Power and Empire Chapter 1899: The Queen’s War (9)
"Let all the archers light up the rockets, wait for the next approach, and then concentrate the firepower to kill it!"
Duke Andyia turned his head confidently and shouted to the adjutant behind him that the meat grinder of the Feiya Dynasty was not a completely invincible war tool. The meat grinder was large in size and slow in speed. Appearing on the battlefield is the first target of the enemy's catapult, and the meat grinder has a major flaw, that is, it is afraid of fire. As long as it is ignited, the meat grinder and the soldiers behind the meat grinder will fall into chaos
But his voice just fell off when he saw the adjutant's face changed when he faced him,
"Asshole, did you listen to me?" Duke Andia thought it was the adjutant who didn't understand what he meant, and said angrily, "Have you heard my order? That thing is afraid of fire, as long as you have enough speed The rocket, after meeting, can destroy it before it approaches! Immediately convey this news, as long as you find an opportunity, you can fire it and ignite it!"
"My lord.
I think you may be wrong, it seems that the people of Istanbul have improved it! "The adjutant's face turned pale, with a dumbfounded face, he cautiously stretched out his finger and pointed at the back of Duke Andia behind him,
Andya turned his head, and just about to scold him, he stuck his mouth in his mouth, siege meat grinder! How could the people of Istanbul know this! "The Duke of Andia was dumbfounded when he saw that, he took a breath of air, and gurgled his fingers holding the reins of the war horse. It is said that during the Feiya Dynasty, the real battlefield meat grinder was also called the mobile fortress of war.
At that time, the meat grinder barrier was used for both field battles and siege. When fighting in the field, the meat grinder will be covered with a layer of fireproof felt, and it will advance with the synchronized troops to crush the enemy array. Cutting, and in siege battles, large and slow meat grinders are the preferred target of enemy catapults, so the strengthening of meat grinders is not only the addition of fireproof felt, but also enough to withstand enemy rockets and catapults. These baffles are made of the strongest iron wood. This wood is the best material for building naval warships. It is as hard as iron. Even if it has been soaked in sea water for a hundred years, it will not crack at all.
I saw the five giant tanks of the Istanites that looked like moving fortresses neatly and stopped at a distance of about 100 meters from the line of the archer’s range. The light infantry line behind began to cover up, holding the small circle in their hands. The shield’s light infantry quickly cleared the roadblocks in front to pave the way for the meat grinder. Behind the meat grinder, the Istan infantry are platooning with the wings spread out. Engineers are making the final adjustments to the meat grinder. I saw two baffles covered with fireproof felt slowly rise on both sides of the meat grinder. The surface of the baffle is densely covered with metal spikes, like a huge hedgehog
The top of is also covered with a layer of wooden boards. The outside of these wooden baffles are covered with metal skin. There is a row of small round holes in the middle of the side baffles, which should be used as ventilation for internal personnel.
"Go ahead! Ural!" The Istanbul army shouted slogans. The infantry team behind began to cling to the meat grinder in front. Everyone began to push with all their strength. The thrust behind the meat grinder began to expand, and the wooden wheels clucked again. Turning, the sound of crushing the crushed stones rustled, and the heavy car body dragged two deep cars out on the ground. The dull sound was like a kind of oppression in the heart of a soldier who was just not a soldier. And pass,
"My lord, what should we do now? The adjutant’s tone was clearly flustered,
‘Don’t mess up, the more nervous you are, the more you can’t mess around. We will definitely have a solution! "Andya said angrily. He didn't know where the Istanbul people got these meat grinders, but it was obvious that this thing was definitely a product of the end of the Fiya dynasty.
Because at that time, in response to the ambitions of the princes everywhere, the meat grinder, which has always been a siege weapon, began to be used in field battles with the enemy's army. At that time, the meat grinder was already the pinnacle of land warfare machinery.
