Chapter Seventy-Eight: The First Hit

Seeing the crown prince leading the team away, Shiyao suddenly snorted hatefully at his back, and scolded his fellow participants: "What kind of majesty, it's just a bunch of waste who are chased like dogs." ”

Lu Jingzhi heard it strangely, and saw that the principality army was deploying troops and would not attack for a while, so he asked, "Pick up medicine, what did you mean by what you just said?"

He replied: "Your Excellency, you also know that the crown prince led troops to besiege the fortress......" I was just about to boast about how many knights I had seen and which adults I knew well, when I suddenly remembered that the young man in front of me was not easy to get along with, and hurriedly stopped, and only said urgently: "The crown prince concentrated ten times the strength of the enemy army to attack the largest fort, Fort Zhehe, and it could not be defeated for several days, but there were few defenders left in the fortress, so the general in the fort proposed to negotiate." We all said that there was nothing to talk about, either you die or I die, but the crown prince felt sorry for his generals, and when he saw that the enemy army was expected to surrender, he refused to attack hard and agreed to negotiate. The enemy general played a trick and offered the ice mushrooms in the city to show his sincerity, but secretly rested and deployed, delaying time. After the scouts found the enemy's reinforcements, they went to attack again, and the best time had been lost, and the enemy had already recovered its strength, but the morale of our army plummeted, and it was impossible to attack again. The reinforcements from the principality first confronted each other dozens of kilometers apart, and then sent small forces to infiltrate, one of which attacked the woodland, that is, you are here, and the other relieved the siege of each fortress one by one, but when the siege of one fortress was relieved, all the defenders were gathered, and then the army besieging the other fortresses was attacked. In just two days, the blockade of dozens of fortresses collapsed, and the crown prince had to retreat to preserve his strength. ”

finally figured out why the army was defeated so quickly and completely, it turned out that the crown prince did not dare to fight hard and wanted to preserve his strength. Maybe he still counted on his side to have enough miscellaneous troops to act as cannon fodder for him! Lu Jingzhi looked to the rear, the army that had withdrawn from the woodland was placed in a defensive formation, and the reinforcements of his own fortress group also came up, and even the defeated troops collected by the Duke of Wensha formed a relatively neat formation, guarding his position not far away. In one day, his own line experienced two routs, which is really ironic.

The captain of the engineering team A came to report, all the weapons were adjusted, and the captain of the B team also came to report that more than 2,000 traps had been installed, which was the simplest rope trap, using relatively tough bamboo as a mechanism, once a horse's hooves stepped on, it would be quickly tightened, and it was specially used to trip horses.

Lu Jingzhi listened to the reports of the two captains, and didn't say much, just nodded. Sijiu followed the usual style of exercises, and ordered the two captains to take people to rest and prepare for war at any time. The undead war horses and cavalry here have also finished resting, the knights drink high-grade ice fruit wine, the servants have to drink a little worse, and the infantry and war horses are treated the same, they can only eat some ice fruit crumbs.

These ice fruit crumbs are their source of energy, they don't need to suppress the corpse worms in their bodies like Lu Jingzhi, but their actions need energy. Ice fruit and ice mushroom are the source of this energy. The cavalrymen who had replenished their energy put on their armor, turned over their horses, and held their spears and shields, except for the damage they received in the battle that could not be repaired immediately, and the other states were basically restored to the best extent. Lu Jingzhi nodded to the heavy cavalry who acted as the captain of the cavalry on behalf of Busen, and expressed his appreciation.

The principality sent a small group of cavalry to test it, all of them heavy cavalry, bright silver barrel armor undulating and swaying regularly, like a thick and long caterpillar, wriggling in the narrow mountain pass, this wriggling speed gradually increased, and when it reached a certain level, nothing in the world could stop it from moving forward.

The commanders of the principality watched with satisfaction as their cavalry galloped towards the center of the Imperial army's supplies, and even leaped over them on horseback, galloping towards the last line of defense. That was the line of defense of the magic envoy Lu Jingzhi.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was advancing faster and faster, Lu Jingzhi patted his stupid head, asked him to squat, put his mouth to Sijiu's ear, and whispered: "Go and call the twenty 'heavy infantry' that have been prepared." ”

After a while, twenty heavily armored infantry stepped in, the heavy armor looked at least two centimeters thick, comparable to the tank armor of the early stage of World War II, the silver-gray color made people feel that it was very beautifully forged, only a few places looked obvious traces of repair. It should have weighed hundreds of kilograms, but looking at the speed at which these infantry were running, it was as if they had no weight on their bodies.

The twenty heavy infantry stood in front of the formation, drew their giant swords from their waists, pointed diagonally at the ground, and when they saw that the cavalry of the principality army was approaching, they swung their giant swords upward, and with a bang, the movements were neat and uniform, clean and neat, and very beautiful. It is also strange to say, obviously I didn't see any sword qi coming out, but the oncoming cavalry fell down. The twenty heavy infantry swung their giant swords one after another, and the cavalry fell one after another.

