"Array!"

"Tortoise shell formation!"

The centurion trotted and stood upright in front of him. The formation of the entire legion changed from evacuation to dense. The soldiers gathered together at the command of the commander. The wide shield completely covered their bodies. The soldiers in front stepped forward and shouted loudly, placing the shields in a line. The soldiers in the middle of the formation raised the shields flat on their heads with the command of the flag bearer. The soldiers on both sides turned to protect the flanks, and the entire formation suddenly turned into an extremely tight turtle shell!

"Defensive formation!"

The infantry commander of the Silver Shield Legion shouted!

The shield used by the Legion heavy infantry is a semicircular, cylinder-shaped, long shield up to 1.25 meters high and 0.8 meters wide. The shield is a wooden frame, wrapped in leather and iron stripes. It is a layer of silver-white iron sheet on the outside. There is a metal plate in the center, and the center is a semispherical bulge. In battle, in addition to using a large shield to defend, the Legion soldiers can also hit the enemy under the long shield. If they are hit head-on, although they will not die immediately, their combat effectiveness is greatly reduced. The soldiers behind the large shield have limited damage due to the shield protection.

The hemispherical bulge in the center of the large shield plays such a role in addition to defending the javelin.

"drink!"

The sudden change on the battlefield made the charge of the Lizardman warriors paused, and the enemy formed a strict and dense formation at an incredible speed, which surprised them. Even if they were stupid, as a soldier, they knew that they had encountered the elite human troops today! Because such discipline was unprecedented since they entered the southern plains!

Although the tortoise shell formation is dull, its protective ability in the era of cold weapons is invincible!

Faced with the tight tortoise shell formed by the big shield, the running lizardman warriors immediately hesitated. The length and height of these big shields were enough to closely protect the parts above the human knees. Faced with such a difficult to chew turtle shell, they could not be sure whether they could survive by rushing up!

No matter what kind of warrior, when facing an enemy he has never seen before, he will inevitably hesitate.

And this hesitation, the Lizardman archer's rain of arrows fell on the tortoise shell formation!

Not hurt at all!

The arrows shot on the wide shield, and the dense shield array completely obscured the direction the archers could shoot. Although the lizardman's battle bow was not small, it was not enough to shoot through the large shield wrapped in iron sheets. The arrows hung on the shield. Although the shield array looked a bit like a hedgehog, the legion itself suffered no losses.

"go ahead!"

The officer at the forefront of the tortoise shell formation shouted. Amid the enemy's surprise and doubtful eyes, the tortoise shell formation began to advance at a slow speed.

During training, Murphy consciously let these Silver Shield Legion infantry use the military infantry of their previous lives, with the purpose of allowing them to form formations at a fast enough speed on the battlefield, and then disperse the formations. Stepping out at a specific pace, it only takes a few breaths. These Silver Shield Legion infantry can turn from evacuation to dense tortoise shell formations, or disperse the tortoise shell formations to form a deep battle line.

...

"This..." Artoria widened her eyes and stared at the changes on the battlefield without blinking. At first, when she saw these large shield and heavy infantry soldiers with obvious human style in the southern plains, she just thought they were just better equipped. But after seeing these legion soldiers quickly formed a tortoise shell formation, she was immediately surprised!

This kind of discipline and cooperation is simply not comparable to those indigenous soldiers in the southern plains!

This unprecedented formation is obviously extremely powerful in defense against bows and arrows, and it can even be said to be free from leaks! The dense formation formed by the shield completely protects the shooting of bows and arrows. In the face of such a tightly defended formation, the role that the archers can play can be said to be quite limited!

And at this moment, the changes on the battlefield took place again!

Because of the hesitation of the Lizardman warriors, the distance between the two armies was closer to a hundred steps. Some of the Lizardman warriors who rushed over first hit the weapon on the shield that formed the tortoise shell formation. The shield sank down, but then a short sword pierced out of the gap. Because of the Lizardman's height, the short sword pierced into a point between its legs, followed by an extremely shrill howl!

The inside of the tortoise shell formation is very dense, and the soldiers in the front and rear are closely attached, which makes the long shield spread out by several soldiers in the back row when they are hit by the enemy. Unless they encounter inhuman brute force, they will not be able to break their formation at all. Seeing that the enemy is as dense as a tight turtle shell, some lizardman warriors even jumped over the tortoise shell formation, but before they could attack, the omnipresent short sword pierced out from the gap in the tortoise shell again!

