Chapter 390: Gunpowder Strikes 2
"Herald, rocket ready! The trebuchet is ready to throw a fireball! ”
The fireball thrown by the trebuchet is actually a round ball formed by a small stone projectile in the center, surrounded by cotton and rags, and then soaked in fire oil, and as long as there is a little spark, it will immediately burn.
These fireballs are simpler to make than thunder, and inside is a small stone. Wrapped in oil-soaked cotton and rags, it is then firmly tied up to form a simple fireball. Once they are lit, they are thrown with a trebuchet, and the flames are not extinguished, even when flying at high altitudes.
After a short while, the various launches were ready, and the fireballs were loaded into the throwing basket. Torches, which had previously been forbidden, also appeared on the city walls.
"Launch!"
As soon as the sergeant lit the fireball, the officer shouted.
"Whew!"
The soldier who controls the trebuchet pulls the mechanism, and the first round of fireballs is thrown quickly. Burning fireballs flew through the sky, drawing a clear arc and smashing down towards the outside of the city. These fireballs streaked across the sky, and immediately made everyone look sideways.
"Puff puff!"
The fireball landed accurately on the ground and on the bodies of some of the soldiers, making a very dull sound.
Then, there was a crackling sound.
I saw that after those fireballs fell continuously, the black gunpowder on the ground came into contact with the fireballs. The fierce flames burst into flames, like a gust of wind, and instantly enveloped the entire outside of the city in a ball of fire. The fire spread very quickly, and before the soldiers who were still violent, the flames had already rushed to their ground. It was like a strong wind blowing, and the entire outside of Anton City was suddenly filled with fire. Then, there was a large amount of thick black smoke, which completely enveloped the entire battlefield.
In particular, the soldiers who had black ashes on their bodies were surrounded by flames, and they were more or less sprinkled with black gunpowder, which was extremely flammable, and it was terrible to touch a spark. In addition, some of the town's navy soldiers were sprinkled with a large amount of black powder, and the end was even more tragic, and the flames suddenly rushed up, completely enveloping them in the flames.
"Ah...... Help me......"
Countless screams erupted, but many more were screams of horror. It turned out that these black gunpowder burned extremely fast, and after a burst of flames flickered, they all returned to calm. When the flames were extinguished, they were shocked to find that their hair, eyebrows, beard, and so on were completely gone, and even the clothes on their bodies were ragged and charred.
"Ah...... It hurts me! ”
"What is this......"
The pain after the burning came at this time, and some people couldn't help but roll on the ground, in pain. Some of them had black gunpowder on their exposed skin, and when the black powder burned, their skin was burned and a stinging pain came. If the injury is more serious, it will be painful to roll on the spot, and if the injury is relatively light, it is frowning and trying to suppress the pain on the body.
Several commanders witnessed this qiē, and their minds buzzed, but they didn't know what to do. The previous inaction of the Xiaoguo Army seems to be for this fire attack. Also, what exactly is this black ash, and why is it burning violently?
There were bursts of stabbing sounds, wails, and black smoke rising one after another, which suddenly made the siege army of the Ya Army, which was originally fierce and arrogant, stunned.
However, the soldiers of the Yan Ya Army only thought that this was a fire attack by the Xiaoguo army to stop the enemy, but in fact it was .......
Yun Huan, the commander closest to the city wall, looked around him and found that many of his soldiers were all laughing at the rapidly burning black ash, of course, there were not a few injured people. But this black incendiary burns extremely fast, and it is too late to extinguish, and more importantly, it is not like an open flame, burning on the surface, which can be easily extinguished. When this black ash burns, the black smoke disappears in a moment, and the wound on the body comes.
Seriously, the burn hurts, but there's no way to stop it. Although the wounded soldiers were all skin wounds. But at the moment, they were screaming bitterly, neither touching nor touching, and their mouths let out muffled moans of pain.
What annoyed Yun Hwan even more was that after this kind of thing burned, it would have a pungent smell and obvious black smoke, which even affected his vision.
At this moment, Yun Huan suddenly heard some very strange sounds, crackling, as if something was burning, he hurriedly followed the sound to look over, only to see that not far away, there was an intact clay pot casually poured to the ground, the small tail outside the clay pot, was making a sizzling sound, and at the same time bloomed a very bright light. And not far from it, there is also a wooden barrel, which is also burning with small tails, these small tails are very short, and in a short time, they are burned out.
Yun Huan looked at these things, although he was puzzled, but thinking of the soldier who had burned before, he suddenly felt a little bad subconsciously, but before he could sort out the thoughts in his mind, he heard a loud bang, and a dazzling fire rose from the sky, stabbing his eyes blind on the spot, followed by a powerful force coming towards him, knocking him to the ground.
"Ahh
Yun Huan couldn't help screaming, rolled the ground twice, and barely stopped, subconsciously wanting to stand up, only to feel a sharp pain in his chest, a blank in his mind, and no strength at all. I finally stood up, only to see that where the clay pot was just now, the ground had become a small pit, and the soldiers who were standing next to the clay pot just now were all put down on the ground, crying and moaning for their mother. He suddenly felt a pain in his chest.
He looked down and saw dozens of hollows between his waist and abdomen, and blood kept pouring out of them.
"Uh...... I've been hit, how do these weapons pierce ...... My body's ......"
"Boom ......"
