The cute baby was running as fast as the wind. No, even the wind was not as fast as it. In almost the blink of an eye, it ran from behind Wuleima to the front of Hulett's army formation a mile away. It was so fast that the other side thought they saw a white phantom.
Mengbao leaped up and fell heavily into the army formation amidst the fearful gazes following him. Normally, Mengbao could be as light as a cat, but today it was not like that, because under its feet were Wu Lai's enemies.
At the moment of falling, Meng Bao's two front paws hit the head of a Hurley soldier each. In the panic of dodging, no one could hear the sound of the two heads suddenly exploding, and no one noticed whether Meng Bao's fall directly hit fifteen or seventeen soldiers and seriously injured them. Instead, they subconsciously raised their swords to surround Meng Bao, and then stabbed with all their might...
This is not instinct. Instinct is to run as far as possible before being targeted by a beast like this. Therefore, the Hulett soldiers' decision to advance instead of retreat is a habit they have developed over many years of fighting, and is also the characteristic of the Hulett First Legion - no matter how difficult and dangerous the road ahead is, they must charge forward with their swords raised, because retreating and shrinking are cowardly behaviors.
The actions and shouts of the Hulett soldiers reminded Meng Bao of the great humiliation he had suffered in the Mondo Plain. At that time, there were also many soldiers like the one before him, holding swords and spears. However, Meng Bao was weak and exhausted from being hungry for many days. Now, he had just eaten and wanted to move around to help digestion...
The cute baby howled to the sky, like a wolf howling, a lion roaring, a tiger roaring, and a dragon roaring. When the sound waves swept across like a tide, it moved - bumping, biting, tearing, slapping, stepping, and kicking...
Wu Lai could not see Meng Bao's figure because it had been submerged in the crowd, but he could hear a low roar coming from afar. The sound was full of disdain and excitement. Hulett soldiers were constantly knocked down and thrown away. The screams, wails, and shouts often stopped abruptly as soon as they came out of their mouths...
Seeing that the enemy's formation was in disarray, Wu Lai hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand: "Odo!"
"As you command!" Odo had been itching to do something. Seeing Wu Lai's order, he did not hesitate. He immediately got back on his horse, drew his sword and pointed forward, "Seventh Regiment! Follow me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a line of soldiers quickly ran past behind Wu Lai. All the soldiers were in high spirits, with their brows filled with uncontrollable excitement. You have to know that Oddo's Seventh Regiment is Wu Lai's current first elite regiment, mostly composed of veterans who have fought in the battlefield. The two hundred strong men from the Litius family who followed Oddo to join the war are also included in the regiment. Under Wu Lai's deliberate arrangement, the overall equipment level of the Seventh Regiment is higher than that of other regiments, because the Seventh Regiment is an assault regiment, how can it succeed without good equipment.
"Master, let me go up too." Caesar, who had already put on his armor, strode to Wulema and begged.
"What are you doing? They are the Shield Lancer Regiment." Woolley turned the handle of his whip and hit Caesar's helmet.
"But the other side has more people." Caesar muttered, but he was not concerned about the safety of the Seventh Regiment at all, he just wanted to show off in front of Wu Lai.
"You can't go even if there are too many people. Do you think you will be invincible just because I praise you as a 'human tank'? You have to use it in the most appropriate place to exert your greatest strength. Do you understand?" Wu Lei swung the whip again, and Caesar's helmet made a crisp "clang" sound again.
"Okay, okay." Caesar nodded aggrievedly, and his armor made a loud noise again.
The Hulett soldiers soon witnessed the power of the 7th Regiment, because such a combination had never appeared on the battlefield before - the shield soldiers were responsible for defense and advancement, and the spearmen were only responsible for killing.
The shield is a chest-high shield made of two layers of thick wood and four layers of cowhide, with a brass frame. This kind of shield can hardly withstand the blows of a sledgehammer or the slashes of a heavy sword, and even some high-speed and high-powered javelins can easily pierce it. However, it has no problem using it to block a rain of arrows. The most important thing is that it was not originally used to block sledgehammers and heavy swords, but to provide a quick line of defense and barrier for spearmen - the leather buckles on both sides of the shield allow these shields to be connected together, and shield soldiers can use the shields to connect a square or a circle as needed to surround the spearmen inside.
