Chapter 244: The Bloody Battle at Jiayuguan (3)

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When it comes to predation, golden eagles can often reach astonishing speeds. And these golden eagles, since they were born, have been nourished by the aura in the small world, and they take precious pills every month to improve their physique and strengthen their foundations. By all accounts, these golden eagles are far superior to those in the wild. Swooping down at the speed of predation, a speed that even the so-called innate masters could not match. Draw a bow and arrows, shoot. One arrow after another, as bright as a meteor, shot at the densest place of the Rakshasa musket with a long flame tail.

Boom, boom, boom. Whether the True Qi attached to the arrow hit the person's body or something else, it erupted into a violent shock wave in an instant. Although the impact of the arrow was not as powerful as the exquisite artillery, the shock wave that erupted from the true qi could shock people within a radius of several zhang to either die or be injured. Leaving a trail of craters in the ground.

This is the special attack technique of the Golden Eagle Soldier, after injecting true qi with hard black iron arrows, it forms the lethal ability of the explosive surname. Nearly a thousand golden eagles flew like a group of fighter jets roaring by, leaving behind a devastation. In an instant, the Golden Eagle Flying Horse split into two more strands and flew towards the mountains on both sides, and wherever it passed, arrows continued to rain downward, blasting the Rakshasa muskets that had been beaten to pieces.

Almost at the same time, thousands of exquisite cannons began the second round of power. Thousands of shells rained down on the Rakshasa musket position like a meteorite. The iron ball, which has strong kinetic energy, keeps bouncing on the ground and flying forward. Everywhere I passed, there was a flood of sorrow. Those shield carts are equally vulnerable, and as long as they are hit, they will be torn apart.

After two rounds of artillery firing, the Rakshasa musket finally came to its senses. The commander immediately ordered a retreat, and the captains at all levels also screamed for retreat. Just shot at Zhao Guolong's spearmen, relying on the strength of the crowd, the Rakshasa musket that gradually played a refreshing rhythm was like being cut off when it was about to be high. There was only a cold feeling in his heart, and he began to retreat backwards.

The dragon spearman who was bullied by the other party just now and fought very depressed, where would he let go of this opportunity. Immediately set aside the infantry shield wall and sniped the fleeing Rakshasa muskets with the fastest rate of fire. The golden eagle flying in the sky also happily poured arrows into those Rakshasa muskets. Although many Rakshasa muskets also wanted to fight back, but under the dense rain of arrows and guns, there were not many who dared to raise their heads and aim and shoot. What's more, the Rakshasa musket uses directional gunpowder, which is extremely slow to reload, and under great fear, where can you settle down to reload gunpowder? Besides, Da Zhao's artillery muskets won't give them a chance either.

Although the Delicate Gun cannot be reloaded with magazines, it is also a finished ammunition that is used and reloads extremely quickly. If you don't take into account cooldowns and the like, you can do it again in a maximum of ten seconds. Volley, continue to fire salvo. Ten dragon artillerymen, who were well experienced and trained only in artillery attacks, were undoubtedly a waste of luxury. But at this time, it can raise the rate of fire of the exquisite cannon to the extreme.

The reason why the dragon spear guards ignored the huge casualties and lured the enemy deeper. It's for this moment. As early as the beginning, the enemy army had actually entered the range of the Linglong cannon. But at that time, the artillery bombardment could only kill some infantry. Even later, when the Rakshasa musket was put into battle, the Linglong artillery did not move. Until the Dragon Lance Army, with blood and desperation, attracted more and more Rakshasa muskets to join the battle, and drew them closer and closer, and finally the 100,000 Rakshasa muskets actually played behind the six-stage shooting barrage. The exquisite cannon is just starting to really exert its power. All in order to annihilate those Rakshasa musket armies.

The exquisite cannon fired volleys again and again, bombarding the fleeing Rakshasa musketeers. The dragon spearmen also took their accurate archery skills to the extreme. The sacrifice and injury of a large number of brothers in the past have long accumulated endless anger for them who have been together day and night, and they need to pour this anger out on the enemy. The high-altitude bomber Golden Eagle Flying Horse, one of the most expensive armies of Da Zhao, was the most active, and after shooting twelve dark iron arrows, he began to use stainless steel arrows to play precision sniping. Today is a nightmare for the Rakshasa musketeers. First, they encountered the musketeers who were far superior to them in marksmanship, weaponry, and cunning, and were beaten extremely painfully, but when they turned around, they were continuously bombarded by thousands of artillery, and there were even more perverted air knights in the sky. Some people have also tried to shoot those people with muskets, occasionally hitting a shot, only to suddenly see that the other person has a transparent shield on his body, blocking the lead bullet.

Poor Rakshasa musketeers, now they only hate their father and mother for having two legs, and they also hate why they rushed so far inside. When will it be possible to run out of the range of the opponent's artillery. His grandmother's, this place is not close to the other party's city wall, right? How can the range of their artillery be so exaggerated? The more people run away, the more chaotic they become. Especially when this is on the battlefield, there is too much mess. Allies, the corpses of friendly soldiers, swords and shields of dead infantrymen, carts for filling earth and stones, or a lot of mess. In short, it's not as fast as running on flat ground. The distance of 100 meters often takes tens of seconds. And they went deep into the enemy position, as if they were already two hundred meters.

Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw. The artillery continued to roar, the dragomen continued to pursue and snipe, and the Golden Eagle Flying Horsemen in the sky continued to wreak havoc. A large number of Rakshasa muskets are constantly being taken out. The distance of only two hundred meters is simply a Shura purgatory. Less than a third of the Rakshasa muskets were withdrawn to the starting point. But Da Zhao's exquisite cannon, which seemed to show no signs of stopping, continued to fire a salvo at the Rakshasa musket.

The Rakshasa soldiers, who had not yet had time to breathe a sigh of relief, continued to retreat backwards exhausted. In order to clear a road, those infantrymen who ran slowly and the like, they came up with a shot. ran all the way, straight and ran more than 200 meters, and the opponent's artillery could be regarded as stopping. In fact, even at this distance, the Linglong cannon could barely reach it. But after such a long period of continuous bombardment, the barrel of the Linglong cannon has been hot and overwhelmed. If you insist on attacking, you can indeed bombard a few times, but the danger of exploding is high.

The Golden Eagle Flying Horse, who had been chasing with his tail, also shot all the arrows and roared back to Jiayu Pass. As for the pursuing dragon spear army, when they saw that the other side was vaguely coming up, they hurriedly retreated and returned to safety.

In this battle, it is undoubtedly that Da Zhao took a big advantage. The other side only filled the barrier of only two hundred meters, but it killed and wounded countless ordinary infantrymen, as well as many more musketeers. In the war zone, which was more than seven or eight miles wide and hundreds of meters wide, it was almost ploughed by the exquisite artillery. Piled with countless incomplete corpses, of course, the few injured survivors, were lying on the ground wailing and crying.

Zhao Zhe and Yang Dingshan stood on the city tower and watched this extremely tragic battle from beginning to end. The sacrificed dragon spearmen, as well as the golden eagle flying horses that were occasionally shot down in the sky, all made Zhao Zhe's heart ache. But he also understands that this is war. In war, how can there be an immortal, even if it is as strong as a grandmaster, or even congenital, there is a possibility of falling. The Grandmaster who died on his own side, as well as the innate nature of the other party, proved this.

According to the subsequent post-war statistics, the Dragon Lancers lost 3,635 dead and 5,600 seriously wounded, and tens of thousands were slightly wounded. The golden eagle flying horse also had casualties. Seventeen golden eagles were lost, and thirteen knights died. It also includes a Grandmaster Golden Eagle Soldier. As for the seriously injured, there were also dozens of people, not counting minor injuries. As for the dragon artillery army, three exquisite cannons exploded in the end, killing eighteen dragon artillerymen and seriously wounding several others. According to Zhao Zhe's usual practice, after these special troops are seriously injured, they all have the opportunity to enter the small world to recuperate. As for the ordinary army, Zhao Zhe can only be a little gloomy, after all, the reserve of spiritual energy is limited, and there is still a lot to fight in this battle, and it is impossible to take care of all the seriously wounded.

Those infantry who acted as a shield wall, because they didn't have to fight as hard as the dragon lancers, ended up killing more than a thousand people and wounding thousands. It's just that whether it is Zhao Zhe or Yang Dingshan, they can only order these wounded soldiers to be treated well.

The losses were heavy, but there was no doubt that the blow to the enemy was even more ferocious. Those infantry who were bombarded and killed did not mention it, but said that the enemy Rakshasa musketeers originally had at least 100,000 people, but in the end those who fled back did not survive more than a few thousand. Although they did not completely exterminate those Rakshasa musketeers, in fact, the opponent's musketeers were finished, and they were no longer suitable for going to the battlefield in a short period of time, both in terms of numbers and psychological factors.

As for the number of infantry killed by those bombardments, it should be around tens of thousands. In other words, Da Zhao paid less than 5,000 sacrifices and tens of thousands of serious injuries this time. gnawed off the opponent's army of about 200,000, of which more than 100,000 were still the relatively taboo Rakshasa musket army of Da Zhao.

In fact, although the dragon lancers fought extremely fiercely this time. But there are still tens of thousands of soldiers who can fight, and those who are slightly injured and seriously injured will also return to the battlefield within a few days. The other side has no artillery, muskets. It's a dream to fight a dragon lancer at the same distance. The most important thing is that the Da Zhao Linglong artillery system is still there, as long as the other party dares to step into the coverage of the Linglong artillery. There will be a heavy bombardment. Some kind of archers, crossbowmen and the like, I don't think much of a use.

In the meeting tents of the leaders of the coalition forces, there was a gloomy cloud. It turned out that according to their ideas, no matter how many millions of troops pushed, they could bulldoze Jiayuguan. But in fact, Jiayuguan is much more difficult to bite than they imagined. Today, it was only a few hundred meters before it was hit so badly. In particular, the Rakshasa Musketeers were almost wiped out.

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(To be continued)