Chapter 41: The Battle of the Pass
The thunder that Di Qing ordered the melee infantry to be cast was a local grenade.
The outer shell of this grenade is a special clay pot, spherical, with an opening of only the size of a thumb, filled with gunpowder, and a long lead wire outside, weighing ten kilograms, and its power is enough. In order to facilitate handling and prevent chipping, there is also a wooden box on the outside.
When using it, just ignite the lead and throw it down with the wooden frame. However, because it is too heavy and cannot be thrown too far, it is okay for condescending defense. If used as an attack, you can only blow yourself up.
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The roar of the artillery did not stop for a moment, and the enemy's catapult was moving forward, and the probability of being hit was extremely small.
Di Qing looked at the enemy's catapult that was trying to advance with great losses, and ordered: "Order all artillery to be filled with solid bullets, targets, and siege equipment behind the enemy!"
At the time of Di Qing's order, the target of the artillery attack quickly rushed towards the rear of the enemy.
This time, all the field artillery filled with the launching medicine was fully loaded. With the advantage of being condescending, the attack distance of these artillery reached 1,500 meters!
This attack was effective, and many trenchers and their guards pushed all the soldiers into parts.
However, there were no artillery in front to block and delay, making the enemy troops under the city much smoother to advance.
"Report to the general, the rolling stones have been put into full!"
Listening to the reward of the messenger, Di Qing watched the enemy under the city charge quickly after no rolling stones blocking, and immediately ordered: "Long-range infantry start attacking!"
"Yes!" The messenger sent orders and left again.
In the enemy army formation under the city wall, an officer saw that the fortress in front had not fallen to the deadly rolling stones, and shouted excitedly: "They have no stones anymore, hurry up, rush over, we will win!"
The soldiers were frightened by the tragic situation in front of them and looked bloodless. After seeing no hope of surviving, they were all hopeless, and then they became crazy after despair!
He followed the soldiers in front of him forward frantically, and watched his comrades in front of him being crushed into a pool of minced meat, and accepted the arrival of death crazily.
Even the soldiers in such a state heard a glimmer of hope of survival, so they looked forward and waited for a while. After seeing that the fortress in front was really not falling, they all shouted excitedly, and used all their strength to move forward and charge upward.
Di Qing saw the enemy troops who quickly approached the city wall and issued an order to attack the long-range infantry.
"Strong crossbow soldiers! The third-stage shooting begins! The first row, shoot~!" A frontline officer issued an order to start the third-stage shooting of the strong crossbow.
"Second row, shoot~!", "Third row, shoot~!", "First row, shoot~!"...
Another officer in charge of commanding the archers also ordered: "Archer! Start shooting! Prepare~! Let it go!"
The powerful crossbow and archers carried out a condescending cover-type attack on the enemy under the city wall.
In this case, no accuracy or strength is required at all, so the crossbow can be ejected, and the attack distance is at least 500 meters!
The bow and arrow were prepared as a projectile weapon at the beginning, but at a height bonus of more than ten meters, the attack distance was nearly 300 meters.
However, the crossbows cannot enjoy this convenience, because the crossbow arrows are short and do not have tail feathers. Even if they are shot, when they land, these crossbow arrows will probably have them horizontally, obliquely, or upside down, so they no longer have any lethality. Therefore, even if they have a height of fifteen meters, the increased range can only be said to be better than nothing.
The enemy troops in front were wearing various shields, and there were still many within a range of nearly 100 meters.
"Crosscross! Free shooting!"
The order issued by the officer who commanded the crossbow soldiers was the simplest. After giving the order, he immediately picked up his crossbow and shot at the enemy under the city!
"The melee infantry starts to throw thunder!" This order was issued by Di Qing, and only he can command so many infantry.
Although the long-distance infantry attacked far and was still very strong, the number of people was only 2,000. Facing the enemy who seemed to be in the river under the city wall, it was still not as strong as the enemy.
But with the participation of more than 2,000 melee infantry, the enemy under the city was in trouble, and it was simply difficult to move forward!
The enemy was still attacking fiercely without even being able to hold the ladder of the company commander without any discouragement, as if death was something that the enemy was very happy about.
Finally, the enemy troops who were continuing to fix some long ladders with their bodies, but the embarrassing scene of the remaining enemies appeared - unreachable!
The enemy in front could not see what was happening on the city, so he kept raising the long ladder. The enemy soldiers at the back knew about it, but no one could hear what they were yelling in the battlefield with explosions, shouts of killing, and despair before his death!
So, when some soldiers were about to climb the city, they found that they could not reach the city at all. The distance was still four or five meters.
Whether it is the soldiers climbing the long ladder or the enemy soldiers under the city, the final result is only one of the many corpses!
With a "boom~", a long ladder was stomped by a grenade. Several soldiers with shields on it fell down in screams. Fortunately, there were a lot of buffers left and did not cause any damage, but the next few grenades killed them.
The bodies under the city were piled up higher and higher, and the low-level knights of the enemy behind also discovered this phenomenon. He was not sad about the death of these soldiers, he only saw the upcoming victory.
"Come onto the corpse quickly, so that you can reach the top of the city!" The order of the low-level knight was quickly transmitted to the front.
These simple long ladders, which were not even considered cloud ladders, were quickly built on the top of the city wall under the pile of enemy corpses.
Although these long ladders were quickly stomped by the soldiers on the city wall with grenades, these long ladders are not valuable, and there are some in the enemy's military formation.
"Report to General, the damage speed of the long ladder can no longer keep up!" Lu Su came out of nowhere, with a little smoke on his face, and he reported to Di Qing with an ugly expression.
An arrow from the enemy was missing from Di Qing's side. He seemed to ignore the enemy's threat, looked at the enemy's crazy attack expressionlessly, and continued to order: "Order half of the melee infantry to prepare for melee defense!"
Di Qing ignored it because a large number of personal guards gathered around him, holding various weapons and equipment in his hands, and firmly protected him, the commander-in-chief of the First Army.
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Chapter completed!