064, the turning point of the battle (II)
Although Shaomu had promised not to use Soul Eater Smoke, the generals of the Silk Country were still cautious when directing the Spirit Beast Cavalry to fight, and almost always chose the direction of the wind to attack. Today's wind is blowing from the side of the hill, and the spirit beast cavalry is rushing with the wind. Each warrior is an elite in armor, and the halberd in his hand can not only pierce directly, but also has a horizontal blade behind the tip that can be slashed, blocked, and outlined.
One hundred and forty-eight spirit beast cavalry, all of whose mounts were fierce and terrifying Running Beasts. The Ben Pig is a rare beast that resembles a leopard and is about the size of an adult black bear, with sharp teeth and fangs that can tear a cow to pieces. It runs fast and smoothly with its arched claws tucked into the flesh pad.
The adult Benzhi beast has rough skin and thick flesh, and even if it is shot with an arrow, it will not hurt its muscles and bones, and it can continue to charge. At its speed, it was only a blink of an eye to run through the range of the arrow, and the soldiers often only had time to shoot one arrow, and before the second arrow could be fired, the Running Beast pounced in front of him, and the first arrow was difficult to aim.
This exotic beast is rare and difficult to catch, and even more difficult to domesticate. The monks of the Beast Mountain caught the young beasts with the means they were good at, raised them from an early age, and then mated and bred for several generations before they trained this batch of adult Ben Beasts that could go to the battlefield, and helped the Silk Chambers to build a whole three army formations of spirit beast cavalry.
The earth trembled slightly, and one hundred and forty-eight Running Beasts actually ran out like a tide, and let out a terrifying roar in unison. People who are not brave enough to fight against it, I am afraid that they will not even be able to hold their weapons steadily in the face of such a scene. However, the banner of Hanxiong's great general stood there steadily fluttering in the wind, and the formation of the ten armies under his command did not move at all, and always maintained the battle formation.
The spirit beast cavalry rushed up the hillside, and when it approached the range of the opponent's bow and arrow, it suddenly divided into two lanes, left and right, allowing the chariots that had passed the front to outflank from the flank. No matter how fast the formation of the army formation changes, it can't be as fast as the Running Beast, in the previous array confrontations. The military formation of the Bamuro Kingdom has suffered such a loss, even if they want to win with more people, they will not be able to encircle and annihilate these spirit beast cavalry in the end.
At this moment, Hanxiong's general flag waved, and countless huge strange birds suddenly flew out on the top of the hill behind the military formation, and their wings spread out in the wind to cover the sky and the sun. If you look closely, it's actually not the big bird, but the demon clan, the feather people in the wilderness!
A total of one hundred and fifty-three Yu Nation warriors, the number is not too much, but at the same time, they rushed into the sky, and they also seemed dense and amazing. Each of them carried a pair of well-wound crossbow arrows in his hand. The tip of the shaft was wrapped in linen soaked in fire oil, and it was now lit, pulling out traces of smoke in the air.
The movements of these feather warriors were extremely skillful, as if they had been practicing for many days, and they quickly rose into the air with their wings in the wind, and divided into left and right roads to meet those spirit beast cavalry. The spirit beast cavalry charged in a dense formation, and the feather warriors barely needed to aim, and rockets with thick smoke shot out of the air.
Some arrows hit the warriors who rode the Running Beast, and some arrows hit the Running Beast's body. Some arrows burned in the ground. Immediately after that, the Yu Nation warrior made another stunned action, and smashed the crossbow in his hand like a brick and stone, and smashed it into the ranks of the spirit beast cavalry, turning into a ball of fireball in mid-air.
Hanxiong stood in the middle of the formation. Watching the feather warriors in the sky on both sides suddenly come out, their cheeks twitched a little. He knew very well how valuable the crossbows in the hands of those warriors were, and they could be destroyed with just one arrow on the battlefield!
This is a tactic formulated by the young man himself, and it is this arrow that he wants. And the simulation rehearsed for several years. The arrows fired from these crossbows are so powerful that the warriors of the Feather Nation cannot be wound in the air, and they need to be wound on the ground beforehand. Then he flew into the air with it, and after shooting an arrow, it was useless.
For the people of the Yu people to be able to hold the crossbow arrows that fly into the sky, they must be extremely light, but they also require the arrows to be able to shoot through the flesh of the Ben Pig Beast, and the crossbow itself must be very strong, and ordinary craftsmen can't make it at all. Shao Wu recruited the co-workers of various cities in the country, experimented with various materials, and finally created more than 300 crossbows, and half of this wave of attacks was destroyed.
During the battle, it was impossible for the Yu Nation warriors who flew into the air to shoot a second crossbow arrow, and it was a burden to continue to hold the crossbow in their hands. According to Shaowu's requirements, they faced the spirit beast cavalry this time, and any action after taking off could not be superfluous, since the crossbow was to be lost, then the crossbow should also be smeared with fire oil in advance, and smashed into the spirit beast cavalry array after ignition.
The cost of building these one hundred and fifty-three specially made crossbows alone is equivalent to building a small city in an open area. These fireballs with thick smoke smashed down, and in the blink of an eye, it is equivalent to smashing a city, that is, the strong national strength of the country of Eba can afford to play such a big game.
One of the drawbacks of the hardwood used to create these crossbows is that they can easily ignite and explode when burned. At this moment, this disadvantage has also become an advantage, and it is used on the battlefield by the young man.
