Chapter 123: Thunderbolt
Just as Li Ming was trying his best to resist the attack of Tiefutu, the horse's hooves were rolling in the distance, and a red stream approached at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Daqin's military flag was particularly eye-catching in the snow.
"It's the Golden Fire Cavalry!"
When Li Ming saw that army, he was overjoyed and hurriedly shouted, "Brothers! Our reinforcements are coming! ”
The Golden Fire Cavalry became even stronger and faster after Xiao Xie was upgraded to the human rank, and they ran wildly in the snow without being affected in the slightest.
The remaining seven or eight thousand Tiefutu immediately gave up attacking Li Ming, and instead organized a build-up and launched a charge against the Golden Fire Cavalry.
"Just in time! Look how I break you! ”
Xiao Xie was full of spirit, shouted wildly, and immediately slashed into the Iron Floating Slaughter Formation with his sword, and the two armies showed their sharp claws like two fierce tigers when they spoke.
This time when encountering the Iron Floating Slaughter again, the Golden Fire Cavalry is no longer at a disadvantage, in addition to the same level and the same level of war horses, the attributes of Xiao Xie and the Star Dragon Bonus make the Golden Fire Cavalry's defense and attack power surpass the Iron Floating Slaughter in an all-round way, not to mention that it is twice the number of enemy troops.
As soon as he saw it, Tiefutu was pressed and beaten by the golden fire cavalry, and Chang Ge took Tiefutu off his horse at high speed, and even if the soldiers who were fully armed to the teeth fell to the ground, they would be trampled by the war horse's skin and flesh, and the bones would be broken and broken.
As a human-level general, Xiao Xie has extremely strong personal ability, no matter how tightly Tiefutu covers it, his long sword can always enter through the gaps in the armor and pierce the enemy's body, if it weren't for the fact that the sword in his hand is not hard enough, he can even directly pierce the armor and kill these iron lumps.
After half an hour of fierce fighting, Tiefutu had already suffered heavy losses, and in order to avoid the edge, they hid in tens of thousands of light cavalry and continued to attack Li Ming's infantry army. The Golden Fire Cavalry followed up fearlessly, doing everything in their power to block the damage inflicted on the infantry by the enemy cavalry.
When the two sides were fighting together, the overwhelming cavalry in the distance was coming in an encirclement, but it was Huo Ziyang who launched a surprise attack and arrived half an hour in advance.
As soon as the 500,000 cavalry army arrived, the Jin army was suddenly in chaos, and Yue Ziyun and Huo Ziyang each brought 150,000 cavalry to intersperse, and cooperated with the golden fire cavalry to strangle the Jin army.
Li Ming, who was rescued, immediately led three or four hundred thousand infantry to immediately climb the mountain, cutting off the retreat of the Jin army.
By night, Long Ji and Li Ming had completely cleaned up the remnants of the Jin army, and the 700,000 elites sent by the system to encircle and suppress the Great Qin Empire were all lost at the foot of the Great Wall. Due to Qin Fan's ineffective command, the infantry suffered heavy losses, and the two divisions lost a total of 500,000, and the Golden Fire Cavalry lost more than 4,000 people because of the hard anal with Tiefutu.
The army returned to Fengsheng Prefecture overnight and joined forces with Han Feng. He wanted to take advantage of the emptiness of Yanjing City at the moment and quickly occupy it, which was a first-line city with a population of 300,000 and the capital of Xijin.
However, before that, he had to replenish his troops first, and the 500,000 infantry who came out of Tianya City lost nearly 300,000, and the 800,000 assembled in Fengzhou City lost 200,000, and it took two to three days to explode.
Fengsheng Prefecture and Fengzhou are almost just state cities with a population limit of 50,000, and their role is not too great, and they are temporarily used as a springboard for attacking Yanjing.
As soon as Cai Xu's getaway teleported back to Tianya City, Lu Diaoying found him.
"Your Majesty, I heard that you are going to attack Yanjing?"
