Hakai no Miko

Demetria, who was calmly observing the "black wall" as she ran ahead of the silver werewolves, a heavy assault spear cavalry that thrust through the ground, frowned twice.

"The spear is a long time...?

Until then, I didn't notice because I was lying down, but I noticed that the spear with the "black wall" was unusually long. Originally, the country was known to use spears longer than other countries. However, as far as Demetria could see, the spear now held by the "black wall" appeared to be even longer.

The advantage of a spear is the length of time you can fight enemies at a distance. Naturally, the longer the advantages are.

But there are limits to that.

The more distant the tool is from the position of the hand holding it and the center of gravity of the tool, the harder it becomes to handle. For example, even with the same weight, bars of 1m and 5m in length are definitely easier to handle than short bars of 1m.

Longer spears are more advantageous than longer spears, but there is no point in dealing with them. Not to mention the heavy assault spear cavalry specializing in assault, which holds the spear, whereas the heavy assault spear infantry, which has to throw a spear or shake a spear to throw it out, is further limited in length.

However, Demetria saw that the spear with the "black wall" appeared to be comparable to the spear with both hands.

"That's what they call the" Black Wall ", the strongest army in the Former Kingdom....."

Demetria exhaled in admiration.

Of course, it's not just the length of the spear you have. Even though the heavily loaded assault spear cavalry would attack, the tips of the orderly lined spears would not shake, and the lined shields would not move slightly.

Demetria turns from a laugh of praise to a bitter smile.

"And you're still not shaking."

No matter how many heavy assault spear cavalry specializing in assault, it is a suicide act to penetrate into a dense formation of heavy infantry lined up with strong shields and full of spear tips.

Well, good. It's just getting started.

No matter how "black walls" are, they are no different from humans. It's not an inorganic real wall. Repeatedly, the Silver Werewolf spears will tear down the troops and expose them before the Silver Werewolf storms, and one day they will fall apart.

Horseback riding has always led the battle against the dull heavily loaded spear infantry. You may wait until the time comes.

Demetria, who thought so, loosened the rope.

"Silver werewolves! Turn around!"

Demetria signals the silver werewolves to turn around in order to push back again. Along with that, he also turned his horse's neck to the right to pull the rope and turn.

and then.

Demetria captured a groaning little figure in a dense "black wall" in her narrow sight with a helmet.

The density of troops is important in the dense formation of heavily armed spear infantry. And yet, it's impossible for people to move among heavily armed spear infantry. If that is within the "black wall", which should also be said to be the apex of heavily armed spear infantry in the west, it is no longer an anomaly.

The anomaly prompted Demetria to lift her left hand shield.

This is the next moment.

Demetria shocked her left hand shield.

At the same time, the screams rose one after the other among the silver werewolves behind me. Looking back in a hurry, many silver werewolves fell or fell from horse to horse.

"What was that?! What happened?!"

Demetria shouted in dismay.

I just turned in front of the enemy, not yet against them. Then it could only have been an attack with a projectile weapon. However, the silver werewolves' armor is tough enough to incorporate even rare sheet metal in this era. Like throwing stones or bows or arrows, they couldn't have been defeated if they hadn't hit so badly. And if you throw stones or bows, it's strange that you can't see them flying at all. In other words, they are attacking themselves faster than throwing stones and bows - a murder weapon that flies at an incredible speed.

Demetria, who checked the shield on her left hand to see who it was, slightly peeled her eyes.

There was a pointed iron rod sticking out through the shield.

No matter how lightweight a cavalry shield is, it went this far. This will be enough to penetrate even the silver werewolves' heavy armor, which was especially thick on the front to start the bow and arrow, and kill the knight who was wearing it.

A power unlikely to be the bow and arrow. Short sheets (shafts) are more characteristic than anything else, although they are like arrows and have no arrow blades.

Demetria reads what it means, shouting like a scream.

"Do they want to bring out a crossbow?!"

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"Ho-ho-ho!"

Former Warrior Dwarf of Mount Marben, Norzuli, greeted the silver werewolves who fell one after the other.

On its shoulders is a brand new crossbow. Moreover, it is not a common crossbow of this era that pulls strings only by human strength. The crossbow was designed and mass-produced by Dwarf Workshop craftsmen based on the information of the blue horse that there is a crossbow that uses Teko's principle to pull strings with a stronger force.

It was easy to put it that way, but it was a difficult road until then.

Anyway, the information given by the blue horse was only that there was such a crossbow. The blue horse, which was only a high school student, lacked knowledge of how it worked and how it was structured.

It wasn't just Dwarves' craftsmanship and enthusiasm for new technologies that made it possible to go from almost such a state of mind to design to mass production. The blood, sweat and tears of the dwarfs craftsmen, and the money spared for development. And above all, it would have been because there was a lot of distilled liquor that aroused the dwarf craftsmen.

This was the first actual launch of a completed crossbow. Although there was some anxiety, in medieval Europe the crossbow, which was forbidden to go from its power to the same Christian knight, unfortunately demonstrated its power against the silver werewolves.

They easily penetrated the silver werewolves' heavy armor, which was nothing but a regular bow and arrow, and took out the silver werewolves one after the other.

And another knight takes a Dwarf crossbow arrow to his throat.

