Chapter 870

"Boom—boom—boom—"

There were continuous explosions, and torch stones fired from outside the city continued to fall on the city wall, breaking some bricks or destroying a torch stone cart, and even caused some casualties.

Of course, the Pingzhou army never stopped counterattacking for a moment. The torchstone chariots on the city wall roared one after another, aiming at the target and bombarding them wildly.

Shang Ji watched the confrontation between the two armies with no expression on his face, no one knew what he was thinking in his heart.

It has been five full days since the enemy's full-scale attack. Five days ago, the army in the mysterious king city suddenly made a big move.

The 3 million troops were divided into two groups, and under the leadership of Le Yi, they went straight to Yanhuang with 2 million troops. The target was the three nodes guarded by Yanhuang.

The other route was led by Wu Qi to attack Luofeng Pass.

The direct troops responsible for attacking Luofeng Pass were only 600,000, and the other 400,000 troops were divided into two groups, responsible for containing Wutong Pass and Xiangjiang City respectively.

But it was these 600,000 troops who forcibly beat the more than 2 million troops led by Shang Ji himself to Luofeng Pass and dared not show their faces!

When the enemy army first arrived, Shang Ji was still a little unconvinced, and personally led 50,000 of the most elite black-armored black knights to face the enemy vanguard.

The vanguard of the enemy army is also cavalry, which should be some kind of relatively high-level special arms. They are all seventh-tier troops, and their combat power is quite impressive.

It's just that they are strong, but they are not enough to look at in front of the most elite black armor Xuanqi. Shang Ji led his troops to fight with them. He was about to defeat the enemy, but unexpectedly, reinforcements from the enemy came!

Shang Ji can swear that he has never seen such a fierce army in his life!

The number of reinforcements was not large, only about 10,000. The whole army is wearing three layers of heavy armor, holding long daggers, iron swords hanging from their waists, huge shields and longbows on their backs, and a pot of arrows at the same time!

Typical heavily armed super-heavy infantry!

However, what surprised Shang Ji almost was that these hoplites were moving very fast!

Smoke and dust billowed all the way, and everyone looked like a humanoid Gundam, approaching at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary cavalry.

What makes Shang Ji even more incredible is that this super-heavy infantry can perfectly maintain the formation of the army under high-speed maneuvering!

Judging from the speed and momentum of this heavy infantry, this army must be a top-level high-level army, and it may even be a ninth-tier army.

However, turning around and walking away is not Shang Ji's style, and immediately sent out more than ten thousand fine cavalry to face this heavy infantry.

The two armies faced each other tit for tat, and they entered the combat range in just a few breaths.

The Black Armored Xuanqi still made an opening statement with a very distinctive spear throwing, and tens of thousands of steel spears wrapped in inner strength directly attacked the enemy.

Facing the menacing black-armored Xuanqi, the enemy army was not at all chaotic, and even its mobility was not affected, and the formation change was completed in the process of continuing to run wildly.

The three rows of soldiers at the front quickly removed the huge shield behind them, and formed a joint shield wall before the spears attacked. The shield wall was established almost instantly, and the blue waves like water stirred on the surface of the shield wall. Shang Ji has seen a similar method on giant shield soldiers, and it is a very high-level defense method for legions.

Sure enough, the invincible flying spear hit the shield wall, only stirring up waves one after another, but it never penetrated the shield, let alone the soldiers behind the shield.

And the soldiers of the enemy army in the rear were not idle, they took off the long bows on their backs, bent their bows and set up arrows, and the rain of arrows hit the black-armored Xuanqi directly!

A layer of white inner strength condensed on the surface of the arrow, and it hit the black-armored Xuanqi with a buzzing sound. Thanks to the well-equipped and powerful black-armored black knights, and the life-and-death contract to share the damage with each other, not many actually died in battle.

After the first round of confrontation, about a hundred black-armored Xuanqi were killed by the enemy's arrow rain, and a similar number of enemy soldiers were killed by flying spears.

However, before Shang Ji could catch his breath, the second round of arrow rain followed!

In just two breaths, the enemy fired ten rounds of arrow rain in one breath, but the black-armored Xuanqi's flying spear counterattacked only three rounds.

The ratio of casualties between the two sides was maintained at about one to three.

One thousand black armored black knights, three hundred hoplites!

Fortunately, the flying spear is only an auxiliary means of attack for the Black Armored Xuanqi, and what he really relies on is close hand-to-hand combat.

However, Shang Ji overlooked one point. Judging from the outfits of the hoplites, they are obviously not full-time long-range arms!

In hand-to-hand combat, the black-armored Xuanqi did not show the momentum that he used to be invincible. On the contrary, as soon as they made contact, the casualties on both sides began to surge.

Although wearing multiple layers of heavy armor made the enemy army look a bit bloated, the speed shown in the actual battle was not slow at all, and it could even be said to be quite agile!

The black-armored Xuanqi has the contract skills of living together and dying together, and the enemy army also has advanced formation skills. Waves of purple enveloping air flickered, and all the black-armored black knights in the purple air, whether in speed or strength, declined to varying degrees.

With a spear in hand, he is not afraid to face heavy cavalry. Shouts, hisses, blade clashes, and explosions can be heard endlessly, accompanied by the gorgeous light and shadow special effects of guns and swords, and the bloody blood has a three-point strange beauty!

During the bloody hand-to-hand combat, the Black Armored Xuanqi didn't seem to have any advantage!

Shang Ji did not participate in the front-line fighting, but watched the battle from a distance under the protection of the 19th-rank personal guards.

Seeing the stalemate between the black armored Xuanqi and the heavy infantry, he couldn't help frowning. Looking at the battlefield again, the frown deepened!

The enemy's vanguard cavalry, which was already on the verge of collapse, suddenly had a high morale due to the arrival of the heavy infantry, and their fighting will increased linearly.

Shang Ji guessed that this heavy infantry should have special attributes to boost one's own morale and enhance the combat effectiveness of friendly troops.

But in this way, the Black Armored Xuanqi fell into a passive position. Although it would be impossible to lose for a while, Shang Ji didn't dare to waste it.

You must know that in order to ensure mobility, he only brought 50,000 black armored black knights for this attack. It can be said that except for a thousand guards, all the troops that can be invested have been invested.

The enemy can send reinforcements at any time.

Under such circumstances, Shang Ji certainly did not dare to be careless. He was deeply afraid that he would fall too far, be held back by the enemy in front of him, and be surrounded and wiped out by most of the enemy in the end!

Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through in a short time, Shang Ji immediately ordered the whole army to retreat.

However, there was an interesting episode during the retreat. Naturally, the heavy infantry and the enemy cavalry would not just watch Shang Ji leave the battlefield so ostentatiously, and the two armies unanimously chose to pursue.

However, as a cavalry unit, the mobility shown during the pursuit was not as good as that of the heavy infantry, and they were quickly thrown behind by the black armored Xuanqi. In order to get rid of these heavy infantry, Shang Ji used some means.

After this battle, 50,000 black-armored black knights killed nearly 20,000 enemies, and lost about 8,000 themselves. However, more than 80% of the 20,000 victories were contributed by the enemy cavalry. Only less than 3,000 hoplites were killed!

At the same time, most of the battle damage of the Black Armored Xuanqi was caused by these heavy infantry, and those high-level cavalry who looked majestic and majestic became supporting roles instead.

After the first vanguard contest, the unwilling Shang Ji took the initiative to lead the attack three times.

However, the results of the three times were worse than the first time, and the battle loss ratio was already negative in the second time. The last time, he was almost hit by an enemy ambush and the entire army was wiped out.