At the order, Duke Austin's army began to prepare.
Four or five men operated the medium-sized trebuchets. They used all their strength to open the trebuchets and loaded them with gunpowder.
Zhang Chunhua watched everything from the top of the city wall. She even had a pair of crude binoculars with her.
It was not strange to see a trebuchet, but the things inside it were too strange.
Zhang Chunhua suddenly remembered that Shen Lang had said that the Vulcan Cult already had gunpowder. They had even released fireworks before, so they had to be careful.
So, the enemy's trebuchets were not throwing stones, but gunpowder?
However, Zhang Chunhua was now very familiar with gunpowder. If it was black gunpowder, it would not do much damage to the city wall. It would only be at its strongest in an enclosed space.
"Everyone, get down!"
Zhang Chunhua ordered, followed by two officers.
In an instant, all 500 men on the three-thousand-meter wall dropped to the ground.
"Keep your hearts away from the ground," Zhang Chunhua ordered again.
These orders were very professional. In fact, there was no need for her to give them orders. The warriors of the Eastern Knights and the Roland Knights were very experienced.
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
The Vulcan High Priest gave the order.
"Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh …" Thirty catapults suddenly hurled over, and thirty original gunpowder bags flew over.
Although these were medium-sized trebuchets, each pack of gunpowder was not heavy, so they were launched 300 meters away.
Several of the Vulcan High Priests watched the scene with dazed eyes.
The wrath of the Vulcan Cult was about to descend upon the world. What followed was an earth-shattering explosion.
The Easterners would definitely be scared out of their wits and break down.
The wrath of the Vulcan Cult was enough to completely tear the three-thousand-meter wall in front of them.
The Vulcan High Priest glanced at Duke Austin. His meaning was very clear.
Wait for a miracle to happen, Count Austin.
The three hundred meters were covered in an instant.
Soon, the thirty gunpowder packs smashed down.
Boom, boom, boom, boom …
It was indeed an incomparably shocking explosion, a series of explosions.
The explosion of each gunpowder pack was not shocking enough, but the explosion of all thirty at once was shocking enough.
Almost the entire ground was shaking.
In an instant, the six-mile city wall was completely shrouded in black smoke, as if it had completely disappeared.
The horses under Count Austin's command were startled and jumped up and down.
The Vulcan priest said: "Your Excellency, did you see that? This was the might of the Fire God's Wrath. I reckon that there shouldn't be any survivors left in the enemy. Let's send them to hell to repent. And this ugly city wall should have already been destroyed. "
Count Austin frowned. The explosion in front of him was shocking enough, but from his point of view, leading the knights to charge and kill was the real romance. If the war in the future only needed such long-range explosions, then what was the point?
"Your Excellency Count, wait for the smoke to dissipate, then you will see what the real hell is."
"This group of Easterners must have never seen this kind of God's weapon before. They will definitely be smashed to pieces and their souls will scatter."
"From today onwards, this fear will definitely be engraved in the depths of their souls, causing them to never dare to step into the western world again."
…
The smoke from the black gunpowder was too thick. Moreover, it was in the middle of the valley. It took a while for the smoke to dissipate.
Then …
The scene was a little awkward. The six-mile wall was still there, and it was even intact.
Count Austin couldn't help but look at the Vulcan priest. What is going on?
Didn't you guys show me how powerful it was? The entire house was blown to smithereens in an instant. That was just an explosion.
But now, 30 Vulcan's Wrath exploded, and the enemy's three-thousand-meter wall was not damaged at all.
The Vulcan priest said, "Your Excellency Count, the people on the wall must have been killed. Some of the Vulcan's Wrath is used to kill the enemy, and some are used to destroy houses."
But after a while, a shocking scene happened. The five hundred soldiers of Shen Lang crawled up from the ground. The casualties were minimal.
Count Austin was shocked. Such a shocking explosion just now, but it didn't kill the enemy?
How could this be?
Yes, the explosion of the enemy's gunpowder was quite shocking, but why was the result so little?
There were a few reasons.
First, the accuracy of the catapult was too bad. Most of the gunpowder directly hit the wall, and then rolled to the ground. Eighty to ninety percent of the gunpowder exploded on the ground.
The wall was not extremely strong, but it was made of cement and bricks, and it was more than a meter thick. How heavy was this gunpowder bag? It was at most 20 kilograms of gunpowder. Moreover, it was not in a sealed environment, so all the explosive energy would dissipate into the air. What kind of bullsh * t would it have against a meter thick city wall?
Back then, when Jin Mulan attacked the Western Garrison City, she had used more than 1,500 kilograms of gunpowder to barely blow up half of the city gate in the sealed city gate.
