Chapter 537: Takeover
The Black Mist Castle is on the edge of the fog ring. The castle was built a hundred years ago, and after generations of pioneering, the fog here has receded.
Around the castle, there is a large open-pit fire rock mine. This is also the reason why the Black Mist Castle was established. Burning rock is the world's main power fuel, and there are only seven or eight places in the entire fog capital that are mined. And already some of the burning rock mines have begun to decline in production.
Therefore, the supply guarantee of Burning Rock has become the core problem of the foggy world. This is also the reason why Black Mist Castle is usually easy to attract barbarian attacks.
The barbarians also knew how important this burning stone mine was to the people of the Fog Capital. Over the past 100 years, the two sides have waged more than a dozen wars around the castle.
Both sides have their own victories and defeats, but in general, in the end, the war must be a defeat for the barbarians. The Council of the Fog will not tolerate a stable and rich mine of burning rocks falling into the hands of the barbarians. So in the end, it will be the Council that will unite its forces and strike a deadly counterattack against the barbarians, inflicting heavy losses on them.
The Black Mist Castle was originally the Pu family's sphere of influence, but the border has been calm for nearly twenty years, and the Black Mist Castle's armament has been relaxed.
This time, the barbarian warriors brazenly dispatched a large-scale military force, taking advantage of the lax guards of the castle, to break through it in one fell swoop, and the matter reached the parliament and there was an uproar.
Immediately, the council ignored the strong opposition of the Pu family, and designated the Tiankui legion stationed nearby, and hurried to the Black Mist Castle.
The council's actions have the intention of dividing the Yuwen family and the Pu family. But the teacher is famous, and the Yuwen family doesn't mind tearing up their faces with the Pu family. After all, the income from the burning stone mines around the Black Mist Castle is too rich, and the Pu family has controlled the income here for too long, and it is not only the Yuwen family who covets it.
Therefore, the Tiankui Legion rushed to the battlefield with unprecedented speed.
When the special train reached a place two hundred kilometers away from the Black Mist Castle, it stopped.
This is the terminus of the steam train and the site of the Burning Rock Mine.
In the mines, there were still Pu warriors guarding them, and barbarian warriors only appeared sporadically, and no large-scale wars were launched.
This surprised Yuwen Shuo and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
This means that the most valuable places are preserved, and in the next war, he can also calmly command the war. After all, he didn't know much about the situation on the front line, and once the battle situation had eroded, even if he finally won the war, the Tiankui Legion would have to pay enough for it.
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"Without the order of the head of the Pu family, no one is allowed to approach the mine! Otherwise, it will be regarded as a declaration of war against the Pu family! ”
On the humble city wall, a steward picked up a bullhorn and warned the convoy below: "The army of the Pu family is bound to make you pay a heavy price!" ”
"Hehe......"
Yu Wenshuo squinted, stared at the steward above, and turned back to ask the adjutant, "How many guards are there in the mine?" ”
"No more than three thousand, Commander! But there are more than 50,000 slaves in the mine, if the Pu family is armed......"
"Slaves? That's just a slave! ”
Yu Wenshuo sneered: "War, it's their business." Even if they throw their weapons in front of them, they will pick them up and fight for these filthy guys?! Maybe they're going to kill these guys first. ”
The council stipulates that the families are not allowed to turn the Terrans in the Fog into slavery for servitude. Only a barbarian in the fog circle can legally become a slave.
And every barbarian needs to leave the territory of the fog to capture, or the warriors captured in wartime.
These people are not in the same league as the people in the territory of the Fog Capital, and it is impossible for them to fight for the slave masters who enslaved them.
"Tell them that if they don't open the door for a minute, they will do so at their own risk."
Yu Wenshuo sneered and said, "I just owe a chance to show the Pu family my methods." ”
Qin Shi stood not far from Yuwen Shuo. Listen to the conversation between him and the adjutant while looking around.
The mine was very empty and rudimentary, surrounded by open-air ore veins, railroad tracks everywhere, and steam engines, which were constantly pumping water into the mine to transport the burning rock to the storage location. The owner of the mine built a simple castle on the top of a hill, which was called a castle rather than a prison. There were 3,000 guards inside, and tens of thousands of mine slaves.
On the city wall, dozens of steam ballistas were piled up, and the guards on them were well-armed and fierce. It can be seen that the garrison here is a hard nut to crack. In order to defend the mine, the Pu family has made a lot of money.
With such a force, it is naturally possible to defend against the invasion of barbarians and slave rebellion, but such a military force has no meaning in fighting against the Tiankui Legion.
The Tiankui Legion is one of the four main forces of the Yuwen family, and although it ranks last, it has the largest number of soldiers, with 50,000 warriors.
This time, under the leadership of Yu Wenshuo, the Tiankui Legion even poured out.
There were as many as 600 artillery pieces with the army, and once the war began, the artillery battalion alone fired at one time was enough to turn the camp in the mining area into white ground.
When the eighty guns were pushed to the front of the camp, the face of the high-spirited steward suddenly turned pale.
Yu Wenshuo did not pretend, after the artillery pushed out the artillery, he began to load ammunition, and even the artillery in front of him had begun to test fire and calibrate the trajectory and range of the shells.
The test-fired shells hit a place more than ten meters in front of the castle, blowing up a large earthen pit and filling the air with dust.
When the artillerymen began to report the numbers and adjust the position of the guns, the steward on the city wall finally shouted urgently: "Wait! You can't do that! You are declaring war on the Pu family! The council won't let you go! ”
"Boom ......"
In response to him, another test-fired cannonball hit the city wall directly, bursting a gap, and several guards on it were affected, and they lost their lives instantly.
"I'll open the door! It's not okay to open the door! ”
The steward roared urgently. This time, he could see clearly that the muzzles of dozens of guns in that row were staring at him. If there is no accident, the next shot of the Tiankui Legion will not be a test firing, but a concentrated fire.
with his abilities. It is simply impossible to survive such a dense fire strike.
So no matter how much humiliation he had, he could only endure it.
"The Pu family won't let you go!"
While ordering the door to be opened, the steward cursed viciously: "The Yuwen family is killing itself!" ”
It's just that he can only swirl in his throat with these words, and he doesn't even have the courage to say them.
"Take over the mining area, organize the guards of the Pu family into the vanguard battalion, and find out the distribution of the barbarian army, and then attack the whole army!"
Yu Wenshuo has no intention of staying in the mine.
Only by driving out the barbarians and having beautiful combat skills can the Tiankui Legion and even the Yuwen family have enough reasons to occupy the Burning Stone Mining Area. Otherwise, it will inevitably be coveted by other forces. The Pu family's counterattack will be even more crazy.