Trained to overcome many of their instinctive weaknesses like a warhorse, the Running Beasts are not afraid of campfires in their camps or disturbed by the fireworks of the battlefield. However, it was suddenly shot by a rain of arrows, and then countless fireballs with thick smoke smashed down, and the flames exploded in all directions, and the Benzhu beast suddenly roared and scattered in all directions, and immediately lost control.
Although the crossbow arrows are powerful, they can't shoot down a single Running Beast, especially if they hit a non-vital part, it is even more difficult to hit it hard. But these arrows are fed with poison, the feather people hunt special poison, poison can make the beast become irritable, the more crazy the struggle, the faster the attack, even if the poison on the spot does not die, it can also make it out of control.
The riders who rode the Running Beast wore breastplates on their fronts, but this breastplate could not stop the crossbow arrows that were fired, and the attack of the Feather Warriors came from the sky.
After the feather warrior took off into the air, he only made two movements, first a volley, and then ignited the crossbow in his hand and smashed it to the ground, and the two spirit beast cavalry had lost nearly half. The Ben Beasts howled and fled in all directions, and the battlefield was filled with smoke and flying fire, but there was not a single enemy. The surviving riders tried their best to control the sitting Running Beast, but they couldn't restrain it at all.
The formation of the spirit beast cavalry collapsed, clashing and trampling each other in the fireworks, and many warriors fell off their mounts and were trampled to death and trampled wounded. Most of the Running Beasts instinctively avoided the slopes where the smoke was most dense, and ran in other directions, their vision already blurred by the thick smoke, and the poison of the Running Beasts began to kick in, becoming more and more manic.
Only a handful of Ben Beasts rushed up the hillside and crashed into the flanks of the Bamuro National Army. Hanxiong had long expected this result, and the two sides of the military formation were lined up with spears and shields, and the long shield was lined up with a wall, and sharp spears pierced out of the gaps in the shield wall, facing the runaway Running Beast.
Several of the manic Running Beasts crashed into the battle formation, causing casualties, but they were then pierced into hedgehogs by their spears. More of the Running Beasts ran away, throwing off the rider on their backs.
The feather warriors in the air also scattered in formation, pursued in all directions, drew a short bow hanging from their waists, and shot it with a short arrow. These short bows and arrows were also specially made as spare weapons for the warriors of the Yu people, and the arrows shot should be as powerful as possible while being lightweight.
The feather people in Huwa's hometown used similar bows and arrows back then, and Huwa also took away the best of them. Later, Huwa gave the bow and arrow to Dajun, and Shaowu had seen it with his own eyes. Shao Wu imitated that pair of bows and arrows, and recruited co-workers to create a similar batch, which is used on the battlefield today.
These short bows are not as powerful as crossbows, but they are also fed with poison and shoot one after another in the Flying Pursuit, attacking not only the Running Beasts, but also the riders who have landed.
The requirements for cultivating spirit beast cavalry are very strict, and the relationship between the warrior and the running beast is not only the relationship between the rider and the mount, but also equivalent to a kind of partner, not just one person can control the spirit beast, and it takes a long time to train a qualified spirit beast cavalry. Shooting these riders will make it difficult for the country to replenish them in a short period of time, and as for the trained Ben Beasts, they will shoot one less one.
The Running Beasts rushed in all directions, and the warriors who had been thrown off their mounts and not yet died ran to their own formations, and the arrows from the sky rained down, constantly shooting and knocking them down.
The changes on the battlefield happened too quickly, so fast that the general who led the troops in the country of Silk could not react. The soldiers of the Buro Kingdom who were still in the formation were all dumbfounded, and they couldn't understand when the Bamuro Kingdom had such a strange army, and the other party actually waited until today to throw them into the battlefield!
No one on the battlefield would answer such a question, and many frightened Ben Beasts with arrows stuck in their bodies rushed towards the army of the Silk Country, no longer with the control of their riders on their backs.
The soldiers of the Silk Chambers were not prepared to face the onslaught of the Running Beast at all, and they never dreamed that the Running Beast would pounce on them. The forward of the military formation was knocked over, and the battle formation was disrupted in an instant. At this moment, Hanxiong's banner waved forward, and the chariot of Ba Muroguo rushed down the hillside, and the ten armies that followed shouted and killed.
A whistle sounded in the air, and the warriors of the Feather Nation had already shot their arrows, withdrawn from the battle, and glided down the hillside behind the army with their wings agitated. There was no longer a need for the Yu people to continue fighting, they had successfully completed their task, and re-assembled in the rear of the battle formation, without any damage.
The chariot of the Bamuro Kingdom ran over the landing riders who were still running away, and fought into the formation of the Buro National Army, which had been routed. For the soldiers of the Silk Country, what really collapsed was not the battle formation, but the morale and military spirit. The ten army formations led by Hanxiong are the elite of the elite of the Bamuro Kingdom, and without the spirit beast cavalry, it is not a problem to annihilate the opponent in frontal combat.
In this battle, the ten army formations and spirit beast cavalry of the Silk Country were all wiped out, and most of the soldiers became prisoners of war. In the end, as a result of clearing the battlefield, only more than twenty Ben Beasts ran away. Some of these Ben Beasts may not have been hit by the arrow, or they may not have been seriously injured after being hit by the arrow. With their speed, even the war horses couldn't catch up, and Hanxiong didn't let the Yu warriors continue to pursue. (To be continued.) )