Chapter 17: Defending the City

"All ——!"

"All ——!"

A terrible police whistle sounded over the Griffin Fortress, and the soldiers of the Shulotel Legion were immediately busy, some grabbed guns from the door, some climbed out of the window, and some jumped directly from the balcony on the second floor......

The mess that was suffered, at first glance, I thought it was a bombing of the camp!

However, in less than five minutes, at least two-thirds of the men were gathered on the city walls, and the rest were coming quickly.

The Shulotel Legion was founded by fifteen dollars, and later fifteen dollars went north and was handed over to the young blood wolves.

Whether it's fifteen dollars or a blood wolf, life experiences may be very different, but one thing is absolutely the same: the Shulotel Legion will never need to stick to the rules, and the Shulotel Legion will always only look at the results!

This is evident from the state of this emergency assembly!

In the same way, the Shulotel Legion, which is not a blood wolf, will definitely not be able to play such a sassy operation as taking the Griffin Fortress a week in advance - until now, White Rock City did not know that the blood wolf had slept in the Griffin Fortress!

It's just that the enemy troops in the distance are already setting up artillery positions, and by this time, the blood wolf found that he had more than a hundred cannons in the air, and he couldn't find so many people who could shoot artillery.

Artillery is a technical branch of the armed forces, and it cannot be learned in a short period of time.

Although it was said that rotation training was arranged overnight yesterday, it was impossible for these soldiers who had only listened to the class for half an hour to get their hands on the 12-pounder fortress guns, right?

The blood wolf tugged and pulled under his own hands, and was embarrassed to find that such a fortress could only be used as a turtle shell when it fell into his own hands!

His original artillery and artillery were pulled to the hills outside the city, and if the artillery fire in the city could be fired, it would be a match made in heaven with the artillery positions on the hills!

However, this is the case, and the situation is this:

There are cannons, there are cannonballs, but there are none!

The grievances in the blood wolf's heart can be seen from the fact that he himself couldn't help but fiddle with the cannon chamber.

"You people! I usually blow a lot of cowhide for Lao Tzu, but now I want to use you, and I don't have any top use! ”

The blood wolf hates that iron does not make steel.

"Boom!"

At that moment, a loud bang was heard from outside the city, and a cannonball smashed into the wall of the fortress at the front of the fortress in a visible arc.

The cannonball exploded on the wall, and a puff of black smoke rose from it, startling the blood wolf.

Then I took the telescope and looked closely at the wall of the fortress, and found that the wall had broken a small piece. No matter what kind of masonry wall is, it can't compete with steel gunpowder!

The blood wolf looked and looked, and finally laughed, and shouted out of the city, "Come on! You fight again! If you have the ability, you can get closer to fight! Try it again! ”

"You didn't even break the wall skin with that shot, Lao Tzu didn't let you fight for a hundred years, and you couldn't break this wall!"

The soldiers in the city burst into laughter, all of them were elated, and their morale was high.

The shot just now was just a test artillery for the enemy, and the real artillery bombardment had not yet begun.

At this time, the intelligence soldier grabbed the rope on the city wall and flipped up, and ran to the side of the blood wolf in a hurry.

"Regiment commander, see clearly, there is the US army on the other side, the number is about 2,000, and there are not many cannons, only twenty ......"

When the blood wolf heard this, he kicked it over. "It's only twenty gates...... You're tm floating, aren't you? Lao Tzu worked hard for three years to save fifteen cannons, and you don't take other people's twenty cannons in your eyes now......"

The intelligence soldier kicked hard, but said with a grin on his face: "Wait a minute, let me go to the battle, right?" ”

"Get out!"

"Commander, no matter how hard this turtle shell is, it is definitely not a matter to just be beaten. Look at that shot just now, it almost smashed a hole in the wall—"

"Shut up!" The blood wolf glared at him fiercely.

The intelligence soldier came to his senses and shut his mouth in mockery.

……

The Griffin Fortress is indeed strong, and the masonry walls are up to 5 meters thick.

But the problem is that it's the 19th century!

In the past, walls reinforced with masonry thickness could defend against most cannons, but the 19th century was a period of rapid iteration of new types of weapons.

From the Mexican-American War to the Civil War, almost every 'advanced' weapon imaginable by mankind has been introduced.

Breech guns have long appeared, rifling is no secret, and even machine guns have already been handed over at this time, and the range of the Whitworth long rifle can be up to 2000 meters!

The 19th century was also a strange period of various weapons and tactics, front-loading guns were more powerful than rear-loading guns, queuing for shooting was more popular than trench forts, and people even tied cannons to the backs of mules, making the first self-propelled artillery in human history!

Fremont, as the golden knife of the American Federation, is no problem to play with a few strange weapons.

Today was a good day for him to accept Griffin Fortress, so he specially got a few new cannons, which were originally used as salutes.

It was also thanks to the Indian soldiers in Griffin Fortress that they didn't know how to artillery. Otherwise, you will be amazed at the way the U.S. military stuffs shells from behind the butt of the cannon.

……

"Boom!"

An earth-shattering burst of cannonfire was heard outside the city, and in a row of white smoke, a row of cannonballs with white trails flew visibly towards the city walls.

"Rest assured, Griffin Fortress is impregnable—" the Blood Wolf exclaimed.

"Boom!"

Cannonballs smashed on the walls, splashing bricks and stones in all directions.

The blood wolf stood unsteadily, staggered, and held on to the railing fiercely so that he did not fall.

On the other hand, the soldiers around them fell in large numbers.

At the same time as that explosion, the wall beneath his feet shook slightly. Everyone was like a boat on the sea, even though the waves only shook slightly, the boat almost capsized.

……

That's right, the bastion was the hardest fortification in the world at this time.

But, again, this is the 19th century!

It's outdated!

A year ago, Fremont couldn't open the gates of Griffin Fortress with 100 old cannons, but a year later, a breech-loading rifled gun could blast the walls to the ground with a single round of fire.

If you wait a few more decades, after the appearance of tanks and armor-piercing bullets, any city wall can only be a toy.

……

"Open the gates and prepare to charge!"

The blood wolf made a quick decision and decided not to wait any longer.

After two rounds of cannons, it was found that no matter how hard the turtle shell was, it could not withstand the hammer smashing.

I can only hit it hard.

He drew his flare gun and prepared to inform the artillery on the hill outside the city to prepare for the first artillery cover.

The cavalry under the city is also ready.

The blood wolf couldn't figure it out, he took the city without blood, could he still defend the city and annihilate the whole army?

I'm afraid I'm going to be laughed to death by the Tonatiu Legion!

"Captain! Head! Soap shouted at him at this time:

"I have a way! I can find someone to the cannon! ”