Chapter 16: The Devil's Army

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At this time, on the tower of the east gate of Zhaoliang, Wang Gang's temples and Bai Keqiu were anxiously waiting for the troops to be assembled. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Your Highness, what is that thing floating in the sky?" Bai Keqiu pointed to the balloon floating over the enemy camp in the distance through the window of the city tower and asked--hot air balloons are relatively sophisticated equipment in this world, and the control is more complicated, for the sake of safety, there are many lights on both the liftoff field and the top of the balloon, so even if they are several miles apart, they can be clearly seen at night.

It's just that Wang Gang's sideburns know where to go? He looked at the strange-looking balloon twice, and shook his head: "Maybe it's some kind of magic spell from the human barbarians?" It's like that exploding shell? ”

Bai Keqiu stared at the hot air balloon and said with some suspicion: "Your Highness, I always think that this is not a good thing, let's think about it in the long run, right?" ”

"Think long?!" Wang Gang's sideburns glared at Bai Keqiu angrily, "Fox King, do you know what you're talking about?" At present, it is good that the enemy army has only come to more than 20,000, but fools know that this is just the vanguard of Xiao Thief, if I don't take advantage of the fact that there are not many enemy troops to break through, and when the main force of Xiao Thief arrives, I will not be able to leave! ”

Bai Keqiu was speechless for a long time blocked by Wang Gang's sideburns, so he could only say with a bitter face: "But that strange thing ......"

Wang Gang's sideburns arbitrarily interrupted Bai Keqiu's words: "No matter what that strange thing is, I will break through tonight!" ”

Seeing that Wang Gang's temples had made up his mind, Bai Keqiu knew that no matter how much persuasion was useless, he had to keep his mouth shut.

Ten minutes later, the iron horsemen of the tiger, leopard, and wolf clans all gathered outside the East City Gate!

"Let's get started!" Wang Gangshu glanced at Bai Keqiu and gave the order to break through.

"I wish Your Highness prosperity in martial arts!" Bai Keqiu is the governor of Shannan, and this Zhaoliang City is his station, so he can't go with Wang Gangshen.

"Hmm!" Wang Gang's temples nodded heavily, buckled the iron helmet under his armpit to his head, and strode down the city wall.

Bai Keqiu glanced at the back of Wang Gang's sideburns and glanced at his attendant.

The attendant immediately strode down the wall, stepped on a sturdy fox, and ran in the direction of the bell tower in the center of the city.

As mentioned earlier, Zhaoliang is not a big city, and the distance from the city wall to the bell tower is not very far, and it can be reached in a few minutes if you ride a fast-paced mount.

When the attendant arrived at the bell tower, there were already three or so herald-looking people waiting under the bell tower, and the attendant didn't talk nonsense, but just said to the three people: "The breakout is about to begin, you can make a feint!" ”

The three heralds nodded, mounted their mounts, and headed for the other three gates.

However, a few minutes later, the cavalry of the fox, ape, and wild boar tribes, which had been waiting in the south, west, and north gates, rushed out of the city, making a gesture to bypass the Chinese military fortress outside the city, and escape!

Because their "breakout" operation had long been recognized, they had just left the city when they were strongly blocked by the Imperial Army!

First of all, the rain of shells accurately exploded in their riding formation, blowing them up and crying dad and mother! Immediately after that, the line of the Central Empire, which did not have torches, strode out of the darkness, and used the steel rifled rifles in their hands to beat the feints of the three clans with heavy casualties!

"Is it still human to line up at night without torches and launch an attack on us with the same accuracy as during the day?!" The commander of an ape clan witnessed what was happening in front of him, and his terrified brain was about to crash!

"They are the devil! Only the devil can do such a thing at night! The ape commander's handrail trembled.

"We're just in charge of feints, and if we continue to fight like this, we'll be refracted like lizardmen!" The ape commander didn't care if he was a devil or not, he only knew that he was going to follow in the footsteps of the lizardmen.

"Withdraw! My lord, we've done our best! The deputy persuaded.

The ape commander nodded: "Mingjin retreats!" ”

At about the same moment, the commanders of the Wild Boar Clan and the Fox Clan of the other two gates also made the same choice, and fled back to Zhaoliang City with their men and horses in disarray.

At this time, the main force of the breakthrough led by Wang Gang's sideburns had just come out of the east gate!

Hearing the earth-shattering guns and shouts of killing from the other three, even the determined Wang Gangsides couldn't help but beat the drum in his heart at this time!

