Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 285, Destroy the Siege Tower

"Let's go, don't think about playing a few more shots, I would rather you slow down, aim at the point, be careful, and don't want to have any unexpected situations. Markchi, you are responsible for supervising them, I will go to the defensive tower over there." Crowder looked at the solid iron pellet that was burnt red and was stuffed into the muzzle. Then the gun crew re-targeted and fired.

A black smoke came out of the muzzle, and the shells roared out, squatting in the middle of the siege tower on the far right of the 80-meter distance. It can be seen clearly in the frame of a monocular, and there is a noticeable vibration in the middle layer surrounded by logs.

"Yes, just like this, we don't need any violent shelling. Just play it more accurately..." Claude waved his hand with excitement.

After two days of rest, the enemy once again organized the troops to attack the castle. Now the first and fourth battalions are on the wall. The log rafts originally built on the wall have been smashed into pieces of different sizes by the six artillery pieces on the enemy's three siege towers, but now the sacks filled with dirt in the city are better for the soldiers. The cover of the bunker, the enemy's live ammunition can not destroy these sacks, only the launch of the bullets can pose some threat to the exposed soldiers.

Under the precise aiming shooting of the soldiers, the enemies of this attack were unconcerned, and once they dropped thirty or forty bodies, they retreated. Only the six artillery pieces on the three siege towers continued to carry out vain shelling at the city. Several soldiers who were hit by shots and wounded were being rushed to the treatment center by the medical personnel. Diavid came to Claude's side and was about to talk. The sacks and sacks next to him were shaking, and the soil was four. Splashing, both people are ruined. Needless to say, it must have been a shell that hit the sack filled with dirt.

"Hey! Hey!" He spit a few mouthfuls. Diavid looked through the gaps left by these sacks and looked at the three siege towers in the distance and said, "Sir, if you don't have these three siege towers, It is impossible for the enemy to get close to our walls..."

Claude smashed the dirt from his head: "I know, I am experimenting now, patiently. What happened to our casualties?"

"We have injured four teams, the fourth team has killed two and injured seven, all of which were caused by the bombs fired by the enemy..." Diavid shook his head: "I told them to hide them early." I myself, and then use the space of the sack to shoot, but some idiots will forget, they are too inconvenient to aim at the space of the sack, like to shoot the gun on it. As a result, the enemy's artillery fired a shot, and it was too late to hide... ..."

"But I see the enemy's offensive today seems to be not as violent as yesterday. It took less than half an hour to retreat..."

"Yeah, I think so too." Diavid laughed. "Yesterday, the enemy couldn't attack the city wall, but the casualties were heavy. Today it seems that some are perfunctory, and they are not fierce. Most of them are They are hiding behind the wooden car. This is the honour of your honour, and the bombardment you arranged is very clever, unlike the old idiot of Captain Hemkin, who only ordered the artillery to bombard the enemy's wooden platoon. There is a fart broken, and the enemy can push new ones from behind at any time..."

After the enemy set up three siege towers, they pushed a lot of wooden rafts from behind, almost all the empty space, and then used these wooden platoons to cover the wall when they launched the attack. At the beginning of the meeting, the second and third battalions were executed on the wall, and Captain Hemkelin was in charge of the command. He ordered seven firearms on the wall to bombard the wooden carriages on the open ground. The result revealed the position of the artillery on the wall and was knocked out by three firearms on the three siege towers. At the same time, because the smoke emitted by the rapid launch of the artillery filled the entire city wall, obscuring the soldiers' vision, and giving the enemy a chance to climb the city with the boarding ladder, the soldiers had to fight with the melee to drive the enemy down, and the casualties were heavy.

Fortunately, in the four days, although the enemy attacked the wall, it also destroyed an artillery. However, under the desperate counterattack of the second and third brigades, they still did not stand and were driven off the wall. Then because the casualties were a little big, they stopped for two days and did not attack the castle until yesterday.

What the enemy did not expect was that his opponent had changed. Now on the wall is the first and fourth battalions of the battalion. Claude simply did not let the three artillery pieces placed on the wall of the city bombard the new wooden rafts that the enemy had re-installed on the open space for two days. Even the four artillery pieces placed in the defensive towers on the left and the right did not. It is necessary to bombard those wooden row cars. He ordered the four artillery in the defensive tower to use the red-hot iron shotgun to attack the middle of the siege tower of the rightmost enemy. There were two artillery cannons at the enemy's artillery window. Claude believed that as long as the shelling There are many times, and it is always possible to hit the small artillery window...

