Menton, Norton and other officers, who had just fallen asleep, were awakened by the emergency horn blowing from the southeast corner.

After a few breaths, the panicked sound of horse hooves rang out in the middle of the camp: "I would like to see Commander Menton. I have something important to tell you!"

"What's going on?" Mengton hurriedly walked out without even putting on his clothes. Under the torch, all he saw were Holy See soldiers in white leather armor.

"General! We found several soldiers of the Chi Aotian Legion in the lower reaches of the Sicily River! According to interrogation, they are crossing the river!" Panic flashed across the faces of junior Vatican officers.

Ah? Most of the officers had shocked looks on their faces, especially Norton Crossing the River, who had experienced the Battle of Xilin Island? How is that possible?

"Have they started to freeze the surface of the river?" Norton subconsciously looked to the sky. It was rare that there was a moon tonight. It couldn't be said to be a clear sky, but there were certainly no dark clouds with rain or snow.

"General, they didn't cast magic." Fortunately, although this low-level human officer was in a panic, he was still eloquent: "The captured soldiers were only a tall man in height. They didn't make it clear. They seemed to be tied with ropes.

They crossed the river."

All the senior officers looked at each other.

"Lord Menton, I will immediately lead my headquarters to attack the enemy and see their reaction." Norton reacted immediately.

"Okay, you don't need to bring your troops. You can just take the two thousand-man teams on duty. Quick! The whole army must assemble immediately!" Mengton's face was tense. At this time, he must make preparations in advance.

Norton led the human spearmen and centaur archers on duty just 200 meters before entering the dense forest. Suddenly, a series of crossbow strings sounded in the dense forest. Large hand crossbows as thick as arms roared through the air. Soldiers were shot down one after another.

The soldiers inside were shooting wildly, seemingly not sparing this precious war resource at all.

Immediately afterwards, flames suddenly jumped everywhere in the dense forest. Just when the Fanos Army was stunned, Chi Aotian occupied all the tree crowns outside the dense forest and set them on fire. Countless flames quickly connected into a sea of ​​​​fire... jumping and covering the entire forest.

The sky lights up!

Not only Norton, but all the officers in the Fanos military camp in the distance were stunned by the strange scene in front of them.

Yes, all of this is arranged!

Chi Aotian and Tayang both selected the Niu Yao area as the breakthrough point for crossing the river. According to data records, the Sicily River is 20 miles before and after entering Niu Yao, and the water flow is relatively not too fast. The data also indicates that dense vegetation grows along the entire

Shrubland.

Considering that once the expeditionary force breaks through to the north, the enemy will inevitably pursue them quickly. By crossing the river normally by ferry, the Norton Legion will definitely use this opportunity to kill the killer! Tayan immediately hinted that the Allied forces can be sacrificed to cover the Black Dragon Knights

Crossing the river, this idea was rejected by all the officers, including Chi Aotian.

There was no need for other officers to express their objections. Chi Aotian only said one sentence: "Mr. Tayang, no matter how powerful the Allied forces are, there is no need to talk about their origins. It is impossible for me to let my subordinates die. There is no need to do this.

Let’s talk again.”

Fortunately, the method is not the only one. Several senior officers of the Black Dragon Knights almost simultaneously mentioned a way to quickly cross the river-rope crossing!

Tongyunguan is located at the junction of the subtropics and the tropics. There is quite a lot of rain in the Tongyunguan area, especially in the rainy season. Many small ditches and gullies usually have no water, and they also turn into rapid rivers during the rainy season. When the soldiers are performing their tasks

, this kind of thing will definitely happen. In an emergency, the soldiers in southern Xinjiang will use the rope crossing method.

This method requires at least three people to work in groups. The rope needs to be three times as long as the width of the river. It must be tied into a loop first. The first person (must be good at water) puts himself on the semi-fixed rope, and the other two people are separated by a certain distance.

Standing still, the river crosser pulls the rope and launches from the downstream partner. The upstream partner begins to retract the rope, and the downstream partner begins to release the rope in a loop. Under the impact of the river water, the river crosser will soon be swept to the middle of the river. At this time, the river crosser

You have to do your best to swim to the other side - of course the river will push him to the shore. Under normal circumstances, if there are no rafts, tree stumps or other things in the river, it is easy to cross the river; after the first person passes, he will

It's simple. Two people on both sides can easily send the second person across; the third person is even simpler. Tie the rope and apply a little force on the other side. As long as you drag him across the center of the river, the river will wash him to the shore.

