Inside the city wall, the platoon commander on duty stuck to the observation hole and yelled: "All of them, listen to my orders, everyone steady, and then let those miscellaneous pieces come over." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The soldiers of the company guarding the city wall frowned one by one, not because they were afraid, but because the platoon commander's voice was too loud, and a non-commissioned officer finally couldn't help it, he hummed and said: "Second platoon leader, you don't have to be so loud, this place is small, you can hear it." ”

"Sorry, a little nervous, a little nervous. "This second platoon commander was brought up after the first battle of Hot Spring Pass, and this is the first time he has commanded so many people.

"Ha~" His reaction made a large number of veterans below laugh, and the atmosphere that was still a little tense suddenly relaxed.

Inside the city wall, which is about 2.4 meters high, there are three rows of shooting holes in the direction of Salzburg, each row of 50, and one hundred and fifty people control one shooting hole.

On the lower edge of the shooting hole, three shelves were installed, each of which consisted of two connecting rods, a bracket, two axle rods, one end of the two connecting rods was connected together by bolts, and the other end, each with an axle rod, one axle rod was longitudinally fixed on the lower edge of the shooting hole, and one axle rod transversely connected the connecting rod with the bracket.

This shelf can be adjusted up, down, left and right, and then combined with the crossbow, it constitutes a group of shooting platforms, there are three such platforms at a shooting hole, when the angle of the crossbow is adjusted, it can be fixed with bolts, forming a crossbow machine combination of upper, middle, lower, left, middle and right three layers of striking angles.

In this combination, the crossbow machine will not be exposed to the shooting hole, so that the attacking enemy cannot know how many crossbow machines are in a hole, and the arrows are excited in three layers, which will not interfere with each other, and the angle of each crossbow machine is different, after the arrow passes through the shooting hole, it flies in a fan to maximize the angle of the strike.

When constructing these shooting holes, the company and platoon commanders who led the team did not think that this was useful, and if it were not for the commander's own design and supervision, they would not have planned to press them at all.

But now, these company and platoon commanders can love these devices, such a person can control three crossbow machines, as long as the rope is tied to the suspension knife of each crossbow machine, the direction of the crossbow is adjusted, and when firing, gently pull the rope, and three crossbow arrows will fly out at a time, easy.

These company and platoon commanders talked about it in private, and they all sighed: "If you don't say that people are commanders, their brains are different, and they can't think of such a simple device." ”

One hundred and fifty people were divided into three layers, the lowest layer was fifty centimeters from the ground, and the soldiers on this level could only sit on the ground to control the crossbow machine, which was controlled by someone with medium shooting skills.

The second floor is the same as the normal height of people, this floor is controlled by the top technical ones during the usual training, the third floor is 50 cm from the top of the building, and the people on this floor need to stand on a stool of about 70 cm to control, so this floor is the technical bottom of the people, not asking them to control the crossbow machine, as long as they can shoot arrows.

The middle layer is a bit more demanding, they need to control a ballista for accurate shooting, and the lower layer, if necessary, also control the crossbow machine for accurate shooting.

No one seemed to want to shoot accurately in this first round of shooting, and all of them were tied up with three ropes, ready to pull at any moment. Everyone looked at the platoon commander on duty, and since he made everyone laugh just now, this one was lying on the observation hole, not knowing if he was shy.

"The enemy is already 300 paces, guys prepare!" the platoon commander on duty spoke again, but this time in a much quieter voice.

In the city wall, where there was some laughter just now, it suddenly became silent, and only the sound of everyone's breathing and the sound of the platoon commander announcing the distance were heard.

"280 steps, 260 steps, 240 steps, all of them, ready~, 210 steps, 200 steps, shoot~!" The platoon commander was excited this time and didn't control his voice, but no one said him, because there was a "buzz~" sound from the city wall, and the sound almost covered his voice, and 450 arrows shot out of the 150 shooting holes in an instant.

"The upper row is positioned higher, lowered by 2 degrees, the middle row is maintained, and the lower row is raised by 1 degree!" The platoon commander immediately adjusted the shooting Zhu Yuan according to the position of the arrows in this round, and everyone moved, the upper row lowered each crossbow by 2 degrees, and the lower row was adjusted up by 1 degree, and then everyone pulled the winding ratchet 6 times in a row, and pushed the three crossbow arrows into their respective crossbow machines.

"Ready!" Someone kept saying these four words, and the platoon commander shouted loudly again: "160 steps, shoot!"

The second round of crossbow arrows all fell into the attack group of 300 people, and this time the platoon commander did not report the data that needed to be adjusted, but said loudly: "Free fire at all points!"

This time everyone is not shooting a salvo, but the fast hand shoots first, the slow hand shoots, after the shooting, and then another round of winding pushes the arrow, launches, and repeats.

After three rounds of this, one of the soldiers looked outside through the shooting hole, and then shouted: "I have a ××, why are there only so many of them!"

