It was still dark, but the entire military camp was already in full swing. Flashing charms were shot high into the sky, and pieces of white light fell down, illuminating the dark morning.
Dense soldiers were already standing on the surrounding walls, and behind the walls were catapults that were pushed out and loaded with stone bombs. There are three people standing next to each catapult. The division of labor is very clear. One is loading, the other is calibrating, and the other is hammering and maintaining the formation on the vehicle.
In addition, Shen Hao finally met the monks from the Jingying Mansion in the military camp. The number was far beyond Shen Hao's initial expectations.
Just walking from his tent to Cheng Jinhou's tent, Shen Hao saw no fewer than thirty monks from the Jingying Mansion along the way. The ones with the lowest cultivation level at the back of the God Converging Realm, Shen Hao couldn't really tell how high they were. .
In addition, Shen Hao and his party were rigorously investigated three times along the way. Before finally approaching the big tent, Colonel Xu and all the soldiers under his command were stopped and had to wait on the military camp grounds, except for the three Shen Hao's Personal bodyguard.
"Shen Hao, the supervisory officer and general manager of miscellaneous affairs, meets the general!" After the roll call came in, Shen Hao stood on the side and prepared to listen. At the same time, he observed everyone in the tent, especially the two people standing next to Cheng Jinhou, one on the left and the other on the right. A monk.
The accessories on the waist of the man on the left belong to the Tian Toad Sect. He should be the Tian Toad Sect elder who is rumored to be at the second level of the Xuanhai Realm. His surname is Wu. That is the third elder of the Tian Toad Sect, Wu Yuan. His status in the Tian Toad Sect is not low.
The person on the right is a middle-aged beautiful woman, her charm is eye-catching, she is wearing a white women's outfit to add to her heroic appearance, with accessories from Baihua Valley hanging on her waist. Her surname is Yuan, she should be the second person from Baihua Valley. Elder Yuan Qingyun.
Cheng Jinhou was sitting in the middle, with a row of generals below him, waiting for his arrangements.
The time was tight, and it was all in a few words. The tasks of the respective generals had been set long ago. If Cheng Jinhou had no other adjustments, he would follow the order step by step, so he arranged the affairs very quickly. In less than a cup of tea, the tent was mostly empty.
"The rest of you follow me up to the tower!"
The so-called tower is a tall wooden structure tower in the middle of the military stronghold. It is the highest position in the entire military stronghold. It is usually used as an auxiliary four-corner watchtower for vision. During attack and defense, it is also the commanding height from which the general can always observe the situation of all parties in the military stronghold. It's just that when Cheng Jinhou talked about going up to the tower, most of the people in the tent, including the two Xuanhai realm monks, changed their expressions and seemed to disagree. However, Cheng Jinhou was very powerful at this time, and it could be said that he was not angry. No one dared to speak against the wartime decision of an army commander.
Shen Hao naturally followed.
Fortunately, the tower is spacious enough, with several floors above, enough to hold dozens of people standing on each floor. Shen Hao had a special status. He followed Cheng Jinhou and stood at the highest point of the tower, while Chen Zifang was on the lower floor.
After his field of vision widened, Shen Hao suddenly felt a rush of blood rush to his forehead, his breathing became rapid, his eyes widened, and his palms unconsciously tightened on the handle of the knife at his waist.
With the help of the flashing talisman in the sky, Shen Hao saw for the first time what it meant to have "an army approaching the city" and what it meant to have a "big army pressing down on the territory".
It was like a thick black cloud, enveloping it from a distance, covering all three sides with darkness.
I'm afraid it's more than 20,000, right?
Even though there was no accurate estimate, Shen Hao secretly calculated in his heart that the number of barbarians surrounding him would not be less than 20,000.
"Command the flag! Move it a thousand steps forward and tell the people holding the formation not to move."
There were five flag officers standing beside Cheng Jinhou, and they took turns conveying the military orders according to the order in which he issued the order. So Shen Hao saw the first flag officer standing on the edge of the tower and waving the flag several times with great movements. Then the flag was uploaded to a special mana wave that could be instantly synchronized to the target of the command, with almost no delay.
But Shen Hao didn't understand why Cheng Jinhou would give such an order. It was said that the catapult's firing range was 1,500 steps, almost three miles. Why should he take the initiative to shorten the attack distance?
Shen Hao was confused but didn't ask. He opened his eyes wide. He felt that he would soon be able to see the reason for Cheng Jinhou's order.
Because the military stronghold is a fixed target, the closer the surrounding barbarians are, the more they will inevitably move closer to each other, which directly increases the compactness of the formation. This can also increase the killing effect of the trebuchet bullets in disguise.
It was a very simple truth. Shen Hao understood it immediately after looking at it. There were indeed many secret ways in the secret military formation.
I thought that the barbarians would just attack like a skirmisher, but in fact the barbarians were not as brainless as Shen Hao thought. Moreover, they had fought many times and basically figured out the way. When they were surrounded by two thousand steps, they There was a differentiation of formations. Most of the simple formations stood still, while the rest continued to move forward in a relatively loose formation.
Is this an echelon attack?
In addition, the barbarians are not without equipment for attacking fortresses. Iron weapons may be lacking, but there is still no shortage of large shields made of wood.
The large shield half a foot long and wide could cover two people at a time, and then they quickly charged towards the wall of the village together, quickly breaking through the thousand-step limit that Cheng Jinhou had just explained.
After a thousand steps, Cheng Jinhou didn't need to give another order to remind him. The trebuchets that had already adjusted their elevation began to smash down the catapults one after another. The stone bullets weighing ten kilograms were thrown high. They would hit the Lizhai wall for almost 800 meters. step position.
The stone bullets are not sharp-edged, but are stones that have been deliberately struck and have relatively smooth amplitudes. Not because it looks good, but because this kind of stone bullet with less edges and corners is easier to bounce or roll forward after being dropped, which can turn point-to-point damage into point and linear damage.
The machine of this kind of trebuchet is extremely fast, from loading to ejection, it takes less than five breaths, and there are so many of them. It is estimated that there are no less than three hundred of them within the sight of Shen Hao alone.
In addition to the stone bombs, there were also some ignited fireballs that were shot out by trebuchets. This kind of fireball is not thrown out for the purpose of killing, but to provide light sources at different distances, so that the traces of the enemy will not be missed due to the gap between the flashing symbols in the sky.
"Commanding Flag! Earth Thorn Array, activate!"
Although the trebuchet has a long attack range, its coverage is limited. Although it has a suppressive effect on the advancing barbarians, it is difficult to cause effective large-scale damage. The range of the crossbow is only a hundred steps, but at that position it is basically It's a hand-to-hand fight. So there are other tricks before hand-to-hand combat.
As soon as Cheng Jinhou finished speaking, another flag officer waved the flag in his hand and at the same time transmitted the command message through special mana fluctuations.
The next moment, Shen Hao used the flashing talisman in the sky and the illuminating fire bombs to see: The originally plain ground suddenly moved, and stone pillars with a thickness of three feet and more were raised at such a fast speed. Shen Hao could hardly catch it with his eyesight.
The scene made Shen Hao secretly clenched his fist hard. The slightly rapid breathing just now became more relaxed now. Because the originally dark array of barbarian skirmishers close to the wall instantly "frozen" into a large area.
