Chapter Ninety-Six: Shelling

Boom, boom, boom, boom......!

Following the direction from which the roar came, Fu Kaijiang and a cadre of generals saw a puff of green smoke coming out of the mouth of the metal pipes at the head of the city, followed by a long scream like a few whistles, and the next moment, a series of crumbling and screaming sounds, only to see those catapults that were ready to go, one by one, they were destroyed by something, and they were torn apart, and the flame bombs on the catapults were either shattered, or rolled, or blown up to the battlefield.

Fu Kaijiang and a group of generals looked at this scene, they were all stunned, they couldn't figure out what the situation was, why did the trebuchet fall apart? Immediately understood, the catapult was destroyed and the pipe at the head of the city is inseparable, all the people have some bad feelings, originally there are no conventional city defense equipment at the head of the South Vietnam Pass, they are still a little confused, at this moment suddenly realized, it turns out that the thief has such a sharp weapon, no wonder there is no fear!

Seeing that the catapults were destroyed one by one, and the soldiers were also heavily wounded, some of the morale that had been boosted by the bounty had disappeared, and the deaths of those who were hit were miserable, many soldiers were stunned, and some of the soldiers were running around like crazy, Fu Kaijiang's whole person froze there, only to feel that his mouth was dry, and he asked in a trembling voice after a while: "Do you have any good plans?" ”

A cadre of generals and strategists looked at each other, in the face of such a murder weapon, how to fight this battle? No one could answer, and they all fell silent.

"Calibrate the elements, aim! Preparation...... Put! …… Cleaning the breech...... Loading ...... Ruler ......"

The atmosphere at the head of the city of South Vietnam was warm, it can be said that it was in full swing, the artillery was busy carrying gunpowder, projectiles, and cleaning up the cannon fodder, but the other soldiers were also staring with excitement, originally because they saw the dense enemy troops, crowded with huge siege vehicles to attack the city, and still a little nervous, at this time only there was excitement, every time a cannon destroyed the siege vehicles, the city burst into a burst of cheers.

Artillery, a weapon of war, has finally shown its hideousness for the first time in the war of this world, although there have been test guns before, but it is definitely not as shocking as the real lethality in the war.

At this moment, in addition to the artillery of the fortresses on the hills on both sides of the South Vietnam Pass, there are more than 20 artillery pieces of several types distributed at the head of the city, which have opened fire, according to the range requirements, using gunpowder packs of different amounts, small artillery can hit two or three miles at most, but the cannons on the forts on both sides can hit a distance of more than ten miles, because it is to destroy those siege vehicles, and the main thing to load at this moment is solid shells.

Using artillery to fight soldiers in the era of cold weapons is indeed a bit bullying and inhumane, but this is a battlefield, and there is no reason to talk about it. Isn't it normal to die in a war, dying on the battlefield can only be blamed on bad luck, besides, it is the enemy who dies, not your own, mercy or something is thrown aside, the natural belligerent factor is boiling, and the Shanyue soldiers in Nanyue Pass, whose morale is already high, are completely bursting at the moment.

Xiao Tianlei's brothers, each of whom occupied an artillery, personally operated and fired the artillery, all of them were excited, and when they saw a target, they couldn't wait to launch it.

"Aim and fight, don't bang around! Save gunpowder and shells! Xiao Tianlei reminded loudly that these guys were already a little too excited.

As soon as Xiao Tianlei finished speaking, Xiao Tianbao came running with a huge cannonball, his round face was blackened, and his nose was as black as a bear, which looked a little funny.

"Hehe, Brother Lei, let's give them a great one!"

What Xiao Tianbao picked up was a flowering bullet, stuffed into a short and thick, but very large caliber artillery, aiming at the location of the Shuai Banner in the rear of the Southern Army.

"Aim...... Ready-to-go! ”

Rumble! A slightly dull cannon sound, and the flowering bullet crossed an arc and fell straight to the position where the commander of the southern army was located.

On the side of the viewing platform where the commander's banner of the southern army is located, Fu Kaijiang and others are silent, the formation of their own soldiers on the battlefield is chaotic, the siege vehicles are completely destroyed, the soldiers have fallen into fear and chaos, some are already trying to escape, this battle cannot be fought, and all the generals know it, but the order to retreat, except for Marshal Fu Kaijiang, no one else can give an order.

