Chapter 5287 Ambush the Six-Winged Legion

The battle of Niangzi Pass is still going on.

This is a game.

It is not only a game between the soldiers of the human world and the soldiers of the heavenly world, but also a game between the old commander of the human world, Xu Kai, and the rising star of the heavenly world, An Wenxiu.

An Wenxiu knew very well that the heavenly world and the human army had been confronting each other for several months, and had not yet invaded the inner heart of the Middle Earth.

If you want to break this deadlock, the entry point is Niangzi Pass.

Yumen Pass has many soldiers and generals, and the defense line is as solid as a rock.

Shanhaiguan is known as the world's first pass, and its majesty far exceeds Niangzi Pass. In addition, Shanhaiguan is only a dozen miles away from the Bohai Sea. Once the heavenly army puts great pressure on Shanhaiguan, the Middle Earth court can rely on a huge fleet to land from the Bohai Bay, which can reinforce Shanhaiguan, or

transport soldiers to the rear of the heavenly army for a sneak attack.

From a global perspective, Niangzi Pass is the only weak link in the human Middle Earth defense line.

The army of the heavens is fighting away from home, and there is a huge time difference between the two worlds, which makes the difficulties faced by the army of the heavens in the human world even greater than the people of the human world imagine.

The first is the problem of the source of soldiers.

The human world can constantly recruit new soldiers from the faraway interior of the Middle Earth to supplement the regular army, but the heavens cannot.

Because the Gate of Catastrophe is outside the Great Wall, the army of the heavens seems to occupy a vast land, but whether it is the Western Regions, the Barbarian North, or the Liaobei, they have all been cleared in advance.

This has prevented the army of the heavens from forming a vassal army so far.

The heavens are very hot, and the soldiers of the various legions of the heavens are not very adaptable to the severe winter cold in the human world.

Therefore, the heavens rarely launch large-scale offensives in winter.

Once too many soldiers are lost, they cannot be replenished in time.

The second is food and grass.

The area of ​​the heavens is actually not larger than that of the human world. The reason why it is said to be larger than that of the human world is only the land area.

Seventy percent of the human world is water, and thirty percent is land.

The heavens are just the opposite. The area occupied by the ocean and lake is very small, and the land is very large.

Water is the source of life. Less water means more wasteland.

Although the land area of ​​the heaven is nearly ten times that of the human world, most of it is hot and wild, which is not suitable for growing crops.

This time, the heaven sent nearly 10 million troops to the lower world. These 10 million troops are not human. The madman army and the giant army have a huge appetite.

The six-winged army and the storm army are meat eaters.

The food and meat consumed by the 10 million troops every day are not 10,000 or 20,000 catties, but a mountain of food and supplies.

The human world is fortified and the crops grown in Liaobei are now in a period of shortage, which makes the food and grass supply of the heaven army very tight.

The high-level officials of the heaven headed by Phantom only know that the food and grass are only enough to supply the army for the next month.

The heaven army must attack the belly of the Middle Earth within this month before the food and grass are consumed.

Only the prosperous Middle Earth can feed the tens of millions of troops in the heaven.

Unlike the battles at Shanhaiguan and Yumenguan, which were like tickling, the battle at Niangziguan was much more intense.

Starting from the afternoon, the main force of the heavenly realm began to attack the defense line of Niangziguan, and the battle lasted until late at night, but the heavenly realm still did not call off the troops.

Like the battle at Yumenguan, An Wenxiu did not send out the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Army in the battle at Niangziguan.

The main siege force of the heavenly realm army was still the Giant Army, the Madman Army, and the Skeleton Army.

After dark, An Wenxiu sent out the not-so-large Six-Winged Army to try to destroy the hundreds of catapults on the second line of defense of Niangziguan.

The range and destructive power of the catapult are far higher than the Eight Ox Crossbow. In addition, it is high above, and the range is much higher.

The second line of defense of Niangziguan is built on the mountain, with high walls and rolling stones and logs, which makes it difficult for the Skeleton Army to climb up.

The best way to attack the city is to build a siege ladder.

The siege ladder is very tall and requires hundreds of huge ladders to build, weighing more than 100,000 pounds.

If you want to build it outside the battlefield and retreat, you must pass through the canyon under the Qiankong Cliff, the first line of defense of Niangzi Pass, which is easy to be blocked or destroyed.

The best way is to use giant warriors to transport logs to the open space in front of the second line of defense, build siege ladders nearby, and then push them to Niangzi Pass.

The original plan was perfect.

Unfortunately, An Wenxiu forgot that there were hundreds of catapults on the defense line of Niangzi Pass.

The solid stone balls thrown by these catapults were also sprinkled with fierce fire oil. Although the accuracy was a bit worse, the throwing distance was far.

The siege ladders assembled and built by the heavens under Niangzi Pass shattered and collapsed under the attack of several waves of stone balls.

An Wenxiu knew that the catapults on the top of the city were a very big threat.

When the catapult was launched, his men suggested that the Six-Winged Legion be dispatched immediately to attack from high altitude and destroy the catapult on the city wall.

This proposal was shelved by An Wenxiu.

He had the Six-Winged Legion in his hands, and the human world also had the Feiyu Legion from the Northern Frontier and the Tianma Troops from the Kingdom of Women.

Especially the Tianma Troops, equipped with new weapons, black gunpowder, and extremely powerful.

Once the Six-Winged Legion was dispatched, it was likely to be attacked from the north and south by the human air force.

Therefore, the Six-Winged Legion had never directly participated in the war, but was confronting the human air force in the air.

After dark, An Wenxiu felt that the time had come, so he secretly dispatched a group of about 300 six-winged giant birds to try to destroy the fortifications and catapults of Niangzi Pass.

The plan was good, but it was a pity that An Wenxiu was facing Xu Kai.

Although Xu Kai made some strategic mistakes at the beginning of the war, he adjusted in time.

As a veteran commander who had been in the army for decades, Xu Kai's experience in commanding in battle far exceeded An Wenxiu's.

Xu Kai naturally knew that the catapult was very dangerous to the heavens, and An Wenxiu would definitely destroy it in a targeted manner.

When the three hundred six-winged giant birds appeared silently above the defense line of Niangzi Pass, waiting for them were thousands of eight-ox crossbows with bowstrings already pulled.

Each crossbow gun on the eight-ox crossbow was tied with a thunder and fire bomb.

The fuse of the thunder and fire bomb was cut off, so that it would explode in the air.

In addition, thousands of archers had been waiting for a long time.

When the six-winged giant bird combat group began to dive down, the leading air cavalry found the crossbows that had been prepared on the city wall.

Someone shouted: "Disperse quickly! It's a trap!"

It's too late.

As the drums sounded.

More than 3,000 crossbows tied with gunpowder and more than 5,000 iron-feathered arrows tied with thunder and fire bombs rushed into the sky with a whizzing sound.

The vibration of the bowstring at the same time and the buzzing sound made people feel extremely harsh.

Then, above the second line of defense of Yumen Pass, there was a burst of sound like thunder.

Countless six-winged giant birds in the sky cried out in pain and fell down in a spiral.

All three hundred six-winged giant birds fell without a single one. Because the six-winged giant birds were extremely tenacious, some of the giant birds and the air cavalry on them fell into the city gate and did not die. They fought a short battle with the soldiers defending the city.