Warlord: King of All Clans

Rather than being a horse trap, it is more like an inconspicuous rat hole.

Some of these holes that are not exposed above the ground are only as big as a fist and less than half a meter deep, while others are as big as bear caves and are big enough to sink half a horse's body.

There is only a thin layer of soil on them, so they will not collapse even if people walk over them.

But with the heavy war horses galloping at high speed, even if they didn't step on them, they could still collapse if they got close.

After being exploited by Leo countless times, Freya learned a lesson.

There is no free lunch in the world. If you eat my food, you have to work for me!

Hundreds of groundhogs dug in the open space outside the city all night, almost reducing the front of the fort to a shell.

Freya, who had long been promoted from a wild groundhog to an advanced excavator, had made great improvements in her excavation skills, and she alone could replace hundreds of groundhogs.

But she is the boss now, and bosses don't usually do any work. At most, they just make samples on the construction site and direct the mice to work, making sure these unprofessional groundhogs don't dig up the ground.

Ivan led the River Bend Army and stood in front of the trap, watching the archers in front of them overturn their carts in groups and crash into each other.

After making sure that the enemy couldn't get close, he raised his hand and shouted, "Fire!"

Under the influence of firearms, the commanders of the Hewan Army no longer shouted "shoot".

The shield formation of the Hewan heavy-armored infantry in front of him, which had remained motionless despite three rounds of cavalry archery, suddenly dispersed.

One by one, the giant shield musketeers, carrying their giant shields, passed through the formation and moved from the midfield to the front.

At the same time, the Basaka archers hiding at the back, under the leadership of their captain, had already aimed their arrows at the sky.

As the sound of snapping bowstrings rang out, a vast amount of arrows shot up into the sky and then fell over the heads of the Western Border archers.

The dense arrows were like a rainstorm, piercing deeply into the bodies of the Westerners and their horses.

After more than ten years of archery training, plus two years of regular longbow training in the Imperial Legion, the elite longbowmen of Riverbend are now able to hit whatever they point.

They didn't need to aim at all. The experienced captain just needed to raise the longbow and shout out a command, and then the arrow would be shot to the designated location.

Even though Hewan already has artillery and muskets, longbowmen are still the main force of long-range projection on the battlefield.

Most of the longbowmen in Hewan are of barbarian origin, but now there are also one or two percent of imperial people mixed in.

The North has a longbow tradition. In addition to the Isenbor people, there are also many experienced hunters and conscripted longbowmen among the refugees migrating south from the North. They are also recruited by the River Bay Lords' Army.

However, the quality of archers in this group was uneven and could not compare with the wild hunters. After several rounds of selection, most of them were assigned to Basarov's Giant Shield Crossbow Regiment.

Before the appearance of musketeers, longbowmen had always been the most popular profession in the River Bay Lord's army. Basically, any young citizen with a little archery skill would participate in the archery assessment in River Bay Town.

After the warhorse fell over, the agile rider was able to get up and continue shooting arrows at the enemy.

At this time, when attacked by a rain of arrows, one can only hide under the warhorse or turn around and run away.

The leather armor or scale armor they wore, as well as the leather felt hats on their heads, could not stop the armor-piercing arrows from Hewan.

Only a small number of elite archers were protected by iron armor and helmets, but they found it difficult to effectively fight back under the dense rain of arrows.

They hid behind wounded horses or horse carcasses, and managed to throw arrows at the Reach Army, but were blocked by the huge shields lined up in a row.

At the front of the River Bend Army, huge shields more than four feet high formed a thick shield wall.

The musketeers hid under the giant shields, ignoring the sound of arrows hitting the wood from the giant shields, skillfully loaded ammunition, then raised their guns on the giant shields and fired out.

The musketeer who fired the bullet quickly stepped back, kneeling down to reload, while another row of musketeers behind him stepped forward, raised their guns and fired.

