Chapter 589 The Strong Orcs Who Can Change Their Formations

"Shoot!"

Then at this time, when the orcs were hesitant and did not know the situation of their cavalry, Chang Wei ordered the Rohan cavalry to shoot at the orcs advancing on both wings!

Caught off guard, although some of these orcs put up shields and had armor covering most of their bodies, more than a dozen orcs were still knocked down by a wave of arrows.

These orcs stopped without saying a word and did not dare to get closer. At the same time, the orcs on the other side ran, but they were all wearing heavy armor and could not run fast for a while.

Who knew that after seeing this scene, the Rohan cavalry ran back, but they still shot the chasing orcs with bows.

The accuracy of this wave of horse shooting was greatly reduced. After all, it is not something that ordinary people can do to maintain accuracy in horse shooting. The reason why the Yuan Dynasty was able to do it was because they had many people.

It completely relied on large-scale horse shooting.

However, Chang Wei did not need much accuracy. What he needed was casualties.

No army can fight to the death even if it is completely annihilated. Except for that miracle army, most of the armies that were completely annihilated and fought to the death were the few armies in the entire dynasty.

And many of them were caused by the inability to retreat.

As for the Uruks, they were originally just a little braver than the Orcs. They would bully the weak and fear the strong. Once the casualties rise, they will only run away. That is when the guerrilla tactics are the most brainless.

The Uruk captain was angry. There were only more than a hundred Rohan cavalrymen, and they were not as good as scouts without armor and lances. How dare they stop them?

There were more than a thousand Uruks. Just trampling on these ignorant cavalrymen would be enough to kill them!

"Charge up and kill them!!!"

So he directly issued a death order, not allowing the Uruks to continue to be afraid, and it was just arrows. They all had armor and some had shields. In this case, they were still afraid of a few arrows?

The two wings of the orcs had no choice but to move forward under the rain of arrows after the war supervisors behind them cut off several orcs' heads with their swords.

The Rohan cavalry was also very panicked at this time. After all, they had no armor now and would be dead if they were caught up.

But Chang Wei was very calm and asked them to continue to suppress the opponent with longbow shooting.

The orc infantry faced the rain of arrows and fell another 20 or 30 orcs. They finally got close. When the orc archers were ready to shoot, the Rohan cavalry suddenly ran away.

Their speed was very fast. The distance created by the orcs' lives was quickly pulled to more than 500 steps. The yew wood bow could not shoot so far. This was tested by the Rohan cavalry.

Then they used longbows to throw, and the orcs were beaten so hard that they dared not show their heads.

But standing still and getting beaten would be even more disadvantageous. Rohan cavalry had no concept of wasting arrows, and after so many times of riding and shooting, their accuracy began to increase. Even with this kind of long-distance projectile, they could probably make the arrows fall more accurately.

So the strong orcs could only move forward under the rain of arrows.

"Separate!"

At Chang Wei's command, the Rohan cavalry immediately separated into two groups. They adopted the continuous shooting suppression attack that Chang Wei said.

That is, two shifts, firing a continuous rain of arrows. It seems that the number of arrows in each attack has decreased, but under the continuous attack, the casualties of the strong orcs have increased directly!

The troops on both wings tried to get closer, but were suppressed by two waves of cavalry. They were not greedy for the results. Once the strong orcs approached within 500 steps, they would distance themselves. With their speed, the strong orc heavy infantry could not keep up at all!

The general fought more and more smoothly, and the cavalry gradually changed from being uneasy to being calm now, and became more and more skilled in what to do.

They didn't react until they pulled the bowstring again but couldn't see the enemy.

The two wings were wiped out by them, and the remaining orc captains also decisively led the army to tactically shift.

"Clean up the battlefield, then chase them, and everyone switch to short bows!"

Chang Wei looked at the arrows on the ground, and didn't know how many he could recover, but it was not a loss. He could use so many arrows to exchange for hundreds of casualties of the orc heavy infantry. Probably everyone wanted to consume more than ten times the arrows.

The generals and cavalrymen knew the importance of arrows, but most of the arrows were shot on the armor, and the arrowheads and arrow bodies were severely deformed, so they could not be used anymore.

They shot so many arrows, and the inventory was not much. It still took three horses for each person to carry so many arrows. Now even if it was not half consumed, there was still a third of the number.

The orcs' arrows were replenished. At this time, the Rohan cavalry were very excited. They held short bows and caught up with the tactically shifting orc army.

When they saw the Rohan cavalry chasing them, they were all scared, and the Uruk leader had to let the archers try to attack.

The Rohan cavalry originally planned to chase them directly after changing to shortbows, but Chang Wei remained vigilant and did not let them stay too long, so after the first wave of arrows from the Uruks, the Rohan cavalry was only twenty steps away, and then they would suffer heavy casualties.

The Rohan shortbow was not as good as the Uruks' yew wood bow in range, but neither the longbow nor the longbow was conducive to accuracy and flexibility within 300 steps, which was something only the shortbow could do.

"Change to longbows, suppress the opponent's archers, don't be stingy with arrows, and annihilate them all!"

Chang Wei ordered immediately.

The Rohan cavalry skillfully replaced the longbows. They had already replaced the longbows twice. After all, a longbow cannot be replaced until it is worn out. After using it once, the longbow must be maintained and restored to its elasticity. Otherwise, it will not be replaced frequently. Wei would not require each of them to bring three longbows.

The distance between the two sides was already very close, and the longbow exerted its greatest advantage at this moment. The strong orc archers were hit by a covering blow. They wanted to fight back, but the arrows they fired could only miss or change the opponent's arrows. trajectory.

The orc captain gritted his teeth and asked the orc infantry with shields to form a square formation to cover the archers' advance!

"How did that guy Saruman achieve this kind of tactical proficiency?"

Chang Wei was surprised to see the strong orc man transform into a shield formation so quickly.

It was okay to know how to arrange troops before. After all, it was just a simple spear phalanx, but now it is really surprising.

Obviously the opponent realized that if they didn't deal with them, they would bite them to death, so they had a shield array to cover the archers and infantry approaching.

"Stop shooting and retreat!"

Chang Wei raised his hand and ordered.