Secondly, even if four bags of gunpowder hit the city wall, they didn't explode immediately. Three of them were thrown off the city wall, and only one exploded on the city wall.
This gunpowder was more than twenty kilograms of gunpowder. When it exploded on the ground, everyone was lying on the ground, so how much damage could it do?
More than a dozen people were burned, but no one was killed.
… …
Seeing this, Duke Austin said coldly, "Sir High Priest, is this the Vulcan's Wrath you mentioned?"
The Vulcan High Priest was also very surprised and puzzled, but he could not blame them. In the Vulcan Church, the alchemists were responsible for manufacturing, and the High Priests were responsible for promoting it.
It was also the first time the Vulcan Church had used gunpowder in actual combat.
Why was this happening? When they were experimenting, it was obviously powerful. Why did it become so clumsy now?
"Sir Count, please calm down, we have other weapons," the Vulcan High Priest said.
Austin Count said, "I really can't understand why Brooke trusted you and put you in such an important position, but I am willing to give you another chance. If this time doesn't work, leave it to us."
The Vulcan High Priest said, "Sir Count, please wait and see."
Then, the Vulcan High Priest waved his hand, and hundreds of Vulcan Warriors pushed out hundreds of trolleys.
If Shen Lang saw this scene, he would be shocked.
Divine Armament Arrow?
The Vulcan Church was so awesome that they could make rocket launchers so early?
Because there were nine tubes on each trolley, and inside each tube there was a rocket.
It was not a modern rocket, but an ancient one, a two-meter-long arrow with a firecracker tied to the shaft.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Chunhua couldn't help but be shocked. This weapon of the Fire God Religion looked very high-end.
Although she didn't know what it was, it looked very powerful, like an ancient Katyusha rocket launcher.
"Ignite!"
The Vulcan High Priest gave the order.
Then, a truly breathtaking scene happened.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh …"
It really looked like a Katyusha rocket launcher was launched.
One after another, with a long tail of flame, shot toward the city wall hundreds of meters away.
Each trolley had nine rockets, and there were hundreds of small trolleys, shooting thousands of rockets at once.
In an instant.
It really looked like thousands of meteor showers.
This visual effect made people want to pee in their pants. Not pee in their pants, but amazement.
In the modern world, there were only hundreds of rockets fired at once. Thousands of rockets whistled out at once, it was simply amazing.
Count Austin was dumbfounded. Had wars become like this?
This was another kind of romance.
Zhang Chunhua looked at this scene blankly, and there was only one thought in her mind.
This Vulcan High Priest was exactly as exaggerated as Shen Lang.
"Squat a little bit!" Zhang Chunhua ordered.
Shen Lang had already experimented with rockets, but he gave up.
It was amazing, but combat power? It was good for attacking dense enemy formations, but to attack the city wall?
What kind of genius came up with this idea?
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh …"
These thousands of fire arrows were really awesome. They flew really, really far.
They flew directly thousands of meters, directly over the top of the city wall.
Zhang Chunhua and the warriors on the city wall looked up at these rockets flying over their heads, directly flying a few hundred meters behind the city wall before falling.
Who are they going to attack? Who are they going to attack?
The Vulcan High Priest's second wave of rockets was even more amazing.
But the result was zero. The angle was adjusted too high, and all the rockets flew over the city wall.
Both sides looked at each other.
Count Austin stopped talking and turned his head to look at the Vulcan High Priest.
Zhang Chunhua looked at the Vulcan High Priest with her beautiful eyes. Your attack just now was amazing. Do you have more?
The Vulcan High Priest said in a hoarse voice, "Count Austin, there is actually no problem with our weapons, but the accuracy is not enough. We need to adjust it, please give us …"
Before she could finish, Count Austin raised his hand and stopped her.
"Sir, I can see that the weapons of the Vulcan Fury are indeed powerful, and they can change the whole war. But that is in the future, not now. So leave the next war to us."
The Vulcan High Priest was very bitter, and loudly said, "Sir, please give us another chance …"
Count Austin said, "Sir, I know you want to perform. You need to give the High Priest and Debus an explanation. You can't let her down. But please believe me, I may be very arrogant, but I don't have much prejudice in my heart. I have seen the power of your weapons. The Vulcan Sect is indeed powerful and awe-inspiring, but at least the weapons in your hands are not mature enough. But at the very least, the weapon in your hand is not mature enough. This is only a small battle, so please leave it to me, okay? "
"Also, my respect for the Vulcan Sect has not changed. You are just a low-level High Priest. The Vulcan Sect should have more powerful weapons. Are you satisfied with what I have said? "
"Sir, can I lead my army to attack the enemy's wall now?"
The young Vulcan High Priest stepped back and said, "Your will."
