Chapter 514： 　Bombing positions

"Get all the shells ready."

"Everyone is in the battle position, hurry up, the enemy is coming!"

When Allen stepped up to the head of the city, soldiers on this parapet were coming and going carrying battle supplies to the designated location. There is a defensive artillery on each side of the Bauhinia main city, and this configuration is considered good on the Jazz collar. After all, artillery is not like a musket. Not to mention that it is expensive. It is also very troublesome to carry, especially since it is far from the imperial capital. The most artillery factory is the strong city radiated from the imperial capital Olísca, where the military industry is located. The most developed place. Weapons and equipment produced from those areas were sold throughout the empire.

The two defensive artillery can only be said to be good, but the firepower is obviously insufficient. Therefore, on several guard towers and other light and dark firepower points, there are musketeers of the deep sea scales. The fire dragon rifles they use have a longer range than ordinary muskets, and the ammunition used is not the common steel ball. It is an iron block with a pointed tip and a cross notch. This kind of thing is very close to a bullet, and as for its power, it is naturally much larger than a steel ball.

At least ordinary muskets can shoot through light armor at close range, while the fire dragon rifle can easily penetrate the light armor worn by ordinary infantry as long as it is within range.

Hundreds of musketeers in red leather armor are busy checking their equipment in their respective battle positions. Beside them, there is an ammunition box full of "bullets" designed for the fire dragon rifle.

When Alan saw Ruola, she was asking people to check the guard on the left city wall. Seeing Alan, she also just nodded and looked cold. Alan Quandang didn't see her hot and cold look, just asked, "How are you preparing?"

"No matter how you prepare, I don't think too much. If I can, I would like to transfer the two small guards in Brother Baibao, but time does not allow." Ruola shrugged.

"So, you have already discussed the battle plan?"

Ruola glanced at him and said, "After you left yesterday, the atmosphere was not very friendly. Sir Oulu left the table one after another and threw me a mess. The guy in Graar knew nothing about military affairs, so there was nothing to discuss. Tactics. The game was done by me alone, and Abel and other officers also offered their opinions. In short, since retreating to the main city, we must fight a defensive battle."

"Defense alone is not enough," Allen said.

"Yes, passive defense will quickly wear down the soldiers' will, so offensive is the right way to defend. My brother has already sent troops. If he drives at full speed at their speed, he should be able to get here in three days."

"So we only need to keep three days?"

Ruola blanked him and said: "Listen to your tone, as if it is easy to keep it for three days."

"It's not easy, but it may not be impossible." Allen said: "My people and I will fight freely. Do you have anything to confess?"

"Yes, if you seize the opportunity, hit me hard." Ruola said with a bit of gritted teeth.

Suddenly, an alarm sounded. Ruola immediately took a single telescope next to her. After she looked forward, she stuffed it to Allen and said, "Good luck, I have to command the army."

Allen raised his binoculars and looked, and in the lens, a row of black cavalry emerged from behind a low slope. When they rode their horses, they were followed by an army of unicorns with mostly silver-white armor. This army finally arrived.

Alarms sounded continuously on the guard wall, and officers at all levels shouted to prepare soldiers for battle. Allen put down the binoculars and left the guard wall. His stage is not on the guard wall. It is in his style to take the initiative to attack.

Ruola stood on the city wall, and Abel stood beside her, both of them opened their eyes and looked towards the open field ahead. After entering the battlefield, the Unicorn Legion did not rush to attack. A few hundred meters away from the guard wall, the army stopped first, and then a smoke screen moved behind the army, and the soldiers seemed to be busy. Ruola frowned and looked through the binoculars.

Behind the Unicorn Legion is their logistics unit. Soldiers are unloading a cart full of tools in a carriage. After removing the tools, they quickly assembled it again, and it looked like it should be some kind of siege equipment.

"Damn it, it's the siege ladder." Ruola cursed secretly, and then said solemnly: "There are artillery, they also brought artillery!"

Hearing this word, Abel's face became bitter. The Unicorn Legion is advancing very fast, judging from their previous performance, it is simply a lightly equipped and simple attack. Unexpectedly, they stayed for half a day yesterday, and today they pulled the artillery. After seeing a cannon being pushed out of the formation and forming a shelling position, the soldiers of Deep Sea Linji breathed heavily.

