Medieval Mercenaries by William Urban
Author:William Urban
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Medieval
ISBN: 9781848328556
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2015-11-29T16:00:00+00:00
Defenceless? It only appeared so. The bowmen had hidden themselves in order to lure the pirate ships in closer:
⦠wilder yet was the cry, and shriller still the scream, when there rose up from the shadow of those silent bulwarks the long lines of the English bowmen, and the arrows whizzed in a deadly sleet among the unprepared masses upon the pirate decks. From the higher sides of the cog the bowmen could shoot straight down, at a range which was so short as to enable a cloth-yard shaft to pierce through mail-coats or to transfix a shield, though it were an inch thick of toughened wood. One moment Alleyne saw the galleyâs poop crowded with rushing figures, waving arms, exultant faces; the next it was a blood-smeared shambles, with bodies piled three deep upon each other, the living cowering behind the dead to shelter themselves from that sudden storm-blast of death.
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