Chapter 151: Breaking the Formation
"We're under attack!" someone shouted.
"Report, no attackers seen!"
"Fool, in front of your right!"
"Who's going to help me—it hurts!"
All sorts of noises came and went, along with scattered sand and billowing dust, which for a time caused chaos in the position.
Hojosa turned his head to look at him, and the ground fifty paces away seemed to be suddenly "empty", and the soldiers who were still standing fell to the ground, and the cannon, which was supposed to point to the street entrance, was now horizontal on the steps of the granary, and there was a long blood trail under it.
Attack?
By the way, he did see sparks erupting from the house before!
Hojosa felt his temporarily interrupted consciousness reconnected - although it was not known what means the princess used, the sneak attack was definitely launched from there!
"The second and third groups are five degrees west and aim at the houses on South 1st Street!" he drew his katana and walked to the front of the team to supervise the battle. As an iron cannon who has participated in many siege battles against Evil Horse with the general general, he is not a rookie who is new to battle. These cultivators don't look down on firearms, but he knows them well. Hojo firmly believes that if there are enough of these weapons, they can become the core force that will determine the outcome of the battle. He is not a sentimenter, but he can be on an equal footing with the favored and trusted people of the An family, relying on firearms.
With a clear order, the chaos was immediately suppressed, and the two groups of artillery also went into action. They pushed the heavy gun mount, aimed it at the house where the sparks had just come out, and re-angled it to secure the muzzle.
"Two shots, let's go!"
The igniter then stabbed the red-hot iron hook into the ignition.
The iron cannon spewed flames!
"Second Launch—"
The men on the side immediately followed, cleaning the chambers, filling the cartridges and shells, and plugging them with wooden poles. "Ready!"
"Put!"
Thirty breaths, this interval proves that his troops are not intimidated by the enemy's sneak attack, and the reload time is still at the same level as when training!
Hojosa looked over at the bombarded house - three of the four shells had hit, and the angles of incidence varied, had knocked a large crack in the wall. If there were princesses' troops stationed inside, they should all be smashed by cannonballs at this moment.
However, the fact is that Xia Fan exited the townhouse the same way after completing his first shot.
By the time he had changed places and squatted in the pit, the enemy had just finished the first round of counterattacks.
So he put the rail out of another window.
The projectile box was on the right side, and Xia Fan could complete the reload alone, and he noticed that a guy who was dressed completely different from other Dongsheng soldiers walked to the front of the position. Judging from the posture of the other party holding a scimitar, it seems to be a general.
So he lowered the muzzle of the gun a little and included the man in the hit zone.
While the enemy had finished the second round and everyone was looking forward to observing the results, Xia Fan once again launched the improved streamer technique!
The surging current flows down one end of the handle into the track, then through the tail of the projectile into the other side of the loop, and finally into the ground.
In this process, the huge electromagnetic force generated on the guide rail pushes the projectile to accelerate until it carries electric sparks and hot air out of the chamber!
A similar scene appeared in the enemy position.
Unfortunately, this projectile did not hit the commander directly, as Xia Fan expected, but passed by its side and hit the tail of another iron cannon - even if it was only two hundred meters away, the accuracy of the railgun could not reach the level of pointing and hitting which, obviously the level of processing seriously restricted its due strength.
Just when Xia Fan was about to continue to change seats and give full play to the flexibility of the trap beast, a deafening roar suddenly exploded, and even the house trembled.
He turned, and was greeted by a scorching wind.
I saw a red and black fireball rise from the enemy position in the distance, and the fierce explosion wind tore all the surrounding obstacles, including people! The fireball quickly disappeared, replaced by billowing smoke, and in a short time it passed over the top of the granary, like a blooming mushroom.
This is...... Gunpowder detonated?
Xia Fan immediately realized that by chance, a split fragment of the projectile just now had crashed into the enemy's ammunition - the high temperature caused by the electric current and the impact was still there, and as long as it came into contact with flammable materials, it could burn instantly.
It was at this moment that the princess sounded the horn of attack!
According to the agreement, Xia Fan would shoot three or four times, depending on the degree of ablation of the orbit and the amount of qi in his body, ideally destroying two positions and opening up at least one safe passage for the army.
But Ning Wanjun obviously did not wait for the notice in a rigid manner, and when she saw the moment the enemy position suddenly exploded, she gave the order to charge.
"Everyone, follow me!"
With the whining of the trumpet, the princess was the first to rush out of the alley towards the granary where the smoke was billowing.
After entering the clearing, the army barely encountered any decent resistance, and just poured directly into the position of Dongsheng Kingdom. At this moment, they were surprised to find that most of the opponents they were facing had lost the ability to fight back, and many of them fell to the ground with blood in their ears, or spat blood directly from their mouths, as if their bodies had been severely injured.
Even if someone could draw their sword and fight them, their footsteps would be staggering, and it would be difficult to stand firmly. Naturally, everyone will not let go of such a good opportunity to grab credit, and cleanly cut each other down one by one.
Ning Wanjun traversed the smoky position several times, but he didn't find a single enemy who could fight against him.
The grain transport team in the distance saw that the situation was not good, and directly turned around and ran towards the north of the city.
......
In the streets and alleys, Mo Yun, who witnessed all this, was stunned.
In her imagination, Her Royal Highness the princess should be the weaker party - in order to avenge this blood and hatred, she endured humiliation for many years, and finally saved a force that could protect herself. Next, she has to be careful to maneuver between the forces of various states, and the Qi royal family is a behemoth that she dare not touch.
As one of the few friends of Her Royal Highness the Princess, she knows that the risks are huge, but she is still willing to go to risk for her and accompany her. If the princess can achieve great things, it is naturally the best, and if she fails, she also wants to be the one who accompanies the other party to the end.
But the situation now seems to be a little different than she expected.
Not to mention Dongsheng Haikou, even if the Qiguo army is here, as long as there are more than a dozen such "artillery", the result will not be any different, right?
So Princess Guangping, who was divided into Jinxia City and still has not controlled the entire city, has actually become another behemoth?
This...... It's unbelievable!
However, in addition to the consternation, there was also ecstasy in Mo Yun's heart.
No matter how the cannon works, it has to be mounted on top of the trap beast she made - when this thing actually appears on the battlefield of Qiguo, won't her invention immediately spread all over the world, and everyone will know about it?
At that time, I don't know how those diehards of the Mo family will feel?
Mo Yun never likes to bow down to her ears, she only promises, and swallows all the injustice and suffering she has suffered, otherwise she would not leave the Mo family angrily.
She likes to repay her grievances directly.