Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 40: Ancient Artillery Battle
As they were carrying a large amount of captured equipment, had lost their leader, and had to avoid the terrifying demons roaming the surrounding area, the group of eight returned much slower than when they came.

It took nearly 4 hours for everyone to reach Junshan Bridge again, and at this time, fierce fighting was still going on on the bridge.

A large number of demons crowded on the west side of the bridge, while the Hanshui City defense forces lined up on the east side of the bridge. The soldiers wearing rattan armor and holding various weapons were arranged into three teams. Whenever the demons tried to rush across the bridge, they would be repelled by a round of volleys.

After completing the shooting, the soldiers in the first row quickly retreated to the back, and the soldiers in the front row continued to fire while reloading to maintain suppression.

By repeating this process over and over again, this team was able to make up for the lack of firepower caused by the lack of automatic firearms to a great extent, and hundreds of demons were suppressed in place, unable to move.

"The tactics of the Adeptus Mechanicus are still very advanced. If the Holy Blooded Ones were to fight, they would probably just have to charge in and fight hand-to-hand."

Xu Lie, who was lurking in the distance and observing, sighed. Chen Jian nodded calmly and replied:
“It’s really advanced.”

"This firing rate is almost catching up with my Great Ming Divine Machine Battalion."

"Ming Dynasty? Shenjiying? What is that?"

Xu Lie didn't understand the sarcasm in Chen Jian's words at all, and thought that the Shenji Camp was really the powerful fighting force of the "God's Chosen Ones" in his eyes.

Chen Jian was too lazy to explain and just replied:
"In short, it is a very strong team of the same period."

"But let's not worry about this for now. They are both blocking us here. How can we get back?"

"Didn't the last Terror Demon attack take place on the outskirts of the city? Why did they push forward here this time?"

"do not know."

Xu Lie shook his head and replied:
"The defense forces of Hanshui City are mainly controlled by the Mechanicus, with only a small number of Holy Bloods performing reconnaissance and surveillance duties. Therefore, we do not have much say in their fighting methods."

"But I guess the sentinels discovered a large-scale terrorist activity and urgently organized personnel to intercept it."

"If we want to get through, we either have to take another route or wait until they finish fighting and the Terror Demons retreat."

"But to be honest, waiting like this is not a solution."

"Now that General Bloody Sun is dead, the bloodthirsty nature of these demons will no longer be restrained. They will attack at all costs until they are all dead."

"Then I don't know when the fight will end."

"The Terror Demons are not brainless. They will attack in waves, trying to wear down the city defenders' strength and then break through in one fell swoop."

"very smart."

Chen Jian nodded.

"Yes, although these demons are cruel and bloodthirsty, in a sense, they are not monsters. They have more human attributes."

As they were talking, the sound of war drums suddenly rang out from the east bank of Junshan Bridge.

Chen Jian raised the telescope to observe. Under the setting sun, clouds of dust were rising on the road.

A steam locomotive emitting black smoke drove out from the rear, its huge front towing a pitifully small carriage, on top of which was a huge
Muzzle-loading gun.

A muzzle-loading gun on an advanced hexapod carriage with steering, elevation and recoil mechanisms.

Dozens of Mechanicus members wearing pure black cloaks rushed down from the car, quickly separated the front of the car from the carriage, and then picked up hammers to hammer the steel chisels used for fixing into the ground.

"Fuck, what kind of ancient method of hoeing is this? Can this be ancient?"

Chen Jian was amazed, while Xu Lie on the side introduced:

"These are the artillery priests of the Mechanicus. They are holding ceremonies to please the machine spirits, but I think that is just a trick to deceive themselves."

As soon as he finished speaking, the "priests" had already started their work. Accompanied by majestic hymns, someone used clean water to clean the barrel of the cannon, and then pushed a terrifying demon that was captured from somewhere in front of the cannon and chopped off his head with a knife.

The priest grabbed the head that was still dripping with blood, soaked the prepared rope with the blood, and then wrapped the rope around the cannon.

Xu Lie said with a sigh:

"They believe that the nourishment of blood can prevent the cannon from exploding, but at least from my experience, there are still quite a few cannons that explode."

Isn't that nonsense?
Although this old-fashioned muzzle-loading gun still has a high tolerance rate, the presence of random things in the firing environment will still increase the chance of barrel explosion to some extent.

Hey.

Blasphemy, what blasphemy this is.

If the artillery really had a soul, it would probably want to spit in the faces of these heretics.

However, Chen Jian also figured out that their ritual of "pleasing the machine spirit" was most likely evolved from some regular cold cannon shooting procedures.

For example, cleaning the barrel, doing a hair pulling test and so on.

I don't know how it got passed around and ended up like this.
Chen Jian continued to observe. At this time, the ceremony to please the machine spirit was finally over.

The priest took out the gunpowder, scooped out a sufficient amount of gunpowder with a special container and poured it into the barrel of the cannon. He then compacted it with a wooden stick and stuffed it into a sealed cloth bag.

The next step is to load the shells.

Chen Jian looked at the priests' actions expectantly, but then, instead of taking out the shells, they took out a handful of them from the box.
Bearing steel balls.

Good man, you bought this thing and used it like this, right? ?

The priests mixed the bearing steel balls with some unknown sticky material and stuffed them into the barrel.

At this time, the preparations before the launch were finally completed. Chen Jian looked at his watch and saw that 10 minutes had passed.
Even if the time spent on the previous ceremony was deducted, it still took them a full 5 minutes to complete the preparations.

This speed, in my era, the entire artillery crew would have to be upgraded.
Just as Chen Jian hated him for not fighting, the three rows of line infantry in front had already made a gap.

As we all know, a cross-river bridge is often an inclined plane, and you cannot see the end of the bridge on the other side from the other end of the bridge.

The demons that were still trying to attack thought they had finally found an opportunity and rushed forward instantly.

The infantry retreated until they were behind the artillery.

The muzzle of the gun was raised at an angle slightly higher than a flat shot, and when the terrors rushed in and out and found the fuse had been lit, it was too late.

"boom!"

The simplified anti-infantry shotgun swept across with a roar, and the demons in the front row fell down like grass being mowed.

Immediately afterwards, dense projectiles continued to fly backwards, sweeping down a large number of demons crowded on the bridge.

The charge of the demons was instantly contained. After a brief moment of chaos, most of them began to retreat in panic. Some even forgot that they were not water ghosts and simply jumped over the guardrail into the Yangtze River.

Chen Jian keenly noticed the other party's intention to retreat, and then said:

"Xu Lie, send a signal and reveal your identity!"

"Let's take this opportunity and rush over!"

(End of this chapter)