"Marshal, the siege equipment has been destroyed, and the military spirit is no longer available, for today's plan, there is only ......" a strategist suggested.

Fu Kaijiang also understood that there was no other way than to withdraw the troops, but he couldn't get back to his senses, and the original dream of sweeping away the barbarians and making meritorious contributions was also shattered, and he was really unwilling in his heart, trembling, pale, gritting his teeth, and was about to give an order, everyone heard a scream from above, getting closer and closer, and those generals were all tense.

"It's not good, get out of the way!"

I don't know who shouted, and everyone was shocked, just where to hide?

Before these people could figure it out, the scream was already close to their ears, and with a boom, a flowering bullet fell two or three meters away from Shuai Qi, exploding, and the flames, loud noises, thick smoke, and fragments of the explosion flooded everyone.

It's just a blink of an eye, the smoke and dust slowly dispersed, most of the viewing platform has been destroyed, the strategists and generals fell to the ground, such a big impact, even if those strategists are affected, even if they survive, they have to be seriously injured, and the generals are all discouraged, however, most of the generals have just mentioned their anger, plus a suit of armor, except for the more unlucky generals who were hit by many shrapnel, the others did not suffer too much injury, but a huge roar, which made their ears a little deaf and their brains roared, The internal organs were also shaken and rolled a little, and they wanted to vomit one by one. I really didn't expect that the weapon of the traitor is so powerful, it can hit so far, this is more than a mile, and the best catapult is only more than a hundred zhang, but I also feel a little lucky, this time I didn't hit it right, if I do it again, I really want to die.

"Marshal! Where is the marshal? Someone suddenly remembered, shouted for a while, the other generals regained their senses, rummaged for a while, and finally found Fu Kaijiang covered in blood under the table, only one breath left, this is still Fu Kaijiang's luck, wearing a good protective armor, otherwise, there will be no breath left.

When the generals saw this, they all showed embarrassment, looked at each other, the marshal became like this, how to fight next? Moreover, Fu Kaijiang has a special identity, but the emperor's relatives and brothers-in-law, the generals present said that they would not be held responsible. However, the people didn't have time to think about it, and the roar and screams came, and here it is again! This time, no one had time to remind others, and they didn't care about others, so they ran away, Song Shixiong and the others were still sober, and they hugged Fu Kaijiang and ran back.

Another flowering bomb landed right on the position of Shuai Qi and exploded, blowing Shuai Qi to pieces.

The situation on the commander's side, many people saw that the commander and the generals had run away, and the weapons in the city were about to be fired again, and the tragic situation of being hit, the limbs were torn apart, or beaten into a pulp, and many people were so frightened that they were terrified, how dare these soldiers stay, they retreated one by one, and at first it was only a small part, and then the whole line retreated.

At this time, it is a good opportunity to beat the water dogs and defeat the enemy, Xiao Tianlei and others in the South Vietnam Pass will naturally not let go, the city gate is wide open, Xiao Tianlei took some brothers, out of the city to cover and kill, Xiao Tianlei rode on the steel mane and rushed out, followed by a few brothers and some cavalry, the Xuan Ice Gun swept left and right, cleared a road, and rushed to the rear of the Southern Army. There were some grenadiers in the rear, and as soon as the bombs were dropped, the rumbling explosion frightened the southern soldiers who squatted on the ground one by one, killing some soldiers who wanted to resist, and the rest of the soldiers knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and fell to the ground in pieces.

The shelling of the small artillery on the city gradually thinned out, but the two cannons of the forts on the hills on both sides were powerful, and the range of the shells extended to the rear of the Southern Army, chasing the fleeing generals.

A cadre of generals of the southern army fled back, but the shells followed all the way, as if they had eyes, they really couldn't imagine that the weapons of the traitors could hit so far, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to stop, rushed away from the soldiers in the rear, and ran back to the camp in one breath, still with palpitations, the sound of rumbling artillery in their ears, everyone was out of breath and frightened, at this moment, there was another explosion, a shell fell into the camp and smashed a barracks to pieces.

