"Explain yourself clearly!" Garen yelled.
"Yes, General." The deputy general who came to report the news replied quickly, "The Assyrian army over at Honggu Bay replaced a large cannon today. The power of that cannon is many times greater than before. The first shot broke the drawbridge and also blocked the door..."
"Asshole! Shut up! I asked you to tell me about the losses! The losses! I didn't ask you to say these useless things!" Garlon grabbed the shoulder armor of the reporting officer and said, "Tell me, have the enemy troops in Honggu Bay broken in?"
The deputy general who reported the news shook his head.
It turns out they haven't broken in yet. Garlon felt relieved, frowned and cursed: "Since the enemy hasn't broken in, just hurry up and repair the gate and block the wall. Why are you panicking?!"
"General... General..." the reporting general replied with a sad face, "Although the enemy didn't break in, they destroyed all our artillery. Now... now we don't have a single artillery left in the direction of Honggu Bay. The gate is wide... wide open. We tried to send people to block it, but as many as we sent, as many died. Now the enemy has pulled up all their artillery and is firing at us in rows, General..."
Garlon's heart sank. Since the direction of the Hongguwan Gate had been suppressed to this extent, the enemy really didn't need to rush to attack. They could just bombard them all the way.
"General, what should we do?" The deputy general in charge of the artillery position was shocked and couldn't help but ask.
"Wait a minute! Let me think about it..." Garlon frowned and pondered. Seeing him like this, everyone fell silent, making the shouts and explosions in the distance even more piercing...
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Wu Lai raised a smile. About three hundred steps ahead, there were two small camps, one on the left and one on the right, sandwiching the horse path. Between the two small camps, there were four fences blocking the horse path. Behind the fences, many figures were moving and deploying defenses, and voices of urging and cursing could be heard faintly.
"Mortar!" Wu Lai raised his right arm.
"Here!" Two mortar gunners had been following Wu Lema closely. When they heard Wu Le's shout, they immediately responded loudly.
"Blow the fence down for me," Wu Lai shouted.
"Yes!" The two mortarmen immediately dismounted, took off the mortars on their backs and ran to the front of the battle. Two more ammunition suppliers quickly followed.
"Shotgun soldiers!" Wu Lai called out again, and the forty shotgun riders behind him immediately responded in unison: "Here we are!"
"As soon as the fence is opened, you rush in with all your might and fight your way out!" Wu Lai ordered. At this moment, a large cloud of black smoke was rising from the end of the horizon more than ten miles away, which meant that the Wolfs were already engaged in a fierce battle. According to the original plan, Wu Lai had to get there as soon as possible and join forces with the Wolfs to launch a pincer attack with the few against the many.
"Yes!" The voices of the forty shotgun riders echoed through the sky...
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"Hurry! Hurry!" Les urged angrily. He was Garlon's confidant. He had just been promoted from a minor general to a deputy general and took over the seventh camp outside the main pass. It had been less than a month since he took office.
"You bastards! Run faster! Run faster!" Les was in a terrible mood. He thought that taking over the Seventh Battalion was a good job, but he didn't expect that the Assyrian army attacked just a few days after the good days. Let them fight, anyway, the day would come sooner or later in the army. Unexpectedly, the usually arrogant Leiden was chopped off by the Assyrian army in a few moves. The eleven stone wall defense lines known as the "Canyon Pass Wall" were like mud in front of the Assyrian army. In this way, his Seventh Battalion was completely exposed to the Assyrian army.
If it was just that, Les would have accepted it. However, just as he finished deploying his defenses according to the new situation, there was a commotion from the main pass, and a series of flag signals urged him to send reinforcements immediately...
The enemy has already reached the main gate wall, what's the use of reinforcements? There are six battalions there, and six battalions can't defend your gate. What's the use of adding my battalion? Les thought angrily when he received the flag signal order. What he couldn't accept the most was that the main gate only asked his seventh battalion to reinforce, and the eighth battalion was not to move.
Do you think I'm easy to bully? Les couldn't help but think so after learning about this situation, but he was just thinking about it. The military order was given by Garlon, so how could he dare to hesitate? So after leaving a small group to guard the camp, Les led his more than 7,000 people to set off in a hurry. Naturally, there were a lot of complaints. You know, most of the soldiers didn't even have breakfast at this time.
