Chapter 164: The First Battle
After a day and a night of rapid marching, the army reached the periphery of the target in the early morning of the next day.
"Listen, the purpose of this trade route opening war is not to destroy these tribes along the coast, but to subdue them, so it is not allowed to get close to the main city of those tribes, otherwise it will cause a tribal war!"
"It's four o'clock in the morning, the whole army is resting for four hours, and the logistics attendants are hurrying to feed the war horses." After stopping, Guan Qing began to command loudly.
Even if it is the time when the horses are exhausted, in addition to the blood horses of the archers, the other horses are already panting at this moment, thanks to the improved grass of the logistics attendants, which can continue to provide energy for the war horses, and the cavalry have two baskets per person, and every once in a while they take out a handful to feed the war horses under them.
Otherwise, you'll have to run to death on the road!
At such a time, the cavalry looked at the bloodline war horses that were still at ease, and the envy and jealousy in their eyes were so thick that they almost exploded.
"Seriously, I want to change careers to be an archer and cavalry!" Caressing the bloodline war horses under him, Agui was also deeply impressed by their strength and durability.
But he can only think about it, he and the battalion commanders can do it, but for ordinary soldiers, it is not easy to have the right head to stand on the ground on horses.
Most of the 2,000 archers under his command are from the mountains and plains, and most of the steppe people are in the cavalry, and even among the steppe people who are good at riding and archery, there are not many soldiers who can be qualified to be archers.
Although it can't trigger a full-scale tribal war, but in this trade route opening war, Tian Tiannan explicitly demanded that all the tribes along the way be subdued, not to hurt them, and they will still can't help but go up to harass when they see the caravan of the Lotus Fish tribe in the future, after all, the goods are too valuable.
After resting and recuperating, Guan Qing divided the army into two routes, with 1,000 archers for every 3,000 cavalry, and he personally led the way to clean up all the guys he met along the river.
On the other hand, led by Huzi and Agui, they entered the sphere of influence of the target tribe, brought the priest troops with the army, and told them the position of the Tiannan tribe clearly and clearly.
"This is the original words of Lord Tiannan, if these guys don't know each other, we don't have to scruple and directly destroy their tribe!" Before leaving, Guan Qing solemnly emphasized to Huzi, Agui and Helian Jiaojiao.
Although in terms of status, Helian Jiaojiao is higher than Guan Qing, but there is a specialization in the art industry, Helian Jiaojiao does not interfere in the command of the army, she is only responsible for leading the priest team to open the way for the army, so she will still listen to Guan Qing's arrangement, and after dividing the army, she will also exchange opinions with Huzi and Agui, and will never do stupid things that exceed the authority of command.
"Whew... Miss Jiaojiao, this is the first time I have fought a war. "During the march, Liu Qingyu and Helian Jiaojiao sat in the same carriage, because they no longer ran, and they needed a relatively stable place to perform magic and place the altar, so they still used the carriage instead.
"Hehe, sister-in-law Qingyu, you don't have to be nervous, and you don't need us to charge, you just need to throw the magic into the crowd for a while!" Enjoying the feeling of being a "senior" a little, Helian Jiaojiao took Liu Qingyu's hand and comforted.
Age and mind do not have to be equal, like Liu Qingyu, a young lady who has never been out of the gate of the tribe in her life, even if she has run for three, she is still relatively simple, and even inferior to Helian Jiaojiao, who is several years younger than herself, at least the latter has participated in several major battles, and has led the Tiannan fleet to sail many times in the past to open up the Jiehe channel and accept the escort hire of the Lotus Fish Tribe, and her combat experience is already quite rich.
After a four-hour march, at noon, the army met each other.
As early as two hours earlier, the swaggering march of the First Army had been spotted by the opposing patrols, and at this time the same number of regular troops were already in front of them.
They themselves knew what they had done recently, and the banner of "Tiannan" fluttering in the First Army had already identified themselves.
However, in this case, they still gathered their troops and seemed to have revealed their decision.
"Tut-tut, looking for death!" Seeing the other party's posture, Huzi shook his head and spoke.
"After all, this is someone's territory, and the strong dragon does not suppress the ground snake, they have nothing to fear." On the side, Ah Gui said softly, but when he said this again, his eyes flashed with danger.
"Two commanders, shout, if they are still obsessed, then we can only show our attitude!" This is, Helian Jiaojiao's voice came from behind.
"Agreed!"
"I'll do it!" After glancing at each other and nodding, Huzi immediately slapped the horse's ass with a whip and rushed out of the military formation.
"I am the cavalry commander of the First Army of the Southern Fall of the Heavens..." After yelling, Huzi reported to his home, and made a simple statement about the position of the Tiannan Fall.
"Whew... Boom..."
Then, what answered him was a hot fireball, fortunately Helian Jiaojiao reacted quickly enough, and an ice gun offset the opponent's fireball, otherwise Huzi would have to shed his skin if he didn't die.
