Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 1124 Demonic Cannon

Chapter 1124 Demonic Cannon

Seeing that the formation of the new recruits was in turmoil again, Zhang Dingbian frowned slightly under the city and stopped a Ming army general who was dissatisfied with the situation and wanted to fight.

On the other hand, with the help of auxiliary slave soldiers, the knights of the Crusaders began to quickly fill the trenches, dismantle the chevaux de frise, and approached step by step the 2,000-man formation of the Ming army.

"It seems that God's holy light is always protecting the knights."

Seeing that the enemy formation was shaken and the two thousand Crusaders were about to engage in battle with the Ming army formation, the other Ming troops remained motionless and showed no signs of going forward to provide assistance.

In fact, even if the Ming army came forward to help, it was already too late. The two thousand Crusaders were only a hundred steps away from the Ming army formation, and the Ming army under the city wall was at least three hundred steps away from the Ming army in the front row. After making a definite judgment on the situation on the battlefield, Thomas, the head of the Knights Hospitaller, smiled with a confident smile and said to Sir John beside him.

"These Ming people are respectable opponents." Sir John sat high on his horse, smiling condescendingly. They sent out 2,000 people, while the Ming people also sent out 2,000 people. Such a duel was in line with the spirit of chivalry. Such a fair and glorious war was his ideal war.

Of course, all the knights were wearing sophisticated heavy armor and riding armored war horses, while the new recruits of the Ming army only had leather armor at most... Such a gap in equipment would naturally not be taken seriously by the not-so-fussy Sir John.

At this time, the knights had already crossed the last trench and began to remount their horses with the help of auxiliary soldiers, preparing to break through the last few layers of barricades and launch a charge against the Ming army.

The charge of the heavily armored knights was unstoppable. Even with several layers of barricades blocking them, they could not stop the crushing of these medieval tanks.

The knight at the front steeds his horse and bypasses the last barrier. He can already see the terrified faces of the pagans in front of him. As long as he rushes to the front, he can completely defeat these filthy pagans...

The knight hidden in the helmet mask couldn't help but lick his lips excitedly.

The Crusaders in the rear were also convinced that they had won, and began to whistle and cheer loudly.

"……fire."

"Boom! Boom!"

Suddenly, a thunderous roar sounded from the city wall. The frightened horse of the knight suddenly stood up. The knight quickly tightened the reins and finally managed to stabilize his body. However, he felt a blackness above his head. He looked up and saw a black iron ball approaching from afar...

"puff!"

The iron ball flew through the knight's body, and the cool and thick armor became as if made of paper. The knight's upper body disappeared out of thin air, and bloody blood and internal organs flew everywhere.

The iron ball continued to move forward, hitting the ground and bouncing back up, almost killing the knight behind him.

The horses went crazy and the Crusaders were stunned.

"…I'm lucky."

Yao Guangxiao, who was on the top of the city wall, used a telescope to check the enemy's casualties and found that this volley actually killed five Crusader Knights... He couldn't help but secretly call it a fluke.

Today's artillery is very heavy and only suitable for use on treasure ships, city walls, etc. It is not powerful enough for large-scale killing and is only suitable for destroying enemy ships in naval battles and destroying enemy large siege equipment in city defense battles. There are also several large-caliber artillery on the walls of Kangju City. These were the ship artillery that Zhu Su transported all the way from Shentu by elephants when he came to help Zhu Di.

The ship's cannons were heavy, and it was time-consuming and laborious to transport all of them back to the treasure ship, so Zhu Su simply left a few for Kangju City.

Although Zhang Dingbian led the main force out of the city to defend it, Yao Guangxiao still led a small number of Ming army artillerymen to guard the top of the city. Seeing that the Crusader knights were within range, he ordered the artillery to fire.

These cannons are all fired with solid bullets and have low lethality, far inferior to the tiger squat cannons that fire shrapnel shells.

But they couldn't stand the loud noise. Even though the Crusaders' knights were brave and fearless, the horses under them would be frightened and lose control when they heard the noise.

Moreover, if this thing hits a person, the death would be extremely tragic.

This was indeed the case. The morale of the Crusaders, who had finally been able to launch a charge after crossing the trench, was greatly boosted. However, because of the horrible deaths of those five unfortunate souls, their morale was immediately wiped out and fell to the bottom.

"Then...what is that..."

"Satan...it's Satan's magic!"

The cheers of the Crusaders in the rear suddenly stopped, and the smiles of Thomas and Sir John froze on their faces. The Crusaders who were charging were also thrown into chaos because of the death of their comrades and the frightened horses.

Zhang Dingbian was waiting for this moment. He turned around and gave the order: "Beat the drums, the front troops will meet the enemy!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The Ming army's front formation began to charge. The first to lead were the Han veterans mixed in the formation. These veterans had been through many battles, and they didn't take the Crusaders seriously. They formed a mandarin duck formation and launched a counterattack against the chaotic 300 Crusaders.

The chaotic chevaux de frise made the terrain on the battlefield narrow and changeable, which was just right for the mandarin duck formation. In order to deal with European cavalry, Zhang Dingbian also made changes to the mandarin duck formation: the soldiers in the rear formation, who were originally equipped with wolf-milling spears, were replaced with hook-and-sickle spears, which were specially used to hook the legs of horses. In the past, Yue Fei had defeated the heavy cavalry of the Jin Dynasty with the hook-and-sickle spear. Although the hook-and-sickle spear was not naturally able to restrain cavalry, if it was used by brave soldiers who were not afraid of death, they would seize the opportunity to hook the legs of war horses when facing the cavalry charge, and often achieved the dazzling results of defeating cavalry with infantry.

These elite Ming troops in Kangju City were no less powerful than Yue Fei's Beiwei Army in the Song Dynasty. What's more, most of the knights' horses had been frightened by the previous artillery salvo, and only a few of them could maintain the charge. As one side gained strength while the other lost, there was not much suspense about the outcome of the battle: the Yuanyang Formation team encountered the heavy cavalry of European knights, the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen suppressed the knights' long swords and horses, and the sickle spearmen extended their long sickle spears to hook off the horses' legs, and the horses and knights fell to the ground.

It was often difficult for a knight in heavy armor to even stand up from his horse. The Yuanyang Formation team only needed to poke and poke the knives into the gaps in the knight's visor, and then they could look for the next target.

Or, there is no need to even make a finishing blow, just kick the knight's sword away, and then leave directly, leaving these knights to the recruits who are coming behind to beat them up... Anyway, they can't stand up, they are just a tin can that has lost its threat.

As for the new soldiers, their morale had been restored when the cannons were fired. Some of them had been soldiers under Timur in the past and had seen the power of this magical weapon. Even if they had not, most of them had heard of the legend of this weapon.

In the propaganda of Tianyi Sect, China is a land directly governed by the Emperor of Heaven, so China's technology and wisdom are always superior to others. Firearms are weapons bestowed by the Emperor of Heaven on China.

Afterwards, they subconsciously followed the Ming army in charging. Seeing the Ming army beating up these knights, the morale of these recruits from various ethnic groups was boosted, and they charged forward shouting.

What these Western believers believe in is just a lesser god under the throne of Emperor Haotian. It is obvious that they are no match for the Ming Dynasty, which is protected by Emperor Haotian himself... If they don't step forward and give the fallen dog a beating now, when will they?

(End of this chapter)