Chapter 167: Operation Clean-up (Part II)
Perhaps it was also because he had an army of tens of thousands in his hands all of a sudden, and the leader of this bandit also felt a little floating, feeling that he could completely divide one side and become a soil emperor.
No, now it is clear that the Qinglong Empire has sent an envoy to warn him, but this guy has no intention of retreating obediently by himself, but is ready to continue to entrench himself in this forest town as his own soil emperor.
A dog-headed military advisor next to him was still giving him a bad idea, saying that after repelling several attacks from the Blue Dragon Empire, the king you can ask the other party for an official position, and then rule this forest farm town justifiably.
And this mountain king named Wang Ergou, who has no culture himself, actually thinks that what this dog-headed military advisor said is very reasonable.
After all, in his opinion, the Golden Eagle Empire had sent millions of troops to attack the other party before, and even if the Blue Dragon Empire had won, it would definitely be a tragic victory, and the losses would definitely not be small, and there would not be many soldiers and horses to exterminate themselves.
On his side, however, he has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he has been recuperating in the towns during this time, and it is not a problem to defeat the tired army of the Blue Dragon Empire.
On this day, I heard that the Qinglong Empire had sent more than a thousand soldiers and horses to exterminate him, and Wang Ergou also felt that his guess had come true, the other party's losses were too great, and now there were not many soldiers and horses to exterminate him.
But how did he know that the reason why the Blue Dragon Empire only sent such a few troops to deal with him was because Guo Dafu felt that to deal with these rabble, it was enough to send only such a few troops, and the other troops would go separately to exterminate other bandits, landlords, bullies and the like.
Even this time, they didn't even bring much heavy weapons, just a few small-caliber guns that had just been cast.
These directly cast guns are much more primitive than those guns that can fire flowering shells in the field corps, only able to fire solid shells, and there is no rifling inside the barrel, and the accuracy is very poor.
However, it is much easier to manufacture, even in places like the Central Continent, where there is not much industrial base, it can be manufactured on a large scale.
In the future, this primitive cast artillery will be equipped with those garrisons. This time, they pulled out a few black sledgehammers, and they were also preparing to test the performance of this cast artillery. After all, this thing has just been manufactured, and it has not yet been tested in actual combat!
And the reason why Guo Dafu made this primitive artillery was also in the previous fierce battle with the army of the Golden Eagle Empire, he felt the pain of lack of ammunition, those more advanced flowering shells, the Central Continent could not make them at all, once those shells were used up, the cannon would completely become a decoration.
If you want to get replenishment, you can only wait for the supply fleet in the rear to be sent across the ocean, and this fleet will come and go again, it will take more than a month, this time is very short in the eyes of Agucos and others, but in Guo Dafu's opinion, it is still a little longer, and something is likely to happen during the period, causing their ammunition to run out in advance.
So after some discussion with his subordinates, it was decided to create such a primitive enough artillery.
Because it is primitive enough, the shells used are not very technical, they are just solid metal balls, and they can also be mass-produced from local materials on the Central Continent.
Wu Da Hammer can vaguely understand the intentions of His Majesty the Emperor, so this time he came to exterminate this gang of bandits, so he took the initiative to apply for five of these cannons, and was ready to personally help test their performance in actual combat.
These guns have a caliber of about 80 millimeters, but their power and range are far from being comparable with those artillery of the field army, and it is said that they can only hit more than 1,000 meters at most, and there is no accuracy, at most they can be used to hit a dozen fixed targets such as city walls. Hitting those human soldiers and beasts with smaller targets can only use scattered bullets, but this thing is just a bunch of small metal balls, the range is much shorter, and the effective killing distance is only about 100 meters, which is not as good as the range of bows and flintlock rifles.
And just when Wu Dahammer was still leading the troops on the road, thinking about how to minimize civilian casualties when attacking the town, the scouts in front reported that it was the bandits entrenched in the forest town, who actually took the initiative to open the city gate and lined up outside the town, looking like they were going to fight them in the field.
Wu Dazhui couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard the news, but he felt that the other party might have something to rely on for doing this, for example, he contacted other bandits, and there were ambushes around, and he would take advantage of the time when he was fighting with the other party to suddenly kill and carry out a sneak attack.
He sent a few more scouts to search the area within a radius of fifty miles to see if there were any enemy troops in ambush.
As a result, the scouts searched several times, but found no ambush, and the only enemy army was already the bandit army that was lined up outside the town.
After determining that only this enemy army was determined, Wu Dazhui led his soldiers with confidence and entered the battlefield unhurriedly.
At this time, Wang Ergou, who was already waiting a little impatiently, saw that the enemy army finally appeared, and immediately rode a wild bull beast, holding a big axe in his hand, and shouted at the black sledgehammer from afar: "The enemy general on the opposite side, do you dare to go out of battle and compare with this king?" ”
For this bandit leader's invitation to fight, Wu Da Sledgehammer completely ignored it, after all, he was not His Majesty the Emperor, he had such a powerful cultivation and talent, and he dared to rush up and fight alone when he encountered any enemy.
Although she has now broken through to the innate realm, the bandit leader on the opposite side, from the breath sense, should also be an innate master, and he may still have some powerful killing moves in his hands, otherwise the other party will not take the initiative to ask for a heads-up, so Wu Da Hammer will not stupidly agree to the other party and give this guy a chance to turn the tables!
