Iron Powder and Spellcasters

  Chapter 61 Artillery Fortress

   The entire raid went surprisingly smoothly, and the officer cavalry team easily captured the gate of the artillery without paying any casualties.

   In fact, the cavalry in the second half of the charge sequence almost just followed along, giving Winters the illusion that it was a farce.

  Field brought two subordinates into the fort from another direction. In order to prevent the fire from igniting the gunpowder, the three caster officers took turns to maintain the light spell.

  Field went first, carefully inspecting each storeroom. Every time he opened a small crack in the door to determine whether there was a fire in the room. But the lieutenant colonel did not find the gunpowder depot, only empty warehouses and terrified mice.

   Winters was actually skeptical of Lieutenant Colonel's theory that "the powder depot must be the farthest away from the cannon". He didn't even see a shadow of a row of warehouse inspections, and he was a little slack.

   Kefield still did not let his guard down, and carefully opened the penultimate door. The wooden door creaked open a small crack, and the lieutenant colonel suddenly froze in place.

   He turned around and gave Moritz a slight nod. The major who was maintaining the light spell understood and stopped casting the spell. He took out a handful of silver coins from his pocket and shook it at the lieutenant colonel.

   Field nodded again, stood in front of the door, took a deep breath, and kicked the wooden door open. Then he immediately ducked to the side and used the amplification technique to let out a loud shout.

   This roar, empowered by magical power, was not as deafening as Moritz's Tempest, but it also startled Winters, and obviously the people in the room were also startled.

  Elite musketeers can suppress their instinctive fears, even if the enemy rushes in front of them, they can wait for the commander's fire order without blinking an eye.

   But the people inside obviously don't have the ability.

  The gunshots sounded, and two lead bullets flew out of the door and smashed into pieces on the stone wall of the cannon.

Major   Moritz saw that the people inside had opened fire, and he flashed to the door, and three silver coins flew out of his hand. It was a simple but deadly flying arrow technique.

   There were several sounds of heavy objects hitting the ground inside the door.

   "Didn't you say you want to catch the live ones? Can't you hit the shoulders or something?" Field complained to the major, and took out a copper rod to activate the light spell.

   Moritz shrugged and said nothing.

  The cold weapons and armor in the room reflect the green light from the Brightness Technique, which should be the arsenal of the duckbill gun. Winters saw two corpses lying on top of two arquebuses, with barrels neatly stacked together behind them, and shells stacked on shelves.

   "The management level of the navy is really bad." The lieutenant colonel did not forget to comment at this time: "The arsenal and the powder store are together, isn't this waiting for an accident?"

   Winters is now accustomed to Lieutenant Colonel Field's character of criticizing everything he sees. Lieutenant Colonel has no malice, just a big mouth. Just ignore him at this time, so he and Moritz pretend to be deaf.

Lieutenant Colonel    was also accustomed to this kind of cold violence, he smacked his lips uninterestingly, squatted on the ground and began to examine the corpse.

   "See something?" Moritz said rarely.

"No uniform, dirty fingernails, rotten teeth - but these are all very common features, you can't tell who they are." Lieutenant Colonel Field replied casually, his attention was suddenly attracted by the weapon carried by the deceased: "But this knife... isn't this a cutlass?"

Lieutenant Colonel    took out the machete on the deceased and waved it twice: "This is a machete used by sailors... Ha, it's interesting. Let's go, let's see if we can catch a living mouth over there."

   The attackers are not the opponents of the officers at all, and even the number is a disadvantage. The officers quickly cleared the entire fort at the cost of four minor injuries, and the number of people injured in the hand-to-hand combat was not as many as the number of people who fell on horseback at night.

   The few remaining enemies who were still alive were dragged like chickens to the open space in the center of the fort, and knelt tremblingly. The officers sat on the side bragging, the lieutenants did the dirty work, and body after body was dragged from the fort.

"That **** hasn't reacted yet, and I cut off half of his shoulder with a knife, and the knife cut off the curling edge..." Colonel Kala was obviously very satisfied with the raid, and was laughing and boasting with a few of his peers. heroic.

  What do warriors do after a victory? Will brag. This is the commonality of all mankind. It was undoubtedly a beautiful victory, and Colonel Kara, as the commander, was also entitled to brag about himself.

   Seeing his subordinates approaching him, Colonel Kara put away his smile, raised his head at his subordinates, and asked, "Have you finished the inventory?"

  The young officer nodded: "Forty-seven corpses are counted, but some of them are the defenders here, I can't tell..."

