Steel Dynasty - Chapter 182

[Chapter 182 Retired?]

“Your Highness, Qingzhou City has sent ten more artillery pieces, and the people who came said that some grape bullets have also been sent back.”

An auxiliary soldier shouted to Xiao Ming on the city wall.

“Have the grape bombs finally arrived?” Xiao Ming suddenly felt the urge to cry.

Because grape bombs are troublesome to produce, although the Equipment Division has been producing them, the quantity is too small.

Although these grape bullets are also solid bullets, these solid bullets are very small. There are dozens or even hundreds of small solid bullets wrapped in one shell.

These grape bullets are fired from the artillery like a shotgun. The range will be reduced, but the killing area will be greatly enhanced.

Because of this, producing one grape bomb is as troublesome as producing dozens or hundreds of solid bullets, although the amount of materials used is basically the same.

Now that the grape bullets were delivered, they were an excellent weapon against the siege soldiers. However, when he looked outside the city, his expression suddenly changed.

He said urgently: “Set up all the artillery brought over to both sides of the city gate, quickly!”

Upon hearing this, the auxiliary soldiers immediately ran down the city wall.

At this time, Xiao Ming found Luo Xin in the crowd. He shouted: “Take ten groups of artillery and come down with me. Hurry, it’s too late.”

Luo Xin was red-eyed, but he calmed down and looked at the city. Outside, I immediately understood what Xiao Ming meant.

The two quickly descended the city wall.

At this time, there were more than two thousand emergency soldiers under the city. Xiao Ming shouted: “Put up a hollow phalanx at the gate of the city!”

Upon hearing this, the soldiers immediately changed their formation and turned into five hollow phalanxes crisscrossing the front and back. , in the square formation, there are two spearmen in front and three rows of crossbowmen in the back. They hold the last arrows in their hands.

At the same time, the artillerymen immediately moved the artillery to both sides of the hollow square array. The artillerymen stuffed the tied bags into the artillery one by one, which were as thick as the muzzle.

These bags contain solid bullets one by one, and together they are grape bullets.

Just now, both of them saw barbarian soldiers on the city wall carrying more than a dozen gunpowder barrels rushing towards the city gate.

Originally, the city gate was the deepest place in the entire trench, and the bottom of the city gate was like a cliff that was impossible to climb.

But after days of fighting, the ditch under the city gate was filled to the brim with corpses.

At this time, the barbarians outside the city were still filling the trench with corpses, which was basically completed. At this time, the barbarians carried out the gunpowder barrel, just to blow up the city gate.

Due to the barbarian’s urinary nature, after the city gate was broken, the cavalry charged below.

Because of this, Xiao Ming set up a simple hollow square formation behind the city gate to deal with the cavalry.

This hollow square formation is a square formation after the development of firearms, and is used specifically to deal with cavalry.

The hollow square formation is surrounded by shooting soldiers on all sides, and the front and rear formations protect each other, ensuring that fire can be fired in any direction, thereby avoiding being outflanked by the cavalry.

The cavalry filling the middle of the hollow square formation will face several shots.

At this time, Xiao Ming placed artillery on both sides, which made up for the lack of firepower of the hollow square array.

“Boom!”

A loud noise like thunder came flying together with the shattered wood chips from the city gate, and the entire city gate collapsed.

Through the city gate, Xiao Ming saw the barbarian cavalry rushing into the city with their scimitars in their hands.

The leading cavalry all have bloody wolf heads tattooed on their arms. They are the strongest cavalry under Beishan’s command.

Five hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters!

The rapidly charging cavalry arrived in the blink of an eye. Just as the cavalry rushed through the city gate and entered Cangzhou City, Xiao Ming shouted: “Fire

!

“

A cloud of blood mist appeared, and pieces fell down in pieces, all of them broken into pieces.

The cavalry behind were horrified to death when they saw this scene, but they could not stop and could only continue to rush forward.

Just three artillery fires at the same time, hundreds of cavalry were killed in an instant, and the remaining cavalry rushed towards the hollow phalanx.

At this time, the crossbowman immediately fired three shots, and the cavalry that rushed over fell halfway.

Those cavalrymen who were lucky enough to rush to the front of the formation saw the spears standing upright. Their horses neighed and their necks were pierced by the spears.

One wave of cavalry fell, and another wave of cavalry rushed in.

At this time, three more artillery pieces fired at the cavalry. The moment the grape bullets came out of the artillery, they turned into a rain of bullets and rushed towards the cavalry, and another ball of blood mist burst out.

The third wave of cavalry arrived, and four artillery pieces opened fire at the same time.

When another group of cavalry appeared, the first artillery had been loaded.

Corpses piled up layer after layer, and the corpses of barbarian soldiers and horses piled higher and higher at the city gate. The following cavalry could no longer rush in on horseback. They dismounted, climbed over the mountain of corpses, and continued to fill in.

At this time, the formation of the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army changed again. They formed a very tight rectangular battle formation. The tight armor and well-trained battle formation were like steel machines driving the barbarians to the city gate step by step.

Gradually, the corpses of the barbarians piled up at the city gate, almost blocking the city gate.

“The barbarians have retreated, the barbarians have retreated!”

Someone shouted on the city wall, and immediately a cheer of victory resounded throughout Cangzhou City.

“The barbarians have retreated! The barbarians have retreated!” Luo Xin was startled and shouted, but as he shouted, he suddenly started crying loudly.

This battle is too difficult to fight, and almost everyone is fighting this war at the cost of their lives.

Every soldier goes through days and nights without sleep.

As if he was still dreaming, Xiao Ming murmured: “The barbarians have retreated.”

Looking at the blood flowing at the city gate, he rushed up the city wall like crazy.

In his eyes, the barbarian army had withdrawn from under the city wall. The originally powerful barbarian army was now in disarray.

And at the gate of the city, thousands of horses without owners were wandering.

“Your Highness, the barbarians have retreated!” Niu Ben was covered in blood and his eyes were slightly red.

This time the barbarians really retreated, because these barbarian soldiers retreated in such a panic, and the barbarian cavalry in the barbarian camp also slowly retreated.

It’s another day.

The battle lasted from morning to night. Did the barbarians finally retreat?

“Don’t be careless, Bei Shan is full of tricks, and maybe there are more tricks.” Xiao Ming said.

Niu Ben said: “Your Highness, no, the barbarians have really withdrawn this time. I can guarantee that the barbarians have suffered huge losses this time. Even Bei Shan does not dare to continue taking risks.”

“Really? But be careful. For the sake of it, we still cannot let down our guard tonight.” Xiao Ming said.

Niu Ben nodded and said, “Yes, Your Highness!”

At this time, he and Xiao Ming went down the city wall. When they arrived at the city gate, they saw piles of corpses. Niu Ben took a breath of air. What happened here?

“Use the corpses.” Gambling the city gate.” Before he could ask, Xiao Ming gave another order.

Looking at King Qi in front of him, Niu Ben remained silent. A war had changed the prince a lot.

(End of chapter)