The city wall of the main city of Bauhinia is only more than four meters long, so the low guard wall cannot withstand several rounds of artillery. Moreover, the total number of twelve artillery pieces pulled by the Unicorn Legion was six times the number of defensive artillery pieces! Even if the two sides fired each other, obviously Bauhinia was at an absolute disadvantage. Besides, they are still assembling the siege ladder, which is a kind of equipment. The bottom is in the shape of a cage, with iron plates on the top, which can be used to defend the city wall with muskets. The four corners below are equipped with pulleys, and the middle is empty. Soldiers can hide below to push the equipment forward. Once at the corner of the wall, the assembled ladder can be raised to reach the wall.

Seeing these two siege weapons brought by the Unicorn Legion, Jola knew that he could not sit still. Otherwise, wait for the opponent's artillery to blast off the defensive wall, or let the siege ladder reach the bottom of the city, let alone three days, I'm afraid it won't be able to defend today.

"Let the cavalry prepare, I have to go and burn their ladders and artillery!" Ruola said flatly.

Abel was taken aback and said, "Miss Jola, you can't take the risk with your body."

Ruola glanced at him: "Then, you go."

"me……"

Abel hesitated, how could the opponent's siege ladder and artillery, such important equipment, be easily let the enemy destroy it. It is conceivable that when actively attacking, the cavalry will definitely receive a fierce attack. Abel cherishes life and hesitates. Ruola shook his head and said, "You should be here to direct me."

This time, Abel was not given a chance, and Ruola quickly left the guard wall. Abel was so sad that he knew he was embarrassed in the eyes of his sweetheart.

When he saw the cavalry team of the Deep Sea Linji assembled, Allen knew that Ruola was going to attack. He turned his head and said to Udy: "Let the inch fire prepare. Let's cover the friendly forces."

Udy grinned and said, "Just waiting for your words, Master."

As soon as he got down to prepare, a dull cannon sounded outside the city. From the sound, it was not a direct attack, but the Unicorn Legion was testing the artillery, so as to adjust the angle of the bombardment to achieve the best bombing effect. Now that the opponent has begun testing the artillery, then the official battle is not far away.

At this time, the gate of the main city of Bauhinia opened, and screams rang from the gate. Then a white horse flashed out from the city, and they flashed across the battlefield like white lightning. On these white war horses are the knights of Deep Sea Linhime. Dressed in a dark green underlay and covered in gold and silver-white interlaced lock armor, in addition to the knight's long spear and big sword hung on both sides of the horse, the knights also had a fire dragon rifle behind them.

Ruola rushed forward with her horse, and with her as the front, the cavalry rushed towards the enemy line like an arrow.

"Come back soon." Standing on a high platform that had just been erected, Higgs clearly saw the charge of the Deep Sea Linji Cavalry. He didn't care too much, connected a few orders, and the standard bearer standing behind him played the flag again and again.

In front of the battlefield, a group of soldiers rushed out immediately.

Now Deep Sea Lin Ji is still three hundred meters away from the enemy line, Ruola drew her long sword and pointed forward. Everyone behind the knights clamped the horse belly with their feet, and unloaded their rifles from behind. As soon as they rushed into the shooting range, they opened fire at the enemy's line to cover fire. Behind the cavalry team, a small team broke away and circled to the artillery position.

Soon the cavalry team entered the shooting range, the fire dragon rifles were connected and fired, and the tongues of fire spurted out from the muzzle and pointed directly at the enemy. At this time, the soldiers of the Unicorn Legion who sprang up first had a Michelle-high tower shield, and a heavy shield with a thickness of a few centimeters could easily block a round of shooting from Deep Sea Linji. The top of these tower shields were opened with shooting ports. The soldiers behind the shields supported the heavy shields. The same group of musketeers pounced behind them, pierced the muskets through the shooting holes, and fired at the cavalry team of the deep sea Lin Ji. .

So on the battlefield, the two armies shot each other. The rifle of the Deep Sea Lin Ji’s shooting distance is longer, but it cannot break the defense of the heavy shield; the Unicorn Legion uses ordinary rifles, regardless of the range and power, they can’t really threaten the Deep Sea Lin Ji’s knights, and can only form a certain amount. Fire countermeasures.

