Chapter 53: The Battle of Revenge (8)

"Alas! These big rockets are still not enough! Fortunately, there are enough soldiers who kill their countrymen, and they can blow people up at will! After seeing the huge damage caused by those big rockets on the high platform under his command, Rowan sighed and said to himself, if it weren't for the lack of accuracy, these big rockets could have replaced artillery and became the real trump card weapons of New Carthage. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Damn the Neo-Carthaginians, their artillery technology seems to have advanced again, and they can fight so far!" On the other side, after Adjani saw this scene, she scolded angrily.

However, despite the constant bombardment of artillery and rockets, the army that killed the country did not stop advancing, presumably those ordinary soldiers also knew that at this time to retreat, there was nothing like this, only the other party continued to chase behind the butt and bombard, only by trying to advance, so that their own trebuchets and ballistae also entered the effective range, in order to shoot at the enemy and suppress the enemy's arrogance.

In the end, after paying a huge number of casualties of about 10,000 people, the killers finally advanced their longest-range weapon, the heavy trebuchet, to within a 1,000-meter effective range. However, New Carthage also knew that the power of the opponent's heavy trebuchets could not be underestimated, and as soon as they saw that the other party's killing soldiers stopped and began to load the heavy trebuchets with ammunition, they immediately concentrated their fire and bombarded these huge and conspicuous large machines.

Under the concentrated fire of more than 50 meters of cannons and large rockets in New Carthage, most of the trebuchets that killed the country were blown into fragments before they could finish loading their ammunition, and the few trebuchets fired after the successful loading did not cause too many casualties to the New Carthaginian soldiers. Compared to the cannonballs fired from artillery, the stone projectiles fired by trebuchets fly much slower, and most people can avoid them if they are careful.

After the heavy trebuchet fired the first round, the ballistae that killed the country finally entered their effective range, and began to fire fist-sized stone projectiles at the opposite New Carthage military formation, which finally caused some casualties to the New Carthage soldiers, after all, the stone projectiles shot by the ballista flew very fast, and ordinary people couldn't dodge it at all, and although the power was far less than the artillery, it still had great lethality for human flesh and blood, as long as it was hit, even if it was wearing full-body plate armor, those Neo-Carthaginian soldiers were basically not spared.

However, at this time, the giant crossbows of New Carthage also entered the effective range, hundreds of giant crossbows under the control of the crossbowmen, all in unison at those who were still advancing to kill the country The crossbow arrows as thick as the barrel of the gun, in order to seek the greatest lethality, the arrows of these crossbow arrows were made into a shovel head shape, flew into the crowd, and everywhere they passed, the heads of one after another killing soldiers were cut off, or the waist was cut in two.

It didn't take long for the most numerous ordinary crossbowmen on both sides to enter their effective range, and a rain of black arrows suddenly rose in the sky, and the casualties of soldiers on both sides were rising rapidly. However, in general, the casualties on the side of the combined forces of New Carthage and Thrace were much smaller than those on the side of the killing country, after all, their soldiers were basically equipped with full-body plate armor, and their resistance to the rain of arrows was extremely strong.

In just a short period of shooting, the casualties on the killing side have exceeded 30,000, which makes those killing generals also realize that it is not a wise principle to shoot against this group of enemies, so they did not stop advancing, leading a large number of melee infantry, and continued to advance, preparing to start a white-knuckle battle with the enemy, so that their superiority in strength may be shown.

However, Shi Jinshui had already considered this situation, so at the front of the large array, the phalanx pikemen with the strongest ability to maintain the front were arranged, these heavy spearmen with six-meter long guns, as long as the spear formation formed was not broken, then most of the enemies could be blocked in front of the front, so that the comrades behind could rest assured that they could output remotely.

The first batch of killing soldiers who rushed to the front of the gun array, facing the dense gun forest, were really blocked, unable to advance a single inch, once these killing soldiers took a step beyond the thunder pool, they would be stabbed into a sieve by more than a dozen spears stabbed at the same time from the opposite side. However, there are also pikemen on the killing side, and seeing that the soldiers in front of them were blocked by the gun array, the general who killed the country also quickly transferred his pikemen over and began to stab the spearmen of New Carthage. This kind of stabbing between spearmen is very cruel, because in the gun array, there are people in front and back, left and right, and there is no way to dodge at all, even if you see a spear stabbing at you, you can't dodge, you can only resist, this is the time to test the discipline of the soldiers on both sides and the level of fighting will, the weaker will will definitely be the first to bear it, and begin to break up. Because they couldn't dodge, the corpses of the soldiers on both sides quickly lay down in front of the formation, and at this time the advantages of the equipment of the New Carthaginian soldiers were also reflected again, their steel plate armor could block or cut most of the attacks, only those attacks on the weak joints of the stabbing can cause them effective killing, and those pikemen who killed the country, most of them only had a hard leather armor to defend themselves, this thing could not resist the stabbing of the extremely sharp steel spear head, as long as it was stabbed, That's a hole in blood.

