Although the tower was far away from the village wall and further away from the barbarians whose crotches were penetrated by the stone thorns that suddenly "grew" from the ground, Shen Hao could imagine that the scene must be very exciting.
Look at the array that was originally "flowing" at a rapid pace and suddenly stopped, you will know how powerful this so-called soil spike array is. At that moment, 70% of the barbarians who rushed forward were probably strung together. Moreover, the sudden appearance of stone thorns is also a kind of obstruction. If the barbarians behind want to come over, they must first block these obstacles...
"...Boom! Crash..."
Shen Hao's thoughts reached here, and then were interrupted by a series of roars.
I saw huge boulders being pushed over from the barbarian formation. They were rolling very fast, not only following the first echelon of barbarians, but also using the boulders to crush the protruding stone thorns to their roots.
Immediately, Shen Hao suddenly realized, no wonder the people on the tower were not excited at all when the Earth Thorn Array showed its power just now. They must have known that the barbarians would have this move. The barbarians continued their attack so calmly, probably because they expected the earth spike formation. So didn't those barbarians just do it on purpose? Risking your life to defeat a formation with a large range of damage?
The figure pushing the boulder was particularly burly. Although it was far away, Shen Hao's visual inspection revealed that it was more than twice the size of the normal-sized barbarian next to him. It had a pair of horns on its head.
Cattle clan.
Shen Hao remembered that among the barbarian tribes, the Niu tribe was considered a less aggressive tribe and was relatively gentle. But they are gentle and gentle, and they are not ambiguous when killing people. With their huge size and strength coupled with heavy weapons, they are second only to the Elephant Clan among individual soldiers, and their numbers are not comparable to the Elephant Clan.
Shen Hao originally thought that Cheng Jinhou would have some formation methods, but unfortunately he didn't. This is normal if you think about it carefully. There was a big battle yesterday, and there were piles of corpses. Even if Cheng Jinhou deployed several defense formations, they would have been exhausted long ago. I'm afraid that the soil spike formation just now was built by robbing workers.
Cheng Jinhou stood on the top floor of the tower with his hands behind his back, overlooking the three walls of the village, and had a clear view of the battle situation. After the soil stab just now, the second echelon of barbarians came up again, and this time there were more. The Ox tribe led the charge pushing boulders, followed by the short rat men holding short forks or daggers in both hands.
When they were still more than a hundred steps away from the village wall, Yujian arrived. There was no rhythm to the projectiles coming over, they were all random shots, and there was no pattern at all that could be exploited by the barbarians, so they could only hide under the wooden shields and move forward. But some feathered arrows can withstand it, and some feathered arrows cannot be held up by wooden shields alone.
Shen Hao stood on the tower and looked down. He could see some soldiers playing with something like a bed. Giant arrows as thick as arms were shot out from these things. Moreover, it shoots out in a rotating shape, and then is thrown high and smashed down. Not to mention a wooden shield several inches thick, even an iron shield has to be smashed through by this thing.
This thing has a very simple name: Bed Crossbow.
It is different from the bed crossbow in another world. It does not rely on a string to generate power, but relies on a formation like the trebuchet, and can shoot five to eight arrows at a time.
It's a pity that there are not many such things that Shen Hao thinks are simply killing weapons. There are probably only ten behind each of the three stronghold walls.
But it's not over yet. When we were still forty steps away from the village wall, there was still a hurdle.
"Boom!" A fire wall about three feet wide was ignited. It was filled with dry firewood and kerosene. The flames were two feet high. If the wind blew, it could burn hair from four to five feet away. .
"Ho ho ho..."
Most of the crossbowmen on the wall of the army camp could not understand the roaring animal language below. They did not know that the barbarians on the opposite side were yelling at the soldiers to dig earth to cover the fire ditch. They just fired arrows from the side numbly. He took out an arrow from the box, strung it, bent the bow half-aim, and shot out. At a distance of more than forty steps, any crossbowman can guarantee a 90% hit.
Specially pick those barbarians whose shields were blown away by the crossbows behind them. If you shoot an arrow into their eyes or neck, they can be killed with one arrow. Not necessarily the chest and abdomen, because these barbarians are very strong. They can still carry the arrows if they have a lot of flesh in their chest and abdomen. a while.
Before the fire trench goes out, this is the time when the crossbowmen on the wall can kill the enemy most efficiently.
However, the barbarians did not sit still and wait for death. There are monks among them. Although they don't know human magic, their physical bodies are extremely strong and powerful due to their physical training. They can lift the kind of boulders that the cattle people pushed to clear the way before and smash them into the fire ditch. If one piece is not enough, just three or four, and it won't take long to build a scalding channel over the fire ditch. Although you will be burned if you step on it, it is better than being stranded in one place and being washed away by arrows, right?
Why wait for the wall of fire to go out on its own? This fire can at least burn one or two sticks of incense. Are you prepared to die collectively by standing together for such a long time? Only by rushing under the stronghold wall as quickly as possible can we avoid the rain of arrows, and then the real killing battle begins.
After passing through stone bullets, passing through arrow rain and soil thorn forest, and finally having to endure a wall of fire to reach the bottom of the village wall, there were already corpses left behind. But for the barbarians, the battle has just begun, and the dead companions are just a necessary price on the road to victory. As long as this military stronghold stuck on the key road is destroyed, there will be a smooth road ahead, and the counterattack on the ancestral land will take a big step forward.
Smelling the blood of their companions, the barbarian soldiers' eyes were so red that they almost bled. Their ferocious instinct made them swarm up the stone path opened by the physical cultivators. Even if some were accidentally squeezed down the stone path, they could not let them go. They fear half a step.
"Woooooooooo..." The horn sounded again in the military camp, playing a special rhythm that Shen Hao didn't know.
The crossbowmen who were setting up arrows on the wall began to retreat following the instructions of their respective commanders, and continued to shoot arrows outside the wall in a projectile manner, but the previous precise shooting was no longer possible.
Pairs of soldiers holding guns and carrying shields quickly took the place of the crossbowmen. The shield is in front and the gun is behind, keeping a half-step distance from the village wall, holding it up, as if another female wall has been erected behind the village wall.
As for why you don't take a gun and stab it under the wall, because it is easy to be hit by stones or wooden spears thrown from the wall. The gain outweighs the loss. The only way is to let the opponent come up and give the opponent a fatal blow at the moment when he climbs up the wall and loses his footing. It is the most reasonable, and it is also the method adopted by the soldiers in the upper military camp today.
The offensive and defensive hand-to-hand combat on the top of the wall was about to break out, and Shen Hao, who was standing on the tower in the distance, found that the barbarian array stopped in the distance and came out for a third batch. This batch was obviously more numerous!
"Order flag! Inform all the monks in the army to guard their own areas. They are not allowed to leave their defense areas without orders."
"Command flag! Notice to all officers and men in the army that even if they die, they will die in their own positions. Anyone who dares to take a step back will be punished by military law and all previous meritorious deeds will be wiped out and punished as fear of war!"
PS: Just two updates today, take a break, please bear with me. Give it up!
