"Gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! ”

Liu Han rode the largest adult male night flying cat and charged forward quickly. She grabbed the reins with one hand, raised the crescent halberd with the other and pointed forward, shouting, "Points! ”

When the hundred ghost cavalry who followed behind Liu Han heard the order, they all pulled the reins and rode the night flying cat under them to separate to the left and right. The group of cavalry, which had originally maintained an arrow-shaped formation, immediately split into two strands, turning rigidity into softness, and encircling an infantry phalanx on the opposite side like two tentacles.

"Take the crossbow!" Liu Han shouted again.

The ghost cavalry loosened the reins and let the night cats run on their own, while they freed up their hands to remove a short crossbow from their waists, load them with arrows, and take aim.

"Shoot!"

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

"Ding! Bite! Bite! ”

The crossbow arrows fired by the ghost cavalry all hit the shields erected on the periphery of the infantry phalanx, making a crisp metallic knocking sound. A round of cavalry shooting was completed, and a hundred cat cavalry also all circled behind the infantry phalanx.

"Regroup!" Liu Han pulled the reins violently, causing the night flying cat under the seat to turn its head and turn back to the direction from which it had charged. She did the same, and once again led the hundred cat cavalry to gallop through the two wings, and also shot a shower of arrows, all hitting the shields of the infantry phalanx.

It's not that their archery skills are too poor, it's deliberate. After all, it's just a martial arts exercise.

More than 100 of Liu Han's domesticated night cats have reached adulthood, and after careful training and training, they have become excellent combat mounts. Coupled with the hundred ghost cavalry carefully selected by Liu Han from the army, this cat cavalry battalion is finally presentable!

The Night Cats are slightly smaller than the Cerberus, and although they can still attack in a frontal charge against the infantry, they are more suitable for their tactics of attacking on both flanks or around the rear. At the same time, in view of the shortcomings of the lack of ghost cultivation strength and the impact power of the night flying cat, Liu Han decided to develop the combat style of the cat cavalry in the direction of light cavalry, focusing more on practicing mounted archery rather than frontal charge.

"The whole camp has it, go to the wall!" Liu Han led his army to launch a third charge, but this time in a strange direction, neither frontal charge, nor spreading the wings, but all jumping up to the cave wall on one side.

This is another advantage of the Cat Cavalry, which can climb slightly curved walls with speed and light weight, and run all the way down the cave wall without falling. In this way, the Cat Cavalry has the advantage of being able to shoot arrows diagonally down from places and angles out of the enemy's reach.

The infantry phalanx that cooperated with the exercise was a sword and shield battalion, and those soldiers raised their shields in their hands, and the shield array formed was impenetrable, so that they could block this wave of arrows. But if it comes to actual combat, there may not be a chance for you to arrange the shield array in a good time.

Shichiro, Lu Zhizhi, and the Sarcastic Ghost and I also stood on the periphery to watch the exercise, and everyone was very satisfied with the combat effectiveness displayed by the newly formed cat cavalry of this battalion.

"Although there are slight flaws in formation and positioning, it can be regarded as a well-trained cavalry team!" Lu Zhidao stroked his hands and praised.

"The effect of the martial arts exercise is good, but I don't know what the actual combat effect is?" Qilang was still a little conservative, and turned to ask my opinion: "Lord Zhai thinks that if this cat cavalry fights head-to-head with the dog cavalry of the Yin Army, what are the odds of victory?" ”

I have been an officer in the Yin Army, and I have also commanded the dog cavalry under my command, so I am the person who knows the strength of the Yin Army dog cavalry the most in the Stygian Harbor coalition army except for Liu Han.

I analyzed: "Each has its own advantages and disadvantages! The canine cavalry is fierce and furious, and the combat effectiveness of the Cerberus and the cavalry is very strong, and if you only talk about individual strength, you can definitely crush the cat cavalry. However, the cat cavalry is more agile and can climb high, and if it is a tactical opponent, the group battle may not be inferior to the canine cavalry. ”

"Oh, so to speak, Lord Zhai is quite optimistic that this cat cavalry can defeat the dog cavalry?" Lu Zhidao asked.

"No!" I shook my head categorically, and then added, "From a practical point of view, this cat cavalry has just been formed, and there are not enough of them. The dog cavalry of the Yin Army has long been tested on the battlefield, and the cooperation between soldiers and cavalry is also more tacit. If you plan to pin your hopes on this cat cavalry, you will probably be disappointed! ”

Shichiro also nodded and said, "That's right, what the Hong Kong lord said is reasonable." I think this cat cavalry can only be used as a surprise soldier for the time being, and I won't send them into battle unless I have to. ”

When the sarcasm heard this, he touched his chin thoughtfully. I knew it had a lot of ideas, so I asked, "What, do you have any good advice?" ”

The sarcastic ghost pretended to say: "Well, this cat cavalry made by the boss lady is indeed quite distinctive, and if you use it well, it is equivalent to having half of the air supremacy." I think we can make full use of this advantage, and we should continue to increase their firepower. ”

"How? Equip all cavalrymen with a larger short crossbow? ”

"No, the short crossbow should not be too big and heavy, otherwise it will backfire and affect the flexibility of the night flying cat." The sarcastic ghost shook his head again and again, "Besides, the Yin army is about to enter the city, where is there time to make a new batch of short crossbows?" ”

"And what exactly are you thinking?"