As you can see now, not only the front end of the meat grinder is equipped with a more shocking giant sickle and a three-leaf spatula. It is also on the side baffle, and the craftsmen also added a row of long guns. The stabbing muzzle without a hand, the wide rear compartment can accommodate twenty to thirty soldiers to enter, the open opening of the mobile fortress is designed at the safest tail, the top baffle is added to the third floor, and the side of the baffle The stabbing muzzle is the most terrifying part of this war fortress. Once this big hedgehog plunges into the enemy’s army, the long stabbing gun lurking inside will inflict a lot of damage on the dense enemy from the stabbing muzzle
Such a meat grinder, called a mobile war barrier, is worthy of its name. Not only can it withstand the blows of ordinary trebuchets, but as long as the infantry who is not the guard is defeated, other meat grinders are not a problem. At the time, they resisted Feiya. The rebels that suppressed the army in Dynasty Town grasped the weakness on the side of the meat grinder. The design first defeated the guarding infantry group, which led to the defeat of the largest corps of the Feiya Dynasty. More than 130 meat grinders were in the battle. Burned down in the battle, the war that led to the decline of the Fiya Dynasty from its prosperity is called the "War of the Meat Grinder!" It is a very famous example of war in Central Europe.
Can you copy that battle?
impossible! The Duke of Andia is very sure of this. The Istanis are not the arrogant Fiya dynasty army at the beginning. Their infantry group is closely behind the meat grinder. There is nowhere to break through, and the flanks are throwing guns. The hands, paralleled in a cross formation, are enough to give a devastating blow to any enemy trying to approach. Behind the enemy army, the heavy cavalry team that the enemy has just withdrawn is resting, like a cheetah lurking in the dark, waiting for the opportunity to give it to itself. The deadliest blow was that the opponent was a very vengeful and conceited person. From chasing and killing him for more than six hundred miles, it can be seen that he used heavy cavalry to ambush the opponent in the Focordil area. One hand, the other party will hate themselves deeply, and the other party's arrogance will definitely save face in this way!
"Rocket ready!"
Gangfei sent the cavalry to the front end of the archer array quickly. Although knowing that it may have little effect, the only thing that can threaten the opponent is the rocket. The entire row of Gangfei archers are serious and draw from the quiver. Take out the arrow clusters, use a tarp that is easy to burn to protect the metal arrows in front, and then ignite them with torches inserted at the feet. Numerous clusters of burning arrows at the front begin to slowly lift towards forty-five degrees, the archer Holding their breath, there was only a crackling sound from the burning of the front end of the tarp, their eyes fixed on the "behemoth" slowly approaching in front of them
"Shoot!"
With the bright command, countless fingers released the tail feathers of the arrow clusters, like countless meteors traversing a gorgeous arc, suddenly flying from the horizon to the sky, falling quickly at a certain height
"Attention!"
Istanian infantry raised the shield in their hands and leaned against the back wing of the five large meat grinder fortresses. Numerous clusters of arrows fell like a storm, hitting the shield with a dense sound like a torrential rain. As the main target of the arrow clusters, the tops of the five meat grinder barriers were filled with dense clusters of arrows, like a hedgehog that suddenly exploded, but when the arrow clusters were over, the five mobile war barriers did not hurt even a single hair. Still proceeding unhurriedly, just dumbfounded, the Istanbul people raised the shield full of arrows and cheered.
"Luo An, can your cavalry kill those things?" Andyar shouted angrily to his cavalry commander,
The General Gangfei, wearing a cross lion helmet on his head and a majestic shuttle scale armor, glanced over the strong Istan gunners on the side of the meat grinder barrier. Those gunners were cavalry. The nemesis of the army, and his cavalry is a southerner, he gritted his teeth and said, "Istan’s guns are fast and accurate, and they can penetrate the armor of our cavalry. If the adults can help me solve the opponent’s gunmen, I might try it!"
"Fait, throw the gun and give it to me, those things are not handed to you!" Andya hesitated for a moment and said, afterwards.
"As adults wish!" Luo An knelt down on one knee in front of Andia, stood up and turned around. He came to his cavalry unit, his eyes swept over the serious-looking men, and pulled out his own. Sabre pointed to the five meat grinders in the distance and shouted, "Have you all seen it? At that time, the new weapons of the Istanis, the infantry and the archer, were no longer able to do it. Now we have to rely on our cavalry! Yours! Behind is the southern part of the empire. We are all very eager to be able to go back alive, but if we can’t stop the enemy’s pursuit here, the war will burn to the south, to your hometown. Think about what the Istanians did in the north. For, would you like to see that result?"
