Chapter 20: Fierce Battle
Eternal life in the autumn of the seventh year
Dead Dragon Pass
After a few years, foreign races outside the territory invaded on a large scale.
In an instant, the sound of countless wings fanning came from the sky, accompanied by a piercing scream, as if countless bats were flying overhead, chirping in unison. The strong archers stationed on the Dead Dragon Pass in the mountains raised their heads and planned to determine the location of the incoming enemy, but unfortunately, the moonlight had just hidden in the clouds, causing the entire battalion to be unable to distinguish the specific location of the incoming enemy.
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the night of the raid.
"Damn, what are the Wind Rangers doing? Why don't so many aliens above their heads not give a signal in advance? ”
"What's the noise, now is not the time to discuss this, go and help carry the fire fold."
"Change the bow and arrows, quick!"
"Fire Ministry Guards, prepare to attack, prepare more arrows."
"The rest of the rangers of the Wind Department quickly went to the mountains on both sides of the Dragon Pass to assist the mountains and prevent the alien race from attacking on multiple fronts."
Loud shouts, staggered footsteps and horses' hooves, and the whirring of the wind filled the area in an instant, and the people went to their own units. Zuo Yin hurriedly walked to the camp tent, most of the soldiers along the way were trotting to carry out various orders, Zuo Yin couldn't help but be infected by this atmosphere of imminent battle, quickened his pace, just arrived at the door of the camp tent of the tenth team, but saw that the people in the team he was in were ready, all the red and light armor, carrying knives and bows, seeing Zuo Yin come in, Huo Congzhi nodded slightly, urging: "Quick, there is only one of you kid left." ”
Fortunately, Zuo Yin has already put on armor in advance, and now all he has to do is take a knife, speaking of which, Bai Changzhi and Yang Zizhan did not teach him archery, thinking that he was afraid that he would be distracted, but concentrating on the knife was enough for him to drink a pot, and in such a night, he couldn't see the sky clearly anyway, and the Cangnan army could only rely on the dense rain of arrows to resist the enemy from the sky, and the task of the fire department was to resist the land attack of the alien race after leaving the pass.
When Zuo Yin hurriedly followed the team to the stable, he looked up and saw that the sky above the Dead Dragon Pass in the south was almost red, and he saw countless arrows with flames shooting into the sky, like reverse meteors, dyeing the surrounding area red, so that the follow-up arrows could be better aimed under this faint light.
Under the firelight, Zuo Yin looked up and found that the strange thing screaming in the sky this time seemed to be a large bat, according to the introduction of his master Bai Changzhi when he was training outside the territory, this should be the breeding thing of the finch clan in the four major races of the alien race, named Phantom Bat, obviously fierce and abnormal, some Phantom Bat even if there were several burning arrows in the body, still struggled to flutter for a distance before falling, the whole sky from the firelight There are about one or two hundred, they are scattered into a large area of arrow rain that wants to break through the Dragon Pass, It's just that after all, the Dead Dragon Pass has been operated by the Cangnan Army for many years, and some air defense means are still available, just when most of the ghost bats have flown over the Dead Dragon Pass, "boom" and "boom", a succession of huge explosion sparks bloomed in the air.
Zuo Yin was shocked by this huge roar for a while, and Captain Huo Congzhi looked back at his face and explained teasingly:
"Zuo Yin, I've never seen such a big battle, right?"
Zuo Yin didn't mind, and said to Huo Congzhi sincerely: "I really haven't seen it, and I hope Captain Huo will teach you." ”
Huo Congzhi didn't think that Zuo Yin was also angry, and said directly: "The attack of the alien race is very strange, so in order to take precautions, no less than twenty ballistas are equipped on the Dead Dragon Pass, and with the gunpowder specially made by the mountain craftsmen to explode at one touch, it can also effectively deal with these ghost bats. In the end, Huo Congzhi seemed to be very excited about this, and Zuo Yinzhi also understood that as a guard soldier, the more means of guarding the pass, the stronger it is, the more casualties can be reduced, but the alien race will really not know at all, so just let the ghost bat come to death? Doubts surfaced in Zuo Yin's mind.
