Realm of Power

In the cold night in the North, the temperature quickly dropped to minus 20 degrees. In addition to the biting cold, there was also the wind that swept across the wasteland like a dragon. In the face of the howling cold wind in the North, the tragic screams of countless people fighting seemed a little weak. , in the face of the real power of nature, the human voice is so small,

"Order to advance the arrow car 30 meters to the front line"

The fat man looked at the increasingly precarious battle situation with a serious face. The Northlanders' attacks had changed from the all-out attack at the beginning to now becoming more and more focused on breakthroughs. No matter how good the Falcon Army is in fighting, its defense line is at Several holes have been opened under the concentrated attacks of the Northlanders, and it was only through their fierce fighting spirit that the situation on the front was stabilized.

Fatty also decided to push up the deadly weapon that pressed the box axle this time. As the order was issued, there was soon a faint sound of wheel axles turning from behind the defense line. A total of thirty newly built arrow carriages were on the top. Driven by hundreds of falcon soldiers, the ferocious face slowly emerged from the dark night.

The so-called arrow chariot was modified from the Rode arrow chariot captured in the war after the Falcon Army conquered Rode. This weapon, which is similar to an enhanced version of the crossbow, is a huge cart-like device that combines several The bows of the ballistae are combined, which not only enhances the stability and range of the heavy ballistae, but also makes it possible to load two ballistae at the same time.

Currently, arrow chariots are divided into two types: double-bow chariots and three-bow chariots. The three-bow chariots have very large fronts and are generally only equipped on battleships of the Imperial Navy. Now there are only 30 double bow and arrow carts that can be temporarily used. Because of the stable bracket, the range exceeds 500 steps for the first time, and the terrifying penetration and lethality are much stronger than ordinary crossbow carts.

The arrow chariot troops were originally deployed as the third line behind the infantry line, but under the current circumstances, both sides have fought bloody battles, and it has become a never-ending battle.

"Load the preset target. Eject one hundred meters ahead." A shout was heard, and the operators of thirty double bow and arrow vehicles quickly became busy. The double bow and arrow cart is much larger than the ordinary crossbow cart, but the loading and shooting process is much simpler and more complicated. Each cart only requires 7 crossbow carts to operate. 30 ballistas only amount to more than 200 people.

Following the order from the captain of the crossbow cart, on both sides of each double-bow crossbow cart, the crossbowmen shook the winches that pulled the bowstrings with loud shouts. The two crossbow bowstrings on the car made an amazing sound as the winches pulled. There was a sour squeaking sound, and finally it was firmly buckled on the dental machine behind. The two crossbowmen held heavy crossbow arrows made of pig iron and quickly installed them.

Each crossbow can hold five iron arrows about one meter long at a time. The largest one is as thick as Xiao's arm, with a half-moon-shaped sharp blade at the top. Even if a heavy cavalry is shot , a big cave would have to be broken out of it, let alone ordinary infantry. The four arrows on the side should be thinner.

In order to allow it to scatter freely and randomly. Therefore, the tail feathers were not set when casting the mold, and the dark pig iron shone with a chilling light in the cold night, generally speaking. Infantrymen wearing heavy armor are not afraid of bows and arrows. Even if they are shot, if they are not hit in important parts, they will only be traumatic injuries. But if they are shot by such a powerful weapon, they have basically no chance of survival.

"Your Majesty, the arrow chariot is ready." Seeing the flag signaled by the commander of the arrow chariot unit in the distance, Plais reported happily to the fat man who was commanding him. Upon hearing Plaice's report, the fat man's face became solemn. Finally, he showed a hint of joy and said, "Order the soldiers in the third section of the left wing to retreat temporarily. The Northlanders want to open a gap there. We will give them a head-on blow, which can severely dampen their spirits and cheer up our army, which is a little depressed and tired." morale"

"Yes, Your Majesty," Prais nodded in response with a serious expression, and immediately sent someone to send the order to the left wing where the fierce fighting was taking place. That was the area where the Northlanders had been focusing their attacks. The messengers who accepted the order did not dare to delay. He immediately rode his horse towards the third section of the left wing. As soon as he entered this area, the messenger had to dismount because there was no place for the horse to stay.

