Chapter 297: A day of battle, a night raid

"Wipe out the Han army on Mount Taixing!"

Zhang Yan returned to his formation and gave the order.

The dense Black Mountain Army, like army ants, attacked Su Li and the others.

"Ju Yi, prepare!"

Without needing Su Li to say much, Ju Yi ordered his Heavy Crossbowmen to draw their bows and nock their arrows.

Twenty thousand Heavy Crossbowmen hid at the very rear of the formation.

The Black Mountain Army also had over a hundred thousand archers, all holding longbows and heavy crossbows, fighting while climbing the mountain.

*Whoosh! Whoosh!

A sky-filling rain of arrows instantly formed a curtain of arrows, carrying a sharp whistling sound as they pierced the air, covering each other's military formations!

The rain of arrows shot by the twenty thousand Heavy Crossbowmen was like meteors, the first to pierce the sky, traveling hundreds of meters before falling into the Black Mountain Army below!

The effect of the Heavy Crossbowmen's crossbows was terrifyingly abnormal; even the high-level elite Black Mountain bandits in the front row of the Black Mountain Army, despite holding shields, were shot through by Ju Yi's Heavy Crossbowmen!

The arrows, carrying a crippling effect, penetrated the shields and, with momentum undiminished, killed one Black Mountain soldier after another!

Looking at the history of the Three Kingdoms, Ju Yi was indeed an extraordinary general.

The troops he trained could even defeat Commandant Gongsun Zan's White Horse Followers!

"Charge!"

The dense Black Mountain Army attacked the mountainous terrain occupied by Su Li and the others; the Heavy Crossbowmen didn't need to aim, they could easily kill Black Mountain soldiers by firing at will.

The rain of arrows shot by the Heavy Crossbowmen became the focus of the entire battlefield; under the heavy crossbows, tens of thousands of Black Mountain soldiers had already been harvested.

Crossbow formation, heavy kill!

Under these circumstances.

All the Heavy Crossbowmen also formed a crossbow array to carry out long-range suppression against the enemy. During the suppression phase, all Heavy Crossbowmen gained an additional 100% attack speed bonus and an additional 50% strength bonus.

Except for the generals, other Black Mountain Army troop types simply could not withstand the lethality of the crossbow array.

Seeing countless Black Mountain soldiers torn apart by the opponent's bows and arrows, screaming in agony, with blood mist splashing, Zhang Yan and the others couldn't help but feel a chill.

In siege battles and this kind of mountain warfare, Ju Yi's Heavy Crossbowmen occupied an absolute advantage, and the lethality they could exert even surpassed that of the Blood-Red Cavalry.

Even Zhang Yan and the other Black Mountain chieftains were unwilling to easily endure the damage from the crossbow array.

However, the number of the Black Mountain Army was too vast; among the million-strong Black Mountain Army, there were also over a hundred thousand archers who formed individual square formations, relying on their absolute numerical advantage to consume the number of ordinary troops under Su Li.

Clearly, they wanted to defeat Su Li with numbers.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

While both sides' long-range troops were consuming each other, the Black Mountain infantry and cavalry, under the cover of the archer formations, strode forward to engage in close-quarters combat with the twenty thousand Blood-Red Cavalry at the very front.

"Little Yu, block them!"

"Alright!"

Zhao Yu, holding the Fire Phoenix Bright Gold Spear, arrived at the very front and led the Blood-Red Cavalry to fight the Black Mountain Army.

"Blood-Colored Slaughter!"

The twenty thousand Blood-Red Cavalry, under Zhao Yu's leadership, directly activated their exclusive battle formation, and a wave of blood-colored energy, as imposing as a prison, was bestowed upon the Blood-Red Cavalry.

With a force of twenty thousand, they met the charge of an enemy ten times their size.

"Meteor Fire Rain!"

Zhao Yu took the lead, her Fire Phoenix Bright Gold Spear unleashing a sky full of spear flowers, forming flaming spear glows that covered hundreds of Black Mountain soldiers in front.

"The enemy general has appeared!"

"Surround and attack!"

Several Black Mountain Army leaders led over ten thousand men to surround Zhao Yu.

Zhao Yu did not retreat in the slightest.

With her current strength plus the augmentation of the Blood-Red Dragon Cavalry profession, even special troop types could not cause her any damage.

Let alone these ordinary troop types.

Zhao Yu brandished the Fire Phoenix Bright Gold Spear, backed by a group of Blood-Red Cavalry, killing as many enemies as came.

The twenty thousand Blood-Red Cavalry, holding blood-colored halberds, under the bonus of the battle formation, were infinitely close to generals, forming a blood-colored Great Wall.

The blood-colored halberd glows were sharp; one sweep of a halberd could wipe out three or four Black Mountain soldiers, blocking all the incoming Black Mountain Army.

However, the Black Mountain Army also had a unit comparable to special troops, called Black Mountain Fierce Bandits, whose combat power in the mountains and forests was particularly terrifying.

They kept pushing forward, killing the troops under Su Li.

The two armies clashed, and the boundary line was like a wriggling thick line; the corpses of the fallen troops were enough to pile up into a wall.

The Black Mountain Army pushed upward frantically, with Black Mountain soldiers falling at every step.

Relying on their numerical advantage, the Black Mountain Army continuously charged at the blood-colored Great Wall formed by the Blood-Red Cavalry.

As long as they broke through, the ordinary troops in the rear would be slaughtered by the Black Mountain Army, with wails filling the field!

"Long Spear Formation!"

Guan Hai gave the order, and the ordinary troops he had specifically trained immediately formed a dense long spear formation, launching a charge against the Black Mountain Army!

The sharpness of the long spears filled the gap left by the Blood-Red Cavalry, forcing back the incoming Black Mountain Army... 0

Besides this.

The Black Mountain Army also had cavalry, attempting to bypass from both sides to raid the rear.

But their opponents were the Blood-Red Dragon Cavalry on the left and right wings.

Don't look at the fact that the number of Blood-Red Dragon Cavalry was only two thousand, but the combat power they erupted with was even stronger than that of the twenty thousand Blood-Red Cavalry.

They blocked all the Black Mountain cavalry attempting to flank them.

Both sides fought from noon until sunset, with hundreds of thousands of corpses piled up like mountains.

Of course!

The vast majority of these corpses were from the Black Mountain Army.

"Retreat!"

"Build siege equipment tonight, and attack the mountain again tomorrow!"

Seeing nightfall approaching, Zhang Yan finally chose to sound the gong and withdraw his troops.

The Black Mountain Army, like a receding tide, retreated backward and set up camps at the foot of the mountain.

And they began to build siege equipment.

Originally, Zhang Yan wanted to resolve the battle quickly with a numerical advantage and had not prepared siege equipment.

But who would have thought that the opponent's troops would be so strong even in the wild.

Just by occupying the hilltop, they made them unable to move an inch.

Under such circumstances.

Only by building catapults could they turn passive into active and knock the enemy down the mountain!

Su Li stepped on countless corpses, his face expressionless.

The success of one general is built upon the bones of ten thousand.

"After tonight, Zhang Yan will definitely build catapults to storm Mount Taixing..."

He looked at the Black Mountain Army camp at the foot of the mountain and fell into deep thought.

After a long while.

Su Li made a decision: "Tonight, we will go down the mountain and launch a surprise attack."

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