As the saying goes, one-stop work will decline again, and three-fold exhaustion.

The Xia army is famous for its strength. Byron Emory is not a fool. Of course, he knew the Xia army's strength, so he let the army in his hands launch an attack together in order not to give Xia army a chance to breathe.

Although Byron led an army of 200,000, which was large and powerful, it was precisely because of the large number of people and the attack was blocked, which would have a great blow to morale. If he was defeated by the Xia army, who was at a disadvantage, he would not know how to save the collapsed army.

There is a saying: The defeat is like a mountain. The more people the army is, the more joint reaction it will cause will be strong once it collapses. Byron really dares not think about the consequences of the defeat of these 200,000.

Therefore, the pressure on Knight Byron Emory is no less than that of the Xia army, or even greater. You should know that he is now in the "absolute advantage" side. If he loses, he will have to die.

Seeing the attacking soldiers rushing into the first line of defense of the Xia army - a trench built around the hills, the heart of the Knight Byron also raised.

"Boom~! Boom~ Boom~!" Suddenly, a loud noise came from the Xia army's position, followed by a series of loud noises, or gunfire sounds.

With the attack launched by the Xia army, balls of flames exploded from the crowd that were charging. With the exploding flames, the soldiers who were charging seemed to be stunned for a moment.

When the coalition soldiers charged in front of the trench, the soldiers in the front row couldn't help but stop, but under the clamor of the soldiers in the rear, the soldiers in the front row fell into the trench involuntarily.

"Ah~!" "Don't push, there's a pit in front!" "It's going to fall down~ah~Help!"

No matter how the soldiers in the front row begged and howled without interruption, the stopping offensive order urged the soldiers behind to continue attacking forward. For the soldiers rushing to sign the signature, this order is a deadly death talisman.

The coalition forces sent 200,000 troops, of course, slave soldiers used as scapegoats are indispensable, and of course these slave soldiers who rushed in the front row were these ones used to block arrows.

But in a moment, the seemingly deep trench was filled with corpses by the coalition forces, allowing the soldiers who launched the attack to successfully pass the first obstacle set up by the Xia army.

Suddenly, when many coalition soldiers were carrying artillery and stepped through the trench where countless people were buried alive by their own people. Just as they were glad that they were not a member of the trench, there seemed to be a giant beast buried in the dirt slope in front of the trench. It suddenly burst out, and the anger of its carrier made the entire area of ​​soldiers near the trench jump into the sky.

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"Report to the commander, the enemy troops from all sides have crossed the trench." This is the timely report of the war situation to Zhu Cheng.

In fact, there is no need to report from the soldiers. Zhu Cheng watched with his own eyes the enemy army filled the trench with his own bodies. Zhu Cheng didn't know whether to be considered brave or reckless. In Xia, such a thing would not happen to the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom.

Then, as the enemy climbed over the ditches beside the ditches used to block the enemy's advance, he rushed to a new step. With the reminder of Taidong's "It's time", Zhu Cheng issued an order to detonate.

It turned out that this earth slope surrounding the trench was buried full of gunpowder, and this earth slope was dug out by militia digging the trench and piled up nearby on the inner edge of the trench to block the enemy's advance.

There is a height difference of about half a meter high on both sides of the trench, and a soil slope of about one meter is accumulated. In other words, if the enemy wants to cross the trench, they must cross the "earth wall" nearly two meters high after filling the trench.

Of course such obstacles cannot stop the enemy's attack, but they can still delay the enemy's attack speed and thus reduce the intensity of the attack.

However, it is impossible to win by delaying the enemy's attack alone. Only by eliminating and repelling the enemy can we do so. Therefore, the gunpowder inside the mound is a real killer move.

The amount of gunpowder is very huge. This is why the logistics transportation of Xia State is powerful enough. It is also because the post-guarantee side has less pressure on military rations, which can transfer the transportation power of the post-guarantee side to other materials. Otherwise, such a tactic would not be used.

Although such an explosion is limited in power because of the use of black gunpowder and cannot rely on any shock wave to kill many enemy troops, it can still use the soil and gravel covered on it to attack the enemy.

But even black gunpowder is considered a hot weapon and cannot be underestimated. Some of the impact is enough to blow away nearby enemies, causing gaps in the enemy's charge.

The reason why they consumed so much black gunpowder to set up traps is because Zhu Cheng and Taidong knew that with the thirty field artillery cannons of one artillery company of the 11th Regiment, ten siege cannons could not be repelled, and they had such a huge number of enemy troops.

Not to mention that the enemy's rush forward without any attention, he hit the weak point of the vanguard army. What Zhu Cheng and the others feared the most was the enemy's uninterrupted attack without stopping, which made their army lose their strength. This was unacceptable for them!

Therefore, the vanguard army must have a way to deal with the enemy's uninterrupted attack, and this ring of gunpowder mound was established to use its power and momentum to cause heavy losses to the enemy and shock the morale of the enemy.

As long as the enemy is questioned by the momentum of the mound when it explodes, the previous heavy casualties will reawaken the enemy's inner fear and make them retreat. This will be considered as achieving the goal, and it will not be in vain to use such a huge amount of black gunpowder.

Sure enough, with the sudden explosion of a mound of soil, in addition to directly suffering heavy casualties, the enemy troops charging behind suddenly became slower, and some of the enemy soldiers were hesitating and did not dare to move forward.

However, the commanders behind the enemy did not hesitate because of this, and they would not let these enemy soldiers go forward without any intention. Just like those who were buried alive by their own people with their own bodies, these soldiers were also pushed forward by the forces from the rear.

When these soldiers stepped on their bodies and entered the original slope with despair, they found that nothing had happened. Then they continued to attack forward with a look of glory.

"Captain, it seems that the enemy generals are not useless, they still have some ability." Taidong couldn't help but sigh when he saw that the enemy was not in chaos due to the serial explosions.

Zhu Cheng didn't care about Taidong's nonsense. He was now keeping a close eye on the enemy's dynamics throughout the whole process, afraid that there would be any omissions.

"Order: The servants come forward and form a formation to defend behind the fence."

"Order: Infantrymen of the 5th Battalion of the 11th Regiment came out of the fence and lined up to defend after resisting horses. Take a volley when the enemy enters the effective range, then immediately retreat to the fence and then line up after the minions."

"Order: The artillery company concentrates firepower and attacks the enemy in the north."

"Order: The cavalry company wanders around and is ready to support at any time."

Seeing that the enemy was about to rush over the earth slope flattened by gunpowder, Zhu Jianma issued the next instructions based on the tactics discussed with Taidong before.

The preparations for the Pioneer Army for so much time are not that simple. Zhu Cheng and Taidong have already formulated various tactics to deal with the enemy. No matter what, their core tactics are always: delay time and wait for reinforcements!
Chapter completed!