… …
Count Austin did not lie. He had traveled around the world for more than ten years, and he had seen a lot.
Although the results of the two rounds of gunpowder attacks from the Vulcan Sect were ugly, he could still see that the weapon was indeed amazing. Once it matured, it would directly change the entire war.
I am not ignorant, but at least the war is still in the hands of the warriors.
The tall Duke Austin looked at the three-thousand-meter wall. It was full of thick smoke and black marks, but it was stronger than he had imagined.
But no matter how strong it was, it was still small, and it only had a mere five hundred defenders.
Duke Austin roared, "Army, form up!"
Immediately, ten thousand soldiers gathered in formation, fully armed.
Duke Debus was extremely rich, so every soldier was equipped with iron armor, almost armed to the teeth.
These ten thousand soldiers were all tall and strong men, carrying siege ladders more than six meters high.
Duke Austin climbed to a hillside on the side and commanded the battle from above.
He was arrogant, but when the real battle came, he was an absolutely calm general. Even in the face of the weakest enemy, he was absolutely meticulous.
At this time, his position was higher than Zhang Chunhua's wall, so he could clearly see the defense on the wall.
He knew that the Easterners would prepare a large number of bows and arrows, rolling logs, boulders, boiling oil, and so on.
But the Easterners here did not have any. They were too short of supplies, and the preparation was too hasty. Even the wall was built not long ago.
There were only five hundred people on a three-thousand-meter wall, and on average, each person had to defend six meters. How was this possible?
Ten thousand people charging to besiege the city could be taken in half an hour at most.
The formation was complete!
Count Austin pulled out his giant sword and roared, "Attack the city!"
"Ugh …"
The long sound of a horn rang out.
Suddenly, Austin's ten thousand soldiers began to charge.
This was a very professional army. Even when they were charging, they were not scattered at all, full of a special rhythm.
Instead of running at full speed at the beginning, they gradually accelerated, faster and faster, faster and faster.
The charge of ten thousand soldiers was still neat and tidy. It was a visual pleasure to watch, like a torrent of steel.
Bang, bang, bang, bang …
As the ten thousand soldiers charged, the ground began to tremble.
Austin Count's estimation was correct. The ten thousand soldiers would take half an hour at most to take down Zhang Chunhua's city wall. The defenders of Shenlang were very powerful, but they were small in number. One person would not be able to defend the six-meter wall.
In fact, it would not even take half an hour. Austin's ten thousand soldiers would take down the six-meter wall in a quarter of an hour at most.
The army's charge became faster and faster, and their cheers became more and more impassioned.
"Forward, forward, forward!"
"Charge, charge!"
"For the Empire, for Duchess Deborah, kill every last one of these Easterners! Kill them all!"
The ten thousand soldiers were getting closer and closer to the city wall!
Zhang Chunhua narrowed her eyes and looked down at the ten thousand soldiers on the city wall.
Almost, almost all of them were within range.
She felt her heart ache. The explosives that she had painstakingly made over the past month were going to be used up so much in one go.
Zhang Chunhua waved her hand.
The two officers behind her waved their flags.
Immediately, the defenders on both sides of the city wall dropped to the ground and hid behind the battlements, keeping their hearts away from the ground.
It was as if they were a group of small animals trying to avoid an earthquake.
Duke Austin's expression changed drastically when he saw this.
This is too strange. My army is almost at the city wall, why are the Easterners on top of it lying on the ground?
He had been adventuring all over the place for the past ten years and had developed a beast-like instinct.
At this moment, he felt a fatal sense of danger, and the hair on his body stood on end.
"Stop! Stop!"
Duke Austin roared. The orderly on top of the mountain was startled, and then he waved his flag.
The ten thousand soldiers were shocked, but they obeyed the order and stopped.
Earl Austin's scalp went numb. He paused for a few seconds before issuing another order. "Army, disperse! Retreat! Retreat!"
This was a very outstanding valiant general, so straightforward and decisive.
Even though he didn't understand, the ten thousand soldiers under his command still turned around and prepared to retreat.
They could not disperse here because the valley was too narrow.
But …
It was too late.
The whole world fell into a strange silence.
At this time, an astonishing number of explosives had been buried under the feet of the ten thousand soldiers.
This was not gunpowder, but a powerful explosive.
At this time, the long fuse continued to burn, and sparks continued to swim toward the large number of explosives.
To ensure the detonation, there were dozens of fuses and dozens of fulminating acid.
Count Austin looked at the defenders on the city wall again and found that they were still lying on the ground, their hands tightly covering their ears.
He knew it was too late!
Then, he hurriedly covered his own ears.
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
The ten thousand soldiers had just finished turning around and were about to retreat.
The tens of thousands of soldiers behind them were also watching all of this in silence and confusion.