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This method was immediately formulated in detail by senior military officers.

Everything after that is simply "acting"!

While running wildly along the way, the expeditionary force sent out the eagle knights in advance to find the most ideal place to cross the Sicilian River - there must be a large dense forest, so that it can last for several days, and it is best to have open space around the dense forest, so as not to have to deal with the same

Enemies in dense forests. It is too easy for forest elves to complete this task. Such a place is indeed not easy to find. However, with the ability of forest elves, it is not difficult to make dozens or hundreds of unnecessary shrubs disappear.

It was done. Chang Qing even took advantage of this opportunity and took his subordinates dressed as businessmen to go to the Niu Yao Formation and buy a large amount of rope.

The two bloody battles with the Norton Legion and the Sweat Blood Mercenary Group were also unavoidable. The enemy must be given the feeling that the Northern Expeditionary Army is in a corner, so that the opponent can safely arrange for a subsequent decisive battle or wait for the expeditionary army to run out of food.

Absolutely.

As for grabbing the ferry, it was just an act. The ferry was not given for free. It was burned and the Fanos Legion could be used. In fact, about a month and a half ago, the three legions led by Menton used the ferry to penetrate into the language of flowers.

In the hinterland of the plains.

After that, there were sneak attacks in the middle of the night and so on, all to paralyze the enemy.

In this process, Chang Qing still had an extremely clever improvisation - he discovered that after the trees were felled and then cut off the trunks, the tree crowns would soon dry up. If so, once the enemy discovered the Northern Expeditionary Army,

When crossing the river, you can immediately ignite all the tree crowns and block the enemy's pursuit route.

Just after dark on January 18th, Qingluo led the elves to pull the first 3,000-meter long rope across the river. The long rope was tied to the two thickest trees at an angle of 60 degrees to the river water.

, then, using this long rope as the basis, in just one hour, all 100 long ropes were released across the river, all tied at 60-angle.

All the soldiers have prepared a piece of wood 30 cm wide, 15 cm high and 40 cm long in the past few days - sun-dry or bake it as much as possible. Tie the piece of wood to the back, and then tie a piece of wood under both ribs.

The live rope was tied to the rope on the river, and the person was pushed into the river. The fast river water rushed the person downstream at an extremely fast speed. He reached the other side in a few minutes - and immediately cut off the live rope under his ribs.

The war horse Di Xinglong and others were also put down in the same way - of course the weight of the mount is relatively heavy and two ropes are needed to put it together. Fortunately, most of the war horses can swim, and apart from not being very cooperative when going ashore, there are no big problems.

trouble.

And the sound of the surging river covered up the neighing of all the people.

Originally, if there were no accidents, even if the Chi Aotian Army crossed everyone, the Fanos Army would not be able to notice anything. Unfortunately... not all rope manufacturers have passed the ISO9000 certification, and 100 large ropes can still be used to cross the river.

Less than half the time, three or four of them broke. One or two hundred people who were crossing the river were swept down by the river.

Chi Aotian immediately asked the captain in charge of crossing the river to combine the ropes, using three ropes to cross the horse and two ropes to cross the people. The small mercenary group, the Wild Eagle Swordsman Battalion, immediately set fire to the enemy as soon as they discovered the enemy situation - this was also arranged in advance

, anyway, the trees close to the inner part of the dense forest have long been cut down. The Wild Eagle Swordsman Battalion is responsible for the final protection, and controls the fire not to burn to the riverside, and waits for daybreak before crossing the river on its own.

Menton received Norton's express report. Under the numerous torches, Fanoshua's face turned red and white. After taking a few deep breaths, he immediately sent Qimodai with all the centaur archers to approach from the lower reaches and upwards.

Shooting arrows in the river. Then he called the 1,000th leader of the Norton Legion and asked him to immediately lead all the Norton Legion to assist Norton in attacking inward. Then, Mengton turned his face and looked at Han Han and the Grand Duke of Iron Hand Blocking the River, biting

Biting his lower lip: "You two, I have a merciless request. The sky is clear tonight, and the bandit army also lit a fire. On such a night, can the Dragon Knight take to the air to fight? Can the Phantom Beast Knight?

A battle in the air?"

Neither of the two top cadres of the Sweat Blood Mercenary Group expected that Mengton would force themselves into a position where they had to fight in just a few words.

