Section 8: Flesh Mill

Ulan Tie is the elder brother of Ulan Hai, and after receiving the order from Nusi, he rushed from the Blue Horse Shengli with the beast department.

The beast department is a very special unit in the Nusi army, with an establishment of 1,000 people, which directly belongs to the Nusi personal guard. The entire force consisted of orcs from the Blue Horse. It is the most capable unit in the Nus army in the mountains.

There are not many countries with orcs in the entire continent, and the western continent has the most orcs. And the Blue Horse Orc Force is also the only one in the Northern Continent.

Although Ulan Tie's beast department is not well-known in the mainland orc troops, its real strength is very terrifying, and there are more than 50 winged orcs in the army who can fly at low altitudes.

Although it can't be compared with the famous Orc Flying Brigade Xianghui Army in the Western Continent, it has also made zero breakthroughs in the air supremacy of the war.

With tall orcs, low frogmen sword and shield soldiers, and lizardmen who can crawl for long periods of time, the mountain combat ability is also ranked among the top in the Northern Continent.

Ulan Tie arrived at Luoqing on June 11, and was received by Yemen Wang, the chief general of the Nusi army. Yemenwang, like Qin Kemu, is one of the six generals under the Blue Horse Nusi.

Yemeni Wang did not have a polite relationship with Ulan Tie, and directly issued an order, because the army of the Blue Horse people was assembled under the city of Jiangting south of Huang Yaoluoshui. In the direction of Yahai, his subordinate Solipas led 5,000 light cavalry to deploy defenses on the grasslands of Luoqing, Luoshui and Yahai, and Xizha on the west side of Luoshui was also defended by Qin Kemu.

Now the only one that is not under the military control of the Blue Horse is the Luoshui garrison hiding in the Red Mountain, and this time, Nusi gave him the task of keeping an eye on this army on the Red Mountain, so as to cooperate with the army to form a safe attack queue under Jiangting City.

Due to the recent small grain route of the Blue Horse, it has been constantly attacked by this legendary army on the Red Mountain that is only good at digging trenches. Judging from the time of the battle, the intensity of the attack, and the command ability of the two sides, it all reflects that this is a force that can fight, and it is not as unbearable as the military intelligence department said. When Ulan Tie was leaving, Yemeni Wang deliberately explained that he was staring, not eliminating.

When Wulan Tie came out of Luo Qing, he forgot about Yemen Wang's words, not to mention that his younger brother was killed by this local garrison, that is, the beast department under his own eyes, and he didn't dare to say anything else, if he fought in the mountains, let alone the local garrison, even Huang Yao's famous Huang Biao Army and the Imperial Guards Brigade might not be able to please him. Such a force? Let yourself just see, jokes? This is clearly a credit book for yourself. Can the escort team of the grain road be compared to the beast department? What a joke!

Wulan Tie received the general's order, repaired in Luoqing for one night, and rushed to the Luohe estuary the next day.

Su Ping looked at the large area of the newly reclaimed mountain fields, and was very satisfied, because the Blue Horse people implemented a half-mountain closure strategy for them, it seemed that it would be difficult for the garrison and refugees to get out of the red mountain for a while.

Liu Qingshan put him in charge of organizing the refugees and cultivating farmland for self-sufficiency.

Su Ping even felt that the Jiangting City Empire might not be able to hold it. Other people don't know very well, he is Liu Qingshan's personal entourage, and he naturally has outstanding military qualities.

First, the empire is not prepared enough for the cruelty of this war, and all those officials are thinking about is peace talks. This directly led to the fact that the empire gave up the advantage of strategic offensive at the beginning.

Second, the geographical location of the empire, which is located in the center of the northern continent and borders other countries on all sides, and Huang Yao, who is vigorously developing grain production, cannot take out more troops to deal with this war at all.

3. Some time ago, I heard that Liu Napo, the only title of the empire, went missing during an expedition in the Eastern Continent, which directly led to the wait-and-see attitude of the surrounding countries towards this war, and even more connived.

Ay! I don't want to think so much, let's go and see how the houses in the refugee camp are doing. Su Ping retracted his chaotic thoughts and walked down the hillside.

Liu Qingshan touched his chin and stared at the map in front of him.

"Head! Time to eat! The dog put a piece of bread on Liu Qingshan's table, and went to the lunch box to get other soups.

