Total War: I'm building up an army to rebel against the Qing Dynasty in a heavily modified vers

Chapter 109 Qing Army Soldiers Possessing Immense Magical Power

"Hahaha! That felt so good!"

"Fire! Fire! Bomb them!"

After being counterattacked, these Qing artillerymen, stained with blood, became even more ferocious, even exhibiting some neurotic behavior.

If someone with a discerning eye saw this scene, they would surely say that these Qing soldiers had kowtowed too much, which is why they had become so excited, even to the point of madness!

Yu Ming watched the artillerymen's performance from the rear and nodded in satisfaction.

"Those lamas' medicine is really effective! They only used a little of the new version of the longevity ointment, and they're already tireless, even more vigorous than before. It's practically a miracle weapon for warfare!"

He didn't care that his soldiers were now almost frantic, as long as they could still obey his basic orders.

All he wanted now was for his soldiers to quickly take down this damned city and then slaughter all the rebels inside!

As the General of Shengjing, it was an immense humiliation for Yu Ming to be driven into the city by a group of rebels while he was in office. Only blood could wash away the shame he carried and prevent him from being nailed to the pillar of shame.

The dwarven artillerymen in the distance were also a bit stunned by the Qing army's performance. They didn't quite understand why these guys were so crazy, but they didn't care.

In the Warhammer world, there are plenty of spells that can drive people mad, and some strange races are inherently bloodthirsty, making them even more insane as the fight goes on.

Anyway, artillery is a technical branch of the military. If they can't turn this peak performance into an improvement in their artillery skills, then their current frenzy is completely useless.

Even if they went crazy, they couldn't possibly fire the cannons more accurately. They couldn't possibly let these artillerymen just grab knives and rush up to chop people up, could they?

If that's the case, the dwarven crossbowmen will be overjoyed.

While the Qing army's artillery and the dwarf crossbowmen on the city wall were busy exchanging fire, a large number of Qing soldiers below the city were launching an attack.

The soldiers of the Polu Army guarding the city walls each carried a flintlock musket. When the enemy charged, they immediately raised their muskets and fired.

After some basic training, most of the Polu Army soldiers were no longer having any problem shooting from this relatively safe location; volleys of gunfire rang out one after another, sounding continuous.

Under the continuous firing, wave after wave of Qing soldiers fell down, creating a spectacular scene. Every time a volley of gunfire rang out, a large number of Qing soldiers would fall to the ground with a thud, many of whom would never get up again.

If it were the Qing army under normal circumstances, they would most likely not have been able to withstand such fierce volleys of gunfire. Given their lax training and lack of fighting spirit, it would have been difficult for them to continue their charge after suffering continuous casualties.

But after using the new type of ointment, the Qing army was like they had been given a cheat code. These guys were completely numb to death and injury, and even enjoyed experiencing the feeling of being covered in blood.

The more people around them died, the more excited they became.

"Damn it, have all these Qing dogs gone mad?"

One of the soldiers of the Polu Army couldn't help but curse. It was the first time he had ever seen such a brutal scene from the Qing army. To be honest, the scene really shocked him for a moment.

The countless enemies, undaunted by death, continued to charge forward, and the scene of them falling one after another put immense psychological pressure on the defenders on the city walls.

"Get ready, drop the bomb!"

Just then, Luo Ping suddenly drew his longsword and shouted.

The dwarf miners who had already entered the city and were defending it alongside the garrison nodded, then ruthlessly threw out their explosive charges.

Although these explosive charges looked very heavy, the dwarves were very strong, so even such heavy explosive charges were thrown quite a distance by them, just enough to cover a group of enemies who had just approached the city wall.

The enormous explosion was deafening; even the defenders on the city wall felt a tremor beneath their feet. The dwarf bomb's destructive power was indeed well-deserved.

Under such a devastating bombing, the first wave of Qing troops who had just charged forward were almost completely wiped out. The massive explosion and shockwave tore their bodies apart in an instant, turning everything in front of them into a bloody mess.

The Qing troops following behind were also startled by this terrifying scene, and their steps faltered for a moment.

The enormous sound and impact not only caused heavy casualties among the Qing soldiers at the front, but also brought a rare moment of clarity to the minds of the Qing soldiers behind them.

Sensing the pungent smell of gunpowder on the battlefield and seeing the scattered limbs and broken bodies in front of them, an indescribable fear welled up in their hearts for the first time.

Besides being terrified by the scene before them, these Qing soldiers were even more afraid of something else:

What exactly happened to them before?

Why did they feel like they were possessed before, unable to feel any fear in the face of such a scene, but instead excited by the death and blood around them?

Some Qing soldiers screamed in terror and turned to run away.

