Steel Dynasty - Chapter 796

[Chapter 795 Rushing to Pingzhou]

“Boom, boom, boom…”

The artillery fire sounded like thunder.

All front-loaded artillery and mortars were concentrated in front of Pingzhou City. In an instant, dense artillery shells formed a barrage and flew toward Pingzhou City.

Beishan and Best, who were arguing, were horrified. At this time, they did not dare to stay on the city wall, but ran into the city in panic.

Behind them, the cannonballs hitting the city wall made a loud sound of metal colliding with stone. The lime bullets and blooming bullets fired by the mortars exploded at the same time, brilliant like fireworks.

Outside the city, soldiers wearing plate armor and musketeers charged at Pingzhou City at the same time. They shouted, seeming to vent the anger they had accumulated over the past few days.

The barbarian soldiers also rushed out of the city at this time. They entered the trenches and fought with the soldiers of the Chongqing Kingdom. The entire battlefield fell into chaos for a while.

Wu Shugu was stunned. He did not expect that the soldiers of the Chongqing Kingdom suddenly launched an attack, and this fierce posture was completely a desperate final battle.

At this time, he suddenly regretted allocating a part of the cavalry to Jinzhou, but now time did not allow him to think, because they fell into passivity under the fierce artillery fire of Dayu State, and now the trench in front of Pingzhou City was taken away bit by bit.

“Woooo…”

At his signal, the horn sound sounded among the cavalry, and a captain of 10,000 led the cavalry to rush towards the city. Although the car formation of Dayu State was blocking the road halfway, they were desperate now. It’s time.

Lei Ming had already assembled thirty thousand cavalry outside the tent of Dayu State. Looking at the barbarian cavalry who were staring at them, he shouted loudly: “Brothers, now is the time for us to fight with all our strength. We must raise our troops for a thousand days and use them for a short time. For the sake of the emperor, for the sake of the emperor.” The glory of Dayu, kill! “

“Kill!” At this moment, the cavalry raised their sabers, their morale rising.

At the same time, on the right side of the cavalry, five square hollow formations composed of musketeers were being formed. This square formation was composed of two divisions of Huben’s Third Army.

In this siege, Lu Fei was using two divisions of his Huben First Army and two divisions of Huben’s Second Army to fight.

The other two divisions of Huben’s Second Army were under the command of Luo Xin to block the attack of the barbarian cavalry.

As the battle in Pingzhou City became more and more intense, the battlefield centered on Pingzhou City became increasingly chaotic.

If you look down from a high altitude, the soldiers on both sides of the vast battlefield are like a dense group of marching ants fighting.

As the charge horn sounded, the hollow phalanx formed by Huben’s 2nd Division marched towards the barbarian cavalry in neat steps, while Lei Ming led the cavalry on both wings of the phalanx.

Their purpose was not to annihilate this group of cavalry, but to prevent them from intervening on the battlefield, so Lei Ming decided to use musketeers to push them back step by step.

This time Wu Shugu led 30,000 fewer cavalrymen, but even so, 90,000 people were not something they could shake.

Because of this, he could only use musketeers to offset Wu Shu Gu’s advantage.

Facing Lei Ming’s tactics, Wu Shu Gu frowned.

He was not afraid of a head-on confrontation with the Chongqing cavalry, but he was only afraid of this strange musket phalanx.

On the first day of the battle, he tested the power of muskets. As a result, the cavalry who rushed over fell without even touching a single soldier.

It’s just that although he knows the power of this musket formation, he has no choice now. If he continues, Pingzhou City will only be lost. In this way, they will lose the frontline fortress of Pingzhou, and Jinzhou will directly face the threat of Dayu.

“Kill!”

Wu Shugu shouted, horseshoes burst, and the barbarian cavalry like a tide began to charge in the direction of thunder.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Hollow Phalanx stopped. In fact, the barbarian cavalry had been hiding five hundred meters away to prevent being shot.

Now that they chose to fight, they could only close the distance. After entering the effective range of 500 meters of the muskets, the musketeers were ordered to open fire.

Although Pingzhou City is very open, so many cavalry gathered together cannot be dispersed at all, and once they disperse, the barbarian cavalry cannot effectively resist the collective charging cavalry of the Chongqing Kingdom.

“Bang bang bang…”

The hollow phalanx fired in three stages. The bullets flew over a distance of 500 meters and landed on the barbarian soldiers and the barbarian horses.

After the first round of shooting, a large piece of the barbarian cavalry that was constantly moving forward fell down, which caused some confusion among the marching barbarians.

Lei Ming calmly watched the movements of the barbarian cavalry. The hollow square formation performed well. If so, even if the barbarian cavalry rushed in front of them, they would lose a lot, which would greatly reduce the morale of the barbarian cavalry.

“Bang bang bang…”

Gunshots rang out again, and a group of barbarian cavalry fell again, and the distance between the barbarian cavalry also continued to shrink.

From 500 meters to 300 meters, the barbarian cavalry suffered heavy casualties. Three to four thousand barbarian cavalry fell on the charging road.

When the barbarians reached 200 meters, the division commander commanding the hollow phalanx shouted: “The first row squatted down, tilting the bayonets upward, and the second row continued to shoot.”

Looking at the barbarian cavalry that kept shortening the distance, Lei Ming waved his saber and took the lead. The ground rushed out, and this war was a fateful battle for the country of Chongqing.

And if they win, then the offensive and defensive momentum of the Chongqing Kingdom and the barbarians will change, and then the vast grassland will become the horse breeding land of the Chongqing Kingdom.

At this time, the battle under Pingzhou City also entered a fever pitch.

Under the bombardment of artillery, a large part of the current Pingzhou city wall collapsed, and the entire Pingzhou city was exposed to Lu Fei and others.

With both wings protected by Luo Xin and Lei Ming, Lu Fei focused all his energy on fighting for the trench.

Twenty thousand new soldiers in armor and twenty thousand elite musketeers were fighting at the city gate at the same time.

Facing the Chongqing soldiers who were all in armor, like iron barrels, the barbarian soldiers had no effective way. Often only three people could deal with one, otherwise these armored Chongqing soldiers would easily kill them.

After several days of fierce fighting, the musketeers who rushed into the trench for the first time made them understand that they were more terrifying than these plate-armored soldiers.

These soldiers were very skilled and ruthless with their bayonet-mounted muskets, and they killed people as calmly as chopping melons and vegetables.

Moreover, some musketeers immediately occupied the wall in the middle of the trench after seizing the trench. Standing on the wall, they fired continuously at the supporting soldiers in the city.

As more and more Chongqing musketeers arrived, the barbarian soldiers in the city could no longer reinforce them because they were killed before they could reach the trench.

There were fewer and fewer people supporting them, and the trench became one-sided. After two hours of fierce fighting, Lu Fei’s soldiers finally captured the trench.

Looking at the collapsed Pingzhou City Wall, Lu Fei grinned widely and cursed: “What are you doing standing still? Go and capture Pingzhou City!”

(End of Chapter)