Chapter 323: Stormy Rain
The sailing ship sailed in from the mouth of the Yellow River, clearing all the men within the range of the bow and arrow, but some escaped from the range. Some of them dived into the water to flee for their lives, and some of them climbed to the shore, mounted cattle tied to the river, and hurried to the distant stockade to send a message.
Seeing these sailboats, they finally remembered something that had been thought to be a dream or a fantasy. For example, in Chinese legend, their king sent ten large ships as high as mountains to explore the other side of the earth. For example, when he died, someone heard a violent noise, and he died under a short stick that breathed fire, but no one saw the arrow feathers. For example, the king of China received revelations from the kingdom of God and countless materials belonging to the kingdom of God......
After a few years of contact with the Huaxia people, the Dongyi people also learned a lot of new skills, such as how they also learned to use beacon communication.
After defeating the invasion of the Montenegrin tribes, they also strengthened the construction and agreement in this regard, and agreed that where the beacon fire would be together, people from other places would move closer to the beacon fire to fight the enemy together.
The people who rode back to report shouted all the way to pass the information back, and the people scattered near the stockade quickly gathered in the stockade, and the beacon fire in the nearby high place was quickly ignited.
The leader of the stockade kept encouraging the people at first, and when they saw the tall galleons as tall as a mountain approaching, their encouragement turned into comfort: "It's all right, as long as we can hold out for half a day, our companions near will come, you see, their ships are tall, but they have only animal skins on them, and they are not very many." We had no problem holding out for half a day. And I saw that after our beacon was lit, the replacement beacon was also lit, and the message would soon be transmitted to the distance. ”
Ships as tall as mountains are naturally intimidating. But when the Dongyi people saw that most of the ships were really animal skins, they really calmed down a lot. The white crane spreads its wings when facing enemies, and the tanuki blows up when it is in distress, which is just a camouflage. In their opinion, the sailboat should be similar to the camouflage of the weak animals before the battle. There are more scary ingredients than strength.
It was only before they had thought about it that the approaching sailboat unexpectedly lowered most of its sails with the sound of its sails.
"They're not pretending to be anymore?" The Dongyi people in the village asked questions inexplicably. But no one was able to answer.
"I counted to ten, and the Dongyi people in the stockade immediately laid down their weapons and opened the gate of the village to surrender, otherwise you will immediately be attacked by the warriors from Mi Congee." Someone shouted from a sailboat approaching in the distance.
The Dongyi people heard it clearly, because they found that the people who shouted were the disobedient Dongyi people they had exchanged before.
The man didn't seem to be familiar with the lines, and said some awkward words. The Dongyi people in the village were a little puzzled by this warrior from rice porridge. They know that rice porridge is a Chinese delicacy, and of course, they think that potatoes actually taste better.
The man shouting on the boat repeated his words, and then began to count down.
Naturally, no one in Dongyi listened to him, just watched the sailboat in the distance slowly approach, waiting for it to slide into range.
"Three, two...... One. You're killing yourselves! The people on the boat shouted with great difficulty, and they were so sad that they cursed. But no one listened to him anymore. Because this distance has entered the range of the strongbow.
The few Dongyi who used the Huaxia strong bow in the stockade almost pointed the arrow to the sky, took the lead in opening the bow, and a few arrows escaped into the air. The rest of the men with wooden bows continued to wait for the ship to come closer. The number of strong bows that the Huaxia people had equipped them with before was not large, but the Hemu bow had already satisfied many Dongyi people.
"Put!" At the moment when the Dongyi people opened their bows, a loud command sounded on the sailing ship almost simultaneously, and a black shadow like a flying locust rose from the ship.
The Dongyi people let out a brief exclamation, because the density of those prunes was really a bit large.
Those with good eyesight even saw a few arrows shot by the Dongyi people being broken in this rain of arrows like flying locusts.
The rain of arrows pierced the sky and suddenly plunged into the Dongyi people's stockade, and the ground of the stockade seemed to be shaken by the piercing, followed by wails everywhere. The warriors who were still holding the wooden bows fell to the ground one after another, many people who were curious to stand on a high place and look out were also shot over in an instant, and some women and children who were chasing their children were also attacked indiscriminately.
Fear flew in with a rain of arrows, and in an instant it flooded the stockade. The Dongyi people in the stockade rushed to the wolves, vomiting blood and struggling, and only some experienced people shouted and beckoned for people to hide behind the walls or houses.
