Chapter 939 It's Not an Incendiary Bomb, It's a Grenade

In the land of Shu, which stretches for thousands of miles, there are undulating mountains and hills, and the peaks are patchwork. The ridges lie like giant beasts among the mountains, enclosing basins one after another.

The land of Shu in the game is more majestic than in reality. Mountains and hazes are connected one by one, strange peaks are independent, walls stand thousands of feet, ravines are vertical and horizontal, rivers come out of mountain streams, and pass by Rao Mountain, like dragons coming out of water, with endless turbulence.

Between the mountains and the haze are majestic passes, like war bunkers, silently guarding the mountain roads and valley gates like mountain gods, and guarding hundreds of large and small basins through continuous ridges.

Every basin is a city.

With the ridge as the city wall, the gates as the gates, the planning of the city in Shudi should be unique in the world. Looking at the world, there is no such tall and majestic city wall, let alone such an indestructible city gate.

More than half of the cities in the basin do not have city walls, and the entire basin is a huge city.

The Swordsman City is located, and it is the largest gateway in the south of the Central Sichuan Basin.

The Longxiang army sent troops to Shu and attacked Jiangyang County this time, with the purpose of crossing countless high mountains, wading through countless river valleys, climbing over cliffs, and conquering the seemingly impossible checkpoints.

Coupled with the rugged mountain roads, the insurmountable chasm, and the difficulty in supply transportation, it may be very difficult for the Longxiang Army to complete the task of capturing Swordsman City with only conventional combat methods.

Therefore, this time the Longxiang Army has prepared four secret combat weapons, mimic aircraft, P2 artillery, detachable siege vehicles and special operations ziplines.

The mimetic aircraft can ignore the combat characteristics of the terrain, and it is the nemesis of the Shu land. The hundred aircraft parked at the airport in the northern suburbs of Steel City were gathered with all the power of the dynasty, and they are also the core weapons for this time to attack the checkpoint.

The P2 artillery is a light artillery improved on the basis of the P1 artillery based on the characteristics of mountain operations by the Industrial Administration. It weighs only half of the P1 artillery, which greatly reduces the difficulty of transportation.

Of course, the P2 artillery is smaller in size, and its range and firepower have also been weakened to a certain extent. Although it is not enough to blast the city wall of the gate, it is more than enough to bombard the city gate.

The detachable siege vehicle is a new type of siege vehicle jointly developed by Gewuyuan, led by Mozi, and the War Preparedness Administration. It can be disassembled into piles of parts during the march, and quickly assembled on the battlefield.

When Ouyang Shuo saw it, he couldn't help admiring it.

The Gewu Academy led by Mozi is rebuilding a series of siege equipment. In addition to the siege vehicles, there are also siege equipment such as mobile arrow towers and siege vertebrae, all of which are being upgraded.

Finally, there is the special operations zipline developed by the Industry Department, which is specially designed for the terrain of Sichuan. With the assistance of the mimetic aircraft, the zipline can allow soldiers and materials to cross the natural moat with ease.

These four secret weapons are the trump cards for Long Xiang's army to attack Shu.

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September 5th, Hengshan Pass.

Hengshan Pass is located in the southeast corner of Jiangyang County. It is the southeast gateway of Jiangyang County. The basin behind the pass is Hengshan City, the seat of Hengshan Prefecture in Jiangyang County.

There are 5,000 elite soldiers stationed in the checkpoint, from the Second Army of Swordsman City.

After three days of difficult marching, Luo Shixin, the right vanguard, led the forward troops of the Fourth Army of the Longchamp Army, and finally reached the first important checkpoint on the marching road.

Arriving with the forward troops, there were also four P2 cannons, ten detachable siege vehicles, fifteen three-bow and eight-ox bed crossbows, and fifteen mobile arrow towers.

It was precisely because of the need to transport these siege equipment that these days were delayed.

Luo Shixin rode his horse to the front of the pass, but saw steep cliffs on both sides, which were difficult for flying birds, and a narrow mountain road was opened in the middle. A majestic pass lies in front of the mountain road, blocking all sight.

Battle flags fluttered on the checkpoint, and soldiers patrolled back and forth.

What's more difficult is that the mountain road is not flat, the higher you go, the higher the terrain, like a steep hillside, the checkpoint stands at the top of the hillside, almost halfway up the mountain.

The terrain is so dangerous that it is indeed easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Hengshan Pass is not a solitary checkpoint. On the nearby mountain road and on the mountainside, there are checkpoints one by one, either open or dark, forming a complete defense system with the main checkpoint.

As early as yesterday, the checkpoint in front of Hengshan Pass had discovered the whereabouts of Luo Shixin's troops. The scouts of the two troops had fought several times, and each had casualties.

Before Luo Shixin's troops arrived at Hengshan Pass, the checkpoints along the way were cleared.

Just like this, Hengshan Pass has long been ready for battle.

When Luo Shixin saw it, he was not in a hurry, and ordered the troops to rest on the spot, while the accompanying engineers began to assemble the various equipment they brought, and arranged them in place one by one.

As a forward force, in order to reduce the baggage and speed up the march, the food and grass are replaced with military grain pellets, so the army does not need to light a fire to cook, which is very light.

For this war, the War Preparedness Department spent a lot of money and took out all the military rations that had been accumulated for more than half a year to support the front line.

