Chapter 509: Decline

After Luo Ming's soldiers threw those grenades, it felt like the world was completely clean.

The fact is almost the same, there are few enemy troops in front of the position he is responsible for for the time being, and they are attacking the position next to them, obviously preparing to find a weaker place to break through.

If they were to break into the line, without the barrier of the earthen wall, and there were friendly troops, Luo Ming would naturally not dare to throw grenades.

But Luo Ming has long been wary of this move, in front of the coalition army is not only an earthen wall almost chest height, there is also a trench in front of the earthen wall, it is difficult for the enemy to climb over, and the coalition army can stand behind the wall and attack the enemy condescendingly, and even throw a big stone may kill an enemy.

If Luo Ming had been given two more days, he would have simply dug a longer and deeper ditch to divert the water from the stream into a mini-moat, which was enough for the enemy to drink, although he had not done it now, but it was enough for the enemy to drink.

Heavily armored soldiers were able to resist bow and arrow fire to some extent and destroy wooden fortifications, but they were even less flexible, and it was impossible to climb the wall immediately.

One of the officers immediately began to give orders to find the corpses and the wooden fortifications that had been made before to fill in a trench.

Although the lingua franca spoken by this Beran federal army was quite different from the accent of the people of Van Shee County, and it was difficult to understand it for a while, looking at him like that, you could guess that he was an officer.

Luo Ming's musketeer immediately shifted the muzzle of his gun, and five heavy arquebuses were aimed at the shouting officer, as if sensing the danger, he subconsciously wanted to dodge, but he only moved half of his body. After a burst of gunshots, he collapsed to the ground with three more blood holes in his body.

Even if the accuracy of a musket without rifling is average, at a distance of less than twenty meters, there is absolutely no reason that five shots will not hit an adult!

Even a soldier between him and the muzzle of the gun was directly pierced, and the armor and flesh and blood could not stop the bullet from killing the officer - at this distance, the heavy arquebus was simply a death rush!

Luo Ming suddenly thought that this was just the right place for ordinary soldiers to fight against ordinary masters, such as swordsmen. Although the swordsman moves faster and has additional protection against his fighting spirit, the heavy arquebus is also enough to break the defense at this distance, as long as a bullet can hit the swordsman, although it is difficult to kill, but at least it can cause a lot of injuries, which is earned.

As for the great sword master, it is not such a simple matter, either get a hundred arquebuses to set fire together, or simply pull several cannons to bombard together - however, dealing with this kind of master is originally Luo Ming's responsibility, the so-called king to king to general, ordinary soldiers to deal with super masters are already at a loss, there is no need to do this.

At the same time, a few more grenadiers, at the behest of Luo Ming, quietly went to the rest of the defensive line, spotted the dense area of the enemy, and threw grenades.

To be honest, this time there were not many casualties, the enemy had seen a grenade once and always knew how to dodge, and this time it was not thrown much.

But it effectively dealt a blow to the morale of the enemy army - no one knew when an iron ball would suddenly fly out, making the Beran soldiers get in the way, and they couldn't help but want to see if there were any iron balls flying around them so that they could dodge in time.

Although the officer had been killed, his order was still heard by many people, and some of the Beran soldiers went to find something to fill the trench.

However, Login's order to the musketeers was to pick such people to fight—only to see that several people who had found wood or corpses and were about to fill the trenches had blood holes in their bodies and fell to the ground.

Naturally, the Beran soldiers were not happy to be beaten like this, and some of them, armed with bows and arrows, shot in the direction of the smoke from the gunshots—but unfortunately, there was a large earthen wall that was a little higher than the side to completely protect the musketeers, leaving only a thin observation opening.

Although a dozen arrows were fired, only two managed to enter the observation port, one of which did not hit anyone at all, and the other hit the paper armor on the musketeer's chest, the tip of which broke through the paper armor, but failed to pierce the cloth underneath.

In the next round of shooting, several guys who dared to stand in front of the coalition forces and shoot arrows were knocked down.

For a time, although Luo Ming's army accounted for only one-tenth of the amount of the coalition army, it deterred half of the battlefield.

At the same time, the rest of the defensive line also came up with a long-prepared move.

Relying on these fortifications, it can almost play the effect of defending the city. It's not impossible to use rolling wood, but it's easy to fill the pit you've worked so hard to dig yourself. But there is one thing that works well, and that is boiling water, and sometimes boiling oil.

Being poured on his body by boiling water or even boiling oil, although it will not cause death, the pain is enough to make the experienced iron man grin his teeth and even tear open his throat and scream.

These methods, killing and injuring the enemy are still secondary, and the Belan army has been unable to attack for a long time, and it is more troublesome if the morale is lost.

After a few more minutes, although occasionally the Belan soldiers successfully climbed the earthen wall and entered the fortifications, but in the blink of an eye, they were beaten and cleaned up by the coalition forces in the fortifications, and the morale and physical strength of the Belan soldiers began to fail, and soon the horn of the troops sounded.

When the Belan soldiers retreated, Luo Ming found that the swamp he had made had been laid with straw, and some peasants and prisoners of war had been forced by the Beran to rush towards this side with bags or bales of straw.

Although they may have been afraid of arrows or even buckshot, the Overseers of the Beran did not get too close, and those who had been forced to fill the ravines were kept at a distance, and some nobles asked if they could take advantage of the opportunity to admit them.

But the Count refused categorically - if such a group of people were to be brought in, it was likely to give the enemy an opportunity, and there was no guarantee that there would be no enemy troops mixed in with them and break out after entering the fortifications.

"Then I'll do it. Luo Ming suddenly said loudly.

The Count gave him a deep look, then nodded: "Your soldiers are not very close, they are full of energy, and they can still watch some people, as long as they are not soft-hearted - but what next?"

"Thank you, I'm short of people now, since I saved them, then they belong to me, just send them back to my territory. Luo Ming thanked him, and then said, "But thank you for your help, and I will give you a gift after the war." ”

With that, Luo Ming returned to his army and ordered them to put down a wooden plank and pick up the people.

But at the same time, he also stuck his long sword on the ground in front of him, maintaining a state where he could throw sword qi at any time.