Episode 34 Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part I)

With Sun Bin's order, in the western urban area of Hanzhong City, a certain section of the artillery position hidden in a factory and grass burst out in an instant, like a giant beast jumping into the air and selling directly into the sky. A moment later, a huge booming cannon sounded, and the ground in a radius of more than ten kilometers around was trembling slightly, as if a small earthquake had occurred, and the whole ground trembled because of this huge cannon sound and terrible recoil, only to see the sky-rushing fire rising into the sky, and a huge cannonball bursting out.

After another ten seconds, a huge blast wave sounded in the Qin cavalry group that was charging more than ten kilometers away, and the killing range of the blast wave reached more than 100 meters, and dozens of Qin cavalry in this range were instantly blown to pieces.

The one who fired this terrible shell was a huge caliber gun on the artillery position, and there were nine other guns of the same caliber next to it, which was the city defense heavy gun modified by the Blue Star Army's 300mm naval gun, because of its huge cannon body and powerful attack power, the Blue Star Army named it the "Death Scythe".

This huge artillery with the gun body is more than 30 meters long and weighs 200 tons, so it can only be fixed on the city defense position, of course, it can also be pulled by train, and has strong mobility. If you look at it from the perspective of the Earth Army, this kind of huge artillery is already behind the times, far less mobile than modern artillery, and its defense capability is extremely weak. But in the face of the Xiuzhen army of the Terran Continent, this kind of cannon has a powerful destructive power.

First of all, the power of the "Death Scythe" is extremely huge, and the 300 mm caliber shells it fires can be loaded with high-energy explosives, spell explosives and other powerful warheads. Secondly, this artillery has a range of up to 30 kilometers, which is more powerful than missiles, and is the best alternative to expensive missiles. What's more, this cannon is very suitable for defending city positions, and under the protection of the city's large magic circle, the cannon does not have to worry about the enemy's close attack from the air and the ground, and calmly fires artillery to attack the enemy. If the Blue Star Army had made this kind of artillery earlier, then the Changshan Base of the Expeditionary Force in the Yan Kingdom would not have been conquered by the Qin Army so easily, and Tianlun Peak would have been more solid, and the Eastern Defense Line of the Blue Star Country would not have been so easily broken by the Qin Army.

After the explosion of the first artillery, the target was corrected for the firing of other artillery, and then the other 9 guns also began to fire one after another, and the loud noise made by the 9 huge cannons together spread to dozens of kilometers away, overshadowing all the sounds on the battlefield, and the residents of the city even thought that Hanzhong City had been hit hard.

Powerful shells fell from the sky, covering more than 20 kilometers of ground over 10,000 square meters. The mushroom cloud of explosions caused by the cannonballs hitting the ground was like a huge flame, swallowing everything inside, and the whole earth trembled under the wanton rage of these ten giant pillars. After a volley, the cavalry unit that was charging the Qin army was instantly killed by one-eighth of it, with hundreds of casualties!

Although most of the troops were still left, the cavalry troops were hit by such a sudden heavy blow, and the Qin army finally felt the horror of the Blue Star Army's weapons. They watched as their comrades and spirit beasts around them were blown apart by the sudden and powerful attack, terrifying explosion waves, vibrations of the earth, heat waves of rollers, and scattered corpses and flesh, these scenes of showing the terrifying power of hot weapons, even cultivators did not dare to be deeply afraid. In particular, the spirit beasts of the Qin army's mounts, where had these beasts with low intelligence ever seen an explosion attack of this scale? Many spirit beasts even thought that the explosion of the cannonball was an attack by some high-level cultivators, which immediately caused a collective panic among the spirit beast group, and many spirit beasts were even so frightened that they sat on the spot and sat on the spot, no matter how much the Qin soldiers sitting on it whipped to no avail, or they turned their heads in panic and ran away, uncontrollable. The spirit beast was in such a mess, and the entire cavalry team suddenly collapsed by half, and less than a third of the cavalry still charged forward.

Wu Huan had not yet reacted from the annihilation of the vanguard troops and the third wing of the Tiger Cavalry Army just now, and when he saw the cavalry troops that were torn apart in the distance, his face was pale, and an irrepressible anger burned from his heart all the way to the top of his head.

Since the war with the Blue Star Army, the Qin army has a deep understanding of the terrifying power of the Blue Star Army's shells, but there has been no good way. The Qin army could only rely on the defense of the 10,000-strong array to get close to the position of the Blue Star Army, and then launch a full-scale charge at any cost, so that they could fight all the way to the foot of Hanzhong City, but the price paid was extremely high.

Since the million-strong army entered the Blue Star Country, the Qin army had paid a heavy price of more than 300,000 casualties, and these casualties were not ordinary mortal soldiers, but precious Xiuzhen soldiers. If it weren't for the strong support of the mysterious forces behind it, the formation of a large number of ghoul troops and the support of other demon soldiers, and the national mobilization had already been launched in the country, forcibly recruiting all qualified people of appropriate age to join the Xiuzhen army, and even deceiving and coaxing these countrymen to improve their cultivation through the forcible indoctrination taught by the demon envoys, and forming a million-strong army of Xiuzhen, the Qin army would have withdrawn early because it could not bear such a heavy cost of casualties.

