Qin Feng called for war horses and generals, and sent out all Ming warriors and death battalions, leaving the Zhenguo Army in charge of the management of Greenstone Town.
At the same time, through the teleportation array of the Sacor Siege Machinery Station, Qin Feng summoned 10 crossbows, 5 small catapults, and 5 medium catapults.
This world has eliminated these ancient trebuchets and ballistae, and now the ancient mechanical equipment is vulnerable to the magic crystal cannon with higher firepower and range.
Qin Feng was initially influenced by games and movies, and believed that trebuchets and ballistae must be used to attack cities. Until [Rui Shi] Abel introduced to him that there are currently 30 small magic crystal cannons and medium magic crystal cannons in Greenstone Town.
There are 10 cannons and 400 rounds of artillery shells, which is enough to fight a large battle.
But Qin Feng would rather not use these magic crystal shells, which are the source of spiritual energy points. However, Qin Feng did not absorb these magic crystal shells to prevent them from being used in the future.
Magic crystal cannonballs can be said to be very difficult to make. It requires a large enough crystal core, which can usually be found in crystal core veins. The larger the vein, the better. Then you need to train cutters who can cut hard crystal cores, and cutting
Teachers are the most difficult to cultivate.
In addition, the production of the magic crystal cannon itself requires specialized magicians and enchanters to work together, and its maintenance requires a large amount of expensive special butter.
Every step requires a lot of money. Because the price is very high, the nobles measure their strength by the number of magic crystal cannons they have. The same is true for wars. Whoever has fired all the magic crystal cannonballs is not far from failure. It is very high.
It also represents a superb cost-effectiveness. The magic crystal cannon's high attack rate, high accuracy, and high speed when placed on a carriage are not comparable to the trebuchet, which is bulky and relies on faith to hit.
The ballista also eclipsed the small magic crystal cannon and was eventually eliminated.
Only trebuchets and ballistas are stronger than magic crystal cannons, and that is that replenishing ammunition is much more convenient than magic crystal cannonballs.
"Captain, this group of pirates has more than 1,000 people and more than 20 warships of various types. It is absolutely powerful at sea, but for some reason they suddenly came ashore, plundered most villages, and then started massacres..."
Taoist priest Liuyun reported the opponent's situation in detail, "There are about 600 melee fighters and about 400 long-distance fighters. Most of them are archers. So far, no magic crystal cannon has been found on the opponent."
Qin Feng rode on his horse, side by side with the Taoist priest Liuyun, and asked curiously: "With the current scale of the scout cavalry, it is impossible to detect the information in detail. How did you do it?"
Taoist priest Liuyun smiled and said: "A Taoist priest learned a summoning technique that can summon a black eagle. Through the black eagle, you can see what it sees. This allows us to easily find the traces of those pirates."
Qin Feng's eyes lit up, "This is good. In the future, we need to use this kind of magic on a large scale, or cultivate this kind of specialized team of Taoist priests. When we enter maritime trade in the future, we will need to constantly detect the movements of pirates."
"We are almost there, Governor..." Taoist priest Liuyun reminded: "After climbing over the slope, you can see their camp."
"Well, the other party only has more than 1,000 people. They should run away when they see more than 2,000 of us." Qin Feng said with a smile: "We'd better be prepared. If we can, we will ambush. I will also take all their warships at sea."
"Let Abel come over and discuss it. I think he has a lot of ideas."
"Yes, Governor..."
Waiting until night fell, Qin Feng and others decided to ambush at night, rely on night sneak attacks, pretend to be pirates and attack the pirate fleet on the shore.
At this time, Qin Feng and his 40 generals and guards were surrounding a burning bonfire, eating the dinner in their hands, pretending to be as if they had just traveled here.
[Rui Shi] Abel came over on his war horse at this time and reported the situation, "Captain, we have already set up an ambush."
Qin Feng raised his head and saw that the moon in the sky was covered by dark clouds, and the sky and earth had become hazy.
Taking out the pirate's flare that night from the bag on his waist, Qin Feng pulled the exposed fuse, and a blue flare suddenly flew into the air from Qin Feng's hand, exploding into a blue rose with a radius of ten
It is clearly visible for miles.
In a village burning with fire in the distance, a group of pirates who were bustling with activity fell silent when they saw the blue roses appearing and disappearing in the sky. All the pirates immediately turned their heads to look at the tall and burly man in the center of the camp.
He has blue hair, blue eyes, dark skin, and his lips are very thick, like hanging two sausages. His upper body is bare, and his lower body is wearing a fine scale armor battle dress, and he holds a heavy two-pronged fork in his right hand.
A pirate next to him took courage and said cautiously: "Captain, this is the distress signal from the young captain. I haven't seen any news from the young captain in the past few days. Maybe he just forgot about it because of his fun. Now the young captain is in danger, shall we?"
Come over and get some relief?"
The thick-lipped captain gave a rare smile on his serious face, and uttered a guttural voice that sounded like waves, "Go and bring my brother back safely."
"Yes, Captain..." the pirate on the side raised his arms and shouted, "Let's go, let's see who ate the leopard and dared to touch our little captain..."
