"Your Highness, Qingzhou City has sent ten more cannons, and the people who came also said that some grape shells have also been sent back. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

On the city wall, an auxiliary soldier shouted to Xiao Ming.

"Is Grapebomb finally here?" Xiao Ming suddenly had the urge to cry.

Because grapeshots are cumbersome to produce, although the equipment division has been producing them, the quantities are too small.

Although these grapes are also solid bullets, these solid bullets are very small, and dozens or even hundreds of small solid bullets should be wrapped in a shell.

These grapeshells are fired from the cannon like shotguns, with a reduced range but a much larger area.

Because of this, the production of one grape bullet is equivalent to the production of dozens, hundreds of solid bullets as cumbersome, although the amount of material used is basically the same.

Now this grape bomb was sent over, and it was an excellent weapon against the siege soldiers, but when he looked out of the city, his face suddenly changed.

He hurriedly said: "Set up all the artillery that has been brought over on both sides of the city gate, quick!"

When the auxiliaries heard this, they immediately ran down the city wall.

At this time, Xiao Ming found Luo Xin in the crowd, and he shouted: "Go down with ten groups of artillery, hurry up, it's too late." ”

Luo Xinzheng's red eyes were killing, and at this time he calmed down, he looked outside the city, and immediately understood what Xiao Ming meant.

The two of them quickly descended the wall.

At this time, there were more than 2,000 emergency soldiers under the city, and Xiao Ming shouted: "Set up a hollow phalanx at the gate of the city!" ”

When the soldiers heard this, they immediately changed their formation, and formed five hollow phalanxes that crossed front and back, with two spearmen in front and three rows of crossbowmen behind, and they held the last arrows in their hands.

At the same time, the artillerymen immediately moved the artillery to the sides of the hollow phalanx, and the artillerymen stuffed bags with bundled bags as thick as the muzzles.

These bags contain solid bullets one by one, and together they are grapeshot bullets.

Just now, both of them saw barbarian soldiers rushing towards the city gate carrying a dozen gunpowder kegs on the city wall.

Originally, the city gate was the deepest place in the entire ditch, and it was impossible to climb under the city gate like a cliff.

But after days of fighting to the death, the trench under the city gate was filled with corpses.

At this time, the barbarians outside the city were still filling the trench with corpses, which was basically completed, and at this time, the barbarians carried out the powder keg, precisely to blow up the city gate.

With the barbarian urine, after the city gate was broken, the cavalry charged below.

Because of this, Xiao Ming specially set up a simple version of the hollow phalanx to deal with the cavalry behind the city gate.

This hollow phalanx was a phalanx after the development of firearms, and was used specifically against cavalry.

The hollow phalanx was flanked on all sides by firing soldiers, and the front and rear formations protected each other, which could guarantee that fire could be fired from any direction, thus avoiding being outflanked by the cavalry.

And the cavalry filled into the middle of the hollow phalanx will face several shots.

At this time, Xiao Ming placed artillery on both sides again, which made up for the shortcomings of the lack of firepower of the hollow phalanx.

"Boom!"

A thunderous bang flew along with the shattered wood chips from the gates, and the entire gate collapsed.

Through the city gate, Xiao Ming saw the barbarian's iron cavalry rushing towards the city with the scimitar in his hand.

The cavalry led by him all had blood-colored wolf heads tattooed on their arms, and this was the strongest cavalry under Bei Shan's command.

Five hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters!

The cavalry that charged rapidly arrived in a blink of an eye, and at the moment when the cavalry rushed into the city gate and entered Cangzhou City, Xiao Ming shouted: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom!"

Continuous cannon fire rang out, and the barbarian cavalry that rushed over turned into a cloud of blood mist, falling in pieces, and all men and horses were shattered.

The cavalry behind were horrified to death at the sight, but they could not stop and could only continue to charge forward.

Just three cannons fired together, and in an instant hundreds of cavalry were killed, and the remaining cavalry rushed to the hollow phalanx.

At this time, the crossbowman immediately fired three shots, and the rushing cavalry fell halfway down.

And the cavalrymen who were lucky enough to rush to the front saw the spears standing up, and the horses neighed, and the spears pierced the necks.

A wave of cavalry fell, and another wave of cavalry rushed in.

At this time, three more guns opened fire on the cavalry, and the grapeball turned into a rain of bullets and pounced on the cavalry at the moment when the cannon was released, and another cloud of blood mist burst out.

A third wave of cavalry arrived, and at this time four guns opened fire at the same time.

By the time another group of cavalry appeared, the first artillery had already been loaded.

The corpses piled up layer after layer, and the corpses of the barbarian soldiers and horses at the gate of the city were piled higher and higher, and the subsequent cavalry could no longer rush in on horseback, so they dismounted, climbed over the mountain of corpses and continued to fill inside.

At this time, the formation of the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army changed again, and they became a very tight rectangular battle formation, with tight armor and well-trained battle formations, which made them like steel machines to drive the barbarians to the city gate step by step.

Gradually, the corpses of the barbarians at the gate of the city piled up, almost blocking the city gate.

"The barbarians have retreated, the barbarians have retreated!"

I don't know who shouted on the city wall, and immediately a cheer of victory resounded throughout Cangzhou City.

"The brutes are back! The brutes retreated! Luo Xin was stunned and shouted, but as he shouted, he suddenly cried loudly.

This battle is too difficult to fight, and almost everyone is fighting this war with their lives.

Every soldier has not slept for days and nights.

Xiao Ming seemed to be still in a dream, and muttered, "The barbarians have retreated." ”

Looking at the blood flowing at the gates of the city, he rushed to the city wall like crazy.

In his eyes, the barbarian army had withdrawn from under the city wall, and the barbarian army, which was originally huge, was messy at this time.

And at the gates of the city, thousands of war horses without owners roamed.

"Your Highness, the barbarians have retreated!" Niu Ben was covered in blood and his eyes were slightly red.

This time the barbarians really retreated, because these barbarians retreated in such a panic, and the barbarian cavalry in the barbarian camp also slowly retreated towards the retreat.

It's another day.

The battle was fought from morning to night, and did the barbarians finally retreat?

"You can't be careless, Bei Shan is scheming, maybe there are tricks." Xiao Ming said.

Niu Ben said: "Your Highness, no, this time the barbarians have really withdrawn, the old man can guarantee that this time the barbarians have suffered great losses, even Bei Shan does not dare to continue to take risks." ”

"Really? But it's better to be careful, and you still can't let your guard down tonight. Xiao Ming said.

Niu Ben nodded and said, "Yes, Your Highness!" ”

At this time, he and Xiao Ming went down the city wall together, and when they arrived at the city gate, they saw a mountain of corpses, Niu Ben gasped, what happened here?

"Bet the gates with corpses." Without waiting for him to ask, Xiao Ming gave another order.

Looking at the King of Qi in front of him, Niu Ben was silent, a war had changed the prince a lot. (To be continued.) )