Chapter 334

As soon as Andrea climbed to the corner of the city wall, she saw a scene that shocked her.

I saw a row of soldiers dressed as militiamen standing on the top of the wall, holding a strange weapon in their hands, which was probably the musket in Ashes' mouth. As the group of evil beasts approached, the guns spewed out flames and thick smoke, and the continuous explosions echoed in the ears.

This should be a weapon similar to a crossbow, but she couldn't see the arrows fired by the opponent at all, probably because of the heavy smoke. The evil beasts rushing to the front stumbled as if they had been hit hard by something, and fell to the ground one after another.

But the soldiers neither observed the results of the battle nor reloaded the crossbows, but continued to shoot at the enemy at a speed that was a bit faster than picking up bows and arrows by themselves.

"This is the terrible weapon you mentioned?" Andrea felt her lips dry. "The rate of fire is indeed very fast, but the hit rate seems to be..."

"Before these people were recruited into the first army, they were all miners, farmers, and hunters," Ashes interrupted, "they haven't used this weapon for half a year."

It takes five years to train a well-trained warrior, and it takes longer for an archer. Even the crossbow with the shortest training time takes about half a year to prevent the farmer from firing the crossbow in a panic. As for actual combat? God knows what they can hit, most of the time it's just a big shot with them.

Andre swallowed involuntarily, she was no stranger to these trainings, and her family had also trained outstanding knights, so she naturally understood what it meant to be able to participate in actual combat in about half a year. As long as weapons and food supplies are sufficient, Roland can piece together a huge army in a short period of time, and this army is not worried about collapsing in close combat, and even elite knights are difficult to approach without intermittent attacks.

It has nothing to do with the courage and will of the militia, it is the weapons that give them great strength.

"Do you know anything else about muskets?" Tilly asked Sylvie after pondering for a moment.

The latter nodded, "I have carefully observed it many times. It is indeed a weapon similar to a crossbow. The arrows fired are very short, without shafts and tail feathers. The difference is that the arrows do not rely on strings The elastic force, but the impact force when the black powder explodes, it can instantly increase the arrow to extremely high speed."

"Black powder?" Ashes asked, "What is that?"

"Probably an alchemy product," she shook her head, "I don't know the exact ingredients."

"It should be very expensive," Andrea said. "The things made by alchemists are never cheap."

Ashes curled her lips, "Really... But judging by the way they shoot, it doesn't seem like they are using such expensive items at all."

"Wait, something is coming." Sylvie, who was looking at the battlefield, was slightly taken aback. "My God, is this also an evil beast? It's almost as tall as a city wall! It looks like a huge turtle with a back It also has a huge carapace on its back."

Andrea suddenly regained her spirits, "Carapace? These muskets may have limited effect. As long as I get within ten steps, even the city wall can't stop my magic arrows. Ashes, cover me."

"Huh, alright," Ashes reluctantly took off the big sword behind his back, "Let's talk about it first, don't lose the face of Lady Tilly."

"Don't go," Sylvie stopped, "they still have"

Andrea didn't hear the second half of the other party's words, she only heard a deafening roar, like thunder exploding in her ears. Looking back, the metal tubes erected on the city wall spewed out flames at the same time. This time, she vaguely caught the trajectory of the arrows flying. The monster around him flew away.

After a few breaths, several tall snow pillars jumped up around the monster, and the flying snowflakes fell behind. The ugly huge evil beast was still moving at a fixed speed. Obviously this time the attack failed to hit the opponent.

But even so, it was enough to surprise Andrea... This distance has far exceeded the longbow and heavy crossbow, "This is..."

"Your Highness calls it a field cannon. To put it simply, it is an enlarged musket," Sylvie let go of his ears. "It is much more powerful than muskets, and its range is much farther. He is Taking advantage of this, Timothy's militia fleet was easily defeated at the fork of the Chishui River."

The evil beast's luck couldn't last any longer. In the second round of shelling, two shells accurately hit its carapace. Andrea could see it very clearly. The uneven carapace raised a thin layer amidst the dull impact sound. In the fog, two large holes were directly blasted out on the side close to the head, and black blood and internal organs sprayed out from the holes, splashing everywhere.

The battle ended not long after. There were piles of corpses of evil beasts lying in front of the city wall, and the flowing blood caused white mist to float above the snow. The soldiers began to deal with the aftermath, but she still failed to find a chance to make a move. .

"It seems that I was wrong in my prediction," Tilly said with a helpless smile. "He doesn't need the help of a combat witch."

"When I was in the town last time, this kind of weapon hadn't been popularized yet, and only the chief knight could have it. Now he has actually made so many..." Ashes sighed, "Perhaps this is why His Highness dared to be here. Under heavy pressure from the church, insist on disclosing why witches exist."

Andrea didn't answer. Normally, she would have ridiculed Ashes, but now she just felt extremely depressed, and she didn't even have the energy to argue.

Back at the castle, His Highness Roland still prepared a sumptuous lunch for the witches.

Seeing the colorful dishes on the table, Andrea felt even more blocked.

The upper-class nobles of the Dawn Kingdom pay attention to the beauty of nature in food. They are willing to spend a lot of gold and energy to buy some rare and precious ingredients, and then cook them in the most authentic way. In her eyes, food like Graycastle, which is sprinkled with various spices and sauces, is an extremely vulgar way of eating. Seasoning is just to cover up the defects of the food itself. The more you put it, the worse the taste will be.

But...every plate of food on the table is horribly delicious.

Like charcoal-grilled mushrooms, where did His Highness find such plump and juicy mushrooms? Take a bite, and the overflowing juice will almost fill your mouth.

There is also this vegetable soup, which looks very ordinary and clear, but it has a strong fragrance in the mouth, as if it is made of whole chicken, ribs and kelp.

Most especially the dessert ice cream bread. The milk-flavored ice cream is sandwiched between two slices of bread. After taking a bite, the icy and soft feeling makes her addicted to it. Even though it is "winter", it does not prevent her from eating one slice after another. .

Hell, even that was completely lost.

Looking at Ashes who smiled provocatively at her, Andrea didn't respond for the first time.

(To be continued.)

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