Chapter 697 Corpse
The formation light rose from the Tucheng city wall, and then a heavy arrow shining with dazzling red light flew out from the top of the city, shooting towards the Qingming Army formation, which was three miles away from the city wall.
The heavy arrows drew a clear trajectory in the air and finally landed less than a hundred feet away from the infantry cannon.
This is the arrow used by the Liao clan to calibrate the range. At the command of the Liao general on the city wall, the light of the formation illuminated a little more, and then another arrow was shot out. With the blessing of the formation, the range was much longer. He flew three miles in one breath and landed towards the center of the Weiyuan Army formation.
A sword light rose from the military formation to intercept the arrow. But the next moment, the Liao defenders who had already measured the range were fired at the same time, and a wave of arrows roared towards the Weiyuan army formation.
At this time, the Liao army also opened the city gate, and nearly 10,000 cavalrymen rode out of the city and formed a formation below the city. In terms of the number of cavalry, they could also crush Wei Yuan's thin army.
The rain of arrows flew into the air, and Wei Yuan finally ordered the firing of artillery. Infantry artillery roared in turn, and one shell exploded in the Liao cavalry team, lifting countless Liao tribes and horses into the air. Although the Liao horses were fierce, they had never encountered such a shocking explosion. Many war horses were shocked on the spot and began to rush around, and the riders could not control them.
At the same time, the Wei Yuan army's formation was boiling, and countless heavy earth Taoist techniques flew out, facing the rain of arrows coming from mid-air. The blessing of these Taoist magical techniques and military energy became 30% more powerful out of thin air, turning into a ball of yellow clouds.
The heavy arrow passed through Huang Yun, and the body of the arrow suddenly seemed to be wrapped in heavy sand and soil. The body of the arrow was nearly twice as heavy, so it fell sharply and fell in front of the formation one after another.
Although Wei Yuan's army has only a few thousand people, there are more than a thousand Daoji monks alone! Although most of them are template Daoji, the template Daoji is much stronger than the cast body.
Wei Yuan stabilized the army and did not counterattack in the chaos of the Liao army. He just kept bombarding the cavalry that had left the city. After a while, he saw that the elite Liao cavalry had suffered more than 2,000 casualties, the Liao clan leader realized something was wrong and hurriedly withdrew the cavalry back to the city.
During the retreat, Wei Yuan concentrated artillery fire and blasted the city gate, causing tragic casualties to the Liao cavalry. In the end, the cavalry leader had no choice but to lead his troops around the city and enter the army base from the rear gate.
Wei Yuan immediately ordered the muzzle to be raised and the city was bombarded. One round of artillery shells passed through the light curtain of the city-confrontation formation, causing the formation to vibrate violently. After landing, it exploded violently. With one shot, it could destroy all buildings within a radius of ten feet in a radius.
It was not until here that the Liao generals discovered that the city-mopping formation was useless to weaken the speed of the shells. How should the shells explode or how to explode? They could not use the idea of preventing the bed crossbow and heavy arrows to prevent shells.
Wei Yuan held his troops and kept bombarding. The protective formation of the Liao clan's battle base generally has two functions: one is the defense Taoism, and the other is the flying stone crossbow arrows shot slowly. Even the giant arrows shot from the bed crossbow will be greatly reduced after being slowed down by the city protection formation.
However, this kind of city defense formation cannot prevent artillery. After the shells slow down, the magic cultivator must intercept it. Daoji takes action rashly and is easily injured by the bomb.
The sound of cannons continued, and Wei Yuan made up his mind to never attack, but just rely on cannons. After half an hour, the Liao army suffered more than 5,000 casualties. The main general finally couldn't help but open the left and right city gates, and more than 10,000 light cavalry rushed out and rushed towards Wei Yuan.
The left and right military formations on Wei Yuan had already set up swords and guns and muskets to wait for the four magic stalemate machine cannons, and constructed cross-fire power on the left and right respectively.
After a moment, the Liao clan left more than 10,000 corpses, and the remaining soldiers did not return to the city and fled directly. Then the Liao clan defended the city lord and general led his army to abandon the city and fled.
The master was a knowledgeable person and knew that he was constantly being bombarded in the city, so he could never defend the city, so he decisively abandoned the city.
Wei Yuan did not pursue him, and he could not catch up even if he wanted to. He rushed into the city and occupied this strong city that could accommodate an army of 100,000.
The sound of guns and cannons also faintly came from the distance. The reinforcements sent by the No. 2 Acropolis on the right encountered a defense line composed of Taoist soldiers and the three thousand Qingming Army. At this time, there were also a small number of Taoist soldiers who used muskets, and most of them were used to using bows and arrows.
The Qingming Army is Yishui's flying sword and spear, with great power and long range, and there are more than a dozen infantry cannons.
The Liao reinforcements rushed several times, but failed to break through the defensive position, so they had to leave thousands of bodies and retreat. However, only a few hundred people were shot and injured in Wei Yuan's side, and only a hundred people were killed.
Wei Yuan immediately joined forces and arrived at the No. 2 Acropolis. He first arranged a circular defensive position in the north, and then fired a cannon at the west gate.
After the bombardment lasted for half an hour, the defenders finally couldn't bear it and fled from the west gate and the east gate. However, the Liao army did not expect that the firepower coverage of the circular defensive position was more than a thousand feet, so they threw down thousands of corpses when retreating, and they were able to escape.
Then we cleaned the battlefield and counted the results. To be honest, Wei Yuan was not very satisfied with these two battles. He killed less than 40,000 enemies on both sides, but most of them were asked to escape back.
This is also impossible. Wei Yuan lacks enough troops, and the power of the troops in the Liao region is far inferior to that of the Liao cavalry. The two Liao generals on the front line are also agile and retreat immediately when they see the war is unfavorable.
Having been able to witness the northern mountain gate for many years and to retrace the northern mountain gate step by step, these Liao generals on the front line are not easy to save money.
After occupying two military bases, Wei Yuan did not give up, but directly relied on the ready-made city to arrange defenses, and notified the rear to send people to clean up the corpses of the Liao tribe.
He Fang was so impressed by Wei Yuan that he was overwhelmed by the ground. In this battle, the Qingming Army had extremely fierce firepower. He almost had no sweat and caused heavy casualties in Northern Liao. He seized two military bases in a row. He deserved to be a man who went to the Western Regions alone and defeated Qingming's huge foundation with one hand.
However, Wei Yuan treated the corpses of the Liao clan a bit strange. Wei Yuan ordered people to peel off all the clothes, armor and property on the corpses of the Liao clan without even leaving underwear. In the end, only naked corpses were left, and then put them in large boxes and sealed the boxes and transported them to the rear.
He Fang was a little surprised. In the past, they piled up Liao corpses and set fire with Taoist force. Why did they seem to be processed into goods in Wei Yuan's hands? Not to mention anything else, the cargo boxes are brand new and have uniform styles, and each box can hold hundreds of corpses.
However, Wei Yuan is now in charge of power, so He Fang doesn't ask much. Moreover, Wei Yuan seems to attach great importance to these corpses and personally examines the packing process for a while.
What He Fang didn't know was that after the corpses were packed, they were transported to the mountain gate, loaded with the flying boat that had already stopped there, and then transported to Qingming. After the flying boat returned to Qingming, they had to transport new ammunition and troops over.
Chapter completed!