Chapter 723: Luminous Arrow

"Some oil fell from the sky and fell on our torches and some soldiers," and by the time the generals came to check on the situation, the junior officers who had been present had already explained the situation, and one by one replied to their superiors with similar answers.

"What?" the generals who had received the response exclaimed in succession, and then looked up at the sky one by one, but unfortunately it was so dark that they could not see anything except the falling snowflakes.

"Check the situation with the Luminite Arrow," the Yang army camp side, those generals directly ordered the soldiers below to use one of their unique weapons after they couldn't see the situation above with the naked eye, a thing that is the same as the use of bows and arrows, the so-called lighting arrows are ignited with fire, and after being launched with a bow, they will emit dazzling light during the extremely fast flight, which can make the night sky of an area as bright as day in a short period of time, and the name of the luminous arrow is derived from this.

"Quickly report the situation of the enemy attack to the marshal," on the side of the flying army camp, after realizing that there was a problem in the sky, those generals ordered someone to report the abnormal situation to their marshal while asking the people below to find out the situation in the sky as soon as possible. Luminite arrows are not a rare thing, they are also available in the Flying Army camp, and this kind of thing that is not used in daytime combat at all is now handy.

Not long after, under the glowing arrows of a ward, a dark shadow in the sky appeared.

"That's the winged bird and the enemy," and then, many of the coalition forces saw the winged bird carrying the bamboo basket, and the night army in the bamboo basket throwing fire oil at them. Some of the winged birds were in very high places, and they could no longer see clearly, but they could see that the number of winged birds and the night army was not large, and only some areas had them.

When the situation was clarified, the generals reported further information to their top brass while considering how to deal with the current problem.

Moments later, a rush of trumpets sounded in the coalition camp, and both sides had signalled an enemy attack. Before that, many soldiers and wingers in the coalition camp had been awakened by the situation outside, and now the rest of the sleeping people were awakened by others.

At the same time, in the center of the two coalition battalions, the two coalition commanders each led their own commanders to meet again.

"Marshal Shi, the situation on both of our sides is the same, the night army is using the winged bird to launch a surprise attack on us in the sky, presumably the main force of the night army is already on the way," as soon as the two marshals met, Tie Xin explained the situation to Shi Jiangchuan in a hurry.

"Marshal Tie, don't worry, the Night Army just wants to use the Winged Birds to create chaos, but they don't have many Winged Birds, so they won't cause us much of a problem," nodded, Shi Jiangchuan's tone changed and continued: "If they don't launch a surprise attack on us tonight, they won't have a chance after tomorrow." Shi Jiangchuan's tone was not flustered at all, as if he had expected the current situation to occur.

"How many winged birds does Marshal Shi think the night army will have?" Seeing that Shi Jiangchuan analyzed some truth, and his tone was not in a hurry, Tie Xin immediately asked rhetorically.

"According to Ben Shuai's opinion, the night army's winged birds will not exceed dozens of them, and the night army's move is just to create chaos and hit our morale, and it will not pose an actual threat to us," Standing outside the tent for a while, Shi Jiangchuan only saw a winged bird flying by, Shi Jiangchuan could conclude that the night army did not have many winged birds available. And with an area of dozens of miles from their coalition camp, Shi Jiangchuan didn't think that the limited number of winged birds could make much of a difference.

After pondering for a moment, Shi Jiangchuan continued: "Marshal Tie doesn't have to worry, as long as we shoot those winged birds down with the night army as soon as possible, and then extinguish the fire in the place where the fire is on fire, the night army's clumsy plan will not have an actual impact on us." ”

"What Marshal Shi said is exact," nodded, and in a blink of an eye, Tie Xin had fully agreed with Shi Jiangchuan's analysis, so he immediately turned to look at several arrow battalion commanders who were on standby: "What are you still doing there, why don't you hurry over and shoot down those winged birds to Ben Shuai." ”

"Yes," Shi Jiangchuan yelled, and several arrow battalion leaders of the Flying Army immediately agreed, and then left at the same time to take charge of the matter.

"Marshal Shi, why don't you move?" Waiting for the few arrow camp masters to leave, he turned around, and saw that Shi Jiangchuan was unmoved, and Tie Xin immediately asked with a puzzled face.

"Marshal Tie don't worry, when he came, the marshal had already asked the people below to deal with those problems, and now what you and I have to do is not to mess around, just wait for the night army to come," understanding what Tie Xin wanted to ask, Shi Jiangchuan immediately explained with a smile.

"I see," nodded, Tie Xin pretended to be calm and thought that Shi Jiangchuan really had some skills, and he actually saw things so clearly, as if the movements of the enemy army were under his control, and when he felt that he was a little inferior to Shi Jiangchuan, Tie Xin hurriedly expressed his high opinion: "Our sentinel has not yet heard the news of the appearance of the night army, presumably the night army is still some distance away from our camp." ”

"Marshal Tie is right, those winged birds are just the vanguard of the Night Army, and we have enough time to calm down the chaos in our respective camps before their main force arrives," Shi Jiangchuan nodded and agreed with Tie Xin's statement.