Before he could figure out how the hole between his waist and abdomen came out, there was another loud noise, ringing in his ears, followed by a huge wave of qi, which tossed him to the ground. There was a tingling pain in my chest, and I almost couldn't catch my breath. Suddenly, it was dark in front of him, and then a person pressed heavily on him, pressing him to the ground again.
Yun Huan finally came to his senses, pushed the person on his body away with all his strength, looked down, and found that this soldier was his personal guard, at this moment, he was bleeding from all his knots, his eyes were terrifying, and his face was full of countless iron nails, obviously, he was dead.
Lying on the ground, he looked around, and the place around him was also a mess, and the one that exploded earlier was a small wooden barrel not far from him. At present, at least thirty or forty of them were lying on the ground and could not move, most of them were covered with iron nails, marbles, and other things, and their faces did not look complete at all.
"If it weren't for his own guards standing in front of him, I'm afraid I would be the same......" Yun Huan smiled secretly. At this moment, his brain was roaring, and he couldn't think of anything else. At the same time, he also felt that his whole body was getting colder little by little, and he was gradually losing his strength......
He also saw that there were many people around him, like himself, who were knocked to the ground by the air waves. Some of them had wounds on their bodies, while others had no obvious scars on their bodies, only blood oozing from the corners of their mouths. Some of them lie on the ground for a while and they are able to come to their senses. In some of the more severe cases, blood erupts from the nostrils and ears at the same time, and eventually gradually loses breathing......
"Am I going to die? What kind of weapon is this Xiaoguo military use? Sky Thunder? Yun Hwan was confused, and it occurred to him that he had no time to pay attention to the battle.
Before he lost consciousness, he saw that the intact clay pots and wooden barrels exploded one after another, blooming with dazzling firelight, splashing countless iron nails, marbles, and the thick black smoke. The soldiers and soldiers next to the clay pot staggered and screamed. The worst thing was the clay pots that rolled to the feet of the soldiers of the Yan Ya, and with a loud bang, the people around them were shocked to fly, and the arms and limbs of the people were all blown away.
"What's going on?"
"What's going on?"
The Xiaoguo soldiers on the city wall listened to the sound like thunder, and not only the clay pots and barrels that were smashed open, but also the soldiers who had not only fallen, but also those who had not only fallen, suddenly opened their mouths wide.
And in the rear of the army of the North Gate, he begged for help and shouted loudly, because of the bursts of black smoke, he couldn't see the obvious situation, but this thunder suddenly appeared in the sky above his own siege army, how could he be calm.
Not only the beggar aid, but also the soldiers around the beggar aided the righteous and saw the corpses of those soldiers who were shaken by the thunder, although they could not see the whole picture, they also knew that the besieging army had many casualties.
"Keep projecting at me, people, clay pots and barrels! Torches, stay away from me! ”
The officer of the personal guard battalion knew what it was, and would not be surprised by this earth-shattering thunder, and after being stunned for a moment, he immediately ordered.
There were many black clay pots and small wooden barrels flying out of the sky, which terrified the hearts of the Evil Warriors who had not been attacked by the earth-shattering thunder......
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Large craters with a diameter of several feet were formed in an instant, and the shock wave of the explosion directly swept away the area within a radius of several tens of zhang like a hurricane passing through the explosion site. And what's even more terrifying is that in this earth-shattering thunder, because he was worried that the power of these gunpowders was not enough, Zhao Xun deliberately mixed a large number of iron nails and thistles and other debris in it.
The damage range of a sky-shattering thunder is enough for several zhang, but when a large group descends, it will almost completely envelop the outside of the city, from the bottom of the city wall to a distance of hundreds of meters. The terrifying blast of gunpowder was scary enough, but the nails and thistles were the main cause of the real casualties.
In fact, there were not many people who were killed, and more were pierced into the body by the iron nails and thistles that were shot out. This thing entered the body in a hurry, and it couldn't come out even if you wanted to, but it was actually similar to a grenade.
A sky-shaking thunder is not terrible, the power of a group is so great that even Zhao Xun in the city was surprised, this has already met his own requirements. On the city wall, whether it was the Xiaoguo Army or the soldiers of the baggage battalion who were captured and organized by the Yan Army, everyone opened their mouths wide, looking at the roar that continued to sound outside the city, not only the black smoke and wailing soldiers, but also the shock.
Even Zhao Xun was on the city wall, and he could clearly feel the slight vibration of the city wall under his feet.
"I guess it's too close! Don't knock down the city wall......" Looking at the earth-shattering thunder that exploded a few zhang outside the city wall, Zhao Xun muttered secretly.
Now, whoever it is, their faces are pale. No one dares to believe that such a prestige is actually artificially created. The soldiers in the city knew that the earth-shattering explosion was actually from the clay pot and the wooden barrel, and it was Zhao Xunchuang. In an instant, everyone respected Zhao Xun like a god, and even this kind of thing like thunder could be made, how could it be done by ordinary people?
There are more than 100 ladders on the city wall of the north city, and there is no one at all at this moment, a few small clay pots are thrown down, and a few torches are thrown down, and the ladders are either down or broken. Even if it is intact, there is no soldier who thinks about attacking the city anymore.
In this landslide-like explosion, more than 20,000 siege troops were shocked, of course, there were only more than 10,000 people who were hit by the real earth-shattering thunder, but this earth-shattering explosion and the scene of people turning over on their backs were enough to make everyone overwhelmed.
Ps: Yesterday's automatic upload didn't even go up......