937 Not Burning Bullets But Grenade (1/2)

Chapter 937 – Not Burning Bullets But Grenade

The Shu Lands stretched for thousands of miles. Mountains rose and fell, and there was one mountain ridge after another. They were like giant beasts sitting on the mountains, forming basin after basin.

The Shu Lands in the game were much more majestic than that of real life. The clouds and mist of the mountains lined up one after another, and the peaks stood alone with the cliffs hung all around. Rivers flowed between and around the mountains. They were like a dragon spitting water, unceasing and never stopping.

Between the clouds on top of the mountains, there were huge passes like giant war castles. They were like deities protecting the mountain paths. The mountain ridges were used to defend the hundreds of large and small basins.

Each basin was a city.

With the mountain ridges as the city walls and the pass as the city gate, the Shu Lands city planning was unique in the world. In the entire world, there definitely would not be another city with such huge city walls and such indestructible city gates.

More than half of the cities in the basins did not have city walls, and the entire basin was a mega city.

Swordsman City was the southeast basin.

Since the Dragon Legion Corps wanted to attack Jiangyang Prefecture, they needed to climb many mountains and cross numerous valleys. They needed to take down each and every pass that looked impossible to take down.

Along with the mountain paths being hard to traverse, it caused logistical nightmares. Using normal battle tactics, it would be very difficult for them to complete their quest of crushing Swordsman City.

Hence, the Dragon Legion Corps prepared four secret battle weapons, the mimicry flying device, the P2 Type Cannon, siege weapons that could be dismantled and assembled, as well as various sliropes for battle.

The mimicry flying device could disregard the geography of the battle, so they were the weakness of the Shu Lands. The 100 flying devices in the airport outside Steel City were gathered using all of the dynasty's ability. They would use these to try to take down all these passes.

The P2 Type Cannons were modified by the Industrialization Department. They were based on the P1 Cannon and designed for mountain battles. Its weight was only half of the previous model, which greatly reduced the transportation difficulties.

Of course, the P2 Type Cannon was really small, and its range and firepower were weakened by a bit. Although it was not enough to burst open the city walls of the pass, it was more than enough to blow open the gates.

The natural sciences college led by Mo Zi designed the siege chariots together with the Industrialization Department. The army could dismantle it into many parts, and then they could swiftly put them together at the battlefield.

Ouyang Shuo was impressed when he saw that.

The natural sciences college that was led by Mo Zi was undergoing a series of developments and changes on the siege weapons. Apart from the siege chariot, there was the arrow turret, the siege ram, and more.

Lastly, there were the special sliropes designed by the Industrialization Department themselves. With the help of the flying devices, the soldiers and items could easily fly over the mountains and cliffs.

These four secret weapons were what the Dragon Legion Corps were going to use to take down the Shu Lands.

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9th month, 5th day, Hengshan Pass.

Hengshan Pass was located on the southeast corner of Jiangyang Prefecture, and it was the door to the southeast. The basin behind it was the governing area of Hengshan House-Hengshan City.

Inside the pass, there were five thousand elite troops that came from the 2nd legion of Swordsman City.

After three days of tough traveling, the right vanguard led by Luo Shixin finally reached the first important pass.

Along with them were four P2 Type Cannons, 10 siege chariots, 15 three bow arcuballistas, and 15 arrow turrets.

They took so long because they had to transport all these siege weapons.

Luo Shixin rode his horse to approach the pass, only to see the cliffs on both sides towering over him. In the middle, there was a narrow mountain path. A huge pass stood on the path and blocked his view of everything behind it.

On the pass, there were war flags set up and soldiers patrolling.

To make matters even more difficult, the mountain path was not straight. The higher one went, the steeper it got. The pass was like some place at the top of the hill, and it was around half the height of the mountain.

Due to the dangers of such geography, it made it easy to defend but hard to attack.

Hengshan Pass was not a lone pass. Hundreds of miles away, at the middle of mountain, there was a border sentry, forming a perfect defense system with the main pass.

Last night, the border sentry had noticed Luo Shixin and his men. Scouts from both sides had engaged, and each side had suffered casualties.

When Luo Shixin and his men came to Hengshan Pass, the border sentry troops along the way had already been wiped out.

Hence, Hengshan Pass was already lying in wait for them.

When Luo Shixin saw that, he did not rush. He simply ordered his troops to rest up. He ordered the construction troops that followed them to assemble the siege weapons.

As the vanguard force, to reduce the load and to quicken their speed, they used military grain pills to replace grain. As such, there was no need to cook, and it was really light and quick.

For this battle, the Combat Logistics Department had really put in a lot of gold. They took out all the military grain pills they had amassed for half a year to support the frontlines.

At 1 PM, the various siege weapons were already assembled well. However, he did not give the order to attack.

Luo Shixin was waiting.

Another half an hour passed, and a thunder-like rumbling spread out from the skies. 25 mimicry flying devices streaked across the blue skies above the Hengshan Pass.

The 100 flying devices were split 50-50 between the vanguard troops. To raise the efficiency, the 50 were split in half to take turns to attack.

On the city wall of Hengshan Pass, when the defending general saw the flying devices, his eyes turned serious, ”They came as expected!”

Everyone was familiar with the Great Xia flying devices.