Chapter 65: A Powerful Church
The church knights charged.
The twelve strongest Church Knights lined up in a row and rushed to the front.
Each of the twelve ecclesiastical knights had a fist-sized pale gold sun insignia on their left breastplate.
Two of them have sun badges with four prismatic golden oak leaf patterns.
Among the sun badges of the other four, there are three golden oak leaf patterns arranged in the characters.
On the chests of the remaining six church knights, among the sun insignia, only two faint golden oak leaf patterns shone brightly.
The twelve knights of the Church shouted the holy name of 'Mu' in a low voice, and waved their swords with both hands, which were almost as high as their bodies, and the sword light was like a white waterfall, and they strode forward with great enthusiasm and arrogance.
The Imperial soldiers lined up in a neat salvo, and by the time Longinus gave the order to charge, they were ready to shoot.
No sooner had the church knights rushed two steps than a dense burst of gunfire rang out in the street.
Large swaths of lead bullets whistled away, and the eighteen-millicaliber lead bullets made a piercing sound of breaking the air, like a swarm of crazy killer bees, fiercely stabbing at the charging church knights.
The long sword swung and the sword light swirled, and the wind brought by the blade was blazing.
The dull crash was incessant, and hundreds of buckshot bullets were shattered by swords or shot sideways, causing holes the size of bowls to burst into the facades of buildings on both sides of the street.
In just a few breaths, hundreds of Imperial soldiers in a column had already fired a salvo, and the bullets of the flintlock rifles were empty, and it was too late to reload.
The lieutenant colonel, who had just been seriously injured by Longinus's yelling, stood up, and with the support of two subordinates, he stood tremblingly at the back of the queue, giving orders loudly.
The Imperial soldiers who were firing in a salvo separated from the left and right, and six hundred-millimeter field guns appeared from behind the line.
'Boom Boom' made six loud noises in a row, and nearly 2,000 heavy shotguns rushed out of the cannon chamber frantically with the muzzle flame of several feet long, like a torrential rain from the gods purifying the world, and sprinkled in front of the charging church knights.
Two four-oak knights shouted in unison, their bodies covered with a pale red flame rising on the inside and a milky white on the outside, and a large flame of light visible to the naked eye on their swords. Before a shot of lead bullet could get close to their bodies, it quickly melted into high-temperature lead water in the light flame, and was swept back by the sword wind.
A large number of Imperial soldiers did not have time to dodge, and the hot lead water that stirred back was sprinkled on their faces and bodies, burning their skin and flesh, and many of them had their entire faces burned to shreds by the lead water.
Only a few of these Imperial soldiers were too seriously injured, and they unconsciously let out a low cry of pain.
Along with the Imperial soldiers, there were six Ecclesiastical Knights with only two golden oak leaves in the Sun Emblem. The shotgun spewed out a field gun was by no means more powerful than the bullets fired by a flintlock rifle.
The long swords in the hands of the six church knights shook violently, and their shoulders, arms, and thighs spurted out a little blood at the same time.
There was a two-piece golden oak knight with blood splattering on his right knee and his body shook and he wailed, and he fell to the ground involuntarily, and the long sword in his hand was out of his hand, and slid down the street more than a dozen feet away.
Most of the shotguns fired from six hundred-millimeter field guns were intercepted by the twelve knights in the first row.
The rest of the small number of shotguns plunged headlong into the ranks of the Church knights who followed closely behind.
Some of these ecclesiastical knights have a faint golden oak leaf pattern in the sun insignia on their chests. Most of the other knights had only a golden sun insignia on their breastplate, and no gold oak leaf stripes on them.
Hundreds of large-caliber shotguns roared in, and the knights with gold oak leaf patterns on the badge were quick to shoot, swinging their swords to split most of the shotguns that were fired at them, and only a dozen people were injured by the shotguns before they had time to react.
The Church Knights, who did not have a golden oak pattern, were much weaker, and when the shotguns hit, they drew their chic oval shields from their backs to protect their upper bodies.
Rao was like this, and there were still more than forty church knights who screamed in pain, blood splattered all over their bodies, and they were knocked to the ground by the projectiles.
The actions of the Imperial Army did not pause, they were like an iron-gray machine, running rapidly and carefully.
All the soldiers were expressionless, their eyes were calm and solemn as they were told.
With the lieutenant colonel's hurried shouting, six 100-millimeter field guns were quickly pulled to both sides of the street, and the twelve 60-millimeter field guns in the rear were lined up, firing a salvo without any hesitation.
The gun carriage shook back violently, and the twelve sixty-millimeter field guns spewed out muzzle flames several feet long, and twelve heavy solid bullets rushed out of the barrels.
Not a shotgun, but a solid one.
The Church Knights had already rushed to a distance of less than a hundred feet from the Imperial Army's gun emplacements, and at such a close distance, the solid cannonballs reached the Church Knights almost as soon as they were discharged.
The two four-piece golden oak knights roared angrily, and their swords slashed forward at the same time, and the blades of their swords erupted like water waves, blasting forward more than a dozen feet away.
