Body size can sometimes play a decisive role in combat.
With an average weight of 70 kilograms and a height of 1.6 to 1.7 meters, the weapons used by Kazuto samurai in infantry combat only require 0.8 millimeters of wrought iron armor to achieve more than 90% protection.
A set of full-body armor of this thickness generally weighs no more than 20 kilograms, and people who have practiced for a long time can move up and down freely wearing them.
But once this data is doubled, it becomes a Rigal knight with an average weight of 80 to 90 kilograms and an average height of 1.75 to 1.85 meters. A larger physique means that they can use more powerful weapons. Therefore, unless the armor of the Rigar Knights is a multi-layer structure, the minimum thickness is 1.2 mm, and the probability of the material being made of quenched hard steel is higher.
But even the thickest in the entire Rigal world - which usually refers to a double-stacked jousting helmet with an external hardened armor plate - 4 to 6 millimeters of hard steel armor will not be enough on a half-ton cavalry and 4 The front of the meter-long lance was severely damaged and dented.
In fact, without the overwhelming advantage of skill and experience, infantry counterattacking cavalry would always require sufficient numbers to do so.
And you will often find that the combined tonnage of five or six armored infantry is usually similar to that of the cavalry they are trying to counter.
The cavalry is an elite branch of the human army. It is precisely because of the combination of war horses that are larger than ordinary people that they can use impact capabilities that far exceed those of infantry.
There are no anti-cavalry weapons; there are not enough numbers and experience; and the infantry who cannot form a formation, the last thing they should do is to withstand the frontal charge of the cavalry.
So what if the opponent is a giant creature weighing several tons.
Humans in ancient times were able to hunt behemoths weighing several tons like mammoths, but that was subject to a prerequisite - the prerequisite was that the skin of the mammoth itself had extremely poor defense, and a javelin with a stone head could easily pierce it. Injury to vital parts, and the ancients would use torch siege to frighten and drive them away, causing them to fall off the cliff and die.
Using wisdom to defeat creatures that are physically more powerful than oneself is the foundation of human survival so far——
It was also the first reaction of Henry and his party when they faced the creature emerging from the ruins.
The direction of the wind began to change erratically, carrying their scent to the yet-to-be-appeared creature and blowing back its hellish stench.
"Lancers, move forward. Non-combatants retreat and join the baggage." Narumi gave the order decisively, and they were still near the city gate. Due to the existence of the city gate, a narrow chokepoint was formed here. With the city wall behind them and ruins on both sides, the only front they needed to guard against was the front.
"Let's go." The non-combatants, including Lulu, quickly returned from the original route. The ashigaru and samurai armed with short spears pressed forward, but because their team had been severely reduced along the way, they couldn't even close the road.
The forward lineup composed of a few short guns is not to mention cavalry and monsters. Even the slightly larger infantry may not be able to stop them.
"The vision is terrible." The Luoan girl's complaint was also the thoughts of others. Although they could smell the breath and hear obvious movements, they were unable to visually capture the target because there were burned and collapsed ruins everywhere.
"The stairs to Shangtujie were burned down." Ayong turned around and said this after checking the city wall. The sage glanced at a mound of soil forming a small slope next to him, winked at his disciple and ran away. past.
"Come here, all the archers, like this." He bent his knees slightly and leaned against the city wall, then crossed his hands with their palms upward to form a gesture of holding something.
The knowing white-haired girl put away her long sword, stepped on her teacher's palm in a running step, and then she kicked up while Henry pushed up.
"Click." Mira, who was half-perched on the tower, swung her body and climbed up. The scabbard of the long sword hit the tower with a crisp sound. Henry noticed that this sound made the smelly monster's side The movement also stopped.
"Hurry up." The Luoan girl lying on the tower reached down and reached out her hand. Seeing this scene, the warriors understood what to do without any need for words. The people holding the bows all ran over and took off the bows and quivers that were in the way. They threw them up first and Mira caught them and put them next to them. Then they also stepped on Henry's hand.
Although their movements were not skilled enough and they were even wearing armor, the sage's strength was still enough to accurately throw them up the tower one by one.
"So big." "So disgusting" The group of people who finished listing at a high place immediately noticed the size of the creature moving in the distance. To simply describe it, it was like a ball of pale flesh with the limbs of various creatures stuck to it—— There are claws and hooves and countless human hands.
Like a creepy version of a watermelon bug, it uses these extremely slender limbs compared to its body to support itself in moving very slowly.
"It's very big, almost like an earth dragon. It's just a ball of meat, and it doesn't look like it can move very fast." The Luoan girl immediately reported the information to her teacher and others below, while Henry and Narumi looked at each other, and then The speaker nodded, which means handing over the command to a more confident sage.
