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Chapter 239 Threat to the Red Sun Kingdom
Taking advantage of the opportunity of our own cavalry archers to completely suppress the enemy's defenders, a large number of Kuran Empire infantry quickly rushed towards the city wall.

Compared with its powerful cavalry unit, the infantry unit of the Kuran Empire is much worse. First of all, it is not strong. After all, these infantry units are actually leftover garbage after being selected. Can't be a cavalry archer, so it can only be used as infantry cannon fodder, and most of them are below the third-level swordsman.As for these cannon fodder, the Kuran Empire naturally would not waste too much financial resources to arm them, so this also led to their poor equipment, most of which only had a set of simple leather armor for body protection, and weapons were A nomadic cutlass and a leather buckler.

Such crude equipment also destined these Kuran Empire infantry to have a low survival rate on the battlefield.

After discovering that the enemy infantry had begun to attack, the veterans of the Dagan Empire leaned out from behind the city wall at the same time, and shot at the enemy infantry with their crossbows and muskets. He hid behind the city wall.

In such a short period of time, the Kuran Empire's cavalry archers only had time to kill a dozen enemy soldiers, but failed to harm the foundation of the defenders on the opposite side.

And the infantry of the Kuran Empire was in a miserable situation. The leather round shields in their hands and the simple leather armor on their bodies could not resist the enemy's strong bows and musket bullets. Thousands of Kuran Kingdom infantry were knocked down.

When the other Kuran infantry saw the enemy's firepower so powerful, their morale plummeted and they fled to the rear in fright. After all, according to this speed, the thousands of them only needed a few rounds of salvos from the enemy to be reimbursed!It is impossible for them to attack the city wall in such a short period of time.

When the Kuran cavalry saw the infantry escaping, they did not continue to force the opponent to attack. Instead, they continued to fire arrows for a while, killing some enemy troops with the rain of arrows, and then retreated.

Of course, not all castles can push back the enemy so smoothly. For example, some small castles that are in disrepair and lack troops are crumbling under the attack of the Kurans.

Fort Il was one such unlucky castle.Compared with those big castles, this Fort Ir is much smaller, its radius is only about 100 meters, its garrison is only about 200 people when it is the largest, and its city walls are also very low.Due to the long period of disrepair, the low city wall is even more dilapidated. In addition, the officers in the castle are not paid all the year round, resulting in fewer and fewer defenders in the castle. Now there are only about 50 people left. up.

Since the location of Irburg is as remote as that of Lou County, and there has been no large-scale war between the Dagan Empire and the Kuran Empire for decades, the officers stationed at Ierburg have no sense of crisis. In addition to his free salary, he is also interested in training the soldiers. At most, he only practices once every six months. His own martial arts are also very weak, and he is only a fourth-level swordsman.

But God often likes to joke with people. Even such a small and remote castle attracted the attack of thousands of Kuran Empire soldiers. Before the other party's infantry could launch an attack, the cavalry archers alone launched an attack. The arrow rain had already killed and injured most of the defenders in the castle.

By the time the Kuran infantrymen rushed towards the city wall with ladders, the defenders in the castle had completely lost their will to fight. A veteran wearing worn leather armor raised a white flag and stood on the wall and waved it. .

Seeing the enemy surrendering with a white flag, the Kuran infantrymen who had always been used as cannon fodder couldn't help but smile.In order to avoid long nights and nightmares, they quickly set up ladders, climbed onto the city wall, and tied up the Daqian Empire defenders who had abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Seeing that the castle had fallen, the Kuran horse archers in the rear quickly came up to join the infantry.

"Sir, this is the matchlock gun developed by the Daqian Empire!"

A Kuran infantryman held an arquebus that he had just found from the battlefield, and said respectfully to a man in fine scale armor headed by the cavalry archers.

The man took the matchlock gun, fiddled with it a few times curiously, and quickly figured out its principle.He smiled and commented: "This firearm is really amazing! With such a simple device, it can explode with such powerful power!"

It's no wonder that the Kuran general sighed so. After all, the most powerful weapon of their Kuran Empire is the recurve compound bow made of composite materials such as tendons and angles.This seemingly short riding bow is actually extremely powerful, even more powerful than some walking bows.However, the manufacturing process for such a powerful weapon is also very cumbersome.

