Chapter 225: The Army
After another two days, in these two days, Lu Xiaoqi asked people to cut down a lot of bamboo at the foot of Beishan, first outside the range of the trap, built a simple watchtower, and the rest of the bamboo, he thought about imitating the Qi family army and making a "wolf whire"!
Of course, there is a serious shortage of metal here, and it is impossible to make a real wolf whire, but sharpening the bamboo head and keeping the bamboo branches can still play a certain role in blocking the enemy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
According to the confessions of the two foreigners, the weapons used by the slave army were generally spears one and a half people high, so Lu Xiaoqi let the "wolf whizzard" be kept at least three people high, after all, "one inch long, one inch strong".
Coupled with the obstruction of bamboo branches, combat effectiveness can be effectively formed.
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"Knock knock...... Knock knock! ”
The next morning, the sheepskin drum came from afar, and it was beaten twice and paused, and then three times, which was the early warning "signal" arranged by Lu Xiaoqi for the lookout.
The slave army is coming!
The villagers soon gathered under the watchtower, and all adults, men and women, came.
Lu Xiaoqi also climbed the watchtower.
In the distance, you can see about two dozen boats, not bamboo rafts or rafts, but real boats!
Luckily, these weren't large ships, with about ten people on each boat.
Sure enough, as the two strangers had said, the weapons they held in their hands were indeed spears, and some of them had bows and arrows on their backs.
The last boat is probably occupied by the "officer", because the last boat is slightly larger and wider than the others.
The "officer" is estimated not to be a slave, Lu Xiaoqi guessed.
"Get your weapons ready!" Lu Xiaoqi shouted below.
The villagers picked up the "wolf whicks" one after another, and of course, there were also those who directly held farm tools.
The number of troops from the opposite side was about 200 people, but the villagers here were more than 700 people, in addition to the old and weak.
Lu Xiaoqi stared at the river tightly, to be honest, he was still a little nervous, after all, this was an era of cold weapons, these slaves had experienced wars, and they should not be comparable to the villagers here, so even if the villagers had an advantage in numbers, if they rushed through the trap, it was estimated that even if the villagers won, there would be a lot of casualties.
The fleet sailed to the middle of the river, and suddenly, Lu Xiaoqi saw that the boats began to jolt.
A huge whirlpool has suddenly appeared!
Happiness came too suddenly, making Lu Xiaoqi feel that luck was on their side today.
Obviously, the fleet had known in advance about the horror of this section of the river, and they should have been prepared for such a long time to come.
When these ships are launched, they are deliberately fanned out, and each ship is spaced a distance between them, so that even if they encounter a whirlpool, they can be guaranteed not to be completely destroyed.
Two ships were swirled by the whirlpool, and if they were rafts, they would have been swallowed up, but even so, in the face of the expanding whirlpool, these two ships were unlucky.
The other ships went around the whirlpool and continued to move forward, one boat stopped not far from the whirlpool, a guy with antlers on his head kneeling on the boat, too far away to hear a sound, but judging by his movements, it should be doing some prayer ritual.
Then, a magical scene happened - the wind picked up on the river!
The two ships trapped by the whirlpool actually put up their sails at this time!
Lu Xiaoqi's eyes widened when he saw it, the civilization level of this slave city-state is not low! Although the sail looks very rudimentary.
Under the power of the wind, the sailboat was slowly "breaking free" from the control of the whirlpool!
In general, even if there is really the help of the wind, it is unlikely to play a role - the boat is constantly spinning, and the direction of the wind is in a small range, which can generally be considered to be certain, so in the case of unstable sails, it is difficult to borrow force.
Now, it's clear that someone can constantly adjust the direction of the wind in order to exert a constant force on the boat and help it break free!
"! How can this be fought? With such a 'special class'? If it were in my plane, this would be a superpower! Lu Xiaoqi frowned, exclaimed in his heart, and looked at the "antler man" kneeling on the boat.
Standing next to Lu Xiaoqi, the villagers who were originally in charge of the lookout certainly also saw that scene, and they didn't see him panic, but just sighed lightly and said softly: "The people on those three boats are all finished!" ”
"What?" Lu Xiaoqi didn't know why this villager said this, but in the next second, the whirlpool in the river instantly expanded several times, and even the boat carrying the antlers man was swallowed together!
The whirlpool was so huge, it reminded Lu Xiaoqi of the sand sea world of Horus, the huge abyss in the vast desert!
"How is that possible?!" Lu Xiaoqi's eyes widened, and he visually measured that the diameter of that vortex should be sixty or seventy meters! And the ship that was "swallowed" by it was only about 10 meters in a pitiful way!