If the chest-high shield of the Seventh Regiment was common except for the buckle on the side of the shield, then its main weapon, the hook-hammer spear, was really the first to appear on the battlefield. This long spear with a barb on the tip of the spear was mainly used to resist the conflict of cavalry in its history. However, after Woolley's redesign, it is no longer just the nemesis of cavalry.
The total length of the spear is nine cubits, of which the wooden spear shaft is eight cubits long and the spear head is one cubit long. There is a sharp barb protruding laterally at the bottom, which can not only be used to chop, slash and cut the enemy, but also to hook the enemy's legs and pull him to the ground.
The biggest change Wu Lai made to the original version was at the gun head. Although its gun head was also mainly used for stabbing to kill the enemy, its shape was no longer the same as that of an ordinary spear. Instead, it was more like an enlarged version of the familiar Type 56 three-edged bayonet. This gun tip, which had almost no use other than stabbing, was an absolute "bloodletting king" - if the stabbing was a little deeper, blood would "sizzle" out along the three blood grooves, and in a very short time, air would be quickly introduced into the blood vessels through the blood grooves to form air emboli, which mainly blocked the blood vessels leading to the brain and caused circulatory disorders in the brain, leading to hypoxia of the brain tissue, and then rapid death.
It is easy to imagine what the Hulett soldiers, who knew nothing about this, were going to face.
The shield soldiers went first, followed by the spearmen. When the Hulett soldiers saw the Seventh Regiment coming, they immediately separated a part of them to stand against the enemy and prepared to block the attack.
After hesitating for a moment, Wu Lai pursed his lips and blew a sharp whistle. The cute baby, whose white fur had been stained red by the enemy's blood, moved his ears, turned around, created a passage, and ran towards Wu Lai.
Seeing it suddenly retreat without a fight, Hulett's commander heaved a sigh of relief, but after looking around, his brows began to frown again - in just a few rounds, nearly a hundred soldiers were lying down, and many of them were seriously injured and on the verge of death...
But now was obviously not the time to count the casualties, because Oddo had already led the Seventh Regiment to charge over, so the commander raised his heavy sword high: "Fight!"
"Yes!" A roar of response rang out.
Odo glanced ahead and whipped his horse whip: "Fish scale formation!"
"Fish scale formation! Fish scale formation! Fish scale formation! Fish scale formation!" The soldiers of the Seventh Regiment repeated loudly, both as a response and to remind their companions who might not have heard the commander's orders clearly.
When the voices of the soldiers of the Seventh Regiment reached Wu Lai's ears, he smiled slightly and said to himself: "Yes, for such a terrain and such an opponent, the fish scale formation is naturally the most suitable."
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Before dusk, Liehuo reluctantly ordered the troops to withdraw, because it would be too late if they didn't.
When Hulett and the Kimoans turned around and retreated, there was a thunderous cheer in the gap defense zone. Amid the cheers, the Woye Army and the Date Army immediately rushed forward to pursue the enemy. However, Woolley ordered the 7th Regiment to retreat, and then raised his hand and shook it twice.
"Logistics Company of the Seventh Regiment, step out!" Oddo shouted cheerfully, "Clean up the battlefield!"
More than a hundred men immediately rushed out from the army formation behind Wu Lai, running towards the pile of corpses of Hulett's soldiers with smiles on their faces...
"Master, you see, if I had been there just now, I could have picked up some spoils." Caesar looked at the backs of the Seventh Regiment's Logistics Company with envy and couldn't help licking his lips.
"That's true, but where are you going to put the loot after you pick it up wearing this?" Wu Lai asked, giving Caesar a blank look.
Caesar was stunned and thought to himself that the young master was right. There is not even a pocket on my armor, so I really have no place to put it.
Seeing Oddo's triumphant look after returning victoriously, the other captains couldn't help but feel envious, especially Captain Red, who felt a wave of jealousy in his heart.
"See? I told you to train well! Otherwise, our regiment would have taken advantage of this battle! Look! Look! How lucky the logistics company of the 7th Regiment was!" Red turned around and said to his three battalion commanders, "Hold your spirits! The general said that only those who have improved their training will be qualified to fight!"
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"What's going on with the left wing?" Liehuo asked.
