【532】Defeat and Defeat (II)

The warships under the Tailed Fire Tiger also quickly discovered the smoke and fire on the hillside, and a lot of Jiuyou Kingdom troops came out, and they divided a part of the ship guns and began to bombard these Jiuyou countries.

The explosion followed, and blood and stump flesh flew along with the flames, and hundreds of nine secluded kingdoms on the hillside became a pile of stump and flesh in the blink of an eye.

But the barrels they rolled down had already landed on the road under the hills, and some of the guns of the Nine Shadows Army had already aimed at those barrels.

The loud gunshots rang out again, and the guns hit the barrels. From the barrel that burst open, flames shot out in all directions. Before the nearby Xudu army could react, it turned into a mass of charred flesh with fire in an instant.

The road under the hill was also filled with flames in an instant, and the rising wall of fire cut off the advance of the Xudu army, and when it arrived, it also burned hundreds of infantry of the Xudu army.

Those wooden barrels contained fierce fire oil, which had been used more and more frequently on the battlefield since the annexation of the Zhurong Kingdom by the Nine Shadows Kingdom. And Xiao Shizhu's shamelessness made him come up with a better way to use the fierce fire oil, which was not only harmful, but also vicious. That is, in the barrel of oil, it collided with * and iron pieces, so that the lethality of the fierce fire oil barrel did not decrease but increased, and it also became one of the necessary weapons for the army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom to defend the land.

Taking advantage of the flames under the hill to break the road, the Nine Shadows Army on the mountain used the smoke to obstruct the firing line of the ship guns on the sea, and continued to shoot at the bottom of the mountain after hiding in the thick smoke, or took off the earth-shattering thunder and incendiary canisters hanging from their waists and threw them down the mountain.

The invincible Xudu army finally realized a serious problem, they provoked a group of ghosts who should not be provoked. The Nine Shadows Army is different from the enemies they have encountered in the past, and the Nine Shadows Army has suffered a lot of casualties so far, especially those dark forts, five or six out of ten no longer exist. As for the sergeants in the fort, there were many dead and wounded.

However, the tragic battle did not make the living Nine Shadows Army feel afraid, but they became more and more courageous. On the entire battlefield full of gunpowder smoke and flames, it is not difficult to see the figures of the soldiers of the Nine Shadows Army covered in blood, and they are still performing their duties and fighting bravely to kill the enemy.

Even sergeants who were wounded in the back or shot in the arm did not quit the battle, but designed their enemies with their firearms while having the medic bandage them.

The Xudu army was all shocked by this, and they also suddenly admired their enemies in their hearts.

Moreover, among these sergeants, many of them were former ghost soldiers of the Xiazhou Kingdom, and they were also fighting bravely to kill the enemy at this time, and they were brave and would never lose to the ghost soldiers of the other Nine Ghost Kingdoms.

Perhaps, courage is also contagious, like fear. Or, maybe they, the recruits of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, also know that the Xudu Army has the habit of slaughtering cities. If they don't fight back and fight to the death, their families will die in fear at the hands of the Xudu army.

The Xudu army had no choice but to stop their southward advance. In addition to the tens of thousands of ghost soldiers who had already gone south, the others were also trapped under the hill, and the soldiers in the fishing village began to rush through the wall of fire and kill towards the hillside.

The three-eyed gun in their hands shot out dazzling fire, but because of the feint, and the range of the primitive fire gun was not far away, it was true that it was a loud gunshot, but it failed to hit the Nine Shadows Army on the mountain.

On the sea, half of the battlefield of the Beiyin Water Division has already sunk, and most of the rest are on fire, and there are Sparrowhawk sailors shelling in the rear, so they can no longer care about providing infantry artillery support.

The Nine Shadows Army on the hillside was attacking again, and because the infantry of the Xudu Army rushed to the hillside, the artillery of the warships of the Northern Yin Water Division did not dare to fire on the hill easily for fear of accidentally injuring their comrades. The surviving Nine Shadows Kingdom Dark Fortress no longer focused all its attention on the enemy ships, but distributed half of its artillery and began a fierce bombardment of the enemy troops below the mountain.

