The Sky Dragon Swordsman
#77. Frontiers. II

General Tian Li headed straight to the side of the chariot used by Emperor Yong Zheng after meeting General Chou. Emperor Yong Zheng then signaled General Tian Li to begin the assault. General Tian Li continued the emperor's orders by ordering one of his soldiers to raise a banner and sign Prince Shun Kwo's army to attack.

Twenty thousand Shun Kwo troops consisting of cavalry and infantry advanced to the front with stairs in the form of towers.. their movements are then followed by hurlers to get a suitable firing range..

When the warrior Prince Shun Kwo reached a stone that had been marked in white...General Chou signaled the banner holder to release the arrow from the mechanical bow.

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Those points had already been prepared by General Chou two days earlier, after getting information that the Qing imperial troops gathered on the border had tripled.. General Chou then made a plan to conduct an effective attack by marking white at certain points according to the maximum range of mechanical arcs and throwers and the maximum distance from the arrow released by the archers from the top of the fort, besides.. General Chou also still harbored another surprise for the soldiers of the Qing Empire.

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Dozens of mechanical bows then released thousands of arrows capable of covering the sunlight.. the arrow that leads into the air then goes down quickly and rains down on the soldiers - the soldiers of Prince Shun Kwo.. Horses - horses up to tumble to the ground when hit by arrows..

Hundreds of soldiers Prince Shun Kwo immediately met death when the rain of arrows occurred.The troops then made a formation using a shield to dispel the rain of arrows that continued to occur.. they think their position is still quite far from the arrow range and it will be difficult to determine whether their position has entered in the run or not.. shun Kwo's forces do not realize that General Chou has prepared in advance.

The soldiers made a roof to protect them from the rain of arrows by using a shield.. the arrow was five times larger than the arrow used by the archer.. the metal lining the tip of the arrow was made of thick iron that was even able to pierce through two sides of the horse carriage.

The number of Shun Kwo soldiers was reduced rapidly.from twenty thousand soldiers only left a few thousand people and most of them were already seriously injured.. Prince Shun Kwo occasionally glanced at Emperor Yong Zheng who was impressed to let his troops die in vain on the front lines without any sign of help from the Qing Empire.

"Is it only up to where your troops are capable of..?? " ask Emperor Yong Zheng to Prince Shun Kwo who looks furious watching his troops continue to fall..

"What do you mean your highness..?? " Shun Kwo asked back. felt that Yong Zheng was playing tricks on him..

Emperor Yong Zheng did not answer Prince Shun Kwo's question, but he turned his gaze to General Tian Li to explain to Shun Kwo..

"Prince...before carrying out this attack, we have been informed that General Chou who took over the leadership of the troops at the border." said General Tian Li stopped for a moment..

"Then...? " Prince Shun Kwo could not help his curiosity..

"Prince...you are from the Ming empire. Have you never heard of the greatness of General Chou..?? " asked General Tian Li while frowning as if he could not believe what he heard.

"I really don't understand the General.please explain to me. " replied Prince Shun Kwo seriously.

"General Chou is famous for having many strategies in war.. The general has a lot of deadly traps.. The prince can see for himself, and we don't know what other traps he set up on the walls of the fort " replied General Tian Li..

Shun Kwo soldiers whose number was only a quarter of the initial number managed to get close to the wall of the fort.. hundreds of mounted warriors armed with spears and swords came out from inside the fort to slaughter Shun Kwo's remaining army.. The soldiers could not do much, despite their numbers, but their physical condition was tired and got wounds from arrows, wounds from arrows, make the soldiers rode freely to slaughter them and quickly.The soldiers rode back into the fortress... get an arrow attack by an army of archers from the top of the fortress wall.

Prince Shun Kwo can only swallow watching the death of his soldiers happen so quickly.. the strategy created by General Chou was already able to exhaust his army.

General Tian Li tried to digest the situation quickly and then ordered fifty thousand of his soldiers to split up...

Fifty thousand advanced soldiers attacked in a split way making Jendeal Chou soldiers who control mechanical arrows difficult to determine the direction of the attack.. although some have met the target.

General Chou continued to observe the movements of the soldiers - the soldiers who advanced to attack.Their irregular movements and separated from each other made General Chou ordered his soldiers to stop the use of mechanical bows..

The second point made by General Chou has already passed, but General Chou has not yet made a decision..

The third point he made had also been passed but the archer troops on top of the fortress felt strange.

When the soldiers of the Qing empire approached the fourth point he made.. General Chou then took an arrow from one of the archers beside him.. General Chou used an arrow covered in oil..

After the soldiers of the Qing Empire passed the fourth point... General Chou released a flaming arrow.

The movement of the enemy soldiers stopped a little to watch an arrow float in the air.and felt an arrow was not threatening.they continued to advance towards the wall of the fortress that was only a few dozen meters away..

BLAARR..!!

The arrow released by General Chou shot down and slammed into the ground which apparently contained a cavity deliberately made with many other cavities connected together... and that cavity has been infused with a lot of oil...

The advancing soldiers of the Qing Empire had mostly entered the ring of fire created.. while the rest who had not had time to enter the circle of fire could not do much, they could only watch their comrades engulfed in flames.. his archers to release the arrows rained down on Yong Zheng's bewildered pot..

The arrows rained down on them again.The soldiers' eyes were blocked by the dense smoke from the burning oil.. got another problem when the fire started to subside and the rain arrows stopped..

The gate opened again.The cavalrymen who this time the number of more returned to carry out their duties.. the soldiers - mounted warriors - suddenly appeared while swinging swords or throwing spears at them, then quickly disappeared in a puff of smoke again...

Seventy thousand soldiers from the Qing Empire had already lost their lives without any progress..

Emperor Yong Zheng ordered General Tian Li to postpone the attack...