Mercenaries Under the Sky

Chapter 26—Gifu Martyrdom

The Black Dragon Knights did not directly kill Ulu, the capital of the sacred desert empire. Rage Zhongchi Aotian did not lose his sensible reason. His first goal: Moyada, the town on the east coast of the Holy See.

Prior to this, the worried pope begged Redstone to send elite troops from the northern confederation of the ice and snow continent to the East Coast for defense, to prevent the eastern army of Fanos from attacking the Holy See territory. God needs the Holy Church to stand firm on his side, so he happily agreed to this request. After conquering the city of Hamburg, Barbas, one of the chiefs of the small mercenary regiment, made a special trip to Moyada at the order of Hornes to contact the commander of the Northern Federal Snow Moon Corps to get in touch.

According to Horns ’thoughts, I hope that the Snow Moon Army can send a squadron and even more soldiers into the northern part of the fairy forest for defense-not only to defend the fairy forest but also to support the Holy Snow Mountain theater. From a longer perspective, it is The mercenaries of the mercenary empire about to collapse completely leave a safe passage. After these mercenaries entered the Tongyun Pass, Horns hoped to be able to reorganize on the spot to become a peripheral organization of the small mercenary regiment.

Chi Aotian's strategic steps are almost exactly the same as that of Horns-the Black Dragon Knights are best able to get in touch with the Northern Federal Army, and even expect to obtain the command of the Xueyue Army-after all, Chi Hanfeng and Amy's father They used to be the captains of the Xueyue Legion, and now a considerable number of officers of the Xueyue Legion came from the two men, and Amy's father has always had a good reputation among the soldiers. It cannot be said that this is not possible.

There was a hint of uneasiness in Chi Aotian's heart. The Xueyue Army could be said to have been lured to the Holy See. The time has passed for several months. During this period, the nation has undergone great changes. Isn't the Holy See not counting the empire's largest reserve combat power? At this time, Chi Aotian still had a slight fluke in his heart-there were more than 10,000 northern federal soldiers transferred to the Holy Church, and there were many elite troops like the Knights of the Xueyue Legion, because the Xueyue Legion was directly under the brigade There must be a lot of Eudemons knights. Even if the Holy Church uses more than 50,000 troops for surprise attacks, it cannot guarantee to wipe them out in one fell swoop. The Holy See could not risk the news to attack the Xueyue Army first.

In terms of order, the Holy See must have attacked the imperial capital first, and then tried to find a solution to this partial army. From the perspective of geographical leaps and bounds, in order to ensure the strategic victory of the Imperial City, the Holy See must have concentrated its superior strength. Around the night of the Imperial Capital, the Holy See can only use a small portion of its troops to secretly contain the Northern Federal Army. Even after the Holy See completed the Imperial Capital strategy, it immediately transferred troops eastward from the Imperial Capital to the Eastern Coast of the Holy See. According to the regular march, it took at least 15 days, and there were also imperial border forest warfare barriers. According to the fighting power of the northern federal army, it will never be easily annihilated.

Taking all these considerations into consideration, the Northern Federal Army should have just been notified by the Imperial Warfare Department at this time, and they are looking for ways to move closer to the nearest Imperial theater.

Tongyunguan is 300 miles north, and enters the Holy See territory.

All the way is a continental road. On both sides of the road, there are occasionally small villages with sacred churches-in any sense, these villages are extremely lucky, because until this time, Chi Changyun led 3000 heavy knights still "seeing off" Of course, Chi Aotian knew the true purpose of his brother's long-term long-term delivery, and the cold black pupils suppressed as much murderousness as possible.

The inhabitants of the Holy See saw large-scale army marching, and their curiosity drove these people who did not know life to stand on both sides of the mainland highway to watch the excitement.