The Nine Shadows Army on the hillside opened fire as they slowly retreated to the top of the mountain. The sub-guns of the rainstorm were dense like rain, roaring and shooting, and the army fell in front of the eyes of the Nine Shadows Army again.

When the last soldier of the Nine Shadows Army withdrew to the top of the mountain, most of the Xudu troops who had gone forward and followed had already rushed halfway up the mountain. Despite their heavy casualties, they still had the advantage of numbers, and controlled the area from the foot of the mountain to the halfway point of the mountain.

The dense army of Xudu, like a colony of ants out of the nest, continued to rush towards the top of the mountain. The shouts of killing resounded on the hillside, shaking the heavens and the earth.

The soldiers of the Nine Shadows Kingdom who had withdrawn to the top of the mountain unhurriedly lifted some of the grass and trees on the top of the mountain, and a thunderbolt hidden under the grass and trees and an improved tiger squat cannon immediately appeared.

This tiger squat cannon has been rebuilt by Xiao Shizhu and Lai Yueqi, and has become a very distinctive mortar in the Nine Shadows Kingdom, which can exert amazing power when fighting in the mountains. Moreover, Lai Yueqi also rebuilt the shells of the Poison Fire God Cannon, so that the Tiger Squat Cannon could also shoot the shells of the Poison Fire God Cannon.

As for the Thunderbolt, it is the Gatling machine gun of the Nine Shadows Army. The traditional Thunderbolt absorbs the advantages of the Bird Gun and the Three-Eyed Gun, and the gun is equipped with five gun tubes, each shot is rotated 72 degrees to fire another tube, and after the five tubes are fired, the front end of the gun body can shoot fireballs to burn the enemy soldiers.

The Northern Yin Dynasty also had such a fire gun, which was used to defend the city. But whether it is powerful, the rate of fire and the range, it is far less powerful than the thunderbolt of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

Although the Thunderbolt rebuilt by the Nine Shadows cannot fire fireballs from the front end, it combines the advantages of the Rainstorm Gun and the Three-Eyed Gun, each of which is composed of eighteen barrels that are circled in a circle, and the barrels are equipped with a round plate shaped like a pipa as a shield, and each time the trigger is pulled, eighteen guns can be fired at the same time, and eighteen sub-guns can be fired at the same time.

And for each pipe, twenty-eight rounds of sub-guns were stored. Coupled with the advantage of the fast rate of fire of the Rainstorm Gun, the Thunderbolt of the Nine Shadows Kingdom can shoot five hundred rounds in a row in just three or five breaths.

Like a raging storm, the guns shot from the top of the mountain towards the hillside. The tiger cannon roared angrily, shooting one cannonball after another into the sky, and then crossed a red arc in mid-air before landing on the hillside.

Suddenly, the screams and screams that had ceased for a moment above the hillside were heard again. The flesh and blood of the Xudu army fell to the ground in pieces. The scorching wind was raging, and the powerful shock wave from the explosion shook the ground on the hillside. When the earth and rocks were thrown and ejected, the corpses were strewn all over the hillside, and the bright red ghost blood changed the color of the soil and stones on the hillside.

The Xudu army thought that they were brave enough, and as far as the eye could see, the Jiuyou army on the top of the mountain was all wounded, and the number was far less than that of the Xudu army. But the Xudu Army didn't see the slightest fear, and spread out on the faces of the sergeants of the Nine Shadows Army.

All they saw was the spurs that came towards them with a wave of trembling qi, the cannonballs that fell from the scorching wind above their heads, and the angry sparks in the eyes of the Nine Shadows Army.

The Xudu army didn't care about anything else, and took multiple roads and multiple waves to charge in groups, and all the ghost soldiers formed a rear triangle formation, and the troops were from small to large, charging in waves one after another.

However, under the fierce artillery fire, the Xudu army was never able to rush to the top of the mountain, so they had to retreat on the slope shrouded in gunsmoke, hide behind the rocks, and shoot indiscriminately at the top of the mountain with three-eyed guns and crossbows.

However, the Tiger Squat Cannon of the Nine Shadows Country is specially used to overcome obstacles and hit targets behind obstacles. The military used stones as a cover, and they could not escape the end of being shelled.

