Marshal, the Black Flag Army really still has a backhand, and about two or three thousand people took advantage of the chaos to bypass the battlefield and attack. ”

Lin Shaodong hurriedly walked to Xu Rui's side and said solemnly.

Xu Rui stared at the frontal battlefield, and said lightly without looking back: "Siyuan has already dealt with it, although the artillery company has suffered heavy losses to the enemy at the moment, most of our army has collapsed, and the opposing enemy still has enough strength to hold the defensive line."

After all, our artillery is still too few, and it can only cover the local battlefield, but cannot saturate all the defense lines for nearly ten miles, leaving a trace of flaws.

Now the main forces of the Black Flag Army and the Silent Annihilation Army are shrinking the remnants and retreating towards the interior of the defense line, looking for cover to avoid the shelling. ”

Lin Shaodong nodded: "My subordinates understand, but although our army has formulated a plan against the Black Flag Army this time, if the other party fights hard, the defense line cannot be held for a long time, and there will be no way to retreat in case we are surrounded on the top of the mountain." ”

"I know that."

Xu Rui said: "You don't have to worry about these things for the time being, record the deployment route of the Black Flag Army as soon as possible, so that you can analyze their tactics after the battle, as for how long the mountain top defense line will be defended, this depends on the battle situation." ”

"This ...... Subordinates obey! ”

Lin Shaodong opened his mouth, and seemed to be still a little worried about the current situation, but since Xu Rui asked him to leave it alone, he suppressed those worries in his heart.

He took out a pen and paper and skillfully sketched out a complex line, which was the retreat route of the Black Flag Army after being shelled, from these routes, Xu Rui was able to analyze the basic tactics of the Black Flag Army, as well as the commander's command habits, which were very important for future confrontations.

On the defense line at the foot of the mountain, more than a hundred Apocalypse chariots stood side by side with their heads facing inward and their carriages facing outward, hiding the weakest war horses behind them, and the carriages made of thin steel plates were combined to form a steel defense line.

The "Gatling"-style repeating crossbow bed roared incessantly, weaving a dense network of arrows, and with its powerful firepower, the Black Flag Army could not raise its head.

The Black Flag Army is heavily armoured, and is known as an invulnerable sword, bow and crossbow.

But the sword bow and crossbow they are talking about do not include the "Gatling" type of extra-large repeating crossbow bed, the power of the siege weapon is comparable to the continuous fire crossbow bed can shoot through the armor of the Black Flag Army at a distance of one or two hundred meters, once the arrow is hit one after another, even if it is as strong as the black flag, it will become a hedgehog in an instant.

What's more, the Black Flag Army is not good at bows and crossbows, and has almost no long-range strike capabilities, so it cannot threaten the Apocalypse Chariot at all.

You must know that the Apocalypse Chariot was originally tailor-made by Xu Rui to deal with the Black Flag Army, and it was extremely effective at both offensive and defensive ends when the weight allowed.

Even if the Black Flag Army was armed with a repeating crossbow, or if it did rush in front of the chariot, it would definitely not be able to inflict any destructive blow on the newly smelted thin steel plate (armor).

And in the center of this steel defense line, Cao Siyuan personally went into battle, pinched the trigger of the repeating crossbow bed with both hands, and carried the crossbow bed that could rotate 360 degrees and fired wildly.

The thumb-thick, nearly one-meter-long crossbow bolt poured out through a circle of embrasures, which really had the pleasure of a heavy machine gun, and in less than a pillar of incense, at least a dozen Black Flag sergeants and horses had fallen under his crossbow mouth, and this was only the result of a chariot.

In fact, counting the encounter in Xichuan, this is only the second battle between the Black Flag Army and the Apocalypse Guard, they are still very unfamiliar with the Apocalypse Chariot, and they suffered a big loss as soon as they came up.

At the beginning, the Black Flag Army was anxious to force the Apocalypse Guard to stop the shelling, and in a hurry, they wanted to use their heavy armor and strong impact to directly rush through the arrow net with their heavy armor and strong impact power.

However, they never dreamed that the first wave of cavalry rushing out only lasted half a minute under the arrow net before they were shot into hedgehogs, and the heavy battle shields and armor had little effect on the two-hundred-meter charging range.

What's even more terrifying is that after a round of arrow nets, the battlefield is full of crossbow arrows, like a grassland, and the dense arrow shafts greatly increase the risk of the horses tripping or stabbing wounds, further hindering their steps.

After that, the Black Flag Army also quickly made adjustments according to the characteristics of the Apocalypse Chariot, and began to adopt such means as "dispersing firepower and concentrating assaults", "outflanking in a roundabout way", and "intermittent frontal assaults" to frantically probe.

