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Hundreds of giant shields are lined up in a row, moving forward like a high wall, although slowly, but extremely thick. The moonlight is shining like water tonight, and although there are no stars, it is not very dark. It is clear as a wash,
There were no clouds in the sky. However, when the Black Flag Army soldiers who were stationed on the hillside saw the heavy wall pressing over them, a layer of dark clouds filled their hearts.
The slow-moving queue did not have much impact from the dug holes. Even if someone stumbled, he would be quickly picked up by his companions, and it would not affect the progress of the team at all.
"Archer, two hundred steps, throw!"
Li Yuanchao stood on a huge rock and looked at the Zuo Zhenwei men who were pressing over him and shouted orders!
The archers can shoot a distance of two hundred steps on flat ground. Now with the help of the hillside terrain, the bows and arrows can fly farther. There is nothing the Black Flag Army can do to deal with those giant shields. They are not equipped with heavy crossbows.
The luxury goods cannot break through the defense of the giant shield. But the projectile is different. It can effectively hit the soldiers hiding behind the giant shield. Because of the uphill slope and the slow movement of the giant shield in front, projectile is what Zuo Zhenwei currently needs.
The first blow was also an inevitable blow.
The man who commanded the first wave of offensive was Li Pu, the general under Zheng Chao. This man came from a wealthy family in the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is said that he has some blood of the Tang royal family. But this man is not one of those who rely on his family background to get into trouble.
The second generation ancestor of the day is indeed a brave and capable warrior.
"Keep your distance! Don't get too close! Pikemen, come forward and mingle with the archers!"
Li Pu quickly ordered.
Nearly a thousand pikemen quickly stepped forward and surrounded the three hundred archers in the queue. At the same time, the pikemen raised their weapons, raised them up, and swayed from side to side. At the same time, nearly a thousand pikemen raised their spears high and swayed regularly from side to side.
, looking from a distance, it looks like weeds blown by the wind.
This is an effective method for pikemen to deal with bows and arrows. This is how the Swedish pike formation defends against archers' throws. It is said that this kind of defense effect can reach up to 80%.
As the sky darkened, thousands of feather arrows fell overwhelmingly. The popping sound was mixed with the groan of the person who was hit by the arrow. The projectile had a long range, but its lethality against enemies who were far away was really limited. Moreover,
Even if it hits the target, it is difficult to kill the enemy with one arrow. Among Zuo Zhenwei's team attacking the mountain, the archers with the lowest defense were protected by the pikemen, and there were very few casualties. On the contrary, the Pu Daoshou behind him was hit by a hail of arrows.
Dozens of them were brought down. As for the heavy-armored Mo Daomen at the back, the arrows thrown could not break through their thick iron armor at all. The arrows that landed in the heavy-armored infantry position made a clanging sound.
A series of sparks, but not even a single person was killed.
The distance of fifty steps passed quickly. After two rounds of projectiles, Zuo Zhenwei's men and horses dropped more than a hundred corpses on the hillside, which was unable to stop their progress. As the distance got closer, Black
The projectiles fired by the Banner Army also lost their meaning.
One hundred and thirty steps, the giant shield bearers at the front suddenly moved laterally, leaving a gap of about one person between them. Finally, when it was time to use their weapons, the Zuo Zhenwei archers quickly moved forward and began to use weapons far superior to those of the Black Flag Army soldiers.
Those messy bows and arrows need to be counterattacked by the much more sophisticated standard foot bows. The foot bows equipped by the Twelve Guards of Da Zhou can easily shoot more than 200 steps, and can shoot through leather armor at 150 steps. Within 100 steps,
Can penetrate two layers of leather armor.
One hundred and thirty steps, although it was a upward shot, it had already reached the effective killing distance.
Compared with the crude crossbows in the hands of the Black Flag Army, the walking bows of Zuo Zhenwei's archers are much more powerful. Most of the bows used by the Black Flag Army's archers are made of bamboo pieces, and they are also made by themselves.
