Chapter 320: The Battle of Dead Leaf Island (Part II)
Dry leaf island is a slender strip shape of the island, nearly 1,000 kilometers from north to south, and the widest part of the east and west is only 160 kilometers, the narrowest point is only five or six kilometers, such a topography makes the north and south of the island terrain gap is very large, the terrain in the north is low, most of them are plains, the central and southern parts are mostly mountainous, there are two mountains with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, but then there are plains in the south, two mountains with an altitude of 1,000 meters cut off these two plains, and also make the two major tribal forces to be formed, the island is densely vegetated, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, and there are many lakes, There are even swamps, rivers and lakes that are abundantly productive, making the island unsuitable for farming, but also populated.
A team of nearly 3,000 people is advancing southward, these people are holding all kinds of self-made blades in their hands, and even bows and arrows and shields, on the dry leaf island, it is already a well-equipped army, because of the need to climb the mountains and cross the mountains, these people have very few cavalry, less than two hundred horsemen, but there are many cattle teams carrying supplies on their backs to follow behind, since ancient times, the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, even if it is the primitive army on the dry leaf island, it is necessary to have a baggage army.
"After crossing this mountain, we will reach the place of the Duhu Tribe, and I think they must be ready for a decisive battle with us." The guide in the Gu Wei army said, and the Gu Wei general led by him said confidently, "The Duhu Magician has been severely injured by us, let the warriors be careful on the road, don't fall into the trap, we will definitely be able to destroy these robbers this time!" ”
The Duhu tribe was not originally the aborigines of Dry Leaf Island, it came from the East Asian continent, and the port and other places were the places of the Guwei tribe more than a hundred years ago, but they were seized by the Duhu people who had absolute weapon superiority, for the Guwei people, they were revenge this time, especially when they had just won the battle, and the heads of hundreds of Duhu Shushu people were piled up into a hill, which made the morale extremely high.
"Chief! Chieftain!! A Guwei man was as agile as an ape, and quickly rushed to the middle of the Guwei army, and said to the Guwei general who was the leader, "We found the village of the Duhu Technique, just outside the mountain, on the plain, it seems that there are thousands of people, and we also found that there are women and old people, but there are no children. ”
The Gu Wei general immediately rejoiced: "Warriors! The Sorcerers are going to fight us hard, hold on to your weapons and let us kill them all! ”
"Kill all the lone tiger sorcerers! Kill all the lone tiger sorcerers! ”
The Guwei people came all the way to the plain, looked at the camp in front of them, and found that the camp was closed with a closed gate, which was a little strange, but why this was the case was really a bit complicated for them, and the complicated problem was simply not to think about it, it had always been their fine tradition, so everyone began to move their muscles and bones, ready to rush into the camp to fight.
At this time, a loud thunderous sound suddenly sounded in the flat ground, this loud noise that had never been heard before made everyone stunned at once, they saw that the lone tiger sorcerer camp in front of them suddenly opened, and a group of people who had never seen before walked out, these people were dressed completely different from them.... The fur, the glittering weapons in their hands, and the flags fluttering in the wind, strangely enough, these people lined up in a phalanx with their backs to the camp, and five or six paces in front of the phalanx, they also brought some cross-erected logs, I don't know what they wanted to do.
The thunderous noise became even more intense after these people came out, making people feel terrified to hear it.
"Who are these people? They're certainly not lone tigers! ”
"What is this voice, O gods? Could it be that the gods are angry? ”
"It's over, we're going to be finished, the lone tiger magician has the protection of the gods, and we can't win."
On the Isle of Dead Leaves, there were no musical instruments, and the only way they could understand the sound was by hitting it hard or shouting, but this thunderous noise was definitely not something they knew could produce, and the head of the Skeleton Man was full of fear.
"Don't be afraid! They are just tricks made up by the lone tiger magicians, you see, there are only four or five hundred of them, and we are several times more than them, rush up and kill them all! Sacrifice our gods with their blood!! Although the leader of Gu Wei didn't know what was going on, he knew that if he didn't act, he was afraid that the whole army would be frightened and collapsed by such a loud noise, so he shouted loudly and let the army start to charge, and in order to prevent being frightened back by the loud noise, he also led the cavalry to press the formation behind.
Duan Jingzhu stood on the lookout platform of the camp, watching the black pressure of a wild man rushing towards him, his heart was nervous and excited, he looked at a strong man with a spear who was standing below and commanding the troops, and secretly said in his heart, "This is our Liangshan's first battle on Dry Leaf Island, surnamed Tang, you must not be strained at a critical moment." ”
"Two hundred steps! Bow and crossbow ready! The Liangshan officer with the spear began to shout.
