Steel Dynasty - Chapter 259

[Chapter 259 The arrival of the army]

the soldiers at Cangzhou Camp saw Xiao Ming arriving, they trained harder and harder one by one.

Looking at these simple soldiers, Xiao Ming said to Lu Fei: “I’m afraid you are about to enter the grassland again.”

“The barbarian army has been dispatched?” Lu Fei couldn’t help but ask at this time.

Xiao Ming nodded, “Yes, the scouts came to report that the Blood Wolf Tribe has assembled an army and is heading towards Cangzhou City with the purpose of destroying the new city wall. This time the barbarian army is so vast that the rear must be empty. It is the people who are attacking. It’s a good time.”

“Hey, the general is just waiting to go to the grassland to retrieve some horses. Your Highness, I will gather the troops and set off now. I will also bring these new soldiers with me this time. The best training is actual combat. This time After a trip, our cavalry is much more familiar than before,” Lu Fei said.

“Can they?” Xiao Ming looked worriedly at these recruits who had only been training for a month.

“Your Highness, we are basically conducting night raids. We will not fight the barbarians on horseback. It is enough for these new recruits to be able to ride horses,” Lu Fei said.

One month is enough time for these soldiers to learn to ride a horse. After all, it is relatively easy to simply ride a horse. The real difficulty is to be able to perform various actions on horseback.

In this regard, the soldiers of Dayu are not as good as the barbarians.

Because of this, the cavalry of the Great Chongqing Kingdom always suffered a disadvantage when fighting the barbarian cavalry, because the barbarians had the ability to escape while turning around and shooting arrows. They were very flexible on the horse and would not fall off the horse even with violent movements. Come down, as if glued to the horse.

But the cavalry of Dayu were not good enough, and they often fell off their horses.

However, what Lu Fei said this time is not unreasonable. Only in actual combat can soldiers be trained the fastest. Only at the critical moment of life and death can people unleash their greatest potential.

Considering that this attack on the grassland was not a frontal battle, and these new soldiers were led by veteran Youzi, he nodded.

After all, in this era, sometimes a strong man can be used as a soldier, and training is far from perfect.

After talking to Lu Fei about the matter, Xiao Ming went to find Niu Ben again. This time Xiao Ming decided to let Niu Ben stay in Cangzhou City to take charge. After all, the defenders of Cangzhou City needed him to command.

During this period, the Qingzhou Army also marched from Qingzhou to Cangzhou. The number of troops in Cangzhou City even exceeded the scale of the last battle of Cangzhou.

After all, war is no small matter and there can be no negligence. Xiao Ming must be prepared.

“Since the general will not lead the troops out, two cavalry are also needed to go out to the grassland this time, so who will lead the other cavalry?” Niu Ben asked.

Lu Fei said loudly at this time: “The general recommends Lei Ming. This guy is from Youzhou and is very familiar with Youzhou. This time, the general can rely on his guidance to avoid being hunted by the barbarians in time.”

Niu Ben nodded. , although Lu Fei is a thorn in the side, he has always been an upright man and will not be nepotistic. In this way, this Lei Ming must be outstanding.

There are too few cavalry generals now. There are a few excellent generals in his team this time, but these generals are veterans and not from Youzhou. This Xiao Ming’s purpose of training Guan Ning’s cavalry this time is inconsistent with his purpose.

He then said: “Your Highness intends to train Guan Ning’s cavalry. This cavalry will promote many generals from Youzhou. In this case, let Lei Ming go.”

Xiao Ming nodded. He had also come into contact with this Lei Ming, and there were several With great intelligence and energy, Youzhou will continue to harass the barbarians in the future, which requires someone to be permanently stationed in Cangzhou.

Niu Ben and Lu Fei will eventually have to take charge of the overall situation in Qingzhou, and they can only leave this place to Guan Ning’s cavalry.

Moreover, Xiao Ming has his own development strategy for Guan Ning’s cavalry.

It’s very simple, let Guan Ning’s cavalry grow independently.

In the future, he will let the Guan Ning cavalry go to the grasslands to burn, kill and loot. If he wants to expand the scale of the Guan Ning cavalry, he will have to let them go to the grasslands to rob horses and come back to train new recruits.

This will be a very wild cavalry, but in order to prevent it from getting out of control, Xiao Ming will still send Chang Shi into the Guanning cavalry. The behavior of this army can be wild, but the thoughts cannot be wild. The army must be under his control no matter what. in hands.

He didn’t want this Guan Ning cavalry to eventually turn into the Guan Ning cavalry from the Ming Dynasty.

After assigning the generals who went to the grassland this time, Niu Ben asked Lu Fei and Lei Ming to go back and rectify the soldiers in preparation for departure.

Niu Ben, Xiao Ming, and Zhan Xingchang climbed onto the tower to arrange the next defense.

The purpose of the barbarians this time was not to attack the city, but to destroy the city wall. Xiao Ming believed that Bei Shan definitely did not want to waste too much of his power in Cangzhou City at this time.

Therefore, after the three people discussed it, they decided to bombard the barbarian army indiscriminately, regardless of the consumption of ammunition.

After all, Cangzhou City has already stored a lot of gunpowder during this period, so there is no need to worry about the ammunition being used up quickly like last time.

That night, Niu Ben and Lei Ming took advantage of the darkness of night to enter the grassland from the cave with their cavalry. According to the news from the scouts, the barbarian army would arrive at Cangzhou City tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Xiao Ming and others got up early. All the craftsmen who built the city wall had withdrawn into the city, the Qingzhou Army entered the trenches, and the Cangzhou Army’s trebuchets were also ready.

A war is about to break out.

“Your Highness, here we come.” At noon, Niu Ben pointed to the distance and said.

Through the telescope, Xiao Ming saw the barbarian army pressing over like dark clouds. At a glance, the entire sky was filled with darkness, and the slave soldiers were walking at the front.

These slave soldiers were dressed in shabby clothes and carried a variety of weapons.

After the barbarian army appeared, the atmosphere on the battlefield became unprecedentedly stagnant. Every soldier tensed his nerves, waiting for the barbarian army to blow the horn of attack.

“Woooo…” A low horn sounded on the grassland.

The barbarians drove the slave soldiers to attack the trench circle outside Cangzhou City five hundred meters away.

On the city wall, Luo Xin stood in the middle with a red flag in his hand and frequently issued semaphores. The artillerymen loaded and aimed according to the semaphores.

“Fire!”

Xiao Ming gave the order, and a hundred cannons on the city wall roared in unison, and the shells were fired at the attacking slave soldiers.

“Ah…” A series of screams sounded.

The cannonballs brought up a trail of blood mist among the crowd. Although the slave soldiers dispersed as much as possible, the ricocheting of a hundred cannonballs on the ground still killed and injured a large number of slave soldiers.

Although these slave soldiers knew about Cangzhou City’s artillery, many of them saw it for the first time. Before many soldiers could react, they saw a group of people falling around them, all looking miserable.

And when they looked forward, they saw the soldiers rushing to the trench were suddenly blown up by a burst of explosions, their limbs were broken, and blood rained all over the sky.

Immediately afterwards, all they could see was the scene of flying limbs, and the only thing they could hear was the sound of thunderous explosions.

(End of chapter)