"Chapter 104: Surprise"
If we are to live, we should build ourselves a clock full of feelings, thoughts, and actions, and use it to replace this dull, monotonous, melancholy-stifling, reproachful, and cold-ticking time.
- Gorky (proletarian writer of the former Soviet Union, founder of socialist realist literature)
Because the number of horses and fences that were rushed during the day yesterday was extremely large, the horses and fences that stood in front of the soldiers under the command of Valk were no longer yesterday's thin three layers, but a solid defense line connected by ten layers of horses and fences with a distance of more than 50 meters between the front and back.
The only drawback of this strong line of defense was that when Valker's soldiers were cutting down the timber to create the horses and fences, the trees they cut down were not the living trees that Anton Jiazhong later requested, so that their horses and fences were extremely easy to burn in the face of open flames.
Although there were only four clay pots smashed on the horses and fences, no one could say how many would fall into their own lines next time, and in order to ensure the absolute safety of the iron gunners, Valk asked the iron gunners deployed close to the defense line to immediately retreat a hundred meters.
As soon as Valc's order was given, the forbidden iron gunners began to retreat, and at this moment, sixteen clay pots were once again projected from the walls of Hasedo Castle, and after the previous failed projection, the adjusted projectile equipment was relatively accurate.
Among the sixteen clay pots, none of them smashed their own soldiers, eleven of them smashed into the horses and the fence, and the remaining five smashed into the original position of the iron gunners.
The Kingdom of Lucy is a vassal kingdom of the city of Rome, and as the general of the army of the vassal kingdom, Valk would rather die a hundred soldiers under his command than transfer a single soldier of the city of Rome to his own use, and the reason for this is naturally needless to say.
The lucky Iron Gunners escaped by Walker's orders, but the barbarian warriors of the 3rd Lucy Legion who remained in place were not so lucky, and six of the clay pots thrown in the third round smashed into the dense array of the 2nd Wing.
Eight warriors were killed on the spot, and more than twenty warriors were scratched by the burst of pottery, such casualties can be described as insignificant to Valk, who has nearly 15,000 soldiers under his command, but he still feels extremely angry!
If dozens of soldiers were killed in a real battle, Valk, who was already brave and good at fighting, would not even frown, but before the battle was fought, he was killed and wounded by the enemy's clay pots, and such casualties were difficult for Valk to accept.
First he was proud and underestimated the enemy, and then fell into a rage, and the taboos of the generals were basically broken by Valk; this is not the key, the most fatal thing is that in the face of the clay pots thrown by the enemy army one after another, Valk did not let the barbarian warriors under his command retreat!
Hard-standing on the clay pot that fell from the sky but the head is not high, it is not a difficult thing for the barbarian warriors of the three wings at all, how can the barbarian warriors who have been crawling and rolling in all kinds of bloody and cruel survival battles since they were children be frightened by the clay pots?
After all the prepared clay pots on the city wall were ejected, Ando Daiki immediately asked his soldiers who had stopped during the projectile to continue to move forward; two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters, and fifty meters, Ando Daiki, who could already clearly see the faces of the soldiers of the Yan and Huang Army, once again stopped the soldiers under his command from moving forward.
The soldiers in front were only fifty meters away from the Yan and Huang Army's horse rejection fence defense line, and the archers in the rear were less than 100 meters away from the Yan Huang Army's horse rejection fence defense line.
The four thousand bows and arrows that also stopped, inserted the quivers on their waists into the soft ground step by step, and then pulled out the special arrows inside, and the spears that were responsible for protecting and assisting them one-on-one on the side helped them light the arrows with a fire fold.
Four thousand arrow-burning rockets flew into the sky from the fingertips of the archers and arrows, crossed the eight thousand allied soldiers in front, and shot into the Yanhuang Army's horse-repelling fence defense;
This is the price that Valk paid for underestimating the enemy, if he had arranged for his soldiers to cut down live wood to build horses and fences to strengthen the defense line like Yasuma Kunohe did last night, how could it be possible for an open fire to burn all the horses and fences on the entire defense line into a sea of fire in an instant?
It is a pity that there is no regret medicine to sell in any world, and Valk, who was forced to lead his army to retreat by the sea of fire in front of him, has retreated one or two hundred meters without a fight; not only that, but the shooting advantage he painstakingly created for the iron artillery gunners has also disappeared in the sea of fire.
Can the iron artillery gunners, who did not have the horses and fences to rely on, still be able to reach the front line as steadily as Mount Tai yesterday and suppress the charging enemy troops with the superiority of the iron cannons?
It took nearly an hour for the fire to be extinguished, and the officers and men of the two armies, who were on the left and right sides of the fire, were ready for a bloody battle.
Although the defending officers and men of the Yanhuang Army suffered a big loss, the morale of the barbarian warriors would not decline because of the loss of a defensive line; for the warlike barbarian warriors, face-to-face fighting was more exciting than defending through the defensive line!
As soon as the fire on the defensive line was extinguished, Daiki Ando, who personally took charge of the battle, led his 8,000 soldiers to charge, and the barbarian warriors of the two wings, who felt their blood boiling because they smelled the smell of bloody battle, also launched a counter-charge without hesitation!
The two armies that were rushing towards each other like two waves were about to fight together, and a rain of black arrows suddenly flew from behind the Uesugi army again, and nearly 10,000 barbarian warriors were caught off guard, and hundreds of soldiers were killed on the spot, and thousands of soldiers were wounded by arrows!
According to common sense, the Lucy warriors who completed the costume change in the city of Rome should not have suffered such heavy casualties in the rain of arrows composed of 4,000 arrows, because the lethality of the Yamato Empire's bows and arrows was not strong, and the leather armor equipped by the Lucy warriors was not bad.
Uesugi Jinghu, who was standing on the city wall and watching the battle, saw the soldiers of the Yan and Huang Army who were fierce in battle falling in pieces under the rain of arrows with their bows and arrows, but his face showed a rather smug smile; the general who was in charge of making special arrows overnight on the side even more flattered him in a timely manner: "It is still the lord who is wise and uses the iron tools collected from the city to temporarily make a batch of iron arrowheads, which has severely damaged the enemy army." ”
"Haha, the Yanhuang family is just a mountain village man after all. Uesugi Keitora was quite complacent.