At the front are hundreds of knights whose skin is white and delicate, with slightly sharp ears telling everyone their identity for the first time-these seemingly extremely weak people are actually extremely rare races on the mainland: forest elves; elves are behind them Thousands of strong human warriors, one-color beast skin chain mail, and a horse with a long sword hung on the side. The long line of humans and elf knights are all lined up in four rows, and for several miles, everyone silently urges the crotch mount, and the horseshoes roll forward quickly.

Just after seeing the tail of the Cavaliers team, I heard thunder, boom, boom ... from the distance, the broad continental road trembles in the thunder, and two columns of 4 meters high ground dragon knights drove the mount to trot He rushed over, covered with thick armor from the knight to the ground-dragon. The ground-dragon was hung with a half-man long single-handed hammer on the side. The red floating earth flying on the road continued to fall down, black The knights under the visor seemed not to see the dust at all, no one made a noise, and continued to advance like a dead ghost.

At the back of the team, there are three armored knights. In the sky, from time to time there are human vulture knights and elf vulture knights rising and falling. Almost all soldiers carry bows and arrows ... even ... and there is a strong crossbow with a height of one person behind the Dragon Knight! Before this, all the people had not seen any legion composed solely of archers.

What makes the Holy See military and civilians even more difficult to understand is that there are only two colors in the ranks of nearly ten thousand people stretching 5 miles-black and white symbolizing ominousness and death. Slowly, some old residents realized what they felt, and quietly took their family members away from the Continental Highway-all they read from the eyes of these soldiers was blood feud and death.

There is a major town on each side of the mainland highway at the border between the imperial Tongyunguan theater and the southern territory of the Holy See, with Tongyunguan on the south and Gifu City on the north.

On the 23rd of winter in the Magical Calendar for 5 years, the Black Dragon Knights Thousand Iron Knights can clearly see Gifu Castle.

Chi Aotian took Si rein and circled, and the dust was full of emotions and the last eviction order: "Brother, please come back!"

Seeing a gleam of cold light in the black pupil of his younger brother, although in the subtropical region of the southern mainland, Chi Changyun couldn't help but fight a cold war. In the past few days, he clearly knew that his brother did not want himself Followed, just ... With his little knowledge of Chi Aotian, Chi Changyun could only barely follow with the excuse of farewell, and at this time ... he could only turn back, and the soldiers of the Holy See only I can pray for blessings: "Well, brother, send Junqianli to have a difference, just ..." Chi Changyun knew that Chi Aotian didn't like to listen, but he had to say: "I won't say more, you ... … Think of the Chi family ’s reputation for more than 600 years.

After talking, Commander Tong Yunguan turned his horse's head and took 3,000 armored cavalrymen to beat the horse and whipped it back along the mainland road.

By this time, the last moral umbrella of the Holy Church was removed, leaving only Chiaotian, the lawless avenger.

At 3:00 pm on February 23, the winter of the magical calendar, at 13:00, Gifu Castle 17,000 holy papal mobilized from the inland towns watched the black-pressed vultures and the snow-white and black armor knights silently assembled under Gifu City.

Both the sages of the Holy See and the Black Dragon Knights of the Amy Empire were stunned by the opponent.

There was a **** piece on the city of Gifu, with dozens of heads hanging on it, and countless corpses nailed to the cross.

In the middle of the mainland highway, four black flags were raised on the four 10-meter high avenue flags of the black-pressed knights.

There are two black words in the middle of the white cloth: "It's a shame to disgrace, the Chi family has been guarding the cloud for decades, and the horse body is wrapped in corpses, but it was swallowed by the Holy See.

"In return for grievance, Heilong Wanqi rides for half a thousand years and waits for a while, but the former servant succeeds, but he is rebellious and shameless."

Two **** red letters on the side of the white cloth: on the left: "Chi"

Right: "Kill"

In front of everyone's eyes, a huge bone dragon appeared in the enchantment. A black boy with a white filial band hanging under the flag jumped up. The bone dragon raised two skeletons back and forth and wrapped the boy tightly. Back.

