Chapter 158 The price of a veteran

When Meng Hu's black iron spear hit the spear in the hand of the last soldier in the front row, the ceremony was finally completed.

Zhanying rode his horse slowly forward, pointed the spear in his hand and pulled it hard, and started to scream at the top of his throat: "War Eagle Division, attack..."

"Hey yell...oh!"

"Hey yell...oh!"

"Hey yell...oh!"

The soldiers of the War Eagle Division shouted loud trumpets again and walked forward slowly with neat steps. More than 25,000 soldiers gathered into a torrent of steel and slowly crushed towards the black wind vent in front.

Black Wind Inlet, in front of the Mingyue Empire.

Yao Chang's pupils suddenly contracted. Is the enemy going to attack?

Meng Hu is really arrogant. He didn't even have a tentative attack and directly invested in a whole division to launch a strong attack? Do you really think our Yunzhou Legion is a vulnerable mob? Meng Hu, no matter how you defeated Situ Rui, today, you will be defeated by our governor at the Heifengkou!

After suddenly turning back, Yao Chang shouted to the messenger behind him: "Send the messenger, prepare to fight!"

The commander took the horse and left, and in an instant, the shrill commander sounded across the mountain pass: "The Governor has an order, prepare to fight, prepare to fight..."

The Mingyue Empire Army, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately began the final preparations before the war. The front row of the ushi shield soldiers checked the armor buckle for the last time, and slammed the heavy giant ushi shield into the ground, then spread their legs back and forth, and their left shoulders and left knees were already behind the ushi shield.

The first three rows of spearmen had already pressed down the spears in their hands, and the sharp spear tips stabbed straight ahead at flat angles. The next six rows of spearmen pointed the spears in their hands at a forty-five-degree angle to the void. Thousands of sharp spears instantly gathered into a large cold forest of death, which was chilling.

Immediately following the spearmen were another row of oars and shield soldiers, and then the archers.

At the command of the officer, the archers with cold expressions pulled out the infantry longbows that were almost as high as the humans. A series of ferocious armor-breaking arrows were already on the strings, and the sharp arrows pointed directly at the void at an oblique angle, just like the white fangs in the big mouth of a wild beast that opened its blood disk.

Outside the mountain pass, Meng Hu has returned to his original formation.

Qi Diaozi rushed forward and asked in a low voice: "Are the general ready to let the First Division attack?"

Meng Hu didn't answer, but just nodded heavily.

Jia Wudao took a breath and said, "The general's speech just now is very exciting. The morale of the First Division is also very high. But the Mingyue Empire Army is not a mob, and the other party has taken the upper hand. Their archers have a longer range. If they really want to attack, the First Division will suffer a lot of casualties and may not be successful."

A cold light flashed in Meng Hu's eyes, and he said in a voice that only three people could hear: "It is inevitable that the First Division will suffer heavy casualties and injuries during the strong attack. It is normal that it cannot get the mountain pass for the first attack, but this attack must be done with all our strength, and we have no choice!"

Qi Diaozi's expression moved, and he already understood Meng Hu's intention!

Meng Hu asked the War Eagle Division to launch a strong attack as soon as he came up, which was indeed ulterior motives.

In fact, Meng Hu was repeating the same trick. In the offensive and defensive battle of Hexi Fortress, Meng Hu used this tactic to defeat Tuoba Tao's division. This tactic was endless harassment between virtual and real. When the Tiger Regiment was at an absolute disadvantage in the Hexi battlefield, Meng Hu dared to use harassment tactics. Today, the Western Legion has an absolute advantage in troop strength. How could Meng Hu not use this harassment tactic to the fullest?

However, if you want to achieve effective harassment, there must be a prerequisite, which is to let your opponent know your determination!

So Meng Hu rushed forward at all costs and directly committed the entire War Eagle Division to launch a large-scale attack without any temptation. Meng Hu did this just to give Yao Chang and Mingyue Imperial Army a wrong understanding, making them think that the Western Legion would seize the Black Wind at all costs!

At the Black Wind, Yao Chang's high sword was swung down fiercely.

Officers at all levels who were staring at Yao Chang's swords, also waved the swords in their hands, and various commands sounded in an instant.

"Take the trencher, put it!"

"Arrow, let it go!"

"Giant crossbow machine, put it!"

The small catapult of the Mingyuehou formation was the first to launch. Amid the huge trembling sound of the catapult's arms swinging, more than a dozen huge rocks had already soared from the Mingyuehou formation, drawing different trajectories in the air, and rolling and falling toward the head of the War Eagle Division.

Immediately after the catapult, more than a hundred giant crossbow beds in front of the Mingyue formation also began to fire. Crossbow arrows as thick as infantry spears shot out from the dark shooting hole. The sharp arrows instantly tore the air, and with a sharp roar, they shot towards the enemy soldiers slowly moving forward like lightning.

