Chapter 764: End of the World

When the Qingming army arrived under Hanyang Pass, the reactions of the Zhao generals on the pass tower were different.

Several generals saw that there were few Qingming people, so they sneered, saying that this number of people wanted to take down Hanyang Pass guarded by 150,000 troops, which was wishful thinking.

But there were also steady generals who said that although the number of Qingming troops was small, they were well-equipped and could not be underestimated.

However, the words of several old generals were not recognized, and some generals said, Qingming is well-equipped, are we worse? This time the Princess brought secret firearms, just to give Little Wei Yuan a head-on blow.

Once this was said, several older generals had nothing to say, and could only arrange the city defense according to their duties.

In the Qingming army, Little Wei Yuan rose to the sky, looking at Hanyang Pass fifteen miles away. With his current eyesight, he didn't need the telescopes and the like from the outer world, and he could see the details on the pass clearly.

After carefully looking at the military aura on the pass city for a while, Little Wei Yuan turned back to the generals and said: "Looking at the Zhao army's military aura, it is nothing more than this. Facing my Qingming army, they still dare to divide their troops, presumably there is another reliance. You tell me, where will the Zhao army's confidence be?"

The generals had their own insights, and there were merits, but most of them did not speak to Little Wei Yuan's heart.

Only a Assistant Regional Commander who looked quite young and had a scholarly air said: "The Zhao army should be prepared this time, perhaps they brought firearms that they think surpass ours. I see that the number of flying sword guns is not particularly large, and the cultivation of the soldiers has no special features, so they should have secretly brought a large number of cannons, wanting to borrow the advantage of the pass city to bombard my siege army."

Once this was said, some young generals disagreed, saying: "Just because of his Zhao country, he still wants to compare firearms with us?"

The scholarly Assistant Regional Commander said: "The Zhao country values martial arts, has always attached importance to military equipment, has a large number of craftsmen, and has many great craftsmen with Dharma Form cultivation. Children understand the principles of cannons, and the craftsmanship is not complicated. As long as you load more medicine, the range will be far and the power will be great. As for the material of the cannon body, it is not difficult to get high-quality cannon barrels by having Dharma Form high-level cultivators refine impurities and adjust physical properties, but the quantity is not large.

So it is not difficult for the Zhao country to build cannons that exceed our infantry cannons. Then gather the strength of the whole country, accumulate for a period of time, and the quantity will not be too small."

Little Wei Yuan was finally moved and asked: "This insight is quite extraordinary. What is your name?"

The young Assistant Regional Commander said in a deep voice: "The end general Lu Yu, originally followed Immortal Yu Zhizhuo, served as a named disciple, and later joined the army, experiencing two rounds of school training. When we opened the class, the Realm Lord also came to give a speech."

Little Wei Yuan recalled carefully and finally found Lu Yu's information. This person came from a small family, and later the family was slaughtered by the Shaman tribe, and he escaped alone. Since then, he joined the second-rank cave heaven, cultivated into the heaven-rank Dao Foundation, his aptitude was quite good, and he was accepted as a named disciple by Yu Zhizhuo after joining Qingming.

Little Wei Yuan had to search from Human Fireworks to know these things, so he felt a chill in his heart and felt that he was still a bit negligent. In the future, when graduating from the Qingming Military Academy and higher colleges, he must attend in person and remember the information of all graduates. For Dharma Form, this is not difficult, it just depends on whether he is attentive.

In the future, when Little Wei Yuan wants to show respect for the virtuous and corporal, as long as he opens his mouth to call the other party's name and say which period of Qingming he came from, the effect will be much better than ordinary rewards.

The Zhao generals on the pass city watched Little Wei Yuan unfold the military formation in an orderly manner and set up camp on the spot, and the red-clothed female general raised her hand and pointed forward, saying: "Ten thousand light cavalry go out of the pass to test the quality of the other party."

After a while, the city gate of the pass city opened wide, and ten thousand light cavalry rushed out of the city, heading towards Little Wei Yuan's camp. Qingming was setting up the camp wall at this moment, so he sent ten thousand breastplate infantry out of the camp to line up.

The light cavalry was still a hundred feet away from the infantry formation, and the breastplate cavalry had already fired their guns one after another. The bullets whistled, and immediately knocked down a piece of cavalry.

Although the Zhao light cavalry also had firearms in their hands, the range was far from reaching a hundred feet, and they were suddenly a bit chaotic.

Some cavalry fired guns indiscriminately, how could they hit people from so far away? Some veterans habitually went to copy bows and crossbows, but touched an empty space. There were no bows and crossbows in their weapon equipment list.

The cavalry commander saw that the situation was not good, and immediately ordered the army to charge.

The Qingming breastplate infantry formation was not chaotic at all, just constantly reloading and shooting, reloading and shooting, knocking down the Zhao cavalry in pieces. When the Zhao cavalry rushed to thirty feet, the infantry formation suddenly pushed out a dozen flying sword cannons, and the terrifying rate of fire cut down the Zhao army like cutting grass!

