Hall City is a small city on the border of Shazsuba. The entire city has a population of no more than 10,000 and covers an area of just over 3,000 acres. It takes less than two quarters of an hour to walk from south to north. It is a veritable small city.
As soon as Guan Ning led the army arrived, the whole Hall City knew about it. At least half of the only 6,000 young men in the city were on the city wall.
The army stopped about a mile away from Hall City. Looking at the small city in front of him, Guan Ning felt a toothache.
It's not that he thinks this city is dangerous, but he is wondering if it would be too wasteful to use secret weapons to attack this city?
But if you think about it carefully, it's not the case.
My main purpose this time is to intimidate, and the waste should be put behind. The most important thing is to let the whole body see how powerful they are.
After careful consideration, Guan Ning immediately decided to use it!
Even this small town should use it to give them a little shock!
Immediately, Guan Ning called his men and said: "Go, notify us and prepare our secret weapon!
First let the catapult use stones to adjust its direction target, and then change to the secret weapon when it finds a suitable direction target.
Remember, the secret weapons we brought out this time are limited, don’t waste it on me! "
"Yes! I will understand!"
The general took the order and left, and soon a dozen catapults were pulled up from the rear of the army and pushed forward to a distance of less than 200 steps below the Hall City.
Immediately afterwards, these people started to adjust the catapult directly in front of the people of Hall City.
The debugging method is very simple. Huge boulders are loaded onto a catapult and then thrown out.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen boulders roared and hit the city wall of Hall City, causing the defenders in the city to panic, running around to avoid the threat posed by the boulders.
Not only Guan Ning and his 50,000 people came over for this expedition, but the eldest prince also sent an observation group of about 200 people to accompany the army, perhaps for observation and learning, or for some other purpose.
Now when they saw that Tianyun Kingdom's army only used catapults to attack Hall City, and the other troops did not make any move, they immediately started talking.
"Are the Tianyun people stupid these days? Why do they attack with catapults? If it were me, I would definitely order the infantry to attack the city while the catapults make the opponent panic.
Although the catapult is powerful, its lethality is ultimately limited, and it cannot be relied upon alone to complete a siege. "
"Who knows what they are thinking, but something is wrong. If they only have this level, how could they beat us like this? I heard that they took ten days to capture the entire Youle County. city!
With such siege power and speed, it shouldn't take much effort to defeat a Hall city! "
"Let's take a look, look again, maybe there is some profound meaning behind their actions."
The observation group was talking a lot, but the expeditionary force remained unmoved and continued to attack the city steadily according to the previously planned plan.
Soon, after three rounds of accuracy, the catapult finally locked the target.
At this time, the city head of Hall City had also been hit by three rounds of projectiles that were aimed at the target, causing heavy casualties!
The length of the entire city wall is no more than four miles and the width is no more than two feet. There are more than 6,000 young men guarding the four sides of the city. There are more than 1,500 young men guarding one side of the city wall. You can imagine how crowded it is.
As soon as the huge stone from the catapult fell, more than a thousand people couldn't even run on the city wall, and they could only be smashed.
After three rounds of accuracy, the city wall was quite empty, but it was achieved at the cost of hundreds of casualties.
When the catapult successfully hit its target, it stopped attacking for a moment, and the young men guarding the city on the top of the city breathed a sigh of relief.
However, their tone of relief was really too early.
The expeditionary force's catapults stopped to replace their ammunition.
In just a quarter of an hour, the new "ammunition" was prepared. When the catapult commander released it, several square package-shaped objects were catapulted far away towards the city head and city of Hall. It was ejected from the door!
Seeing something being thrown at them again, the defenders of Hall City, who had already encountered three rounds of projectiles, had gained experience, and they all moved slightly away from the impact point of the thing.
In their opinion, this should be enough. After all, as long as those rocks don't bounce up, they just need to avoid where they land.
It was too crowded before and there was no place to hide, but now there is a place.
What was thrown by the catapult fell down quickly. A square package wrapped in oil paper and linen fell down and landed next to the previous boulder.
The defenders of Hall City who were hiding looked at this strange thing that fell and wondered what it was?
Why did the enemy throw such a thing? When everyone came up, they heard a sizzling sound.
"Alisha, did you hear anything?"
Among the defenders, one person suddenly asked his companion beside him in confusion.
The companion named Arisa nodded and replied:
"I heard it. The sound seemed to come from that strange thing that fell."
While the two were wondering, they did not realize that the square linen bag that they regarded as a strange thing had a lead that was burned to the end on the inside.
Just when the defenders were still confused, they heard a loud explosion!
The next moment, they no longer had the chance to doubt!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
More than a dozen deafening roars sounded at the walls and gates of Hall City, and the terrifying fire was like a demon devouring human life, swallowing up a group of Hall defenders who were ignorant of the danger!
Let them directly enter the next stage of their life journey!
That's right!
The secret weapon Zhao Jun handed over to the expeditionary force was gunpowder!
After continuous experiments, under the guidance of Zhao Jun, Yunzhou County finally produced black powder!
Although it is only the simplest black powder, it is completely enough to be used on the battlefield.
One gunpowder bag contains nearly twenty kilograms, or about ten thousand grams, of black powder. After being ignited, it is enough to clear an area with a radius of more than ten meters!
And Hall City became the first city to experience the power of black gunpowder!
The roaring sound continued all day long as the catapults continued to be thrown. The walls of Hall City kept hearing deafening roars. Even the gate of Hall City, which was only a secondary target, was already in the second place. The round shot was already blown to pieces, and the city gate was already wide open!
But the catapult man seemed to be having fun. Even though the city gate had been opened, he still did not stop what he was doing. Instead, he re-aimed the catapult that was originally aimed at the city gate, and then they all headed towards the city. Fire!
Amidst the continuous explosions, the defenders at the top of Hall City were frightened and fled everywhere, crying for their fathers and mothers, but there were falling powder packets everywhere, and they had no place to escape.
The falling gunpowder packets quickly cleared the defenders on the city, and this scene was clearly seen by the observation group in the expeditionary force.
The observation group, who had never seen such a scene before, had long stopped their discussion and looked at the hellish scene at the top of Hall City with shock on their faces. They all froze on the spot!
And this was exactly what Guan Ning wanted them to see.
However, after seeing that the city gates had been blown open and that the bastards in front were still pouring explosives on the city, Guan Ning suddenly jumped in anger!
"What a shame! Didn't I tell them that the quantity of gunpowder is limited! Let them save some!"
spendthrift! What a prodigal! Someone come! Someone come quickly!
Stop them quickly! If I don't stop them, these bastards will probably throw out all my powder packets!
What a fuck! They are all a bunch of thrifty things that don’t understand! "
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(End of chapter)
