Chapter 153: Hostages (1)
The crossbow arrows like rain are wave after wave, endless, like a river rushing, without any intention of stopping. Faced with such a rain of arrows, it is unlikely that they can even pull a cushion, so Wang Zhong and the other two chose to be gophers.
The direction of the Huawu Empire's army just now was exactly at a right angle to the pit dug by Wang Zhong and Wen Yun. Therefore, when the first wave of arrow rains surged in front of him, Wang Zhong had already hid in the pit with two people.
The covered arrow rain in the Huawu Empire is generally direct, because only the torrent of crossbow arrows in one direction can exert its strongest power. There are crossbow archers who specialize in operating crossbow machines in each machine. However, even the magical crossbow archers are unlikely to find the crossbow arrows they shoot in such a overwhelming rain of crossbow arrows.
In order to avoid crossbow arrows with inconsistent directions colliding with each other and losing most of their penetration in mid-air, when the Huawu Empire's air forces were conducting coverage shooting, they were arranged in one direction, arranged in standard formations, and used uniform intervals to perform coverage shooting, so as to maximize the power of coverage shooting.
The pit dug by Wang Zhong was exactly at a right angle of ninety degrees to the overwhelming rain of raging arrows. Therefore, for a moment, such crossbow arrows like torrents could not cause harm to the three people. Moreover, since the height of the aircraft flying at the machine was basically over a hundred feet, from that direction, unless it was a very high hillside, it would generally be regarded as flat ground.
It's night now, even though the spotlights set up on several larger winged bleaches, illuminating the radius of Wang Zhong's position within a hundred meters, looking down on the flying object, the visibility is still very low. Therefore, from the beginning of covering the shooting to the present, the generals who commanded the forward only knew that the enemy below had not been cleaned up by covering the shooting, so they did not adjust the angle, but continued to cover the shooting in one direction.
Due to the battlefield mimicry sand table provided by Qiankun Academy, Chi Shuai and Yingwu Hou had long known the origin of the small troops of a thousand, knowing that they were not living people, but ghosts, so the order given to the vanguard troops was to directly annihilate the opponent with cover shooting, rather than the normal requirement of dispersion.
With the unfathomable war potential of the Huawu Empire, it is impossible to let the army directly submerge with crossbow arrows wherever it goes. If this is the case, then for years of border wars, the Huawu Empire will not only not have any benefits. It also has to take money from the national treasury to fill this huge war hole.
In general, what air forces need to do is to use extremely fierce and cover arrow rain before the two sides contact each other, completely disrupt the opponent's formation, causing a devastating morale blow, and then end it by the ground forces, instead of directly shooting with crossbow arrows as today.
The reason why Chi Shuai and Yingwu Hou dared to let go of their hands and use crossbow arrows to cover the attack is that, in the face of an inhuman existence like Yin Ling, it is extremely difficult to kill with normal means. The second is that the gains in the Human Emperor's Seal are even more than a war, so they have been using cover shooting so luxuriously.
Although he escaped a temporary catastrophe, Wang Zhong knew that this situation would not last long. The pit he dug was about ten feet square and inserted downwards into the gentle slope one and a half feet deep. It was quite loose to hide from the three people in this space, but it may not be possible to stop the rain of arrows pouring down from the sky for a long time.
What's more, once the vanguard general of the Huawu Empire finds that something is wrong, he will definitely change the direction of the cover shooting immediately. By then, the three people who are completely unprepared will be ready to welcome the rain of arrows like a flood, which is basically the same as their own pursuit of death.
In order to avoid such cups, Wang Zhong took Wen Yun and Huo Yun to play the earth-pulling rat, first set up a ninety-degree channel in the oblique upward direction at the bottom of the tilted downward pit, and then dig downward, which would just make a triangular interval to block the covering inclination of the air forces in the Huawu Empire.
For ordinary people, if you want to dig out such a channel, it is probably not a project that will be completed in a short time. Not to mention, just transporting soil is a very troublesome thing, not to mention that the possible collapse of the channel excavated can make it impossible for this task to be completed in a short time.
Fortunately, all three of them are not ordinary people. Wen Yun’s water blue is definitely a great example for transporting soil. Fire Cloud’s use of fire-type witchcraft has reached the level of great excellence. It can quickly dry the soil layer on the four walls of the passage, so that the passage will not collapse.
As the main excavator Wang Zhong, a mountain-opening hammer, he can break through a three-inch thick soil layer in one go. For these three people, digging such a passage is as simple as exploring a bag.
I have to say that this idea is very correct, because not long after, the air force of the Huawu Empire who came back changed the direction of the cover arrow rain and cleaned the place where Wang Zhong and the other two had just stayed with arrow rain.
The three of them looked at the covered and fired crossbow arrows in front of the passage, which filled most of the flat ground, and were speechless for a while. If the three of them hadn't been fast enough just now, they would have become three hedgehogs at this time.
"It seems that we can only continue to be the raspian." Wang Zhong looked at the crossbow arrows all over the ground and smiled bitterly. This bitter smile sighed powerlessly about the status quo, but more of mocking himself for taking it for granted and suffering.
When Wang Zhong saw the army of the Huawu Empire before, he was very calm because it was very simple. The army that came was the Chiying Guard and the Yulin Army. It was impossible for this army to know Wen Yun's identity. There were people who dared to challenge the emperor's majesty, but there was a person who was still alive.
The problem is that this person who dares to challenge the emperor's majesty is not the official Huawu Empire, and neither the Chiying Guard nor the Yulin Army can have this courage.
Therefore, he made a fearless arrangement and then calmly joked about Huo Yun, because he believed that no one in this army dared to attack Wen Yun and hurt her life.
People's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. Wang Zhong's calculations are correct, but he forgot one thing, that is, the vanguards of the Yulin Army and the Chiying Guard may not necessarily know Wen Yun. More importantly, it is unlikely to recognize what the people below look like at an altitude of more than a hundred feet, not to mention that this is still at night.
By chance, Chi Shuai and Yingwu Hou almost killed Wen Yun by mistake. Wang Zhong was also a plan to move forward and retreat freely, and his plan to move forward and retreat easily became full of loopholes?
Just as Wang Zhong smiled bitterly, the sound of crossbow arrows outside stopped abruptly... (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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