The bronze cannons cast by the French were the most advanced in the world at that time, and because they took the lead in adopting advanced copper cannon casting technology, it became possible for the copper cannons to be able to defend the city and besiege the city to be able to conduct field battles.

Artillery has been introduced to Europe a long time ago, and it has played a very important role in siege and defense, especially in siege engineering, which is much better than the previous siege equipment such as ladders and siege vehicles, and can also enable the besieging side to win with less life. However, the early giant siege guns made of iron hoops were generally large and clumsy, and were usually improvised during sieges. It is almost impossible to move after assembly, and it needs a lot of manpower to operate, and it is very difficult to reload ammunition, and often at the end of the day, it cannot fire a few shots. At first, the cannonballs were arrow-like projectiles, but later they were replaced by stone balls. This level of artillery power often makes siege warfare a difficult tug-of-war, which can only be used as a supplement to the siege force to assist the siege.

The generations of monarchs before Charles VIII were wise and great, and they made great efforts to make the French national power flourish, slowly surpassing the rest of Europe, and by Charles VIII, the French army was so powerful and the artillery would be so advanced and devastating, you can see how great the contribution of the previous generations of French kings was.

At a time when the rest of Western Europe was still relying mainly on mercenaries for their national wars, France had taken the lead in reforming the professionalization of the military. Charles VII and his ministers disbanded the mercenaries en masse and adopted a series of important military reforms. They established the French pro-army as a fixed military establishment to maintain order, and these pro-army forces soon stabilized order in France very well. At the same time, two of Charles VII's most capable military ministers, Jean and Gaspar. The Buno brothers, established a stationary artillery organization. As Charles VIII and his ministers invested a great deal of energy, manpower, and material resources, as well as the efforts and military skills that conformed to the laws of science, advanced artillery organizations were soon made in France much more advanced in technology and structure than all other artillery organizations in the rest of the world at that time.

The French, with Charles VII's outstanding achievements in professionalizing the military and building an advanced artillery organization, easily defeated the British and drove them out of their homeland in the Hundred Years' War with the equally powerful British. For a long time, the British longbowmen intimidated the Western European giants, because of their long range and great power, they were often able to achieve tactical victories in local wars, so the British won more than lost when they faced the French ** team.

However, when France in the rise of the professionalization of the army, especially after the construction of efficient and scientific artillery organization, gradually achieved military technology advantages, and later France due to the development of copper casting technology, so that the artillery is more light and easy to move, and with the revolution of black 0 gunpowder technology, their artillery is more powerful.

At the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War, the British were caught off guard and did not expect that France would achieve such brilliant achievements in artillery technology, so they were often defeated by the French army in the field first. Because the long-range range of the longbowmen, whom the British have always relied on, seemed to be a joke in the ultra-long-range range of the artillery, and they were often bombarded by the French outside the range of the bow and arrow. Later, the French army relied on the advanced power of artillery, and was even more invincible in siege warfare, often using excellent siege artillery teams, quickly breaking through the city walls, and then rushing into the city to fight, so that the British had no advantage in defending the city. For example, during the invasion of Juyen, the Count of Dinnoy, with 6,000 soldiers and an excellent siege artillery unit, quickly captured Bordeaux, much to the surprise of the British. Later, the French artillery units made many feats in the field battles of the British, and were often able to hinder the attacks of large British forces.

After the death of Charles VIII, his son, Louis XI, continued the military and political reforms he had begun before his accession to the throne. He was one of the most capable kings in the history of France, and with his strong skills and admirable statecraft, France flourished and stabilized.

In the beginning, Louis XI's efforts to increase his central control were met with resolute resistance and opposition from the majority of the aristocracy, especially the Flemish whose territory stretched from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast. However, under the strong rule of Louis XI and his superb diplomatic skills, these opposition and resistance eventually disappeared, making France more centralized in terms of government decrees, which laid the foundation for the strength of France today, making Charles VIII's France more military organizational, military technology and economic power than other European countries. Moreover, under the rule of Charles VIII, France's national strength has also been further developed, and artillery technology has been further significantly improved, it is no wonder that Charles VIII is ambitious to conquer neighbors all day long, and even more to defeat the Ottoman Empire and restore the glory of God, because he has the capital and qualifications to do so!

Charles VIII stared at the elite artillery soldiers in front of him, and the wild thoughts in his heart became more and more uncontrollable. He thought to himself what a pity it would be if he could not conquer Western Europe and destroy the Ottomans in his lifetime, and let alone the hard work of the previous wise kings.

