Chapter 226 The city gate was broken (21/102
Finally, the team touched the city gate in the old city area, used the weapons in their hands to dig out small holes in the weak part of the city gate, and stuffed all the cloth bags into it.
The gates of Lebre City are framed with fine iron, filled with logs, cotton and sand to cushion forces.
The city gate can only be hung with the wheel inside. Every time, ten strong men with big arms and round waists need to turn the wheel. Normally, even an elephant cannot break open the door.
At this time, Eugen finally saw the Saxon soldiers who were busy at the city gate. A bad premonition flashed in his heart. Out of caution, he raised his hand and ordered loudly: "The musket team is blocking the city gate. Once the other party breaks through the city gate, you will be responsible for blocking it."
There are nearly 200 musketeers in the moat who use old flintlock guns. These 200 soldiers can exert considerable power when forming a formation.
"Haha, this Earl Eugen is too careful. The gate of Leber City has never been broken in my memory. How could the opponent break through?" A small captain in the Musket Team said disdainfully.
Since the establishment of the Longxiang Army, the status of the Musket Team has dropped by most of the time. The soldiers of each Musket Team are eager to join the Longxiang Army, but the number of Longxiang Army is limited, and the soldiers who cannot join have some complaints.
"Yes." An ordinary soldier from the Musket Team continued: "I think he can't command at all. The battle on the city wall is clearly at a critical moment, but he dropped us. I think the city wall is about to be broken."
No matter how much the musketeers finally followed the order and guarded the rear of the city gate, looking at the empty door hole in front of them bored.
At this moment, a loud bang suddenly sounded outside the city gate, splashing a huge piece of smoke and dust.
There was even a stream of dust gushing out from the door opening, looking like smoke from a huge chimney. Outside the city gate, there seemed to be an ancient giant kicking the city gate with his big foot with his fine iron frame.
Every member of the Musket Team was stunned by this scene, and they also had some bad premonition in their hearts, as if some terrible disaster was about to come.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Sudden explosions sounded outside the city gate, and the smoke became more and more. Even the wall above the city gate became shaking, as if it was about to collapse and break.
"Gunpowder! They used gunpowder!" At this time, not only the musket team suddenly shouted this sentence, awakening everyone in the puzzled ones.
Indeed, in this world, only gunpowder can have such terrifying power.
If someone was in the door opening at this time, he would see that the fine iron frame of the city gate had been completely distorted and deformed, the wood inside was broken into more than a dozen bars, the cotton wrapped around it had been burned, and some sand flowed out from it, piled up on the ground into small piles of sand.
Boom!
This was the biggest roar so far, with a violent sound that shook the sky and the earth. The city wall seemed to be trembling. The two siege cars mounted on the city wall shook violently. The Saxon soldiers above were unable to stand firmly and were immediately shaken onto the ice of the moat below like dumplings.
With the loud noise and shock, some cracks appeared on the thick ice surface of the moat. Some river water surged up along the cracks and immediately turned into ice slurry when blown by the cold wind.
Oh~After a harsh friction sound, the roar of a heavy object falling on the ground came from the gate of the city wall. The musketeers guarding in front of the gate looked in amazement. The city gate they thought they would stand was broken...
"Sakosson's Knight! Charge!"
The rumbling sound was like a mountain torrent bursting into the distance. Eugen stood at the top of the city and looked forward with a serious expression. He saw a white knight roaring along the streets of the city at the other end of the new city.
Eugen had noticed these cavalrymen in Saxony before. At that time, he was wondering why he had to prepare for cavalry even though he was fighting in a siege, but now he understood that the other party had planned to break through the city gate in the morning.
"Damn it, the first formation, throw the powder barrel and concentrate the firepower on the moat in front of the city gate!" The cavalry threatened too much, and the number was at least five hundred. Once all these cavalry rushed into the city, they would not defend it. It would be better to surrender directly.
"In addition, inform the Longxiong team to be prepared." Although I didn't want to expose the Longxiong team too early, it was now the critical moment of life and death, so it seemed too stupid to hide my weakness.
"Oh roo roo roo roo roo roo ~" The Saxon cavalry made a strange rooster from their throats. These soldiers with barbarity were charging forward, and they also had a wild momentum, as if they were unstoppable beast tide.
In the blink of an eye, the cavalry vanguard flew over the infantry team and rushed to the front of the moat, stepped on the ice and rushed into the city gate.
Bang! A bean-like explosion sounded, and the cavalry was hit head-on as soon as they rushed into the city gate. The musket team arranged by Eugen in advance played a role, curbing the sharpness of the Saxony Cavalry like a solid wall.
These cavalry rushed too fast, and even if they were hit by bullets, they could rush forward about six or seven meters along the inertia.
The cavalry rushing in front provided cover for the people behind him. The cavalry pushed into the inside little by little, and was about to rush into the city gate.
At this moment, another series of loud noises emerged like thunder on the ground, and countless sounds gathered into a wave of ups and downs, bang! dong!
The soldiers who were close to him were buzzing with shock and almost lost their mind for a moment, forgetting where they were and why.
This time, the powder barrel thrown by the moat, and the second round of explosions were all concentrated near the city gate, wrapping the Saxon cavalry that was blocking there.
Under such power, neither a man nor a horse can survive. The terrifying shock force of a single frequency can shake all the human internal organs into pieces.
Wow... A bloody rain splashed in front of the city gate, and the burnt smell of gunpowder burning blood and flesh.
However, the Saxon cavalry was really brave. Even when facing such a scene, they still rushed into the city gate regardless of the situation, and some even rushed into the flames, and then rushed out of the flames like soldiers stepping out of hell and rushed into the city.
Under this charge, the powder barrel could not be stopped. The Saxon cavalry finally rushed into the inside of the city wall and began to fight with the musket team at close range.
In a short period of time, nearly a hundred soldiers rushed into the city wall, causing huge chaos immediately.
"Powder keg, keep throwing it away, and throwing the third round too!" The situation was critical, Eugen didn't care about anything else and immediately ordered.
After another round of bombing, the ice surface of the moat, which had already cracked, finally broke into pieces with a burst of explosions.
Chapter completed!