The cavalry commander saw that the situation was unfavorable, so he had to order a retreat and return to the pass. In a short confrontation, more than two thousand corpses were left on the battlefield, and the Qingming army's casualties were not even a hundred, and more than a dozen were injured because the new firearms were too powerful and exploded.

The female general who lost the first battle was suddenly murderous, and said word by word: "Raise the cannon!"

There were bursts of shouting in the city, and strong men with bulging muscles were shirtless, carrying cannons with cyan light on the cannon body to the city wall, then placed them in the cannon position, and began to adjust and calibrate.

After a while, with a bang, a cannonball landed a few miles away from the Qingming camp. This shot could hit ten miles, even if it had the advantage of the pass city, it was quite good, and the range was chasing the Shaman tribe Dharma Form divine archers.

After testing the cannon, the red-clothed female general waited patiently for Little Wei Yuan to attack.

Little Wei Yuan was not in a hurry either. After setting up the camp, he rested for three days in one breath, until the follow-up troops arrived and blocked all the roads to the south, then he sounded the war drum and began to advance slowly. The Zhao army on the city was a bit impatient.

But the Qingming army only left the camp for three miles, and two miles away from the Zhao army's cannon's longest range, they stopped moving forward, but began to build fortifications on the spot, and built a artillery position. Subsequently, dozens of freight trucks drove into the position, directly removed the wheels, and were fixed by the strong men with iron piles. After the carriage was opened, inside was a heavy cannon two feet long, with deep blue light flashing all over.

These heavy cannons all adopted rear loading, and there were cultivators next to each cannon holding a form, adjusting the shooting parameters against the current battlefield data. Several Dao Foundation perfection cultivators went back and forth to check.

Hundreds of heavy cannons, busy from morning to noon, finally completed all the preparations before shooting, and reported to Little Wei Yuan that they were ready.

Little Wei Yuan pointed to the pass city and said: "Target, pass city wall, cover shooting."

As soon as he gave the order, the artillerymen loaded the cannonballs into the cannon chamber, and then closed the cannon door. Subsequently, the Dao Foundation cultivator responsible for firing the cannon issued a thunder method, hitting the cannon door, and the heavy cannon immediately roared, the cannonball came out of the chamber, whistling and smashing towards the pass city!

The Zhao generals on the city wall never expected that Little Wei Yuan would fire cannons from twelve miles away!

This range far exceeded the friendly artillery, and Little Wei Yuan's heavy cannons not only had a long range, but also a large caliber, and the power was terrifying. Several Dharma Forms tried to intercept, and after the cannonballs exploded in the air, they were all shaken by the magic power to be unstable, and they were horrified.

Dozens of cannonballs, less than 30% were intercepted, and the remaining majority fell inside and outside the pass city. There were also a few cannonballs that fell directly on the upper end of the city wall. After the explosion, everything within a radius of ten feet was razed to the ground, and even the cannons in the cannon positions on the city wall were blown into scrap iron.

After a round of shelling, the Qingming artillerymen immediately rushed up to retreat the shell casings, clean the cannon chamber, and at the same time reset the cannon, and recalculate the calibration shooting parameters. After such a busy time, another thunderbolt hit the cannon door, and the cannon shot the cannonball weighing dozens of catties to the pass city more than ten miles away.

After three rounds of shooting, the sound of the cannons was not so neat, and it turned into free shooting. Little Wei Yuan still carried out cover shelling on the front city wall of the entire pass city, and was not in a hurry to concentrate fire to bombard the city tower.

Little Wei Yuan had also taken down Hanyang Pass, and naturally knew that the pass city wall was extremely wide, and it could completely accommodate cannons on it. The Zhao army must have pulled all the cannons onto the city wall at this time, and now Little Wei Yuan wanted to use artillery fire to destroy all these cannons.

After more than a dozen rounds of artillery fire, there were no living people on the city wall, and the Zhao army's military aura on the pass city had shown obvious shaking.

After a while, the city gate of the pass city opened wide, and a team of light cavalry rushed out, trying to attack the artillery position, but in the blink of an eye, they were beaten back by Little Wei Yuan with infantry cannons and flying sword cannons.

Inside Hanyang Pass, the generals could no longer stand on the city tower and had to hide in the city. Fortunately, the city wall was extremely strong, and Little Wei Yuan's heavy cannons could not blow it down.

The woman in fire-red armor listened to the continuous sound of cannons and finally couldn't help but shout: "How do they have so many cannonballs?!"

She came prepared this time, and each cannon was equipped with fifty cannonballs, totaling five thousand rounds. This was created by countless craftsmen day and night, and nearly half of the Great Zhao's cannonball production capacity was used here.

And now it was just a face-to-face, Little Wei Yuan smashed thousands of cannonballs over, and there was no sign of stopping at all, as if he could bombard until the end of the world.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 765 =====