"Pull the bow, shoot in groups of three and three, broad-bladed arrows." Henry said this, and the warriors standing on the tower set up broad-bladed lethal arrows and opened their bows as he said.
"Let go!" The warriors shot 9 arrows, 3 people at a time, 3 times in total.
"Pfft-" Even with such a big target, some people still missed the target due to the distance and wind direction. A few arrows that hit the target pierced into the target, but not very deeply.
"Hiss--" The monster that seemed to have no vocal organs made a hissing sound, and it seemed that it could feel pain.
"The skin should be very soft, but the muscles underneath are still stuck." The arrow only penetrated about 20 centimeters, and it was difficult to see clearly because of the distance. The Luoan girl reported this, and the sage spoke again: "Shoot in groups of three and three, with long needles and armor-piercing arrows."
The warriors once again followed the sage's instructions, this time using a tapered arrowhead with a tip about the length of an adult's index finger. It had greater armor-piercing ability but lacked the high lethality of a broad-bladed arrowhead against the flesh.
"put!"
"Pfft-puff-"
"Hiss—" The arrow pierced deeper this time, but it still didn't seem to have any impact on its actions.
"Hiss -" The pain seemed to anger the monster. It waved countless arms. I don't know whether it was conscious or just luck. Several of the human palms grabbed the arrows inserted in the body, and then some were broken and some were pulled out.
Blood began to flow out from the wound caused by the arrow. Taking advantage of the high ground of the tower, the red blood was clearly visible on the surface of its pale skin.
"It's bleeding, but it's still just a superficial wound. The armor-piercing arrows of the big bow are not powerful enough." In just two minutes of testing, they learned several important information, but the more critical thing was about to come - the other party Angered by the pain.
"Bang——!!" The direction of the wind changed again. It captured the breath of a group of people and then knocked open the ruins. The loud sound startled the Luoan girl and her group on the tower, but then her expressions quickly became dull due to the other party's slow movement speed.
"Probably, it's the speed of a person walking. After being angered." With a fat body and disproportionately small limbs, it is natural that he moves slowly.
"Get out." After crashing through the ruins, this abominable creature also appeared in the sight of everyone below. Narumi said immediately when he saw the huge body. The samurai leader's judgment was correct. Whatever this strange thing was, it was too big for them to kill easily. But at the same time, it moves slowly, and if they evacuate, they probably won't be able to catch up.
But the sage's frown did not relax because of the several pieces of information obtained from the attack test.
"There are no claws of the right size." The fat monster has limbs of various creatures, but they are all the size of normal creatures. There was nothing big enough to leave such claw marks on the city gate.
"This is not something that leaves marks on the door." He said this, and then there was a violent sound in the other direction of the ruins in the city.
"Retreat immediately." Henry turned around and shouted loudly. The Luoan girl who was still on the tower immediately saw something with a tail like a lizard jumping out from the middle of the ruins. It jumped up and then landed on the top of the building a hundred meters away with a "bang" sound. Half of the supporting structure collapsed under its weight. The big lizard, which had been burned, was squatting on the roof, turning its head and talking with the rice with its gecko-like eyes. Ra met his gaze and then stuck out his forked tongue.
"Hiss! Ang! Ang! Ang!" A cry with a unique rhythm echoed, and then two identical slender lizards poked out of the ruins.
They jumped from the ruins and quickly approached the city gate, and Mira reported at a fast speed while retreating: "There are three of them, like dragon lizards but more slender and very flexible. Not counting the tail, they are about the same as horses. Big and fast, the carriage should be overtaken.”
"Evacuate the city tower and fight on the national highway." Based on this information, the group changed their policy. It was obvious that the huge meat ball could not pass through the city gate. But if they just run away, they will definitely be overtaken by lizard-like monsters, so they need to use the city wall to trap the meat balls and form a formation to fight the lizards a little further away.
"Withdraw." The Luoan girl and the warriors quickly jumped down from the city wall, rolling on the dirt ground to slow down the impact, which made them all ashamed, but they had no time to worry about such problems at the moment.
The large lizard with huge claws and a shape that was obviously more symmetrical than a ball of flesh, more like a normal creature, approached from a distance at three times the speed of a walking person. They moved so fast as they walked through the ruins. The Luoan girl's judgment was obviously correct. The carriage would be overtaken on the flat road.
But when one of them briefly appeared from the roof dozens of meters away, Henry frowned when he saw it.
"It's the Otolo Rock Dragon." The sage's name made the Luoan girl a little confused - a creature of Otolo? At this? Crescent Island across the vast ocean?
"The distance is so chaotic that it crosses the continent. How many shrines have they destroyed?" Henry's words, which seemed to be muttering to himself, did not escape Mira's ears, but she also knew that now was not a good time to get to the bottom of it.