But the knight was neither fortunate nor unhappy, nor died instantly. However, you exhale the blood that runs up your airway as you exhale in the helmet. The arrow had reached the trachea.

Technologies such as surgical treatment have not developed in this era. I can't help myself anymore. When the Silver Wolf Cavalier learned that, he grabbed the rope and kicked his horse's flank.

"Glory to Her Royal Highness Princess Piata!

The knight finally decided to make a hole in the enemy's line with himself. Exhaling with a bubble of blood, the knight drove his horse into the "black wall".

The "Black Wall" who noticed this Special Attack pointed his spear at me instead of being frightened.

The silver werewolf knight laughed at the sound of countless spear tips pointing at him.

The countless spears pointed are too sharp and numbered to kill themselves. But this is a heavily armed man and horse. It is not something that humans can grasp the masses and momentum that are rushing in.

I will make a hole in the Black Wall in exchange for my life and that of my horse!

On the saddle of a horse, driven repeatedly and bloody into the flank, the knight put his strength to the body to prepare for the shock.

As the metal is violently met, the sounds of flesh pounding continue to resonate.

"Ha?! I can't reach you...?

The knight, whose body was pierced by the tip of the spear and hoisted in space like a specimen of insects, leaked a voice of dismay.

The impact on the moment of the collision with the spear was different from the knight's prediction. It is a shock as if it had hit a wall. Instead of jumping off the enemy and opening a big hole, it was sewn with a spear on the spot, as if all of itself or even Aima's giant body were blocked by an invisible wall.

You sure there's a wall you can't see?

The knight reached out to his right hand as if he were looking for something he could not see, and he was desperate.

Admittedly responding to that scene with the equipment and tactics that had just been incorporated for the first time, Admirus raised his voice with a satisfactory smile.

"Yo! If your spear breaks, change it quickly! Come on, next time! Move fast!

According to Admiral's orders, the "Black Wall" soldiers regroup in an orderly fashion, as planned. With that in front of him, Admiral looks at Devlin with his horizontal view.

"That's the spear Dwarf made. Excellent work."

And Doverine naturally snorted her nose a little.

This "black wall" spear, like a crossbow, is also a secret weapon against silver werewolves made by Dwarves from the idea of a pale horse.

The prototype was the Longspear Pike, which was used not only in infantry battles but also in horse riding battles.

But it wasn't just about making the same spear as Pike. This is because in this Celdaean continent, there were still light cavalry throwing attacks that had long been abandoned in the era when Pike was active. No matter how long a spear is, it has a completely different range than a spear throwing. The defense against spearing - that is, without a shield, the damage would be enormous.

But if one hand is sealed with a shield, the spear must be able to handle with the other hand.

For this reason, the spear had a variety of ingenuity.

First, long spear patterns use hollow iron bars and pipes to combine strength and weight reduction. To make this, it was useful to already have a well-rounded, thin, lightweight iron pipe manufacturing technique for use in the glass-blowing technique brought about by the pale horse.

However, no matter how hollow it is, it is iron with a much larger specific gravity than wood. For further lightening, the spear pattern becomes thin. The handle part is wrapped around a leather string to adjust the thickness. Along with it, a ring was made to pass through the wrist when holding a spear. This is used not only to trigger a spear placed on the ground, but also to pick up a spear.

Also, the hardware attached to the spear stone is not decorative. It served as a balancer with its weight centered close to the spear's handle. This makes the routing much better than its length.

In addition, the shape of the fitting with the inverted letter to the is not only that it can easily raise a spear by stepping on it when it is placed on the ground. Spike-shaped spikes on the ground and ground also act as a non-slip barrier.

Assaulting the triggered spear is no different than pushing it into a pile that jumps out of the ground. No matter how heavy the assault spear cavalry is, the result is as the previous knight showed.

However, no matter how lightweight they were, the spear was fitted with heavy hardware as a balancer on an iron pattern. It is too heavy for a heavy infantry.

Therefore, a metal hook (key) in the form of a C is attached to the side of the armor worn by the "black wall" soldiers. This was such that the spear's weight could be supported not only by the arms but also by the torso by pulling the handle on the spear when it was held.

These manoeuvres made the Black Wall an almost perfect defense against horseback riding.

"The defense of our Black Wall iron walls prevents enemy attacks, and the dwarves use their crossbows to pierce enemy defenses and retaliate. That's right, Your Majesty. This is what you must do because you have been recognized as a hostile enemy."

Admittedly, Admiral revealed an unmatched expression of praise, whether he praised the blue horse or Darius.

Then Admiral bends his head.

"Yes? What did His Majesty say about this...."

It was Admitus who had been searching for memories with wrinkles between his eyebrows for a while, but his hands met when he let his face shine.

"Yes! Terucio! You said Terucio formation!

Tersio...

It is a military formation that was adopted in the Kingdom of Spain in the sixteenth century. Originally, Telcio meant "one-third" in Spanish. And given that the Spanish army at that time consisted of three military disciplines: spear soldiers, sword soldiers, and projectiles dealing with crossbows and guns, Telcio was originally a term that referred to the regiment formed by them.

However, many people, including blue horses, misinterpret Telcio as:

That is, the anti-heavy cavalry formation by the spear and projectile.