It was dark, the stars were scarce, and the sky was dim.

The two armies totaled more than 300 pieces of artillery, and the flames that continued to erupt broke through the night and illuminated the city and the city.

In the deafening sound of thunder and the flickering flames of the cannons, a thousand-strong phalanx of Amaterasu's army, like a black wave, let out a tsunami-like cry and rushed towards the hilltop fortress.

The first obstacle encountered by the 1,000 Amaterasu troops was the large number of craters blown up by the more than 900 explosives packets. The dense crater belt stretched between the fortress and the Amaterasu army, blocking the only passage that the Amaterasu army could attack the fortress.

Under the onslaught, the thousands of Amaterasu's troops quickly rushed to the crater belt, and the rugged terrain suddenly scattered the Amaterasu's army, and the Kuroshio, which originally gave people a strong sense of oppression, was quickly divided into pieces by the crater belt, like pieces of wriggling black spots.

Before the first group of 1,000 Amaterasu troops could fill the crater belt, the second and third Amaterasu troops rushed into the crater belt one after another. With a huge advantage in troops, the Amaterasu army forcibly filled the crater belt, and once again converged into a palpitating black frenzy.

The ground trembled, the tremor caused by the shelling, and the shock wave from the charge of Amaterasu's army.

At the top of the city, a line of Imperial soldiers sinked into water, their muskets clenched, staring at the black tide below that seemed to be able to break everything.

From time to time, shells fell into the black tide, smashing out a stump and splashing a wave of blood. But the blood wave was really like a small wave in the wave, only rolled up, and then it was filled by the black tide and disappeared completely.

"That's a lot...... "The fourth thousand-man charged...... The fifth thousand-man squad was also ready to charge...... Damn, is Amaterasu crazy? Our entire castle can't accommodate 5,000 people, right? ”

A low-ranking officer next to him scratched his scalp nonchalantly and said with a smile: "What a good person! There are so many people that we can kill happily! With so many people rushing up together, you can shoot anyone no matter how you shoot! ”

Indeed, the formation of the Amaterasu Army was too dense. People are crowded, people are crowded, shoulder to shoulder, and the wind is impermeable.

The terrain in front of the castle was only enough to accommodate a thousand people to charge, but the Amaterasu army forced 3,000 people to squeeze over, and two thousand teams followed closely, ready to relay at any time.

This style of play is simply to use this well-formed elite army as cannon fodder!

"Fire!"

When the Tianzhao Army rushed into the front of the city wall 200 meters, the low-ranking officers at the head of the wall drew their swords at the same time and ordered to open fire.

In the midst of the shouting, thirty small cannons lined up at the head of the city were fired one after another, firing a rain of shrapnel shells. Thousands of lead torrents rushed into the Amaterasu Army's formation, setting off a storm of flesh and blood, and beating more than a hundred Amaterasu Army into a sieve at one time.

However, the momentum of the Amaterasu Army did not slow down slightly. They trampled on the flesh of their comrades and roared as they continued to charge.

The Imperial gunners were quickly reloading their ammunition, and the soldiers of the 200 Marines raised their flintlock muskets at the same time and fired a volley of guns at Amaterasu.

The Amaterasu Army was so dense that there was no need to aim at all, and if you pulled the trigger casually on that Kuroshio, you would definitely be able to hit a target. After the two hundred marines opened fire, they did not look at their own results, handed the guns to their comrades behind them with their left hands, took the loaded muskets with their right hands, and pressed the trigger against the black frenzy.

In the hilltop fortress, a large number of weapons were stockpiled. The number of flintlock muskets is in the tens of thousands. Now the tens of thousands of muskets have been fully loaded and handed over to the 200 marines. Each Marine could shoot more than 50 guns in one breath without stopping, and the empty guns were handed to the back and passed to their comrades for loading.

The number of people responsible for loading ammunition is as high as more than 500 people. More than 500 people worked together to load the guns and ammunition very quickly, and on average, more than 1,500 muskets could be loaded in one minute!

Tens of thousands of muskets rotated rapidly between the shooters and the loaders, and the two hundred shooters knocked out the platoon guns with the feel of machine guns. Bursts of gunfire rang out almost continuously, the first row of gunfire and the back rows of gunfire, and if you don't listen carefully, you can't hear the pause at all!

Clumps of lead slammed into the Amaterasu formation like machine-gun fire. Even though the power of the tunnel-fired muskets was small, it was difficult to kill an enemy with a single shot, but under such a high-speed rotation of fire, the Amaterasu army still fell to the ground one by one.

Some of the Amaterasu soldiers who fell to the ground were shot several times and were killed alive by the incoming buckshots. Some of them were accidentally shot in the legs and feet and fell to the ground, but as long as they fell to the ground, they would never be able to get up again, and in an instant, they would be trampled alive by the tide of friendly troops.

In the continuous firing of machine guns, every ten seconds, a dull and furious platoon of guns sounded. Thirty small cannons fired a non-stop shot of shotguns, and with each shot, thousands of lead bolts entered the crowd, sweeping the Kuroshio out of a wave of blood.

The reloading speed of the small cannon is very fast, and the customized ammunition, coupled with the agile movements of the gunners who have the lowest strength of three or four levels, only takes ten seconds to complete the reloading and start a round.

Under the joint resistance of small artillery and platoon guns, starting from the outer wall of the fortress 200 meters away, the Amaterasu army had to pay a lot of price for every meter of advance. And this price, as they get closer and closer to the city wall, continues to grow.

