Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Fierce Battle of Longlingji (Part II)
After the Gangga soldiers withdrew, the formation changed, and Vanibal transferred some elite soldiers from the Chinese army to the front row, presumably to arrange for the elite soldiers to break through the Hanse's defensive line.
Seeing this, Si Wei also transferred a team to exchange some of the soldiers in the first line of defense. The team was very different from the Hansean soldiers, who wore a variety of costumes, some of them wearing no armor and only a robe.
This team is Chun Mengya's subordinates, although not as disciplined as the regular army, but the individual combat ability is much stronger than the surrounding Hansean soldiers, otherwise Siwei would not have let them go to the front to deal with Vanibal's elite troops.
Siwei looked at these private soldiers, he had never seen these mercenaries like aristocratic weapons before, in his heart, the other party was just some stragglers.
His views were also contagious to the soldiers under him, which led to the fact that although the soldiers respected Zhang Yuan and Chun Mengya and others, they were very exclusive of the private soldiers who accompanied the army.
What changed his mind was a gamble, and when his troops had just moved to this side of the river, he decided to give some of the captured supplies to his soldiers in order to boost morale. As a result, as soon as the order arrived, private soldiers ran to the quartermaster to ask for supplies.
Of course, the quartermaster under Si Wei did not do it, and those private soldiers immediately clashed with the soldiers under Si Wei, and someone immediately proposed a gambling fight. The content of the bet is very simple, if the private soldiers win, they can get the supplies, and if they lose, they will naturally have to leave obediently.
At that time, Si Wei, who received the report, had actually arrived at the scene, but he did not stop the gambling fight, he also wanted to see what these private soldiers had to be arrogant, and they dared to argue with the regular army.
The rule is to win two out of three games, and each side selects three soldiers to fight one-on-one with each other, and the Hanseki soldiers of course choose the three strongest fighters to fight, while the private soldiers randomly pick three people out.
Of course, the three soldiers were all dressed in standard armor and held standard military swords, while two of the three private soldiers did not even have armor, and the weapons in their hands were only short daggers and carved iron long sticks, and only one of them wore bright armor and held a heavy sword in his hand.
Just when all the Hanseh soldiers thought that their side could win two rounds no matter how they could, but the result was a big surprise to them, the heavy sword warrior was sure to defeat his own soldiers, but the other two soldiers were not able to defeat their opponents.
The Hansei soldiers who fought against the stick man hadn't even released their lightsaber skills, and a lot of strange magic tricks had been thrown on the opposite side, including vomiting, spiritualism, and diarrhea, all of which were smashed on the top of the Hanseki soldiers' heads, although they were all some difficult moves, but the effect was immediate.
It's just that the poor Hanse soldier didn't react before he could react to a lot of negative effects, and the stick man didn't make a move, so he fell to the ground, took off his helmet and vomited vigorously, and there were water stains on the crotch of his pants, and a foul smell immediately appeared at the scene. It is said that the poor soldier rested for half a day afterwards before relieving himself.
Originally, the two games had been won, but the Hanseki soldiers were not convinced and strongly demanded that the last game be finished.
Although 2-1 and 2-0 are both private soldiers, it is just a win.
As a result, as soon as the last soldier came on the field, he didn't see any spells from the other party, so he was inexplicably grabbed by his own shadow on the ground and thrown out.
This incident taught Swei a lesson, and what he experienced after coming out of Hanse sounded the alarm bell for him, and he understood that he was not omnipotent, and that many things still needed the advice and help of others.
Just after Si Wei made a good deployment, the formation of the Ganghe soldiers on the opposite bank changed again, and he saw that the crowd was separated to both sides, and a passage was made in the middle.
Swei quickly stopped remembering and returned his attention to the battlefield. Just as he was thinking about why the Gangga people wanted to make a way, several wind-carts suddenly rushed out of the camp of Gangga's army and came directly along the bridge towards Hanse's defensive line.
Before everyone could react, the first car had already crashed through the haystack blocking the road and rushed directly into the Hanseh soldiers' lines.
The first to react was Chun Mengya's private soldiers, and a yellow aura suddenly flew out of the Hanse line, just lassosing the first sail cart.
Astral Moon Magic, Slowness.
Suddenly, the lassoed cart seemed to be in slow motion, and the speed slowed down suddenly, although it didn't slow down much, but it already gave Si Wei time to react.
Because of the slowdown, the first car was quickly hit by the second car into the rear of the car, and the second car was hit so hard that the rear of the car was raised high, and immediately a soldier was thrown out of it and smashed directly into the water.
The effect of the retardation technique was also dispelled during the impact, and the first car did not stop in the first place, but the time was slowed down, making it appear to slow down from the outside. At this time, the cars behind were too close to react, and they directly collided into a string and slid towards the Hanse's defense line.
However, Si Wei would not let those carts crash into his soldiers, and several earthen stakes rose on the ground in an instant, directly stopping all the carts.