When the two sides fired each other, the previous team successfully approached the shelling position. But a group of infantry armed with long spears and heavy shields came out. They were obviously the guards of the shelling positions. These soldiers proficiently propped their heavy shields on the ground, with their spears extending diagonally, and the other head resting on the ground. This kind of formation is undoubtedly used to restrain the cavalry. Even if the cavalry has a fire dragon rifle, they can't shoot through those thickened shields. They can only shoot a few rounds like a few people and walk in front of the opponent's gun formation. , But could not find a chance to start.

With such a delay, the artillery on the artillery field has been adjusted, and three of the artillery has been turned around and aimed at the cavalry in front of the field. The gunner ignited the fuze with his fierce hand, and then three rounds of artillery sounded, the artillery roared, and the roaring bombs hit the cavalry's feet, and the continuous explosion made the cavalrymen turn their backs.

Hearing the sound of the cannon, Ruola knew it was bad. Turning his head and looking, it turned out that the team responsible for attacking the position was bombed. She sighed secretly and could only give out the order to retreat. Otherwise, waiting for the shelling positions to direct the firepower on their side, there will be only a handful of people who can return to the city.

In another round of bombing, the cavalry squad was attenuated by half, and the team leader immediately issued an order to retreat. As soon as he turned his horse's head, he saw another group of cavalry running over. The armor on the cavalry of this team was matt, which was very different from their silver-white armor reflecting light in the sun. That team of cavalry raised a battle flag, and on the battle flag was the identity of a majestic wolf head.

That was Allen's cavalry, although I don't know why the baron sent the cavalry at this time. After all, the fire dragon rifle in their hands couldn't pose a threat to the artillery position. The captain of the cavalry didn't know what Allen could do.

Soon the two cavalry crossed each other, and Allen charged with horses. At this time, the artillery position turned the muzzle towards them, and a few shots of artillery blasted down. The shells roared like a thunder, and the black blasted over. Allen lifted the knife and slashed away. The blade pulled out a flame of flame and pierced the air, volleying several bombs. In the flames of the explosion, his cavalry team passed through unscathed, it was like a miracle.

This is the role of the strong on the battlefield. They are the fighting fulcrum of a region. When attacking, it plays the role of cutting through, and when defending, it greatly reduces the damage of the enemy. It can be said that whether there is a stronghold in an army will be a completely different result for war.

"Fire thunder preparation, three rounds of throwing!" Allen yelled, Qianjun pointed towards the shelling position.

The twenty inch fire fighters he brought with him carried a bag of fire thunders. After Lins' improvement, these fire thunders were able to throw quickly. Inch fire fighters took out the fire thunder, pulled off the fire ring, and then hurled it at the shelling position. A fire thunder had just shot, they quickly picked up the second one and threw it. At this time, the first round of fire and thunder fell on the ground, causing an explosion. At the end of the explosion, the second round came again, and then another round. The bombing of three rounds of fire thunders connected almost the entire position!

Allen took out a blazing thunder from a bag on the left Following Lins' instructions, he injected the source force into the thunder, and then threw it vigorously. With this throw of Allen, the blazing fire thunder threw out a terrifying roar of heavy artillery through the air, and the fire thunder fell into the position where the explosion ended. Immediately a group of dark flames flashed, then a large stream of fire rushed up, and then the whole position exploded.

This fire thunder, the power of the explosion actually covered a terrifying range of forty meters in diameter!

"Retreat!" Allen cried, without looking at the result, immediately turned his horse's head and led an inch of fire to evacuate.

At this time, the soldiers of the Unicorn Legion woke up like a dream. From the explosion of the first round of fire thunder to Allen throwing the fire thunder, there was only a few seconds. Who wants to get such a high frequency of fire thunders thrown by the inch fire fighters, you must know that they follow the normal order. First ignite the fuse on the thunder with fire, then throw it out, and finally explode. This would take at least three to five seconds, but the inch fire fighters turned out to throw three rounds of fire thunder with both hands, reducing the ten-second time to half, or even less.

As a result, the frequency of bombing and the power of destruction have naturally risen, making the Unicorn Legion lose time to react.

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