Chapter 40: Brimstone, Buckshot, and Fire
Hyde watched all this quietly from the tower, and he clearly felt that now was the time for artillery fire. He also understood Mount's intentions, and the effect of today's cannon would definitely be as effective as ten shots fired from a long distance! Considering that the cannon was very slow to reload, there was no more suitable one than the current one, and he wanted to give a warning, but before he could say anything, Mount next to the snake cannon turned his gun and lit the fire door of the snake cannon with a lightning bolt. The fat supervisor moved so fast that Hyde swallowed back the words in his throat.
"Double shotgun, fire!musketeer, salvo!"
With the firm voice of the fat supervisor in the leather robe, a thunderbolt and fire light sounded like a thunderbolt on the city tower, followed by another, and then the entire west wall resounded in unison with a uniform gunshot, like a continuous thunder whipping the body of the Chaos Beasts, nearly a hundred white clouds of smoke rose behind the female wall, accompanied by a strong and pungent smell of sulfur permeating the entire wooden wall.
It was a textbook melee salvo, with two snake cannons aimed at the crowded herd thirty or forty paces away, firing hundreds of fiery shotguns. The power of the shotgun at this distance was terrifying, and lead and fire swept through the mad beast like a whip of devastating storm and flame, splitting two alleys of flesh and blood, and stumps and blood rained everywhere. The ensuing volley of muskets once again poured torrent of lead and brimstone into the ranks of the chaotic beasts, and the piles of beasts fell in large swaths, and the terrible howls followed.
The strong smell of blood and sulfur rushed into the nostrils of the defenders, and the blow just now instantly annihilated a quarter of the Chaos beasts, and nearly a hundred beasts armed with spears and axes were killed and wounded on the edge of the trench. The huge loss, combined with the thunder of artillery fire, made the beasts' magically stirred hearts feel terrified again, and the fanatical ranks were loosened, but there were still brave men who struggled to carry the ladder to the trench, and more wounded soldiers and corpses were squeezed straight down. But a second volley awaited them! The musketeers and crossbowmen laid down their empty guns, calmly took the spare guns handed by their assistants, and opened fire again on the herds, and lead bullets and crossbow arrows rained down on their heads, piercing their eyes, shattering their breastbones, breaking their arms, and tearing at the bodies and nerves of these fanatics like the flaming whips of hell.
But the straw that ended the beasts' onslaught was not gunpowder, but two spears, which came from Hyde's hands.
The young knight noticed that a tall Gore leader was still standing under the squadron banner in the middle of the herd, waving his shield and battle axe to encourage the beasts, so he took two spears leaning against the wall and threw them with lightning power. The first spear pierced the left shoulder of the leader of Nagor, and the force was so great that it carried the tall leader of Gore three or four paces away, while the second spear pinned the flag keeper to the ground in the chest, and the banner with the beast's skull fell into the dust at the same time.
With the fall of the leader, His Excellency Krandesgore, and the fall of the battle flag, a black Gore standing next to the battle flag suddenly screamed miserably, turned his head and fled, and the last nerve of these crazy beasts was crushed! They collapsed as fast as their madness, and with the appearance of the first deserter, almost in the blink of an eye, the beasts dropped the ladders and weapons one by one, and fled to the large array behind them, and the first wave of the orc death squad's attack came and went as quickly as it came, leaving only the dead and wounded all over the ground, and the thrown ladders and broken weapons.
"Your Excellency Lord Tigal, it seems that the cowards are still unreliable. They collapsed very quickly. ”
The blue-haired girl turned around and spoke to the Chaos Knight behind her in her usual calm voice. The two of them rode together on a warhorse, and were surrounded by thirty or forty Kugan cavalry archers dressed in black scale armor and fur cloaks. This small cavalry squad did not raise its flag, and quietly immediately observed the direction of the battle on a small high ground about fifty or sixty paces away from the Chaos Beast Great Array.
"It doesn't matter, they attract the attention of some enemies, that's enough. In a sense, let the believers of false gods earn a little sweetness, so that they can finally be punished by the true god more completely. Now that the time has come for the army to march, I don't think the new Beastmaster will miss the opportunity. And what we should do right away, you know. ”
The green-haired Chosen of Chaos' voice was still gentle and calm, and he reached out to point to the front entrance of the soldier standing in the distance, explaining his goal to the blue-haired girl leaning against his chest. As if to prove his words, several long horns rang out from the center of the Chaos Beast's great array, followed by a frenzied battle howl and footsteps that shook the ground.
