Chapter 77: The direction of the most violent killing
On the front of the Weishan Army, there was jubilation.
With a thunderous sound of vibrating strings, more than 2,000 crossbow arrows were like more than 2,000 life-seeking locusts cast by the god of death, instantly covering the area four hundred steps in front of the battle line.
That was exactly where the two phalanxes of the first wave of the enemy army were.
Because of their precise aiming, the lethality of the crossbow arrows was amazing, and more than 2,000 crossbow arrows caused more than 1,000 casualties in these two phalanxes at once, and a small half of them fell, turning into motionless dead corpses and rolling and wailing dying.
The survivors didn't react to what was happening, how could they be attacked at this distance, and the strongest bow couldn't inflict such terrible casualties at such a distance.
When they had reacted, none of them dared to advance again, and a few brave ones took off their bows and tried to fight back in vain.
With a terrible roar, a second wave of blows fell from the sky.
The two phalanxes of the first wave of the Yunzhong Army collapsed, and the hundreds of surviving soldiers screamed and turned around and ran, but what greeted them was the ruthless swords and guns of the follow-up phalanx.
The formation of the phalanx must not be disrupted by the rout, not to mention, these are just surrendering troops, my father doesn't hurt, my mother doesn't love it, one word, correct the law on the spot.
Because the order received was to attack at the same time, although the follow-up phalanx was frightened in his heart and his steps began to hesitate in a messy manner, he had to push forward head-on due to military law, but all the sword and shield soldiers urgently set up their shields.
Just as they were terrified as they stepped onto the bloody area full of dead bodies, with a hurricane-like whistling, the Grim Reaper's locusts fell from the sky again.
The screams, the sound of sharp weapons penetrating the human body, the sonorous sound of steel, the sound of blood rushing out, the sound of the human body falling to the ground, for a moment like a hell.
Yes, four hundred steps away from the battle line of the Weishan Army is an impassable purgatory of death.
Although there were preparations in advance, and all the large and small shields were erected, this wave of blows still ruthlessly harvested the lives of six or seven hundred Yunzhong Army soldiers.
Before they could recover from their panic, after a few breaths, a second wave of blows followed.
After the third wave of arrows rained, the two phalanxes of the second wave of the first offensive echelon of the Yunzhong Army also collapsed.
At the rear of the Yunzhong Army, in the core of the Chinese army tightly protected by the heavily armed samurai, on the high sedan platform, a luxurious Brock prince stretched out his neck that had been covered by layers of fat, stared at his eyes, opened his mouth, pointed ahead with trembling fingers, his face was flushed, but he couldn't say a word, like a fat chicken whose neck was pinched.
"West, Seaman, this is ...... What's going on?!" It took a while for Shizi to react, screaming at a sharp voice.
"Your Royal Highness, I don't know, they seem to ...... It seems that there is an extremely strong bow. "Seaman is also a big sweater.
"Strongbow? Isn't it said that the Weishan army are all farmers who have just washed the mud off their feet, and doesn't it mean that as long as we blow the trumpet, they will be scared to flee in all directions?
"Perhaps...... Perhaps......" Seaman, who has always been articulate, also stammered.
"When this battle is over, I will send that person, that person in Moon Cliff City, to the gallows!"
"Your Royal Highness, you can't go on like this, and if you continue to slow down like this, you can shoot arrows at a distance of 300 steps from the enemy, and charge at 200 paces, and before you can engage the enemy, our men will be all finished. Immediately order an advance charge, as long as you rush in front of the enemy line and start engagement, their strong bows will not work. Seaman quickly suggested.
"Good, good!" the prince nodded busily.
"But even if the first echelon rushes to the enemy, it will definitely have suffered heavy losses, and its physical strength is exhausted, and if there is no backup, they will soon be wiped out, in which case, the situation of the battle will return to square one. Seaman then said.
"What then?" Shizi was completely out of ideas.
"The second echelon should also be ordered to be dispatched immediately, and it is important to arrive for reinforcements while the first echelon is still entangled with the enemy. If the 8,000 people of the second echelon can arrive in time, the victory will be decided. Seaman said loudly.
"Alright! do it! give the order quickly!" shouted His Highness to the herald beside him.
The trumpet of the charge sounded, and the third, fourth, and fifth waves of the first echelon, a total of six phalanxes, began to shout at the same time and run.
And behind them, the ten phalanxes of the second echelon began to move slowly.
The battle has reached a critical juncture that will decide the outcome of the battle.
"Rapid fire!" The front of the Weishan Army sounded the sharp command of the officers.
Two rows of crossbowmen desperately wound up, set up arrows, aimed, and fired, and on average, they could shoot an arrow in three breaths, and the locust-like crossbow arrows were shot at the enemy troops who were rushing towards them with all their might.
Countless crossbow arrows shot out non-stop, converging into a blood-boiling sound of wind and thunder.
In the Yunzhong army, which was charging with all its might, there were constantly people who fell to the ground suddenly as if they had been hit by heavy punches, and they couldn't get up anymore, and every time they took a step forward, countless people fell.
But the warriors did not dare to stop, and as they ran, they let out a beastly howl to cheer themselves up, and they knew that now they could only survive if they rushed forward and fought with the enemy's sword.
But they soon felt that they could not run, and began to charge two hundred paces ahead, wearing armor, holding shields, and carrying weapons, and they could not differ by two hundred paces!
