"(In Shen language) Oh my god, what is this? What the hell is that thing?"
At the exit of Yaling Gorge in the dark night, a Jie tribe cavalry shouted as if he was crazy.
From the constant screams of his companions around him, he realized that he had been ambushed, but he had no idea about the enemy who ambushed them or what kind of weapons they used to deal with them.
The dark environment around him made the fear in his heart even more intense. The fear of the unknown made a Jie warrior's heart tremble unconsciously.
Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking through the air in front of him. Then, before he could react, he suddenly felt as if something was piercing through the sheepskin jacket on his body with strong force.
his body.
What on earth is that?
He gathered up the little energy he had left and reached out to touch his chest. Only then did he realize that there was a bloody hole in his chest.
It doesn't look like an arrow...is it a weapon called a "crossbow" in the Central Plains countries? But, how can that kind of crossbow be so thick? How can it be so powerful?
He thought in horror, and immediately, he felt as if his whole body was light, and all the pain quickly disappeared, and his whole body was floating upward like smoke.
Then, he couldn't feel anything anymore.
"Pah——"
A heavy object fell heavily to the ground.
However, the sound of the heavy object falling to the ground was simply inaudible in the chaotic situation at this moment, because it seemed that all the Jie tribe cavalry were howling miserably or making screams of terror.
"(In Shen language) Ambush! It must be an ambush by the Wei people!"
"(In Shen language) Retreat quickly! Retreat to Yaling Gorge quickly!"
The Jie tribe cavalry here were shouting in fear. Suddenly, a loud noise like a mountain collapse came from the direction of Yaling Gorge behind them, and the roar was deafening.
"(Speaking of the Yi people) It's the Wei people! The Wei people have blocked the exit on the other side of Yaling Gorge! We are doomed, we will be killed by these Wei people!"
"(In the language of the Yi people) Calm down!... Rush over! Now that things have come to a point, all we have to do is rush over!"
"(In Shen language) Charge! The only way to survive is by rushing over!"
After some arguments and commotions, the vast majority of the Jie Clan's advance cavalry plucked up the courage to charge towards the unknown and terrifying Wei weapons ahead, in an attempt to break through the encirclement. During this period, not a small number of the Jie Clan's advance cavalry were also present.
With a sense of luck, we returned to Yaling Gorge, hoping to return the way we came.
What a shame...you have missed your opportunity.
Hearing the sound of horse hooves ahead, Zhao Hongrun secretly shook his head.
In his opinion, if these Jie cavalry made a decisive decision to break through the encirclement at the moment they sensed the ambush, then the Shangshui Army's defense line might be broken through by them, but these people, because of the fear of the unknown, wasted their time.
The best opportunity to break through allowed Shang Shuijun, who was not skilled in loading crossbow arrows, to push the second wave of crossbow arrows into the arrow trough of the serial crossbow.
As expected, Zhao Hongrun did not need to order the second wave of crossbow bolts at all. The Shang Shui army who had loaded the subsequent crossbow bolts immediately pulled the trigger and fired the crossbow bolts.
"Puff puff puff——"
There was another strange sound of a foreign object penetrating the flesh.
Although the night was dark at the moment, the Shang Shui Army could still feel that the Jie cavalry in front were turned upside down by powerful war weapons such as the serial crossbow, and a large number of them died.
"Puff puff puff——"
The third wave of crossbow bolts was launched.
With just three waves of crossbow arrows, the Jie cavalry in front seemed to have lost their vitality, so much so that they could no longer hear the sound of horse hooves.
After hearing Zhao Hongrun's general order, after loading the crossbow bolts, the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army did not pull the trigger again to fire the crossbow bolts. Instead, they lit the torches from the flints they carried and threw the torches forward.
"hiss--"
A sudden gasp of air came from Shang Shuijun's side.
Because they were shocked to see that there were corpses scattered in front of them, whether it was the Jie cavalry or their mounts, they all fell in a pool of blood, covering the land in this area.
Only a small group of Jie tribe cavalry who were lucky enough to survive huddled in the pile of corpses, shivering with their heads in their hands.
This... what a powerful weapon this is! Is this the power of the new repeating crossbow developed by the Smelting Bureau? It is so... so amazing!
Sima An's eyes were filled with unprecedented excitement.
Suddenly, he heard vague foreign language coming from the distance. It seemed that some Jie tribe cavalry who were not yet dead were holding their heads and praying among the corpses, praying for the protection of the gods they believed in.
Sima An's eyes turned cold, and he lowered his voice and said to Zhao Hongrun: "Your Highness, these people..."
Under the light of the torch, Zhao Hongrun silently closed his eyes.
Sima An understood immediately. He looked back and heard that two generals, Bai Fangming and Bai Fangming, made a gesture of cutting their throats.
After a while, a group of infantrymen from the Dangshan Army returned. They were seen holding a torch with their left hand tied with a shield, and holding a sharp blade in their right hand, marching forward in a row towards the front where the corpses of the Jie tribe's cavalry were scattered.
After the battle!
This is the reason why no one has ever been able to escape from the Dangshan Army.
The infantry of the Dangshan Army marched forward neatly under the light of torches, using their sharp blades to cut each corpse.
Suddenly, one of the Dangshan Army infantrymen stopped, because in front of him, there was a Jie tribe cavalryman who was lucky enough not to be shot by a repeating crossbow. He was looking at the corpses of his companions around him with a horrified face.
