Chapter 427: The Power of the Divine Crossbow
Fifteen days later, the sailors carrying this Pingnan Township Bingying B went smoothly to Zamboanga Fort on the southwestern tip of Mindanao.
At this time, www.biquge.info Zamboanga Fort has been fully built, this fort is located on the sea and mountains, the terrain is dangerous, and all kinds of defense measures are very perfect, it can be said that the Maguindanu aborigines outside are absolutely no longer capable of harassing this Zamboanga Fort.
And after taking the boat for so long to get here, all the soldiers of General B looked haggard and tired.
It's just that from the commander-in-chief Li Haoran to an ordinary soldier like Tan Sangou, everyone's eyes are full of expectations.
At this Zamboanga Fort, after three days of rest, all the soldiers of General B have recovered.
Subsequently, in the early morning of the fourth day, Cao Bianjiao immediately ordered Li Haoran to take the guide who led the way, and took the entire fully manned C Battalion B General Army, a total of 1,530 shield soldiers and 3,060 crossbowmen, to attack Bamao Village, which was not captured last time.
Before setting out for the battle, Cao Bianjiao shouted to all the soldiers of General B: "Brothers, I hope you will go here, you can completely wash away the shame of our army's defeat and loss, successfully win Bamao, and win the first victory for our army!" ”
"Battalion Commander Cao, don't worry, our army will definitely live up to its mission!" Li Haoran replied with a proud face. "Wan Sheng!" 'Wan Sheng!' "Kill the Tartars, get fame!" "Kill the Tartars, go to heaven!" …… The continuous shouts of the soldiers of General B who went out on the expedition were like a spring earthquake, echoing in the sky above Zamboanga Fort. "Let's go!" Li Haoran shouted loudly, led the more than 4,500 soldiers and horses of the C Battalion and B, and under the leadership of the guide, went all the way to the east. In this marching team, the last time he attacked Ba Mao, the prisoner who fled back in embarrassment, Ji Ran, went out again as a civilian officer with the army, and at this time, he could be described as having mixed feelings in his heart. It has been more than four months since the last defeat in the Ba Mao campaign, and now, the Tang army has finally started to attack again, and it is a shame for the past defeat! Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away! The Tang Army will never forget the slightest damage done to it at any time. The fully manned soldiers of Battalion C and B, led by dozens of shield soldiers holding large shields, meandered along the muddy path that was almost indistinguishable from the grass and trees, in the dense rainforest. The whole army walked for several miles, and there was no movement, as if the Maguindanu who attacked the Tang army last time had all disappeared. However, Rao was like this, and Li Haoran, the general of the unified army, did not dare to take it lightly at all, he knew that as his army became farther and farther away from Zamboanga, the possibility of being attacked by the Maguindanu natives would only increase. Li Haoran raised his head, looked at the clouds over the rainforest that began to get thicker and thicker, and secretly thought in his heart, maybe, when this rainstorm comes, those Maguindanu natives hidden in the depths of the dense forest will start attacking again. Along the way, the Tang army acted more cautiously, especially avoiding those pools where crocodiles were hidden. And because it is a reconnaissance forward, the speed of travel is not fast, and for the poisonous snakes lurking on the road, they are also killed or avoided in time. Therefore, all the way has gone smoothly so far, and the morale of the whole army is also high. However, when I came to the Kabakara, which I had not been able to cross last time, the weather was getting more and more gloomy, with thunder rumbling in the air and faint lightning, and it seemed that a rainstorm was imminent. "You see, there are many bones here." When I came to the place where the Tang army was defeated last time, there were sharp-eyed Tang soldiers, and I immediately saw that among the rocks and weeds, there were still some broken human bones, and I didn't know whether they were from the Tang army or those Maguindanu natives who died in battle. At this time, Li Haoran, the general of the unified army, did not hesitate to give the order to immediately cross the Kabakkara Valley. The rainstorm is just around the corner, if you can't rush out of the Kabakara Valley before the rainstorm comes, then after the rain, the road between the valleys will become extremely difficult to navigate, and even your thousands of soldiers will be trapped in the valley and unable to move. Li Haoran gave an order, and the officers and men of the whole army began to quickly line up in a column and march towards the Kabakara Valley. Entering the valley, Li Haoran found that the road here was worse than the road outside, there were a lot of weeds and rocks, and the whole army could only pass through such a poor road, and the air in this valley was filled with a smell of corruption and tide unique to the tropical rainforest, which smelled disgusting and made people feel very depressed. "Speed up! Aim to pass through the Kabakar Valley before the rainstorms