Chapter 63: The Shrinking Turtle
www.cmfu.com Originally, in the eyes of the senior officers of the Black Dragon Knights, they were more or less contemptuous of the Fanos army and the peasant instructors from the remote continent - brave and brave, but in terms of command, coordination, echo and other technical and tactical aspects, they were not at the same level as the imperial army at all.
Before the release of the www.cmfu.com, Marshal Dahaino fought a decisive battle with the Fire Lion Legion on the north bank of the Lion River is a typical case, the combat strength of the two sides is almost the same, and the other side also has a dragon knight, but what is the result? The Fire Lion Legion won a narrow victory; the small mercenary group must be inferior to the elite army of the empire in terms of comprehensive combat strength, and the several decisive battles between the small mercenary group and the most elite troops of Fanos were all small mercenary groups that were weak and strong and ended in a miserable victory...... These results are already very telling.
In the last few days of the winter of the 6th year of the www.cmfu.com release of the magic calendar, a series of actions by the barbarians from the wild continent of Fanos and the earth buns from the plain of flowers made the officers of the Black Dragon Knights stunned.
www.cmfu.com first to rush out of the camp turned out to be four-wheeled carriages, and there were three human soldiers standing on the carriages in addition to the driver......
What are you doing www.cmfu.com post......ing? It's a legendary ...... Chariot troops?
www.cmfu.com was released before the Demon Wars, and it is said that it is quite popular for chariot formations. The men and horses are wrapped in heavy armor, four people and two horses are one ride, one driver, two long hands, and one sharpening knife hand (or archer), sprinting short distances, invincible. At that time, the size and rank of the country were distinguished by the number of chariots: "Where Wang Ji is thousands of miles, the chariots are ten thousand times, and the six armies are handed over to a thousand times." And the princes of the inner kingdom are each under the system of their own country: the princes of the large country are 100 miles, the chariot is 1,000 times, and the three armies are 500 times, the sub-kingdom is 700 miles, the second army is 330 times, and the small country is 500 miles, the chariot is 500 times, and the first army is 165 times. "It is not surprising that a large-scale battle is often dispatched by 10,000 chariots.
www.cmfu.com was released after the rise of the Magic Empire, the chariot quickly died out as a class - against the ring lightning of the mages, this class moved relatively slowly, and the horses were electrocuted and could not be controlled, and it was easy to trample on each other, killing and injuring countless people. There is also a theory that the rise of light cavalry and heavy cavalry, especially the heavy cavalry with the earth dragon as the mount, made the chariot arms withdraw from the stage of history because of the distance between advance and retreat.
www.cmfu.com However, as the oldest of the four nobles, the Western Emperor has a family history of 10,000 years, so it is not surprising that this antique class is still retained. Most of the officers, including Chi Aotian, had similar thoughts.
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Nearly 1,000 four-wheeled chariots were released www.cmfu.com galloped to the south bank of Fanshui, and the riders drove the reins to rotate the carriage 180 degrees in place, like a beautiful and enchanting wasp that turned around and poked out a black and yellow stinger from its abdomen - heh...... It turned out to be this domineering thing!
www.cmfu.com the tail of the vehicle after the release of the rotation was revealed by a 2.5-meter-long crossbow arm!
www.cmfu.com rider jumped out of the cart and tied tripwires to the horse's front legs, while another soldier inserted a small arm-thick pointed steel drill through the hole in the front of the chariot and drove it into the red earth with a sledgehammer, and the chariot was firmly held in place. The remaining two soldiers lifted a 1.5-meter-long thick arrow, kicked one and pulled the other, and loaded the crossbow arrow with a strong crossbow!
www.cmfu.com release a crossbow that requires two people? I'm afraid the range shouldn't exceed 500 meters? If it can really shoot that far, it can even threaten the dragon!
