Warlord: King of All Clans

After gathering enough manpower, Leo returned to the iron mine with a force of 600 men.

Before this, he had already obtained command of the battlefield and made pre-war arrangements.

The battle flag of Hewan Leader fluttered at the front of the team.

As the commander of this temporary force, Leo does not have the identity of a square flag, but has the power of a square flag.

The corner flaggers' triangular flags are inserted behind their backs, and some are tied directly to their lances.

Among the 600-man army, there are 400 melee troops and 200 long-range projection troops.

Isenpol's corner flags also have some ranged troops, but most of them are Imperial crossbowmen.

Although they were full of malice towards the wild folk, they had also suffered losses from heavy longbows, so it was impossible for them to ignore the powerful yew bows.

Many fishing and hunting villages in the knights' territories have hunters whose strength is second only to that of the wild folk, and there are even corner flags like Leo that recruit wild folk hunters.

But the stronger the hunter, the richer his living conditions will be, and he will not easily join the lord's army and live a restricted life.

Not every lord is like Hewan, willing to give enough respect and wealth to the lower-class civilians.

Therefore, there are not many longbowmen in the long-range troops of the corner flags. Most of them are imperial crossbowmen, which are mixed troops of longbowmen and crossbowmen.

Together with the fifty wild hunters brought by Leo, the two hundred ranged troops were almost half crossbowmen and half archers.

Leo divided the archers and crossbowmen into two formations and placed them on both sides of the melee troops.

The composition of melee troops is even more complicated, including sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, sword and axemen, light cavalry, heavy cavalry, two-handed weapon warriors, dual-wielding violent warriors...

Leo can only put the soldiers with shields in the front and the soldiers without shields in the back row.

In comparison, the orcs' equipment is more crude, with fewer shield troops and ranged troops.

Leo was very confident that he could end the battle with minimal casualties.

The orc clans in the iron mine are just marginal characters among the hundreds of orc clans that migrated southwards, and their status is similar to that of the refugee groups of humans who were forced to migrate southwards.

Their military quality was very low, and they did not have enough labor to form patrol teams and set up tight defenses.

It was not until Leo's troops arrived outside the village of the iron mine that the orc coolies on guard duty suddenly became aware and started shouting loudly.

Leo ignored the swarming orcs and continued to advance his troops slowly. After occupying the advantageous terrain at the entrance of the village, he stabilized his position and waited for the enemy's attack.

Two hundred archers passed the melee troops and shot arrows at the orc village.

Fight a stupid battle!

The more experienced a general is in the battlefield, the more he likes to fight stupid battles, seeking a sure victory.

To win a victory by surprise, not only the command ability of the general is tested, but also the soldiers under his command must have sufficient combat qualities, otherwise he will be playing with fire and getting burned.

The orcs gathered in the village did not suffer serious losses under the shooting of crossbows because they were protected by the dilapidated houses and fences.

The crossbowman's long-range shooting could not cause serious injuries at all. Crossbow arrows over two hundred meters away were not only inaccurate, but also the last resort.

The arrows pierced the orcs' thick arms and backs, only penetrating an inch into the flesh. They couldn't even affect their movements, but could only continue to provoke their anger.

Only by being hit by the long arrows of wild hunters can effective damage be caused.

The six corner flags brought by Leo, together with their knight squires, rode their war horses and followed behind the melee troops to provide support.

Seeing that the archers' shooting did not produce much effect, they began to get restless.

Bows, crossbows and arrows are very expensive!

Although some arrows and crossbow bolts can be recovered after the battle, more will be lost.

Such aimless projection is simply throwing money away!

The corner flags' violent tempers affected the horses beneath them, and then affected the entire army.

Urged on by the snorting of their war horses, the archers in front began to disperse their formation and move forward.

The imperial crossbowmen brought by the corner flags had only two bags of crossbow arrows, totaling forty. This was all they had. Once they were used up, they would become melee soldiers.

They are also very anxious.

Leo was speechless and could only order the entire army to advance another fifty meters and ordered the archers to form a guerrilla line and shoot at close range.

After entering the range of fifty to one hundred meters, the archers' hit rate increased greatly, and the orcs' casualties finally increased.

The orcs' counterattack was to stand on the roofs or behind the walls and throw stones and bricks out of the village, not even bothering to throw out the stone spears in their hands.

These brave orcs were the first to be attacked by the crossbowmen.

After suppressing the enemy with unilateral firepower for a while and causing dozens of casualties, the orcs guarding the village finally couldn't hold back their tempers and rushed out all at once.

Instead of hiding in the village and waiting to die, it is better to rush out and fight!

There were not only a few orc warriors, but also orc laborers following closely behind them, and a large group of elderly, weak, women and children of the orc clan.

The old, the weak, women and children of the orcs refer to the orc tribe as a whole.

In fact, according to their physical fitness, regardless of gender, orcs over ten years old have reached the level of human adults in terms of strength.

Most of them are young orcs, but there are very few old people and women.

Gender discrimination among the orcs is extremely serious, and class status is also very strict.

Orc laborers have almost no right to reproduce. Only orc warriors and above can have wives. Warriors and sergeants even have many wives and concubines.

Therefore, there are very few women in small clans, and most baby girls are directly abandoned.

The orc boys following behind the orc laborers were between ten and fourteen years old, but their heights were all over 1.6 meters.

Those who grow fast are already almost the same height as the orc coolies of 1.8 to 2 meters.

They were even more agile than adult orc laborers. They ran wildly with stone weapons in their hands, quickly passing the laborers and following behind the orc warriors.

But what greeted them was a sudden and dense rain of arrows.

Archer Captain Bjorn looked at the Orc troops rushing out and made a gesture.

The archers in his hands immediately gave up aiming and shooting, and began to fire at full speed, covering the large enemy force at the entrance of the village with a rain of arrows.

And the light arrows for long-distance shooting were replaced with heavy arrows for close-range shooting.

The firepower of just fifty Savage Hunters completely overwhelmed that of a hundred Imperial crossbowmen.

It is not easy to train longbowmen, but well-trained longbowmen have strong lethality and sufficient firepower.

Crossbowmen are easy to train and can be used in large numbers, but in equal numbers, they can only be crushed by the firepower of longbowmen.

When the longbowmen shot the third arrow, the crossbowmen were still bending over and trying to string the second arrow.

The poor orc warrior, who could crush the human race's heavily armored elite in a single fight, was unable to touch the edge of the enemy's clothes under such a rain of arrows, and was shot like a hedgehog, falling on the way to the charge.

The narrow entrance to the village was originally an advantage for the orcs to defend the village, but now it has become a disadvantage for them to charge.

Before they rushed out of the village and came into contact with the melee troops, one-third of the orcs had already fallen on the road with arrows all over their bodies.

The piled up corpses even hindered the movement of follow-up troops.

Leo watched as the enemy's main forces were annihilated and their overall numbers decreased at a rate visible to the naked eye. He felt that this kind of killing had become pleasing to the eye.

But at this moment, an accident suddenly occurred.