Chapter 306: Catastrophe from the Sky
Before seeing such a dire situation with his own eyes, Philip had fantasized about sweeping from the back to the front, but now it seemed that there was no time left for him to do so.
"Okay!" Matthew agreed, without saying a word.
Thanks to Philip's troublemaking just now, he bought some time for the city.
When Philip once again harnessed the two unicorns and flew into the air from far behind the city walls, everyone was stunned by the huge net hanging between them.
The steppe people reacted quickly, and almost all of the flying beasts converged in this direction, trying to destroy what seemed dangerous.
But before he could get closer, he was covered by a dense rain of arrows and turned into a cloud of broken feathers.
The contents of the net were heavy, and even though the two legendary unicorns were flapping their wings desperately, the ascent was slow.
When they rose to a height of 300 meters, five or six ballistas were fired head-on.
Three of them, due to their distance and height, slashed through the air below, but the rest shot at the net, and one flew towards Arthur.
At that moment, three ballistas were fired from behind the wall below, and the last one came first, knocking down the block that was shooting at the net pocket in mid-air, leaving only the last one about to hit Arthur.
Arthur was a little flustered and tried desperately to flap his wings to dodge, but the load was too heavy to dodge.
Philip looked at the pit under him, and said in his heart that he really shouldn't expect him to be brave and calm, something that could be easily solved by a legendary light arrow, but he was so frightened that he even forgot his own stunt.
In desperation, he could only lock on to the crossbow gun, predict the launch of the skill, and reach out his body to slash at the head of the spear with the extreme of madness and calculated amplitude.
The ballista flew diagonally against his body, and the reaction force smashed his entire body off the horse's back, sending a scream of astonishment below.
However, Philip did not fall too far, but was hung on Arthur's ass by a safety rope, and after exhaling the stuffy breath in his chest, he carefully climbed upward.
In the blink of an eye, the height had reached 400 meters, and the crossbow bolts below had completely lost their threatening ability, and Philip finally climbed back onto Arthur's horse.
Arthur turned around and licked him flatteringly, as if he was a little embarrassed by his cowardice just now, and was slapped on the head by Philip angrily, honestly.
Finally reaching a height of more than 500 meters, looking at the crowded crowd like an ant's nest below, he felt a little empty cavalry for the first time.
This was a tactic he had wanted to use for a long time, but it wasn't until he had Arthur and the Phantom that he initially had the possibility, and he had just returned in a hurry, and he had the idea to fight.
After roughly measuring the direction and speed of the wind, he didn't plan to accidentally blow the new red moon pass to a flat bottom.
In the history of the mainland for 10,000 years, I'm afraid no one has been as crazy as him, without any data and experiments to refer to, so it's better to stay a little farther away from there, who knows how far the shock wave will be after landing.
The steppe people below all looked at the little black dot in the sky, wondering what he was going to do, throwing stones from there?
However, they did not stop their movements, and still fiercely rushed towards the city wall, and even occupied the head of the city again, pressing the formation of the Ward soldiers backwards.
At a distance of four or five meters, the head of the new Red Moon Pass will change hands.
Philip took out the scythe he had with him, threw it down, and lit the bundle of torches that stood in the middle of the net.
This wave of his own operation is simply LOW, and he does not show his wisdom and chic, and the heroism of the enemy is wiped out in ashes while talking and laughing, but is a little embarrassed.
He grabbed a rope from the rope coiled in the saddle, looked at the position below and was satisfied, measured the direction of the wind, and then pulled out the rope without hesitation.
The loosened end of the rope caused a chain reaction, and the rope from which the net was hanging loosened loose, and the huge net bag and the black jar tied up inside fell straight down.
"Fly now!"
Philip didn't care about the result, grabbed the reins in his hand, and loudly urged the two unicorns to hurry up and fly away.
"Whew!"
When the crowd fighting inside and outside the city walls noticed that the small black dot in the sky that had been hesitating for a long time seemed to suddenly become larger, a sharp whistling sound sounded in the air.
Philip didn't calculate the size and weight of 150 basketball-sized canisters tied together, but this was the limit of what the two unicorns could bear.
With the sound of whistling, the huge net pocket smashed down on the ground 500 meters outside the city wall of Xinhongyue Pass, and more than thirty grassland Ah Xun became a piece of meat without even reacting.
First, the bottom dozens of tanks were crushed, splashing out the fire oil inside, then dozens in the middle, and finally the top ones.
Under the combination of gravity and reaction, these canisters of varying degrees of fragmentation squeezed and stirred each other, venting liquid fire oil in all directions, and then some of them volatilized into a gaseous state, permeating the cold air like ice mist.
