Chapter 1087.

The next morning, Wang Dust left the camp under the escort of a group of elite cavalry and headed towards the Solid Gold Pass.

The warhorse he rode stopped about five or six miles away from the city walls and carefully observed the magnificent fortress ahead.

According to the local guide, this large fortress was built in just two years, and the Great Qin side had utilized tremendous manpower and material resources for this.

And underneath the walls of the Solid Gold Pass, a large number of Yan people’s corpses and bones were also filled in!

From the outside, the fortress was impeccable, flanked by towering snowy mountains that even apes and monkeys would find it difficult to climb up, its walls were over a hundred feet in height, and the back of it was densely packed with defense towers.

Heavy crossbows were placed behind each wall stack, and artillery was set up at intervals. Qin warriors clad in basic armor patrolled back and forth with halberds in hand, a scene of tight security.

The Qin soldiers quickly spotted Wang Chen and the others spying in the distance, and immediately blew their whistles to warn them.

The shrill whistles traveled in all directions.

Not long after, several general-like men appeared on the city wall, pointing at Wang Dust.

After a few more moments, a cannon set up on the city wall steeply spewed out hot smoke and smoke, and a dark cannonball instantly discharged, whistling towards Wang Dust’s location.

“My lord be careful!”

The cavalrymen to the left and right of Wang Dust were all startled and scrambled their horses to block in front of him.

This was an indestructible artillery!

However, Wang Dust’s face did not change, and he watched motionlessly as the incoming cannonball landed a mile away in front of him, bounced up and rolled forward for some distance.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Many more cannons opened fire, but none of the shells managed to reach the edge of Wang Dust and the others.

And now that everyone had figured out the range of these defending cannons, they couldn’t help but reveal a contemptuous smile.

It was important to realize that the range of the Western Expeditionary Army, or rather the field artillery carried by Wang Dust, was quite a bit more than that of the other side.

A cavalryman snorted, “What a short and powerless one!”

Everyone burst into laughter!

Maybe the laughter was just too loud, or maybe the Qin people at the Solid Gold Pass saw their demeanor, in any case, a Qin general officer stormed out and personally loaded an artillery piece next to him.

In order to increase the range, he stuffed twice the amount of gunpowder into the chamber.

The gunner next to him tried to dissuade him, but he was slapped to the ground by the Qin general, who then shoved in a solid shell.

He also took the torch and lit the fuse.

Only heard a loud bang, the cannon instantly split into pieces and exploded, the surrounding gunners could not dodge, was concentrated by large pieces of debris, and immediately killed and wounded a lot!

The Qin general who started the whole thing was not able to escape even though he had extraordinary skills, and one of his arms was cut off.

The Qin army on the city wall was in chaos.

The knights around Wang Dust couldn’t see very well, but they could understand what was happening and laughed even louder!

Wang Dust nodded.

Although the Da Qin side had mastered the artillery and cannon weaponry, however, their craftsmanship was still in its infancy, and both the power and quality were quite poor.

There was a threat to Great Zhou, but it wasn’t great.

However, Wang Dust would never underestimate the other side because of this, because once a huge empire is fully committed to war, the energy that erupts is extremely terrifying.

Just because it doesn’t work now doesn’t mean it won’t work in the future, and after their craftsmen mastered the basic methods, they would surely continue to research and improve, eventually catching up with the technical level of Great Zhou.

This was the important reason why Wang Dust had organized this Western Expedition, not to give the other side too much time to develop new technologies.

Otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

With this in mind, Wang Dust led the crowd to retreat two miles to ensure enough safety.

Then he ordered people to draw eight squares on the ground, facing the direction of the Solid Gold Pass evenly arranged.

Next was Wang Duan’s performance time.

He stood in the center of one of the squares, holding the Seven Extremities Great Sword, and began to cast a spell.

The next moment, the ground shook, and the earth beneath Wang Chen’s feet slowly rumbled and quickly solidified to form a stone platform.

As Wang Chen continued to activate his magic power, this stone platform rose higher and higher, and in the end, it even exceeded a hundred feet in height!

This height was almost as high as the city wall of Solid Gold Pass.

The surrounding knights were all dumbfounded, revering Wang Chen, who stood on the platform like a god, to the extreme, and could not kneel down and worship him on the spot.

Such a miracle could only be created by the supreme state master!

But this was only the beginning.

From the morning to the afternoon, Wang Dust spent a day constructing a whole eight high platforms.

The reason why it took so long was because he needed to constantly recover his mana, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to sustain the consumption.

In order to speed up his recovery, Wang Chen also took out the Spirit Gathering Formation Disk and invested spirit stones to replenish himself with heaven and earth spirit qi.

Since there was a flat river in front of the Solid Gold Pass, and there were no coverings present, his astonishing actions were also discovered by the Qin troops guarding the city walls.

The Qin were uncertain and did not dare to venture out of the pass, so they could only watch and were unable to intervene.

In fact, if the Qin army really wanted to send out their troops, then what would greet them would inevitably be raining bullets and artillery shells!

When night fell, Wang Dust had people light bonfires around the high platform again to guard against a sneak attack from his opponents.

It wasn’t until the next morning that he lit up the big guys.

Eight Divine Might cannons weighing thousands of pounds were placed by Wang Dust on each of the eight sturdy high platforms!

Different from the lightweight field artillery, these eight Divine Might cannons were specially used to defend the city fortresses, extremely heavy and powerful, and the range was not comparable to ordinary artillery.

The Divine Might Cannons were not forged to be used in the field because it was too difficult to transport them, but Wang Chen, who possessed the Cang Qing Ring, was able to ignore all of the shortcomings of these heavy cannons and bring them to the front lines of the war.

The eight Divine Might Cannons were also prepared by him specifically for attacking enemy cities.

Each Divine Might cannon was equipped with dozens of gunners.

Accompanied by Wang Chen’s command, they began to skillfully adjust their cannon positions and firing angles before loading their ammunition.

“Fire!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A Divine Might cannon suddenly fired, sending a cannonball weighing hundreds of pounds towards the Solid Gold Pass.

Since all the cannons were set up on high platforms, there was no problem of attacking on their backs, and in the first round, three of the eight cannonballs landed accurately on the walls, while the other five all landed inside the fortress.

A violent explosion was instantly produced!

Despite the Qin army’s precautions, they were unable to stop the shells from falling, and they were instantly blown up to the point of screaming and wailing.

“Maintain the firepower and continue the attack.”

Wang Dust said in a deep voice, “Cavalry prepare to intercept!”

He wanted to see how long the enemy cowering at the Solid Gold Pass could endure under the bombardment of the eight Divine Might cannons!