Chapter 414: A Fire in the Backyard

The sudden javelin volley, like the scythe of death, went down in a wave, and a piece of life was harvested.

At the forefront, a shield soldier with a tiger's back looked at the javelin on his chest that went straight into his abdomen, and he roared and gripped the handle of the javelin, trying to pull out the thing that had devoured his life.

But before his roar could come out of his throat, the sky resounded with the buzzing sound of bees, and when he looked up, a rain of flaming arrows, like a web of flames, swept towards them.

The light of the flames illuminated the bright red pupils of the shield soldiers who looked up, reflecting the desperate look in their eyes, and then the rain of arrows with flames exploded among the shield soldiers, and instantly charged between the shield soldiers in front of them, and it became a sea of fire.

Wails, screams, and cries of pain erupted in the midst of the enemy, and the shield soldiers, who had been holding on to death, saw that their companions were either pierced through the chest with spears or shot through the throats by arrow feathers, while the flames at the arrows were still burning, draining the last shred of their lives!

Looking at the companions who were dying, their bodies were constantly convulsing and trembling, as if they were trying to grasp their own passing lives, as well as their various tragic deaths, planted a deep fear in the hearts of the living!

Then, a rain of arrows fell from the sky like locusts, and the flames on the arrows crushed the last vestiges of the fighting spirit of the living soldiers.

I don't know who led the way, shouted, dropped the shield, and turned back and ran wildly, and a group of shield soldiers like lost dogs, only under two waves of arrows, began to flee in a hurry.

"You cowards, cowards! The general gave you two gold coins each, not to take you out of the mud to the battlefield to escape!

The Overseer, standing in the back row of the shieldmen, gritted his teeth and cursed at the fleeing shieldmen, brandishing the whip in his hand and slamming it at the deserters facing him.

But the other party was forced to take this blow, and still endured the pain and fled for his life, and the Overseer was angry and afraid, if these mud-legged men scattered the archers and cavalry behind him, then his head would be lost.

The Overseer gritted his teeth and simply pulled out the long sword at his waist, and just as he was about to kill a person, a cold feeling suddenly came from his chest, and he looked down to see that it was a bright blade!

The Overseer twisted his head to see who had stabbed him in the back, but another flash of cold light slashed the Overseer's head, blood gushing out of his broken neck, and his eyes bulging out.

As soon as the overseers who pressed the formation died, the shield soldiers, who were still a little hesitant, could no longer hold back, and fled in a swarm, and the enemy's formation instantly became a mess.

"Hmph, it turned out to be a rabble, and they actually pulled all the farmers who cultivated the land into battle, thinking that if they were equipped, they would be able to become cold-blooded fighters?"

After commanding the soldiers of the General's Mansion and taking the enemy by surprise, Li Yunyang ordered all the soldiers to put their backs against the wall and raise their shields above their heads to resist the enemy's return fire.

Who knew that he waited for a long time, and instead of waiting for the rain of arrows from the enemy's archers, he heard a wail.

Li Yunyang thought that the other party was cheating, so he lurked on the Dao Arrow Tower and observed for a while, who knew that the enemy army was really defeated.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Yunyang knew the reason, a place as big as the town of Parvas was only 5,000 soldiers, but they were all elites who had been on the battlefield, and they were all a group of iron-blooded men.

But the enemy's territory, which seems to be not much larger than the small town of Parvas, actually has an army of 12,000, which turned out to pull the farmers who farmed the fields to the battlefield, so the number of people is superior.

However, now the advantage in the number of enemy troops has become their disadvantage!

Two waves of arrows rained down, shooting less than 100 people, but the panic caused by the entire thousand-man shield team collapsed, and even the morale of other elite soldiers dropped a lot.

"Oops, could it be that their main force has already circled behind the General's Mansion, waiting for the lord and Jira to break through and then wipe them out?"

Suddenly, Li Yunyang's face instantly became ugly, if his idea was true, he could only say that there was a spy in the General's Mansion, and this spy had a secret passage leading to the outside of the mansion!

Time was urgent, Li Yunyang didn't care to find out who the spy in the general's mansion was, and hurriedly beckoned to the strong soldiers who had just assembled the ballista and catapult: "Wagger, quickly notify the general and let them assemble at the front door, quickly!"

"Yes!" Wagger, though burly, was not a reckless man, and immediately realized that something might be wrong with the General's Mansion, and ran towards the small door in the backyard despite his injuries.

The General's Mansion said that it was not big, it was not small, and it covered a small area, but it also had a radius of five miles, if the spies lied about the military situation and falsely passed on Li Yunyang's breakout order, Shierdeken and Sujira, as well as the five hundred lord's personal guards, would definitely be wiped out in the breakout!

