Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 198

[Chapter 198 Shelling]

“King Yan!”

Guo Tu’s resentful eyes pierced through the smoke of the battlefield to reach the army in silver armor.

Yes, this is King Yan’s army.

He will never forget these silver armors in his life.

“It’s almost there, as long as we reach Yanguan, we will win.” Guo Tu murmured like a raving.

From midnight to now, although the city wall of Nancheng collapsed.

But Yanguan soldiers kept fighting them to the death at the gap.

At present, the Yuan family’s army has not broken through this line of defense and entered Yan Pass in a large scale.

So this is not enough.

Because only by fighting from the back to the north wall and disrupting the attack of the Yanguan defenders, can the Beidi army enter the pass smoothly.

And their Yuan family will truly win.

“Yuan Xiu, block them!” Guo Tu pointed at the approaching King Yan’s army, “At all costs.”

Yuan Xiu nodded solemnly.

Pulling out his saber, he rode his horse westward.

Dozens of generals followed behind him, issuing orders continuously.

Yuan Jiajun’s army on the west side immediately turned, and more than 40,000 people went to meet Yan Wang’s army.

In an open field, two armies moved towards each other like chess pieces on a chessboard.

“The artillery went to the two wings, set up artillery positions, and fired crosswise.”

Zhao Xu rode his horse and stood on a slightly higher mound.

The army of the palace is still advancing, and he, Chang Wei and other core generals are stationed to command the battle.

The orderly kept sending his orders to the army formation.

The artillerymen immediately pulled their horses to the two wings of the army formation, unloaded the artillery, and aimed their muzzles at the Yuan family’s army formation.

At the same time, two battalions of pikemen on the left and right sides stopped at the artillery position to protect the artillery.

After the artillery position was completed, Zhao Xu ordered the soldiers to stop advancing.

At this time, the Yuan family army was still 500 meters away from them.

“Heavy cavalry ready, light cavalry to the wings.”

“Cannon fire grapes.”

“…”

Zhao Xu gave orders one after another in an orderly manner.

This grape shell is the special shell he asked Wang Chong to make during this time.

Unlike a single large shell, this grape shell is composed of many small iron balls, bound with cloth to form a cylindrical shape.

At the bottom of the cannonball there is a disc iron plate of the same caliber as the muzzle.

When firing, the gunpowder will urge Tito, and the grape bullet will fly out under force.

Due to the great power of the gunpowder, these iron beads will fly out of the wrapped cloth, hitting the whole surface like a goddess scattering flowers.

The cross-shooting will be the same as the cross-shooting of the machine gun, so that the damage surface will be maximized.

All the preparations were completed, and the battlefield became quiet again, only the faint sound of fighting at Yanguan could be heard.

Chang Wei couldn’t help but glance in the direction of Yanguan, he was very anxious.

Every minute counts right now.

If it was him, he would immediately order the whole army to attack, fight fiercely with the soldiers of the Yuan family, and then go to Yanguan.

But now that the command is in the hands of King Yan, he can only sigh.

Zhao Xu glanced at Chang Wei, he knew what Chang Wei was thinking.

It’s just that reckless charging will only quickly mix the two armies together.

In this way, he will not be able to exert the true power of the artillery.

The current Yuan family is on a road of no return.

Everyone in the Yuan family’s generals and soldiers knows well, so their will to fight is not weak.

Falling into hand-to-hand combat will only delay his time to save Yanguan.

“Mighty, mighty, mighty!”

The soldiers of the Yuan family formed a tight formation, marching forward like a block of ants, and issued a low-pitched slogan at the same time.

At this time, the soldiers of the palace were also a large horizontal team composed of squares, facing the Yuan family’s army head-on.

If you follow the style of play in the cold weapon period in the past.

After approaching, the two sides launched a charge and mixed together to fight hand-to-hand.

At this time, the Yuan family’s army had this idea.

Their army formation is orderly, and the steps taken by the soldiers are almost the same length to ensure that the formation will not be chaotic.

Four hundred meters.

Three hundred meters.

Two hundred meters…

Zhao Xu was estimating the distance between the two sides.

At 200 meters, the Yuan family’s cavalry suddenly surrounded them from both wings, each with 5,000 cavalry.

“Your Highness!” Chang Wei couldn’t hold back anymore.

Once the Yuan family’s cavalry are allowed to outflank and go around behind, they will be attacked by the enemy.

Zhao Xu didn’t speak, and the army of the palace remained motionless.

Chang Wei let out an “ah” and closed his eyes.

One hundred meters!

At this time, the Yuan family’s cavalry, who were galloping at a constant speed, suddenly accelerated, trying to quickly outflank.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu shouted: “Fire!”

“Fire!” Chang Wei stomped his feet and shouted immediately.

Order passed.

With the loud bang of “boom boom boom”, the earth seemed to tremble slightly at this moment.

On the artillery positions on the two wings, the artillery spewed out flames.

Grape bullets burst out from the muzzle, and flew towards the Yuan family cavalry galloping like iron beads and fishing nets.

When the cannon sounded, all the mounts of Yuan’s cavalry were frightened.

Many horses raised their front hooves, instinctively wanting to flee.

The Yuan family cavalry were also panicked by the loud noise and let the horses throw them off.

The same question came to their minds, “What the hell is this?”

It’s just that many of them’s thinking was immediately terminated.

Within a few breaths of fire and smoke, the black iron beads tore them and their mounts apart like a violent storm.

Before the Yuan family cavalry could react, a puff of blood mist exploded on them.

Someone lost an arm, someone lost a leg, and someone lost their head.

Some people even fell apart instantly.

In an instant, the Yuan cavalry in front fell like a domino.

“What’s going on?” The Yuan family’s cavalry behind them tightened their horses urgently.

The cavalry in front fell down one after another, and their vision suddenly widened.

But looking at the remains of broken limbs on the ground, they felt that their breathing was about to stop.

Just before they came back to their senses, fire and smoke lit up not far away again.

The stunned Yuan family cavalry was torn apart again.

At this time, the Yuan family cavalry finally realized that something was wrong.

Whatever it is that is braving the light and the bang.

There is no doubt that these things will be as simple as killing chickens, destroying them.

And they can’t make any resistance.

Seeing the flesh and blood all over the place, the Yuan family cavalry couldn’t take it anymore, screaming, they reined in their horses and ran away.

“This…”

Chang Wei and all the generals were dumbfounded.

Under two rounds of shelling, more than a thousand Yuan cavalry fell forever.

It was as if a shovel had been struck in an ant’s nest.

Not to mention the Yuan family’s cavalry, even their palms were covered in cold sweat.

They just heard about this kind of shells from King Yan, but they have never seen the real effect.

Now that I have seen it with my own eyes, I understand why King Yan is so calm.

The charge of Yuan’s cavalry was defeated by two rounds of shelling.

But Zhao Xu’s nerves are still broken. Their real goal is to keep Yanguan.

Before defending Yanguan, he must completely defeat the Yuan family’s army.

Therefore, when the Yuan family cavalry fell into chaos and rushed to escape, he immediately ordered the artillery to point all the artillery at the Yuan family cavalry 200 meters away.

(end of this chapter)