Chapter Seventy-Four: Confrontation
As the old spoon head said, as soon as noon passed on the second day, the advance of the army encountered a small group of men and horses from the dragon side.
The dragon army collapsed at the touch of a button and fled in all directions.
The front army did not pursue, but quickly spread out in an arrow-shaped shape on the wasteland at the foot of the mountain, and the Chinese army spread up several continuous hills at the foot of the mountain, while the rear army filled the gap between the hill and the foot of the mountain.
"The general had an order, and quickly cut down all the trees on the hill, and the small wood was made into a wall, and the big wood was made of sandalwood! Before the trench, stand up and refuse the horse pistol, and sprinkle the iron thistle!"
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Quickly climb the mountain and cut down trees!" Dou Jie urged repeatedly, and the others hurriedly ran to the hillock, and when they found a place with lush trees, they wanted to start working with their arms.
Although he had never led a soldier, the supreme wisdom of the art of war contained in the colored stone had already merged with his years of hunting experience and melted into his divine consciousness. When he and the old spoon head climbed the hill, they looked left and right, and secretly admired in their hearts: although the horizontal breath is big, there are still some real skills!
The terrain here is excellent, not only can choke the main road leading to the country of Cangyu, but also lives in the upper reaches of the waterway, leaning against the mountains and condescendingly, in front of a wide wasteland of more than ten miles, which is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack. After the trees were cut down, the view from the top of the hill became more and more wide, and the idea of enemy fire attack was also broken.
Only before half of the tree was cut down here, a yellow line appeared at the end of the far ** plain. The yellow thread came like a tide, and in an instant, the soles of everyone's feet began to vibrate, and the air rolled like thunder.
"Dragoon!" exclaimed the old spoonhead, and unconsciously straightened up to look around.
The yellow line was actually the dust raised by the horse's hooves, and when it came closer, it was already half a sky high. The horses in the flying dust are extremely huge, wearing heavy armor, with a knife on their heads, and their bodies are full of blue light in the sun, which is really like dragons flying in the rolling yellow dust. The warriors on the horses were also very strong, and they all dragged an iron chain in their hands, as if they were tethered to some heavy object, and they stirred up the mud and dust all over the ground.
"No wonder the momentum is so amazing!" Qi saw the posture of the cavalry, and exclaimed in his heart, "This dragon army is really fierce, it suddenly appeared, like a hurricane, and even launched a surprise attack when my front army was not firmly established!"
The front army was not flustered, and with an order, the soldiers in the front row quickly squatted down, hiding behind the shield, leaving only the spearhead outside.
The archers in the back row drew their bows in unison, waved the flag, and the "whoosh" arrows swept away.
The dragoon was heavily armoured, and the bow and arrow did not have much effect on it.
Hundreds of horsemen had rushed to the front of the front army in a blink of an eye, and the iron chain in the rider's hand was raised, and only then did he see that the other end of the iron chain was actually tied to a huge iron ball. Where the iron ball passed, it was like a giant scythe, and a large area of cang-weed soldiers was ruthlessly harvested, and they all fell to the ground.
Seeing that the dragoon had the upper hand, he knocked away an unknown number of soldiers. The order flag rose again, and the soldiers in the front row dodged one after another, making way for them.
As soon as the dragoon saw that the enemy was retreating, he rushed in without hesitation, and it was like an iron-blooded whirlpool, sucking in all the surrounding Cang Li's soldiers.
"How many soldiers will you lose in this way of playing, why do you want to let them in?"
The whirlpools disappeared quickly one after another, and the remaining dozens of horsemen saw that the situation was not good, and they retreated one after another.
After taking a closer look, it turned out that there were many hook gunners hidden in the rear army, specializing in hooking horses' legs. The only weakness of the dragoon is precisely on the horse's legs, once the horse stumbles and the rider lands, it is difficult to exert it, and can only be crushed alive.
