Looking at the dark army that was surrounding them, the whole place turned pale for a long time.
"Where are the reinforcements promised by King Dongsheng? How long will it take for them to arrive at Bumi Mansion?"
"It should be quick, sir," the staff officer next to him wiped his sweat. "The front army passed through Shangma City yesterday, and they will definitely arrive before sunset today. But you, you should go back to the camp first and take charge. Once the battle starts, the top of the city wall will be Becoming extremely dangerous”
"This is the harbor." He said solemnly.
"Sir?" The staff officer couldn't understand for a moment.
"You're not a bad person, right?" Yuanjiu Judi said with a cold face, "It's impossible for the enemy to truly besiege this city, but because of this, I must stand in everyone's sight."
This is the ancestral motto of the Yuanjiu family.
A way out that is too easy is also a dead end that ruins everything.
If he left the city wall, the soldiers might not be able to hold on for long, and rumors would spread that he had boarded a ship to escape. By then, morale would collapse, and the city would be handed over to others. Even if he survives and loses all his century-old family property, how can he have the face to meet his ancestors
Sending his child on a sea ship was the limit of what he could do.
"I want to see if the machine beasts in the east are really as difficult to deal with as described." Yuanjiushidi gritted his teeth and said, "Let the artillery crew prepare!"
After all, Bumi Mansion was larger than the cities captured by the enemy before. He did not believe that the opponent could breach the city gate in one day.
When King Dongsheng's cavalry arrives, he can cooperate with the opponent to launch a counterattack and completely annihilate these peasant armies without horses in the countryside.
That's right, they are just a bunch of rough and lowly farmers!
It is simply ridiculous to allow these people to become warriors who gain merit on the battlefield!
What's even more exaggerated is that in the distant past, I heard that Queen Yama was engaged in land redistribution, plundering all the farmland belonging to aristocratic families, and then distributing it to farmers who were willing to cultivate the land, as long as they paid on time. A certain amount of grain is enough. This kind of behavior has undoubtedly crossed the bottom line that the family can accept. Originally, the princes of Dongsheng still had a dispensable feeling towards Queen Yama, and even thought that it would be okay to sideline her and offer her up, but now the other party only has One outcome is that she will be completely thrown into hell, and she will never be reincarnated.
All the nobles and warriors in the Fumi Mansion knew that this enemy army could not be allowed to enter the city under any circumstances!
When the machine beast approached 300 steps of the city, the iron barrel cannon set up on the city wall took the lead in firing.
Accompanied by a series of earth-shaking roars, the iron ball came out of the chest and flew towards the enemy's front line.
However, the opponent suddenly accelerated, changed his previous strategy of steadily advancing, and started galloping forward in three steps and two steps at a time. The artillery is fine for killing densely arranged siege soldiers, but facing such fast-moving targets, it has no accuracy at all. None of the first round of shots hit, and all the projectiles smashed into the soil.
"kill!"
At the same time, high-pitched shouts broke out in the May army.
The sound was overwhelming for a moment, making the defenders on the city wall tremble with fear.
The three-hundred-step distance was broken through in less than a few dozen breaths. The machine beast that rushed forward raised the multi-barreled air rifles on both sides and began to tilt its firepower at the city head!
In an instant, the projectiles hit the brick wall like raindrops, stirring up a hazy dust mist.
"Don't retreat, put on the explosive talisman and fight back!"
The generals on the defending side roared at the top of their lungs, and the soldiers also tried to fight back with crossbows, but they had no experience in resisting fire suppression. As soon as they raised their bodies to prepare to shoot arrows as usual, they were shot down by bullets, and the activated explosive symbols turned upside down. It exploded on the city wall, blasting the surrounding officers and soldiers to pieces!
"Sir, get down quickly, it's not safe here!" the staff officer leaned over and shouted.
"I'm here in the city! No one is allowed to leave!" Yuanjiu Shiji held his samurai sword unmoved, "There is no way I will die in the hands of this rabble!"
"We can't let them continue fighting so recklessly," an adjutant shouted, "Where is the ninja team? It's time for them to take action!"
As soon as the words fell, a dozen figures in black jumped down from the city wall and rushed towards the machine beast like ghosts.
The latter also reacted very quickly and immediately pointed his gun at the ninja.
The hail of bullets knocked over several people in an instant, but some of them still rushed to the machine beast.
These people themselves carry explosive charms.
Several pillars of dazzling fire suddenly shot up into the sky!
The four or five machine beasts seemed to be silent, but when the smoke cleared, Yuanjiu and others were shocked to find that such a rapid explosion only damaged the outer armor of the machine beasts, and the vines arranged in layers inside actually resisted the explosion like a barrier. The impact brought by the talisman!
At this time, the machine beasts of the second phalanx have also arrived. They put up their shields and formed a strong wall with both offense and defense. At this moment, no matter whether it was artillery or explosive arrows, it was difficult for the evil horse army to retreat even half a step.
On the contrary, the artillery of the Evil Horse Army began to bombard. There was no need to measure the ballistic trajectory at a distance of a hundred steps. It was only necessary to aim directly to send the slugs to the top of the city wall. The warheads triggered by this delay are like hand grenades, which explode after landing. Their lethality is more than one level higher than the iron barrel cannon of the Fujifu defenders.
Then the siege type Xuanwu directly crossed the front line and hit the city gate. Although the soldiers above threw hot oil and rocks under a hail of bullets, they were all bounced away by the giant shields and had little to no effect. Xuanwu, on the other hand, used its own weight and a removable city ram to cause the city gate to collapse in just a few hits.
Less than two-quarters of an hour after the war started, a gap appeared in Fu Mifu's defense line.
Yuanjiu was stunned for a long time.
Although he had heard about the defeated bandits in other cities, seeing it with his own eyes was a completely different experience.
This kind of battle that no longer relies on personal bravery and the ability of those who sense Qi is completely beyond his understanding of war.
Those bandits were not bragging about their enemies, the truth was even more shocking than he expected!
Even if you don't want to, now is the time to send out the personal guards.
While he was gritting his teeth and waiting for the order, a loud voice suddenly came from the north of the countryside.
Yuanjiushidi poked his head out from behind the wall and saw a group of dark figures running towards the city.
Reinforcements have finally arrived!
"Is that the reinforcements from King Dongsheng?" Wuyue Yao frowned and raised his lookout glass to look north.
"They are indeed Dongsheng warriors, but they don't look like them." Nagi Hong looked at them for a moment. "Why do you feel like they are running for their lives instead of charging towards our army?"
Indeed, May also noticed this. The terrain here is open, and the enemy has no shortage of horses. No matter what, they should charge with cavalry first.
But these people couldn't even see a horse.
And many soldiers didn't even draw their weapons.
"Wait to go to the sea, to the sea!" Suddenly someone exclaimed, "Lord May, look in the direction of the sea!"
Turn the lookout glass remotely in May.
I saw a dense shadow of sails appearing on the gray sea.