“……”

Seeing this scene, how ugly and ugly the faces of the generals were, they couldn't help but shudder, feeling that their own battalions were within the range of others, and they suddenly had a feeling of being calculated by the brotherhood! God knows, the Brotherhood has some other vicious tricks! This place should not be stayed for long.

Originally, some generals were still angry and wanted to take revenge, but at this time, they didn't think about what they had or not, how important is revenge? Besides, now they can only be beaten, and they can't touch the side of others, and they can only be beaten, but what else? A cadre of generals got on the war horse again, took his own soldiers, abandoned the camp, and fled all the way.

Xiao Tianlei originally wanted to chase and kill a cadre of generals of the Southern Army, but when he led people to rush through the chaotic soldiers and arrive at the enemy camp, there was no trace of those generals, so he had to give up and pursue all the way to collect and surrender the rout. Xiao Tianlei didn't expect the effect of the first appearance of the artillery to be so good, it was a little too good, in fact, to say that the real lethality of the artillery is not great, before the flowering bomb to fight those generals, it didn't hurt a few people, however, the deterrence and fear brought by the artillery to the ordinary soldiers is great, plus there is no commander and some strategists, and all the generals have run away, which caused this rout.

When Xiao Tianlei was still collecting and surrendering the defeated troops, Zheng Biao and Wu Meng successively sent the battle reports of Maoling Pass and Longya Pass, and also repelled the enemy's siege offensive with artillery, and the two ways of the southern army were defeated and lost, but the enemy troops on both sides were not defeated, they stabilized their positions and retreated to the camp, however, they also lost one-third of the soldiers and horses, Xiao Tianlei felt that these two roads were no longer to worry, anyway, they were all frightened, and there was no way to break through the city.

Now only the Yuezhou Navy from the sea is left, what virtue is the Yuezhou Navy Army, Xiao Tianlei still knows, some old warships, a group of bandit-like sailors, this time from the sea to attack, scrape together to gather 10,000 sailors, or from the people to scrape together some ships, to make up the number of warships. Conch Bay sent some new warships to deal with it, although there are not many, but these warships are equipped with artillery, there is no reason to defeat, just considering how to reduce losses, how to eat all this naval army, to avoid someone escaping to report the news, so they did not do it for a long time, but have been monitoring the movement. In today's battle, the defeat of the southern army has been decided, Xiao Tianlei discussed it with Xiao Tianfu and a few others who presided over the water war, and learned that the group of guys in the Yuezhou Navy army drove the warship into the crocodile river without knowing whether they were alive or dead, just enough to close the door and beat the dog.

The Yuezhou Navy didn't know that they had been targeted at this time, and they were swaggering on the Crocodile River, heading towards Lingzhou City.

Originally, Fu Kaijiang made a detailed plan, and also sent an elite soldier and a few generals to accompany him, so that the Yuezhou navy acted according to the plan, but, to the sea, these elite soldiers from the north have become soft-footed shrimp, as for the battle plan, it is the season of wind and waves at sea recently, which is not conducive to navigation, some old warships often have problems, and the Yuezhou navy stumbles along the coast, and it is not easy to reach the mouth of the crocodile river. As for what to do next, should I go directly to Lingzhou City and fight all the way, or take a boat all the way to Lingzhou City? There was a disagreement between the generals of the navy and the generals sent by Fu Kaijiang, and for this reason, they quarreled for several days.

Originally, they thought that they would encounter the Brotherhood's interception, but in the end, they did not encounter anything, even the Sea Shark Gang that was rampaging in Qionghai was nowhere to be seen, and only encountered some merchant ships. The generals from other places don't know, but the generals of the Yuezhou Navy know the prestige of the Sea Shark Gang, and they are a group of ruthless people who dare to work against the Canghai Alliance, and the origin of the Sea Shark Gang is unknown, so they can't say that they have anything to do with the Brotherhood, and now there is no trace of the Sea Shark Gang, which suddenly made some of the generals of the Yuezhou Navy suspicious.

The Yuezhou Navy had to send some people ashore to investigate, but the results were all gone, the original generals of the Yuezhou Navy were a little retreated, and the generals sent by Fu Kaijiang took out the military order, insisting that the Yuezhou Navy Army attack Lingzhou City, so the Yuezhou Navy entered the Crocodile River and sailed to Lingzhou City.

