Chapter 952. Shenwei wheels
This is many times more powerful than the ladder of advanced weapons, although the civil structure of the cloud car runs slowly, but the thick special plank can be a good protection of the soldiers inside, before the moment of landing on the head of the city and opening the gate, it is impossible for the ordinary soldiers on the head of the city to stop the attack of this kind of big killing weapon with bows and arrows or bed crossbows.
Behind the cloud chariot were the normal archers, cavalry and ordinary pike-infantry, and none of the 10,000 troops rushing towards the northern city wall rushed to the chariot, because both warring sides knew that the gate of Pershing City in the south was not the kind of gate that the chariot could break open.
The drumbeat of boiling blood was muffled by the muffled roar of the huge wooden wheels crushing the rammed earth. On the battlefield where the battle is about to begin, the sound of the cloud wheel running over the wooden wheel roars like thunder, and it seems to be the echo of the wheel of history running over all beings. It is the thunder sound of the cruel wheels of war when they run over the blood. The sound of the mighty wheels roaring forward seemed to be the best battle cry, completely tense the nerves of the 30,000 defenders on the northern wall and the 10,000 attacking troops below the wall. In this roar that is like fate crushing over, everyone feels the insignificance of the individual and the greatness of the collective.
Legend has it that the soldiers of the forbidden army who were about to collapse at the touch of a button, shining with golden armor, stood still in the face of ten cloud chariots that rushed towards them like fierce beasts.
Near, near, five hundred zhang, three hundred zhang, one hundred zhang, fifty zhang, facing the huge and hideous war machine that seemed impossible to defeat, no one moved, no one spoke, and no one shot an arrow on the north wall.
"Machine gunner ready. The silver-colored magician, like his ordinary infantry, stood on the wide "square" at the top of the wall, rather than hiding in the tower as a matter of course. When the first cloud cart reached a distance of forty-five zhang, the voice of the silver mage rang in the ears of every heavy.
"Shoot!"
The sound of the gunpowder explosion instantly turned into an invisible torrential downpour, and columns of smoke rose from the 20 machine-gun carts on the city wall, instantly turning into a choking nitric oxide mist, almost temporarily obscuring the sight of both the enemy and us. In the next second, as the plank shattered, bright red blood splattered out, as if the huge war monster had been hunted by hunters, and the projectile pierced the plank armor and penetrated tons of flesh and blood inside.
The screams are no longer heard, the continuous roar of the rainstorm-like gunpowder explosion, mixed with the sharp roar of the projectile tsunami sweeping through the air, the muzzle velocity of the round-headed projectile is not high, but it is also a heavy iron ball anyway, and the kinetic energy is terrifying, not to mention the strong wooden plank, even if it is a thin steel plate, it will be directly punched out of the hole, and the protective ability that Yunche is proud of suddenly became a joke.
The flesh and blood ceremonial flowers exploded in the air, and before the ten cloud cars even rushed closer, seven of them were blown through half of the superstructure, and countless broken limbs fell from a height of more than thirty zhang, either falling into a soft surface, or plunging into the moat and disappearing. The wide and feasible moat of Pershing City was completely bright red at this moment.
The river of blood surrounded the dark golden city, boiling like a thick soup, and the people who had been broken in half of their bodies struggled in the blood-colored water, like a mixed dish in this infernal soup. The huge war machine, pulled by a giant turtle-like beast one zhang high and three zhang long, slowly and unswervingly slammed into the city wall, and no matter how the machine gun projectile swept through, it finally hit the city.
The sound of the red-coated cannon came from afar, and it was obvious that on the eastern city wall, the general had ordered the cannon to be fired.
On the north city wall where the silver dust is located, between the twenty machine gun carts, the sound of the two-handed heavy sword unsheathed exploded, neatly aligned, the chain nested military momentum based on the Nine Palaces Kill, stretching for several miles, the golden chain mail was under the morning sun, reflecting like a rising flame, and the sky directly above the city wall slowly gathered dark clouds.
When the wind gradually rose, when the wooden planks on the cloud cart rumbled against the top of the battlements at the head of the city, the two wooden gates slowly opened, and the roar of the northerners gradually sounded, and at the same time, the war drums on the city head were belated.
