Great Song Pirate

Chapter 422
Following Yang Zaixing's order, all the gunners holding torches immediately pressed their torches on the fire door of the Leigong Cannon, and then a loud rumbling sound filled the entire city wall, and dozens of roads sprang up on the top of the city immediately. Flames and gunpowder smoke pervaded the entire city wall, and dozens of iron bullets flew out of the gun bore with the roaring sound, and fiercely smashed towards the Annan army's stone wagons in the distance.

The Annan soldiers who were pushing forward the stone carts had not figured out what happened, many of their stone carts were immediately smashed into pieces as the shells fell, and turned into a mess on the spot. piled waste wood, and those Annan soldiers who were pushing the stone carts were immediately hit by many shells that remained undiminished, and were immediately beaten to blood and flesh, and died on the spot. , was also hit by the fragments of the flying stone cart, and immediately fell down with either death or injury, and the war horses of the Annan people had never been frightened like this, so they were immediately frightened, jumped up desperately, and tried to kill them. The cavalrymen on their backs were thrown down in large numbers, and some Annan cavalrymen or generals who were caught off guard were immediately thrown to the ground heavily, and the ownerless horses immediately started galloping around on the battlefield, and Annan's army immediately became chaotic.

Li Hong and his lieutenants stared dumbfounded at the situation ahead, and finally saw the legendary sky thunder of the skeleton army. It turned out that all the rumors were true. The skeleton army really had such sharp weapons. A lieutenant looked pale. With trembling lips, he said to Li Hong: "Master General...they...their skeleton army can really control...the sky thunder!"

"Fart! What thunder! I don't believe it, it's a sorcery! Why don't you back down? If you dare to disturb the morale of the army, see if I don't kill you immediately. Don't mess up the order, keep advancing! The cavalry dismounted, controlled the mount, Prepare with swords and axes, and anyone who dares to run away will be killed without mercy! Continue to advance!" At this time, Li Hong had no choice. At that time, he almost fell into madness!
After his general order was issued, the chaos of Annan's army stabilized somewhat. At such a moment, no matter what was in front of them, these generals had no choice but to push hard under the general order. The remaining stone chariots continued to push towards Aizhou City, and the cavalry in the rear had to dismount quickly, pulled the reins vigorously, and kept calming their mounts, trying to comfort these companions , but how can the frightened war horse be able to calm down in a short while?What's more, up to now, the city wall in front is still making roaring sounds.

At this time, the last twenty war elephants in the formation, which Li Hong regarded as the final ultimate move, were also frightened at this time. Under the exclamation of the elephant soldiers, they rushed into chaos one after another, some war elephants turned around and ran wildly, Trying to escape from here is a little easier to say, a few war elephants were frightened and dizzy, and they ran towards the Annan formation in front, Li Hong was shocked immediately, if these crazy war elephants rushed into his If he is in the formation, then there is no need to fight this battle again, just these few war elephants are enough to disrupt all his subordinates, so in shock, he immediately ordered his subordinates to order these crazy war elephants The elephant riders on board kill their mounts immediately or they will be shot!

The elephant drivers on these crazy war elephants tried their best to control their favorite elephants, but at this time, the stimulated war elephants could no longer be controlled by them. Seeing that these crazy elephants were about to rush into the Our own people are in the formation, if we let them continue to rush forward, just stepping on them is enough to cause heavy casualties to our own people. These elephant drivers also received Li Hong's order, so they had to take out a handful from their waist with tears in their eyes. A sharp chisel, and a big hammer, and then pressed the chisel on the gap between the vertebrae of the war elephant's neck, crying and swung down the big hammer in his hand, and the sharp chisel was immediately nailed into the neck of the war elephant In the process, the nerves of the war elephants were cut off, and these crazy elephants immediately howled and fell heavily to the ground, and threw the elephant soldiers riding in the elephants above them out, which was considered to have stopped a tragedy happened.

Li Hong looked at these war elephants, which he regarded as a magic weapon, and almost went mad with anger. He waved his saber and roared, "Come on! Don't stop! Charge me! Go into the city and kill all these damned beasts!" Skeleton Army!"

The first round of shelling did not fully achieve the expected goal, and only destroyed some of Annan's army's stone chariots, causing some damage to the soldiers and horses in front of them. After seeing this situation, Yang Zaixing immediately shouted: "Re- Loading, be sure to knock out their boulder carts! Get ready... let it go!"

The gunners are not the ones who eat dry food, they have reloaded the artillery again, pushed it back to the original position, readjusted the angle, and then ignited the fuse again with Yang Zaixing's roar, and then the city wall sounded again. There was a roaring sound, flames and gunpowder smoke filled the entire city wall, and the howling shells fell on Annan's army again. After the first round of firing, the accuracy of the second round of shelling was significantly improved, so The stone chariots of the Annan Army who were still advancing outside the city were immediately destroyed in large numbers on the spot, turning into a piece of wreckage, and a piece of Annan soldiers fell down near the wreckage again.