The commanders of the principality army saw that all their more than 100 cavalry had fallen from their horses, and they were pressed to the ground by heavy armor and struggled to get up, but they were roped by the light infantry that rushed out of front of the formation, and they were all captured without leaving a corner. This is a heavy cavalry, and the armor-like spears and sabers on their bodies can't hurt them at all, at most they draw a spark. Only large cavalry spears can cause damage when the two sides are hedging, and the heavy cavalry around Lu Jingzhi is only a few dozen, so although more than 100 heavy cavalry is a tentative attack, it is already extremely advantageous.

But where did the enemy general, known as the magician, get twenty heavy infantry who could use magic? For this kind of heavy infantry, crossbow arrows and flying stones basically did no damage, and it seemed that only the sprinting cavalry could overturn these magicians hiding in thick iron shells. But these magicians seemed to be the nemesis of the cavalry, and before they could allow the heavy cavalry to get close, they were completely annihilated, and the most unacceptable thing was that the other party was unscathed.

So the commanders blew their horns, and another group of light cavalry rushed forward quickly, trying to use their nimble bodies and swift speed to catch the magicians by surprise. Unfortunately, they miscalculated. Just as the light cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, dozens of human slaves suddenly stood up at the formation, each pulling up a thick rope at the end of the rope, and at the end of the rope was a wooden horse assembled and laid flat, forming sharp wooden spikes in three directions at the same time. Shamefully, these human slaves waited for the hussars to almost rush in front of them before pulling the horses up. The light cavalry running in front didn't have time to control the turn of their horses, and hung directly on the wooden tips of the rejected horses. After breaking through two or three layers of rejection and losing dozens of light cavalry, he finally controlled the speed of the charge and did not pounce on the densely standing rejection formation behind him.

The commanders were just about to breathe a sigh of relief and order the light cavalry to come back, when Lu Jingzhi's heavy cavalry dispatched. Dozens of heavy cavalry converged into a torrent of steel and rushed towards the light cavalry, who were at a loss for what to do in front of the repulsion array. Tear them to shreds with great momentum, then trample them into a pulp under the horse's hooves.

Sijiu looked at the rapidly changing situation in the war, and a cold sweat was pinched in his palm. When he saw the enemy's heavy cavalry rushing towards him, he almost fled, but when he saw the enemy's heavy cavalry falling, he smiled again.

"This young master, you are really clever. Seeing that the enemy's light cavalry was almost completely wiped out, only a few cavalry fled back with speed, Sijiu praised his young master from the bottom of his heart, "How do you know that they will definitely send light cavalry to charge our twenty wooden armor men?"

It turned out that these twenty heavy infantry were wearing hollow wooden armor, with a thick layer of iron on the outside, which was used to bully the enemy. The sword was also attached to a thin wooden plank, just for pretense. And the infantry inside are all dressed up by undead auxiliaries, not to mention magic, and it is difficult to even speak. What really made those heavy cavalry fall was not the movement of their swords, but the thick bamboo rope traps placed on the ground. The more than 100 heavy cavalry triggered more than 200 traps and tripped the same number of horses' legs, but the advantage of such traps was that they could be reused. The members of Lu Jingzhi's engineering team were mixed in the light infantry, and while the light infantry captured the heavy cavalry, the traps were rearranged, and the broken bamboo mechanisms were replaced with new ones.

Lu Jingzhi smiled slightly and said, "If their high-ranking knights dare to come over, they will die even worse." ”

Just as in order to confirm that Lu Jingzhi was a great prophet, the principality army sent a team of high-ranking knights. Although there are only forty of them, they are all masters of long-range warfare. Their mission was to kill the twenty "magic infantry" who were hiding behind the "heavy armor" from a distance.

Wishes are always good, but it also depends on whether there is a chance to come true. Lu Jingzhi obviously didn't want to give them this opportunity. Although the number of springs in the range of his improved spring cannon has been reduced, the range has not decreased much. And thanks to the improved spring process, the number of consecutive firing of the cannon has been significantly increased.

Seeing the other party's high-level knights rushing over, Lu Jingzhi's heart was also a little bottomless, after all, he was not a real high-level undead knight, if he confronted those knights head-on, he would not be enough to be crushed by a little finger of others. So he beckoned to the captain of the engineering team, and then pointed to the enemy's high-ranking knights.

The ten spring cannons had already loaded their shells, and at this time, the gunners spun the roulette wheel, each locked onto the target, and when the four winders around him turned the springs to the maximum, they fired the connecting rod violently, and a six-pound stone ball flew towards the target with a thud.

Seeing that something was coming towards him at high speed, the high-ranking knight subconsciously drew his sword and slashed it, and flew out of the projectile in the middle of it with a sharp sword. However, the projectile did not slow down at all, and like the last time it did against the ice sword Sauer, it instantly broke his sword and punched a terrible hole in his body.

"It's a pity, the projectile is too small, and when the enemy gets closer, remember to change it to ten pounds. Lu Jingzhi looked at the results of the battle and said regretfully.

Even so, four of the other nine six-pound shells hit the target and caused irreversible damage to the target. Some of the high-ranking knights' heads were directly shattered, and some had their waists broken, leaving only armor to support. The least injured was a hit in the leg, and the whole leg was smashed away with half of the war horse.

Was the principality army repulsed so easily?

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.