Lu Zhongtian, Yang Jun, Wu Chunlai and others turned their horses and headed back. A moment later, a series of orders sounded from all around, which was a signal that an attack was about to be launched. On top of the city, Lin Jue also gave orders in a deep voice, and everyone was ready to attack.
Prepare to fight to the death.
A high military flag waved in the air, and war drums rumbled. An old, hoarse roar spread from Yang Jun's mouth to all directions.
"Prepare!"
But I saw countless archers emerging from the queue, coming to the front of the queue, bending their bows and aiming arrows at the city head.
"Fire the arrow!" Yang Jun shouted.
"Buzz buzz!" The sound of the bow string vibrating was like the shaking of countless wings, and like the faint sound of thunder rolling through the clouds. After the thunder, there was pouring rain. However, it was not real raindrops, but arrows.
Rain of arrows.
Tens of thousands of arrows shot out from all directions, creating dark clouds in the sky, which instantly gathered above the fortress and fell. Almost every inch of the small fortress with a radius of a hundred paces was not spared, and every inch was covered with dust.
Washed by the rain of arrows, densely packed bows and arrows were jumping on the brick and stone ground. The wooden towers and houses above and below the city were instantly filled with arrows. The originally flat ground instantly became a forest of arrows, and arrows were inserted into them in an instant.
Countless arrows.
The Forbidden Army is equipped with various types of bows and arrows, including strong bows, long and short bows, crossbows, crossbows, and countless crossbows. In this case, ordinary bows and arrows are used because they can be thrown into the sky. If they are facing the enemy head-on, crossbows, crossbows, and crossbows are used.
When crossbows are added, it will be a storm of more ferocious arrows.
What was frightening was that this attack was not just one round, but several consecutive rounds. It was a storm-like blow. Yang Jun finally showed his talents as a military leader. While the archers were shooting, he ordered the infantry to start advancing.
This is the standard procedure for siege operations. Under long-range suppression, the siege melee soldiers and horses charge under cover. When the suppression stops, our own troops have already passed the most dangerous stage of the siege and arrived at the city.
For Yang Jun, this kind of miniature city is simply unsightly. Although in order to meet the requirements of actual combat, this small city is designed with various defensive measures like the big city. There are even arrow towers and enemy towers, and the city walls are as high as two feet.
, and is extremely strong. And most of the facilities in the city are built with stones to prevent the opponent from attacking with fire. But this is a small city after all. For the sake of fairness, the troops will be controlled during daily siege training. If there are 300 defenders, then attack
The city will not exceed three times the number. But it is different today. There is no need to stick to the number of people. All you need to do is mobilize all your troops to capture the fortress. To put it bluntly, this kind of assessment is like any other for Yang Jun.
An ordinary soldier can easily win. It's just a matter of time.
On top of the city, when arrows rained down on them, everyone on the city head hid in the towers or under the battlements, unable to raise their heads. In fact, such a rain of arrows was not very lethal to the people on the city wall, and most of the arrows
When the branch capital fell into the city, the inner part of the city with a radius of a hundred paces was the place that suffered the most. Even though the servants of the palace in the city had been warned not to move around at will and only stay in the house or behind the bunker, such a dense rain of arrows still
He shot a dozen servants and maids who thought they were safe into hedgehogs.
Lin Jue hid behind the pillars of the city tower. The pillars were made of bluestone, and the arrows hitting them made a clanking sound like exploding beans. The iron-tipped arrows made craters on the bluestones, and sparks and pebbles flew everywhere, filling the air.
It was filled with choking smoke and dust. But Lin Jue still
He took risks to check the situation on the battlefield from time to time. He knew that these bows and arrows were not intended to kill many people, but were just a means of suppression. The siege troops swarming from all directions were what he needed to worry about most. They must be used at the right time.
Counterattack at a certain distance, and you must not be completely passive. There are too many opponents. If you cannot counterattack within a certain distance, when they all rush to the city, you will be unable to defend.
After four rounds of fierce arrow rain, the bows and arrows stopped sparsely. In order to avoid accidentally injuring his own siege soldiers and horses, Yang Jun ordered to stop shooting. At this time, his own siege soldiers were running so fast that they were already thirty steps under the city wall.
Within.
The soldiers of the Forbidden Army carried the ladders and rushed to the city with shouts. The only small obstacle was the dry moat under the city. This slightly hindered their speed, because they had to go down to the river and then climb up to the bank of the city at half a person's height.
, before siege can be carried out.
What Lin Jue wanted to seize was this short opportunity. When a large number of soldiers and horses rushed into the moat, which was more than a foot wide, countless soldiers were crowded in the surrounding moats like ants. At this moment,
Lin Jue gave the order to attack.
"Flash bomb! Wait!" Lin Jue shouted and rushed to the city wall, waved his hand and threw a flash bomb the size of a pigeon egg to the ground. At the same time, he covered his eyes. All the Lin family nurses protected their eyes with one hand and threw the flash bomb in their hands into the trench.
In the middle, there were explosions, white light, and pungent smell rising, choking people's nostrils.
Although there were only about twenty flash bombs thrown at each city wall, in the dark dawn, the flashing white light was particularly intense. It was like tens of thousands of fireballs suddenly flashing in the trench, and like countless fireworks.
The air exploded at the same time. The white light of the flash bombs made the surrounding area bright as day. But it was like a piece of white paper blocking the day in front of the eyes. No scenery or anything could be seen. The vast whiteness was like a blanket between heaven and earth.
