The commanders of the archery troops shouted one after another.
The signal from the high-rise building in Reshuge clearly told them that the enemy had entered the range of the Far North Fortress’ long-range strike firepower.[.]
Following the shouts of the commanders, the soldiers, who were archers, raised their compound longbows, which were about one meter high.
Raise your head to the sky four degrees, hold the bow in your left hand and clasp the arrow with your right hand, and quickly pull out the bowstring.
These actions were completed within two breaths. Looking around, the entire archery unit was ready to fire.
"Marked! Two hundred meters!"
A signal came from the tall building again, which meant that the archers' best attack had arrived!
The commanders of each archery unit suddenly waved down the red flags in their hands, and at the same time shouted with all their strength: "Fire the arrows!"
Swish swish swish…………
There was a sound of bow strings bouncing, and the arrows on the bow strings flew towards the sky like lightning.
It takes about eight to ten seconds to fly with a bow and arrow. This period of time is enough for the archer to continue shooting the second wave of bow and arrow strikes!
The advancing orc forward still didn't notice the muffled sound coming from the distance, and trotted forward like a city wall.
Hearing the archer troops begin to attack, Zhang Liao, who was on the command tower, leaned forward slightly, trying to see clearly the details of the battlefield below.
Ian also looked at the orc troops running below, but Ian didn't pay much attention.
Having fought with orcs for many years, Ian naturally knows that bows and arrows are much more effective against orcs than infantry. However, the damage of bows and arrows to orcs is not as great as to humans. It is very simple. If it is not hit by a fatal part
Damage, an orc can hit many arrows and still have most of his combat power!
In this regard, humans have to suffer a lot, but due to the lack of cavalry, and infantry is indeed relatively weak when fighting orcs, so bows and arrows have become the best choice.
But, is the reality really like what Ian experienced in the past?
Look at the battlefield!
The arrow flew nearly two hundred meters, and with the huge kinetic energy brought about by its fall from the highest point, it fell hard towards the advancing orc troops.
The arrows falling from the air plunged almost vertically into the bodies of the orc warriors who lacked protection.
"ah!"
Screams rang out one after another. Except for a few lucky orc warriors who were hit by arrows and died on the spot, the remaining ones who were hit by arrows all fell to the ground and howled!
"How could this happen?" Ian stared wide-eyed at the orc troops below. He could not imagine what kind of damage it would take for the always brave orcs to howl in such pain.
"Haha, this is just the beginning!" Zhang Liao was very satisfied when he saw that this attack caused hundreds of casualties to the orc troops.
Ian looked at the scene below, and even had an illusion that the people below were not orcs, but humans.
Because such a scene would only appear when humans are fighting humans, but now there is indeed an orc with green skin and a height of two meters!
Not only was Ian surprised by the scene at this moment, Thor and others in the orc army far behind were also stunned and looked at the battlefield ahead.
They couldn't understand why these toothpicks, which seemed so threatening to the orcs, could cause such serious casualties!
Zhang Liao, who was on the high-rise building, curled his lips and said, "Hmph, do you think the bows and arrows in our Dragon City are the crude bows and arrows on the Ross Continent?"
The problem is actually the bow and arrow?
Take a look at the bows and arrows used by Dragon City. If you don’t look carefully, people may miss the arrows on them.
Three-sided arrow!
That's right, it's a three-edged arrow, and it's about five centimeters long!
In Byvost's army, or in other words, in the entire Ross continent, the bows and arrows used by humans are all flat arrowheads. In many cases, the most primitive sharpened arrowheads are even used!
On this point alone, the gap between the two sides has widened beyond people's imagination.
The three-edged arrowhead cannot be compared to the sharpened wooden arrow that plays like a house.
Iron arrows can cause huge impact within a range of three hundred meters!
Even ordinary plate armor shields would be hard-pressed to survive the impact of such a three-edged arrow.
But the most important thing about the three-edged arrow is not its penetration, but its terrifying wound!
Once the three-edged arrow penetrates the body surface, if the bleeding is not stopped immediately, there is almost no possibility of survival! Not to mention the backward medical technology on the Ross continent, such wounds on the battlefield can almost be directly regarded as death in battle.
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The huge pain caused by the three-edged arrow also made the sturdy orcs below howl.
The orc who fell to the ground after being hit by the arrow felt very painful, but still gritted his teeth and pulled out the three-edged arrow. But this method used to deal with ordinary arrows in the past was just courting death in the face of the three-edged arrow!
Many orcs who pulled out their arrowheads were immediately covered with blood, and their wounds spurted out like a dam with a sluice gate.
