The night was as dark as ink, and the stars were dim. In the dense forest on the bank where the demon alliance scouts could not see, there were groups of lightly-armed commandos lurking. The whole river bank was silent, with only the faint sound of water splashing, but tens of thousands of pairs were tortured by hunger.
The miserable eyes were closely monitoring the water surface of Su Wenjiang River, refusing to let go of even the slightest fluctuation of the waves.
The aquatic masters have already sneaked into the channel from the tributaries and are hiding in the cold river water, keeping an eye on the enemy's transport fleet. Almost all the winged elites are flying in the gaps in the clouds, carefully observing the enemy forces that may appear.
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At midnight, the long-awaited Demon Alliance transport fleet finally appeared. The five warships serving as outposts, carrying a few swaying lights, leisurely passed in front of the reconnaissance force and leisurely approached the ambush circle.
The reinforced security posts placed along the way made the generals of the Sibiya Expeditionary Force break into cold sweats. Fortunately, the camouflage skills of the lurking units were very good, and the distance between them was sufficient, so they were not discovered by the enemies patrolling along the river.
The sentries walked around for a few times and found nothing unusual, so they released the homing pigeon.
The main event is about to begin!
"All units will monitor closely and report any abnormal situation as soon as possible. No one is allowed to act without authorization. They must wait for all the opponent's fleets to enter the ambush circle and then start fighting at the same time!" The command issued an urgent order. Judging from the style, it is obvious.
It was His Majesty Cohen's command: "Don't panic, the enemy's fleet is huge, enough for us to survive for half a year!"
More than half an hour later, the first fleet transporting supplies finally appeared in the sight of the scouts. More than sixty fully loaded transport ships, escorted by more than a dozen inland warships, were getting closer and closer. Because the canal before
The battle caused the Demon Alliance to lose almost all its standard ships, so these temporarily collected ships ranged in size and shape, ranging from small ferries with two or three arms high to large ships with more than ten arms high...
But in the eyes of Sibia soldiers, they are all so cute and amiable.
The urgent intelligence sent back showed that there were another transport fleet of the same number fifteen and thirty miles behind this fleet.
According to previous inspections by intelligence personnel on board the ships, most of these three transport fleets were filled with food! Food that was vital to life!
The troops responsible for the ambush quickly adjusted their positions, but no matter what they did, the three transport ships would have to take two bites.
Cohen was sitting on a saddle, waiting for the last intelligence feedback from the intelligence personnel. For tonight's battle, Cohen took off his black iron armor and put on the rarely worn Demonic Killing Armor given by the princess of the God Clan. In this way
On a dark night, the black surface of this armor not only did not reflect any light, but instead seemed to absorb the surrounding shadows.
"Sir!" Mafa walked over cautiously, her voice deliberately lowered with great excitement: "According to your order, we released some waterfowl that eat food along the river. Now, these little treasures are chasing the enemy.
Behind the transport ship, some even flew onto the ship, and they couldn’t be driven away no matter how hard they tried. It was such a joy to eat!”
"Emergency shipments of food will always be spilled." Cohen nodded happily: "The enemy's transport ships are in three teams, right?"
"Yes, the three transport teams look very cautious. They are fifteen miles apart, which is a bit different from what we expected." Mafa replied: "The ambush team mobilized all the horses to the logistics, and they must be at the same time
If you do, you can only hit two."
"Pinch off the head and tail first! Then leave the middle ones and tidy them up slowly." Without thinking, Cohen gave the order immediately and decisively: "Go ahead and arrange it. When the transport ship reaches the fire range, it will attack immediately. The supporting troops will make all preparations - start execution!"
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The chirping of nightingales lingered on the shore. The demon coalition scouts who were on alert had been firmly locked by the opponents hiding in the dark. The unnoticed transport fleet still maintained a constant speed and sailed forward steadily.
.On the bow deck of the fleet leader, an experienced old sailor kept throwing down the bow ruler in his hand to measure the water depth, and the voice of the report continued to echo.
"Seventeen arms - normal."
"Eighteen arms - normal."
"Sixteen arms - normal."
"Nineteen arms - calipers."
The old sailor leaned forward to pull the bow ruler, but found a dark shadow under the water. He opened his mouth in horror: "There is a ghost..."