When the Xudu Army on the mountain and the Jiuyou National Army confronted each other, the fierce fire oil on the road below the mountain was also burned out, and many disgraced Xudu troops took the opportunity to rush south under the command of the generals.

Their goal was always Junzi Harbor, fifty miles to the south, not to entangle with the Nine Shadows Army here.

At the same time, the sea is not quiet. Sparrowhawk's sailors sank fifteen sea falcons in exchange for sinking more than 200 ships of the Northern Yin Navy.

Many of the other enemy ships also leaked and caught fire, and none of the battleships were already intact. Even so, the commander of the general, the Tail Fire Tiger, still had no intention of ordering a retreat.

His purpose was very clear, and he would evacuate when the landed Xudu army was far away. Moreover, he saw the loss of the fleet of the Nine Shadows Kingdom and the loss of the dark fortress on the shore. Although his enemy's weapons are advanced and powerful, he and his enemies are in a lose-lose situation.

Hold on for a while, until the landing sergeant is far away from this area, and the garrison of the Nine Shadows Kingdom here has no time to take care of the time, and then he retreats.

Amid the roar of artillery fire, the Tailed Tiger ordered his flagship to adjust the bow of the ship and lay it across the sea, so that the left and right sides could hit the enemy.

On the one hand, it can support the Xudu army on the shore with artillery fire, and on the other hand, it can shell the warships of the Nine Shadows Kingdom on the sea.

Looking around his flagship, he saw that the deck was mostly cracked, and half of the mast was broken, and a colicing pain appeared in the heart of the Tailed Fire Tiger. Ever since he was in the Beiyin Dynasty and served as the general of the Naval Division, this flagship has been with him. In the past, his flagship had never been badly damaged, and it was the first time it had ever been built.

"General, most of the infantry on the road have already headed south. There are still 10,000 troops on the hillside, which can hold off the army of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, let's retreat. Just when the Taihuo Tiger was indignant, his lieutenant general, braving the artillery fire, rushed to his side and stood still, and shouted urgently: "If we don't retreat, we will all be completely annihilated by the enemy." ”。

Only then did this shout blurt out, and another round of falling star cannons was fired on the battleship of the Nine Shadows Kingdom in the distance. Dozens of shells carried the scorching wind and heat waves, dragging the long tail of fire, like a comet falling to the ground, towards the fleet of the Northern Yin Water Division.

The ensuing explosion caused a high-temperature flame, like a volcanic eruption, threatening to boil the seawater. At the same time, it also made the seven already crumbling battleships of the Northern Yin Water Division slowly sink towards the bottom of the sea under the envelopment of flames.

The Tailed Fire Tiger pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and finally turned his head to glance at the Xudu infantry on the shore who were still fighting with the Nine Shadows Army, and said fiercely: "Order all the ships to retreat south!"

As everyone knows, whether it is the fleet of Sparrowhawks or the artillery infantry of the Nine Shadows Kingdom on the shore, they are already at the end of their crossbows, and their ammunition is consumed extremely quickly, and they have reached the point where they are about to run out of ammunition and food.

If the Fire-tailed Tiger does not retreat, then the Nine Shadows Army here will not be long in coming, and they will have to use their flesh and blood to resist the bombardment of the Ten Thousand Flames Flying Sand, the Ghost Fire God Cannon and the Nether Ghost Cannon on the battleship of the Northern Yin Water Division.

The sound of the golden sound sounded in the Northern Yin Water Division, so the battlefield turned around and headed south, and with the flagship of the Tailed Fire Tiger, they rushed towards the south. After a while, the Beiyin Fleet, which had only more than 300 warships left, had already sailed out of the bombardment range of the warships and dark fortresses of the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

The Sparrowhawk's fleet did not pursue, but after a mile of deliberate pursuit, it withdrew, stopped at the sea outside the fishing village, which was full of poisonous snake corpses and the armor of the Xudu army, and calibrated its artillery and aimed it at the hillside behind the village.

Still on the hillside, the Xudu army, who was dodging the guns of the Nine Shadows Kingdom, looked at the sails in the distance, and despair rose in their hearts.

They never imagined that they would fight desperately and defeat the enemy, only to be abandoned by their companions without hesitation.