The artillery in front of him, after a roar, stopped and stopped firing. A group of soldiers immediately rushed over to the mountain, and began to get busy, removing the debris of the mountain rocks that had been shattered by the shelling, and dragging new mountain rocks to rebuild them into stone walls.

Before the development of French artillery technology, artillery could hardly move, and the French artillery in front of it was completely different. I saw that the cannons were light and agile, and they looked much smaller than the behemoths of the previous artillery, and they looked a little small and exquisite, but their power did not decrease at all. Trunnions are added on both sides of the center of gravity of each barrel, so that the gun can be easily mounted on a wooden two-wheel gun mount, so that it is very convenient to move, and therefore the gun can be easily pitched and adjusted left and right, and can more easily adapt to the various tactical adjustments required in the field.

The ability of the guns to be mounted on mobile gun mounts also made it easy for them to be towed using horses, and as a result, the tactical movement of French artillery was also very fast. In front of Charles VIII, there is such a scene, the cannons are driven by the mobile gun mount, quickly turn the direction, the horses are led by the skilled soldiers, and then the mobile gun mount and the horse are pulled together with ropes, about two horses pull a gun mount, so the cannon moves back quickly.

Just now, the artillery was placed about 300 meters away from the stone wall on the mountain, so the hit rate of artillery fire was very high, but now it has moved to a slightly farther place and bombarded. Charles VIII watched the horses stop after about two hundred meters, and the next step was to train the artillery technique with a range of 500 meters.

The artillery bombarded again, and the mountain was still filled with gunsmoke, but this time the destructive power was much worse than the previous one, the hit rate dropped significantly, and the destructive power was not as strong as before. However, the daily intensive training is still very useful, and the effect of spending so much material strength on training is very significant, and it is much better than a month ago, when the shooting effect of this artillery unit at a distance of 300 meters was not as good as that of today's shooting at a distance of 500 meters.

However, although the artillery is extremely powerful, but its loading speed will be maddening, the loading speed is terrible slow, seeing that after this gun, the long-range cannonball supply soldiers take the cannon, put it on the ground, move the mobile gun carriage from the angle of the muzzle looking up at the sky to almost level with the horizontal plane, and then carry out actions such as clearing. After completing a series of preparatory actions, the artillerymen began to fill the barrel of gunpowder first, then slowly lowered the round iron shells, and then slowly raised the muzzles of the guns into the sky, and the shell supply soldiers trotted all the way back to the artillery supply station to stand by. After that, the field artillery unit slowly adjusted the angle, lit the fuse, and began to bombard.

At this time, I saw Angus hunched over and walking slowly towards Charles VIII.

"Your Majesty, although our army is strong in combat and has been training for a long time, it is more of a long-range strike force, whether it is our elite archers, crossbowmen, or chilling artillery, they are all long-range attack arms, although our elite noble cavalry regiment can be regarded as a close-range meat shield class, but they are better at attacking and pursuing, and they don't seem to be good at defense." Angus said.

Charles VIII smiled and said: "Old General Angus, you don't have to worry about this, our country has been friendly with Switzerland for generations, and I have already sent people to Switzerland to hire an elite spearman of theirs to come over and conduct joint attack drills with our army, and when the time is ripe, we can take the opportunity to attack and let the countries of the mainland know the prestige of our France!" ”

After hearing this, Angus breathed a sigh of relief, so he said: "Your Majesty is wise, so you can rest assured." After speaking, he stepped back slightly, and then went to supervise the drill of the rectification artillery unit.

It's no wonder that Angus will relax after listening to Charles VIII's words, as we all know, the Swiss spearmen have always been the fearful troops of the surrounding countries, and their prestige spreads far and wide to the countries of the mainland, and even exaggerated, just by virtue of their prestige, they can scare other ** teams, and win without a fight, which is really a rare continental strong army. With the Swiss spearmen as a close protection and attack, coupled with the training of the entire French ** regiment, it can indeed make the French army almost invulnerable, and all arms, far, medium and close range are the top level of each country.

The French noble knights, like the top knights of other countries, are the same level of combat power, are rare elite corps, and the medium-range archers, crossbowmen, after professional training, the level is far beyond their peers, as for the far beyond the field artillery troops, needless to say, other countries do not even have long-range field artillery units, there is no power that can suppress this force on this continent, and in terms of foot soldiers, with the supplement of the famous Swiss spearmen who shocked the continent, they also jumped to the top ranks of the continent at once. Such a powerful French army, such a powerful France, really makes people who know the details of the story scared.