And Wang Ergou saw that the other party didn't dare to fight, and suddenly felt that the other party was afraid of him, and immediately laughed excitedly, and even laughed in his mouth: "Haha!" It's really a gutsless rat, with your guts, you dare to do it, I think it's better to go back to farming! ”
The bandits behind Wang Ergou also screamed one by one when they saw this, and completely suppressed the Qinglong Empire army on the opposite side with almost no one to speak, as if they had won the battle before it was fought.
But in the eyes of Wu Da Hammer, these guys are indeed some rabble, with a variety of weapons in their hands, including iron weapons, bronze weapons, and even some bone and stone weapons, and the armor on their bodies is also very simple, and only a few dozen bandits with relatively high status have iron armor on their bodies, and most of the other bandits only have a shabby cloth armor and leather armor. There were also very few ranged weapons, with only a few hundred archers, and some bandits were armed with throwing weapons such as javelins and throwing axes. Most of the other bandits were only issued a spear more than two meters long, which was obviously made in a hurry, some of the bark on it was not shaved clean, and the spearhead was also of various styles, most likely those bandits themselves found a blacksmith to create according to their own preferences.
And in addition to the equipment to pull the crotch, the formation of these bandits is also crooked, there is no elite division, the bandits in the formation are talking to each other at every turn, their bodies are loose, and there is no standing phase, they don't look like a real soldier at all.
It's no wonder that His Majesty the Emperor thinks that it only takes more than 1,000 people to exterminate this gang of bandits, and calls this operation a cleaning operation!
With this in mind, the black sledgehammer began to quickly convey orders, and soon those zombie pikemen came to the front of the formation and set up a spear formation.
Behind the pike-array, there were skeleton musketeers and artillerymen, who were a little unaccustomed to using these guns for the first time, and were shoving their charges and shells into the barrels of their guns one by one.
And Wang Ergou on the opposite side, seeing that the enemy army was not ready to fight alone, did not continue to stay in front of the formation stupidly and waste time calling the formation, but also returned to the big formation and began to command his army to slowly press the other party.
Originally, the formation of these bandits was already very irregular, but this move, it will be even more chaotic, basically there is no trace of the shadow of the phalanx, but like a group of thugs who are carrying knives and are about to go to the street to fight against rival gangs.
The artillerymen of the Blue Dragon Empire on the opposite side really couldn't get used to the pace of these bandits, so they immediately opened fire on those bandits.
As a result, it can be imagined that most of the shells fired by these primitive artillery shells deviated from the target by at least a few dozen meters, and only one of them was lucky enough to hit the enemy position, killing two enemy soldiers on the spot, and then bouncing on the hard gravel ground and injuring five or six bandits.
However, this casualty is still a bit too small for the number of tens of thousands of bandits, and with the encouragement of Wang Ergou, the bandit leader, those bandits soon began to move forward again, but the pace of progress was much more restrained than before, and it was no longer so arrogant.
"Haha! This is the artillery of the Blue Dragon Empire! That's it! The defeated soldiers of the Golden Eagle Empire before would brag, and what could be eroded for dozens of miles with one shot, boasting was greater than the destructive power of the great grandmaster masters! ”
Wang Ergou was also more sure of winning this battle at this time, after all, in his opinion, the cannon of the Blue Dragon Empire, in addition to the louder sound when firing, looked a little scary, and its lethality and accuracy were even inferior to those bed crossbows.
And after seeing the accuracy of the first round of test firing of these artillery pieces with his own eyes, Wu Da Hammer also understood that his emperor did not say nonsense, and the accuracy of these primitive artillery pieces is indeed not good!
However, despite thinking so, he still asked the artillerymen to continue to reload ammunition and fire, after all, he was just testing the performance of these guns in actual combat this time, and he still had to rely on weapons such as spears, muskets, and bows and arrows to solve the problem.
After a few rounds of these artillery, the accuracy was improved, but it was also limited, and the most accurate of them was only two hits, and because it was a solid shell, it would not explode, so the lethality was also very limited, only killing and wounding dozens of bandits.
And the performance of the artillery of the Qinglong Empire also boosted the morale of these bandits even more, these bandits were startled by the huge movement when the artillery opened fire at the beginning, but now they are completely adapted, and the pace that the six relatives did not recognize before has a tendency to recover.
After entering about two hundred meters, these bandits began to jog and charge under the leadership of the bandit leader Wang Ergou, after all, these bandits also knew that this distance was about to enter the range of bows and arrows, and they only had some simple hunting bows on their side, and it was not wise to fight long range with the enemy, the best way was to rush up and start a white-knuckle battle with the other party, so that their advantages in being large could also be better played.
The archers of the Blue Dragon Empire on the opposite side, also under the order of the black sledgehammer, raised their bows and arrows one after another, and began to shoot after aiming at the enemy, and the skeleton musketeers also silently raised the flintlock rifles in their hands, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the enemy on the opposite side, and as the human officer gave an order, they all pulled the trigger with a brush, and shot the dense rain of bullets at the bandits on the opposite side.
With the dense rain of arrows and bullets, the casualties of the bandits immediately increased, and the more than 100 bandits who rushed to the front were immediately shot and killed under the powerful long-range fire.
Seeing this, Wang Ergou hurriedly called the bandits with shields in the army to step forward and block the enemy's arrows and bullets for the other comrades.