Behind the palisade, the longbowmen set up their bows and aimed their arrows at the sky.
In the Greater Kovir area (which is now Kovir and Poviss, as well as Talgar), there is such a law: adult men must practice archery regularly. Archery competitions are held every year in various places. Anyone can participate regardless of their identity or status.
Winners often receive substantial bonuses.
Therefore, in the Greater Kovir region, archery customs and traditions have always been preserved, and the rulers of these regions were naturally able to recruit high-quality longbowmen, bringing the proportion of longbowmen in the army to an astonishing number.
At this time, there are fully three thousand longbowmen serving in the Kovir Restoration Army.
At this time, these longbowmen drew their bow strings under the orders of the officers.
"Fire the arrow!"
Dense arrows flew into the sky, and then fell like a downpour.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the attacking coalition Allies raised their shields to face the torrential rain.
If it were the tortoise shell formation of the Roman legion, the lethality of the arrow rain might be greatly reduced, but the shields used by the Union Allies soldiers were neither the tower shields of the Roman infantry that could cover everyone tightly, nor the discipline of the Roman legions.
Therefore, when these three thousand arrows rushed to fall, countless wailings suddenly sounded from the alliance army.
And this is just the first wave of arrows.
A skilled longbowman can shoot twelve arrows per minute, but even a less skilled longbowman can shoot at least several arrows per minute.
Several rounds of longbow volleys not only caused heavy casualties to the Lian Allies during the charge, but also caused the morale of the conscripted peasant soldiers who were drawn to join the battle with only one spear to fall to the bottom.
How have these farmers, who have spent much more time holding farm tools than their spears, ever seen such a formation?
Therefore, these conscripted peasants and soldiers instinctively retreated.
However, before they could run far, they were blocked by the war supervisory team organized by the nobles.
After killing a few unlucky ones, the morale of these recruited peasant soldiers miraculously recovered.
Maybe he felt that the enemy's arrows would not necessarily kill him, but the supervising team's swords would definitely kill him.
After a brief hesitation, these conscripted peasant soldiers roared like beasts and charged forward again.
After firing several rounds of arrows, due to the enemy's approach, Restoration Army's longbowmen were forced to retreat to the second line, and the pikemen came behind the fence to wait for the enemy's approach.
When the soldiers of Alliance Allies, despite suffering huge casualties, finally rushed to the front of the Restoration Army's position, bloody hand-to-hand combat began.
The two sides stabbed each other with spears through the fence, and for a moment, blood spattered.
People kept falling, but soon people were filling the gap.
Although the number of the Kovir Restoration Army was smaller than that of Alliance Allies, with the advantage of their position, they were able to block the enemy's attack for a while.
At the same time, the longbowmen who retreated to the second line began their projectile attack again after a short rest.
King Niedamir's face was so gloomy that it seemed like water could drip from his face.
After the battle, he also saw that the Restoration Army on the opposite side did not only have 4,000 troops at all, but still had 8,000 troops.
But if you say it out loud, it's like throwing water away. How can you get it back?
Especially in war, what is important is to go all out in one go, then weaken again, and then be exhausted three times.
If you immediately order a retreat after launching an attack, the enemy will definitely not let go of this opportunity to pursue the victory, and it is very likely that the retreat will turn into a defeat.
There are countless similar examples in history.
At this time, other nobles also discovered that things were completely different from what King Niedamir said.
But it was no longer possible for them to withdraw their troops, so they simply made mistakes and continued to attack.
It's just that Restoration Army has eight thousand soldiers after all, and it relies on the well-arranged positions for defense, so it is not that easy to defeat it.
Especially the number of longbowmen in the Restoration Army was beyond the imagination of the nobles King Niedamir and Hengfors. As a result, the losses of the soldiers under their command were much greater than imagined, but there was not much progress. This made them grit their teeth with pain, but there was no better way, so they could only hold on.
I hope Kovir Restoration Army will not be able to sustain it.
However, what these nobles did not expect was that King Niedamir had another trump card.
He said respectfully to an old man wearing a robe next to him, "Master Met, please."
The old man smiled and said, "Haha, leave it to me. Your Majesty, please don't break your promise."
"Of course, as long as Master Met you help me win this battle, from now on, you will be a Earl with real power."
"Okay, then please your Majesty and the other loyal and brave knights to step back some distance and leave a space for me."
King Niedamir naturally did as he was told.
They withdrew thirty meters away from Met. At the same time, King Niedamir also asked his guards to form a hollow square formation composed of four rows of soldiers around Met.
These soldiers are all Niedamir's own guards, well-trained and well-equipped.
Met got off the horse, stood on the ground, and then used his wand to draw an exquisite and complicated magic circle on the ground. He also took out a large amount of spell-casting materials from his magic pocket and placed them on the magic circle.
Then he put the wand on the ground and started chanting the spell.
On the position of the Restoration Army.
Istredd frowned.
Although relying on the advantage of the position, the offensive of the United Allies was temporarily blocked.
But if the stalemate continues until dark, our own casualties will probably not be small.
The greater the loss, the more unfavorable it is to recapture Kovir and Poviss.
It's just that Istredd doesn't have a good solution.
He still had five hundred cavalry on hand, but he had been hesitating whether he should use this force.
If these five hundred cavalry are allowed to go around the enemy's flank and launch an attack, it may cause the coalition Allies a lot of casualties, but these five hundred cavalry may not be able to come back.
Istredd spent a lot of money to build this cavalry unit of 500 people. Before they even set foot on the land of their motherland, they left it here. Istredd was still a little reluctant to part with it.
More importantly, he is still waiting.
If the demon hunters and Panhu City's defenders arrive in time, the situation will definitely be reversed. If the cavalry troops are sent out at that time, not only will the results be greater, but the casualties of the cavalry troops will be much smaller.
With this idea in mind, Istredd always kept the five hundred cavalry on standby.
At this moment, Istredd suddenly heard someone shouting beside him.