Chapter 257. The power of the blasting projectile!!
Although judging from the information reported from all sides before, it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to break through the undead city in front of you. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Just what has been detected so far, in addition to a large number of skeleton warriors at the cannon fodder level in this undead city, there are also a large number of elite troops at the level of skeleton knights, such a guy is definitely a sharp threat.
However, the danger in this undead city in front of him is obviously not only this, since he has encountered the existence of the "Skeleton Knight King" level that is faintly beyond the upper limit of known strength in his previous encounters on the earth, this heavily guarded undead city cannot have a similar existence, and he is afraid that such an existence is still ...... More than one.
And although the skeleton warriors who exist like cannon fodder are extremely weak, even if they are just cannon fodder, the number is still extremely terrifying when concentrated to a certain level, tens of thousands of skeleton warriors, even if a lead bullet can solve a skeleton warrior, at least tens of thousands of lead bullets are needed to solve these annoying cannon fodder.
Obviously, if you want to capture the undead city in front of you, no matter what the final result is, the price that Chopin will come out of is undoubtedly huge.
However, while encountering a huge crisis, this upcoming bloody collision is also an opportunity for Chopin to rise wildly.
Although there are currently many skeleton warriors, skeleton archers, and higher-level undead troops in this undead city, no matter how conservatively he estimates, if this battle can be won, Chopin can gain at least more than 50,000 energy points, at least!
In fact, if he could completely annihilate all the undead skeletons in this undead city, the energy he gained might be doubled, or even more!
With these power points, Chopin can build new buildings and recruit a large number of troops, and even if he leaves the "City of Chaos" at that time, even if Fordes, who now has the strongest power in the West Sea, he is afraid that he will not be able to help him.
As for the so-called 30,000 elites under the opponent's command, how can they withstand the charge of the warriors of the French Empire, as long as there are 10,000 elite Imperial soldiers of all arms, Chopin has absolute confidence and can sweep all the forces under Fordes head-on!
Of course, all this is a later story, and the premise for Chopin to expand his army on a large scale is to capture the undead city in front of him.
The advance of the army of thousands of people, the atmosphere is undoubtedly extremely solemn, from a distance, the black crowd rolling, like a dark cloud entrenched on the ground, is carrying the momentum of the mountain rain to come, silently crushing over.
When the number of ordinary armies reaches the level of thousands or even tens of thousands, it is inevitable that confusion will arise when they are mobilized, especially when different arms of the armed forces are gathered together, and the situation is particularly troublesome. However, as elite soldiers of the Empire, the advance of these soldiers appeared to be orderly and orderly.
However, compared to the speed of the cavalry and infantry, the advance of the artillery was undoubtedly much slower.
The 20 cavalry guns were dragged by eighty majestic French horses, so its movement speed was actually not slow, but the movement speed of the four 24-pounder Guards infantry guns inevitably made people a little speechless.
Like the caliber and great power of the 24-pounder Guards infantry guns, their tonnage is also amazing, although each gun is dragged forward by four cavalry horses, but the heaviness of these guns itself makes them move faster, there is no possibility of them moving faster, and even after advancing for a while, those horses must be allowed to rest for a while, otherwise, they will no longer have the strength to move forward.
Around these more than 20 guns, there is a double defense composed of line infantry and spearmen, and on the periphery, there are hundreds of cavalry responsible for reconnaissance and vigilance to ensure the safety of these artillery.
As the most important weapon in the next siege war, the strategic significance of these cannons is naturally undoubted, so these cannons and the bronze pipes that seem to be extremely shoddy are absolutely not allowed to suffer any damage.
A few days ago, seeing that those two necromancers were able to unleash fireball magic from a distance of nearly two hundred meters, Chopin's vigilance in his heart rose to an unimaginable height.
If you let strange troops like necromancers destroy all these cannons, then they will fall into absolute passivity in the next confrontation with these undead skeletons.
It can even be said directly that without such a siege weapon as artillery, there is no possibility at all for the Imperial soldiers currently under Chopin's control to capture this dangerous undead city in front of him.
Although Chopin is also a little helpless about the movement speed of these artillery, but in any case, he can't give up these cannons, what kind of jokes, as an absolute killing weapon on the battlefield, once they are arranged, they will turn into the most terrifying life-devouring beasts, whether it is the salvo of line infantry, or the charge of cavalry, or the bloody collision of spearmen, it is impossible to compare with the power of artillery after firing.
This is one of the most terrifying and efficient killing machines on the battlefield!
In the world in which Chopin once lived, the advent of artillery even changed the situation of warfare to a certain extent.
As for the time lost because of this...... Delay is delay, anyway, those undead skeletons can't escape at this time, so the delay in time is meaningless, and as long as he can successfully capture this undead city, then the fate of these skeleton warriors inside is naturally doomed.
"Let the cavalry disperse to reconnoitre, and watch for any changes in those undead skeletons."
Looking at the dense skeletons of the undead on the city wall in the distance, Chopin's brows also wrinkled involuntarily.
The closer he got to this city of the dead, the more Chopin felt an oppressive aura, which made his whole person feel extremely uncomfortable, which was an oppression from the instinct of life, which made him unable to resist at all.
"All soldiers, all vigilant, beware of the attacks of those undead skeletons."
As Chopin's words were handed down by the herald, the army, which was not fast in the original advance army, suddenly became even more sluggish.
Chopin originally thought that these undead might be ambushed or something, but the next facts proved that he was overly concerned.
As Chopin and the others approached, there were more and more skeletons swaying back and forth on the city wall in the distance.
However, from the beginning to the end, they did not have the slightest intention of leaving the city, and it seemed that they were ...... What to guard, so I am always reluctant to leave here.
