Jiuxi

Chapter 204 Chapter 203 [Fire Cloud]

The short distance of more than twenty feet seemed to be a dead end leading to the gate of hell for the Yan soldiers in the front row.

There were not just dozens of strong archers on the first wall, but nearly a hundred. Li Chengen divided them into three groups and took turns shooting, almost forming an endless curtain of arrows that gathered in the narrow terrain of the canyon. It turned into a beam of light and shot towards the charging Yan army one after another.

Before approaching the wall, the Yan army suffered a large number of casualties. The light armor they wore could not stop the arrow rain from the Seven Star Army, because those strong archers used armor-piercing cone arrows, commonly known as armor-piercing arrows.

The arrowhead of this kind of arrow is conical, with a thick front tip and a slightly thinner back. The shaft is made of bamboo and is specially used to penetrate the armor of soldiers. It can easily penetrate light armor within thirty feet.

The 4000 vanguard troops were the elite of the Yan army. The armor-piercing arrows of the Seven Star Army put great pressure on them, but this pioneer infantry did not slow down and continued to charge forward forcefully.

The front of the Yan army was already less than five feet away from the wall. Li Chengen gave an order, and the strong archers quickly ran to both sides and continued to suppress the Yan army on the side mountain walls. At the same time, the Yan army's archers also appeared on Li Chengen's side. within sight.

They stood behind the death squads and used projectiles to target the strong archers of the Seven Star Army, striving to reduce the pressure on their own comrades.

It's just that there is a huge gap in the damage caused by the two sides - the standard bows and arrows equipped by the Yan Army can hardly penetrate the armor of the strong archers of the Seven Star Army by shooting upwards. However, the Seven Star Army prepared special armor-piercing cone arrows. The conventional suppression effect is not outstanding, but it is extremely suitable for the current situation on the battlefield.

The two armies were extremely close to each other, and the Seven-Star Army was in a favorable location, allowing them to maximize the power of the armor-piercing cone arrows.

After paying the price of forty or fifty of the elite soldiers who had ascended first, the Yan army finally reached the vicinity of the village wall.

Naturally, Du Min didn't just slap his forehead and launch a strong attack. The Yan army's scouts had also roughly figured out the situation in the canyon, at least the first line of defense of the Seven Star Army was clear.

The wall was not high, and the simple ladder made by Yan Jun yesterday could help these elites to cross over. However, when they approached the wall, a group of more burly Seven-Star Soldiers appeared above, each holding a A long spear.

Under Li Chengen's command, hundreds of spears were thrust out almost simultaneously, and the uniform movements showed a sharp beauty.

Someone among the Yan army was stabbed with a bloody hole on the spot. The flesh and skin turned out to be hideous and terrifying, and the blood flowing out like a spring dyed the ground under his feet red.

Someone turned sideways to avoid it, and the warriors of the Seven-Star Army swept forward and knocked them down the ladder. Although they would not be injured at this height, they would affect the people behind them and delay their offensive.

Li Chengen stood in the middle and led others to repeat extremely simple stabbing movements. There was nothing fancy about it, but such neat and simple movements could cause a lot of damage.

Under his leadership, the Seven-Star Army always maintained its suppression of the Yan Army. Even if the Yan Army's sharp soldiers successfully scaled the wall, they would immediately be surrounded by the weapons around the spearmen. Long and short forces worked together to form an extremely strong defense line.

The sound of fighting gradually echoed in the canyon, and the two armies launched an extremely fierce battle around the first village wall.

Outside the canyon, Du Min stood on the mounds of earth, looking at the battle situation in the canyon with a gloomy expression.

After several consecutive defeats, the generals of the Yan army no longer dared to look down on this young army in the mountains. Not only did the opponent have a large number of men who had experience in martial arts and were licking blood from their swords all the time without fear of life and death, they also had Lu Chen's Under organization and training, they gradually became a brave division with a distinctive style and good at tough battles.

Du Min knew this very well and had never verbally questioned the judgment of other colleagues, but he was still unconvinced in his heart, or he was holding his breath and wanted to prove the strength of his subordinates.

The terrain of the canyon placed great restrictions on the Yan army, preventing them from taking advantage of their strength. Although Lu Chen only had a few thousand men at his disposal, he did not need to devote all of them to defense.

As time passed by bit by bit, the faces of the generals and commanders around Du Min became increasingly gloomy.

"Mingjin."

Du Min suddenly gave an order.

The herald was slightly startled, but quickly realized what was happening. A moment later, the sharp sound of ringing gold resounded throughout the countryside. The elite pioneers in the valley did not dare to disobey the military order and accelerated their retreat outside the valley.

The Seven-Star Army did not take advantage of the situation to pursue it, which was within Du Min's expectation. After all, once it lost the protection of the canyon terrain, the Seven-Star Army could not be an opponent of the more than 1 Yanjing coalition forces.

While the Yan army was retreating, on the hillside on the east side of the valley, Lu Chen stared at the corpses of the Yan army outside the first village wall and ordered: "Let Li Cheng'en lead the front army to retreat, and order Deng Xingcai and Chu Zhu to lead the right army to take over the defense. .”

A young man in his 20s responded loudly: "Follow the order!"

He quickly ran to deliver the order with a few of his peers. Deng Xingcai and Chu Zhu immediately led more than [-] people from the right army out from the second line of defense. Li Chengen waited for them to arrive and led hundreds of people from the front army to retreat. .

