In a short period of time, Ren Baqian poured out a chain of bullets at the enemy, turning many of the Great Xia generals who were overlooking into the distance into a pile of mosaics.
Previously, when Ren Baqian was more than 700 meters away, he didn't fire again and let the 100 Great Xia soldiers run back. Everyone thought that Ren Baqian's shooting range was limited to this. After all, with the strength of the soldiers in this world, even if the Great Xia soldiers were much stronger than the soldiers on Earth, they could only shoot at a distance of 300 to 400 steps with a longbow.
Crossbow bolts only had a shooting range of about 100 steps, and the giant ballistae that guarded the city had a shooting range of 800 to 1,000 steps. The thunder cannon that Great Xia had just developed could reach a shooting range of 1,400 steps and was already regarded as a siege weapon.
The weapon in Ren Baqian's hands was so powerful that it was far better than a crossbow, and its attack speed was unbelievable. A shooting range of 1,400 steps was already extremely shocking.
Many of the Great Xia generals were observing from a distance of one kilometer, which was 2,000 steps away. They were thinking about how to break into the stronghold, snatch the weapons from the enemy's hands, and send them back to the imperial court. However, they were all wiped out by Ren Baqian.
The Great Xia army was in a state of chaos, especially the guards. In Great Xia, if the generals died and the guards were fine, the guards would be executed. Therefore, as long as the general died, the guards would definitely be killed. The guards were usually treated much better than ordinary soldiers, but they were bound together by the general's rise and fall. As a result, they were usually extremely loyal.
Even if they died, the general would still take care of their family members and provide financial compensation. However, if the general died, the guards wouldn't be able to live either.
At this moment, the captain and a few captains were wiped out, and the guards were all stunned. Following which, they bellowed that they wanted to avenge the captain.
The chaos spread from the front to the back of the army.
Ren Baqian used his binoculars to see that the enemy's army was in chaos. First, some people shouted something, and then nearly one-third of the army rushed toward the stronghold. Even the cannons that were being driven by the carriages were brought up by them. The others were at a loss and didn't know what to do.
"Very brave!" Ren Baqian was in awe.
It was better for such a brave enemy to die.
However, he didn't know that by wiping out those people just now, he had killed many of them.
This Great Xia army was actually a regiment with a total of 4,600 soldiers in five battalions. According to military strength, it was equivalent to a military headquarters.
Among them, from the highest ranking commandant to the commandant of each battalion, there were at least a few hundred bodyguards. In addition to those who had been incited, there were more than a thousand people rushing over.
Ren Baqian unhurriedly used the scope to take aim at the people one by one. On the battlefield, some of the people who were running around suddenly lost a section of their body or broke into two. Then, they bounced up some dust on the ground near them. Such a scene was terrifying, but it also made them even crazier.
However, their craziness was only rewarded with faster shooting by Ren Baqian.
Occasionally, there were a few soldiers who slipped through the net, but he didn't bother about them. There were so many guards around, and 50 Earth Wheel level guards were enough to kill these Great Xia soldiers.
Therefore, after killing and shooting half of the Great Xia soldiers, he no longer paid any attention to them. He gave an order to the guards beside him, and the guards in the stronghold jumped down from the wall, drew their steel swords, and faced the "heroic" Great Xia soldiers.
Battle cries immediately rang out from the surroundings.
Some of the villagers in the stronghold were envious. They simply picked up their clubs and rushed out. Halfway through, they threw their clubs away and went to the ground to pick up their weapons.
They carried a bundle of spears that were scattered on the ground back to the stronghold. When they returned, they would look for a blacksmith to smelt the spear tips and forge them into long swords. All of them were smiling like sunflowers.
He only used the scope to look at the desperate soldiers who were stuffing explosives into the cannons.
After seeing them stuffing a stone shell into the cannon, Ren Baqian opened fire and killed those soldiers.
He didn't need them to light the fire as he could do it himself.
Ren Baqian fired a machine gun at those Great Xia soldiers who didn't know whether to advance or retreat. This was much more effective than serving tea and seeing them off.
The battle outside the stronghold was also coming to an end.
Shi Hu and the other guards were covered in blood. They kicked the corpses that were blocking their way to the side, hugged their arms, and looked at the fleeing Great Xia soldiers with a heroic look on their faces.
Ren Baqian left the spear there and asked someone to call Shi Hu back to look at his precious spear. He then brought Lin Qiaole and a few guards to check on the two cannons. By the time he reached the place where he had fallen, the Great Xia soldiers were already nowhere to be seen.
"Sir, do you know what this is?" a few guards asked curiously when they saw Ren Baqian hurriedly looking at the iron pipe.
"Cannons!" Ren Baqian replied casually and examined it carefully.
The cannon looked a little ugly. It had a flared mouth at the front and a rather thick belly at the back. Ren Baqian didn't know the purpose of this design.
It was about 1.6 meters long, completely made of iron, and had a dark body.
It was estimated to weigh more than 500 kilograms. Without weighing it, Ren Baqian didn't know the specifics.
He took out the stone shell and found that it had a diameter of about 110 millimeters.
After stuffing the stone shell back into the cannon, Ren Baqian found a direction. He held a pair of binoculars in one hand and ignited the cannon with the other. He was ready to see how far this cannon could shoot.