"Put-" The ship's command was loud and distant. Another rain of arrows covered. The ground shook again, the wailing was reduced, and there were fewer people running.
Then another wave followed.
Another wave.
After four waves of arrows, the Dongyi people's village became quiet. For those who did not have time to hide were almost already dead under the prunings, and those who hid were so suppressed that they did not dare to raise their heads or shout, as if death would find them as soon as they spoke.
The Dongyi people hiding behind the wall looked at the pruning all over the ground, covering their mouths in despair. They had never seen such a rain of arrows, and even when they were fighting in Black Mountain, the people of the city had never shot arrows like this. They never imagined that such a salvo of arrows would be so lethal and effective.
Where is this fried tanuki? A bunch of tusked tigers aren't so scary, right?
The fifth wave of arrows did not appear. The Dongyi people finally dared to take a look outside the wall, but they were surprised to find that the strange ship with a mast and a lot of ropes had reached the outside of their wall. And dozens of people were holding on to ropes, standing on the side of the ship higher than their walls.
"Swing!" A strange password came from the ship.
The dozens of people holding the rope easily crossed the wall with the rope, and kicked a Dongyi man who was emerging on the wall off the wall, and fell into the village with these people.
The men tumbled to the ground, and then quickly surrounded them with shields and knives. Then another group of people swung behind them.
The Dongyi people reacted, brandishing their weapons and lunging at them. At this time, they are not afraid of the rain of arrows, as long as they can kill the opponent in the stockade, or they can defeat the enemy. Or as long as they catch these intruders, they can make these enemies no longer shoot arrows into the stockade.
It was only when they rushed closer that they realized that the enemies in front of them were very different. They have the same black eyes and black hair, but they have colorful faces and appear to be taller and more athletic than ordinary people.
These sturdy foes screamed, shielding their circles in place, waiting for more of their companions to fall behind them. When the companions behind them were almost there, they roared loudly, and immediately rushed out in groups of three or five, killing every corner of the stockade.
The Dongyi people have relied on the village and the water to protect their homeland. was attacked by the enemy into the stockade, and he was still afraid of three points in his heart, and he was shot and killed a lot of people before, which greatly reduced their combat power, and these enemies had strange faces, which made them even more frightened, and their combat power was reduced by more than three percent.
But their enemies were all tall and strong, but they were very well coordinated, and they fought very well, which soon caused the blood of the Dongyi people who rushed up to the land to stain the land, and then they attacked every piece of land in the stockade.
Several Dongyi leaders retreated to the tallest house in the stockade and finally hid on the roof. They looked at the bloodshed around them and couldn't help but be secretly anxious: "Why didn't anyone come to rescue us?" ”
Several people knew that time was still short, and they had to insist on letting others save them. But they can't help but count on rescue at this time. The stockade has already been attacked, and if there is no rescue, they will be finished soon.
They looked in the direction of the nearby stockade, hoping to see someone earlier, and only then did they see smoke billowing in the direction of the nearby stockade.
There is only one pillar of smoke from the beacon fire, and it cannot travel far. The fireworks that could be seen from so far away, except for the wildfires—they looked at the houses that the enemies who had jumped into the stockade were setting fire, and understood what they were.
A few people were shocked, and once again raised their eyes to look in the direction of other stockades, and vaguely, they seemed to see the same fireworks rising into the air.
"Impossible. How can it be? ”
Even if there are many people in Huaxia, how can they attack so many of their villages at the same time? But if not, what about those fireworks?
Thinking of the most unlikely possibility, several people suddenly felt like ashes.
The gate was opened. More archers disembarked from the ship and rushed into the stockade, and the battle was essentially over. I don't know who was the first to drop their weapons and tie their hands, and the others also surrendered.
The men took their bows and came to the bottom of the tall wooden houses, shouting for them to go down. Some of the leaders of several Dongyi people climbed down, some rolled down, and one of them didn't think about it, so he jumped down, and was stabbed on a straight pole that was erected and died.
The men who came down from the boat searched the stockade, tied up the captives from the stockade in strings, and left twenty or thirty men to drive them westward, while the others hurriedly carried a few things of value onto the ship, set fire to the stockade, and set sail quickly.
Their goal was to capture two stockades on this day. Time is of the essence.
With a clock to keep the time and a radio to communicate remotely, large-scale coordination of operations became possible. The people of the staff divided the many strongholds of Dongyi into dozens of targets, and divided more than 20,000 people and six sailing ships into more than a dozen routes to attack at the same time.