Chapter 550: A Real Killer Move
Five hundred orcs rushed towards the walls, weapons in one hand and shields in the other.
As the Xiongguan in the north of the Han Dynasty, in addition to the various defensive equipment in place, the training of the soldiers is also in place, and the long-range weapons have been precisely deployed, they have buried stones in front of the city wall, painted them with different colors, and used these stones as a reference to mark and shoot Zhuyuan.
For example, the commander of a medium catapult only needs to tell the number of the stones in the enemy's area, and each catapult will immediately adjust the angle and range, and then fire, and then hit the target.
Bed crossbows and medium-sized stone throwers all have their own references.
The first to fire was the bed crossbow, with hundreds of ballista guns fired in a volley, followed by the heavy stone thrower, which, although some of the cannons hit mosquitoes, still played a good role in delaying the enemy's charge, creating a more favorable shooting opportunity for the bed crossbow.
Boom......
Poof!
The stone projectile smashed into the ground, bounced up and continued to roll forward, but the orc could not dodge, and his body was torn apart after being hit.
The triangular head of the crossbow spear has a semicircular blood groove, which is highly poisonous, because the good wolf knight among the orcs uses poisoned arrows, causing heavy casualties to the Ghost Face Legion, so there is no need to talk about benevolence and morality.
The orcs fell one after another, and Shi Zi had an angry look on his face, but one of his eyes was carefully observing.
Although he was very disdainful in his heart, he had to admit one thing, that is, the defense of the Great Han Xiongguan was extremely in place, the long-range weapons coordinated perfectly with each other, and the heavy stone thrower was responsible for disrupting the attacker's formation, plus delaying the attacker's charging speed, and the accurate bed crossbow took the opportunity to harvest lives.
The orcs continued to charge forward, coming within range of a medium catapult.
The five-story wall, although only one section of the catapult position was fired, there were still hundreds of them.
Hundreds of stone bullets completely covered a large area, and the orcs rushed left and right, but they were still hit one after another, screaming and dying.
Then there is a salvo of crossbows, a salvo of bows and arrows.
Five hundred men rushed to a distance of only three hundred meters from the city wall, and the number of casualties had already exceeded one-third, but at this moment they had already rushed out of the effective attack range of long-range weapons, and they only needed to dodge bows and arrows to reach the city.
After a few dozen seconds, they began to climb the wall with agile movements.
On the section of the city wall that was attacked, the defenders of the first layer disappeared without a trace in an instant, Shi Zi's eyes widened, what kind of strategy is this, take the initiative to give up the position?
Of course not, it must be some kind of conspiracy.
More than 300 orcs climbed the city wall one after another, and they saw that there were many entrances and exits on one side of the wall, and they had the impression that the defenders had also withdrawn from here, so they rushed in without thinking.
Shi Zi's brows furrowed, and he had an ominous premonition in his heart.
When the orc rushed into the mouth, he shouted to kill, but after only a few seconds, the shouting was not as loud as before.
Inside the city walls, they face various traps, and many people die without knowing it.
Most of these traps are trigger-type and do not require humans to operate at all, and the attack methods are endless, and unprepared orcs are caught off guard.
After a few more seconds, the shouting of killing completely disappeared.
Shi Zi's face turned pale, and at the same time, the defenders reappeared, and they worked together to throw the orc's corpse down.
On the fifth-layer city wall, Ye Feng gave a thumbs up and said sincerely: "Beiwu Pass is worthy of being the Great Han Xiongguan, which can make hundreds of orcs sink into the sand in a short period of time, and this handsome man admires it very much." ”
In contrast, the Ghostface Legion is much better at field warfare, and its experience in defending the city is far inferior to that of the defenders here.
If Yancheng, Longcheng and Kaiyang City at that time had defensive facilities similar to Beiwuguan, they would not have been defeated by the orcs three times in a row, and in the end they had to abandon the city and move.
Di Zhiming said modestly: "General Ye praised falsely, these defensive measures are the crystallization of the wisdom of several generations of Han guards and officers and soldiers, and the general is just doing things according to the plan, so he doesn't dare to be greedy for heaven." ”
Suddenly, a cacophony of voices sounded from behind the walls.
"What's going on?" Di Zhiming asked.
The lookout soldier standing on the high place replied: "General, a group of orcs appeared behind, numbering seven or eight hundred, who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to stab the rear of our army, but they were stopped by the master of the Ghost Face Army. ”
Di Zhiming turned his head to look at Ye Feng.
Ye Feng said with a smile: "It's Yun Yang, he feels that Shi Zi's tentative attack has another meaning, so he made arrangements in advance. ”
Di Zhiming suddenly realized: "So that's the case! The temptation is fake, in order to attract our attention, Shi Zi pressed the treasure on the orcs behind! Fortunately, Wu Yinggong made preparations in advance, otherwise we would be caught off guard." ”
Two miles away from the back of the city wall, 30,000 elite ghost-faced troops formed an encirclement, and the master group was fighting viciously with the orcs, led by Ye Yunyang and Pu Lao.
The seven gods were very heroic, and they cooperated with each other to slay the orcs one by one.
Pu Lao knocked the two orcs to the ground with one palm, and said sincerely: "Young Marshal, your speed is much faster than that of the old man, it really makes me, a Holy Dao Realm martial artist, embarrassed." ”
From the beginning of the fight to the present, there have been countless orcs who have died in the hands of Ye Yunyang and the Seven Great Gods, and Pu Lao has the heart to compete with them, and he is already willing to bow down at this moment.