As soon as www.cmfu.com released this thought, after the rider tied the horse, he then came to the underside of the crossbow arrow, bent down and carried the crossbow arm on his back, and immediately gave the crossbow no more than 90 ° of activity elevation...... Damn, it's really so domineering!
www.cmfu.com release "If this ballista was not designed with the Dragon Knight in mind, I would have cut off my little finger and give it to him. "High Priest Tayan's eyes are poisonous.
www.cmfu.com release, but fortunately, the range of the ballista is still a certain distance from Qu Jianhong's knight troops. Now Qu Jianhong can only wait, wait for the moment when the opponent's bear-man troops are in chaos on the water, and then adopt the method of surprise attack, withstand the enemy's crossbow, and give the opponent the greatest damage - the two troops are fighting together, and no matter how domineering the crossbow arrows are, they will lose their effect.
www.cmfu.com release hehe, but next, something happened that short-circuited the brains of the senior officers of the expeditionary force, and the troops sent from the Fanos camp again were not bear troops, but they were ...... It turned out to be a catapult with a total of no less than 200 catapults!
www.cmfu.com release catapults? What are catapults for? This doesn't make sense! Except for those unprecedented and super-perverted catapults in Hamburg City, I haven't heard of any catapult that can shoot stones 300 meters away, and Fangang City is 1,200 meters away from Fanshui! Even if you unload the catapults in Hamburg City and move them here, you can't throw stones at Fangang City! Unless...... You can find the legendary lost race - the gnomes in the continent of Fanos.
www.cmfu.com released in the legend, the gnomes were extremely good at building all kinds of machines, and they used to build machines that could soar in the sky, machines that could sail under the sea...... It is said that because of the continuous use of dwarfs to enter the divine realm above the nine heavens, forcing the gods to forcibly seal the divine realm, these dwarfs quickly made another kind of machinery that could break the seal of the divine realm...... If it weren't for the sudden disappearance of the dwarf kingdom later, the god realm might have changed masters a long time ago.
www.cmfu.com release Compared to this, making a few machines that throw stone bullets a few kilometers away should be as simple as eating for a dwarf.
www.cmfu.com release, if that's really the case...... How to ...... with Fanos after that
www.cmfu.com the officers on the city wall were still thinking nonsense, the catapult opposite Fanshui raised its arms and bounced violently...... Huge projectiles soared into the sky...... Once again, all the officers guessed the wrong answer! More than 200 projectiles did not fly far at all, and soon fell from the sky with a crackle, and the farthest thrown out did not even throw the Fanshui River!
www.cmfu.com post this ...... It's so funny, isn't it! The stones sent out by this catapult didn't smash their besieging soldiers into meatloaf?
www.cmfu.com released a smile that had just bloomed on the faces of the officers in Fangang City, and it didn't take a minute for it to freeze! When those objects fell, they were all divided into two halves, the lower half was pointed, the upper half was square, and the upper half quickly struggled to surface after falling into the water, and each object finally exposed about 10 centimeters on the surface of the water.
After the www.cmfu.com released three consecutive projections, no less than 500 of these floating objects of all sizes floated in the Fanshui water! Then, a team of sappers rushed into the river with thick wooden planks, and tied the wooden planks together with the straps and nails and the floating objects, and in less than an hour, at an interval of 20 meters, two pontoon bridges with a width of 10 meters appeared in the Fanshui.
After the release of the www.cmfu.com, thousands of people shouted trumpets and pushed carts all the way out of the camp, pouring carts of red soil and gravel from both sides of the pontoon bridge into Fanshui, before 10:30 a.m., two dams with a width of 30 meters appeared in Fanshui, and there were still 6 culverts with a width of four meters on the dam!
www.cmfu.com Ballista fired a symbolic three-row row of bolts at an effective distance of 400 meters. Obviously, this was a demonstration of "surrender without a fight", and it was a clear threat to the knightly troops who were eyeing the opposite side.
www.cmfu.com release was followed by groups of bear-man and orc soldiers running down the dam with their shields held high into the North Shore position, followed by centaur knights, werewolf thousands, ballistamen, human infantry, human knights, catapults, ...... Brigades of various arms poured to the north shore like a tidal wave.