The power of the feather arrows cannot be compared with the wolf-fang arrows shot by Zuo Zhenwei's archers.
In the first confrontation, although it was the main attack and limited by the terrain, the well-equipped Zuo Zhenwei had the upper hand. After two rounds of feather arrows, two or three of the Black Flag Army archers defending on the hillside were knocked down.
Hundreds of people.
A hundred steps later, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.
"General! I will take people down to drive them down!"
Li Yuanchao's capable general Zhang Hengheng asked Li Yuanchao for instructions.
Li Yuanchao shook his head: "There must be Zuo Zhenwei's heavy armored infantry behind the giant shield. Although you have an advantage in the terrain when you lead people to rush down, you can't kill the heavy armored infantry with the sickles and kitchen knives in our brothers' hands!"
"Prepare the rolling logs and release them within fifty steps!"
Li Yuanchao ordered loudly.
Rolling logs may not really roll all the way to the foot of the mountain. No one can guarantee that these logs will roll out hundreds of meters obediently. If the distance is too far, the power of rolling logs cannot be exerted. Moreover, Li Yuanchao did not initially plan to use rolling logs tonight.
When attacking the enemy, he was afraid that if he let the enemy know his method too early, the move would fail. But now it seems that the rolling wood is not as effective as he imagined. First of all, it is not effective at a distance. If the distance is too close, it will not work.
The enemy will be able to rush over very quickly. If the rolling logs get stuck, the rolling logs behind them will be useless.
Ninety steps later, Li Yuanchao shouted loudly: "Archers, rockets! Burn those shields!"
The archers of the Black Flag Army lit the cloth strips tied to the arrows one after another. The cloth strips dipped in vegetable oil soon burned. Following Li Yuanchao's order, a rain of fire flew out parallel to the ground, and the scene was spectacular.
It is so spectacular. The reason why they waited until this distance to use rockets is because the bows of the Black Flag Army are too weak. A hundred steps away, the feather arrows have no strength and are so light that they cannot be inserted into the giant shield. If the rockets cannot be inserted
If you burn it on the giant shield, that much vegetable oil will be wasted.
There was a crackling sound, and the rocket that was fired was still unable to be inserted into the giant shield at a distance of eighty steps! The bounced rocket exploded into groups of sparks, and then fell to the ground and was attacked by Zhou Jun who came up one after another.
The soldiers trampled it.
"Grandma's! Zuo Zhenwei's huge shield is covered with iron! No wonder it takes three or four people to carry a shield, damn it!"
Zhang Heng cursed harshly.
This is how the army can be so luxurious.
After a round of rockets, the Zuo Zhenwei archers who were hiding behind the giant shield immediately jumped out and started to fight back. The wolf fang arrows with the sound of piercing the air were fierce and vicious, and could easily tear through the cotton clothes or single clothes of the Black Flag Army soldiers, and finally lost one
Another fresh life. Because the weather was so cold, the blood would freeze quickly when it came out. In the firelight, the frozen blood shimmered with waves of strange and blurred colors.
Hundreds of archers were shot dead, and the corners of Li Yuanchao's mouth couldn't help twitching. He felt sad, really felt sad. He had fought hard to get these 20,000 people, not just today, but tomorrow, and from now on.
His team. This is what Xiao Pojun promised him, and it can be regarded as a reward for the battle of Qingfeng Mountain in advance. These soldiers are all his, so he feels distressed if one of them dies. Training a qualified archer is not as good as training a qualified archer.
Li Yuanchao was almost unscathed, and hundreds of them were killed in one fell swoop, while the opponent's archers were almost unscathed hiding behind their giant shields. This made Li Yuanchao feel distressed and angry.
"Archers retreat!"
Li Yuanchao gritted his teeth and ordered.
In this battle, although he occupies a favorable location and is physically stronger than his opponent, there is still no way to stop him until now! Except for the rolling logs, which only work within fifty steps, he can only watch the enemy come over step by step.
Helpless.
Can't wait until fifty steps!
