Chapter 536: The Shortcut (Part II)
The war on Wusheng Island only allowed Su Jing's recruits to reach the passing standard. If you want to land on the continent of the Evil God Realm, these soldiers are not very reliable.
If it weren't for Su Jing's excellent equipment, so that orders could be issued to the level of squad leaders, the difficulty of controlling these recruits would be unimaginably great.
Even if the three islands of hell are meat grinders, Su Jing has to invest his troops to fight, and don't wait for the popularization of new weapons.
The area of the Golden Jade Floating Massacre itself has already exceeded the next island to be captured, and in addition to the quota of sailors, there are also reserves under militarized management.
Lin Xie Hong is not very old, and his methods can be quite violent. She went on a campaign all the way, and all the qualified soldiers she recruited were sent to Su Jing and others, and there was not much left on hand. Jin Yu Futu became her prisoner of war camp.
On the huge battleship, there were recruits training everywhere, and the subjects of training were similar to those of the Eastern Qin, with only minor adjustments. Lin Xie Hong has followed her father at the border of the Northern Regions since she was a child, and she is familiar with military training.
This time, it is facing an almost square island, surrounded by mountains, with a flat core and strange terrain. However, the flat area in the center of the island is more than 20 feet above sea level, and even if the surrounding mountains are blown up, it is impossible to flood the island.
In the sky, a large number of airships levitate high in the sky, collecting intelligence. Under the erosion of the hell realm, these airships originally had a service life of more than three years, which was directly shortened by about ten times.
After this battle, all used airships will be decommissioned, even if they are not shot down. Moreover, materials that have been eroded by the force of the field cannot be recycled.
This is an irreparable loss, and it has to be calculated in the cost of war.
On the side of the three islands of hell, more than 100,000 soldiers have landed on this square island, and the Allies have named this island Basin Island, which is not very appropriate. But it's just a code name, and it's not a tourism development, and you have to make a loud and attractive name.
Originally, there were more than 60,000 troops stationed on this island, and there were more than 100,000 residents. Now there are 300,000 people on the island. Compared to the plains in the middle of the island, this manpower is very small.
It's just that the island itself, and there are only two ports, both on one side of the island. It is not impossible to fly over the mountain and airdrop troops to Luxia, Su Jing discussed it, and simply took over the task by himself and docked the fleet on the back of the island, without a port. The peaks of this side. The height is about 400 zhang, which is already quite majestic. This is equivalent to one kilometer on Earth.
Only Princess Sanssouci's fleet is waiting here, ready to support Su Jing. The fleet of the remaining three men sailed to the area where the two harbors were located, ready to attack.
As soon as Su Jing's side was airborne, the attack on that side was carried out at the same time.
This kind of method cannot hide from the enemy, and it is still a tough way of fighting. No way, it's fighting in the realm of hell. The enemy's magicians can easily obtain this kind of information.
Su Jing still has a lot of soldiers on hand. The last battle was not long apart, and the rotation method was adopted.
There are only 300,000 people on the island, and if the two ports are breached, there is basically no danger to defend. Su Jing is here, and it is enough to invest 80,000 people.
40,000 veterans from Eastern Qin, 40,000 recruited recruits.
Su Jing is prepared with both hands. Investing 80,000 men is only one-fifth of his troops, and no matter what kind of enemy comes from the three islands of hell, he can have enough troops to deal with it. The Golden Jade Floating Slaughter and the Lieyang Divine Phoenix Army were also in the rear of Basin Island, and the battle directly ahead was the most difficult.
It's different from Earth. Su Jing's airborne troops have enough heavy weapons at their disposal, and the enemy's air forces are limited to the Jindan powerhouse, and there is also a summoned creature. The summoned creature was an undead thing, a winged bone wolf. It should be a variety cultivated by grafting, Su Jing browsed the royal library, and read a lot of information about various evil gods, and there was also a systematic summary, this kind of winged bone wolf, from the structural analysis, is something used to ride, not natural.
If you compare it with Dong Qin's weapon, it is like a puppet of a divine soldier.
There are not many flying bone wolves, and by the time the fleet arrives, it has been suppressed back to the ground by the floating battleships in the sky. Those bone wolves are obviously playing a role with the flying kite soldiers, scouting the enemy's situation. The combat effectiveness may be similar to that of the Qi Refiners in the early stage of foundation building, and there are about 400 to 500 heads in the entire basin island.
There was a temple on the basin island, and this time the enemy was very well guarded, and several attempts by the floating battleship to throw a coordinate metal cone were destroyed in mid-air. The strong men of the enemy, the archers, are guarding the temple for fear of its destruction.
Su Jing estimated that there was a teleportation array, or summoning array, in the temple, and it could multiply the combat effectiveness of the warriors on the island through evil magic.
The floating warships first carried the engineer battalion, seized a dozen hills on the back of the island, and arranged artillery batteries on them.
After the battery was arranged, Su Jing asked the large floating battleship to put the soldiers. Under the protection of small floating warships, battalion-sized units of 5,000 men quickly converged on the ground. There are no wide avenues here, new chariots have not yet been made, and about a thousand eagle beasts have been transported over to replenish them.