"It smells so good!" Liu Qingshan chewed a bite of the dough cake. "Hey! Dog, what kind of production self-help you told me, I thought about it, and that's really it! Su Ping has started to get it now! ”

"Huh! Brother Ding Hai, where did they go? Why haven't you seen each other in the past two days? ”

"Let's get food for the dogs! I'll be back in two days. Liu Qingshan put a piece of dough cake that accidentally fell on the table into his mouth and said casually.

"Head! 、、、”

"Call brother! What habits? Liu Qingshan looked at the map again.

"Oh! Elder brother! Do you think what Ding Haige said is true? ”

"What really?"

"That's it! It's going to become! The 、、、," the dog gestured.

"Oh! That's it! Maybe it's dazzling! Liu Qingshan looked stunned, and then relieved.

"It's not! Ding Haige said that he had seen it carefully! The dog looked serious.

"That's it! That's going to change! Liu Qingshan was absent-minded, looking at the map while eating.

"I won't tell you!" The dog sat down angrily on a nearby wooden pier.

"Hey, hey!" Liu Qingshan then focused his attention on the map.

"Report!"

"Speak!"

"The Blue Horse Army has entered the Red Mountain!"

Liu Qingshan asked the herald in front of him solemnly, "Where have you been?" ”

"It's past the second beam!"

Erdaoliang is a mountain beam from the camp outside the two hills, and everyone is used to calling him Erdaoliang.

"Who is in charge today?"

"It's the Fire Thousand Commander and the Wang Hussar Guard."

"Drums! Call the temple! Liu Qingshan didn't look back, and came to the tent with the map of the Red Mountain Guard.

"Knock knock, knock knock,"

The sound order is a means used by the mainland to command the large army to fight, transmit news, and so on, and different melodies represent different meanings and combat intentions.

After a while, the tent was full of school officials, large and small.

"The Blue Dog has now passed the second beam and will soon be in our defense! General Feng, you take the brigade to guard the camp, you bring 500 bows and arrows to the foreshore to set up defenses, and Su Ping points 2000 troops to follow me to Erdaoliang! The others are on standby, and they are sent by the general! Liu Qingshan pointed to the map while wearing armor.

"General! Or let me go with Officer Su? Xingren Lu stood up and asked Liu Qingshan tentatively.

Since he escaped from Shangma, Xingren Road took refuge in the garrison, and during this period, he also wanted to take a detour back to the pole to find Huang Biaojun, but because the Blue Horse people were fortified everywhere between Xizha and Huaiting, they slowly temporarily dispelled the idea of returning to Huang Biaojun.

Eat and drink in vain in the garrison every day, and now that the Blue Horse people are attacking, Liu Qingshan is going to go into battle in person, and he is a little unhappy, so he stands up.

Because Tie Yulan, Zhan Mao, Ding Hai, Yu Wenhua, Xie Yuanhui, and Liu Shan, the former commander of the Ren Tang Army, all went to Feishui two days ago, and there were few people under Liu Qingshan who could fight except Feng Zhanyun. But Feng Zhanyun's wound was inflamed, and he was still dragging a leg that was not very neat.

Liu Qingshan looked at Xingren Road and politely said, "Thank you!" But foreshore is more important, he is the last barrier of the camp! Okay, please! ”

The fire in front of the second beam is like looking at the lizard people coming up, and the entire slope is densely packed, with more than 200 people. There are very few trees on the entire slope.

This is also the main reason why Liu Qingshan put the periphery here, the smooth slope will have a great bonus to the damage caused by rolling stones and sassal wood.

Besides, their garrison was originally a local law and order force, and the crossbow arrows were not very sufficient, if it weren't for the batch of arrows captured when the Luohe River grabbed the beach, the entire garrison carried only more than 3,000 arrows, and the bows and arrows were even less pitiful.

After entering the Red Mountain, Liu Qingshan saw this light slope. First, the surrounding terrain is relatively steep, and there are many trees in the Red Mountain, so the sassal wood can be used locally, so the barracks are located on the light slope behind the second beam.

Behind the slope is all kinds of bows and arrows, stabbing and robbing the hidden fortress, and after the back slope is the thorn forest, and the trees in the thorn forest are full of bow and arrow blockers. The ground is full of pits, floating bars, flying lines、、、

Ulan Tie wasn't sure if there were any Huang Yao people on this slope in front of him, but with his intuition, it was very likely that this was the outpost of Huang Yao's digging army.

