Chapter 144 Frontal Attack
Just as Zhao Polu was about to use all his skills to investigate Bushi City, he heard Li Ye's voice, "No need to investigate, the Dashi Guards are in Bushi City."
Zhao Polu quickly greeted him. Of course, he would not question Li Ye's words, but was a little curious about how Li Ye learned it.
"No wonder, they have left the city and are rushing towards Hulun City." Li Ye looked at the vast wasteland outside the city with his hands behind his back, and there was no sign of emotion on his face. "They are very fast and will be here around noon."
When Zhao Polu heard this, his expression turned upright, and the Guards took the initiative to attack, which he did not expect, which shows that the other party was very confident.
Moreover, Bushi City is more than a hundred miles apart from Hulun City, and the road in the middle is not easy to walk. The Dashi Guards did not show up yesterday, so they set off today and arrived at Hulun City in half a day. This speed is no longer slower than the marching speed of the Tiger Guards.
"Since I learned that the Dashi Guards went to fight, the Tiger Guards have been resting in Hulun City for several days. They are all Qi training cultivators. These days they have made everyone full of energy." Zhao Polu said.
What he meant was nothing more than saying that even if the Dashi Guards were extraordinary, the Tiger Guards could still fight and win.
Li Ye glanced at him and said leisurely: "The Dashi Guards came out of Bushi City, with a total of 150,000 people, which is much larger than the Tiger Guards."
Zhao Polu smiled and said, "Your Majesty often says that the outcome of the battlefield is not determined by the number of people. As long as the difference between the two is not too big, the outcome is unknown."
Li Ye did not comment, "The will of the True God of the Crescent Sect has seen how the Wolf Tooth Army, the Tiger Guards, and the Yulin Army fought. At this time, Mallon still dared to let the Guards take the initiative to attack, which shows that he is sure to defeat us."
Zhao Polu was slightly stunned. This is indeed the case.
Without the absolute confidence to win, the Dashi Guards, who came from afar, would not have attacked so quickly. Although with the current combat power of the Tiger Guards, whether the enemy occupies a city and defends the battle has little impact on the battle, the Dashi Guards' posture is very strong.
"In Ayan City, the Yulin Army is also facing the attack of the Dashi Guards." Li Ye continued to say to himself, "The Dashi Guards participated in the war, and there are 350,000 of them, and in addition to you two places, there are 50,000 of them now. In other words, Mallen still has some reservations."
When Zhao Polu heard this, he couldn't help but blush and burst into anger.
Li Ye's meaning was already very clear. The Dashi Guards clearly didn't take them seriously. The Guards in Bushi City dared to attack, and Malen dared not to suppress all their troops, which was a sign of looking down on them.
"Your Majesty, I ask you to leave the city and line up!" Zhao Polu was not a talkative person, so he simply asked to go to the battle directly and prove everything with his actions. If it were Yang Xingmi here, he would definitely give a passionate speech first.
Li Ye did not react in any special way, waved his hand, "Accurate."
Zhao Polu immediately took the order and left.
With the current combat power of the Tiger Guard, it is actually better to go out to fight in the city and guard it. After all, the city is so wide and there are only so many streets in the city. It is not enough to set up a formation, and it is impossible to fully utilize the strengths of the Chang'an Imperial Guard's strong bow and crossbow.
The defensive methods based on the city wall, whether it is high walls and deep ditches, or rocks and rolling wood, cannot create many obstacles for the Qi training monks. In the blink of an eye, everyone will kill a ball on the top of the city, and the entire city will become a battlefield.
A moment before noon, a yellow line emerged from the vast horizon, which soon became thicker and taller, and in the blink of an eye it was like a wave. It was the rolling smoke and dust rising from the ground. Under the smoke and dust
It was a black tide that continued to spread from the loess land, and soon it became a black ocean.
Their rear team disappeared behind the rolling yellow sand, and the entire formation looked like a sea of fire sweeping over.
At this time, the main force of the Tiger Guard had already assembled outside the city. At first glance, the square formations were neat and uniform, horizontally and vertically, and inclined into lines. Small formations were connected to large formations, large formations contained small formations, and there were channels between the formations, which were clearly integrated and integrated with each other, with a huge atmosphere.
The sea of black and yellow smoke formed by the Dashi Guards quickly approached from far away and came in full force.
Li Ye could see clearly at the top of the city that these crescent monks were not rushing on their feet. Each of them was stepping on a blanket-like thing under their feet. They were not big, and they just stood alone, and they would not collide with each other and fly half a foot away from the ground.
Obviously, it is a magic weapon, similar to a flying magic weapon of a flying sword.
Judging from the speed of this kind of flying blanket, it is not slower than that of the white bull. No wonder the Guards were able to arrive at the Seven Rivers Basin so quickly from Baghdad.
Li Ye's eyes narrowed slightly. Every great monk of the Crescent Cultivation was wearing armor, with a hooded windbreaker on his armor, and looked extraordinary. He was carrying a longbow and arrow pouch behind him. He was either holding a spear-like weapon or a scimitar, and also had an exquisite round shield.
This is something that can be seen on the surface.
In this way, this group of Great Food Guards should not be underestimated. They have good cultivation and excellent equipment.
However, Li Ye suddenly laughed.
Qi training monks have magic weapons such as storage bags. The difference is just the size of the space. In addition to military rations, it is definitely more than enough to put down the arms of the bow, crossbow, spear, and arrow bags. But the Guards wish they could hang their weapons all over their bodies and expose all their fangs.
