Chapter 31: Red Dragon Fortress

The tips of the wheat are already thick gold, and it is the season of the annual wheat harvest. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The fields behind the Red Dragon Fortress were full of soldiers and civilians who got up early in the morning to come to the fields, cut down the wheat one by one, and then transported it to the open space at the head of the field to dry. When the wheat is ripe, it must be harvested in time, otherwise the ears of wheat are easy to break, and if it rains, it will be even more troublesome, so everyone who works is racing against time.

In the past, such a large field of wheat was busy for at least a month, from harvesting, threshing, threshing, drying to finally bagging and putting into the warehouse, but now it takes 20 days to complete.

Because the enemy army will come to make trouble or steal food at any time. In the war with Beiyan, they also consumed a huge amount, so they occupied a large area of farmland in the north of Jiangbei from the beginning and drove a large number of Beiyan farmers to reclaim the land and farm.

In ancient times, wars were about plundering people and wealth while destroying the military and economy of the other side.

Today, the three kingdoms of Western Island, Assyria, and Rus' are in the north, and the two countries of Northern Yan and Moro are in the south. The closest place between the two sides is just across the endless Anbei River, and the situation is very tense.

The distribution of troops in the Northern Yan Empire is like a V-shaped as a whole, the two vertices of the V-shaped are Wenshi City and the Tianlong Fortress, and the bottom is the Sun City, the capital of the Northern Yan Kingdom, and on the two oblique lines of the V-shape, there are also hundreds of medium-sized fortresses, and the Red Dragon Fortress is one of them.

After being busy all morning, Rao is Jiang Du's body was strong, and he also felt a sore back, so he could only stand up from time to time and beat a few times. It had been seven days since their group of recruits arrived at the Red Dragon Fortress, and they had begun to participate in the harvest five days earlier.

There are lazy clouds in the air, a cool wind in front of you, an endless golden wheat field in front of you, children picking up ears of wheat running around, pecking birds and birds laughing and laughing, and a picture of a bumper harvest, which makes the sweaty Jiang Du feel comfortable and satisfied.

Five days of exposure to the field made him darker and his eyes brighter. Zhang Tiaoyue, Shen Ying and others, who were dressed in fine clothes and jade since childhood, were not so lucky, in just a few days, they changed from handsome as jade to "eyebrows and eyes", almost unable to recognize Jiang Du, the best situation is Xiao Hei, which has almost no change compared with before. Regarding the "beauty difference" arranged by coach Zheng Xiong for himself, Jiang Du didn't complain about anything, anyway, when he got to the army, he just obeyed the arrangement.

Suddenly, there was a melodious sound of trumpets at the head of the fortress ahead, and the sound of gongs sounded around the wheat fields.

Everyone's eyes were staring!

The enemy is coming!

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The cool autumn breeze blows from the north, and in front of the Red Dragon Fortress is a black and oppressive enemy army.

The Red Dragon Fortress is a medium-sized fortress, but it has the unique advantage of being backed by the majestic Jura Mountains. The Jura Mountains are steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Northern Yan Empire relied on the Jura Mountains to build hundreds of fortresses in a hundred years.

It can be said that if it weren't for the Jura Mountains that stretch across the territory, the Northern Yan Empire would probably have ceased to exist long ago. The people of Beiyan call the majestic Jura Mountains Guanshan.

With the sound of loud horns, groups of black-armored and red-robed soldiers rushed out of the fortified Red Dragon Fortress and set up a formation in front of the fortress, with two heavy infantry brigades in front of them, dark and cold archers behind them, and light infantry and light cavalry on both sides.

In the middle of the military array, a big flag hunted and fluttered, and the fiery red flag was embroidered with a round of radiant sun.

Fire and Dancing Sun, this is the symbol of the Northern Yan Empire.

