A magic crystal cannon weighs about four tons, and with the heavy alloy gun carriage, the total weight of a magic crystal cannon is more than five .6 tons.

The magic crystal cannon is so heavy and very dependent on logistics, it is difficult to leave the official road to operate.

In order to make the magic crystal cannon have field combat capabilities, it is necessary to strengthen the strength of the artillery squadron, and the number of the three field artillery squadrons organized this time has exceeded 230 people.

The number of people in the cannon of a magic crystal cannon is as high as thirty-five.

In addition to the thirty-five soldiers, one artillery crew was armed with two iron-horned horse-drawn artillery carts, twelve horse-drawn four four-wheeled artillery carts, and twenty camels carrying grain and grass and baggage.

In a gun crew, the number of professional officers is as high as five.

The professionals are all strong men, one person can carry a thousand or hundreds of pounds of heavy items, five professional officers plus a dozen strong soldiers, when encountering ditches and bumps, they can even lift the magic crystal cannon to march.

In order to organize the three artillery squadrons, Richard transferred 100 professional officers, more than 300 veterans with combat experience, more than 10 outstanding middle school students who had mastered parabolic calculations, and more than 200 young students with a certain degree of education. Human resources alone are very costly.

Because of the huge manpower and material resources invested, although the field artillery squadron is a newly formed unit, its combat effectiveness is already very strong. In fact, despite the small number of artillerymen, the tactical position is already central. Nowadays, many of Haaland's tactics are based on field artillery.

Although the squadron leaders of these three field artillery squadrons were officers with deep qualifications, the actual commanders of the operations were newcomers who were proficient in ballistic calculations.

When Richard arrived at Salon's castle with his troops, he immediately ordered the construction of artillery positions, while the elite infantry stood by and began to attack the city after the artillery blew down the walls.

Haraland led an army that appeared near Salon's castle as if it were a divine soldier, taking Duke Isaac by surprise.

The castle of Salons is a large city, with a total of 14,000 defenders in the city, and the city's defense line is relatively complete, not only surrounded by rivers, which is conducive to building a defensive line, but also built a small fortified castle outside the city, which is a horn to each other with the main city of Salon. Although Duke Isaac was very afraid of the soldiers led by Haaland, he did not think that Richard would be able to conquer the city of Salons in a short time.

When Richard and his troops arrived near Salon's castle, Isaac had already directed his soldiers back to the fortified fortress.

In the last war, Richard was already the bitter lord of the two dukes of Hubble and Isaac, and if it weren't for the reinforcements from the United Kingdom on the East Coast, the two dukes of the Delong Kingdom would inevitably be doomed.

Because he was very impressed by the combat effectiveness of the Haaland army, Duke Isaac naturally did not want to fight with the Haaland army. Therefore, the battle plan was very conservative, and he only wanted to defend the city.

Seeing that the defenders of Salon's castle had retreated, Richard immediately ordered to camp forward.

Although it is dangerous to camp in front, it shortens the attack distance and makes it easier to siege the city. In particular, elite soldiers and strong generals like to camp in the front, closely following the range of the defenders' long-range projection weapons to form a team and launch an attack.

Ready for the siege, Richard began to wait for the artillery to build a position, and by evening the artillery was ready and began to attack the castle of Salon.

The three magic crystal cannons opened fire together, and in an instant, a sharp whistling sound was heard from the sky.

Dozens of kilograms of alchemy bombs smashed near the city of Saron, and a fierce explosion was heard in an instant, and although the siege infantry was a few hundred meters away from the explosion site, their souls still felt trembling, as if they were in the middle of the apocalypse.

This is only a test firing of artillery units, and after calibration by artillery observers, the artillery positions will fire a salvo, throwing a large amount of ammunition over the enemy's heads.

On top of the artillery position, two magic hot air balloons responsible for reconnaissance and calibration have been lifted into the air.

The observer on the magic hot air balloon, holding a telescope, is at a height of five kilometers above the castle of Salon, observing the landing point of the cannonballs, and then using the command flag to notify the artillery below.

Several artillery commanders, who were proficient in mathematics, recalculated the trajectory and adjusted the angle of the magic crystal cannon through the calibration above, and began the next round of shelling.

After two calibrations, three squadrons of field artillery launched a salvo, and eighteen heavy alchemy bombs landed in the castle of Salon.

In just one round of shelling, the enemy suffered more than 100 casualties.

The defenders of Salon's castle have not undergone anti-artillery training, so it is naturally impossible to build anti-artillery fortifications, and they have no experience in anti-artillery, so they are still lined up in a dense military formation. After the shells fell, the casualties were extremely heavy.

