-135- Shelling
As the horn sounded, Castel's coalition forces began to move slowly.
From the hills, the mighty coalition army was divided into five military formations by Baron Angus, marching towards the rebel camp in a zigzag formation of "2+3".
The formation of the coalition army is not as good as Charlotte imagined, and it is far worse than the medieval military formation she saw in the film and television drama in her previous life, from a distance, it looks like five huge, slow-moving gray-black rectangles that are constantly deforming, at most you can barely see that it is a military formation.
If it weren't for the nobles at the front of the military formation who maintained a relatively neat formation, otherwise, Charlotte really suspected that such a large military formation might be chaotic while walking.
But this was also something that could not be helped, and Castel's coalition army was not a well-trained standing army, but in the final analysis it was a group of nobles, noble private soldiers, and conscripted peasant soldiers gathered from all over the world.
Maybe many conscripts were still doing farm work in the fields or hunting in the woods three months ago, and the training time was only more than a month, and they had to sigh at the efficiency of the nobles of the Northland and the ability of Baron Angus to have the discipline and execution like they are now.
Of course, even so, the sense of crisis of the army overwhelmed the entire rebel camp, and thanks to the excellent eyesight of the Bloods, Charlotte could clearly see that the soldiers in the rebel camp were quickly moving after Castel's horn sounded.
Archers poured into the wooden walls and towers, and the crossbows and small stone cannons on the watchtowers moved slowly under the control of the soldiers, aiming the crossbows and guns at the large army in the distance, while more soldiers poured out of the tents and lined up and assembled under the orders of the mounted nobles.
After two or three months in place, the camp had been turned into a sizable fortress by the rebels, and even Charlotte had to praise the efficiency of the rebels.
In another world with extraordinary powers, the efficiency of many things simply cannot be compared to the Blue Star of a similar era in the previous life.
Not to mention, after communicating with the local villagers, Charlotte learned that the camp where the rebels were stationed was originally a town with walls, and now it has only been further transformed by the rebels on the original basis.
The coalition forces moved slowly, like a great wave approaching.
The forward troops came to a halt when they reached a distance of about 500 metres from the rebel camp.
A slightly muffled horn sounded on the battlefield, and Charlotte saw the leading nobles in the front two military formations move, they raised their swords and ordered, while the soldiers in the military formation moved to the sides, and the swarthy barrels of the guns were pushed out by the soldiers.
It was a stone cannon, and it was also a sharp weapon for the siege of the Miria World, even if it was only against a temporary reinforced wooden fortress, but these firearms were brought over by the coalition forces, a total of twenty guns.
The main contributors to the cannons were the Charlotte Crown and the Lean-Castel family, which the smaller noble families could not afford.
As an early artillery, it had a short barrel, usually made of bronze or iron, and sometimes made of copper and brass, while Castel's stone cannon was about 5m long, 500mm caliber, and fired stone projectiles weighing up to 700 pounds.
The firing of these catapults was not very accurate, and the muzzle velocity was extremely low. In order to improve the effectiveness of the cannon, the cannon body is engraved with corresponding magic inscriptions, and the adjusted effective range can generally reach 500 meters, which greatly exceeds the range of bows and crossbows, and far exceeds the range of less than 100 meters for low-level mages.
The stone bullets they fire are not exactly stone bullets, depending on the situation, the body of the bullet will also be engraved with inscriptions, especially in the first few rounds of cannons, usually using expensive enchanted stone bullets, and with the [Demon Breaking] effect added, used to destroy extraordinary power.
Seeing the artillery pushed out, the soldiers in the rebels visibly agitated, but were quickly suppressed by the officers.
There was another muffled horn, and the muzzles of the twenty stone guns on the battlefield burst into bursts of white smoke, and it was a few seconds before Charlotte heard the rumbling of cannons.
With a series of loud noises, stone projectiles fell into the rebel camp, and translucent ripples emerged around the camp, like flowing water.
That's the mage's shield.
The flowing shield stopped all the stone bullets that were fired, as if they had been smashed into a viscous corrosive liquid, and their speed quickly decreased, and then the bullets lit up with a fiery red glow, melting like snowflakes.
However, it is clear that a round of shelling is not the end.
Three minutes after the first round of stone shells was blocked, the second round of shelling also began.
The low-level mage's shield was obviously not enough to compete with the stone projectiles with the demon-breaking effect attached, and after weakening a dozen stone bullets, the translucent shield almost reached its limit, and then shattered with a bang.
However, because the wall of the rebel camp was not high, most of the stone bullets did not hit the wall directly, but crossed over at a low altitude and smashed into the camp like meteorites.
Most of these stone shells missed, but two hit their targets, one of which shattered a tent, while the other hit a watchtower and directly penetrated the tower.
But that's about it.
Miria's artillery is still too weak in its current era.
Although the stone projectile depicting the effect of [Demon Breaking] can severely damage the caster's protection, it can only be used to kill with kinetic energy, and does not have the explosive effect of the Blue Star Later Artillery.
However, the sheer kinetic energy combined with the special effect of [Demon Breaking] is already the strongest force to restrain spellcasters on the battlefield at present.
Six minutes later, the third round of shelling began.
This time, the rebel casters apparently didn't have time to reconstruct the large spell shields, and the meteorite-like stone projectiles barely met with resistance, and all of them smashed into the camp.
Charlotte saw that two more tents in the rebel camp were smashed after this round of shelling.
In addition, several stone bullets fell into the rebel ranks assembled in the camp, and the soldiers who were hit could not be found on the spot, and the stone bullets that landed on the ground were ejected several times by inertia, causing further casualties among the rebels, and causing even more commotion and panic.
However, this is not the biggest result, the biggest result is that a stone bullet finally smashed into the wall, and the wooden wall was obviously unable to compete with the artillery after losing its magical protection, and it was directly torn out.
This further caused confusion among the rebels.
The rebels reacted faster than Charlotte had imagined, and after the wall was smashed through a gap, soldiers with large shields rushed over to further strengthen the defense.
After a few more minutes, the fourth round of shelling began.
After calibrating the previous three shells, the accuracy of the stone shells became more accurate this time, and a full five stone shells hit the wall.
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Although two of them were blocked by the magic of the suspected rankers, three of them were in the middle of the wall, and after the first gap, three more gaps were smashed.
On the frontal battlefield, the walls of the rebel camp were already crumbling.
"Woo——!"
The trumpet sounded much louder than the trumpet just now.
This is the order for the soldiers to attack.
Castel's coalition array moved again, with the nobles and elite privates at the front raising their shields, and the peasants at the rear carrying ladders and rushing towards the rebel camp......