Chapter 257: The Battle of Xinyang Town 3
When Yang Guang was in the library of Binhai City in modern time and space, he once flipped through historical materials and saw that there were gunners in the American Civil War who used Napoleonic cannons to hit the enemy's standard-bearers at a distance of about 1,500 meters, but he did not expect to see a similar scene today. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The shells of the Napoleonic cannon seemed to fly slowly in the air, as if they could be caught by reaching out, but in fact it was just a terrible mistake. In fact, even if the distance is far enough, the kinetic energy is close to the exhausted cannonball, which is enough to "split" the flesh and blood in the way of its own path.
The leader of the salt ghost made this mistake, if he turned over and fell off the horse desperately, he might still have a chance to escape, but unfortunately he was not familiar with this kind of big killing weapon and took the initiative to collide with the knife like a mantis arm blocking the car, so the entire upper body that had suffered the kinetic energy of the cannonball became shattered on the spot, and became the first sacrifice of Napoleon's cannon in the battle of Xinyang Town.
The effect of this cannon was full of blood, which made the morale of the 200 people who came to Xinyang Town outside Xinyang Town collapse, and those salt dings who ran for their lives on two legs ran a few points faster than the salt ghosts on horses, and soon ran away without a trace.
Those salt ghosts who were frightened by the tragic death of the leader, instinctively drove their horses and fled for more than ten miles, they somewhat regained a little sense, and with the efforts of the other leader, they quickly reunited together, and were seen by the summoned falcon who was tracking and reconnoitring in the sky, and also fell into Yang Guang's eyes.
After resting a little, these thirty or so salt ghosts actually got on their horses and came towards Xinyang Town again, but the shot just now frightened their courage, and they didn't dare to get close to Xinyang Town's field of vision anyway, but they were divided into several teams of different numbers and wandered back and forth on several nearby roads.
Soon Yang Guang understood what these defeated salt ghosts were going to do, when a salt ghost team saw that there were victims rushing to Xinyang Town from a distance, they immediately swarmed like wolves that saw their prey, and hacked these victims to death, and then these salt ghosts used good mobility to quickly evacuate, leaving only a few bloody corpses on the road.
This situation is the worst for Yang Guang, whether it is the Wufeng Gun or the Napoleonic cannon, they are both strong in attack and weak in defense, and they are quite lacking in mobility, and if they want to chase a light cavalry unit with strong mobility in the wilderness, they will only be led by the nose of the opponent and run around, and if they are not careful, they will be copied and cut off from supplies.
In the history of China, the Central Plains regime fought against the northern nomads, and the victory could only be a small victory, and the defeat must be a big defeat, and this is also because of this.
The nomads can flee farther away if they retreat, and no matter how much they lose, they may not be broken, but the defeat of the Central Plains regime cannot escape the pursuit of light cavalry, and it is doomed to be a disaster of total annihilation.
If he can't solve these salt ghosts who are like fish in his throat, Yang Guang will no longer be able to send people out to collect the victims, and it may even be impossible to guarantee the smooth supply channel between Xinyang Town and the seaside fleet.
Yang Guang is not going to send people to play hide and seek with those salt ghosts, the reason why the mage can become the core of the team is not because of strength but comprehensiveness, which can not only amplify the advantages of the team but also make up for the shortcomings of the team, and now it is Yang Guang to fulfill his dual responsibilities as a leader and a mage, and he wants to personally solve this threat.
The unwilling salt ghosts roamed around Xinyang Town, achieving nothing but killing dozens of victims, and by night they had settled in a village more than 20 miles north of Xinyang Town, where the inhabitants had long since fled, leaving only a dozen dilapidated thatched huts.
The warm bonfire dispelled the cold of the night, and the salt ghost sitting by the fire leaned his neck and drank a sip of old wine, looking at the night owl standing on the treetops, his heart was slightly hairy, he always felt that the night owl was staring at him.
The more the night watchman looked at the night owl, the more he felt that what was in front of him became blurry, and a voice sounded in his heart, telling him to obey the night owl's orders. The salt ghost who was keeping vigil knew that something was wrong, and he let go of the wine gourd with his fingers and grabbed the saber at his waist, but at the moment when his fingers had already caught the handle of the knife, the whole person gradually became sluggish, and he sat down and lowered his head and did not move.
After seeing that his night owl demon pet used the "Enchanting Humans" spell to control the Night Watch Salt Ghost, Yang Guang, who was in the air, threw a fist-sized spider egg to the ground.
After becoming a level 7 mage and mastering the 4th order spell position, Yang Guang found that his night owl demon pet had also been improved, and he could release the 1st order spell he prepared through the "mage sharing" talent, which was much more powerful than when Yang Guang first became a mage, not to mention that the 12 first-order spell positions under the effect of the "Witchcraft Ring" alone were not comparable to the previous Yang Guang.
The spider egg shook quickly when it hit the ground, and after the size quickly expanded to the size of a watermelon, the creature inside burst out of the egg and pounced on the salt ghost sitting by the campfire.
At the same time as the newly hatched sword spider attacked the night vigil salt ghost, Yang Guang in the sky also began to chant the spell spell of "Stinky Cloud Technique". The moment the spell was completed, the village on the ground was immediately enveloped in a large yellow foul-smelling gas, and the sleeping salt ghost who stayed in the house woke up like a nightmare under the erosion of the irritating gas, and then began to vomit incessantly.
The nightmare of these salt ghosts was just the beginning, and Yang Guang continued to cast spells without mercy, enveloping them with a "slow technique". Affected by the effects of the spell, the movements of these salt ghosts were drastically slowed down as if in slow motion, and in the area shrouded by the "Stinky Cloud Technique", this change was simply deadly.
As a magical creature, the sword spiders were not affected by the foul smell of the village, and those salt ghosts were slow and vomiting, and they did not even have a decent resistance, and were quickly killed one by one by the sword spiders that were getting bigger and bigger.
A salt ghost with a wet towel on his face struggled out of the house, thinking he would escape, only to find that the stench outside was the same as the inside of the house, and even the whole village was shrouded in a yellow cloud.
The screams came from not far away, and the towel-clad salt ghost followed the sound and saw a huge spider of different size emerge from a hole in the wall of another thatched hut, with a convulsive and bleeding companion hanging from its front legs.
"I shouldn't have come!" The thought came to the towel-clad salt ghost's mind, and the spider on the other side rushed over like a galloping horse, stabbing the salt ghost in the chest with its other sharp front leg. (To be continued.) )