Chapter 206: The Last Battle
The first round of team battles ended with the bandits defeating the victory.
The Qinglong Army temporarily retreated more than ten meters, and the big knife mechanism also shrank back, there were no wounded, and all the corpses lying under the village were broken into two pieces.
Ma Yu arched his hand downward and said with a smile: "This general, please think about the lives of your subordinates, don't let them die for no reason, retreat in the face of difficulties, you have no possibility of capturing Heifeng Village tonight." ”
began to flicker again, Ma Yu is very good at breaking down the psychological defense line of enemy soldiers.
After the banshee Chen Yang translated Ma Yu's words, the female general still had no expression, and she didn't reply, looked at the tired soldiers, swung her sword again, and continued to attack the city.
The brutal broadsword mechanism had to be sacrificed again, spinning up, whirring, the Qinglong Army rushed up, as long as it stands, it is dead, bending down to dodge can live, but bending over, and there is no way to take a ladder to the top, and it is useless to come to the root of the wall.
These cavalry, unlike the 10,000 infantry during the day, did not seem to be afraid of death, brainless impact, wave after wave, but soon, I understood their tactical intentions - as more and more corpses piled up under the city, the corpses gradually reached the height of the broadsword, and every time the broadsword rotated for a week, it had to cut through the middle of several corpses, and the resistance was great, and the speed was much slower.
The Blue Dragon Army behind, stepping on the corpses of their companions, was finally able to cross the broadsword defense line and continue to climb upward.
"Are there any other organs?" I asked Ma Yu.
Ma Yu looked back at the bandit demon in the stockade and snapped his fingers.
I hurriedly looked down from the battlement again, and just as a green dragon soldier climbed up from this position, with a long knife in his mouth, and climbed with both hands, he had already entered my attack range, but I didn't cut him down, wanting to see what would happen.
However, nothing happened, the green dragon soldier, with great effort, finally climbed up, viciously took the knife from his mouth with his right hand, and slashed at the top of my head, I had to raise my foot and kick him down from the battlement, and then, turned his head and asked Ma Yu: "What about your second mechanism?" ”
I caught a glimpse of a lot of cottage demons, lifted a few large pieces of canvas on the top of the village, and below were a few cauldrons, I thought they were going to use boiling oil to pour the enemy, but the pot seemed to be cold, no heat came out, I walked over curiously, lying on the mouth of the pot and looking in, there were a lot of black balls, as if they were similar to coconuts, and the tail of each ball had a fuse.
At this time, a wave of Qinglong soldiers had climbed up, and the two sides fought again on the top of the village, but the Qinglong soldiers were few and the climate had not yet formed.
"Ignition!" Ma Yu ordered, and the torches and braziers were quickly lit, illuminating the inside and outside of the village as bright as day.
"Throw a grenade!" Ma Yu ordered again, the thieves by the pot, pick up these black balls, light the fuse in the fire, and throw them to the city in the posture of throwing solid balls.
I wondered in my heart, this thing is a plant, even if it can explode, how lethal it is?
The black ball, crossed the beautiful parabola, did not wait for it to fall in the crowd of the Green Dragon Army, the whip exploded above their heads, the sound was very loud, the shrapnel scattered in all directions, the scattering area was very large, and in an instant, more than a dozen Green Dragon soldiers around the black ball fell.
"Damn, so powerful?" I exclaimed, and also picked up a black ball from the pot, which was a coconut shell, but it was heavy inside, I knew the principle of this primitive bomb, and there would be no danger if I didn't light the fuse, so I pulled out the fuse (like some kind of grass rope rubbed, soaked in pine resin), and poured it out from the fuse hole, and inside was black powder, which should be the stock of Heifeng Village.
In the afternoon, Ma Yu went to the back warehouse and was busy for three hours, probably teaching the bandits to make this kind of earth bomb.
The lethality of black gunpowder should not be so high, I borrowed a knife from the thief next to me, cut the coconut shell, and found that in addition to black gunpowder, there are also broken stones, the edges and corners are very sharp, and it feels like a glass ballast, this thing can cause damage, it is really a genius design.