Ye Yunyang said with a smile: "The juniors have helpers, so they will naturally take advantage of them, Pu Lao's combat effectiveness is not to say, and several masters on the other side have been handled by you." ”
While speaking, neither of them was idle, and continued to kill the orcs.
In less than three minutes, more than 700 enemies were annihilated.
Shi Zi's brows furrowed even deeper, according to his arrangement, the battle would be carried out at the same time before and after Beiwu Pass, and the five hundred people in charge of the tentative attack were simply cannon fodder, and the task was to create opportunities for the people behind.
But now I don't hear the sound of chaos behind the pass, is it a failure?
At this time, Ye Yunyang climbed the city wall and threw down the head of an orc, who was the leader of the group of orcs.
"It failed. Shi Zi was so angry that he only stared dryly.
Ye Yunyang took the megaphone handed by the soldier next to him and said, "Shi Zi, send more cannon fodder next time, this little bit of people is not enough for us to stuff our teeth." ”
Shi Zi couldn't take care of it anymore, turned around and left with a dark face.
The next day, Ye Yunyang drove his flying wings over the enemy camp.
The enemy's strength has reached 9 million, and it seems that it will soon be able to jump over the 10 million mark.
The number of troops on the Beiwuguan side was just over 3.5 million, and the ratio between the two sides reached 1 to 3, and the situation became very bad.
It's not that Emperor Liu Qi of the Han Dynasty didn't pay attention to this war, but he couldn't send more reinforcements in a short period of time, and the defenders everywhere had to put down the endless rebellions in addition to dealing with orcs and demon beasts.
Most of these rebellions were caused by the princes and kings who had been cut down, and they took advantage of the internal and external troubles of the Han Dynasty to carry out restoration.
If the country is in civil strife, it will naturally have no energy to deal with foreign enemies, and the Han Emperor has to leave a large number of troops to control the domestic situation.
In this way, of course, there will be no extra manpower to reinforce Beiwuguan,
After the flying wings landed, Ye Feng, Di Zhiming and others gathered around at the same time and asked Ye Yunyang about the situation.
He shook his head and said, "The situation is not good, as we expected, the enemy is strong. And there is also bad news, they are building large-scale siege equipment, there are more than a dozen siege vehicles alone, more than 40 meters in length, the diameter of the collision wood in the middle is more than two meters, as well as various machinery such as arrow towers and cloud towers, plus long-range attack weapons that are three times larger than heavy stone throwers. ”
Because orcs outsize Terrans by a lot in size, they will make all kinds of equipment very large.
The valley in front of Beiwu Pass is as wide as nine miles, which can meet the needs of an attack team of millions of people at the same time, and with the orcs and these huge siege equipment, no one dares to guarantee that it will be able to defend it.
In particular, Shi Zi already knew the defensive methods of the Han army, and would make corresponding adjustments when attacking, striving to take the city at the lowest cost.
Hearing this news, Di Zhiming's face changed drastically, once the city wall was lost, the enemy would be able to drive straight in, and rush all the way to the imperial capital unimpeded.
Ye Feng frowned: "We can't sit still. ”
"I think so, too, we need to destroy the enemy's siege engines. Ye Yunyang said in a deep voice: "I took a closer look just now, and the lax defense of the place where the equipment is made is a good opportunity for us to start." Well, I'll personally lead the team to do it, and make sure nothing goes wrong. ”
Di Zhiming waved his hand and said: "How can it be done, this kind of thing is still handed over to the general, Wu Yinggong's status is noble, and he can't risk himself." ”
Ye Yunyang shook his head: "I don't feel at ease if I let others go, if I can't complete the task, I will startle the snake, and there will be no chance to make up for it." This mission is not difficult for me, General Di can rest assured. ”
Ye Feng said: "I agree that Yun Yang is responsible for this matter, he will definitely be able to complete the task and return smoothly." ”
Di Zhiming frowned, and finally agreed: "What does Wu Yinggong need Ben Jiang to do, please say it directly, Ben Jiang will definitely do his best." ”
Back at the camp, Liu Yuying couldn't wait to ask, "How are you going to sneak attack?"
Ye Yunyang shrugged his shoulders and said, "Of course, it's an air attack, using incendiary bombs as the main attack weapon to burn the enemy's siege equipment. ”
Air strikes have two benefits, one is that they are fast, they can be done quickly, complete the mission before the enemy can react, and then evacuate.
Second, suddenness is better, you can choose to set off in the dead of night and take the enemy by surprise.
Without further ado, he decided to do it tonight.
For this mission, he deployed 60 medium-sized flying wings, each with two people, one for piloting and one for dropping bombs, and the rest of the space was used to stack incendiary bombs.
There are also forty individual wings, whose mission is to escort the medium wing, rush to fight it when intercepted by enemy aircraft, and create time and opportunity for the medium wing.
The speed of a single wing is not as fast as that of a medium-sized wing, but it is small and agile, and due to its small turning radius, it only takes two or three turns to stun a medium-sized wing.
By midnight, everything was ready and only the east wind was owed.
Ye Yunyang took Liu Yuying to board the first flying wing, and ordered in a deep voice: "Set off, the target is the enemy's equipment manufacturing field, everyone obeys the order, and there must be no mistakes." ”
"Yes!"
At the same time, Shi Zi stood on a siege vehicle, looking up at the sky with a mysterious expression on his face.
He turned back and asked, "Are you all ready?"
A tiger man clenched his fists and said: "Everything is ready, all anti-aircraft weapons are in place." ”
Shi Zi smiled: "Okay, this seat wants to let them have no return." ”