Tell the lizard orcs to crawl slowly first, the half-orcs follow closely, and the winged archers are ready to respond.

"Setting fire" Wuxiang looked at the lizardman who was just halfway up the mountain, and waved his arm angrily.

"Rumbling"

Stones, wood, and jubilant children found the sweet halva and jumped towards the lizardmen.

Occasionally, a few unlucky lizardmen were taken off by the wood and rolling stones, and then the lizardmen dug and scratched a few times, and there was a pit under them that could accommodate them, and the rolling logs flew down from the ground level above the body, except for some stones that caused some insignificant damage to the lizardmen, and did not affect the lizardmen's advancement.

Seeing that the lizardmen are about to reach the top of the mountain.

"Platoon" fire no like the order.

"Whoa! Crash! ”

A wooden row of cars composed of stabbing robbers, the bottom end of which is a small wooden wheel for fast rolling, the car is loaded with soil, which can make the sliding row of cars roll faster and increase the damage, and the wooden row is full of iron.

A lizardman was accidentally taken by a row of cars, a large piece of meat was torn off, and the body turned and fell, one after another, some wooden raft cars crashed into a large group of lizardmen and overturned, and the body was attached to a lizardman, and then another one crashed, and the lizardman was immediately buried in the soil, and the scattered wooden raft spines that were hit were stabbed into the body of the lizardman next to him.

Casualties began to appear, and the first time Ulan Tie saw these strange things of the Huang Yao people, he was also blind, and then he asked the winged people to fly low and suppress the Huang Yao people with rockets.

The winged archers use a special machine crossbow, the range is inferior to the ordinary grass crossbow, and the range is about the same as that of ordinary bows and arrows, but the continuous fire is fast, one machine has three arrows, and they are all rockets poured with reckless oil, which can quickly and effectively form aerial suppression.

Soon the fire statue was suppressed by the winged archers and couldn't raise their heads, and the soldiers didn't expect that someone would appear in the sky across the dirt slope, and before they could change their weapons to bows and arrows, they were beaten by the opponent's crossbows, and there was a sea of fire on the mountain beam, and the lizardmen took the opportunity to climb up.

Looking at these lizardmen with small eyes, long arms, and ears in front of them, some of the garrison soldiers with poor psychology immediately fled down the mountain in a panic, and the queue was broken down at once.

A lizardman who rushed in front of the fire statue was angry at the fire statue with a knife, and the lizardman used a one-handed bull ear knife. The head of the knife is wide and difficult to swing, but it is highly lethal.

Huo Wuxiang took the saber horizontally to block the lizardman, and at the moment when the lizardman's ox ear knife was shaken, a downward split, and the lizardman was cut in half.

Shot down a flying fire arrow, Huo Wuxiang rushed forward and killed several lizardmen, and the winged people in the sky also saw Huo Wuxiang, and for a while, locust-like rockets shot at him.

Ay! A horse didn't expect to explain here, just when Huo Wuxiang thought that he was going to die rocket, the winged man in the sky was in a panic, and there were many fewer arrows shooting at him.

Huo Wu hid under a tree on the top of the mountain, and at this time he had already been hit by two arrows, and even worse, one of them shot into his back, which was probably ordered to his lungs, making it difficult for him to recuperate his vitality now.

The lizardman in front of him rushed over with a bull-eared broadsword.

Now Huo Wuxiang really can't move his body, his body is soft and has no strength at all, it seems that he is old, and he has no strength in just a few strokes, is he going to die? Thinking about it self-deprecatingly, a person rushed out of the oblique stab, bare-handed, and lay in front of Huo Wuxiang.

"Snap" the lizardman's hand as if it were delivered to the man's hand,

Then one writhed, and the lizardman cut off his own head, blood spurting out, rushing forward and grabbing another one, and spitting black blood from his mouth when he elbowed the opponent. After a while, more than 10 lizardmen confessed here, and the lizardmen fell down as they were split in half. turned around to reveal Su Ping's young and handsome face.

