Chapter 5267 Phantom's Conspiracy

When the rolling log formation was activated, the crossbows and bows stopped shooting.

In just a short while, more than 10,000 crossbows and hundreds of thousands of iron-feathered arrows were fired.

You know, these crossbows and iron-feathered arrows are made of pure iron. No matter how rich the court is, it is impossible to consume them indefinitely.

Seeing that the rolling logs can effectively resist the enemy's attack on the defense line, Zhao Zian immediately ordered to stop shooting, so as not to waste war resources.

Phantom watched from the west for a while, and then ordered to withdraw.

Before finding out how to crack the rolling log formation of Yumen Pass, continuing to attack the defense line of Yumen Pass will only increase casualties.

The heaven is fighting away from home, the number of soldiers is limited, and it is very difficult to replenish troops.

Before entering the heart of the Middle Earth, it is unrealistic to want to form a vassal army.

She will not be like Gu Yuqi, the head coach of the six major armies of the heaven ten years ago, who mindlessly pushed all the soldiers of the heaven to attack the city and capture the stronghold.

This seemingly large-scale offensive lasted only half an hour.

The heavenly army came like a tsunami and retreated like a rushing tide.

They came quickly and left quickly.

When the rolling dust dissipated, there was no tragic scene under Yumen Pass.

The injured and dead giant warriors and mad warriors were taken away by their companions when they retreated.

Only the bones of some undead warriors were left.

The soldiers of Yumen Pass were cheering and even the coach Zhao Zian had a long-lost smile on his face.

The rolling log formation was effective, which greatly boosted the morale of the people.

They all believed that the defense line of Yumen Pass was solid and would never be broken by the enemy.

Just when most of the soldiers were immersed in joy, someone found something wrong.

The battlefield was too clean.

The heavenly army not only took away the bodies of their companions, but also took away all the Zhangba crossbows and iron-feathered arrows shot from Yumen Pass during this battle.

The one who saw this problem was a white-bearded veteran.

This man was called Zhang Yulin, and he was the sworn brother of the old commander Zhao Xianfeng. When he was a teenager, he followed Zhao Xianfeng to garrison at Niangzi Pass.

After Zhao Zian took control of Yumen Pass, most of the veterans were replaced by young hawkish generals. Zhang Yulin was one of the few veterans left at Yumen Pass.

He was a man who refused to admit defeat and insisted on guarding the first line of defense at Yumen Pass.

Zhao Zian couldn't persuade him, so he had to agree.

Zhang Yulin had been in the military for decades. Before the catastrophe, he was a general at Niangzi Pass and had fought countless battles with the barbarians outside the Great Wall and the wolf tribe on the grassland.

When he saw that the battlefield under his feet was clean, he immediately realized that something was wrong.

He soon realized that this attack was not a test, let alone an attempt to attack the first line of defense.

Phantom was imitating Zhuge Kongming, wanting to borrow arrows with straw boats.

He immediately sent someone to report his guess to Zhao Zian.

As the heavenly army retreated, Zhao Zian and other senior generals walked down the sparrow tower and came to the central army tent.

As soon as they entered the tent, a captain came to report.

Zhao Zian thought he was here to report the casualties of the battle, but the captain said that the battlefield was clean and the enemy was most likely collecting arrows and crossbows from the human world.

Zhao Zian and others were shocked after hearing this.

Zhao Zian punched the table and said angrily: "No wonder Phantom withdrew so decisively, it turns out that she just wanted to collect arrows."

An aide said: "Could it be that she just wanted to consume the strategic materials at Yumen Pass?"

Dozens of senior generals and aides in the tent all looked at this person.

I thought, how did this idiot become the aide of the Marshal?

Military staff provide military advice to the commander-in-chief, analyze the battle situation, and formulate effective war plans.

But this idiot seems to have no common sense at all.

A general snorted coldly: "If the phantom just wants to consume our arrows and crossbows, there is no need to take the arrows away from the battlefield.

She retreated quickly because the commander ordered to stop shooting after the log fell, so she retreated."

Everyone nodded.

The idiot staff who spoke earlier blushed and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Someone said: "The crossbows and crossbows equipped by the soldiers in the three lines of defense before Yumen Pass were all forged by the dwarves in the northern border, and all of them were pure iron arrows.

The Heavenly Army should be short of iron tools now, so they thought of getting them from us.

However, the weapons of the Heavenly Army were all brought by them from the Heavenly Realm. Except for the six-winged air cavalry equipped with crossbows, other legions were not equipped with crossbows.

What exactly do they want to do with the iron cavalry?"

This question is to the point.

The army of the heavens descended to the mortal world, each with a weapon in hand. They were not short of weapons.

But they were indeed collecting a large number of iron tools.

Soon, someone expressed his opinion that Phantom was developing new weapons.

This was not a strange term. In recent days, the high-level officials of the mortal world had actually learned that in order to win this catastrophe war, the heavens had begun to produce many weapons that could restrain the weapons of the mortal world.

Among them was a kind of Vajra Umbrella, which was specially used to break the rain of arrows from the mortal world. However, the heavens had not yet put the new weapons into the battlefield, so no one was sure of this.

Phantom rode on a golden six-legged monster, watching bundles of iron feather arrows and eight-foot-long spears being carried by giant warriors past her.

She was very satisfied.

In just half an hour, she collected twelve thousand eight-foot-long iron spears and more than three hundred thousand pure iron arrows.

These are standard weapons made by the dwarves in the northern border.

A crossbow weighs twenty-eight pounds, and a pure iron arrow weighs one pound.

Phantom only spent a relatively small price to get more than five hundred thousand pounds of high-quality pig iron.

In addition to the occasional small-scale attacks in the past few months, the iron collected has exceeded three million pounds.

Although not much, it can greatly alleviate the pressure of the heavenly army urgently needing iron to forge new weapons.

However, Phantom also knew that this method could not be used frequently.

Humans in the world are not stupid.

Especially that Zhao Zian. When Phantom was a human captive, he lived with Zhao Zian for a period of time.

Zhao Zian will soon be able to see that she is collecting ironware.

He has even seen it now.

In the past, Phantom was still evasive, and only brought back a part of the ironware from the battlefield each time.

Now that the attack plan of the heaven has been finalized, Niangzi Pass and Shanhaiguan will launch a full-scale general attack in the near future. Phantom has no time to slowly collect ironware, and can only take risks.

She must make enough new weapons after Niangzi Pass is breached, so as to delay or even defeat the 30 million main forces of the human world at Yumen Pass.

Once Niangzi Pass is breached, both Shanhaiguan and Yumen Pass will become useless.

Phantom does not want to fight a protracted war with the human world, otherwise the heaven will be dragged into the quagmire of war, and the final result will be that it will be consumed bit by bit by the human world to death, just like 24,000 years ago.

Phantom has a big appetite. She wants to eliminate the main force of the 30 million troops at Yumen Pass, so that the human world will no longer be able to stop the large-scale army from fighting, and finally force the scattered troops in the human world to the Cangyun Mountain area for a decisive battle.

And to implement her plan, the key point is to completely take down Yumen Pass and Motian Cliff defense line in a short time.

This seemingly impossible task is possible in Phantom's mind.

As long as the new weapons are deployed in place, it will not be a big problem to take down Yumen Pass.