Chapter 182: Retreat?
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“Your Highness, Qingzhou City has sent ten more cannons! And the messengers said they’ve also brought something called ‘grapeshot’!”
An auxiliary soldier shouted to Xiao Ming from the city walls.
“Grapeshot… finally here?” Xiao Ming felt a sudden urge to cry.
Producing grapeshot was an extremely tedious process. Despite the Machinery Department working tirelessly, the output had been minimal.
Though grapeshot were also solid projectiles, they were much smaller—each cannonball contained dozens, even hundreds, of tiny iron pellets. When fired, they spread like shotgun pellets, reducing range but vastly increasing the kill zone.
This was why producing a single grapeshot round was as labor-intensive as making dozens of regular solid shots, even though the material cost was similar.
Now that the grapeshot had arrived, it was the perfect weapon to repel the besieging forces. But just as Xiao Ming was about to rejoice, his expression suddenly changed as he looked beyond the walls.
“Set up all the newly arrived cannons on either side of the city gate—now!” he barked urgently.
The auxiliary soldier immediately rushed down the walls.
Xiao Ming then spotted Luo Xin amidst the chaos and shouted, “Take ten artillery crews and follow me down—quickly! There’s no time!”
Luo Xin, who had been lost in the frenzy of battle, snapped back to focus. A glance outside the walls made everything clear.