Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 285 The Darkness Before Dawn
Under the leadership of Li Qiye, the leader of a thousand people, Lin Chuan and his party stooped and sneaked towards the Corps headquarters. The further they moved forward, the more tense the atmosphere in the air became.

Nan Jiyun, who was talking and laughing along the way, looked serious at the moment. He stayed behind the whole time, never expecting the front line to be so dangerous.

call out!There was a sharp piercing sound.

"Get down!" The hurried voice of Li Qiye, the leader of thousands, came from the darkness. Almost at the same time as Li Qiye gave the warning, Lin Chuan quickly pushed Nan Jiyun beside him into the trench next to him.

puff!The sound of the arrow piercing the flesh sounded, and a stream of blood splashed onto Nan Jiyun's face. Nan Jiyun struggled to sit up, and saw that one of his personal guards beside him had been pierced through the throat by the arrow.

At this moment, the guard was whimpering, lying on the ground twitching all over, covering his neck with his blood-stained hands and his face was in agony, Nan Jiyun was dazed by the sudden attack, sitting at a loss as to what to do.

"Li Qiye, give this brother a good time." Lin Chuan patted the dirt on his body, looked at the twitching soldiers of Nan Jiyun's personal guard, and waved helplessly to Li Qiye, the chief of thousands.

"Brother, I'm sorry." Li Qiye, the commander of a thousand people, pulled out his saber from his waist, and ended the life of the guard soldier who was shot through the throat by an arrow.

Li Qiye pulled out the bloody short arrow from the throat of the dead soldier and analyzed, "It's a sniper arrow."

The arrows of crossbow arrows are shorter than longbows, more exquisite and sharp, and are usually fired by crossbow machines. They are the favorite of sniper archers. A large number of sniper archers are deployed on the front lines of both sides to hunt and kill the opponent's personnel.

Looking at the bodyguards who had turned into corpses, Nan Jiyun suddenly understood the cruelty of war. All of his bodyguards were elite soldiers, but after arriving at the front line, eleven of them had already died within an hour. His mood became a little heavier.

"Go ahead." Lin Chuan pulled up Nan Jiyun who was sitting on the ground and said.

Nan Jiyun didn't move: "Brother Lin, I can't let my brother die like this for nothing, I want to kill that enemy sniper archer."

In such darkness, it is obviously impossible to kill the opponent's sniper archer, because once they show up, they may be hunted down by the opponent.

Nan Jiyun obviously didn't enter the state of the front line. Tens of hundreds of people died at the hands of the opponent's sniper archers on the front line every day. If one comrade died and wanted revenge, I don't know how many more people would die.

But facing Nan Jiyun's requesting eyes, Lin Chuan couldn't bear to refuse. After all, this was his first time on the front line, and his people died before they set foot on the battlefield, which made Nan Jiyun obviously unwilling.

"Li Qiye, can you guarantee to kill the opponent's sniper archer?" Lin Chuan stopped and turned his head to Li Qiye, the leader of the Thousand Bronze Eagle.

Li Qiye nimbly took a longbow from his back and nodded: "If I know his location, I can kill him with one blow."

Li Qiye, the leader of a thousand Bronze Eagles, was born as an archer, and his archery skills are superb. Lin Chuan noticed the longbow on his back the first time he saw him.

"Okay, I'll create an opportunity for you to kill the opponent." Lin Chuan took off his wide-brimmed helmet, and pushed out of the trench with a knife.

call out!Sure enough, the opponent's sniper archer did not evacuate, but kept lying in ambush in the trench, waiting for a new hunting target. As soon as the helmet in Lin Chuan's hand emerged from the trench, the opponent's arrow pierced through the air.

The arrow collided with the helmet, and a series of sparks and clanging sounds erupted. Lin Chuan also pretended to be accompanied by a scream, so as to confuse his opponent.

The moment the opponent's arrow shot out, Li Qiye, the commander of a thousand people, stared at the wall of the trench with both feet, jumped up, and shot the arrow in his hand into the air, and there was a scream in the opponent's trench. .

