Chapter 94: Border Guards
Poor Great Xia United Army's combat strength is low, except for 4,000 gladiators, there is no strength to fight, those dying old and physically disabled volunteers, can neither fight nor run, in the face of the suffocating Kuroshio like a tsunami, they can only wait for death.
Zhang Yu couldn't understand what those high-level leaders of the Great Xia Kingdom thought, even if 4,000 gladiators formed a team to fight against Kuroshio alone, they would not be defeated so quickly.
The defeat of the Chishui River looked like a conspiracy, they were like some people who had been abandoned by the Great Xia Kingdom, except that the Great Xia Kingdom did not kill them directly, but sent them to the battlefield and slaughtered these lives by the hands of the Black Tide.
The black tide is like a sweeping beast, and like a huge gear that crushes life, it seems that it will never stop.
Gradually, the rivers of the Chishui River were stained red with blood, and the corpses even blocked the river, and there were ** corpses and discarded heads everywhere, and countless weapons and armor were discarded.
Zhang Yu even saw a mutant who had been cut in half, crawling painfully with his hands to the west.
He was still young, and his eyes were full of longing for life, but in reality he could not return alive, and a humanoid creature in the midst of the Black Tide easily caught up with him, and then slit his throat with a fingernail as hard as a blade, ending his life once and for all.
The commander of the Coalition Army, Mr. Guan Lao, was also gone, and his guards had long since been scattered, and they may have been trampled into pulp.
Before Zhang Yu even had time to understand the name of this old gentleman, he was separated forever.
And on Niutou Mountain, the bodies of the captives they killed were also abandoned here forever.
Killing and being killed has become the inevitability of war, and it is also the most cruel aspect of war.
It doesn't matter how noble you have been in life, whether you are a loving father, a good brother in the mouths of others, or a nasty ruffian who likes to peep under the skirts of little girls, you will be treated equally on the battlefield.
Under the impact of the battle array, even the body of a mutant is not good, it is easily cut like a piece of paper, this is war.
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Zhang Yu evacuated about a hundred miles west with more than 200 people of the first team, where they met the main force of the border guards.
The banner is clear, the fresh clothes are angry, and the morale is high.
The temperament of the Combine Army that has lost its armor is very different, even a layman will give a thumbs up when he sees it, admiring that this is a very imposing and winning army.
Compared with them, the first team that had just retreated from the front line looked embarrassed, not to mention the old horses who were struggling to chew grass under them, and even the armor system was far from the might of the border guards.
It's like a rugged bandit standing next to a personable boy.
"Ban!"
A soldier looked at Zhang Yu's retreating troops and stepped forward to stop.
Zhang Yu frowned and said, "We are the first team of the first division of the United Army, and the battle ahead was lost, and we retreated. ”
"Please let me know."
The soldier went into the barracks.
The people of the first team stood on the side of the phalanx, looking at the huge legion phalanx in front of them, and couldn't help but sigh.
Look, what is a regular army? What is the workhorse?
All the soldiers are all second-grade evolutionary people, and one below the second grade cannot be seen, and the third-grade and fourth-grade can be seen everywhere, and there are even middle- and high-ranking officers of the fifth and sixth grades surrounded by the guards.
"This should already be the main force of the border guards."
Behind, Shakui whispered to Carl.
Lin Lang turned around and said, "The main force? This should only be the front army of the border guards, the border guards are the main force of the second defense line of the Great Xia Kingdom, with four combat regiments and more than 200,000 people, which should only be one of the legions. ”
"Mom!"
Shakui exclaimed, "So many talents in one legion? How do I feel that they are more numerous than the Kuroshio Army and the Combine Army combined? ”
"You don't understand that, do you?"
Lin Lang said proudly, "This is because of the battle formation, if you take a closer look, even if it is an evolutionary and a mutant, the battle between the legions is also very particular, and the archery troops with hard bows standing at the front, their bows and arrows are all made of alloy, and even steel shields can penetrate them." ”
"Behind it, there is the shield troops, and the surface of the shield is also plated with a layer of D-grade alloy, although it can't block the fourth and fifth grades, but ordinary soldiers below the third grade don't want to break through the defense of the shield."
