If the defenders of Songming City could use their crossbows to shoot at a range of one kilometer, then once Mu Ying's bombardment of Songming City angered the defenders, the subsequent attack on the Ming army would probably be fatal!
But Fei Ju is now a lowly person with little influence, and Mu Ying has the final say in the army. He only has the right to make suggestions, but not the power to make decisions. Especially in today's operation, it is entirely Mu Ying's one-man show. Even if Fei Ju wanted to dissuade him, it would be of no avail.
"Boom boom..." Two consecutive cannon shots were heard, and the magic gun carriage cannon fired. Two solid bullets flew high towards the Songming city wall. In the blink of an eye, the shells were about to hit the city wall.
Almost at the same time, with Mu Ying's order, hundreds of thousands of troops slowly approached Songming City.
According to Mu Ying's standard combat habits, the shieldmen were in front, the firearms battalion was in the back, the archers were next, and the rest of the people were at the end. They were arranged in this echelon and pressed towards Songming City.
Even though there were no practical siege weapons, Mu Ying was still confident that with his two magic guns and cannons, he could flatten the entire Songming city by simply blowing a hole in the wall.
After all, Mu Ying had experienced this kind of thing too many times in his military career, so his troops executed orders very thoroughly and cooperated with each other well during the advance. At a glance, it was clear that they were definitely elite troops who had cooperated on the battlefield for many years.
But compared to Mu Ying's confidence, Zhu Chong in the Victory Tower, when he heard the sound of cannons and saw Mu Ying's army slowly approaching Songming City, he was so angry that he laughed.
"Mu Ying is truly confident. He actually thinks he can break into my Songming City with just those two broken copper pipes."
"My lord, would you please give me another warning?" Li Xiuning bowed and looked at Zhu Chong, his eyes full of eagerness.
Although most of the defenders of Songming City are now equipped with Ma Jun crossbows, Li Xiuning still trained his own women's army in a very short period of time. Together with the Guanning Iron Cavalry trained by Yuan Chenghuan, they are known as the ace army of Songming City.
But this ace army was named by the people of Songming City themselves. In fact, neither the Guanning Iron Cavalry nor the Women's Army had truly experienced the baptism of war, so facing this opportunity, Li Xiuning really wanted to test the quality of her own Women's Army.
"Looking at Mu Ying's posture, you don't really think he's here to attack the city, do you?" Zhu Chong sneered and waved his hand at Li Xiuning, saying, "It would be too much of an oversight to show them our best troops now."
"Yu Jin!" Zhu Chong shouted an order. Yu Jin, who had been ready to fight for a long time, immediately knelt down in front of Zhu Chong with his hands clasped.
"Wait until the people outside have finished firing, then all crossbows will fire at once until all the arrows in the quiver are empty. If Mu Ying still dares to advance, fire indiscriminately and kill them all!"
Upon hearing Zhu Chong's order, Yu Jin immediately rushed towards the main city wall with excitement on his face. Li Xiuning, Yuan Chenghuan and others could only watch Yu Jin leave with envy and jealousy.
Following Yu Jin's order, countless large crossbows on the main city wall loaded their quivers at the fastest speed.
After being modified by Zhao Shizhen, the Ma Jun crossbow, after being enlarged and equipped with additional parts, has a range of a terrifying 1,500 steps, or about 2,500 meters. This is the effective range, and the actual coverage area can reach within 3,000 meters.
So this time Mu Ying ran into the muzzle of a gun, and became Zhu Chong's test weapon for the effect of the modified Ma Jun crossbow.
The bombardment outside the city continued, and solid iron bullets continuously hit the city walls, making bursts of dull sounds.
However, apart from being able to smash some uneven cement on the city wall, these solid shells could not cause any effective damage to the city wall, and not even a trace of cracks could be seen.
Due to the long distance, Mu Ying and others could not see the situation of the Songming city wall clearly. They could only see that their cannons fired solid shells, which smashed the Songming city wall into pieces and filled the sky with smoke and dust.
Mu Ying was still full of confidence at this time. He believed that when the smoke and dust cleared, a huge hole would appear in the thick city wall of Songming City, waiting for him to trample on it.
But when the smoke and dust cleared, Mu Ying looked forward with hope, but the imagined hole did not appear. The tall walls of Songming City still stood before him.
"How could this happen?" Mu Ying widened his eyes in shock and looked at the city wall in disbelief. Something unexpected had happened, which made him feel a little at a loss.
"The enemy is attacking, raise your shields, quickly!" Suddenly, just when Mu Ying was in a daze, Fei Ju's shrill shout resounded throughout the entire army.
Mu Ying was finally awakened. He looked up subconsciously and saw a layer of black clouds rising into the sky above his head, and then falling rapidly towards him. Then his eyes went dark, and the giant shield bearers of the Ming army had already blocked Mu Ying's eyes with the giant shield.
"Why are you panicking? What are you afraid of? Fire, keep firing, and blow those bastards to death!" A flush crossed Mu Ying's face. He was very dissatisfied with Fei Ju for commanding his men to act without his consent.
However, the following scene shattered his forced composure in an instant, and the same happened to Fei Ju beside him.
"Raise shields, form a formation, and retreat!" Mu Ying made what he thought was the most correct choice in the shortest time.
But in fact, whether he made the right choice or not was no longer important. Seeing such a long and thick crossbow falling from the sky, all the Ming army soldiers had spontaneously formed a formation, raising their shields to form large and small shield formations to resist the impending crossbow.
But even so, the Ming army soldiers in the formation all had pale faces and tried their best to retreat.
It was not to execute the order Mu Ying had issued, but to quickly escape from the crossbow coverage.
All those present were veterans of hundreds of battles. As soon as they saw the crossbows and the density of the covering crossbows, they knew how powerful the opponent was.
When they saw dark clouds rising in the sky one after another, all the Ming soldiers were actually panicked.
The opponent's giant crossbow is actually a repeating crossbow, and it is unknown how many crossbows it can fire at one time.
When they thought of this, no one could help but panic, so they retreated even faster.
At this moment, the first wave of crossbows finally fell on the Ming army. The sharp crossbows easily pierced through ordinary shields and nailed the people behind the shields to the ground. Even the huge shields cracked after being hit one after another.
Seeing the cracks appear, all the people hiding behind the shields saw their comrades nailed to the ground, and then saw that the huge shields in front of them could not withstand the attack of the crossbow. They were instantly scared out of their wits and retreated quickly.
Mu Ying finally felt fear. The confidence he had when he came was shattered by the crossbows that came from the sky. His plan to intimidate Songming City completely failed. On the contrary, his troops suffered a devastating blow from Songming City.
All of this was something Mu Ying had never thought of before he came.
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