Ulan Tie climbed up the mountain beam and told the orcs to stabilize the array. Looking at the sparse lizardman corpses on the ground, these orcs are the elite he has cultivated in the past few years, not only have their own cultivation reached about the first level of force, but their cooperation with each other is extremely tacit.

Just such a small slope lost seventy or eighty people, including five winged people, how could he not feel distressed.

He now has a number of troops in front of him, the command is first-class, the quality of the soldiers is not very high, and there are a few officers who are more difficult to deal with.

Ulan Tie pressed the team array and told the teams to be divided into two, two, one, and grouping. That is, two half-orcs, two sword and shield soldiers, and a lizard man in a group, and the tactical slogan is Tactic No. 4.

Tactic No. 4 is to look down on the combat preparation, five groups of orc troops, due to the difference in body height, lined up, they will face a very narrow line of defense, so that the cooperation between the group will be more tacit, and the speed of downward advance will be much faster.

The frogman sword and shield soldiers at the front of the team have strong defensive capabilities, even if they have long-range strikes such as arrows, the other three people at the back of the group will be much more relaxed to deal with.

It is divided into 80 groups, each group is three meters apart, 30 meters impact formation, and 8 longitudinal forward advancement. The team had barely reached the halfway point of the hill when they heard the drumming of the thorns on the opposite side slowing down.

"Flutter, flutter,

At the foot of the assault queue, a long-handled thorn burst out, and the frogman sword and shield soldiers in front of the team fell in response, and the formation began to become chaotic.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh,"

Countless arrows flew out of the thorn forest, looking like a black line from a distance, and the tall orcs became the best targets.

In the blink of an eye, more than 50 people were killed and wounded.

"Honk! Steady! Ulan Tie was a little crazy, he knew that as soon as the impact queue turned around, this 400-person squad would be all explained here, judging from the strength of the opponent's bow and arrow, it would be at least 30 meters away from the shooting range.

But just these 30 meters, give the back to the other party, not to mention 4 rounds of arrow rain, that is, 10 meters away, the other party can't put two rounds of arrows, in such a dense range of arrows, it is difficult to say how many of these 400 sons.

On the hillside, the orcs stretched out their cowhide shields, and arrows crackled against the cowhide shields.

The "knock, knock, knock" drum beat changed again.

"Whoosh" The sparse arrows on both sides of the hillside shot towards the orc impact team, because the distance was too close, most of them were hidden arrows, the angle and distance of the arrows were different, and the orc impact team was defending against the arrows flying from the front, and the soldiers in the queue were like fried beans, falling down, flying, and jumping from time to time.

In the thorn forest, Liu Qingshan waved his hand and took the lead in rushing up, followed by 300 archers.

"The flying brigade presses up!" After Wulanhai finished speaking, he rushed down the mountain beam with two hundred personal soldiers to respond.

Blink! Ulanhai had already rushed into the array, and his own soldiers also stretched out their cowhide shields on both sides of the hillside, and crept into both sides of the assault queue.

"The front team is 45 degrees close to the ground, shoot! The rear team raises three inches and shoots after three breaths! Liu Qingshan prostrate down the hillside and ordered the archers.

The arrows jumped up against the ground lawn, like grass snakes flying close to the ground, and for a while the orc troops were in chaos, and then an arrow line about 4 feet parallel to the slope flew over.

A half-orc's calf was pierced by an arrow, and the great pain made the half-orc throw away the cowhide shield, and before he could bend down to cover the injured calf, three arrows were nailed into the chest, shoulder, abdomen, and different shades.

At this moment, a line of fire in the sky was covered, and the archers of the garrison did not have time to raise their shields, "Flutter! Call! "The reckless firebolts had pierced their throats, a large number of soldiers had been shot by arrows, the grass was on fire, and a garrison archer jumped to extinguish the body that had begun to burn, and in the blink of an eye it became a moving burning man, like a trick.

More and more soldiers turned into burning men, jumping, moving, roaring, falling, rolling, dying, the air filled with a foul smell of burnt hair and the smell of roasted meat, greeted the messy rain of fire in the sky, and then more garrison soldiers became burning men, moving, jumping, roaring, and dying.

Liu Qingshan shouted loudly, "Raise your shield!" Raise your shield! ”。 The shouts became so insignificant in the hysterical wails of the soldiers, like whines flowing through the air, rather than battle orders, and some of them had just raised their shields above their heads when they were pushed and knocked on their stomachs by their jumping companions, and the arrows pierced through their chests like eyes.