"It's strange, why didn't the secret agent we sent to Fancheng report the news of the night army's battle?" Tie Xin slowly calmed down when he was sure that his analysis made sense in Shi Jiangchuan's opinion.

"It could be that the spies were on their way to the camp. ”

"What Marshal Shi said makes sense, but the night army has an army of 250,000 troops, and it takes a long time from the formation of the army to the departure of the city, those secret agents should have discovered the movement of the night army a long time ago, shouldn't it come so late?" Tie Xin didn't doubt Shi Jiangchuan's guess, but he just felt that there was still something wrong.

"Marshal Tie doesn't have to worry, since the advance of the Night Army has launched an attack on us, it doesn't matter if the news comes in time over there, you and I just need to send some more spies to pay attention to the movement of the Night Army," Tie Xin's doubts are worth considering, but in the case that the reason cannot be found out in a short time, the best thing Shi Jiangchuan can think of is to pay close attention to the night army's marching movements, so that they don't need to think about it.

"Marshal Shi is reasonable, and the marshal will send some people to pay attention to the movements of the night army. ”

Immediately afterwards, the two marshals each sent a certain number of men to the direction of Fancheng to check the movements of the night army.

At the same time, the personnel on both sides not only saw the winged birds and the night army in the sky clearly, but also saw the scene of flying snow clearly, as if the snow was getting bigger as the night deepened.

According to the above requirements, some generals are directing their soldiers to shoot the winged birds above with ballistas, and for the time being, they do not think too much about how shooting the winged birds will affect the camp, but simply inform those below the winged birds to be ready to take shelter at any time. The Arrow Battalion soldiers naturally knew that their ballistas would be able to shoot miss, so they were very careful when aiming at the Winged Birds, and all the personnel were selected elites.

While those people were busy aiming at the winged bird above, on the other side, coalition personnel kept firing arrows at the location where the winged bird was flying, tracking the winged bird's flight tricks. The coalition camp with a radius of dozens of miles was now illuminated by those night-lit arrows, and the winged birds above and the night army were frightened by the current situation.

"Boom, boom, boom," the arrows shot into the sky one after another.

"Ang ......"

"Ah......h

Immediately after, the winged bird that was shot and the night army above let out a series of exclamations, and soon several winged birds were shot by the arrows and fell directly, and the soldiers who were facing the winged birds quickly avoided under the command of their general.

Of course, it is easy to avoid the large winged birds, but it is not so simple to avoid some of the arrows that shoot in the air, and the arrows that shoot in the air fly down faster and faster, because the brightness of the sky above is somewhat less than that of the daytime, and some coalition troops are unfortunately shot by the falling arrows, or killed or wounded.

Under the fire of artillery on both sides, soon there were only a dozen or so places on fire in the camp area within a radius of several tens of miles, large and small, but the largest places were not too big a problem for the coalition forces. When the coalition forces tried their best to extinguish the fire, all the winged birds in the sky had disappeared, and only a third of the nearly twenty winged birds were finally shot down, and the rest of the winged birds had flown away.

After confirming that there were no more winged birds, the higher-ups on both sides ordered the soldiers to regularly check the sky with luminous arrows.

At the same time, the high-level officials on both sides also asked the soldiers below to arrange people to eliminate the fire while forming a line-up. Because some tents are connected together, and some places are very hot, but they have limited water, so they can only separate the burning place from the safe place first, and then they are busy fighting the fire.

It may be a coincidence that someone just happened to pour fire oil near some granaries, and now the fire in those places needs their attention. The coalition granaries were multiple, spread over many locations in the two large camp areas, and together they were larger than anyone could have imagined, but fortunately they were not together, and the fires were only in the vicinity of some of the granaries.

Naturally, the firefighters first picked up important places to save them, and the high-level officials on both sides arranged a lot of manpower near their granaries. It won't take long for all the places that caught fire to disappear. All in all, as Shi Jiangchuan said before, the night army's plan to burn down the coalition camp can only cause some chaos and will not affect the overall situation.

"Marshal Tie, some of those winged birds have been shot, but some have flown away, do you think those winged birds will fly back again?" Without waiting for Tie Xin to answer, Shi Jiangchuan continued to ask, "Why hasn't the night army come yet?"

"It's unlikely that those winged birds will be frightened and flee in a panic, and besides, we have asked people to check the situation in the sky regularly, even if they dare to come back, we can find out as soon as possible," in the face of Shi Jiangchuan's inquiry, Tie Xin replied very simply, "As for the night army, we have just sent some people to inquire about the news, and we should be able to receive the news soon, Marshal Shi, don't worry." ”