A short crossbow with splashes of water flew over and cut off the sailor's words!
With a sound of "Bang!", a huge water column exploded at the bow of the ship. In the eyes of the sailors who looked up in shock, several black shadows came out of the white water spray in the sky. Before their toes even touched the deck, several rays of snow appeared.
Arcs of light shot out from the hands of the black shadows. Several samurai swords on the bow deck were missing from their sheaths, and their headless bodies were sprayed with blood mist and fell backwards!
At the same time, continuous firelight lit up in the dense forest on the south bank, which were countless torches that were lit at the same time!
What came with the wind was the sound of magical chants that kept ringing beside the fire!
"The deck was attacked - there is an ambush on the south bank!" the panicked ship boss shouted, while subconsciously turning the rudder to keep the transport ship away from the south bank.
As soon as the first ship turned its direction, other ships in the fleet also turned around and headed towards the north shore - they just happened to avoid a batch of rockets fired from the south shore, but one of the slow-moving ships was still hit by the rockets, and its sails immediately burned.
stand up!
The water jets beside the ship continued to explode, and more and more Sibia soldiers jumped from the bow of the ship onto the decks of the ships, fighting with the samurai on the transport ship.
But these warriors on board the ship are not like ordinary soldiers. They are well-armed and have outstanding combat skills. Almost everyone can wear themselves with fighting spirit, which is very advantageous in such small-scale battles. And the first batch of Sri Lankans to board the ship
The Biya soldiers failed to establish a numerical advantage and were unable to control the situation for a while.
The battle on the deck reached a stalemate.
The river warships escorting the transport fleet approached the south bank at full speed, with their crossbows open and fighting back. The archers behind the crenels also began to suppress them. While arranging a shore assault, the commander loudly ordered the transport ships: "Speed up! Speed up!"
Rush over!"
The first ship of the fleet had already deviated from the center of the river by dozens of arms and was on the north side of the relatively safe channel. The boss of the ship also knew that the situation was critical and there was no need to delay, so he shouted and tried to straighten the rudder, but found that the rudder was stuck tightly.
No matter how hard I try, I can't move an inch!
"We've been fooled... We've been fooled." The boss of the ship looked back at the transport ships behind him and found that none of the ships could return to normal course and all rushed diagonally towards the north shore. So he lost all hope and shouted sadly: "Sibiya's
The son of a bitch is on the North Shore!"
"Bang! Bang! Boom - bang!" The first ship rushed out of the channel, and the rocks kept scraping the bottom of the ship. In the violent shaking, it finally hit a huge rock on the north shore, a kind of rock that only belongs to ships.
The tragic fate befell it - stranded on the bottom!
Amidst the sharp whistles and violent shaking, the Sibians on the bow simultaneously used heavy hands to force away the demon warriors, and then neatly jumped off the deck with a beautiful backflip, splashing water on the river.
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The demon warriors who had lost their target looked at each other and chased to the edge of the deck. Only then did they understand the reason for the Sbia people's sudden retreat - soft chanting sounded continuously on the shore, the magician, Sbia's
Magician!
The requests to the ancient gods and the orders given to the elemental spirits overlapped and echoed each other. The deafening shouts of death from far and near seemed very ethereal and strange.
The frightened warriors turned around and ran away, but it was already too late.
"Bang!" The brilliance along the river on the north bank exploded. Hundreds of silvery-white lightning bolts as thick as buckets shot out at the same time, swimming past and tying the river bank and the transport ship tightly together! The lightning was enough to cause temporary blindness.
In the fierce light, the top of the lightning swept across the hull and threw out clouds of ashes. All the exposed metal was spraying sparks around, and even the nails on the deck were flying in the air in bright red!
The lightning chain woven by the Sibia people only lasted three breaths, but the sails and railings of each ship began to burn. The fire spread from left to right, but the jealous escort commander shouted: "No fire fighting is allowed.
Let it burn!”
Even if you can't eat it yourself, you can't leave this food to the Sibia people!
However, the escort commander underestimated the tactical cooperation of the Sibia people, the Sibia magician's understanding of the nature of magic, and even more underestimated the determination of Cohen Keda!