The bone dragon vibrated two giant wings of 15 meters long, and the waves rose up. The dragon knight slowly took off. The two knight eagles rushed up from behind and put a huge black cloak up to three meters long. On the back of the dragon knight, the dragon knight slowly tied it on his chest, and the cloak was torn by the wind and flew in the air.

Any human being who sees a dragon for the first time is bound to be frightened; any human who sees a dragon for the first time will inevitably lose confidence in his life.

Needless to say, it is ordinary human beings. Even a warrior who has fought through a hundred battles and even fought against a dragon. It is a fear from the deepest heart to see for the first time that all things finally belong to the master's death horse to leave the dragon.

The walls of Gifu Castle that are 8 meters high are silent. From the Supreme Master to the bottom, nearly ten thousand soldiers stared at the giant monster that was slowly rising higher than his line of sight, and the pair of monsters hiding on their backs. The sharp cold eyes behind the black gem.

The news of the official start of the war between the Holy See and the Amy Empire was passed here by the Bishop of the Holy See 10 days ago.

The performance of the Bishop ’s Master is extremely exciting. In the broad daylight, more than 20,000 faithful soldiers and 170,000 residents of Gifu City saw the God of Light and many angels appear at the same time after many priests cast the prayers of God. , God of Light announced that the descendants of the Western Emperor will revive the mainland again. The power of the church is unimaginable for ordinary people, especially for the Holy See.

In just 10 minutes, in the hearts of the military and civilians in Gifu City, the Amy Empire fell directly from its once intimate allies to a shameless and despicable evil country that obstructed peace by its own self and trapped the people of Limin in fire and water. The Black Dragon Knights in the Tongyunguan War Zone, who had rescued residents from the floods that rescued residents from the floods in southern Xinjiang, had become a demon who had been peeping into the Huayu Prairie for a long time. No one could think that the power of God would be so great.

Of course, not all words were spoken personally by the Lord God of Light. The Archbishop floated in the air after the sacred image of the light disappeared to teach the residents and soldiers again-many grudges about the Amy Empire and the Holy See. It was not until this time that the believers of the Holy See knew that the Fanos Legion, which had been described as a wild beast of Miao, turned out to be an ally of the Holy See, and that such a humble race was first influenced by the Western Emperor and vowed to serve.

Shame and bravery, the believers burned with anger in their chests, and even roared to attack the territory of the Amy Empire-the most martyrdom was the 20 officers sent by the Amy Empire Army to Gifu City for training. It is ridiculous that it was the Pope who repeatedly urged the Redstone Emperor several months ago to send excellent soldiers to fully train the trainers to prevent the surprise attack of the Fanos Legion. Now, the trained soldiers have turned their swords and guns against the trainers ...

More than 10 **** heads were hung on the city wall, and only three officers luckily rushed into the alley and were taken in by the well-meaning residents. After nightfall, they fled from the city wall and fell outside the city. What the three officers did not know was that the residents who took them in were the Amy empire people who had just moved to Gifu City a few years ago. When the matter was leaked, a terrible massacre occurred in Gifu City-angry Holy Holy Indigenous The military and civilians slaughtered the residents of the Amy Empire who moved to Gifu City in the last 20 years in just 5 days.

Beast walking is not only a soldier, but more civilians who claim to believe in the **** of light. They **** young imperial girls on the street, slaughter innocent imperial civilians, and throw a torch into the home of imperial residents-nearly ten thousand The body was nailed to a cross outside the city wall.

Historically called "Gifu Martyrdom."

Analysts of later generations of historians believe that the indigenous residents of Gifu who were the pioneers in the "Gifu Martyrdom" were the immediate gainers of this incident. As everyone knows, the Amy Empire is rich and powerful, and ordinary ascendants will become rare and affluent residents once they cross the border. The local residents of Gifu City have long remembered the wealth of foreigners in their minds. In this martyrdom, It's undoubtedly the happiest thing for those gangsters who are fooling around on the street. You don't have to be responsible for killing people. You can also grab a woman and a lot of money. At first, ordinary people who were in a wait-and-see attitude and soldiers who should maintain order saw the huge amount of money robbed from the rich house, and finally ripped off the last diaper of the so-called believer of God, and became the follower of adultery and looting.

