Realm of Power

"Vertical Shield"

From where the blood mist rose, shouts of unresponsiveness were heard. The heavy rain of killing was already flying with the falling arrow clusters. Before the Feize soldiers on the raft could fully react, the scythe of death had already swept into the crowd. inside, "You bastard, take your shield quickly. I was hit in the back by a cluster of arrows. Blood mixed with the river water rolled down. A large number of corpses were wrapped in the river water like abandoned garbage, floating towards the stone bridge below. It flowed in the opposite direction, and the living people only dared to hide behind their shields. As the rafts were staggered by the waves, there was chaos.

"Team 2 is ready!"

General Fezer, who was at the rear, almost couldn't bear to close his eyes, and shouted angrily and ordered that no matter what happened in the front, the imperial army's attention must be held back during this period.

The scene on the river was completely miserable and hellish. Clusters of arrows continued to fall like a heavy rain. On the wooden rafts hit by the waves, the Feize soldiers on top were staggering. Many of them fell directly into the river. The little black dots wearing armor floated in the river for a few times. He couldn't see it anymore. The fierce attack from the opposite side was not tired at all as Omu said. It was just a normal attack. The Imperial Army's heavy crossbow had not yet been launched. This kind of operation of using wooden rafts to cross the river is simply letting the soldiers die, or in other words, it is just to let them die. These soldiers are not elites. They are just cannon fodder selected by various armies. Most of them are low-status servants.

Among the hundreds of thousands of Feize troops, there are about 30,000 such servants. Under normal circumstances, they do not need to go to the battlefield. But this time, Fezer's generals told these servants that as long as they could reach the other side of the river, their status as servants would be revoked, and they would also give a reward of one thousand gold coins to the first person to land. Even if you are not the first, as long as you If you can touch the river embankment on the other side, it will cost you ten gold coins per person. Don’t worry, that’s right. The Imperial Army above has run out of ammunition and food. Their crossbows have become moldy and soft in the heavy rain and are difficult to use. We will give you the most powerful assistance. A total of 30,000 archer troops will provide you with cover on the river bank. All you have to do is swim across on a raft and touch the opposite bank

"Sir, if it is so easy, why did you let us come?" The servants are not all fools. The servants have not seen the tragic attack on the bridge in the past few days. Occasionally, they will feel sorry for the poor people sent to the bridge. , and even felt lucky that the servants did not have to go to the battlefield, but now, they were ruthlessly pushed out,

"You are asking us to die," one of the servants yelled at the top of his lungs. "Blatantly disobeying military orders will result in death on the spot!" The war supervisor tilted his head, and several soldiers rushed up to drag the servant over and hold him in front of him. In front of everyone, he forcibly pressed his head to the ground. Poof, blood spurted from the headless chest to the rocks a few meters in front of him. " "Those who disobey orders will suffer the consequences. Those who capture the people on the opposite river bank will be immediately rewarded with a thousand gold coins. Anyone who captures the people on the opposite river bank will have their status as servants permanently revoked." The war supervising officer expressionlessly read the order in his hand. Close it, the beheading axes in the hands of a row of supervising troops behind them were cleaned brightly in the rain. The trace of red on the ax blade caused by too many killings is enough to make people's scalp numb.

"Woooo" The faint horn sound from upstream has been going on for an hour, and Omu's stern face remains unchanged. Rainwater flows from his body to the ground.

"The survival of hundreds of thousands of troops is completely placed on a bridge to cross the river. The Imperial Army really thinks that I am so stupid? Most of the reason why the Imperial Army is strong is based on powerful ordnance. If we have the same strength, Our army will not have any chance of victory, but Our army has more than three times the strength of the opponent, so there is nothing to fear. If it were not for the single bridge in front of us, the opponent would have been destroyed by our army in one go. Everyone should have seen that the heavy rain caused the water level to rise suddenly, and our army Crossing the river is more difficult, but the Imperial Army will not have it easy either." "Nearly half of their original tight defense facilities were washed away, and many defensive weapons were submerged in the water. In order to prevent us from grabbing the bridge, they had unconsciously moved these heavy defense weapons to the direction of the bridge entrance. At this moment, if I The army avoided the bridge and suddenly launched a full-scale crossing of a certain river. No matter how the Imperial Army counterattacked, In response, it is impossible to mobilize all the heavy defense weapons at once. As long as a hole is opened, our army can use it to cross the river. It is said that, but in actual practice, people still need to make sacrifices, so in Before actually crossing the river, we must convince the Imperial Army that our army’s attack direction has not changed."

"Sir, the river has calmed down." Finally, there was a slightly excited voice, breaking the calm. Just as the first echelon of Feize's servants rowed wooden rafts to attack across the river, the blood of being beaten by the imperial army flowed into the river. At that time, in a section of the river about five miles downstream of the stone bridge, a Fezer officer stood up from the river with a joyful expression.

The river, which was originally so fast that it was difficult to stand still, now showed rare signs of slow flow. The whirlpools were reducing and the speed of the water was obviously much slower.

"It should be that the battle upstream was successful."

Feize Army General Aomu's eyes moved away from a corpse of a Feize soldier floating down the river, and slowly raised his right hand towards the tens of thousands of silent soldiers behind him. In this hour, how many people were put into the upstream? It was impossible to calculate. The sacrifices of the upstream were not completely worthless. In addition to attracting the attention of the imperial army, another function was those rafts. After the soldiers were shot and fell into the water, the rafts were also swept down by the river. These rafts were enough to block the river at the stone bridge position.

Aomu had been observing the river for three days. Feize's generals all thought that Aomu was personally supervising the battle. In fact, Aomu was Study the size of the bridge hole of the Kanyaro Stone Bridge in front of you

The Kanyaro 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 and are quite thick. Whenever there is a flood, these bridge holes can separate the flood and achieve the effect of reducing the pressure of the water flow very well

The problem is that now thousands of rafts tied together are flowing downstream, and the length of each raft is more than three meters. They collide with the river water and quickly block these bridge holes. The water flow hits the rafts and the various corpses and debris blocked by the rafts, forming a water-blocking river invisibly Dam,

The rushing river water hit the bridge piers crazily here, 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.

"Get in the water!" The 35,000 Fezer troops, who were the main force of the attack, began to jump into the river. The dense crowds of people poured into the river. These Fezer elites were obviously more powerful and better at fighting than the first batch upstream. Even if they rushed into the river in a swarm, there was not much chaos. The soldiers squatting on the raft crouched and half straightened up, with the round shield in their left hand covering the front and top. In their hands were short thorns. Spears, under the cross-star helmets, pairs of bloodshot pupils radiated the same cold light as the short spears. They used their weapons as oars to paddle forward steadily, completely ignoring their companions who fell into the river and shouted loudly during the collision, and their eyes were only fixed on the front.

On the opposite bank, a red column of smoke went straight up into the sky. Even in the white rain, this red column of smoke was still very conspicuous. This place was beyond the defense line of the imperial army. There was only a sentry tower standing on the opposite river for surveillance. Now this lonely red column of smoke was above this sentry tower, but what could it do? Could the imperial army still fly over?

(To be continued.)