The four solid shells heated up rapidly in the flames, and in an instant they burned red.
Unlike the smaller shotguns, which quickly melted into lead in the sword winds of these Church Knights, these solid cannonballs were so large that they melted much slower.
Especially when the distance was too close, Jian Feng didn't have time to destroy the four solid cannonballs, and the cannonballs had already flown in front of the two knights.
They had no choice but to raise their long swords and use their broad blades as shields to protect their own vital points.
Four muffled sounds sounded almost simultaneously, and the two strongest church knights were shot almost simultaneously, one was hit in the left and right shoulders by the cannonball, and the other was hit hard in the chest and sword by the cannonball.
The two of them shook their bodies fiercely, they let out a low roar, and they were hit head-on by a sixty-millicaliber cannon at a distance of 100 feet, and they didn't even take a step back!
"Great Mu!" Several children of the big family standing at the door of the Golden Anchor Club, they witnessed this incredible scene, and they opened their mouths at the same time, hoarsely praising Mu's vast divine grace and supreme divine might.
The sons and daughters of these big families, most of them, like Joe, have just opened the sea of power. They don't know anything about real power, they don't know anything about real power, they don't know anything about the truth of this world.
To physically endure the frontal bombardment of sixty millimeters of field artillery is a miracle in their hearts!
Longinus punched Joe hundreds of feet away, but he couldn't bring such a strong thrill and shock to these gentlemen.
The gentlemen knew the power of the field cannon deeply, but they couldn't figure out at all how terrifying the strength required to blast a big fat man weighing hundreds of pounds into the air with one punch.
Longinus smiled reservedly, like a shepherd looking at his own lambs, and smiled happily at these 'devout believers'.
He felt that his face was very bright!
Powerful church knights should show their strength in front of believers from time to time, in exchange for their more devout offerings, so that they can fear and respect the church more.
A terrible howl followed, and Longinus's smile suddenly retracted.
Two knights of the Church with four golden oak leaves blocked four cannonballs, and eight more shells whizzed.
The sword in the hand of a knight with three pieces of gold oak was broken by a cannonball, which slammed into his chest. The knight snorted, his silver armor dented, and he staggered back several steps before spitting blood.
The other three Ecclesiastical Knights with two golden oak stripes, who could not stop the close bombardment of the cannonballs, prostrate themselves on the spot, and the cannonballs whizzed over their heads, hitting the Ecclesiastical Knights behind them.
Seven or eight knights of the Church were hit by the shells, and their bodies exploded, two of them had their chests pierced through the shells, and one of their heads suddenly exploded into a mist of blood, and several of them had their arms shattered by the shells, and blood was spilled all over their bodies.
One of the two golden-oak-patterned church knights fell to the ground before he could crawl to the ground, he let out a low roar, his sword in both hands, and slashed down with a solid cannonball that flew in front of him.
The sword roared and was shattered to pieces by a single blow from a cannonball.
The cannonball hit the head of the church knight, and with a loud bang, half of the head of the two golden oak leaf knights dented, and the cannonball flew backwards with his body dozens of feet away, knocking down seven or eight church knights in a row.
A single shot and artillery attack by the Imperial Army brought dozens of casualties to the Church Knights.
Longinus looked at the knights of the church, who had half of their heads sunken and were already too dead to die, and roared angrily: "You are all evil heretics, and you will all be punished by my lord!" ”
Longinus drew his greatsword from the street and strode towards the Imperial Army.
Hundreds of Vetul's guards rushed out from behind the Imperial array, and they pulled out the short guns hanging from their waists, and shot at the charging Longinus.
Dense buckshot pounced on Longinus.
The golden light in Longinus's eyes flashed, and the air around him vibrated violently, and the high temperature quickly melted the lead bullets, and a large area of high-temperature lead water was poured and sprayed, splashing on the bodies of these Vetol guards.
In an instant, hundreds of Weitu's guards were burned by the lead water, they hissed and screamed, turned and retreated.
The firecrackers were completely useless against Longinus, and only increased the casualties and chaos on his side.
The guards retreated, and more than a dozen leaders of the guards gritted their teeth, they drew their sabers and swords at their waists, and rushed towards Longinus with more than a dozen army majors, captains and other officers.
Longinus roared lowly, his sword in his right hand and swung it forward slightly.
Dozens of captains of the Vetto family, along with the colonels and lieutenants of the army, snorted in unison, and they were powerless to resist, like fallen leaves in a hurricane, and were swept away dozens of feet away by Longinus's blow.
At the same time as they were swept away, the clothes on the leaders of the guards and the officers burned at the same time, and their hair and beards also turned into green smoke and drifted away, causing them to scream and vomit blood in their mouths.
The knights of the church cheered.
They followed the unstoppable Longinus and frantically broke into the ranks of the Imperial Army, which had no time to reload.
The huge sword waved, and the thin uniforms of the Imperial soldiers could not stop the slashing of the heavy sword, and the stumps and broken arms flew up, and hundreds of Imperial soldiers were torn apart by the church knights in a breath.