Chapter 13: The Night Battle
Night came as usual, no, if you calculated accurately, it should be 3 seconds later than yesterday, the arrival of night seemed to announce the end of the war, and the group of soldiers on the opposite side no longer arranged in a neat array, but moved towards the camp behind them.
Seeing this scene, the people on the city wall also breathed a sigh of relief, and several of them lay directly on the ground, experiencing the daytime battle, even if the intensity of the battle dropped rapidly after noon, for these guys who had not yet adapted to the war, the physical exertion did not decrease.
"Now the people on the city wall can go down and rest, they should eat, eat, sleep, and come up at 0:00 at night to change their guards."
Although he guessed that there would be a night attack at night, Hua Feng did not intend to let these soldiers know, at least for now, there is no need to let them know, this group of former civilians has too poor self-regulation ability, and letting them know that they can only make them nervous for a night, which is not conducive to night fighting.
"I've taken them to their predetermined position, I'll give them a break for the time being, and I'm expecting them to get up at 10 o'clock." Pang Zhi's words were transmitted to Hua Feng's ears through the talisman.
"There's no need to be so early, the other party's night attack will probably be after 0 o'clock, in the other party's opinion, our side is just a rookie, you let them rest until 11 o'clock, and then get up and get ready for it."
"Understood."
It was not clear why or why Hua Feng could come to such a conclusion, Pang Zhi just hung up the communication and announced to the people around him that he would give them more sleep time.
"The people below will change their defenses in small groups, and the right one will go first." After the defenders on the walls had left, the reserves below walked up the walls in the way they had already decided.
Since Hua Feng was only facing a group of rookies who had just finished training, he basically didn't expect them to be able to strictly memorize various norms on the battlefield, so they were only trained by mechanization.
The formations are named according to their positions on the city wall and under the city wall, and the right one always stands on the city wall closest to the area marked on Hua Feng's right hand side, and the lower one is the same. Such a rigid approach does require a lot less strain, but it also allows this group of people to survive the first battle that can be called a war.
"I wonder what form the air raid will take?"
A night attack is inevitably a combination of bombardment by those weapons hidden behind the enemy and air strikes. The attack of the weapon is easy to guess, this fortress is immune to most direct magic attacks due to the magic array, but it cannot fight against the results of those magic changes, as well as the physical attacks launched with magic.
Whether it's the explosion of a fireball or the direct projectile of stones, it can deal damage to the walls. Based on the weapons they used, it was supposed to be a magic-powered cannon, and as for the power, it was speculated that it was at least the power of the artillery of the First World War.
However, the air raid does not know.
It's a magical world filled with fantasy creatures, griffins, Pegasi, and of course, dragons that are absolutely indispensable in all kinds of fantasy worlds.
Especially the last one, even if because of the rules of this world, they can not be called a natural disaster like their counterparts in other worlds, and the power they have is definitely not weak, at least in the face of the current civilization of this world, relying on mobility to have an absolute advantage.
Of course, it is also possible that this place has developed its own aircraft and uses that thing for air strikes.
The night is getting deeper and deeper, and there is no such thing as the big ball of light during the day, even if the torches and some special magic crystal lamps have been lit with all their might, they still can't make the entire level brightly lit, let alone the situation outside the level.
Therefore, when the people below began to act, the soldiers above who were in charge of monitoring did not raise any alarm until.
"Boom!"
It was only the great obviousness and the shaking of the city wall that made these rookie soldiers react, and they immediately fell into a panic, completely unaware of where the attack came from, did not know who attacked, and overwhelmed them, all they could do was to find cover on the city wall and hide themselves as they had done in the past, and combined with the instincts formed after previous training.
"Don't panic, this wall has only been strengthened in recent decades, and it will have no problem resisting such an attack." There was no sign of movement in his body, Hua Feng still sat in the most conspicuous place on the city wall as he did during the day, "The left reserve team came up, along the city wall, it's okay to slow down." ”
The calm tone and the detached posture infected the soldiers around them, allowing them to recover from the initial panic, and when they came back to their senses, they found that the enemy's attack was indeed not so terrifying, even if the roar was deafening, even if the scream was heartbreaking, the city wall only shook.
"Inexperienced."
This does not refer to the army in front of you, but the entire empire, the empire does have a group of veterans of military qualifications, but they participated in the war a hundred years ago, and the gun is basically not as efficient as the bow and arrow, and the cannon will explode at any time. At that time, the city walls were very useful, so they strengthened the level along the way they thought about the defense, along the way they thought of it.
However, this world is due to the presence of certain fantastical creatures.
"The air raid is coming."
Hua Feng looked up, and seemed to be able to see through the darkness and through the clouds the cavalry riding on the opposite side of the cavalry riding like a pterosaur, as well as some of the high-energy items they carried.
"Bombing? Already have the technology for high-altitude positioning? ”
The doubt did not come true, when the clouds obscured the moon and the cavalry in the sky began to descend, they broke through the clouds and swooped down, at this time the pterodactyls no longer waved their wings, but glided entirely with their wide wings, so their raid was silent.
"Pang Zhi attacked."
"All hands on board." The soldiers, who had been called by Pang Zhi before the roar of the artillery fire and were blowing cold wind on the tower, immediately entered the position of the crossbow machine after hearing the order, and adjusted the direction of the crossbow machine according to the way of training.
Others, on the other hand, walked up to the top of the tower, pushed the magic crystal glare that they had not used before to the window, and adjusted their orientation to point to the sky, they didn't know exactly what it was, nor did they know if there were any enemies there, but they quickly turned on the lights according to the inertia of training.
"Whew!"
The enemy in the sky let out a mournful roar, and suddenly changed from extremely dark to extremely bright, and these soldiers, as well as the pterodactyl they sat on, were extremely damaged, they had never expected to be attacked like this at this time.
"Attack."
An attack, countless sounds of breaking the air followed it, the crossbow machine converted the elastic potential energy into kinetic energy, giving the arrows that flew out, when the arrows flew to a certain height, the magic array of its own connotation was activated, and the arrows were accelerated again and thrown out, and then the enemy who pierced the sky.
"Ah, what a grand blood flower."
"It's also the end of relying too much on your own ability." The other party dares to sneak attack, especially at night, naturally has an absolute grasp of their vision at night, but once such a grasp is used by the other party, then the strong light will imprison them in a short time.
As for luring the enemy to a specific position, it is even simpler, when the air attack is not yet developed, it must be used to attack obvious and important buildings, and only need to make the surveillance lights around the arsenal a little brighter, which will naturally attract most of the enemy here.
That's right.
"Pang Zhi, don't let those guys land, they may have carried a bomb, and if they land, they may explode."
"You cheat me!" In the face of the terrible scream, the fat figure jumped out of the fortifications and climbed up with the help of the tower, while the sword was unsheathed, and the sword qi soared into the sky.
"It's just the artillery fire that attracts firepower, and the night raids only take advantage of physiologically, and their creative ability is terrible, which should be considered good news."