"Hurry up." Narumi urged, and then after seeing the baggage troops in the distance: "Surround the carriage and form a bunker." He commanded loudly, and the people behind immediately controlled the carriage to turn.
"Archers get on the roof of the car and don't let them get close. The impact of the Yalong is not low." The sage said.
"Dragon?" Upon hearing his keyword after returning to the team, Miss Doctor's eyes immediately lit up: "Lamo, no, Li, Ligar creature?"
"It's not a dragon lizard or a lizard. It's a small to medium-sized sub-dragon. It lives in the cliff area in the central part of the Otolo Empire. It's named after its strong claws, good at climbing and building nests on the cliffs." The sage said. Then the group of people saw him looking up into the sky for some reason.
"and."
They could still hear the dense and rapid footsteps of the small dragon climbing on all fours even dozens of meters away.
But just when they were counting on the city wall to bring some hindrance to these big lizards.
"Crack-" The three-headed dragon jumped up together and spread the wings attached to its forelimbs in the air.
"It's a kind of flying dragon."
"Use armor-piercing arrows." Henry reminded again.
"Open your bow!" The archers quickly moved according to his instructions and Narumi's instructions. The appearance of the three sub-dragons spreading their wings in the air to block the sun had a strange beauty, but except for Aya who was obsessed with living things, No one else has the leisure to appreciate it.
"Let go!!" the samurai leader ordered loudly, and powerful and heavy arrows were fired at the huge target in the sky. Although the number was not enough to cover the sky and the sun, it was still enough to cover the huge target.
"Take, snatch, snatch -" These sub-dragons seemed to have no experience in dealing with humans. Their relatively fragile abdominal scales were penetrated by the long needles and heavy arrows. Because of the pain, the three sub-dragons fell directly to the ground. They roared, and the group of people relied on the cover of the carriage to form a standard formation with the close guard in front and the long range behind.
"Keep nocking arrows."
One of the less injured dragons twisted and flipped over. Its teeth and thick claws gripped the ground with a little force and even lifted the paving stones and broke them into pieces.
"I don't want to be scratched by this guy." Mira felt a chill, and Galeva felt that even the large shield in his hand could not provide any sense of security.
But just as a group of people were preparing to take on the challenge, the slow meat ball climbed up in an incredible way, grabbing the surface of the city wall with its infinite hands.
Without vision, its countless hands grabbed in vain in the air, but there was nothing to grab in front of it, so its heavy body fell heavily due to lack of balance and lack of fulcrum.
The loud sound of "Bang!!!" alarmed the remaining two sub-dragons who were suffering from arrows. They turned back and roared at the meat ball, and one of them got too close and was immediately grabbed by dense hands and dragged over.
"Hiss--" The dragon's roar stopped suddenly, and its head was completely pulled into its body by the ball of flesh. But it was obviously still alive, and its body began to struggle. Its tail slapped the ground, its body twisted around, its limbs kicked wildly, and the stone slabs were lifted up and cracked, but the overwhelming tonnage difference made it impossible to pull out its neck, which was grasped by countless hands. Seeing this, the other two sub-dragons with basic intelligence and companionship also left behind the group of humans in front of them. They spread out and attacked the meat ball with their powerful claws and teeth.
"Roar--" The roar was followed by the sound of limbs being bitten off and flung out, just like a round dandelion being scattered when touched, and the countless arms on the meat ball were torn apart by brute force. It fell everywhere, and soon more than half of the body was dripping with blood.
The severely wounded flesh ball dripped with blood and released the first captured dragon. The moment the dragon took its head back, the group clearly saw that its eyes and entire face seemed to have been melted by strong acid. There were only two bloody holes left in his eyes. The skin and lips had all disappeared, and his teeth were exposed and dripping with blood.
The pain caused the sub-dragon to scream in agony, and the meat ball where its head was pulled out revealed a sucker-like mouth full of teeth.
"It looks so familiar." Not only Ling said this, but almost everyone else thought the same way. This huge mass of flesh obviously had some connection with the weird creature they had fought several times - but that wasn't what they should pay attention to right now.
"Escape quickly while they are fighting." Once the battle between a one-ton small dragon and a several-ton meat ball is affected, it will cause heavy casualties to humans. The towns here have been destroyed. This battle is too risky. There are no civilians to protect in the sophomore year, so retreating is a wise decision.
Since the meat ball did not have a very effective counterattack, the dragon's roar and heavy one-sided attacks continued. Henry grabbed the doctor who was obsessed with biological observation and threw her on the carriage. Others also hurriedly got on their mounts or carriages, and then they changed their formation.
"Get out, get out, get out!"
