Chapter 194: Decision
It was easy to decide on a temporary "three-man military leadership group" composed of Casper, Garfield, and Todd, and nearly an hour had passed, which had already exceeded the expected time for the Chinese fleet to approach Old Chanda, but fortunately, the news from Yumengund seemed that they had also encountered some resistance and could not reach New Chanda at the scheduled time. In order to ensure the realization of the flanking plan, www.biquge.info there will be no time lag that can be used by the Chandas, the fleet has stopped here for a while, adjusted the troops, equipped with supplies, and inspected siege weapons.
For the sake of the speed of the soldiers, in this invasion, Yumengund's road detachment did not carry those siege weapons that would greatly slow down the march, and their goal was to directly attack Xinchanda, which was not very militarily powerful, and the new commercial city was enough to take it with human lives. The siege weapons carried by the Central Army were carried by this fleet, with the exception of a part that was unloaded at the checkpoint in the Yuhe Delta.
Due to the size of the ships, this fleet carried only some relatively lightweight siege weapons, such as bed crossbows, small catapults, rushing carts, ladders, etc., and the thirty assembled trebuchets brought from the overseas Drua base, as well as the corresponding thousands of rounds of fire oil bombs and carrion bombs, are now at the checkpoint in the Yu River Delta.
It's a bit of a pity, but the siege engines carried by this fleet alone are enough to destroy any city wall.
When the fleet was anchored, Casper immediately sent dozens of light boats to scout the outposts first, and organized the sailors of each ship to carefully pry off the wooden boxes nailed to the edge of the ship with penny and long pulp, and then participated in the struggle for command of the fleet. It has to be said that in this respect, Casper is much better than his predecessor and even the other two colleagues.
A small boat suddenly ran aground when it searched more than 600 meters in front of the fleet, and the sailors swam back to report that there were a number of sharp wooden stakes nailed to the riverbed there, and that the boat was only stranded there, and if the big ship traveled there, it would have sunk.
Caspar then commanded the battleship loaded with small catapults to smash in that direction, and for a time white waves flew and sawdust flew everywhere.
Another dinghy was suddenly knocked over when it was more than 1,000 meters in front of the fleet, and the sailors swam back to report that several iron cables had been fixed under the surface of the water in that place, and many long hooks were attached to the iron cables.
Similarly, Casper sent a scavenger to clear the rope.
By H+3, the fleet was back on the move, and the skiffs sent out by Casper had cleared seven vicious traps.
But it's not a panacea. After all, the draft of the dinghy is very shallow, and many trap dinghys hidden below a certain depth of the water surface cannot be detected, but they can cause damage to large ships.
For example, a knife hidden under the water.
A battleship was sailing normally, and suddenly there was a scream from the cabin, and then the ships behind noticed that the side oars of the battleship had stopped, and the rudder seemed to be crooked, and the whole ship began to spin on the surface of the You River.
The panicked sailors jumped out of the ship in a scrambled manner, and the water was thrown to the surface as if it were boiling. Suddenly, a person who was fluttering and rejoicing suddenly sank to the bottom of the water, as if someone below had dragged him down. And then another, and another...... At this moment, You He, like an insatiable demon, began to devour all life.
When the battleship behind them sent a small boat to meet them, they only saw bright red flowers blooming under the water. The men in the boat fished in vain with their nets for a while, but they caught nothing.
Not only did they not catch it, but something terrible happened, and suddenly a deep knife mark appeared at the bottom of their boat, and water gushed in like a fountain, and in a short time, the people in the small boat fell into the water, and like those who had done before, they were quickly swallowed up by the You River.
"There's a monster in the river!" Todd screamed, nervously pinching the fence on the second deck.
"Don't be yelling!" Garfield grimaced, "This must be a trick of the Zen masters!"
Caspar didn't speak, his eyes wandered over the sailors who were sinking to the bottom, and suddenly he waved and pointed in one of the directions: "Contact all ships within range and fire arrows in that direction!"
The herald shuddered: "But, that's our man!"
Caspar glared at him angrily: "Less nonsense, release the arrow!"