The advent of artillery has changed the pattern of warfare. The army of the Delong Kingdom simply cannot adapt to this new type of warfare.

After only six rounds of shelling, the city wall collapsed for a while, and the defenders of the city had already suffered nearly a thousand casualties.

The gaps in the walls of the city were also getting bigger and bigger, and the cannonballs exploded on the solid stone walls, and the rubble flew everywhere, and there were almost no people standing on the walls.

Finally, after waiting for the barrel of the magic crystal cannon to turn red and cool down for half an hour, the defenders had just breathed a sigh of relief, and round after round of shells fell on their heads again.

In an instant, many weak-willed soldiers were frightened crazy by the shells.

Seeing that the enemy siege infantry had not yet been launched and the defenders were about to fall into a rout, Duke Isaac saw this scene and opened the south gate with the soldiers who could organize it, and chose to abandon the castle and flee for his life.

As soon as Duke Isaac fled, and before he even had time to bring his family, Haraland led the infantry to attack.

Under the cover of the magic crystal cannon, this time the infantry artillery coordinated very successfully, and almost no casualties were caused, and the city of Salons was captured.

As for Duke Isaac, who escaped, he could not save his life either.

Harland's army has a large number of flying troops, such as the Lion Cavalry, the Wyvern, and the Magic Hot Air Balloon Unit, which constantly harass the enemy at high altitudes, making it impossible for Duke Isaac to withdraw his troops smoothly.

Sylph gathered 1,500 monster cavalry, crossed the moat and launched a pursuit, and soon caught up with the enemy.

With the cooperation of the flying troops, Harland led the enemy army with ease.

Even Duke Isaac, a ninth-order epic knight of the Delong Kingdom, lost his life under Sylph's sneak attack.

After conquering the castle of Salon, Richard captured a lot of booty, first of all, 8,000 tons of grain. Enough for the Haaland Corps to eat for half a month.

In a large-scale war, capturing the enemy's grain can greatly reduce your own transportation costs.

In order to ensure that this war can be won, the Grant Kingdom is almost fully mobilized, and some military rations are even shipped from the northern Xinjiang, more than 1,000 kilometers of transportation lines, and one pound is transported to the front line, and ten pounds will be lost on the way.

The Grant Kingdom dispatched 320,000 regular troops, 200,000 auxiliary soldiers, and more than 100,000 large livestock on this southern expedition, and the front-line soldiers needed to consume as much as 2,000 tons of military food every day. The loss of grain on the transportation route is close to 10,000 tons per day.

Even if there were 30 million people in the Grant Kingdom, such a huge loss would still be difficult to support.

The royal family and the great nobles hoarded food for several years, which only lasted for three months. Unable to defeat the enemy for three months, logistical pressures forced the Kingdom of Grant to withdraw.

In addition to food, this battle also captured more than 100,000 gold coins of the Delong Kingdom, which is better than being able to fill the logistics. The most useful trophies for the Harland Collar are about 200 Iron Wildebeest and 300 Enchanted Armor, which can expand two squadrons of Warcraft cavalry.

The number of prisoners in this battle also exceeded 8,000.

After conquering Saron Castle and killing Duke Isaac, Richard led Harland and his soldiers into Salon.

"Order the 26th Brigade and the 41st Brigade to form a left-behind detachment, which is responsible for collecting grain, guarding prisoners, capturing slaves, and guarding this grain route for the army.

One hundred and sixty soldiers were transferred from the first and sixth infantry brigades, and forty backbones were transferred from the second Warcraft cavalry brigade to form two Warcraft cavalry squadrons and be incorporated into the left-behind detachment.

The head of the detachment left behind appointed Levin as the commander. ”

Levine is Martin's eldest son, he is only twenty-eight years old this year, and his professional rank has been promoted to the fifth rank. His qualifications are among the best in Haaland's leadership, and like Jennings, they are all legendary seeds, a few points better than the likes of William and Soros.

After Martin was knighted and retired from active service, Levin's position was promoted last year, and now he is the deputy captain of the first brigade.

After giving the order, Richard thought for a moment, and then ordered: "Order the first brigade to send troops to meet the artillery unit, and the magic crystal cannon must not be lost." After entering the city, everyone hurried to sleep, and marched quickly tomorrow morning, and made persistent efforts to conquer Jinshan Castle and crush the enemy's left flank troops. ”

It was only at about nine o'clock in the evening that the artillery unit entered the city of Salon. Haaland led his soldiers to stay in the city of Ssalon for the night, leaving more than 3,000 soldiers behind, and the rest of the army rushed to the castle of Jinshan.

