Power and Empire Chapter 2498: Thunderstorm (18)
"Vertical shield"
Where the blood mist came up, the unresponsive shout came. The torrential rain of killing has been flying with the falling arrows. The Fazer soldiers on the wooden raft have not yet fully reacted, and the death sickle has been swept away. Into the crowd,
"Asshole, quickly put the shield...ah"
Pieces of soldiers screamed with arrows, and countless blood exploded on the raft. It felt like a huge hammer made of clusters of arrows slammed on the raft. The river surface was dyed red in an instant
" The second team" The captain of the Imperial Crossbowman raised his hand calmly. The crossbow shooter who had fired in front stepped back neatly. The second row of crossbows moved forward. The range of the Imperial Infantry Crossbow was enough to control the width of the entire river, but because Due to the heavy fog on the river and the influence of the rain screen in front, even a shooter with good eyesight can see clearly at fifty to sixty meters.
"80 meters in front, twelve height, covering three consecutive shots"
Rows of imperial infantry crossbows pointed towards the sky, their eyes gleaming cold and staring at the countless dark shadows in the rain curtain of the river in front, there was a crisp sound like rain hitting the ground, and the clusters of arrows rose again, densely covering the river. Above, the Mitsubishi heavy arrow peculiar to the Imperial Shortbow arrow at the front of the arrow cluster suddenly strikes from the air in a semi-arc line
"Ah" The metal arrow plunged into the body of the Fazer soldier below, like tearing a piece of bó paper, the corpse with confused eyes rolled in pieces from the wooden raft into the water, and the water mist in front It’s too big, most Feishan soldiers can’t even see the situation on the opposite river bank, let alone talk about it even if it’s blocked,
Occasionally some shields were sparsely erected in a hurry, and the Fei Zeren behind the shields were fixed on them, wishing to become a fish jumping into the water to be safe.
"Stay steady, steady, don’t mess up everyone"
"Stay steady? Bastard, you *** come and try."
"I was hit by an arrow, save me! Ah! Ah! Ah!" With various voices, the Feize people on the raft felt like a bird on the branch, like an imperial crossbowman on the opposite side. Harvest like a bird,
"Where are the reinforcements, where are the good shooters covering, these bastards, we were deceived"
There are so many arrow clusters from across the river, it feels like endless terrible **** shrouded in the head, all kinds of arrows wailing, crying for help in the water, and some falling into the water The soldiers struggled to swim towards the nearby wooden raft. Before they approached, they were shot in the back by arrows. The blood was mixed with the river water, and a large number of corpses were engulfed in the river like discarded garbage. Flowing ups and downs towards the stone bridge below, the living people only dared to hide behind the shield, as the wooden rafts were washed away by the waves, it was chaotic
"The second team is ready!"
A general Fei Ze at the rear almost couldn't bear to close his eyes, and ordered loudly in resentment, no matter what the front is, he must hold the attention of the imperial army at this time.
There is a terrible scene of **** on the river. Arrow clusters are constantly falling like a torrential rain. On the wooden raft impacted by the waves, the Fazer soldiers on it are swaying from side to side, and many people fall directly into the river water, wearing The small black spots of the armor floated up and down in the river water for a few times, and they were no longer visible. The attack from the opposite side was so violent that it was not exhausted like Omu said. It was just a normal attack. The Imperial Army The heavy crossbow hasn’t been fired yet. This kind of battle across the river with wooden platoons is simply to send soldiers to death, or in other words, to send them to death. These soldiers are not elite, they are just cannon fodder selected by various armies. , Most of them are some low-bodied servants,
Hundreds of thousands of Fei Zejun. There are about 30,000 such servants. Under normal circumstances, there is no need to go to the battlefield. But this time, Fei Ze’s generals told these servants that as long as they can get on the other side of the river, Cancel the status of their servants, and also give a reward of 1,000 gold coins to the first to land. Even if you are not the first, as long as you can touch the embankment on the opposite bank, ten gold coins per person, don’t worry, The imperial army on the opposite side has run out of ammunition and food. Their crossbow arrows are moldy and soft in the heavy rain, and they are difficult to use. We will give you the most powerful assistance. A total of 30,000 archers will give you cover on the river bank. All you have to do is swim past with a wooden raft and touch the opposite bank
"My lord, if it's so easy, why would you let us come?" The servants are not all fools. They attacked the bridge a few days ago, and the servants didn’t miss it. Sometimes they would send pitiful people on the bridge. Dan feels sorry, and even feels fortunate that the servants don’t have to go to the battlefield, but now, they have been mercilessly pushed out,
"You are letting us go to death" a servant shouted hoarsely
" blatantly disobeyed the military order and executed it on the spot! "The commander tilted his head, and several soldiers rushed up to drag the servant, and in front of everyone, they forced their heads to the ground, poof, Blood was sprayed from the headless chest cavity on the stone a few meters in front."
