Chapter 430: World Chapter: The Xuanyong Army Rising to Resistance (6)

A hero is someone who, after feeling the fear deeply, still chooses to overcome it resolutely!

When the enemy troops were at the gates of the city, facing the enemy's terrifying siege, Shang Yang quickly recovered from his initial instinctive fear and quickly regained his courage. He sharply drew the sword at his waist and roared.

"All Xuanyong soldiers, it takes a thousand days to train an army and use it in one day! It is useless to just talk about being loyal to the country all day long. Now is the critical moment to demonstrate our value as soldiers. Everyone, do not hesitate, do not show mercy, use all your strength to kill every enemy that appears in front of you, fight to the death, right now!! "

"Oh oh oh!!"

"bring it on!!"

"Defend the high ground to the death!!"

Shang Yang's encouragement was echoed by the roars of all the Xuanyong soldiers. At this moment, the morale and combat effectiveness of the Xuanyong soldiers reached the highest peak in history!

As their opponents, the soldiers from the Federal Legion also did not waste any time and launched a turbulent charge like a torrent without giving in.

No less than 50000 melee soldiers were seen, holding a shield in one hand and a sharp sword in the other, roaring and charging towards Xuanyong's middle high ground. The huge flow of people also raised a trail of dust.

However, just when the federal soldiers had just charged to within 300 meters of the enemy's high ground—

Bang, bang, bang-bang-bang!

Along with the earth-shaking roar of cannons, countless shells with long trails of fire were falling in a curve from the high ground in front. It was an artillery attack from Xuan Yong's side!
Boom, bang, bang!

Countless explosions exploded from the charging formation. For a moment, the sky was filled with flames, and the federal soldiers in the front row were thrown to the ground! Just one wave of artillery fire directly caused the federal army to lose no less than three digits of soldiers!

But this was not the end. Under Shang Yang's brilliant command, Xuan Yong's artillery carts were in the form of four phalanxes and attacked in turns. That was roughly; after the first phalanx's artillery carts finished firing, the second phalanx followed up. At this time, the first phalanx's artillery carts could take the opportunity to reload their shells. By the time the third and fourth phalanxes' artillery carts finished firing, the first and second phalanxes had completed their firing preparations, and this cycle repeated back and forth indefinitely.

From a practical point of view, this not only solves the blank time that the artillery vehicle needs to reload after an attack, but also ensures that the firepower coverage on the enemy can be continuous, thereby limiting the enemy's charge speed to the greatest extent. It is a clever means of high ground defense.

As the attacking party, the Federal Army was in great pain, because if they wanted to capture the enemy's high ground, there was only one way: sacrifice a large number of melee soldiers to shorten the distance and engage in close combat with the enemy's front row. The reason for doing this was, firstly, to break through the enemy's front-line defensive formation, and if all went well, they could directly kill into the enemy's magic forces; secondly, to attract firepower for the magic forces and artillery forces in the rear, giving them enough time to deploy their formation and counterattack the enemy.

It is obvious that in this battle to capture the highlands, the Federal Army was at a disadvantage from the very beginning.

The so-called siege war was actually a brutal suicidal charge, and the reason why Shang Yang was confident that he could resist the Federation was because he was also very clear that if the attackers held their ground, they would suffer a great disadvantage, and would get half the result with twice the effort!
Of course--

In any case, a defensive strategy like Shang Yang's, which relied on artillery carts for long-range consumption and delay, could not last for too long, because the federal legions were composed of extremely elite soldiers with strong combat effectiveness. Although they suffered a head-on blow at the beginning, they eventually relied on their excellent combat effectiveness and, under the baptism of countless artillery fire, gradually approached the high ground entrance of Xuanyong and faced the Xuanyong army in a defensive formation.

An extremely bloody close combat begins!

However, for the melee soldiers of the Federation, the fierce battle has just begun. The time is different now. The Xuanyong soldiers now have command and fighting spirit, and are equally difficult to control.

In this canyon war, many of the Xuanyong soldiers lost their comrades and relatives, and they had nowhere to vent their anger. Now these enemies who had killed their compatriots on the front line actually came to their door? If they don't take revenge, when will they? !

So when the federal soldiers charged forward aggressively, the Xuanyong soldiers also drew their swords and swung the blades at the enemy with roars.

Puff!

Bang!

Bang, bang, bang!

Shields clashed with each other, swords blocked each other, sharp weapons pierced flesh, and countless soldiers roared and screamed! If you look down from a high altitude, you can see that when the surging waves of the two armies of different forces collided fiercely, blood and flesh flew all over the field in an instant!
In just one moment of contact, the number of casualties on both sides began to rise wildly at a terrifying straight line! The scene was both magnificent and bloody and terrifying to the point of suffocating! This was no longer a matter of counting individual deaths per minute, but people died almost every second, and as time went on, there was even a trend of more than double-digit deaths per second! !
"Kill! Kill them!!"

