks. At this time, he had already changed into an ordinary set of Quet family infantry armor, and wore a visor on his head to cover his eyes, which were a different color from those of ordinary people.

"kill!"

When a sampan approached the beach, the Nilfgaardians on it dropped their oars and rushed ashore in the knee-deep water.

However, the Nilfgaardians' disorganized formation posed no threat at all, and they were stabbed to death one after another by the well-trained spearmen.

"prick!"

The spearmen in the first row thrust their weapons hard, piercing the charging Nilfgaardians.

Then the spearmen in the first row retracted their weapons, and the spearmen in the second row thrust out.

Three rows of spears took turns stabbing, and soon the enemy's corpses were scattered all over the ground.

Some clever Nilfgaardians tried to outflank them from both sides, but the heavy infantry who were already on standby would never give them this opportunity.

The long swords and battle axes killed the Nilfgaardians and caused their blood to flow like a river.

Earl Thorgil, who was watching the battle from behind the fence, saw that the warriors of the Quet family fought bravely. In just a few minutes of contact, at least dozens of enemy corpses were added to the beach.

But after all, there are too few people in the Quet family, or it should be said that there are too few people from the archipelago.

The entire beachhead was not just the land under the feet of Quet's troops. While Quet's troops were fighting with the Nilfgaardians in that direction, the Nilfgaardians in other directions had already approached other parts of the beachhead.

If they were to wait and see, the warriors of the Quete family would be surrounded. "It's almost time. Let Kratz retreat. Then send a message to 'Madman' Lugo to have the Drummond family escort them."

"Yes."

A horn sounded in an archipelago style, completely different from that of Nilfgaard, signaling a retreat.

At the same time, Drummond's troops, who had been guarding behind the fence, moved away the barricades, rushed out from the gap in the fence, passed through the wooden boards on the trench, and approached the direction of Quet's troops.

Count Thorgil's Tursek troops replaced the previous Drummond troops and guarded the fence.

As for the Quete troops who heard the horn, they also retreated towards the fence behind them.

In wars during the cold weapon era, advancing was fine, but retreating would often turn into a rout.

In this way, what could have been victory would instantly turn into a crushing defeat.

However, since all the soldiers Kratz brought were professional soldiers, and Kratz himself was on the front line, the flag representing the Quit family and himself were both clearly visible to everyone.

Therefore, even during the retreat, morale did not drop much, so the soldiers were still able to carry out orders in an orderly manner.

In the distance, Count Tullius on the flagship deck snorted coldly.

"You want to run away after fighting? How can that be possible? Let the Branden Cavalry attack the enemy from behind."

"But, Count, only twenty of the Branden cavalry have landed. This number..."

"We didn't let them destroy the enemy. As long as they disrupted the enemy's formation, the other troops would be able to rush in and destroy the enemy."

"Yes."

……

Another place on the beach.

"Baron, an order has arrived from the flagship: our army must charge back at the enemy infantry of House Quet."

The cavalry captain nodded, indicating understanding: "Everyone, mount your horses!"

After all the cavalrymen had mounted their horses, the cavalry captain raised his lance and pointed it into the distance.

"attack!"

……

Although there were only twenty riders, the attack of the Nilfgaardian cavalry could not be ignored, and was soon discovered by soldiers of the Quet family.

"Lord Kratz, look! It's the enemy's cavalry!"

Kratz turned his head and saw that although the enemy cavalry was still some distance away, it would not be long before they were approaching.

"They want to prevent our army from joining forces with the Drummond family."

They were not ordinary cavalry, but armored cavalry with both men and horses wearing armor.

Everyone knows that there are only three ways to fight cavalry:
The first method is to use tripwires, trenches and chevaux de frise;

The second method is to counter it with a stronger cavalry unit;

The third method is to use a dense spear formation to resist the impact.

The first and second methods are obviously not suitable.

As for the third one...

(End of this chapter)