Realm of Power

Yanzhou North, Qinglan Fort

The Thunder God roared on the strong wall of the fortress, bursting into bright fireballs. Even this solid fortress built during the most powerful era of the Sino-Belgian Empire still suffered from the huge impact of the Thunder God. The rubble flew everywhere, and the defenders were caught off guard. It was already chaos. The arrows of the grassland archers rained down at the same time, directly hitting the area with the largest number of defenders in Yanzhou, and suddenly there were patches of blood.

Many soldiers originally didn't care about the falling arrow clusters. They all knew that the shooting power of grassland bows was poor. Even a large-density arrow attack would be useless if it could not penetrate the heavy armor of the Western Army. Who knew that the ridicule on the corner of the mouth had not disappeared yet? In an instant, he was stabbed into a hedgehog by the falling arrow clusters. As soon as his body softened, he fell straight to the ground. The person did not die immediately, but the blood seeping from the armor had already dyed the ground red.

"Since when has the grassland bow been able to shoot through heavy armor at a distance of a hundred meters!"

The soldiers of the Western Army who saw this scene suddenly panicked. The heavy armor of the Fifth Banner of the Western Army, which they thought was superior, was unable to withstand the arrow attacks of the Prairie Army. So what else could they use to stop the boundless Prairie Army in front of them? General Long Jue He quickly asked someone to fetch the fallen prairie arrow, and his face suddenly became ugly. The prairie arrow in his hand turned out to be a weighted triangular arrow. On it, you could faintly see a cold blue color falling from the cold-forged fine steel.

"This is... Zhongbia Armor-piercing Arrow!"

Long Jue's face changed drastically, and his eyes swept over the section of wall covered by the arrow rain. His eyes were immediately filled with blood. No wonder even the Long family's heavy armor could be broken. It turned out that the grassland people used Zhongbia's famous armor-breaking armor. Heavy arrows. Even among the Central and Asian armies, only a small number of elite archers can use these arrows. Moreover, according to the regulations of the Central and Asian Empire, except for the troops directly controlled by the central court, any other The legions are not allowed to be equipped with such heavy weapons. The front arrow is a fine steel arrow that has been forged many times. The weight is three to four times that of an ordinary arrow. The impact of falling from a height is enough to pierce a target wearing heavy armor. Almost all of Yachaotang was deployed to the Flattery Zhangwu Army, which was a necessary weapon used to block the steppe people's armored pagoda heavy cavalry. Unexpectedly, such a large number fell into the hands of the Yelu Army.

However, the Yelu family expanded in the central region this year and defeated the counterattacks of the Central and Libyan troops several times. At the same time, they also obtained a large number of weapons caches of the Central and Libyan troops in the central region. The quality of their weapons and equipment can be regarded as directly improved to the level of elites. , the Yelu family not only obtained a large amount of wealth in central China and Biya; Biya's craftsmen and military technology, and the heavy steel arrows that made the prairie cavalry hate them, also fell into the hands of the Yelu family. This time they marched into Yanzhou, which was related to the success or failure of the entire situation. The Yelu family could be regarded as sending out all the troops. This Naturally, a large number of such powerful weapons that can deal with heavy armor were brought with them, enough to sustain the army's continuous shooting for five hours.

Having more arrows is sometimes an advantage

This point is Yelu Hongtai's experience summed up from the imperial army's battle in Onnatso. The imperial army decisively fought the 50,000-strong Wolf Rui Army in Onnatso, using long-range firepower to directly collapse the Langrui Army. It is said that the loss was less than a thousand people. At that time, Yelu Hongtai did not recover for a long time. Considering that there were only so many people from the grassland tribes going south. , if he piled them with flesh and blood every time, he would have died long ago. On the contrary, arrow clusters are not a problem for the prairie people at all. How can the prairie people not know how to make arrow clusters? Among the prairie tribes, arrow clusters Women in the tribe are responsible for making them, and the husbands and sons who go out in battle use arrows made by their own women. This is a rule that the grassland people have formed over the years.

Therefore, among these tribal women, there are countless master-level fletchers. As long as the materials are enough, you can get as much as you want, and the quality is absolutely acceptable. There will never be any cutting corners. It is not that the prairie people are honest, but they are all themselves. A family man, his son uses it, who would joke about such a thing! Bows and arrows are the second life of a man on the grassland. If the arrow clusters are not made properly and something goes wrong, their lives will be lost!

"Keep shooting!"