After a few rounds of earth bombs were dropped, I looked outside the stockade and saw that the Qinglong Army had already suffered two or three hundred casualties, and was forced to retreat a few dozen meters to the middle of the Avenue of Stars.
"Brothers, kill me with me!" The banshee Chen Yang shouted, and led the thieves to jump down from the battlement, because there were the corpses of the Qinglong soldiers below as mats, so that they would not fall and be injured or killed.
I came to the battlement to see how they rushed, did I want to use their morale to get up and kill the Qinglong Army in one fell swoop?
But the banshee Chen Yang did not charge, but led her subordinates into the back of those sack bunkers, is this an extension of the defense line to the outside of the city? It's not scientific, in this way, the Blue Dragon Army can get on the horse, and with a charge, it can break their defense.
I could see this flaw, and the Qinglong Army also saw it, regrouped the team, lined up neatly, mounted the war horse, and rushed towards the cottage.
"What are you doing?" I frowned and asked Ma Yu, isn't this sending the people below to death? Now that the city gates are all blocked by corpses, they can't be opened, these hundreds of bandit demons, it's easy to jump off the wall, and it's hard to climb back.
Ma Yu smiled slightly, and gave an order to the demon in the village behind: "Launch!" ”
I turned my head back and found that in the open space behind me, I don't know when, there were more than a dozen catapults, although the structure of the catapults was very simple and not large, but they still fired the kind of light coconut projectiles, which were estimated to shoot far away.
Whoosh, one by one the ignited coconuts were thrown out, my vision, with the coconut arc, a row of projectiles, accurately smashed at the foot of the mountain, that is, the end of the Avenue of Fame, but after these coconut shells fell to the ground and exploded, they did not scatter stone fragments, but burned on the spot, this is an incendiary bomb, it is estimated that the composition of the coconut is different, not gravel, but poured with pine resin!
Another row of incendiary catapults shot out, still hitting the position at the foot of the mountain, and the fire was connected into a line of fire, isolating the cavalry of the Blue Dragon Army that had not yet rushed up on the plain from the Green Dragon Army that had already gone on the Avenue of Stars, and then, there was no more, because the ammunition was almost exhausted, and by visual inspection, it could only shoot two more rounds.
These two rounds of salvos, without burning many hussars, blindly bombarded a line of fire, what's the point? Because there are nearly 1,000 Qinglong troops on the Avenue of Stars, they don't have to worry about fighting alone.
I returned to the battlement, and then looked outside the city, the cavalry on the Avenue of Stars had begun to charge, and the banshee Chen Yang here, instead of organizing defense, was busy carrying the sack, putting the sack to the front, and soon, dozens of bandits, one carrying a large bag of sacks, stood in a column at the top of the slope, this is to use the sack to resist the cavalry charge? Isn't that whimsical?
Soon, I found that things were not as simple as I thought, dozens of thieves carried sacks, and dozens of other bandits, ran in front of them, and began to stab the sack on the shoulders of their companions with knives, and the black beans in it instantly gushed out and fell to the ground, because it was a slope, and after tamping and leveling, the black beans rolled down, and they poured a sack, and then ran back to carry the new sack, and continued to dump on the ground.
There were more and more black beans, and they rolled down into a black tide, rushing towards the cavalry of the Green Dragon Army.
I finally understood the essence of this tactic, the purpose is not to kill and injure the enemy, but to let the enemy fall off the horse, the moment the black tide rushes past, all the horses, all fell to the ground, with the black tide sliding downward, and the war horse behind tripped, the entire cavalry team, was pushed down by the black tide, the war horse could not get up, the cavalry got up, and could not stand firm, fell again, 50,000 catties of black beans, all fell on the Avenue of Stars, this thousand light cavalry, fell into the sea of beans.
With the banshee Chen Yang "kill", the hundreds of thieves outside followed the last batch of black beans and rushed down, but they stepped on the black beans, but they did not slip, at the same time, in the bushes on both sides of the Avenue of Stars, a large number of thieves who had been ambushed in advance were also killed, and they attacked left and right, rushing into the Avenue of Stars, about four hundred people, against a thousand people.
