The Rise of the European Emperor

Schwartz gave up the march in heavy rain because of the difficulty of marching with the baggage units, but Bonitz did not. Although it was wet and slippery on rainy days, it was also on rainy days that the musket could not work. So Bonitz ordered a large army to attack the city despite the rain.

In order to prevent slippage, Bonitz ordered the Gerdes army to wrap all the siege ladders with cloth strips. That way, the rungs don't get slippery from being wet.

When they were ready, the army of Geddes, under the command of Marshal Bonitz, set up a battle and was about to start the siege...

"What? The Geddes army is going to attack the city?" Kevin, the commander-in-chief of the defense, was surprised. Originally, Kevin thought that under such heavy rain, the Gedes army would rest. However, Kevin quickly thought of the reason-probably, the other party thought that the musket on his side could not be used on rainy days...

"Hehe, let you always use our muskets in rainy days!" Kevin smiled, summoned his subordinates, and asked them to carry some wooden sheds to the top of the city...

Kevin is the Musketeer Captain of the North Sea Kingdom and holds the title of Knight. Moreover, Kevin was a witness to the battle in Lubeck City. Therefore, in the face of the enemy's offensive, he did not panic.

In fact, Kevin had already prepared some small wooden sheds that were easy to move in case of rainy days. In the previous offensive and defensive battle in Lübeck, Marin used a movable shooting shed, so that the East Frisian army could continue to shoot down the city in rainy days.

Of course, the rain-only shooting booth that Marlin was working on was different from the one that Kevin was working on now. Because, in the defense of Lübeck, the musketeers in the East Frisian army at that time still used arquebuses and were afraid of rain. Therefore, the shooting booth Marin used in Lübeck was long and even had a flash protruding in front to prevent the rain from getting the match rope wet.

But now the musketeers guarding Parsons camp use clockwork muskets. This gun is not afraid of rain. Therefore, there is no need to use that kind of long shooting canopy.

However, that doesn't mean that a clockwork musket doesn't need rain protection. A clockwork musket is not afraid of rain, which means that after it is loaded, it is not afraid of rain when shooting. Because, after loading, the gunpowder is sealed, and does not come into contact with the outside world. Even if it rains, the gunpowder will not be drenched. However, when reloading, the clockwork musket still needs shelter from the rain.

Therefore, Kevin asked people to make a small rain shelter and put it on the city wall. A musketeer who uses a clockwork musket, after shooting at the battlements in the rain, will retreat to the small canopy behind, avoid the rain, complete the reloading, and then return to the battlements to complete the aimed shooting at the enemy...

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Thanks to the long preparation time of the Gedes army before the siege, the musketeers of Beihai Kingdom moved the rain shelters to the city wall in time. When the Gedes army began to siege the city, the musketeers of the North Sea Kingdom were ready...

Because there is no rubber raincoat, the musketeers in the North Sea Kingdom wear thatch shoji. This thing, of course, was made by Marin. The mino jacket is made of grass. Although it is relatively bulky and the rainproof effect is not as good as that of a rubber raincoat, it is better than nothing. Moreover, the grass shrouds on the boat on rainy days have a strong defensive function after being soaked in the rain. For example, the mink clothing after the rain can greatly reduce the damage of bows and arrows to a certain extent...

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"Start the siege--" Under the city, Bonitz, the commander of the Geddes army, waved his hand and gave the order for the general attack. Then, except for the musketeers, the Gedes army carried the siege ladder and leaned against the city wall...

However, when the first group of Geddes infantrymen who climbed the city wall climbed halfway up the siege ladder, a row of gun barrels suddenly appeared on the top of the city...

"What are they doing? Can their muskets fire even in the rain?"

Marshal Bonitz, who was watching the battle under the city, was puzzled for a while...

But soon, Marshal Bonitz's doubts were solved——

"Bang-bang-bang-bang..." A crisp and loud gunshot came from the city head,

Accompanied by the gunshots, it was naturally the screams of the Gerdes wall-climbing infantry... The Gerdes infantrymen who had climbed halfway, like dumplings, fell from the siege ladder one after another...

"This...this...how could this be?" Marshal Bonitz was just dumbfounded...

In Bonitz's impression, muskets are afraid of rain. Because the gunpowder can't be fired when it gets wet...

However, he didn't know that the clockwork muskets that Marin's army was equipped with could shoot in rainy weather. This is mainly because, although Marin started to promote the clockwork musket, he never told others that the clockwork musket could be shot in the rain. Therefore, although Bonitz also knows that there is such a thing as a clockwork gun in Beihai, he does not know that a clockwork gun can shoot in rainy days. Therefore, when the gunshots in the city head sounded, he was directly stupid...

And the consequence of the coach's stupidity is-a large group of shot Geddes infantry lie under the city...

It was not until the Beihai musketeers at the head of the city repelled several attacks of the Geddes infantry that Marshal Bonitz reacted:

"Retreat, for now!" Bonitz shouted. Immediately, a bugle sounding the order to retreat sounded on the battlefield.

Hearing the bugle order to retreat, the soldiers of the Gedes army were also relieved. Today's incident is too evil. Not only is Marshal Bonitz stunned, but most of the Geddes soldiers have been fooled by the platoon of guns on this rainy day, and their morale has dropped to the extreme. If you fight hard, you will definitely not fall well. Hearing the sound of the retreating bugle, everyone quickly evacuated like an amnesty...

Back at the camp, Marshal Bonitz was still muttering to himself:

"How can this happen? How can this happen? How can this happen..."

After pondering for a long time, Tausk, the adjutant of Marshal Bonitz, expressed his opinion:

"Marshal, I estimate that this may be a new type of clockwork musket invented by Beihai Kingdom! Otherwise, it will not have the effect of preventing rain!"

"What?" Marshal Bonitz almost jumped up:

"You mean, the army of the North Sea Kingdom Marin is guarding the city?" Bonitz accidentally guessed the truth...

But Taosk shook his head and said:

"It doesn't have to be Marin's army, it could be Marin who sold this new musket to the Habsburg family!"

"How could he do this? Isn't this a trick to our duke?" Marshal Bonitz said angrily.

Taosk thought for a while and said:

"It may not be sold now, it may be sold before he and the Duke reached an agreement. Don't forget, Marin was the emperor's lackey before. At that time, it was normal to sell some new muskets to the Habsburg family... …”

Marshal Bonitz nodded with a bitter face, and then said with a gloomy face:

"I understand, but, in this way, it has suffered for us! The opponent's firepower is so fierce, how can we take down Parson's concentration camp?"

Taosk thought for a while, and suddenly a poisonous plan emerged in his heart:

"How about we go to the surrounding area to catch some young natives of the Netherlands and force them to climb the city wall with weapons at the front?"

"This is useful?" Marshal Bonitz didn't think that some young men who were caught temporarily would be able to attack the city wall.

Taosk shook his head and said:

"I didn't expect them to hit the city wall at first, I just hoped that they would consume some ammunition for the opponent. The amount of ammunition for the opponent is definitely limited. Letting the young men of the Netherlands climb the wall and get bullets can also consume the amount of ammunition of the enemy. Wait for them. The ammunition is exhausted, and the musketeers are useless. By then, won't we just take this fortress casually?" Saying that, Task showed an evil smile.

Marshal Bonitz thought about it, and it really is - gunpowder is scarce and precious in Europe at the moment. If you use the captured Dutch youth to exhaust your opponent's ammunition, it is really a good strategy. Although a little vicious, but in order to win and reduce the casualties of our soldiers, who cares... Anyway, it is not the Gedes who died...