"Look for death! Miss Jiaojiao, please! Obvious anger flashed on his face, and Ah Gui first yelled at Helian Jiaojiao, and then led the team to drive the horse forward and cover the gray-faced tiger.
At the same time, Helian Jiaojiao also began to attack with his team of priests.
The fireballs, all of the same size and hundreds of them, dyed the sky red as soon as they appeared, and they were so frightened that the other side was directly stupid.
The release of the sacrificial divine art is only affected by the level and energy, although the fireballs released by the high priest and the high priest are of different levels and have different damage, the amount that can be released at each level is the same, and one more can be released for each level.
And now this overwhelming fireball has shown the strength of the First Army's Priests, but it is destined that the combat power of the High Priest stage will be able to determine the victory or defeat of this battle.
So, Helian Jiaojiao stepped forward. In order to provide her with sufficient preparation time for the release of the divine art, Liu Qingyu led the priests of the army to start releasing the sacrificial divine art uninterruptedly, just like Helian Jiaojiao told her before, just throw it into the crowd.
"Kill!"
In the sky, the priests were blasting the sacrificial arts, and on the ground, the tiger with a belly full of fire also led the charge to start.
In order to strengthen the combat power of the cavalry, Guan Qing, the two thousand bloodline war horses, only took one thousand, and at this time, the other one thousand were in the first battalion of the most elite cavalry, under the leadership of Huzi, rushing to the forefront.
"Mortar ready!" Next to the priest team, a team of logistical attendants began to prepare mortars.
"Fire!"
"Boom, boom..."
The power of the mortar was determined to be 20,000 points of damage, which cannot be compared to the sacrificial arts, because a level 1 high-level priest can release 10,000 points of damage.
However, the target of the mortar is not the priest, but the warrior, 20,000 points of damage is enough to pose a mortal threat to the 21-level warrior, dozens of mortars are no worse than a bunch of fireballs in a salvo, and the explosion of the shells is also larger, falling in the crowd, one by one.
This is the first time that mortars have not been used in actual combat, and after the first round of attacks, the opponent was stunned, dozens of shells fell, and the hundreds and dozens of soldiers who rushed to the front died not a single one.
"Artillery fire extended!"
"Woohoo..."
Because the two armies were already fighting together at this moment, the logistics attendant artillery changed the target of the bombardment to the enemy center, and a shell fell in the crowd, and none of the soldiers below level 20 in the teens and twenties could escape the fate of death.
"Although they are not as powerful as high-level magic arts, they are fatal to ordinary warriors!" On the carriage, looking back at the boxy "mortars", Liu Qingyu sighed.
"The most important thing is that they don't need priests, they are steel magic that ordinary people can use!" Smiling, Helian's delicate voice came, and her magic was ready.
The city defense-level divine arts, not to mention the extremely strong lethality, their form alone is no longer as rigid as ordinary sacrificial divine arts.
Just like the 6-level city defense-level divine technique condensed by Helian Jiaojiao at this moment, the appearance presents the status quo of a firebird, as the chief priest of Eagle City, the appearance of the city-level divine technique is naturally affected by the tribal sacrifice god.
"Go!"
With a long roar, I saw that the firebird fanned its wings and responded to Helian Jiaojiao's command, climbing one after another, like a cruise missile falling into the enemy formation, and all the sacrificial magic that tried to stop it could not organize its progress in the middle.
"Boom!"
In the end, as a fiery red mushroom cloud rose, all the priests on the other side and nearly half of the warriors were reduced to ashes, leaving only a huge pit.
"Gollum..."
Regardless of friend or foe, the first reaction of everyone when they got up was to look at the huge pit and swallow their saliva, especially the surviving enemy soldiers, who turned around and were immediately frightened by what they saw in front of them and didn't even have the strength to escape.
"Whew... Good, so scary! Wiping the dirt on his face, Huzi sat on the ground, stunned by the scene in front of him.
Priest battles are usually separated from the front line by a certain distance, but even so, the explosion just now has also spread to the frontline battlefield, and the nearly 2,000 enemies closest to the priest are all charred corpses, and the priests in the center of the explosion are not left.
"Smack"
Suddenly, Huzi slapped him hard, slapping him back to his senses.
"Lord Mist?" Turning his head, Huzi saw the fog.
Although Tian Tiannan didn't come over in person this time because of the experiment, considering the safety of Helian Jiaojiao and Liu Qingyu, he still sent Wu Hao to be responsible for guarding the two girls.
"Don't be presumptuous, the battles between warriors and priests are different, and as the master studies deeply, the future of warriors is also bright!" Because she sensed that Huzi's state was wrong, she only appeared, even if she woke up the other party, she didn't want her master's master to be wasted like this.
"Smack"
After listening to the foggy words, Huzi's eyes also regained their clarity after a long time, and for the first time, this guy was also ruthless, and slapped himself the other side of the face.
"Thank you, Lord Mist, for your advice!" With a deep bow to the fog, Huzi immediately turned around and led his men to clean up the enemy troops who were still alive.