The sarcastic ghost grimaced and smiled, "I just have a rough plan in mind now, and I'll show it to you when I make it." ”

"Mysterious!" I really can't do anything about it, so I have to give up.

On the same day, I received another secret message: the Yin army had left the Great Waterfall City by ship and headed for the Stygian Harbor. If you count the time when the secret report was transmitted back from Giant Waterfall City, it is estimated that the Yin army will arrive in Hekou Town in about five days at this time!

Since learning that the Yin Army had set out for the Stygian Harbor, the eyes and ears of Big Eye's men have been sending the latest information about the movements of the Yin Army to the Stygian Harbor almost non-stop. As I expected, on the very day I received the first secret message, the Yin army arrived at the Great Waterfall City and began to rest and replenish the food and grass.

Although the Giant Waterfall City has signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations with the Stygian Harbor, in the face of the huge pressure of the Difu Yin Army, this relationship must have been directly forgotten. The Wei City Lord of Mighty Waterfall City also had to sacrifice all of his warships and some of the troop carriers converted from merchant ships for the use of the Yin army.

Of course, to be able to get such full support from Giant Waterfall City, the marshal of the night tour must have promised a lot of benefits behind his back. Moreover, it is very likely that he just used my Underworld Harbor as a favor, otherwise that Wei City Lord would not be so happy.

After a few days of rest, the Yin army sailed down the river in the ships of the Great Waterfall City, aiming for the harbor of the Underworld. With such a large fleet, there are still about twenty days to sail from the Great Waterfall City to the Stygian Harbor, and the preparations in the Stygian Harbor are also in the final stage.

The First Army of the Underworld Harbor Coalition led by Wu Fang is currently stationed in Hekou Town, responsible for supervising the manufacture of the remaining ordnance and organizing the first line of defense to prevent the Yin Army's forward battalion from sneaking attack.

Estuary can be described as the gateway to the Stygian Harbor, and as long as the fleet of the Yin Army passes through the waterway of Estuary Town, they can enter the Stygian Sea and attack the Stygian Harbor directly from the sea. Similarly, if the Yin Army chooses to stop their ships outside the town of Bayou, they can also walk to Hades Harbor via the overland trail.

But it was such a military important place that the two armies must fight, but it changed before the war, and it once again dealt me a major blow!

Before the Yin army reached the outside of Hekou Town, the town mayor Lin Miao really surrendered to the enemy first. He instructed the defenders of Estuary to raid Wu Fang's First Army barracks, and detained the last batch of equipment and supplies from the Arsenal Weapons Workshop, including the giant bed crossbows that Shichiro and I valued the most, which were about to be completed.

The First Army was suddenly attacked, and the position was in chaos, not to mention counterattacking and recapturing the workshop, and it was almost difficult to protect itself. Wu Fang had to lead a large army to desperately break through the encirclement, and grabbed a few small boats before he was able to retreat from Hekou Town back to Haktohara.

In this way, before the battle between the Stygian Harbor and the Yin Army began, hundreds of soldiers were lost first, and at the same time, the most important beachhead and the heavy weapons of the city were lost, which is really not a good omen!

At this point, I have to admit that my previous decision was too merciful. At that time, I should have listened to Shichiro's opinion and directly annexed Kawaguchi Town, otherwise I wouldn't have fallen into such a passive situation now.

However, Shichiro did not use this to belittle me or elevate himself, but suggested that I convene the first military tent meeting to discuss how to rearrange the tactics of defending against the enemy.

The military tent collegiate agreement is a way for Shichiro and I to settle our differences that we agreed upon at the beginning of our alliance. When the two sides disagree on a major issue, they must win the approval of at least one important member of the other side before the resolution can be adopted.

In view of the fact that there was a mistake in Shichiro's intelligence source before, a quarrel broke out between the generals on both sides of the Stygian Harbor and the Ghost Army, and the purpose of holding the military tent collegial meeting this time was naturally to avoid quarrels and directly use voting to determine the battle plan.

However, at the beginning of the military tent collegiate meeting, all kinds of noises and shouts were still endless!

"Fuck it!" As soon as the Ghost King of Bishan came up, he still had this mantra, and scolded: "Those shameless things in Hekou Town actually dare to sneak attack us, I said that we should retaliate with a tooth for a tooth and send a warship over to destroy Hekou Town!" Give him another slaughter! ”

"That's it! While the Yin army has not yet arrived, let's take down the estuary town first! The Mighty Ghost King also shouted.

"No!" is also a general on the side of the ghost army, but Wu Fang took the lead in expressing his opposition. She said: "Since Hekou Town dares to fight back, it must also be prepared to prevent our retaliation and counterattack. It's not too early, it's not too late, they just wait until the giant bed crossbows are built in our weapons workshop to launch a sneak attack, clearly to take it for themselves. I guess those bedside crossbows are all installed in the harbor area of Estuary Town at this moment, and they are specially used against our warships! ”

"Fuck it!"

"His grandmother's!"

"Holy shit!"

The three ghost kings are all short-tempered, and when they heard Wu Fang say this, they couldn't help but scold again.