Tick tock!
Time was up!
The fuse burned and detonated the fulminating acid.
The fulminating acid detonated the powerful explosive.
In an instant!
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
This …
This was an earth-shattering explosion.
The deafening sound was like thunder.
This was the power closest to the power of heaven and earth.
It was more than ten times more shocking than the explosion of the gunpowder bags of the Fire God Sect.
In an instant!
Like an earth dragon turning over, it swept across the hundreds of meters of the valley.
The entire ground was suddenly torn open and torn apart!
On the ground, there were ten thousand soldiers standing densely.
They were fully armed, not only with armor, but also with shields.
But it was all in vain.
In the face of such a shocking number of explosives, their bodies were so fragile.
They were directly smashed into pieces.
Countless corpses and broken limbs flew into the sky.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom …"
A series of explosions continued without end.
The entire ground and the entire six-mile wall trembled.
The powerful shockwave swept across both sides of the valley.
Like the wind blowing through the wheat, the tens of thousands of soldiers of Austin Count Austin fell to the ground as if they were swept by a hurricane.
The soldiers closest to the explosion were even sent flying.
Then, the entire world seemed to have lost all sound.
Everyone's ears were ringing, and their brains felt like they were about to explode.
Austin Count Austin was not far from the explosion site. When the explosion occurred, he felt that his body was directly blasted a few meters away.
"Bang!"
His majestic body slammed into the cliff and then rolled down.
But he was too strong. He suddenly jumped up and stood up straight again.
"Puff …" He spat out a mouthful of blood.
Then, he shook his head desperately, trying to see and hear clearly.
The shockwave of the explosion was too strong. If it were anyone else, they would have died. But Austin Count Austin only suffered a slight concussion.
Fortunately, he covered his ears in time, or his eardrums would have been shattered.
He desperately patted his head, trying to wake himself up.
"Messengers, messengers …"
"Messengers, messengers …"
Austin Count Austin yelled, but the world seemed to be silent. He could not even hear his own voice for a while.
After regaining a little of his vision, he found that there were no messengers or messengers. The dozens of warriors around him were all dead, bleeding from their orifices, and their sternum was broken.
Not everyone was as strong as him. Even if they were so close to the explosion, they could still survive.
The whole valley was shrouded in dust, and almost nothing could be seen.
The might of Shen Lang's explosive was astonishing, but it did not produce any smoke, nor did it produce any flames. It only produced a large amount of dust.
It seemed like it was raining.
Countless stones, countless blood, and countless severed limbs fell to the ground.
A few minutes later …
All the dust had settled.
Austin Count Austin could finally see clearly, and then he saw the real hell.
The entire army was annihilated. His 10,000 soldiers were all dead. Maybe there was not even a single survivor.
How could there be a battle like this in this world?
In that instant, ten thousand people were all killed, and their bodies were crushed into pieces.
They were indeed dead!
A woman's heart was the most vicious. Under the valley, Zhang Chunhua had buried a lot of explosives, and there was not a single blind spot.
In this crowded area, not to mention 10,000 people, even 20,000 people would all be dead.
In the narrow valley, the crowded crowd was a perfect example of an explosion.
Because there were too many explosives buried, the power of the explosion was too great. When it was attacked by the Fire God Sect's catapults, the three-thousand-meter wall was still intact.
And now, this city wall was actually damaged.
The explosion was a little far from the wall, so the shockwave could not damage the sturdy wall. But the explosion directly blew a hundred kilogram boulder away, smashing it hard on the wall, creating a big pit.
Zhang Chunhua, that damned woman! She was afraid that the power wasn't enough to kill the enemy, so she added two more shots at the end.
In the end, it almost broke through his own wall.
Austin Count Austin looked at the Fire God Sect's priest. The young woman climbed up from the ground, her face was full of despair, and she was even doubting her life.
The Wrath of the Fire God was the secret weapon of the Fire God Sect.
Why did this group of Easterners also have it, and it was more powerful, more than ten times more powerful.
The weapon in Shen Lang's hand was the real Wrath of the Divine God.
Why did this happen?
Austin Count Austin couldn't help but think of an Easterner saying, "It hurts the harmony of heaven."
The East belongs to the East, and the West belongs to the West.
Mr. Shen Lang, why did you come to the East, why did you come to the land of my family, and why did you kill my soldiers?
My brave soldiers can die on the battlefield, they can die under the sword of the enemy, but why did they die under this mysterious power?
Hell, this is hell.
The war has changed!
"Ah … Ah … Ah …"
Austin Count Austin let out a series of beast-like roars.
… …
Note: I didn't sleep last night. I will write the second chapter after eating and drinking some strong tea. Please support me with your monthly votes, please!
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