Spring thunder?

This is the first thought of some quick responders.

In the short spring before the end of each winter, the warm, moist air that begins to warm up and the remnants of the cold snap in a fierce confrontation cause vertical convection, forming cumulonimbus clouds and causing thunderstorms......

Of course, the nobles of the riverbend will not know much about the meteorological principle, but they can at least summarize the pattern from their own experience: once the thunder starts, it means that summer is coming.

At the moment, although the temperature has risen slightly to around freezing, it is thundering......

Maybe it's too early, right?

The hesitation and confusion lasted only a few seconds, and soon they realized that this was not what they thought was going to be—after all, thunder would never be accompanied by the chaos and screams of people rolling around.

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Due to the existence of King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, the Blackwater River is one of the most famous rivers in Westeros, but in fact, it is far inferior to the Trident River and the Mandeb River in terms of length, water volume, and river width, and it is not even ranked in the top three in the Seven Kingdoms.

But even such a medium river, even during the dry season of winter...... It was also more than 100 meters wide near the mouth of the Night's Watch Industrial Park, and the mudflats of the riverbed, where the soft, wet ground was not strong enough, and the 100-meter distance between the Southern army battalion and the retreat from the river bank to avoid the threat of ballistas and catapults......

It can be said that the large battalion of the Southern Army was completely outside the effective range of the first-generation artillery equipped with the artillery on the north bank.

However, "effective range" is not a rigid physical parameter after all, but a human concept, which only makes sense when accuracy and power are required, and Egger's current goal is not to accurately shell, but to throw shells into the camp of the Southern Army to create panic.

In this case, it is not the effectiveness that should be considered, but the maximum range.

How big is the gap between the two?

It's hard to generalize, but you can take an extreme example: a pistol with an effective range of 50 meters, usually the user will only shoot at a distance of a few meters and more than ten meters, but if you raise an angle of thirty or forty degrees and casually shoot in the air, if you have a tailwind, then it is not impossible for the bullet to fly out and hit a certain unlucky guy thousands of meters away.

Considering the maximum firing range, the entire battalion of the Yugoslav Army would be completely exposed to the firepower of the land-giving artillery.

In the face of such a super battalion formed by 60,000 or 70,000 people gathered together, you can hit it with your eyes closed.

In this era of no armored vehicles and no concrete fortifications, no matter how powerful is the speed of an iron ball flying thousands of kilometers away...... No, the end of a strong cannon is by no means something that can be stopped by planks or armor.

Egger was only equipped with five artillery pieces when he took Winterfell, and during the time he stayed in the northern capital, Houguan Town hastened to cast a batch of supplements to him, and the land-giving army now has twenty artillery pieces, fourteen of which can be fired—the other six are not broken, but because of the lack of artillery, they can only be idle. At the moment, the problem has not yet surfaced, but if the transformation of the Black Wall Fort into a military factory goes smoothly, it will soon become worse and worse for the situation of "artillery and others".

That will be for later.

Now, the first salvo of the 14 guns produced a dull roar that was nothing less than thunder, and the 14 shells flew over a distance of nearly a thousand meters and scattered irregularly within a radius of several hundred meters in the camp of the Southern Army. Among them: nine shots landed in the clearing, two fired low and hit the wooden wall, one shot knocked over an iron pot where soup was boiling, one hit a tent and startled several people who were gathering to gamble inside, and one hit the roof of the makeshift stable, startling all the dozens of military horses inside.

Due to the high angle of fire, the shells could not form an ideal "drifting effect" after landing, but would fall directly into the mud, and for a time the mud and sawdust flew everywhere in the camp, and the boiling meat juice was sprinkled everywhere, splashing and scalding several people, and dozens of frightened horses even restrained the energy of a large number of managers and nearby soldiers.

With such a dense crowd, the entire battalion was unexpectedly unkilled after the first round of shelling, which can be said to be the favor of Lady Luck. The chaos caused by the falling shells gradually subsided like ripples on the water, and the entire battalion fell into silence after being stunned...... In addition to the panicked efforts of the people near the shell site to figure out what was happening, most of the Confederate camp was completely ignorant of the situation, still thinking that it was just an inexplicable loud noise.

Everyone was waiting, waiting for the order from above to say it was just an accident, or for the voice to sound again and shatter their beautiful illusions.

In a state of confusion and sluggishness, the second round of shelling rang out.

The sound of this round of artillery was no longer neat, and it was scattered in a sparse manner for more than ten seconds, and the difference between the first and last sounds was nearly half a minute - the reason for this situation was not a command failure, but that Egger had ordered the second launch to turn into rapid fire and open fire at will: the operational level and proficiency of the fourteen artillery groups were extremely different, and if a salvo was forced, it would lead to a "short board effect" As a result, the total amount of firepower projection is insufficient, and in any case, it is a blind shot that cannot see the target, and if you only want to hit more than you can hit accurately, then you don't need to pay attention to it, and you can use it as training to your heart's content.

What is right is that, judging from the psychological pressure of the enemy alone, the scattered and uninterrupted roars and cold guns and cannons are actually still on top of round after round of salvo fire.

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Lady Luck couldn't keep an eye on the same place, the crowd in the camp was so dense, the cannonball landing point was also uncertain with the change of wind speed and the deviation of the cannon body, when the wooden platform at the wedding site was also directly hit by a cannonball, and a knight from Hive City not far away also perfectly "catched" an iron ball in the run, and the whole arm was almost broken...... It became a soul flying.

The quality of the soldiers of the Hewan Army and the Golden Regiment is certainly not as good as that of the Unsullied, but it is not so bad that it will blow up the nest at the slightest disturbance, but there are many untrained non-combatants in such a large camp, as well as the families of the soldiers who participated in the wedding.

The panic created by the serious injuries or deaths of two or three people was soon amplified by the panicked screams and random running of the non-military personnel, and when he saw that it was about to develop into a terrifying bombing camp, King Aegon's prime minister finally reacted and immediately shouted: "Everyone, don't move!"

"Guards, escort Your Majesty and the Queen to safety! The rest of the people will evacuate in an orderly manner later! Ladies and gentlemen, please immediately gather your own personal soldiers to patrol to maintain order in the camp, and those who dare to shout and run around will not be dissuaded and killed!" The Hand of the King ordered hoarsely in the gap before the third round of artillery fired, "Lord Mace, please order a message to Lord Tully at once, and ask him to lead the Riverbend Army to move to the south of the camp— Disperse all the scouts to keep the Dorne army from attacking, heralds, bring a message to each dragon hunting crossbow position, let them hunt their spears and attack as soon as the dragon appears, Harry Stryclan, immediately assemble the Golden Regiment to the banks of the Blackwater River to stop the Unsullied and the Land-Granting Army from crossing the river!"

Jon Clinton didn't know what the rumbling thing was called, if it was some kind of weapon or some kind of sorcery, he just knew: he was facing a new threat that could attack the north bank of the Blackwater River to the south bank.

At this moment, in addition to protecting the safety of His Majesty, he is also facing even greater trouble - ask himself, if he has such a long-range attack method, then he will never only use it to disrupt the enemy's wedding with a sound of air.

The queen and Iger must have a follow-up.

The confrontation between the two Targaryens didn't go through the slightest procedure, and they jumped directly from turning their faces to the critical stage of a showdown!

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