Gold mines were found on the hills near the castle, hence the name Castle. Because of the gold mines, the castle has always had garrisons. However, before the United Kingdom Army on the east coast came along, the defenders here were only about 3,000 second-line troops.

It was now the focus of the defense, with a legionnaire from the United Kingdom stationed on the east coast.

As soon as Richard led his troops from Salon, Valencia, the commander of the Nineteenth Army of the United Kingdom on the east coast, received information about the defeat of Salon.

As the rout of the army fleeing from Salon's castle was reported, Valencia knew that Salon's castle had been lost and that Duke Isaac had died in battle.

Upon receiving the news, Valencia's eyes widened in disbelief. He secretly thought in his heart: "Although the strength of the defenders of Salon Castle is weaker than that of Jinshan Castle, there is no reason why they can't hold it for a day?" Duke Isaac still has a lot of strength under his command, and he is not a soldier who is about to collapse at the touch of a button. ”

He suppressed the doubts in his heart, constantly interrogated the defeated soldiers, and gradually restored the details of the battle from the intelligence reported by the defeated soldiers. Hearing of the appearance of a terrible magic item in Haaland's army, Valencia immediately became worried.

Five years ago, the United Kingdom army on the east coast saw heavy trebuchets for the first time, and suffered a lot of losses in the battle.

Sensing the seriousness of the situation, Valencia immediately wrote an order to his superiors to retreat. If Commander-in-Chief Mark Dean does not allow a retreat, additional reinforcements must be sent.

Early in the morning, Haaland led his army out of Salon's Castle, and at about four o'clock in the afternoon, he marched forty kilometers to the vicinity of Jinshan Castle.

This time, Richard did the same trick as before, first arranging for the artillery units to build positions, and the infantry to rest one kilometer outside the city.

Valencia had already figured out the course of last night's battle through the rout, and naturally did not allow Haaland to prepare to attack the city.

Despite her lack of strength, Valencia hoped to take advantage of Richard's unstable foothold to fight a victorious battle and destroy the enemy's artillery.

The gates of Jinshan Castle were opened, and the 19th Army of the United Kingdom on the east coast went out of the city to line up.

Seeing that the enemy's military formation was very dense, Richard decisively released a starlight bomb, and a thick white light fell into the enemy's formation, and in an instant, there was an explosion in the heavens and the earth, and Valencia, the commander of the 19th Legion, died in the explosion immediately, and more than 1,500 people were killed and injured by the starlight bomb.

Taking advantage of the chaos caused by the Starlight Bomb to the Nineteenth Legion, Richard led Haaland to lead the elite troops to launch a decisive attack, and the enemy was crushed with just one charge.

After all, the combat effectiveness of the United Kingdom legion on the east coast is not as good as that of the orcs, and the army led by Haaland still has a numerical advantage, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides is not equal. In addition, the starlight bomb directly hit the command office of the 19th Army Corps of the United Kingdom on the east coast, and 1,500 people were wiped out in a single attack, causing great chaos to this army.

The most important thing is that the number of troops led by Haaland is as high as 42,000 people, almost more than twice that of the enemy, and after this battle, the casualties of Haaland are less than 200.

In two battles, the enemy's army of 34,000 was annihilated, and Haaland led the army with about 100 killed and 200 wounded, almost unscathed.

After laying down the Golden Mountain Castle, Haaland led a lot of seizures, just gold, more than a dozen tons. After cleaning the battlefield, more than 400 pieces of intact enchanted armor and more than 300 pieces of damaged enchanted armor were counted, more than 100 flaming horses, more than 3,000 military horses were captured, and more than 10,000 prisoners were captured.

Annihilated the 19th Army of the United Kingdom on the East Coast, Richard camped at Golden Hill Castle for the night. Once again, troops were drawn from the main force and a Warcraft squadron was formed, leaving the 16th Brigade to garrison Jinshan City. Richard, the commander of the defenders, appointed Sox to the post.

Like Levin, Sox is a second-generation officer in the Harland Leader, his father is Roland, and the father and son have served the Harland Leader for two decades. Their merits are already relatively close to being knighted.

After leaving Sox's department, Richard took seven days' rations and led Haraland's army to turn around and march east to attack the belly of Duke Hubble.

Shortly after leaving the city, the Wyvern Knight discovered the enemy.

An army of 30,000 men is approaching in the direction of Jinshan Fort. This army was the last of the Hubble Dukes' Counties, and it was also the reinforcement that Mark Dean sent to the Nineteenth Legion.

As a result, reinforcements are still on the way, and Jinshan Fort has been lost.

This army was exposed to the wilderness, and suddenly became the fat on the lips of Haaland's army, ushering in the fate of defeat.

(End of chapter)