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Chapter 595 - 269: Follow the great General Li Ba to launch a charge against the enemy army

Chapter 595: Chapter 269: Follow the great General Li Ba to launch a charge against the enemy army

Following Hu Hui’s command, the siege began.

Some of the Auxiliary Army moved the siege weapons from the armored vehicles and operated the crossbow cannons, aiming at the fortress and releasing the siege drills.

The Auxiliary Army followed the armored warriors, using the armored vehicles as cover to approach the fortress.

The armored vehicles had strong Defense Power, able to withstand most weapon attacks, and were a necessary cover for the siege.

However, when the armored vehicles came within less than three hundred meters of the fortress, there was no counterattack from the fortress.

It should be noted that at this distance, the armored warriors could easily close in with just one charge.

The armored warriors frowned, and the players also found it strange.

The fortress was surrounded by mountains on three sides, had a geographical advantage on the uphill slope, and was built as a U-shaped structure. The only way to attack from the outside was to break through the front.

The defense pressure was greatly reduced, the fortress only needed to attack the enemy’s forces to deplete their strength.

Even if the siege forces got to the side of the fortress, it would still be troublesome to break into the fortress.

Because of the U-shaped structure of the walls, the attackers would also have to withstand attacks from three directions and would lose a lot of strength.

Hu Hui had mentally prepared himself for the possibility that many soldiers might be annihilated along the way; the soldiers were also on tenterhooks.

However, the fortress did nothing, wasting this opportunity and letting the army advance to such a distance.

After looking around, Hu Hui felt that something was wrong and immediately gave orders to several armored warriors.

The few armored warriors who received the orders didn’t care about the danger of the command.

They immediately rushed out of cover, the steam from behind pushing them forward, accelerating their charge.

But the fortress still didn’t react, those few armored warriors just charged through the most dangerous area like that.

Afterward, they grabbed the siege drills shot by the Auxiliary Army earlier and began climbing the fortress walls.

This was the correct use of the Eight Ox Crossbow, with the siege drills shot being able to pierce the walls and allowing the attacking forces to climb and fight. Of course, during the climbing process, they would also encounter the most dangerous counterattacks.

The U-shaped walls were specially designed to counter such tactics.

However, even so, the few soldiers climbing did not receive any attack.

The first armored warrior who climbed onto the fortress wall immediately moved towards the depths of the fortress but quickly reached the bottom. The thick mountain wall blocked his path. He hesitated and quickly moved within the fortress.

He arrived at a horrible conclusion.

This wasn’t a fortress... It was just a castle gate and walls built on the mountainside, and the internal space was very small, not even enough to accommodate a few armored warriors.

This was... a fake!

Hu Hui was horrified and immediately ordered, "Retreat, retreat quickly..."

Li Yang and the others also reacted, realizing they had been tricked. This fortress was nothing more than a smokescreen.

"How is this possible? Where could they have escaped to?" Li Yang couldn’t believe it, as he had sent out a large number of scouts to locate the enemy the moment they were discovered.

Moreover, three battalions had been guarding the mountain pass afterward. Where could the enemy have run to...

At this moment, he saw the steel bodies appearing on the mountain path, as well as... the ice-cold gleams of the poised Eight Ox Crossbows. And the direction they were aiming at was...

Li Yang suddenly understood.

He understood why the enemy appeared when their army was gathering, and he also realized who those enemy soldiers in red paint were.

Most importantly, he understood the reason they lured the Standing Battalions and the Thousand Cattle Guard to fight here.

But it was too late for him to understand. Now, all he could do was let out a desperate roar.

"Ambush, take cover!"

Those Auxiliary Army soldiers at the rear were still waiting for the command to charge when they saw the new battalions appear on the mountain path. One of them even said smugly, "With five battalions attacking together, even if the rebels have the strength of a whole battalion, they’re done for. We’re just getting free battle merits..."

But before he could finish, he was turned into a bloody mess by a siege drill, his half body weakly falling into the pool of blood.

The sudden attacks from three directions tore apart most of the formation. The formation, which had been set up for siege warfare, never anticipated being attacked from other directions.

One after another, the bowl-sized siege drills mercilessly pierced through the bodies of the Auxiliary Army soldiers.

Many soldiers were torn into bloody foam without even having the chance to scream.

This wasn’t the five-on-one they had planned for, but rather a real two-against-three.

The battalions that were supposed to be stationed at the mountain pass had now plunged into the mountains and launched a deadly attack on their own brothers and comrades-in-arms.

The orderly formation was torn apart in an instant. The previously prepared Eight Ox Crossbows and catapults for the siege were precisely destroyed, making it impossible to retaliate.

"Quick, the armored vehicle!" Just as one armored warrior spoke, he was hit directly in the chest by a siege drill, his armor instantly twisting. The powerful force sent him flying several meters.

The armor was repositioned to form cover that could barely withstand the attacks. Soldiers quickly took cover behind it, leaving behind the hellish, blood-red scene.

Fierce bombardment from all three directions instantly killed thousands of Auxiliary Army soldiers and nearly a hundred armored warriors.

They didn’t die at the hands of the so-called Chaos Demons, but rather at the hands of their own people.

Three battalions simultaneously betrayed the Great Tang and launched an attack on their own brothers and comrades-in-arms!

Hu Hui and Li Yang hid behind an armored vehicle.

His left arm was broken, and even the armor of an armored warrior couldn’t withstand the crossbow cannons that had been improved in this era.

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