Chapter 485 The War Finally Breaks Out

Seven or eight sloops have hoisted their sails and left the shore, ready to intercept the ice ships from Jinxia City.

Bonfires and hot oil were also lit near the camp. If the enemy dared to continue approaching, they would be greeted by a barrage of rockets.

As for the small boats, no one paid any attention to them.

Everyone knew that even if the boats were filled with oil, the threat to the army was extremely low - the sides of the boats were made of wood that had been soaked in water for a long time, so how could they be easily ignited? This was enough time for the boatmen to use poles to push the boats away. Even if one or two of them really caught fire, the other boats could quickly distance themselves before being affected.

Another point was that the speed of these small boats was too fast. They had already entered the fleet on the shore just after the intercepting sailboats left the shore.

"Bring the poles!"

"Be careful of accidental discharge!"

The boatmen reminded each other, and the shore seemed very lively for a while.

But the expected flames did not appear.

The boat was still trying to move forward. Even though it was stuck on the side of the big ship, the foam behind it did not subside.

"What is this thing for?"

"It seems to be an ordinary wooden shuttle..."

"Ordinary wooden shuttles will not move by themselves. Why don't you pick one up and see."

At this time, the foam was rolling less and less.

The power of the clockwork has reached its end.

Some soldiers really took out the fishing net and planned to pick it up to see what was going on. At this time, the propeller stopped turning. The chain trigger was triggered, and a cluster of high-temperature sparks quietly appeared, igniting all the charges inside the hull.

In an instant, a series of violent explosions occurred on the river bank, and groups of flames and wave columns rushed into the sky. The wild airflow stirred up layers of shock waves on the water surface, and at the same time tore the surrounding ships to pieces!

For a moment, everyone noticed the changes on the shore of the camp.

Not only the main force of the central army, but also the pursuing cavalry team became a little panicked.

Could it be that this alchemist pretending to be Qian was just a cover, and the enemy's real purpose was to attack from the east while making a feint to the west? The food and supplies of the camp were stored along the river. If the river bank was not protected, the situation in the rear would be precarious.

Some people had subconsciously slowed down their pursuit.

Qianyan, who was three miles away, used the ice platform to climb a big tree and placed the electromagnetic gun steadily between the branches of the tree canopy. She was one of the first people in Jinxia City to master the method of activating the streamer, and her progress was only slightly slower than Mo Yun and Li. After living for hundreds of years, she thought that the days ahead would be spent in dullness and loneliness, but she didn't expect that Jinxia City would make her enthusiastic about learning new things again.

Qianyan would study everything she had never seen before, regardless of whether it was useful or not.

After all, what she lacked the most was time.

Through the first-generation scope transformed from a telescope, Qianyan saw Qian galloping on his horse and the Taoist priest chasing behind him. She pushed the bullet into the gun chamber, held her breath, and put the crosshairs on the Taoist priest closest to Yuyi.

According to Xia Fan, compared with the killing range of more than five miles of the new gun, its shooting accuracy is a problem that cannot be solved for the time being - each barrel can only guarantee the first ten shots to be accurate enough, and then it will be lower and lower. Of course, the first ten shots also have the problem of gradual decline, and each time the barrel is replaced, two or three test shots are required to calibrate the scope. Therefore, the actual recommended combat distance is about one mile, and if there is no special need, it is best to aim and shoot directly with the naked eye.

Qianyan can naturally see that Xia Fan is worried about the loss of the barrel - once equipped with a scope, everyone will want to shoot as far as possible, and test shooting and debugging are inevitable processes, which is equivalent to further shortening the life of the barrel. On the other hand, if you only use machine aiming, you don't need to test fire within a mile, and the accuracy of hitting until the barrel is scrapped can be barely acceptable, which is considered to be the way to maximize the use of weapons.

But Qianyan disagrees with this.

Since the characteristics of this weapon are its amazing range and power, it should be used to the limit. As for whether it will cause headaches for the Machinery Bureau, that is not a problem she should consider.

At the moment when the Taoist priest took out the talisman, Qianyan pulled the trigger.

The gun body suddenly shook.

There was only a sharp roar, and the head of the horse chasing in the front suddenly exploded, followed by the Taoist priest riding on the horse - his chest was swept by the rolling bullets, and a large ball of red mixture suddenly spurted out of his back!

Others were horrified!

What kind of magic is this?

From their perspective, the colleague seemed to have suddenly exploded from the inside, and the hole opened on his back was half the size of a basin. This kind of injury can't be saved by the magician, not to mention the magician!

However, the pursued person did not even turn his head, how did he cast a spell on the person behind him?

The same situation happened to the second person at this time -

The part that exploded this time was the waist, and the person who cast the spell instantly lost half of his body, flew off the horse, and his organs in his stomach flowed all over the ground.

There was no sign, and it was difficult to distinguish the type of spell, and there was no way to deal with it. The horror quickly turned into fear. Almost without anyone reminding them, everyone had already distanced themselves from Qian, and they were also dispersed further from each other.

But in the triple magnification scope, these actions were almost like stillness. As long as they were still following Qian, Qianyan did not need to spend much energy to adjust the direction.

She wrapped the barrel of the gun with ice and fired continuously. The enemies fell to the ground one after another, or even killed their mounts. Until this moment, the enemies had not discovered her hiding in the tree canopy.

When the eighth person fell, Qian's back had become a death-like existence in the hearts of the pursuers. Finally, someone was overwhelmed by fear and fled back with a pale face. This action was quickly passed on to others. Everyone turned their horses around and fled, hoping to get as far away from Qian as possible. Even the most determined Taoist priests would feel genuinely terrified when faced with such an irresistible death magic.

Seeing the mixed team fleeing in all directions, the generals of the heavy cavalry unit also had doubts in their hearts.

Their mission was to assist the Taoist priests in capturing the Golden Cloud Sensing Person. Now that the Taoist priests have withdrawn, do they still need to rush forward and continue to besiege the other party? What if this person is really a bait, proficient in the art of escape, and leads them into a trap? The general looked back at the billowing black smoke rising from the camp behind him, and finally issued an order to stop the pursuit and return to the camp.

In fact, even if they continued to pursue, it was too late to complete the blockade before Qian boarded the ship.

The moment they received Qian's order, the elves ambushed in the jungle on the shore immediately retreated to the ship and evacuated at full speed towards Jinxia. With the triple blessing of the celestial telescope, the green shuttle tentacles and the downstream sailing, any sailing boat can only sigh in front of these ice boats.

At the same time, the news of the failure of the meeting with the Privy Council army also spread rapidly throughout the land of Shenzhou through radio waves.