fire.
Mountains full of fire.
Originally in the dark environment, they had walked about half of the distance in the valley. At this half distance, their eyes had already adapted to the darkness in the valley.
Although there were faint lights from torches and moonlight along the way, in order to sneak, they undoubtedly kept the brightness within the range that they could just see. Otherwise, they would not have reacted like this after seeing the scarecrow.
But now that they saw the dots of fire on the surrounding mountains on both sides, they couldn't help but feel panic again. Before they even left the valley along the way, the emotions of these Hu soldiers had been repeatedly tortured several times.
I saw a lot of Daxia soldiers standing above the valley. Next to every soldier holding a bow and arrow, there is a soldier holding a torch.
After seeing this scene, the spirits of these barbarian soldiers were like iron wires that had been bent repeatedly and were broken instantly.
Before the battle began, the combat effectiveness of this army had been almost exhausted, and it had almost become a remnant army that was about to collapse.
"Hide quickly!"
In the valley, with a shout accompanied by horror, there was already a sound of pulling a bowstring above the valley. Immediately afterwards, the sound of sharp arrows flying through the air came, and countless arrows were fired from both sides of the valley towards the middle of the valley.
In a moment, in this valley, there was a burst of mourning.
The second wave and the third wave took advantage of the terrain in this valley, and countless sharp arrows poured down from the sky like rain.
By the time the several thousand Hu troops were completely withdrawn from the valley, they were scattered to the point where only a few hundred people remained.
In this dark night, countless Hu soldiers rushed to escape, so that they could not become one of the many hedgehogs in the valley. The barbarians' camp was just a few hundred meters away, and the firelight in the camp could already be seen from here.
And when these barbarian night attack troops completely withdrew from the valley, another strange scene appeared in front of them.
Someone turned around and realized what was wrong with the matter——
In the dark night, countless giant ballistae could be vaguely seen, staring eagerly in their direction. To be precise, it should be in the direction of the Hu barracks.
"one two three……"
The retreating barbarians had trembling voices as they counted the number of giant ballistae in front of them one by one. But they were surprised to find that these ballistas had actually been manufactured long ago, but they were usually disguised with rags, leaves and the like, so they couldn't tell without looking carefully.
What the soldiers of Daxia are doing now is to completely tear off the coverings covering these ballistas.
"The Daxia people are so cunning, they even arranged so many crossbows around our camp without knowing it!"
"But why are they putting so many ballistas here?"
In this era, the role of the ballista was not very great. Although there are also ballistae vehicles, most of the time they are still used for formation breaking and other purposes.
After all, the giant arrows and the power of the ballista were unable to withstand the shield wall formed by ordinary soldiers. Usually it only takes a few shots to completely disrupt the opponent's formation.
But what appeared before them now was an entire barbarian military camp. Even though there were more than a dozen of these giant ballistae, they seemed to be unable to cause any harm to the camp.
"No matter what, we'd better go back and report to Shanyu first!"
"There are so many of us, spread out, they can't attack us with giant crossbows!" Some of the deserters who were running away were sober, and now they spoke immediately.
After hearing this, the surrounding barbarians also felt that it was reasonable and dispersed one after another.
But the next second, an order came from behind, causing their bodies to stiffen and freeze on the spot.
"ignition!"
Just two words made all their plans come to nothing. They even saw with their own eyes, a dozen huge arrows with bright arrows, like the fire of destruction with a long tail in the apocalypse, flying towards the barbarian camp in front of them.
Subsequently, along with the explosions that sounded in the Hu people's military formation, there were bursts of soldiers wailing.
The Hu soldiers who were rushing towards the camp just now were like headless flies, neither moving forward nor retreating.
The people who escaped from one hell stared blankly at the camp in front of them, which was filled with flames. It was another hell that was being burned by fire at the moment.
At this moment, on the mountain not far from the barbarian camp, the soldier controlling the giant crossbow turned his head and looked at Dai Tianye excitedly.
"General, we succeeded! The offensive power of this rocket crossbow is very powerful! Now the barbarian company has been burned into a sea of flames!"
Dai Tianye nodded: "Well, let's fire another salvo and see the effect. Remember, the fire must be spread throughout the barbarian camp."
"yes!!"
After a few crisp answers, more than a dozen ballistas were fired again. The areas that had not been spread by the sea of fire just now were already engulfed in flames.
Han Qingyu looked at the burning camp in front of him with a complicated look on his face.
The ballista in front of me was the result of modifications made by craftsmen after Wang Lin's suggestion. In addition to the longer range of the crossbow, the most important change is the arrow of the crossbow.
Drawing on the experience of the Hu people's catapult last time, Wang Lin ordered the craftsmen to add several locations for storing flammable materials near the arrows. Once the flaming giant crossbow is fired, it will fly towards the enemy camp with these flammable materials, spreading the fire in the enemy camp.
And compared to the catapult, the rocket crossbow has smaller equipment. It coincides with this kind of terrain where the high is high and the low is low, so the accuracy has improved a lot.
From the current point of view, the effect of this rocket crossbow is indeed good. In just a moment, the camp has become a sea of fire.
"Sir, the enemy camp has now been engulfed in fire. I'm humble... why do you still look so depressed?" At this time, a soldier controlling a rocket crossbow seemed to notice that Dai Tianye's mood was wrong and asked.
"I always feel something is wrong," Dai Tianye looked at the thick smoke in the distance and murmured, "But maybe I'm worrying too much."
In fact, when Dai Tianye looked at the scene in front of him, he didn't know that the barbarian camp in front of him was doomed. But completely different from what he imagined, the scene of the barbarians fleeing in all directions did not seem to occur.
But now, the entire camp was covered by thick smoke, making it impossible to see clearly what was going on in the camp.
It seems that what is being burned by the fire is an empty camp!
