"Hurry up! Hurry up! ”

The artillery captains were shouting, and the subordinates behind them pushed the heavy artillery carriages hard, and they needed to reach the leveled artillery positions as soon as possible, and then wait for the order to open fire from their superiors. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

They were at a position of 400 meters, very close to the tall walls of the inner city, and even these artillerymen could see the archers in chain mail on the city walls, adjusting their war bows in their hands, waiting for the next siege of the city, and quickly shoot the deadly rain of arrows.

Of course, the artillerymen also heard the taunting shouts from the city walls, the infantry defending the city from time to time, and they didn't even need to raise their heads to listen carefully, they could vaguely discern that it was a curse from such a close distance.

They spat at their feet at this, as long as all the guns reached the artillery position and loaded the heavy shells into the chambers, the damn guys on the walls wanted to continue to taunt? When the time comes, let them see what real horror is!

They are the artillery of 24-pounder howitzers, and they have their own unique methods for these guys on the city wall, especially this time they brought a large number of incendiary bombs and flowering bombs, which is an important main dish for the defending troops!

"Stay away, this is the position of the mortar!"

A few artillerymen panted and carried the heavy guns, slowly placed them on the ground, turned their heads to see the two 24-pounder howitzers beside them, and shouted at them with some annoyance: "Don't interfere with your ballistics with ours, if I were you, we would be far away, not so close!" ”

Mortar is a fixed artillery, similar to the mortar of later generations, the same use of solid bullets, flowering shells, incendiary bombs, lime shells four types, and the role of howitzers overlap somewhat, but this 4-inch mortar is more powerful, faster reloading, the formation of a stronger scale of coverage, for the city's internal buildings to kill, is also the most terrifying.

The howitzer is a kind of field artillery, and it is more often used by the troops in the field, and the siege is only one of the effects, so it is slightly worse than the mortar specially used for siege.

Mortars were used to siege cities, so howitzers were used to bombard soldiers on the city walls, as well as to bombard enemy troops who tried to attack the area. In particular, howitzers are highly accurate, and as long as the trajectory and firing location are estimated, a corpse can easily appear in the enemy's troops at a distance of thousands of kilometers.

"The artillery positions are all ready!"

On the leveled open ground, a large number of artillery pieces were lined up one after another, which was quite intimidating, and even the defenders on the city wall who were still taunting were now dumbfounded for a while.

20 12-pounder infantry guns, 40 24-pounder howitzers, 10 4-inch mortars, a total of 70 artillery pieces are all lined up in the front of the city wall, even the defenders on the city wall have already found out that something is wrong, even if they are confident, the city wall under their feet can even block the huge stones thrown by heavy trebuchets, but in the face of so many artillery, they palpitate.

That's right, it's heart palpitations, many elite guards in the inner city wearing chain mail subconsciously bowed their bodies, half-squatting behind the additional breastwork on the city wall, looking out through the concave and convex shooting port, their faces were a little solemn, and they clenched the crossbow and war bow in their hands, not knowing what to do.

They didn't know how to deal with the dwarven artillery, and the bed crossbows, ballistas, and small trebuchets on the tower were all on standby now, and they couldn't reach a range of four hundred meters, and they didn't pose much of a threat to the troops of Cape Town.

Even the mages in black hoods on the city wall had gloomy faces, and clenched the staff in their hands, if the enemy did not attack, then they would continue to spend time here, although they were not afraid of war, but they did not want to waste time here.

These are all high-ranking magicians, and if it weren't for the agreement in the Doge's Castle, they wouldn't have appeared here, and from past experience, no one can do anything to them, but the victor has to win them over.

The original rebel viscount almost set off a huge tsunami in Gray Mist City, and he didn't win over four or five magicians behind his back, in order to have some high-end combat power, after all, relying on those garbage infantry alone, no one could achieve a real victory, this is already a regular fact.

Therefore, these magicians were a little irritable, and the Cape City troops outside had not launched an attack for half an hour, so they walked towards the inside of the tower, planning to rest first, after all, they were already forty or fifty years old, and their body bones were beginning to weaken.

But after these magicians entered the tower, the smell of gunpowder smoke had begun to fill the artillery position outside the city wall, which had been completely placed, because just ahead, Levi's raised hand had been slowly lowered, and the tongs had also lit the fire rope at this time, and there was green smoke bubbling from it.