A few seconds later, the first rain of arrows screamed into the water like a summer night's rainstorm, followed by more than a dozen arm-thick spear-throwing crossbows, which were the shots of more than a dozen bed crossbows on five ships, breaking the already rippling water surface into a large splash.
The dozen or so people who were still struggling on the surface of the water barely said a word, and they were killed by random arrows.
After a while, a red blood flower faintly appeared under the water in the distance of the dozen or so people, and after a while, it appeared even farther underwater.
"He's hurt. Casper grabbed the guardrail with some excitement, "That's not a water monster, that's a man, he's sneaking up underwater! All the fleets obey the order, let's catch up, fire another salvo, this time we must kill him!"
With his order, the Dark Order fleet raised its black sails again, and its long oars rose and fell, tracing back towards the upper reaches of the Yu River.
In a dense forest on the bank of the You River, Peter compared the distance and sighed: "It's still too far to lose that far...... Anyway, why did they suddenly get faster? Could it be that they found an underwater dragon?"
Not to mention Peter's doubts, at this moment in the water desperate rush, it is the dragon, he hung the blue gem "Blessing of the Sea" around his neck, there is a cool breath around his body, how long to stay under such water, he does not need to surface for breath, and then carry the invincible Great Xia Dragon Sparrow underwater waiting for the opportunity to cut the bottom of the ship, it can be said to be the easiest task, but he did not expect that soon after the action, he was recognized by Casper, while he was busy hunting the overboard cultists, a burst of arrows flew down.
Ordinary crossbow arrows are also forgotten, with the skills of dragons, they can't become any threat, the real threat is the dozen or so short gun-like huge bed crossbow arrows, penetrating more than ten meters above the water surface still have the lethality of opening gold cracked stones, one carelessly, the dragon was scratched by a crossbow arrow on the arm.
"Old G, this is pit me......" The dragon secretly scolded himself while running wildly underwater, because of the resistance of the current, his speed at this moment was much slower than when he was on the shore, and after a wild run, he was already tired and panting, but he still had a strong bed crossbow bolt piercing through the water.
"When will it be a head!" the dragon gritted his teeth, "Otherwise, just go up and fight, use the sword of Alayya as soon as you come out of the water, and quickly withdraw after killing the flagship." Peter's big guy should still be waiting for me on the shore, just be careful. ”
The dragon nodded secretly, and with the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow in his hand, he was about to turn around and swim back.
The moment he turned, a bed bolt broke through the water with a subtle thud, dragging a slender white thread and stabbing straight into the dragon's shoulder, and before he could react, the bed bolt dragged the dragon all the way down to the soft bottom of the river.
It's like nailing a cockroach.
"!" the dragon roared, and a bubble tumbled up from his mouth, "how can you be so accurate!"
The dragon tugged at the massive bolt that had been pinned to his shoulder, only to find that the barb of the cluster of arrows had been wedged deep into the rocks at the bottom of the river. Such a crossbow bolt itself is used to shoot at the city wall, not only can it pierce into the strong city wall with its huge kinetic energy, but it can also be nailed to the city wall through this cluster of arrows with several barbs, providing a point of focus for the climbers behind, how can the dragon easily pull it?
With a tug, the shaft of the arrow churned in his shoulder, and the great pain almost made the dragon faint, and more blood gushed out, tumbling into the river.
"It was chasing my blood!" the dragon suddenly realized, and by the faint light above his head, he had seen the boat on the water slowly stop and begin to circle over his head.
It is conceivable that soon, it will be a volley of bed crossbows, and he is now nailed underwater, and it would be a miracle if he could not die when he encountered such a volley.
"It's going to be over. The dragon gritted its teeth, "Are you going to see Zovug......?"
The dragon raised the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow and slashed off the arm of the crossbow arrow, and it was easy to tear the body off the arrow cluster.
But at this time, the sound of the water churning in all directions had been heard, and from the bottom of the water, there were white lines dragged out by the crossbow arrows of the bed like a sky net in all directions.
"Mom!" the dragon shouted at the end, but only let out a bubble of breath.
The water gradually calmed down.
