Xie Feng paced back and forth, and said annoyedly: "I was careless for a moment and did not expect that the fine work would be so cunning."
Liu Ruyan stood on the bottom and lowered her head: "It's because the bid is not effective. I guess the meticulous work dare not take the risk of showing up, destroying these weapons that act as bait, so she hijacked Gongshuyu."
Xie Feng looked at her and asked, "The most urgent task is to rescue Gongshuyu from the enemy. Are you sure?"
"The bidding is given, and the general is determined to be trusted."
She had a premonition that the Xuankun seal would appear soon.
"Report—"
An envoy carrying many flags rushed to Xie Feng to report.
"According to the war report sent back from the front line, after the declaration of war was issued, our army's joint Jiangnan Navy had already assembled. We are waiting for the general's instructions."
Xie Feng put on his armor and helmet and sent a command: "I will go on the battlefield and command the overall situation."
"Here--"
General Xie Feng stepped out of the camp. He suddenly turned around and looked at Liu Ruyan with a serious look.
The next moment, he turned around silently and rushed to the front line with the commander.
Liu Ruyan watched him get farther and farther away, and then she also put on armor.
In order to sneak into the Southern Han military camp, rescue Gongshuyu, and find Xuankun seal, you can only break through these 100,000 soldiers and heavy armored elephant formations.
Nine deaths for a lifetime!
She calmed down, brought the Hanyue Knife and Spear, and stepped out of the camp.
Although the Southern Han Dynasty had weak national strength, its army was known for its bravery and good combat, especially in Lingnan and Guangxi, where the people's customs have always been fierce.
This time, it will inevitably be strongly resisted by local soldiers, and a fierce battle is inevitable.
Lotus Peak, the two armies confront each other.
The peaks are backed by the vast river water, and the fog dissipates in the morning, and the army gathers here.
In the vast wilderness, there are dense chariots and horses and soldiers.
Xie Feng ordered that nearly a thousand three-bow bed crossbows be arranged in front of the formation, and each crossbow cannon was equipped with multiple crossbowmen.
Behind the crossbow were well-trained crossbowmen and archers. Among these crossbowmen, Liu Xin held a crossbow bow and was also waiting for the battle.
The formation was made of elite cavalry and infantry, Liu Ruyan, Shen Yanchu, and Dong Qingxian stood among the group of people with long spears.
Opposite them, the Southern Han army placed the war elephants at the forefront with all their might.
These war elephants are well-equipped, covered with heavy armor, and several layers of fish-scale steel armor leaves are hung outside. The head, chest, abdomen, and legs are protected by steel plates, and the ivory, which is the main weapon, is also covered with sharp edges.
spear tip.
Above the war elephant, a tower was carried.
The building is divided into three floors, the first floor is the driver, the second floor is the crossbowmen, and the top floor is the sentinel.
According to the deployment of the Southern Han Army, the war elephants charged forward, with cavalry and infantry following closely behind.
With the drumbeat, thousands of battle elephants rushed from the distance of the flat ground with a scattered momentum.
At first glance, it was like a black cloud of ink was approaching.
Xie Feng was sitting on the horse's back with a reins in his hand. A rumbling elephant sound came from his ears. He frowned and found that the stones around him were rolling down.
For the first time I witnessed the elephant herd, the huge creatures were like mounds. Even though the war horses under my seat had been through the battlefield for a long time, facing completely unfamiliar species, they could not help but dig the horse's hooves in anxiety and retreated in panic.
In the vast wilderness and dust, the war elephant wearing armor gradually showed its shape.
The Song army standing in front all raised their heads and looked up at the giant figure several stories high.
Song Jun was so excited that he was sweating in a cold sweat in such a situation.
Xie Feng immediately ordered, "The crossbowman obeys the order, and the fire attack will meet the enemy!"
As he finished speaking, soldiers raised their flags and the military orders were quickly conveyed.
Seeing this, the crossbowmen in front of the formation set out their bows, twisted the strings, and filled the tail of the giant arrow shaft with black gunpowder.
Black gunpowder originates from alchemy's alchemy.
Nowadays, black gunpowder has been introduced into the military and has become a new type of combat weapon, used together with fierce tinder oil in the fire attack tactic. The gunpowder during this period was not very explosive and was mainly used for arson.
I saw countless boiling rockets at a height from the sky, like meteorites passing through the field.
The three-bow bed crossbow has an amazing range and an unprecedented lethality.
Before the elephant herd arrived at the war zone, it was disturbed by oncoming raids.
The strongest defense on the battlefield elephant was shot by triangular armor-piercing arrows and drove straight in, through the fish scale armor, through thick steel plates, through cowhide lining, and finally through the skin of the war elephant.
The battle elephant fell heavily to the ground, and the soldiers in the tower were even thrown out, and they were immediately covered in blood.
Seeing this, Xie Feng ordered again, and the Song army concentrated their firepower and continued to attack fiercely!
Three-bow bed crossbow and ordinary crossbow, they use arrows to shoot in an orderly manner.
The arrows carry flames, covering the sky and the sun, and the Southern Han Elephant Formation is in a state of purgatory.
Apart from the war elephants that fell to the ground and died, other elephants and soldiers readjust their formations and resisted in the rain of arrows.
Batches of soldiers fell one after another.
The two armies confronted each other - crossbowmen, infantry charge, cavalry trapped, and slashed their heads.
Countless war horses fought together, fighting each other continuously, and the scene was bloody and brutal.
This is the battlefield of life and death!
Liu Xin and others fired arrows at the enemy under the protection of the shield. The companions around him died one after another. Liu Xin was frightened, but he did not dare to stop shooting arrows for a moment.
Until the shield hand in front of him fell to the ground and died, Liu Xin suddenly froze.
He turned his eyes in a daze and stared at the familiar face.
I still remember that when I first entered the military camp, he lived in the same camp with the shield.
They were sobbed by the iron whip. When their butts didn't hurt so much, they secretly went to catch the hare again. However, the hare didn't catch it, but accidentally caught a raccoon dog.
The two of them thought that the raccoon was so pitifully thin that they simply put it back to the mountains.
A few months later, one of them went to the powerful crossbow formation and the other went to the Shield Hand Camp, becoming good brothers who truly share life and death.
"Abu——" Liu Xin shouted in a hoarse voice.
The shield hand closed his eyes completely in front of him.
Liu Xin was breathing, and his chest felt as painful as a needle.
He tightened his fists, and the blue veins on his neck bulged, which furthermore the sadness and helplessness of this moment, swallowing the despair and tears of this moment.
Behind him, the fighting continued to sound.
Liu Xin turned around in a daze, the lead-gray sky reflected the red earth, the ground was covered with corpses, war elephants, horses, and his comrades around him.
These people once stood with him on the school ground and studied hard, soaked in the river and slapped in the water, squatted in the trenches and digged the soil desperately.
So vivid.
So dazzling.
And now, they closed their eyes and lay on the ground in a row.
His face was covered in blood and his body was broken. He was waiting for the wild beasts and maggots to eat them all, becoming a pale white and broken skeleton bones, a tomb of thousands of people.
Battles are always accompanied by massacre, whether it is enemy or we, invasion and invasion, unity and unification.
Liu Xin lowered his head silently, and the soles of his shoes had long been stained with blood.
He couldn't call out all the soldiers' names.
But he knew that these people were like him, with their elders and even their wives and children at home, waiting every day, waiting every month, and waiting every year.
Finally, in the coming year's Qingming Festival, three fragrances burned and three sounds of the dead souls were shouted.