It seems that Jian Heng has been prepared for dealing with this horse. The man who looks so rough on the surface is very meticulous. A strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart, and he couldn't tell what it was, but there was always a hint of uneasiness.
"Hurry, hurry, who wants you to stop?" Dou Jie rushed over, brandishing a whip in his hand, and threw it on the back of the old spoon's head. The old spoon bent his head and the corners of his mouth twitched twice.
"How do you beat people?" Qi Yi flashed and snatched the whip from Dou Jie's hand.
Dou Jie was taken aback, then his face sank, and his hand touched the waist knife: "Hey, it's turned upside down, where do you think you are here?"
The lid of the small pot also rushed over when he heard the sound.
The old spoon grabbed the two of them, and glanced at Dou Ji again: "Two Sima, Fang is mine, don't be angry!"
Seeing that the old spoon head didn't want to deal with him, he didn't say anything when he abandoned the lid of the small pot.
Dou Ge snatched the whip in his hand: "Boy, if you don't want to die, be obedient!"
Turned around and walked away with a huff.
At this moment, the air suddenly darkened, the ground trembled, and the second wave of the dragon attack arrived.
This time, more than a dozen colorful giant birds suddenly swooped down from the clouds in mid-air, spewing raging flames from their mouths, and feathers seemed to fall off their backs, which ignited when they touched the ground, and the ground instantly fell into a sea of fire.
On the wasteland, several giant beasts rushed over, all as tall as castle towers, with flames erupting from their noses, but cold glows from their mouths. Every time the fire burned and the cold glow poured out, the soldiers fell to the ground.
Qu was taken aback, where did these birds and beasts come from? Could it be that what kind of phantom beast came from ancient times?
If you look closely, no! The bird flapped its wings up and down incoherently, but like a wooden kite, it was pulled and launched by the plane. It was not a feather that fell, but a myriad of bamboo tubes. It turned out that there was a rider on each giant bird, and the rider just threw the bamboo tube down, and the bamboo tube was full of oil, saltpeter and other things, revealing the lead.
Every once in a while, the rider will swoop the giant bird into the fire, and the bamboo tube will burst into flames when it encounters sparks. It's just that this bird is very delicate and realistic, and it seems to be a little more dexterous than the wooden kite.
The beast was also controlled by the machine, and the crossbow arrows that erupted from its mouth were all fired by the machine, which could penetrate the shields and armor of the Cangyu soldiers. The rider was not seen, and he was supposed to be hiding in the belly of the beast.
"This is troublesome, I don't know how to retreat from the enemy?"
"Huh-" Four or five giant birds crossed the front army, flew directly over the hill, and began to attack the Chinese army.
The hills were full of fallen trees, which were set on fire in an instant, and everywhere were soldiers struggling and screaming in flames.
"Pop" a bamboo tube landed next to the lid of the small pot.
"Be careful!" Qu jumped to his feet, threw himself on the lid of the pot, and rolled to the side.
"Pap, pap" actually dropped two more bamboo tubes, and a giant bird roared past with a tongue of fire.
"Bang!" one bamboo tube burst into flames, and the other two were immediately detonated.
A figure flew by, horizontally in front of the two of them, blocking the tongue of fire that swept over.
It's the old spoon head!
"Let's go!" he pulled up the lid of the pot and threw it out.
The lid of the small pot took advantage of the force and flew out a distance of several feet.
When he abandoned and went to pull the old spoon head, the old spoon head was already a burning man.
"Hurry up!ahhhh
"Old spoon head—ah!" Abandon could no longer control the anger in his chest, and shouted to the sky, and jumped up.
A giant bird was swooping again, and the rider was visibly taken aback, and with a shake of his hand, a bamboo tube fell.
He grabbed the bamboo tube and threw it into the bird's beak. There is a fire in the beak of the bird, and there is a strong liquor in the belly, and the spirits are spewed out in a canister and ignited by the fire, which is the terrifying sight of the bird's beak spitting fire seen from the ground.