Philip's conservative measures were effective, and a few of the torches were blown out as they fell, leaving only three or four still burning strongly.
When the torch at the top ignited the mixture of oil and gas, a terrible catastrophe struck.
Flames, flames, flames, countless flames ignited everything within a radius of hundreds of meters.
Due to the existence of the net pocket, these tanks did not fly out in pieces, and most of them still gathered together, so that the concentration of oil and gas in the middle was very high, and at the same time, it also brought huge pressure.
The explosion occurred as the flames seemed to shrink inward for a moment, and then began to tumble and expand violently.
A circular shock wave of flames, centered on the spot where the net had landed, suddenly spread out in all directions, like a huge wave of flames.
Before he could rejoice, Ah Xun, who had just escaped from the net, was swept into the flames again, flew into the air, and was torn to pieces.
The flames were like devils devouring living beings, covering all figures within a radius of several hundred meters at an extremely fast speed.
As the shock wave spread, it even hit the wall of the New Red Moon Pass 500 meters away, causing a group of people above to roll over on their backs, and even the Ward warriors wearing thick armor couldn't withstand such a huge force, and they fell backwards violently.
Everyone looked out through the gap in the battlements, and there was a blank in the center of the circle, only yellow-green flames and thick smoke, and there were no corpses on the ground, either they were vaporized in an instant or flew into the distance.
A little further on the periphery were charred corpses all over the ground, curled up little by little with the flames attached to them, gradually turning into black char, and even the armor made of metal groaned and deformed in the heat.
A little further out, there were countless corpses lying on the ground, the largest number of people here, and the narrow battlefield allowed tens of thousands of people to gather in the area when the explosion occurred, and it is impossible to verify how many people died.
Interestingly, most of these fallen bodies were bare, with occasional fragments of armor hanging from them.
At the outermost level, which is also the edge of the battlefield, the steep mountain wall cracked a few cracks, and countless corpses brought by the shock wave piled up underneath, and the place where the original Red Moon Pass was used collapsed again.
Even if he didn't die for a while, his ears were deafened by the huge explosion, his eyes were blinded by the bright light of the high lumen, his exposed face and hands were burned by the heat of thousands of degrees, and he was lying on the ground struggling and wailing in pain, and then slowly stopped moving.
Whether it was the soldiers on both sides tangled together at the head of the city, or the grassland people who were blocked outside the ruins of the Red Moon Pass and were about to charge, they were all stunned by the hellish scene in front of them.
Matthew patted his somewhat deaf ears, and conservatively estimated that this wave had killed at least five or six thousand people directly, and the thousands of people rolling on the ground on the edge were estimated to not live long, and these oils were mixed with poisonous ingredients.
Coupled with these on the city walls, Mingge's most elite forces were almost lost.
He had known that the oil could be thrown and burned enemies, but when a huge amount of oil was used together, especially in a relatively confined space, it would cause such a violent killing effect, and he was simply stunned by the result.
Glancing at the embarrassed figure dangling in the sky again, he blew the horn himself.
With the sound of the trumpet, the heavily armed troops fighting at the head of the city rearranged themselves in a neat formation, shields and broadswords in hand.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Each shout of slaughter represented a step forward for these steel monsters, and a few hundred more steppe axuns had been chopped to pieces, their thin metal armor powerless in the face of the heavy greatsword.
The heavy cavalry and infantry of the Wardsman Empire are unparalleled in the world, especially these heavily armored warriors of the Alpine Ward Clan, like a majestic god of war, slashed and slaughtered all the more than 2,000 Ah Xun crowded on the city, and only a hundred and ten of them jumped out of the city wall and fled to the rear.
But he still didn't dare to approach the hellish battlefield in the center that was still billowing smoke, so he could only sneak back along the edge, occasionally pulling up one or two companions who seemed to be saved.
In the blink of an eye, the crisis was lifted, and the inside and outside of the city wall were suddenly empty.
Philip listened to the cheers coming from below and spat out a sour mouthful.
Everyone else is a pit father, he helped his father to help himself, and the violent explosion brought a huge shock wave, and he was not spared in the sky.
Although Arthur and the Phantom escaped some distance, they still couldn't keep up with the speed of the shockwave spread, so the two beasts and one person were like boats in a huge wave, flying crookedly in the sky, so they were not embarrassed.
Even with the bonus of talent and extraordinary physique, he was still a little dizzy and nauseous and wanted to vomit.
Philip is still very satisfied with being able to achieve such a result, if it weren't for the strange physical rules and huge gravity of this world, this effect might have been expanded several times, you must know that although those fire oils come from plant refinement, their calorific value is several times higher than that of gasoline in the previous life, and it is extremely strong.