It took Liu Qingshan a lot of effort to escape back into the thorny woods. Some of the burning fire men behind him were desperately jumping into the woods, some were rolling on the ground, and some were slowly falling, and the woodland not far in front of them had turned into a sea of fire. Staring at the companions who had turned into fire men in front of him, Liu Qingshan's tone did not have the slightest emotion, "Shoot!" ”

The soldiers did not react for a moment.

"Shoot! Shoot! They're dead! Shoot me! ”

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! 、、、、”

The arrows of the Burning Man became less and less under the arrows of his companions, and the Winged Man in the sky wanted to get close to the woodland to expand the results of the battle, and from time to time there were cold arrows shot out from the trees, and the Winged Man had to raise his flight altitude, and the arrows were not as sharp as before, but they were just equivalent to a burning torch thrown out, which fell on the tree, and then was shot down and extinguished by the garrison.

Liu Qingshan wiped the sweat from his head. Fortunately, it was not winter, and the fire did not spread, but the more than 300 bows and arrows and guards who followed him only came back more than 100 points.

The orc shock team quickly stabilized its position after losing the pressure from the front, and the garrison soldiers under the pit were dug out by the lizardmen from time to time, and then they were greeted by the orcs, swords and shields slashing wildly. The Ulan Sea pressed on both sides of the team, and shot at the bunker on the opposite side. From time to time, a bunker was blown down by orcs with their fists.

When I got to the foot of the mountain, it was already afternoon, and Ulan Tie was a little hungry.

Until now, he regrets a little that he didn't listen to Yemen's advice, this legendary digging force is indeed not so unbearable, go back?

He doesn't have that face, and besides, people don't necessarily let them go? Advance? I'm only a little older, and less than 300 of my subordinates are gone!

Now he just hopes that the night will come soon, it will be dark! Night combat is the favorite way of orcs, in addition to the poor night vision of the winged people, half-orcs, lizardmen, frogmen, and those are all masters of night vision, darkness is even more accustomed to them than light, as for the air suppression of the wingmen, don't do it, the group attack ability of the bow and arrow in the woods can't be brought into play. Just hold down the back formation, well! That's it, wait until it gets dark.

Liu Qingshan and the others watched as their companions on the dirt slope were slowly slaughtered, and their nails were almost pinched into the flesh.

There's no way, this raid is too sudden, and what's even more unexpected is the aerial suppression of the winged people, and besides, pressing this ambushed soldier is also a food delivery, and the opponent's tactical formation is not vegetarian.

I can't see it now, but once the two armies are connected, he can imagine its horror, the natural physical advantage of the orcs, and with this height, the cooperation of the level space will be maximized. When the time comes, it may not be possible to exchange five for one, and it is not cost-effective.

Of course, he knew that he would not do a loss-making business, so he watched his companions being slaughtered, and wanted to charge several times, but he still held back.

Summoned the various school officers, the chief, the hussar guards, and explained what might happen next, but at this time the blue horse people stopped, and it seemed that they were going to fight at night.

Time passed quickly, and it soon got dark, and Ulan Tie looked at the orc troops who had eaten and drunk enough, and his confidence was a little more. Well! It's just that this beef jerky is so difficult to bite that his teeth are sleepy until now.

The luck of the Ulan Sea is not very bad, the stars are not so bright today, and the moon is also obscured by dark clouds from time to time. The formation is tactical number five, a group of six, the first frogman, two people on the left and right, respectively, frogmen, and lizardmen, the middle is a half-orc, the formation is a triangular formation, the half-orcs hold a big shield to stab and rob, the frogman short knife with a round shield on the right arm, and the lizardmen all collect their knives and change their bows and arrows to crawl.

"Flutter" a frogman was nailed to death by a floating railing. The floating fence is a means used by Huang Yao hunters to catch animals, a pit less than half a meter deep, there is a trigger device in the pit, even this rope, the rope is a thorn, once you step on the thorn, it will fly out of the soil, the location is generally in the dantian qi sea.

"Whoosh" half-orc used a big cowhide shield to block the flying ****, a kind of slingshot tied to a tree, a trigger slingshot on a thorny forest, a grass rope tied to a tree or a forest, once touched, a short arrow will fly out, and the speed is extremely fast.

