Realm of Power

"How can these imperial army's slingshots hit so far? One rolling stone almost destroyed half of the squad!"

The generals of the Long family came back to their senses from the scene in front of them with pale faces, and there was a touch of fear in their eyes. They did not know that the attack and defense of Lanzhi City, known as the meat grinder, would take place for hundreds of years. , has always been regarded as a human sea tactic for infantry in China. The most brutal collision with the defense system of the Western Continent. Both sides belonged to the infantry system. Under the premise of fully possessing overwhelming force, the human wave tactics launched by the Long Family ultimately failed to cross the Lanzhi City defense line and achieve a surprise attack on the northwest of the empire. strategic goals of war

"Almost all the offensive roads have been destroyed. Now they are blocked by rocks. The troops cannot go up at all. If they stop there, they will be a living target. It is better to wait for the opponent to stop before moving forward!" A Long family general swallowed dryly. Spit, he bravely reported to Longshan who was standing in front and staring at the entire battlefield.

Longshan's face was silent. The army was attacking. There was no one who could not die. He attacked with all his strength. Otherwise, once his morale dropped, the next time he wanted to drum up such a strong morale, the effort required would be several times greater. More than anything else, the most important thing is that the first attack was defeated. Now he is gathering the strength of the whole army to attack again. If he is defeated again... Longshan's hand full of veins is already tightly clenched at this moment. Can he withdraw?

"The imperial army's stone throwing almost destroyed the road below. It is always necessary to clear the road before moving forward. Under such circumstances, I am afraid that the road cannot be cleared!" Seeing that Longshan was silent, the generals asked Longshan one after another. , the loss is really too big, I admit I couldn't stand it anymore. The imperial army's rolling stone tactics were too fierce. On the streets of Lanzhi City that were originally tilted at an angle, the rolling stones with huge kinetic energy roared down and crushed the human body. The angle of the slope, continue to roll forward downwards,

At this moment, the generals of the Long family realized how terrifying the terrain of Lanzhi City was because of the existence of natural slopes. Rolling stone bullets weighing hundreds of kilograms or even more than a thousand kilograms were the most terrifying weapons at this moment. Under the acceleration of gravity, Rolling stone after landing The speed increased instead of decreasing, bouncing and leaping in the street, making a thunderous crushing sound. Under the horrified eyes of the Long family soldiers, it was like a roaring ferocious beast running along the grid formed by the street. Rushing to the right, sending up pieces of blood, flesh and smoke

The Long family soldiers below were driven into chaos, and all the formations dispersed. Their courage collapsed in the face of these huge non-human rolling stones, almost in the blink of an eye.

"Spread out"

"The pressure is coming, run quickly!" the Long family soldiers who were running towards the rear yelled sternly. This was completely beyond the range of human resistance, but the speed of the rolling stones was too fast. Looking at the rolling stones one after another It roared down in a rampage, knocking down the comrades in front who couldn't dodge. As they were crushed and crushed one by one, many Long family soldiers were frightened and desperately climbed onto the houses on both sides to escape. However, they were greeted by bursts of fire from the Imperial crossbowmen. Often they had just climbed onto the houses. Half of his body emerged, and he was shot by the incoming crossbow arrows.

With eyes wide open with reluctance, the lifeless body rolled down from the roof of the house like fallen leaves swept by the autumn wind, and was caught by the rolling stones below. The blood hit the wall.

On the surface of these rapidly rolling boulders, the number of people is completely meaningless. Even a whole team of Long family elite infantry only needs to be staggered by four or five rolling stones, and basically there are not many alive, just like blossoming flowers. Plum blossoms popping against the nearby wall, even if Most of those who survived were miserable with their hands and feet broken off. The most serious ones were the backup troops who had just been put in. As a result, there were almost countless Long family soldiers who were crushed to death because they were unable to dodge. The damage caused by this was even higher than A direct hit will cause greater casualties.

"If we can't even conquer a small city, how can our Long family have the dignity to be called the first fighting force in Central and South Africa!"

Longshan's face was gloomy. Under the expectant gazes of the generals, he clenched his fists and said coldly, "Why are you panicking! I don't believe how much preparation the Rolling Stone Imperial Army can have! This kind of short-lived attack is... It can be used temporarily, but if we order the troops to withdraw now, the morale of our army will really weaken! "

Long Shan looked back from the smoke-filled streets in front of him with piercing eyes. His face was extremely cold, and he ordered the generals behind him, "Send orders to all armies. Anyone who attacks the streets and dares to withdraw from the streets without authorization will be killed!" If you can't hit the squadron leader above the center line of Lanzhi City before dark, kill him!"

"grown ups!"