"Boom!" The body of the cannon shook violently. Even the cannon and its wheels were pushed back by the recoil.
The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder.
However, the smell of gunpowder wasn't quite the same as when Ren Baqian fired the gun. There was actually a little peach smell, which made Ren Baqian feel a little baffled. Only God knew what the Great Xia people added to the gunpowder.
"Go, find out where the shell was shot to. If you can find any traces, that will do." Ren Baqian pointed to the front. More than a dozen guards seemed to have broken free from their reins … and ran out.
"This seems to be similar to yours?" Lin Qiaole asked.
"Much worse." Ren Baqian had a look of disdain on his face. How dare you compare my precious spear to this thing?
Even though there wasn't much of a difference in theory, in reality, there was a difference of at least a few hundred years of development.
If Great Xia was allowed to research cannons, it was hard to say whether they could reach the modern stage in another thousand years.
By that time, Dayao would probably be able to use the Star Destroyer Cannon.
Very soon, those guards found the traces of the falling stone. Ren Baqian followed them to take a look. He calculated in his heart that it was about 1,200 steps, which was about 600 meters. He reckoned that this thing couldn't exceed 800 meters at most.
Even though it wasn't much in Ren Baqian's eyes, it was already considered pretty good in this era. After all, the catapult had a range of about 400 steps, which was equivalent to 200 meters.
Furthermore, the catapult was clumsier and required more manpower when it was used.
This thing only needed a few people.
Even though the power of this thing wasn't very great and it was impossible to use it to destroy a fortified city, it was extremely easy to use it to attack a stronghold in the wilderness.
That kind of stronghold with wooden fences was completely unable to block this kind of stone shell.
Furthermore, the stone shell had already been invented. Presumably, Great Xia would soon discover that the iron shell was more powerful.
Perhaps Great Xia had already discovered it, but for some reason, they hadn't used it yet.
By the time Ren Baqian got the guards to bring the two cannons back to the stronghold, the other weapons had already been collected by the villagers.
"Sir." The villagers held a few long sabers in both hands and gave them to Ren Baqian.
"This isn't bad." Ren Baqian picked the prettiest one from the bunch. It was quite heavy and weighed at least 10 kilograms.
Ren Baqian casually twirled the saber, and the face of the guard beside him turned green. He watched as the tip of the saber whizzed through the air in front of his eyes. Goosebumps appeared all over his body, and he felt a chill run down his spine. He quickly retreated a few meters away.
He made up his mind that if Ren Baqian was holding a weapon, he would never approach him again.
"Sir, what should we do with these weapons?" the guard asked.
The villagers looked at Ren Baqian anxiously.
These spears had become treasures in their eyes. The spearheads of about 2,000 spears were enough to forge 100 long sabers. To these villagers, this was a huge sum of money.
"They are all yours." Ren Baqian could tell what they were thinking and waved his hand.
In the past, Dayao lacked iron, but now, it wasn't so much. Furthermore, as time passed, the number of weapons in Dayao would increase. In another year, these iron weapons wouldn't be so unattainable to these villagers.
"Thank you, Sir!" The villagers were ecstatic upon hearing this.
"Send this to the nearest town and ask them to send someone to deliver it to the Ministry of Works. I will write a letter in a while," Ren Baqian said to the villagers while pointing at the cannon.
"Yes, Sir." After receiving the spears, the villagers looked at Ren Baqian cordially. Not to mention that Ren Baqian had saved their village previously.
They naturally agreed to such a small matter.
Ren Baqian then turned on the radio station and found that Shi Qing was online.
He felt that Shi Qing was doing nothing but guarding the radio station every day, just like a customer service agent for Taobao.
Ren Baqian told him about what happened here, and Shi Qing was shocked.
Ren Baqian actually encountered the Great Xia army again?
This news was simply frightening. Sir Ren, can you stop scaring us? If anything happens to you, Her Majesty will definitely go crazy.
Shi Qing couldn't help but tactfully say, "Sir Ren, as long as you are safe and don't run around, that will be the greatest help to the current war … As for the matter of intercepting the Great Xia army, there are tens of thousands of aboriginal warriors, so you don't have to worry about it."
However, the news that Ren Baqian received next made him feel a little incredulous. He led dozens of guards to repel thousands of Great Xia soldiers, and he wasn't injured at all? How was this possible? One against a hundred, even if they were Earth Wheel level guards, they would probably suffer heavy casualties, right? After all, the Great Xia army wasn't made of clay.
Ren Baqian didn't explain too much and only asked them to quickly inform all the villages in the north of Lan City to immediately bring their rations back to the nearby towns and burn everything else.
After that, he wrote a letter to the villagers and got the guards to pack up and get ready to set off.
Two thousand people had died outside the village, and the land next year would presumably be very fertile.
It was a pity that these villagers had to hide in the town.
Presumably, the weeds here would be extremely lush in a few months.
After Ren Baqian left, the villagers brought two thousand spears to the town. The story of the empress's husband, Sir Ren, killing two thousand Great Xia soldiers with a strange weapon began to spread in the town. Subsequently, it became five thousand, eight thousand, and twenty thousand.
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