At this time, Chi Aotian didn't know who was the person who was crucified on the wall. When he rose into the sky, he clearly saw a large scorched house in the city, and the puzzled expression quietly climbed up to the white face.

Suddenly, three empire officers were washed down from the northwestern mountain of the city. The crotch horse was dirty and incomplete, and the officer himself was muddy. If it was not an empire-style daily officer uniform, no one would contact them with the soldiers. together.

The three of them jumped down from the horse, and cried aloud without speaking. Their noses were full of blood.

"Which empire general is under the rule of Tieqi will avenge more than ten thousand dying empire residents ..." Three middle-aged officers in their thirties were crying.

To fall away from the dragon's wings, Chi Aotian responded coldly: "I am Chi Aotian, from Tongyun Pass. Who are you?"

Among the three imperial officers, there were also people who had a clear mind, and covered their mouths while nibbling and said, "It turned out to be Master Chi Er ... We are the instructors of the Imperial Corps Training Corps, the imperial knights Li Lafeng, Dadanian, and Ping Lei, They were sent here two months ago to train their soldiers ... but ... more than 10 days ago, they suddenly killed the squadron leader and more than 10 other officers, and ... all the residents of the empire in the city. Dead ... "The three military officers in the incoherent language also explained the general thing.

Later historians believe that Chi Aotian slaughtered thousands of miles along the way, although there are some mistakes, but the Holy See, especially the officers of Gifu City and 170,000 inhabitants of Gifu City, have absolutely unshirkable responsibilities. The 10,000 civilians of the Empire died tragically. In the face of this situation, even if it was not Chi Aotian, change a person, whether it is Daqingshan, Horns or Amy or Chi Changyun, Viscount Fan, etc., but if there are some **** people, maybe The choices at the time were the same. If, without Gifu martyrdom, at least there will be noble officers who oppose some things out of knighthood.

If we say that Chi Aotian's essays are still far-fetched, and some soldiers are still a little hesitant, at this moment, only blood and hatred are surging in the black and white team.

Chi Aotian gently lifted the miserable white mask, revealing a fair face, and a faint voice sounded in the sky: "I wanted to persuade you to surrender, and the surrender will not kill. But, it is not necessary now. You! Also destroy this city together. "

A middle-aged man in his thirties on the city wall snorted coldly: "Crazy. Just a few thousand people like you? Even if there are thirty thousand people, what about?"

"Chief Shao, this man is Gifu castle guard Suharto." The three knights of the Imperial Training Corps returned to the headquarters of the Black Dragon Knights, reminded below.

There is a smug look on Suharto's face: "As long as we don't leave the city, come and attack! Gifu City is the largest city in southern Xinjiang of the Holy Church. Let me see how you can treat me? Those who understand the art of war, the cloud of art: ten are surrounded, five are attacked, and the times are divided, the enemy can fight, the less can be escaped, if not, the enemy can be avoided. The enemy's capture is also. The husband, the country's assistant. I will definitely drag you **** to death. "

Looking at the expressive expression of the middle-aged man in front of him, he couldn't help but be as cold as Chi Aotian. It is estimated that these words were probably just learned by the City Guardian and the Imperial Training Corps. Ten of them surrounded, five of them attacked ... Bone Dragon Knight shook his head slightly.

"Buzzard Sword Warrior Camp, Buzzard Forest Elf Battalion, lift off, target: Gifu City Wall soldiers, 20 rounds. There are all the rest, back 500 meters." Chi Aotian slowly ordered.

5000 regular knights lined up in a loose array and backed away. The flock of vultures made a rapid trembling blast and the sizzling arrow rain covered the frontal wall in a flash-especially more than 300 elf archers, The short arrows fired a green tail smoke in the air.