But the 1,000 Qinglong Army, because they couldn't stand, gathered together again, and kept sliding, and many people's weapons fell off, so they could only lie on the ground to resist, and were cut down by the bandits to cry and cry for their mother, and they had no power to fight back.
"This is war," Ma Yu sighed, "I once longed for the realm of soldiers who surrendered without a fight, but obviously my cultivation has not yet arrived, and no matter how I fight, I will still die." ”
"Isn't that what war is all about," I comforted her, "by the way, why don't our people slip and fall over with black beans?" ”
Ma Yu raised the sole of one foot backwards and showed me the soles of her shoes, it turned out that there were eight steel spikes underneath, six in the front and two in the back, similar to football boots, the height of the spikes exceeded the diameter of the beauty black bean, no wonder it could stop slipping.
"Preparation for war is far more important than the battle itself." Ma Yu concluded, and I nodded again and again, deeply convinced.
I don't have this kind of shoes, so I can't go down to help in the battle, and I guess Ma Yu didn't want me to take a risk, so he didn't give me non-slip shoes.
The chain of fire at the foot of the mountain blocked the retreat of these slippery Qinglong soldiers on the Avenue of Stars, and also made it impossible for the soldiers on the small plain below to come to the rescue, Ma Yu had been staring at the line of fire there, and felt that the fire had weakened, so he let the catapult behind shoot another round, and the fire was rekindled, and the Qinglong Army on the small plain finally woke up and no longer pinned their hopes on direct rescue, but dismounted one after another, and began to climb up from the mountains on both sides of the Avenue of Stars, intending to come around to help.
However, there is almost a 90° vertical cliff, and there are also bandits ambushing at the top, and after a round of big rocks are dropped, no reinforcements dare to go up, and they are completely sent to death.
I know about these ambushes on the top of the mountains on both sides, and they are also set up during the day, but they do not participate in the battle, because it is too difficult to climb there from the plain, and only a few people are needed to defend them, and the enemy army will not attack from that direction unless it is absolutely necessary, and the battle losses are too high.
The swimming cavalry on the Avenue of Stars, isolated and helpless, were soon slaughtered by bandits wearing non-slip shoes, and some people wanted to surrender, but this time, neither the banshee Chen Yang nor Ma Yu gave them a chance, and they kept surrounding them, slaughtering layer by layer until they were all killed.
It's not that they are cruel, but because of this battle, they must fight with absolute murderous spirit, so that the imperial city can be completely softened, and the bandits will retreat north through the Qingqing grassland, and strive for at least three days, not to be cruel to the enemy tonight, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the enemy will be cruel to us, the vast grassland, the cavalry pursues and kills the infantry, and the nature is the same as the current anti-skid soldiers and slaughter swimmers.
This kind of relationship between the arms can be understood as a "dimensionality reduction strike", three-dimensional troops, and two-dimensional arms.
I just pity the good-looking female general of the Qinglong Army, she staggered up, stood on the belly of the war horse, and could barely fight against a few bandits, and in the end, because she was outnumbered, she was cut off by one of Chen Yang's personal soldiers, with a knife in the back.
Ten minutes, the battle ended, a thousand green dragon soldiers were all annihilated, and the green dragon cavalry on the grassland below also lost one or two hundred people because of the forced attack on the mountain from both sides, and there were only more than a thousand people left, unable to fight again, and had no courage to fight again, but they did not leave, and wandered in place.
Ma Yu ordered, the catapult moved forward to the bottom of the wall of the stockade, adjusted the range to the maximum, and shot out the last batch of incendiary catapults, she obviously calculated in advance, these incendiary bombs, smashed in the green dragoon phalanx, and this position, just the area where the pine resin had been smeared during the day, the autumn grass was ignited, the fire borrowed the wind, the wind helped the fire, and instantly devoured two or three hundred war horses.
The number of remnants of the Qinglong Army has dropped from 3240 to less than 1,000 people, and in order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army, they had to turn around and flee in embarrassment.
I breathed a long sigh of relief, took out my cigarette, and was about to celebrate, but Ma Yu, as the commander-in-chief, seemed unhappy, she sat on the ground depressed, leaned against the corner, snatched the freshly lit cigarette from my hand, and smoked it......