"Enemy attack!"

A feather arrow suddenly shot out from the dense forest in front of him and penetrated straight into the front of the entire team. It can be seen that the archer was actually not malicious.

But this does not mean that the troops should not respond at all. In an instant, in the Qin army, Pu Dao Camp, holding an iron shield, raised the shield in his hand and pushed it to the front line, and Mo Dao Camp followed closely behind; the cavalry troops retreated into the rear team and swam to the two wings; the crossbowmen (Light Step Camp) rolled the arrow and looked around vigilantly.

In comparison, some of Haul's mercenaries were yelling and rushing towards the dense forest, and some saw the Western Qin army moving, and they were following them without any brainstorms...

"Who are you!" A questioning voice was made in the dense forest opposite.

"I said we were passing by, do you believe it?" Bai Zhou was in a good mood now and joked unconsciously. According to Haul, passing through this dense forest, not far ahead was the village occupied by the rebels, so the person in the forest could tell that it was the scout of the rebels without asking.

"Hmph, don't play tricks, how could the passing army be...ah..." Before the scout finished speaking, he was caught by the secretly trapped camp. Soon after, three guys in green leather armor were tied up and threw them in front of Bai Zhou.

The hidden camp has always been Gong Zichen's direct troops. They are the most capable soldiers selected from the military camp, and they are all skilled in swords, guns, bows, crossbows and cavalry. In the battlefield, they usually play the role of Gong Zichen's guards. Although they are only wearing leather armor and holding light crossbows and short swords, the idle people cannot get close to them at all. And sometimes, for needs, they will also perform some assassination tasks, whether they take the head of the general in the battlefield or like assassinating Genghis Khan, they can escape thousands of miles away and kill with one blow.

This time, the hidden ambushe camp was warned (because the opposite side was just to warn the people of the Western Qin, and there were only three of them, how could they attack?), more than twenty people sneaked into the woods and took advantage of the time they were talking to the young master to find out the location and catch them.

"However your scout sent you, you have been touched here." Bai Zhou joked to Haul, and then walked towards the three prisoners.

It's no wonder that Haul is approaching a village of rebels in this position. It's easy to alert the enemy if there are too many scouts or go too far.

"Who are the heads of you three?" Bai Zhou asked.

"Are you an Oriental? You pagan, let me go." A middle-aged man with a vicissitudes of faces among the three roared.

"Worry, I can hear it. First of all, I'm a foreigner to you, right, but I'm not a pagan." Bai Zhou said and took out the cross on his chest, "God will forgive you, if you tell me the truth." Bai Zhou still has a bit of a charlatan style.

In fact, Bai Zhou knew that in this era, religion was the most direct, effective, just and the most inciting excuse to launch wars. So now, no matter where and where, Bai Zhou would talk about God, even though he did not believe in this thing very much.

"Who are you?"

"No, no, no, now I'm asking you, you are my captive." Bai Zhou continued, "Who are you?"

"Let me go and let me tell you." Suddenly, a "rustling" sound came from the woods. Judging from the situation, a large army was coming.

While Bai Zhou hinted that the hidden camp would withdraw first, the situation was unclear and he remained unmoved for the time being, he replied: "No problem. Since the main master is here, it doesn't matter."

As he said that, someone let them loosen the rope and let them go, but the crossbows in their hands were left behind.

"We are Italians, and because we were persecuted, we fled here." The voice came out in the forest again. Bai Zhou heard carefully that he should be a middle-aged man, but the sound of rubbing the floor was really not very touching.

"Oh, so, are you really rebels?" These days, rebels have said that they have been persecuted. Although most of them are like this, they can't let them go because of sympathy.

"We are not rebels, we are just persecuted!" This middle-aged man seemed to be very sensitive to the word "rebel".

"Even so, this seems to be no reason for you to invade Viscount Brook's territory."

"So this territory belongs to this soft viscount? What about you, aliens!"

"Of course we are here to take back this territory for him. Do you really think we are passing by?" Bai Zhou heard Viscount Brook being described as a soft egg, and when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was true.

"mercenary?"