The two strongest warriors showed ugly expressions at the same time! It is not difficult to fight Chi Aotian in the night, even with the many fantasy beast knights under Chi Aotian, it is not difficult. However, the opponent has

A black lightning! His Excellency the Grand Duke can even recall what he said yesterday - in the night, does anyone dare to fight with black lightning? The two strong men asked themselves this, and the answer was no! This

It has been separated from the category of who is braver. At night, human braves should never think of competing with forest elves.

Mengton knew that his request was quite excessive, but he had to continue: "For the safety of the two and many fantasy beast knights, I do not ask you to find Chi Aotian and Black Lightning to fight. It is difficult for us to retain such

The two brave men only need to go to the river and destroy the enemy's tools for crossing the river. With the speed of the dragon, this should be very fast. Perhaps, the two dragon knights will have won before the black lightning notices the change.

Returned."

"Okay!" The Grand Duke of Melendia had no choice but to nod! Menton said such words, which was already a loud slap in the face to two brave men who ranked very high on the fighting spirit list. The words were almost unpleasant to listen to.

to the point.

The two giant dragons had not left the military camp recently and came out of the sky as soon as they were summoned.

After a few breaths, two huge dragons, red and blue, had swept towards the Sicily River at low altitude. Although they were mentally prepared, the two dragon knights were still startled by the sight in front of them!

The Sicilian River is like dumplings, full of soldiers crossing the river! What's more shocking is that in the roaring and lapping river, these soldiers crossing the river actually swim quite fast and quite smoothly. People keep jumping in on the south bank of the river.

In the water, people kept coming ashore on the north bank of the river. Almost no one was swept away directly by the river water.

Why are there so many good people in Chi Aotian's army?

However, they couldn't control so much at this time. The two dragon knights and the six fantasy beast knights who were coming behind rushed towards the center of the river. The two giant dragons received the dragon knight's order almost at the same time, and the dragons simultaneously issued

There was a loud roar, and then, two balls of flame appeared jumping on the Sicilian River...

Immediately afterwards, like a thunderclap on the river, two large red dragon breath balls instantly shot towards the middle of the Sicilian River. The two giant dragons flapped their wings and flew straight into Yunxiao the moment they ejected the fireballs!

The dragon's breath shot into the water more than four meters deep. The center of the river seemed to be shattered, like a hundred thunders ringing in the ears at the same time. The river water in the center was vaporized in an instant, and white steam was shot towards the river with boiling hot water.

Sky!

"Bastard!" Chi Aotian had just summoned the dragon on the south bank of the river when he saw this scene. The young man yelled and stepped on the dragon. Unfortunately, the explosive air wave from the Sicily River rushed over fiercely. Chi Aotian

Tian and many soldiers were instantly blown to the ground by the air waves! Even the huge Yaolilong was tossed into the bushes by the air waves! When Chi Aotian climbed up to Yaolilong again, he saw that there were nearly a hundred people in the sky.

A mad vulture flapped its wings and shot at the two giant dragons.

In the river, countless soldiers, countless war horses, countless corpses of dragons were detached from the broken ropes, or slowly sank into the river, or were pushed forward by the roaring river water and flowed far away! More than 100 long ropes

Except for a few ropes upstream, all the other ropes were blown apart by flames and air waves. All the thousands of soldiers in the river were brought into their own territory by the god of death at this moment!

No officer of the expeditionary force had ever thought of such an ending. The iron-blooded soldiers on both sides of the river kept crying with their mouths broken. At this time, everyone discovered that the earth-shattering explosion just now made everyone's ears unable to hear a sound!

A few minutes ago, Qingluo saw the fire on the south bank and realized that the enemy had discovered the forced crossing. He immediately ordered all the forest elves to take off and divide them into two groups to move closer to the other side of the river from upstream and downstream to harass the other side and protect the soldiers in the river.

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The explosion shook the unprepared vulture so much that it almost fell from the sky. The elves immediately controlled the raptor with their minds. Looking at the tragic situation in the river, the forest elves all pounced on the dragon knight. In the night sky, there were faint lights.

Green arrow feathers shot towards the two giant dragons like raindrops.

Just when Chi Aotian was about to soar into the sky, Chang Qing ran over from the outside of the camp and grabbed the deputy captain. He looked at Chang Qing and said anxiously, but there was a metallic sound in Chi Aotian's ears, and he didn't know that the boy
To be continued...