Chapter 324
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Chapter 324: The Spear and Shield Combination (2)
Meanwhile, on the other side, Zhou Cang, a member of the guard team who had left Mirror City with Luo Ji’s half of the bronze military token, changed horses twice along the way.
Traveling at top speed, he finally arrived outside Iron Wall City before sunset.
“Who’s there outside the city? State your name!”
“I am Zhou Cang, His Majesty’s personal sword guard. His Majesty’s military token is here! Quickly open the city gates!!” Zhou Cang shouted while holding the bronze military token high.
Hearing this shout, Zhou Yi, who happened to be inspecting the city wall, immediately raised his telescope to confirm. Then, he waved his hand.
“Open the city gates!”
Iron Wall City’s gates slowly rose.
After Zhou Cang entered, Zhao Pan, Liu Zheng, and Zhou Yi, among others, quickly walked over.
Then, Zhao Pan calmly clasped his hands.
“This matter is serious. Brother Zhou Cang, may I examine the military token?”
“General, you are too polite. Please!”
As veteran generals under Luo Ji, Zhao Pan and Liu Zheng’s status needed no elaboration.
Even other generals within the civilization showed them considerable respect, let alone Zhou Cang.
Zhao Pan, taking the bronze military tally from Zhou Cang, recognized its style at a glance, then handed it to Liu Zheng.
Clearly, to prevent impersonation and deception in this cold weapon era, Luo Ji had ensured that each general’s military tally was unique.
This half of the bronze military token undoubtedly corresponded to Liu Zheng.
Liu Zheng, receiving this half of the bronze military token, quickly took out the other half from his bosom.
After fitting them together and confirming they were a match, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
His gaze then fell back on Zhou Cang.
“What are His Majesty’s orders?”
“His Majesty’s verbal decree orders Generals Liu Zheng and Zhou Yi, the defenders of Iron Wall City, to assemble troops and depart without delay to reinforce White Horse City!”
“Your subordinates, Liu Zheng (Zhou Yi), obey the order!”
As time passed, outside White Horse City on the grassland, a new round of siege warfare began again.
The continuous siege by the extraterritorial invaders made White Horse City’s defending forces struggle more and more.
Just as Bai Ze was wondering whether to proactively reveal their movements to attract enemy attention and make them wary, thus slowing down the siege progress, a cry of an eagle came from the distant sky.
Hearing the sound, before Bai Ze could react, his beloved white eagle, Snow Feather, had already spread its wings and soared high into the sky.
Looking at the two eagles circling in the air, Bai Ze sighed in relief.
“It’s Burigude’s golden eagle. That guy is finally here!”
Leaving aside the fact that they didn’t get along, no one could deny that the horse archer unit led by Burigude was very strong!
And he indeed needed the cover of a horse archer unit now.
“Is it over there?”
Glancing far in the direction where the golden eagle circled, Burigude led his horse archer unit to quickly approach.
The moment the enemy’s figures appeared in his sight, Burigude frowned.
He could clearly feel that this group of people was not easy to deal with.
Huge shields and sharp long spears could effectively curb the charge of light cavalry units, making it quite a targeted counter to Bai Ze’s light cavalry.
However, for his horse archer unit, this was also a tricky target.
Losing all desire to tease Bai Ze, Burigude waved his hand.
“Pass down the order, all personnel adopt overhead volley tactics!”
A volley of arrows rained down from the sky, directly attacking General Shang’s siege forces, causing a certain degree of casualties among his soldiers.
“Have reinforcements arrived?”
Faced with this wave of arrow attacks, General Shang remained relatively calm.
After all, he was an experienced veteran of the Bronze Tier, and he wouldn’t lose his composure due to a single attack.
Considering the time, the appearance of the enemy player’s reinforcements was perfectly normal.
If they hadn’t appeared, that would have been strange.
“Large shield-wielder units, raise all your shields for defense!”
Mere arrow rain was nothing to fear for General Shang.
The powerful dominance of archers on the battlefield was basically limited to the ancient, unranked era.
At that time, if you could form a team of archers, you could largely do whatever you wanted.
But with the emergence and upgrading of armor, the dominance of this ranged unit on the battlefield clearly began to decline sharply.
The iron-like shield wall made Burigude’s eye muscles twitch in the distance.
This time, his horse archer unit could only provide cover for that guy Bai Ze.
With this thought, Burigude waved his hand, leading his soldiers to begin their most proficient horse archery tactics, moving while continuously drawing bows and firing arrows.
He wanted to cause some obstruction to the opposing large shield-wielder unit through this high-speed mobile shooting method.
As this tactic proceeded, their figures naturally couldn’t avoid being exposed in the enemy’s sight.
“Damn it! Horse archers?!”
General Shang felt a surge of envy at the suddenly appearing horse archer unit.
He had originally thought they were archers, but he hadn’t expected them to be horse archers.
It was no exaggeration to say that this unit, which combined mobility and range advantage, undoubtedly had the ability to cause him trouble.
At the same time, forming such a horse archer unit was extremely difficult, it required significant investment of time and resources.
And now, a shortcut lay before him, as long as he breached White Horse City behind him, he estimated he could have everything!
In General Shang’s eyes, White Horse City in the rear had already become a huge treasure chest that made him drool.
He had to take it down, capture this city, and seize all its population and resources!
As thoughts raced, General Shang quickly assessed the situation.
Facing the ironclad defense of the large shield-wielders, the horse archers’ arrows posed no significant threat to him.
However, correspondingly, he also had no way to deal with the horse archers.
Thus, the best approach was to ignore them.
He would assign a portion of the large shield-wielders specifically to block the horse archers’ arrows, while also having the archer unit in the rear symbolically counterattack.
Then, General Shang decisively ordered the remaining forces to continue the siege.
Once the city gate was breached and he led his troops into the city, with the city walls as a reliance, what threat could a horse archer unit unable to conduct a siege possibly pose to him?
This idea was quite beautiful, but reality was undoubtedly much harsher.
Bai Ze, who had been waiting in the distance, wouldn’t give him this opportunity.
General Shang had no time to react.
Amidst the thunder of hooves, Bai Ze’s light cavalry unit’s speed soared.
At the moment their speed reached its peak, they had already transformed into the sharpest dagger on the battlefield, mercilessly slitting the enemy’s throats.
Amidst splashing blood, they utterly shattered an entire archer unit in the enemy’s rear!