After hearing Longshan's order, the generals were confused. They didn't give the order to withdraw. They actually demanded that the attack line must cross the middle of Lanzhi City before dark. If they didn't see Longshan in front of them, he didn't look like he was crazy. The generals all suspected that something was wrong with Mr. Longshan. Although the Long family’s army marching north this time had more than 100,000 troops, according to the This kind of fighting method is afraid that just one Lanzhi city will seriously weaken the Long family's army. At least so far, the Long family has lost more than 10,000 combat forces. It has already been so tragic before entering the northwest. In the northwest, facing the elites recruited by the empire from all directions, is it really possible to have all the more than 100,000 Long Family soldiers buried in the northwest?

"Didn't you hear the order!?

Longshan turned around with a cold expression, his eyes swept across the faces of the generals, and his thin cheekbones showed even more coldness. He slightly curled his lips and said, "Don't you guys understand? This attack on the northwest of the empire, first of all, Soldiers are expensive and fast. If it takes several days to conquer a mere Lanzhi city, then After we cross Lanzhi City, let alone attack Xijinggu and cut off the empire's retreat in the northwest, I am afraid that the empire's army has already arrived in front of us. Now we can only press forward with all our strength and sacrifice our lives in exchange for the seizure. Lanzhi City's time, otherwise, our Long family's northward march would be a joke! " "This..." Under Longshan's sharp, knife-like eyes, the Long family generals showed a flash of realization. For the Long family's northward march, the most critical thing is time. Use fast to defeat slow, surprise them and attack them unprepared. Once they wait, After the empire reacted, not to mention marching north, fearing that the empire's subsequent violent retaliation would be enough to put the Long family on the verge of extreme danger

In this battle, from the moment the Long family attacked Lanzhi City with all fronts, there was no other choice but to move forward. Facing the entire difficult and somewhat excessive Lanzhi City, apart from paying for it with human lives, it was really There is no good way!

"Now that we all understand, let's go down and take command!"

Longshan took a deep breath and looked again at the lower half of Lanzhi City where smoke and dust rose in the distance. Taking the risk of defeating the empire in exchange for a huge strategic advantage and reputation was a huge gamble in itself. If the Long family won, they could The imperial power was completely blocked from China and Bia. With this reputation, he can truly become the Heavenly Lord of Central Asia. On the contrary, even if the Long family fails, the reputation of the Long family will not be affected, but will only be higher. As for facing the empire's revenge, Southwest With the existence of a barrier like the mountains, what can the empire do to the Long family?

"Those who run away, behead them!"

"Those who retreat without permission will be killed!"

"Any squadron leader who has not crossed the center line of Lanzhi City before dark, behead him!"

The three-kill order was like a hurricane sweeping through the entire Long Family Army. As a series of tough orders were issued, even the commanders of each army personally went into battle to direct and supervise the battle. The Long Family Army was thrown into chaos by stone bombs. Finally, we stabilized our position.

"Boom!"

The sound of stone bullets hitting the earthen wall resounded all around, like a bulldozer crashing into the crowd of the Long family. For a moment, many people fell on their backs, and for a while, blood splattered. Shouts burst out from the chest, and there was no longer a team. Shape, completely relying on instinctive dodge

This time, the Seventh Army and the Ninth Army, the elite troops of the Long family, advanced to the front. These two direct troops of the Long family were far superior to other troops in terms of preparation and fighting will. They cleared the collapsed rocks again. , the backup troops finally poured in again, and the Long family’s The advance line continues to move towards the middle section of Lanzhi City. If you have a pair of eyes in the sky at this moment, you will see such a strange scene. On the chessboard-like streets of Lanzhi City, countless Long Family soldiers are climbing Like branches and vines, spreading towards the middle of Lanzhi City

"Move forward!"

The squadron leaders of the Long family shouted wildly. If they couldn't cross the center line, their heads would be gone. What did they care about now? They just kept their heads down and moved forward desperately. The palms holding the spears had already been wrapped in thick cloth. They lived on the first floor just to avoid the human blood flowing down the stabbing spear until the palms of their hands slipped, the sound of stone bullets hitting the wall, and the muffled screams of those being crushed. The sound of wounded soldiers wailing and falling to the ground, and the heart-wrenching sound of arrows piercing their flesh and blood. As the attack line crazily advanced towards the center line, human corpses fell densely in one area as if they were free of charge. , the blood followed the trickle formed by the ravines on the dry ground in the street, and was spattered by people's feet, turning the earthen ramparts on both sides into a wall of blood.

It's just all kinds of chaos, smoke and dust are rising,

The elite troops of the Long family passed through the streets of death with a fierceness that was not afraid of death. Their blood-red eyes were wide open, their faces were twisted and hideous, and their armor was stained with blood. The injured areas were still shouting to move forward, and fewer and fewer soldiers followed, but they had no intention of retreating.