"O Son of God! I have seen the whirlpool in this river many times, and the most terrifying thing about it is that it can expand rapidly, and if it is entangled, it will never survive if you don't get out of it immediately! "When I was a young child, I saw my father venture to cast a net near the center of the river and be swallowed up by the whirlpool!" Just like just now! ”。
Lu Xiaoqi nodded, it seems that it is really all up to luck to cross this river, especially the small boat, which is almost dead and dead.
The loss of 3 ships does not seem to be a big deal for this fleet, and the vitality is not damaged.
But Lu Xiaoqi breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that there was only one guy wearing antlers, then, next, it was a mortal battle!
In a short time, several boats came to the shore, and the soldiers jumped out of the boat, but as soon as their feet hit the ground, they screamed, and the river beside the boats was stained red—the soles of their feet must have been pierced!
"Stop!"
The "officer's" boat was also approaching, and he warned loudly that the remaining soldiers on board would not be allowed to jump off the boat at will, and it was evident that he was experienced in marching and reacted quickly.
"Drop your shields!" The officer shouted, "Step on the shield and take turns!" ”
The first soldier dropped his wooden shield, stepped on it, took the second soldier's shield, threw it forward, stepped over, and the second soldier stepped on the first shield, took the third soldier's shield in his hand, handed it to the first soldier, and threw it forward......
In this way, the soldiers passed through the "wooden thorn area" in the river beach area!
Therefore, we should not underestimate the wisdom of the ancients!
After crossing the "wooden thorn area", you will reach the real trap area, and the shield will no longer work, because the trap is too big, and the soldiers in the front row fall into the trap one after another, and are pierced by sharp stakes!
At this time, this slave army was still more than ten meters away from the earthen dam, and they had been reduced from more than 200 people to more than 100 people - more than 20 people were swallowed up by the whirlpool in the river, about 40 people were pierced on the soles of their feet on the shore, and now there are more than 30 people who have fallen into the trap!
Because the trap is dug so densely, it is impossible to think of a detour!
And this army of slaves is too small to use the "sea of people" tactic, it is impossible to pile traps with the corpses of soldiers, so now they are simply in a dilemma!
Lu Xiaoqi nodded with satisfaction, it seems that the trap tactics have succeeded, that "officer" is a big bald head, and he is staring at the trap in front of him with a gloomy face at the moment.
Next, he either chooses to retreat or choose to move on, but if he advances, there will definitely be battle damage, and before he sees the enemy, he is almost dead, how can he fight?
But the "officers" will not retreat, because if they retreat, they will die if they go back, and these slaves will also die.
Slave owners are not benevolent gods.
So, he ordered the soldiers to keep poking the ground with their spears, poking into the empty place and not leaving, poking until the real place and then landing on the ground.
But the traps they dug were too dense, and the spacing between the traps was too narrow, so narrow that they could only accommodate one foot, very thin, and it was easy to collapse, and once they collapsed, it was the same as falling into a trap, and the soldiers would be pierced.
But even so, a lot of soldiers were caught under the earthen dam!
At this time, there were probably only about fifty people left in this team.
They used their shields to break the wooden thorns stuck in the dam, and built a wall to try to climb over the dam, but they succeeded, and climbed to the top of the dam.
Finally, they could see the inside of the village and the villagers gathered under the watchtower.
At this time, the distance between the two sides is still more than 80 meters.
Looking at the structure of their bows and arrows, they are very primitive, and they are not the kind of compound bows of later generations, and the range is not known how far, but the villagers should not be within their effective range.
After all, "at the end of a strong crossbow, you can't wear a reed", not to mention that they can't be considered a "strong crossbow" at all.
Sure enough, the "officer" did not give the order to shoot arrows, because he knew that shooting would not kill people.
However, seeing the goal of this trip is better than fighting other people's traps just now, and not even looking at people.
Lu Xiaoqi went down the watchtower and looked at the "officer", and the "officer" naturally noticed Lu Xiaoqi, who was protected by the regiment at once.
Unlike the previous outsiders, he almost immediately determined that Lu Xiaoqi was the central figure of this group of people, although he looked too young.
The task given to him by the slave owner was to enslave the people of this mountain village, slaughter them directly in case of resistance, and then take care of the "salt mine" here, and then send people to pass the situation back, and finally the slave owner sent more people to "operate"!
It's just that they are too underestimated and have paid such a big price to see the villagers here!
Little did they know that these villagers would prepare in advance and set traps and ambushes for them!
The "officer" was extremely annoyed, this anger almost made him lose his mind, and he decided to do whatever it took to slaughter the villagers in front of him!
"Attack!" The target was ahead, there was no reason to hesitate, the officer gave the order.
"Plop!"
A dozen soldiers jumped, and alas, they stepped into the trap with one foot!
From under the earthen dam, there is still a trap area of about 50 meters!
The nightmare is far from over! (To be continued.) )