Chapter 1258 Crossbows and Machine Guns
Under Xue Beng's commission, Dugu Bo flew to Quanli on the top of the city wall as soon as possible.
Two beams of light, one green and one black, instantly collided in the sky.
Quanli's gauntlet covered the whale's head and struck directly at Dugu Bo.
The two powerful men, both of whom had reached the peerless realm of cultivation, created a space crack in the sky at the first moment of the collision.
The impact was like the collapse of the heavens, causing the legion's charge to come to a halt.
Fortunately, Dugu Bo transformed into a dragon man, holding dragon teeth, and blocked Quan Li's punch.
At the same time, he was forcing Quanli to fly higher into the sky.
It was obvious that he was moving the battlefield to the safer sky.
The two people were like two spiraling lines, disappearing into the invisible sky, rendering the sky a continuously shining two-color light.
Seeing this, Avalanche felt relieved and shouted to stabilize the morale of the troops.
"The enemy leader has been pinned down by Dugu Keqing. Let's take advantage of this opportunity and charge."
The army continued to advance.
When the legion approached within one kilometer of the city wall, it took out the Zhuge Crossbow behind it and immediately fired crossbow arrows into the sky.
This is a longer range, greater number, and denser attack than ordinary arrows.
With the help of crossbows to suppress the enemy, the siege troops continued to move forward.
Just when everyone thought that this wave of rain of arrows could completely suppress the enemy's firepower on the city wall and provide great convenience to the remaining troops.
Sudden changes occur.
"Zizzi"
A buzzing sound of electricity suddenly broke out around the city walls.
A blue and white light shield suddenly appeared around the entire city wall.
The place that was originally empty suddenly erupted with astonishing thunder power.
A large number of metal arrows flying towards the light shield were pulled to the ground by an extremely strong force the moment they touched the light shield.
"Jingle, clang, clang."
Countless arrows fell to the ground, forming a metal moat at a distance of more than a hundred meters around the city wall.
"what's the situation!"
Avalanche was the first to notice the large-scale light shield and the arrows that were swept down.
The speed of continuous shooting was extremely fast, with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of arrows fired in a very short period of time. This time, they swept away all the enemies in an instant.
Just when they wanted to reload and prepare to launch another attack, the lightning shield disappeared instantly.
It was also at this time that the various artillery positions and machine guns on the city walls fired bullets at the enemy's crossbow units.
At a distance of one kilometer, machine guns and artillery fire can easily reach this position, especially when firing down from the top of a high wall.
They waited for the enemy to attack deep into their territory in order to lure them in, and then eliminate their long-range offensive in one fell swoop before launching intensive attacks.
The number was denser than that of Tiandou arrows, and the powerful bullets swept through the crossbow troops in an instant.
The interweaving of metal and blood creates a gorgeous yet tragic scene on the battlefield.
"Boom!"
The main force attacking the city had no time to observe the troops behind them before they were completely defeated by the large-scale explosion of artillery shells.
The powerful shock wave not only shattered the siege weapons, but also tore the surrounding soldiers into pieces with the broken metal fragments.
No matter they are ordinary people or low- to mid-level soul masters, even if they can resist one shell, they cannot withstand the simultaneous explosion of hundreds or thousands of shells.
With the crossbow moat as the boundary, no one could cross the line even a single step under the intensive attack.
"No, this is impossible!
This must be fake, why is this happening? "
Avalanche saw tens of thousands of legions being submerged in the metal torrent in just a few breaths.
In his mind, this scene should have been caused by them.
However, reality dealt him an even colder blow, completely stunning him.
Prince Xuexing also looked flustered and full of disbelief.
The weapons on the opposite side were completely beyond his understanding.
But after a brief pause, he immediately regained consciousness and called out to Xue Beng, “Your Highness, please order the legion to retreat as soon as possible.
This is not an opponent we can resist.”
There was a constant roar of artillery fire, and he tried his best to shout in Avalanche's ear.
But Xue Avalanche was already frightened by the scene before him and could no longer hear the voices of outsiders.
Prince Xuexing was extremely anxious. Seeing Xue Beng being so fragile, he gritted his teeth and slapped his cheek to wake him up.
"Wake up, Avalanche. You are now the commander-in-chief of the three armies. Everyone's lives depend on you."
Xue Beng was completely awakened, feeling the burning pain on his cheek and seeing the disappointed expression on Emperor Xue Xing's face.
"Yes, uncle is right.
Quick, sound the retreat, retreat!"
Tens of thousands of elite troops lost more than half in the brief conflict.
Among them, the crossbow troops that were hit hard were completely wiped out.
They couldn't even bring out the Zhuge Crossbows, and a large amount of sophisticated equipment was directly thrown on the battlefield and could not be retrieved.
At this time, the battle in the sky seemed to be extremely fierce, but in fact, it was just the control of martial spirits and artifacts. The two people fighting below were standing shoulder to shoulder, staring at the battlefield below.
“The gap in weapon generation between the two sides is too obvious.
This is a completely asymmetric war.”
Dugu Bo expressed his feelings about this war.
Although these weapons are still ineffective against a top soul master like him.
However, for mid-level, low-level, and even high-level soul masters, a legion-like baptism of firearms poses a great threat.
Hundreds of machine gun troops can wipe out an army of tens of thousands of soul masters.
The terrifying thing is that the machine gun troops here can all be ordinary people.
This undoubtedly symbolizes a significant tilt in the balance of power.
Quan Li said: "The crossbow is indeed very interesting.
But this is ultimately just an extension of the bow and crossbow, and has not completely gotten rid of the original weapon framework.
Obviously, explosives had been invented long ago, but no one had thought of developing firearms.
The world's ideas and systems have been rigid for too long. It's time to bring new vitality and style to the world."
Quan Li looked at Dugu Bo and said, "I hope this war can hurt this empire thoroughly and make it restrain itself."
While the war was going on in Quanli, the same scene was happening in various important checkpoint cities around the province.
No, because without the support of a backbone, their situation is even more miserable.
Except for a small number of soldiers who did not approach the city wall at the beginning, all of them were wiped out.
The army totaling over 100,000 and the aristocratic forces that were full of confidence and expectation suffered a great blow after this battle.
The news that this group of defeated troops had spread widely around the province during their escape caused an extremely terrifying and far-reaching impact on public opinion.
However, the misfortune for the Tiandou Empire is a great blessing for the Quan family.
The situation of this battle swept the entire province in an instant. All the nervous people couldn't even believe it at first when they heard the result of the war.
After they personally went out of the city to check the corpses and equipment dropped by the enemy, they were completely immersed in carnival and celebration.
The long-suppressed fear in their hearts was completely shattered by this battle, and the people of the province were unprecedentedly united.