"Reporting to General Liehuo, what we encountered on the left wing was not an ambush but reinforcements. They were the flags of the garrison troops of Kayikede City. Their number was more than three times that of ours. As soon as the enemy reinforcements arrived, the soldiers in the trenches on the left wing of the Woye Army took advantage of the situation and rushed out, forming a pincer attack on us together with the garrison troops of Kayikede City." A deputy general stepped forward and answered.
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Liehuo glanced at the deputy general and saw that the thick bandages wrapped around his arms, abdomen and forehead were still oozing blood, so he nodded and gave up the idea of scolding him. Facing an enemy force that was several times larger than mine, he continued to fight relentlessly and held his ground until the moment he received the order to retreat. Such a subordinate only deserves praise, and how could he bear to blame him?
“Where’s the right wing? Shilwati?!” Liehuo’s face turned even more pale.
"Reporting to General Liehuo, Lieutenant General Xiwati...died in battle." A deputy general stepped forward and answered.
"Killed in battle?" Liehuo was stunned, a feeling of sadness suddenly welled up in his heart. Although he had always been strict with his lieutenants and deputy generals, and scolded them more often than spoke kindly to them, they were all his old comrades and team members who had followed him for many years. Although they had fought for many years and experienced many adventures, the last time a lieutenant of 4,000 people of Hurley's First Legion was killed in battle was when they were ambushed by a trap set by Rini.
"Then tell me, what did you encounter?" Liehuo's voice became a little deeper.
"Yes." The deputy general nodded, "Reporting to General Liehuo, the right wing was originally advancing smoothly, but soon encountered the enemy's reinforcements. However, the flags they raised were unfamiliar, and they should be the Assyrian local army..."
"After the other party stopped, they actually sent out a big beast to attack. This big beast looked like a white-haired lion. It was extremely swift and ferocious. It was not afraid of swords and knives, and it seemed to be used to fighting on the battlefield..."
"After the big beast took the initiative to retreat, more than a thousand enemy spearmen and shield soldiers ran to a hundred steps in front of our army and stopped to form a battle array. The battle array was very strange. There were about 20 people in a group. The shield soldiers connected their shields into a group to protect the spearmen, and then slowly advanced. The distance between each group was only three to five steps. Once our army rushed in, they would definitely take care of the front and not the back..."
"After the attack failed, Lieutenant General Shivati ordered a defensive formation, but the enemy army continued to advance slowly. After the spearmen were protected by shields, they just stabbed randomly. Most of our soldiers were holding swords, which were shorter than the spears, so they were very passive. Moreover, the spears were extremely sharp and fierce. Once stabbed, the blood would flow profusely. Lieutenant General Shivati was shot in the lower abdomen and died. That's why our army was defeated step by step."
After hearing this, Liehuo sighed heavily, waved his hand and said, "Three thousand men against more than a thousand men, not only did they lose, but they also lost a thousand men. Is this still the left army of the Hulit First Legion?"
After hearing Liehuo's lament, all the officers lowered their heads involuntarily...
Somewhere in the Gap Defense Zone, Wu Lai sat idly against a pile of wood, smoking a cigarette happily. He was very satisfied with the performance of the Seventh Regiment today, which naturally made him feel relaxed.
After a while, Odo ran to him and squatted down. "General Wu Lai, after the spoils are collected, I want to take out some and distribute them to the other captains. Do you think it's okay?"
Wu Lai nodded slightly, and a hint of appreciation flashed across his eyes as he looked at Oddo: "Your idea is good. I agree. The various regiments should compete with each other but also unite. We are all comrades-in-arms."
"That's what I thought." Oddo said with a laugh.
"Here, have a cigarette." Wu Lai handed Oddo a cigarette. Oddo took it with a smile, took out a match from his waist bag and was about to light it when one of Wu Lai's guards ran over.
"General Wu Lai, General Date is here. He is now in the tent of High Priest Shelley. Please come over. He said he has something to discuss." said the guard.
"Got it." Wu Lai flicked off a piece of cigarette ash and patted Oddo on the shoulder. "I guess General Date is here to discuss the defense of this area. Oddo, do you think I should fight for this defense position?"
"General Wu Lai, you make the decisions on these matters. I will listen to you. However, Teacher Lini said that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility." Oddo said with a smile.
Wu Lai smiled bitterly and shook his head.