Unknown Knight

Ivante felt ashamed when he saw his men suffered a defeat, and decided to make amends immediately. He waved at the family's regular armed forces, and after seeing the signal, an old soldier came out with more than 30 people to the front of the battle.

The weapons held by these thirty-plus men were nothing special. Some were spears, some were short swords. But they all had a bulging leather bag on their waists.

They came to the front of the formation, pulled out a leather rope from their waist, took out a polished stone from a leather bag, and then wrapped the stone in a leather sheath in the middle of the rope. Then, holding both ends of the rope with their hands, they began to swing the rope wrapped with the stone in circles at their sides. After swinging it two or three times, they shook their hands to throw the stone wrapped in the leather sheath out.

Only then did Aix realize what was going on. He was horrified and shouted to the people watching on the wall:

"Hide! Hide quickly!"

But it was too late now. More than thirty stones hit the top of the city wall at a rapid speed, splashing soil and rocks on the earthen battlements and raising bursts of white smoke, which showed how powerful they were.

What's even worse is that people who were hit by the stones would be injured if not killed as long as the stones stuck to them. In one encounter, seven or eight people were hit.

Two of them were unlucky enough to stick their heads out to watch the fun, and were hit in the head. One fainted immediately, and the other died on the spot with his brain splattered. The others either had broken bones and lost their fighting ability, or had wounds that bled profusely.

When Aix arrived at the era of cold weapons, he finally saw the unpopular type of soldiers for the first time. These people were stone-throwing soldiers who only appeared briefly in history but left a glimpse.

Don’t think that using stone throwing as a means of attack is ridiculous. This is inaccurate and one-sided. Think about it, the famous King David relied on his unique skill of throwing stones to stand out from the crowd and kill the giant Goliath with one stone, thus creating his own dynasty.

To commemorate him, people in later generations carved the famous stone statue of King David out of marble, but it was ridiculed for being too short, lasting half a thousand years.

This type of stone-throwing soldier is difficult to train. They are usually selected from herders who have been herding cattle and sheep since childhood. These herders have been using stone throwing to drive and control the flocks of sheep since childhood. They have persisted in doing so for a long time and can hit almost anything they point at with great accuracy at a distance of one or two hundred meters. Their effective killing range is also nearly one hundred meters, making them a type of soldier with considerable lethality.

Aix was careless for a moment and didn't expect that there was such an excellent army in this remote corner. It was not unfair for him to suffer this loss. For a while, stones were flying on the top of the city wall and everyone was suppressed and hid under the battlements, unable to raise their heads at all.

However, when two sides are fighting, they must make up for the losses they suffered. Seeing that their side had suffered such a big loss, Aix could still bear it. He immediately said to Bestur who was hiding under the battlements and observing:

"Bestur, my good Anda, let them see what a real long-range attack is."

Bestur was also decisive. After receiving the order issued by Aix, he began to organize the archers trained during this period to fight back.

There are less than twenty of these people. They have not been trained for a long time and their shooting level is still very low, which cannot meet the requirements of combat. But it doesn’t matter. They are just responsible for pretending to attract fire.

The real killer moves are those of top archers like Bestur and Zebu, as well as elite shooters like Aisu and Ran Ying, who are truly used to kill the enemy.

These newly trained crossbowmen followed Bestur's request and pulled their bows to their full potential under the battlements. Then they quickly stood up, shot an arrow in the general direction of the slingers, and then quickly squatted under the battlements to hide.

The accuracy of such shooting can be imagined, but the advantage is that you will not be hit by the opponent's flying stones, unless you are unlucky and the flying stones hit you just when you stand up. And the quick standing up and squatting is very eye-catching, successfully attracting the attention of the opponent's stone throwers.

At this time, Bestur, Zebu and others seized the opportunity and suddenly shot a life-threatening arrow, dealing a fatal blow that caused real casualties to the opponent.

The stone-throwing soldiers under the city were led by an old soldier. They obviously knew the attack range of general long-range weapons. They stood nearly 130 meters away from the city wall. At this distance, it was difficult for ordinary bows and arrows to shoot accurately and cause damage.

However, the attack range of these excellent slingers is very long, the longest of which can even reach two hundred to three hundred meters. The position where they are standing now is exactly within their effective and accurate attack range.

Having never seen what a top-level sharpshooter is, they will soon pay the price for their assumptions in the shootout. With the blessing of divine bows and arrows, and the height advantage of standing high on the city wall, Bestur and others can easily shoot arrows two hundred and forty to fifty meters.

Soon, the stone-throwing soldiers under the city were shot by arrows and fell to the ground one after another, and Bestur and Zhebu took turns to call out the names. The two of them even competed with each other in the number of kills. People kept falling under the arrows of their desire for victory, and even the two girls, Aisu and Ran Ying, were killed.

After only a few rounds of exchange of fire, more than half of the stone-throwing soldiers were either killed or wounded, and the rest fled back to their camp in a hurry.

By the time Ivant realized something was wrong and yelled at the slingers to retreat, it was too late. In addition to the six or seven who were nailed to the ground and couldn't move, there were five or six who were injured and couldn't run away, and they rolled on the ground wailing.

After two consecutive defeats and seeing the stone-throwing soldiers rolling and wailing in front of the formation, the morale of the Harisi family soldiers almost plummeted to the bottom.

At this time, Ivante had begun to regret and even wanted to withdraw his troops and return home. However, when he thought of his face as the first patriarch of Zion City, he hesitated again and ordered all his relatives and armed forces to retreat until they were an absolutely safe distance of 300 meters away.

Not only that, he also asked all the soldiers holding shields to stand in the front row, hoping to increase their psychological sense of security. The only means he had left was to let the soldiers quickly bundle up the siege ladders and see if they could capture the stronghold through close combat and regain some face.

Having gained the upper hand twice in a row made the outsiders in the stronghold extremely excited. They had been bullied badly in the past and had been looking forward to such a day for a long time. They were all excited and their morale was rising.

Zeb, who had only hit five people, was not convinced. He felt that he could try harder as he had hit only one person less than Bestur. When he was about to draw his bow and continue shooting, he heard Aix loudly giving the order to stop shooting. He had to put away his bow and arrow, feeling very regretful.

The enemy was retreating one after another. Axe knew that he could still shoot some people, but he still gave the order to stop shooting. The main reason was that he was afraid that if he continued to shoot, the demoralized enemy might flee back to the city, which was different from the effect he ultimately wanted to achieve.