Heart of Empire Chapter 171: Severe test

At a distance of 300 meters, this is still not a distance for precise shooting, but the bows and arrows fired basically have the initial lethality.

Dane held seventy archers in his hands, and there were five hundred long-range troops in Morno's army. Of course, the archers in Morno's army are not specialized archers who are good at shooting. They are also equipped with short swords and round wooden shields, and can be used as light infantry on the battlefield when necessary.

In the orc army, the number of archers may be nearly a thousand.

The long-range troops of both sides started a collective projectile at a distance of 300 meters. Arrows rained down like rain. Although the long distance caused the hit rate of the bow and arrow to be very low, it would cause some casualties.

These are also the elite rangers under Dane, who rarely suffer losses in battle. After three or four rounds of arrow rain, five or six rangers were hit by arrows, two of them died on the spot, and the other injured retreated to the rear, ready for emergency treatment by the priest team. On the other side, there were almost fifty casualties among Morno's archers. At the same time, about fifty or sixty of the orc archers on the opposite side looked like they were shot down.

When the two sides fired arrows at each other, the melee infantry did not stop. They passed the long-range troops and began to walk toward each other.

Afterwards, the archers of both sides unanimously focused on the target and put it on the infantry who were getting closer. And when the distance between the infantry is only more than a hundred meters, the power of the bow and arrow has also risen to the maximum—at least for the elf rangers!

At this distance, ordinary archers are still unable to perform precise strikes. Generally speaking, archers have to place the enemy fifty or sixty meters away, or even closer, before they can aim and shoot. But the elf rangers don't need it, they can only projectile at 200 meters, but when the enemy enters a distance of about 100 meters, they can completely flatten their longbows and take advantage of their eyesight to attack the oncoming Orc infantry shoot with precision!

In this way, the attack power of the ranger troops immediately rose to a higher level! Dane, who was moving forward with the sword dancer troops in the rear, saw with his own eyes that before the infantry of the two sides came into contact with each other, the ranger troops led by Patience fired two rounds of attacks first, directly causing the loss of nearly a hundred enemies! At the same time, the enemy only had time to launch a volley at Dane's melee troops, and the loss caused was only about a dozen people.

He roughly estimated that on the left flank, his army and the pure sword mercenary group formed a coalition of nearly a thousand people, and they had to deal with almost the same number of enemies. Under the long-range strike, the enemy lost one-tenth of the loss first, which is undoubtedly great news.

Obviously, if Dane wanted to defeat the orc army opposite him on the left flank, the elf rangers were a part of his combat power that he had to rely heavily on. If these sharp longbowmen are used well, they will be a huge combat force. Their direct killing effect on the enemy's vital forces from a distance is far more effective than a frontal impact.

But for the time being, the final result of this contest still depends on the collision between the main forces of the two sides!

The long-range attack between the archers of both sides was just an appetizer. Thousands of people collided fiercely on a front several hundred meters wide, just on the left-wing battlefield where Dane was. The first attack line, consisting of more than 300 fighters in total, ghoul mercenaries and pure swordsmen, launched a desperate charge with the elite giant ax warriors of the orcs!

Earlier, when the archers started shooting at each other, the distance between the troops of both sides was already very close. The distance of two to three hundred meters was easily crossed in a few tens of seconds when the two armies charged at each other. Afterwards, the fighting between battle axes and giant swords, as well as the shouts of soldiers beheading the enemy, and the screams of being chopped by weapons, became the most mainstream voice of the whole battle, interspersed with drums and horns The urging, the tragic atmosphere that is exclusive to war comes to the surface!

Dane has definitely experienced quite a few battles, and he has walked on the edge of life and death countless times. But when he was a mercenary, or later became a lord, he had never experienced such a large-scale regiment battle. At this moment, all the main forces of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, as well as the Orc Vanguard Army, have put in nearly 7,000 troops on the entire battlefield. When he got closer, the mountains and plains in Dane's field of vision were full of brutal fights between the soldiers. The targets were not steel weapons, but blood and stumps flying all over the sky.

He trembled all over - it was by no means fear, but an excitement, an excitement he had never experienced before. He found that compared to small-scale battles involving tens of hundreds of people, this feeling of commanding thousands of troops made his blood boil even more!

But his mind is still clear, and he has not forgotten that his current identity is the commander of the left wing of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. After the whole army attacked, it was impossible for Morno to be in the middle army to convey his orders to every army. The battles in each field must be decided by the leaders of all fields themselves. On the right wing, as the first captain of White Wolf Fort, Redis had experience in many wars. And Dane, sitting on the left wing, must also perform flawlessly.

His attention was focused on the soldiers fighting ahead. Horror mercenaries and pure swordsmen are not underdogs, and they are not at a disadvantage against the orc giant ax warrior~IndoMTL.com~ However, after all, the number of orc troops is not small, and soon, the follow-up enemies will immediately overwhelm them. up. The charging footsteps of more than three hundred human warriors soon came to a standstill under the giant axes of the orcs.

Without hesitation, Dane ordered the messengers who followed him to sound the second horn.

With the sound of the horn, the recruited mercenaries led by Delin, with a total number of about 500 people, also pressed up. The fighting will of this army is very unpopular, but after all, it has a large number of people, and it will naturally play a corresponding role when supplemented with the frontal battlefield.

With 300 horror ghosts and pure sword fighters as the core, plus 500 mercenaries, facing the orc army with a size of 1,000 people, the battle line showed a stable state. The brutal fight is still going on, but for the time being, it is not clear who is better than who is worse. In Dane's hands, there are still nine squadrons of sword dancers and a squadron of dragon warriors. Before he finds an opportunity to win, he doesn't plan to throw all of these forces into the battlefield for the time being.

However, he played brilliantly on the left flank, but in the middle army, Morno's White Wolf Fort troops, are undergoing a severe test!

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