Daqin Zhentiansi

Chapter 1125 The Dawn of the 5th Day

Both sides used wooden weapons, but they fought as if it were real.

Tuoba Tie led the left wing's arrowhead formation to attack Meng Yuan's shield formation from the left flank.

Meng Yuan used a shield formation to withstand the impact, and then suddenly opened the formation to release crossbowmen to counterattack.

The soldiers on both sides were sweating profusely from the fighting.

Some were slashed by wooden knives, wincing in pain.

But no one stopped.

After the drill, Zhang Yuan called the people from both sides together and commented on several key issues.

"The shield formation of the right flank deployed too early this time. The crossbowmen were exposed for too long."

"The left battalion's wedge formation has enough impact, but its flanks are not well protected. If the right battalion has cavalry to flank it this time, the left battalion's flank will be breached."

The soldiers on both sides listened quietly, taking Zhang Yuan's words to heart.

Yan Qing stood in the queue, listening attentively.

His current position has been moved from the middle of the queue to the front row.

It wasn't because of his high official rank, but because his knife strikes were fast and accurate enough.

Tuoba Tie promoted him to the striker position.

He is no longer the boy who couldn't even hold a knife properly.

By the eleventh day, the intensity of the monster horde's attack had clearly increased.

What arrived was no longer a scattered, untrained force testing the waters, but a large-scale, organized, and coordinated offensive.

At dawn, the long-horned spiders emerged from the northern forest.

This spider is as big as a millstone.

It has eight long, thin legs, each covered with barbs.

They can climb steep rock faces.

They can dangle down from the treetops to launch a sneak attack.

It can crawl at extremely fast speeds on gravelly ground.

The most troublesome thing is their spider webs.

The spider silk was as thick as a thumb.

It is extremely tough.

Once entangled, it takes a lot of effort to break free.

The spider silk is sticky and clings to the skin, making it impossible to pull off.

Zhang Yuan did not order his infantry to charge.

He ordered Amu's archer battalion to lay oil along the spider's inevitable route.

It's extracted from the venom sacs of the poisonous frog, mixed with pine resin and hay, and it can burn for a long time once lit.

As the spider swarm crawled into the oil field, the archer battalion ignited the fire arrows.

The first rocket landed on the kerosene.

With a loud "boom," flames suddenly shot up and spread rapidly along the trail of oil, forming a wall of fire within the spider swarm.

The spider's legs, licked by the flames, immediately burst into flames, sizzling as they did so.

The long-horned spiders struggled in the sea of ​​fire, their eight legs flailing wildly as they emitted sharp hisses.

The fire burned for almost half an hour.

Most of the spider swarm was killed or wounded, and the rest fled back to the mountains.

On the twelfth day, a flock of iron-winged vultures launched an attack from the air.

The Iron-winged Vulture has a wingspan of over ten feet.

Its feathers are as stiff as iron.

When its wings flap, they make a whooshing sound as they cut through the wind.

Their claws are sharp as hooks, capable of grabbing an adult black-maned beast and flying it into the air.

This was the first time Warcraft had launched an attack from the air.

The soldiers in the camp had no experience in air defense.

When the first wave of vultures swooped down, two hunters were grabbed by the shoulders by their talons and lifted into the air.

The man struggled in mid-air, screams echoing from the sky, before being tossed into a distant valley by vultures.

Zhang Yuan immediately adjusted his tactics.

"Archers, fire upwards. Javelin throwers, prepare."

The archer battalion adjusted the curvature of their bowstrings, switched to lighter arrows, and launched them into the air at a greater angle.

As the rain of arrows rose into the sky, the flock of vultures scattered.

Their reaction was very quick, but the rain of arrows covered a large area, and several vultures had their wings pierced and fell from the sky.

Han Zheng's light cavalry quickly finished off the vultures after they landed.

Those vultures couldn't run fast on the ground, and their wings couldn't be spread wide, so they were caught up by the light cavalry and killed with scimitars.

On the thirteenth day, the monster horde launched a massive night raid.

Those were a group of bioluminescent centipedes. Each segment of their bodies emitted a ghostly green glow.

As it climbs up the hillside, it looks like a flowing green river from a distance.

The venom of the glowing centipede can paralyze the human nerves.

Once bitten, you will lose the ability to move within a few breaths.

Zhang Yuan set up braziers and bells around the camp.

When the glowing centipede crawled into the outer perimeter of the camp, it encountered a bell tied to a wooden stake.

As soon as the bell rang, the patrolling soldiers immediately lit their torches.

The bioluminescent centipede is afraid of fire; it will retreat when exposed to firelight.

But there were too many centipedes.

The brazier could only illuminate a small area, and more centipedes crawled in from the darkness.

Yan Qing was on night duty at the time.

When he heard the bell ring, he immediately raised the torch.

In the firelight, he saw a glowing centipede as thick as an arm crawling out of a crack in the rock.

The green fluorescence was particularly glaring in the darkness.

He didn't panic.

He stretched the torch forward, and the centipede was forced back a few inches by the flame.

Then, he drew the bone knife from his waist.

The blade was sharpened using the ribs of an Iron-spined Bull.

The blade was coated with the venom of the poisonous frog.

"Bam—"

He swung his knife and slashed at the junction of the centipede's head and its first body segment.

That's the centipede's most vulnerable spot, without any bony armor for protection.

Cut it in half with one stroke.

The centipede's body twisted a few times on the ground and then stopped moving.

Nearby, a new recruit was surrounded by three centipedes, so frightened that he almost dropped his torch.

Yan Qing rushed over, stepped on the tail of a centipede, and chopped off its head with a knife.

Then, with a backhand slash, he cut off the second one.

The third centipede tried to escape, but Yan Qing caught up with it and pinned it to the ground with a single stroke.

The new recruit stared at him, dumbfounded.

"What are you staring at?" Yan Qing said. "Raise the torch higher. Centipedes are afraid of fire, don't let them get close."

The new recruits quickly raised their torches.

That night, the camp repelled three attacks by the glowing centipedes.

At daybreak, the ground outside the camp was covered with the corpses of centipedes.

The green fluorescence gradually dimmed under the sunlight.

On the fourteenth day, the monster horde's offensive suddenly weakened.

Throughout the morning, only a few scattered groups of magical beasts came to probe, but they were easily repelled by the garrison.

Zhang Yuan stood on high ground, looking at the faintly visible circle of demonic energy in the distance.

“They are building up their strength,” he said.

On the morning of the fifteenth day, the largest offensive began.

Various magical beasts surged in from all directions at the same time.

The front depicts a group of iron-skinned rhinoceroses.

Its skin is as thick as a city wall.

An ordinary arrow shot into it will only leave a faint white spot on the skin.

The left wing consisted of a group of two-headed venomous pythons.

The two snake heads attacked simultaneously.

If you defend the left side, you can't protect the right side.

On the right flank, a pack of swift leopards moved with lightning speed, darting back and forth between positions, making them impossible to defend against.

Besieged on three sides at the same time.

Zhang Yuan's command was methodical and orderly.

The left battalion held the front, while the heavy infantry used spears and traps to deal with the iron-skinned rhinoceroses.

The right battalion used a shield formation to defend the right flank, while crossbowmen fired at the Swift Leopards through the gaps in the shields.

The light cavalry of the central camp were tasked with containing the two-headed serpent on the left flank, while the archer battalion provided fire support from the rear.

The three battalions are now working together seamlessly. (End of Chapter)