All the pirates immediately ran towards the place where the signal flare was fired. There was no formation at all, they were moving forward into the distance in groups, laughing and joking.
The Kingdom of Paya has been at war with pirates for many years, until the western nobles of the Kingdom of Paya were completely beaten to the point of losing their temper. Faced with the pirates who could not kill them all, and occasionally attacked the towns in large numbers, the nobles in the west would rather defend their lair.
He no longer cares about other barren villages.
So much so that the western region of the Paya Kingdom once became a paradise for pirates.
The pirates ran across the slope holding torches. When they saw a group of people surrounding a bonfire, they rushed over shouting.
After shouting a pirate call from the other side, he ran back.
"Catch them and find out the whereabouts of the little captain..."
Not seeing their little captain, the pirates were also anxious. If they could not be found again, their captain would definitely skin them. Although not all of them would be skinned, no one dared to bet that they were the small part.
the skinned man.
The only hope is to catch the person in front.
Qin Feng and others did not ride horses in order to lure the pirates into pursuing them, but [Ruishi] Abel had already gone on horseback to make arrangements for an ambush.
"Don't let them escape, shoot arrows, shoot arrows..."
When a fast pirate archer picks up his bow and shoots an arrow while running, his accuracy is naturally not much better, and the sparse arrows don’t even know where they will land?
Qin Feng turned around and drew his bow and shot an arrow, using his eagle eye's night vision ability to shoot down the fast-running pirate in front of him.
The generals and guards were well-trained and fired arrows frequently with the fire of the pirates. The unarmored pirates wearing only single clothes had no resistance to the arrows.
There was a burst of screams, and the originally dense front row suddenly became sparse.
"Archers, archers, where are all the dead? Come and suppress the opponent..."
The pirates yelled, but they did not give up the pursuit of Qin Feng and others. On the contrary, the pirates fought back even more fiercely.
Qin Feng chuckled and led the generals and guards to quickly run to the location they had reserved early in the morning.
[Ruishi] Abel had been standing here for a long time. When he saw Qin Feng and others arriving, he shouted: "Attack..."
The soldiers who were ambushing under the yellow sand and loess lifted up the yellow cloth on their bodies and got up from the ground. Many soldiers lit the torches that had been prepared, illuminating their surroundings and providing the archers with a good view.
Right in front of the pirates, the trebuchets and crossbows disguised as wild rocks also lifted the yellow cloth. Under the operation of the infantry of the guard, the crossbows and stones were all placed in place.
"Attack..." Qin Feng ordered calmly.
The 700 archers and crossbowmen who ambush the pirates on three sides took the lead in shooting a rain of arrows. Then the triggers of the ballistas and trebuchets were also smashed by the guard infantry, and huge stones rained from the sky into the pirates' formation.
.
Some pirates were shot down by arrows, and some were hit by rocks and crushed into pieces. Especially rattan crossbowmen, their armor-breaking and penetrating abilities are very powerful. One arrow can often penetrate four walls.
five people.
"It's the nobles in the turtle shells who came out. We went up and chopped them down..."
The fierce pirates ignored the wounded around them, raised their scimitars high and rushed in three directions.
Qin Feng mounted his horse and led his generals around the edge of the battlefield, looking for extraordinary pirates to shoot. They could avoid ordinary arrow rain in time in the dark night. If they were allowed to get in among the Ming soldiers, there would be no small number of them.
of casualties.
Soon the bandit archers arrived and started to fight back. Arrows were flying in the air, and screams were heard one after another.
"The archers held down the opponent's archers, and the infantry stepped forward..." Qin Feng decided to launch a general attack, preparing to defeat all the pirates in one fell swoop.
Behind the pirate team, the thick-lipped captain slowly came over and saw that his pirates were being ambushed by enemies on three sides. The battle was very fierce.
An arrow flying from nowhere hit his chest, but was blocked by a defensive shield composed of countless blue hexagons half a meter in front of him.
"Boom..." The boulder fell on the ground, causing strong vibrations.
Each two-meter-long crossbow arrow shot through countless pirates until it penetrated about half a meter deep into the wasteland.
The thick-lipped captain saw that the pirates still charged in the face of such a blow, and then were pushed back by the opponent's spearmen, unable to break through the opponent's defense.
Surrounded on three sides, the casualties were very heavy.
The thick-lipped captain said nothing and stared quietly for a long time.
"Captain, we can't attack. The noble troops this time are very strong and there are a lot of archers..."
A pirate, holding his injured arm from an arrow, came to the thick-lipped captain and said bitterly: "We have suffered many casualties among our brothers, and we have lost more than half of them. Captain, let's withdraw. If we fight again, our Rose Group pirates' wealth will be gone."
, when we return to the sea and recruit pirates again, we will definitely destroy this damn noble next time..."
At this time, four more sharp arrows were shot at the thick-lipped captain, causing his defensive shield to flash frequently. The thick-lipped captain let out a long sigh, and finally uttered the word that the pirates on the side expected, "Retreat..."
"Retreat, brothers, retreat..." the pirate shouted a few times, and then followed the thick-lipped captain away from the battlefield.