Covered by a dazzling white curtain.
This was the feeling of the soldiers in the trench and nearby. Even Lu Zhongtian, Yang Jun and others who were pressing the formation a hundred steps away could not help but turn their heads and cover their eyes at the moment when the white light burst. Their eyes could not stand the intense white light.
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The process of making flash bombs was actually Lin Jue's inadvertent idea. It was originally for the light and shadow effect of the Jiangnan Grand Theater. In order to have gorgeous light and shadow, Lin Jue hung out in Hangzhou fireworks workshops. He became good friends with some of the workshop masters.
Later, in order to improve the gunpowder in the tortoise box, Lin Jue also visited many fireworks workshops in the capital. Many master craftsmen were Lin Jue's guests.
Once again, Lin Jue visited an old gunpowder workshop master and asked if there was any powerful and mild gunpowder. The old man immediately demonstrated a kind of gunpowder that emits a large amount of white light when burning, which is extremely dazzling. Lin Jue felt what
Unexpectedly, the gunpowder was not very powerful, but it was extremely bright and dazzling. After asking, I found out that the old man also got a medicine from an alchemist, which could increase the brightness of the gunpowder. This is very important for the competition between fireworks workshops.
It is beneficial. After the fireworks take off, the one with the brightest fireworks will be particularly eye-catching. This is obviously a major selling point.
Lin Jue immediately took the old master to visit the alchemist in the south of the city. That guy was just an alchemy priest who had accidentally practiced this kind of thing and sold it to the workshop to make money. Lin Jue believed that this man
It should be that an element called 'magnesium' in later generations was purified unintentionally. Mixing this substance containing impurity magnesium into gunpowder will produce a large amount of
Dazzling white light. From this moment on, Lin Jue helped the alchemist refine this substance in large quantities. Lin Jue thought that these would be very useful for the light and shadow of the Grand Theater or for making a flash bomb. That Alchemist had spent some time with him.
In his opinion, these things are just rubbish. Only gunpowder workshop owners would buy some of these rubbish at low prices. Master Lin is willing to pay a lot of money to let himself practice these rubbish, so naturally he can't get it.
Lin Jue simply put the alchemist alone and let him concentrate on refining this thing. After adjusting the proportions several times, he finally produced this explosive flash bomb. After participating in the counter-insurgency, Lin Jue seriously considered the practical use of this thing.
He believes that these things must be valuable for apprehending criminals or dispersing crowds without harming human lives. Of course, they can also be used for escape and self-protection.
At this moment, these flash bombs exerted their power. It was not that Lin Jue was unwilling to harm the lives of these forbidden soldiers, but that he needed to use flash bombs to temporarily blind these people who rushed forward and turn them into headless flies. At least within a few dozen breaths
Within a few seconds, these people lost the ability to attack the city. And these tens of breaths of time were enough to do a lot of things.
The ruthless blow was imminent. The crossbows and firearms in the hands of the royal guards and Lin family guards on the top of the city began to roar. Powerful crossbows and shotgun shells fell indiscriminately on the Forbidden Army who were in a mess and struggling in the trench with their eyes covered.
The arrow penetrated the flesh and made a terrifying popping sound. The blood splashed by the shotgun was like raindrops falling on the lake, splashing up fine pieces of flesh and blood. The sound of screams and wails filled the surroundings. The entire fortress instantly became a Shura dojo and a massacre.
place.
In just a few dozen breaths, the palace guards poured out six rounds of arrows, and the Lin Family Guards bombarded two rounds of five rounds of ammunition bags, thousands of powerful crossbows and countless shotguns, which were completely destroyed by the bodies of the Imperial Guards in the trench.
The damage caused by absorption can be imagined.
The originally dry trench was soaked with flesh and blood, and turned into a pot of mud porridge under the stampede of the crowd. The crowd fled instinctively, trampling on the bodies of the injured, causing even greater casualties. Those who were not supposed to die were trampled.
They were trampled to death at their feet. They were originally lightly injured, but they were trampled into serious injuries. There were cries and screams everywhere, and there were bloody and mutilated limbs everywhere. Even Lin Jue couldn't bear this scene. Some of these Forbidden Soldiers had been with him.
I have fought before, but now I have become an enemy. It is really embarrassing to think about it.
Behind, Lu Zhongtian, Wu Chunlai and others stared at all this, speechless for a long time.
"This... this... little thief is so powerful? Those firearms..." Lu Zhongtian murmured.
Yang Jun said coldly: "Now you know why I suffered a big loss on Chang Street. This thief had long been raising soldiers and horses privately and making firearms privately. I didn't pay attention and suffered a big loss. It's ridiculous that some people say that I deliberately let it go
He left. Lin Jue just came to stir up trouble, and some idiots may still believe it in their hearts."
Lu Zhongtian didn't notice the accusations in Yang Jun's words. His attention was still on the battle ahead. He smacked his lips and said: "Then can we still capture the city? I'm afraid there are... three or four thousand soldiers killed or injured."
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Yang Jun said coldly: "Prime Minister Lu sits in the court every day, so naturally he doesn't know the cruelty of battle. I am a man who has experienced hundreds of battles. I have seen this kind of situation many times. What's the big deal? A few deaths are nothing.
?We have so many people, so what if we kill thousands more for him? After all, they can't escape today. Don't worry, Prime Minister Lu, the attack will continue."
