Chapter 360: Night Attack in the Mist
The fog came so quickly that when the Mo Forging soldiers who operated the counterweight trebuchet placed a new boulder soaked in fire oil on the projectile belt, they could no longer tell which side the battle flags on the battlefield ahead belonged to.
The arrival of the fog immediately made the empire lose its biggest advantage - powerful long-range firepower, and in this case, put those No. 3 counterweight trebuchets and scorpion crossbows on the front line, which is simply a fool's doing, so when the fog appeared, Asal immediately summoned all the heralds beside him, and asked them to convey the news of "all war equipment to the camp" to the ears of every engineer, and even Asal did not hesitate to transfer dozens of generals and guards next to him for this purpose, Let's go and get the message across.
In addition, the Sunset Soldiers and Xiyi Soldiers who previously guarded the No. 3 counterweight trebuchet position and the Scorpion Crossbow position will also go to protect the two wings of these war equipment after the instructions issued by Assar begin to be implemented, and on the other side, on the forward battlefield, Asal also decisively ordered the Sunset soldiers who participated in the battle on the front line to move to their own camp in a way of fighting and retreating. If you insist on saying that the only military formation on the side that does not set the sun is changed, it is the Yoman longbowmen and Saiyi Ashigaru who guarded behind the wooden fence in front of the camp of the sunset.
Just as the army that never sets on the same day suddenly poured into the forward battlefield in the morning, after Asal ordered a ladder retreat on the whole line, more than 100,000 troops of the sun never set also withdrew into the camp like a tide, and this process did not drag the slightest mud and water, those Atlantan soldiers who wanted to pursue might be able to drag the backward Sunset and Xiyi soldiers for a second, but the next second they would definitely be shot into a honeycomb by the giant shield crossbowmen behind the palace, and what made those Atlantan soldiers who wanted to pursue regret it was that Asal actually placed the Greek Pyro, who had been shocked before, at the top of a grassy slope where the sun never set and the soldiers on the front line retreated.
When the last soldier of the sun never set passed by these flamethrowers, these well-trained Greek flamethrowers, who were not at all afraid of the charge of heavy infantry or even heavy cavalry with two-handed weapons, stood up, and raised the Greek flamethrower that had been planted on the ground before into their hands, just as the heavy cavalry held their own spears, and aimed the cold light, dragon-shaped jet holes at the Atlantan soldiers who were charging upwards with all kinds of weapons.
Hundreds of flame pillars ignited in front of the Atlantan soldiers who came to pursue, just as those Greek firethrowers expected, when the pillars of fire disappeared into a sea of fire, the wails of nearly a thousand Atlantan soldiers instantly resounded throughout the battlefield, the blazing air wave with a terrifying wail even frightened away the dense fog around the sea of fire, and the Atlantan soldiers who came to pursue were also frightened by the situation in front of them, causing them to finally give up the pursuit and let out bursts of cheers to the rear, Celebrating the retreat of the Sunset army retreated in the dense fog area, and the originator of this sea of fire, thousands of Greek Pyos also resisted the Greek fire toucher in their hands, laughed contemptuously a few times, and then withdrew to the Sunset camp without casualties, and when the cheers gradually weakened and finally disappeared, except for the two Greek fire burning areas on the battlefield, the battlefield became extremely quiet around the battlefield, including inside and outside the Sunset camp, only the slight armor friction sound that sounded from time to time filled the ears of the three Sunset generals.
"This fog is really thick enough!" Looking ahead of the darkness and two red dots, Assal, who was standing on the wooden lookout of the camp, pouted and said, "It is estimated that this fog may not dissipate until noon tomorrow............ Sherman, two generals of Rakuman, do you think that group of Atlantans will have this opportunity to leave some soldiers to stop us, and then the army will march out and directly bypass our army and rush to Philadelphia in the rear? ”
"It's really possible, if that Atlanta Commander Haybad has a funny head." Lacman thought for a while and replied: "Not to mention that this is more than 10 days away from Philadelphia, and our army has scattered nearly a hundred heralds equipped with war eagles in the rear, and the wounded soldiers and mercenaries stationed in Philadelphia alone, plus all kinds of war equipment, are enough for these Atlantans to drink a pot, and when the time comes, our army that will come back to help surround them, then they will not lose more than they gain." ”
Regarding Rakman's speech, Sherman nodded in approval and then continued: "So they can only take advantage of the cover of the fog at night now, when the threat of our army's long-range firepower is about to be the lowest, to launch the most fierce all-out attack on our army, only in this way can they break the current stalemate, after all, if they don't fight now, until tomorrow morning, after the fog clears, even if their more than 200,000 troops surround our army's camp, our war equipment is enough to make them hate it." ”
"It's really quiet now............. Rakuman, all kinds of war equipment of our army have been placed on all sides of the camp, right?" Assal, who seemed to hear something, suddenly turned around and asked Rakuman.
"Of course, Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief."
"Oh........." After pondering for a few seconds, Assal's eyes suddenly became serious, and he gave orders to the two generals at a very fast pace: "Sherman! Blow the horn and get all the Yoman longbowmen ready for territorial suppression! Rakuman! Let the No. 3 counterweight throwing stone all move, and you should know what to project, right? ”
"Don't worry, commander-in-chief, the rotting cows have been packed and put away by the Mo Forging people, with these treasures, we can definitely make that group of Atlantic miscellaneous soldiers fight, and we can't even use a trace of strength."
"Very well, let's do it." Not long after Asal gave the order, many moving black shadows gradually appeared around the Sunset Camp, and he did not hold a torch in his hand so that the Sunset soldiers guarding the firing platform could not see whether these black shadows existed, but when the moonlight that penetrated the layers of dense fog fell on these black shadows, the reflective effect of the armor made the rough appearance of these black shadows revealed to the eyes of the Sunset Longbowmen, and the rapid sound of horns on all sides of the camp was also blown by the Sunset Longbowmen.
At about the same time, the Yoman longbowman, who was already wound behind the wooden fence, released the armor-piercing steel arrows of the four diamond-conical arrows in his hand, and the No. 3 counterweight trebuchet behind him also threw the unbearable stench sacks at the black shadows.