"That's right, we just defeated the Jin army, Yanjing is already an empty city, if you don't fight at this time, when will you wait?"
Lu Diaoying nodded and said: "Sure enough, it's a good time, but even if Yanjing is like an empty city, there are still some defenders, and as far as I know, Yanjing City is the capital of the Great Jin Emperor, and the city wall is four and a half zhang high, which can be called impregnable, even if there are only 20,000 people stationed there, it can make the attackers suffer heavy losses." Now the thunderbolt cannon developed by me and Lu Tie's predecessors has been successful! ”
"Succeeded?!" Qin Fan was overjoyed and said excitedly: "Great, it's not in vain that I invested nearly 100,000 gold, and now I can finally see the benefits!" Take me to see it! ”
In the Heavenly Workshop, Qin Fan saw a cannon similar to that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the length and caliber were slightly smaller. The two of them adopted the rifling structure that Qin Fan said, and they really had a certain increase in range on the original basis.
"Our newly developed Thunderbolt cannon is five feet long, the muzzle length is two inches, and the shells used are filled with more intense black powder and a large number of iron balls, and the firing range is increased to 300 paces with black powder firing kits!"
In ancient times, one step was equivalent to a person walking two steps and 1.5 meters, and 300 steps was about 400 meters.
"Not bad! How much is in stock now? Qin Fan asked a key question, this kind of artillery must have a certain scale in order to play a suppressive role.
"The manufacturing process of thunderbolts is complex and costly. But fortunately, the technical difficulty is not great, and ordinary blacksmiths above the seventh order can complete one in five days of casting and grinding! At present, there are only 20 doors in stock. ”
"Seventh-order blacksmith, right, this can't bother me." Talent is easier for Qin Fan than anything,
"Your Majesty, in addition to personnel, materials also need to be prepared, copper ore, iron ore, coal mines, sulfur and other resources are indispensable, I will give you a detailed material requirements book later."
According to Lu Diaoying's list, Qin Fan couldn't find so many resources at all, except for the iron ore that could barely be supplied, the rest needed to be purchased from Fang City, and the cost was more than 100 gold.
"Sure enough, you still need funds to protect science and technology, so I'll arrange it!"
Qin Fan used the population of Tianya Town to brush the sixth-order village Yong and the seventh-order blacksmith, and on the other hand, he used the 200,000 population of Xijing to brush the compensation for high-level talents, and it took two days to build a thousand blacksmith workshops, all of which were stationed by seventh-order blacksmiths.
There are still very few players who use copper ore in the market, so there are a lot of them on the shelves, and Qin Fan swept away all the low-end prices.
From the beginning of the third day, Qin Fan could see the smoke in the back mountain, and thousands of blacksmiths were working at the same time to melt and cast cannon barrels. The shouts of the school field below the mountain came to my ears, and Tianya City was training infantry at a rate of 140,000 troops per day.
The construction of the city wall of Tianya City is also proceeding in an orderly manner, and the height of the wall is similar to that of the city wall of Redwood County, which is an architectural drawing given by a first-class city, so there is no choice.
Just as Qin Fan was waiting for the thunderbolt cannon and the newly replenished troops to arrive, a bad news came from Xinglong, the Longlin Alliance united more than a dozen small alliances with a total of 900,000 infantry troops to take advantage of the emptiness of the Yanjing garrison, suddenly launched an attack, successfully broke the city, and looted the Yanjing granary, obtaining enough food for one million troops to eat for two months.
"!"
Qin Fan slapped on the coffee table, two months' rations for one million people, what a lot of money it must be. After only a few days of delay, it was preempted by the Longlin Alliance. What was once a light battle turned into a difficult siege battle......
"It's the Longlin Alliance again, I just killed him 800,000 half a month ago, I can't imagine that so many people can be organized!" Qin Fan's current explosive ability is still a little worse in front of these big leagues, even if people can only train three or five a day, but they can't withstand the large number of players.
"Cut the grass and remove the roots, otherwise the spring breeze blows and grows again......"