Immediately, Hanse's soldiers rushed out and dragged down the heavy soldiers who had been hit by the carts, and all of them were taken to the prisoner camp. At this time, most of the sail carts had rushed across the bridge, and only the last cart stopped at the bridgehead on this side, but it could no longer be an obstacle to the attack of Gangga's soldiers.
This time, Vanibal chose a more steady way to attack, walking in the front of a row of elite infantry with tall and heavy shields, and in front of this row of heavy shield soldiers there were several layers of magic shields in front of the defense.
Ganghe's offensive lineup directly formed a moving wall, although the speed of progress was very slow, but it was still getting closer and closer to the Hanse line, although it took a long time, but Siwei couldn't think of a good way to block these heavy soldiers.
It's not that there's no way to do it, but the practical Fafnir can blow through those shields with one shot, and then one more shot can pierce the Gangga soldiers holding the shields. It's just that there are not many dark energy crystals used by Fafnir, when Siwei captured them, there were only twelve of them like that, one shot was used in the experiment on the city wall, two shots were fired when defending the Longlingji Fortress, and four more salvos came before, and one shot was used to hit the rock puppet's hand.
In this way, each magic gun still has one chance to shoot, and if two shots are wasted here, the defense behind it will be very difficult.
Si Wei scratched his head, the previous four salvos looked spectacular, but the shooting was cool for a while, and he kept shooting...... The problem is in the ammunition, knowing that two salvos would be enough before, and two Fafnir could be saved.
Regret is regret, and the solution is always to be considered. The Gangga soldiers were already halfway through at this time, and as the enemy got closer and closer, Siwei, who had returned to the high ground from the forward defense line, could clearly see the lineup hidden behind the hoplites.
The first to come into his sight were the robed soldiers walking at the back, no doubt they were Vannibal's long-range magic troops, and between the ranged soldiers and the hoplites were some ordinary soldiers, presumably acting as cannon fodder.
Moreover, these soldiers, whether they are ordinary infantry or long-range infantry, are all holding a rough wooden small round shield, which means that if Si Wei casts a magic spell to attack the opponent's formation at this time, the effect will not be great.
Siwei could foresee that if the opponent crossed the bridge, the heavy soldiers set up an offensive position, and then the long-range troops cooperated with the cannon fodder infantry to strike at the defensive line, the Hanse soldiers would not be able to prevent the follow-up Ganghe soldiers from crossing the bridge.
So this is a yang conspiracy, if Si Wei continues to stick to the same place, these heavy soldiers come over, he must have no way at all, only the army that is followed across the river, and he doesn't even have time to retreat. But retreat was equally undesirable, as long as he gave up the defense, Vanibal would cross the river and run, and most of the fortresses in front had already been captured by Gangga, and by the time Hanse's cavalry troops caught up, Vanibal's troops would have already entered those outposts.
So at this time, although Siwei was facing the big river, he had fallen into a situation where there was no danger to defend and he had to defend it.
Are you going to die here with these soldiers? Si Wei felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, obviously the reinforcements had arrived in Hanse, but he was powerless to stop these Ganghe soldiers.
The slow-moving shield crashed into the car at the head of the bridge, but the pace of progress was not blocked, and the cart was directly squeezed into the water, and the shield also walked across the bridge and came to the shore.
Looking at the cart that slipped from the bridge into the water, Siwei didn't speak, he may have an idea, but he couldn't bear it.
"Someone, go and call the captain of the baggage."
"Yes."
Soon, a bearded man in light armor came to Si Wei, and he saluted Si Wei, as if he was grateful to Si Wei for giving the baggage soldiers so many opportunities to perform in this battle, and he seemed a little excited:
"Report to the general, I am the captain of the baggage team, King Hoche, does the general have any orders?"
Siwei sighed, although he didn't want to implement this plan, but now that the arrow had to be sent, he had to say to King Hocher: "There is a task for you and your men......"
Siwei told all his plans, but he didn't expect that King Hoche was not afraid at all when he heard such a mortal mission, but replied without hesitation: "Please rest assured general, all the members of the baggage team will definitely complete the task assigned by the general!" ”
Si Wei nodded, still a little uncomfortable in his heart, but in order to keep more combat power, he had to use this plan to block the Ganghe people, but he took pity on those baggage soldiers.
To tell the truth, whether this can stop the Ganghe people, Si Wei has no bottom in his heart, if he fails, he can only let King Hotcher and his men die in vain, and Si Wei can only escape into the mountains with his troops.
Sure enough, as Swei expected, the heavy shield soldiers stopped moving after crossing the river, and directly put the shield in front of the Hanse soldiers.
Then many ordinary soldiers rushed out from both sides of the shield and attacked the Hansey soldiers, while many ranged soldiers climbed onto the sail cart that had fallen on the shore and shot at the soldiers in the line with their magic tricks.
Seeing that the elite soldiers successfully crossed the river and established an offensive position, Vanibal immediately ordered more soldiers to cross the river to attack the Hanse position on the opposite bank, so a large number of Ganghe soldiers rushed to the opposite bank.
The soldiers on both sides were staring closely at the battlefield, and no one noticed that something seemed to be floating down the river in the upper reaches of the river.