"One drum, then three exhaustions. The snare drum sometimes needs a near-fast style like radar. Silver Dust calmly looked at the vague and restless figure of the wolf-like northern soldier behind the open door, and reached out to shoot two arcane missiles as a signal for the war drums to beat.
"Kill!" the black climber, the golden defender, shouted the same faith at the same time, in the same place.
The black chain mail decorated with feathers rushed out one after another, rushing through the wide, smooth, and heavy wooden bridge with great lightness, and as he ran, he drew a long-handled battle axe from his back and swung up a gang wind called "Lingyun Battle Heavenly Decision". However, what they faced was no longer the southern defenders who had been terrified when they heard the wind and panicked when they saw them rushing over, they were facing the Golden Armor Forbidden Army who dared to charge at them first for the first time in five years.
Staggered breaking, infinite staggered breaking, at the same time as the golden armor shattered, the black chain mail was also broken by the golden-colored heavy sword, and a large amount of blood spurted out from the wound that was more than a foot deep, as well as the severed kidney.
The black northerner soldiers, their personal powerlessness is obviously above the forbidden army, but the nine palace cutting and killing of the forbidden army soldiers is far more powerful than the army of the black chain mail soldiers, and a violent melee unfolded on the city, and in the first quarter of an hour of fierce fighting, no one bargained.
In the arrow tower erected on the top of the city wall, feather arrows poured down like water spurting out of a water pipe, and on the castle tower as high as forty-five zhang, countless crossbow arrows, broken yuan arrows, and even gun-like projectiles were shot. The True King's secret guards and the two hundred dragon forbidden captains brought by Silver Dust all wore golden chain mail, and fought together with these forbidden soldiers who had never been able to obtain human dignity at all, defending their last faith.
A quarter of an hour later, the scales of victory slowly fell towards the defenders.
Among the two groups of people with equal combat power, the black side has the belief of making meritorious contributions and the desire to return to the hometown with the glory of the ancestors, while the golden side has only despair in his heart and only the determination to die.
Yinchen asked the 243-member personal guard to join this war with no end in sight, and he didn't mean anything else, but he just wanted his concept to be passed on to the whole army through Hua Chufeng and others. When the once extremely lowly and incomparably humble people suddenly got a chance to prove their existence value and obtain glory, when the people who had been muddy and scribbled for half their lives suddenly understood the glory and shame, the forbidden army who knew shame and then bravely, the fighting spirit shown in front of the expanded Black Feather Army was not brave, it was simply a fight for life.
Wounds for injuries, blood for blood, life for life, no matter how powerful the Black Feather Army's "Lingyun Battle Heavenly Decision" is, in the face of such a deadly style of play, there is no way to do it, as the saying goes, punch the master to death, in the face of a person who is desperate with you, only rely on the glory and the expectations of the hometown fathers to maintain the will to fight The Black Feather Army did not really achieve the "decisive battle for the hometown fathers".
And the forbidden army did it, whether it was split by the plate axe, or the shoulder was cut off, the middle of the gold was always swung and stabbed in the direction of breaking the enemy's belly, and the last moment of the brainstorm was often the first moment when the liver and gallbladder fell to the ground, and the forbidden army suffered huge casualties in exchange for the same heavy and even more tragic losses of the Black Feather Army.
At the same time, the pitch-black barrel slowly grew out of the white sleeve, and in the endless purple light, it slowly condensed into a pitch-black, streamlined gun body, as well as shoulder straps, electronic sights, etc., and the silver-colored figure took advantage of the chaotic crowd, hiding in the shadow of a machine gun car, and condescendingly aimed at a huge cloud car.
The moment Banzaki pulled it, in the pitch-black barrel of 160 mm caliber, only a roar of a black dragon sounded indifferently, and the purple projectile with a purple tail flame was instantaneous, and it pierced into the part of the cloud car tilted forward like a sharp blade, completely submerged, and then there was a red fireball that exploded violently.
The fireball took on a standard circle, roaring and rolling in place, getting bigger and brighter, and finally expanding into a huge bright spot with a diameter of 20 zhang, like the second sun that suddenly rose in this gray heaven and earth!
Light radiation, shock waves, but no mushroom clouds rose into the sky, only a ring of wind, swept over like a disaster, and the cloud drove in a huge explosion that could deafen the ears of almost everyone within a hundred zhang, and broke from the middle of the middle, roared down from a height of more than ten zhang, smashed into the moat with a bang, and fell into pieces in the splashing blood-colored river water.
