Chapter Ninety-Three: Rescuing Fort Rudder (Part II)
Because the pack beasts such as pack horses, donkeys, and oxen in the army are not specially trained like war horses, and once they really fight, they are likely to run around and mess up their own formation. So Ye Tianlong was asking people to separate those pack beasts from the vehicles at this time, and then asked Baron Thor to stay and watch these pack beasts with dozens of remnants under his command.
In fact, Baron Sol, a militant, wanted to participate in this attack, but since he and most of his soldiers were not lightly injured, Ye Tianlong felt that it was better to let them stay and rest.
After separating the pack beasts from the vehicles, Ye Tianlong asked the melee soldiers to take the place of the pack beasts, pushing the vehicles slowly towards the enemy camp.
Because these vehicles in Ye Tianlong's army were all made of stainless steel, after the five or six vehicles were connected together, they formed a series of solid copper walls and iron walls, which were pushed by the soldiers in the rear and slowly approached, full of oppression.
In the process of advancing, the artillery on the gun wagons would fire from time to time, aiming at the bed crossbows and catapults in the enemy camp. The troop carriers on either side of the gun carriage also had special holes, and musketeers armed with flintlock rifles could hide in the vehicles and shoot at the enemy forces outside through those holes.
And just as Ye Tianlong's artillery entered the firing range and began to fire one after another, the bed crossbows and heavy catapults in the enemy camp also began to return fire.
The bed crossbows shot out huge bolts as thick as the shafts of a gun, and the heavy catapults threw stones as huge as winter melons.
The giant crossbow bolts shot at the steel plates of the formation, and most of them could only hit a few sparks, causing the formation to shake slightly. However, the boulders thrown by those heavy catapults smashed on the steel plates of the car array, and with the huge kinetic energy, they were able to smash the solid steel plates into twisted and deformed, causing the car formation to shatter and overturn.
Fortunately, the accuracy of the heavy catapults was very poor, and only one stone hit the target after a long time.
And after this boulder hit the target, although it did not directly kill people, it caused three of Ye Tianlong's soldiers to be seriously injured, and the other five soldiers were also slightly injured to varying degrees.
While the wounded soldiers retreated, the other artillery trucks were also firing, although this small-caliber gun was not very powerful, but it was a cannon after all, and once the solid shells fired by it hit the enemy's bed crossbows and catapults, it would immediately cause great damage to these delicate ultra-long-range weapons, and sometimes even smash them directly to pieces. And these small cannons have a very fast rate of fire and a high error tolerance, so if a shot misses, the gunner can immediately adjust it to make the next shot more accurate.
As the gunners under Ye Tianlong became more and more comfortable, the bed crossbows and catapults that exceeded the ordinary were already damaged by them, which caused the enemy's firepower to become worse and worse, and finally they were completely suppressed by Ye Tianlong's side.
The commander of the Svadia Kingdom, Count Teswe, saw that his bed crossbow and catapult had not hurt a few enemies for a long time, but had been damaged for most of them, so he simply asked his men to stop firing and quickly transfer the remaining bed crossbows and catapults, after all, these exquisite ultra-long-range strike weapons are not easy to make, and they may be used in the siege of the city later!
Without the suppression of the enemy's bed crossbows and catapults, Ye Tianlong's car formation on their side couldn't help but become faster, and soon approached within two hundred meters of the camp.
At this time, the barrels that Luo Chenguang had improved were longer, and the rifled 'sniper rifles' also entered the firing range.
The dozen or so snipers armed with these rifled flintlock muskets immediately began to shoot at the enemy troops in the opposite camp through the firing holes in the formation of vehicles, and specifically shot those who looked like officers. If you can't find an officer, shoot the crossbowmen.
Because of the addition of a scope, even if they are still 200 meters away, those snipers can see their targets very clearly, and the hit rate is more than 70%.
With a series of gunshots, many officers in the opposite camp were directly shot by headshots, these guys didn't expect that there would be such accurate weapons on the opposite side, so they were defenseless, one by one from behind the earthen wall of the camp to observe the situation, but they were targeted by the snipers on Ye Tianlong's side, and the head was hit with a shot, and it was called a neat hanging.
After more than twenty officers were shot in the head, the soldiers and officers on the Swadia side finally realized what was going on, and one by one they did not dare to casually emerge from behind the earthen wall.
However, at this time, as the distance continued to close, the artillery on Ye Tianlong's side could also bombard the earthen wall of the enemy camp more accurately.
These earthen walls were not very strong in the first place, and under the bombardment of the shells, many places were damaged, which made the Swadia soldiers hiding behind the earthen walls feel very nervous, for fear that the earthen walls in front of them would be completely destroyed in the next second.
Fortunately, Ye Tianlong didn't have the patience to slowly bombard those low earthen walls, and his soldiers were still rapidly approaching the enemy camp.
