Heart of Empire Chapter 259: Artificial detonation
From the beginning of the battle, it fell into hardship.
In fact, regardless of ignoring the enemies on either side, Verina can easily solve the threat on the other side.
If the Maron Legion in the front is not there, she can turn around and eat the port guard led by Beards in one bite; if there is no port guard behind, she can also organize all the troops at the head of the city In terms of defense, and can mobilize the strength of the entire Shawan Port to carry out long-term defensive operations, although it is difficult to repel opponents who are superior in quantity and quality, at least, it will not be too big to stick to it for three to five days The problem.
But no how.
Verina could only rack her brains, maintaining two lines of defense, fighting quite hard.
She has handed over to her adjutant Palan to deal with the battle of the port guard behind her, while she herself has to sit in front of the battlefield.
The siege of the Malone Legion has already started in full swing, and the six artillery pieces no longer shoot at the defense guns on the top of the city one by one, but shift their targets and start bombarding the city gate.
The north gate of Shawan Port is fairly strong, but no matter how strong the gate is, it is impossible to resist the continuous attack of six artillery pieces.
What's more, the Maron Legion's siege weapon is not only artillery. The ramming car pushed up, this thing hits the city gate, its efficiency is more fierce than that of artillery. And there are also trebuchets that have a longer strike distance than artillery. Although in terms of strike accuracy, it can be described as "following fate", but even if a huge boulder thrown high up directly hits the city wall, it will still cause damage. Considerable damage.
Under such constant bombardment, the pressure on the city defense of Shahaiwan Port was astonishingly great.
Not to mention, under such a fierce attack, almost a thousand soldiers, either pushing a ram car or carrying a siege ladder, are breaking away from the army formation and starting to move towards The city wall approaches.
"Shoot!" The captains of several squadrons preparing bows and crossbows shouted profusely and hoarsely, and shot arrows at the approaching enemies below.
The long-range strike did cause some damage to the opponent, but overall it couldn't be considered a traumatic injury.
Many of the soldiers who came carrying siege equipment were equipped with shields. During the process of advancing, the shields are in front of the body and on the head, which is to guard against long-range attacks.
Verina doesn't have elite archers like the ranger troops in her hands. At best, the crossbowmen in her hands can only shoot arrows according to the orders of the officers. Not bad, expecting them to be like sharpshooters, aiming at the gaps in the shields and shooting enough threatening arrows at a distance, it is indeed a bit difficult for others.
Despite not much loss, the troops of the Maron Legion have already pressed to a very close position. The crash car approached the city gate, and the ladder was already loaded up.
At this time, the best solution is to send out an elite team, and before the enemy's troops are fully deployed, they can kill them in disorder, destroy the ramming vehicles, and by the way, set up formations for the city before they have time. The ladder troops cause certain damage.
However, Verina does not have such an elite team in her hands. These soldiers of the garrison army have to pull out hundreds of people to open the city gate. It is estimated that they will be beaten back soon after rushing out. Let alone the strategic goal, after the loss of manpower for nothing, the city gate may suffer direct damage. threat. This is not worth the candle.
But it doesn't mean that the defense master is unprepared.
"The First Brigade of the Guard Battalion is dispatched as planned."
As soon as the order was issued, the captain of the first brigade did not immediately execute the order.
"The legion commander... didn't you agree that our brigade will only be dispatched at the most critical time?"
Of course, there is a reason for him to ask this question. Hearing the task that Velina assigned him beforehand, he was in a cold sweat.
"Now is the critical time." Verina said coldly.
The captain had to take orders.
Moments later, the ramming car had just been pushed under the north gate, and before it had time to show off its power, the operation of the first brigade began.
I saw that at the head of the city, a soldier was put into the hanging basket, and the two ropes tied to the hanging basket began to be lowered.
The soldiers staying in the hanging basket were shaking and frightened just like the hanging basket. The 20-meter-high city wall is nothing. Looking under the hanging basket, all the soldiers of the Maron Legion who raised their swords and looked up at him seemed to be waiting for him. It's nothing. The most frightening thing was right in his arms.
A black iron ball.
He held the iron ball the size of half a watermelon in both hands, and as the hanging basket slowly fell, a cold light flashed in his eyes, he quickly lowered his head, and he dodged several arrows shot up from below In the past,
But still one shot through the gondola and stuck in his thigh.
The hanging basket is not strong!
He let out a scream, shook his hand, and almost threw the iron ball in his hand.
But he finally stabilized.
The arrow stuck in his thigh could not kill him, but this iron ball could.
This is a cannonball ~IndoMTL.com~ Don't think that the cannonball fired by the artillery of the Orodic world is a solid iron ball, it is a big mistake. Cannon is actually a product of alchemy. Although the artillery itself is not high in alchemy technology, the shells are not.
The outer layer of the alchemy shell may look like a whole piece of round cast iron, but it is not. This is a piece of curved iron block, bonded in a special way, filled with alchemy explosives. After being launched and detonated, the explosive power and impact of the alchemy explosive exploded, and at the same time, it would also explode the wrapped iron ball into iron pieces for group killing.
It's just that shells are not easy to explode. In addition to launching it with artillery, it can only be ignited and thrown.
But if it is manually ignited, it is very different from the specially equipped artillery. The most prominent point is that the detonation time is very short, and it is not practical to use tools to project. The most reliable way is to throw it manually except for artillery fire, and then run away quickly.
Like a crash car under the city gate, this is not something that can be bombarded by the artillery on the city wall by turning the muzzle. It can only be carried out by manually igniting it, and then putting it into the surrounding area of the crash car to detonate it.
It is conceivable that the soldier on the hanging basket is responsible for such a mission, how dangerous his situation will be, and how much psychological pressure he will have.
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I suddenly discovered that there was a mistake in the ten digits of the chapter number before, and it has been corrected~(To be continued.)