Angus's pursuit was paused, and the "wall" across the road pass blocked the pursuit of the pursuers.
Angus ordered to stop advancing, and after cleaning up the battlefield, he faced off with the Lombard blocking troops across a temporary "wall".
The pursuers led by Angus were mainly light and heavy infantry. There were only a dozen or so crossbowmen who fired several rounds at the Lombards, in exchange for showers of arrows from the Lombards.
The side under the wall obviously suffered a disadvantage when shooting from above versus shooting from below, so after Angus sent a fast horse to report back, he left a few eyeliners to warn, and simply stepped back a hundred steps to rest on the spot.
When he received the report of the fast horses of Angus's pursuit force, Art had already personally led two infantry companies of the Welsh Army, Jason's half crossbow team, and five grenade groups of the grenade company led by Rogge (a four-wheeled carriage, a small trebuchet plus six grenadiers and on-board ammunition) heading south. His decisive battle with Wadbury was only today.
The group marched relatively slowly. By the time Art led the group to arrive half a mile north of the "Guanqiang", the sun was already setting.
The front was crowded and narrow, so Art ordered to rest on the spot.
Now that the officers of the Welsh Army at all levels are already familiar with battlefield command, they are naturally familiar with matters such as outpost exploration and flank attack. Art only needs to issue military orders, and they will immediately turn the general orders into every action of the army.
There was a rapid sound of horse hooves, and Angus, who was wearing armor, stopped in front of Art, jumped off his horse sideways, "Sir, those bastards built a wall with wood and stones from the abandoned village beside the road, and we were blocked under the wall."
"Two probing attacks have been organized. The enemy's fighting strength is very strong. It seems that they intend to fight to the end."
Art looked around and asked, "Can we take a detour?" It is very narrow, so many soldiers and military supplies cannot pass smoothly, and the detour will take several times the time."
Ate glanced at the sun that was almost submerged in the ridgeline on the west side again, "It is too late, we must catch up with the enemy before they flee into the mountain, otherwise there will be another powerful enemy in the future."
After a brief thought, Art turned his horse's head and shouted loudly to the commander of the grenadier company who was standing behind him, "Roger, bring two grenade groups up and demolish that pile of rubble for me."
The Welsh Legion Grenadier Company, the youngest team, is also the only direct company of the legion that has not been tested in actual combat.
Rogge was extremely excited at this moment. He had been working on the logistics of baggage for many years. Although he had had several opportunities to pick up leaks on the battlefield and led the baggage guards to cut down several fleeing enemies, he had never killed an enemy head-on.
Originally, according to the plan, Rogge, as the commander of the grenadier company, should lead the remaining ten grenade groups of the grenadiers to temporarily stay at the Nanguan Army Fort and wait for instructions.
But Rogge repeatedly requested that Adjutant Smith lead most of the troops to stay behind. He first led five grenade groups to follow Ater south.
It is understandable that he is eager to achieve great results.
"The first and second grenade groups, advance half a mile and prepare for battle!" Rogge gave the order.
· Behind the team, two four-wheeled carriages carrying small trebuchets slowly drove out. The soldiers who had been resting on the ground the year before stood up to make way for the two carriages.
But when the carriage passed by, the soldiers all looked curiously at the trebuchet on the carriage, and some soldiers turned around to avoid it with their eyes open in fear.
The soldiers of the Wells Legion have already seen the amazing power of these ordinary guys. More than a month ago, the Grenadier Company was ordered to send several grenade groups to Beiguan Army Fort to conduct joint military exercises with other arms of the Welsh Army.
The first time they practiced together with a grenadier company, several veterans of the battle-hardened legion were frightened to the point of collapse, and most of the others could not relax for several days. The fear of the unknown was really uncontrollable.
· Accompanying the two grenade groups were four soldiers wearing full-body mail armor and holding swords, axes, shields and hammers. They were guards directly affiliated with the Chinese army.