"Get up the shield-" the officer in rotation on the city wall ordered loudly.

Wow, wow ... Hundreds of skinned square shields were lifted up at the same time, forming a tiled square wall.

The rain-like arrows hit the shield. Unexpectedly, the free fall speed of the arrows dropped from more than 600 meters high plus the initial shooting speed, and all the bang, bang, bang shot through the shield and screamed. There was one after another-looking in the air, the shield with the densest arrow rain in the middle paused for a moment and slumped to the ground, and the snow-white brain encased in the bright red blood oozed out from under the shield.

The officers in the castle tower were keenly aware of the tragic phenomenon, and shouted: "Quick !!! Retreat into the arrow tower! Block !!! Everyone retreat into the arrow tower !!!"

The soldiers hid like a tide into the city tower and the arrow tower. After 20 breaths, there were no soldiers on the city wall-except for the more than three hundred shields in the middle, which were spread on the bluestone bricks at different angles, blood dripping and ticking down the road. Three hundred face shields ... means at least six hundred soldiers ...

"Shoo! Shoot!" His Excellency Suharto hid in the tower and ordered aloud.

"Adult! We! Can't shoot so high!" The soldier in the arrow tower in the distance replied loudly.

The height of 600 meters, needless to say, is the standard angle bow of the Holy See. Probably, except for the legendary ice crossbow, no crossbow can shoot 600 meters, let alone 600 meters high.

"Asshole! What if you can shoot arrows from the sky? Have the ability to attack the city, and the ability to shoot through the arrow tower! Wait, wait, the Pope and the Western Emperor will inevitably lead the army, when the golden dragon appears here, it is Your death ... I will drag you here! "Suharto pointed Chi Aotian with his finger in the tower, his face full of disdain.

Chi Aotian looked back at Yu Ling and the elder elder Qingluo, the captain of the vulture swordsman battalion, and Shen Sheng issued a new command: "Target, buildings in the city, indifference, rocket, 20 rounds."

Both captains were stunned, no difference? Facing civilians? The sharp gaze swept from Gulong's back, and the two no longer hesitated, and quickly rose and ordered loudly.

Obviously, I could feel the elves 'words clamoring in the elves' archers, followed by the words of Elder Qingluo's command, and the elves obeyed.

The soldiers in the sky skillfully inserted the tip of the arrow into the self-igniting powder arrow gourd. When the arrow feathers were pulled out again, the spontaneous combustion powder immediately burned in the air, and the rockets rained down in the surprised eyes of the military and civilians in Gifu City ... Gifu City is located on the southern half of the mainland. The winter is the dry season in the subtropics. There is often no rain in the months. From the fields to the city, the grass that grows on the house will dry the knots, and the flames will suddenly fall. From now on, pits engulfed all the burning houses around. In the burning house soon came the cry for help from adults and the cry of children. One, two, three ... Dozens of people who burst out of the fire rushed out of the house and cried and cried on the ground. . Some people who escaped were sitting on the ground and crying at the house ... There were no escapes in the house, and there was no way to escape. It must have been nailed to the ground by the rain of arrows.

"Let's go water ... Quickly save the fire ..." The residents around just broke the tub and rushed out of the house, and the arrow feathers changed their target. The speed of the arrow feathers shot from a 600-meter altitude with a horn bow has been fast. Beyond the speed of sound, puff, puff, puff, pierced from one body and then penetrated into another, a line of blood broke out, the fifth round of the arrow rain has not fallen, there are already nearly a thousand more bodies on the street .

Thick smoke billowed, flames burning, engulfing a corpse, the stench of the flesh burning southward along the wind, and the black dragon knights and soldiers who were 700 meters away from the downwind smelled it.

"Asshole !! Are you attacking civilians! Are you still knights?" Two young Eudemons knights took off from the tower: "We demand a decisive battle between the troops!"

