Steel Dynasty - Chapter 177

[Chapter 177 Artillery attack]

The flames in the camp danced, and the black figures swayed in the candlelight.

Beishan looked at Gurtai and said, “This time we attack Cangzhou City, all the Huyantuo tribe must obey my orders.”

Although Gurtai was unhappy, he still nodded.

Beishan asked at this time: “How is the defense situation in Cangzhou?”

Gurtai told about the situation during the siege of the city in the past few days.

“An exploding gunpowder jar?” Beishan asked.

Gurtai nodded, “Yes, this kind of gunpowder can is very powerful. Hundreds of our archers died in the explosion.”

Then he continued: “And the armor on the defenders this time was also very strong .

Excellent, it seems to be King Qi’s most elite force.” Beishan

frowned

and said, “I want to see for myself when we attack the city tomorrow morning.”

This time Beishan personally led 50,000 barbarian elites to arrive, but he was accompanied by 80,000 slave soldiers. Including the slave soldiers of his own tribe, there were more than 100,000 people.

Just these slave soldiers are enough to keep the defenders of Cangzhou City running back and forth.

The next day.

A loud rooster crow pierced the sky, and the first ray of sunlight in the morning passed through the clouds and fell on the battlefield littered with corpses.

Then, deafening shouts of death were heard, accompanied by the explosion of gunpowder cans.

Outside the city, overwhelming slave soldiers rushed toward Cangzhou City like a flood. The slave soldiers carried hundreds of ladders. A pair of ladders went up the wall almost every few meters.

Facing the massive siege, every soldier on the city wall tensed up. They clenched the steel knives in their hands, waiting for these slave soldiers to board the city wall.

The order of defending the city was fixed, including smashing stones, throwing logs, and pouring kerosene, but this time the gunpowder jar was used immediately.

Fifty catapults continued to throw gunpowder cans into the dense formation of slave soldiers.

Thick smoke was everywhere, blood was flying, and slave soldiers fell on the road to attack the city in waves. Under the defense of the city with bows and arrows, stones, rolling logs, and kerosene, a thick layer of corpses soon piled up under the city.

“Back!” The explosion of the first round of siege gunpowder tanks ended.

The slave soldiers attacking the city suddenly retreated, and Niu Ben looked confused.

“Another probing attack.” Xiao Ming looked at the barbarian camp, and his eyes suddenly fell on a tall man who looked like the leader of the barbarians.

Beside him, he saw a businessman with a Han Chinese face.

He touched the artillery at hand and wanted to give them a shot, but he knew that the accuracy of the artillery was too poor and it would be difficult to hit him, and the secret weapon of the artillery could not be exposed at this time.

“How does Your Highness know?” Niu Ben was puzzled.

Xiao Ming said: “The news I got is that the barbarian Tian Khan came in person to lead his troops, and Bei Shan also came at the same time. Wang Xuan said that the Huyantuo tribe has always supported Dadai Jiwu Shugu, and naturally Bei Shan would not I completely believe in this Gurtai. I want to see it for myself.”

“I didn’t expect His Highness to have such detailed information.” Niu Ben nodded in agreement.

Xiao Ming said: “This is also a coincidence. You just caught a few profiteers on the grassland and learned about it.”

“Your Highness, come and see, this barbarian camp seems to be assembling something big.” Lu Fei left at this time. Come over and say.

From the perspective of Xiao Ming and Niu Ben, they didn’t see any big guy. The two followed Lu Fei to his defense area.

At this time, I raised the telescope and saw that in the middle of the barbarian camp, many slaves were carrying some parts, and some slaves were assembling them.

Judging from the appearance, the base of this thing is very large, at least ten meters long.

“This is probably the Hui Hui Cannon. It is said that this is a siege equipment learned by the barbarians from the Western Regions.”

Xiao Ming frowned. The situation he was worried about still appeared. The barbarians came over to transport the Hui Hui Cannon.

Judging from the information obtained so far, this barbarian not only has mastered gunpowder, but if there is another cannon, it will be a huge threat to Cangzhou City.

Niu Ben had already learned about the range and power of this Hui Hui cannon from Xiao Ming. He said: “It seems that the barbarians are bound to win Cangzhou City this time.”

Lu Fei scolded: “What the hell Hui Hui? “

The giant cannon, as long as I, Lu Fei, want to break through Cangzhou City, he will have to step over my body.”

Luo Xin walked by at some point, and he said excitedly to Xiao Ming: “Your Highness, this time I will. Come on, there seem to be some interesting things in this barbarian camp. I will smash them all.”

“If not, let them assemble it for a while, and we will surprise them when they are halfway through the assembly.” Xiao Ming said.

It seems that in order to wait for the assembly of Huihui’s cannon, the barbarians did not continue to attack after attacking once.

For the next two days, the two sides were in a constant confrontation. On the third day, equipment more than three meters high could be seen in the barbarian camp.

At this time, the barbarians pushed these instruments to a position of 500 meters, and lined up the half-assembled Huihui cannons one by one.

“Your Highness, this Bei Shan is provoking Your Highness.” Niu Ben couldn’t help but said when he saw the barbarian’s action.

Xiao Ming nodded. This Bei Shan was said to be arrogant and arrogant, which is also a common problem among geniuses. At this time, he placed the huge cannon in front of the formation and assembled it. Obviously, he wanted Xiao Ming to see how he conquered Cangzhou City step by step.

“In this case, it’s time for us to return the favor.” Xiao Ming said, “Prepare the artillery!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers were shocked, and finally the artillery was going to be put to use.

These days they are just waiting for artillery to beat these barbarians to pieces.

Luo Xin smiled and said: “These barbarians are hiding behind the big back. Let’s see where they hide this time. They are a group of cowards who can only drive slave soldiers.”

Then he shouted: “Everyone is in position and clear the barrels.”

Since Luo Xin’s first After lighting the artillery, he seemed to regard himself as the artillery commander. The soldiers who went to the Equipment Department for training on weekdays were always led by him.

Although it only lasted for more than a month, Luo Xin was well aware of all aspects of the artillery’s performance.

At this time, the soldiers lifted all the canvas covering the artillery, revealing the black metal gun body.

Then they adjusted the muzzle of the gun and pointed it at the barbarian return gun being assembled five hundred meters away.

Bei Shan thought that he could crush Cangzhou City with technology using the Huihui Cannon, but he didn’t know that Xiao Ming was preparing to crush him.

“Load gunpowder!” Luo Xin issued the second order.

“Cannonballs!” the third command was issued.

After everything was ready, Luo Xin looked at Xiao Ming. Just waiting for an order, the thirty cannons on the fort would open fire and shoot the shells at the barbarians.

“Aim at the five returning cannons.” Xiao Ming ordered.

The purpose of this first wave of attacks is naturally to destroy the Huihui cannon. Otherwise, when this thing is assembled, it will definitely cause a large number of casualties to the soldiers.

(End of chapter)