The bamboo tube broke, and with a loud "boom", the bird was blown into countless pieces.
Immediately, someone noticed that the giant bird was also afraid of fire, and began to shoot rockets upward. But the person who made the bird had already thought that the bird's belly was wrapped in several layers of iron plates, and the rider pulled the bird into the air, and the arrows could not penetrate at all, and they fell one after another.
At this time, the Chinese military order flag was raised again.
At the command of the rear army, dozens of black objects flew towards those big birds.
Qi was about to jump up for the second time, and when he looked up, he saw that the black thing had spread out in mid-air, and it was actually a large net.
These dozens of large nets were wrapped in boulders and shot out with trebuchets.
Although the bird was nimble enough to dodge the flying rocks, it had a hard time dodging the vast nets.
In just an instant, several giant birds were wrapped in a giant net and fell upside down.
The giant bird fell to the ground and immediately exploded into pieces, but it was still imposingly powerful, injuring many soldiers on the ground.
Look at the few giant beasts again, wrapped in iron armor, not afraid of swords, water and fire, they have all rushed into the depths of the front army.
The Chinese army ordered the flag to rise again, the front army dodged one after another, and the giant beast rushed straight to the hillock.
Dozens of black nets flew out and enveloped the behemoths.
The giant beast exerted its strength, and the great net was broken at the sight of it.
Suddenly, a group of soldiers rushed out of the trench, all of them carrying canisters, dived under the giant beast, and began to spray violently on the legs of the giant beast.
At the bottom of the belly of the giant beast, there are several dead corners, and it is very difficult for the giant beast to take care of it.
The giant beast finally broke through the net, and rushed a few steps further, but "squeak, squeak" became slower and slower, and finally could not move.
Abandon the amazement in his heart: what is in the agitator, that can make the beast lose the power to move.
Seeing that the giant beast could not move, the soldiers rushed up like ants, trying to open the giant beast.
But I heard a number of earth-shattering noises, and the giant beast exploded.
The power was so great that it blew the hill into several large craters several feet deep.
Where would those Cang Yu soldiers who rushed up expect that there would be such a thing, and for a while, there was flesh and blood, and countless casualties were killed.
It was also terrifying to watch: this mechanical beast even installed a self-destruction device, which could be activated once captured after rushing into the enemy line. Not only does it not let the enemy know the secret of the beast's crafting, but it can also kill and injure a large area by surprise.
The battlefield finally fell silent, with corpses everywhere and all kinds of scorching and bloody smells floating in the air.
The hill had been burned to the ground, and there was no need to cut down trees.
"Wu Chang......" The small pot lid was covered with carbon black, and he got up from the ground, "Old spoon head, he ......"
The lid of the pot shook and Suo handed him a charred mass, which was a leather bag.
"That's all that......" The lid of the pot suddenly squatted down, covering his face and sobbing.
Abandon opened the small bag, there was a small piece of jade and non-jade in it, and a ball of cloth, pinched it, it was wrapped in the arrow taken from Man Thirteen's body.
"Father, why didn't you tell me?" Yang Ling learned the news of the renunciation of the expedition, and it was two days later.
"Ling'er, my father is afraid that you don't want to, and I don't want to see you worry. Seeing Yang Ling's pale face and his eyes trembling, Ji Zhao suddenly regretted it.
"Since my father knew that Ling'er was unwilling, why did he send my abandoned brother to the battlefield? Could it be that my father did this intentionally?" Yang Ling stared at the emperor.
"How could it be? It's that arrogant, and he will definitely want Cang Lingwei to go into battle with him to kill the enemy, saying that he will save face for you. Besides, Cang Lingwei is very brave, and he will definitely be able to help before the battle. ”
"It's him again!" Yang Ling stomped his feet and rushed out of the door, "You are so afraid of him?
"Ling'er, where are you going?" The emperor was stunned for a moment, screamed, and spurted out a mouthful of blood, "Stop her for me! Don't let her leave the palace!"