"It is also very particular that the shield troops are arranged on the second layer, because in the battle, the archers will give priority to the main force of the enemy, and when the enemy rushes forward, the shield troops will go up, and the enemy will be steadily eliminated with the spearmen of the third layer to continue to advance."
Zhang Yu listened to Lin Lang's words and said with a smile: "You know a lot about fighting. ”
Lin Lang smiled and said, "I've seen it in some materials." ”
As a few people spoke, the herald just now walked out of the military formation again.
He gave Zhang Yu a military salute and said, "Sir, our lord said that the big battle is ahead, and no troops are allowed to block the front of the team, please take your troops to station on the left side of the military formation, and when the charge is launched, you can cover up and kill them." ”
Zhang Yu nodded and said he knew.
The Chishui River Plain, except for a bull head mountain raised in the middle, the entire plain is high in the west and low in the east.
At this moment, the border guards continue to advance with steady steps, and this condescending formation will be irresistible once it launches an impact, which is also one of the advantages of the terrain.
Only when we fight a war can we master the way to victory.
An hour later, the front Tanma reported that the combined army of Great Xia had basically been wiped out, except for the soldiers who retreated and were scattered and fled, the rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled all died on the banks of the Chishui River.
Because there are too many corpses, the Chishui River has been blocked, and if this continues, it cannot be ruled out that there is a risk that the river will be diverted and burst.
It is conservatively estimated that there were no less than 30,000 dead, and the remaining small forces were also tightly surrounded, and they could not resist for long.
"I see."
When the news reached the headquarters, the supreme commander of the border guards, General Zhao Guangxin, replied lightly.
He lifted his hands slightly, and the expensive military cloak on his body slid off his shoulders, and the guards who had prepared it for a long time stepped forward to carefully tie the cloak, and then hung it on a hanger in the military tent.
"40,000 people, just gave it to the Kuroshio army for nothing, they should be tired of killing, right? Now, it's our turn to play. ”
Zhao Guangxin is not tall, but at this moment, he waved his hand with great momentum and said: "Order the whole army, the archers are in front, the cavalry is responsible for the two wings, and the whole army will attack!" ”
"Yes!"
On this day, the Kuroshio army, which had just achieved the fruits of a great victory, only felt that the earth was rumbling and shaking.
Immediately after, a red line appeared on the plain in the distance.
Gradually, the red line spread more and more, converging into a huge wave like a small river, and in the shouting of killing from the collapse of the sky, the border guards attacked!
Before the Kuroshio army, which had just finished a tough battle, had no time to rest, it turned around and met the cavalry units of the border guards, who were waiting for work.
Both sides, from officers to ordinary soldiers, are far from human physique, but the war does not change the rules because of this, on the contrary, the power that erupts is greater, and the fighting is more cruel.
In the midst of the killing, the confrontation between the Black Tide and the evolutionary people of the Great Xia Kingdom finally kicked off.
This is the first time that the legions directly under the Inner Territory of Great Xia have confronted Kuroshio, and in the past, it was the expeditionary force that guarded the first line of defense that was responsible for fighting Kuroshio.
But this time is different from the past, the eastern defense line has been broken, the expeditionary force has lost contact, the central army has not yet gained momentum, and the border guards must be on top.
From afar, the whole land was covered with waves of red and black, and nothing else could be seen.
Even the Niutou Mountain, surrounded by the two armies, seemed insignificant, as if it could be flattened with it.
More than 200 officers of the first team of the first division of the former United Army, under the leadership of Zhang Yu, also completely threw themselves into the battlefield.
Niutou Mountain, as the only high ground between the plains, is also an extremely important strategic location, and the position has changed hands several times.
The two teams of the border guards and the thousands of creatures of the Kuroshio fought here several times, but they could not decide where they would belong, but suffered heavy casualties, and even the ravine was full of headless corpses.
In this situation, it was not until Zhang Yu led the first team to rush to support that the entire position was completely stabilized.