With Kublai's order, the Slavic army, which was barely maintaining its forward posture, began to speed up its pace, walk briskly, and even run forward in small steps. The original neat array of the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info became chaotic as a result—the only one who could maintain the array was the new Slavian army of three thousand.

However, they were not involved in the direct siege. Rather, it was to provide projected firepower as musketeers, as well as to help the other infantry maintain the line - no matter how outrageous Sarida Khan would have thrown the really important main forces into a bloody siege with no chance of victory at the outset.

At the same time, the Centaur messengers quickly sent Kublai's request for help to the other side of the Vistula.

"Do you need a unit of archers......" Sarida Khan groaned for a moment, and immediately made a decision: "Just send two centaur archers of a thousand people!"

At the command of Sarida Khan, a unit of centaur archers, armed with heavy compound bows, began to cross the river. At the same time, the Slavic infantry units, nomadic cavalry, and artillery units aided by the dark elves also resisted the artillery bombardment of the opposing side and crossed the mudflats, which were inconvenient to move through. The speed is getting up again.

"The artillery is almost out of range, William. Beside William, Charlumi was a little nervous: "Do you want to avoid it?"

"No, I don't. William shook his head: "It's all light infantry artillery, there is no problem, the fortress can withstand it." ”

“...... Well. Hearing William say this, Charlumi nodded, and continued, "Then let's get a little further back." ”

“...... Let's go a little bit back. "Originally, Willian wanted to be on the front line to boost morale. But after a little thought, there is no need to do such a thing in such a situation. He nodded in agreement with Charlotine's words. Slightly back, away from the head of the wall, because the top of the parapet is a sloping trapezoidal structure. After leaning back slightly, you can completely hide behind the parapet. So William and Charlumie can be said to be absolutely safe.

In addition, the sturdy masonry and cement structure of the inclined fort is strong and heavy enough to withstand the bombardment of large-caliber fortress artillery. Not to mention the light infantry artillery of Tartaria-

Although the Dark Elves' female Sudan wanted Sarida Khan to give William some trouble. But she doesn't want to raise tigers either. Larger-caliber, more advanced artillery, she would not have been supplied to Tartaria.

Still, it was enough for Sarida Khan.

At a distance of five hundred meters from the fortress. Hundreds of artillery pieces formed a semi-encirclement, enclosing half of the fortress. The fire and artillery were evenly distributed over the entire semi-circular arc.

Originally, it was generally better to concentrate on artillery. But Sarida Khan and Kublai father and son had their plans.

They knew that light infantry artillery could not overcome the strong parapets of the estuary fortress. Nor did they think about the tactic of destroying the parapet wall with light artillery.

In their tactics, artillery was merely a support weapon. It was only hoped that the artillery fire would suppress the Mystian army at the head of the city and provide fire support for their infantry to attack the city.

Within 500 meters, the Dark Elves gunners operated the cannons, raised the barrels to adjust the trajectory, and then directed the Slavians to reload the shells and gunpowder.

In the thick black smoke of gunpowder, the roar of hundreds of light infantry guns rang out, intertwined with the roar of the fortress artillery at the head of the city.

At the head of the city, under the city, hundreds of cannons of different calibers constantly spewed gunsmoke, flames and red-hot metal projectiles. The most terrifying scene of the era of hot weapons was undoubtedly revealed on this day. The metal hail that flew out of the sky, and the black gunpowder smoke that emitted a pungent smell obscured the sky.

The air was filled with a pungent smell of sulfur, which made William feel uncomfortable. In front of him, the new soldiers of the Mestia Army, as well as the mercenary musketeers of the various mercenary regiments, huddled behind the pheasant moats of the parapet wall, hiding from the shelling of the opposing side.

Under the fire of the other party's artillery, the parapet wall of the fortress trembled slightly, but the frequency of shaking was not too high, so there was no need to worry. In addition, there are occasional shells that fly too high over the parapet and fall into the fortress, or just hit the top of the parapet.

In this case, one or two unlucky people are often hit.

Although the artillery used by the Tartarian army was "light", this light was only for artillery of the same class. The projectiles they shoot are still incredibly powerful to humans. The unlucky ghost who was hit either died directly or had his hands and feet broken. He fell to the ground and wailed and screamed.

The smell of blood from them immediately mixed into the smoke of gunpowder. It adds a lot of cruelty to the battlefield atmosphere.

Death. Death. Death and death. Before the start of the actual siege, the shelling of both sides alone caused hundreds, thousands of deaths. The whole tidal flat is full of rubble.

