290 Mountains of corpses and a sea of blood
Wars always follow some basic rules, such as the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and for example, they are prepared to fight unprepared. The current soldiers of the Yu family are in the period of high morale when the sneak attack is successful, and the preparation of the Yu family is far more adequate than that of the soldiers of the Hou family.
Needless to say, the time of the sneak attack was chosen in the second half of the night, when most of the soldiers of the Hou family were asleep. At this time, the soldiers' spirits were the most slack, and before the Yu family's attack began, each soldier drank a bowl of liquor and ate a piece of jerky.
There is only one bowl of wine, which can make people excited but not drunk, and there is only one piece of jerky, which makes you feel a little full, but not lazy.
The well-prepared and high-morale Yu family military formation quickly occupied the initiative on the battlefield, and when the two military formations just came into contact, the Hou family's defensive position had been squeezed back more than a meter away, and the spearmen on the outermost side of the military formation were also peeled off alive.
At the front of the Jade Army's formation were three columns of shield-wielding soldiers, and these swordsmen with short fighting blades could easily slide away the spears with their shields, and then rub their bodies and cut the throat of the enemy with the short sword in their hands, and quickly disrupted the opponent's formation.
Behind these shield-wielding soldiers are elite swordsmen in heavy armor, armed with two-handed swords or two-handed axes, who can often split their enemies in half in a single turn.
In just one shot, the Hou family's defensive position was pushed by a distance of two meters, and it still did not stabilize its position.
The Blizzard guards are about to go crazy, these proud warriors have been stationed in the Great Snow Mountain for nearly a hundred years, and they have fought with the vast orcs more than once, when have they suffered such a big loss.
"Stabilize the formation, damn, we are all veterans of a hundred battles, when will it be the turn of these young master soldiers of the Yu family to be powerful on our heads?"
"Archers, shoot intensively, there are more people there to shoot there ...."
"What? You said there were your own people there? Fart, Lao Tzu only saw the warriors who died with the enemy, what living people were there..."
The officer snatched the crossbow from the soldier's hand, and raised his hand at the area with the most dense blood lions of the Jade Family. The officer's actions were orders, and behind this arrow, there was a 'jumping' bowstring sound, and a dense rain of arrows like a locust covered the entire battlefield.
When the rain of arrows poured down on the gap in the walled city, the officer silently lowered his visor, perhaps not wanting his men to see the tears he had already shed.
Three thousand crossbowmen fired three times in a hurry, that is, nearly 10,000 feather arrows covered the gap in the walled city, and there were not only more than 1,000 blood lions of the Yu family, but also more than 500 spearmen of the Blizzard internal guards who had just been assembled.
This indiscriminate attack swept away the lives in the gap, and except for a few survivors who were buried in the pile of corpses due to their wounds, there was no one left alive on the battlefield.
As far as the eye could see, there was a white feather on the battlefield, and the thick blood that flowed out in an instant had exceeded the absorption capacity of the soil, and these dark blood flowed on the ground like a small river, and the pungent smell of blood made people's heads dizzy.
The officer returned the crossbow to the soldier beside him, and he drew the short sword at his waist and pointed it at the gap, shouting out from his mouth.
"Five hundred warriors have blocked the gap with their lives, they have exchanged their blood for the fighter in front of them, and now it is our turn to die, the death squad... Follow Lao Tzu forward, forward..."
The shouting officer rushed forward first, accompanied by one silent Blizzard guard after another, and these veterans of the hundred battles quickly formed a dense formation behind the officer, and they blocked the gap with their bodies.
The officer stepped over the corpses of his brothers, swearing in his heart.
"Good brothers, don't blame me, don't go far for the soul, bless me to kill a few more... I'll go to heaven to accompany you in a while..."
At this thought, tears welled up in the officer's face armor.
The cruelty of the Blizzard internal guards shocked the follow-up blood lions on the spot, they never expected that the soldiers of the Hou family would be so ruthless, and they would actually cover the battlefield without restrictions, and even kill their own people. What's even worse is that the Hou family is actually equipped with Peishui's specialty black iron armor-piercing arrows, in front of this kind of arrows, the heavy armor on the blood lion members is simply like paper paste.
Hesitation must not be allowed on the battlefield, just at the moment when the Yu family's follow-up army formation was slightly stunned. Blizzard's internal guards have organized more than 600 people, and under the leadership of that officer, they have stepped on the corpses all over the ground, and have simply formed a horizontal formation.
To be honest, the battlefield experience of Blizzard's internal guards is far greater than that of the Blood Lion, just look at the strong man's broken wrist just now, it would never have been possible if it wasn't for many years of veteran oil. The officer who gives the order does not have decades of battlefield immersion, he would never think of this trick, which requires the best ability to observe the battle situation and the most ruthless soldiers.
The rapid fire of the three thousand crossbowmen finally turned the tide of the battle, and the gap was already turned into safety.