At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, all kinds of siege equipment had already been assembled, but Luo Shixin did not give the order to attack.

Luo Shixin is waiting.

After another half an hour, there was a sudden roar in the air, and twenty-five mimic aircraft flew across the blue sky and flew over the Hengshan Pass.

Of the 100 aircraft parked at the airport in the northern suburbs of Steel City, 50 aircraft were deployed from the left and right armies. In order to improve the endurance combat capability, the fifty aircraft were divided into two and fought alternately.

At the head of the Hengshan Pass, looking at the aircraft flying in the distance, the general guarding the pass focused his eyes, "Sure enough, it's here!"

Everyone is no longer unfamiliar with the Daxia aircraft.

With the lessons learned from the fall of the steel city, the Jianxia City checkpoint building has long since abandoned wooden structures, and instead used bricks and stones to prevent the incendiary bombs dropped by the Daxia aircraft.

Seeing the aircraft coming, the general guarding the gate wasn't too nervous, he deliberately smiled and said to the left and right: "Big Xia only has this little trick, the donkey is poor."

"Haha~~~"

The soldiers around laughed wantonly. According to such a powerful pass, they were not too worried. In the words of the general guarding the pass, "The troops that can conquer Hengshan Pass have not yet been born!"

It's a pity that they were presumptuous too early.

As the saying goes: Dao is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high.

Twenty-five aircraft formed a battle formation, came to the sky above Hengshan Pass, and dropped bombs one after another.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Bombs exploded on the city wall, and flesh and blood flew across the city instantly. This time, the aircraft dropped grenades instead of incendiary bombs.

Hand grenades are not unique to modern warfare. During the Ming Dynasty, there were grenades made by indigenous methods. Because of the indigenous methods, the explosive power was limited, and they were basically only used in defense battles, and were not used on a large scale in the army.

But when the grenade collides with the mimetic aircraft, it can produce the effect that one plus one is greater than two.

Although the power of grenades made by local methods is not comparable to that of grenades in modern warfare, they are definitely a weapon for killing enemies in ancient battlefields dominated by cold weapons.

In addition to a pilot, a mimetic aircraft sits behind a grenadier who is responsible for throwing grenades. Except for the two people sitting in the narrow cabin, the rest of the space is used to load grenades.

Although the mimetic aircraft is not comparable to fighter jets in terms of speed, flexibility, and combat capability, there is one of the most buggy existences, which is its energy system.

A small magnetic stone can replace the oil, and no oil tank is used at all, thus greatly saving space. The fuselage of the aircraft uses engraving technology, and there is no electronic equipment, which expands the space even more.

In this way, a mimetic aircraft can carry more than one hundred grenades.

The specially trained grenadiers accurately dropped grenades from high altitude, causing huge damage. For a while, Hengshan Pass suffered heavy casualties.

The sudden change made the guarding troops even more confused, and they couldn't laugh anymore.

"attack!"

Seeing the timing, Luo Shixin gave the order for the whole army to attack.

"kill!"

Luo Shixin, who had already been ready to go, was ordered to push a siege vehicle, a mobile arrow tower, a three-bow and eight-ox bed crossbow, and a P2 artillery to kill Hengshan Pass.

The mobile arrow tower provides high cover, and the three-bow and eight-ox bed crossbow fires rows of trampling arrows, which are densely stared at the city wall. The P2 artillery is specially responsible for bombarding the city gate.

The siege engine took advantage of the opportunity of the air strike and smoothly approached the top of the city, locking it firmly like an octopus.

Hundreds of soldiers came out of the siege vehicles, without using shields, or climbing ladders, or stepping on the arrows, one by one bravely boarded the city wall.

In less than half an hour, the soldiers of the Longxiang Army fought with the defenders at the top of the city.

With the help of advanced weapons and equipment, the seemingly impossible task of siege has become so simple, which is really surprising.

The soldiers of the Longxiang Army didn't care about this much, they were more fierce than anyone else when they fought.

As the saying goes: a raging soldier, a raging nest. The general's traits can often affect the traits of the troops under his command. The Long Xiang army led by Bai Qi is devouring blood abnormally, like a group of howling wolf cubs, who bite everyone they see!

The guards at Hengshan Pass who were killed retreated steadily, in a panic.

"Boom!"

At this moment, under the continuous bombardment of the artillery, the gate of Hengshan Pass finally turned into ruins, and fell to the ground with a crash, revealing a huge hole.

Seeing this, Luo Shixin issued an order for a general attack.

"Army attack!"

With that said, Luo Shixin patted his horse and committed suicide.

"kill!"

Nearly ten thousand dragon troops stepped through the broken city gate like fierce tigers, entered the pass, and fought with the enemy.

There was no suspense in the ensuing battle. In less than two hours, the 5,000 defenders of Hengshan Pass were defeated, more than 2,000 people died in battle, and the rest surrendered.

After taking down Hengshan Pass, there is Yimapingchuan in front of you.

Luo Shixin didn't stop at all, he greeted him, and personally led his troops into Hengshan City.

Without a city wall and without decent defenders, how could Hengshan City be able to withstand this army of tigers and wolves? Before sunset, it fell completely and turned into the territory of Great Xia.

The accompanying mimetic aircraft did not return, and stopped at Hengshan City.

On this day, Luo Shixin made a good start for this epic battle.