Chapter 488

Amid the billowing smoke, a large army soon appeared at one end of the horizon.

This is a well-equipped and large-scale infantry army.

As the private army of the Justin family under tingqi, this army is one-third of the strength of the whole territory.

Of course, the momentum of the galloping of tens of thousands of people will not be so light. Even if it is not comparable to the rolling thunder of cavalry charging, it can definitely be regarded as the momentum.

The leader of this army is a middle-aged man.

He is Domingo's uncle. He is a direct member of the Hastings family. He is responsible for the training of the private army in the whole territory. Although there is still a gap compared with Domingo, his leading talent is second only to Domingo in the whole Hastings family. Of course, this is not counting Thain. If Thain's identity is recognized, the middle-aged man can only be ranked third.

However, it was precisely because Thain's identity was not recognized that he was in charge of commanding the army.

Of course, he can command these 10000 private soldiers. The command of the second cavalry regiment of the kingdom is not on him, but on Taylor.

As for Domingo and Thain, neither of them came to the front in person.

Not every Lord, like Sean, always rushes to the front in case of war.

But judging from Domingo's dispatch of a family member and Taylor, it is obvious that he is very concerned about attacking Dayi.

Smoke billowed, and the surging army had a magnificent momentum.

However, after moving on for nearly 100 meters, the army finally found an army intercepting them on their way.

If the private army of the Hastings family is a wave, the army in front of them at the moment is a reef.

The whole army has been lined up in a square array. The lineup is very compact without any gap. At a glance, we know that the cooperation of this army is very tacit, and the military quality is very high. If anyone had arranged such a square array, trench would certainly not have responded, but now in front of him was the northern barbarians recognized by the whole continent as the most unfit to become soldiers!

Tench hastin was only slightly surprised and immediately calmed down. No matter how disdainful he was when he heard about the army of steel wings, he no longer has this mentality, because as the private military commander of tingqi's family, he knows very well what the quality of his army is, which is incomparable with steel wings.

However, tench did not have the slightest worry.

He knew that the quality of his army might not be very good, but when it comes to war, he is not afraid of anyone at all. In recent years, he has been taking this private army to eliminate bandits and robbers in the territory, but there are no fewer wars. He is convinced that even if his army's quality is not as good as that of the other side, he will never be inferior to this so-called steel wing in combat.

Northern barbarians are not suitable to be soldiers. This sentence is not casual.

Tench's hand was raised, and the whole running army had begun to slow down. A sneer filled his mouth: heavy infantry? It may be very advantageous in dealing with cavalry, but without the cooperation of any other arms, heavy infantry is a dish. Even light infantry can easily defeat a heavy infantry regiment, because no country on the mainland has dared to directly form a pure heavy infantry. Usually there is a regiment in the mixed infantry regiment, This is also designed to prevent cavalry assault.

Tench had secretly laughed at panda's ignorance in his heart. If he had known that steel wing was a pure Heavy Infantry Corps, he would have been enough to destroy this corps by bringing 20000 people directly. There was no need for Taylor and his 30000 light horses.

As tench and his 10000 soldiers began to slow down the charge and quickly changed into an attack formation during the run, anno's face did not fluctuate at all. He just raised his steel gun and pointed to the front, and the whole steel wing began to meet the enemy in front at a neat and unified pace.

The earth began to tremble.

But not because of tench and the 10000 people under his command, but because of the step forward of steel wings. This army, which is basically waste wood in the eyes of many people, moves forward with neat and unified steps and unswervingly. Every time the five thousand people raised their feet and fell, there was only a heavy roar, as if a giant was moving forward. At this moment, in teenchi's eyes, the steel wings suddenly became tall, and even he felt a tremor.

How is that possible?

This was turnkey's first idea.

But how could he know that for the northern barbarians, being able to eat is their greatest happiness. Therefore, when others complain about the fatigue of training, the northern barbarians never stop for a moment. They know that they have poor understanding, but they are willing to spend more time practicing how to form a neat square array, how to maintain the unity of the forward rhythm, how to change the formation in the attack, how to shoot and how to shoot.

Even people like anno are trying hard to learn words that are meaningless in his view, and even follow William to learn what is tactics, what is tactical judgment and what is strategic vision. Before becoming a follower of Sean, Arnold wouldn't think of such a day even if he was whimsical, so he thanked Sean and William, and it was because of gratitude that he worked hard to learn these things.

This is the iron will of the northern barbarians!

