A seemingly calm night.

Under the light of the moon, the boundary river that separates the country of Kawa and the country of Batu flows quietly, and on the empty river, there is only one stone bridge built ten years ago, which is also one of the few large-scale projects that can be successfully completed in the country when Egan was in power.

The stone bridge has always been the most important line of communication between the two countries, but after the blockade of the country of Kawa was announced by the state of Batu, it became the front line of the confrontation between the soldiers of the two countries.

The first regiment has been transferred to the vicinity of the Jiehe Bridge for more than 20 days, and at the beginning, the soldiers of the whole regiment were very nervous, but after more than 20 days of peace, the heart that hung high in everyone's hearts gradually fell to the ground.

On the west side of the Boundary River Bridge, the soldiers of the bridge guard detachment lit a bonfire to dissipate the moisture along the river.

"Tu Di, you're back, come and bake the fire, this hellish place, you can pinch out a handful of water in the wind." A tall soldier greeted his comrades who had just returned from a patrol.

"It's coming, it's coming."

Fourteen soldiers sat around the fire, and the rest of the detachment was here, except for six who were standing guard at the bridgehead.

"Hey, let's talk about it, how long will we stay here?"

"It's hard to say, anyway, I can't see that we're going to be transferred now."

"The jackals in the east are still watching."

"But the regiment commander's expression looks more and more serious, and I don't know what new news has come to the city recently, if you want me to say, this battle will have to be fought sooner or later."

"What are you afraid of, as long as we guard the stone bridge, what can the Batu people on the opposite side do except stare dryly, the battalion commander was worried about the enemy swimming over, but with their water nature, I am afraid that they will sink to the bottom and feed the fish if they don't swim halfway."

The soldiers giggled and chatted enthusiastically, and for them, the night after the victory of the uprising was basically passed like this.

The soldiers around the campfire chatted enthusiastically, and the soldiers standing guard at the bridgehead were also chatting without a word, and the tension that should be due to the confrontation at the border seemed to disappear without a trace at this moment.

"Basoda, I've been watching you staring at the river all day long, come and make a bet with everyone, who will catch heavier fish tomorrow between the captain and the team vice-president?" One recruit laughed and shouted to another soldier sitting on the bank of the river in a daze.

A veteran next to him pulled him and whispered, "Just let him stay alone for a while, the village where Basuoda's family lives was just blown up by those strange birds controlled by evil methods two days ago, if it weren't for the fact that we had to come here to guard against the Batu people, he would have asked for leave to go home." ”

"That's right...... Alas. The recruit bowed his head.

Basoda sat on a large rock on the bank of the river, staring blankly at the quietly flowing water, and he couldn't remember how much time had passed since he got the news that his village had been bombed.

He was like an arrow, but the sense of responsibility in his heart stopped him, and one of the most painful moments of a person's life was to fight with himself at the fork in the road.

Basoda remembers the story that his grandmother told him when he was a child, in which the protagonist would go to the bank of the river and ask the river god for answers when he was in trouble.

As a child, Basolda believed in this story, and often wiped his tears while running to the river bank near the village, and when he grew up, he realized that the plot of the story was used to coax children, because no river god would come out to answer his doubts. However, today, when he really encountered a helpless situation, his body involuntarily returned to his childhood and came to the bank of the river.

Even with the moonlight and the distant bonfire, Basoda could barely see a small patch of water in front of him, and most of the villagers in his village and the rest of the army were like him, barely seeing what was in front of him at night.

Just when he was upset, a slight splash came to his ears.

"What sound?" Curious, Basoda stood up and walked towards the river in front of him.

When he got closer, he realized that a slender bamboo pipe sticking out from under the water and facing straight up was actually coming towards the shore at a very fast speed.

"What is this?" Basoda's eyes widened.

It was also the last scene he would ever see in his life.

A black shadow rushed out of the water with great agility and pushed Basoda to the ground before he could panic, and the black shadow covered Basoda's mouth and slashed his throat with a dagger with great skill.

After doing all this, the shadow dwarf hid behind a large rock and took out a light repeater with arrows from the water-protected cloth bag he had carried with him.

At the same time, more and more "water lotus" bloomed on the river surface on the west bank of the Jiehe River, and the originally calm mirror surface was full of ripples.

"What people!" The Kawa soldiers guarding the bridgehead finally noticed something unusual, but it was too late, and several crossbow arrows burst through the air and ended their lives.

Twenty foreign soldiers managed to swim across the river, and after eliminating the soldiers who were cooking around the campfire, they managed to take control of the west bank of the Jiehe Bridge.

The leader of the detachment took out a strong bow and lit a rocket arrow with a campfire. He aimed at the other side of the bridge, drew his bow and arrow, and fired the ignited rocket into the sky above the Boundary River.

The sound of footsteps came from the stone bridge, and the commandos of more than 300 people all landed on the west bank of the Jiehe River within two quarters of an hour.

"The scouts took the surrounding important places, after the cavalry team outflanked them, the gunners set up their cannons, and the archers lined up!"

