Chapter 333: The Moving Mountain

The airship that had risen into the air early reported that a baggage team was threatened, so that Qiu Haohui had enough time to send a cavalry unit to respond. When the cavalry of the Tianxuan Army surrounded the baggage team in the middle and walked slowly, the enemy army was already in sight. But in this case, the Northern Liao army could only retreat in a huff. Since the airship has always been very careful to conceal its whereabouts, the cavalry of Beiliao didn't even know why their whereabouts were exposed.

But Ye Tao came back from the report, but knew that the situation was not very optimistic. The one who carried out the work of breaking the supply line was actually the Flying Tiger Battalion of the Western Route Army. Leading this army that needs to be active behind enemy lines and may have to rely on looting supplies to obtain its own consumption may be Gao Sen Qi, who has a relationship with him.

Friends are friends, and they still can't be cared about on the battlefield, but Ye Tao knows that Gao Senqi is not simple. The best situation now is that Tan Xiaopei's method of protecting the supply line is really effective, so that the other party has been unable to do it several times, and finally can only withdraw and make up for it because of the lack of supplies. After such a high-intensity operation, even an elite unit like the Flying Tiger Battalion, once it is replenished and everyone's spirit is relaxed, it is not possible to recover their mental outlook in three days or two days and start to conduct similar operations again. And a buffer of a few days is enough.

In fact, there was no preparation on either side to allow the Flying Tiger Battalion to have a few days. Just after noon the next day, the Tianxuan Army, which had dealt with the morning's attack with minimal troops, attacked. First, several battalions of cavalry swarmed out of the three towns, and in the three horns of each other, all of them were hula in front of each other in front of the town. At this moment, the Northern Liao army, which was having lunch, became nervous, and immediately began to assemble and prepare for battle. But the cavalry of the Tianxuan Army was only to give the heavy infantry time and space to form a formation. Heavy infantry units take longer to unfold than cavalry units.

But the rested heavy infantry, under the leadership of Qiu Haohui, has this kind of explosive power. Qiu Haohui, who was wearing cloisonné heavy armor, first walked out of the open gate step by step, and behind him, groups of heavy infantry passed through the door in four columns, and immediately entered the battle formation accurately and quickly. It didn't take much time, when the cavalry team split to the two wings, what appeared in front of the Northern Liao army was a neat phalanx of heavy infantry.

At this moment, the Northern Liao army panicked, especially Su Xin, the general of the Northern Liao who was responsible for leading this route army. Although he knew that the Tianxuan Army had never used all his strength, he had always thought that he had exhausted the Tianxuan Army. Although he was besieging the city, he combined cavalry flying and infantry to constantly shift the point of attack, so that the heavy infantry of the Tianxuan Army, which was unable to move, could not use all their strength to fight hard with himself. Unexpectedly, today, the Tianxuan army suddenly opened its posture and simply gave up the geographical advantage of the city wall, as if it was planning a decisive battle. But Su Xin didn't want to fight, he didn't have to fight with the heavy infantry, the heavy infantry of the Tianxuan Army had already made him have a psychological shadow these days. At the head of the city, the Tianxuan army also continued the tradition that began with the heavy infantry of the Blood Qi Army: the heavy infantry slashed people in front, and the longbowmen fired indiscriminately in the back. This trick tried and tested, so that the Northern Liao army, which was far behind in armament, had no temper at all.

And now, after the Tianxuan army opened the formation, Su Xin's head was extremely big, and he had no choice but to rush to the forefront to observe the formation of the Tianxuan army while urgently ordering the whole army.

"Look at the mess you've made." Su Xin said angrily. It's no wonder that the Heavenly Xuan Army had only sent combat infantry and a few elite guards to defend the town this morning. Everyone felt that the heavy infantry of the Tianxuan Army was extremely tired, and Qiu Haohui had no choice but to send his own personal guards to participate in the defense and leave time for the heavy infantry to rest. Everyone felt that victory was imminent, after all, once the heavy infantry collapsed, it would not last long with the combat infantry alone. Unexpectedly, before the afternoon arrived, the situation suddenly reversed. Did the Tianxuan Army actually rely on the time spent repairing last night and this morning to directly engage in the attack and operation? What kind of change has the situation made for the Tianxuan Army to make such a change?

Su Xin's subordinates continued to give Su Xin a move, and in a short period of time, they adjusted their queues to prepare for the battle. Heavy infantry is not without drawbacks. The heavy infantry is the bladeless Xuantie sword, which has nothing to do with speed. After unfolding the formation, they marched towards the enemy in front of them step by step, and even the most unresponsive enemy could be prepared to think they were the best, but if it was not really sufficient, then it was possible.