The grenade group itself has two armed guards who can serve as part-time in battle, but just in case, the legion has assigned two additional armed guards to each grenade group. The focus of their protection is not the grenadiers or the trebuchets, and the large iron box mounted on the carriage contains various bombs.
There can't be any mistakes with that thing.
The two carriages came to a stop roughly a hundred paces in front of the ruined "Guan Wall".
The six grenadiers immediately turned around and began to unload the trebuchet from the carriage, and each found a flat ground to put it down.
The grenadiers picked up hammers and hammered four two-foot-long iron nails into the ground, firmly fixing the base of the trebuchet.
Then he lifted six iron lumps from the carriage and put them into the weight basket of the trebuchet. Then he pulled the long arm from the other end, inserted it into the locking tenon, and put a ten-pound stone into the ammunition bag.
With everything ready, Rogge walked behind the two trebuchets and raised the red pennant in his hand, "One hundred yards in a straight line, ten feet high, ten pound bombs. First round of test firing."
Following Rogge's instructions, the grenadiers behind the trebuchets mechanically operated the trebuchets, increasing or decreasing the number of counterweight iron blocks, and adjusting the length of the trebuchet's lever arm, all of which had fixed calculation methods.
“The first grenade group is ready.”
“The second grenade group is ready.”
The grenade leaders behind the two trebuchets raised their right hands to signal.
"Fire and launch!" The red flag in Rogge's hand fell with the sound.
The two grenadier leaders touched the fire in their hands onto the round stone projectiles almost simultaneously, and then the two grenadiers holding heavy hammers smashed into the lock of the trebuchet at the same time.
Bang bang.
After two crisp sounds, the two stone bombs drew the famous arc from behind the trebuchet and flew towards the "Guan Wall" built by the Lombards with ruins.
The two stone bullets flew for a moment, then smashed into the soil about ten steps in front of the "Guanqiang", and stopped after flicking.
Rogge’s eyes were always fixed on the two stone bullets. When the stone bullets landed, they immediately picked up a graduated triangle and marked the impact point and the "wall".
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While the stone bullets were flying out and Rogge was measuring the distance, the soldiers of the two grenade groups had already operated the trebuchets to a state where they were loaded and ready to fire.
After hearing the order, the two-man grenadiers immediately turned around and ran to the large iron box five steps behind the trebuchet. Under the close supervision of two armored guards, they took out two shells from the iron box and turned back to the trebuchet.
One of them carefully put the bomb in his arms into the magazine, and the other held the other one and waited for the order to launch the next time.
The bomb was returned to its position, and the two team leaders raised their hands again, "The first (second) grenade group is ready."
Rogge raised the triangular red flag in his hand again, waited quietly, and then waved the flag suddenly...
On the other end, the Lombard blocking force.
When the first stone bomb hit the ground in front of the "Guan Wall", the skeleton knight raised his lips slightly. Although this city wall made of rubble was not considered strong, it was still impossible to expect it to be destroyed by a trebuchet like a fly.
So he just ordered his soldiers to avoid being stoned to death.
In fact, they were condescending, and the opponent was not far away. It should be possible to see that the operation movements of the two trebuchets were a bit strange, especially the posture of the one holding the fire to "smoke" the stone bullets.
No matter what, when the second round of stone throwing was launched, the Skeleton Knight just led his elite soldiers to lower their bodies slightly, and the few who were timid and afraid of death only raised their shields.
There was a momentary time difference between the launch of the two trebuchets in the second round.
When the first iron bullet had hit the "Guan Wall" and got stuck in the wood in the ruins, the second iron bullet scraped the upper edge of the "Guan Wall" and hit the hard soil behind it.
The air condenses and time slows down.
The Skeleton Knight's head slowly turned behind him following the trajectory of the second iron bullet. He saw a short line smoking on the rotating body of the iron bullet. The moment it hit the hard soil and bounced back, the short line had already been submerged in the iron bullet.
Boom!
Boom! ! !
Mounted on the "Guan Wall", two iron bullets exploded simultaneously as they jumped into the air.
Air waves, fire, shrapnel...