"General Les." A lieutenant rode up to Les and said in a low voice, "If we run too fast, the formation will be scattered. What if..."
"What the hell!" Les glared at the lieutenant and cursed, "Do you want to bargain with General Garlon's urgent order? Get to the battle preparation site first and then gather."
The deputy general sighed and nodded, thinking that if they rushed in such a chaotic manner, the generals would not be able to find their soldiers and the soldiers would not be able to find their generals. If something happened, wouldn't it be a mess? After a meal, more than a thousand vanguards of the Les Camp approached the artillery range of Yangtuo Peak.
"It really came. The Lord's move was really amazing." The second captain put down the telescope with a smile and winked at the sleeping wolf beside him.
"Of course." Sleeping Wolf laughed and said, "These idiots will never realize that the people who sent them the flag signals are all our people."
"Yes, this will make things much easier." The second commander nodded, turned around and waved at the gun position, "Prepare for battle!"
"Yes! Get ready to fight!"
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After thinking it over, a cold light flashed across Garlon's eyes, and his voice became surprisingly calm: "Immediately block the gate here, and then, you..."
He pointed to the commander of the artillery position and said, "Aim at the enemy and fire."
"General Garon." The artillery commander was shocked. "At this distance, it is difficult to guarantee that the gun will hit the camp. If it falls outside, then it will be..."
"Fire! Fire all the shells, don't leave any behind." Garlon gave the order in a deep voice, and glanced at the officer who reported the news. "You will be responsible for defending the gate here. All soldiers will go up the wall. Carry as much kerosene, stones, wood, and gunpowder as you can. Open all the armories and distribute all the weapons."
"Yes, General." The two generals responded quickly.
"It's up to you two here. I'll go guard the wall at the entrance of the valley." Garon glanced at the melee outside the wall with a cold face, turned quickly and walked down the steps, led a group of followers to mount their horses and headed straight for the Hongguwan Gate.
The artillery commander glanced at his colleagues and walked silently to the artillery position.
"Take care!" The deputy general who came to report the news and ended up with a big task shouted at his back.
The deputy commander in charge of the artillery position paused, then turned around and waved his hand.
"You too..." When he said this, his heart was filled with helplessness...
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Wu Lai galloped on his horse. There were nearly a thousand people in the two small camps just now, but the two mortar gunners only fired three rounds. The several layers of fences and the more than a hundred people defending behind them were instantly blown into dust and smoke fragments by the artillery fire. Then forty shotgun riders rushed forward and killed and injured nearly a hundred enemies. The remaining guys had no fighting spirit. Those who were nimble turned around and ran for their lives. Those who thought they couldn't escape simply threw away their weapons and squatted on the ground with their hands raised to surrender. Wu Lai was stunned and thought, are all the cowards of the Tianjuan Army gathered here? In fact, these guys can't be called cowards, because the soldiers and horses in the two small camps are not regular troops of the Tianjuan Army, but a special auxiliary army responsible for transportation and repair. They have poor armor and weapons. They are not bad at work but absolutely cowards in fighting. If you can't achieve a bloodless victory against such an army, then there is really no need to attack the Canyon Pass.
"Lord." A battalion commander caught up with Wu Lai from the rear, "There was artillery fire from the direction of Yangtuo Peak. The Second Regiment Commander and his men should have engaged the enemy."
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Wu Lai slowed down the horse's speed and said, "Let's go faster. After turning around this mountain bay and going three miles ahead, we will reach the inner pass of Canyon Pass. I tell you, when we get there, don't stop. Follow me as fast as you can."
"Yes!" The battalion commander was stunned. "Lord, are you going to be the vanguard yourself?"
"Of course! Because I am also a warrior!" Wu Lai said with a smile, and he clamped his legs on the horse's belly. The horse leaped up and galloped again...
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When the spotted wolf caught a glimpse of the large crossbow arrow flying towards it, it let go of the hunter without hesitation, leaned back and rolled away.
With a crisp "clang" sound, the hunter was knocked down by the big crossbow arrow, the crossbow arrow flew away, and several small components were also smashed and flew out.
