Chapter 149: Stormy Battle
Of course, Zhou Mingyue himself must defend himself, he is trying to survive!
To say that his results in intercepting the sneak attack this time are still very remarkable.
The losses of the sneak attack troops in the city of Narearthur in this battle are not small.
And even if they returned and joined the frontal war, they did not completely gain the advantage, crushing the army on the front line of Nisya, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
Lying on a rattan bed built on the top of a big tree, Zhou Mingyue looked at the goshawk hovering high in the sky, his eyes were glazed, and after a long time, he suddenly shuddered.
It turned out that he was lying here, basking in the sun, but he was comfortable enough to sleep.
By this time his elite arquebus squad had grown to thirty.
But he sat up from the rattan bed and looked around.
Under the frenzied felling of more than a dozen lumberjacks, there are not many woods left.
It can be said that after such a catastrophe, it will be difficult for this Cyblas mountain range to regain its original lush forests for the next ten years.
Almost, although there were only four hundred and fifty fine arquebusiers, because of the fine arquebuses in their hands, the range was longer and more powerful than that of ordinary and inferior arquebuses, so their combat effectiveness was by no means comparable to that of ordinary and inferior arquebusiers.
Zhou Mingyue was going to go to Rearthur City to have a look.
He has also spent a lot of time in this world.
To say that this world is rather weird.
There are fewer oceans than land, vast expanses of desert cut off from access to the sea, and the total population is estimated to be less than six million.
Because the urban area of Nias City, the population of each town together will not exceed more than 800,000.
Therefore, it can be seen how terrifying it is that the two sides of Nias and Gearthur will fight with more than 100,000 troops.
Fifteenth of the population was drawn out and used as cannon fodder for the war!
Any ruler probably wouldn't have done anything like that.
After all, the population is the basis of their power.
But they did it again.
Therefore, Zhou Mingyue felt that there was something wrong with this.
But before that, he needs to help Nias City defeat Rearthur City and get enough benefits from it.
Otherwise, with his current strength, let alone killing him in Rearthur City, it would be impossible to break through the layers of levels.
In fact, Zhou Mingyue was eyeing the corpses left behind in the war.
No, at least eight of his thirty teams of elite arquebusiers were created after the recovery of corpses in the mountain tunnels.
Therefore, it can be seen that the value of human corpses in this world is still very high.
After all, there are two more arms.
Previously, Zhou Mingyue sent inferior arquebusiers to risk their lives, but they collected a lot of information.
At this time, he was lying in ambush in a farmland near the city of Rearthur.
It's not too far from the Cyblos Mountains, only about three kilometres, and a straighter road runs through the farmland.
This road was responsible for the logistical supply of the entire battlefield of the city of Rearthur, so the city of Rearthur attached great importance to it, and every town it passed through had a checkpoint, which was impassable during the war without a pass issued to it.
Zhou Mingyue was ready to use guerrilla warfare against the city of Rearthur.
In this world, there is no soil for the birth of the theory of guerrilla warfare.
The eight city-states rule the world, although they often send small teams to other city areas to carry out sneak attacks or something.
However, most of these small detachments are only about a dozen people, and they do not have the ability to take root in the opponent's urban area, and they often have to retreat back to their own city immediately after a long journey, and after an attack.
As for relying on the Sebulus Mountains as a base for guerrilla warfare?
For those arquebusiers, it was basically impossible.
The simple reason is that they don't have this awareness at all.
They prefer to sneak up on a few before the start of the battle and then retreat to the frontal battlefield stage, rather than sending small detachments to attack the opponent for a long time.
After all, such behavior is not worth the cost for them.
Unless it is the kind of long-distance attack of tens of thousands of troops, smashing the Yellow Dragon, there is still a certain strategic significance.
And Zhou Mingyue's side is different, the biggest advantage of the arquebusiers created by the projection of the war plane is that they are not picky eaters.
As long as the grass, leaves, shrubs...... Whatever you eat, you can still be alive and kick around, and you won't have any symptoms of illness.
With such an iron stomach, guerrilla warfare is possible in this world.
Zhou Mingyue chose a good location for the ambush, located between the two small towns, the crops in the farmland grew extremely luxuriantly, hiding inside, looking at the past from the road, there was no sign of an ambush.
But squatting in the farmland is not very pleasant.
The humidity rising from the skylight, the stuffiness, the smell of human smells, all kinds of blood-sucking insects flying over, and so on.
Fortunately, the sky lived up to his wishes, and after being bitten out of more than ten large bags in the farmland, Zhou Mingyue saw a convoy slowly coming in the distance.
The cart was pulled by six-legged oxen, and the driver kept waving his whip to urge the six-legged oxen forward, and the cart was full of substances, covered with cloth, and it was impossible to see what it was.
But the more than 200 cavalrymen guarding the convoy showed that this material was extremely important!
You must know that in the early days of the war, both the city of Nisia and the city of Rearthur swept away all the enemies lurking in their territory.
In such a situation, it is said that the environment is relatively safe.
What's more, the front line is in a stalemate, and no matter how powerful those Nias soldiers are, it is impossible to cross the front line to reach here in formation, but even so, more than 200 cavalry escorts were sent, which shows its importance.
Caught a big fish?
Zhou Mingyue saw at a glance that the one who was riding a war horse at the front was a fire arquebus (regiment leader)!
Leading more than 200 cavalry is a fire arquebus, which is really a bit valuable.
When those six-legged oxen pulled carts and most of the convoy passed through the ambush point, Zhou Mingyue gave the order to attack.
In an instant, the fields were filled with gunfire and smoke, and four hundred and fifty rounds of iron pellets rushed towards the convoy in waves.
These bullets, which have strong penetrating power and can explode in a small area, once hit the six-legged oxen, carts and even cavalry, they instantly set off a bloody storm.
The horsemen, neatly clad in leather armor and sitting on their horses with their heads held high, tossed and turned on their horses, like a gentleman's cavalry falling in row, like a bowling ball on those pins.
The scene was extremely shocking and bloody!
The blood that flowed from their bodies was like a geyser of water, and like a liquid leaking under high pressure, splashing out several meters away.