Qu Jianhong, www.cmfu.com released a wry smile, discussed a few words with the two captains beside him, raised his arm and drew a few circles in the air, signaled to cancel the attack, and returned to Fangang City with the knight troops who had enjoyed a morning of abundant sunbathing. The firepower of the ballista is well known, and it seems that at a distance of about 300 meters, a single arrow can definitely shoot through more than two heavy knights - in this case, if you still attack the enemy who has erected a tower shield, it is simply an act of death.
www.cmfu.com Speaking of which, this time the Phanos Legion was able to build a semi-permanent embankment to cross the river in such a short time, thanks to the expeditionary force.
After the announcement of the First World War on the Mississippi River www.cmfu.com, the senior officers of Fanos expressed great interest in the simple tools and methods of crossing the river for the expeditionary force, and also specially instructed the equipment department to conduct research, and this time the tools used to cross the river were one of the results.
www.cmfu.com release catapult every time it is thrown out of the air is a wooden barrel, the bottom of the barrel is hollow, which is equipped with a thick cable and an iron anchor, the top of the barrel is also hollow, the barrel is tightly clamped with thick iron sheets, after being thrown out, the iron anchor automatically falls out of the barrel, and the potential energy is pierced into the bottom silt, and the anchor is very firm. The barrel at the top is fixed in mass, the volume is also fixed, and the cable is a live buckle, so it is easy to appear that the average height of the barrel above the water is almost the same, and it is very easy to build a pontoon.
www.cmfu.com In this way, the Fanos army simply gave the Chi Aotian Expeditionary Force an exemplary lesson with the efficiency of the exercise and the quality of the model.
At 11:30 p.m. on the www.cmfu.com release, eight phalanxes were neatly arranged under the city of Fangang, each with an army of 10,000 troops.
www.cmfu.com release people like tigers, horses like dragons, tigers like dragons, www.cmfu.com release guns like mountains, knives like the sea, mountains call for tsunamis.
www.cmfu.com release in the face of such an iron-blooded army of Iron Horse Jingo, even if he is a fierce general who has experienced a hundred battles, the lining armor behind his back will also be wet with sweat.
www.cmfu.com According to the division of responsibilities, Su Wen was solely responsible for the defense of Fangang City.
www.cmfu.com Originally, the old man's army estimated that Qu Jianhong's combat power could at least use Fanshui's geographical advantage to fiercely block the Fanos army for more than five days, and perhaps, Lord Norton needed to exert his residual heat again and make another 100-mile raid from somewhere upstream or downstream in order to firmly occupy the beachhead. Therefore, in the morning, Su Wen also commanded the soldiers and civilians to continuously strengthen the city wall.
www.cmfu.com post "Oops, old man, looks like you're in luck." Qu Xiaobai's face has been clamoring for so many days to fight a bloody battle, take a look...... Slipping back in disgrace, now you don't have to worry about others competing with you. Tayan munched on the grass roots in his mouth, tilting his head and squinting to observe Su Wen's reaction.
www.cmfu.com post granny's ...... Su Wen scolded psychologically, this Tayan, what kind of fucking officers are they? The soldiers of the Northern Federation pay the most attention to military appearance, from the governor to the most ordinary second-line swordsman battalion soldiers, one is counted as one, and any one can be used as the imperial honor guard. Even the late General Chi Hanfeng, who was so unparticular about it, didn't have any trace to find fault with in the army.
www.cmfu.com release and at this time, Tayang, the senior staff member of the army, showed another extreme: he was covered in a dirty black robe, which is strange to say, no matter what color Tayan put on the robe, as long as he put it on, it would turn black, and as long as he wore it for a while, the robe would be full of dirty things. That's it, after all, it's a matter of personal hobbies, and it's hard to say much.
www.cmfu.com release now, Senior Pastor Tayan's behavior in broad daylight made Su Wen's face feverish for a while: the senior officer of the top four-member group of the expeditionary force, riding on the battlements of the city wall with one foot in the city and one foot outside the city, holding the battlements of the city wall with his hands, making the sound of "driving, driving" in his mouth, and constantly raising his whip, his fat body swayed back and forth on the city wall, and the ruddy face under Daguang's head floated with happiness.
www.cmfu.com release cough ...... Those who know the situation know that this is the person who does not know that the Grand Priest Tayan is practicing basic skills because of his poor horseback riding skills, and he has managed to find a battlement on the city wall that is wide enough for him to sit in...... I thought that His Excellency Priest Tayan had a lesion quietly in a certain part and was being effectively treated with soil methods, which could be regarded as Lao Ji's hemorrhoids in thousands of miles......