Chi Aotian did not accuse the other party of attacking the civilians before this, but waved slightly to stop the knights from attacking.

The suspension bridge outside the south gate of Gifu City was lowered, and the cavalry of the brigade rushed out of the city, and then light infantry, archers, heavy infantry, and heavy cavalry were dispatched in turn.

Watching the enemy skillfully gather into giant phalanxes, the knights of the Black Dragon Knights have some turmoil-I did not expect that the Holy Vatican defensive master will know the way to use troops, and it is not inferior to Tongyunhou and Chi Changyun At the level of a square matrix, the regular positive moments of a square matrix are pattern-like.

The hussars form a square matrix on each side of the team. The hussars are the place that changes the most in the war. If the war falls into a stage of mutual balance, the hussars will be the most effective **** for the commander to break the deadlock. Describe it most appropriately.

The light infantry scattered formation is located at the forefront of the entire battle array. In the battle, the application of the light infantry should be like the tentacles of an octopus, "when strong, weak, strong when weak." Encounter a powerful enemy charge, immediately back under the protection of heavy infantry, and use the long war spear in your hand to attack the enemy; if the enemy unit bursts or collapses, it will immediately flow into the tide, like a maggot With the shadows, they rushed to encircle and annihilate all the enemies.

A large-scale archer must be a snake array. Even a bow array composed of tens of thousands of soldiers must be a snake array. Any war commander's arrangement for the archer array must follow the principle of "do not think of progress, only seek back". An archer array with a thickness of 20 layers definitely means the low energy of the commander-each archer must reserve 3 meters before and after the active space. The 20 layers mean that the archers in the last row are more than 60 meters away from the archers in the first row. What is the effective range of horn bow and longbow? At 60 meters, in order to ensure the effective range of the last few archers, how much do we need to advance the entire battle array towards the enemy? The 20th layer of archers means that after the 5th row, all archers will shoot arrows without any angle. Once the opponent launches an attack, the distance of 200 to 300 meters is only 7 to 10 breaths for the knights, especially the two-winged light knights. After 7 to 10 breaths, all archers lose their meaning of existence ~ www.novelmtl. com ~ The heavy infantry phalanx is the foundation of the entire battle formation. The stable commander will put this square formation in a place where he will die-the heavy infantry phalanx is in the battle, only advancing and not retreating. In war, once the heavy infantry squares move backwards, it only means the collapse of all squares.

The heavy cavalry phalanx is generally located behind the light cavalry phalanx, and it is not easy to deploy-in fact, for any army in any country, the heavy cavalry is the most expensive arm. If it is not used well, it is necessary to rebuild once again. Under the blood. Therefore, the heavy cavalry can only give a fatal blow after the light cavalry pulls the enemy to show the overall flaw.

Facing the phalanx of Gifu City, no matter how good the famous generals and no matter which elite troops, in order to defeat the opponent in a real sense, at least they need to pay about the same price.

The officers of the three Imperial Training Corps in the front of the Black Dragon Knights smiled at each other with a bitter smile-the formation in front of them was the commander of their church in the past two months. Unexpectedly, they immediately returned it fiercely.

The guerrillas directly under Chi Aotian and the guerrillas directly under the elf archer simultaneously waved flags to Chi Aotian to report the enemy's total combat power.

The first line of defense of the Holy See, and the largest army that the southern frontier gathered in the shortest time, sent elite troops out of the city at this time.

3000 light knights, 6000 light infantry, 2500 archers, 2000 heavy infantry, 1500 heavy knights, and 1,000 clergy. This is the most luxurious lineup Suharto can come up with. Although he is not a natural force expert, he is an undisciplined and good-disciplined disciple. Of course, he knows the phrase "concentrate his superior strength and defeat it in one fell swoop".

Outside Gifu City, Chi Aotian, who led an army of 6,000, was destined to fight an unbalanced war in the face of 16,000 elite enemies waiting for work.