   "Don't worry about it so much." Colonel Kara interrupted the other party: "Let the navy people identify themselves, we..."

   Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a loud noise like a hammer hitting a big rock.

   Accompanied by the whistling sound of cannonballs and the heavy muffled sound of high-speed flying iron projectiles hitting the stone wall, the outer wall of the duckbill fort was smashed into rubble.

  Some rubble even flew into the open space in the center of the fort, and several shells flew over the officers' heads.

   Judging from the sound, at least a dozen artillery pieces were firing at the duckbill artillery base.

   "Who's firing at us?" Colonel Kara asked angrily.

"There is a warship in Haidong Bay that is firing at us." An officer covered his hat and ran over to report: "It should be a navy ship. They may not know that we have recaptured the duckbill fort. Do you want to report it? "

   "Notify me!" Colonel Kara glared at the other party: "Let him fight, the naval ship bombs the naval fort, it's none of our business? We just wait on the reverse **** and wait for it to hit us?"

He ordered loudly: "Listen, no one is allowed to approach the gun emplacement. If you are accidentally injured, you will go to the navy to ask for medical expenses. Our mission has been completed. I order, everyone! Keep the gate! Wait for reinforcements to respond. "

   Another artillery colonel pulled Colonel Kara aside and asked in a low voice, "There is still fighting over the pier, isn't it good for us to watch the fire from the other side?"

"Brother, we have more than 100 officers, who can I command?" Colonel Kara said helplessly: "You are also a colonel, and I am also a colonel. If there is no command from Admiral Zio, I can command it. Are you? The admiral's order is to take back the cannons, and we're done. The admiral uses us as the main force. It's a blessing that no one is dead. There's no need to fold our juniors in for the navy, right?"

"I understand what you mean, of course it's not worth dying for the navy, but you can support them in a safe way." The artillery colonel explained: "I looked at the gun emplacements of Duckbill Fort, and actually adjusted the angle. Some heavy artillery should be able to cover the pier. The admiral ordered us to retake the artillery base, but the artillery base will also play a role, otherwise why do we waste so much effort? Just for these few broken stones?"

   Colonel Kara couldn't say anything about the other party, and ordered the other party not to move, so he nodded. The two were both colonels, and it was a great respect for the artillery colonel to come to Kara to discuss. But he was still uneasy, and exhorted: "The navy ship is still hitting us, but be careful."

"Do not worry."

   After the order for the night shift was arranged, Colonel Kara and two other officers brought the prisoners into the kitchen for questioning. The artillery colonel took some officers from the artillery division to fiddle with the cannon. A few lieutenants were on guard at night, and the rest rested.

The warships drifting in Haidong Bay continued to shoot a few rounds of salvos at the duckbill fort, but also recalled that the duckbill cannon that was shooting against him suddenly misfired. It is estimated that something changed. Also stopped firing at duckbill fort.

   Of course, it may also be because they lost the guidance of the fire when the duckbill guns fired, and the moon was dim and they couldn't see where the duckbill guns were.

   The duck-billed cannon suddenly returned to tranquility, and Winters went to settle up Qiangyun first. Qiangyun likes to fight with other stallions recently, which is not something he made up. The geldings of the other officers were not rivals at all. They were so frightened by the forced luck that they all tried desperately to get away from this irascible horse, and the reins were torn off several times.

  Fortunately, there is a bit in his mouth, and he can't bite the other side, so he can't be in a hurry.

   Winters reluctantly smashed a stake in the corner of the open space, and tied the strong transport alone to a place away from other war horses.

   "You stinky boy, you really don't worry!" Winters patted Qiangyun's forehead. This Lucian steed was not at all ashamed that its owner was scolded **** by several school officials. It blinked at Winters with big eyes, and its pink tongue stretched out, asking for sugar. eat.

  Winters was angry and laughed, grabbed a few candy cubes and fed it to Qiangyun: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat."

   Originally, Winters wanted to unload the horses for comfort, but noticed that the other officers did not unset the horses. Obviously, everyone was prepared for an emergency. So Winters just took the lucky bit off and got it some hay and water.

   "Montagne!" Someone was calling Winters, it was Andre. He stood gleefully at the door beckoning to Winters.

   "Silence." Winters walked over: "What's so happy about it?"

   "Don't ask, just follow me." Andre replied mysteriously.

  He led the way, and Winters followed, after a few turns. Andrei bowed and made a welcome gesture: "Please allow me to present to you - the treasure of the navy!"

