"The demon is like a beast, there are also tribal families, there are also wives and children, and they also know that the defense village in the north of Yanzhou is strong, and there are heavy casualties every time they knock on the pass, even if they occasionally knock on the door and loot, they leave immediately, why bother?"

Su Aya looked at the demon barbarian soldiers who rode war beasts outside the city wall, and were harvested by rows of heavy crossbows, and the demon barbarian soldiers and the war beasts stepped down, with a strong body like an iron tower, wrapped in simple leather armor or iron armor, but they couldn't resist the tearing of the heavy crossbow arrows. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Watching the fresh and ferocious lives being torn to shreds and killed into a blur of flesh and blood, Su Aya was not as hard-hearted as Chen Hai, Wu Meng, and Huang Shuang, and she couldn't bear to see this scene, and couldn't help but ask Chen Hai in a low voice, why did the demon barbarians think about entering Yanzhou every three or five years to plunder.

"The demons are also monolithic, and they also divide forces of different sizes, competing with each other for fertile land, and the loser can only move to other places, competing with weaker tribes or countries for habitat land, but the winner may not be peaceful, and the large and small forces in the clan are also fighting for interests and power. When the internal interests are not divided enough, they will either split and kill each other, or they will transfer the contradictions to the outside, plundering and seizing more interests from the outside to fill the insatiable desires -- when do you think Yanzhou has stopped in recent years?"

Chen Hai tightened his face, looked at the battle outside Hengshan City, and slowly explained to Su Aya the deeper factors behind the southern invasion of the demon barbarians, and said,

"There is also a special place in the north, that is, every autumn, the cold sweeps through the north, and the land north of Hanhai is almost incapacitated, and the beasts will also move south. Many demon barbarian tribes move to the south of Dajin Mountain and Hanhai every winter to avoid the cold, crowded together, and do not want to breed more frequent internal contradictions and frictions, so they can only pass it on, and at the same time, a large number of demon barbarian tribes move south to avoid the cold, and it is easy to have a shortage of food. In recent years, the cold snap north of Hanhai has become more and more severe, which has also exacerbated the severe situation in the north. ”

"That's it!" Su Aya said with a sigh.

Wu Jinglin stood beside Chen Hai, but he didn't expect Chen Hai to lead his troops to defend the Northern Regions for the first time, and he had such a deep understanding of demon barbarians. However, what made Wu Jinglin even more frightened was the fierce battle outside the city walls.

The first wave of the demon barbarian's offensive, after being defeated, at this time, there was a black oppressive demon barbarian soldier who crossed the Tong River from the north and invaded to the south.

Seeing this scene, Wu Jinglin was also deeply surprised, and was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and only came back to his senses after a while, and said to Chen Hai with a blue face: "Chen Hou, the demon barbarian soldiers who entered the Hengshan defense line from the east road this time are probably not pieced together by a few small tribes, and it is very likely that the vanguard combat power sent by the demon barbarian gold tribe is ......."

This kind of tusked giant elephant that grows in the extreme northern wasteland, seven or eight meters high, each head has more than 10,000 catties, after crossing the Tong River, the stout four feet trample on the snow field, Chen Hai, Wu Jinglin They stand at the head of Hengshan City for more than ten miles and feel that their feet are shaking slightly, making people feel that even if there is a mountain in front, they will be knocked down by these giant elephants.

In terms of body shape, the Red War Beasts of the Long Xiang Battalion are also slightly inferior.

Of course, the combat power of the Red War Beasts is still much stronger than these giant elephants, but the key Dragon Beast Battalion only has seven or eight Red War Beasts at this time, all of which are assigned to Wu Meng, Zhou Jun, Le Yi and other generals to act as war horses, and they are not yet extravagant enough to be gathered together to form a heavy armor cavalry formation for use.

Wu Jinglin had seen this kind of tusked giant elephant before, but most of them were demon barbarian soldiers driving a dozen or dozens of small groups of giant elephants to attack the walled city on their side, and he had never seen two or three hundred giant elephants dispatched together, and it was a small corner fort that was assembled to attack the eastern flank.

Chen Hai knew the meaning of Wu Jinglin's reminder, his brows frowned slightly, and he didn't dare to peep at the demon barbarian soldiers on the periphery.

The demons are distributed in the north with Hanhai as the axis, which was called Mengzhou in ancient times, and the territory is much wider than that of Jinzhou and Yanzhou combined. Even if the density of the demon barbarian distribution is much lower than that of the human race in Yanzhou, in such a vast land, the absolute number cannot be underestimated, and the tribes are tens of thousands.

Among the tens of thousands of demon barbarian tribes, only the tribes with first-class strength can be called the golden tribes.

On a local battlefield, if you can gather two or three hundred war elephants to attack at a time, how can you not look like a small tribe?

Even if it was the Longxiang battalion, it would not be able to gather two or three hundred black-scaled and red-edged war beasts wearing heavy armor to form a formation at this time.

The distribution of the strength of the demon barbarian is also in a pyramid structure.

Although many prefectures and counties, tens or twenty small and medium-sized clans can make up tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but sending 10,000 elite soldiers from a top clan like the Dong clan are definitely two concepts.

The east and west corner forts built on the periphery of Hengshan City are in a hurry, just rammed earth to build walls, and the martial arts cultivation of the Spirit Realm can smash out several cracks with one punch, and they can't resist the impact of the assembly of the herds of war elephants, and it is likely that the front city wall was collapsed by the giant elephants in the first wave of attacks.

