Chapter 175 – Shield Wall
*boom boom boom*
Robin suddenly opened his eyes and stood up from his meditating position after hearing a loud explosion
"Your Excellency, the enemy army has arrived and they have already entered our shouting range!" A turbulent sound came from outside the tent
*boom boom boom*
Robin exits the tent and looked towards the east from where the explosion sounds are coming, "Yeah, I could tell that we are shouting someone! why didn't anyone call me earlier?"
"They took us by surprise! Please go to the commander's tent and you will know everything about the situation." The knight bowed
"Tsk~ ok ok you can go back to your squad.." Robin gestured at him and walked towards the commander's tent
Two minutes later…
"What happened? How did the battle suddenly begin?" Robin lifted the curtain and hurriedly entered the tent
"Come see for yourself," Saint David did not look behind him as he knew who was talking, but pointed in front of him
Robin slowly approached from behind him and looked through the open eastern side of the tent.
* boom boom boom boom *
As if the green lands were covered with human bodies, like locusts all hurrying towards his direction in a crazed manner, within sight there is nothing could be seen but soldiers, "This…"
If Robin wasn't sure there were 300,000 soldiers, he would have thought that there are a few million of them!
*boom boom*
*swoosh swoosh*
Explosions rang out from under the ground as they entered the land mines range, but their running didn't stop…
Talisman arrows flew over Robin's head to fall on the incoming ants, but their march didn't slow down…
"These distances…?!" Robin finally spoke in shock
Saint David nodded with a problematic look over his face, " You have noticed… There is a distance of at least two meters between every soldier and any other nearest soldier, every arrow and every landmine that explodes kills or injures only one of them, sometimes it misses and doesn't even cause a slight injury… this is no different from just shouting ordinary arrows!"
then he inhaled and continued, "…They showed up from the horizon running with this strange formation, and as you can see so far we have only been able to hunt a few thousand soldiers of them, and it cost us about ten thousand talismans…"
Robin narrowed his eyes… "So this is one of the so called strategies against the use of fire explosion talismans, at this rate, all our fire explosion talismans stoke will be drained quickly and the battle will turn into a normal fight after… That's indeed smart, No wonder the two dukes are having problems there… uncle David, do you have a plan against this?"
Saint David finally gave a slight smile, "watch and learn kid!" then he continued shouting with a loud voice, "The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of Heavy Infantry, advance 50 meters and form a shield wall along the front… 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Battalions of Spear Infantry, stand behind the Heavy Infantry units and prevented the enemies from jumping above the shield wall!"
Quickly, the soldiers began to move according to orders. Within less than a minute, the aforementioned battalions advanced just about 50 meters from the rest of the army, and the 3,000 Heavy Infantry soldiers formed a wide line extending about a kilometer, all of them holding huge categorized shields.
After their positioning, each of them planted his giant categorized shield into the ground to form a cohesive shield wall that was a little higher than they are!
Immediately behind them, the spear-carrying soldiers were distributed in two rows, at equal distances from each other, and raised their spears up in an attacking position, they were ready to stab the hell out of anyone trying to jump or play any tricks.
"This…." The view in front of Robin speaks of the extent of the soldiers' discipline.
There are many good details that happened without even being ordered by Saint David, which was evidence of General Edward's good training of these men…
Also, the new armament that is evident in the categorized spears and shields made him smile.. these are the new power of the family!
But the sight also indicates danger, "The front line of defense has become extremely thin, with some pressure they can penetrate any point and reach the heart of our army, if that happened we wouldn't be able to use the talismans to the fullest anymore!"
Saint David nodded, "I know, but look at their formation… if I don't stretch the line of defense to be like them or even longer, they will go around us and attack the sides… It might be dangerous but it is an inevitable move."
"GET READY FOR THE CLASH, IT IS COMING!!" The assistant general in charge of the armored infantry shouted
"HYAAAAAAAAA." the three thousand of them shouted as they planted their own feet to the ground as well
*BAA BAA BAA*
Just moments after completing the preparation, the incoming army quickly crashed into the shield wall formed by the Burton family's heavy infantry
The shield wall endured the first shock thanks to the strength of the categorized shields, but the shields began to tilt back little by little with each new row reaching the collision line, it was clear that they would fall at any moment now
"talismans archers, shoot!!" General David shouted
Finally, with a clear target and so many human bodes to shoot at, about two thousand archers above the hill began to shoot arrows like rain over the other side of the wall.
*boom boom boom boom*
The soldiers of the Burton family hid more under their shields to avoid resounding explosions a few feet away from them, but they could not avoid the blood and body parts that fell on them from above.
During the loud explosions, the Lying Water soldiers succeeded in breaking the shield wall in a few separate locations along the kilometer wide wall, but it was quickly repaired as the heavy infantries who were pushed back with their shields got back to their spots again and filled it
and those who tried to sneak in were quickly killed by the spearmen, they held no chance against that many categorized war spears pointing at their throats
In about five minutes, the about thirty thousand Lying Water soldiers who made up the first wave were completely wiped out!!
With the two thousand archers pulling their bow strings again to start a new round, a shout came from the assistant general in charge of them, "Enough! There's something peculiar…"
There was no more crowding in front of the shield wall, the rapid advance of the enemy soldiers suddenly stopped, but they still kept the meters distances between every soldier… it's like they froze where they stood
Saint David's features changed, "Problem.. it seems that the shield wall bait won't work till the end, I was expecting to wipe out at least half of their army first using it, that person is not willing to make great sacrifices today…"
Actually, those heavy infantries that were pushed back were playing a kind of a bait itself, to make them think it is still possible to break the shield wall and have them keep coming to try, but even that didn't work…
Robin narrowed his eyes. It can be understood that they do not want to sacrifice larger numbers of soldiers to win, but standing in their places will not win them the battle either… What are they thinking?
"You all… who are you? Even the main army of the Alton Duchy that came to invade our lands didn't dare to use talismans with such intensity! And from where did you get all those categorized shields from?!" While everyone was waiting for the next step, a shout came from behind the enemy soldiers
"We are the Burton family, go back to where you came from, you shall not advance into the territory of this duchy any further!" David shouted, their job is to defend the Duchy while the Alton family's army is outside, if he managed to push them back with out further losses, it would be the best possible outcome
"The Burton family?! I have heard about you… no wonder you have all these talismans and categorized spears and shields, but… do you think that 3000 categorized shields can protect you from us? you are dreaming!
Hey, don't you have hostility with the kingdom of Dolivar? What do you have to do with what's going on here? Listen.. take your army and retreat, and I give you my word that we will not approach your territory, or else…." The voice answered, clearly respecting his opponent, but he had no intention of retreating.
"Show me your worst" David replied straight away with no room for further negotiation in this direction…
as long as Robin promised the Duke that they would do something about it, they couldn't hold back no matter how strong their opponent was, especially not when they were winning!