As soon as the speed slowed, there were obviously more and more people falling in the rain of arrows, but the people in front fell, and the people behind immediately stepped mechanically over his corpse and continued to charge with heavier and heavier steps.
The number of the Yunzhong Army was too many, and although they had to pay a heavy price for each step forward, leaving behind corpses along the way, they were still getting closer and closer to the battle line of the Weishan Army.
Two hundred steps...... One hundred and fifty steps...... One hundred steps......
In another half a minute at most, the remaining first-echelon Yunzhong Army will rush to the Weishan Army, as long as they can entangle the opponent for five minutes, the second echelon that is pressing up like a dark cloud behind will be able to arrive.
On the battle front, the soldiers of the Weishan Army became more and more uneasy.
In the center of the rear of the battle line, Gao Ge raised the Tang Xiang slash in his hand, and the hundreds of soldiers gathered around him turned their eyes to him.
"Warriors!" shouted the song, "the time has come to decide life and death!Follow me! I command you, where I charge, you will rush too!If the dust of war obscures my figure, remember that I will always shout in the direction where the killing is most fierce!!"
A loud trumpet sounded.
Gao Ge took the lead, jumped out from behind the battle line that gave way to a way, and bravely counterattacked the swarming Yunzhong army.
Behind Gao Ge, he was followed closely by the Silver Moon Saintess and several Holy Handmaidens, as well as the red-haired Garthea.
Behind, dozens of hoplites of the Weishan Army and more than 500 lightly armed warriors of the barbarians roared and followed closely, and the conical formation of the counterattack was like a sharp knife suddenly stabbed out from the rear of the battle line.
Seeing the enemy's counterattack, the exhausted Yunzhong army rose up to the last bit of strength, howled and set up swords and guns, preparing for a brutal hand-to-hand battle.
At the moment when the two sides were about to make contact, Yinyue's eyes lit up with colorful light.
Suddenly, with Yinyue as the center, within a radius of fifty meters, the soldiers of the Weishan Army were like receiving divine help, and their courage doubled, and the soldiers of the Yunzhong Army who were holding swords and guns and screaming to meet them seemed to suddenly see something extremely terrifying, and the madness in their eyes instantly turned into extreme fear.
These soldiers of the Cloud Army dropped their swords and guns like crazy, turned around and ran back, huddled together with the soldiers who swarmed behind them.
At this moment, the counterattack array with Gao Ge as the tip of the knife stabbed into the chaotic formation of the Yunzhong Army.
Exhausted and strangled by inexplicable fear, the soldiers of the Yunzhong Army turned into bleating lambs to the slaughter, and were cut down by five hundred steel knives, battle axes, and long swords, like chopping melons and vegetables.
The Yunzhong army shook and began to retreat.
At this moment, five hundred Lin cavalry let out a sharp roar unique to the wolf clan, swarming from both sides of the Weishan army's battle line.
This became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and the army in the clouds began to collapse.
The sound of the snare drums sounded, and the crossbowmen of the Weishan Army began to advance with the beat of the drums, and every twenty steps they took forward, they stopped and shot a rain of arrows.
The advancing rain of arrows whipped and drove away the rout of the army in the clouds like whips, and with each whip, the fear in their hearts deepened.
Under the pursuit of the Weishan army all the way, thousands of remnants of the first echelon of the rout collided head-on with the phalanx of the second echelon that followed.
There were thousands of defeated soldiers, but there was no way to correct them all on the spot, and the battlefield here was too narrow, and for a while, the two sides were embraced in a bunch.
As a result, they became the best targets for the crossbowmen who had advanced to the front.
The flood of the attacking phalanx of the second echelon of the Cloud Army was blocked by the flesh and blood built by its own soldiers, and at the same time, a relentless rain of arrows poured from the air without stopping.
And they, however, could not hit the enemy at all.
Fear is contagious, and finally, the collapse began like an avalanche, and the rout in front crushed the phalanx behind, and the collapse was overwhelming.
"Assault of the whole army!" In the center of the battlefield, where the corpses of the enemy were most concentrated, Gao Ge issued the order for a general attack.
At that moment, a dark cloud slowly obscured the sun's westward slanting, casting a heavy shadow on the unobstructed land, enveloping the two armies that were fighting like a colony of ants.
A small black shadow burst out of Gao Ge's arms like lightning, and instantly melted into the shadow of the dark clouds.
She had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.
At the rear of the Yunzhong army, the Marquis of Brock, the prince of the world, shouted like crazy: "Hurry up, hurry up, go quickly! Go to Yanhui Pass and join Cumberland." ”
At this moment, the eight soldiers who were desperately turning around the sedan platform felt a slight sinking on their shoulders at the same time.
On the sedan platform, the shouting from the mouth of the prince of Brock suddenly stopped, and his expression became extremely frightened.
A thin line of blood appeared in the middle of his neck, which was thicker than his head.
In the next moment, the powerful blood pressure finally broke through his thick fat layer and erupted, and the "pyridium" sounded straight and turned into a blood mist.
Brock's son clutched his neck desperately with a pair of fat hands, trying to stop something, but to no avail.
"Tom!" the heavy body slammed down on the sedan platform.
The eight fighters softened their feet, and the sedan platform fell to the ground fiercely.
At this time, everyone found out that His Royal Highness the Prince had fallen in a pool of blood.
"His Royal Highness has been stabbed!"
"There are assassins!"
The Chinese army was in chaos.