There is a legion stationed in the Red Dragon Fortress, called the Red Dragon Legion, and the commander of the legion, Zheng Xiong, is an eighth-level wrestler, with four divisions under his command, and the four division commanders are all brave and good at fighting. Over the years, Assyria had fought many wars with it, but none of them had taken much advantage.

Miles away, the Assyrian soldiers, ready to fight.

This army is all dressed in yellow strong, covered with black armor, and from a distance, it looks like a thick layer of dark clouds on the yellow sand desert, which is so gloomy that it is suffocating. Different from the defensive formation put forward by Beiyan, this army had three neat brigades of cavalry in front, and two brigades of light soldiers in the rear of the cavalry.

There was also a large and eye-catching flag fluttering in the military formation, and a black wolf's head was embroidered on the goose-yellow flag.

The Assyrians have long believed in the god wolf, believing that the desert wolf is the most feared animal on land, and that packs of wolves are enough to kill any powerful animal. The black wolf's head is the symbol of the Assyrian Empire.

The Assyrian territory is full of deserts, numerous inner lakes, and a large number of oases, which are rich in war horses and warriors. The Assyrian cloud cavalry is difficult to meet opponents in Moya, and is known as the world's elite soldiers with Beifu Sangwei, Nanyang Huangjia, and Xidao Yibing. However, the Assyrians preferred to call their cavalry wolf riders.

Over the past few hundred years, the Assyrian Empire has raised troops several times and fought countless battles with the Northern Yan Empire, but it has never really divided the victory or defeat.

Although Beiyan is slightly inferior to Assyria in terms of individual strength, its strength is at least twice that of Assyria, and it is extremely united, so in terms of overall strength, the two countries can be said to be evenly divided, and no one can help anyone.

At this time, Bei Yan led the army to fight the first division of the Red Dragon Legion, the division commander Tang Lan rode a horse to stand in the middle army, unhurriedly to the opposite side to watch quietly, as far as the eye could see was Assyria's wolf horses, these wolf horses were extremely fast, superb knife skills, and good at riding and shooting, they were like a group of cunning hungry wolves in front of the formation, constantly swimming, consuming the opponent's physical strength, and then killing with one blow......

The dull sound of war drums came from the opposite side, and the three squares of the opposing cavalry began to advance slowly, their attack intentions were very obvious, attacking head-on, and outflanking left and right.

Seeing this, Tang Lan frowned, at this time, even if the Beiyan cavalry knew that they were invincible, they had to step forward to resist, otherwise, the opponent's trebuchets and siege vehicles would drive straight into the city and reach the city.

"Beat the drums, meet the enemy!" He shouted his orders.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Heavy war drums sounded in front of the Northern Yan Formation.

Roar! Roar! Roar! The hoplites, marching in order, shouting loud slogans, and carrying heavy shields and spears, fearlessly greeted the Assyrian army several miles away.

Behind them, a thousand archers, flanked by light cavalry and light infantry.

The distance between the two armies, getting closer and closer, will soon be within the range of the longbow.

The drums of the Northern Yan War stopped suddenly, the infantry stood still with their shields and spears, and the Assyrian cavalry on the opposite side began to accelerate.

Zhang Gong! The commander of the archers shouted loudly, and the archers at the rear of the army stood in five rows with bows and arrows, their faces expressionless, pointing diagonally into the sky.

Put! Collapse! As soon as the officer gave the order, a thousand feathered arrows rose into the air in an instant, constantly letting out a sharp roar, and after slowly gathering in the air, they shot into the enemy group with the roar of death, and one by one the figures fell to the ground with arrows, wailing non-stop.

Zhang Gong! Put! Collapse!

Zhang Gong! Put! Collapse!

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The Assyrian cavalry, whose bodies were almost close to the horse's back, raised their left arm to protect the front with a strong arm shield, and at the same time tapped the horse's belly with their heels, and the horses under their crotch felt the command of their master, and instantly increased their speed, and lightning over the dense array of arrows.

The horse-made Lu is fast, and the bow is like a thunderbolt! (To be continued.) )