Duan Jingzhu saw a hundred crossbowmen and two hundred archers walk up to their positions and begin to load their arrows.
"One hundred and fifty steps!"
The crossbowman held his breath.
"One hundred steps!"
A few crossbowmen were almost about to fire, and usually such a distance was definitely within the range of the crossbowman, but there was still no order to shoot.
"Eighty steps! Lancers prepare! ”
The two hundred pikemen at the front held the spears in their hands tightly, they lined up in two teams, and discharged a cross-section of about a hundred meters, if they wanted to attack the crossbowmen in the back, they had to break them first, and behind them, there were a hundred sword and axe men in fur, they were people of the Duhu tribe, because they had no military training, they could not join the line, but it was excellent to make up the sword in the back. By this time, the eye-sighted crossbowmen could already see the scars on the faces of the wildlings on the other side and the saliva splashed from the frantic shouting.
"Sixty paces, a salvo of crossbowmen! And then the detachment shoots! ”
Finally, the order to shoot arrived, and only a buzzing sound was heard, and a hundred crossbow arrows and two hundred long arrows were shot out of the small phalanx, and then all the crossbowmen began to shoot in formation.
The Bone Warriors also have archers, and they are in the middle of the group, each with a bow and arrow in their hands, and they are calculating as they run, and there are still eighty paces, which is still early, and they have been with the bow for many years, so that they know very well that an arrow shot in less than thirty or forty steps will not have much lethality.
But what surprised them was that it was at such an absolutely safe distance, but the strange tribal army in front of them shot, although the three hundred arrows could not form a black cloud, but they were also dense, they were secretly happy in their hearts, so that the bow and arrow were shot at such a distance, it can be seen that the opposite side should be a novice, too uncomposed, don't you know that the most important thing for archers is to learn to calm down?
"Poof" "Poof" "Ah! "Wow!"
Before the thought disappeared, a heart-wrenching sound and screams made the charging team pause, three hundred arrows made more than fifty people lose their combat effectiveness at once, and the extremely powerful crossbow arrows could even shoot through two people with one arrow.
"What kind of bow and arrow is this?"
The bloody battlefield did not have time for the Bone Wei people to think, and the constantly flying arrow feathers made the Bone Wei leader understand that if he stopped in his current position, he would only be shot by this tribe that didn't know where he came from, and only by continuing to rush forward would he have a chance of victory, as for retreating, sorry, this is definitely not within the range of options.
"Don't be afraid, rush me! Kill it!! ”
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!! ”
As if in response to the shouts of the leader of Gu Wei, the magical thunder in the camp opposite was louder and louder, and more urgent, three hundred archers were still too few, and after the archers shot the fifth round of bows and arrows, Gu Wei paid for four or five hundred lives, and the Gu Wei people finally rushed to the front. Their archers also shot arrows back, only to find that their arrows had no effect unless they hit the face of the opposing army. Those who had been shot in the strange fur just shook and then continued to stand there.
"The axe man throws his gun! Pikeman stab! ”
With a shout, the Gu Wei people were surprised to find that hundreds of spears suddenly flew up from behind the spearmen in front of them, these spears flew over the heads of these spearmen, and then stabbed straight into the charging team, due to the tight line of the charging team, almost every spear has a harvest, this is not over, the wood that was originally placed in the distance that felt that there would be no obstacles, after cooperating with the spear, actually became as difficult to cross as if the natural danger, three or four meters long spear continued to stab in the gap between the wood, The wood was suddenly sprinkled with blood.
The Guwei people, who had never seen these military equipment, were almost stunned, and the troops of three thousand people had lost more than six or seven hundred people at this time, and the distressed hands of the leader of the Guwei tribe in the back were trembling, and he kept shouting, making the warriors rush forward more desperately, letting the archers fight back, letting the slingers throw stones, and the army on the opposite side gradually began to have casualties, and the Guwei leader did not feel that he would lose, after all, the numerical advantage was here, but such a loss was indeed greater.
"What sound?"
The Bone Leader suddenly frowned, and asked to the left and right, "I really want to hear the thunder." ”
"Chief, there is thunder on the other side all the time, the tribe on the other side can't be the tribe of Thor, right?"