Not long after, these orcs who lost too much blood fell to the snow and died.
The strike of the wave of bows and arrows took away the lives of hundreds of orc warriors. This was a strong shock to Ian.
But it's not over yet. Just a few seconds after the first wave of arrows arrived, the second wave of arrows came again!
Before the charging orcs could react, hundreds more orc warriors fell in the snow!
Only a few minutes had passed, and the orcs who entered the long-range strike range of the Far North Fortress were baptized by five arrow rains.
This is only the first attack method of the Far North Fortress’ long-range attack!
Nearly three thousand orc warriors fell in the snow, and they were not even meters away from entering the range of the archers!
One-tenth of the forward troops fell at a distance of less than a hundred meters!
Even Thor behind him felt a chill in his body. The orcs had never seen such a huge loss before!
Although every time they attack the Far North Fortress, the orcs will basically fail after the battle losses exceed 50%. But looking at the Far North Fortress, their battle loss rate also exceeds 50%!
It can be said that the biggest casualties on both sides were basically concentrated on the towering wall of the Far North Fortress.
Bows and arrows are dangerous to the orcs. But compared to the spear array of human infantry, bows and arrows are obviously much less harmful. Especially when the orcs have some simple protection, the damage of bows and arrows to them is very small.
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But at this moment, Thor was confused. In his image, he had never killed so many orcs with just bows and arrows!
The battle was still going on. In order to get rid of this frightening one-sided attack, the charging orcs had no choice but to rush towards the city wall. Only by rushing up, the bows and arrows on the human side would be useless.
The idea is good, but you must know that the Far North Fortress has just started the bow and arrow attack. By the way, only one-third of the archer troops were shot just now.
Because the frontline commanders discussed it and decided to surprise and kill the enemy on a large scale when the orc army was attacking with full strength, they only used one-third of the archer troops, that is, a total of two battalions of archers to attack.
In this way, they were able to cut off one-tenth of the forward troops, which is terrifying just to imagine.
After executing five waves of attacks, the archers of the two battalions stopped shooting arrows. Continuously drawing the bows also consumed a lot of energy, so the commanders stopped attacking.
"Mark! One hundred meters!"
The rangefinder on the observation tower still dutifully reported the distance. In fact, at this distance, he no longer needed to shout, because the soldiers on the city wall could clearly see the expressions of the orcs in front of them!
"Everyone in your place!"
The sword and shield soldiers behind the Euphorbia troops on the city wall took out the crossbows from their waists under the slogans of their respective commanders.
Fill it in skillfully, one stick, two sticks and three sticks!
Yes, that's right, this is a repeating crossbow.
In this battle in the far north, the Longcheng military has replaced the old simple hand crossbows originally used. They have replaced them with this three-shot repeating crossbow.
Compared with the previous generation of hand crossbows, this three-shot crossbow also follows the requirements of the Longcheng military and is simple and durable!
Another point is that it must be modular. This is a point that the military logistics department has repeatedly emphasized. In war, the simpler a weapon is to use, the more obvious its role. Especially in the era of cold weapons, large-scale deployment of troops
A good weapon is a really good weapon.
The distance of the three-shot crossbow is a little farther than that of the simple hand crossbow, and the effective range reaches about 150 meters, but the optimal killing range is still maintained at 100 meters.
"Ready! Release!"
Frontline commanders loudly ordered the infantry units to attack.
In an instant, the sword and shield soldiers aimed at the running orc troops and pressed the triggers in their hands.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh...
An endless sound was heard instantly, and at a distance of one hundred meters, the crossbow arrow only took less than three seconds to fly.
One shot, two shots, three shots.
The soldiers calmly fired all three arrows stored in the crossbow, and then, completely ignoring the results they created, skillfully took out the crossbow arrows from the crossbow box at their waists and reloaded them into the repeating crossbows in their hands.
This attack was fast and swift, and the charging orcs were hit head-on almost instantly.
The running orc warrior fell to the ground in the flash of black light before his eyes.
Many orcs wondered what exactly hit them, and looked at the crossbow arrow that suddenly appeared in their chests in shock.
A crossbow arrow about fifteen centimeters long can reach a speed of sixty meters per hour when pushed by the crossbow string.
The huge kinetic energy also directly caused the crossbow arrow to penetrate into the solid muscles of the orcs, reaching as deep as the tail of the arrow!
Many orcs were hit by at least two or three crossbow arrows, and then fell headlong in disbelief. More orcs were forcibly stopped by the kinetic energy brought by the crossbow arrows. For a moment, chaos appeared in front of the orcs during the charge.
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