Just as Lord Teagar, the Chaos Knight, had foreseen, the Beastmaster Kentgor, seeing the collapse of the death squad, immediately issued the order for a general attack, and his angry voice echoed in the night sky with the sound of a trumpet.
Then two thousand five hundred throats roared in response, five thousand beast hooves tread wildly, thousands of spears and axes swung like a breeze across a ripe wheat field, and the great array of chaotic beasts naturally changed from stillness to action. Fifteen squadrons of Gore's infantry lined up in two rows, five in front and ten in the rear, black and pressed like moving woods, marching neatly toward the garrison at a pace of small and jogging steps. These sheep-headed beasts with curved horns held their wooden shields diagonally above their heads, short spears and battle axes stretched out, one by one, in a tight circle and pressed towards the human garrison in front of them, like a dark tide advancing towards the sand.
Sandwiched between them, four roof-like triangular battering rams, the upper part of which was nailed into a roof-like structure of wet poplar wood with the thickness of a bowl, covered with wet earth and animal skins, served as a fire protection. The siege ram below is made of hardwood with a ruler of thickness and length of about ten feet, and its pointed tip is used to ram when attacking the city gate. Dozens of sturdy Gore pushed hard below, sixteen rudimentary wooden wheels crushing across the grass. The tall chariots of the throne pressed at the back of the line, and the riders pulled the reins hard to prevent the fanatical fanged boars of chaos from rushing forward.
The snake cannon on the tower of the castle replaced it with solid bullets and fired at the array of beasts, and the red-hot lead balls fell with the line of fire in the array four hundred paces away, breaking the beast's body, cutting off the beast's arms, shattering the beast's head, pulling out two lines of blood and a miserable howl in the wind. The beasts of the front team quickly dispersed and quickened their pace to avoid the terrible lead and fire. They spread six or seven feet between them, put their wooden shields above their heads, and marched quickly in a chaotic formation, the ranks spreading out like inflated balloons, spreading across the flat grassland, forming a long battle line.
"The tactics of the beasts have changed, the warp cannon is ready to shoot, the distance is four hundred, with blasting shells! one, two, three!"
Director Mount's voice was short and firm, and at his command, one of his attendants raised a small flag and waved twice at the curved gun emplacements thirty paces behind the wooden wall, and an answer was heard from the emplacements.
The short, stout body of the bronze curved gun was densely packed with runes and dragon snake reliefs, two feet in diameter, one foot in diameter, and five feet in length, like a diagonal water tank arranged on a six-wheeled low gun carriage, and on either side stood a strict line of gunners, stacked with cast-iron blasting shells with a diameter of a ruler. With a deafening thunderous roar and firelight, a curved fire meteor crossed the wooden wall with a tall trajectory, and landed heavily in the rear of the beasts at the speed of free fall, and the huge explosion force combined with smoke and dust immediately lifted six or seven Goles into the sky, and more beasts fell miserably, and fragments of iron and flesh and horns flew everywhere.
A sharp fragment struck the cuirass of the beastmaster Kent Gore on the throne chariot, but the azure philosopher's stone in the middle of the cuirass suddenly glowed, weakening the momentum of the shrapnel, only allowing the shrapnel that was already at the end of the crossbow to collide with the cuirass with a crisp sound, leaving a few scratches, and at the same time, several pieces of flesh with hair also flew from above, brushing the sheep-headed beast's hairy cheeks, with the smell of sulfur and blood.
"Venerable Beastmaster! Venerable Beastmaster is injured!"
A brown short-haired Gore screamed in panic and tried to run backwards, but its scream was immediately interrupted, and a spear slammed its head to the ground, sending shivers down the board of beasts around it.
"Gore is not hurt, Gore is strong, Gore kills cowards! Gore, go forward! For the glory of the gods!"
Kent Gore, the beastmaster, let out a low roar, and it was he who killed the deserter with his spear. The leader of this ferocious beast clearly knows that the chaos beast with no long-range attack ability will only lead to destruction in the face of humans with cannons, and only by rushing forward without hesitation and engaging in melee combat with humans is the only way to victory! It will never repeat the footsteps of the coward Krandesgore, it will prove its strength with brave impact and victory!
It lifted a giant whip and whipped the fanged boar in front of the cart itself, and the chariot slammed forward at frantic speed, followed by a group of spear-and-axe Gore. Inspired by the Beastmaster's bravery, they roared together and marched forward, pulling out clouds of smoke and dust on the grassland under the night sky, while the Gores who stood in front of them hurriedly dispersed, and those who did not disperse were crushed under the wheels and became the first victims of the Fury Beastmaster.
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