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Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Storm

Of course, the above content is summed up many years later, when everyone looks back on the past with a bit of ostentation. Right now, they don't have time to summarize this. Just before the first wave of arrows fell from the Afghan army, he followed Zhu Eighty-one's example, agitated his clumsy lips and tongues, and tried his best to appease the brothers under his command. They are the best soldiers of our time, and they can easily defeat any strong enemy. Although, at the moment, their own legs and stomachs have been trembling.

From August last year to March this year, more than seven months of rigorous training have played a role again. Although every soldier and auxiliary soldier was nervous, a few people even faintly saw water stains under the crotch guards. But this time, no one took the initiative to break away from the team as they did in Xuzhou last November. They sat or stood according to the requirements of the commander, holding the weapons in their hands tightly, saying witty words loudly, or teasing each other loudly while wiping tears and cold sweat, but their waists were always straight, as if they were carrying a towering mountain on their shoulders.

The monotonous drum beat of "Knock Knock, Knock Knock, Knock Knock" sounded again, knocking people on the scalp. The 1,000-man team, which was attacking on foot, suddenly stopped, and the array reunited from an irregular polygon into a neat phalanx. The soldiers in the first seven rows raised a round shield to their chests and began to trot. From the eighth row, the soldiers stopped where they were, and while quickly forming their formation, they removed the well-made horned bows from their backs.

"Team A, Team B, raise the shield, stand up and raise the shield-!" Zhu Bayi had already been reminded by the veteran ruffian Ivan, and when he saw this scene, he immediately rushed to the wall of the car, and at the same time stretched out his hand to slap on the back armor of several centurions, "Team C, D, and E, squat behind Team B, put the spear up, stand it up!" Grenadiers, ten steps back, distanced themselves from Team E. Archers, twenty-five paces from the wall, ready to fight back!! ”

"Team A, Team B, raise the shield, stand up and raise the shield-! Team C, Team D, Team E Spear - ! "More than two dozen personal soldiers followed him with iron shields and repeated the order loudly." Grenadiers, ten steps back, distanced themselves from Team E. Archers, twenty-five paces from the wall, ready to fight back!! ”

The rest of the other personal soldiers, under the leadership of Wang Shisan, Xue Liuzi and other brand leaders, protected the three artillery pieces in the middle, together with Huang Laowei and others behind the artillery, so as to prevent them from being attacked by enemy archers.

When he heard the order, he immediately reflexively turned his body sideways, raised the iron-faced jujube shield captured from the Rakshasa to the level of the helmet, and at the same time bent his waist slightly to the right. The other three hundred-man soldiers quickly crouched behind the sword and shield hand, and the spear in their hand stretched straight into the sky like bamboo.

Under the leadership of Liu Ziyun, the grenadiers occupied a slightly higher position behind Team E, carried the grenade throwing rope in their right hand, and held a lit moxa wool tightly in their left hand. The 100-man archers formed a long row behind the grenadiers, and stuck their bows and arrows one by one in the dirt in front of them, as the old ruffians had taught them to do in their usual training.

Before everyone had time to complete all the preparations, a chaotic drum beat suddenly sounded in the enemy army. Immediately after, a gray-white cloud flew above everyone's heads. The wolf's tooth arrows with feathers stuck to their tails smashed down like hail and landed on the surface of the shield with a continuous "clanging" sound. A small number of feathered arrows that had been shot high collided with the shafts of spears erected in mid-air, and the sound of "crackling" and "crackling" was non-stop. There were also a dozen feathered arrows scattered and sly, slyly passing between the spear bushes, "Poof! Suddenly, it was stuck in the open space between the soldiers and the grenadiers, and the tail feathers swung back and forth unwillingly.

"Right bow two, take five steps forward, shoot!" The right wing of the Left Army, Qianhu Baoli, shook his head dissatisfied, waved his long sword, and commanded the next team of archers to continue to cover the target area. The second wave of feather arrows instantly rose into the air, and then turned into lightning bolts that fell from mid-air, smashing into the shield wall of the Red Turban Army, smashing out clusters of dazzling sparks.

