The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

So that day, after Yang Zhi received a report from Guo Xiaoyun that there might be enemy troops coming to attack Fort Jelborg, he immediately cheered up and followed Guo Xiaoyun to the city wall to check the situation in person.

Coincidentally, when the two came to the city wall, they happened to see another group of cavalry approaching Fort Jelborg, and they seemed to want to continue to get closer for reconnaissance.

Yang Zhi therefore used a telescope to clearly see the appearance of these cavalry. They were indeed the unique lycanthropic cavalry of the Kingdom of Swadia. These should all be light cavalry. There was no armor on the war horses, and the knights on them were also They all only wore some light leather armor and cloth armor, so they were very fast and came and went like the wind.

The fact that the enemy often sends out reconnaissance cavalry to conduct close inspections only shows that the opponent's large forces are not far from here, and perhaps it won't be long before they arrive at the city and launch an attack on Jellberg Castle.

So Yang Zhi immediately sent out his own soldiers and began to gather troops and young men to prepare to defend the city.

Due to limited time, Yang Zhi has barely recruited a thousand young men in the past few days. Including the [-] regular soldiers, the total number of troops that can be used to defend the city is only [-], which does not count. many. Especially those young men, because they were recruited in a hurry, their equipment is very crude, and there is basically no training. If they really fight, the most they can do is help transport the materials for city defense such as rolling logs and rocks. They are asked to go and fight with them. It was still too difficult for the enemy to fight face to face.

There are only two generals under Yang Zhi, one is Li Zhong and the other is Ye Er. Although Ye Er is stronger, due to his simple mind, he can only be used as a thug. He can really help Yang. It is the weaker Li Zhong who is willing to share some of the command pressure.

At this time, Yang Zhi quickly assigned Li Zhong to be in charge of the city walls. He himself was mainly responsible for the south and east walls, while Li Zhong and Ye Er were mainly responsible for the defense of the north and west walls.

After assigning their respective tasks, the three men led their troops and rushed to the city wall they were responsible for.

At this time, the outline of the enemy's large army outside the city could be faintly seen. As it marched, dust rose all over the sky along the way, giving the soldiers and civilians in the city a sense of chilling.

The young men here who have never experienced combat are very nervous, but the regular soldiers are relatively calm. After all, this is not the first time they have fought against the troops of the Kingdom of Swadia. Although it can be considered brave and good at fighting, the strongest ones are the heavy cavalry, so it has the strongest field combat ability, but it is not its strong point in siege. The walls of Jelborg Fort are also tall and strong, and the food, grass and ammunition stored in the city are It’s also quite sufficient, so there’s no problem if you stick to it for a few days.

Compared to the confidence of the soldiers below, Yang Zhi, the first-time coach to lead an army alone, was a little nervous.

Because he was too nervous, Yang Zhi soon felt a little thirsty. After grabbing a kettle and taking a sip of cold water, Yang Zhi told the artillerymen beside him: "Check the status of the artillery again. I’ll start a fight and give me diarrhea!”

Since it had only been a few days since the victory of Fort Jelborg, there was naturally no time to install any large-caliber heavy artillery to defend the city. There were only a dozen small-caliber rapid-fire artillery that were originally field guns. This kind was only [-] years old. The range and power of small millimeter-caliber cannons are very limited, and it is difficult to achieve the level of large-caliber heavy artillery that usually allows the enemy to bomb the enemy before it gets close to the city wall, causing more than half of the casualties.

After hearing Yang Zhi's order, the artillerymen had to check the artillery in front of them again.

At this time, the enemy's fastest cavalry unit was already within a thousand meters of Fort Gerberg. This time, it was natural that the heavy cavalry came with both men and horses. There were quite a few, three thousand. Many of them looked like they were all beast-turned heavy cavalry that had taken the beast-turned-potion, but they were not as powerful as the elite heavy cavalry that they had annihilated before. After all, the previous beast-turned-human heavy cavalry had gone through successive battles and had suffered a lot. He has gained a lot of experience points to be so powerful. Basically, any soldier picked out at random will have the combat power of a dark warrior.

The heavy cavalry unit in front of us should have been newly established by the Kingdom of Swadia recently. Most of the soldiers are only as strong as Ming Jin warriors. Those who can reach Dark Jin are the top masters among them. As for The existence of Huajin's combat power is only in single digits, and it is likely that they were a few fish that escaped from the last annihilation battle.

Behind these heavy cavalry, there was an even larger number of enemy infantry. There seemed to be more than [-] people. What surprised Yang Zhi was that he actually saw hundreds of enemy soldiers holding matchlock guns among them. Soldiers, and there were three heavy-looking bronze cannons at the rear of the opponent's army. They were dragged along by several oxen and struggled to move forward with the large army.

Regarding the fact that the enemy would imitate their firearms, Ye Tianlong had actually told his generals a long time ago, but Yang Zhi did not expect that the efficiency of the Swadia Kingdom would be so high. How long had it been! More than a hundred matchlocks and three bronze cannons were built. Although we don’t know their specific power, it is a fact that the opponent has firearms. There is no absolute difference in weapons generation with our own army. This will undoubtedly further This increased the pressure in Yang Zhi's heart.