It may take a year just to prepare various materials, and then it will take several years to combine those materials reasonably to make a bow.Like the composite bow in his hand, it took eight years for the master bow makers in the tribe to make it.

In comparison, although the rate of fire and accuracy of this matchlock gun are far inferior to that of a well-made recurve compound bow, it is more difficult to manufacture. As long as there are enough materials, it can be mass-produced quickly.And its power is indeed powerful. Even if it is wearing iron armor, it cannot withstand the bullets fired by these large-caliber matchlock guns.In order for a bow and arrow to penetrate iron armor, in addition to the quality of the bow and arrow itself, the strength of the shooter is also very important. Generally speaking, a soldier with at least a fifth-level swordsman strength or above can shoot through iron armor.And this matchlock gun, even if used by an ordinary person with no cultivation, can kill the elite enemy soldiers wearing iron armor.

Therefore, in order to enhance the strength of the Kuran Empire, after discussions, many tribal leaders of the Kuran Empire decided to start developing firearms. In order to save time, it is the best way to first obtain some firearms developed by the Daqian Empire as samples. .

The mission of this thousand-man team is to find a way to obtain some intact firearms and bring them back to the Kuran Empire for research.

This Castle of Il was also unlucky. Three days ago, more than a dozen matchlock guns were sent over to strengthen the castle's armaments, but in the end it caused an unwarranted disaster.After the Kuran Empire learned about it, they immediately sent this thousand-man team to attack the castle, trying to get some matchlock guns.

In the end, these soldiers of the Kuran Empire found a total of five intact matchlock guns in the castle, as well as two large barrels of black powder and hundreds of lead bullets. These were all packed away by them and shipped back to the Kuran Empire.

However, the good luck of the Kuran Empire ended here. After the Dagan Empire discovered the opponent's intention to collect firearms, it took precautions in the subsequent battles. Once it found that it was going to be defeated, it would take the initiative. Destroy those firearms before they fall into enemy hands.Especially those powerful artillery.

Therefore, apart from a few matchlock guns and a few homemade grenades, the Kuran Empire did not obtain any more firearms.

On the other side, Zhou Tiebi, Fu Chaoling and others relied on Lu Han's undead magic to transform the corpses of enemy soldiers killed into skeleton soldiers every day, so they were no longer afraid of the enemy's onslaught and successfully held back the red sun. The kingdom's army spent three days and wiped out about 11 enemy troops.

In the end, the Red Sun Kingdom found out that the main force of the Dagan Empire was about to resist, and then took the initiative to retreat, trying to escape into the nearby mountains and forests.

It's a pity that most of the Red Sun Kingdom's side was infantry, and the marching speed was slow, so they were quickly overtaken by more than 5 imperial cavalry, and then trapped in a small town.In the end, hundreds of thousands of the main army were killed, completely annihilating the army of the Red Sun Kingdom in one fell swoop.

After annihilating the main force of the Red Sun Kingdom, the Dagan Imperial Army did not rest. After leaving about 80 troops to stay in the area to prevent the Red Sun Kingdom from making a comeback, the remaining [-] soldiers all began to attack. Rush towards the west and the direction of the Kuran battlefield.

Because the Kuran Empire's cavalry archers are too powerful, although the Dagan Empire has as many as 400 million troops on the other side of the battlefield, they are still completely in passive defense. Once they leave the city, they will easily fall into a In the trap of the Kuran Empire army, he was played to death by those elusive cavalry archers.

During the few days of the battle, the military strength was only about 300 million, and the Kuran Empire, which seemed to be on the weak side, was completely suppressing the Dagan Empire.The battle loss ratio between the two sides once reached five to one. This is still the situation where the Daqian Empire is on the defensive side most of the time. If the Daqian Empire chooses to take the initiative to attack, the casualties may be even greater.

In order to thwart the attack of the Kuran Empire, the Dagan Empire not only quickly transferred the more than 80 troops to the battlefield for support, but also stepped up the manufacture of various weapons and equipment in the country, and sent them to the front line to enhance the combat effectiveness of its own army.

