In the Tang Army camp, the soldiers inspected their equipment and weapons, and the officers began to gather their subordinates.
There are also teams carrying ammunition on their shoulders or pushing carts back to carry ammunition. The gunners in front are loading artillery. The entire camp is busy and orderly.
According to the scheduled deployment, all soldiers quickly entered combat positions.
Woo!
A low horn sound came from the small ridge on the right, indicating that the enemy had been discovered.
Cheng Wuting shouted: "Get ready to fight!"
The bow is strung, the sword is unsheathed, and the gunner adjusts the angle and is ready to fire.
"I'll leave this to you. I'll go to the ridge on the left."
Su Chen spoke up to Cheng Wu.
"Commander, be careful. This time the cannibal will fight to the death. Your side is closer, be careful of the enemy's cold arrows."
Su Chen smiled and said: "Don't worry, I know what's going on."
After saying that, he took Xue Rengui and his bodyguard and trotted all the way on horseback towards the small mountain ridge.
Cheng Wuting continued to shout: "Gunners, prepare. If the enemy enters the range, fire immediately. One third of them will take turns to shell!"
Su Chen came to the hill ridge, where Yuchi Baolin and several sergeants were manipulating several giant crossbows.
Yuchi Baolin cupped his fists and said, "Commander!"
Su Chen nodded, raised his telescope and began to observe the enemy's situation.
“It’s really all out in force!”
Looking at the overwhelming cannibals in the distance, Su Chen said:
“Call Hashem over here!”
One of the bodyguards was in a hurry to find Hashem.
At this time,
Boom! Boom! Boom!
There was a roar in front of the camp, and the field artillery fired!
At this time, the Great Eater was less than 1,500 meters away from the Tang Army's camp and within the range of the field artillery.
Fifty high-temperature and high-speed solid iron balls drew arcs in the air, carrying huge kinetic energy and hitting the giant man-eater who was still marching in the distance.
Suleman, who was sitting on the back of a camel, was staring at the Tang formation in front with his eyes wide open.
At 1,500 meters, nothing can be seen clearly with the naked eye.
There seemed to be a rumbling sound ahead, and Suleman suddenly felt nervous.
Tang Dynasty’s artillery!
Before Suleman could react, the projectiles had already hit the marching team with a whistling sound. The crowd immediately became commotion, and screams of a giant cannibal were heard!
An iron ball weighing more than ten kilograms, carrying huge kinetic energy, was smashed diagonally from the air, and bounced back up after landing.
That means you will die if you touch it, and you will forget it if you touch it!
Moreover, he was hit by a cannonball and his body was shattered into pieces. The tragedy was very frightening!
"Damn it! How can the Tang Dynasty's artillery shoot so far?"
Although the defenders in Medina were not equipped with artillery, Suleman still knew about it.
What the Prime Minister obtained from the defecting Tang people was quite powerful, but also had many shortcomings.
Moreover, Suleman yesterday found a few soldiers who had fled back the day before yesterday and asked them about it.
Those soldiers said at that time that the Tang Dynasty's artillery had a range of only 500 meters.
But now we are still two or three miles away from the Tang Dynasty's camp, and the cannonballs are flying over!
What he didn't know was that Su Chen deliberately lured Umer closer last time and didn't just fire the gun in the early stage.
This time there is no need to hide and tuck in, the cannibal will fire immediately after entering the range!
"Relax the formation and speed up the entire army!"
Suleman immediately shouted an order.
Yesterday, he and Khalid gathered the soldiers who had returned from Fahd Camp and spent a day questioning and studying the tactics of the Tang people, which was very fruitful.
Knowing that Tang people's artillery was powerful and slow in firing rate, the best way to reduce losses was to disperse the formation and speed up the attack.
The big cannibal cavalry began to speed up and distance themselves from the infantry.
The infantry immediately broke up and quickened their pace.
Half a minute later,
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Another fifty cannonballs hit!
"Damn it, isn't it said that the firing rate of Tang people's artillery is very slow?
How many steps have you taken?"
The rate of fire of field artillery is a bit slow. It takes one and a half minutes to fire one shot.
However, Wu Ting ordered one-third of the artillery to be fired each time, three rounds of firing, with a three-stage strike effect.
Although there was no intensive salvo firepower, the interval between shellings was greatly reduced.
Once every half a minute, the uninterrupted bombardment and the short time interval left no opportunity for the cannibals to take advantage of, and they were always in panic.
This time Su Chen used all the artillery he brought out, a total of one hundred and fifty.
The maximum attack distance of the Big Eater cannot exceed 500 meters. After entering the range of the cannon, there is a distance of 1,000 meters. The Big Eater cannot fight back and can only be beaten passively.
One thousand meters, if the cavalry does not sprint, it will take four or five minutes to trot.
It takes seven or eight minutes for the infantry to trot all the way.
This time was enough for the Tang army to launch more than ten rounds of artillery attacks!
At this distance, the Great Eater didn't dare to sprint at full speed, otherwise it would be even worse. How much energy did he still have left after running more than a thousand meters with his weapon in front of the Tang army?
This one kilometer is a great torture for the giant cannibal.
Before I even saw the enemy, my companions were hit by cannonballs one by one. It was very miserable and terrifying.
This will be a big blow to the morale of the Great Eaters!
Cheng Wuting had one hundred and fifty cannons, divided into three rounds, and fired in turn, so that the cannibals would be in a constant state of panic and try their best to destroy the morale of the cannibals!
The cannibal's wails and screams continued. Suleman gritted his teeth all the way, and every step was torture.
He found that the Tang people were very strange. The artillery was specifically bombarding the infantry in the rear.
Other enemies usually deal with the cavalry first, but the Tang people ignored the cavalry in front and dealt with the infantry first.
In fact, Su Chen and Cheng Wuting did not specialize in bombarding infantry with artillery.
Their targets are large attack weapons such as man-eating trebuchets and ballistae.
Su Chen discussed with everyone that except for long-range weapons such as trebuchets and ballistae, the Great Eater, whether cavalry or infantry, did not have much damage capability to marines wearing alloy armor.
The Dashi Cavalry had no dangers along the way. After reaching 500 meters in front of the Tang Army's position, they immediately began to sprint at full speed!
Cheng Wuting ordered loudly:
"Field artillery continues to bombard the cannibal rear troops!"
"Prepare the blunderbuss!"
Su Chen stood on a high place, looked at the formation of the Big Eater, and smiled: "This is making the Big Eater anxious!"
"The bombardment works well!"
"The cavalry and infantry are out of touch!"
Yuchi Baolin also laughed and said: "The cavalry rushing up in front of the big cannibal will be in trouble!"
Looking at the densely packed bowl-mouthed muskets behind the Wugang vehicle in the front row,
Yuchi Baolin’s own eyelids jumped!
A total of three hundred people!
All have been loaded!
This time, the commander directly pushed all the guns to the front row at once.
Think about the terrifying lethality of the thirty or so bowl-mouthed blunderbuss fired at close range against the giant man-eater the day before yesterday.
Yuchi Baolin felt sad for the great cannibal cavalry!
A distance of 500 meters, a camel running at full speed, takes just over a minute!
During this period, the field artillery fired two more rounds, but still not a single shell was directed at the cavalry.
