Chapter 1286 The Ambush Starts
Zhou Xianguang knew very well the importance of this battle.
Now that the army of Xiangguang City has been dispatched, the military city of Xiangguang City has become an empty city. If they win this battle, they can advance, point the troops directly to Xiangguang City, and then easily take down Xiangguang City.
Then they can sweep away all cities and market towns between Xiangguang City and Yunzhong City!
These cities and market towns are big and small, but those cities are not military cities and there are no garrisons inside, so it is not difficult to capture these cities.
By then, their range of activities in Lingxu Realm will be larger, and they will truly take root in Lingxu Realm!
"Bai Yugui, Bai Yugui, I know you are very cunning, but I hope you don't disappoint me this time. I'll stick out my neck and let me kill you!" Zhou Xianguang said in his heart.
"Don't do it first, put all the enemies in, wait until my order before starting!" Zhou Xianguang said softly to the microphone at the collar.
Through this intercom system, he can talk to the commander of any heavenly soldier in the army, or the General Secretary of the Qiang of the garrison in Yunzhong City!
Bai Yugui didn't realize the danger was approaching, and was still thinking about who had obtained his jade liquid bottle and how he could get it back.
The vanguard of the army began to enter the Yingjianchou Grand Canyon and moved forward quickly. Everything was normal. This made the team's commander more at ease. He just kept urging the troops to advance quickly and strive to cross the Grand Canyon before dark.
Ying Jianchou Grand Canyon stretches for more than ten miles, enough to put the entire army in!
Zhou Xianguang has been monitoring the enemy's movements condescendingly. When he received a report and knew that the enemy's army had all entered the Grand Canyon, he immediately issued an attack order in person: "Arrowers are ready to shoot arrows!"
The heavenly soldiers who had already entered the ambush position immediately launched an attack. For a moment, countless feathered arrows flew out from the steep hillsides on both sides of the Grand Canyon, like heavy rain falling from the sky, and like locusts passing through the border, bringing a sharp whistle of air and flying towards the enemy troops at the bottom of the Grand Canyon!
The army of Xiangguang City, from senior officers to ordinary officers, to ordinary soldiers, was instantly confused!
No matter what, they would never have imagined that they would encounter an ambush here!
Who ambushed them? How did they reach the preset position? Did their previous scouts and advance troops eat shit? Why didn't the enemy be found?
They were confused and their reaction speed was a beat slower. Countless soldiers were shot by sharp arrows. The mild ones were injured and lying on the ground wailing, and the severe ones were directly lost!
In less than a minute, Xiangguang City's troops were reduced by one fifth, with more than 40,000 people!
Although Bai Yugui was thinking about his jade liquid bottle, he was still the fastest reaction of a warrior in the half-step Dragon Gate realm!
He saw that things were not good, so he just stretched out his hand in the air. The rain of arrows flying towards him changed direction and flew towards the hillsides on both sides of the Grand Canyon. Some shot on the rocks, bursting out countless sparks, and some shot on the big trees, shaking the entire trunk!
Bai Yugui is a half-step Longmen realm, and his martial power is not a big deal. If only dozens or hundreds of people shoot archers at him, he can knock most of the feathered arrows back the same way, causing heavy damage to the archers. But now there are tens of thousands of people shooting archery on the entire battlefield!
Tens of thousands of people!
This has formed the general trend of the battlefield, as if it is a small world. In this small world, the large potential energy of the battlefield maximizes the power of the group, but the power of individual soldiers is greatly suppressed. The higher the level of martial arts, the greater the suppression!
Under the suppression of this general trend, Bai Yugui could only swing the feather arrows that were shooting at him. It was impossible to hit these feather arrows back in the same way and injure those shooters.
There are many people and great power, which is the law of heaven. Although high-level warriors can exert huge power that ordinary soldiers cannot exert in this kind of battle, it is impossible to change the direction of the battlefield with one or two people. Even if the gods come, it is impossible to do it!
"Don't be confused, build a shield formation immediately to resist feather arrows! Archers, suppress the enemy! The sword and shield soldiers charge! The number of enemies is not as large as ours. As long as we can rush up the hillside, we will definitely be able to eliminate the enemy!" Bai Yugui roared loudly, and the command soldiers immediately blew the flag and passed on his orders!
In fact, Bai Yugui didn't know how many people were ambushing them. He said that the number of enemies was not as large as theirs, just to stabilize the morale of the army.
With the efforts of Bai Yugui and Leng Lianyu, the soldiers used shields to build a shield formation, resisting feather arrows and rushing to the hillsides on both sides. The archers charged and shot against the enemies on the hillsides under the cover of the shield soldiers!
The chaos in the troops finally eased a little.
Unfortunately, they are located at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, with low positions, and the different positions of the heavenly soldiers determine that the power of the arrows they shoot is also different!
After all, bows and arrows are not firearms. If the long-range weapons of both sides are firearms, as long as the range of the bullets is within the range of the bullets, the height of the terrain has little impact on the bullet strike force. If the bullets can kill people when shooting down from the mountain, the bullets can also kill people when shooting up from the mountain within the same distance.
But feather arrows are different. The more you go up the feather arrows shot from the mountain, the less power it will be. Even if they shoot on people, they will not cause much damage to people.
However, the arrows shot down from the hillside have no such thing as a last resort. The potential energy of the feather arrows can penetrate the enemy's armor alone!
Therefore, although the shield formation of Xiangguang City's army has a certain protective effect, the effect is not very good. However, the heavenly soldiers are at high places, but basically do not need to cover. Their positions have exceeded the direct shooting distance of the bow and arrow.
So when the two sides shot at each other, Xiangguang City's troops were completely at a disadvantage. It was difficult for them to hurt the heavenly soldiers, but the arrows of the heavenly soldiers could easily hurt them!
The hillside garrisoned by the 358th Regiment of the 0001st Army of the Heavenly Soldiers was not steep, but even so, under the command of the regiment commander Gao Jin, their first wave of attacks also severely damaged the enemy!
The soldier Mao Xiaobin ran out from behind the cover, stood on a rock with good shooting range, and kept firing arrows. The enemies below were too dense, so he didn't need to aim at it. He just needed to shoot the arrow down, and there was a high probability that he would hit the enemy.
Mao Xiaobin could see clearly that he had shot six enemies, four of whom fell to the ground and did not move, and he should have died. Two were shot on the shoulder and one was shot on the thigh. Those who were shot on the shoulder had lost their combat power, but those who were shot on the thigh could continue to shoot arrows at him.
Mao Xiaobin wanted to kill the guy who was shot in the thigh, but when he touched the quiver, he found that the ten feather arrows he had assigned had been shot out by him!
"Oh, the top is too stingy. Each person has only ten arrows, which is too few!" Mao Xiaobin muttered in annoyance.
He was just frustrated when his eyes suddenly lit up. He found that the enemy's feather arrows were all seven or eight meters ahead of him, and there were more than ten. So he ran forward without hesitation, picked up the feather arrows on the ground and shot them down. He killed the enemy who was caught in the thigh with just one arrow, and the feather arrow shot through his forehead!
Chapter completed!