Seeing that the only long-range weapon he could rely on was destroyed so quickly, Li Hong waved his saber and roared angrily: "Give up the stone chariot, all the artillerymen will charge me with sandbags on their backs, and the archers will press on! Suppress the bandits in the city with bows and crossbows! Charge me..."

Following his order, the artillerymen who were still alive immediately abandoned the wreckage of the stone wagons all over the ground, and immediately retreated from the array between the formations like a tide. Led by their officers, they carried sandbags on their backs, Following the front array, they flocked towards Aizhou City again.

Under the supervision of Li Hong's personal soldiers behind him, the soldiers in the Annan Army's formation continued to line up in a dense formation, and slowly moved towards the trench outside the city. After firing the arrows, they began to shoot at the city wall only after entering the range.

Seeing that the Annan Army's firing chariots outside the city were almost gone, Yang Zaixing immediately sent an order: "Continue to prepare the artillery, replace it with shotguns, target the enemy's archers, and prepare..."

The gunners quickly completed their reloading again in an orderly manner, and pushed the Leigong Cannon to the mouth of the battlements. With Yang Zaixing's words, all the artillery roared again, and now the Annan Army has entered the shotgun range of the artillery. , With the roar of the guns, iron sand the size of soybeans was poured like a torrential rain towards the Annan army array that was gradually approaching outside the city.

The Annan army archers who were walking in the front row were cut down by the iron sand poured down like a torrential rain. Many soldiers did not die on the spot after being shot, but held their wounds and let out a chilling cry. The sound of howling, they don't understand what the skeleton army is using to massacre them, they can only be passively killed by this terrible skeleton army in the city, but they can't make any counterattack, some archers looked at Brother Pao Ze fell beside him, frightened and angry, ignoring that he had not yet entered the range of the bows and arrows in their hands, so he frantically fired arrows towards Aizhou City, but unfortunately the arrows they released were flying out. After a certain distance, they didn't even reach the city wall, and they landed on the ground outside the city with all their strength, which caused a burst of ridicule from the Fubo army on the city.

Seeing his soldiers being cut down like rice by the terrifying weapon of the skeleton army, Li Hong's heart almost bleeds, but he has no better way, so he can only order again: "Shield Step forward with a sword in hand and a shield to cover the archers! Don’t stop, keep charging! Be sure to hurry! Ladders are ready! Put a ladder on top of the trench and attack!"

His lieutenants also know the importance of Aizhou, and they can understand Li Hong's mood at this time. At this point, they can only ignore life and death. Some lieutenants drew their swords and bowed to Li Hong After saluting, he turned around and rode his horse to the front, starting to organize a new offensive.

A large number of Annan army soldiers fell to the ground and wailed helplessly, but no one had time to treat them at this time. A large number of Annan shield swordmen, led by their generals, passed the heavy-loss archers and raised their hands in front of them. The big shield was set up, forming a shield wall, which gave the archers who were already terrified that they were about to collapse a little bit of psychological comfort, so the chaotic situation stabilized again, and the archers once again formed a team to follow the shield swords in front. The array of hands moved forward again.

Seeing the heavy casualties of Annan soldiers outside, Xu Yi couldn't feel any sympathy at all. War is like this, no kindness can be tolerated. The massacre gave him a faint sense of pleasure, the anger in his chest dissipated a lot, and he turned his head to look at Yang Zaixing with ease.

Yang Zaixing stood upright on the city wall like a javelin, calm as a bell, and looked out of the city coldly. After seeing Annan's army outside the city changing their array, he sent another order: "The ballista is ready, load the stone Thunderbolts and thunders, Leigong cannons continue to load shotguns, let's see if the Annan people's shields are strong enough!" There was no trace of tension in his tone.

The calmness and ease of generals such as Yang Zaixing and Xu Yi also infected many Fubo soldiers. They were somewhat nervous at the beginning, and now they began to relax. They all laughed and started to implement Yang Zaixing's new order Under the command of the gunners, the ballistas that had been set up were pulled apart by the strings, and the round stone thunderbolt bullets were placed in the chute, covered by the leather bags on the strings. , get ready.

"Li Bo, go and find me the sharpshooter in the personal army, and bring our special sniper crossbow. Let's try the power of the sniper crossbow and hunt down some Annan generals!" Xu Yi whispered to Li Bo. , now he has renamed the god arm crossbow made by Yang Wenzhong into a sniper crossbow, and wants to take this opportunity to test its power, and he doesn't want to interfere with Yang Zaixing's command, he needs Yang Zaixing to be more mature in such a war , to be more familiar with the application of these super-era weapons. Only through the tempering of actual combat can Yang Zaixing and these generals be more familiar with the power of these weapons created by him, so he let Yang Zaixing take command, and he only serves as a Bystanders are here to watch.

