Chapter 24: Flexing Muscles(1/2)
When the heavy ten-kilogram shell made a whistling death sound, smashing into the cavalry formation hundreds of meters away, no abnormality was noticed on the opposite side.
Only occasionally, the horse in the front felt a little uneasy amid the huge sound of cannons.
The cavalry, who couldn't see clearly in front of him, raised his hand to block the sun, and wanted to see what was flying out of the city wall.
At this moment, the shells rushed into the crowd like a strong wind.
"Puff..."
Almost before the screams were heard, the circular shell rolled out of the cavalry a bloody death passage.
After the shells had rolled out more than ten meters away, the horses were neighing, and the sound of their bodies being smashed instantly was so dull, with blood and blood splashing everywhere, and all the cavalry were completely confused.
A few seconds later, a human-shaped flesh-and-blooded road of more than 200 meters appeared in the eyes of everyone on the city wall.
Thousands of cavalry in front of the city were completely in chaos, and countless horses were frightened and collided around. For a moment, people were roaring and wailing sounds were everywhere.
When everyone on the city wall saw this scene, they were amazed. At this moment, everyone had only one thought in their minds. This is worthy of being the dragon cannon. This is the real power of the dragon. How could there be such power in the mortal world?
When Han Chunming saw this scene, his lips curled up. The real journey of the Dragon Kingdom will start from here!
He waved his hand and the remaining four muzzles began to fire. There were four shocking sounds, and four shells rushed towards the troops below.
As the five shells fell, the 18,000 soldiers and horses below were completely chaotic and collapsed. The fear and anxiety were spreading rapidly. Many soldiers even turned around and were about to walk back.
But at this moment, they were like a group of little fish trapped in the fishing net. How could they still let them escape?
Han Chunming picked up the telescope next to him and looked in the direction behind them. He saw a sandstorm storm in the distance, and countless yellow sand flew everywhere.
The earth shook, and in the yellow sand, a cavalry team of thousands of people were fully armed, blocking their retreat.
This cavalry, whether it is a horse or a soldier, was covered with iron armor. The scimitars on their hands were all bright steel products, and in terms of hardness and sharpness, they were far beyond the weapons of this era.
There was a crossbow hanging on the two thousand people in the front. This was the latest product studied by the Dragon Kingdom Weapons Institute. Because of its lack of productivity, it was only equipped with two thousand cavalrymen.
This new crossbow bow is a bit like a revolver from later generations. Five crossbow arrows are fixed to the launcher, just like a large revolver.
This kind of crossbow is not ahead of this era. Its only advantage is its lightness and speed.
Its weight plus five crossbow arrows is only about four kilograms, and it can even hold a crossbow with a single hand, with a single shot and continuous shot, with an effective range of about two hundred meters.
The maximum range of crossbows and arrow soldiers in Daqin exceeded 800 meters, but those with hard bows were required to step on the arrows with their feet, which was very troublesome to operate.
The Dragon Kingdom pursues the elite military route, speed and convenience of operation. On the battlefield, every second is a battle, crossbows are just auxiliary tools, and the real decisive battle depends on steel knives.
Han Chunming predicts that the gun will be available in as early as five years, and the crossbow is just an overproduct.
However, when the spear appears on the battlefield in large scale, it may have to wait many years. At that time, I might have been unified in the world. Who knows?
Ten thousand cavalrymen in the Dragon Kingdom have been training for three years for war, and their steel knives have long been full of bloodthirsty desire.
Three years of physical training did not make them feel tired because they also experienced three years of high-intensity brainwashing of faith.
If there are some people in the Dragon Kingdom who believe in the Dragon God Han Chunming and the purest belief in the Dragon God, it must be these soldiers.
The army is the real fist of a country, and Han Chunming naturally cannot give up his fist.
In the past three or four years, he has led them to train in the sea of swords and fires countless times, and at the same time shows his strength in front of the soldiers. In the army, Han Chunming's avatar and slogans on the walls made his figure in the hearts of these soldiers at all times.
Only soldiers who have truly been with Han Chunming know that Han Chunming is the real true god because their dragon god has divine power that mortals cannot possess.
Han Chunming's order is the only voice of the army.
The sound of cannon just now seemed to be a signal. Thousands of cavalry began to attack. When the two armies were still more than 300 meters, thousands of cavalry took off their crossbows, and had already raised good crossbows and fired directly at the sky. The five crossbows in the crossbows spread out almost instantly.
More than 10,000 crossbow arrows, like pear blossom needles that were raining rain, covered the enemy in front.
