Inside the gate of the easternmost pier in Yuguan City, four speedboats slowly stopped.
On the shore, Jin Peng and dozens of sailors had been waiting for a long time.
They threw a rope and pulled the speedboat to the shore. The sailors immediately boarded the boat and carried wooden boxes down one by one.
Jin Feng, who was standing aside, breathed a long sigh of relief as he watched the wooden boxes stacked higher and higher.
The quantity of gunpowder and iron sand carried by the female workers was not much. Yesterday, he was really worried that the Eastern Barbarians would attack the city overnight.
In fact, with the fighting power of the Weisheng Army and the female workers, even without the musketeers, Yuguan City may not be able to be defended, but there will definitely be heavy casualties.
Don't worry now, these wooden boxes are full of gunpowder and iron sand, enough to last the musketeers for a while.
But before Jin Feng and the others could be happy for too long, they suddenly heard the dull sound of drums coming from outside.
Immediately afterwards, an escort hurriedly ran down: "Sir, the Eastern Barbarians have begun to gather again!"
Jin Feng climbed onto the city wall, raised his telescope and looked to the north, and sure enough he saw a crowd of people in the Dongman camp, apparently gathering manpower.
Hai Dongqing was also released, neighing and circling over the Dongman camp.
On the sea, the group of rafts that had just dispersed regrouped to the north, and as if committing suicide, they rowed their oars quickly and rushed towards the two speedboats parked outside.
"It seems they have guessed it!" Jin Feng sighed: "I have long heard that the Eastern Barbarian Chanyu is as cunning and vigilant as wild wolves, and now it seems that he is well-deserved!"
"So what if you guessed it? We have already replenished gunpowder and iron sand. If they come to attack the city again, they will die!" Zuo Feifei, who followed up, sneered.
"Feifei, never underestimate any enemy, especially a battle-hardened veteran like the Eastern Barbarian Chanyu!"
Jin Feng warned, then turned around and ordered: "Send more brothers to unload the cargo below. The enemy's raft will be back soon!"
After all, the cargo-carrying capacity of the speedboats was limited. The iron sand and gunpowder carried by these four speedboats could only solve the immediate needs of the musketeers. Once a protracted war started, they would still have to rely on the inventory on the Zhenyuan No. 2.
If you want to send the inventory over, you must rely on speedboats to fight guerrillas and kill the opponent's raft group bit by bit.
The enemy's rafts are so densely packed that they can't be counted. And with the previous lessons learned, they will no longer gather together and wait for the speedboats to attack them. They will definitely find a way to counterattack. It's really not that difficult to completely eliminate all the Dongman rafts.
easy.
Zhenyuan 2 only brought six speedboats this time. If four more speedboats were trapped in the dock, the process would definitely become longer and bring unnecessary variables to the war.
So these four speedboats must be sent out.
Liu Tie agreed and quickly called two more platoons of escorts to go down and help.
With their help, the four speedboats quickly unloaded the cargo and rushed out before the Dongman rafts surrounded the dock.
Subsequently, fighting at sea broke out again.
However, under Hao Lianxiong's forced order, the raft group did not dare to escape again. Instead, as Jin Feng expected, they dispersed even further, and some rafts rowed farther away, intending to surround the speedboat from the outside.
Speedboats rely on their speed and catapult range advantages to maneuver around rafts.
The two sides were fighting on the sea, and it was very lively.
There is no idle space on the ground either.
In Yuguan City, the gunpowder and iron sand were unloaded and delivered to the musketeers as soon as possible.
In the Dongman camp in the north, Shanyu once again gathered a large number of troops and horses, rushing towards Yuguan City.
There was no formation call like in the TV series, and there was no pre-war mobilization. The Eastern Barbarians rushed to the strip-shaped mountain of corpses with their front legs, and the catapults launched their attack with their rear legs!
After last night's hard work, the Northern Expeditionary Army produced a large amount of ice, and the catapult no longer has to worry about it.
Ice blocks of different sizes smashed into the crowd in the north!
Pieces of cannon fodder were smashed to death and became part of a mountain of corpses.
But there were too many enemies. One of them was killed, and two more rushed up. Soon, cannon fodder began to attack the city.
However, what greeted them were muskets more terrifying than catapults!
For a moment, intensive gunshots rang out from the city wall.
Every gunshot takes the life of at least one or two cannon fodder!
The gunfire never stopped from the beginning.
The pile of corpses under the city wall was originally as high as the city wall. Although the Northern Expedition later cleared part of it, by about nine o'clock in the morning, the height of the pile of corpses once again exceeded the city wall.
This was very detrimental to the musketeers' shooting, so Jin Feng had to arrange for Wei Sheng's army to clean up the corpses and send them over to be used as cannonballs for catapults.
This time, the Shanyu of the Eastern Barbarians was determined to capture Yuguan City in one go, so even though the cannon fodder suffered heavy casualties, he had no intention of withdrawing his troops for money. Instead, he continued to drive more cannon fodder to die, obviously hoping to use up the musketry team with human lives.
ammunition.
In fact, it is not unreasonable for the Eastern Barbarian Chanyu to do this.
By the middle of the afternoon, the musketeers had consumed about 70% of their iron sand, and the enemy corpses were piled so high that the musketeers had to shoot with their heads raised.
Some cannon fodder jumped directly from the mountain of corpses, using themselves as rocks to hit female workers and Weisheng soldiers.
The Weisheng Army responsible for cleaning up the corpses was injured by dozens of people, and two unlucky ones were bitten by a large blood vessel in the neck by the enemy who jumped on them, and died before the military doctors could arrive.
The battle on the city walls was fierce, and the battle at sea did not stop for a moment.
Just when Jin Feng was considering whether to let the musketeers save ammunition, something happened at sea.
I saw a fleet heading straight for Yuguan City on the northeast sea.
"Sir, it's Donghai Navy!"
Liu Tie raised his telescope and shouted excitedly: "Zheng Chiyuan is here!"
Jin Feng picked up the telescope and saw the Navy flag hanging on the mast!
The naval fleet lined up on the sea and then quickly approached.
At the beginning, Jin Feng sold a batch of catapults and heavy crossbows to the navy, and Zheng Chiyuan installed them on the main fleet.
Through the telescope, Jin Feng saw that the catapults on the navy ships were all in a cocked state, and quickly asked someone to raise a flag and order the speedboat to retreat.
After the speedboats withdrew, the navy ships immediately launched an attack.
Although the navy throws stones, ship-borne catapults have a longer range, are more powerful, and can throw more stones.
Almost none of the rafts hit by rocks is intact!
The most important thing is that the pressure brought by the naval fleet is too strong!
This naval fleet has dozens of ships, some of which are larger than the Zhenyuan 2. Bayi Chinese website
Viewed from the raft, it looks like a hill!
After a day of fighting, most of the raft had been killed by speedboats through guerrilla attacks. Morale was already low. If not for the fear of Chanyu and Hao Lianxiong retaliating against their families, the Eastern Barbarian soldiers on the raft would have fled long ago.
The speedboat was already terrifying enough, but now so many huge warships were added to the mix, making the Eastern Barbarian soldiers on the raft completely despair!