Chapter 1035 Busy Autumn
In this season, the Great Zhou Dynasty is completely in a state of preparing for winter after a busy period.
For the people of the Great Zhou, who now have basically no worries about food and clothing, winter is a good season.
If the sun rises later, the working hours can be postponed; if the sun sets earlier, the working hours can be advanced.
In addition, without the pressure of survival, if the roads are blocked by heavy snow and you cannot go out, staying at home, warming yourself by the fire and drinking tea is also very comfortable.
Of course, this does not apply to the rainforest area, where there is no winter, so just do what you need to do.
In response to this situation, Zhou Xu, as the ruler, was quite Buddhist and open-minded.
After all, the first three seasons are basically busy all the time. After winter comes, reducing work pressure appropriately will give people time to relax and adjust their mood.
Otherwise, how could he be so angry with the change of seasons? This situation made other areas of the Great Zhou, except the rainforest area, feel a bit festive every winter, just like a festival, and this year was no exception.
However, during this special period of time for the people of Da Zhou, urgent alarm bells were constantly echoing over the New North Plain Fortress on the other side of Da Zhou!
During this period, Shi Lei, the commander-in-chief of the New Taipei District, was dressed in military uniform. After hearing the alarm bell, he immediately climbed up to the top of the wall as quickly as possible.
【Eye of Insight! 】
As the truth came out, the vision in front of me quickly became clear.
They saw a green-skinned army approaching the border of the New North Plain Fortress.
Even though Shi Lei was mentally prepared, his face darkened when he saw this scene.
"It's the greenskin army! Give the signal, all soldiers, prepare for battle!!"
While shouting, with the help of the power of "Eye of Insight", Shi Lei's eyes kept scanning back and forth at the group of greenskins in the distance.
[It seems that there are no ogres...]
This discovery made Shi Lei feel a little relieved.
According to the intelligence previously obtained from the dwarves, ogres are a relatively rare unit among the greenskin troops.
Generally speaking, small-scale greenskin troops will not be equipped with ogres.
The greenskin army they encountered before not only had ogres, but also goblin wolf cavalry. In addition, there was also a greenskin general in the Hundred Refinements Realm. This was obviously not a normal situation.
At that time, the greenskin army was fully prepared to attack the rear of Copperforge.
Unexpectedly, the route went further and further down, and formed a larger circle that had never appeared before, causing their plan to fail.
"Colonel, there are no ogres on the other side. How should we deal with the setting of the city gate?"
After the battle with the ogres, the garrison troops led by Shi Lei in Xinbei District of Da Zhou began to habitually dig pits at the city gate to guard against the ogres.
But there are no ogres on the opposite side this time. When the greenskin troops rush up, the pit traps at the city gate will trap the ordinary greenskins on the opposite side, which will not be a problem.
But they were afraid that after they finished trapping the enemy, they would not be able to completely wipe out the enemy. If a few of them escaped, wouldn't their intelligence be exposed? Although it was only a matter of time before such city defense measures were exposed, at least they could trap one more ogre on the opposite side, right?
After all, it is a rare type of green-skinned soldier, so the less one we kill, the better, right?
With this mentality, Shi Lei made a quick decision in his heart.
"Pass my order, line up outside the city to meet the attack!"
"yes!"
At Shi Lei's command, the gate of the Plain Fortress rose quickly, and the soldiers inside the gate laid several huge wooden boards at the fastest speed at their gate to block the pit trap to prevent it from trapping their own people.
After that, the well-trained border defense troops quickly left the city and formed a battle line. During this process, the city defense crossbows deployed on the walls of their plain fortress were of course not idle either.
Shi Lei's daily training made them know what to do in this situation! One after another, the city defense crossbows were quickly pulled open, and special crossbow arrows like pistols were quickly put on.
Watch the moment when the enemy greenskin enters their shooting range.
Without any orders, the city defense crossbows immediately burst into fire!
Accompanied by a series of sounds, specially made crossbow arrows broke through the air.
Faced with such a powerful sniper attack, the advancing greenskin soldiers were completely unprepared, and had no time to dodge. Their sturdy bodies were pierced by the special crossbow arrows on the spot.
"WAAAGH!!!"
The attack from the Plains Fortress instantly aroused the anger of the greenskin troops. Amid roars, the greenskin soldiers who had been advancing steadily began to launch a mad charge towards them.
During this process, the attacks from the city defense crossbows on the wall did not stop, but to be honest, Shi Lei did not expect from the very beginning that the city defense crossbows alone could suppress the advance of the greenskin troops.
The power of the city defense crossbows is undoubtedly sufficient, but the number is too small, and the greenskin troops on the opposite side are at least thousands in size.
Not to mention that there is also a size problem here. It is difficult to aim at individual units with a city defense crossbow, and it largely depends on luck.
The greenskin troops entered the charging state and their advancement speed increased significantly. Gauging the distance in his mind, Shi Lei saw the right opportunity and gave the order quickly.
"Archers, prepare your projectiles!"
"Shoot!"
After the city defense crossbows, a rain of arrows swept in. Compared with the amazing penetrating power of the city defense crossbows, facing the greenskin troops with thick skin and flesh and the "WAAAGH!!!" force field protecting their bodies, the lethality of the rain of arrows was largely curbed.
Although the archers relied on their high-frequency continuous shooting skills to launch three rounds of arrows in a short period of time, they had little effect.
Seeing this scene, Shi Lei held his breath in the battle formation, waiting for the opportunity to come.
Just wait for the group of green-skinned soldiers shouting "WAAAGA!!!" and charging forward, and rush into their last output area!
At that moment, the large shield soldiers who formed the shield wall in the front row quickly withdrew, and the heavily armed crossbowmen holding individual crossbows directly broke into the field of vision of the greenskin soldiers.
Needless to say, this is the real killer move of their border defense forces! If they choose to defend the city wall, then the attack formation of the heavy crossbow troops will not be able to be deployed at all!
Under the cover of the shield wall, the heavy crossbowmen had already loaded the crossbows. Almost at the same time as the shield wall was removed, they pulled the trigger without hesitation.
In an instant, large numbers of crossbow arrows, like a raging rainstorm, shot towards the green-skinned soldiers who were charging up!
(End of this chapter)
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