Otherwise, the eagle beast pulling the chariot will die in battle, and these chariots will be useless. There were no smooth roads, and the soldiers could not work together to move these heavy chariots.
Su Jing stood on the top of a hill, overlooking the plain in front of him. There is stargazing, and the entire island is within his line of sight, which is Su Jing's advantage, and no one else can replace it.
The veins on the earth, Su Jing can also see quite clearly, and below the entire island, there is a six-pointed star array with a diameter of more than twenty miles. This six-pointed star array, the formation that connects the entire Hell Three Islands area, and the enemy's forces are also active in this six-pointed star array.
On his two flanks, more than thirty miles in front of him, there was an enemy. The total number of enemies was only more than eight thousand, and when Su Jing's army landed, more than a thousand enemies had already gathered and were advancing towards this side.
Su Jing calmly commanded a battalion of soldiers to meet the battle, and the mixed battalion had twenty chariots, five hundred heavy cavalry, and five hundred archers. The chariot rushed forward first, the two wings were the archers pressing the formation, and the heavy cavalry was chasing behind, and they were not as fast as the chariots.
Su Jing ordered to reduce the speed and not to disconnect from the infantry in the rear. Because of the proximity, the infantry did not get on their horses or rides, they were already wearing armor, holding weapons, and entering the battle state. The cavalry rushed too fast, and the infantry could not keep up. Even if you win, you will not be able to annihilate the enemy if you are interspersed with the enemy's formation, and there will always be someone who will escape.
Su Jing's worries are not unreasonable, unlike the veterans of Eastern Qin, now the recruits he has recruited are a little full of confidence. After a few victories, they were a little unscrupulous.
Indeed, with a force of twenty chariots and a thousand cavalry, against more than a thousand enemy troops, it is not a problem to win. With the same strength, Su Jing's allies have not yet encountered an evenly matched opponent.
Here's the problem, this time the enemy is the believers of the evil god, and he is fighting in the base camp of the evil god. These people will not collapse and will fight to the death unless ordered to retreat by the magician.
The distance between the two sides quickly approached the two-mile juncture, and the chain of crossbow arrows on the chariot immediately flew out and shot head-on. The enemy was scattered, with more than a thousand men riding on low horses and armed with short spears.
The formation was so scattered that they could not form an impact when they encountered infantry.
Su Jing shook his head, he should wait until he got closer before starting to shoot, the chain crossbow is not an earth dragon arrow, and the penetration power is only enough to kill and injure two enemies. This is still the case of shooting at close range, at such a distance, the enemy is all cavalry, and when there is no high-speed charge, it is easy to dodge the attack.
Even if you can't dodge, you can resist it with a shield. The horsemen on the pony had a small square shield on their left arm, which looked like something made from the bones of a sea beast, and was gray in color with divine inscriptions on it.
Poof!
The first round of attacks was more than 200 crossbow arrows, and fortunately, the recruits' shooting skills were not good, and many of the crossbow arrows did not adjust the angle well, and the attack was on the enemy's war horse.
At least thirty crossbow arrows directly broke the horse's legs, and a dozen or so hit the enemy's soldiers, overturning those soldiers.
This kind of record is miserable, if it weren't for the crossbow arrows that shot a little off and damaged some war horses, the effect would have been even worse.
If you shoot within a mile, the results will be doubled, and you can even kill and injure more than a hundred enemies. What made Su Jing more concerned was that those cavalrymen who lost their horses, the moment the war horses fell, they jumped up from the horseback, their bodies were vigorous, holding short spears, and in one leap, they had already changed into a running posture, and when they landed forcibly, they did not look uncomfortable.
Of the soldiers who were shot, only six were shot in the chest, the wound was so large that they died directly, and all that remained was to have an arm shot off.
There was only a small amount of blood flowing from the wound on the severed arm, and there was no sign of spurting. The soldier who lost his arm simply discarded the bow and arrow behind him, and the one who did not have his right hand simply drew his long knife with his left hand, and his fighting spirit did not decrease at all.
This cavalry is really fierce.
If it was an ordinary heavy crossbow, without applying runes, and with insufficient speed, even those six people would not be able to shoot them.
The commander on the chariot also immediately realized that something was wrong, in Su Jing's army, the rules were very strict, and it was not a problem for them to give orders earlier, but the results of the battle were not good, and if they continued to do so, they would be punished.
Ready, ballista!
The commanders shouted one by one, and at the same time, the war drums on the chariot began to sound. These war drums are all rune urging, no need to beat, once they sound, they will immediately boost morale and reduce the influence of the field.
"Huh?" Su Jing saw that there was an energy trail in the air, and with the movement of more than a thousand cavalry, the height was only within a hundred zhang, if it weren't for stargazing, he wouldn't be able to perceive it with his divine sense.
The energy trail is obviously someone who has been paying attention here.
Sorcerer!
The enemy has a powerful sorcerer who is always tracking the army and controlling the overall situation. Looks like the temple has to be destroyed. There is a temple, and the strength of these sorcerers will be very annoying. (To be continued......)