Since Cohen was here to grab food, how could he let the food turn to ashes in the flames?
For the samurai on the deck, today is a particularly miserable day. The paralysis caused by the chain lightning has not disappeared, and a huge white ice mist sweeps over from the shore, and the rapidly cooling air blows the air above the deck.
Everything was frozen, even the fighting spirit armors of the warriors were covered with a layer of white frost. Every time they took a step, every time they raised their hands, they could hear a soft "clucking" sound at their joints, as if they hadn't happened in ten thousand years.
Oiled machinery!
These stiff warriors who had lost the ability to move could only wait helplessly for the blow from the Sibian people. In their desperate eyes, the array of wind blades flew past the ground one after another, raging crazily on the deck——
It hit the mast, cut the flesh, and tore the bulkhead. Everything it encountered was completely changed beyond recognition, and even the blood-colored ice particles that flew out were ground into powder!
The superb personal combat skills of the samurai are outstanding, but under the joint attack of the army magicians, all this can only be a joke. No matter how flexible and sharp skills, no matter how outstanding jumping ability is, it is all in vain!
Only some of the slick-headed samurai jumped out of the deck and hid in the cabin, narrowly escaping this round of magical attacks. But when they stood on the deck again, they had to face opponents who far exceeded their numbers -
Almost instantly, the deck was filled with elemental creatures summoned by the magician Sbia.
On the usual battlefield, Sibia's army magicians mainly use direct strikes and blessing magic, and have no need for such summoning magic. Therefore, they are happy to have such an opportunity to brush up on their unfamiliar skills. No one minds the flames.
Standing next to the water element will look weird, not to mention that the spikes on the surface of the earth puppet are corroded by the wind elves, thus reducing its lethality.
Although the superstructure has long been destroyed, the stage of the deck is still too small for these elemental summoned creatures, and they cannot show their strong figure and charming grace at all. There is almost no need for a magician to give orders to these summoned creatures.
He began to exercise his instinct - to protect his own foothold and let other creatures understand that he was the lord of this deck!
Crystal arrows shuttled back and forth, dazzling flame haloes bloomed, sharp wind blades rotated back and forth, and dull earth teeth roared one after another... The deck was like out-of-control fireworks, with all kinds of lights rising and falling one after another.
, complementing each other, every explosion shocked the demonic coalition forces, and every arc harvested life!
The demonic warriors, who had no power to fight back, were defeated by this continuous blow.
The entire river bank was a scene of one-sided killing, and the river was full of warriors and boatmen fleeing for their lives...
Another whistle sounded, and the magical chants that echoed on the shore dropped at the same time. The sparse summoned creatures on the deck converged, and their figures gradually became blurry and transparent, until they completely disappeared into the dark night. Then, the woods on the north shore
There was a shout that shocked everyone: "Clear the place! Isolate! Shoot!"
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
In the darkness, the sound of three bowstrings was particularly clear, and a dense rain of arrows splashed towards the transport fleet from the edge of the dense forest. After these arrows passed by, there was no more moving creature on the ship - a cry of death in the style of Sbia.
The sound exploded fiercely along the river for more than ten miles, and countless small teams rushed out of the dense forest carrying boat climbing tools!
Just when Sibiya's long-range troops were beating the coalition escort ship to death, other troops began to scramble wildly. Springboards, ladders, ropes, hooks, all the traditional magic weapons of Sibiya soldiers came out, and they rushed to build them.
Side support.
The larger transport boat was full of people, and they actually put things on the bottom of the smaller transport boat and dragged it directly to the shore with ropes!
"It's over, it's all over!" The escort commander looked at the irreversible chaos on the riverside, gritted his teeth, raised his knife and got down from the command position: "Go to the shore, put down the springboard - brothers, follow me and fight up!"
"Kill!" The soldiers in the cabin were also howling crazily. As early as a few days ago, their ferocity was aroused by the order of the coalition commander, and the transport team was destroyed. No matter what, they could not escape death.
It's better to die on the battlefield and leave a good name to future generations!
"Kill!" Braving the long-range attack of the Sibyans, the six escort warships successfully washed ashore. The moment the decks touched the bottom of the river, all the springboards were lowered, and the soldiers in the cabins swarmed out.