Almost at the same time, the archers in the Mingyue Army also let go. With the trembling buzzing sound of the bowstrings, thousands of armor-breaking heavy arrows had already emerged from the air. After flying for a distance in the air, they finally intertwined into a large rain of arrows, which ruthlessly fell to the head of the War Eagle Division.

In front of the War Eagle Division.

With the harsh sound of breaking through the air, more than a hundred giant crossbows were the first to shoot.

With the order of the Zhanying, the five rows of oars and shield soldiers walking in the front stopped and then put the giant oars and shields on their shoulders on the ground.

Suddenly, more than a hundred giant crossbows had been shot by lightning. With the harsh and unpleasant metal friction, the sharp crossbow arrows actually penetrated the iron sheet on the surface of the shield and shot through the thick shields continuously. A shrill scream suddenly sounded behind the shield wall. More than a dozen unlucky heavy infantry soldiers had been pierced through the chest by the crossbow arrows and were killed on the spot!

Seeing someone dead, the new recruits were inevitably panicked. Fortunately, officers at all levels who were veterans from the Tigers were calm and calm. With a command, more than a dozen heavy infantry soldiers in the back row quickly rushed forward and carried the giant shield from the hands of the fallen brothers, maintaining the integrity and rigor of the entire attack formation.

A terrifying sound of breaking through the air suddenly sounded overhead.

Zhan Ying suddenly raised his head, his pupils suddenly contracted. More than a dozen huge rocks were rolling and rolling towards the head of the War Eagle Division with a terrifying momentum. One of the largest huge rocks hit his head directly. With a clear shout, the spear in Zhan Ying's hand was swung out like lightning.

With a loud bang, the largest boulder had been swept into gravels by the War Eagle's spear. The remaining dozen boulders roared past the head of the War Eagle and fell into the dense attack formation of the War Eagle Division.

"puff!"

A spear soldier's head was directly hit by a huge rock, and it broke open like a burst of watermelon. The body that lost his head twitched twice before falling to the ground. The spear soldier splashed his head and faces. The dead spear soldier could no longer make any sound, but the dozen alive recruits began to scream in horror. The originally neat and rigorous attack formation immediately caused a slight riot.

The same scene was staged at more than a dozen places at the same time. More than a dozen huge rocks fell from the air caused great damage to the War Eagle Division. Although there were not many soldiers who were directly killed by stones, the psychological shock brought was huge. When these new recruits saw these millstones falling down from the sky, they inevitably felt irresistible!

Immediately after the boulders, bigger blows followed one after another.

Amid the harsh whistling sound, countless sharp armor-breaking arrows fell from the sky like endless raindrops. Officers of all levels of veterans began to whine, but the new recruits who were in the riot looked confused. They even forgot to raise their shields above their heads to resist the armor-breaking arrows. The result was disastrous.

Thousands of armor-breaking heavy arrows finally ruthlessly landed in the dense attack formation of the War Eagle Division. The heavy and sharp arrow clusters easily shot through the heavy armor on the bodies of the new recruits of the War Eagle Division, and then cruelly pierced through their chest cavity, shoulders, limbs, throat and even head.

An extremely shrill scream suddenly sounded, and more than 500 new recruits had fallen into the pool of blood, more than 100 of whom were shot in the vital area and killed directly. More than 400 people were holding their injured thighs or shoulders, staring with horror eyes, lying in the pool of blood, wailing in despair...

The riots in the War Eagle Division began to intensify. If you don’t find a way to control them, you may collapse directly!

Heifengkou, Yunzhou Legion's rear formation.

Yao Chang's mouth suddenly had a cold and cruel smile, and his eyes also showed this mockery. Is this the Western Legion that Meng Hu claimed to be "invincible in battle and invincible in attack"? The war has just begun, and the two armies have not even joined forces, and they are about to disperse under long-range attacks before they even face each other.

If it were not for Qiu Yutang's military order to "defend the Black Wind Tip and not take the initiative to attack", Yao Chang had even ordered the Yunzhou First Division to attack on the entire line. The enemy division in front was on the verge of collapse. It would be easy to destroy this division at this time.

Meng Hu, Meng Hu, if your western legion only has this ability, then go back to the western region as soon as possible! Even the two Yunzhou legions under our governor can’t deal with it, so why should we fight against the Moon King and the 16 Mingyue Division that are about to form an encirclement to Heifengkou?

Outside the mountain pass, in front of the Western Legion.

Qi Diaozi, Jia Wudao's expression was solemn, He Qing, Zhou Jin, Bai Xi, Ma Sifeng and other division commanders looked solemn, and all the soldiers of the Western Legion looked solemn, and more than 100,000 troops were silent, all quietly staring at the noisy battlefield ahead, and the air was filled with suffocating solemnity!

Meng Hu's expression was as cold as iron, and his heart was also cold!

The bloody battle has just begun, and the casualties of these three or four hundred people are just a small prelude. Perhaps after this battle, more than half of the casualties of the War Eagle Division will be killed, but Meng Hu will never frown because of this. Since it is a war, casualties are inevitable. This is the price of growth and the price of making these new recruits become veterans!