After paying more than 30 casualties, Ulan Tie finally saw the opposite side

The fortifications, which are a hillside with two miles of land, the slope is gentle, this kind of defensive fortifications, when Ulan Tie usually exercises, he is a small dish, the winged people are long-distance high-altitude harassing and suppressed, the half-orc shield swings away and advances at a uniform speed, the lizardman puts arrows and snipers under the half-orc shield, and the frogman is in a group of two in the rear, when engaged, one squats, one stands on the other shoulder, and one jumps on the fortification.

Ulantie was a little excited, as if he saw Yemenwang looking at him with admiration, and his colleagues looked envious, and Nusi awarded him the highest warrior medal of the empire.

"Change the No. 8 tactic, the air brigade will suppress at high altitude!" Ulan Tie is full of confidence.

"Woo" the blue horse's tactical horn.

The Wingman Air Brigade flew over the thorn forest and was about to fly over the fortifications.

"Squirt! Gush! Gush! ”

The voice of the 500-meter medium-range foot crossbow is disemboweled. (A crossbow is a crossbow that uses its feet to open a mystery.) οΌ‰

There was just a fire in the sky, and there was no sense of power fired by a crossbow gun, and it fell weakly. Then there was the Wingman Air Brigade scrambling to turn into a black rain of people.

In the fortifications, Xingren Road opened the crossbow machine with his feet. His grandmother's, good thing! Good accuracy! It's just that the number is a little small, only 100 beds! The blue horse people are good, and they dare to fight! Some time ago, Liu Qingshan and the others snatched a blue horse transit station stationed north of the Luohe River and got them back. Listening to Ding Hai, the good things inside went to the sea, and due to the limited time, he only got back this batch of crossbows.

Ulan Tie stood at the back of the team, watching the black human rain falling from the sky in front of him, and before he could react, there were only a few winged people left in the airspace.

"Knock Knock Knock"

"Buzz!"

"Flutter! Jingling! Flutter"

No less than 300 bows and arrows, mixed with crossbows, shot at the orc troops at the same time.

The orcs felt only a strong wind rushing towards them, followed by crossbow arrows breaking through their shields and piercing their limbs.

"Hold back, hold down back," Ulantie almost cried.

"Woo-"

The orc troops did not turn around, but their bodies retreated, and from time to time someone was penetrated by arrows, and after a while, they withdrew from the range of bows and arrows, and the crossbows penetrated the shield and the body from time to time, and the corpses on the ground were no longer as dense as before the fortifications, and they were sparsely scattered until they were not far from Ulan Tie.

Suddenly, Ulan Tie felt a great danger coming at him, and he unconsciously lowered his head, and an arrow flew over his head. Before he had time to be afraid, he saw that many orcs around him were shot to death, and arrows came from behind.

Ulan Iron is a little blind! Surrounded by his own soldiers, he retreated to the thorn forest,

From time to time, there are floating fences, **** are triggered, arrows are interspersed behind you can't see, most of the orcs in the woodland are confused and close their eyes, a kind of fear comes immediately, this army that was sent by Nusi to look forward to the future, just desperately running for their lives.

"Steady! Steady! Tactic No. 7, where is the commander? ”

Ulan Tie was a little hysterical.

A tall orc soldier looked at him with disdain. The heart said, "You're a girl! The other party is sniping with such a dense dark arrow, do you think they will leave you a herald to turn the tables? I'm so stupid that I know it's an extravagant hope, and you're still a herald? Dead goods! ”

Ulan Iron rushed through the thorn forest, and less than 200 orcs came back by his side. Plus the 100 half-orcs who stayed outside the forest, seven out of ten.

Don't talk about this for now, Ulan Tie didn't call the order, and was the first to set foot on the dirt slope and escape.

You're at the top of the slope.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

Ulan Tiedu is going crazy! How not to look at the place close to the mountain beam today. opened the Yuan Qi shield and rushed up, and it didn't take long for Ulan Tie to come to the mountain beam, except for the shoulder that was accidentally stabbed and poked, but he was not injured.

Looking back at the soldiers struggling with arrows and stabbing on the hillside, he knew that nine times out of ten, these 300 orcs had also been accounted for here. Then he turned around and rushed into the night without looking back.