Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

Xili City, at the gate of the city, a few soldiers in chain mail were chatting listlessly, and from time to time civilians would enter and leave the city, but they all ignored it, standing at the gate of the city was just engaging in formalism, and the task above was to search for suspicious people, in other words, if it was not suspicious, there was no need to check.

If you check it, you won't have more food, and if you don't check it, you won't lose a pound of meat, and the guards will have no incentive to search. As long as you don't wear a black hood and hold an iron knife and shout that you are a robber, the guards don't bother to care.

There was a hurried sound of horses' hooves, and the guards just glanced casually, and saw that it were two scouts in cloth armor, and continued to talk idly.

One of the scouts did not enter the city, but stopped at the gates.

Seeing this, the guards looked at the scout suspiciously, and then everyone noticed that he looked flustered, so they raised their spirits and surrounded him.

Without waiting for the guards to inquire about the situation, the scout shouted anxiously:

"The enemy is approaching the city! Close the gates and prepare for battle

!" "What?!"

All the guards were startled, and a villager who was just about to enter the city hurriedly turned around and walked back.

After saying that, the scout turned his horse's head and went to reconnoiter again, leaving the stunned guards behind.

"Hurry up, tell the lieutenant immediately!"

the captain of the guard was the first to react, and hurriedly signaled one of the guards to communicate with the lieutenant on duty on the castle tower, and then instructed the other guards to begin to close the city gate.

The scouts who entered the city soon spread the news of the enemy's attack to the castle lord's mansion, and the lord of Xili Castle immediately ordered to gather his army and prepare for battle.

At the city gate, after receiving the news, the lieutenant in charge of guarding the city gate immediately began to organize the soldiers stationed at the city gate to sort out the heavy weapons on the city wall.

Small bow carts and small trebuchets were moved out of the towers at the city gates, and the fixed large crossbow machines were overhauled.

Arrows and stones of all sizes were also lined up on the walls, as well as rolling wood and coals that had become a little moldy.

Soon after, the lord of Xili City personally came to the city gate with all the troops stationed in the city. When the lord of Xili City climbed the city wall, a large army of the enemy appeared in his field of vision.

"Your Highness, the letter that the enemy's messenger has just handed in!"

the lieutenant arrived from the side and handed a piece of paper to the lord of Xili City.

The city lord of Xili City hurriedly looked at it after taking the paper.

The letter probably means that the Klar Kingdom has rebelled, and now there are more than a dozen city-states forming an alliance to crusade against the Clar Kingdom, and all the city-states that have formed alliances with the Clar Kingdom and tried to rebel together along the way will all be destroyed, and the city-states that do not act will also be regarded as rebellion.

After reading it, the city lord of Xili City was taken aback, and looked at the soldiers who were approaching in the distance with some shock.

What surprised him was that he had just received the news from the Clair Kingdom early this morning, and it was not yet noon, how could so many city-states have united

?" "Damn, what's going on?"

The city lord of Xili City looked at the enemy who was approaching the city-state with a heavy face, but soon his face stretched a little, and he looked at the approaching enemy suspiciously.

The lieutenant's expression was also puzzled, he raised his fingers and counted silently in his heart, and then looked at the city lord of Xili City and said

, "Your Highness, I just counted, and the enemy is probably only about a thousand. "

The size of the team was evident from the walls, there were not many of them, and there were not even trebuchets or carts.

The enemy stopped about five hundred meters from the city wall, and the 'rudimentary' equipment on his body was clearly visible.

"Your Highness, you see, they are all wearing only leather armor! This looks like a group of bandits!" The

city lord of Xili City looked at these 'rabble' suspiciously, and then looked at the letter in his hand, and suddenly realized, and said with a sneer:

"Heh, I understand, they want to use this letter to intimidate us and trick us into opening the city gate! Hmph, you, go and tell them that we will not be accompanied!"

Saying that, the city lord of Xili City suddenly felt a little worried in his heart, if this was only their vanguard army, what if there were really so many cities united, so he added:

"Ah... You say, if you want to use the channel, I don't object, but we don't have the food to participate in the action.

But the lieutenant was unmoved, his face seemed to be a little tangled, and seeing this, the main board of Xili City turned his head to look at him and asked

, "Well, what's wrong?"

"Uh... Your Highness, the person who just delivered the letter said..... Said that within half an hour, open the door or

break the city..."Hearing this, the

city lord of Xili City was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect these people to be so crazy, and then said with some anger:

"How can this be reasonable! What a big breath! Then I want to see how he is going to break the city! Bring a chair!"

After speaking, he waved his hand at the guards, and he will sit here today to see how confident this team wearing leather armor has to say such a thing!

"Commander, the person sitting in that hanger is their city lord, it seems that he doesn't plan to open the door and surrender?"

Several officers in red uniforms and tricorne hats were holding monoculars and watching every move on the city wall.

They soon spotted a man swaggering on the wall, with the expression of 'You're going to hit me!'.

"Well, in that case, let's let him taste our cannons!"

said the regimental commander, putting away his binoculars, turning to Noelle, who was dressed in green.

Noelle held up the monocular and said lightly:

"I'm just here to observe, and all actions are under your command." The

regimental commander nodded, turned his head to look at Xili City, and drew the command sword at his waist.

"Artillery ready!"

"All artillery, adjust Zhuyuan, 5 firing units!"