If Sean is here at this time, he can find that the original steel wings just have a gray light, but it is condensed into reality at this time, emitting a kind of almost bright brilliance!

This kind of brilliance, if Sean sees it, he will never be strange, because it is the sign of army upgrading!

At this moment, steel wing was finally promoted from a quasi fourth level army to a real fourth level army!

[Army: Steel wings]

[strength: Level 4]

[number: 5011]

[Commander: anno]

[commander skill - steady progress: when the skill is activated, the soldiers of their army will not enter a state of fatigue and weakness]

[morale: Fearless]

[faith: devout followers (the army will never collapse)]

[war skills: none]

[military advantage: the will of the northern barbarians (when the army is composed of all northern barbarians, all abilities are increased by 50%)]

This brilliance is not visible to the naked eye, but more like a sublimation of the soul. But although he could not see the brilliance, he could feel the momentum change of the steel wings, which seemed to be more fierce than before, which made a bad idea rise in his heart. However, since turnkey has decided not to underestimate the steel wings, when this idea rises from the bottom of his heart, he will certainly not continue to blindly let the army attack.

He soon ordered the army to be divided into two groups, and 3000 archers were left behind, about 500 meters away from the steel wings, which could give full play to the maximum power of all archers. The 7000 men of the former army are composed of two kinds of soldiers. The front is the light infantry wearing leather armor. Their weapons are short swords and round shields. Their role is to entangle the enemy and create greater chaos as much as possible; Behind the four thousand light infantry, there are three thousand halberds. Once the light infantry in front create enough chaos, these halberds will start to carry out the interpenetrating tactics of the enemy like a sharp blade while maintaining the advantage of medium distance. Once the enemy's formation is successfully separated, the rest will be human flesh.

This set of tactics has been perfected in tench's hands.

Almost without thinking, tench's hand suddenly waved down, and 3000 arrows formed the first wave of arrow rain, which had been drawn empty and fell.

"Meat!"

Anno let out a cold drink.

All of a sudden, there was another neat roar, and 5000 soldiers with steel wings immediately raised their heavy shields to the top. In the twinkling of an eye, a layer of defense shield composed of heavy shields was added to the heads of these northern barbarians. What's more surprising is that the whole movement was as smooth as clouds and water, without any pause and intermission.

"Ding -"

The arrow rain poured down, but it could not shoot through these heavy shields at all. It could not even be embedded into the shield surface, leaving only a tinkling sound like hail landing.

Both tench and his soldiers are silly at the moment. They never thought that the experience of steel wings in dealing with bow and arrow shooting was so old. Originally, tench planned to bully the gap between the actual combat experience of the two armies, but judging from the action of steel wings, their actual combat experience will never be worse.

In fact, it is true, or the steel wings are much better than the private army led by tinchien.

While these people were still looking for the bad luck of bandits, steel wings had deployed defense in the panxia Rift Valley and had fought with elite troops in other territories for many times. Of course, the growth obtained from this practical experience was faster than those private troops led by tingqiin.

Not to mention that steel wing has been officially promoted to level 4 army, even if it is still the strength before, this army will never be the opponent of steel wing - of course, it is OK to cause a certain degree of damage. But at this moment, tench made the most fatal mistake - even though he thought he paid enough attention to the iron wings, his inner pride still made him despise the army composed of northern barbarians.

So at the moment, it is obviously a fatal mistake to still use the cutting tactics that use infantry as cavalry!

You know, steel wings are not a heavy infantry specially used to resist cavalry. They are not the kind of tin cans that can't move at all!

"Kebabs!"

Seeing that the enemy soldiers in front were less than 200 meters away from him, anno whispered a new battle order.

All the northern barbarians suddenly stopped, put down their heavy shields, and slowly pulled out their short guns in the confused look of the enemy.

Seeing this scene, tench's face suddenly changed.

But before he gave any new instructions, the steel wing had thrown out the short gun in his hand!

Five thousand short guns!

It made a sharp whistling sound at low altitude and then fell into the array of light infantry rushing in front.

These short guns are high-quality weapons specially bought by Sean. There is little doubt about their sharpness. Coupled with the strength of the northern barbarians and the short distance of 200 meters, how can these light infantry equipment resist this round of gun throwing attack?

Almost in an instant, more than half of the light infantry fell.

For a moment, there was a cry on the battlefield.

But this is not the end, because all the northern barbarians have begun to draw out the second shotgun, and then throw it again without hesitation!

Tnch's face became very pale at this moment.