These 300 musketeers were Basarov's converted giant shield crossbowmen. They were all elite crossbowmen who had participated in many battles and had undergone a month of musket shooting training.

Their psychological quality was far superior to that of the new recruits. They did not even blink an eye under the arrows flying like locusts from the opposite side.

The current Hewan muskets have limited production and high production costs, so they cannot be deployed on a large scale. Basarov will of course give priority to equipping his core troops with them.

Like Ulian, he was also an infantry sergeant in the empire's regular army. He led the militia formed by his clansmen and killed many bandit groups and alien races. His military quality was not low.

Although Basalov brought only a hundred people to Hekou Town, less than half of whom were young and strong, when Hewan expanded its army for the second time, their clan provided thirty qualified longbowmen and conscripted infantry at once, which was equivalent to the entire militia being fully qualified.

Because of his outstanding performance, he was promoted from a small refugee leader to the leader of the Giant Shield Crossbow Regiment in the river bend.

Basarov, who was already a grandfather, had never thought that he would be able to return to the army and command such a strong army before coming to Hewan.

When Leo handed him the first batch of muskets and asked him to be responsible for training the musketeers, he actually refused.

Hewan attaches great importance to long-range firepower. The captured and purchased bows and crossbows are rarely stored in the armory, but distributed to the militia for training during the slack season.

The regular crossbow regiment commanded by Commander Basarov used the best crossbows in Hewan. Although their sources were complex and the styles varied, they were basically of military grade.

What's more, it is equipped with a giant shield, a one-handed sword and heavy chain mail, and it can also engage in close combat by putting down the foot-operated crossbow.

Such a well-equipped crossbow regiment is considered a regular army wherever they go, but Leo actually still complains about their lack of firepower.

But after Basarov personally tried out the Hewan musket, he did not hesitate to equip all his core troops with it.

Now, the River Bend regular army no longer has the Greatshield Crossbowman, only the Greatshield Musketeer.

This burly bearded man was wearing brand new chain mail, which was captured when he captured Isenbol last year.

Occasionally a stray arrow would fly over the huge shield and hit him. No matter whether it hit the chain mail or the helmet, it would be broken by the thick steel armor and bounced away.

He also had a musket in his hand, but he did not load it with ammunition. Instead, after firing a shot, he threw it to his adjutant and continued to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.

The young musketeer adjutant could only helplessly reload his own and his superior's muskets, but he had no chance to shoot the enemy.

After all, there were few longbowmen, and the rain of arrows they released could not cover the entire battlefield. Archers in many places struggled to jump out of the pits and return to the team. Some archers whose horses were injured or killed also took the opportunity to shoot back after they recovered.

Basalov looked around and saw a Western Archer Captain wearing iron armor and several of his men hiding behind horse corpses and shooting at him.

This was obviously an extraordinary knight from the Western Territory. The heavy grassland bow in his hand emitted a faint green light, and was obviously a magical weapon.

His position was only sixty or seventy meters away from the Hewan Army formation, but because his position was slightly off and there were seven or eight horse corpses lying in front of him, only his head could be seen, so he was easily overlooked.

This extraordinary knight from the West casually drew his bow and arrow, and the arrow turned into a stream of light, accurately hitting a musketeer in the face, killing him.

Basarov raised his rifle, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

The Super Knight had amazing intuition. Although he did not see Basalov aiming at him, he also felt a huge crisis.

But he had been in the army for many years and had killed countless enemies in the western border. He was a famous sharpshooter in the Talhan army and was always good at long-range shooting.

The extraordinary archers of the grassland not only have amazing archery skills, but also extraordinary physical skills, and have the unique skill of catching arrows with bare hands!

Sensing the danger approaching, the Extraordinary Knight turned his head without hesitation and stretched out his hand to try to catch the "arrow" shot at him.

The next moment, his five fingers exploded, and then his head burst, and his brains splattered.

The shattered helmet and skull fragments flew back seven or eight meters.