" Those who do not obey the order, this is the end. The person who grabs the opposite bank will immediately bounty one thousand gold coins, attack the person on the opposite bank, and permanently cancel his servant status." The warlord officer’s expressionless general The declaration commands in the hands overlapped, and the beheading axes in the hands of the supervising team behind them were cleaned in the rain. The traces of red on the axe blades were infested by too many killings, enough to make the scalp numb.
The faint horn sound from upstream has lasted for an hour, Oumu’s stern face remained unchanged, and the rain rushed from him to the ground,
" Putting the survival of hundreds of thousands of troops on a bridge and crossing the river, the Imperial Army actually thought I was so stupid? The reason why the Imperial Army is strong, most of them are built on strong weapons, if they are equal With strength, our army will not have any chance of winning, but our army has more than three times the strength of the opponent, even if there is nothing to worry about, if it were not for the single bridge in front of us, the opponent would have been crushed by our army. Everyone should see that the heavy rain caused the water level to rise suddenly, making it more difficult for our army to cross the river, but the imperial army is not so much better."
" Their original tight defense facilities were nearly half destroyed. Many defensive weapons were submerged in the water. In order to stop us from grabbing the bridge, they had unconsciously moved these defensive weapons to the direction of the bridge entrance. , If our army avoids the bridge and suddenly crosses a certain river course, even how the imperial army reacts, it is impossible to move all the defensive heavy weapons at once. As long as a hole is torn open, our army can use it. He said that is the case, but in actual implementation, people still need to make sacrifices. Therefore, before we really cross the river, we must convince the imperial army that the direction of our army’s attack has not changed."
"My lord, the river has eased." Finally there was a slightly moving sound, breaking the calm, and the Fei Ze servants in the first echelon rowed a wooden platoon to cross and were beaten by the imperial army. When flowing into the river course, at a section of the river about five miles downstream of the stone bridge, an officer Fei Ze stood up from the river course with joy,
The river channel that was originally jittery and difficult to stand firmly, at this moment, there are rare signs of slow flow, the vortex is decreasing, and the speed of the water flow is significantly slower.
"It should be the success of the upstream operations"
Chief Commander Fei Zejun Omim's eyes drifted down from an upstream, moving away from the body of Fei Zejun floating in the waves, slowly moving towards the silent tens of thousands of troops behind, and raising his right hand. It’s impossible to calculate how many people fill up the upper reaches in this hour. The sacrifices made by the upper reaches are not completely worthless. Besides attracting the attention of the imperial army, one more function is the wooden platoons, after the soldiers fell into the water. , The wooden rafts are also swept down by the river, these wooden rafts are enough to block the river at the stone bridge
Omu has been observing the river for three days. The generals of Fezer think that Omu is personally supervising the battle. In fact, Omu is studying the size of the bridge hole of the Kanyaluo Stone Bridge in front of him.
Kanyaluo Stone Bridge has thirteen circular bridge holes, each of which is about two or three meters wide. They are all made of stones cut from the mountains. They are quite solid, and each time they encounter a river Under the flood, these bridges and tunnels can separate the flood, which is a very good realization of the effect of water flow decompression
The problem is that thousands of wooden rafts bundled together are running down the river. Each raft is more than three meters in length~IndoMTL.com~ crashed along the river and quickly blocked these bridge holes. The water flow hits the wooden rafts and various corpses and debris blocked by the wooden rafts, creating a dam invisibly,
The rushing river crashed crazily on the bridge piers, forming a thunderous roar. Even if the imperial army fighting upstream wanted to find something, they didn’t have so much attention for a while,
"Go into the water!" The 35,000 Fei Zejun who really acted as the main attacker began to dive into the river. Even more proficient, even if they swarmed into the river, there was not much confusion. The soldiers squatting on the wooden platoon catered to their waists, half straightened up, and their left bucklers covered the front and above. It is a thorny short spear, under the helmet of the cross star, a pair of bloodshot pupils scatters the same cold light as a short spear. They steadily use their weapons as paddles to paddle forward, shouting at the impact of falling into the river. 'S companions are completely indifferent, their eyes are just staring ahead,
On the opposite bank of , a red plume of smoke went straight up into the sky. Even in the white rain, this red plume of smoke was as conspicuous as it was beyond the defense line of the Imperial Army. Only one sentry tower stood on the opposite river, as For surveillance purposes, the lonely red plume of smoke is now over the tower, but what can be done? Can the Imperial Army fly over? (To be continued) [This text is provided by the girl special of the Qihang Update Group@落落de丘比特] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for a recommendation and a monthly pass. Your support is my greatest motivation. ) Bring on the stupid Nanyi@泪自痛丶花殇