Chapter 21: Killing in the Night
Tall trees rose to the sky, thick snow piled up all over the ground, and the cold wind howled by, shaking the branches of the trees, and the snow foam mixed with ice ballast fell in a torrent, startling away the birds and beasts that were struggling to feed in the forest. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The gentle sunlight shines through the sparse branches, shining on the clear ice edges on the branches and the snow on the ground, reflecting a colorful halo that makes people forget the cold around them for a while.
Liu Xuzhou stood in the forest camp, looking up at the boundless forest sea ice field, with a trace of anxiety in his eyes.
He and his 50,000 temple troops were hidden in the Shattered Star Forest, and the entrance to the underground passage was hidden 800 miles east of it.
The sudden retreat of the Wikipedians took him by surprise. The lack of news from the Inquisition also made him feel a little uneasy.
If there are Wikipedians in front of him, he can fish in troubled waters, take advantage of the situation to attack the opponent's camp, and kill the leader Sannan. However, now not only did the Wikipedians withdraw their troops, but even the penance of the Inquisition had lost contact, which frustrated all their pre-planned plans.
High Priest Zhou Jianbai is determined to succeed in this operation, otherwise he would not let himself join forces with Fu Mengzhi, which shows that the other party is not good at it.
As soon as they arrived, they were in trouble.
The High Priest did not give him a detailed description of his opponent's situation, but only briefly described the background of the opponent and the means of attack he mastered. In his opinion, these attacks were very powerful, and they could even cause a lot of damage to the Templar Army, but what really made him taboo was the 100 scouts that appeared that day, and the shuttle-like flying object that appeared in the sky.
Seeing these two things, he knew that neither he nor Fu Mengzhi might not be able to complete the task smoothly.
Those scouts were obviously not ordinary people, or rather, they were not living people at all, because they had no blood in their bodies, and they had no sense of pain, and their forces were also very strong, although they were small in size, they were real ninth-level martial artists.
If a force is extravagant enough to use ninth-level martial artists as scouts, the only possibility is that the number of ninth-level martial artists under the other party's command has reached a certain scale.
You must know that even if there are 1,000 ninth-level martial artists in the 50,000 temple army, it has not reached the point of such profligacy.
After all, even with the strength of the temple, cultivating a qualified ninth-level martial artist would require a lot of manpower, material resources and long-term accumulation, but the other party could easily do it, so the deterrent power of the temple in terms of high-end power had been minimized, and it had also shaken the foundation of the temple's rule.
This is the fundamental reason why the temple wants to destroy it!
At present, the fact in front of his eyes is that the whereabouts of the Temple Army have been exposed, and Fu Mengzhi and them are likely to have suffered an accident. To win in the encirclement of the opponent's million-strong army, and to kill the opponent's leader, the difficulty is not ordinary.
For this reason, Liu Xuzhou planned to use the complex terrain of the Shattered Star Forest to have a decisive battle with the other party.
There are countless groves scattered throughout the Shattered Star Forest, which greatly limits the power of warhorses and crossbows, and is not conducive to large-scale legion battles, which is precisely the most beneficial factor for the Temple Army.
As long as the opponent's numerical advantage is limited, he will have a chance to win.
Liu Xuzhou divided the temple army into four parts, of which Fang Shanshui, Zhou Feixiong, and Song Zhihuan each led 10,000 people, stationed in the front in the shape of a pin, and he led 20,000 people to be stationed in the rear of the three people. Once the opponent enters the Shattered Star Forest, the four men and horses will quickly attack, annihilating the opponent's small force little by little.
"Hopefully this method will work!" Liu Xuzhou looked at the ice and snow that fell from time to time, and said to himself secretly.
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Seeing that the other party was always hiding in the forest, Sang Nan quickly guessed the other party's thoughts. But he didn't want to spend it with the other party indefinitely, since the temple was likely to have access to Tigris, who knew how many people they would send.
If you can't take advantage of the fact that the opponent's forces have not yet completed the assembly, and defeat the Templar army behind them, once the opponent's reinforcements continue to arrive, the weapon resources of the mine-throwing soldiers and the Destroyer Battalion will be exhausted, and at that time, your own situation will become very dangerous.
At present, Mei Don's injuries have been recovered, the improvement of the oil tank has been successfully completed, and the morale of the whole army is high, and it is the best time to attack.
As night fell, the soldiers of all ethnic groups and tribes set off separately and headed for the Shattered Star Forest according to the battle plan formulated in the past few days.
The choice of night battle was an adjustment made by Sang Nan according to the reward of the Yun Scout. After all, no matter how powerful a person is, he is not particularly good at night fighting, but Sannan, Medon, and the legion of the living dead are not limited by this.
The other party's plan is obviously to use the complex terrain of the Shattered Star Forest to weaken the numerical advantage of his own army, so he has to work harder.
The forest is quiet, the shadows of the trees are longing, and the pale yellow moonlight spreads all over the land, rendering the whole world in silver and black.
Occasionally, one or two frightened beasts sped across the ground, attracting vigilant glances from the darkness.
Under the cover of night, the killing machine looms!
This is Zhou Feixiong's camp, the tent is made of snow and tree sticks, and the surface is cleverly camouflaged, and at first glance, it looks like a bare dirt slope, without any human signs.
Fang Shanshui, Zhou Feixiong, and Song Zhihuan each led 10,000 temple troops, of which Fang Shanshui was in front, Zhou Feixiong was in the east, and Song Zhihuan was in the west.
Although Zhou Feixiong has a bear character in his name, he is very handsome, from the Moro Empire, and entered the temple at the age of 3 to cultivate and study, and it has been a full 30 years.
One of the main reasons why he was selected into the Temple Army was that he, like Ji Tieyi, was also a Flying Feather Archer.
Rank 9 Flying Feather Archer!
His flying feathers, each arrow carries a detachment of qi, and has a powerful blasting power, so when the Yun scouts break through, the number of people who die under his arrows is the largest.
The Temple Army has 4 division commanders, in addition to him, Fang Shanshui, and Song Zhihuan, the other division commander is called Bella, who is from the Orton Empire. The 4 division commanders each led 10,000 temple troops, and Liu Xuzhou himself was in charge of 10,000 people.
The division commanders of the Temple Army are all people who are both civil and military, and Zhou Feixiong is no exception.
He had a hunch that if the other party chose to attack the Shattered Star Forest, he would definitely come late at night, because it would easily cause a scuffle, which would be more beneficial to the side with a large number of people. For this reason, every late night, the number of sentries in the entire camp will be strengthened several times, and everyone will not leave their bodies.
Moreover, Zhou Feixiong believed that if the other party really came to attack his camp, he would definitely receive a big surprise.
Because his troops are the only fully organized archery division in the Temple Army, the Divine Bow Division! (To be continued.) )