arrive. Li Haoran shouted orders to the officers and men of the whole army. The officers and men of the whole army shouted in unison, and the momentum was like thunder, and the pace of moving forward was accelerated more and more. It's just that this Kabakara valley is more than two miles long, where can it be so easy to cross. Just as the whole army was marching through the valley of Kabakara, and when it was still a third of the way out of the valley, an accident happened. The shield soldier who opened the way at the front suddenly heard a muffled sound, and the miscellaneous stones and grass on the ground suddenly sank, revealing a trap about ten steps long out of thin air, and the trap was full of highly poisonous bamboo sticks. The five or six shield soldiers at the front couldn't hold their feet, screamed and fell, and these weakly protected shield soldiers were quickly pierced by the sharp and hard bamboo sticks in the trap, and immediately convulsed and their whole bodies turned black and died. "Fuck, these dog mongrels are getting better and better, and now they know how to dig traps!" Looking at the shield soldiers who were struggling painfully on the bamboo sticks, Li Haoran scolded angrily. At this moment, there was a thunderclap in the sky, and a miserable white lightning flashed, and raindrops the size of copper coins fell wildly, pouring down the torrential rain. The valley of Kabakara, which was already overgrown with weeds and extremely difficult to walk, suddenly became a muddy swamp that was difficult to cross in the torrential rain. The Tang Army, which was already struggling to pass through, suddenly fell into a huge dilemma that could not advance or retreat. Seeing his own army, he was in a great predicament at this moment, and Li Haoran's face was almost distorted with anger. "All of them are there, so they will be arranged in a tortoiseshell formation to prevent the enemy from attacking!" Li Haoran wiped the rain on his face, and gave the order with a loud roar. The Tang army immediately began to set up a formation on the spot, and on this narrow and muddy mountain road, a long rectangular tortoiseshell formation was formed. In this emergency tortoiseshell formation, all the shield soldiers were lined up in the outermost position, the large shield was inserted diagonally on the ground, and the shield soldiers were half-squatting on the ground, shouldering the shield, forming a long outer circle guard. Then, on each of the large shields, there were two crossbowmen, who were urgently reloading their crossbow arrows, and were quickly ready to fire. And Li Haoran and his thirty elite guards were in the middle command, and these thirty elite guards guarded him tightly in the middle. The Tang Army's harsh training in Kaohsiung played a good role here, and the entire array was only a few minutes from the beginning to the final completion. And at this moment, Tang Jun in the mountain road heard a beast-like continuous scream in the rainforest on both sides of the path, and this scream appeared from time to time in the sound of the heavy rain, which was terrifying. Then, from the depths of the rainforest on the left and right, as if by magic, a dense mass of Maguindanu soldiers armed with pikes and spears emerged. They were short, their bodies were black, they couldn't tell whether they were men or women, their skin was exposed, painted with strange patterns in various colors, and their heads, wearing the facial bones of beasts or people, shouted at the Tang army in the overwhelming rainstorm. Looking at these natives rushing over, a hideous smile flashed on Li Haoran's face. "Attention the whole army! When he rushed to a distance of eighty paces from our position, he immediately fired his crossbow arrows! Li Haoran ordered loudly. Order! In fact, speaking of which, the accurate range of crossbow arrows should be within sixty steps, but Li Haoran saw that the current natives were rushing densely, and the area that could be shot was huge, so when the natives ran to eighty steps, the rain of dense crossbow arrows emitted by the salvo was enough to cause the same powerful killing effect. This is the advantage of a dense attack, which can also achieve good results without the need for accurate shooting. Li Haoran noticed that these natives were running to within a hundred paces of their own position, and they had obviously slowed down their progress. The plans of the natives were clearly guessed by Li Haoran. That is, the lesson of the last blind rush and the melee opposite the Tang army, which resulted in a large number of casualties, has been learned by these Maguindanu indigenous soldiers. Therefore, they cautiously advanced, intending to enter the range of the shuttle dart before launching a long-range projectile attack on the Tang army. Hmph, you ugly people, but this time you miscalculated! When all the natives approached together, Li Haoran shouted in a deep voice: "All crossbowmen pay attention, prepare." The crossbows were held firmly in the hands of the Tang crossbowmen, and the squeaky strings came and went, and the crossbowmen aimed at their respective targets. The enemy finally reached the range of eighty paces. "Put!" "Whoosh! ...... "In the continuous sound of bangbang strings, continuous crossbow arrows were fired from one after another divine