The spotted wolf frowned, rolled sideways, hugged the hunter's crossbow box, ran forward a few steps, and pounced hard. His body pounced into a fortification like a big bird. At the same time, with a light "swoosh" sound, he flew away almost behind him, and then hit a pile of sandbags with a puff.
"Captain, why are the enemy firing indiscriminately?" A soldier from the special forces company in the fortifications couldn't help but ask after catching the spotted wolf.
"I don't know. Look at these bastards. They even attack their own people." Spotted Wolf gritted his teeth, put the crossbow box at his feet, and said to the special forces soldier, "Get me a Hunter immediately."
"Yes." The special forces soldier agreed, bent his waist, ran a short distance along the trench, flipped over and fell to the ground, crawling forward using his hands and feet.
Spotted Wolf glanced at the west camp gate, then turned to look at the east camp gate. His brows furrowed again because the Tianjuan Army had already started to rush in...
To be more precise, they "rushed" in, because the Tianjuan soldiers in the front rows were obviously not very willing to charge forward. The reason why they were so anxious and reckless was all thanks to Garlon - the cannon on the wall opened fire.
The Tianjuan artillery was not only inferior to the Assyrian artillery in terms of firing rate, range, and accuracy, but also had a different placement method. Although the Assyrian army also had fixed artillery turrets, each artillery piece was equipped with a base with wheels, which was convenient for movement and could reduce the impact of recoil with the help of shock-absorbing springs and large wooden pads.
The artillery of the Tianjuan Army was fixed, which made it difficult to move once they were fixed in place. Of course, no one thought of moving it because it was obviously not something that three or two people could do.
This was one of the important reasons why the cannon on the wall watched its friendly forces circling around the east and west gates of the Wolf Camp but did not dare to fire. Because they could not move, they had no way to adjust the range. In other words, the maximum range of this cannon could only cover the area around the east gate of the Wolf Camp, and whether the shells could pass through the camp gate really depended on luck.
But the area around the east gate was filled with the Tianjuan Army. They were still attacking the camp gate, trying to get through there and rush into the camp. Because there were big fires next to the east and west camp gates, the only way to get into the camp was through the camp gate.
The first shell from the wall landed near the camp gate, making hundreds of friendly soldiers who were gathering there to prepare for a reunion scream in agony. Before the people around them could come to their senses, another shell landed nearby, causing another chaos.
But no one there thought that it would be a cannonball flying from the wall. They subconsciously thought that it was fired from the main camp, because from the beginning to now, the main camp would occasionally bombard them, although the frequency was very low and although the impact point was usually not near the camp gate - bombing there was actually equivalent to clearing the way for the Tianjuan Army.
The two shots made the three or four thousand people gathered in the Dongyingmen area panic, because their activity area was not spacious. In front of them was the Wolf Camp, of course, and more than twenty steps behind them was the isolation ditch of the wall. The ditch was deep, but there were many sharp spikes made from wooden stakes densely inserted in it. Once they fell in, they would inevitably have several holes on their bodies.
When the third artillery shell landed not far from the previous impact point and killed more than twenty lives again, the panicked Tianjuan soldiers split into three, one group retreated to the left, one group retreated to the right, and the last group rushed straight to the Dongying Gate - it would be more accurate to say that they were pushed rather than rushed, because at this moment, no one wanted to stay in a place that would be covered by artillery fire.
The first row of soldiers crashed into the camp gate area, and were then pushed into the trench at the camp gate along with their shields, battering rams, and weapons by the people behind them. Then, those who passively pushed them became another wave of victims. This was obviously a tragedy, but behind this tragedy lay a surprise - after more than a hundred people were squeezed into the trench, a path was actually filled in to create a path.
So, the soldiers of the Tianjuan Army in the front row roared and charged. They roared to cover up their fear, and they charged to avoid being pushed into the trenches and used as human cushions by the people behind them...
Their actions actually tore through the defenses of the spotted wolf. When the scattered Tianjuan soldiers saw this scene, they immediately rushed to the camp gate, because this was what they wanted to do in the first place. The camp gate was already open, so why hide? The spotted wolf raised the flag, which was a call to battle and a clear declaration to the Tianjuan Army.
"Come and fight!" The spotted wolf shouted enthusiastically...