Steel Dynasty - Chapter 637

[Chapter 636 Fire and Sword]

PS: There will be another chapter soon

, “Boom, boom, boom…”

Hundreds of field artillery began to bombard the coalition artillery that was constantly approaching the Yunzhou army.

As the coalition musketeers continued to approach the Yunzhou army, the coalition artillery hidden in the army also took the opportunity to move forward, but all this could not be concealed from the flaggers observing from a height of hundreds of meters.

The location of the enemy’s artillery was constantly informed to Luo Xin by the semaphore operator, and Luo Xin then directed the artillery to bombard in the direction pointed by the semaphore operator.

After a round of volleys, the coalition soldiers covering the artillery fell. The coalition artillery was completely exposed to Luo Xin’s eyes. Then more violent artillery fire bombarded the direction of the coalition artillery, and screams suddenly rang out.

The tragic situation of the artillery soon reached the ears of Cui Huai and the second prince. When they heard the words, their expressions changed. At this time, they looked at the strange thing rising from Yunzhou City, and a strange color flashed in their eyes.

“Is this the rumored hot air balloon?” Cui Huai asked.

The second prince nodded, “Yes, I saw it once when I was in Chang’an. It is said that the Qingzhou Army also used this hot air balloon to detect the situation in the barbarian army during the Battle of Jizhou.”

“Hmph, if I remember correctly “

There is a hot air balloon in Chang’an City.”

“There is one. This was given to the father by Xiao Ming. It should be in the hands of King Zhao now.” The second prince was dissatisfied, so King Zhao sent it this time. Forty thousand cavalry is enough, but I am reluctant to send this hot air balloon.

Otherwise, why would they be so passive now?

Zhao Ang looked at his ears and nose, looking at his heart, as if he didn’t know anything. Now those who lost were the men of King Yan and King Liang, and he seemed to still have some joy in his heart.

Cui Huai and the second prince were naturally distressed. The strange-looking artillery on the raised high ground not far away kept firing round after round of shells. Now their artillery was unable to fight back at all.

But at this time, they gradually came to their senses. The range of their artillery seemed not to be as good as that of the Qi army’s artillery.

However, the suppressed artillery did not make them give up their intention to attack. On the contrary, they ordered the army to continue advancing. After all, their soldiers were more than twice as many as the Qi army.

Now the Qi army does not defend the city but fights them in the wild. This gives them the opportunity to annihilate them in one fell swoop.

The death of thousands of artillerymen in the 350,000-strong army will not affect this war at all.

“Rumble, rumble…” The sound of the war drums became more and more urgent. The musketeers in the coalition army were still 250 meters away from the Yunzhou army.

At this time, Lu Fei, who was in charge of the Chinese army, ordered the soldiers to raise their muskets. This time, the Chinese army was allocated 6,000 rifled muskets, and used rifled muskets to fight against the allied musketeers.

Although he could order fire at about 400 meters, Lu Fei understood that the closer the distance, the better the advantage of intensive firepower, so he finally decided to order fire at a position of 250 meters. After all, the accuracy of the 400-meter position was too poor. .

“Fire!” Just as the coalition musketeers were slowly approaching the Yunzhou army, Lu Fei finally gave the order.

“Bang, bang, bang…”

White smoke rose up along with the flames, and the densely marching coalition musketeers 200 meters away suddenly fell to the ground.

A coalition soldier only felt something warm on his face, and then his companion fell down. Looking at the Yunzhou City army holding muskets directly in front of him, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

But he didn’t dare to stop, because behind them were supervisors holding machetes. As long as they took half a step back, they would be killed on the spot, and their relatives in their hometown would also be killed together. After arriving in Bingzhou, they Got such a military order.

“Bang, bang, bang…”

Another round of volleys, and another batch of soldiers beside the coalition soldiers fell, and the number of musketeers became smaller and smaller.

Then came the third and fourth rounds. Every time fire and white smoke appeared on the opposite side, they would fall down a group of people. Finally, after the fifth round of volleys, some musketeers finally couldn’t bear the fear and tried to escape.

However, they were killed by the supervisors before they ran very far. The screams stopped more soldiers who were trying to escape, and they headed towards Yunzhou City step by step.

One hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters, seventy meters, when they reached the shooting range of the matchlock, they raised the matchlock.

On the artillery position, Niu Ben looked at the musketeers of the coalition forces. At this time, his brows were furrowed and his expression was solemn. He noticed the presence of the supervisors in the coalition forces.

In the past, these musketeers would have collapsed after losing 10%, but now the musketeers coming from the front had lost 40% and still did not retreat. Instead, they braved artillery and musket fire to a firing range of seventy meters.

“It seems this is a tough battle.” Niu Ben said in a deep voice.

Luo Xin also looked a little surprised. This time King Yan and King Liang seemed to have made great determination, otherwise they would not have adopted such cruel methods to force the soldiers to fight to the death.

“Change the grape bullets, let the mortars use lime bullets and blooming bullets, and the field artillery fires at the supervisors!” Niu Benn ordered in order to minimize casualties.

“Yes.”

Luo Xin immediately ordered the semaphore player to play the semaphore. At this time, the artillery began to replace grape bullets. When the range of artillery was farther than that of flintlock guns, artillery was the main force of the war.

“Boom, boom, boom…” Field artillery using grape bullets began to bombard the coalition musketeers.

When a grape bullet was fired, it immediately turned into a hail of hundreds of projectiles. The musketeers who were about to shoot screamed and fell one by one. The ground was filled with the wails of injured soldiers.

The expression on Lu Fei’s face showed no mercy. They had no enmity with these soldiers, but they were enemies on the battlefield. If they didn’t kill them, they would be killed themselves.

Seventy meters is also the effective range of the flintlock. After withstanding a wave of shooting from allied musketeers, he ordered the rifled flintlock and smoothbore flintlock to fire at the same time.

Under the fierce artillery fire and shooting, the coalition musketeers continued to fall. Finally, after losing 70% of their losses, the coalition musketeers could no longer withstand the collective retreat.

“Death to those who retreat!” the supervisors roared, and the machetes in their hands fell on every fleeing soldier.

But at this time, the threat of death could no longer prevent the soldiers from escaping.

Luo Xin used binoculars to watch the group of supervisors, and he ordered artillery to violently bombard these supervisors who prevented the soldiers from retreating.

Gradually, the supervisors found that their number was getting smaller and smaller, and they gradually lost their control over the troops in front. More and more soldiers collapsed under the fierce artillery fire of the Yunzhou Army.

Seeing this, Niu Ben breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time he sighed in his heart. If King Yan, King Liang and King Zhao could come up with this method to deal with the barbarians, how could the barbarians bully the Chongqing Kingdom.

So at this time, he became more and more resentful towards King Yan, King Liang and King Zhao. In his opinion, they were just a group of cruel tyrants.

(End of chapter)