   After he finished speaking, he lifted a wooden plank on the ground, revealing a basement.

   The lights in the basement were bright, and there were cheers and laughter, and a dozen people were crowded in the small space. Winters saw many familiar faces, all of whom seemed to be Warrant Officers of the same period.

   "Have you found the wine cellar?" Winters understood what was going on and asked Andre with a smile.

  Andre said triumphantly: "Of course, Lao Tzu's nose is smarter than a dog's nose, so I found it by following the smell. Alas, it's a pity that the 'priest' is not here, otherwise I'll have to drink him down tonight."

  'Priest' is Andre's nickname for Buddshin. Bud didn't participate in this operation tonight because he didn't have a warhorse, so even if he got the news, he couldn't get to the East Camp in time to gather.

   "You guys play, I have to stand at night." Winters found an excuse and walked away. In fact, he didn't know how to drink and didn't like this kind of carnival atmosphere.

  Tonight's raid was like a farce for Winters. Inexplicably, he was called to the East Camp to assemble and set off in a confused way to deal with a group of enemies who didn't know where they came from. He didn't do anything for the entire battle. He really wasn't in the mood to celebrate.

   Winters paced to the top of the artillery fort. The heavy artillery was placed in the strong fortress, and the small-caliber artillery was placed here in the open air.

   He sat on the low wall, the sea was a deep black in the moonlight, and a solitary warship was drifting at sea. That warship was the one that fired at the duckbill cannon just now, but for some reason she didn't go to support the battle on the dock.

   The pier is now blazing with fire. As the home port of the Veneta Navy, Haidong Port is not only a supply port, but also the location of the Veneta Navy Shipyard.

  The buildings in the port had been engulfed in flames, and in the light of the fire, Winters could only see a ship docked in the berth, and it was burning. The attackers were setting fire to the laid keels and repairing warships in the dock.

  The sound of gunfire came from the dock, and Winters watched as the navy sailors assembled several times to try to retake the dock. They were all broken up by several rounds of salvos and then retreated.

   There was blood in the dock, and in the duckbill fort 600 meters away, the warrant officers were drinking and revelling, and most of the officers had already found a place with a ceiling to rest. The battle was over, and the whole fort was in an eerie serenity and serenity.

  Andre also came to the top of the fort with two bottles of wine in between, and said to Winters nonchalantly, "I don't mind being there alone, come and accompany you."

   He pulled the cork with his teeth and handed the bottle to Winters. He bit another bottle and took a sip: "The wine in the officer's cellar doesn't feel anything special."

  Winters took the bottle, but didn't drink it. He pointed to the dock and said, "It was a terrible fight there. If we go to support them and attack them back and forth, do you think we can win?"

Andrei looked at the situation at the dock carefully, and said with a sneer: "If these attackers are all at the level of these people in the artillery base, we don't need people from the navy, and a dozen of us can defeat them with a single charge. They. But we have been in military school for so many years, if we die like this, will you be willing?"

   Winters was speechless, Andre said sincerely and cruelly about everyone's selfishness - not worth it.

   A stray bullet, a flying arrow, and a spear can easily take a person's life. Everyone is not afraid of death. Those who are afraid of death will not go to Dongdaying to gather tonight. Lead the soldiers to die on the way of the charge, yes. But dying like an ordinary soldier is not worth it.

"Don't think about it, the two of us are two warrant officers, the most worthless officers. We will do whatever the above asks us to do without thinking about it so much." Andrei held out his own tool man theory again, and he excitedly got together Beside Winters, he poked Winters' waist and asked in a nervous tone, "How many are you tonight?"

   "How many?" Winters didn't understand what Andre was talking about.

   "Oh, don't you understand?" Andre made a chop gesture with his arm: "This, how many?"

   Understand what the neurotic in front of him was asking, Winters said helplessly: "Not one."

Andrei laughed and raised three fingers: "I have three tonight, we are now five points each, and we are tied... But to be honest, my five points are of higher quality. The priest has zero points, hahaha. ."

   Warrant Officer Montagne sighed: "Brother, no matter what you said, you won."

  Andre replied, but Winters only saw the movement of his lips, and the roar of heavy artillery drowned out Andre's words.

   The thirty-two-pounder cannon of the duckbill fort was tilting its fury at the intruder for the first time tonight.

   Yesterday, I went out during the day, and I was so tired. When I came back at night, I wrote it and sent it out to sleep. I forgot to thank the book friends who voted for the recommendation. Sorry.

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