System: Build My Own Territory-Chapter 763 - 253: Direct Execution (10,000 Words)
Scarlet blood flowed from their wounds, seeping into the already parched soil.
Staining the ground a deep crimson.
Some of the luckier manor soldiers,
at this moment, were trembling in hiding behind makeshift barricades of piled-up corpses.
Though they survived, they could not suppress the fear of death in their hearts.
Joao’s gaze swept around, his face full of solemnity.
Just two or three volleys of arrows.
The soldiers he brought from Frank Manor, at least two to three hundred had died!
If it weren’t for purchasing some round shields at a high price from the weapon merchant before,
the death count would surely be higher!
Joao felt a chill in his heart.
This is the prowess of having archers!
Even at night, they could cover the area with a rain of arrows, weakening the enemy’s forces.
With a glance,
Joao listened carefully to the dense whooshing of arrows in the sky and the number of arrows hitting the ground.
Confirming a drastic reduction in the number of arrows,
Joao’s expression showed no signs of relaxation. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
He said nothing, helping Janet to stand up.
Under Janet’s puzzled gaze, he strode towards a horse that had luckily survived not far away.
Without needing Janet’s consent, Joao lifted her, placing her on the horseback.
With Joao’s physical strength, Janet, weighing less than a hundred pounds, was easily manageable.
Joao looked directly at Janet, speaking in a deep voice.
"Hold the reins tight, leave quickly!"
"If you’re late... it will be too late!"
Janet’s brow raised, just about to speak,
when Joao slapped the horse’s haunch.
Feeling the sting from behind,
the horse neighed a few times and galloped into the darkness from where they came.
Watching Janet’s silhouette fade into the distance,
Joao turned around, scanning the battlefield once more.
He shouted loudly to the soldiers, "Is anyone still alive?"
"Quickly gather and form a defense formation!"
Even though the arrow rain had completely stopped,
Joao knew well,
the arrows only served to kill the living forces of the enemy.
The cavalry charge and infantry advance are what truly finish a war!
If the Frank Manor soldiers don’t form a defensive formation,
what awaits them is Lynn’s heavy cavalry charge and the ruthless lash of long spears.
Amid Joao’s loud shouts,
manor soldiers with panicked expressions emerged from behind corpses and shields.
They lifted their weapons, stepping through gaps in the heaps of bodies.
Under the captain’s assembly, the Frank Manor soldiers gathered once more.
Joao glanced around.
He found that under this rain of arrows, far more manor soldiers had died than he had estimated.
The dead soldiers numbered at least three to four hundred!
Thundering~ Thundering~
Joao was just about to speak.
A rumbling sound like rolling thunder arose behind him.
Roars followed one another, quickly closing in from afar.
Even the dry clods and stones on the ground trembled and shook!
Joao hurriedly turned to look back.
Several hundred meters away, a cloud of dust, like a line, was rushing towards them at speed.
Joao understood naturally.
That line of dust was Lynn’s heavy cavalry, in a single file, charging at full speed.
Joao hesitated not a bit, continuing to shout to the manor soldiers.
"All shield soldiers, move to the outermost!"
"Join shields tightly to form a shield wall!"
At Joao’s command, a hundred or two shield soldiers sprang into action.
Even so,
despairing thoughts floated in Joao’s heart.
It’s over!
All is over!
A fifty-centimeter diameter round shield simply cannot form an effective shield wall.
It can’t even cover the entire body of a shield soldier!
If in complex terrain,
he could organize soldiers to use narrow passages and valleys to break the heavy cavalry into smaller units.
Then concentrate forces to encircle and attack.
If there were long spear soldiers,
he could arrange them into a dense hedgehog-like spear formation to repel the heavy cavalry.
But...
He had no long spear soldiers,
and worse, he was in a vast open farmland!
An ideal position for both the archers’ arrow rain and the cavalry charge.
Joao suddenly understood.
Why there was a fire in Morgan Town!
It was to inform those in Frank Manor that something had happened in Morgan Town.
It was to plant seeds of doubt, making them decide whether or not to reinforce Morgan Town.
If they chose not to reinforce, Lynn could easily take Morgan Town into their grasp.
If they did reinforce, it would be like now.
Trapping the Frank Manor soldiers in this farmland.
Using the double advantage of archers and heavy cavalry to annihilate the living forces of Frank Manor completely!
Nonetheless,
Joao did not give up in the slightest.
He turned, facing the units in front wearing black plate armor, wielding exotic long spears, riding tall horses of the heavy cavalry.
He lowered the mask on his iron helmet, his arm moved, gripping the hilt of the two-handed greatsword at his waist with his right hand.
A screeching sound of metal scraping, Joao drew out the greatsword from his waist.
Gripping the hilt tightly with both hands, the blade pointed diagonally to the sky, waiting for the heavy cavalry charge to draw near.
Compared to Joao’s calmness and steadiness,
