Chapter 43: Siege Warfare
"This battle has exposed many problems, it is still very inconvenient to use muskets in close combat, and it is still very inconvenient to develop bayonets? Forget it, how can kobolds feel unreliable with bayonets...... Next time, I should make more pistols, maybe it can start to work. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Also, the dog head has no cavalry, this is really not noticed, you can't ride a horse, right? Do you let the dog head ride a donkey? I really don't ......have a clue at all."
In order to avoid the recurrence of Brother Long's tragedy, this time Niu Jingtian personally sat in the vanguard company, but after killing this hundred-winged demon, there was no large-scale enemy on the road ahead, probably, this was the enemy's biggest wave of assault.
A day later, the tired army of kobolds came to a small hill, and Niu Ida and others also saw this small castle on the high ground for the first time - the mountain lion fortress.
The fort is a square, stone-made fortress that bears a resemblance to a reef fort and is built on a 20-metre-high hill.
On the battlement wall of the fortress, a group of minotaurs were eyeing each other, and in the corners of the city walls, several simple counterweight catapults stood there, looking very crudely crafted.
Ushiida: "It's the size of a residential building again, and it seems that this is probably the size of other small castles in this world." The little ones, encamped on all sides, surrounded me with this castle. ”
Xu Ping'an: "After building the cannon for so long, it can finally be demolished......"
Brother Long: "Hey, hey, do you want to draw a circle on the wall and write a split word in it?"
Kobolds are all happy: Woohoo, fresh meat!
In the winter of the Trem Kingdom, although the temperature only hovers around freezing, it is still very difficult to carry out civil engineering work, and Ushiida does not take this kind of small castle very seriously-it is a waste to install hundreds of demons if it is dead, and to build four wooden barracks.
So, the kobold simply used the shuttle bus to surround four large circles, which was considered a barracks, and then added some fence mounds to plug leaks, and found some wells around to fetch water for fire prevention, and the camp was alive.
In the middle of this, the mortar fired a few rounds, destroying all the catapults of those demon cottages, and the effect that these looks can play is to waste a little shell.
At dinner time, several traversers get together for a combat meeting.
Xu Ping'an: "The artillery is all in place according to your arrangement." There were three six-pounder guns in each camp, two mortars were arranged at the north and south gates, and twelve pounder cannons were arranged without seeing the city gates from east to west. ”
Brother Long: "Each camp has a company of arquebusiers and a half company of reserves, just waiting to start!"
Niu Jingtian kept rubbing his hands excitedly: "Kukuku~ I can finally do a big job! According to what I said before, I am in charge of the North Camp, Xu Ping'an is in charge of the South Camp, and the rest of the people will go to the West Camp." By the way, there is no one to lead in Dongying, so let Ma Qianzhi company commander take the top, and I will leave the reserves there, it should be no problem. According to the plan, at one o'clock in the morning today, artillery was fired simultaneously in four directions!"
On a winter night, the cold wind gusted, the countryside was pitch black, and even the kobold camp was not a trace of light, except for the mountain lion fortress, where there were dotted torches, swaying with the wind, dragging out a long shadow.
But the area around the castle was not quiet, and the noisy kobolds rang from day to night, and the sound of howling was in unison.
Although it was said that the general attack was planned at 1 a.m., no one showed ......
The kobolds were also accustomed to the unreliable king, and as soon as it got dark, the kobolds in the four camps began to line up in a mess to push carts and arrange troops.
Niu Jingtian flew around in the sky, so he had to change his order: "It's no good to drag it down, it's so cold at night, it doesn't matter, the mortar cannons fire! Other artillery, one slow fire in five minutes...... Doesn't seem to have a watch? uh...... Attention to the artillery squads, for every 5 rounds fired by the mortars, you will fire one shot, focus on the firing port of the castle, and try to make a hole!"
The kobolds moved in an orderly manner, the gunners aimed carefully and recorded the landing points, the musketeers were stationed in the carts, waiting for new tasks, and there were also groups of kobolds boiling water and cooking in the back, busy but not chaotic.
Flames erupted around the mountain lion fortress, deafening cannon roars, and the sound of the ground shaking and shaking can be heard for kilometers away.
Tesfir and the others yawned, but unfortunately the cannon rang out, and everyone could only squat there to watch the excitement.
Tessfield: "I'm sleepy, huh, why is this castle so brittle?"
She pointed to a stone exterior wall on the hill, which was covered by a small six-pounder cannon, one hole at a time, and the entire wall collapsed after a few shots.
The same story takes place in all directions.
Xu Ping'an thought thoughtfully: "There must be a reason for this...... Maybe this world is dominated by swords and sorcery, and there is no need to think about the threat of siege engines, so the walls are much weaker than they seem?"
Niu Jingtian: "Since it's good news, then the old man is not welcome, mortars, concentrate on attacking the city gate! Other artillery, change to mortars every three times, shoot one shot!"