When the distance between the two armies was only a few dozen steps, the Northern Liao army, which was overwhelmed by the gloomy atmosphere, was the first to rush forward with a shout. The soldiers of the second row took half a step sideways, aligning the gaps between the towers and shields one by one, so that the enemy rushed to the front of the steel wall formed by the tower shields, the soldiers in the first row did not even frown, and did not make any movement at all, as if they were statues with metal, while the soldiers in the second row raised their two-handed long knives in unison and slashed heavily from top to bottom...... Under this unremarkable knife, patches of blood splattered everywhere.

Su Xin spat and commanded, "What about the catapult?" Bombard me. ”

"General, if the two armies are engaged together, they will fight their own people." The adjutant reminded.

"That's right," Su Xin said viciously, "but he will also stone the damned Dongping thief to death." If you don't do it like this, if you continue to kill it, you'll be completely finished here today. ”

The adjutant Wei Wei answered, and hurriedly went to order.

Huge stones smashed on top of the Tianxuan Army's head. And the Tianxuan Army was still like a walking steel statue, fighting without change. The fallen sergeant was immediately covered by his comrades around him, and was immediately pulled to the back of the battle formation by the melee infantry who rushed forward to receive treatment. The Tianxuan Army was so indifferent to its own casualties, which surprised Su Xin. But overall, it seems that the casualties of the Tianxuan army are not very heavy. Of course, some soldiers died on the spot, but there were also soldiers who only suffered soft tissue injuries and bruises of varying severity, and even one soldier who was lucky enough to be knocked unconscious. Indeed, the catapult on the Northern Liao side was too unreliable, and the accuracy of the launch made Qiu Haohui shake his head again and again.

However, even this kind of accurate firing could not continue, and the ballistas brought by the Tianxuan Army were pushed out of the gates of the town, and the fire oil bombs were set up, and several rounds were fired in succession. Immediately, the difference in the level of the Tianxuan Army and the Northern Liao Army in the operation of heavy equipment was faithfully reflected. In just the first volley, the Tianxuan Army directly hit two catapults, turning them into torches. And that's not all, the second salvo that followed, the third salvo spread the flames all over the catapult in a short time, and in this environment, don't expect the catapult to work well. Su Xin was even more annoyed, the Northern Liao side was not without a way of fire attack, but the rattan balls used to used by the Northern Liao were stuffed with rags soaked in ointment, but because of their light weight, they became more and more inaccurate, and they did not have the powerful power of the fire oil bomb type 2 that was splashed and burned one piece at a time.

The Tianxuan Army advanced steadily, like a moving mountain range. They always swept the enemy in front of them, and then the soldiers in the first row pulled out their tower shields from the ground, took a big step forward, and then plunged down again, and attacked again and again through the gaps that had been left behind, and so on. Although the Tianxuan Army put forward the ancient tactics of guarding the heavy infantry and two wings of the cavalry in the middle that had not changed for thousands of years, and everyone was tired of watching, this tactic made Su Xin have nothing to do. They were now fighting by the city, and they didn't have to worry about their rear, but Su Xin didn't have enough troops to break the two wings of the Tianxuan army in a short enough time, so he could only watch the Tianxuan army rush towards him like a boulder sliding from the top of a mountain, and like an avalanche rolling that was constantly gathering more strength.

And just as the Tianxuan Army was advancing smoothly, the airship team appeared. The airship team swept over the battlefield at low altitude, and the formation spread a sea of fire. Su Xin's battle array was immediately chaotic.

"Steady, steady!" Su Xin shouted loudly, but it was in vain. In the face of the attack from the air, everyone's reaction was similar, even if some quick-witted officers had already seen that it was something made by man, not some punishment from the gods, but it could not alleviate the panic in their hearts a little. And the bombing is very familiar with the airship team, and it is becoming more and more proficient, and the bomb delivery is becoming more and more accurate. At present, there are already bombardiers who have figured out the principle of the dizzying airspeed tube adjusted bombardment, and have roughly figured out how to adjust it to be accurate, and they can attack ground targets more accurately while hovering. And the airship team is now becoming more and more adept at carrying out one or two bombings and then starting to disperse the trick of driving away the target. So far, they have not encountered an enemy who has survived two rounds of bombardment without fleeing in all directions. And the first two rounds were not because of courage or small casualties, but because the enemy had not yet reacted......

"That's it?" Qiu Haohui pursed his lips and asked a few guards beside him. Everyone laughed. As soon as the airship team exploded like this, the enemy who was still fighting in front of him fell into chaos, and the steady advance of the heavy infantry, which was originally difficult, turned into a walk, although the sergeants were still careful not to carry anything because of the chaos of the enemy in front of them, and carefully guarded against the enemy from turning around at any time to bite back, but ...... It seems that this is just the inertial reaction of the Tianxuan Army after Qiu Haohui's usual rigorous and serious training......

The rumbling torrent of steel seemed to be lubricated, and it rushed towards Su Xin's camp......