In the process, the crossbowmen on the side of the Swadia Kingdom also found that the enemy quickly entered their range, so they had been suppressed by the enemy's artillery fire for a while, and they leaned out from behind the earthen wall and shot waves of arrows at the enemy vehicle array not far away.
It's a pity that the soldiers on Ye Tianlong's side either hid behind the car formation, or simply hid in those sturdy personnel carriers, and the rain of arrows shot by the enemy hit the solid steel plate armor of the car formation, making a clanging crash sound, but it couldn't hurt the soldiers under Ye Tianlong's command at all.
On the contrary, the musketeers under Ye Tianlong's command took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's crossbowmen to rise on a large scale, and they also fired at the enemy crossbowmen through the shooting holes on the personnel carriers.
Although the shooting accuracy was not as high as that of the sniper comrades who were equipped with rifled flintlock muskets, hundreds of musketeers fired in unison, and still shot thirty or forty enemy crossbowmen at once, and even many of the infantry who were recuperating in the deeper part of the camp and preparing for battle were accidentally injured by bullets flying over the wall.
Later, as the distance continued to close, the artillery began to fire pieces of scattered bullets across the wall, and the enemy soldiers no longer dared to take their heads, after all, once they appeared, they might be beaten into a sieve by the large scattered bullets that swept in!
Before, some guys didn't believe in evil, and they wanted to be heroes, and they died miserably, and the corpses haven't been completely cleaned up from the wall!
Ye Tianlong saw that the enemy army had been suppressed by his own muskets and artillery, so he immediately waved his hand, and then took the lead and rushed towards the wall, which was only a few dozen meters away.
As I said before, the height of this kind of improvised earthen wall is not high, Ye Tianlong found that this thing may only be about two meters high after rushing in front of him, and he is already a master of Ming Jin, he feels that he can jump on the wall with a single jump.
However, before they go up the wall, they have to clean it up, so that they don't have a large number of enemy soldiers hiding behind the wall to besiege them.
So Ye Tianlong and the dozens of players who were pioneers took out a grenade, and after making eye contact with each other, they pulled the lead almost at the same time, and then threw the grenade hard against the wall.
After a series of violent explosions, a series of screams suddenly sounded above the wall, and in the next second, Ye Tianlong was the first to jump onto the wall, pulled out the single knife on his waist and swept out, beheading the two enemy soldiers who were injured by the grenade.
The other players also followed, one by one, holding various weapons, quickly reaping the lives of those enemy soldiers who were stunned by the grenade.
Outside the wall, the other soldiers were also constantly throwing grenades behind the wall, carrying out extended bombardment little by little, blowing up the enemy soldiers who were close to the wall, and they had no energy to besiege Ye Tianlong and others who had already crossed the wall.
After Ye Tianlong and those players cleaned up the enemy soldiers on the wall, they divided a few people to open the gate, and the others, like Ye Tianlong, took out their bows and arrows and began to shoot the enemy soldiers who were blown up everywhere by the grenades.
Compared with other players, Ye Tianlong's harvesting of the lives of enemy soldiers is much faster, after all, the demon war bow in his hand has a multi-arrow mode, after switching to this mode, Ye Tianlong can shoot more than a dozen arrows at a time every time he pulls the bow and arrows, and a single kill is a large piece, and the enemy soldiers not far in front of him are quickly knocked down like cutting wheat.
Soon the gate of the camp was also opened, and more soldiers poured into the camp, and the musketeers with flintlock rifles continued to fire volleys at the enemy soldiers in the camp, and under the dense rain of bullets, even those noble lords wearing strong and thick plate armor could not be spared, and they could only be beaten into a sieve by bullets in aggrieved conditions, and fell to the ground in pain and slowly died.
However, even at this time, the commander of the enemy army, Count Tesweden, still did not give up resistance, and saw this guy with a group of crossbowmen who had been hidden in advance, and fired a volley at Ye Tianlong's soldiers.
It's a pity that even those musketeers under Ye Tianlong's command, who are long-range troops, are wearing thick Iron Floating Tu heavy armor. They are all genuine heavy musketeers, and this type of army is naturally of little value when both sides are equipped with firearms, but when the other side is still using cold weapons, these heavy musketeers under Ye Tianlong have taken advantage of it, and the enemy's dense rain of arrows can cause them some minor injuries at most, and they shoot out in rows of guns, and the enemy crossbowmen on the opposite side are falling in pieces.
Seeing that these crossbowmen who he had managed to hide with great difficulty were almost dead and wounded in the blink of an eye, Te Swedish roared angrily, and then rushed towards Ye Tianlong and them with the few hundred remaining melee soldiers in the camp.
Unfortunately, at this time, several artillery trucks had also been pushed into the camp, and the gunners immediately fired a round of scattered bullets at these charging enemy soldiers, and the other soldiers also immediately threw grenades one by one, so that these enemy soldiers were instantly blown up to the flesh and blood, and howled miserably.