When Lin Chuan lifted his helmet out of the trench again, it was as if nothing had happened, and no arrows struck again.

"If he doesn't die, he will be seriously injured. My arrow is poisoned." Li Qiye said proudly, putting the first-grade longbow on his back again.

It was only then that everyone realized that the cutting heads of the only few arrows on his body were wrapped in black cloth. It turned out that this was to prevent the poison from contaminating themselves.

Although the opponent's sniper archer was dealt with, Nan Jiyun's mood did not improve, and Lin Chuan couldn't say anything. After all, it is inevitable to be sad when a soldier close to him died.

After wandering around in the trenches for half an hour, Lin Chuan and the others, led by Li Qiye, arrived at the headquarters of the First Corps, a shack built with planks and branches.

"General, why are you here?" When Lin Chuan walked into the headquarters of the First Corps, Sith, the commander of the Corps, was assigning tasks to several banner leaders.

"I heard that the enemy army on the opposite side has changed, I am worried, so come and have a look." Lin Chuan said with a smile.

Walking into the headquarters, Lin Chuan looked at all the familiar faces, such as Feng Qingyang, Mu Xue, Xiao Zhan, Liu Erhu and other old subordinates.

Everyone was very happy to see Lin Chuan. Since Lin Chuan was promoted to the head of the army, he has been busy with military affairs and rarely had the opportunity to go back to his old army to have a look. Now that Lin Chuan's arrival has made the atmosphere of the entire headquarters suddenly lively , everyone gave up their seats to Lin Chuan one after another, with excitement on their faces.

"This is General Nan Jiyun, the commander of the Third Army." Lin Chuan pointed to Nan Jiyun and introduced when everyone sat down.

"I've seen General Nan." Everyone saluted in unison, making Nan Jiyun envious. Lin Chuan's subordinates are really fierce generals.

"I just followed General Lin to get familiar with frontline military affairs, so you don't need to be polite." Nan Jiyun put away the arrogance in his heart now, and waved his hands modestly.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Lin Chuan directly cut to the point: "I heard that there is a change in the Dynasty's army, what's going on?"

Corps Commander Sith stood up and replied: "Since this morning, the Dynasty Army on the opposite side of us has been mobilizing frequently and infiltrating us very hard. I suspect that they may have made a big move."

"Have you found anything in other defense areas?" Lin Chuan asked with a frown. On the way here, they encountered several waves of infiltrated Dynasty army squads, and now they dare not be careless in the slightest.

"Our left-wing General Steel Feather Corps and right-wing General Mingyang Corps are in the same situation as us. The enemy troops have been mobilizing frequently since the morning, and they have quieted down after nightfall." Sith's face was heavy. , with their current strength, it will inevitably be another fierce battle.

"What did our scouts find?" Lin Chuan continued to ask.

"The scouts can't break through their defenses, so..."

Since the closest distance between the trenches of the two sides is only a few hundred meters, the scouts of both sides can only fight on the periphery. Once the trenches are exposed here, they will be attacked by the opponent's sniper archers.

Lin Chuan stood up and kept pacing in the simple headquarters. Based on the current information, the Dynasty Army must have made an action, but he didn't know what action it was when it fell to the ground. Could it be the calm before the storm?
This feeling now makes Lin Chuan very uncomfortable. The so-called knowing oneself and knowing the enemy will win every battle, but now he knows what the enemy is planning, but he doesn't know anything. Lin Chuan, who always likes to take the initiative, fell into deep thought.

"Assemble two infantry battalions and launch a tentative attack. I need to know what the Dynasty army wants to do." Instead of waiting, it is better to take the initiative. Lin Chuan turned around and issued a combat order.

"Follow the general!" Sith, the regimental commander with a frowning face, was like a drowning man suddenly grabbing a life-saving straw, and hurried out to assemble the troops, and the other people in the headquarters suddenly had a backbone.

(End of this chapter)