He was horrified to find that his companions were shot to death by crossbow arrows as thick as two fingers. These crossbow arrows were as hard as metal. No wonder these flying arrows could easily
The ground penetrates the human body and breaks bones, even the strongest skull in the human body.
He was shocked to see the corpse of a companion beside him. Half of his head was shattered by such a terrifying weapon, and his death was extremely miserable.
"(In the language of the Yi people) You despicable Wei people! You actually... actually used this despicable, despicable monster to massacre the people of the God of the Plateau. The God of the Plateau will not let you go..."
This Jie cavalryman shouted in fear and anger at the Dangshan Army infantryman in front of him.
But the next moment, he was beheaded by the Dangshan Army infantryman.
After shaking off the blood on the blade, the Dangshan Army infantryman calmly stepped over the headless corpse that slowly fell to the ground.
"Hmph! I don't know what you are talking about!"
It has to be said that these Jie cavalry, known as warriors, had already lost their fighting spirit and were trembling after being brutally attacked by Wei's new serial crossbows. They were shocked by the miserable death of their companions, even if they were the Dangshan Army.
The infantrymen walked up to them, but without putting away the confusion on their faces, they were killed one by one.
"The Shangshui Army is on standby, and the Dangshan Army...is taking care of the aftermath!"
Zhao Hongrun ordered in a deep voice.
Sima An accepted the order happily, because he knew that the corpses in front were not all of the Jie tribe's advance cavalry, and there were still many people who fled back to Yaling Gorge.
"Bai Fang!" Sima An ordered: "Go and kill the remaining enemy troops in Yaling Gorge!"
"yes!"
Bai Fangming, who had always been bohemian, acted extremely serious at this moment and shouted: "The soldiers who are attacking the camp must obey the order and follow my general into the valley to kill the enemy!"
Hula la, a large group of Dangshan Army infantry poured into the Yaling Gorge again, facing the small group of Jie Tribe's advance cavalry who had fled into the canyon but had no way to retreat because the exit of the canyon on the other side had been cut off by the Shang Shui Army.
Launch the final offensive.
Here, the soldiers of the Shangshui Army and the Dangshan Army followed Zhao Hongrun's orders and began to collect the enemy corpses and recover the fired crossbow bolts.
After all, although there are 300,000 of these special crossbow arrows, they are consumables made entirely of metal. The cost is not low, so save on them if you can.
By the time the sky broke, the battlefield had been cleared, and the bodies of the Jie tribe's advance cavalry had been buried by the Shangshui Army and the Dangshan Army.
It has to be said that even the Dangshan Army, which has a strong psychological quality, can still feel a chill in its heart after seeing the corpses of these Jie tribe cavalry who have been baptized by repeated crossbows, with mutilated corpses and miserable deaths.
The power of the repeating crossbow was so great that three waves of crossbow bolts, a total of 4,500 crossbow bolts, almost killed nearly 5,000 Jie tribe cavalry here, as well as more than 10,000 mounts, so that this ambush battle
After the battle, the Dangshan army only harvested more than 200 sound horses.
"This is really...a pity."
Looking at the corpses of war horses scattered all over the place, even Sima An couldn't help but sigh with regret.
Around the first quarter of the hour, as the sky gradually became brighter, Bai Fangming, the general of the Dangshan Army, led the infantry under his command and lined up from the Yaling Gorge.
At this time, Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army, was standing in the land covered with blood, inspecting the work of cleaning up the battlefield after the war. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Bai Fangming's army coming out of the Yaling Gorge.
"General Bai." Wu Ji clasped his fists.
"It's Bai Fang, my surname is Bai Fang." Bai Fangming scratched his hair and said angrily.
"Uh, General Bai Fang..." Wu Ji corrected his address to the other party.
However, Bai Fangming didn't pay much attention to this. After waving his hand, he glanced at the red land around him and said with an exaggerated expression: "So it was so tragic? I really didn't pay attention at the time..."
Wu Ji also looked worried and asked: "I wonder about the Jie cavalry in the canyon..."
"They've all been buried." Bai Fangming said with a smile: "Disposing corpses carelessly will cause epidemics."
"..." Wu Ji opened his mouth in shock, wanting to say that this was not actually what he wanted to ask.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Wu Ji felt that Bai Fangming's words were indeed an answer.
It was clearly infantry fighting against cavalry, but it seemed to be very easy... I don't know how many casualties there were.
Looking at Bai Fang Ming's relaxed expression, Wu Ji hesitated for a while, but finally did not ask about the casualties.
After all, even if the Shangshui Army and the Dangshan Army were friendly forces, it still seemed a bit rude to ask each other such sensitive questions.
After bidding farewell to Wu Ji, Bai Fangming went straight to Zhao Hongrun and Sima An and reported to them the results of their pursuit of the Jie clan cavalry into the valley.
Although it was said that it was with the help of the terrain and the new type of repeating crossbows, it was possible to destroy an advance cavalry of the Jie tribe with five or six thousand riders at such a small cost, which greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Shangshui Army and the Dangshan Army.
soar.
Not long after, Zhao Hongrun received news from Chenggao Pass.
It turned out that two hours ago, a team transporting grain at Chenggao Pass was attacked by a mixed army of Yi and Yi people in the Gong and Luo area.