The sound of killing was loud. Sibia's side had been prepared in advance and sent part of its troops to block it. The two sides started an inextricable fight in the river that was as shallow as their feet and as deep as their waists!
The water splashed continuously, reflecting the messy firelight. The sharp blade caused a scream and broke through the body wrapped in iron armor. In an instant, a large cloud of flying blood mist was ejected, and the water surface of fifty arms along the coast was stained.
A patch of scarlet, with grain bags, flags, half-burnt masts, and countless human bodies floating in it, either complete or incomplete...
When the war was at its most intense, Cohen led a group of guards to the river bank. While commanding nearby, he personally supervised the magicians and witch doctors as they verified the food on the transport ship.
After making sure everything was normal, he let go of his worries.
"Sir, our attack on the transport fleet behind us has also started at the same time. According to the report from Yiren, the fighting there is more intense than ours, but the situation is still normal." Mafa hurried over: "
The fire was blazing into the sky, and the transport fleet in the middle must have known about our presence, but they did not stop, but instead accelerated towards us."
"It seems that our troops deployed on the south bank gave them a misunderstanding. They didn't know the situation on the bank, so they didn't dare to stay or evacuate." Cohen thought for a while, turned around and ordered: "The battle here must be completed as soon as possible.
Before a transport fleet arrives, we must rush to transport as much food as possible ashore!"
"Yes!" A group of heralds around him ran away.
"Look at this, we can capture nearly fifty ships, all of which are filled with food and fodder!" Mafa observed the battle on the river: "If we intercept the second transport fleet, our food problem will be
It’s completely solved.”
"Ask them to speed up and be more agile with their hands and feet!" Cohen replied calmly: "Our situation will be even more dangerous. It will take a whole day just to transport the food on fifty ships, let alone the second one."
Transport fleet - you quickly call the reserve commando team to move up and prepare for possible enemy counterattacks. The logistics system will come over immediately to take over and make every effort to transport food! Remember, we only want food and nothing else, and the troops are not allowed to covet it.
Little bargain!”
"yes!"
Before the battle was over, the carriage driven by the logistics staff arrived at the river bank. Bags of blood-stained food were loaded onto the carriage, one by one. The unloaded empty boats were towed one by one.
The center of the river was sunk and the waterway was tightly blocked.
After this short but fierce battle, the ambush force handed over everything to the reserve force. They rescued the wounded on the river bank and made a fire to cook. With the seasonal fruits and vegetables transported on the ship, the entire army, including Cohen,
Finally, I had my first fully rationed, half-cooked battlefield meal in more than ten days.
Everyone praised it and said it was extremely delicious.
But after eating this meal, Cohen's attitude towards the last transport fleet changed. He had to grab the food on board - the taste of hunger is really terrible, even for a rational person like Cohen.
"Sir, let's have a bowl of hot soup to go away the cold!" The logistics officer, who had been fed up with anger these days and dared not raise his head to be a good person, finally felt proud and personally brought a bowl of clear soup to Cohen.
Cohen took the bowl in his hand and was in a good mood for a moment. He couldn't help patting the logistics officer on the shoulder and confiding in him.
"I said you should exercise more. Look at how fat you are." Taking a sip of soup, Emperor Sibia said this sentence that was widely circulated after the war and directly affected the standards of logistics practitioners: "This figure
It's not a problem in normal times, but in an army that's short of food, it's the original sin for a logistics officer to be fatter..."
Amidst the roar of laughter around him, the logistics officer was dumbfounded on the spot, but His Majesty the Emperor was in the mood to joke, which in itself showed that the future of the army was bright.
"Report to the commander." The herald came running from a distance: "The last transport fleet is about to reach the ambush position."
"Okay!" Cohen stood up, put the bowl in the logistics officer's hand, and called to the people around him: "Let's go get another vote from him!"
"Why don't you leave after eating... Hey... you haven't eaten yet..." After sending the emperor and his party away, the logistics officer turned around and glared sternly at the surrounding soldiers: "What are you looking at? What are you looking at?
See? The troops are no longer short of food! If you don’t hurry up and cook, this battle will be over in a while!"
Then, I touched my belly and couldn't help but smile. (To be continued)