Since the main force of the Red Sun Kingdom had been quickly annihilated, the Dagan Empire was able to concentrate on dealing with an enemy like the Kuran Empire. More firearms were equipped, and the Dagan Empire launched several counterattacks, annihilating hundreds of thousands of Kuran Empire troops.

The Kuran Empire originally just wanted to take advantage of it. Now seeing that its ally, the Red Sun Kingdom, was so unsatisfactory and that it had lost a lot of manpower, it would not be able to gain any advantage if it continued to fight, so it took the initiative to attack the enemy. The Qian Empire proposed peace talks.

In the fierce battle with the Kuran Empire, the Dagan Empire actually lost more troops. In addition, the entire country's army was in a critical period of transformation from a cold weapon to a hot weapon army. It took enough time to prepare the soldiers. Familiar with and adapt to the tactics of firearms, so he also agreed to the Kuran Empire's peace.

The two sides redrawn the border and exchanged prisoners and quickly restored peace. However, they were secretly strengthening the development of firearms. Among them, the Daqian Empire had begun to conduct various trainings for soldiers so that the soldiers could be trained as soon as possible. Master the use of firearms proficiently and better utilize the power of these new weapons.

If it is said that the Kuran Empire is still qualified to negotiate peace with the Dagan Empire and get out of it, then the Red Sun Kingdom is a typical example of stealing chickens without losing money.

In this war of aggression against the Daqian Empire, the Red Sun Kingdom's naval fleet was severely damaged, all the main warships were sunk, the soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, and their combat strength was reduced to ten percent.As for the army, it was even worse. Because the navy randomly landed on a coast, the 30-strong army was annihilated by the main army of the Daqian Empire without causing much effective damage to the Daqian Empire. They died. Not one is left.

Naturally, the Daqian Empire would not be merciful to such an enemy whose vitality had been severely damaged. Just a week after the main force of its army was annihilated, the king of the Red Sun Kingdom received a letter from the Daqian Empire through maritime trade. Threat letter delivered.

In the letter, the Daqian Empire demanded that the Red Sun Kingdom compensate for the loss of 700 million taels of silver on this battlefield. In addition, it must cede several islands closer to the Daqian Empire.Finally, the Red Sun Kingdom was asked to surrender and pay tribute to the Daqian Empire, so that the Red Sun Kingdom would be given a way out.

Otherwise, after three months, the Dagan Empire will send troops to attack the Red Sun Kingdom and completely wipe it from the Xuangu Continent.

After the King of the Red Sun Kingdom, Aomatsu Sanko, read this letter, he was so angry that he vomited three liters of blood on the spot and almost died. The faces of all the officials and generals of the Red Sun Kingdom were frightened.

After being rescued by the imperial doctor, Qingsong Sanxing glanced at the group of civil servants and generals in front of him, and asked in a deep voice: "The Dagan Empire is so arrogant, what strategies do you have to defend against the enemy?"

Facing the king's inquiry, all the civil servants and generals of the Red Sun Kingdom lowered their heads and said nothing.After all, both the navy and the army have been defeated, and the total strength of all the domestic troops may not even be [-]. How can this possibly withstand the Daqian Empire with millions of troops?Not to mention that the opponent's army has also replaced firearms on a large scale, doubling its combat power.In this situation where the strength of the enemy and the enemy is very different, if you want to win, you must have the rebirth of the God of War!
However, these civil servants and generals of the Red Sun Kingdom are very self-aware, and they all understand that they absolutely do not have that kind of ability, so what else can they do besides pretending to be dumb at this time!

When Qingmong Sanxing saw that each of his subordinates were pretending to be dumb, the anger he had just suppressed surged up again, and his face quickly became ugly.

Upon seeing this, the imperial doctor on the side quickly stepped forward and reminded Qingsong Sanxing: "Your Majesty, calm down! It is important to take care of the dragon body. Don't get angry easily!"

At the reminder of the imperial doctor, Qingmong Sanxing had to suppress his anger again, and then tried to say as calmly as possible to the group of civil servants and generals in front of him: "I am tired, you all should stand down!"

(End of this chapter)