There are also fewer and fewer slings from high places. The number of such rolling stones cannot be large in the first place. As Longshan said, this is also a temporary attack method. At this moment, it is under the huge trebuchet of the empire. , thousands of Imperial trebuchet personnel have also arrived After reaching the limit of their physical strength, they sat on the ground panting one by one. They had to stop. They fired three to four hundred slings in one go. Not to mention that it was unbearable, even the wooden slings began to make an overwhelmed rattling sound. At any time, Collapse may occur,

Sensing the change, the Long family's army let out a burst of cheers. The empire was at the end of its rope! "Sir, the Long family army has approached the center line!" A subordinate ran over to report,

Glancing at the already fading sunlight above his head, Bai Wufeng narrowed his eyes slightly. He was condescending and naturally saw this scene very clearly. The tenacity of the Long Family Army made this imperial general who was born in the Yanzhou Army feel... I was surprised. Although I knew that the Long family was famous for their tough mountain infantry, I still didn’t expect that after experiencing such a tragic blow, they didn’t even pause for a moment and continued to launch wave after wave of climaxes.

After such a hard fight, even the most powerful Yanzhou Army, which had conquered the northern grassland people and moved south, would probably be at this level.

The Long family army in front of us is not the most elite force of the Long family. It is not difficult to imagine why the tens of thousands of Long family elites led by Long Po, the head of the Long family, were able to penetrate Northwest, Yanzhou, Daizhou, etc. The strength of the troops ranged from tens of thousands out of Guangzhou to Linchuan. The people of the Long family have now become five or six hundred thousand entrenched in Daizhou, eyeing the imperial capital, and fighting to support the war. In the past two years, the morale and tenacity of the Long family have far surpassed other Central and Asian troops. The name of the First Battle Army is well deserved! But that’s where it ends,

"Change the flag!"

Bai Wufeng waved his hands with a stern expression, and a golden military flag was raised by the soldiers.

The streets in the lower half of Lanzhi City are too large and are completely insufficient according to the imperial military strength. This is why even though earthen ramparts were used to block the streets, the Long family still defeated them one by one with their absolute advantage in military strength. However, after Lanzhi City reached the middle section, With the city limits With the height of the mountains shrinking, the city layout like a triangle has reached less than half of the original connected area. The defenders of Lanzhi City are not only the 20,000 infantrymen of the Imperial Wilderness Legion, but also Muli. A cavalry regiment under the command of He,

Looking at the flag displayed by the camp above, an imperial cavalryman located below the camp raised the flag gun in his hand. There was a golden wolf head flying on the top of the spear. Under the sunset, this fluttering military flag looked like As if they had absorbed the moisture in the air, they were just stuck heavily on the flagpole. Four thousand imperial prairie cavalry neatly mounted their sturdy and plump armored war horses, holding their hands He was carrying a heavy spear, and the shafts of the feathered arrows in the quiver on his back were also extremely long. At first glance, they looked like heavy arrows that could break through armor. It was a cold sight, because they were located on a high ground, and the Long family infantry below were struggling towards the middle section. They didn't notice a black cloud rushing toward them, like two torrents of steel pouring into a furnace at the same time, destined to cause sparks to fly everywhere.

"Attention, ahead!"

The Long family infantry who were clearing the road at the front finally felt something was wrong. The ground was shaking, and a sound like muffled thunder was approaching rapidly. The moment they raised their eyes, they suddenly let out a cry of terror, followed by other Long family soldiers. ,, looked dumbfounded as countless oncoming black-armored cavalry suddenly appeared in front of them, rushing into the street entrance in front of them like a landslide and tsunami,

"Son of a bitch!"

Who would have thought of the embarrassment of encountering heavy armored cavalry in the streets. When the Long family soldiers saw the advancing formation of the empire's heavy cavalry running at the front, and the row of heavy lances that could make people's scalp explode, Even the Long family soldiers, the only thing they can think about at this moment is to turn around and run away. Who is so wicked to attack the narrow street with heavy cavalry!

"Escape quickly, there is an ambush."

"What are you doing, move forward," the people in front yelled at the top of their lungs, trying to turn around and run away. Others behind had no idea what was going on. Why were they running when the center line was clearly in front of them? For a moment, the Empire's heavy cavalry was like a huge steel wall, slamming into the crowd of Long family soldiers.

"Puff, puff, puff!" The sound of heavy cavalry spears rushing into the cavalry's bodies and bones shattering. Countless spear tips were red with blood, and yellow and white brains exploded, directly crushing, drowning, and trampling the people who were crowded together in front. Then, he casually threw the heavy cavalry spear that could no longer be used on the ground, took out the prairie scimitar from his horse, and continued to press forward.

"Killing" swords and swords flashed, blood and flesh flew everywhere, the earth shook and the mountains were shaken by the imperial charge, the invincible imperial heavy cavalry was simply unstoppable in the narrow streets, blood flew everywhere, and the human body was like broken snow under the horses' hooves. Like a pile, it turned into a splash of terrifying bright red, crushing the Long family's attack line in one breath.

"Before, those who retreat will be killed!" The Long family generals supervising the battle from behind didn't know what was going on in the front. They shouted angrily and chopped several people to death with their swords. They still couldn't stop the people running back from the streets.

(To be continued.)