Chapter 180 The First Artillery Battle
Just when Zhao Xu was a little sane, the next wave of attack began. With the sound of heavy footsteps coming from afar, another wave of troops of up to 4,000 people rushed towards the city walls. This was not scary. What was terrible is that this time, it was obvious that the Governor of Bershallo Bahayi was determined to win, because the four walls attacked almost at the same time.
At this time, the total number of enemy troops attacking had reached 16,000, more than three times that of all defenders. This would make Zhao Xu feel extremely worried! [bsp; �
The telescope in his hand tried his best to look at the camp of Bahayi, the Governor of Bershallo, where another wave of soldiers was gathering. Even Zhao Xu could see clearly that those people were not infantrymen, but cavalry dismounted.
"It seems that the Governor wants to do his best in one battle. If so, I have to treat him well!"
After thinking for a while, Zhao Xu made a bold assumption.
"Maybe the other three sides are not passing by, it is a feint attack, otherwise why not set up arrow towers, ladder trucks and stone throwers on the other sides? Sometimes, I'm afraid I'll have to bet on a bet!"
After understanding this, Zhao Xu began to carefully deploy his defense.
"Transfer my order to move the copper cannons and thunderbolts from the other three sides to here and allocate the 2000 reserves to the other three sides. The area along the river is small, so don't worry too much, just prepare more thunder. Also, let the gunners of the raindrop cannon have wet wipes and wipe them a few times at a time, so that the raindrop cannons will not overheat. Also, let all the people in the village who can hold bows stand under the city wall and turn back to shoot."
Zhao Xu didn't know that his arrangement made his soldiers worried. Such arrangement would be equivalent to sending all the reserve troops in Yulin Village to the battlefield. If so, even if the enemy was tired in the future, what would you use to break through and ask for help?
But no matter how he thought about it, no one dared to say anything to Zhao Xu. After all, since Zhao Xu took charge of Yulin Village, he has shown his ruthlessness. I believe no one dared to anger a person who killed his uncle, and almost killed Shi Shi, who was still loving the day before, and almost killed Shi Zhidong, who trained a large army for him.
With Zhao Xu's order, everyone in the village moved. The men, whether young or old, all took a pulley and a pot of arrows on their backs and came to the city wall. They understood that they did not need to go to the city wall to face the enemy outside. They just had to shoot the arrows as required here.
More Thunderbolt cannons and raindrop cannons were moved here and they were equipped in their respective positions. This is because Zhao Xu felt that using Thunderbolt cannons to hit moving arrow towers, ladder trucks and other things was a bit unpaid. It is probably better to deal with those things. As for Thunderbolt cannons, it will be more effective to deal with infantry and the advance base.
Sure enough, because of fear of death, everyone came to the designated position according to Zhao Xu's order. It is impossible not to say that Shi Zhidong trained these troops very well. Although he was training these troops for the Mongolians, the strict military discipline in the Mongolian army also allowed these people to faithfully execute orders on the battlefield.
With the arrival of everyone, the army outside the city had crossed 200 meters. Even approaching the arrow tower, the stone thrower had begun to attack.
Rows of stone bullets roared towards the city of Yulinzhuang, and the battlements became fragile under its attack. When they were hit, the warps and the hidden soldiers behind the warps might be damaged by the stone bullets. This is not the biggest crisis. The subordinates of the governor of Bershallo threw dangerous asphalt bombs into the city.
This thing is just a hardened asphalt wrapped with sticky oil, which is thrown towards the target after ignition. It does not explode very much, and occasionally it will cause the oil to splash due to impact. Compared with the incendiary bombs that the Song Dynasty Yulin Army used small-scale tnts to shoot, the effect is far worse. However, when dealing with Yulin Village, this asphalt bomb has a considerable effect.
"ah……"
The person hit by the stone bullet screamed, holding the lost half of his legs that were vomiting blood outwards, rolling underground. This attracted Zhao Xu's attention, but he didn't care much about it. He lowered his body and began to worry whether the stone bullets whizzing through all around would destroy the sturdy tower.
Just as he was worried, a big fireball suddenly rose on the top of the city, followed by a huge explosion.
"What's wrong...what's wrong?"
Zhao Xu, who was standing at the window, was shocked by the shock wave coming from the window. He struggled to get up from the ground and looked out from the window again. In a section of the solid city wall, all the squadrons were blown away, and everyone was torn into pieces or twisted into strange and strange appearances. Not only that, the rocks that were buying scattered everywhere knocked down a large area of ordinary monks who were preparing to shoot arrows under the city wall.
"What's wrong, what's wrong, how could such a thing happen..."
Zhao Xu roared, looking at the people in the tower with bloodshot eyes. But everyone was like him, and was shocked to the ground in the explosion just now, and no one answered his question.
At this time, a scream came from outside, Zhao Xu turned his head and finally knew what happened just now.
In the sky, asphalt bombs, like fire, drove the flames through the sky. The defenders on the city wall held their heads and tried desperately to leave the area of the city wall. The people behind the city wall also screamed in screams. In an instant, Zhao Xu understood. Just now, it was just the consequence of the asphalt bomb igniting the gunpowder weapons on the city.
Following the origin of the asphalt bomb, Zhao Xu saw the advance base 150 meters, constantly shooting groups of stone bombs and asphalt bombs rising from time to time. He knew that if the enemy's actions were not stopped, Yulin Village would be finished.
"The order is that all the thunderbolt cannons and raindrop cannons will destroy the enemy's march!"
With Zhao Xu's order, a large ball of white smoke from the raindrop cannons fired from the walls of Yulinzhuang City. A small group of thunderbolt cannons also shot out there.
Here, just under the city of Yulinzhuang, the first artillery battle broke out in this world!
So will Zhao Xu be able to defend Yulinzhuang and what will happen in the entire Persian Gulf? Let’s talk about it next season!
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