It was at this point that the centaur archers came into range - about two hundred meters from the fortress, and the centaur archers raised their compound bows and shot a rain of arrows at the city.

Although the bow and arrow were a weapon, it seemed a little backward in this era of gunpowder weapons. But it also depends on who and how to use it - the 200-meter, extremely powerful, extremely long arm span centaur archers, equipped with special long compound bows, have completely surpassed the range of modern muskets. From a distance of up to 200 meters, you can calmly fire bows and arrows to aid your infantry units.

But of course, although these bows have a long range, they are not very lethal. For the Mestian army, which was fully equipped with iron helmets, it could only have a harassing effect. Especially when the shelling of the opposing side has not yet ended, and all the Mestian soldiers are huddled behind the parapet.

"But that will soon be over. William thought to himself.

"Yes, it's almost over. On the other side, Forward Commander Kublai had much the same thoughts in mind as William.

After this, the shelling on the Tartarian side ceased - almost at the same time, the new Mestian army and the mercenary musketeers jumped to their feet and began to reload their arquebuses or flintlock muskets -

The Slavi soldiers were close enough - the Forces nouvelles soldiers had stopped and began to reload. At the same time, the old Slavic soldiers, with the exception of those projectile units armed with bows and muskets, accelerated for the third time, carrying their shoddy ladders and charging at the parapet.

"Muskets, musket volleys!" shouted the junior officers, warrant officers or ensigns at the fence. The new army and mercenary musketeers beside them pulled the trigger in aim at the crowd rushing towards the city. At the same time, in the various batteries, the commanders of the batteries gave a loud order-

"Reload your shotguns!"

As the new army of Mystia was nervous, busy but orderly in preparing for firing -- with a hoarse "fire!" In all sections of the parapet wall, in each battery, all kinds of muskets and guns of all calibers were fired almost in unison, and thousands of musket projectiles, ten times more or even more shotguns, exploded in an instant -- and in an instant, smashed the crowd on the opposite side.

Nine times out of ten, almost 100 percent - the strongest, bravest and strongest Slavic warriors who rushed to the front were either skulls torn open, brains and blood flying everywhere, or their chests were hit with hammers, and their hearts and other organs were crushed by soft buckshot. There were some of the more unlucky guys whose entire bodies were beaten into a hornet's nest, and blood gushed out like a shower for money.

With a salvo, the Slavic army lost thousands of soldiers!

"Keep loading, keep loading!!" roared the officers on each section of the parapet. The soldiers methodically continued to reload their ammunition. At the same time, among the Slavites under the city, the officers were shouting hoarsely about something like that-

"Onward, keep attacking, keep going!"

At the same time, the Centaur Archers were more effective at aiding them - after the Centaur Archers came up, they were constantly shot in the door, and then fell from the city with screams, or fell limp on the walls - these people were quickly pushed away by the friendly forces behind them, and then the soldiers behind them took their place - because of the addition of the Centaur Marksmen, the casualties of the Centaur Archers increased significantly.

The Slavic army was still thirty meters from the parapet - the Mestian army had no time to fire a second round - and these arquebuses usually took forty seconds, if not longer, to reload a round.

"Hurry up and rush to the top of the city!!" roared the Slavi officers excitedly - based on their experience, it was time for the hand-to-hand combat phase at the head of the city. That's strength, hard-hitting, fist-to-flesh close-quarters combat.

In this regard, the Slavians are confident that they will never lose to the Goths!

"But you're wrong!" William listened to the Slavites' excited shouts, and the corners of his mouth turned up, revealing a wicked smile.

Thirty meters away - exactly the best range for the new Mestian army, the wooden-handled grenades! And before the battle, after confirming that Sarida Khan was "serious", William distributed whole boxes of grenades to all parts of the parapet. And the mercenaries were taught how to use this weapon.

William knew that with the end of this war, this weapon would spread to the entire human world because of the mercenaries involved. Even the Slavits, Centaurs, and Dark Elves have the potential to acquire these weapons.

But he did not regret it - Sarida Khan was a terrible enemy. If he doesn't give his all when dealing with him, then William probably won't have a chance to regret it!

"Throw!"

After entering the distance of thirty meters, although some of the confused or overly agitated officers forgot about the grenade, many more remembered the gadgets sent by William before the battle. With the mentality of having nothing to do, he gave the order to his soldiers to throw grenades.

In an instant, the sky was occupied by thousands of wooden-handled grenades that were dropped one after another. Within a dozen seconds, these grenades exploded in the enemy group, shrapnel flew sideways, and a large number of Slavian soldiers died tragically within the shortest range of the fortress, but only thirty meters!