Chapter 1771: ""

The first wave of armor piercing arrows had just ended, and the second and third wave of armor piercing arrows were coming one after another, with a total of six thousand armor piercing arrows, causing the Heim Vanguard to drop one-tenth of the soldiers, However, this is just the beginning of their nightmare.
Barry used the training methods he had collected from various sources because he increased the combat effectiveness of the heavy crossbowmen, the only special arm of the Cossack mercenaries. One of the training methods was the rapid-fire training specifically aimed at killing the enemy on the battlefield. .
The so-called rapid fire is that the archer who has been specially trained can shoot three arrows at a very fast speed, and then only needs to rest for about two times of normal shooting time, and then can continue to shoot three arrows, until Shoot all the arrows in the quiver.
On the surface, the rapid-fire skill only shortens the time required for the archer to shoot three times, but this is not the case; the three arrows fired in a very short period of time have far more damage to the target than the three. Arrows shot at a faster speed are stronger.
This is like the same 30 bullets, the lethality of a pistol divided into five magazines, and the lethality of all the submachine guns shot, it is not a magnitude at all; similarly, the rapid fire of arrow fire, lethality The force is far beyond the normal rain of arrows.
The first round of three arrows from the two thousand heavy crossbowmen killed almost 500 of the Heim avant-garde soldiers; a moment later, their second round of three arrows rapid fire began again, and a series of three waves of armor-breaking arrows rained. , Once again shrouded in the attacking Heim Vanguard.
Heim vanguard generals who have paid a large price in the first round of three waves of armor piercing arrows are now pulling away from each other to reduce the damage range of the armor piercing arrows. An arrow rain that can cover a certain range is certainly effective.
The problem is that those Heim vanguard soldiers who were in the range of the arrow rain, their shields were gloriously sacrificed as early as the first three waves of armor-breaking arrow rain. Without the shield as a cover, they only rely on their armor. Can not stop the shooting of the armor piercing arrows.
Only about a thousand people were scattered under the cover of the second round of the three waves of armoured arrows, but more than 1,000 soldiers were killed in battle. This time, nearly six hundred Heim pioneers The sergeant fell under the rain of armor piercing from the sky.
Frederick did not give the Heim vanguard a chance to breathe. The third, fourth, and fifth rounds of rapid fire were fired one after another, a full wave of nine armored arrows, and eighteen thousand armored arrows, which took Heim The number of vanguards killed increased to more than two thousand.
After five rounds of rapid fire, half of the arrowheads of the reloaded crossbowmen’s sacs, but Frederick did not let them continue the rapid fire; because the remaining Heim Vanguard had entered At a distance of less than 100 meters from your own side, this distance is just the best damage range of the heavy crossbow, it is time for the heavy crossbow and the armor piercing arrow to play a role.
"Collect the bow and change the crossbow!"
"Shoot!"
"Oh!" "Oh!"
As the reloaded crossbowmen pulled the crossbow machine, the positions of the first division were full of the swish of the crossbows and the screams of the crossbows breaking through the air; the range of the heavy crossbows was far away It is not as good as a longbow, but its armor-piercing crossbow has unmatched powerful lethality.
The shield in the hands of the Vanguard soldiers of Heim could barely block the armor-breaking arrows thrown by the heavy bowmen and crossbowmen with a long bow, but it was absolutely impossible to block the armor-breaker shot by the heavy bowmen and crossbowmen with a heavy crossbow Crossbow.
A squadron leader of the Heim Vanguard, immediately hearing the sound of a crossbow breaking through the air, immediately instinctively lifted the shield of his left hand to his chest; then, he grasped the left hand of the shield and felt When there was a violent collision, there was a sudden pain in the chest.
Staring blankly at the round hole in the shield on his chest that was shot through by a crossbow, the squadron captain fell to the ground with anger, and he was desperate on the spot.
The end of this Heim Vanguard squadron captain who was covered by a piercing crossbow was not an exception. Almost all the Heim vanguard generals who had been hit by a piercing crossbow had become dead bodies; occasionally Heim vanguard soldiers who were shot at non-lethal parts also lost combat effectiveness on the spot and were shot and killed by the second wave of armor-piercing crossbows.
Although the shooting speed of the heavy crossbow is no longer than that of the longbow, the distance of about 100 meters is enough for them to shoot at least three waves of armor piercing crossbows; after the three waves of armor piercing crossbows, there are only less than two remaining Heim vanguards on the battlefield Thousand soldiers.
Less than two thousand Heim vanguard soldiers, it is not impossible to break through the two lines of defense formed by five thousand heavy pikemen, but it takes time; with the fighting power of the General Heim soldiers, two thousand broke five thousand, It is not particularly difficult.
It is just the advantage of the heavy armed pikemen in the construction of the defense line, plus the heavy infantry cover of the third and fourth defense lines on the flanks, forcing the Heim avant-garde soldiers with stronger combat effectiveness and firmer fighting will only use The most time-consuming frontal attack to attack.
The five thousand heavy pikemen on the defensive side do not need to do anything at all in the face of the strong attack of the Heim Vanguard, they just need to maintain their defenses; the heavy bowmen who are still loading and shooting, It is their counterattack.
From the moment the Heim Vanguard launched the offensive, the firing method of the heavy crossbowmen changed from the initial volley to the current free shooting; in this way, the shooting accuracy of the heavy crossbowmen immediately More than one grade.
During the attack, the Heim Vanguard was constantly being killed by free-fired heavy crossbowmen, especially officers at all levels wearing better armour and using better weapons, even more heavy crossbowmen. The focus is to take care of the dead and wounded in the war.
More than ten minutes later, the number of casualties in the first line of defense was 2,500 heavy pikemen, and the number of casualties exceeded 100. At the same time, officers at all levels of the Heim Vanguard were almost killed by heavy crossbowmen, Heim After losing their command, the vanguard soldiers quickly fell into their own difficulties.
Half an hour later, the last soldier of the Vanguard of Heim fell under the armoured crossbow shot by two heavy crossbowmen at the same time; the price paid by the First Division for this was the first line of defense The number of soldiers' casualties exceeded 500.
Fifty-five thousand of self-destructive self-defeating, five hundred self-destructive warriors accounted for only about 30% of the dead, such a loss of battle is of course a great victory; considering the actual situation of the two sides fighting, Frey as the commander Derich had to be shocked by the strength of the Heim army.
Out of morale considerations, instead of expressing the shock inside him, Frederick used this big victory to inspire his soldiers, as well as other spectators behind the first division. The various divisions of this battle.
After a short period of inspiration, Frederick ordered the captain and the wing captain of the heavy crossbowmen to quickly take out the armored arrows and armored crossbows stored in their space ring, supplementing the consumption of half of the arrows and Most of the heavy crossbowmen are crossbowmen.
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