When chatting with Huo Congzhi, the ten columns and ten teams had already arrived at the stable, and the explosion in the sky was obviously a little startled by these war horses, Zuo Yin followed the team to the stable when he heard a neigh, and Shen Mu on the side explained: "Although it is a war horse, it is the same as an ordinary soldier, when the explosion occurs in an unknown place, you will be flustered, and when you really go to the battlefield, after entering that atmosphere, you don't care much about these, and you have to hold the reins when the time comes." ”
After that day under the leadership of Huo Congzhi, the relationship between Shen Mu and Zuo Yin has also eased, and the two of them have discussed with everyone the specific actions against the alien race in the past few days, which is even more intimate, Zuo Yin listened to Shen Mu's explanation, and immediately hugged his fists and smiled: "Then on the battlefield, you can get a lot of care from Brother Shen." ”
Shen Mu scolded with a smile: "Come on, when the time comes, you Zuo Yin will have to show those boys, I haven't seen blood for a few years, I don't know if their hearts are still hot?" ”
At that moment, some people disagreed, "Brother Shen, what are you talking about, I, Li Enyan, will take some military merits this time, and I can also block my old man's mouth." ”
On the other side, Zhang Sishuo, who had always advanced and retreated with Li Enyan, also hurriedly spoke: "That's it, Brother Shen can't help but look down on us too much, when the time comes, you charge in front, and watch me cover you with bows and arrows in the back." With that, he patted the big bow hanging on his chest.
Zuo Yin looked at it with some curiosity, he knew that Zhang Sishuo had always cherished his bow like his own child, and others had to have a black face if they wanted to touch him, but it was indeed a good bow, and the polished wood material was bent into a smooth curve, and when it was not wound, Zuo Yin noticed that the end of the bow wall of this bow was bent outward, which was very different from ordinary bows and arrows.
According to Zhang Sishuo, this bow was specially commissioned by the old man of his family when he threw his pen from Rong, and it can be regarded as a longing for his hometown. Generally speaking, as long as it is not a high-risk weapon such as gunpowder, you can bring some weapons into Cangnan, such as Bai Changzhi, the commander of the Ministry of Fire, wears his own long knife - "Back Water", and the king of the mountain department is a giant shield and a big bow that is more than one person high, but for the main combat force, the main weapons are still standard, such as the riding knife of the Ministry of Fire, and outside the riding knife, such as Zhang Sishuo's bow, Zuo Yin's dagger, etc., the above does not matter.
After entering the stable, everyone goes to get their own war horses according to the pre-brand, which are all allocated in advance, and once assigned, unless one of the war horses and the riders cannot go to the battlefield, they are generally not changed, which is also to let the riders and the war horses cultivate feelings, and when the time comes, it is good to cooperate on the battlefield, but when he saw Zuo Yin looking at his car, Shen Mu patted his forehead and said: "Oh no." ”
Looking at Zuo Yin's puzzled eyes, Shen Mu explained: "I forgot to tell you, I should let you familiarize yourself with the habits of your war horse in advance." ”
In the past few days, the two of them have been busy deducing the situation with the team, and they are busy for a while, Zuo Yin also understands, and it is useless to say anything now, he nodded slightly to Shen Mu, and took a closer look at his horse, but in the eyes of this horse, there was a sense of stupidity, and there seemed to be no spirituality.
However, Zuo Yin smiled bitterly in his heart, what kind of spirituality do you want, just be able to cooperate with yourself, and immediately step directly on the war horse, although this horse has an elm head, but after all, it has been trained, and when Zuo Yin instructed the horse with a general instruction, this wood trotted all the way to follow the other war horses of the ten teams, and gathered in a large open space in front of the stable.
A group of people rode horses in the open space in front of the stable with the large army to assemble, Zuo Yin was in the crowd, he looked up by the firelight and took a general look, now there are about five or six thousand people present, it seems that the fire tiger did not press all the troops at one time, but left a back hand. And before the fire tiger, he was his master, and they were all in vain.
Bai Changzhi's high platform is as stable as a rock, his eyes swept at the audience, although the fire is faintly bright, and the people in the distance can't see it very clearly, but everyone can feel the temperament emanating from Bai Changzhi's body, it is a dangerous aura, just like a tiger that is quietly watching you before the attack, which makes people shudder, but when this tiger is their own capital, so everyone has a kind of calm and peace of mind, which is Bai Changzhi's prestige.
Bai Changzhi saw the faces of the Fire Tiger soldiers who were slightly glowing by the firelight, and suddenly pulled out his riding sword, "Fire loves Huangquan!" ”
The soldiers below raised their knives and shouted: "The tiger is green!" ”
Bai Changzhi walked off the high platform, got on the horse and said, "Come with me." ”
Six thousand fire tigers, brazenly out of the customs.