The dark enemy fell in pieces. Before they could react, thousands of cavalry had rushed into them. They waved steel scimitars, cutting them in pieces like cutting wheat.
With a series of harnesses of saddles and stirrups, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry increased by at least 30%. Thousands of cavalry suddenly appeared, like thousands of wolves, rushing into a flock of sheep.
The enemy's fear had reached its peak. Countless generals were yelling, wanting to organize soldiers to resist, and some soldiers who wanted to survive wanted to resist and rush out, but facing the Dragon Kingdom cavalry armed to the teeth, they were almost unable to resist and were cut off from the horse.
Han Chunming on the city wall had a cold eyes. He looked at the massacres under the city wall without any mercy. He had been in this world for five years and had been established by the Dragon Kingdom for almost four years. Today, he can finally make his own voice to the world, he is here.
Finally, after being massacred for thousands of people, all tens of thousands of people were squeezed under the city wall, with people squeezing each other, crying and angry roars, and horses wailing, as if under the city wall was a hell on earth.
I don’t know how long it took, a ray of sunlight shone on Han Chunming’s cold cheeks. He looked at the tens of thousands of people trembling under the city walls and finally shouted to the commander behind him.
"Get out of your troops, open the city gate, and escort all the prisoners into the Gem City. This time we want the whole world to see the true dragon power of our Dragon Kingdom!"
The commander took the order and left. Half an hour later, 10,000 soldiers of the enemy country who had been completely disarmed, regardless of their status, were escorted by thousands of majestic cavalry in the Dragon Kingdom and walked towards the gem city.
Businesses from all over the country who had already received the news were standing around the streets and waiting.
When the first soldier with blood all over his body trembled into the street, everyone opened their eyes wide. The blood on the man's body had not dried yet, and there seemed to be a piece of flesh hanging on his shoulders.
As the first captive appeared, the densely packed dragons behind him began to appear. Everyone was depressed, as if their spirits were severely damaged. The fear in everyone's eyes had not yet dissipated, and they followed the team in a daze.
The surrounding countries were shocked by the long dragons hundreds of meters. What shocked them even more were the thousands of cavalry escorting these prisoners.
The bright steel knife, the iron armor with eyes exposed, and several cavalrymen holding the strange crossbows in their hands. A murderous atmosphere spread to everyone's hearts.
Among these businessmen in various countries, there are countless spies from enemy countries, and some of them are spies who are even from merchants and come to Longguo with missions. They are almost glaring at this moment.
This is the first time they have truly faced the cavalry of the Dragon Kingdom, and it is also the first time that the Dragon Kingdom has truly made its debut. Some spies who have had military experience can no longer express their thoughts in words at this moment except for shock.
Some spies also thought about saddles and stirrups they had never seen before. Seeing the cavalry galloping on the horses easily, the eyes of countless people shone brightly.
At this moment, several people in the captive team suddenly ran towards the streets on both sides, and a noise came from around them.
Just as these people ran away, several crossbow arrows penetrated through their bodies and were nailed to both sides of the street. This scene made the surrounding merchants exclaim in surprise.
The chaos quickly subsided, and it was not until an hour later that the tens of thousands of prisoners passed by the Gem City that the tour ended completely.
Outside the city, countless cavalry and infantry were cleaning the battlefield, trucks of helmets and weapons were pulled away, and finally trucks of corpses were pulled into earth pits six miles away and burned and buried.
Han Chunming did not stay in Gem City. After he issued some orders, he hurried to two neighboring countries a hundred miles away.
As early as the eve of the two neighboring countries' dispatched troops, Yin Tian had already led 5,000 cavalry from another road to raid the local rears of the two countries.
Originally, because the monarchs of the two countries brought all the elite cavalry to the Gem City, the domestic forces were empty, and five thousand new cavalry were unobstructed. This small country occupied the entire territory in three days.
When Han Chunming arrived, more than 10,000 soldiers had occupied various cities, and officials and workers arrived one after another, beginning to accept the assets of this country and harvest the fruits of victory.
Two days after the whole city of Gem City was martial law, the city gate was unblocked. As soon as the lockdown was unblocked, hundreds of merchants rushed out of the city gate and wanted to leave.
Han Chunming did not stop the group of merchants from leaving, although he knew very well that these hundreds of people were basically spies and was in a hurry to go back and report the situation.
All of these people left the city smoothly. Seeing that these people were successfully leaving, more merchants began to pull the goods away.
In less than a week, the traffic in Gem City was less than one-fifth of the usual traffic, and there was no longer the prosperity it had before.