The surrounding artillerymen were all half-squatting on the ground, covering their ears tightly with their hands tight, and clenching their mouths with their eyes closed, they were already mentally prepared.

Levi and the privates, as well as the Barbary pirates, also quickly retreated, as if there was some huge terror about to break out in front of them, and they also covered their ears without any scruples, just opened their eyes to see the wisps of green smoke drifting, and finally entered the cannon chamber from the fire rope, and time was trembling.

"Boom Boom T

The terrifying wave of qi seemed to be frozen, and then exploded under the double blessing of space and time, a violent wind lifted the dust and earth on the ground, and spread wildly towards the surroundings with that incomparable instantaneous temperature, and the flames had also risen into the sky, accompanied by a terrifying sound that could shake the eardrums, completely appeared in this world.

20 12-pounder infantry guns were firing in a salvo, and the heavy solid iron ball roared out of the cannon muzzle, and smashed heavily towards the city wall with terrifying force, and at least a dozen of them were aimed at the iron solid wooden city gate, as well as the outer iron gate composed of fences!

"Bang bang

There was a heavy crashing sound, and the iron gate was twisted in an instant, and the solid wood gate didn't even block the shot of the dozen solid iron balls, easily bending and shattering the iron fence gate, and smashing the solid wood gate into pieces, and the tattered and bare bare gaps.

And there are also seven or eight broken stones on the surrounding city walls, obvious dents appear on the walls of these stones, and there is even an unlucky elite archer in the inner city, who did not stand firm and fell down directly, the chain mail worn on his body increased the force of inertia, his head hit the ground and his neck twisted, and his spine was pierced out in blood, obviously he couldn't live.

This is an unlucky guy, but his original companions didn't care about the death of this unlucky guy, because they all subconsciously raised their heads, clenched their weapons, and watched the exquisite curves in the sky that cut through the void, and then exploded above their heads!

"Crackle crack

A strange small explosion sounded, and forty iron-wrapped shells exploded in mid-air, and according to the ballistic calculations of the artillerymen, they exploded more than ten meters above the heads of the soldiers of the garrison of these city walls, with some kind of small flames, which seemed to be not very powerful, and they were shot crookedly.

But this is the typical tactic of the 40 howitzers, which are air-burst flowering bombs, each flowering bomb is filled with dozens of tiny iron balls, and with the explosion inside, a dense steel rain is formed, and it is forty flowering bullets and thousands of tiny iron balls, forming a metal rainstorm!

The metal iron ball easily pierced through the elite guards of the inner city who couldn't dodge one by one, and the helmets and chain mail on their bodies couldn't stop the iron ball that shot directly at all, the kind of iron ball that was instilled with the instant power of the gunpowder explosion easily pierced their armor and body, and shot deep into their bodies!

Only the soldiers hiding in the towers could survive the road, and the soldiers on the front wall and gate were almost instantly swept away by the flowering bullets, and hundreds of people were killed as a result, which was equivalent to a piece of the city wall losing its defense and suffering heavy losses for them!

But their fear had not yet dissipated, because as the cannon fire continued, there was another series of slight explosions in the sky, and most of the soldiers were lying on the city wall with their heads down, and subconsciously looked up, only to find that this time it was not a terrible metal rainstorm, but a dense white powder sprinkled with white powder.

They breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, but before they could get up and hide in the tower next to them, a breeze howled, swept up the white powder, and blew directly into their faces and eyes, and then a fiery sting pain appeared, making them wail loudly, covering their eyes and rubbing vigorously, and even rubbing a large amount of blood!

This is a lime bullet, an excellent artillery shell used to counter personnel and anti-cavalry, although the instant kill is not as good as the flowering bomb, and the continuous destruction is not as good as the incendiary bomb, but these sprinkled and added auxiliary quicklime are the biggest threat to the soldiers who do not cover their eyes, even if it is a small point into the eyes, if it is not cleaned with vegetable oil, it will be quickly blind in a short period of time and lose combat effectiveness.

Even if the skin is contaminated with quicklime, it will gradually heat up, causing their skin to be burned, creating an inaccessible section of terrain in the area where the quicklime falls.

Even the cannonballs that hit the cavalry in the middle of the cavalry and the lime stirred up by the horses' hooves, combined with the strong winds that appeared during the charge, would make the horses and knights enjoy the feeling of a fiery hell.

Now appearing on the city wall has made these soldiers let out a wail of pain.