Looking around, one after another, the Qing soldiers, who had been stunned, suddenly snapped out of their daze and began to scream and run away. Many of them collapsed to the ground as they ran, because they realized:

After the previous fierce charge, their bodies were exhausted, and this sudden feeling of weakness made them feel like they couldn't hold on any longer.

But their escape was ineffective, because more Qing soldiers were still in a daze and continued to launch attacks.

These Qing soldiers, already driven to madness, paid no heed to their comrades in front of them; their minds were consumed only with the desire to kill.

They felt a burning heat throughout their bodies, and were in a state of inexplicable excitement. It seemed that only by tearing the enemy to pieces could they barely calm down and vent their inner rage.

So when officers behind them shouted that deserters, regardless of their status, would all be executed, these guys turned on their comrades with ferocious expressions and swung their knives at them.

Those Qing soldiers who escaped never dreamed that instead of dying at the hands of the enemy, they would be hacked to death by these comrades who had gone mad.

Until their dying moments, they still couldn't understand why these people treated them so cruelly.

Didn't they ever consider that if they fought so hard to kill deserters, when they themselves became deserters, the soldiers behind them would do the same to them?

After this brief clash, none of the Qing soldiers who had fled earlier escaped; they all died at the hands of their crazed comrades, who cruelly chopped off their heads.

Some crazed Qing soldiers, after beheading their comrades, would pick up the severed heads and begin drinking their blood. When they felt that the blood wasn't enough, they would even drag out the corpses on the ground, just to drink more blood.

When General Yuming saw his soldiers become so brutal, he was also horrified by the scene.

Although he was prepared to fight at all costs to take the city, he never imagined that his soldiers could be treated like this by the lamas. They were simply a bunch of demons!

"What...what on earth is going on? How could they go so crazy?"

Yu Ming grabbed a lama and questioned him fiercely, but the lama looked completely innocent because he genuinely felt wronged.

"My lord, I warned you about this before you used those opium pills. The frenzy and bloodlust these soldiers are exhibiting now are just side effects of the opium pills, or rather, they are part of the opium pills' enhancement of them."

"Since you're willing to use this to boost the morale of your soldiers, shouldn't you have prepared beforehand?"

Yu Ming snorted coldly, shoved the lama aside heavily, and didn't say a word.

Although he had been frightened and felt extremely uncomfortable with the scene before him, he had now figured things out.

His most important task now is to defeat these rebels, bring this war to a successful conclusion, and then, when reporting to the court, paint a rosy picture to save his official position.

Apart from that, nothing else matters.

No matter how crazy these soldiers go, or whether they will suffer any trauma as a result, it doesn't matter as long as these guys can take the city now.

If anything goes wrong with them, or if they simply go completely insane, he can always just kill all those soldiers later.

There are so many deadly things outside the Great Wall. He could easily find an excuse to launch a plague or some other reason for troop losses. By piecing together these losses and spreading them out, the court probably wouldn't blame him.

So he stopped caring, and his previously excited heart cooled down again.

The situation was not good. The dwarf miners only carried one explosive pack, and their ammunition capacity was limited. So when the Qing army surged forward again, they could no longer throw explosives to solve the problem.

As one siege ladder after another was erected, Luo Ping had completely confirmed the enemy's main attack direction and urgently shouted to the dwarf miners, "Guys, give it your all, push those ladders down!"

"Push harder, dwarf brothers, you can do it!"

Under normal circumstances, it would be almost impossible to push a ladder that has already been set up outwards.

On the one hand, the ladders themselves are very heavy, and ordinary soldiers are not strong enough. On the other hand, the ladders are never erected vertically as shown in some movies and TV shows. In most cases, they are laid on the city wall at an angle.

After all, it's too much trouble to climb up a vertical structure, and it's also easy for someone to push it away.

Create a slope so that soldiers can climb it easily, and even if the enemy has the strength to push it, they won't be able to push it to the distance that would knock it over.

But Luo Ping had made a series of preparations in advance for this war.

For example, they specially crafted a large enough iron pole with a huge fork at the front.

This thing was specifically given to the dwarven miners so they could use it to deal with enemy ladders.

The dwarves were incredibly strong. Several dwarf miners together wielded this large pole and slammed it against one of the ladders.

With a loud shout, the dwarf miners exerted their strength at the same time and actually managed to push the ladder aside with their own power!

The Qing soldiers who were climbing the ladder were incredulous. They couldn't understand how the enemy soldiers on the city wall could move such a heavy ladder.

Amidst screams, the ladder was indeed overturned by the combined efforts of the dwarves, and the Qing soldiers who were still climbing the ladder also screamed and fell to the ground, suffering serious injuries.

However, the number of ladders that dwarves can push at the same time is limited, and these Qing soldiers are not entirely relying on this method to climb the city walls and attack the city.

Some of the Qing soldiers had already started pushing the huge siege engines to ram the city gate. Although the thing looked very simple, it was very easy to use because the structure of the weapon was very simple.

