Chapter eight hundred and eighty first, the decisive battle in the canyon (5)
The Tiger Warriors are one of the strongest warriors on land. They usually have to pay a very heavy price to defeat them from the front.
In the last battle of Qingshui River Valley, the Condor Heroes used a honeycomb crossbow to kill a large number of tiger warriors and successfully deceived the saber-toothed tiger army of the Linhai Empire, which once gained a great advantage.
However, even so, in the final decisive battle, the Condor Heroes lost a large amount of army to completely defeat it.
Although the tiger picking sun is now in the evening, the lean camel is bigger than a horse, and the strength of his Tiger Army cannot be underestimated.
For tiger warriors, honeycomb crossbows are a very good choice.
However, because the honeycomb crossbow truck was too bulky, it was very unrealistic to transport it to Lhasa through the ancient Tea-Horse Road, so Bai Ze transferred a weakened version of the honeycomb crossbow truck from Guanzhong area, the Barbarian Legion.
In addition to being good at close combat, the barbarians are also masters of long-range throwing.
When Ning Yuan first went to the barbarian tribe, he was smashed and fled by Andrew and a group of barbarians.
After conquering the barbarian tribe, Ning Yuan asked the dwarf craftsmen to create a sharp bloodletting javelin for them in view of the barbarians' characteristics of throwing.
Although the tiger army of the Linhai Empire was very elite, they had one fatal disadvantage, that is, all the tiger soldiers were light armored infantry.
Light armored infantry shields can withstand the shooting of bows and arrows, but it is difficult to withstand the puncture attack of javelins.
Bai Ze was worried that when the Snow Mountain Legion encountered the Tiger Army, he could not exert all his strength because of guilt. So in order to ensure that everything was foolproof, he transferred 10,000 barbarian warriors from the Guanzhong area.
Since Bai Ze has always shown his weakness to the enemy, Hu Zhairi did not expect that the Condor Heroes' military strength in the Yangbajing area had already exceeded his return-to-support army, so he was only guarding against the possible rain of arrows, and did not expect that the deadly javelin rain would suddenly appear.
The moment he saw the javelin rain flying out, Hu Picking Ri's heart suddenly rose to his throat. It was not until Hu Rui ordered the Tiger Army to retreat in time that his heart finally let go.
After taking the attacking Tiger Army outside the range of the javelin, Hu Rui immediately ran towards the army behind.
When we arrived at the Tiger Picking Ridge, Hu Rui immediately spoke, "Your Majesty, the shield in our hands cannot resist the enemy's javelin. Without the cover of the Owl Legion, if we want to get close to the stone wall, we may have to suffer huge casualties.
Can Your Majesty transfer the owl army resting in the camp to the front line, so that they can restrain the enemy and buy us time to get close to the stone wall?"
Hu Zhairi nodded with satisfaction and said, "We think of going together. I have sent someone back to gather the owl warriors who are resting. I believe they will soon arrive at the battlefield.
Alas, these owl warriors from the Eight Heavenly Dragon Guilds are so unorganized that they dare to disobey military orders and leave the team without authorization. When they come back, I must punish them."
"Your Majesty, something is wrong. Our camp was attacked by a large number of silver pegasus knights, and the remaining owl army has been destroyed."
Just as Hu Zhairi and Hu Rui were chatting and waiting for the support of the owl army, a tiger soldier with three or four arrows stuck in his body was running and shouting.
After recognizing the tiger soldier as a member of the camp, Hu Zhairi rushed over with a steadily, grabbed the other party's chest and shouted loudly: "What did you say? What's wrong with our camp?"
The tiger warrior gasped and said, "Your Majesty, after you left, a large number of silver pegasus knights suddenly emerged from the snow-capped mountains on the east and west sides.
The silver pegasus knights surrounded our camp, and our owl army rushed to fight, but eventually outnumbered and all died in battle."
"Impossible, the Silver Pegasus Knights of the Condor Army were clearly on the front line. They led our owl army to the south. How could it suddenly appear in our camp?
Wait, do you think the Owls Legion is outnumbered?
How many Silver Pegasus Knights were raiding our camp?"
Hu Zhairi looked disbelief at first, then suddenly thought of something and asked directly.
"There are about 20,000 or 30,000 people, anyway, they are dense, and they are everywhere in the sky." The tiger warrior replied.
After hearing the clear reply, Hu Zhairi let go of the tiger warrior who came to report the news, his face was full of fatigue, as if he had suddenly become aged in his teenage years.
After hearing that there were 20,000 to 30,000 Silver Pegasus Knights attacking the camp in the rear, all the doubts that had been coiling in their hearts for so many days on Tiger Picking Day were answered in an instant.
No wonder the defenders of Lhasa City were able to escape and inform him.
No wonder there were only a few thousand Silver Pegasus Knights who attacked their own army before.
No wonder the Condor Army did not arrange any ground troops in the Nagqu area.
No wonder Dangxiong City, which guards the canyon basin, was easily captured by him.
It turned out that all this was a plan for the enemy to show their weakness and lure them into depth. The purpose was to introduce them into this canyon basin with only two exits.
Now that the enemy no longer hides its strength, the passage behind them must have been blocked by the enemy.
After losing the owl legion, it would be difficult for the Tiger Army in his hands to break through the defense line of the south enemy.
And on both sides of the east and west are covered with snowy mountains. If they choose to force over the snowy mountains, they will only become living targets for the Silver Pegasus Knights.
For the sake of the present, either lead the army directly into those hot water ponds that are unknown. Whether they can rush out alive depends entirely on fate.
Either they fled to Dangxiong City directly with the attack of the Silver Pegasus Knights, defending the city to the death, and then hope that the passage behind them would not be blocked, or that the enemy blocking the passage would not be strong, so they could break out.
Although all the soldiers of the Tiger Army can swim and the temperature in the hot pond is not that high, if the annoying Silver Pegasus Knights arrive when they rush into the hot pond, they will probably sink to the bottom of the water forever.
The risk of leading the army backward to break through is also very high. This place is seventy or eighty kilometers away from Dangxiong City.
At such a long distance, tens of thousands of Silver Pegasus Knights will chase them all the way.
Although the Tiger Army soldiers are very good at skill and have shields that can withstand arrows in their hands, when they escape, they cannot concentrate all their attention to defending against cold arrows from the air, so it is likely that they will be a way out of return when they are shortlisted back.
"Transfer our military orders, and all the soldiers of the Tiger Army immediately retreated, and the target was the mighty city."
Chapter completed!