"Put the log in!"
Li Yuanchao waved his hand and shouted loudly!
The erected rolling logs rolled down the hillside like a tsunami after cutting off the ropes. At this time, they were almost 60 steps away from Zhou Jun. At such a distance, although the rolling logs seemed to roll down with amazing force, no one could guarantee that the rolling logs would roll down the hillside like a tsunami.
Can you get out sixty steps?
Finally, Huangtian paid off. The power of the rolling log did not completely disappoint Li Yuanchao. With the rumbling sound, the officers and soldiers attacking the mountain became obviously panicked. With good luck, the rolling log directly hit the leg of the giant shield hand in front. Luck
It was not good, and the rolling logs that occupied more than half of them stopped on their own. But even so, it had a clear effect on the officers and soldiers.
Several gaps were opened in the shield array, and more and more officers and soldiers were hit by rolling logs.
"Heavy-armored Mo Dao cuts in to clear the way!"
Li Pu did not expect that the Black Flag Army would be so difficult to deal with. Now that the shield formation was in chaos, it was impossible for him to order a retreat. With a ferocious look on his face, he decided to take a gamble!
Two hundred heavy armored infantrymen walked up with heavy steps. They were in groups of three or five, walking side by side. The heavy Mo Dao was pointed downwards. When they saw a rolling log coming down, several people thrust the Mo Dao downward together, and there was a bang.
With a sound, the blade groaned under the load. And the strong heavy armored infantry also felt their arms tingling.
After blocking the rolling log, this group of heavy armored infantry moved forward again.
"Pikemen! Rush down and stab them to death!"
Li Yuan's eyes immediately turned red when he saw those perverted heavy armored infantry relying on brute force to block the rolling logs one by one. There were too many rolling logs staying between the two armies, and it would be useless even if they were lowered further.
More than a thousand so-called pikemen, led by a general, rushed down. The Black Flag Army soldiers in messy clothes screamed to cheer themselves up. Although they were extremely frightened, they had nothing but sharpened white wax poles in their hands.
Nothing else can give them comfort.
"Archer, fire two rounds, retreat to the end!"
Li Pu gave two brief orders.
He didn't care about the heavy armored infantry sandwiched between the archers and the enemy. Even the wolf-fang arrows couldn't break through the thick armor. And once the hand-to-hand combat started, the archers with no defense would immediately become enemies.
preferred target.
The archers of Zuo Zhenwei immediately fired two arrows, and then quickly retreated back.
These two rounds of continuous fire did not cause much damage to the pikemen who rushed down from the Black Flag Army, and only knocked down a hundred or so people. Li Pu shouted and asked the Pu swordsmen to rush forward to join the heavy armored infantry, and then ordered the pikemen to
Form a square formation and squeeze forward like a hedgehog.
The most brutal hand-to-hand combat began. The screaming Black Flag Army soldiers used their inertia to jump up and stab the heavy armored infantry with their weapons. The huge force was enough to kill the enemy even if it could not pierce them.
The enemy was knocked to the ground.
However, how could it be so easy to defeat Zuo Zhenwei's heavy armored infantry, which was built with a lot of money?
Although there were less than two hundred people left, the lethality displayed by these heavily armored swordsmen was still astonishing.
They quickly gathered together and formed a cone-shaped formation. The heavy armored infantry in front was hit repeatedly, but with the support of Pao Ze behind him, he did not fall down, but he also did not have the strength to lift the heavy Mo Dao.
, at least four or five bloody holes were poked out of his body. Even if their armor's defense was amazing, he couldn't stop the countless spears that were trying to stab him.
The first person fell, and the heavy-armored swordsman behind him quickly pushed forward, and then split a spearman of the Black Flag Army into two pieces with a knife. The blood spilled out like a pouring water, and the internal organs fell to the ground with a pop. Hard.
After receiving a shot, the swordsman swung his sword again and chopped off half of his attacker's shoulders, including his head.
The bloody fight is in full swing. (To be continued)