The commandos acted methodically as ordered, and the artillerymen, who were at the back of the line, unloaded six 20-kilogram Wei Jian'an-III light infantry guns from the wagon. Soon, an improvised artillery position was laid out.

At the same time, the shouts of killing have resounded throughout the riverbank.

The scouts launched an attack on several of the more fortified positions of the First Infantry Corps in a skirmish formation, and the shield soldiers and crossbowmen cooperated with each other, and the shock formation was extremely tight, and in the continuous sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air, many of the Kawa soldiers did not even react to what was happening, and fell to the ground one after another as if they were cutting wheat.

During the assault, the commandos also fired flare arrows made of special ointment into the distance to ensure that the soldiers could detect movement in the distance.

A badly wounded Kawa archer with an arrow in the leg gritted his teeth and hid himself behind a rock, and with all his strength he pulled his hunting bow out before leaning out and releasing the bowstring at one of the nearest foreign soldiers.

The archer's archery was excellent, and the extremely crudely made stone-tipped arrows hit the foreign soldier's chest with precision, but the counterattack ended there, for the Kawa soldier's arrows failed to pierce even the outermost leather armor.

With the next breath, the foreign soldier who had been shot with a bow turned his head with a look of disdain, and ended the life of the brave Kawa archer with a single crossbow arrow.

Soon, all the forward strongholds of the First Battalion fell into the hands of foreign soldiers.

When attacking to the middle of the first corps defense area, the assault team finally encountered some trouble, a stronghold of the Kawa army was built extremely strong, and the Kawa soldiers guarding the stronghold still had a small number of old-fashioned firearms in their hands, and under the desperate resistance of the garrison soldiers, the Kawa people who defended the stronghold actually repelled a small-scale attack by the commando, and five foreign soldiers were injured in this attack.

"Shield hand cover, use spear throwing!" One of the commando officers shouted.

Under the cover of two foreign soldiers armed with shields, a Warrior Realm detachment leader approached within a distance of about fifty paces in front of the left side of the stronghold, he moved his right arm slightly, and then took out a short throwing spear less than four feet long from the long cloth bag behind him, and the body of the spear was engraved with some dark red spirit patterns.

He poured his true qi into the spear, and then, throwing the spear of the red light at the stronghold, after doing all this, the detachment leader lay down on the ground, and the two shieldmen half-crouched down, splicing the shields in their hands together, firmly protecting the bodies of the three people. This series of actions was completed in more than ten breaths, all in one go.

The spear hit the stronghold accurately, a huge explosion sounded, and the flames instantly engulfed the entire stronghold, and the Kawa soldiers hiding behind the stronghold were blown away by the air waves and rubble, and the soldiers inside the stronghold were blown to pieces, and none of them survived.

The assault team stepped over the bombed-out stronghold and continued to advance.

"Officer, a large group of enemies has been found on the left, and it is suspected that they are reinforcements who have come to support!"

The commander of the detachment in charge of the left flank trotted briskly to the officer who commanded the vanguard, and when he heard this, the officer hurriedly took out his telescope, and by the light of a lighting arrow, he could easily see the dense figure on the flat ground in the distance.

Despite his great surprise at the speed of the Kawa army's reaction, the officer wasted no time and decisively issued orders to his men.

"Order the messenger, use the guiding spirit stone to illuminate the opponent, and call for rear artillery support!"

After about two hundred breaths, a point of light lit up on the communication array in the hands of the rear artillerymen.

After seeing the message from the vanguard, the artillery officer in charge of the command did not hesitate to give the order to shoot according to the position of the light point on the array.

The roar of the artillery was constantly sounded, and the fire from the muzzle of the guns turned the position into daylight almost in a short time, and only after the ammunition of a full twenty boxes had been exhausted did the artillerymen stop firing.

The Kawa army that came to support was the main force of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and it must be said that the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment was a very good commander, and when he found that the friendly positions were suddenly in chaos, he did not panic, but decisively judged in a short time that the friendly troops were attacked by the enemy, although he was also extremely puzzled why the Batu people, who were as blind as they were at night, dared to launch a night attack and succeeded, but he still sent reinforcements to the friendly positions at the first time.

But he didn't expect that the masterminds of the night attack were not the Batu people.

The Kawa soldiers who came to their aid were in hell.

The cloudy night sky was illuminated by firelight, and the shotguns rained down violently on the heads of the support troops, and the unprotected support units were instantly covered in flames, and the strength of five battalions collapsed under the heavy artillery fire.

After completely eliminating the threat from the flanks, the commando archers armed with firearms and crossbows also formed a complete formation, and the rain of ammunition and arrows swept all the Kawa soldiers in front of them. Next, in less than two quarters of an hour, the assault team completely annihilated the 1st Corps of the Kawa Army, and after a round of artillery strikes on the positions of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, they managed to open a huge gap in the defense line of the west bank. Then, the already unstoppable commando leader drove straight in and continued to advance in depth.