Chapter One Hundred and Ninety Nine: The Siege of Disaster
"Hayin! Fujiwara Guibenggumi, light the fire!"
So far, a total of six divine cannons have been mounted on this city wall. As the fuses were lit, everyone stepped back and violently held their ears.
There was a moment of silence on the entire city wall, but then there was the earth-shattering sound of six consecutive cannons!
"Boom boom boom..."
The cannons at an elevation of 45 degrees were fired one after another, and the terrifying explosion power sent the iron-wrapped napalm bombs three thousand meters outside the city.
Six explosions of fire appeared among the thorn monsters, and the fireballs soared into the sky, seemingly forming six star-shaped mushroom clouds, and shock waves visible to the naked eye spread.
Fiery flames scattered in all directions, directly igniting the thorn monsters around the explosion. The iron sheet wrapped on the napalm bomb instantly turned into billions of molten jets after the explosion, and the liquid rubber carrying the burning napalm bomb turned the entire battlefield into a Sea of fire.
The warm scorching waves returned with the shock wave, and the winter cold was swept away in an instant. The temperature in Kyoto seemed to have skyrocketed by dozens of degrees.
Raging flames burned on the battlefield, and those monsters that looked like they were spiritually polluted at first glance were ignited with fire. The flames ignited their sea urchin-like wooden thorns and burned more and more vigorously.
Looking at the effects of this round of shelling, Li Wei felt very satisfied.
The cannon can send its napalm bombs to explode more than 3,000 meters away. In this era, cannons with a range of more than 3,000 meters are at the level of dimensionality reduction strikes.
You must know that the trebuchets and crossbows with the longest range in the shogunate have a range of less than 1,000 meters, and their killing range is too small, making operation extremely troublesome.
Not only that, because the core of the cannon's shell is Levi's napalm bomb, the killing radius of each shell is hundreds of meters wide.
However, his cannon here seems to have been given the name "Guobeng" by the indigenous warriors.
"Fujiwara Kuniboshi, clean the gun barrel, water it to cool it, and load it with explosives again!"
"Drink!"
The warriors continued to prepare for the next round of firing, and the enemies a few kilometers away had just been blown away, but the thorns were particularly tough.
Even though the bodies of many monsters were physically torn apart and large areas of their bodies were ignited with flames, Levi could feel the flames drying their exposed wood thorns in the wind and burning like dry firewood.
But despite the raging fire, he still walked toward Kyoto with abnormal steps.
Therefore, Levi can judge that this kind of monster is not a demon, but more like the mutant under the mental impact of the inverted spire he encountered in the previous copy.
That is, weird derivatives.
Li Wei looked in the direction of Mount Atago. He didn't know what was going on there. Shouldn't it be the base camp of the shogunate's coalition forces? Why were there so many weird derivatives?
Because it was too far away from Mount Atago at this time, standing on the city wall of Kyoto could only see the protruding peaks, and it was completely impossible to tell what was going on inside.
The thorn monsters are still pressing forward. Even though the shelling just now seems to have caused a lot of damage, there are too many of them, and they are densely packed like a sea wave.
Even the thorn monsters at the front were covered in a lot of flames, and many wooden thorns could be seen burned through, and all the wood structures on their bodies were carbonized, but they were still able to move forward slowly as if they were not affected.
No pain, tireless.
"Fujiwara Kunibo-gumi, second salvo, ignite the fire!"
As the thorn monster advanced, the elevation angle of the six cannons was slightly downward, and they fired in unison again.
Huge fireballs shot up into the sky, and the monsters were still blown over, but their bodies were burning with flames. After stabilizing, they continued to advance nearly two kilometers to the city wall at the same speed without haste.
"Why, even such an attack can't stop the progress of this monster!" A warrior beside him looked at the thorn monster that was still advancing slowly, and panic filled his heart again.
It's like going to Ami's Crystal Lake and seeing a child wearing a hockey mask. You were panicked to death at first, but after a few American Iai kills him, you finally breathed a sigh of relief and found that the monster was actually
He was as frightened as if he could bear a bullet and rush at him.
At this distance, the people on the city wall could faintly see more details on the thorn monster.
"That's the family crest of the Minamoto family...these thorn monsters are all Hatamoto samurai of the Minamoto shogunate!" someone said.
"No, I also saw the clothes of the Akamatsu family in Himeji Castle."
"And the Shimazu family of Satsuma Domain..."
"And the Nara family in Nara Castle in the south..."
As one warrior after another with good eyes revealed the identity of the thorn monster, the entire city wall became commotion.
If it were just monsters or weird things, the samurai wouldn't be so panicked, but with this kind of half-human creature, when it happened to be seen that these monsters were transformed from humans, it was like touching the switch of the uncanny valley.
"Keep calm and keep firing!" Li Wei ordered. The warriors recovered from the commotion. When they saw Li Wei, they seemed to have found their backbone.
I don't know since when, they all assumed that Li Wei was a god, and there were even rumors of "the great god of gold and iron".
Maybe it's the ability that Levi has always shown, or the shock of the interceptor factory as if the base vehicle is rising, or maybe it's Yinwa itself and the assembly line factory it produces.
It could also be that the firecrackers, detonating and losing fire, and the current national collapse have occurred one after another, which is too far beyond this era.
They will naturally tend to use myths to explain things they don't understand.
With the rounds of shelling, the advancement speed of the thorn monsters has indeed dropped a lot, and the overall number has also been reduced visibly to the naked eye.
The samurai seemed to see hope of victory, but at this time the barrel of the Divine Cannon was overheated, and no matter how much water was poured to cool it down, it was of no avail.
The thorn monster came to a road within the city wall. This distance happened to be a distance that conventional weapons could not attack.
And they could only watch anxiously as this monster approached slowly, but they were helpless.
Under such circumstances, there was a brief silence on the battlefield again.
Until the monsters came within three hundred meters, they fired volleys of muskets and bows and arrows. However, in the face of these monsters that were pushed back by cannons, even if they were hit by musket bullets with spiritual power, they only retreated slightly, and sawdust fell off their bodies.
That's all.
As for bows and arrows, they cannot cause any damage when thrown from a long distance.
Until the first thorn monster came under the city wall, at this moment, its body exploded, and a large number of wooden thorns flew everywhere, piercing the city wall of Kyoto and the surrounding ground.
Immediately, the exploding wooden thorns began to spread, and the roots even opened the masonry of Kyoto's city wall, causing obvious cracks to appear on the Kyoto city wall.