The corpses of the Northlanders piled up in front of him were like a mountain, more than 2,000. In order to enhance the defense, the soldiers stationed here piled corpses up to one meter high to form a real flesh and blood city wall, and there were hundreds of corpses. There is a body of a Falcon Army soldier in a house at the back. The soldiers are taking advantage of the opponent's rotation of attacks to carry the injured soldier in.

"Tell me, where is your commander?" The messenger looked around, and the tragedy in front of him was a bit shocking. Finally, in a place full of corpses, he found the local commander resting next to the collapsed earth wall. Officer, this is a middle-aged man with blond hair. He is Amber Aikes, captain of the second squadron of the Third Flag Regiment of the Central Army stationed here.

"Are you looking for me?" He cautiously looked at the uniform of the messenger. The squadron leader limped and struggled to stand up. He gasped for air in the cold night and spewed out streams of white smoke. The heavy spear stained with blood was stuck in the soil next to him. It was impossible to tell whose blood it belonged to, some from the enemy and some from his own.

The exquisite squadron leader's iron armor decorated with a white thorn flower emblem reveals the pits formed by repeated blows from the Northlanders' bone knives. There are about a dozen densely packed pits, with some old marks and some very fresh marks. There was a heavy gash in his ribs. The gap that penetrated the armor was obviously deep into the bone. The red cloak behind him also turned into slush.

It was a masterpiece of a Northland reindeer cavalry. Amber Aix still remembers the scene at that time. The other party inserted the weapon into the other's body at the same time, and the other's hot blood spattered onto his face. After a while, Amber Akers, who thought he was also doomed, discovered that the opponent's bone knife had become brittle after being swung and struck many times, and ended up breaking into two pieces with the last blow.

Amber Aix escaped the fate of being disemboweled with a knife, but he also paid the price of three broken ribs. Every touch and move made the strong Amber Aix frown, and the pain was so painful that it penetrated the bones. He could only lean on the wall,

He didn't know if he would have such good luck in the next attack. The squadron leader's armor on his body always made him the primary target of the opponent's cavalry, but as the leader of the squadron, even if he died, You must die on the front line, only then can you be worthy of those comrades who have already died in advance.

The messenger staggered through the pile of corpses, came to him and saluted, and then said with a serious face, "Commander. It doesn't look very good here. Your Majesty orders you to immediately make a gap in the defense line and move part of it." Let the Northlanders in"

"Make a gap? Are you sure you remember correctly?" Amber Aix's eyes were serious and he looked up at the messenger again. The tone was full of fierceness. If the other party hadn't produced the token representing his identity in time, Amber Aix would have immediately loudly ordered the subordinates around him to arrest the guy who persuaded him to make way for a gap.

In this case, the possibility of the opponent using spies to disrupt the line of defense is too high, as long as a gap is opened. The surging Northland cavalry can rush across the entire defense line.

Seemingly knowing what Amber Aix was thinking, the messenger said with a serious expression, "Although I know this order sounds unreliable, this is His Majesty's order. Please execute it."

Amber Aix hesitated for a moment, then turned back to look at the Northlanders who were gathering not far away from the opposite side. This time, the Northlanders had obviously strengthened their forces, although they couldn't see clearly in the night. The torches gathered on the opposite side are like stars shining on the wasteland,

The figures of the reindeer cavalry were coming and going, shouting something loudly. Behind thousands of reindeer cavalry, the Northland infantry with crude weapons and animal skin shields in their hands began to gather. They were crowded and dark. In front of the second squadron, there were at least more than 5,000 Northland troops. Assembling, it seems that both Asu'o and Fatty believe that the area with the weakest defense line is this area close to the edge of the earth wall.