Yelu Hongtai looked at the chaos of the Western Army on Qinglan Fort, raised his hand, with a hint of coldness in the corner of his mouth. After receiving the order, one team of grassland archers shot out, and the other team caught up, and arrow clusters continued to fly out. They fell densely on the Qinglan Fort in the distance. Among the armies in China and Bia, the most powerful Yanzhou Army cluster had disappeared, and the Fengzhang Zhangwu Army had been suppressed by him. On the southern front, only the Long Family's Western Army could always be avoided because of the relationship with the Falcon Empire Emperor. This would inevitably give people the illusion that the Yelu family seemed to be afraid of the Long Family's Western Army. Over time, people followed their opinions. To say that the Long Family's Western Army doesn't have the slightest bit of pride would be damning. But I have always had a default attitude towards this, and what I want is this moment.

No matter how the Long Family's Western Army is one of the two major field groups of the Zhongbia Empire, as long as they capture Qinglan Fort and open the door to Yanzhou's capital, tens of millions of Zhongbia's fine steel heavy arrows will pour out. Come on, I don’t believe you that the Long Family’s Western Army will not be fooled! Before the battle begins, if you throw arrow clusters around desperately, even if you can't cause huge damage, at least the opponent will be psychologically overwhelmed and unable to breathe. Over time, even elite troops will reach their psychological endurance limit.

As long as the opponent fluctuates, it is time for the grassland army to launch a full-scale attack.

This method has been regarded by the Yelu Army as a tried and tested secret method of siege. I don’t know how many local defenders known for their tenacity collapsed in the central part. The most important thing is that after the battle is over, these arrows can still be recovered. If you continue to use it, it will be almost lossless,” only fools do Use a machete to engage your enemy at hand-to-hand combat, and a wise man will use his own arrows to make the opponent unable to resist. "This kind of oral training, every time when a battle is formed, the leaders of the grassland tribes will go to the front line to convey it to all the tribes for a year. It has become the same discipline as the Yelu family’s battle manual.

As Yelu Hongtai said, the current Fifth Banner of the Western Army has indeed been shot.

It is well known that the prairie people are good at arrow attacks, and it is normal to be attacked by arrows in one or two rounds. However, after two consecutive hours of arrow attacks, even in ten columns, the prairie archer who fired first has been rotated three times. The arrows fired from the prairie army are still endless, and anyone will be blinded. This is no longer a war, this is simply an archery competition.

The city wall was already covered with arrow clusters, and there was no place to stand. The Western soldiers couldn't even raise their heads and were leaning behind the city battlements. When it came to military morale and so on, I'm afraid they couldn't raise it for a long time.

At the relatively safe foot of the city, densely packed people who had been wounded by arrows sat silently. Anyone who could move a little was wiping their swords. There were also some soldiers who were carried down and covered in blood, with a very special look in their eyes. Helpless and angry, what is this? Come up and fight with real swords and spears if you can. What's the point of shooting arrows all the time? One officer was also carried back from the city wall by several soldiers. Everyone had arrow clusters on their armor.

Dragging the wounded armor sash, the officer was still shouting in a hoarse voice, "There are not enough manpower on the city wall, I can still move, why lift me down!" But soon, the officer's shouting stopped, because He saw that the leader, Long Jue, was also being carried down. Long Jue himself was inevitably hit by a stray arrow and was lying on a template with his body underneath him. It was the guards who had put on mats and had taken off their armor. The two arrows on their shoulders and chests had broken arrow shafts, but they did not dare to shoot the arrows for a while. They just wiped them with strong liquor and bandaged them hastily. In order to support the morale of the army, He struggled to support himself on the fort wall for a while, but finally collapsed due to excessive blood loss and was carried down by the sergeants. Although the pain from the two wounds did not subside, the bleeding was too much and it was difficult to even hold himself up.

Long Jue never closed his eyes. In the sky above his head, arrows like locusts were still flying past. They landed not far away and made a sound of slapping into the wall. He listened to it for more than two hours continuously, even if he was Lifting it down, Long Jue's ears were filled with the echo of this sound. At this moment, Long Jue felt for the first time that Qinglan Castle was in danger.

"Start the attack and capture Qinglan Fort before dark."

Under the city, Yelu Hongtai raised his hand again, and countless grassland horns sounded at the same time. The infantry groups waiting quietly under the city surged forward in order. The rain falling from the sky had accumulated into pools on the ground, and was immediately covered by countless people. The foot of the animal skin stepped down hard, and the water splashed like an avalanche,

"Advance" Tens of thousands of steppe infantrymen marched in unison with murderous intent. They could not wait to flatten the Qinglan Fort in front of them. There were improvised ladders built one after another. The steppe infantrymen held scimitars in their mouths and held them in their hands. Holding the wooden shield, he climbed up. When he got close to the city head, he felt a heavy weapon hit the shield hard. He was a little thinner, and the man and the shield were knocked down at once, and they were hit hard. On the ground more than ten meters high,

Although the soldiers of the Fifth Banner of the Western Army suffered a lot of losses in the arrow attack, they could not care about that much at this time. They could only risk their lives and emerge from the city. As soon as they knocked down a prairie infantry, they felt a cold star. It dazzled the eyes, and the stunning star points were like starlight suddenly bursting out from the darkness, carrying a deadly aura, shattering the shield with unbelievable speed, "Puff puff!" A bloody flower exploded behind the shield. . The Western soldiers could even clearly hear the sound of blood exploding in their bodies.