The first and second days were calm, and on the third day, when they got up early in the morning, the generals of the Yuezhou Navy suddenly found that some strangely shaped boats appeared on the waterways in front and behind, and those boats were not large, and they were lined up on the river, blocking the way.

It was also on the shore of the waters where the Yuezhou Navy was encircled, some people watched the situation on the river, including Qin Jincai's father Qin Ren'an and aunt Qin Su, the cause of the matter was that Qin Su wanted to investigate the situation of the Brotherhood guarding the pass, in fact, there were not only Qin Su alone, there were many people who wanted to enter the exploration, as a result, that area could not be entered at all, there were traps everywhere in the dense forest, and there were some powerful assassins, all the people outside the Brotherhood were stopped outside, and there was only a dead end to enter.

Helpless, these people only changed their goals, the Yuezhou Navy attacked, many people know, of course the Brotherhood will not know, but how will the Brotherhood respond? Many people are very curious, the Brotherhood will guard those gates of the city impenetrable, but the navy is on the water, the Brotherhood naturally can't stop others from watching, on this day, Qin Su and others finally saw that some ships surrounded the Yuezhou Navy, needless to say, these ships must be the handiwork of the Brotherhood.

"In addition to the slightly peculiar shape of these ships, the sails are also different, there seems to be nothing special, they are much smaller than the warships of the Yuezhou Navy, and the number is far inferior to the Yuezhou Navy, the Brotherhood wants to rely on these ships to deal with the Yuezhou Navy?"

Qin Su was quite puzzled, this was also the puzzle of other bystanders, when these boats confronted the Yuezhou Navy, some small boats came up from the river, this kind of small boat everyone knows, it is the pedal boat of the Brotherhood, a few people step on the mechanism, the small boat can run fast, at this time, these small boats are carrying some Shanyue soldiers.

"Are you going to use these boats to attack the Yuezhou Navy?" Even if he doesn't know much about water warfare, Qin Su also knows that these small boats to attack the big ships are undoubtedly sent to death, the big ships hit lightly, and the small ships will capsize, if the Brotherhood intends to send these people to death, Qin Su definitely doesn't believe it, according to her understanding, the Brotherhood does everything after planning and then acting, there is definitely some conspiracy in it! Just what kind of conspiracy will it be?

Qin Su was thinking about it, with a burst of passwords and neat footsteps, on the road by the river on both sides, two Shanyue troops of one or two thousand people came, pushing some vehicles covered with gray cloth, arriving at the waters surrounded by the Yuezhou naval army, lined up on both sides, Shanyue soldiers were on alert, driving away some onlookers, fortunately, Qin Su and Qin Ren'an were standing at a high place far away to see, otherwise, they would also be driven away, only to see that the gray cloth covered by those vehicles was uncovered, revealing thick pipes, not only the metal pipes themselves, The whole car was a delicate piece of equipment, and several Shanyue soldiers fiddled with it a few times, and some brackets stretched out from the car, firmly fixing the whole car to the ground.

At this time, the Brotherhood surrounded the Yuezhou Navy by water and land, which was completely a posture of eating the Yuezhou Navy Army, but the Yuezhou Navy did not know that one of the generals on the handsome ship was still shouting, asking the ships in front to give way and let them surrender to the court. It's just that he couldn't say anything again before he was halfway through his words, and the ships of the Brotherhood and the Shanyue soldiers on the shore launched an attack, and the doubts of Qin Su and the others were all solved at once.

Boom, boom, boom......!

There was a roar on the ships of the Brotherhood, and it was the same on land, accompanied by a scream, in the waters where the Yuezhou Navy was located, a white column of water rose into the sky, and the water column exploded, and under the impact of strong water pressure, some old warships suddenly scattered, staggering, and those ships that were directly hit were even worse, and some parts of the hull were shattered with just one shot, and there were heavy casualties.

In the face of such an attack, the Yuezhou Navy Army was completely dumbfounded, how to fight? Can't fight! I can't fight hard, all I can think about is how to save my life.

Qin Su remembered the metal pipe he had seen in Nanyue Pass, and had already guessed that it might be an extremely powerful weapon, but he didn't expect it to be like this, and couldn't help muttering: "The Yuezhou Navy is finished...... The southern army is also over! (To be continued.) )