When the rolling log formation was activated, the crossbows and bows stopped shooting.
In just a short time, more than ten thousand Zhangba crossbows and hundreds of thousands of iron feather arrows were fired.
You must know that these crossbows and iron feather arrows are made of pure iron. No matter how wealthy the court is, it is impossible for them to consume them without limit.
Seeing that the rolling logs could indeed effectively resist the enemy's offensive defense line, Zhao Zian immediately ordered a stop to archery to avoid wasting war resources.
Phantom watched from the west for a while and then ordered the troops to withdraw.
Before figuring out how to break the rolling log formation at Yumen Pass, continuing to attack the Yumen Pass defense line would only increase casualties.
Tianjie is an away battle, the number of soldiers is limited, and it is very difficult to replenish troops.
It is unrealistic to form a servant army before attacking the inner reaches of Central Earth.
She would not be like Gu Yuqi, the head coach of the six armies of the Heavenly Realm ten years ago, who thoughtlessly pushed all the Heavenly Realm soldiers to attack the city.
This seemingly massive battle lasted only half an hour.
The heavenly army comes like a tsunami, and retreats like a rushing tide.
As quickly as it comes, it goes as quickly as it comes.
When the billowing dust and smoke dissipated, the Yumen closed and could not see such a tragic scene.
The injured and dead giant warriors and madman warriors were all taken away by their companions during the retreat.
Only the bones of some undead warriors remained.
The soldiers at Yumen Pass were all cheering, and even coach Zhao Zian had a long-lost smile on his face.
The rolling log formation has achieved initial results, which has greatly improved the morale of the world.
They all firmly believe that the Yumenguan defense line is impregnable and will never be breached by the enemy.
Just when most of the soldiers were silent in joy, someone discovered something was wrong.
The battlefield is too clean.
The heavenly army not only took away the bodies of their companions, but also took away all the eight-foot-long crossbows and iron feather arrows that were fired from Yumen Pass during this battle.
It was a gray-bearded veteran who saw the problem.
This person's name is Zhang Yulin, and he is the subordinate brother of the old commander Zhao Xianfeng. When he was a teenager, he followed Zhao Xianfeng and was stationed at Niangziguan.
After Zhao Zian took control of Yumen Pass, most of the veteran generals were replaced by young hawkish generals. Zhang Yulin was one of the few veterans left in Yumen Pass.
He is a person who refuses to admit defeat and insists on guarding the first line of defense at Yumen Pass.
Zhao Zian couldn't resist him, so he had to agree.
Zhang Yulin has been in the military for decades. Before the catastrophe, he was a general at Niangziguan and fought countless battles with barbarians and steppe wolves beyond the Great Wall.
When he saw the clean battlefield beneath his feet, he immediately realized something was wrong.
He quickly thought that this attack was not a test, let alone an attempt to attack the first line of defense.
Phantom is imitating Zhuge Kongming and wants to borrow arrows from a straw boat.
He immediately sent someone to report his guess to Zhao Zian.
As the Heavenly Army retreated, Zhao Zian and other senior generals walked down the Que Tower and came to the Chinese army's tent.
As soon as he entered the big tent, the captain came to report.
Zhao Zian thought he was here to report the losses in this battle, but unexpectedly, the captain said that the battlefield was clean and the enemy was most likely collecting human arrows and crossbows.
After Zhao Zian and others heard this, they were all shocked.
Zhao Zian punched the table with his fist and said bitterly: "No wonder Phantom retreated so decisively. It turns out she just wanted to collect arrows."
An aide asked: "Is it possible that you just want to consume the strategic materials that the Jade Gate has closed?"
Dozens of senior generals and staff in the big tent all looked at this person.
I thought to myself, how did this idiot become the commander's aide?
Military staff provide military advice to the commander-in-chief, analyze the battle situation, and formulate effective war plans.
But this idiot seems to have no common sense at all.
A general snorted coldly: "If the Phantom just wants to consume our arrows and crossbows, there is no need to take the arrows away from the battlefield.
The reason why she retreated quickly was because after the rolling log fell, the commander ordered to stop shooting arrows, so she retreated."
Everyone nodded.
The idiot staff member who spoke earlier turned red and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Someone said: "The three defense lines in front of Yumen Pass, the crossbow arrows and crossbow guns equipped by the soldiers are all forged by the dwarves of Northern Xinjiang, and they are all pure iron arrows.
The Heavenly Legion must be short of iron weapons now, so they thought of getting them from us.
However, the weapons of the heavenly army were all brought from heaven. Except for the six-winged air cavalry, which was equipped with crossbows, the other legions were not equipped with crossbows.
What on earth do they want to collect the cavalry for?"
This question is a good one.
The heavenly army descends to the lower realm, and each one has a weapon. They have no shortage of weapons.
But they are indeed collecting a lot of iron tools.
Soon, someone expressed their opinion that Phantom was developing a new type of weapon.
This is not an unfamiliar word. In recent days, the higher-ups in the human world have actually learned that in order to win this catastrophic battle, the heavens have begun to produce many weapons that can restrain human weapons.
Among them, there is one called the Vajra Umbrella, which is designed to break the rain of arrows in the human world. However, the heavens have not yet put new weapons into the battlefield, and no one is sure about this yet.
Phantom rode a golden six-legged monster and watched as bundles of iron-feathered arrows and eight-foot-long spears were carried by giant warriors in front of him.
She was very satisfied.
In just half an hour, 12,000 eight-foot-long iron spears and more than 300,000 pure iron arrows were collected.
These are the standard weapons made by the dwarves of Northern Xinjiang.
A crossbow gun weighs twenty-eight kilograms, and a pure iron arrow weighs one kilogram.
Phantom managed to obtain more than 500,000 kilograms of high-quality pig iron at a modest cost.
Coupled with several occasional small-scale attacks in the past few months, the amount of iron tools collected has exceeded three million kilograms.
Although it is not much, it can greatly relieve the pressure on the heavenly army who are in urgent need of iron tools to forge new weapons.
However, Phantom also knows that this method cannot be used frequently.
Human beings in this world are not stupid.
Especially that Zhao Zian, who lived with Phantom for a period of time when he was a prisoner in the human world.
Zhao Zian must have quickly figured out that he was collecting iron tools.
It's even visible now.
In the past, Phantom was secretive and only brought back some iron weapons on the battlefield each time.
Now that Tianjie's attack plan has been finalized, Niangziguan and Shanhaiguan will launch a full-scale attack in the near future. Phantom has no time to slowly collect iron tools and can only take risks.
She must produce enough new weapons after Niangzi Pass is breached, so that she can hold back or even defeat the 30 million main human troops at Yumen Pass.
Once Niangzi Pass is broken, both Shanhaiguan and Yumen Pass will become useless.
Phantom does not want to fight a protracted war with the human world, otherwise the heaven will be dragged into the quagmire of war. The final result is that it will be consumed by the human world bit by bit until it dies, just like it did 24,000 years ago.
Phantom has a huge appetite. She wants to deal with the main force of the 30 million troops at Yumen Pass, so that the world can no longer stop the large army from fighting, and finally forces the scattered armies in the world to the Cangyun Mountain area for a decisive battle.
To implement her plan, the key point is to completely capture the Yumen Pass and Motian Cliff defense lines in a short period of time.
This seemingly impossible task is actually possible in Phantom's mind.
As long as the new weapons are deployed in place and the Yumen Pass is conquered, it won't be a big problem.