"Okay, I will carry out the order." Amber Ax nodded with difficulty and said with a wry smile, "After a fierce battle in the middle of the night. More than half of the 1,100 men in the entire squadron were killed, and more than 400 wounded soldiers were carried down. The people who are still on the defensive line are less than one-third of the full time, and all of them are injured. Even if there is no such order, I don’t know if I can hold on to the next wave.”

As the 2nd Squadron moved inward. Just like an empty side door opened in front of the Northlanders, Asuo also noticed this situation, but the situation in front of him left him no choice. He could only think that this was the result of the continued fighting of the Falcon Army. Vacancies caused by insufficient exposure,

The tone in which he issued the order had changed from the imperative one at the beginning to a bit impatient and even a bit anxious. As a good strategist, he didn't know the local troop strength caused by his previous raid. The advantage is gradually being lost as the attack continues for a long time. Now, whether it is him or the Vekia Falcon, they are like two exhausted fighters who have fought. No one knows who will fall first.

This is a battle that tests the willpower of both sides, and it is also a race against time. The outcome of everything depends on whether you will kill the Vekia Falcon in one go before dawn, or whether the opponent will hold on until dawn. The reinforcements were like bloodthirsty wolves, tearing apart the northern army that had been exhausted from long battles like fragile lambs.

"Concentrate all your efforts and immediately scoop out the gap on the left wing." Facing the tight time, Asuo had no extra choice. He issued an order loudly and let the war drums that had stopped beat again.

"Forward!" The roaring war drums sounded in the night sky again. In the cold night wind, the Northland infantry captain resounded through the Northland camp with a wild and wild shout. The infantry queue followed closely behind the reindeer cavalry in front. move forward,

Various weapons were erected. At the front was a spear with a flag hanging on it, followed by a long-handled scythe, a spiked rake, and even a guillotine. It was like a leafy forest, with an infiltrating atmosphere. The cold light was moving. These Northland soldiers, who were wearing hard animal skin armor and holding crude weapons in their hands, followed the reindeer cavalry in a chaotic manner like a herd of sheep being driven away.

They were not the elite elites of the North who were not afraid of death before, but miscellaneous soldiers from some vassal tribes. They numbered about 3,000 people. They were divided into four echelons and moved forward slowly like a swarm of ants.

As a replacement for the main force, the cunning Asuo decided to use these miscellaneous troops to test whether the Falcon Army really shrank its defense line due to lack of troops, or whether it had laid a trap in the gap that would make it difficult for it to stand up.

As the distance gets closer and closer, a tense atmosphere hangs over the heads of the motley crew in the North. The dark earthen wall in the distance has already been stained red with blood, and there are corpses in various miserable conditions inside and outside. The ground was covered with pieces of meat, broken weapons, twisted shields, and the brutal battles meant that the place could only be trampled on and piled with corpses. If there were enemies standing in front of them with weapons, it would be okay, but it became increasingly empty. swing. It's getting more and more unsettling,

The reindeer cavalry in front stopped their horses. They neatly drew out their sharp bone knives, and the sound of heavy hooves sounded. Like a huge triangular caltrop arrow, the assault formation composed of thousands of reindeer cavalry penetrated through the gap filled with corpses like a torrent of steel.

"Attack forward and seize the gap." The Northland infantry following the torrent also began to stir. Although the scene in front of them seemed so strange, the cavalry had rushed in safely, which at least proved that the gap was safe.

By the light formed by the torches falling in the gap, hundreds of Northland cavalry riding reindeer galloped from the front not far away, "killing the ballistas not far away, making these Northland reindeer cavalry very excited." Hang up the sharp bone knife,

They had never seen a ballista, and they didn't know what the heavy equipment in front of them was, but these weapons in the distance that looked like giant bows and arrows undoubtedly made all the northern reindeer cavalry shudder. The sharp iron arrows placed in a row undoubtedly indicate that this is an extremely terrifying weapon for the Falcon Army.