At this time, more than a dozen stone-throwing crossbows deployed in the corner fort on the east wing were also launched, but probably because they saw the giant elephant cluster rushing over, they were shocked and chose five or six hundred catties of stone bullets and threw them three thousand steps away.

It's just that the giant elephant and the demon barbarian soldiers are fast-moving targets, especially the demon barbarian soldiers have suffered losses in the previous contact battles, and at this time they also know the scattered formation, and the first wave of more than a dozen stone bullets was thrown over, although the two war elephants were knocked down, and the flesh and blood were blurred, but it couldn't change anything......

Wu Jinglin still wanted to remind Chen Hai of something, but seeing that Chen Hai's brows were frowning, his breath suddenly seemed to merge with the entire Hengshan City, knowing that he was communicating with the generals with divine thoughts.

It stands to reason that the six senses of a strong person in the Ming Realm have been raised to the stage of divine consciousness, which can make people feel that he has a substance-like breath, but it cannot directly condense sounds and images in the minds of others, which is almost a divine power that can only be mastered by a strong person in the Dao Dan Realm or even a strong person in the Dao Fetal Realm.

However, Chen Hai does not need to directly infuse sounds and images into other people's minds through his divine sense, he makes up a password in the army, so that the generals can memorize it by heart, he only needs to control the strength and frequency of the specific extension direction of the divine consciousness, and he can still communicate directly with the generals at a distance of thirty or forty miles.

Chen Hai also taught this method to Wu Jinglin.

Although only the powerhouses above the Enlightenment Realm can transmit messages in both directions in this way, the six senses of the Soul Clearing Realm are already sharp enough to be able to accept the news, which makes the control on the battlefield more tight, and the transmission of messages and military orders is more effective and fast within thirty or forty miles.

At this time, Wu Jinglin saw that the launch of the stone-throwing crossbow in the corner fort of the east wing had been quickly adjusted, presumably because Chen Hai had ordered him to give up using heavy stone bullets in the past and use stone-iron scattered bullets instead.

Each stone iron scatter bomb is much smaller, only fifty or sixty catties, but more than a dozen stone-throwing crossbows have more than 200 bullets at a time, and the coverage is much larger.

Tusked elephants have thick skin, and ordinary arrows can't even penetrate them, let alone hurt them.

Fifty or sixty pounds of stone and iron scattered bullets, thrown from two or three thousand steps away, are also extremely powerful, although they can smash them to the skin, but they cannot form fatal injuries and make them lose their mobility.

However, under the cover of this wave of stone and iron scattered bullets, the formation of the demon barbarian soldiers on the east flank was still stagnant.

The tusked giant elephant may be able to endure not serious flesh wounds, but seeing these stone and iron scattered bullets covering it, as the instinct of life, it will hesitate and have the urge to dodge, and the demon barbarian warriors and the war beasts that straddle down, no matter how strong their flesh and vitality are, there is no way to keep up with the giant elephant weighing 10,000 catties.

Even if some elite demon barbarian soldiers are powerful and good at martial arts, in the face of the scattered iron and stone bullets smashed in the air, if they don't want to dodge, they also need a sophisticated quenched gold shield to catch these stone and iron scattered bullets head-on.

If you want to use the iron halberd and iron spear in your hand to smash the stone bullets, there is no gold-level war halberd or battle axe, or you can smash the stone bullets smashed in the air, but the iron halberd and iron spear in your hand will inevitably break.

Seeing that the demon barbarian soldiers who attacked the east wing corner fort were delayed, Wu Jinglin felt the vibration under his feet at this time, and when he looked down, he saw the main city gate and the four secret gates on both sides opened, and fifteen chariots rumbled out, and the heavy armored cavalry and spear heavy armored soldiers were scattered on both sides and rear wings of the chariots, forming a mixed formation to reinforce the east wing corner fort.

Seeing that Chen Hai finally dispatched the chariot battalion, Wu Jinglin was both excited and nervous.

Previously, the main city of Hengshan and the two corner forts in the east and west were deployed on the city walls, only a dozen old-style machine crossbows.

Chen Hai never let the war bird battalion dispatch, after all, there were more than 100 war birds in his hands, and there were many demon barbarian soldiers who were good at riding and shooting, whether it was war birds or old-style organs, they couldn't even afford to lose crossbows, so Wu Jinglin had not seen the situation where the crossbow groups of organs were dispatched.

Of course, Chen Hai had not been dispatched by the chariot battalion of the Fifth Battalion before, and Wu Jinglin had never seen the new heavy crossbow, which was much different from the old mechanical crossbow.

At this time, Chen Hai sent all the fifteen chariots, Wu Jinglin was naturally excited, but he also knew that Hengshan City only had fifteen light and heavy chariots, and if the fifteen chariots could not tear the enemy's more than 200 war elephants to pieces, then they would not have any more to defend Hengshan City in the future.

At this time, Wu Jinglin couldn't help but be nervous.

The tonnage of war elephants is not as good as the light heavenly machine chariot, but it is not too much, especially when trampling on it when running wildly, the power is extremely terrifying, and a light chariot may not be able to withstand the trampling and collision of three or four war elephants.

The impact of the heavy celestial machine chariot is stronger, but there are only three of them, and the number is a little too small.

At this moment, Wu Jing didn't feel that their side was sure of victory in this contact battle, not to mention that the main force of the demon barbarians north of the Tong River also noticed that the chariot battalion was dispatched here, and two or three thousand cavalry were dispatched in the rear to strengthen the impact of the eastern flank.

In Wu Jinglin's view, the next contact battle will be a brutal battle of equal strength, and the main force of the demon barbarians in the north of Hengshan has not yet been dispatched......

It's been a tough battle.