So Yang Zhi ordered the artillery fire just after the enemy cavalry entered the range of his own artillery. With the loud sound of cannons, several enemy cavalry rushing at the front were knocked down.

After several attempts by the enemy cavalry, it seemed that the gunners on the north side of the city wall had the worst accuracy and the least artillery, so they began to concentrate their troops and mainly attack the north city wall. Only one or two hundred people were sent to attack the other walls. Just a containment.

Due to the uneven shape of the city wall on the north wall, it is indeed inconvenient to place artillery, so there are only four artillery pieces there in total, which is considered a weak point in the firepower of Jellberg Fort.

At this time, Yang Zhi also realized that due to his impatience, the enemy quickly tested out the actual strength of his own firepower, but he couldn't tell this, otherwise it would greatly affect the morale of his own soldiers, so he only Maybe you can hide all these pressures in your heart.

After taking another sip of cold water, Yang Zhi picked out [-] people from his reserve team and then personally led them to the northern city wall to support them.

By the time Yang Zhi arrived at the northern city wall, the enemy cavalry had already launched an attack on the northern city wall. Against the sparse artillery fire fired from the city wall, these lycanthropic heavy cavalry quickly approached a hundred meters away from the city wall, and then One after another they threw javelins with all their strength.

Thanks to the speed of the war horse's impact, these javelins barely flew more than a hundred meters away and landed on the city wall, but they did not have much power anymore, except for those young and strong men who were only equipped with simple leather armor and cloth armor. Except for a few injuries, even if the regular soldiers were shot, they would stagger at most and not suffer any damage at all.

This situation occurs mainly because this time the enemy's lycanthropic heavy cavalry is a level worse than the previous ones.

Yang Zhi, who came in a hurry, couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this situation. Then he saw Li Zhong, who was also here, yelling and ordering the defenders on the city wall to shoot.

Suddenly, more than two hundred soldiers on the northern city wall all poked their heads out from the city wall, and almost simultaneously pulled the triggers on the enemy cavalry outside the city.

After the dense bullets were fired, at least fifty enemy cavalry were immediately knocked down. However, many enemy cavalry quickly got up from the ground after being shot down from their horses, and started again. He mounted his war horse and retreated with his other teammates.

Obviously, although their strength is a little weaker, the nature of being lycanthropes makes these enemy cavalry very tenacious. Therefore, as long as they are not hit in vital parts, they can't kill them with just a bullet from a mid-range flintlock rifle. killed them.

Li Zhong was also very depressed when he saw this scene. He had the skill of transforming strength, he opened his bow and arrow, aimed at a guy with gorgeous armor, who looked like an enemy noble or knight, and shot an arrow. Armor-piercing heavy arrows.

After a huge sound from the bowstring, the enemy knight's chest was immediately shot through by an arrow. The arrow entered from behind his heart, and a bloody arrow tip emerged from his chest. The knight in the gorgeous plate armor swayed on his horse and then fell off the horse. There seemed to be a trace of unwillingness in his eyes.

As the enemy cavalry was scared off by a volley of rifle fire from here, more enemy infantry gradually approached. At the same time, the three bronze cannons also began to adjust their muzzles under the control of the enemy gunners. It seemed that they were preparing to fire at the defenders on the city wall.

"Hit the artillery hard with the bronze cannons I aimed at the enemy!" Li Zhong issued the latest order while firing his bow and arrow again, aiming at the gunner of one of the bronze cannons, and shot an arrow fiercely. .

Unfortunately, the distance is too far. The three bronze cannons are more than [-] meters away from the city wall, so even if Li Zhong's powerful warriors fired arrows, they began to lose their strength after flying more than [-] meters away. , and finally fell weakly to the ground more than ten meters in front of the gunner.

When the enemy gunner saw this, he just wanted to taunt the enemy general for his wasted effort. However, in the next second, an arrow accurately shot into his just-opened mouth. The sharp arrow tip fell from the The back of the head is revealed.

The person who shot this arrow was Yang Zhi who had just arrived on the city wall. As a traditional military commander from a family of generals, Yang Zhi can be said to be extremely versatile. He is proficient in all eighteen weapons, and bows and arrows are no exception. , and he was also an innate master, so even though he was still five hundred meters away, he killed the enemy gunner with one arrow.

However, Yang Zhi's arrow immediately aroused the enemy's vigilance. Soon, dozens of lycanthrope heavy infantrymen holding thick iron shields came to the front of the gunners, forming a shield wall and surrounding the gunners. They were all protected.

And at such a long distance, even the arrows fired by an innate master like Yang Zhi will be greatly weakened, and they will no longer be able to penetrate those thick iron shields and hurt the enemy gunners.

As for the four small cannons on the city wall, although they continued to fire, their accuracy was really not very good. The nearest shell fired was seven or eight meters away from the opponent's artillery position, and there was not a single one. The shells were fired accurately.

However, Yang Zhi knew that these gunners could not be blamed. After all, those gunners were just novices who had been urgently trained for more than a month. They could only barely control the artillery, so don't expect accuracy.