At this time, everyone no longer had any dissatisfaction. Zhao Long was right to send out scouts. If there were no scouts, they would not even know it when the monster army rushed in front of them.
Zhao Long was right to go up the mountain. The hillside could slow down the enemy's charge, and they could attack the enemy from a high position.
Qin Fang immediately said,
"Commander Zhao, let's go up the mountain and defend from a high position. This is a natural danger. There must be a fortress of our army stationed there. We can rely on the geographical location to resist the enemy."
Qin Fang was right, but he ignored one thing.
Zhao Long shook his head and said,
"We can't go up the mountain. It's too late. The desert wolves are running very fast, faster than horses. If we go up the mountain at this time, we are exposing our backs to the enemy and will be annihilated. The whole army obeys the order and forms an array on the spot.
Meet the enemy!"
Then, Zhao Long looked at the scout again and said quickly,
"Go and change your horse, then rush to Yumen Pass immediately, tell the guard over there about our attack, and ask him to send troops to support immediately!"
No matter whether you can survive the fight or not, it is best to seek help first to be on the safe side.
After all, this is a desert, and what they are fighting is an encounter, a field battle. In a field battle, human soldiers will not have an advantage against the demon army.
Following Zhao Long's order, his twenty commanders immediately galloped away on horseback to convey Zhao Long's order to his army.
Soon, more than 15,000 infantrymen crossed the baggage train and lined up facing the north to meet the enemy.
The heavy shield soldiers stood at the front, setting up their shields to resist the enemy's attack. Behind them were the pikemen. They raised their spears horizontally, exposing their shields, and pointed them towards the north.
Then came the long-sword soldiers, who drew their sabers, forming the third line of defense. Finally, there were the archers, all in formation, with their bows and arrows drawn, aiming to the north.
"Soldiers with long swords! Wait for the enemy to rush into the formation, then get down and chop off the legs of the desert wolf!"
Zhao Long sent a messenger behind him and immediately conveyed his order.
Soon, a dense group of monster beasts appeared on the horizon of the northern desert.
"Do monsters also have cavalry?"
Zhao Long frowned slightly and looked north.
There is a monkey riding on the back of each desert wolf. Most of these monkeys are holding sticks of wood and stone, and occasionally some are holding spears and short knives.
The demon clan does not have an arsenal for large-scale production of iron weapons. These weapons were captured in their battles with the human clan.
Wang Fugui looked at the densely packed demon army on the northern horizon. After gritting his teeth, he took out his spiritual slip and wrote quickly on it.
At this time, the demon army on the opposite side had already rushed over, rolling up the yellow sand all over the sky and charging towards them with great momentum.
The Imperial Guards, who were on the battlefield for the first time, saw this scene and involuntarily clenched their weapons.
They had made sufficient mental preparations before coming, knowing that they came to Yumen Pass to fight, and that fighting meant killing people. Although they encountered enemy troops before they reached Yumen Pass, none of them were frightened and ran away.
Zhao Long silently calculated the distance, and when the enemy's attack was only a few dozen meters away from the farthest shooting range, he waved his flag and ordered the arrows to be fired.
"Fire the arrow!"
"Fire the arrow!"
The commanders shouted loudly, and the archers immediately released arrows.
The overwhelming arrows were shot into the sky. When they fell, the enemy troops also rushed into the shooting range. In an instant, whole rows of desert wolves and monkeys fell down, their bodies covered with arrows.
"Flat shot!"
Zhao Long shouted.
At this time, the enemy troops behind are already very close, and the bows and arrows can no longer be thrown, so you have to choose to shoot flatly.
Another round of arrows was shot out, and scores of enemy troops fell.
In these two rounds of arrow rain, at least two thousand desert wolves and monkeys were wiped out.
These are cavalry desert wolves. They are ordinary monsters and cannot be compared with elite scouts like the scout desert wolves. They have no power to resist under the rain of arrows.
At this time, the Desert Wolf Cavalry finally bumped into the heavy shield soldier at the front.