"Hmm!" Pauli's eyebrows jumped upwards and he muttered in a low voice. The enemy's defense is a bit surprisingly strong, and most of them are wearing large-bladed armor with obvious European style, and the shields in their hands are also standard Golden Horde standards. This is all a good thing that Wu Lai did not spend that fool to do, and he actually buried all the three Rakshasa thousand people under the city of Xuzhou! Now it's good, the equipment of the ant thief and the official army are leveled at once. Today without paying some price, Sensei wants to break through their defenses.

However, compared to the thousands of carts of looting wealth in the hands of the ant thieves, the price of a few thousand feathered arrows was insignificant, and the casualties of a few hundred were acceptable. Thinking of the huge benefits brought by this battle, Baoli took a hard breath and raised the long sword in his hand again, "Right bow three, take ten steps forward, shoot!" ”

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" There was another monotonous sound of feather arrows breaking through the air, and the third wave of feather arrows took off again, smashing into the target area, and it was as violent as rain hitting plantains.

The soldiers of the Left Army, who experienced the baptism of arrow rain for the first time, hid behind their shields, gritted their teeth, and struggled to support. Due to the protection of shields and iron armor, these three waves of feathered arrows did not cause any other losses to the left army, except for two grenadiers who were fired directly at the front door by stray arrows. However, the pressure caused in everyone's hearts is like a thunderbolt.

"Archers! Seventy steps ahead, shoot! "Under the command of Centurion Xu Da, the archers of the Red Turban Army also began to fight back. Each time you bend down, you can easily land a feather arrow on the bow arm, and then pull the bow arm full with the straight waist movement, and release the fingers quickly, and the whole set of movements is like a flowing cloud.

A hundred eagle feather arrows were fired head-on at the soldiers who were charging towards the wall. The vast majority of them landed in the target area, and only a dozen of them were blown by the mountain wind and disappeared. However, the distance between the two sides is too far after all, and the Argentines are wearing strong armor, even if they are hit by an arrow, they will not be fatal. Instead, he ran faster and faster with a steel sword and shield.

"Right bow one, right bow two, right bow three, raise the bow, take turns shooting!" Now there are archers in the Red Turban Army, and the shooting action is quite smooth. The commander of the right flank, Bori, frowned and ordered his archers to speed up the attack.

Rows and rows of feathered arrows flew into the air like summer storms, and then rained down on the Red Turban soldiers behind the walls of the car. endlessly tormenting everyone's nerves. In the blink of an eye, the left hands of many of the Red Turban soldiers in the front row holding shields turned blue-gray, and their lips were bitten by themselves because of nervousness, and blood slowly trickled down the corners of their mouths. Unaware of this, they continued to grit their teeth, put their ears on the jujube wood lining on the inside of the shield, and silently counted in their hearts, "Eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth"

The fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth waves, the feather arrows of the Arabians seemed to be inexhaustible, endless. Under the cover of three hundred archers, the soldiers of the first seven rows of soldiers also suddenly increased their pace, and the tide was like a surge, advancing from a distance of one hundred paces to seventy, sixty, fifty, and forty steps in the blink of an eye

"Archers! Forty steps ahead, shoot! The archers of the Red Turban Army fought back with all their might, and also shot waves of feathered arrows above the heads of the opposing soldiers. From sixty to forty. Finally, several of the Argentine soldiers were pierced by the feather arrows and fell down screaming. The other Afghan soldiers did not look at the wounded, and threw themselves at the wall of the car.

"Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock, knock knock,,,,,," A low drum beat rolled across the battlefield. Suddenly, the rain of arrows stopped. The sky above everyone's heads also suddenly lit up. Many of the Red Turban Saber and Shield Soldiers instinctively lowered their shields, and the upper edge of the shields poked out half of their heads to watch the enemy's movements. "Be careful!" "Raise your shield!" Zhu Eighty-one and Ivanov shouted in unison, but it was too late. At this moment, the two Afghan hundred-man teams running at the front suddenly drew a horned bow from behind their backs and quickly put the sharp armor-piercing cone on the bow arm.

"Ahh At a distance of thirty paces, the Afghan people chose to shoot quickly and flat. The black-lit armor-piercing cone flew to the front in an instant, shooting several helmets that were exposed on the outside of the shield backwards and flying backwards, revealing a pair of eyes that could not be blinded by the blood splash.

"Smack!" "Smack!" "Smack" "Smack!" More feathered arrows landed on the shield wall, with surprising force, pushing the inexperienced sword and shield men into weak arms and swaying bodies.

