Chapter Twenty-Five: Armageddon
Armageddon is the final battle that will determine the future ownership of the Calradia continent.
The time was noon, and two vigorous iron armies faced each other in the vast plain. The dark clouds above the sky are covered with dull thunder rumbling and rolling over, such weather seems to be able to rain suddenly at any time and anywhere, obviously it should be a sunny time, but because of the time of day and thunderclouds render the sky at night, the vision is almost to the point where you can't see your fingers.
Zhang Jie relied on his own prestige and strong control over the country, and really achieved the reckless Cheng Dù, he relied on the Saland Sultan, Kugit Khan and the three kingdoms of Rhodok, which had just been conquered, to gather a majestic army of nearly 5,600 troops, and the calm and calm piece was like a pitch-black dark cloud spreading from the sky.
Compared to Zhang Jie's side, which was gathered with the power of the Three Kingdoms, it was almost the strongest army in the Calradia Continent. Zhu Peng's side army formation is tight and iron-clad is distinct, although it looks more fierce and elite, but the overall strength is less than a thousand people, after attacking Vegia and Nord's heavy infantry army, Zhu Peng finally gathered the power of Swadia, Vegia, and Nord, and only took out more than 1,000 people, but it's not that he can't take more, it's just that Zhu Peng's troops are almost picky, not the top or slightly inferior troops, and even more mercenaries who take money and sell their lives, In the end, the three major countries were able to gather the elite military strength of more than 900 people, and it was Zhang Heng and Zhan Lan who broke their legs.
However, Taiyin Zhu Peng didn't care about the difference in the number of each other's forces. Four hundred Swadia heavy horses, one hundred Vegia light horses, three hundred Nord heavy horses, and more than one hundred Vigia archers were all his family.
"Under Zhang Jie. There are more than a thousand heavy cavalry of Salander's personal guards alone, and Xiao Bingyi commands more than 500 Kugit iron cavalry, if he puts these cavalry into it at once, your army formation will not be able to resist it at all...... I know that you have built a dam to store water in the upper reaches of the You River to prepare for the flooding of the three armies, but the You River here is only a tributary, and even with this rainstorm that has not yet fallen, I don't think it can cause any fatal damage to Zhang Jie's 6,000 army. Lunar. It's all come to this point, you still have a killer move, you don't have to hide it anymore, right? "The military tent of the Chinese army has been squared. In an elegant and exquisite cloth tent palace, Zhu Peng sat in the middle of the blanket depicting the strange formation, and on his side were Zhan Lan and Zhu Wen. Ye Shouxuan. Except for the three of them who don't need to be on the battlefield in person, the other members of the Zhongzhou team have already gone to the front line, and their own bravery is not like the Dao magic and witchcraft of Ye Shouxuan and others, and they can improve the morale of their subordinates.
In response to Zhan Lan's doubts, Zhu Peng took a sip of the unique fruit pulp of the Calradia continent in the cup, and after thinking for a while, he responded in a deep voice: "In fact, in addition to damming and storing water upstream, I have indeed prepared several other secret moves, such as buying off the enemy's generals with a lot of money. For example, sending people to assassinate Zhang Jie's wife, or hiring scattered horsemen to go to the enemy country to rob and disturb the morale of his army...... But these are all dispensable tricks. On the battlefield of head-to-head competition for each other's strength, I felt that I would not lose to Zhang Jie, so I was willing to fight him.
In this world, only Han Xin points soldiers, and the more the merrier. This is like a real sword forging master, he will never focus on finding more and better materials, but will choose to purify the existing materials in his hands step by step, through guò superb forging experience and repeated tempering, improve the toughness of the finished sword itself, and then use various secret methods to improve the sharpness of the sword.
Soldiers, heavy refinement is not too much, and sharpness is not dull. If the pursuit of quantity is merely the pursuit of quantity, and the soldiers themselves have not been constantly trained and refined, then it is like a long sword forged from countless impurities of metal, which seems to be huge, but in fact it is not vulnerable to attack at all, and this is how the word 'rabble' comes from. ”
In the process of the two people talking in the tent, Zhang Jie's side of the crossbow coalition army was ready to go, Rhodok's crossbow archers under the protection of the infantry of the Salander Sultan in a very calm posture step by step, the infantry army is actually the weakest link of Zhang Jie's huge coalition army, the three major countries he occupied, the Salander Sultan only dominated by the "Mamluk" (Iron Float) heavy cavalry, followed by the archers with a higher survivability with thick armor is slightly better, the most inferior is the Salander infantry army, Because of the far-reaching influence of the slavery system in this country, many of the infantry in this country are actually armed with bamboo spears, and their strength is almost the most weak in the mainland, and they are almost completely unable to resist cavalry...... Kugit Khan is a steppe country on horseback, and this country has no infantry at all.