So, the sound of cannons rang out all night, and at dawn, when there was still more than half of the gunpowder left, the walls of this mountain lion fortress were broken away piece by piece, and the gates of the two castles in the north and south that were bombarded by the mortar cannons were even more collapsed and could not be identified in their original form.
Ushiida, who was flying around: "Okay, this is stable, the artillery stops firing, save me some gunpowder, musketeers, now line up!"
Several traversers also had dark circles under their eyes, and Xu Ping'an ran over and asked, "This time it's almost over, right?" I didn't expect this to be as thin as a decent castle wall. What's next? Street fighting?"
Brother Long: "Yes, captain, let the dog go, I remember you are quite good at street fighting." ”
Niu Jingtian: "Kukuku~~ Don't be kidding, I'm only good at abusing vegetables, I haven't fought street battles, and those few battles in the tunnels are called chicken stealing battles." Tell the dogs in your camp, touch them with shields, and at a distance of a hundred meters, put their guns and be ready to run away at any time!"
As the sound of the cannon disappeared, one after another, the gray-headed minotaurs ran out, they were heavily armoured, and they were also very good at throwing axes, and then the kobold muskets had a range of up to 100 meters, and there were dozens of guns in each direction, and these giant beasts couldn't turn up the slightest wave.
More minotaurs are trapped inside the fortress, the collapsed building structure has smashed many demons, and the rest are also trapped in the ruins, waiting for a tragic fate.
The kobolds, who dragged on the battle until the afternoon, occupied the four walls and the top floor of the fortress, during which there were several small building collapses, and the interior of the castle, which was mainly made of wood, was riddled with holes from several hours of shelling, and now completely collapsed into a pile of rubble.
After the collapse of the mountain lion fortress, the structure of the chaos is indescribable, the dog heads stand on the ruins of the upper layer of the fortress, carefully pick up all kinds of building materials, and from time to time to fire a few shots into the cracks of the ruins, the battlefield has become a big construction site.
Ushiida flew over the castle with confidence, and his hearing far beyond ordinary people came in handy at this time: "Each platoon is responsible for one piece, don't run around." Here, here, it's quiet down there, you guys hurry up and move bricks, I have a space bag here. Watch out there, there are a few breaths under the plank, come and shoot a few shots!"
The most troublesome thing about digging the ruins is all kinds of construction waste, but with the space bag of Tesfield, the workload is reduced by ninety percent, especially the kobold has his own miner talent, and the excavation progress is fast.
"Oh no, there's a big group of demons under this floor, everyone spread out and find cover!"
Smoke and dust rose everywhere, and a ruin was torn up from the bottom up. A large group of heavily armored minotaurs, surrounded by several even larger winged demons, appeared in front of everyone.
Niu Ida turned around and ran: "Shoot! Free shot! Everyone find cover!"
A small kobold, as long as there is a hole of more than 30 centimeters, can come and go freely. The kobolds of a company around were not afraid, and they set up more than sixty arquebuses with a roar, and shot wildly, and the demons who were still looking for a foothold poured a piece of wheat like a wheat.
With a heart-rending roar, the survivors of the demons began to fight back. They trampled on the corpses of their companions and crawled out of the ruins, starting with a giant winged demon that was nearly three meters tall, and if it hadn't broken one of its wings, the hunted person might have to be replaced by Ushiida.
"Support, support, others come to support, find cover, don't get caught by them!"
The power of the giant demons is very terrifying, the wooden stakes with thick human legs, they can be broken with one hand, and in a few breaths, more than twenty giant beasts cleared a clearing and began to hunt gopher-a-mole, looking for kobolds who were drilling around.
The kobolds gave full play to their agility talents, and Niu Ida only saw that the ground was full of dogheads, and the sound of swishing came and went, and these demons couldn't even rub the corners of the kobolds' clothes.
"Do you want to use the transformation ring? Blue Dragon's EFI should start to work...... But I still want to keep it and become a troll, otherwise the corpse will be broken and I won't be able to recruit dragon tooth soldiers......"
Over there, Ushiida was still struggling, and here something happened again - the demons were too heavy, especially smashed a lot of wooden stakes, so the second collapse suddenly happened - the ground collapsed a large chunk, and a group of demons fell back to the next floor.
While it's only a matter of time before they climb up, a little bit of time is enough to change the situation. Don't be too happy with the kobolds, such a good output position is really rare, hundreds of kobolds jumped over, crackling a series of gunshots, the heavy smell of blood mixed with gunsmoke, everywhere, the devil's counterattack drew a stop.
The huge winged demon ate seven or eight shots, like bloody people, spread there, and occasionally a few lucky monsters escaped, but the kobold gunners who went forward took turns shooting, and the last trace of threat was also snuffed out.
Next, the sound of scattered gunfire rang out all afternoon, and the tireless Ushiida, with the kobolds, turned the castle upside down, and even found a few secret tunnels, fortunately these tunnels were very narrow, and the demons could not use them, as for food, weapons, gold, silver and jewelry, they were full of dozens of carts.