machine crossbows, and under the rain curtain in the sky, the highly poisonous crossbow arrows formed a dense web of death. More than 3,000 poisonous crossbow arrows roared out and shot towards the Maguindanu natives who were not at all defenseless and still rushed towards the Tang army step by step. "Puff puff puff ......" With the faint muffled sound of crossbow arrows shooting into the human body, a scream that does not seem to be like a human voice rises continuously, making people feel palpitations. In the heavy rain, these Maguindanu indigenous soldiers who rushed in with shouts were shot dead by the Tang army almost instantly. And the reason why there are so many casualties is because these crossbow arrows of the Tang army that have been quenched with severe poison, even if they only hit their hands and feet and other non-vital parts, the poison quickly spread throughout the body, making them black and dying all over their bodies. "Don't stop, keep shooting!" Seeing that these Maguindanu natives who rushed over were killed by a volley of their own, Li Haoran's expression was extremely happy, he wiped a handful of rain on his face, and shouted orders at all the crossbowmen. "Whoosh! ......" another round of crossbow arrows whistled out and fired towards the already chaotic Maguindanu soldiers. "Puff puff puff ......" screams continued again, and Maguindannu's soldiers were fired by this round of crossbowmen, killing at least 600 people. In the heavy rain, because of the heavy rain curtain, it was extremely difficult to dodge the fast and urgent crossbow arrows of the Tang army, and the natives who were swarming forward in chaos did not know how to dodge the formation in time, which caused such a large casualty. In the face of such an almost absolute cruel death, the natives' will to fight collapsed in an instant. I don't know who shouted, and the remaining native wolves rushed to the pigs, and they all quickly turned and fled, disappearing into the rain curtain. Seeing that the enemy army was actually defeated by his own two rounds, all the Tang troops laughed in unison. Their thunderous laughter overlapped with the sound of the rain to form a magnificent ballad. "The general ordered to throw those natives who were shot to death into the trap in front of them, and fill the entire pit with their corpses. Then the whole army continued to advance, seizing the time to get out of the Kabakkara Pass. Li Haoran ordered loudly. Order! "One after another, the corpses of the black and ugly Maguindanu were picked up by the Tang army, and then they were thrown into the trap with a plop, splashing the rain in the trap high. Two quarters of an hour later, the entire trap was filled, and the feeling of stepping on the corpses of these Maguindanu people made every Don soldier feel happy in his heart. After crossing this trap filled with dead bodies, Tang Junfu struggled and marched for a long time in knee-deep muddy water before finally reaching the Kabakkara Pass. At this time, the overwhelming rainstorm finally stopped. The sky is blue again, and a brilliant rainbow appears in the distance above the rainforest, which is very beautiful. "Brothers, cheer up, let's hurry up and rush to Ba Mao, and camp in Ba Mao today to rest, and then we will reward you for your meritorious deeds!" Seeing that the officers and men of the whole army were already tired, Li Haoran shouted loudly, so that the fighting spirit and courage of all the soldiers and soldiers had recovered a lot. The whole army stepped on the mud everywhere and went all the way east. After walking for more than an hour, the rainforest on both sides of the trail sounded again with a fierce scream like a beast, and the whining of many beast bone flutes. It can also be clearly seen that there are a large number of Maguindanu soldiers, howling and surrounding in all directions. , these doggy Maguindanu natives are here again! Such a guy, who had just died so many people, but only a little more than an hour later, had regrouped his subordinates to take revenge, and he was indeed cold-blooded and ruthless enough. "The whole army listened to the general's order, quickly formed a circular tortoiseshell battle formation, and lined up to resist the enemy!" Li Haoran, who was dirty and panting, saw that the Maguindanu natives were surrounded again, and immediately ordered loudly. In this slightly flat place, the Tang army formed an almost circular tortoiseshell formation in a very short time. The whole shield platoon was in the outermost part again, the big shield was stuck obliquely on the ground, and the shield soldiers were half-crouched on the ground, shouldering against the shield, forming a circular outer circle guard. The Tang army formed a formation, so it reacted very quickly. When the Maguindanu rushed to about a hundred paces, this tortoiseshell array had already been formed, and on a circle of large shields, there were dense crossbows, and the wrought iron poisonous crossbow arrows hidden in the crossbow trough were like lurking poisonous snakes, ready to spit out accurate and deadly venom to the natives who dared to hedge. Eighty paces away from the Tang army, all the Maguindanu natives, as if given a unified order, also formed a loose circle, neither advancing nor retreating, and confronted each other with the Tang army.