Among the Three Kingdoms controlled by Zhang Jie, only the elite infantry under Rhodok was subordinate, but it was only similar in strength to the Vigian infantry, slightly inferior to the Swadian infantry, and far weaker than the Nord hoplites. But it was because of the weak strength and the large number of them, so Zhang Jie took them to ask for directions, and if they died, it only slightly reduced the overall strength of the party, if it could really disrupt Zhu Peng's middle formation, it would be to capture the opportunity to win the whole decisive battle. 100% profit can already make people take risks, and 300% profits are not too dangerous, Zhang Jie's choice has become almost natural.
However, looking at the group of infantry soldiers who came over, Zhu Peng almost sneered: "Do big things and spare your life, does Zhang Jie think he is doing business?" ”
Accompanied by Zhu Peng's words, Zhan Lantong, who was already quite adapted to the witchcraft network, conveyed the commander's orders to the Zhongzhou team members in the military formation, and in terms of information transmission, the level of Zhu Peng's side almost surpassed that of the high-tech command center of the 21st world.
"Bow and arrow array, ready, forty-seven degrees in the distance."
"The heavy cavalry lined up, with the Swadian knights at the forefront, the cavalry second, and the Vigia light cavalry last."
"Foot troops, columns, shields, and hold on to the defense."
Zhang Heng, Huang Lilin, and Zhao Yingkong, who served as commanders in the bow and arrow, heavy cavalry, and infantry armies, quickly issued various orders after receiving the information of spiritual connection, and at the same time, Ye Shouxuan, who had been sitting on Zhu Peng's side, also got up directly at this time and came to the front of the military tent, holding the sky with both hands, and after a while, the enemy's infantry and crossbow coalition army had reached a certain distance, just because of the straight line of the crossbow, most of those powerful and terrifying crossbow arrows were nailed to the shields of the front-line infantry, Zhao Yingkong stood alone in light armor and held a sword in one hand in the military formation, but naturally there were several loyal Nord warriors in front of her, one of them was extremely unlucky to be caught fire by coincidence, at the first moment his heavy wooden shield was nailed more than twenty crossbow arrows, to the defense of the twenty-seventh when the wooden shield in his hand was shot into a piece of broken wood, but even so this brave man did not retreat a step, he stood there with his arms open and carried the scattered crossbow arrows with his chest, Until the warrior behind him reacted and replaced him. In just a short period of command, Zhao Yingkong had already established a terrifying personal prestige among the infantry army. In other words, there are also popular idols in the army, like Zhao Yingkong, a Valkyrie with a beautiful appearance and amazing martial arts, and a pure temperament, it is really normal to be revered and even worshiped by the subordinate sergeants.
After all, there were very few people who were directly shot into the shield like Zhao Yingkong's guards, and as the distance approached, before the defensive infantry in front of them could bear more pressure, Ye Shouxuan, who was standing in front of the military tent, had already opened his eyes and spit out softly: "The wind is ......."
With the sound of his words, Zhang Heng, the commander of the bow and arrow, gave an order; "Arrows, arrows, arrows......"
"Zheng, Zheng, Zheng......" The bowstring roared, and a large area of black oppressive arrow rain was projected far away, and at the same time, a strong wind blew in the sky out of thin air, and these feather arrows that were originally extremely long-range were thrown far into the middle and rear of Zhang Jie's former progressive army with this wind, and they became more powerful and heavy because of the effect of the wind.
"How is it possible, the range of the Virgians' arrows can shoot so far and so hard?" In the center of Zhang Jie's heavy military formation, Xiao Bingyi, who was dressed in gorgeous armor, stood beside Zhang Jie and watched the black arrow shower fall, which brought heavy casualties to the already side in an instant, although he was not shocked, but he frowned slightly. After so many years of wreaking havoc on this continent, he has seen even the most elite archer in Veguia, and he definitely does not have such a range and lethality.
"There's nothing strange about it, Taiyin Zhu Peng is so talented in Dao Techniques, even if he can do some simple auxiliary Dao Techniques in this world, it's normal. After all, there is no such thing as a completely pornologically free defense system. "The defense system that Zhang Jie said at this time naturally refers to the witchcraft defense system of the Calradia Continent, after so many years, no matter how restricted the people of the Central Continent team are, they have gradually summed up some rules, like Zhang Jie and Xiao Bingyi, etc., can completely exert their own strengthening ability to a limited extent.
The arrows that rained down in dense rain approached the range of the wind, combing the advancing enemy infantry from back to front. If the Vegia marksman and the Rhodok top crossbowmen shoot head-to-head, they will suffer eighty percent of the losses, and the Vegian marksman in leather armor will often die even more miserably once he fights the elite hand-to-hand combat of the Rhodok crossbowmen in iron armor. However, in this kind of solid defense in front, as long as the cold arrows are put in the back, the power of the rainstorm-like arrow array of the Virgian archers far exceeds the strength of the Rhodok crossbowmen, and the top-down inclined arrow path is originally difficult to defend, coupled with the power blessing of Ye Shouxuan's Dao technique "Blowing the wind", in the face of the infantry groups below that are not elite, the bow and arrow troops led by Zhang Heng have played extremely high and terrifying lethality in a very short period of time, and the efficiency is so high that the killing is almost slaughtering. (To be continued......)