One grenade contained a pound of explosives and a large amount of iron filings and iron slag. When Jiawen and his soldiers threw the grenade outside the wall, they immediately heard the enemy's cries.
With only a wave of grenades, the fearless people outside the wall had been cleared away. Reggie led the soldiers to open the city gate and stood on the top of the mountain, looking down at the enemy.
"The enemy is about to attack, they are coming, we have to retreat, retreat immediately!" The frightened Nehruv wanted to withdraw his troops immediately, but was stopped by Sophia.
"Calm down, the enemy won't attack, and we don't need to retreat. Tell the soldiers to camp at the entrance of the mountain road!"
Nehruv was shocked by Sophia's indifference, and the meaty mud that had just been flying all over the mountain road made Salah, who had been fighting for a long time, feel frightened.
"Your Majesty, maybe we don't have to choose the camp at the entrance of the mountain pass," Salah gave his suggestion, "We can choose...a place farther away."
"No need, just camp at the entrance of the mountain pass." Sophia's attitude was very resolute. Nehruv felt it was necessary to give his queen a reminder: "We have lost nearly half of our troops. If that madman brings that terrible
Something rushed over..."
"I told you, he doesn't dare to rush over! There are less than 300 troops in Suixue City," Sophia shouted. "Camp at the mountain pass. This is the only way in and out of Suixue City. Cut off Suixue City."
He has all the supply sources for the city, I want to see if he has the courage to rush down and fight me!"
Sophia was roaring crazily, her eyes always staring at Reggie on the mountain, and there was no trace of fear on her body. This is what a queen should look like.
This is why Nehruv and Salah firmly believed that she could become the queen. They no longer raised any objections and followed Sophia's instructions to set up the military camp at the mountain pass.
"Damn it!" Reggie slapped his forehead. Sophia's choice was correct. This choice gave him a headache.
"She is different from Prince Sean," Reggie said with a wry smile, "Why doesn't she run away?"
Sophia's judgment was very accurate. Reggie was unable to attack. No matter how advanced his technical strength was, he could not hide the fact that he only had 300 militiamen and was not in a position to take the initiative to attack.
What can three hundred militiamen do, charge forward with grenades?
The first wave of grenades may be a little advantageous, but before the second wave of grenades can be ignited, the enemy's Cambrian Knights have already driven them all away.
Try using bomb cover?
It sounds good. Soldiers throw grenades in front and trebuchets drop bombs in the back, much like artillery cover in modern warfare.
But this is still an unrealistic idea.
The average distance the soldiers threw grenades was about sixty feet.
The impact range of the iron barrel bomb is more than 100 feet.
If you avoid bomb damage, you will not be able to attack the enemy with grenades. If you want to attack the enemy with grenades, you must be prepared to die with the enemy.
The number of remaining enemies is still more than ten times the strength of Shattering Snow City, so this suicidal tactic is simply not feasible.
This was bad. According to Reggie's expectation, after experiencing such a tragic defeat, Sophia should at least retreat beyond the border. Even if she retreated dozens of miles, Nelson's caravan would have a chance to sneak into the city.
But now she is stuck at the intersection. The food in the city will soon be exhausted, and the gunpowder supplies will be exhausted. By then, Broken Snow City will collapse.
It seemed that he underestimated Sophia. Reggie tore his hair hard. He had no choice but to take risks this time.
"Calaf, are you finished with what I asked you to do?"
"Sir, I think it will take at least another day."
Reggie licked his fingers and judged the direction of the wind.
"The wind direction is changing. Things need to be done before tomorrow night, and the rope should be made longer."
…
Salah brought an iron barrel bomb and placed it in front of Sophia.
"The Cambrian Knights found this on the battlefield. This thing didn't explode for some reason."
The reason why this iron barrel bomb did not explode was that the fuse was broken, but the people in Bayer country could not understand the concept of fuse. Their method was to ignite the wood containing black powder from the outside to increase the temperature inside.
When it rises, it triggers a black powder explosion.
Sophia took the bomb and looked at it. From the appearance alone, it was impossible to tell that it was an iron barrel. It was covered with cement and looked more like a barrel-shaped stone.
"Is this stone the black powder from Broken Snow City?"
Salah said: "Queen, please be careful. We are not sure whether this thing is black powder yet. If it is really black powder, please be careful not to shake it."
Sophia put the "stone" aside, and Salah called a craftsman. The craftsman carefully scraped the stone with a knife, and the cement powder fell off along the surface of the stone.
Sophia picked up some powder, put it to the tip of her nose and smelled it, shook her head and said, "This doesn't smell like black powder."
Salah said: "These are definitely not black powder, but I don't know what this thing is. The magic is that there is a layer of pig iron underneath."
"Pig iron? Pig iron inside the stone?"
"I also think this is incredible, but you saw it."
The craftsman removed the surface layer of cement, exposing the iron sheet inside. Sophia touched the texture, nodded and said: "It's really pig iron, this is simply..."
"This is simply magic!" Nekhruf brought a roast sheep and ordered the soldiers to light a charcoal fire.
Salah quickly asked the craftsman to carry the bomb out, turned around and said to Nehruv: "Old man, you shouldn't light a fire where there is black powder. Have you forgotten the rules?"
"Don't tell me any rules," Nehruv said with disdain, "This thing is not black powder at all. The power of a hundred pounds of black powder is not even half as powerful as this thing. This is Reginald's
Magic, the spies I sent to the Lion City have brought back news that Reggie raised an elf, and it is said that there is also an orc, and he himself also knows a lot of witchcraft. I suspect that he should be a hell wizard. Only the most powerful person from hell
Only the evil spirits at the bottom can do such terrible things."
"Hell wizard?" Salah sneered, "Where did you get this information?"
"Mordko Conrad, the chief bachelor of the Lion Kingdom, you should have heard the old guy's name." Nehruv cut off a piece of half-cooked mutton and stuffed it into his mouth. "There is a woman named Alice Windsor from
Broken Snow City escaped. She is a student of Bachelor of Broken Snow City, Bachelo Thorne. She told everything to the king, and she saw everything with her own eyes."
"That woman is talking nonsense." Salah didn't believe Nehruv's information at all. "If the Hades wizard really exists, it can't be that idiot Reginald. You have lived on the border for forty years.
, don’t you know too much about the Victor family? This family is nothing but fools and cowards, there is no way they have the blood of hell in their bodies.”
"Do you think that's still Reginald?" Nehruv laughed loudly, "I've seen that stupid boy, he is hopelessly stupid. The real Reginald has died long ago, and the Hades wizard became
She took on his appearance and replaced him as the lord of Broken Snow City!"
"What a ridiculous story!" Salah looked at Sophia and smiled helplessly.
Sophia did not laugh. She still remembered Sannoffbic's description of Reginald. Moreover, she also remembered that Reginald had tried to commit suicide and that he had experienced death.
Maybe what Nehruv said is true, maybe Reginald has really been replaced by the Hades wizard.
As a witch, Sophia knew how terrifying the Hades wizard was, and a chill filled her heart.
Salah saw what Sophia was thinking. He kept shaking his head and said: "Queen, please don't listen to those stupid rumors. I will let the craftsmen open that thing and figure out its structure."
"It doesn't matter, that's not important." Sophia took a sip of ale, cut a piece of half-cooked mutton, and ate it. "It's enough to know what that thing looks like. I'll go to Shattering Snow City tonight to get these."