Even so, the Qin State was full of complaints from top to bottom because of the Qin Dynasty's long-term recklessness. Especially after the outbreak of the war with the Blue Star Kingdom, the Qin army suffered heavy casualties, although it continued to achieve victories in the overall situation of the battlefield, but the cost was really huge, and it was difficult for the Qin State to bear this pain. Especially those families who sent a large number of children from the clan to join the army, they suffered heavy losses, but they dared not speak out against the King of Qin.

These emotions in the Qin State directly affected the morale of the ordinary soldiers of the Qin army, because even the high-ranking monks had a large number of casualties, which greatly dealt a blow to the self-confidence of the Qin army, and made many Qin soldiers afraid of the weapons of the Blue Star Army. As soon as you hear the loud noise of the Blue Star Army's cannons, tanks, airplanes and other mechanical weapons on the battlefield, you will be afraid and lose your fighting spirit.

Therefore, the Qin army was in great need of a great victory to boost morale. This time the general attack on Hanzhong City, the powerful offensive troops of the Qin army to capture the entire western part of the Blue Star Country came to Hanzhong City, which once made them think that victory was in sight. However, the strange and precise missile attack at the beginning of the siege, the air attack of the storm squad, and the fierce and terrifying artillery bombardment finally broke the nerves of many Qin soldiers again, and many of them showed signs of cowardice, and some soldiers began to hesitate and refused to obey the order to charge, because it was almost the same as dying.

"Law Enforcement Team! Kill all the runaway rubbish!"

"The 4th to 8th Wings of the Tiger Cavalry Army are all attacking!

"The big army is attacking! All the incense sticks are killed in front of the Hanzhong City formation! At all costs, we must enter this city!"

Wuhuan angrily issued one order after another, quickly dispatched troops, put one army on the front foot, and launched a general attack!

He knew very well in his heart that the advantage of the Blue Star Army was its powerful long-range attack ability, as long as it could get close to the Blue Star Army at a certain distance, the power of the Qin Army's magic weapons and spells could be brought into play, and all the previous battles to defeat the Blue Star Army were won before the Qin Army killed the Blue Star Army.

After receiving the commander's order, the entire Qin army was finally mobilized. First of all, a hundred-person law enforcement team led by three Dan Realm generals flew out of the military formation, the mounts of these monks were a kind of double-headed spirit birds similar to giant eagles, each holding a multicolored stick surnamed magic weapon, all of them had fierce faces and evil spirits, and their cultivation was not low, and they carried some kind of spiritual pressure that could make ordinary Qin soldiers fearful.

Seeing this group of law enforcement teams appear, many Qin soldiers suddenly panicked, full of fear of these law enforcers. Under the leadership of the captain, the law enforcement team drove the sitting spirit beasts to divide into several groups, and pounced on the Qin cavalry who had fled back just now. Streams of multicolored light emanated from the hands of these enforcers, and the deserters who were hit let out a miserable howl of pain, and then turned into a dried corpse, which was finally collected by the law enforcers with magic weapons. This terrifying scene immediately made all the Qin soldiers tremble.

Strangely, none of the slain deserters dared to show signs of resistance in the face of these law enforcement soldiers, and all of them obediently stood in place and waited for death. After a while, the hundreds of Qin cavalry who took the lead in escaping were all killed by the law enforcement team.

After the Qin army's law enforcement team took action, the military appearance of the entire Qin army was finally changed. Under the orders of officers at all levels, the heavy cavalry, infantry battle formation, flying army battle formation, and demon crow troops, one by one, lined up in neat formations, formed one battle formation after another, and began to march in the direction of Hanzhong City. There are also spirit beast chariots with giant magic weapons looming in the dense team, and the magic weapons on the vehicles emit dazzling spiritual light, condensing terrifying attack energy.

The cavalry that had fled just now was placed at the front of the line. In this way, the Qin army warned all the soldiers that they would flee from the battle, and there was only this kind of end. More than 500,000 troops set up a long battle formation more than 30 kilometers away from Hanzhong City, and all the Qin soldiers were ready to go, murderous, and their eyes were pointing directly at the group of tall buildings in the distance. In the eyes of the Qin army, Hanzhong City is the capital of the Blue Star Country, and as long as Hanzhong City is conquered, the Blue Star Country will definitely perish!

The Qin army is about to launch a full-scale attack, of course, Wuhuan did not send all his troops, at its base camp, a huge black magic circle covered up tens of thousands of troops, so that people's spiritual sense could not penetrate, even a missile launched by the Blue Star Army just now had no effect on it, what was hidden inside was Wu Huan's reserve army, which was a powerful force to launch the final fatal blow.

Wu Huan looked at Hanzhong City from afar, his sword-like eyes were thick with a thick evil aura, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Start attacking!"