Chapter 179: Gunpowder
Five garrison soldiers appeared in front of the street with nearly fifteen peasant soldiers at this time, and several peasant soldiers behind them held a loudspeaker and kept yelling, many originally dazed peasant soldiers chose to join these garrison squads after getting the news, basically at this time in the city, each garrison squad can bring fourteen or fifteen peasant soldiers, and almost the vast majority of the northern peasant soldiers have been surrendered at this scale.
After sending the vast majority of his troops to continue the march towards the inner city, Lelouch sent a small number of troops to begin to maintain stability in the city, fighting is not only to physically destroy the enemy, but also to accept the enemy's strength is also an important factor, Lelouch does not want to wait until daylight to meet the residents of Northridge City with the remains of their families and their burned houses.
When the fat merchant heard the sound of the street, he finally felt some hope, not that he thought that the soldiers of a place he had never seen before would be so merciful and noble, but simply because the army punished deserters more strictly, and these twenty or so peasant soldiers would surely return to the army soon.
And the situation is as expected by the fat merchant, the more than twenty peasant soldiers outside the city seem to have discussed, reluctantly walked towards the outside of the house, compared with the daughter of the fat merchant's family, a chance to turn around and save his life seems to be more precious, hearing the peasant soldiers leaving outside the door, the fat merchant finally breathed a sigh of relief, he found that his whole body was soaking wet at this time.
However, what happened next made the fat businessman refresh his consistent view of the upper echelons.
"My lord, let's surrender!"
More than 20 peasant soldiers walked out of the shops, and kept shouting, the five garrison soldiers who took the lead saw more than 20 people coming at one time, and were instantly overjoyed, and were about to accept them, but a soldier suddenly remembered something, and suddenly asked:
"How did you get out of the dwellings? What did you all do just now? ”
The garrison soldiers' questions made the more than twenty peasant soldiers stunned for a moment, and then suddenly reacted, ran over and said:
"Adults are embarrassed, the little ones have forgotten that the adults haven't eaten yet, come on, come on, here is also some filial piety for the little people!"
The twenty peasant soldiers did not notice that when they took out the food they had looted from their packages, the faces of the garrison soldiers changed, and even the faces of the more than a dozen peasant soldiers behind them also changed, and at the same time they felt a little pity for these people.
The garrison soldiers seemed to take a moment to accept this fact, and then suddenly shouted:
"According to the holy name of His Majesty the Son of God: Whoever takes advantage of the fire to rob in the middle of the war will all be punished on the spot!"
The words of the garrison soldiers made these twenty peasant soldiers not react, they didn't seem to understand what it meant, but the garrison soldiers didn't wait, they lifted their shields, pointed their halberds forward, and formed a steel city wall in an instant, and more than a dozen peasant soldiers behind them reacted, and they also picked up various weapons in their hands, hid behind the shields and marched forward, and several spear throwers even shot the spears in their hands directly.
The screams sounded, the two peasant soldiers at the front wailed in pain to the end, and the remaining peasant soldiers seemed to react at this time, they suddenly remembered something, but they didn't know if it was because they were scared stupid, or because they opened a certain forbidden door, they actually howled and rushed towards the garrison, and the peasant soldiers on the opposite side were slightly superior in numbers, but they were far from being in combat effectiveness.
The nameless and heavily armed garrison soldiers raised their shields slightly, and after blocking the enemy's chopping weapons, the sharp and heavy halberds in their hands stabbed out directly, and directly brought out a blood flower in the human body, and the five peasant soldiers in front of them fell to the ground directly wailing, and then looked at the situation in front of them in disbelief, and in an instant, the gap between the enemy and us was replaced, and the peasants who were frightened by this injury took a step back almost uncontrollably, but at this time the garrison soldiers would not give them a chance, I saw that the soldiers of the garrison who had been in a formation with slightly bowed bodies suddenly stood up, roared and rushed forward with their shields on their heads!
Five people, but gave the opposite side more than a dozen peasant soldiers invincible feeling, the peasant soldiers screamed in fear and then began to retreat, they kept running backwards, simply their equipment was extremely easy, and they were well fed, at this time they ran with all their strength, and actually threw the garrison behind.
This situation happened everywhere in the entire Northridge City, but after the security of the garrison, the overall environment was still controlled, and this continuous rectification activity also greatly changed the impression of the White City Army in the name of Northridge City, but the security of the outer city did not attract too much attention from Lu Luxiu, and at this time his attention was on a big iron ball in front of him.
Although Lelouch accelerated the speed of his march, he was still locked outside the inner city gate by the nobles of the north, and there were no less than 70,000 peasant soldiers in the north who were connected together.
How did the agrarian civilization completely defeat its old enemy, the nomadic civilization? Is it dependent on the economy? Or the population? Or, it was the innovation of military science and technology, when the strong smell of gunpowder began to become the main theme of the entire battlefield, the era of knights began to come to an end, Lelouch of course knew that if mankind wanted to rise and completely strengthen the hegemony of Middle-earth, it needed not only a small scale of industrialization or a developed economy, but an all-round leadership in science and technology.
And what could be more representative of the cross-era sign than gunpowder? Lelouch needs gunpowder, the heaven-sent land needs gunpowder, and the whole human race needs gunpowder!
When the spears begin to spray pungent sulfur and white smoke begins to envelop the battlefield, the steel cannon will blast open the gates of the new century, and all this will start with the big iron ball in front of Lelouch's eyes.
The inside of this big iron ball was filled with the granular black powder that Lelouch had worked hard to develop, and the granulated black powder was the most lethal existence, and the void formed by the granularization was filled with air, and these air gunpowder exerted a more intense and sufficient combustion when burning, thus bringing more powerful explosive power.