The military situation was urgent, and Li Yunyang couldn't care about being angry, so he hurriedly commanded several soldiers, aimed the ballista at the gate, and moved all the crossbow arrows out of the armory of the general's mansion.

The crossbow arrows are about the thickness of an adult's arm, about three meters long, and the arrows are about fifty centimeters of iron prismatic arrowheads, although they are a little rusty, but they don't matter, they are all kills anyway.

The number of crossbow arrows, intact enough to be fired, is about fifty or more, which is enough to support a thousand-man team to fight a small battle.

However, there are not many fire oil bombs used in the two assembled catapults, there are more than a dozen, and they do not play a big role.

Looking at the stones piled up on both sides of the gate and removed from the rockery, Li Yunyang had a flash of inspiration, and immediately beckoned five or six soldiers to come over, and ordered them: "You take all the stones suitable for the trebuchet to throw, move them to the side of the trebuchet, and pour them with fire oil." ”

"Obey, Your Excellency Commander!" several soldiers beat their chests with their right hands to pay tribute to Li Yunyang.

Before, the soldiers still didn't believe in Li Yunyang's command strength, but judging from the results of the battle he commanded just now, although there was some element of luck, it could not be denied the fact that he was an excellent commander.

By now, the soldiers in the general's mansion have finally been convinced by Li Yunyang's true heart, so no matter what orders he orders, others will definitely not have any objections.

And those stones were originally prepared by Li Yunyang, but when the enemy attacked, he used his fighting spirit and threw them directly out. But now there is a more convenient and lethal way to use it.

"Woooooo

A series of horns suddenly sounded, followed by a scream, and then a faint smell of blood filled the air, which was blown by the wind, and suddenly enveloped the entire General's Mansion.

You don't need to look at Li Yunyang to know that the cavalry at the back of the military formation, under the orders of the enemy generals, have already killed those deserters.

"All archers, light the arrows, and shoot them collectively!Shoot as far as you want!" Take advantage of his illness to kill him, since the enemy general has given such a stupid order, don't blame Li Yunyang on his head, add another fire to him!

As the archers opened their bows and shot arrows, the buzzing rain of arrows was endless, Li Yunyang took a longbow, stood on top of the arrow tower, aimed at the enemy, as long as he saw an officer dressed as a leader, he shot an arrow and killed the other party!

After the enemy lost three hundred men in a row, and a cavalry commander, they finally realized the problem and hurriedly retreated, and at the same time let the archers open their bows, and fired the first wave of arrows in their battle.

The longbows held by the enemy archers were all the kind of hard bows that required a large arm force to pull out, and the arrows were all barbed, apparently a well-armed and powerful team.

A rain of arrows shot out, bringing a huge whistling sound in the air!

Li Yunyang could see that this team of archers was more than a little bit stronger than the archers under him.

It's a pity that Li Yunyang had already ordered that after his archers shot two waves of arrows, all the soldiers had their backs against the wall and their shields above their heads to guard against the enemy's counterattack.

Li Yunyang's cautious style of action made his soldiers, under this wave of powerful arrow rain attack, except for the toe of an unlucky ghost who was shot by an arrow, none of the rest were injured.

The rain of arrows in the sky has not stopped, but the soldiers have gathered their eyes on the arrow tower where Li Yunyang is located, and they are more and more convinced that with such a commander, they will definitely be able to hold on until the imperial reinforcements come and survive this war!

However, Li Yunyang, who is the person concerned, still does not know that his status in the eyes of this group of soldiers is rising sharply.

The question that Li Yunyang is concerned about now is when will the enemy army organize the first charge?

If the opponent does not charge, it will be difficult for him to disrupt the opponent's formation with the rain of arrows from both sides, and tear a strip from it, which can allow Shierdeken and Sujira to break through.

"Commander, it's not good, there's a fire in the backyard of the General's Mansion!" Just as Li Yunyang was thinking about how to break the deadlock in front of him, he suddenly heard the exclamations of the soldiers under the wall.

Li Yunyang hurriedly looked towards the backyard of the General's Mansion, only to see that there was billowing smoke rising into the sky in the backyard, and the crimson flames were slowly rising in the smoke, and the fire was getting bigger at any time.

"Don't panic, everyone, I'll go to the backyard and have a look. Li Yunyang jumped directly from the arrow tower, then dragged up the strategist hiding at the base of the wall, and shouted to the soldiers: "Now the strategist will command you to fight, come two people, and take the strategist to the arrow tower!"

Then, Li Yunyang whispered to the strategist: "Now is the stage of life and death, you should know very well what to do, I don't want you to do anything stupid, otherwise I will make your life worse than death, understand?"