"It can be understood so."

"Then there is nothing to say, I will make you and your mercenary regret coming here."

As he said that, a rain of arrows suddenly shot out of the woods, and fell on the shield of Pu Dao Camp. Most of the arrows shot into the back row were blocked by the soldiers of Western Qin using various terrains. The only ones who were unlucky were the real mercenaries.

"Bound Bowman, shoot!" The Xiqin Qingbu Camp and the crossbowman began to fight back towards the forest.

In the Western Qin army system, the light infantry battalion and crossbowmen are both troops that can be close or far away. This is to imitate the ordnance configuration of the Tang Dynasty - a person with a bow. In the Western Qin Dynasty, heavy infantry was no longer equipped with long-range strike power, mainly to reduce the load, while light infantry had to shoulder the responsibility of long-range strikes, and if necessary, they had to use swords to fight in close combat. In this regard, European long-range troops were often simply long-range attack troops, and were only equipped with daggers and short swords in close combat, which were not on the same order of magnitude as the big swords held by the Great Qin Light Infantry. Moreover, European long-range troops usually do not specifically train how to fight in close combat, and their melee level is often very poor.

Whether it is specialized and refined or good, or whether it is more proficient and broad, there is no conclusion yet. However, due to the advanced technology of the Western Qin people in making crossbows, under the same number of long-range troops, the Europeans had no chance of winning, whether it was short-range firefighting or long-range shooting.

The cavalry troops led by the Meng brothers could not be carried out here at all, so they simply pulled the troops out of the range of crossbow arrows and then came to Bai Zhou's side.

"Young Master, we are too disadvantageous to shoot like this. People shoot out of the forest, which is a great advantage than the crossbowman who can't even see our target." Meng Zhi said.

Terrain has always been a key factor that can influence a war. In terrain like a dense forest, the power that the crossbowmen can exert will be greatly reduced due to the obstruction of the branches and leaves of trees. Especially now, the Western Qin people are still outside the dense forest, with rolling hills on both sides, attacking the dense forest. Due to light, they cannot even see the enemy. Although the enemy crossbowmen in the dense forest are also disturbed by the branches and leaves of trees to a certain extent, they still have a great advantage compared to the Western Qin people.

"Each battalion is obeyed, and all troops retreat a hundred steps in an orderly manner. Haul, you take your people to retreat their range first. The back of the Pu Dao Camp!" Bai Zhou ordered.

Bai Zhou saw that all the people on the other side used crossbows, with a maximum range of only 200 meters. He could evacuate the opponent's range first and then make a decision. In fact, at this time, Bai Zhou could also order the infantry to rush into the dense forest, but doing so was a bit rash - the party didn't even know what the situation was on the opposite side, and simply let the infantry rush in. If something happened, it would be difficult to figure it out.

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In this narrow area, hundreds of arrow branches on both sides whistle through the sky, and from time to time you can hear the sound of arrow branches piercing the skin armor and entering the flesh, followed by the cry of the person who was hit by the arrow. People in the dense forest use trees as cover, while people outside the dense forest use rocks to cover them. The feathered arrows are blindly looking for targets, without precise aiming, and simply relying on quantity to suppress the opponent. It is normal not to be shot. If you are shot, you can only blame God for not mercy on you.

Gradually, the Italian troops in the dense forest discovered the problem. Their crossbows could no longer shoot the opponent, but the arrow branches of the opponent could still "swoosh". If it weren't for their own hidden in the dense forest, the losses would have been great.

"Arrowman, get ready to go on the Rockets!"

Bai Zhou found that this was not possible. Even if the range was far higher than that of the opponent, he could not see the opponent's shadow at all. The probability of shooting at the bird was much greater than that of shooting at a person. So he asked all archers to wrap the back of the arrow with linen cloth, soak it with tinder oil, and then fire it after ignition (note that due to structural reasons, crossbows cannot fire fire arrows (arrows) like this).

In an instant, black smoke appeared in the sky, stretching into the dense forest like Satan's tentacles.

It has been a long time since it rained in this place, and the trees have been drying up, and the forest began to burn soon...

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