"Don't let them rush in!"

"Go to hell, bastard!!"

"help me."

As soon as the war began, it entered an astonishingly intense stage. The sounds of countless men roaring and screaming madly merged into a tragic and bloody war march.

The blade blocked the enemy's sword and cut open the enemy's chest. When a large amount of hot blood splattered all around, people fell down one after another. Soon, the winner would be devoured by the next wave of enemies and eventually fall down. There were thousands of scenes like this, happening every second!

Even those who fell to the ground and were lucky enough not to die would often not have the chance to get up, because they would be trampled to death by the crowd rushing up from behind. In addition to knife fighting, physical attacks such as grabbing, biting, pinching, bumping, and kicking were also endless. Humans usually used all means possible when resorting to force, and this was just to kill someone of their own kind standing on the opposite side.

War is always cruel.

There aren't many exclusive shots in a real war, because death is always just a matter of seconds. You've just slashed the enemy's chest, but before you can be happy, an enemy from another direction has already pierced your chest. From time to time, there are also terrible fireball attacks from magic soldiers. When someone is unfortunately hit by these fireballs, the injured soldiers can do nothing but fall to the ground and scream wildly, because no one will come to save them, and their companions are busy killing people.
The war lasted for a full 12 hours, from dusk to dawn the next day. However, the soldiers on both sides had no intention of stopping until this time, and both sides were already blood-thirsty!
During this period, the federal soldiers were beaten back several times, but soon launched a charge again. The bodies of the Xuanyong soldiers who died in the battle piled up on the periphery to form a human barrier, and their defensive formation was almost broken several times! If it weren't for the terrifying laser bombardment of the defense tower, I'm afraid it would have fallen long ago!

Of course, even though the federal army suffered heavy casualties due to the obstruction of Xuanyong and could not advance any further, the three-way battle situation of Xuanyong was still frequently in crisis. In the end, even Shang Yang, the commander, went to the front line in person to supervise the battle and kill the enemy.

"Magic troops, focus your fire on the enemy troops at the front! Don't let them continue to form a charge formation!!"

"Artillery troops, carpet bomb the artillery troops behind the enemy. Don't let them continue to press in! Hmm?!"

A black knife slashed across Shang Yang's arm. If he hadn't reacted in time, half of his shoulder would have been cut off!
"You bastards!!"

After trying his best to endure the pain and killing the enemy with a fierce sword, Shang Yang, who was finally exhausted, staggered and almost fell. At this moment, several federal soldiers seemed to have planned and directly knocked away several guards around Shang Yang, and went straight for Shang Yang's head!

"Shang Yang!!"

Amid Yingyu's screams, several dazzling and deadly magic fireballs fell to the ground and exploded, instantly clearing out all the enemies within three meters around Shang Yang. In the extreme chaos, the girl ran to Shang Yang regardless of danger and supported him.

Shang Yang, who was leaning weakly on Yingyu, felt warm in his heart. He smiled and nodded at Yingyu, whose little face was full of worry. After indicating that he was fine, he became serious again. He covered the wound with his hand, wiped the blood off his face, and looked around breathlessly.

On the battlefield, accompanied by the shouts of charge, the sky was filled with gunpowder smoke, balls of fire whizzed past, swords collided with each other, sharp blades pierced through armor and uniforms, screams were heard, blood and flesh were flying everywhere, soldiers' heads rolled all over the ground, and the air was filled with an increasingly heavy smell of blood!

Is the so-called "blood flowing everywhere" just an exaggeration? Facts have proven that it is not! When a war is large enough and lasts long enough, the blood spread on the ground can really be enough to float the shield!
At this moment, it is probably most appropriate to describe this highland defense battle as "corpses everywhere and rivers of blood"!
For Shang Yang, this was an extremely painful process. Watching his comrades falling one by one and his own injuries becoming increasingly worse, he became more and more desperate.

You know, this is when the enemy heroes haven't joined the battle. At this moment, the enemy's offensive is unabated, but our side is already faintly tired! I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before the enemy captures the high ground!

Although the reserve troops recruited from the rear are still entering the canyon to join the battle, everyone knows that no matter how many soldiers there are, they are useless. It is the heroes who will decide the outcome!

When will the reinforcements from Jixia Academy arrive?
It’s a dead end, a real dead end!

but--

In fact, as the commander of a legion, Shang Yang is not the only one who seems to be having a headache at the moment.

(End of this chapter)