Chapter 111: Under the Flying Rope
The 18-pounder gun, which was difficult for ten people to move, was told to turn around at this time when the flying iron ball hit the muzzle of the gun, and a small hole appeared in the barrel of the gun, indicating that the cannon worth a thousand gold coins had become a pile of scrap metal.
Cockburn felt a pang in his heart, although he had long guessed that the cannon would be destroyed, but he could only feel the powerlessness and anger when it happened right in front of him.
No, there are still two artillery pieces, and it's not good to be destroyed. What's more, the opposite side is not a hundred shots, and now taking advantage of the gap, you can also scare and scare the opposite side by firing two guns yourself.
"Come on, fuck it, get out of here, I don't usually raise you to hide here like rats now. ”
Cockburn yelled at the artillerymen in the trench and climbed out of the trench himself. When he saw that he was still unwilling to move, he drew his knife and slashed at the back of his knife.
The artilleryman watched the commander climb out as well, and of course he could not continue to hide. And the quasi-head on the opposite side is not as powerful as imagined. Du Lisuo manipulated the artillery.
"The distance is one thousand three, the elevation angle is thirty, the azimuth is two hundred and six, solid bullets. ”
The artillery platoon commander still followed the order just now, and judging from the results of the battle just now, he was relieved that he was still in the right direction. After five shots, I finally found the right position, otherwise I would have been stressed a few more times. After all, the division commander Bessen was watching from the side.
At this time, there was some movement on the opposite side in the telescope, and the enemy began to crawl out of the trenches and began to counterattack. The platoon commander hurriedly gave the order, for fear of missing the fighter.
"Stop shooting, stop shooting. ”
The soldier who was just about to stuff the solid bullet into the chamber of the gun hurriedly stopped what he was doing.
"The distance is one thousand three, the elevation angle is thirty, the azimuth is two hundred and six, and the stone bullet. ”
The order was given again, and the soldiers hurriedly replaced the solid bullets with stone bullets.
Coburn looked at the hurried artillerymen and couldn't help but feel resentful. This group of waste, even a cannon can't be fired, and they have to personally supervise the battle. If you don't make it, the next cannon will fall on your head. At the same time, Coburn's ears were also alert, and as soon as there was a sound of breaking through the air, he immediately jumped into the trench.
In Coburn's nervous and nervous mood, the artillerymen finally loaded their ammunition and ignited it. I don't know if it was an illusion or a real thing, Cockburn felt that the artillery on the other side came a little late this time.
Indeed, changing from solid bullets to stone bullets requires an additional process, loading. Because the stone projectile was fragile and could not withstand the impact of gunpowder, it had to be dragged with a layer of padding. As a result, the hurried Coburn was able to seize a slight opportunity.
Bang, bang.
Two cannon shots, with Coburn's expectation and the luck of the artillery, two irregular iron bullets flew out.
This lead gave Cockburn and the artillery a glimmer of hope in their hearts, and there was still a chance to turn the tables!
Beson watched the shells fly with his own eyes and did not panic at all. The cannon was fired without aiming at the opposite side, and there were ghosts in those who could hit.
Suddenly, I felt my shoulders sinking, and someone patted me. Look back, Bald.
"What's going on, the cannon is constantly firing. ”
"It's boring, look at it, the other side doesn't even know how to shoot the cannonball, and it is estimated that they themselves don't know where the shells flew. ”
Besson said with a sigh, as if to lament that this was too unchallenging.
Balde took the telescope that Beson had brought, and a cannonball hit the ground fifty meters in front of them. A puff of dust was raised, and to Balde's side, only a little dust was on his feet.
"I also said that I couldn't beat it accurately, if I deviated it again, we would be finished. ”
Balder said curtly.
"Luck, luck. ”
Indeed, there was a shell that landed directly in the mountains next to the road, blowing up a pile of grass.
The four guns roared, and the stone shells were blasted in the opposite direction.
Cockburn heard the sound, and this time he could clearly feel that the sound of the shell was different from the previous time, the same as the previous times.
Jumping into the tunnel, of course, there are more than a dozen artillery figures at the same time, it seems that it is still beneficial to be bombed too much.
The archers in the mountain trenches on both sides were stunned when they saw this scene, it turned out that it seemed that the elderly General Cockburn could be so fast.
The most unlucky thing was the artillery who didn't come and hid in a hurry, and this time the direction of the stone bomb was also targeted.
One soldier was particularly lucky, and his brain hit a stone bullet directly.
One by one, the blood mist burst out, and this time there were no wounded soldiers, and they died directly on the spot, and the whole corpse could be left behind.
This time I didn't dare to touch the artillery again.
Next is the solo of the Iron Fist Army, and one iron bullet after another is smashed. Cockburn looked at the once proud cannon and wished that it would break down quickly, so that he would never have to endure the devastation of the shell again.
After eight rounds of salvos from the Iron Fist, those guns were finally damaged. The Iron Fist stopped shooting.
Strangely, Cockburn, like all the soldiers, breathed a sigh of relief that the artillery was finally broken. My ears were finally cleared for a while.
Seeing that his goal was achieved, Beson began to plan for the next step, and then began to perform. He's going to tell Rune the others about how to compare it to the Iron Fist. Other armies play with artillery like children with long knives, and they don't get started.
The remaining two guns slowly moved forward, the difference was. These two guns are no different from the four guns used, the emphasis is on the shells!
This time the shells were two shells connected by iron chains.
It was originally an artilleryman's whim, thinking that two shells would rotate around the chain in the air, so that they could hit more people than one shell along the way.
But with the advent of scattershots, this is no longer the case.
But now this shell has worked, and Bessen has improved this shell even further. The shells were also attached to a long chain of iron cables. After flying over the river in this way, a temporary chain bridge can be erected by the way. This will be great for their own river crossing.
Of course, it is impossible to fit the theory perfectly, and Besson has done a lot of training before. Now these artillerymen have undergone a great deal of training before, and this time they have a greater certainty of hitting with one blow. And this time their target was also the artillery on the opposite side, where the previous bombardment had blown out many boulders. To wrap these two small balls around the boulder in them, of course, it is better to be on the artillery.
By the way, there were three hundred infantry in the back who were responsible for covering, with full-length flintlock pistols in their hands.
Cockburn cautiously poked his head out and watched the Iron Fist change. Soldiers with long sticks, two artillery pieces that kept approaching.
The main thing is that they crossed the four guns that had just been fired, and they were still getting closer.
Is it necessary for the artillery to be fired so closely? It seems that the other side has a new tactic, but what tactics? Anyway, the other party's move is to be against themselves.
The Iron Fist was still getting closer, knowing that the range of the ballista was still advancing.
Cockburn doesn't care what happens on the other side, now that the Iron Fist is in range, he is going to start fighting back.
One by one, the soldiers on the hill began to slowly pull the bowstring of the crossbow bed.