Volume Two: The Iron-Blooded Baron Chapter 167 Complete Victory (8)
However, as soon as the pioneer group of pirates rushed out, they were fired upon by hundreds of rockets, and soon after the first round ended, the second round came over.
Asedan, who rushed to the front of the team, was not hit by arrows under the desperate protection of the guards. However, almost all of the more than 20 pirates who rushed at the front were hit by arrows. Most of them fell on the spot, including the pirates.
leader.
As soon as Asedan saw that the Bricks were in ambush, he quickly ordered: "Put up your shields and leave them alone. Everyone should run eastward to avoid them."
Under Arsedan's order, the pirates dodged the locust arrows and moved quickly to the east. Arsedan was thinking that since there was an enemy ambush in the south and Nolandenburg on the top of the storm to the north, then
I first moved east to avoid these archers, then quickly walked west, heading straight to the forest lake, and then I could escape.
However, he didn't seem to find a pattern, that is, since he entered Fort Norland and fought with the Brick soldiers here, almost all of his plans were within the Brick's expectations and gave him
A trap was set.
Maybe he discovered it, but now that the situation was urgent, he didn't have time to think about it. After all, it was important to escape. If you thought of a good way, you should act quickly. After all, it was not easy to withstand the volleys of hundreds of archers.
They hurriedly escaped from the fire. In the panic, they endured seven or eight rounds of shooting, leaving almost more than 20 soldiers behind. Such a reduction in numbers occurred before they had even fought against the enemy. Arsedan felt deeply in his heart.
It's really bleeding. The other pirate leaders are in the same mood as Asedan.
Just when Asedan and the others were moving to the east, and the archers on the south side could no longer shoot at them, suddenly, hundreds of Bricks stood in the bushes more than a hundred steps east of them, holding arrows from the Bricks.
Hands, they fired wildly again.
Asedan and the others had no choice but to start running north this time. Their plan was to bypass the burning wooden castle from the north and go straight to the forest lake on the west side.
As they were escaping, a pirate leader complained to the older pirate leader next to him: "What's going on with this guy Asedan? Why do you have to go out through the gate and cause us to take so many arrows?"
"Bah! You heartless bitch!" The elderly pirate leader cursed, and then continued: "There is only one door, where do we get out? Are we going to put out the fire on the wooden wall and climb over the wall?
Get out? You stupid woodchuck!"
When the young pirate heard this, he felt embarrassed instantly and said with shame: "I wrongly blamed Father Arthedain. I really am nothing."
"Hmph! You ungrateful guy." The elderly pirate leader snorted coldly, and then suddenly shouted: "The defenders in the castle have left the city!"
Asedan and the other pirates heard the sound and looked over. About two hundred uniformed armored defenders on the top of the Wind and Cloud Summit came out of the city. Like a long snake, they came down the winding mountain road.
There is no need to guess the purpose of the defenders leaving the city. Everyone can clearly see that it is to annihilate them all together with more than a hundred Brick archers on the east and west sides.
If he had just landed ashore, Asedan would have been absolutely confident in fighting these more than 400 Brik soldiers, but now they are frightened by successive defeats and have no morale to fight them in the wild. It is more important to escape now.
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"Let me speed up and run to the west, throw away all the burdens on you, and don't let the Bricks surround you!" Asedan gave the order to escape.
The Tuba pirates who received the order to escape were already suffering from low morale after being defeated for several days in a row. Today they suffered losses again and again. As soon as they heard that their boss told them to escape, why should they be polite? They should run away quickly.
After all, there are hundreds of Brick soldiers to the south, east, and north. What chance do you have of winning against them? It’s better to run out and stay alive. As for the punishment of Count Escalade, it seems that it is the same as that of ordinary pirates.
It doesn't matter.
When dividing the spoils, you wolf lords and leaders will take the bigger part, and we ordinary pirates will take the smaller part. Now that we are defeated and we have to bear the responsibility, naturally you, the wolf lord of Asedan, and these pirate leaders will bear the main responsibility.
With this idea in mind, ordinary pirates threw away their heavy weapons such as warhammers and two-handed battle axes, and kept only light sidearms such as bucklers, fighting axes, and daggers. They ran very fast.
Got up.
Just as the pirates were speeding up to escape to the west, and were about to run along the hardened road of Fort Norandenburg to the dock of Forest Lake, they heard only a "dong dong dong" sound of war drums, mixed with the cheerful flute.
Voice.
Then they saw a team of one hundred people appear in front of them. This infantry company of one hundred people all wore the same armor. On the armor were colorful double-headed eagles holding books and weapons. The soldiers' helmets were made of cloth.
A pot helmet commonly equipped by Rick's heavy infantry.
However, their pot helmets are a little different. They have no spokes. They are not like common helmets, which are spliced together from pieces of iron. Instead, they seem to be cast in one piece.
However, in the current situation, no one thought carefully about the armor of the Brick soldiers who suddenly appeared on the opposite side and blocked their way forward.
Asedan waved his hand, and all his pirates stopped. They gasped, looked ahead warily, formed a tight battle formation, and put up their shield walls.
However, the Brick soldiers who appeared in the west seemed to have no archers, and they did not shoot them within a hundred paces. Instead, they stopped directly, and after forming a strange phalanx, they were like a piece of
Like a solid stone, standing there steadily.
In this direction, there are twenty pikemen directly in front. Among them, the pikemen at the front have an extra layer of chain mail shirts. The pikemen are also equipped with a small round shield used to block bow and arrow fire.
In addition, on the side of the square facing them, there were five sword and shield soldiers, and five soldiers holding strange weapons. This weapon looked like a combination of an ax and a spear, and it looked like it should be very powerful.
Small.
As for the two sides of this strange phalanx formed by the Briks, there are also spearmen and sword and shield soldiers. The strange weapon configuration makes Asedan and the others behind them invisible. However, the center of this phalanx is not hollow.
Looking through the crowd, he should be a crossbowman.
Asedan himself is a decisive and tenacious person, but the defeats in the past few days have made him hesitant and not sure how to make a decision. Especially after losing half of his troops, he became timid, fearing that his decision-making would be wrong again.
After that, he will ruin the lives of more of his brothers.
For grassroots military attachés and ordinary soldiers, all they need to do in a battle is to fight bravely and obey orders. But for commanders, judgment and thinking are their important responsibilities. This is war, not a game. Wrong decision-making and wrong thinking will lead to