The three artillery pieces on the wall were all filled with shotguns. Their target was not the wooden row cars on the open ground and the enemies hiding behind them, but staring at the enemy's boarding ladder. As long as the enemy grabbed the city ladder and ran to the wall, there was an artillery fire to shoot the ball to cover the enemy's direction to get close to the city wall. Never allow three artillery pieces to fire at the same time. The same is true of the soldiers on the wall. Only a dozen veterans who shoot more accurately have the right to fire at any time. Other soldiers are hidden behind the sacks and bags. Only when the enemy is aggressively attacking, is there an order for them to shoot and shoot...

This kind of defense makes the enemy somewhat unpredictable. It is like the attack under the wall is very fierce and fierce. The shelling of the three siege towers, the soldiers hiding behind the wooden row cars violently opened fire toward the city, and the smoke quickly filled the entire open space.

But there were very few responses on the wall. If it weren't for the occasional gunshots and a small smoke that was piled up between the stacked sacks, it would make people think that the walls were unguarded. However, if the assembly team wants to take the boarding ladder to the city wall and put the ladder in the city, then there will always be a cannon, and the soldiers next to the city ladder will suffer heavy casualties...

Yesterday, the enemy violently attacked the day. After returning to check it, it was discovered that the seemingly weak defense of the guards on the wall caused the attacker to have more casualties than the previous attack. The first attack lasted four days without any casualties per day. As a result, yesterday, there were more than 400 casualties, and the most important thing was that so many people were not injured and attacked the wall. The reason is that the soldiers grabbed the road that climbed the city ladder to the wall. There will always be one or two artillery shells on the wall, covering the way forward, and the casualties are extremely heavy.

Probably because of yesterday's lesson, there is no soldier who is willing to be close to the city ladder today. Several front-line grassroots officers took the lead and took the lead to pick up the city ladder and forced ten soldiers to prepare to attack the city. As a result, they just rushed to the wall and did not put the ladder on the wall. A cannon was ringing and everyone fell. In the pool of blood. Then no one is willing to go to the city ladder anymore...

The fighting in the afternoon was very dull, that is, the soldiers on both sides took the rifle up and down and the casualties were few. The guards on the wall were hiding behind the sacks, and the attackers under the city were hiding behind the wooden carriages, holding a rifle with a shot without a shot. The three artillery pieces on the wall did not fire when there were no enemies near the wall. Only the four artillery pieces in the two defensive towers on both sides were separated by a red-hot projectile for ten minutes to attack the enemy's rightmost siege tower. The artillery in the enemy's siege tower also bombarded the artillery window in the defense towers on both sides, and the surface of the defensive tower was smashed.

It seems that this is the way today. Crowder and Captain Cod Walker, the captain of the fourth brigade, stood behind the wall and watched the last attacking enemy hurriedly withdraw to the village. They were about to speak and suddenly heard. A very fierce explosion came from the battlefield. When I turned around, I saw the enemy’s rightmost siege tower spurting sparks and fires. The top layer was pouring down, and the middle layer began to burn. stand up……

"Hit! Chief, we hit the artillery window!" The excited Markchi rushed out of the defensive tower's small door and almost fell on the steps.

Obviously, just a red-hot shell hit the small gun window of the siege tower and landed inside. Claude always suspected that the interior space of the siege tower was not large, and arranged two artillery pieces. Is it that the shells and gunpowder launching bags are stacked next to each other? Now the question has been answered. Apparently, the burning red bullet hit the gun window and fell inside, igniting the gunpowder accumulated inside and causing an explosion. If it wasn’t for Claude’s insistence on burning the shells, it’s estimated that the artillery window had no effect...

The destruction of a siege tower was like the blood of the guns of the four artillery pieces. Now they no longer complain that Claude has allowed them to fire red-hot shells. After all, launching this is very troublesome, and I have to prepare for fire prevention next to it, and the launch time is very slow. Not only do I have to wait for the iron shotgun to burn red in the brazier, but even if I put the barrel, I have to put a small wooden board first. It must be fired immediately to avoid igniting the gunpowder bag behind the board.

