Chapter 75 Attack, meet the enemy
After looking at the map, Li Ang began to arrange defense.
"Ansen, take all the militiamen to the entrance of the village to set up defenses. You should have become familiar with the battle formations in the past few months. Make good use of all the buildings - you led the people to build them. You know how to use them!"
"Yes sir!"
Anson is no longer the weakling who could only hide behind Salama.
Although his martial arts skills still have not improved much, he has experienced bloody battles in the border camps and witnessed the great battles in the Sava River Fortress, and he is no longer unfamiliar with the battlefield.
"Leslie, pull all the carriages to the entrance of the village and arrange a carriage formation. Lay out three lanes of carriage formation."
"Okay, sir! But what is our strategy?" Leslie asked.
Every caravan that encounters bandits will use car formations to resist. Laying out car formations is indeed something Leslie is good at, but she doesn't know how Leon plans for her and Anson to resist the enemy.
"Your tactic is to guard the entrance of the village and fire arrows when you see the enemy! When the enemy comes in, burn the carriages and retreat, retreat to the back of the car formation and continue firing arrows!"
"that's all?"
"that's all!"
Leslie sighed. This tactic is indeed simple and easy to understand, but isn't it too simple?
Of course, Li Ang deliberately simplified the tactics. He did not have a reliable commander, and making the explanation too complicated would affect his performance. Besides, it is not certain whether this tactic will be used or not.
Klose, the charge captain, is experienced, but he can only charge into battle, and his mind is all about muscles.
"Klose! Bring the stormtroopers and follow me." Li Ang put the map in his pocket.
"Sir, what is our plan?"
Klose was a little worried because the gap in numbers was really too big.
"The two of us will lead the others to take the initiative! Kill dozens of enemies first and see what happens next!" Li Ang put a horse armor on Alice and said lightly while tying the belt.
"ah?"
Klose was a little confused. The others, that's forty people? Klose can still count on this...
Forty people take the initiative to attack thousands of people? Isn’t the lord a bit inflated after getting rich?
"Brothers, follow me!"
The Lord put on his helmet, and his face was obscured by a ferocious giant helmet - this was a newly purchased one, and the original helmet was given to Raphael.
The body is no longer chain armor, but a set of half-body armor focusing on vital protection, which is a light plate armor.
Next to him are the Mettenheim stormtroopers.
Behind him were thirty heavily armed archers.
Of course Li Ang had to take the initiative to attack - since those gangsters had chased Lisa Dilan all the way, they must be equally exhausted now, and they might even be out of touch.
It's a pity that I don't have any cavalry...
If there was a cavalry team of dozens of people, Li Ang would even bring out all the troops to attack.
With Summer leading the way, less than half an hour after leaving the village, they saw the group of gangsters from a distance.
It looked like there were eight or nine hundred people, which was less than Rissadilan said. It was probably that some people were left behind.
As Li Ang expected, these enemies chased them for dozens of miles. They were obviously very tired and were probably preparing to take a rest by the river.
Most of the gangsters were sitting on the ground by the river, but they did not set up camp. They were obviously taking a temporary rest, probably waiting for the stragglers, and would start acting again soon.
This group of gangsters can't be called an army at all - they have all kinds of equipment, from cloth and leather to iron, and they sit there in a noisy manner.
Maybe it was because they were too tired, they didn't even send any scouts, and there was no warning around them at all - of course, it could also be that they were outnumbered and felt there was no need to be alert.
"A rabble has nothing but numbers."
Li Ang lay down in the nearby woods, peered carefully, and gave an evaluation.
Klose nodded beside him. When he saw these gangsters, he understood the reason why the lord wanted to take the initiative - these gangsters didn't seem to know how to arrange their physical strength reasonably.
In fact, there are still elites on the enemy's side, including seven or eight horsemen. They look like knights and are fairly well-equipped.
They should be the ones who let the gangsters stop here to rest.
They were riding around to greet the gangsters, and their curses could be heard from a distance. It seemed that this rabble was not easy to control.
In addition, there were about a hundred neat-looking infantrymen sitting alone on one side. These were probably elite soldiers and were not with the large group of gangsters.
"Klose, you stay here in ambush and don't move. I'll go and seduce them. Then you can take action when they come after them..."
Li Ang gave an explanation and quietly led the archers out of the woods and got closer to the river.
"Let go!" Li Ang led the archers to secretly gather near the group of bandits, raised his arms high and threw a wave of arrows into the group of bandits, causing a burst of miserable howling.
Then, the Lord Lord turned around and ran away with thirty archers.
The archers' archery skills were not very good, but without any precautions, a dozen of the gangsters who were resting by the river were still knocked down.
Several knights yelled and cursed loudly and began to give orders.
The group of elite infantrymen were the first to react. When they spotted Li Ang's dozens of men, they immediately stood up and began to approach with their shields raised.
But the gangsters were very unrestrained. They howled and rushed over.
Li Ang looked back and saw two knights chasing after him, so he raised his eagle strike bow and turned around with an arrow.
Reflexive riding and shooting, the fighting style of the grassland peoples.
The distance of this arrow was more than 100 meters, but the arrow still accurately hit the head of a knight. The knight turned over and fell off his horse with a 'clang'.
The lord grinned - this was just luck. His level of mounted archery had not yet reached the level of rapid shooting. He didn't expect to hit the head. Being able to hit the knight was already considered a super level.
Played.
But the other knight was obviously frightened by this terrifying long-distance arrow headshot. He slowed down and turned around to say hello, so a group of dark gangsters rushed up and started to chase. The messy arrows also started to shoot towards Li Ang.
emission.
The distance was too far, and Li Ang and his men kept running back. The wooden bows in the hands of the gangsters could hardly cause any harm to the well-armored heavy-armed archers. Thirty archers ran into the woods in a hurry.
Although 'no entry in the forest' is a rule of thumb that should be followed most of the time, the gangsters are so numerous that they naturally don't care about a small forest at the moment, and a group of people will soon follow them, shouting loudly.
Rushed in.
Li Ang himself did not enter the woods. He rode a horse in circles around the woods, shooting an arrow from time to time - he was single-handedly seducing the heavy infantry.
Seeing this situation, the knight wisely restrained the infantry not to pursue Li Ang, but to stay on guard outside the woods.
This is what an army should look like. It cannot be disrupted even if it is harassed. This knight seems to be an experienced warrior.
Li Ang shot an arrow at him, but the knight blocked it with his shield, and then several crossbow arrows from the infantry formation shot at Li Ang.
This kind of shooting was not cost-effective, so the lord had no choice but to ride Alice around the woods and disappear in front of these people.
However, although the leading knight was very clever, the gangsters suffered a loss and seemed to be difficult to restrain. A large group of people rushed into the woods with random shouts, indicating that they would kill the corpses with cold arrows...
However, not long after they entered the woods, a group of strong men suddenly jumped out from behind the big trees, followed by a large area of neat sword light!
The dappled sunlight in the woods made a dozen strong figures appear dark, and the swords in their hands flickered, making it difficult to resist the powerful and heavy attack.
After several rounds of sword rays, there were no less than twenty gangsters and more than forty gangsters fell in the woods, with screams and screams.
Chapter completed!