"Kill!" The fierce shouts of killing resounded through the city wall. The Western soldiers standing on the high ground hurriedly raised their spears and stabbed the heads of the people below. The grassland infantry climbing below grabbed the opponent's spear and pulled it down. The scene where the two armies clashed was cruel and tragic, with spears and swords waving in the sky everywhere. The metallic light of the weapons was even more stern in the spring rain. The soldiers who fell to the ground were screaming, and the human bodies hit by arrows fell from the heights of the city wall. "Charge up, charge up!" The grassland army below was still shouting crazily, full of laughter. His bloodshot and cold eyes were just staring at the battlements above, and he was the first to board the city. The reward was one thousand. Under such a heavy reward, the eyes of the soldiers were red. Countless warriors fought fiercely for more than an hour with swords and swords. I don’t know how many people were lying down. Under the wall of Qinglan Fortress, the ground was stained with blood. Reflected in the firelight on the city wall, it looked like a spreading red quagmire. "The second team presses forward!"

The general in charge of commanding the siege shouted behind him with a cold look. The first team had just arrived, and the second echelon began to move forward. Unlike the first team, which was mainly responsible for laying the groundwork, the second echelon was the direct army of the Yelu Army. In the cold stream where raindrops fell on the ground, the Yelu family's soldiers were in high spirits, holding polished steel shields in their hands. When the whole army moved, it was like a layer of shimmering river belt approaching the city wall. The blood-inspired charge shouts exuded a full bloodthirsty and ferocious aura. These heavy armored troops in the front row of the Yelu Army held the terrifying long-handled maces in their hands. After climbing up the battlements, the first thing they did was to sweep across fiercely to scatter the weapons of the Western Army.

As the most elite troops under Yelu Hongtai, the Yelu Army wore double-layer armor when attacking the city, which was specially used to restrain sharp weapons such as spears and arrows. The key joints were covered with armor plates, and the overall heavy armor was covered on the outside. Wearing dense and fine chainmail, the spear will be stuck in the chainmail if it penetrates one layer, and it can only penetrate half a foot. If this kind of injury does not hit the head, heart, liver, spleen and other fatal parts, people will not die. After these personal soldiers jumped onto the battlement, it was like a huge whirlwind hitting the soldiers of the Fifth Flag of the Western Army. The armor also made a series of harsh metal sounds. Only a scream was heard from behind the shield, and blood exploded. It was blood spurting out from the broken wound. The bright red blood hole was pulled open as the shield was broken by the mace, revealing the panicked white face behind the shield. "Hold on, don't let the grassland people climb up!"

At the critical moment, Long Jue went to the battlefield again with the help of his guards, but a huge explosion suddenly came from the direction of the city gate, which frightened everyone. Long Jue shuddered and heard the sound of collapse. He felt the earth shaking. He ignored the pain and rushed to the fortress gate, only to see that the gate of Qinglan Fort had been pushed open by a team of grassland people dressed as Long's Western Army.

"It's over!" Long Jue's face was ashen. The grassland people were too cunning this time. They took advantage of the chaos to mix in a team of soldiers pretending to be Long's family and directly seized the city gate.

"Boom boom"

In the distance, there was a sound of shaking the earth. The grassland cavalry gathered outside the city began to move. The war horses Like thunder, the scimitars flashed white light in the falling water line. Countless grassland cavalrymen rushed towards the city gate frantically. In the face of this terrible impact, the earth shook violently, and the white water splashed by the horses seemed to have set off an earthquake in the cold rain. "Quick, let's go immediately!" Long Jue said to his guards, and took a dozen guards and turned around and ran to the other side of the city gate. The main gate was opened, and the grassland cavalry swarmed in. Qinglan Castle could not be defended, and the final decision could only be made. Long Jue's mind was full of confusion, and he could no longer take into account that there were still tens of thousands of soldiers fighting against the grassland army on the city wall. The tactics of the grassland army were no longer the same as before. This matter must be reported to the head of the family, Long Yang, immediately! (To be continued.)