After hearing the order of the regiment commander, an officer shouted to the artillery around him.

The artillerymen immediately moved, and thirty cannons were aimed at the walls.

Then he trotted to the nearby cannon and gave them another order:

"You guys load solid pellets and face the city gates. The

artillerymen quickly redirected themselves and aimed their cannons at the city gates.

"Load the ammunition!"

With the command, the artillerymen began to get busy, the artillerymen took out their scissors, cut the lead of the flowering shell into the scale mark marked 5, and then stuffed the lead into the lead opening, only a little bit was exposed.

The cannon was then reloaded with gunpowder and the shell was placed in the muzzle, but there was no rush to advance.

"Prepare to shoot!"

the regimental commander raised his command sword above his head, and the signal soldiers behind the cannon also raised their flags.

The officer just now looked left and right

, and then shouted to the regimental commander: "Report to the regimental commander, the cannons are loaded

!" "Fire!"

The regimental commander waved his sword fiercely, and the signal soldier behind the cannon also waved the flag, at this time the artilleryman with the torch stepped forward and lit the cannon lead, and at the same time, the artilleryman in front of the gun quickly ignited the lead of the flowering shell, and plugged a wooden plug at the lead mouth, and then pushed it down with a stick.

.

At this time, the lord of Xili City on the city gate was asking his subordinates in confusion what those black iron bumps were, only to see the flag behind the iron bumps put down, and then someone held a torch and stretched out to the iron bumps.

Just when everyone on the city wall was puzzled, a loud bang suddenly came from these iron bumps, and the frightened city lord of Xili City almost fell from his chair without sitting still.

With a loud bang, thirty black shadows rushed towards the city wall at high speed, some smashed onto the city wall, and some flew over the city wall and flew into the city.

Everyone on the city wall looked in front of them in horror, and the city lord of Xili City couldn't stop trembling.

Before everyone could react, something that had just flown suddenly exploded, shaking the entire city wall.

A few seconds earlier, in the streets within the city walls, an lieutenant had been bragging to the soldiers next to him, claiming that if the enemy stormed the city gates, he would be able to single-handedly take on ten.

Behind him there were countless soldiers, if the enemy broke the city, they would engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, but I heard that there were only a thousand people outside, all of them were wearing leather armor, and they didn't even have heavy weapons to attack the city, this lieutenant and the soldiers behind him relaxed, and the lieutenant even bragged, everyone knew that the people outside could not break the city at all.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise outside the city, and before they could react, the thick iron gate was suddenly smashed open, and the soldiers who were at the city gate were overturned to the ground, only to see a few hot iron balls rushing in.

Several shadows then streaked through the air, and as soon as the lieutenant raised his head, the shadows exploded in the air.

At the same time, the cannonball that smashed on the wall exploded before it could reach the foot of the wall, blowing several small holes in the wall.

Two more flowering shells landed right on the city wall and exploded on the wall, knocking the surrounding soldiers to the ground.

The soldiers on the city wall were frightened and overwhelmed, and the soldiers in the city also panicked, and the cannonballs that had just flown in exploded in the air, and the debris hit many people.

"Oh my God! It's magic! It's magic! I surrender! I surrender!" As

the flowering bomb exploded, the city lord of Xili City directly curled up under the low wall in fright, wailing in horror.

It was the first time he had seen an explosion in his life, and he had been in contact with magicians, but those magicians only had superhuman strength, and at most they used bows and arrows to generate arrows out of thin air, and it was the first time he had seen a spell that could explode!

Just now he saw at least dozens of fires lit up, which meant that the enemy had at least dozens of magicians who could do magic! How could this be fought?

The other people on the city wall had already panicked, and the city captain next to the city lord didn't know what to do for a while even after hearing the city lord shout to surrender, and his head was blank.

At this time, on the artillery positions in the distance, the artillerymen were busy again, preparing for the next round of salvos.

At the same time, the grenadiers began to move forward, and after two more volleys, the grenadiers came to a stop less than 200 meters from the city gates, and then began to check their guns, reload their ammunition and prepare to attack.

As the cannons fired another volley, the grenadiers grabbed their muskets and lunged at the city.

At this time, a white flag was hung on the walls of the city of Xili, and the grenadiers who rushed to the front also saw that the soldiers in the city were kneeling on the ground, and their weapons were thrown aside.

A grenadier fired an unflattering shot at the wall, and today was the first time in his history that he wanted to rush to the front with such excitement.

After all, there are a group of primitive troops with cold weapons in front of them, and they can be equipped with advanced 'modern' armed forces!

The regimental commander saw the white flag hanging on the city wall through the binoculars, spat it and said:

"I knew this was the case, why did I waste my shells in the first place?" "

It's a... Asymmetrical battles...."

Noelle said, she remembered a sentence in the preface to Su Zheng's book "On the Battle of Port Dotu": "For a long time in the future, our army will face the same asymmetrical battle as this battle. "

Sir, we should be able to reach Colt City by tonight, and we will launch an attack on Colt tonight. The

head of the regiment said to Noelle, who nodded.

"Hmm.... Hey, what about Nasili?"

"We don't have to worry about them, there will be a small number of troops and security forces to take over in the future, rest assured, we have beaten them, they have lost the will to fight us."

After saying that, he turned to the artillery position and said:

"The artillery is immediately deployed, target Colt City!".