After the explosion, half of the cloud chariot and the giant beast dragging the cloud chariot, as well as the northern soldiers who had just entered the cloud chariot and were about to enter the city, looked up blankly, facing the thirty-one-zhang high city wall with a blank and innocent face.
No one knows, because even if the red-coated cannon fired at close range, it would not be possible to destroy the cloud car with just one shot, and at most it would only be a big hole in the top building.
However, Silver Dust would not wait for them, he was a little sluggish with the cannon on his shoulder, but he was able to quickly turn the muzzle of the cannon and aim at another cloud car, the black cannon shot purple projectiles, easily breaking through the thick wooden plank, and then the cub exploded into a huge bright fireball like the scorching sun.
In that fireball, there is not much heat, only endless blasting power, the projectiles spewed out by the cannon, every shot is as terrifying as an electromagnetic reconnect cannon, there is no high temperature, no burning, except that the power of the explosion is a heavy impact, the attack of the black cannon, the attribute is [bombardment].
It was the resurrected Black Sky Gang God Cannon.
When the third explosion that shook the field sounded, Nie Wanliu already knew that ten cloud chariots could not take Pershing City at all, but he didn't care too much, if the Northern Empire only had forty cloud chariots, then don't think about any southern expeditions, right?
War is always a fight against national strength, even in the Gangfeng world. Nie Wanliu calmly waved his hand and gave the order, asking the soldiers in the rear to put the new cloud chariot on the new giant beast and slowly rush towards the city wall, while ordering the giant beast that lost the cloud chariot to return.
Cloud cars are easy to build, and giant beasts are rare.
He dispatched it like this, everything was normal and according to plan, but he probably selectively ignored one point, that is, in such a short time of cloud car scheduling, how could the Black Feather Army on the northern city wall get reinforcements from the rear?
What the northerners had to bear was not only the loss of soldiers, but also the sudden disconnection of the troops who ascended the city.
The battle on the city wall slowly subsided, even though the cloud cart was equipped with a smooth staircase, and the infantry on the ground could enter from the back door and quickly ascend to the city, but they could not transfer too many troops in a little time, and the Black Feather Army, which had no backup, was quickly wiped out at the top of the city wall, and at this time, the emperor who liked to fight and rush the most, and served as the forward general, seemed to remember that the empire had prepared a lot of cloud ladders.
"Someone! Send the ladder with a rushing car! Spearmen prepare!"
It was too late, and the roar of the machine guns raised another cloud of mist over the city, and then a flood of projectiles fell from the thirty-foot high city.
The giant shield slaves who were responsible for guarding the base of the cloud car fell collectively at this moment.
It wasn't a massacre, it was a much more brutal mass execution. Those people did not fall in rows at all, but in a phalanx, a phalanx, all in one piece, and there were few screams, because most of them were killed by headshots.
The bows and arrows, the bed crossbows, and even the huge arrows fired from the ballistae were now nothing more than a proclamation of existence, and compared to the hundreds of people who were worn together and nailed to the ground and wailed, the first phalanx of 10,000 slaves was wiped out in just a hundred breaths.
There was not even a single wounded, not a single deserter left, and their blood seemed to be the best tribute to the hundreds of thousands of unjust souls in the capital.
"Your Excellency. When the fireball exploded for the fifth time and turned into a small sun, a herald from the Forbidden Army came to Yinchen's side: "Compared to the sharpshooter (machine gun car), the power of the ballista is too small, should we move it away and make some space?"
"No, from now on, the ballista will shoot freely, and you can achieve whatever results you can get, and then you can finish shooting the stockpiled crossbow arrows. Silver Dust commanded without looking back, and raised the barrel again.
Purple projectiles whistled out, a morale-boosting order that boosted morale more than any trumpets or drums of war.
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From sunrise to sunset, this brutal battle was finally desperately rescued by five giant beasts and three cloud chariots in the northern country, and the troops were withdrawn unilaterally. Blood flowed on the walls, and the Forbidden Army lost 10,000 men on the first day, with the northern walls being the least damaged.
And under the city walls, the 40,000 corpses left behind by the northerners emitted a steaming stench under the sunset.