"What's … this?"
After two consecutive terrifying attacks, the advancing troops were cut in half on the spot. After more than three hundred people were killed or injured, the commanding officer of the supervising troops finally realized that he could no longer continue to suppress the troops around him. The people began to wail and retreat. Before they could continue to cut off the heads of the deserters, the third and fourth batches of artillery shells fell on the densely packed crowd like a plow.
It couldn't be helped. People whose minds were filled with the mindset of cold weapons had no idea how to deal with hot weapons. When faced with a rain of arrows, they could block them with shields. When faced with the stones and large ballistae thrown by the catapults, they would die if they got hit, but they would not cause too many casualties. However, when faced with bombs that could explode, they really panicked.
In fact, the reason why Lassman's troops swept through the Tuk Tribe's defending troops was because magic was similar to 'hot weapons' to a certain extent. The Tuk Tribe, who had suffered a loss before, naturally learned this lesson. Their supervising team, which included priests, used a limited number of shards to cover the area in front of the troops with an 'anti-magic field'. Because Lassman's range was much closer than the catapults, it was impossible for them to throw the cannonballs further away. Even if they attacked, they would only land on the frontline.
But no one had expected that the range of the crystal cannons could reach up to two kilometers. The reason why Sodelor waited until the frontline was four hundred meters away from the city wall before firing was to avoid the 'anti-magic field' in front of them from affecting the crystal cannonballs.
But now, the cannonballs, which released the power of the crystal energy without reservation, landed in the middle and rear of the enemy's formation again and again, bringing the shadow of the 'God of War' to these shivering bumpkins of the old era …
When the fifth batch of cannonballs blew up the catapults one thousand and three hundred meters away into pieces, the frontline formed by ten thousand people was in complete chaos.
The supervising team could not suppress the chaos at all because the power of the explosion far exceeded the limits of what they could bear. The number of casualties was secondary. Under the deafening sound and impact, no one could remain calm. The soldiers from various countries began to run for their lives. As a result, the cannonballs fell one after another as if they were chasing after the deserters. On the battlefield, from 800 to 1,800 meters away from the city wall, the four cannons did not need to adjust much. As long as the artillerymen raised the angle a little bit, the rising black mushroom clouds would quickly reap the lives of countless people …
The horn to retreat sounded quickly, but the scattered troops did not follow the predetermined route at all. The people seemed to have found the pattern of the cannonballs' landing points and knew that they could not continue to retreat directly, so they swarmed to the sides like a swarm of bees. However, the gaps between the troops on the battlefield were extremely small. Not long after they ran, countless people squeezed together on the spot.
These troops from various countries did not know each other, so in order to escape as quickly as possible, they pulled out their weapons and began to hack at any soldiers in front of them … When the eight rounds of cannonballs stopped, the casualties caused by the fleeing and squeezing had exceeded the thirty-two cannonballs.
On the southern wall of Rashian City, the soldiers of Rashian City were looking at the battlefield in front of them. Everyone was trying to make sure that they were not dreaming. They were not newbies in war. Looking at the scene in front of them, they could confirm one thing: the enemy who had brought them so much pressure no longer had the strength to fight back!
But the battle only lasted five minutes … and it was over?
Thinking of the weapons that caused the enemy to retreat, the soldiers on the wall could not help but look back at the four cannons inside the city.
The deafening sound just now had scared the shit out of them. They almost thought that the cannons were going to overturn the city wall. Only now did they realize that the range of this weapon was a full two kilometers, and its power was even more terrifying than the Flame Blast of a high-ranking sorcerer!
Now, the cannons finally stopped after eight shots. At this time, the temperature of the cannons was extremely high. After the cooling circle was activated, the hot metal that could distort the surrounding air slowly began to cool down. The artillerymen were quickly inspecting and inspecting the inside of the cannons to ensure that there were no cracks or residue. At the same time, the communication circle next to them was constantly ringing with the voices of the soldiers in the front and the command at the rear.
"Reporting to the command, the artillery battery's four cannons have all cooled down! Requesting to execute the second round of cannonball, over! "
"Requesting approval, over."
"This is the watchtower, correcting the coordinates …"
A minute later, the cannons reloaded and began the second round of shooting.
The soldiers on the city wall with the new binoculars measured the enemy's distance through the magic circle, and at the same time adjusted the landing point of the cannonball through the communication circle. Any groups that were trying hard to close in were blown apart by the cannonball. When the second round of thirty-two cannonballs was fired, other than the Bindu Kingdom's knights who quickly ran far away on their warhorses, there was no longer a complete formation on the battlefield.
Valad, who was standing on the inner city wall, watched this scene with his mouth wide open. After a long time, he swallowed his saliva and shouted, "Go gather the soldiers! I want to see two thousand people leave the city in ten minutes! Victory or defeat depends on this, quick! "
"But just now, you …"
"But what! Immediately! Immediately! Go now! "
He shouted the order. Seeing the subordinate running away in a hurry, he felt that it would be difficult for one person to quickly inform the other troops distributed in the city, so he called two more subordinates and asked them to quickly gather the soldiers.
At this moment, Valad was so excited that his hands were trembling. He finally understood why the Sunset Goddess had asked him to send out the troops just now. If he had prepared early, five thousand people would be able to sweep away the group of disorganized soldiers, and even destroy the enemy's headquarters in one fell swoop!
As long as he could capture the enemy's commander, the prejudice that the parliament had against him before would immediately be written off, and he could even use this opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune!
But all of this was on the premise that he could bring back enough enemy heads. Right now, he could not wait to use magic to urge the group of soldiers to quickly put on their equipment and take their weapons, but because he did not make any preparations in advance to leave the city for battle, he waited for nearly an hour before the first group of a thousand people left the city.
And at this time, the army of the Kingdom of Karen had already walked out for a kilometer.
This force of one thousand and five hundred people looked very thin, but the formation was orderly, and their speed was not fast. In the middle, there were two "armored vehicles" — these vehicles also had gun barrels, but the caliber was much smaller than the ones in the city. From a distance, they looked thin and shorter.
The whole army did not rush to chase the scattered deserters, but drove all the way to the position where the shells began to bombard. After collecting enough data, they did not continue to move forward. Instead, they reorganized on the spot and made a wait-and-see posture.
And at this time, Valad's two troops had chased and driven away the scattered troops from both sides of the battlefield. The troops with a total of more than four thousand people pressed toward the enemy's headquarters near the river bank from two directions — in fact, they could not catch up with the soldiers who had already fled at this speed, but they could kill thousands of wounded soldiers who had lost their ability to move because of crowding and scattering.
Because of this, Udora was not obstructed in gathering the remnants on the battlefield. More than half of the scattered troops were gathered back to the headquarters by the supervising team after retreating for a kilometer.
(End of this chapter)
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