However, it didn't take long for them to find that these Apocalypse chariots had their backs against the hills, and there were no fire blind spots at all, and the crossbow beds with good crossbow bolts were alternately replaced, leaving no obvious fire gaps, and it was almost impossible to force a breakthrough head-on, the only disadvantage was movement speed.

This place is a hill, which is not suitable for chariots to move, and it took a lot of effort for the Apocalypse Wei to get these chariots to the foot of the mountain, and Xu Rui didn't want them to move at all, but just connected them together as "bunkers".

After paying a heavy price of seven or eight hundred lives in a very short period of time, the Black Flag Army finally faced the reality and decided to give full play to the advantage of its mobility, throw off this impenetrable line of defense, and detour to the mountain.

Once the Black Flag Army is leaving, I am afraid that no one in the whole world will be able to leave them behind, looking at the black torrent that comes and goes like the wind, the soldiers on the chariot of the Apocalypse can only stare dryly.

"My lord, they're gone, what are we going to do?"

As soon as the original crossbowman had changed a new crossbow bed for Cao Siyuan, he saw that the Black Flag Army had spared a bay and rushed up the hillside from the side of the defensive line, and in the blink of an eye, he was out of range, and he couldn't help but ask worriedly.

Cao Siyuan put down the crossbow bed, walked down from the crossbowman's position, and said lightly: "Leave them alone, let's withdraw quickly." ”

"Withdraw?"

The crossbowman was stunned: "Where are we going to retreat?" ”

Cao Siyuan pointed to the distance and said, "Withdraw directly from the battlefield and wait at the predetermined position to join the main force." ”

"Straight out of the battlefield?"

The crossbowman was even more surprised: "Let's just leave like this, regardless of the big army?" What about the big handsome? ”

Cao Siyuan slapped the young crossbowman on the back of the head, and scolded with a smile: "The handsome man is like a god, and he still needs you to worry about it?" ”

As soon as the words fell, an explosion suddenly came from nearby, and the location where the mushroom cloud rose was the place where the Black Flag Army had just bypassed, and the sound of the explosion was familiar to everyone, it was a mine transformed from a grenade.

"What am I talking about?"

Looking at the faintly rising fire clouds, who still doesn't understand that the Black Flag Army has just broken away from the arrow net of the Apocalypse Chariot and plunged into the terrifying minefield, and they all mourned silently for this unlucky force.

"Well, who made them have to get along with our handsome? Who is to blame for being completely dead and alive? ”

The successive explosions of mines instantly dispelled the concerns of the soldiers, and one hundred and ten Apocalypse chariots slowly withdrew from the battlefield like old cows along the road they came.

Now the soldiers are not worried, but Cao Siyuan, who gave the order, is a little worried in his heart, at least not as relaxed as he said.

Naturally, he didn't want to say something to the soldiers below, it was time-consuming to renovate mines with grenades, and laying mines was a huge project, and what they lacked most these days was time, although they barely laid minefields, but they were very limited.

If the Black Flag Army had gone through the minefield with flesh and blood, regardless of casualties, the artillery positions would have been directly exposed to the enemy without protection.

This is also the origin of Lin Shaodong's sentence "If the other party fights hard, the defense line cannot be held for a long time".

After explaining the mission and assembly location to the commander of the Apocalypse Chariot, Cao Siyuan watched them disappear into the path, and then quickly returned to the top of the mountain along the secret passage without mines.

The original plan was to let Zhang Zuofeng be in charge of the chariot troops, and after he withstood the first wave of attacks from the Black Flag Army, he would personally lead the chariot troops to withdraw from the station, but no one expected that he would suddenly go crazy, so he could only let Cao Siyuan temporarily play his role.

However, Cao Siyuan had other heavy responsibilities on his shoulders, and he couldn't withdraw from the battlefield with the chariot troops, which was a hidden danger after all, and he could only hope that the young chariot commander would be more effective and not fall into the enemy's ambush.

At the foot of the mountain, the left guard of the Chinese army, which had just integrated most of it, regrouped, but did not immediately attack the Black Flag Army besieging the position on the top of the mountain, but stood quietly at the foot of the mountain as if watching a play, watching the Black Flag Army attack the mountain in a roundabout way.

In the center of the military formation, Yuan Shiyuan stood behind Wang Yi with a gloomy face, and said coldly: "General Wang, if you send troops to intercept the rear road of the Black Flag Army, under the attack from both sides, this Black Flag Army of 3,000 people may have been wiped out." ”

Wang Yi glanced at Yuan Shiyuan, and said lightly: "Lord Yuan has never really been on the battlefield after all, and he doesn't know the strength of the Black Flag Army. ”

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