The desert wolves ran very fast. Although there were fallen comrades in front that slowed down their speed, they trampled over those comrades mercilessly and hit the shield hard.
Loud noises kept coming, and many of the shield soldiers at the front were knocked away. For a moment, their bones were broken and their tendons were broken, and they vomited blood and fell to the ground.
The desert wolves and monkeys in the front row were also killed by the spearmen at the back.
But precisely because of this, the speed of the attack of the Desert Wolf cavalry behind also stopped.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Long immediately ordered the shield soldiers to rear up and the spear soldiers to press forward.
At the same time, he also ordered the long-sword soldiers to quickly deal with the desert wolves that rushed into their own camp.
Those desert wolf cavalry were unable to follow up and their comrades behind them did not follow up. As a result, they were heavily surrounded by long sword soldiers and were quickly strangled.
The spearmen and long sword soldiers launched a counter-charge. In the hand-to-hand encounter, the demon clan's cavalry advantage was completely lost.
At the same time, Zhao Long ordered again, and his five thousand cavalry detoured from both sides, came behind the Desert Wolf cavalry, and launched a charge.
Zhao Long's tactics were very simple. He used his own superior strength to contain the opponent's speed, and then used his own cavalry to make dumplings, striving to completely annihilate the enemy.
The spear soldiers marched forward neatly, and the long sword soldiers penetrated into the enemy formation, constantly slashing the legs of the desert wolf. As long as the desert wolf fell, whether it was the wolf or the monkey on its back, it would be chopped into pieces immediately.
Meat puree.
At this time, the cavalry had completed the encirclement and used their own speed to charge towards the chaotic enemy group.
The stopped cavalry is inferior to infantry and can only be slaughtered.
After seeing this scene, Zhao Long breathed a sigh of relief and said,
"Victory is determined."
Wang Fugui beside him smiled and said,
"You can do it, kid. If there weren't scouts who spread the information in time, the chaotic marching team before would have been dispersed by the monsters in one wave...
If it were other generals here, facing the monster cavalry, they would only dare to defend steadily, unlike you, who can turn defeat into victory and take the initiative to attack."
Zhao Long smiled slightly and said,
"You definitely can't use cavalry to hedge. Besides, it's good to defend steadily. You won't lose, but you won't win either. I want to win."
Then, he said to the two strong men beside him,
"Please ask Mr. Chai and Princess Nian'an to help in the battle in order to reduce the casualties of our soldiers."
Nian An frowned when he heard this.
"Am I your soldier?"
"An excellent commander must make reasonable use of our advantages."
Zhao Long said without blushing and his heart not beating.
However, at this moment, dense enemy troops appeared again on the northern horizon.
"The enemy still has follow-up reinforcements!"
Chai Yuan's expression changed drastically.
The battle in front of us is already very stalemate. If tens of thousands more troops come, our side will definitely lose.
Even if he and Nian An, two third-level warriors, went into battle, they would be eaten alive by tens of thousands of monsters.
Zhao Long frowned and thought quickly about countermeasures.
The army of the northern demon tribe launched a charge here.
Moreover, several crawling monsters flew from the sky.
The crawling monster can fly, it is a third-grade monster!
In the face of absolutely superior force, any tactics are in vain.
What's more, the current battle situation does not allow Zhao Long to retreat.
The densely packed tens of thousands of troops and several third-level monsters coming from the north made everyone despair.
"Everyone, be prepared to sacrifice your life for your country."
Zhao Long picked up the spear and prepared to kill the enemy.
When a commander has no choice but to take the lead in the charge, he has the last option.
It's not that Zhao Long has no skills, he just has too few troops.
If you give him 50,000 troops, he will have more room for maneuver!
However, just as the important figures were preparing to go into battle, a dragon roar suddenly came from the west.
Everyone turned around and saw a huge golden dragon, fighting against the strong wind, opening its bloody mouth and spitting out blazing fire towards the demon reinforcements in the north.
Wang Fugui smiled when he saw this, patted Zhao Long on the shoulder and said,
"There's no need to die, your Zhenbei Hou is here."