A simple wooden shed, plus a thick tree trunk suspended in the air, is all it takes to smash into the city gate, and the impact is quite effective.

Boom!Boom!Boom!

The massive logs kept pounding against the city gate, making the dwarf miners blocking the gate feel somewhat stifled.

Because of the continuous impacts, the wooden door, which had already been shattered by Luo Ke in various ways, and which had just been repaired, began to break again.

After all, this wooden door had not undergone any special treatment, and its sturdiness was not very high; it was merely a temporary emergency city gate.

But it doesn't matter, the garrison on the city wall will take care of the problem.

Although the dwarven miners threw away their explosive packs, leaving the defenders without such high-powered explosives, they still had their own homemade bombs.

A soldier lit the fuse of a canister containing gunpowder and fuel and slammed it down, hitting the object below.

On the siege engine.

Although the Qing musketeers behind the siege engine were constantly suppressing the city walls, their firepower was simply insufficient to suppress the volleys of gunfire from the infantry on the walls. In an instant, the siege engine was burned into a huge torch by the homemade bomb.

The Qing soldiers hiding under the siege engines were engulfed in flames and let out blood-curdling screams.

They kept rolling around in the snow, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but the specially prepared oil, mixed with a lot of other ingredients, was not so easy to put out.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the other musketeers also concentrated their fire on other Qing soldiers who wanted to get close to put out the fire, leaving these guys with no choice but to watch helplessly as their comrades in front of them were burned to death.

"Haha, well done!"

Faced with this sight, Luo Ping couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Although these Qing soldiers were indeed incredibly fierce, they were ultimately just mortals and had not yet demonstrated anything beyond human limits.

Under their relentless barrage, these guys' siege was constantly thwarted. In the end, the ones who caused the most damage to the defenders were actually the seemingly unreliable artillerymen of the Qing army in the rear.

The dwarven ballistae had done their best; they kept attacking the Qing artillery in the distance and exchanging fire with those random cannons.

However, the Qing army brought a considerable number of artillerymen and cannons, and those guys were extremely bloodthirsty under the influence of steroids, so they didn't care about the casualties at the moment.

Even though several cannons had been destroyed and countless artillerymen had been riddled with crossbow bolts, the Qing army artillery on the other side continued to fire, causing casualties to the soldiers on the city walls from time to time.

Bang bang bang!

A muffled sound suddenly rang out, followed by a barrage of small bombs falling from the sky, destroying several tiger-squatting cannons that had just been set up two or three hundred meters away.

In addition to the dwarven ballistae, the Thunderclap Bomb troops hiding behind the city walls were also firing continuously.

When Rock led his troops out, he did not take these thunderbolts with him. Relying on their high-angle curved trajectory, these thunderbolts were still very suitable for defending the city.

Although the limited range of the thunderbolts prevented them from suppressing the Qing artillery in the distance, the continuous falling bombs successfully destroyed many of the Qing artillery pieces and also caused some damage to the Qing soldiers charging forward.

It's truly despicable that, under normal circumstances, the thunderbolt could have caused considerable damage to the Qing soldiers.

Even though the destructive effect of the thunderclap bomb is average and the explosive charge is not very large, so it is not easy to kill the enemy on the spot, it is still a bomb after all.

When detonated, the burns and flying shrapnel could injure Qing soldiers, rendering them unable to fight.

After using the drug, the Qing soldiers felt no pain at all; their minds were completely numbed by the chaotic drug.

This is why, even though many Qing soldiers were covered in blood, they continued to charge forward relentlessly, seemingly oblivious to their pain and injuries.

When Yuming saw the siege engine burned, he angrily waved his hand and ordered the lama beside him, "It's time! Drive all your wild boars up there and let them break down the city gate!"

"Where have those pigs gone? We need them now!"

As soon as Yu Ming finished speaking, the lama rang the bell, and five giant wild boars with human heads stuck in their foreheads wobbled out.

When Yu Ming saw what these wild boars looked like, he was startled again, because they looked different from before.

First, the wild boar had an extra mouth growing out of its chin. The two mouths overlapped, creating an indescribably eerie sight.

Furthermore, the cannons that Yu Ming had previously given to the lamas had all been inserted into the wild boars' mouths, as if each boar had a cannon barrel in its mouth.

Upon closer inspection, Yu Ming discovered that the cannon barrels inside the pigs' mouths seemed to be completely fused to the pigs' bodies, protruding from their mouths.

The extended flesh tightly wrapped around the cannon barrel and became one with it.

"My lord, this is the Thunder Boar we have forged. Its abilities in both charging and firing are unparalleled!"

"As long as you stuff the cannonball and gunpowder into the mouth of this Thunder Boar, the beast will automatically load the cannonball and gunpowder into the cannon and then fire it!"

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