The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

So after Zhou Xiaoyang ordered his men to clean up the battlefield, and then also bury pots and make rice, he returned to the simple temporary tent, fell down, and fell asleep quickly.

After sleeping for more than three hours, Zhou Xiaoyang woke up. At this time, he finally felt that his energy had recovered a lot, and his mind was no longer as groggy as before.

After Zhou Xiaoyang made an inspection tour, he found that his men had cleaned the battlefield and prepared dinner. Most of them had already eaten dinner and returned to their tents to sleep.

In today's battle, they eliminated more than 6,000 enemy troops and lost more than 3,000 undead warriors themselves. However, after the war, they collected more than 2,000 enemy corpses. The reason why they only collected this few corpses is because Most of the other corpses were taken away by the retreating enemy troops. Obviously those demons understood that keeping the corpses would only allow the enemy troops to create more undead warriors based on these corpses, so they could easily take them with them. The demons took all the corpses away, and only those that were too late to be taken away were collected by Zhou Xiaoyang's soldiers after the incident.

After a hasty dinner, Zhou Xiaoyang summoned a dozen of his officers and non-commissioned officers who were still awake, and then discussed the tactics for the next few days with these people.

Zhou Xiaoyang is self-aware and knows that he was once just a farm boy who couldn't read a word, so he worked very hard on his studies after entering the army. After becoming an officer, he was also willing to listen to all the opinions of his subordinates. The so-called three cobblers are like Zhuge Liang. In the process of discussing with his subordinates, Zhou Xiaoyang often gets some good ideas that make him shine. Therefore, the further behind, the more Zhou Xiaoyang fights, the more tricks he uses. There are many, and the tactics are extremely flexible and changeable, making it difficult for enemy commanders to predict. Just like today's defensive battle, Zhou Xiaoyang also played some tricks. The demons who learned Zhou Xiaoyang's methods for the first time also suffered a big loss. In the battle with elites against those undead warriors who were called cannon fodder, the battle The loss is actually more than the other party.

The senior military officials of the Qinglong Empire saw Zhou Xiaoyang's ability in this area, so they allowed such a low-level officer with weak personal strength to be promoted so quickly, and now he has become a major officer.

"Captain, I think those demons will definitely attack from the other two directions after suffering a loss today. We should also strengthen our defense in these two directions next..."

One of Zhou Xiaoyang's old subordinates was the first to speak. The second lieutenant officer named Liu Qingyang pointed to the sand table in front of him and pointed to the directions on the left and right sides of the hill that had not been attacked today.

The front side of the hill that was attacked today is considered to be the gentlest part of the mountain. Even the cavalry can slowly climb up. Therefore, those demons first chose the direction where the terrain was most beneficial to them to launch their attack today.

As for the left and right sides of the mountain, the mountain is much steeper, and there are still many trees that have not been cut down. The cavalry will definitely not be able to pass through this place. Only infantry can climb up. But it is enough as long as the infantry can advance. After all, in this kind of mountain attack, the infantry should be the main force. Those demons saw that just attacking in one direction did not work today, and they still suffered such a big loss. The next step will indeed be very difficult. It is possible to launch an attack from both directions together.

As for the back of the mountain, there is a small river, and it is heavily defended by Zhou Xiaoyang. The demons can be said to hate water the most, so they will not launch an attack from here unless they have to. The front of the mountain is the one that needs to be defended. and three directions on the left and right sides.

Then many people put forward some other suggestions. Some people felt that they could formally build some low walls made of logs, gravel, soil, etc. in some places with difficult terrain on the hillside to allow their own troops to escape. When those weak undead warriors are fighting against the enemy, they have bunkers that can withstand the enemy's long-range attacks. Even though it is just a low wall, because the enemy is attacking from the bottom up, this low wall can actually block it. Many attacks.

Then some people suggested using larger trees and stones to make rolling stones. When the enemy sent a large number of soldiers to attack, they would push these rolling stones down, and then the rolling stones would move along the mountain. If you roll down, you can definitely kill a lot of enemy troops, and it can also disrupt the enemy's formation, making it easier for you to divide and destroy them.

Zhou Xiaoyang couldn't help but nod his head after listening to the suggestions from his subordinates, and wrote down the ones he thought were good in the small notebook he carried with him.

After a night passed, several low walls had been built overnight on the front of the hillock and on the mountains on the left and right sides. In addition, on the top of the mountain, in addition to the small stone bullets used in simple catapults, There are also a lot of stones the size of millstones. These rolling stones have only been slightly polished, giving them a barely rounded outline and can roll down smoothly to kill the enemy. There are also those rolling logs, which are all made of thick trees that are at least five or six meters long and enough for a person to hug. There are also many pieces of metal inserted into the tree trunks. The metal pieces from the scrapped swords collected when cleaning the battlefield yesterday made it Its lethality is even more powerful when rolling.

In addition to the thick trees, the smaller trees and even shrubs were chopped down by Zhou Xiaoyang and the undead warriors under their command. It is easy to use coolies who do not need to rest or sleep!

Those trees were used to reinforce the low walls and make simple catapults, and because most of the shrubs had sharp wooden thorns on them, Zhou Xiaoyang placed them on the top of the low walls, so that if the enemies wanted to If you want to climb over the low wall, if you are not careful, you will be covered with bloody holes by those wooden thorns.

The hill that had been chopped bare by the undead looked particularly desolate. At the same time, the demon warriors who were preparing to continue attacking the mountain felt chilly in their hearts. After all, those tireless undead warriors were indeed too terrifying. It had only been one night. After transforming the hill like this, if a few more days pass, the hill will probably be forcibly built into an extremely strong fortress by those undead warriors.

Following the order from the commander at the rear, these demon warriors, despite their reluctance, still had to take heavy steps and began to slowly approach the hill.

Just as Zhou Xiaoyang and the others had guessed, this time the demons chose to attack from three sides, and each side sent about five thousand soldiers to participate in the attack.

Zhou Xiaoyang observed through the telescope that among the soldiers sent by the enemy this time, the proportion of demon warriors was higher. Last time, the proportion of demon warriors was at most one-fifth, but this time the proportion of demon warriors was almost half. Obviously, the demon general was also very angry because of yesterday's defeat, and was ready to send out his elite troops to capture this hill in one fell swoop, so as to erase the shame of the previous defeat.

However, Zhou Xiaoyang and the human soldiers under his command naturally would not let him get his wish. Following Zhou Xiaoyang's order, the zombies who were responsible for controlling the catapults on the top of the mountain immediately began to fire stone projectiles at the approaching enemy troops down the mountain.

After one night passed, these simple catapults were no longer just a dozen as before, but hundreds of them were made in one go.

At this time, with full firepower, the enemies suddenly felt what it was like to have stones raining down from the sky.