Meng Hu only cares about the same thing now. Can the War Eagle turn the situation around at this time?

As the commander of the Western Legion, Meng Hu is already the commander of the 100,000 army. He can no longer lead a squadron, a corps or a division to fight on the front line like before. Now he has to take charge and leave the matter of Zhanying, Shidun, Shanbao and others in the future.

Tiger Roar Pass.

When the War Eagle Division of the Western Legion began to attack Heifengkou, Mengyan's middle army also began to launch a fierce attack on Hu Xiao Pass guarded by Situ Rui.

Compared with the war in Heifengkou and the war in front of Hu Xiao Pass, it is simply a pediatric department.

Compared with the large group of catapults of the Mengyan Middle Army, Yao Chang's long-range strike power of more than a dozen small catapults and more than a hundred crossbow beds under him, it is even more slim.

During this Western Expedition, the royal arsenal of the Glorious Empire was almost emptied. Two hundred giant catapults that were enough to pose a threat to the strongest city walls had all been allocated to Mengyan's Guards Corps, and another five hundred medium-sized catapults used to kill the enemy in large numbers were also allocated to the major legions of the Western Expedition.

However, when Kawahara was divided, Meng Yan assigned all the heavy equipment allocated to the Western Legion and the Northern Legion to the Northwest Legion and the Southwest Legion, including this group of catapults. Therefore, Meng Hu's Western Legion and Chongshan's Northern Legion do not have long-range killing weapons. At the Black Windkou, the Western Legion can only endure the rampage of the enemy.

In front of the Huyao Pass, dense towers were erected behind the huge military formation of the Guanghui Empire Army. Hundreds of strong men with bare chests and backs were desperately turning the winch wheels, slowly squeezing the counterweights weighing tens of thousands of pounds on the giant stone thief, and then carrying pieces of polished round stone bullets into the huge throwing basket.

Not far from the giant catapult group, it is the position of the medium catapult group.

Here, more strong men with bare chests and backs were desperately turning the winch wheels and twisting up relatively light counterweights. The strong men responsible for dropping bombs placed pots filled with tinsels filled with tinsels and ropes wrapped in the throwing basket. There were also teams of strong men holding torches in hand. Although it was the twelfth month of winter, the burning torches made the air extremely hot.

Teams of command soldiers holding order flags were running back and forth in the formation, passing on the military orders of Meng Yan and generals at all levels one after another. More than 300,000 veterans who had been through battle were arranged into huge square formations, waiting quietly for the moment when the war began. Compared with the unsustainable new recruits in the Western Legion, the more than 300,000 veterans of Meng Yan's middle army seemed much more calm.

The biggest difference between veterans and new recruits is that they are not panicked at the battle. In the journey of countless blood and fire, veterans have already figured out the way to survive on the battlefield. If you want to survive on the battlefield, you must be calm, calm, and calm again!

Meng Yan's luxurious chariot was in the center of the huge square formation of the Guards.

Meng Yan, wearing gorgeous armor, looked heroic and majestic. Pu Sanzhi and Shi Miyuan were also rarely worn in military uniforms, standing quietly behind Meng Yan, behind Meng Yan, a huge glorious flag was fluttering in the wind, and a golden sun on the red flag looked particularly dazzling.

Meng Yan held the guardrail of the chariot with his hands. All he saw were full of soldiers of the imperial army.

The shields were like walls, spears were like forests, and the floating flags almost covered the entire wilderness. The strong confidence and scorching fighting spirit rolled and stirred in Meng Yan's chest. The feeling of hundreds of thousands of troops gathering in the scenery was crazy. Even if Meng Yan was the prince, he was inevitably crazy by this feeling.

With the rapid sound of horse hooves, several fast horses came to Mengyan's chariot.

"Your Highness, the catapult group is ready!"

"Your Highness, the siege car group is ready!"

"Your Highness, the city-slam convoy is ready!"

"Your Highness, the cloud ladder cluster is ready!"

"Your Highness, the First Division of the Northwest Legion is ready!"

"Your Highness, the 1st Division of the Southwest Legion is ready!"

Meng Yan breathed a long sigh, raised his right hand and clenched it into a fist, then waved it hard in the air, shouting: "Start the attack!"

"yes!"

Several fast horses responded with a loud bang and galloped away separately.

In an instant, the originally silent military formation began to hustle and bustle. The commands of officers at all levels, the long neighing of war horses, the collision of weapons, and the footsteps of soldiers advancing suddenly rang out. Towering siege cars and huge siege cars were already slowly advancing forward under the guidance of soldiers.

The first wave of siege echelons of the two divisions had begun to move forward in neat steps.

However, what made the soldiers of the Glorious Empire most excited and the soldiers of the Mingyue Empire frightened were the two hundred giant catapults and five hundred medium catapults in the rear formation of the Glorious Empire! With the deafening trembling sound of the catapult swinging arms, two hundred round giant stone bombs had already risen into the air.
To be continued...