Therefore, although the number of pikemen who killed the country was larger, it was still extremely difficult to fight against the new Carthaginian pikemen, who only had 15,000. It seems that it will not be possible to defeat the phalanx of spears in New Carthage in a short period of time.

After the phalanx pikemen on both sides were stalemate with each other, the artillery of New Carthage secretly pushed their artillery to the two wings of the large array, and then took advantage of the fact that the killers were not paying attention, and fired a round of scattered bullets, compared to the solid iron bullets, the killing range of the scattered bullets was much larger, and at this time, it almost covered the entire front of the battlefield, and swept down the pikemen who were still poking at their own spearmen, and at this moment, at least five or six thousand killing soldiers were killed.

With so many comrades killed and wounded at once, the pikemen who killed the country suddenly collapsed, and they fled to the rear in panic and shouting, and soon the follow-up array of killing the country became chaotic.

At this critical juncture, Adjani, the queen, rode a war horse, rushed to the front of the battle in person, and shouted at the soldiers who were dispersing: "Don't run, stabilize the formation for me, this battle is a matter of life and death for me to kill the country, if you don't want to become a slave of the country, every soldier who kills the country must go all out and fight to the end!" ”

Seeing Adjani appear, the morale of the killing soldiers finally recovered, and the scattered crowd quickly decreased, and the remaining ones were quickly cleared by Iron Bear with his personal guards, and the entire large array finally stabilized again.

At this moment, a country-killing airship floating in the air used flag language to send a dangerous signal to Iron Bear.

"Not good! Adjani, let's retreat, the enemy's cavalry is rapidly closing in our direction! Seeing this signal, Iron Bear hurriedly pulled Adjani and retreated.

It's also quite funny to say, the airship that once showed its skills in the naval battle, in this ground war, was completely reduced to a reconnaissance tool and did not participate in the battle much. The reason why the killing side did not put the airship troops into battle was because they were afraid of the wind resistor troops that appeared last time on the New Carthage side, although the number of that force was small, but the combat effectiveness was too strong. On the other hand, New Carthage, on the other hand, was afraid that there were too many airships to kill the country, and the difficulty and danger of the Wind Protector troops catapulting and taking off on land were greatly increased, so they did not take the initiative to provoke each other, and the air forces of the two sides confronted each other like this.

When formulating the battle plan, Hannibal also asked the Wind Protector troops to fight, but was strongly rejected by Shi Jinshui, joking, if he fails to take off at sea, it is very likely that he will be fine if he falls into the water, but on this land, after taking off and falling down, he will definitely die Qiaoqiao, he doesn't want to sacrifice here in vain these few Wind Resistor warriors who have been trained with great difficulty.

With Adjani's departure, the morale of the killing army has dropped again, and the offensive that has just been reorganized has weakened again. The artillery of New Carthage took the opportunity to beat the water dogs and fired another round of shotshots, killing thousands of soldiers who killed the country. Then the heavily armed swordsmen on both flanks took the opportunity to launch a counter-charge, killing the few remaining slaughtering soldiers in front of the formation.

This battle, from morning to noon, although the overall situation of the New Carthage and Thracian forces has always been superior, killing and wounding many soldiers who killed the country, but because of the strong strength of the opponent's troops, so it was not broken, inspired by the queen Adjani, still continued to launch an attack, trying to use the advantage of numbers to exhaust the enemy, so as to win the battle.

"Huh! It looks like the battle has come to a fever pitch, and it's time for me to make a move! Xiang Tian, who had quietly sneaked to the edge of the battlefield, looked at the two armies that were fighting fiercely, and said to himself with a sneer.

After confirming that the time had come, he no longer hesitated, and with a wave of his hand, he led the hundreds of men behind him who had changed into New Carthage military uniforms and armor to approach the rear of the New Carthage array, where the opposing commander was located.

At the same time, on the killing side, a maid, taking advantage of the inattention of others, secretly sprinkled some unknown powder into a pot of broth in front of her, this bowl of broth is one of Adjani's lunches today.

After making sure that no one noticed her actions, the maid took the bowl of spiced broth and walked towards Adjani on the high stage. In the process, despite her efforts to appear calm, her breathing was slightly disturbed, and a subtle murderous aura emanated from her.

Although this trace of murderous aura was faint, it was still sensed by the iron bear, so the killing general immediately walked in front of the maid in a few steps and stopped her.

"General Iron Bear, why are you stopping me? The Queen has only eaten a little bit of breakfast, and she must be hungry now, so get out of the way and let me bring her lunch!" Seeing the iron bear stop in front of her, the maid's heart was suddenly startled, and then she tried to suppress her nervousness, and said to the other party as if she was fine.

Seeing that the other party was in a hurry to give this lunch to Adjani, Tie Xiong immediately scanned his eyes over all the meals, then suddenly picked up the spoon, scooped up a spoonful of broth, and ordered the maid, "Drink it!" ”

Like the last general's rebellion, Iron Bear used his own brutal but effective means to directly expose the other party's tricks, and the maid looked at the broth that was handed to her, completely stunned, and didn't dare to open her mouth to drink it.