This kind of technology is actually not difficult, not that gunpowder is not difficult, but granularization is not difficult, how gunpowder is equipped, Lelouch is not clear, Lelouch is not those who can do anything on the earth, and they will know all about the pig's feet after crossing, so Lelouch put forward the general idea, and it took five years for blacksmith engineers to study it.
At least a large force with more than 700,000 people, after spending five years and investing almost endless materials and manpower, still raised the registration of gunpowder to a level as soon as it came out, right?! Coupled with the optimization of granulation, the first experimental granular black powder has been manufactured into a weapon.
It's just that thinking about the pitiful low production capacity and the serious lag in musket research, Lelouch is still a little helpless, and it seems that there will be a long way to go in the gunpowder era.
"My lord, we are ready, an area has been cleared at the city gate!"
Frank wore handsome and heroic armor to tell Lelouch, but Lelouch patted the big iron ball filled with gunpowder with nostalgia, and then waved his hand:
"Go ahead and try our new weapon!"
After sending away the bomb, Lelouch hurriedly walked to a tall building not far from the inner city wall, and he looked at the city wall in the distance:
At this time, the battlefield was brightly lit inside and outside the inner city wall, above were countless peasants and soldiers who were coerced by nobles and knights, and below were the garrisons commanding the siege of the Cheng peasants.
In fact, this situation did not happen in ancient times, but this was used to protect the simple siege cone without too many protection measures, so the defenders on the city wall wanted to destroy this passage, but they couldn't destroy it for a while, so they didn't find the siege cone they had been looking for, and at the same time there was a huge iron ball carried by two barbarian soldiers.
In the passage of dodge, the barbarian soldiers successfully placed the bomb in the city gate, and then ran to the back with a long fuse, and the moment he was ignited, a rapid war drum sounded, and the ordered army began to retreat, and they ran towards the back, while the defenders on the city wall who did not know the truth saw the garrison retreat, and began to cheer.
They yelled excitedly, cheered oblievably, and then: boom!
What is Explosion?
Detonation refers to the explosion of explosives through a certain external excitation impulse, detonation is the explosion phenomenon when the propagation speed of the chemical reaction zone in the explosive is greater than the speed of sound in the explosive, and it is a typical form of energy release of explosives. The explosion actually had two phases. Much of the damage is caused by the initial expansion. It also creates an area of very low pressure around the source of the explosion where the gas moves rapidly outward, drawing most of the gas out of the "center" of the explosion. After the outward impact, the gas rushes back to the center of the partial vacuum, forming a second, less destructive inward energy wave. Because the chemical reaction speed is very fast when the explosive is exploded, a high-temperature and high-pressure gas is formed in an instant.
Well, this may be a bit arrogant, but we probably don't need to study why he is like this, we just need to appreciate the magnificent performance.
In slow motion, the iron ball was stretched apart by the explosion of fear, but the first thing to disperse was the dense air distributed around, and an almost transparent air wave spread out in all directions, forming a terrifying shock wave.
The shock wave quickly dispersed, but it was resisted by the city wall, the wolf could only blow up the city wall, and then blow everyone's hair to stand on end, but this was only a momentary thing, the shock wave failed to break the city wall, but the subsequent terrorist explosion did this.
The gate was as if it had been struck by a giant fist from the ground, and then it bulged rapidly, festered, and finally turned into flying bricks in the sky, and they were completely shocked when the scene appeared in full in front of everyone's eyes.
First there was a sound louder than thunder, then the walls were shattered in the blink of an eye, and the countless flying parts bombarded the area like a dense trebuchet, and a small mushroom cloud appeared in the place that had once been called the city gate, and after he dissipated, it was replaced by an empty land.
The city gates, gone!
Lelouch was also dumbfounded and looked at this scene, although he was a modern person living in the age of gunpowder hot weapons, but where did he have the opportunity to see this shocking scene so closely, the huge explosion aroused the strongest blood in Lelouch's heart, but unlike Lelouch, everyone else attributed this terrifying scene to Lelouch's terrifying divine might,
"The Son of God is angry, the Son of God is angry!"
The northern peasant soldiers who had endured this terrible blow could no longer resist the fear in their hearts, and they finally wept bitterly and prostrate on the ground, no longer daring to move the slightest, even those knights and nobles looked at the scene in front of them blankly, they were indeed afraid, afraid of continuing the battle with Lelouch.
Tonight's battle seems to have completely explained the horror of Lelouch, and the people under him no longer have the slightest determination to resist.
With this explosion, the north was restored, but Lelouch knew that this explosion not only recovered the north, but also brought the whole of Middle-earth into a new century.
An era of technology!
The post-war clearance was cumbersome, the logistics officers were busy cleaning up the whole environment, and Lelouch was busy dealing with the nobles who surrendered, for these nobles, Lelouch had already made arrangements for them in his heart, this arrangement was actually very simple, and it didn't need to think too much, because in any era, any civilization, in any system, for these losers who took the lead in rebellion, they had only one way to go, and that was death.
These nobles looked at Lelouch with bloodless faces at this time, they all knew very well what they were going to face next, especially when they looked up and saw the little nobles who chose to surrender to Lelouxiu, those who they had not looked at at most around Lelouxiu, they finally felt deep remorse at this moment.
Lelouch looked at them silently, and could not say any more words in his heart, but waved his hand and gestured to Frank.
The nobles began to weep bitterly, at this time they no longer had any strength and glory, they only wanted to leave a small life of their own, but now still with how they shouted, it was to no avail, Lelouch could not keep them, because no ruler had washed away an influence on others:
"If you resist me, you can still live!"
PS: It's branched out from the beginning of this chapter.,Originally, I made a vote.,Whether to go black technology or go magic.,As a result, there are very few people who vote.,So it's written according to the gunpowder technology that won in the end!
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