Casper waited for another ten minutes until there were no more bubbles below and no more blood splashes on the water.
"Killed. Casper nodded, "Don't stop, the dinghy is out of the way, full speed ahead!"
One by one, the sails were withdrawn, and the long centipede-like oars cleaved the silence of the water, and the entire You River was covered by the black pressed sails.
The vanguard fleet of the Dark Order, five miles away from Zenda!"Run again and you'll be to Rebachi!" Du Fulong panted, "Why haven't there been reinforcements yet?
Dong Xiao also gasped and said, "Boss, I have a sense of foreboding. ”
Du Fulong looked back at the Dark Order's light cavalry who were also panting thousands of kilometers away behind him, "Don't talk about it, let's run for a while, if there are no reinforcements by the time we get to Rebach, we will withdraw at full speed and flee back to the grassland to be bandits, TMD and these people are too dangerous, we can't play them!"
Dong Xiao suddenly stood up on the stirrup and looked ahead from a distance. He sat down again and sighed and said, "Boss, Ribage has arrived!
Du Fulong seemed to have been whipped by someone suddenly, trembled on the horse, and said sadly: "That...... Okay, let's stop playing, go back to the grassland, I don't believe in love anymore!"
After speaking, Du Fulong turned the horse's head angrily, turned to the east, and the horsewhip was raised, and suddenly stopped in mid-air.
As soon as Du Fulong stopped, the entire team of white horse guards stopped, and the black knights behind him let out a beastly howl, and approached with a roar.
"What's the matter, Boss!" Dong Xiao looked at the black knight who pounced on him a little nervously, "They're catching up immediately!"
The scar on Du Fulong's face twitched, "It's good to believe in love again!" After speaking, he turned the horse's head back sharply and continued to gallop northward, and the entire white horse guard moved again.
But as soon as he stopped, the distance between the two was shortened, and there was only a distance of two or three hundred meters left between the black knight in the lead and the white horse guard in the end.
"Dong Xiao, don't be nervous, don't be like that time in Parabun, don't be cowardly before you fight, we are not fighting for ourselves this time, we are fighting for the whole of Calradia, for our millions of compatriots in Rhodok and Kugit, and show some backbone!" Du Fulong said, while constantly taking off the Kugit riding bow in the bow bag, and touched the three bags of arrows hanging on the saddle on the right side," Although I am a Rhodok, it is true, but our brothers who are still alive here in White Horse are all good men of Kugit, and our two countries have fought for so long, but that is all the business of those bastards in the upper class, and the ordinary people in our lower class are still the best brothers! Now, brothers, follow me, the eldest brother of Rhodok, and show your housekeeping skills!"
As he spoke, Du Fulong suddenly leaned over, and the white horse under his crotch made a beautiful left spin at the same time, and ran sideways to the left.
The entire team of Bai Ma Wei roared in a low voice, and they all followed Du Fulong's left rotation to cross the direction, as neat as a person.
Then, thousands of white horse guards turned around in unison, and used the power of their waists when the center of gravity was deflected in this moment, and pulled the Kugit riding bow in their hands to the full.
The arrows flew into the sky like the sound of the wind blowing through the ears of wheat, followed by the sound of pine strings that "boomed".
At first, the light horsemen of the Dark Order only saw those cowardly white horse knights in front of them suddenly stopped, as if they had plans for a decisive battle, and their fighting spirit was high, and then they saw them fleeing for their lives, and their hearts were full of indescribable contempt, this time they saw them suddenly brushing in the horizontal direction, not to mention ordinary soldiers, even experienced veterans, at this moment they couldn't think of other directions.
In such a stunned moment, thousands of arrows flew into the air, turned into a black cloud, and swooped down, and the pursuing black knights were caught off guard and crashed headlong into this "squeak" rain of arrows.
The black steel chain mail of the black knights can effectively defend against the slashing of the sword, but the chain mail full of eye holes cannot defend against the stab wounds of arrows.
By the time they had recovered from the initial blow and removed their kite-shaped shields from their backs, hundreds of hapless Dark Hunters had fallen from their horses under the rain of arrows, nailed like hedgehogs.