Li Bo immediately nodded in agreement, turned around and went down to get ready. Qian Gui brought them a dozen pairs of sniper crossbows newly made by Yang Wenzhong this time, which are now under the control of Xu Yi's personal guards. More than a dozen carefully selected personal guards, in groups of two, were arranged on the city wall. Xu Yi's requirements for them were very simple. As long as the enemy army came within their range, they could hunt and kill the ones they selected at will. The goal is to focus on taking care of those officers in Annan's army. These guards immediately agreed excitedly, started running on the city wall, chose their battle positions, set up their bipods on the battlements, and started to fight. ready.

"Fire the Thunder Cannon!" Yang Zaixing ordered again after seeing that the gunners had reloaded.

"Boom boom boom..." There was another booming sound on the city wall, and the iron particles were splashed out like a torrential rain again, and the flying iron particles fell heavily on Annan's army. There was a blood mist.

Those Annan shield swordsmen discovered in horror at this time that the shields in their hands that they thought were strong were as fragile as paper under such a blow, and the wooden shields wrapped in copper skin were stained with these iron particles. Immediately afterward, they were pierced through transparent holes one after another, and the momentum was still not diminished, and then they got into their bodies hiding behind the shield heavily, so the originally neat shield wall collapsed immediately, as if The old lady's gums generally became dilapidated, and a large number of shield swordsmen immediately lay on the ground and wailed desperately, a large amount of blood oozed out of their armor, and the appearance was horrible.

Now Annan's army really started to mess up. Even the only shield they could rely on was useless under this thunder-like weapon. So what else can resist this terrifying weapon of the opponent?Some of Annan's soldiers almost went crazy and stopped in their tracks, hesitating whether to continue to die.

As soldiers, they are actually veterans who have experienced many battles. It can be said that they are not afraid of death, but they have never fought such an aggrieved battle. They were massacred by the skeleton army on the opponent's city wall, but they had no power to fight back. Up to now, their corpses were all over the place, but the opponent was still unscathed. Should they continue to stretch their necks like this and let the opponent kill casually?Not being afraid of death does not mean that they are willing to die in vain. They are not willing to be slaughtered by the other party so meaninglessly. They are human beings, not livestock, chickens and ducks waiting to be slaughtered, and they cannot die so meaninglessly.

Seeing the formation starting to stop in front of him, Li Hong's furious opponent roared: "Beat the drums to give orders, maintain the formation, and keep moving forward. Standing here now can only become a better target for the opponent. Stopping is also death. If you stop, you will die." I will continue to charge! Deputy General Ruan, go to supervise the battle immediately, don't stop, and kill anyone who disobeys the order!"

The lieutenant general surnamed Ruan immediately bowed to his orders, pulled out his waist knife, turned around and led a group of guards towards the front of the queue. When he rushed to the front of the queue, the place had already stopped. , the deputy general surnamed Ruan swung a knife and knocked over an officer, holding up the bloody waist knife and shouting: "The general has an order, instead of waiting to die, it is better to go in and charge me! Those who hesitate to fight are like this man , kill!" After speaking, he picked up a shield on the ground, raised it up and rushed forward.

Seeing that Deputy General Ruan took the lead and rushed forward, the blood of these hesitant Annan soldiers was ignited again, so they all roared again, and followed this Deputy General Ruan to rush forward again.

When they entered the firing range of the ballista, Yang Zaixing immediately ordered: "The ballista! Let it go!"

Then the ballistas on the city wall let out a bang, and the arms of the crossbows hit the baffle heavily. The tense crossbow strings pulled the ignited thunderbolts in the chute, whizzing towards Annan outside the city. The soldiers flew over among the crowd.

The thunderbolt bombs made of stones fell on the enemy group as dense as ants in an instant, killing and wounding a group of Annan soldiers on the spot, but at this time, the blow at this time was compared with the scattered bullets just now. The blow that was cut down was nothing. These Annan soldiers who had been thoroughly enraged were not frightened by these stone bullets at all, and continued to howl, jump over the stone bullets that fell on the ground, and rushed towards the trench. Several people noticed that the falling stone bombs were smoking.

The ballista players on the top of the city continued to stir the winch to wind the ballista, while watching the enemy soldiers count silently outside the city, and then only heard the rumbling sound of the enemy group, and then saw the enemy army inside the enemy group. There were more than a dozen puffs of gunpowder smoke, centering on these a dozen puffs of gunpowder smoke, a dozen blank spots immediately appeared in the dense enemy group, and the violent explosion set off a cloud of blood and a large number of stumps and broken arms. Those Annan soldiers who were rushing with their heads down were immediately blown up and down. The scattered fragments immediately knocked down a large number of Annan soldiers nearby, and they flew out. The person in the room was also shaken by the nearby explosion, and his ears were ringing, and he felt that his blood was surging, and his panic was really uncomfortable.

Such a sudden blow shocked the Annan people again. I don't know what they suffered this time, which caused such a killing. They couldn't help but feel even more terrified. A large number of driven Annan army soldiers were rushing forward carrying sandbags, and these Annan army soldiers who were shocked had no choice but to continue to rush forward desperately.

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