Chapter 332: Incomprehensible Power

Why would an arresting unit be equipped with such weapons?

The chief clerk wiped the blood off his face with trembling hands. In his impression, most firearms were heavy. They might be effective in defending the city, but almost no one would fight with them in the wild, at least not the Shenzhou garrison. The firearms they received were only used when their superiors visited them, and they were usually locked in the warehouse.

Moreover, it was midwinter when marching was extremely inconvenient!

No, a thought suddenly emerged in his mind. These heavy firearms were not transported from Jinxia City by manpower. They were probably hung on the black behemoth from the beginning.

After more than ten breaths, the sound of heavy artillery was heard again in the distance.

This time, no one dared to show their heads again. Everyone lowered their bodies, fearing that the thing would fall on them. Some timid people even quietly climbed down the wooden frame and curled up in a thick position at the bottom of the city wall.

But the target of the artillery was not the guards on the top of the wall.

It was not until the sound of wood being torn apart came from behind that Zhang Zhubu realized that the other party first wanted to remove the sentry towers and watchtowers around the north gate.

He turned around and saw that most of the pillars of a wooden sentry tower had been cut off, and the broken wood chips were scattered all over the ground. However, this did not mean that the sentry tower escaped. Under the condition of unbalanced weight, it slowly tilted to the side that was hit, and finally fell to the ground with a series of crackling sounds like firecrackers. During the whole process, people jumped out of the tower one after another. The height of more than ten feet would not kill people, but the crossbow in the sentry tower was obviously not safe.

This can't go on!

Zhang Zhubu knew that the battle had just begun, and Baisha City had already fallen into a passive situation where it could only be beaten. This was definitely a heavy blow to morale.

Or these private soldiers did not take this fight seriously at the beginning-in their minds, the advantage of numbers was everything. Whether it was a dispute in the rivers and lakes or a gang fight, more people meant victory. But it is not the case on the battlefield. The most important thing for the two armies is morale. Once morale collapses, tens of thousands of troops may be chased and killed by thousands of people like pigs.

Now there is this trend on the city wall. After being hit head-on by the Jinxia arrest troops, most people were obviously stunned. They leaned against the wall one by one. The noise that was like watching a play before disappeared without a trace at this moment. For a while, there was only the sound of wind and the rhythmic roar in the distance on the entire city wall.

They didn't realize that their losses were only a few people and a sentry tower!

Continuing to defend the city is definitely waiting to die. Baisha City must take the initiative to attack!

Zhang Zhubu placed his hope on the teams of Fei and Tang.

He shouted at the guards of the north gate, "Open the city gate, everyone is ready to go out of the city to kill the enemy!"

"Go out of the city now? Are you sure, sir?"

"Without the city wall, won't everyone be a target?"

"Why doesn't he go by himself?"

For a while, all kinds of controversial voices came out.

"This is an order! Listen carefully--" Zhang Zhubu had expected that it would not go so smoothly. "There are only about a hundred rebels, and you have ten times that number. As long as we rush to them, we will win this battle! Whoever gets a head will be rewarded by the county magistrate. Ten taels of silver for one head!"

In other words, in order to defeat this group of people, the county government must pay at least a thousand taels of silver. Although it is a bit painful, in order to boost morale, this is the only way at a critical moment.

"Master Zhubu is right!" Someone from the Fei family's private soldiers responded loudly, "Don't look at the other side's thunder, but in fact, the raindrops are very small! It will take at most a blink of an eye to kill them from the city. How many rounds can they bombard? Wu is not talented, but I am willing to charge for you. If you want to get the reward, follow me!"

The man's voice was loud, and it was obviously not an ordinary person.

He was probably one of the air-sensing people mentioned by Master Fei before-"Swallow" Wu Shuang. The chief clerk knew that the opportunity could not be missed, and quickly ordered, "Beat the drums, blow the trumpets! Support this warrior!"

"Kill the traitor and get the reward!"

Amid the roar of trumpets, the city gate slowly opened, and Wu Shuang took the lead, leading more than 200 people to rush out of Baisha City first.

This move greatly encouraged other private soldiers.

Indeed, there were only so many enemies. If they were all killed, wouldn't they get nothing? Now someone rushed to the front to attract firepower, and the iron ball couldn't fall on their heads impartially, right?

This idea quickly became a consensus.

"Kill the traitor and get the reward!"

"Kill the traitor and get the reward!"

More and more people followed closely, swarming towards the Jinxia troops - this flow of people soon gathered into a surging wave of seven or eight hundred people!

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"Oh? There is still the courage to go out of the city to break the situation actively. It seems that these people are not useless." Ning Wanjun noticed the change in the situation at the first time through the observation window in front of the guard plate.

"Your Highness, do you want to go up?" Qiuyue asked with her head tilted.

"No, let the infantry team take charge." Although the princess wanted to control her vehicle and march forward to charge into the enemy's front, she finally resisted the urge.

She did not forget the purpose of this trip - to use actual combat to practice the coordinated combat between mechanical beasts and ordinary soldiers.

She did not need to give special instructions. The carefully selected soldiers behind her had already made preparations for the battle. Except for the five people in the artillery group, the other fifteen people had taken off their air rifles and installed the gas tanks in front of the bolt.

The square shields on both sides of the mechanical beast are natural shelters. The infantry team can aim and shoot in a standing position and use up all the bullets in the magazine in one go. When the artillery needs to fire, they will retreat behind the mechanical beast and take the opportunity to reload ammunition or replace the gas tank.

The artillery also replaced the chain bullets with shotgun shells.

From the moment the enemy rushed out of the city gate, they were already within the attack range of the artillery.

The accumulated snow slowed down the enemy's charge speed. When they finally stepped on the deep and shallow snow pits to a distance of 100 steps, the infantry team pulled the trigger of the air rifle.

In an instant, countless small snow pillars splashed on the ground - unlike the flintlock rifle that reloads once after firing a shot, the air rifle can fire continuously before the gas tank is exhausted, which makes the firepower density of more than 70 guns much higher than that of the musket formation of 300 or 400 people, and the enemies rushing in front fell down instantly!

Since the sound of the air rifle was very low, the attackers had no idea what kind of attack they were facing. They could only see the people around them falling one by one, with blood flowing out of their bodies, while the opponents were just hiding behind the square shields and "looking" at this side from time to time.

The morale that was finally raised began to disappear rapidly again - because they had never seen it before, they didn't even know how to deal with it. Everyone straightened their chests, hoping to speed up and get in front of the Jinxia people, but the closer they got to the black giant, the more people fell.

Obviously, they were close enough to see the opponent's expression, but the last distance could not be crossed anyway, as if there was an invisible barrier between the two sides, and anyone who stepped into it would suffer an inexplicable death.

What destroyed their last bit of courage was the raised shield. This time, the muzzle almost spewed out scorching flames in front of them!

The private soldiers dropped their weapons and turned around and fled in fear.

Ning Wanjun then issued the last order -

"Infantry, follow me into the city!"

Suzaku suddenly stood up and took a big step towards the deserters!