Chapter 65: The Great War Begins
"Wow!Wow!......"
On the endless wilderness, the dense soldiers were clad in stubborn and stubborn clothes, neatly stepping on the footsteps of cracking the earth and shocking stones, and the sound of earth-shattering shouts came out of their mouths.
This is a murderous sea of people, and in the cracks of this sea of people, there are many "giant beasts" standing proudly like a wave.
Among them, there are not only ballistas that are several zhang high and can inflict a deadly blow on the enemy, but also machine artillery carts that are several zhang long and can fire deadly iron bullets;
In addition, there are large catapults that exceed ten zhang and can throw boulders, as well as watchtower vehicles that are tens of zhang high and can look out for the enemy and transmit military orders under banners;
There are also twenty or thirty storey high, huge shafts that can reach the head of the city, and a ladder truck of similar height but a lot of slenderness, which can quickly climb up to the head of the city.
In addition, there were crash cars that specialized in city gates and weak walls, trench cars that crossed or filled trenches, and so on.
And at this moment, it seems that the boundless sea of people is steadily advancing towards the magnificent giant pass in the distance!
On the south side of the giant pass is a steep and straight, towering mountain that is not known how high, and on the north side is where the barrier of the Wandering Beast Desert is located.
The whole wall is about five miles long, thirty zhang high, and five zhang wide!
From a distance, it looks like a giant lying still, although it is silent, but it gives people an unshakable shocking feeling!
Shangguan Invincible withdrew his gaze from the two walls that were faintly visible in the rear, and looked towards the endless enemy army in front of him.
I have mixed thoughts in my heart, and this feeling is like standing on a cliff and looking out towards the endless ocean.
It was an indescribable shock!
Even if he is standing on the wall thirty feet high at the moment, even if the crowd below is as small as ants!
But even so, even if there are still his own soldiers around him, he can't help but have a sense of terror in his heart!
In such a huge war in which nearly a million monks participated, any Xuan Liquid Realm, any Ning Dan Realm, as long as one of them is not careful, they will be in danger of dying at any time!
Even if it is an empty Ming Realm that can defeat a thousand or even ten thousand with one enemy, if you dare to face it alone, you will definitely be bombarded with scum left!
This is not only the deterrence of powerful war equipment, nor is it just the tactic of the sea of people who bite the elephant to death, but also because the other party is not the lowest level of the physical realm!
If one side is both Yuanhai Realm cultivators, and the other side is both Xuanye Realm, then there is no doubt that the former side will inevitably be slaughtered.
But it is obvious that the gap between the Iron Elephant Dynasty and the Dasheng Dynasty in terms of the strength of the soldiers is very small.
Therefore, the two sides can only compete in terms of numbers, equipment, location, time, strategy, and so on.
Shangguan Invincible took a deep breath, looking at this vast and magnificent scene, but there was endless pride in his chest that suddenly burst out!
The big husband should hold Jin Ge in his hands, dominate thousands of sharp soldiers, and fight in the nine seas and eight wildernesses!
This sky-high ambition stirred in his heart, making Shangguan Invincible's hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist tremble slightly.
But his face was still cold and unwavering, and he couldn't bear to show the slightest hint of it.
Because, now is not the time for him to get his hands on the army!
In this shocking battle, he can only act as a spectator.
But he firmly believes that when everything is ready, all the soldiers in this world will be under his control and used by him!
On the united front platform more than 100 steps away, Dongfang watched the enemy army continue to advance expressionlessly;
At the same time, many military orders were quickly issued in the mouth, and then the heralds quickly passed them to various targets.
Originally, this specific and trivial arrangement of defending against the enemy should have been carried out by Xian Junda, a former military staff general;
However, Xian Junda had gone crazy after verifying that his family had all died, and then the military staff general Su Zhengqing had to guard the rear and the camp, so Dongfang had to play in person.
As time slowly passed, the siege equipment of the Iron Elephant Dynasty was in place one after another, and then a huge battle officially began!
The dense boulders continued to hit the wall and the city head in the "boom" sound, like a surging wave slapping fiercely on the rocks!
The bluestone walls were constantly knocked out of the pits, and the rubble scattered in all directions like sharp arrows.
The temporary canopy behind the battlements is like a boat in a stormy sea, rising and falling.
There was also a rain of arrows that covered the sky and the sun, turning the sky above the wall into darkness, covering the entire city pass in a piercing "hiss" sound!
However, the various defensive and protective facilities of the Shaguan Pass Wall are extremely complete, and although this ferocious long-range bombardment has also caused some casualties, it is completely within the bearable range.
Most of the Shaguan border troops are veterans, and the scattered screams will only make them more vigilant, but they will not feel too much.
As the catapults and large ballistae on top of the wall calibrated their targets, a strong counterattack began.
In this way, after nearly ten rounds of bombardment between the two sides, the 100,000 troops of the Iron Elephant Dynasty's forward battalion officially began to advance forward!
When the Iron Elephant soldiers gradually stepped within two miles of the pass, three long "black lines" suddenly cracked in the stretching wall of the wall.
