Chapter 10 Revisiting the Small Town
Di Qing and Lu Su led the infantry brigade to continue moving forward.
This time, there was no vanguard or the rear army. Because the spies in the front came to report, the enemy had already implemented a solid wall and cleared the fields and prepared to defend the city!
In less than a day, the entire brigade had already arrived outside the city without surrounding it. It was just divided into two parts, arranged on the south and east sides of the city.
Because of insufficient troops, at most, you can only attack two walls!
The heavy camp is in the south of the city, the regular camp is in the east of the city, and the other three separate military formations are also in the south of the city!
Because the conventional battalion had two artillery brigades of its own, Di Qing asked them to feint attack the East City, and the rest of the troops were all concentrated in the south of the city, which was the main attack!
"Staff, tell me, how should this city attack!"
Di Qing rode a war horse, looked at the sunset in the west, and asked Lu Su with a smile.
Lu Su was also riding on the war horse. When he heard Di Qing’s question, he clasped his fists and replied with a smile: “General, such a small city is vulnerable, and a few rounds of artillery are enough!”
"Haha~!" Di Qing laughed and said, "Well, let's take a few rounds of 'salutes' tonight, so that the people of this small town know our 'enterprise'!"
"This is the best!" Lu Su touched the beard on his chin with his index finger and middle finger, and agreed with Di Qing's statement very much.
Di Qing's face turned right and ordered: "Order! Siege cannons filled with flowering bullets, and the target city is ready for three rounds!"
"Yes!" The messenger quickly conveyed the general order!
Because it was just a few rounds of artillery bombardment, not counting as siege, Di Qing did not order the drums and trumpets!
"Report to the general! The siege cannons are ready!" In less than a minute, the messenger reported to Di Qing that the siege cannons were ready, just waiting for the firing order!
Di Qing did not let the artillery wait for a long time, nor did the enemy wait for a long time. He waved his right hand towards the small town, and at the same time ordered loudly: "Fire the cannon~!"
"General has an order! Fire artillery~!" The messenger waved the order flag, rode a war horse, shouted the order in his mouth, and ran away at high speed to pass the order!
"Fire the gun~!"
The command to fire a gun first sounded on the positions of the siege artillery brigade in the south.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The eighteen siege artillery finally deserved his name and began the first bombardment against the city!
"Fire the gun~!"
Then the order to fire the artillery brigade in the east was followed by a call to fire!
"Boom boom boom boom!"
Another bombardment of eighteen siege artillery fired eighteen flowering bullets at the small city in front of you!
After a while, bursts of dense explosions sounded in the city, and then rolling black smoke rose into the sky!
In less than twenty seconds, the second round of artillery bombardment began again!
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The explosion in the small town sounded again, and the black smoke became more. From a distance, it seemed as if the whole small town was burning!
After three rounds of artillery bombardment, Di Qing ordered the entire army to return to the camp and prepare for the official siege of the city the next day!
The infantry brigade outside the city went to rest, but the people in the city were not having a good time. To be precise, they were all scared!
Kevin was discussing with several of his knights in the afternoon how to defend the city. He heard the city guards report that an army appeared in the south and east of the city, and it seemed that he was going to attack the city.
After hearing the report from the city guards, everyone in the castle hall began to panic. Before they could calm down the news, they heard the sound of thunder and explosions again.
The explosion sounded like they were in their ears. The earth trembled and a lot of dust was shaken off from the ceiling, which made them panic and didn't know how to deal with it!
"Lord, this is the enemy's 'thunder'!" The First Knight first reacted and reported to Kevin who wanted to get into the seat.
Kevin, who had no more space under his seat, heard the report from the First Knight, spread it on the ground, and asked in panic: "Is this the 'thunder' you mentioned summoned by the enemy? Why is it so terrible?"
Kevin's words had just fallen and hadn't waited for the First Knight's answer!
"Boom~!"
An explosion seemed to be ringing in my ears, which made everyone in the hall dizzy and tinnitus very much! It took a long time to react!
"Ah~!" "Help~!" "Run! The sky thunder is coming again!"
After everyone in the hall returned to normal, they found that the roar of the "Sky Thunder" had stopped at no time!
The First Knight looked out along the door of the hall. The two guards guarding the hall were already lying on the side, and there was no sound! There was a big pit in the yard outside the hall at some point! The noise of crying outside the castle made them all hear it very clearly!
They waited for a while, and only then felt relieved after seeing that the enemy did not summon the sky thunder again, but they still dared not leave the castle!
"Who of you goes outside to see what's going on? What's going on outside?"
Kevin hid behind the throne, poked his head out, and shouted to everyone hiding in the corner of the hall, but the people in the hall seemed to have not heard the Lord's words, and were all indifferent!
"Go quickly! Why are you all standing there?" Kevin was very angry when he saw that no one listened to his words and shouted: "You dare not listen to the words of this lord? This lord is not dead yet!"
There was no way, in the eyes of others, the knights had to walk out of the hall together, bypass the big pit in the yard, and continue to walk outside the castle.
At this time, the second knight no longer thought about it. He was also very frightened. He didn't expect that the enemy had weapons like thunder, which made him very worried, worried about how to defend this city!
After waiting for the three knights to finally break open the bricks and stones piled up at the door, they walked out of the castle, but they saw a scene like hell!
The buildings burning on both sides of the street! They are like headless flies everywhere, civilians running around!
There are also big pits on the street and houses that have been dispersed, which all explain what kind of attack they suffered just now!
The three of them looked back at the castle, but they saw that the tower at the corner of the castle had no uppermost floor. There were several large holes in the city wall next to it, and the wide platform of the small square was gone at this time, leaving only a pile of residue falling at the door!
The three of them looked at each other again, and there was another cold sweat and fear. Fortunately, the castle was still solid, and fortunately the enemy only attacked for a while...
Then the three of them went to check the city wall and found that there was no other damage except for the soldiers who were trembling with fear.
This made the three of them feel grateful again, but looking at the tents connected outside the city, the three of them became distressed again. What should we do tomorrow?
In the end, the three had to return to the castle and report to Lord Kevin who was sitting on the throne again!
After listening, Kevin had a gloomy face.
He calmed down now and recalled the unbearable scene he had just now, and was very angry, but he didn't know who to vent his anger, so he could only hold it in!
Kevin asked, “When will reinforcements arrive?”
The second knight replied immediately: "Go back to Lord Lord, it will take at least one day for reinforcements!"
"What, it's still one day? When they come, they can only collect the body for me!" Kevin said this, remembered something, and said happily: "By the way! They dare not kill me, haha~!"
What Kevin just remembered was that there was a "Continental Convention" protecting him, so he was very happy because now he had the capital to resist 'tenorously' to the end!
Chapter completed!