Even the swaying Major Scurry, excitedly rushed to the wall and admired the burning tower of the siege: "You have done a good job, a bottle of kanlan per person at night, this is what you deserve!" ”

Major Scully said that each bottle of kanlan refers to those gunners. As for the soldiers of the first and fourth battalions, it is impossible to have one bottle and one bottle, and there are not as many kanlans in the warehouse. However, one person can still get a large glass of rye.

The artillery cheered, but continued to burn red cannonballs, aiming, firing, then cleaning the cannons, filling the gunpowder packs, stuffing them into small planks, waiting for the shells to burn red in the brazier.

"Which tower is now ready to attack?" Major Scree was very happy. His most worrying was the three siege towers of the enemy, which suppressed the defensive advantage of the wall at the height, forcing the battalion to have a battalion in the city. A large pile of mud-filled sacks was piled up to cover the soldiers and shield the enemy from artillery. I did not expect that today I was destroyed, there must be two, I believe that the remaining two siege towers did not take long to go wild.

"The one in the middle," Crowder said.

This will make the enemy still not understand why the siege tower will explode, and the soldiers inside and the gunmen of the two artillery pieces did not run out. It is not clear that the shells fired by Claude are burning red enemies. Because no one dares to stay under the siege tower after the start of the shelling, they are afraid of being accidentally injured, so even if they hit the tower The shells that fell below will soon get cold, and no one will notice it. The enemy thought that the soldiers in the siege tower had accidentally caught fire and ignited the gunpowder before they exploded...

But now the four artillery in the defense towers are aimed at the siege tower in the middle, and finally let the enemy figure out what is going on. Although they are more than 80 meters apart, the screams from the siege tower can still be distinguished. It should be that an enemy wants to take the shells on the ground next to the siege tower, and the result is burnt. This also makes the enemy understand why the siege tower next to it exploded.

Coincidentally, this should be a chance of a small probability of hitting. After three guns, the siege tower in the middle of the distance uploaded the screams of the enemy, and then saw several enemy soldiers. Rushed out from the bottom of the siege tower. They are a good life, because there is a cry for help, and then like a slow motion, the spark in the middle shines, and the explosion soon happens, just like the burning siege tower next to it. Became a big fire...

The cheers of the soldiers echoed again on the wall. The four guns in this defensive tower did not require Claude's command, and automatically turned the target to the last remaining siege tower on the left. Although it was near the evening, the sky was dim, but with the fire from the burning of the two big fires, it was still possible to clearly distinguish the two artillery windows in the middle of the last siege tower.

Major Scurry had already been unable to help himself, and he burst into a big mouth and laughed: "The reward, all the gun crews remember a second-class merit, this is great!"

Claude said: "Sir, I think you might as well reward each of them with a bottle of Ganlan. You know that they bombed the first siege tower today. But you can reward them every time. It’s only a matter of time, half an hour, when they have a bottle of kale, they destroyed the second siege tower..."

Of course, Claude said that it is a confusing story. It is so far away that a fist-sized projectile should be shot into the two small artillery windows in the middle of the enemy siege tower. This requires a lot of luck. After all, the artillery is not precisely aimed at shooting. The performance of the musket, at present, can not do which to play, the middle of the siege tower was destroyed is very coincident.

Finally, the siege tower on the left has stopped the shelling. You can see that the enemies in the tower are running out, and some of them are still holding gunpowder barrels.

Claude immediately ordered the three artillery pieces on the wall to launch a shotgun, covering the bottom of the enemy's siege tower, so that the enemy had nowhere to escape. However, it is a pity that although the enemy left a few bodies, they escaped under the cover of the nearby wooden row cars. They even pulled down the two light infantry artillery on the siege tower and took them away.

Markch came out of the defensive tower and asked Crowder not to continue to shell the last siege tower?

Claude slammed his face and ordered to continue shelling, or to use red-burning shells. The answer is very simple. The enemy uses the logs and humidified mud outside the siege tower to prevent shelling, but it must be a wooden structure inside. As long as it can ignite, then there is no need to worry about the enemy using the siege tower again.