The black line was no more than a foot high, and the opening was angled downward;
Inside is a dense iron arrow, nearly a zhang long, enough to make people chill!
This is one of the several killer moves of Shaguan - trap arrows!
There are 30,000 fine iron arrows in each arrow trap, and three are 90,000!
Ninety thousand arrows of fine iron that are almost a foot long are enough to teach the enemy a painful lesson!
Sure enough, with the sound of a drum, three locust-like arrows suddenly burst out, and after two breaths, they rushed into the Iron Elephant Army formation!
The next moment, the screams shook the sky!
Even if the soldiers at the front are all shield soldiers with fine iron and heavy shields, they are still as fragile as paper paste in front of this long arrow!
After a fine iron long arrow penetrated the heavy shield, it actually pierced through four or five figures one after another, and then it pierced into the ground with blood!
Only the Xuanwu Iron Carriage, which acts as a meat shield, can resist the attack of this rain of arrows!
But at the forefront of the entire front, there are only 300 Xuanwu iron chariots in total, so how can they defend them all?
In the grand battlefield, blood and stumps are intertwined.
In this round of attacks alone, the Iron Elephant Dynasty fell at least 10,000 soldiers, and almost all of them died on the spot!
However, it takes at least ten days to replenish each time the trap is replenished, and the stored iron arrows are also a problem.
Therefore, it is not easy to repeat this scene!
The heavy casualties did not stop the Iron Elephant Army's attack, and the dense crowd of soldiers still approached in clusters of various chariots.
When the distance was shortened to within a mile, countless arrows rained down on the wall, and various traps on the ground were touched.
The archers in the rear of the Iron Elephant army and in the wells are also constantly fighting back, and hundreds of trench trucks on the ground are also rapidly filling in the deadly trenches.
In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed, and many of the ladder trucks and wells of the Iron Elephant Army had been leaning against the wall.
Although nearly forty percent of the siege equipment was destroyed in the process, there were still more than 100 ladder trucks left, and there were still six or seven giant wells.
Almost every twenty or thirty paces, the hook and sickle of a ladder truck was deeply embedded in the battlements, and every forty or so paces a well was also put up.
The Iron Elephant Vanguard soldiers who were not afraid of death continued to climb up the ladders, although most of the ladders were firmly surrounded by the Dasheng soldiers, making it impossible for the opponent to break through;
But there are still a few iron elephant warriors who have fought their way out of the bloody path, and guarded the gap so that the robes below continue to climb up to the top of the city.
And after the front baffle of the well is placed against the wall, there is a steady stream of iron elephant soldiers rushing up!
There is no mercy on the battlefield, there is no kindness and meanness, there is only life and death!
Xu Wenkang cut off the heads of the last two iron elephant soldiers in front of him with a knife, although the shot was extremely crisp and neat, but his back was already full of cold sweat.
Because just now, he almost died!
After preoccupying the battle in front of you, your attention to the outside world will naturally be diverted and weakened.
And just as he was fighting against the five Iron Elephant soldiers who rushed over, an arrow from outside the city almost pierced his temple!
If he hadn't taken half a step forward when he killed the third person, I'm afraid he would already be a corpse at this moment!
Because although the sharp arrow failed to hit him, it pierced the chest of a border soldier!
You must know that the military candidate condensed the gangyi, but even so it couldn't stop it, so it can be seen that the archery shooter must also be a master!
After dodging to the wall, Xu Wenkang gasped violently for several breaths, and then bent his waist to the left side.
Originally, he thought that with his cultivation of the fifth level of Xuanliquid at the moment, he still had more than enough self-preservation, but at this moment, he completely lost this idea.
He had to run to the side of the Lord of the Hundred Households quickly, only then could he be safer......
Shangguan Invincible's face grimly wiped the neck of an iron elephant commander, but a pair of eyes always scanned back and forth throughout the battlefield.
He was carefully observing the arrangement and changes of the two military formations, as well as the arrangement of troops in Dongfangli.
Although he received the most rigorous and comprehensive teaching and training, he was also familiar with the art of war and was good at war games;
But after all, it is just talk on paper, and every action of Jinyiwei is also a small fight, but the real battle of leading troops has never been.
Now that there is such a good opportunity, and it is a big scene of nearly a million troops fighting, how can he miss the opportunity to learn and learn from it?
On the side, the eight young guards were surrounded within ten steps of Shangguan Invincible's body, but Mu Ran was vigilantly paying attention to all possible crises.
And Dian Wei, Su Rongrong, and Shangguan Feng are even more triangular, not one step away from Shangguan Invincible, but whenever there is a stray arrow, they will be the first to block it.
"General! The battle at the head of the city is tight, and the suppression of the enemy forces outside the gate is getting smaller and smaller!
If it continues like this, I'm afraid it will fall into passivity!
Look, isn't it time for the formation to kick in?"
Hou Gaoyi, a guerrilla general who was in the dust, hurriedly stepped into the united front platform, and walked towards the east with a worried face.