The torrential rain only lasted for a short moment before it stopped. Just when everyone thought that the disaster was over, the second wave of armor-piercing cones volleyed into the air more than twenty paces away, as if they had eyes, and shot into the crowd through the gap created by the fall of several sword and shield soldiers with arrows in the head, and shot into the chests of other nearby sword and shield men and spearmen, several inches deep.

"Ahh More than a dozen sword and shield players who were blocking the front snorted and slowly fell. More armor-piercing cones shot in from where they had stood, sending blood splatters from around the gaps. "Team B, fill the position, come forward to fill the position!" Commander Wu Twenty-two picked up a shield from the pool of blood and took the lead to rush to the empty position. An armor-breaking cone brushed against his ear, hitting the bridge of the nose of a soldier on Team B. The jet-black tip of the cone peeked out more than two inches from the back of his head to the neck, and the soldier didn't even have time to snort, and fell to the ground on his back to the ground.

"Fill in the position, fill the position, raise the shield and fill the position directly in front of yourself!!" Like a mad dog, Ivanov ran behind the brothers of Team B with his shield, and whenever he saw a gap, he would kick the helpless soldiers forward with his feet. Zhu Eighty-one, who was following him, shielded the feather arrows with his shield, and at the same time gave orders to his own soldiers, "Maotou, you are here." Dog, you go up for me, and hold your shield on top. Qi Erbald, don't follow me, go up and fill the position yourself. The iron armor on Lao Tzu's body is strong enough, and the one on yours is also enough. ”

At his urging, the pro-soldiers wearing plate armor held shields and acted as substitutes for Team B. The new plate armor on their bodies is indeed far more defensive than the captured Rakshasa iron armor. However, more than two dozen pro-soldiers wearing plate armor are in more and more and larger gaps, but they are a drop in the bucket. In the face of the sudden blow, the two sword and shield hands of A and B completely lost their composure. Either gather in a group somewhere, or turn a blind eye to the gaps that are close at hand, and at the level of ordinary training, you can't swing a tenth.

"Grenadier!" At this precarious moment, Zhu Eighty-one suddenly shouted in a ghostly manner. Since the last bloody battle, it has been the killer weapon of the entire Xuzhou army. Although deep down, he didn't approve of this kind of behavior of putting all the bets on one class. However, unconsciously, it has been imperceptibly affected by the people around him.

"Team Jiazi, light the fire, throw!" Liu Ziyun, who had long been so nervous that he was about to cry, didn't think about it at all, and when he heard his master shout the familiar three words, he immediately pressed the moxa wool in his left hand on the twist of the grenade, and then slammed his right arm forward in a full circle, and threw the grenade that ignited the twist together with the throwing rope.

"Whoosh!" More than 70 grenades flew into the sky with a throwing rope, and the scenery was spectacular. Immediately, a deafening explosion rang out only about twenty paces from the car wall. Black smoke billowed from the dirt, and sticks and grass clippings rose from the dirt. The 100-strong Afghan army, which was drawing its bow and firing flat, was startled by the explosion that was close at hand, instinctively stopped firing, quickly retreated, and collided with its own soldiers following behind it, and the man turned on his back.

"Who told you to throw it now?" Zhu Bayi turned around and yelled at Liu Ziyun, but in the next moment, the anger on his face was replaced by ecstasy. Just as the soldiers of the left army could not adapt to the opponent's armor-piercing cone close-range shooting tactics, the Argentines were also flustered in the face of grenades that they had never touched. Although many of the iron-clad grenades filled with half a catty of gunpowder did not explode at all, even if they did, most of them could only be blown in half, and the power could only cover a range of about two steps from the landing point.

"Fire, Huang Lao, are you scared stupid? The governor usually gives you so much gold, why don't you just raise a dog?! Taking advantage of the moment when the enemy's offensive stopped, Ivanov quickly ran to the gun position and scolded Huang Laowei and his sons and apprentices.

"Ahh Huang Lao, whose mouth was full of white foam, suddenly regained his senses, pushed away the soldiers who were covering his feather arrows, and trembled, and put the lit wormwood wool into the medicine twist left outside the artillery. "Huh-" Yao Twist jumped up a ball of red stars, like a small snake, and drilled into the inside of the bronze cannon with everyone's expectations. And then, quietly!