The Yan army's offensive did not stop there. Du Min mobilized his troops and soon a second batch of Yan army rushed into the canyon and charged against the wall again.

This time, the first line of defense set up by the Seven Star Army in the canyon was still not broken.

Until Lu Chen asked all units of the Seven-Star Army to take turns changing their defenses, the Yan Army was still unable to advance. The balance of the battlefield seemed to have been tilting towards the Seven-Star Army. At least today, the opponent could not pose a real threat to the defense line in the valley.

However, Lu Chen's expression was not very relaxed. He noticed that the rotational attack speed of the Yan Army was accelerating, and the Yan Army that subsequently rushed into the valley became more and more familiar with the Seven Star Army's defensive methods, and the casualties continued to decrease. He could not help but narrow his eyes slightly. eyes.

The young man named Kong Sixue next to him mustered up the courage and said, "Captain, the Yan army should be retreating soon, right?"

Lu Chen raised his head and glanced at the afternoon sunshine, and said slowly: "Now go and tell Hall Master Ran Xuanzhi to send someone to transport the prepared things." "Follow the order!" Kong Sixue agreed solemnly.

At the same time, outside the canyon, Du Min looked at the 600 people standing in front of him and said in a deep voice: "You have been following me since many years ago. Although you are not blood brothers, your friendship is not weak at all. I have always regarded you as one of my own, and I have never treated you badly. Now our army has encountered a hard nut, and others have already found out their true identity. All it takes is a sledgehammer to break open the defense line in the valley."

The officers and soldiers of the Yan army all looked at him solemnly.

These 600 talents were the core subordinates that Du Min had cultivated for many years. They had not participated in the previous rotational offensives. They were hidden by Du Min until the end, waiting for the most appropriate time to make the final decision.

Du Min grasped the handle of the steel knife tightly and said word by word: "Who dares to join me in the battle to kill the enemy?"

600 people shouted one word from their teeth almost at the same time: "Me!"

Du Min looked back at the camp to the south, then turned around and gritted his teeth and said, "Then follow me!"

The generals next to him were obviously a little surprised, but after seeing Du Min's stern gaze, they all tightly shut their mouths in unison.

Du Min exhaled a breath of turbid air and led six hundred tigers towards the entrance of the canyon in the north.

The marching drum beat loudly again, this time with a slightly different meaning.

Du Min was wearing armor and a helmet, and his burly body contained endless power. He rushed into the valley surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers. Six hundred subordinates silently and resolutely surrounded him in the middle, facing towards dozens of feet away. The Seven Star Army's position started to jog.

They gradually accelerated as they ran, creating a chilling wind.

From the mouth of the valley to the front of the stronghold, Yan Jun was not hindered by any means. Du Min's cold eyes revealed a strong murderous intention, and at the same time there was a hint of determination.

The strong archers of the Seven Star Army had already retreated and had not appeared in the first two Yan Army charges. This was a fact that Du Min had already confirmed.

Although he is reckless, he is not a fool. Of course he will not go all out in the beginning. Therefore, in the previous five offensives, he saw with his own eyes that the Seven Star Army had exhausted all means. Even if they had endless armor-piercing arrows, those archers could not It is impossible to maintain sufficient physical strength all the time.

The opportunity to break the formation is now.

When he was only ten feet away from the wall, Du Min roared angrily and pointed his sword at the defenders on the wall: "Kill!"

Hundreds of roars echoed him.

"kill!"

The main vanguard force, which had been recuperating for most of the day, burst out with an invincible momentum. The warrior at the front helped up the simple ladder that had fallen to the ground. The comrades behind him immediately jumped up with a big stride. Du Min looked up at this moment. , suddenly found that the Seven-Star Army on the wall was retreating behind.

He couldn't help but look puzzled.

At this time, the Yan army's charge was like an arrow, and dozens of soldiers were ready to leap onto the wall.

Suddenly there was a sound.

It was a strange sound, like the biting wind in winter, or the muffled thunder before a summer rainstorm.

It sounded from far away, from far to near.

Yan Jun looked up one after another and saw countless tightly sealed clay pots falling from the sky. They could only avoid them one after another.These soldiers who have been on the battlefield and are well-informed subconsciously thought that this was a defensive tool similar to rolling logs and stones. However, the pots were not large in size and did not seem to have strong lethality.

An astonishing number of clay pots fell into the Yan Army's formation, most of them fell on the ground, and a small number hit the Yan Army, but they did not cause enough damage, at most they were just sore.

However, the broken clay pot splashed out a lot of weird liquid.

Du Min's pupils shrank suddenly.

The next moment, arrows rained like locusts, shooting from behind the village wall, but they were not the armor-piercing arrows shot by the strong archers before, but rockets burning with pine oil.

There were hundreds of rockets, but they were not very powerful. The main force of the Yan army could have dismissed them, but at this time, everyone felt an inexplicable and strong fear in their hearts.

This rain of arrows was like a fiery red cloud, descending on the Yan army's formation.

A Yan sergeant watched helplessly as the rocket fell, landed at his feet, and touched the objects that had been scattered on the ground after the clay pot shattered. Immediately, the blazing flame suddenly exploded!

In the valley, a raging fire spread instantly, annihilating hundreds of the main force of the Yan army, whom Du Min regarded as his trump card!
(End of this chapter)