"Lord Duke, our men have advanced 10 kilometers. Just now, the soldiers found some arrows and a missing weapon behind a bush, and after identifying the vanguard soldiers who had been ambushed by the Yoman longbowmen of the Sunset Empire two days ago, we determined that this weapon should be the longbow used by the Yoman longbowmen, and the arrows that were left behind were the arrows that matched these longbows. A warrior in iron armor, carrying a purple-shirted longbow and three steel conical arrows used by the longbowmen, knelt down on one knee in front of a middle-aged nobleman after passing through the sea of people, and handed the equipment left behind by the longbowman in his hand to the nobleman in front of him.

Although he is a nobleman, this middle-aged man not only has a kind of aristocratic and elegant temperament, but also has an aura of slaughter, and at a glance, he knows that this nobleman is a person who has been on the battlefield and experienced vicious battles, and among the 90,000 troops, the only person who can meet this situation is the commander-in-chief of the Mars troops, the Duke of Saldo.

"Well, well done, how did the soldiers find these things?" Duke Saldo took the longbow and arrows in the palm of the soldier in front of him with both hands and made a motion to get him up, and then, Duke Saldo asked the soldier in front of him while carefully observing the weapon in his hand, which was used by the long-range infantry from the Sunset Empire to kill more than thousands of people in his hands in the past two days.

"It was discovered by an attentive bobcat boy." The soldier replied, "He wanted to climb the tree to observe the situation ahead, but he did not expect to touch these things when he reached into the hole of the tree to find a grip." ”

"Hmm......... Go down, and by the way, give this to the lynx boy, and take it as a reward. Duke Saldo paused, took off a silver ring in his hand and handed it to the soldier: "As for you, if you can survive this battle, go to the Imperial City City Defense Team to be a centurion, and remember to report to my mansion when the time comes." ”

"It's—it's true! Lord Xie! Lord Xie! After the soldier took the silver ring handed over by the Duke of Saldo, he looked at the Duke of Saldo in front of him with ecstasy. As a soldier of the Mars Empire, no matter what kind of soldier will have a day to go to the battlefield, this is the proper destination of a soldier, but when it comes to all the types of soldiers in the Mars Empire, which is the most popular, it is not the Imperial Janissaries, nor the logistics officers who often smuggle military supplies, but the city defense team of the Imperial City. For nothing else, it is enough to collect tolls from passing merchants every day, and sometimes to molest young girls who go to the countryside and enter the city.

"By the way, you go and call my adjutant." Saldo thought for a moment and said.

"Yes!" As the soldier hurriedly ran towards the military formation in front of him, after a while, an old man in heavy iron armor strode over: "Lord Duke, why did you call me here?" ”

"Old General Philair, look at this, I am now less and less confident that our Mars Empire can eat the Edinburgh Territory of the Empire on which the sun never sets." As he spoke, Duke Saldo handed the purple-shirted longbow and steel conical arrow in his hand to the old general, and his originally calm face was replaced by rain: "If you know that our soldiers are facing this kind of play, I will definitely not support the Minister of Civil Affairs, that fat pig whose body can smell oil!" ”

The old general didn't take Duke Saldo's curse to heart, but looked at the thing in his hand with a solemn face and muttered: "Longbow, a very difficult long-range weapon, the average shooting rate is not as good as a short bow or a compound bow, but the range is long, and the power is huge, coupled with this kind of arrow, which should be specially used for armor-piercing, it is estimated that even the iron armor worn by our Mars heavy infantry will also be pierced by these two things, not to mention ordinary soldiers, As long as you shoot the upper body and above, you can achieve the effect of killing with one hit......... Hiss! I didn't expect that the weapon used by the long-range troops of the Empire on which the sun never sets is this! I thought that the information said that the Yoman longbowmen were using a compound bow with a longer bow......... However, I have heard from those refugees from the Central Continent that those who use this weapon must have been trained in arm strength since childhood before they can use it well, and ordinary people will not even be able to shoot at a target within 50 years when they use it. ”

"But the problem is that the ranged soldiers of the Empire on which the sun never sets use this weapon! General Philair, it seems that the original plan has to be changed, if we directly attack those 3 small cities according to the previous plan, I estimate that we will hit our heads and bleed under the 20-meter-high city wall. ”

"I agree, the intelligence shows that the Yoman longbowmen stationed in this empire, which was renamed the Edinburgh Territory by the Empire of the Sunset, should have at least 2 armies, that is, more than 20,000 people, so many longbowmen will definitely make our soldiers ......... Lord Duke, what is that? The old general Philair, who was talking to the Duke of Saldo, heard the sound of many commotions in the army in front of him, and hurriedly glanced behind him, but this glance made him so frightened that he almost threw the longbow and arrows in his hand to the ground, because at this time, the old general Philair, through the layers of leaves, saw through the layers of leaves, there were countless orange-red red lights flying towards the sky, and several of them had begun to fall, and the direction of the fall seemed to be the direction of Mars's army.

"What...... Is that......... That's an arrow on fire! It's an enemy attack! Saldo suddenly reacted and shouted loudly, but at this time his heart was full of doubts, it is true that in forest warfare, in the night when there is no rain, fire attack is the best choice, but if you want to use fire attack, you must judge the direction of the wind, because if the wind wants to blow in the direction of the fire-maker, the most lighted path is not necessarily the target of the attack, it is likely to become the fire-maker himself. And this is the situation at this time, the direction of the wind at this time is obviously blowing in the direction of the advance of his own troops, why are those Yoman longbowmen still attacking with fire? However, the Duke of Saldo would not have answered the question, because when an arrow that was not enough to ignite the surrounding trees fell, a sudden wave of heat rushed towards him...............

At the same time, on a hill in front of him, a middle-aged centurion shot the arrow in his hand, looked at the scene in front of him and muttered: "More than 500 barrels of asphalt, enough for the Mars to use ............."

PS: Tomorrow the school will open a science and technology culture festival + art evening, if you go home late, there may only be 1 more, and the owed will be made up on Friday afternoon, but please rest assured, the pig will not be updated only once if it is not a last resort.