As soon as the soldier's words fell, the other soldiers couldn't help but look through the shots, and then heard another voice shout: "Has this state debris emptied the arsenal of Salzburg?

At this time, from the watchtowers on both sides of the city wall, the shouts of the soldiers came: "The enemy's vanguard is close to the wall, and the lower row is ready to shoot with bayonets!"

The platoon commander on duty heard the sound of the lookout post and immediately looked into the distance from the observation hole, where another 300 people pressed up in a neat queue.

He immediately ordered the soldiers in the upper row: "Upper row, adjust it by 2 degrees, block the shooting, and shoot accurately in the middle row!"

The soldiers in the middle row immediately loosened the fastening bolts of the crossbow machine in the middle, and the crossbow machine immediately moved freely in their hands, they aimed at the rebel soldiers in front of them, touched the hanging knife, and the crossbow arrows flew out with a whistling and disappeared into the chests of fifty rebels.

Wallace was a German volunteer, he was a squad leader in the 356th Regiment of the German Empire's elite infantry, a third-class non-commissioned officer, and now commanded a platoon of Romanian rebels in Frankish land.

The quality of the soldiers here was extremely poor, and they did not listen to discipline, and if it had not been for the Franks to seize the handle, he would have been scolded by the German state a few long ago.

There are a few volunteers like him, all scattered in various troops, I heard that the empire is no longer satisfied with such a small fight, they are already secretly transporting troops to the Franks, if it weren't for the forest elves refusing to open the border, it is estimated that a division will come over at this time.

Wallace thought while moving forward with his company, the company commander of this company is also a German volunteer, the rank of second lieutenant before coming here, there are quite a lot of common topics for people to come, so this time, the company commander directly transferred him to his side, and the company commander only said to him: "Protect yourself, this battle is destined to be a low-intensity offensive and defensive battle, both offensive and defensive sides do not want to fight, we must protect ourselves, don't lose our lives in this senseless battle." ”

"Why? We have 2,000 men on our side, and there will be no more than 600 people here!" Wallace asked his company commander.

"You don't have to ask, you just need to know not to rush in the first one, I estimate that we will withdraw after the second round, so protecting yourself is the first priority. The company commander said expressionlessly.

Wallace vaguely sensed that there was something wrong with this company commander, because he often got information that outsiders didn't know, and he vaguely felt that this company commander might be someone from Kruger.

Wallace followed the company commander's instructions and slowly brought his men to the middle of the group, so that they would not be noticed.

And the company commander was also controlling the speed of the advance, and the two company commanders who were originally advancing in unison now became the appearance of one company on top of the front and the other company commander following closely.

When they stepped into the circle of 200 paces of the city wall, there was finally a rain of arrows on the city, and judging from the density of the arrows, there were about 400 to 500 people in the city, and he asked the company commander next to him: "Company commander, do we still want to go up to the top? Judging from the density, there should be nearly 1,000 people in this city! You can see that there are nearly 500 crossbow soldiers alone." ”

"If they hadn't fired a salvo, I would have thought they had nearly a thousand, but now ...... Hehe, up to 600. The company commander smiled.

"Huh?

"Pay attention to their salvo in the second round. The company commander did not answer Wallace's question, but only asked him to pay attention to the second volley.

The second blow soon came, and more than 400 arrows were dropped, this time much more accurate than the first, taking the lives of nearly 30 people.

Wallace exhaled lightly and said, "The quality of the Empire's chain mail really doesn't say anything, more than 400 arrows only killed 30 people. ”

"I don't want you to see how many people you killed, haven't you noticed any problems? I heard that before you came here, you were the first killer of the 356th Regiment. The company commander glanced at him.

"There are about 150 shooting holes in this city, divided into three rows, and the rows should be 50 above and below, and the fire is very fierce, and each hole is ......shot with three arrows at the same time," Wallace said, which was a bit of a stretch.

"You also found out that the shooting hole is too small, three people at a time to shoot at the same time, do you think it is possible?" asked the company commander.

"It's unlikely, but it seems that only elves have a three-arrow crossbow machine at a time!"

"Yes, only elves have them, but that's right. The company commander affirmed Wallace's words.

"But they're all human. ”

"Frank is different from us, they have an entire elven kingdom, and it doesn't take much to get 1 or 2 hundred crossbows. The company commander continued to speak slowly.

"I understand, that means that there are only about 150 people defending here, plus rotation and reserves, there are only 400 people defending here, and it turns out that the defenders of Noyd are only 500 people, this time it must be the government army who discovered the inner ghost of the garrison regiment, otherwise the Black Wind Village cannot be destroyed, so after purging, the defenders will not exceed 300 people. Wallace spoke his speculation in one breath.

"That's right, with the troops drawn from other places, there will be no more than 600 people who can go into battle now. The company commander affirmed.