After Du Fulong shot this batch of volleys, he took the white horse guard to give full play to the advantage of horse speed, and continued to sweep towards the opponent's flank, and when the movement was dozens of meters, he once again drew his bow and shot a volley into the sky, which once again set off a ripple in the slightly chaotic black knight's riding formation.
But this time the effect was not as obvious as the first time, at the same time that dozens of dark hunters fell off their horses, the second half of the black cavalry array reacted, and a rough voice sounded: "Second cavalry squadron, follow me, outflank on the left!"
In the second half of the cavalry formation, at least half of the black knights separated from the main formation and flanked them to the left, automatically forming a glaive formation on the way to galloping, like a sword moving sideways, and struck towards the white horse guard from the left.
As soon as Du Fulong pulled the reins, the team deviated to the left dozens of degrees, as if they wanted to outflank the left side of the black knight who had been separated, but the other party did not hesitate to move, and soon became a parallel team.
The other half of the black rider also squeezed up from behind, and it seemed that he was about to sandwich Du Fulong in the middle with a pincer angle.
Du Fulong suddenly roared angrily: "Brothers, let them see our true skills!" Before the words fell, Du Fulong suddenly pulled the reins to the right, and the hooves of the war horse shoveled out a piece of dust, but his body rushed out to the right like an arrow.
The entire white horse guard was as neat as a person, and he turned to the right with a brush.
Mounted archers should form a counterclockwise circular formation that keeps turning left. This is the realization that the Kugit brought to the Caladians, and only in this way can the horseman's bow skills be used to deal a devastating blow to the enemy who is surrounded in the circle. If you turn to the right, it is when you use a saber or a cavalry spear, and the mounted archer is actually forced into a very poor situation, his weak leather armor and light and short weapons are not suitable for hand-to-hand combat.
This is an iron rule, and the iron rule is not allowed to be broken, and anyone who breaks the iron rule is a novice to the battlefield!
Or genius.
At the moment when the black riders were puzzled, Du Fulong suddenly handed the riding bow to his right hand, and then without any hesitation, he raised the riding bow and pulled the bowstring towards the black riders who were swarming on the right.
The two sides are head-on, and the distance between them is constantly decreasing in the blink of an eye.
Without hesitation, Du Fulong shot the arrow in his hand, and after experiencing a relatively gentle upward arc, the arrow went diagonally up and down, and slammed into the bodies of the black riders who met him.
Then came a volley of wind-blown wheat waves, many arrows hitting the hastily raised shields of the black riders, but many more nailed directly to the heads of their horses under their crotches.
People turn on their backs!
At the end of the salvo, just when the last white horse guard bypassed in front of the black horseman, the black rider who turned on his back was in a mess, and even many riders were thrown out by the shot down war horse, and then the hooves of the black horse companion who were outflanked from the left side were trampled into flesh, and then more riders who were lucky enough to rush out of the chaos crashed headlong into the horse team of the black rider companion on their left, and the two horse teams were twisted together in an instant.
Perfect counterattack! Du Fulong roared, not in love, and spread his hooves and galloped south.
"Where are we going now?" Dong Xiao shouted, Fang Cai's beautiful counterattack made the blood boil for this half-grown boy who was only in his early twenties, and he didn't have a moment of such eagerness to fight as he was now.
Du Fulong's face was also full of red light, since Paravon, he has never been so comfortable as now, he laughed and said: "Where to go? Of course, there is a war there, where we will go! I, Du Fulong, have lived for almost forty years, and I have never been so happy!"
"Then come with me!" A voice suddenly came from the mountain beam not far away, as if to answer his words that he had just laughed out loud, and with the appearance of the voice, thousands of cavalry surrounded a knight carrying a bloody banner over the mountain beam and appeared in front of Du Fulong's eyes.
"We are from the Light Alliance. The knight trotted over and smiled kindly, "My name is Redels, and we have come to your rescue." You have not been abandoned, no matter who you were before, now we are our compatriots!"
"Now, follow me. Reddilston and said, "I'll take you to make history!"