Just a moment later, the second Blood Lion's thousand-man team rushed up again, and the crowd of black oppressors rushed to the gap, and soon they were in a scuffle with the six hundred Blizzard guards.
At this time, the battlefield was no longer suitable for the deployment of military formations, the ground was full of stones and blood, and it was very difficult for people to walk normally, let alone attack in formation, and everyone could only fight for their lives on the pile of corpses with one foot high and one foot low.
The two streams of people were put together in the gap, and a huge bump was huddled in the middle of the battlefield. In just one shot, the first platoon of soldiers from both sides had already perished.
By the time your short sword stabs into your opponent's heart, their hammer has already smashed your skull. When you try to pull back the scimitar that pierced your enemy, you never realize that a sword next to you has cut off your arm.
War has now become a game of life for life, one group will end up and then one will come up, and then die and then move forward.
The collision of the two military formations is like the seam of two grinding plates, but what is ground here is not tender tofu, what is ground here is flesh and blood.
It's a life-for-life game, and it's a very short game. 600 people and 1,000 people play a game of life for life, then it must be the side with more people taking advantage. Sure enough, it was only a quarter of an hour after the strangulation of the two armies, and more than 400 of the Blizzard internal guards had died on the spot, and nearly 500 of the Blood Lions had died here.
The officer who had rushed forward was now lying in a pool of blood, his entire right arm and half of his shoulder had been removed by the enemy, and he could not live long under the severe blood loss, and now he saw in a trance the spirits in the sky that had just lost their bodies, floating there.
The military formation was already unstable, and it was simply impossible for the remaining 200 or so people to withstand the onslaught of more than 500 people behind. The officer trembled and held on to the corpse as much as he could sit up, and he gasped for more than a dozen breaths, as if he was building up strength. When there was another glimmer of light in his eyes, he suddenly shouted.
"Crossbowmen... Rapid Shooting... Shoot..."
Before he could finish speaking, a large axe slashed diagonally from mid-air, cutting off his head to the neck with a single axe.
"Damn, there's a living one hidden here..."
After the owner of the big axe cut off his head, he gasped twice and looked at the remaining more than 100 people in front of him, and his eyes flashed with joy. Great, these guys must not be able to hold it, there are more than 100 people in front of them, and the Blizzard internal guards who are sparsely supplemented in the back are far less than the speed of loss, and this gap seems to have been successfully broken.
Unfortunately, he didn't be happy for long, and when he unconsciously looked too high, the black shadow in the sky had already pounced. It turned out that the officer's last military order was really heard by the crossbowmen in the rear.
"Rapid triple shots... Full field coverage, rain of arrows attacking..."
The formation of more than 3,000 crossbowmen was filled with the voices of heralds, and the shouts were accompanied by a rain of arrows sweeping in like a torrential rain.
In the middle of the night, the crossbowmen were not accurate at all, and only such a large-scale field control tactic could achieve results. Just now, it was a rapid triple shot, which wiped out a thousand-person team of the Yu family, and now, the second thousand-person team seems to be about to be explained here.
That's right, when the rain of arrows composed of black iron armor-piercing arrows covered the entire battlefield, the remaining 500 blood lions, including the 100 Blizzard internal guards, were all nailed there alive, and even the military formation behind the blood lions that was not put into battle was also affected by a rain of arrows, and hundreds of unlucky people died.
When the rain of arrows passed, there was a sudden dead silence on the battlefield, and the follow-up blood lions couldn't believe their eyes, they looked at the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood composed of more than 3,000 corpses in front of them, and they actually lost their voices collectively.
Damn, it's not even half an hour, and 3,000 corpses have been piled up on this gap, and this corpse mountain is already half the height of the walled city, and it looks like it's four or five meters high.
Although the name of the blood lion of the Yu family was very powerful, they had really never seen such a tragic battle, and they were suddenly stunned by the Shura battlefield in front of them.
The light of the torches covered the entire battlefield, and in the beating light, this hellish scene actually took on an effect comparable to that of an oil painting, everything was very real, but it looked so unreal.
"Ballista... What are our ballistae for? Shoot and kill those damned crossbowmen..."The awakened blood lions know that this battle can no longer be fought like this, and their own army will not want to rush in without killing these crossbowmen.
The ballista rang out again, and the huge crossbow arrows rolled and shot at the crossbow army, and they didn't know what to do in the dark, so they could be suppressed anyway.
"Spellcasting... The spell casting team stepped forward, blew up the breach, and widened the breach..."
The Blood Lion's team of Awakened had just teamed up to perform a Flame Explosion Technique, and it stands to reason that they should rest for another hour now. But the situation on the battlefield waits for no one, and if the gap is not expanded, this mountain of corpses alone will already be a moat that cannot be climbed.
"Blow up the wall, blow up these broken wooden fences for me, and widen the gap..."
The officers are urging, the Awoken are casting spells, the Blood Lion Army is preparing for battle, and the Blizzard guards are gathering. Everyone knows that the battle will be more brutal later, and as long as it is not dawn, this battle will not end.