The closer he got to the magnificent city in front of him, the more shock Chopin felt in his heart, and it was hard to imagine that such a city of the undead, which was absolutely exquisite even from the eyes of a modern person like Chopin, was built by a group of undead skeletons, which was really difficult for him to accept.
In the city, the houses are scattered, through the refraction effect of the telescope in his hand, Chopin can clearly see the structure of these houses, the shape of these houses is mainly circular and semi-arc, but the roads inside are extraordinarily wide, and the roads are criss-crossed, like a spider web densely spread in all directions, but if you observe carefully, you will find that the connection of these roads can make the "people" living in the houses can rush to the surrounding city walls in the first time.
However, Chopin also knew that the so-called beauty was nothing more than a haze cast by the vicious fangs of this undead city, and that if any crisis occurred, it would immediately become an incomparably terrifying fortress of war, such as ...... Right now!
In the surrounding towers, a large number of skeleton archers were quietly lurking there, just waiting for Chopin and the others to arrive, and a rain of arrows like locusts would envelop them in an instant.
In such a siege battle, the role of cavalry is extremely small, after all, no matter how burly these French war horses are, they cannot climb the nearly ten meters high city wall.
The main battlefield of the cavalry was still in the field, and hundreds or even more cavalry charged at the same time, and the power of the shaking of the ground alone was enough to destroy the morale of any opponent.
After that, the cavalry battalion was the most important, he could give the enemy the greatest casualties in the shortest possible time, greatly reducing the enemy's fighting spirit, and at the same time, he could also quickly destroy the enemy's camp, but all this was of no use to these undead skeletons who had no five senses, no mood swings, and even no pain and fatigue.
In the fierce battles with these undead skeletons in the past, Chopin's cavalry relied on their strong physical fitness, superb fighting skills, and fearless fighting spirit to defeat these undead skeletons again and again.
However, in this siege battle, the protagonist is obviously not them, but the artillery in the rear.
Therefore, their main task is to protect these artillery and artillery from any damage.
When he was still eight hundred meters away from the city of the dead, Chopin asked his soldiers to stop their advance.
At the same time, a heavy artillery was also placed, the distance of 800 meters is the best shooting distance of the artillery, this distance can not only ensure that the target is within the range of the artillery, but also form a certain buffer, if the undead skeletons in the undead city want to impact the artillery camp, it will become extremely difficult, this 800 meters distance, if you want to rush over, it is undoubtedly extremely difficult.
The Guards Grenadier and Guards Polish Cavalry were divided into two parts, one for reconnaissance of the perimeter, and the other for the two flanks of the artillery.
Although these brave cavalry could not exert much combat power in siege warfare, if those undead skeletons wanted to capture the artillery camp, they must first feel the amazing power of hundreds of cavalry charging at the same time.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry, I think I have a better suggestion."
Just as Chopin was about to give the order for a general attack, a young gunner walked up to him with a solemn face.
"Against the thick city wall in front of you, the solid iron ball may not be very useful."
After a moment's hesitation, the young gunner continued.
"Oh, so what do you suggest?"
Chopin looked at the young artilleryman who was still a little young in surprise, nodded, and then asked with a smile.
"Your Majesty, perhaps we can replace the shells first, and use the blasting shells to destroy the outer walls as much as possible."
"Blasters?"
The explosive charge of the explosive projectile is a detonation product and a shock wave that destroys the target by the explosive charge of the projectile, and the charging coefficient of the explosive is greater than that of the anti-personnel projectile and the anti-personnel blasting projectile, which is mainly used to destroy fortifications and obstacles.
However, it was in naval battles that the blasting bullets really showed their amazing power.
In the past sail battle line naval battles, it was common for solid bullets to be penetrated, but as long as it did not hurt the vital battleships, there were very few examples of sunk battleships, even if it was the famous Battle of Trafalgar, only a small number of battleships were sunk, and most of them ended the battle by forcing down or engaging in broadside battles, but the appearance of blasting shells changed this situation, in addition to causing greater wounds to enemy warships, The high temperature of the gas and debris and the shock wave formed by the powerful explosion were nothing short of a catastrophe for the traditional all-through artillery deck of the time, a complete slaughter!
This was the case at the Battle of Sinop in 1853, where there had never been such a carnage in the Battle of Sails, when the Turkish fleet was smashed to slag and easily sent to the bottom of the sea.
In this battle, the power of the blasting bomb was brought into full play, and the ship was even forced to go to armor to resist the bombardment of the blasting bombardment, which shows the power of the blasting bomb.
Chopin thought about it for a while, but decided to adopt the plan proposed by the other party.
Indeed, if you want to capture the undead city in front of you, you need the thick walls in front of you alone
It's a big problem, but it's a good decision to strike with blasters first, even if you can't completely destroy these walls, at least you can form a pretty good strike force and open up a relatively good situation.
"Well, as you said, use blasting bullets first, and then replace solid iron balls for covering strikes."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
It seemed that because his suggestion was accepted by His Majesty the King, the young gunner was also very excited and immediately agreed.
"Okay, let's get ready."
And just as Chopin was in full swing to attack the city, on the tallest watchtower in the central area of the entire city of the dead, a golden skeleton wearing a crown was "staring" at the approaching human army.
The color of the bones on his whole body is as dazzling as the sun, and his "figure" of nearly two meters is even more powerful, although there is no trace of flesh and blood on his body, but every golden bone on his body reveals unimaginable beauty, as if every golden bone is not ordinary, but made by God!
With a silver greatsword in his right hand and a staff in his left, the golden skeleton looked like a necromancer, an undead warrior, or ...... It's both.
"Human ...... Enemy...... Extermination! ”
As if thinking of something, the soul fire that flickered in the golden skeleton's eyes suddenly beat at an unimaginable frequency, but after a short fluctuation of intense emotions, it quickly gradually returned to indifference.
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