Chapter 345 (1/2)
Three hundred meters, the cavalry began to diverge.
More than 100 horses in the middle began to slow down. These people obviously belong to high mobility horseback infantry. From their equipment, it is obvious that there are gunners, archers and long sword soldiers. Although it seems that there are more than 100 people, there are not many left if they are divided into three arms. If it is a small-scale encirclement and annihilation war or ambush war, this scale is still very lethal, but once it is expanded to the scale of war level, if the archers can not form coverage shooting, then the role is very small.
This is why in the local ambush war, if the archers are not more than 100 people, all commanders prefer to be equipped with knife shield soldiers or long spearmen. The former has great lethality in hand to hand combat; The latter is often effective in dealing with cavalry. Even in the face of sword and shield soldiers, they can easily resist the enemy by virtue of the length advantage of weapons.
Two hundred meters, all the archers have stopped their horses and started to dismount and draw their bows.
At this distance, whether throwing or hanging, these archers have been the most lethal distance. You know, this is a human archer. Although among the archers of all races, human archers can only be regarded as medium-strength archers, if the enemy they face is goblins, this gap is like an elf Archer bullying a pig head man.
The other cavalry units still charging ahead, the running lizard cavalry on the right side of the team, began to draw a circular arc and circled to the right of the big red fire tribe.
As one of the ultimate arms of the dog headed man, although the running lizard cavalry has always been classified as a light cavalry sequence, it has always been recognized that it can rank among the top five of the most dangerous light cavalry types on the mainland. In some special terrain and conditions, such as the current wilderness, it's not too much to even rank first!
The weapon used by the running lizard cavalry is a short javelin with a length of less than 50 cm, but the javelin's barrel is specially made of sand wood unique only in the desert. It has very contradictory characteristics - it has the light weight of wood and the sharpness of metal. The wood of this material does not even need to be equipped with a gun head. It can be directly used as a gun head only by sharpening one end. Therefore, this javelin has the dual characteristics of high range and high penetration.
Its maximum range is as high as 300 meters - which is equivalent to the range of regular human archers, and the effective range can even reach 150 meters. Within this effective range, except for armor above medium size, light armor, leather armor and even lock armor can easily penetrate. If it is within 100 meters, its penetration may even penetrate two targets.
The only drawback of this javelin is that it is not suitable for human use.
Usually, each running lizard cavalry will be equipped with about 10 to 20 short javelins, and its loading capacity depends on the height and weight of the dog headed man, as well as the height and weight of the mount. Under normal circumstances, only the commander of the running lizard cavalry will be equipped with 20 short javelins, the general running lizard cavalry will only be equipped with 10, and the captain level will be equipped with about 12 to 15. In combat, the running lizard cavalry can throw three to five short javelins per minute. In addition to leaving one for close combat, they generally throw all short javelins.
However, in combat, the running lizard cavalry will avoid close combat as much as possible. As a subordinate of the light cavalry, the running lizard cavalry of the dog headed man does not have too high defense ability like all the light cavalry. Even in order to maximize the load, the dog headed man as a cavalry will not wear any protective gear, let alone their mounts. Therefore, once they are close, they usually end up very miserable.
But the most terrible thing about the running lizard cavalry is that because the short javelin has no gun head, they can be recovered in full after each battle, and there is no need to worry about loss. Occasionally, even if the spear tip is worn, the running lizard cavalry is equipped with a special short blade, which can sharpen the spear head and reuse it again. As long as the length of these short pole javelins is not less than 40 cm, the running lizard cavalry will not abandon their guns.
The more than 100 running lizard cavalry went around the right side of the big red fire tribe, and the whole big red fire tribe immediately fell into panic.
As a group living on the same land, don't goblins know the horror of the dog headed lizard cavalry?
Even if this running lizard cavalry didn't do anything, it was enough to reduce the combat effectiveness of all goblins by 50%. What's more, goblins have never been famous for their combat ability. Although they also have the classification of arms, a regular trained long gunman can easily turn over five to ten goblin ordinary soldiers, which can see the strong gap between the two sides.
Among goblins, only goblin cavalry can really fight and threaten.
But the goblin cavalry who can't ride for thirty, let alone fight with more than a hundred running lizard cavalry, may have been shot into a group of hedgehogs before they rushed to each other.
What's more, among the more than 100 running lizard cavalry shunted out, there are more than 150 human enemies charging forward at the moment.
At the forefront of the charge are nearly 100 human cavalry.
It is not difficult for Sean and others to see that the training of these cavalry is obviously not long enough, because the charge formation is difficult to maintain after running for 300 meters, and the formation begins to be loose, which is obviously unfavorable to the group charge of cavalry. But at this moment, they only have to deal with a goblin group with a scale of less than 300. Perhaps they have brought more than 100 humans and more than 40 barbarians. No matter how they look, this group of cavalry has an advantage.
What's more, behind the more than 100 cavalry, there are more than 50 mobile infantry with long guns and swords.
Almost in an instant, Sean had completely seen the plan of the army.
It uses the galloping lizard cavalry, which has always been equated with the most dangerous in the wilderness, as a check and deterrent - of course, it can also be put into combat immediately when necessary, and then scatter the archers at a distance of about 200 meters, not killing the enemy, but attacking the enemy's morale. Finally, it uses the cavalry to charge the way, Supplemented by more than 50 infantry behind them to expand the results and maximize enough lethality.