It is a show-off and a deterrent.
However, this method may be useful to the Black Khanate army, but for the Tiger Guards, it is somewhat unavailable.
To Li Ye and Zhao Polu expected that after the Dashi Guards approached, they had no intention of staying. They still flew at a speed of five miles away from the Tiger Guards formation.
The opponent wants to launch a direct offensive!
Even if they rely on flying magic weapons to rush on the road, the Qi-training monks are not tired, but they will consume some physical strength after standing for a long time. Even if the wasteland is vast, they will set up their formation during the march without making any temporary adjustments, but it will be somewhat inconvenient to attack directly in this way.
Such an arrogant attitude was the only thing Tang Jun saw on the battlefield.
Zhao Polu, who was standing above the battle formation of the Tiger Guards Central Army, was almost angry by the Master Guards, and later he even laughed out loud.
He raised one hand and shouted in a deep voice: "Arrow!"
The three rows of Tiger Guard soldiers in the front row led their bows and arrows at the command of the captain, took off their steps, and shot out three rows of arrows with red diamonds. The arrows slid through a graceful arc in the air and landed one thousand eight hundred steps ahead.
One thousand eight hundred steps, this is the range of the Tiger Guard's magic weapon bow and crossbow.
Before the appearance of magic weapon crossbows, the Fuyuan Crossbow had the longest range among the infantry, which could reach 300 steps. Now, the development of magic weapon crossbows in the Tang army has been more than five years since the magic weapon crossbows in Yangguan. It has been more than five years since the range has been increased to six times that of Fuyuan Crossbows. It is really nothing.
The Great Guards turned a blind eye to the arrows nailed to the ground and had no intention of stopping in front of them.
Not only that, with a tsunami roar, the inspiration burst out in the Dashi army, and the dazzling white light even
They blocked Huang Yan, and their speed suddenly doubled, and they rushed towards the Tiger Guards with the momentum of rushing into the formation!
Zhao Polu stared at the Dashi army with a cold look. He saw the other party taking off the longbow he carried and spread the bowstring on the flight blanket without having to run by himself.
After cursing, Zhao Polu pulled out his horizontal knife, pointed forward, and ordered: "First round, get a shot, prepare!"
The soldiers of the Tiger Guard adjusted some parts of the heavy crossbow in front of them according to the order. The crossbow is different from the bow. The crossbow arrows shot out are straight lines and cannot draw arcs in the air. However, the magic weapon heavy crossbows in the Tang army can be adjusted simply as needed and change the crossbow arrow flying method at will.
As the 100,000 soldiers of the Tiger Guards moved the lunge and pulled the strings in a consistent manner, the entire army moved, like a wave stroking the sea.
Zhao Polu's eyebrows and eyes were low. Seeing that the Dashi army approached the position of the arrow, he shouted: "Let it go!"
The muffled sound of hundreds of thousands of bowstrings gathered into a stream, like muffled thunder. The sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air and making people stand up. When the crossbow arrows flew through the sky and landed in the Dashi Army formation, they just rushed past the position of the arrow.
The soldiers of the Dashi Guards all put away their longbows and raised the round shield in their hands.
The round shield is not big, but it forms a huge light shield, protecting the monks of the Crescent Cultivation behind. The powerful crossbow arrows that the Tiger Guards can even shoot through the female wall with one arrow. When they encounter these light shields, they only hit a circle of ripples like water waves on it and did not penetrate it!
The crossbow arrows and clouds in the Tiger Guard formation flew out one after another, and yellow sand filled the sky, and a meteor shower fell. The Dashi Guards, who wanted to find a gap to shoot arrows and counterattack, did not find a chance.
Hit by a meteor shower composed of 100,000 crossbow arrows of the Tiger Guards, even the city tower would collapse, and even the city wall would be unrecognizable. However, they fell on the protective light shield of the Dashi Guards one after another, but they could not break through the defense.
Zhao Polu's expression gradually became solemn.
This is the first time since the army of pure Qi training cultivators went to fight, the powerful crossbows in the army have not achieved the desired results.
With a distance of 1,800 steps, the Dashi Guards crossed over in a moment. After shooting out eighteen waves of crossbow arrows, the Tiger Guards caused almost negligible damage to the Dashi Guards.
Although in the end, the light shield in front of the guards had obviously begun to appear spider-web-like cracks, and it seemed that it would collapse after not long, but it would definitely take a while to continue to attack.
The Tiger Guards no longer have time to launch crossbow arrows.
"The magic weapon of the Crescent Sect is so powerful?" Zhao Polu felt the surprise. The magic weapon and crossbow in the Chang'an Imperial Army had never encountered an enemy since its debut.
"It seems that Mullen's Guards are not just a collection of Qi training monks, but a real elite army." Seeing this, Li Ye had a preliminary understanding of the combat power of the Guards.
The reason why an elite army is an elite army is that in addition to the orders and the action is hard, the primary factor is that it is well-equipped. The biggest difference between the Qi training monks and a group of Qi training monks is that the magic weapons they use are not in the style of the martial arts, but in line with the needs of the battlefield.
From this perspective, the Guards have reached a level comparable to the Tiger Guards.
"Shield Formation!" Seeing that the Dashi Guards had already put away the round shield and began to hold guns in both hands. Zhao Polu ordered the soldiers to put away their powerful crossbows and prepare for melee battle.
Chapter completed!