"No... It's something else. The leader of the Gu Wei shook his head, then his face changed, he got off his horse, lay on the ground, and after only two or three breaths, he jumped up in fright and said, "Prepare for battle, there are cavalry!" ”
"Kill!!" From a hillside, there were countless cavalry suddenly rushed out, these cavalrymen were dressed in animal skins or tattered clothes, these people were selected from the slaves bought by Duan Jingzhu, they were originally the cavalry of the Khitan or Bohai people, or the riders of the Duhu tribe, thousands of war horses galloped, only making people feel that the black pressure was overwhelming, as if endless, and the dust trampled by countless horses' hooves was several meters high, as if it was going to cover the sky and the sun.
Many later generations think that the cavalry is not very terrible, thinking that as long as there are enough pikemen and archers, the cavalry is just a share of food, but if this is really the case, where will the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years be so difficult in the war against the grassland aliens, not to mention the mobility of the cavalry, even if it is hard, countless war horses gallop towards you, and the oncoming deterrent is definitely not something ordinary people can hold onto, when the land under your feet is trembling under the hooves of the cavalry, Being able to grit his teeth and not pee his pants is already a good man.
The face of the leader of the bone wei turned pale, and he clearly understood that if these rushing riders hit the rear of the warriors who were fighting in front, then his warriors had only one ending, that is, to stay in this land forever.
"Rush forward! Stop them!! The leader of the Gu Wei shouted loudly, clamped the horses hard, and rushed towards the Duhu cavalry, more than two hundred Gu Wei cavalry also rushed up behind, the two cavalry teams were like meteorite impacts, and there were countless blood eruptions at the moment of impact, on the one hand, it was for the tribe to fight against the water, on the other hand, it was to desperately create opportunities for the victory of the infantry, and both sides had reasons to fight to the death, if the infantry direction, the Gu Wei army occupied the numerical advantage, then in the cavalry direction, the Gu Wei army was completely pressed and beaten, What surprised the Gu Wei people even more was that there were many people in the cavalry on the opposite side who could shoot arrows while riding horses, such a stunt made them suffer a lot, but the armor of the animal skin could not block the arrows made of stainless steel, and because they did not have the saddle and other equipment to borrow, when they slashed against the Duhu or Liangshan cavalry on smooth horseback, they suffered a mess, almost one-sided were cut off and dismounted, only one back and forth, and the Gu Wei cavalry lost more than six or seven percent.
Liang Shan and the knights of the Duhu Technique did not turn back to mend their swords, but rushed directly to the rear of the Guwei infantry, and the Guwei people who were fighting with the Liangshan spearmen and the Duhu Sword and Axe Men were rushed out of the formation by the cavalry before they could react.
The die is cast!
Duan Jingzhu let out a long breath, but then he heard a louder exhalation next to him, he looked back at Li Zhen, the Duhu Shu, as if the person who was nervous about dying just now was not him, and said, "What? Don't the elders have confidence in our victory? ”
The Duhu Shu Li Zhen looked at the Guwei people who had already begun to flee, and said with a smile, "I naturally have confidence, because the gods have already given me a revelation about the results of this battle, Duan Leader, thank you for your help." ”
"Surrender and don't kill" The sound of persuasion to surrender began to sound, and the drum behind Duan Jingzhu became louder, which made Duan Jingzhu frown, God knows if the young men who beat the drum below were too energetic, and after breaking the enemy in a battle, Liangshan completely gained a firm foothold on Dry Leaf Island, and then, it was to operate slowly and continue to annex.
Duan Jingzhu looked at the Khitan cavalry and Bohai cavalry who were chasing and killing the Guwei people everywhere, and suddenly felt that these people were really useful, these people did not have any war experience, but the gap in equipment gave them the capital to make mistakes, which made them grow up rapidly, Duan Jingzhu believed that soon, these people could become enough to fight with the elite cavalry of the Liao army.
Of course, Duan Jingzhu did not forget the non-my race that Jiang De had been talking about, and his heart must be different, Duan Jingzhu looked at the cavalrymen wearing tattered clothes, and suddenly felt that he needed a lot of tailors, he remembered it in his heart, and was ready to write a letter to tell the owner of the village about all this later, believing that in two or three months, reinforcements would come.
The battlefield gradually quieted down, the head of the leader of the bone wei was cut off by two cavalrymen together, more than a thousand bone wei people surrendered, their eyes were full of fear, the thunder on the opposite side finally stopped, and they finally determined the source of this thunder, they didn't know what their future would be, was it to be killed to honor the god of thunder?
The situation on Dry Leaf Island has changed dramatically, and the leading Bone Wei tribe has been dealt a fatal blow during the northern expedition against the Duhu Tribe, and a new force has officially been inserted into the world of Dead Leaf Island.