When the Tianzhao army rushed to a distance of 100 meters from the outer wall, the black frenzy suddenly shrank in a circle, and at least 800 Tianzhao soldiers fell on the way to charge!

3,000 sergeants, 800 attribution, the battle loss rate has exceeded 20%, close to 30%!

The average army has almost collapsed when it hits this part. However, the Amaterasu Army was composed of pure elites, with a ratio of officers to soldiers reaching 1:10, and its ability to withstand casualties was much higher than that of ordinary armies. Nearly 30 percent of the casualties are far from breaking down.

What's more, even if they want to collapse, there is no way back.

After the first three thousand-man teams, three more thousand-man teams entered the battlefield one after another. The people who rushed in front couldn't stop if they wanted to, and even if they wanted to slow down a little, they would be pushed forward by the huge force coming from behind. If you want to force it to stop, you will be pushed down directly, and then trampled into a pulp by thousands of feet.

Therefore, the three Amaterasu thousand people, who had lost nearly 30% of their troops, not only did not collapse or retreat, but they did not even slow down the speed of their charge, and they still forgot about their lives and charged desperately.

However, although the Amaterasu army suffered heavy losses, when they rushed to a distance of 100 meters, their counterattack also began. The Amaterasu, who rushed to within 100 meters of the outer wall of the fortress, suddenly raised his hand and threw a short javelin three feet long as he ran wildly.

Hundreds of javelins rose from the Anameasu army. Hundreds of sharp triangular steel spear heads flashed a blood-like red light under the continuous muzzle flames.

Woohoo! In the terrible sound of breaking the air, hundreds of javelins flew over a distance of 100 meters and flew above the city in just a moment. Dozens of gunners were nailed to the ground by javelins, and more than 30 of the 200 marines who fired their guns also died!

Under the javelin attack of the Amaterasu army, the firepower at the head of the castle immediately thinned.

Although the gunners were still firing their guns, the sacrifice of dozens of gunners made nearly twenty of the thirty small cannons dumb down. Without a lead storm with a small cannon, the pressure on the Amaterasu Army has plummeted, the momentum is faster, and the losses are much smaller!

And in the Amaterasu army, there are still clusters of javelins. Pieces of glittering blood-red steel spear heads, like life-threatening blood-colored meteors, shot towards the city like a torrential rain!

Fortunately, after the first round of javelin throwing, the Imperial defenders were on guard and were no longer as caught off guard as before. A large number of brawlers armed with shields, swords and axes roamed the city walls, nimbly flying javelins with poles. Even if an occasional fish slips through the net and falls on the city wall, it will not be able to cause too much damage to the Imperial Army.

At the head of the city, Imperial gunners reload their shells as fast as they can and fire shotguns. The gunners kept firing their guns, and the brawlers raced from javelins to cover their comrades.

Under the city walls, the black-armored Amaterasu army spread towards the fortress like a black tide, throwing javelins, throwing knives, iron bones, meteor hammers and other long-range weapons.

Both sides are dying every minute, and the city is full of blood and flesh and bones. The city also saw the fall of the Imperial defenders one after another.

And despite the heroic fighting of the Imperial defenders, and even playing at a super level, the Amaterasu army still quickly rushed to the bottom of the city wall under the huge superiority in strength! Immediately after that, one by one, Amaterasu, Amaterasu-level officers of the red bronze and silver rank rose to the sky, jumping straight to the top of the ten-meter-high city.

This first wave of Amaterasu officers, all of whom were of the bronze rank, had almost just jumped to the top of the city, and before they could stand firm, they were beaten down by the Imperial defenders. Some were violently knocked down by a few fighting soldiers, some were beaten in the face by a dozen muskets and died, some were stabbed by several iron guns, and some were carried and jumped by the imperial soldiers.

There was a bronze-level Amaterasu officer, and even a bronze-level imperial gunner, holding a small cannon in his chest, and his entire chest was completely emptied by a shotgun.

The bronze-level Amaterasu officers suffered casualties, and several silver-level Amaterasu officers successfully gained a foothold in the castle.

They shouted and fought wildly, their long knives fluttering, their swords shining like lightning, and they could cut down an Imperial soldier in three or two strokes.

There was an officer of Amaterasu in the silver pole section, and he killed one step at a time, and after taking five steps at the head of the city, he killed five imperial soldiers, cleared a small piece of empty space, and firmly occupied it, in an attempt to lay a foothold for the subsequent reinforcements.

But this officer of the Silver Pole Section, who had superb sword skills and killed people neatly, still died quickly. The cause of death was a heavy arrow that pierced his left eye and pierced the cranial cavity. The heavy arrow was fired by an iron folding bow, and the iron folding bow was in Li Qing's hand.

Li Qing and others have joined the war!

Ni Yuanyuan and Scarlett rushed to the top of the city and teamed up to chop a silver-level Amaterasu officer to pieces. Chu Lingfeng, who had not yet recovered his peak state, rushed to the head of the city and beheaded the head of a silver-level Amaterasu officer in three or two strokes. The little dragon girl slaughtered the head of the city with a halberd, and under the sweep of the thunder and green dragon halberd, she swept away three silver-level Amaterasu officers in a row!

Li Qing, whose negative state of all attributes had not yet ended, stood on the second inner city wall, which was ten meters away from the outer wall and three meters higher than the outer wall, and condescendingly shot the second arrow, which pierced the eyes of a silver Amaterasu officer.