The enemy is like a solid rock. No matter how these lizardman warriors attack, they cannot shake it at all!

If you cannot open a gap, then rushing up will be just a waste of death.

Soon, the Lizardman warrior retreated.

...

Murphy has been observing the battlefield carefully. All these silver shield legions are trained by five-star Greek heavy infantry. For this legion that can use the tortoise shell formation, there must be a very strict prerequisite, that is, discipline and cooperation! Only those truly elite soldiers can handle these, and only those professional armies can form a closely protected tortoise shell formation.

Otherwise, the function of the tortoise shell array can only be used to protect bows and arrows, and cannot be used as close combat.

The best way for the tortoise shell formation of non-elite troops to enter close-fitting hand-to-hand combat is to spread the formation and turn into a traditional close-fitting hand-to-hand combat method. Otherwise, the tortoise shell formation will be broken into a corner and the losses will be greater!

It is precisely because these three teams of Silver Shield Legion infantry were trained by elite soldiers that Murphy tried to fight with the tortoise shell formation in close combat.

"Array!"

"Fighting formation!"

"evacuation!"

After getting closer to a hundred steps, facing the lizardman warriors who could not break through the tortoise shell formation, the legion officers in the front shouted and issued an order again.

"drink!"

The soldiers of the Silver Shield Legion put away their shields, held them flat in front of them, and stepped left and right. The soldiers on both wings began to extend and transformed into the traditional four-row deep front at a very fast speed. The enemy formation changed. Just when the Lizardman warriors were hesitating whether they should rush forward to fight in hand-to-hand combat, the infantrymen of the Silver Shield Legion who had dispersed the formation took the javelin from behind, aiming at the Lizardman warriors who were still hesitating, and threw it!

Most of the javelins used by ordinary legion soldiers are light javelins, and since these three Silver Shield Legion infantry are composed of elite soldiers, Murphy equipped them with heavy javelins.

Although the length is only about 1.5 meters, a hard iron gun tip is added to the soft metal rod, which makes these javelins more penetrating!

The Roman javelin was an important lethal force in the ancient Roman army. There is a joke here, that is, the "precision guided weapon for human flesh".

Although the range of the javelin is not far enough, its lethality is invincible by bows and arrows. When facing the heavy javelin thrown by the infantry of the Silver Shield Legion, the lizardman warriors who only have their own natural scales, no armor, and no shields suddenly felt what fear was. The distance of death has never been so close to them!

Less than sixty steps away, the Lizardman warrior without any shield protection faced the two rounds of heavy javelin throws from the Silver Shield Legion infantry!

Wailing everywhere!

The Lizardman warriors who were facing the two rounds of heavy javelins of the Silver Shield Legion's infantry in front of the silver shield legion suffered heavy losses. The soldiers hit by the heavy javelin either died on the spot or were penetrated by the heavy javelin and nailed to the ground. Death was just a matter of time.

riot.

The Lizardman warriors whose morale was severely hit suddenly had a chaotic situation. Some soldiers who had lost their courage tried to retreat, but the Lizardman officer's shout made them dare not escape.

However, before the lizardman officers could regain their morale, the infantry of the Silver Shield Legion crushed them like a storm.

Perhaps it was because after the battle, I realized that the enemy's strength was just that, or that I found that these lizard men were not much stronger than the orcs they had fought before. The soldiers of the legion who had seen victory actually chose to end the war in the wildest way under the command of the commander.

"Strength and glory!"

They held the shield in front of them, roared to the sky, and then charged towards the lizardman warriors who had rioted!

charge!

bump!

Bump!

The sound of dull collisions of head-on battles sounded, and the high-spirited Silver Shield Legion infantry actually chose the most primitive and brutal crushing impact charge when facing the Lizardman warriors with a physique of more than two meters!

Here, we must mention their full names.

Their full name is -!

collapse!

The enemy's bravery completely exceeded the imagination of these lizard men. These enemies, who were far smaller than them, actually collided with their shields!

Amid the dull sound of impact, some lizard people were knocked to fly backwards.

The morale of these lizard men completely collapsed.

Victory is in sight!

Murphy's face showed a smile, but just as he was about to order the battlefield to clean up, he suddenly heard a dull rushing sound from the earth, as heavy as some large creatures trampling on the land.

(To be continued).
Chapter completed!