As Han Chunming expected, most of these people who left were ordinary businessmen, but they chose to leave at this time, so they were naturally worried that the war would begin again.
The war is coming, and the Gem City is in depression. It is normal. After four years of preparation, the Long Kingdom has already made sufficient preparations. Domestic factories have increased their efforts to produce all kinds of war materials.
At the same time, tens of thousands of reserve talents and militia reserves have also begun to be armed. These people do not need to follow the front line, but protect the country and even go to the occupying countries to maintain order.
For those enemy spies who ran back, the Dragon Kingdom suddenly showed its muscles in front of them this time, and it was impossible for no reason.
Indeed, this time tens of thousands of prisoners paraded the streets and thousands of iron-armed cavalry patrolled the streets with full armed forces. Han Chunming had two purposes for showing his muscles to these people.
The first is to warn all enemies who are eyeing the Dragon Kingdom. The Dragon Kingdom is not a soft persimmon, and I advise those who are ready to take action or have other thoughts to retract their heads.
Previously, more than two neighboring countries wanted to attack the Dragon Kingdom, and at least seven or eight out of ten countries in the Western Regions were all attracted by the priceless technologies of the Gem City and the Dragon Kingdom.
If those people really unite to launch an attack, the 20,000 troops in the Long Kingdom would be impossible to stop it.
Now, the power suddenly displayed by the Dragon Kingdom made everyone afraid. In less than two hours, nearly 20,000 troops were defeated and tens of thousands of prisoners were captured. Such a terrifying record made all small countries feel fear.
Once this muscle is exposed, at least 80% of the countries will shrink their previous ideas back, while for the remaining 20% of the countries, some will re-measure the strength of the Dragon Kingdom before making plans.
There are also a small number of countries who, after learning about the power of the Dragon Kingdom, will start to gather troops and launch an attack on them in a very short time. Because the power of the Dragon Kingdom makes them feel uncomfortable and must be eliminated as soon as possible.
This is also the second reason why Han Chunming showed his muscles.
He wants those enemies who really want to get rid of the Dragon Kingdom to appear as soon as possible, and those who dare to appear will definitely be the most powerful forces in the Western Regions.
Among them, there must be the Huns. The fierceness and strength of the Huns are famous, which is recognized by the countries in the Western Regions and tribes in the northern grasslands.
The man who brought the Huns to the peak of this era was a Huns named Maodun Shanyu.
Maodun Shanyu was a real hero and was called Genghis Khan by some later generations during the Qin and Han dynasties. You can imagine how awesome this person was.
This man also published a famous idiom: Mingdi kills his father, which is his father Lao Shanyu.
Maodun Shanyu was brave and resourceful. He first killed his father and became the king of the Huns. He also designed to kill the powerful Yuezhi Kingdom, then killed Donghu, and successively killed dozens of small countries in the Western Regions and the Northern Grasslands, and finally completely unified the Northern Grasslands.
The Hun Empire had the largest land area of 6 million square kilometers, which was larger than the Qin and Han dynasties. Hundreds of thousands of cavalry swept across all the powers. The Han Dynasty also carried out a seventy-year marriage journey for this.
Of course, these are all funerals. The Huns have not reached their peak yet. Maodun is still a young man under thirty years old, and it will take several years to kill his father.
Maodun's father, Lao Shanyu, was also a hero of a generation. Under his leadership, the Huns, which were originally tribal in form, gradually unified the land area, and their land area expanded several times. However, as he grew older, the current position of the Huns was very embarrassing.
The Xiongnu country is now in the north of the desert, with the Donghu to the east and the Yuezhi to the southwest. These two tribes are also a fierce nation with vast wilderness and a fierce nation that eats cattle and sheep with scimitars, which is similar to the Xiongnu's habits.
The three countries were comparable in strength, and even the strength of the Huns was slightly weaker at this time. Maodun Shanyu was sent to Yuezhi as a hostage since he was a child. He only fled back to the Huns in recent years. Now he is the commander of the Huns, with 10,000 cavalry under his command.
To the south of the Huns is the powerful Qin Dynasty, which is also a difficult target to mess with. To the west of the Huns, there are dozens of small countries, including the Dragon Kingdom, which originally had no sense of existence.
But the Dragon Kingdom, which had no sense of existence, suddenly showed its fangs. The Huns who had been preparing to attack the Gem City learned the news immediately.
Although the Huns were powerful, there were many enemies in this era, so naturally they did not dare to act rashly. They had sent a large number of spies to the Gem City before.
To be continued...