The drunk Reggie was very annoying. He couldn't even walk steadily, but he still insisted on going to the battlefield. This gave Sophia the urge to beat him up.
The most unbearable thing was that he was full of vague mountain demon language. He muttered brokenly all the way, and no one knew what he was going to say.
"Erwin Back Karma, Kao Yi Yi Yi Yi, Kaikon Daka Jinbei Siluna!"
Erwin looked at Reggie with a confused look on his face, and Tortosa gave a translation on the side: "Reggie Turitu thinks this place is very good, let you prepare for battle."
Erwin didn't say much. He called a few young men to lift a bracket from the carriage. Salah frowned and said, "Are you crazy? Do you know how far away from the city wall it is?"
Reggie held his waist, stood in the wind, and said with a proud smile: "It's almost 1,200 feet! The enemy can't hit me from this distance, muhahahaha!"
"Yes, you can't hit it," Salah thought of Reggie as a joke, "Don't say you can't hit it, he can't even see you."
The Dengyun trebuchet can hit eight hundred feet away, but that is only a theoretical number, and it is the range with black powder added.
In the middle of the night, you might not be able to see Reggie standing on the top of the city. It would be impossible to hit Reggie from a distance of 1,200 feet.
Of course, in Salah's view, it was impossible for Reggie to hit the wall of Silver Pine City. He didn't even have a trebuchet, so did he have to rely on grenades to launch an attack?
But this time he was wrong. Reggie's weapon was much more terrifying than the trebuchet.
Reggie asked the soldiers to carry the weapons up, and a six-foot-long, one-foot-thick iron bucket was placed on the stand.
The shape of this thing is very strange. The head is pointed, the tail is flat, and there are strange iron pieces near the tail. It does look like a large and slender fish.
Reggie seemed to be more awake. He lay on the ground and carefully adjusted the angle of the stand. It took him half an hour to finally get ready for battle.
Sophia stepped forward and asked, "What kind of weapon is this?"
Reggie smiled and said: "You can call it the Elf's Flying Fish, or you can call it the Wizard's Broom, but I prefer to call it Reggie's Rocket."
"Fire... arrow?" This thing has the outline of a feathered arrow, but it is too far away. Sophia is thinking about how to use this thing. Could it be shot out with a huge bow? It must be that
The bow is even bigger than the dragon-slaying crossbow.
While Sophia was still thinking, Reggie had already given the order to attack: "As soon as there is a Casa!"
Reggie pulled out his sword and pointed at Silverpine City.
The soldier looked at Tortosa, who also imitated Reggie, pointed at Silver Pine City majestically, and said: "Light the fire!"
A soldier walked to the side of the rocket and lit the fuse at the tail of the rocket. Watching the fuse burning, Sophia shouted: "What are you going to do? Throw it out quickly!"
Salah was also frightened. He quickly asked someone to protect Sophia from retreating. He thought the drunkard was crazy. In the eyes of the Bayers, all black powder must be projected after being ignited, but rockets do not need to be projected.
When the fuse burned out, the black powder inside the rocket began to burn violently, and the flames spurted out along the tail of the rocket, drawing a gorgeous arc in the air, driving the rocket directly towards the city wall of Silver Pine City.
The whole scene took everyone's breath away. No one had ever seen a weapon that could fly on its own.
Reggie was also very nervous. If he had enough nitric acid, he would choose nitrocellulose as the propellant, which would allow the rocket to maintain stable flight within one thousand meters.
But he only had 300 pounds of nitric acid, which was all used to make nitrostarch, and the propellant of the rocket could only be replaced by black powder.
The combustion of black powder itself is unstable, and the trajectory of the rocket also changes greatly. If you want to attack a precise target, such a rocket is almost useless, but if you want to attack a broad city wall, the accuracy of the rocket will become problematic.
So important.
Salah seemed to understand Reggie's intention: "With dozens more of these rockets, you can create a hole in the city wall, but you must ensure that they hit the same position every time."
"It doesn't need to be so troublesome." Reggie smiled, and there was an even bigger surprise waiting for them.
After a burst of smoke and dust, the rocket flying at high speed hit the city wall. The tip of the rocket penetrated into the wall, where mercury fulminate was contained. Under the violent impact, the mercury fulminate exploded first, and then detonated the nitrated starch in the head of the rocket.
A rocket contains only one hundred pounds of nitrostarch, which may not seem like much, but it is as powerful as seven hundred pounds of black powder.
A terrible explosion sounded instantly, and after the fire, a piece of bricks and stones poured down from the city wall.
The defenders who were still sleeping didn't know what happened, but Reggie had already lit a second rocket.
The second rocket did not fly along the route of the first rocket. It hit the other end of the city wall, with the same effect as the first rocket, blowing down a large piece of bricks and stones.
The third rocket was more in the direction of the second rocket. After the explosion, a large part of the city wall collapsed.
Reggie lit six rockets in succession, but when he was about to light a seventh one, Salah shouted: "Stop! Stop now!"
Reggie asked the soldiers to stop, and Salah said to Sophia: "Your Majesty, we can't fight anymore. What we want is Silver Pine City, not a ruin."
Building a city requires thousands of hard workers, working for years or even decades.
But in just ten minutes, Reggie blew up the west wall until only one-third remained.
Salah looked at Reggie under the torch, at his full head of green hair, and at his gloomy face, and an unprecedented sense of fear filled his heart.
He is a devil, a devil who escaped from hell. Salah seemed to see Reggie's bloody fangs.
Reggie was also looking at Salah: "Sarah Baike, I leave the affairs of the city to you."
Salah was waiting for Sophia's order, and Sophia was a little at a loss.
She looked at Reggie, who smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you didn't have to waste half of your troops. Your soldiers could have walked into Silver Pine City alive. I hope you won't make the same mistake again in the future."
Sophia, who was just waking up from a dream, nodded towards Salah: "Attack, Marquis Salah."
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A series of explosions woke Gwen up. Silverpine City was not that big. Standing on top of the castle, he saw the situation in the west of the city.
The city wall was almost gone, and although he hadn't seen the enemy yet, he knew what was going to happen next.
Gwen rushed to Sean's room and said, "Your Majesty, it's time for us to leave."
Sean huddled up in the quilt. He was also awakened by the explosion. He kept shaking and murmured: "Reggie is here?"
"I didn't see him, but I guess he did come."
After the last battle, Sean had some mental problems. When Reggie's name was mentioned, his body began to convulse involuntarily.
"Where can we go?"
"The country of Bayer is very vast. My lord, there are many places we can go," Gwen said. "Now please put on civilian clothes. We need to leave here immediately."
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Salah met almost no resistance when he rushed into Silver Pine City, and most of the soldiers guarding the city wall were buried under the ruins.
"Spare those who surrender, spare those who are injured!" Salah did not want to cause more killings. Reggie's shadow made him learn to sympathize with the enemy.
"End the battle as soon as possible and send the prisoners and wounded soldiers elsewhere! The trebuchet is about to collapse!"
Most of the trebuchets behind the city wall were blown up, and the remaining few were crumbling.
"Stop fighting here!" Salah shouted, "Follow me to the castle and capture Sean Beyer, the thief!"