"Could it be that we have already been discovered? It's just impossible! The black light is blinding, how can the human barbarians see it?! Is it ......? ”

Just when Wang Gang's temples were suspicious, suddenly, several huge fireballs suddenly exploded in front of the riding array!

"Boom... Bang... Bang!!! ”

The flames flickered, shrapnel flew everywhere, and the screams of the orc knights who had changed their tune immediately rang out!

"This is shelling?!" Wang Gang's sideburns stared in disbelief at the place where the explosion occurred.

"Great Khan, if it was an artillery bombardment, we would have heard the sound of artillery and seen the fire!" A tiger guard reminded.

"Not shelling? What's that?! Wang Gangshen felt like he was going crazy.

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At this time, on the watchtower of the Second Cavalry Division's camp, Zhao Deming was celebrating with political commissar Lu Zhisheng.

"Old Lu, don't say it, this new thing called 'landmines' in the arsenal is fucking powerful! In the future, our second division Yin people will all rely on it! ”

Lu Zhisheng's old face also smiled into a flower: "You are still the master, the commanders of the other three divisions all think this thing is heavy and refuse to bring it, so you have a unique eye and bring a car!" No, these things will give you credit for it right away?! ”

Zhao Deming was so happy that he was photographed by Lu Zhisheng's horse, and he laughed out loud.

And at this time, the blocking battle continued.

Like the other three gates, seeing the imperial army of the brigade of troops lined up in a horizontal formation and drove out of the darkness, the iron cavalry of the tiger, leopard, and wolf clans were all frightened, especially after eating the opponent's accurate round of guns, their morale plummeted, if it weren't for Wang Gang's sideburns being in the formation at this time, I am afraid that they would be scattered on the spot!

The platoon of guns was followed by accurate artillery fire, and the 75mm smoothbore guns mounted on the camp wall were condescending, and it was a fierce bombardment against the orc cavalry!

The blinding firelight, the torn air, the flying shrapnel, the terrible screams of the comrades, all of these things mixed together, strongly stimulated the nerves of the beast knights, made them frightened, and lost their fighting spirit!

High-explosive shells continued to fly into the formation as if they had eyes, and the nearest one was less than ten meters away from where Wang Gang's temples were.

It's just that even if he lost his life, Wang Gang's sideburns were also very embarrassed, you must know that the incident happened suddenly, the guards in order to protect him, but they flew him off the mount, although the shrenchnel made the guards top, but the strong shock wave and the strong vibration that fell from the mount still made Wang Gang's temples feel a whirlwind, pressed by the corpses of the guards, and couldn't get up for half a day!

"Great Khan, Great Khan, where are you?!" I don't know how long it took, but a crying voice sounded nearby.

"I ...... I'm here! Wang Gang's sideburns wasted a lot of effort before he shouted.

Listening to Wang Gang's sideburns, the call hurriedly ran to the vicinity. Wang Gang's sideburns heard a rush of footsteps, and then the two corpses pressed on his body were dragged away!

A big cat face full of teardrops appeared in Wang Gang's eyes: "Da Khan, it's great that you're okay!" ”

"Help, help me up!" Wang Gang's sideburns said urgently.

The Tiger Clan warrior didn't talk nonsense, and immediately grabbed one of Wang Gang's temples and pulled him up from the ground.

It was only at this time that Wang Gang's sideburns found that the sound of gunfire had stopped, and in addition to the mutilated corpses, only a few hundred orc warriors formed a circle to defend him, and on the outskirts, the human army had already pressed forward with bayonets!

"You're the Tiger Chieftain Steel Sideburns?" Outside the circle, a human on a horse, like an officer, stared at him and asked.

Wang Gangsideburns turned his gaze to the human officer: "That's right! I am the Great Khan of the Tiger Clan, who are you? ”

The officer smiled and said with pride: "I am the brigadier general of the Central Imperial Army, Cao Qing, the commander of the Fifth Cavalry Brigade!" ”

"The Central Empire? What a big breath it is that your lord is not subordinate to the world! Wang Gang's sideburns did not lose when he lost the battle, and he pursed his lips to express disdain.

The officer didn't have the heart to quarrel with him: "Wang Gangside, the tone of His Majesty the Emperor of my family has nothing to do with you, I'm just here to help our division pass on a word!" ”

"What...... Speech?! Wang Gang's sideburns frowned and asked.

The officer grinned, showing a few white teeth in a very disobedient manner: "Go back!" Don't come out without Lao Tzu's permission! ”