"All. Put"

In the darkness in the distance, the Falcon Crossbowmen looked at the enemies rushing in. They even neglected the most basic aiming, and the strong men holding sledgehammers knocked on the trigger of the arrow carriage. The trigger of the double crossbow cart is so huge that it cannot be shaken by human power alone. It must be hit hard with a sledgehammer.

"Bang, bang, bang." The sound of the heavy bowstring hitting the bottom line was like thunder exploding in the night. The reindeer cavalry who were charging towards the ballistae had no time to shout before they could hear a dense cold star. It shines in their eyes.

The frightening star points were like starlight suddenly bursting out from the darkness, carrying a deadly aura and shooting through their bodies with unbelievable speed.

"Puff puff puff" the sound of blood exploding from the body, minced meat flying, in the dark night. Countless dots of blood shot into the sky 40 meters in front of the ballista cluster. Accompanied by the crisp sound of broken bones and bones of men and horses, and the screams of the deceased before death, it was horrifying to hear in the dark night.

Countless giant crossbows swept through the Northland reindeer cavalry group like a violent wind, sweeping enemies one after another into the air with a huge impact. The crossbow arrows were as thick as a child's arm. Once the heavy arrow made of fine iron was shot, the Northland reindeer on the reindeer The person was immediately smashed to pieces.

This is good, compared to those companions who were killed by arrows, they died happily after all. Because the crossbow arrow has no tail feathers, once it is shot, it will not have a fixed ballistic trajectory due to the influence of wind and its own mass. The giant crossbow arrow in the center is better, but the people next to it are a little unlucky.

Many crossbows without tail fins shot through the target, then shot past, making circles in the air like crazy tops and sweeping into the crowd behind them, knocking one reindeer cavalry off their saddles one after another. Broken bones and tendons were broken, blood was flying everywhere, and before he could shout for help, he was trampled to death by his companions following him.

"Ah" shrill screams came one after another in the Northland Reindeer Cavalry group. The frontal strikes from the opposite double crossbow carts were like a thunderstorm, which caught the Northland Reindeer Cavalry by surprise. Everyone only felt that the team in front was stunned, and suddenly there was another With one movement, the whole world moved forward at a dizzying speed. Countless thick arrow clusters like a heavy rain penetrated from the front

"Quick, load." The crossbow arrows were ringing in the arrow trough. The crossbowmen seized the time and tried hard to pull the winch. The crossbowmen and shields and spears in front of them quickly blocked the crossbow cart that was still loading.

Although the crossbow is powerful, the loading is its fatal weakness. This short minute is enough to turn the newly powerful crossbow into a piece of scrap metal under the sword of the reindeer cavalry.

"Pull!" the crossbow captain shouted anxiously, the winch made a frustrated trembling amidst the shouts, and the fire in front of him grew bigger and bigger until it filled his sight.

The heavily injured reindeer cavalry were like drunkards who were hit head-on under the fierce crossbow arrows, swaying left and right. The crossbow arrows scattered around quickly knocked off the enemies who had broken away from the group.

More whining sounds of reindeer were heard in the night. The ownerless reindeer screamed wildly, smashing the dense stormtrooper formation to pieces and slamming into the flesh and blood in front of them. In an instant, a low wall formed inside the gap.

"Forward" The motley crew of Northland troops unfortunately rushed into the gap at this time. The chaotic scene in front of them made these Northlanders at a loss. There were reindeer fleeing everywhere.

The reindeer cavalry rushing at the front were completely in disarray at this time, and their heavy hooves trampled on them.

"What's going on? The motley army in the North was also confused. At this time, a strong wind blew past them, and countless black lights shot from the opposite side like lightning.

Because the infantry were too close to each other and the team was too dense, all the crossbow arrows hit the enemy accurately.

The powerful force penetrates the human body, often piercing two with one arrow. The corpse was carried away by the irresistible force (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come (.), your support is my greatest motivation.)