The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 474 Hell on Earth
As the whirring ox horn sounded again, the soldiers of the Dashun Army who were sitting and resting at the head of Taiyuan City hurriedly stood up.

With terrified and tired eyes, they looked down the city, one by one hastily clenched their weapons.

They saw groups of Qin soldiers in black clothes and armor moving forward slowly like black phalanxes in the pine forest amidst the desolate sound of ox horns.

Although it was still far away from them, the powerful pressure suddenly covered their fragile and anxious hearts.

Moreover, that pressure continued to increase as Qin Jun approached. Many people even began to hold their breath, and the entire city was suddenly cast in a shadow, presenting a depressing and strange atmosphere.

The commander of the Dashun army looked at the Qin army phalanx slowly approaching under the city, and his heart was solemn.

He knew that this was the real Qin army elite.It's unbelievable that people feel like Mount Tai is overwhelmed before fighting.

He began to rejoice in his heart that fortunately this was a battle to defend the city, and relying on the city, his soldiers would not collapse soon.

If the two sides are fighting in the field, I am afraid that there will already be deserters from their own side at this moment.

The general of the Dashun Army is also a veteran of the battlefield. He knew that if the Qin Army's phalanx was allowed to squeeze in, once a soldier on his side had a mental breakdown, it would soon cause a chain reaction, and the city would no longer need to be defended.

So he pulled out the long sword at his waist and raised it high, shouting coldly: "Brothers, stand up! The Qin army is not as invincible as in the legend. Open your eyes and see, there are people everywhere in the city The corpses of the killed Qin Jun. They are both human, flesh and blood, and can be killed!

Soldiers, take up the swords and guns in your hands, hold on to the shields in your hands, and together with this general, repel the Qin army again, and let them see that the men of our Dashun army are not cowards. "

After the general's encouragement, the pressure in the hearts of the soldiers of the Dashun Army on the top of the city suddenly eased. Many people showed determination on their timid faces again, and they tightly grasped the weapons in their hands, and their backs straightened. stand up.

The young general next to the chief general of the Dashun army looked at the general silently, with complicated expressions on his face, not knowing what he was thinking.

On the cloud cart in the Qin army's formation, Bai Shan was observing the situation ahead with a telescope. .

After watching for a while, he turned his head and said to the lieutenant next to him, "Order the whole army to stop and let the artillery battalion get ready. By the way, among the new firearms that His Highness distributed us this time, what is the best effect on killing people?" A kind of artillery?"

Bigger immediately shouted: "General, among the new artillery equipped this time, the trajectory of the mortar is curved, which can effectively kill the enemies hiding behind the city wall or in the trenches, but the attack effect on the city wall is relatively poor." .”

"That's good, order the artillery battalion to attack the defenders at the top of the city with mortars. If they can be defeated in one fell swoop, let them open the city and surrender. It will also prevent us from having to repair the city after we occupy it. If the mortar is not effective enough Auxiliary to other artillery."

Bigge took the order and sent an orderly to the artillery battalion to deliver the order.

This time Jiang Chuan equipped the army with 5000 firearms for the West Conquest Army.

Among the 5000 people, 1000 people were organized into an artillery battalion alone.

This artillery battalion has field artillery that is good at attacking infantry in field battles, with straight ballistics and short range.

There are also long and heavy artillery that are good at attacking enemy artillery and have a longer range.

Mortars are more suitable for attacking enemies hiding behind fortifications at a longer distance.

Mortars are also divided into light mortars and heavy mortars.

The two mortars have different calibers, naturally different ranges, and naturally have very different lethalities.

These 5000 pure firearms troops are not currently organized into the battle order according to the new military system.

This artillery battalion alone is equipped with a full hundred artillery pieces of various types.

If equipped according to the new military system, these one hundred artillery pieces definitely greatly exceed the number of artillery pieces that an artillery battalion should have, and even one artillery regiment is enough.

In addition to the artillery unit of 1000 men, among the remaining 4000 men, there were 1000 grenadiers equipped with new wooden handle grenades, and these [-] men also became a grenadier battalion.

The remaining 3000 people were organized into three infantry battalions for every 1000 people.

The general of the Dashun army on the top of the city saw the Qin army phalanx suddenly stopped, and suddenly became suspicious.

An uneasiness rose from the bottom of his heart, but he couldn't tell where this uneasiness came from.

Although he knew that Qin Jun really started to fight in the afternoon, after all, it was his first time fighting Qin Jun, and he didn't know what Qin Jun's real attack method was.

Originally, he thought that the Qin army would use various engineering equipment to attack and climb the city wall just like in the morning.

It has to be said that his knowledge and vision are completely unable to meet the needs of war in this era.

However, this cannot be blamed on him. After all, for the generals of this era, whether they are the generals of the Dashun Army with mud legs, or the generals of the imperial court at all levels, the vast majority of them do not have a basic understanding of the war in the era of pure firearms. the concept of.

It can be said that without the influence of Jiang Chuan in this era, maybe the form of warfare with alternating cold and hot weapons will exist for quite a while.

And Jiang Chuan intends to use new firearms to teach these enemies who are outdated in equipment and concepts a painful lesson, to let them know that they have been eliminated by this era

Soon, the guard of the Dashun Army knew where the unease in his heart came from.

Therefore, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded in the Qin army's position under the city.

Then in the next moment, there were bursts of sharp whistling sounds that came to his ears from far and near.

By the time he realized something was wrong, more than a dozen black cannonballs had already flown from the sky to the top of his head.

Although the soldiers of the Dashun Army also knew about artillery, the artillery they saw were all extremely outdated tiger squatting artillery or red clothing artillery.

And even that kind of backward cannon, many soldiers have never seen it before.

Therefore, many people have no awareness of anti-cannon at all, and basically stand on the top of the city in a daze, watching the shells fall straight into the crowd at the top of the city.

Of the dozen or so shells, at least half fell on the top of the city.

Among the dense crowd at the top of the city, the explosion immediately set off a bloody storm.

Many broken arms and limbs were flying in the air, and the stone chips and rocks thrown up by the explosion on the top of the city also played a very good role in the explosion effect. Many soldiers of the Dashun Army died in a daze.

They were lucky. Those soldiers who were injured and survived were wailing on the top of the city, and the whole city turned into a hell on earth in an instant.

(End of this chapter)