After www.cmfu.com release experience of the "Breeding Male Camel Gate", Su Wen has a new understanding of Tayang, and before the time when it is absolutely necessary, even if Tayang says that the sun rises in the west, Su Wen will not hesitate to give affirmation. It is better to offend the gentleman than the villain, this is Su Wen's true psychology, so Su Wen strives to make his face not reveal his true thoughts in his heart.
www.cmfu.com "General Su, shouldn't we send our heroic warriors up to defend the city?" Elder Lola sent by the Zoroastrian kindly reminded on the side.
www.cmfu.com released "Hmm, why do you want to change people?" Su Wen was stunned.
www.cmfu.com posted" this...... There are so many enemies below, I think there are at least tens of thousands, can these civilians on the city wall do it?"
www.cmfu.com announced that there were only about 400 regular soldiers on the city wall, and all the others were civilians - when the expeditionary force jumped from the twisted waist town to the city of Fangang, all the men who met the army along the way were forcibly requisitioned, and the citizens of the city who did not leave the city were also requisitioned in groups. According to incomplete statistics, a total of 25,732 people were requisitioned, of which 6 percent were 15~50 years old.
Why can't you www.cmfu.com release this? Of course it works! Su Wen thought so in his heart, but he didn't say it in his mouth.
www.cmfu.com release do you think that the so-called 3,000 defenders are trapped in the lonely city for 30 days in the face of 20,000 strong enemies, and the people who throw stones and pour boiling water on the city wall are all soldiers? Your Excellency Elder, the first soldier of the enemy to attack the city must be the soldiers of the Holy See, and there is no need for us to send the regular army. Good steel should be used on the cutting edge. Su Wen thought about it for a while, but changed his words.
www.cmfu.com posted, "Oh, that's right. Elder Laura was relieved, and even a look of admiration fluttered on his face: it seems that the evil enemy must have been planning for a long time, ready to use the newly formed sect to consume the power of the loyal people of the Fire God Temple, and then let those half-human, half-beast enemies rush up and occupy the city in one fell swoop. General Su Wen is really old and serious, and he can see through the enemy's intrigues and tricks at a glance.
www.cmfu.com release thanks to Elder Lola for not saying such thoughts, otherwise, Su Wen would not have been able to control the color of his face...... In fact, everyone is each other, and there is no need for anyone to look down on others because of this, and no matter how merciful the general is, in the face of an enemy who is ten times more numerous, it is impossible to put the elite regular army into the defensive battle of the city wall first.
www.cmfu.com announced, "Your Excellency Tayan, the enemy is about to attack the city, so your Excellency should go to the battlement." Seeing that the enemy below seemed to be making a move, Su Wen didn't know how to overflow with love.
www.cmfu.com released Ta Yang's signature big eyeballs and smashed Su Wen a few times: "A great priest like me, can he be a turtle with a shrunken head like you, don't you know the divine defensive spell that the priest is best at?" As he spoke, Ta Yang rotated his five fingers and instantly added four defensive spells to himself: Divine Defense, Hazy, Strong, and Petrified: "Do you think I am a weak magician? Do you think that the defensive magic released by the greatest priest will be broken?" Even the highest-ranking dragon can't break my ...... in a moment or three."
Before www.cmfu.com Ta Yang could finish his sentence, a black shadow rushed up from under Fangang City and shot hard at Ta Yang's waist, and the black-robed priest was shot up in the air like a big crow and fell more than five meters away...... Then, I heard the scream of a sharp weapon breaking through the air!
At the same time as the www.cmfu.com was released, hundreds of crossbow arrows and boulders roared through the air......
www.cmfu.com release history, known as the "meat grinder of the two-machine war", the offensive and defensive battle of Fangang City has kicked off!
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