"Just give your order, my lord!" A cavalry captain put his hand on his right chest and patted again. "We have already failed in Focordil this time. This time, even if the pressure is on life, We also have to fight for reputation!"
"Okay! All are there, ready torches and porcelain weapons, we may attack at any time!" Luo An nodded, Focordier fought, he led the cavalry to attack the Istanbul, and the result was reversed by Iraq in the center line. The Stan people defeated, causing the entire battle to become a laughing stock, and it has always been cited as a shame and shame by the cavalry.
"Yes!" The neat voice resounded across the sky, and all the five thousand cavalrymen raised their spears like clouds. Arranged in an array of delta wings. They held a lancet in one hand, and a torch in the other. The distant setting sun shone on them, reflecting a coquettish light, and a breeze gently lifted the cavalry helmet ribbon. It’s like a battle flag fluttering,
The horses that Luo An crossed lined up in the front row of the phalanx. He calmly looked at the moving barrier in front of him, and his right hand began to slowly raise.
The queue behind was solemn, only the rough breathing and the whispering jet of war horses were heard
received the report that the cavalry unit was ready to attack, and the Duke of Andia also ordered to change the target of attack at this time "Order the archers to attack all the enemy's gun-throwing units! Suppress them until they collapse!"
The aiming target of the bow and arrow troops was changed, and countless Gangfei war bows were neatly offset by about fifteen degrees to the left. "Shoot!" Three minutes later, countless arrow clusters burst out from the Gangfei military formation. , Like a wide black cloth bag flying into the sky, dyed red quickly fell towards the array of guns and hands on the flank of the barrier,
"This is?"
An Istan threw a gun and raised his head, with a sluggish gaze, he looked at the cold light of the arrows that covered the sky above his head in disbelief, like countless stars in the night sky flickering,
The Istan gunners did not expect that the target of the non-archer’s strike suddenly changed to their own direction. It was only at this moment that it was discovered that it was too late. The Istan gunner who found the troops dropped turned around and ran in a panic. But the arrow clusters fell faster, like lightning, which pierced his body at once,
"Attention, arrow...!"
The horrible shout of the Istan gunman had just sounded, and it stopped abruptly in the sound of a torrential rain.
Uncountable clusters of arrows pierced his body, he was shot into a hedgehog, his front feet softened, and his whole body fell to the ground.
Like him, many Istan throwers were unprepared and were nailed to death by countless clusters of arrows. Their bodies were like targets filled with straw, no screams, no wailing, only clusters of arrows. The puff sound made by piercing the flesh, the blood stained the ground under their feet,
Istani’s gunmen belong to light infantry. The protective weapon in their hands is just a small round shield with an area just about the size of their chest tied to their left hand. They are completely unable to withstand this explosive long-range counterattack.
Arrow clusters shuttled and washed in a line-like queue like rain. The soldiers on the road were shot over in an instant, blood flew across, and screams were continuous everywhere, and countless arrows fluttered. You can constantly see shiny metal waterfalls flying from above.
"Don't bother with the gunner and order the barriers of war to move on!"
Istan Eastern Governor Hayala rode on the standing horse, wearing a silver-white lock armor and a white robe on the outside. He looked like a chubby white fox. Looked blankly at the gun-throwing troops suffered heavy blows and asked the troops to move forward
The War Barrier is the name he gave to the five meat grinders. In fact, these five meat grinders were obtained by an accidental grave excavation, because the Battle of Focordier was stubbornly blocked by Gang Fei and missed In order to converge with the emperor to encircle Gang Fei’s battle plan, Hayala, who was so embarrassed that he knew that the tomb of Gang Fei’s first king was nearby, flagrantly ordered the soldiers to dig up the tomb of Gang Fei King. These five huge meat grinders were accidentally discovered in the tomb. Although they were somewhat damaged and eroded by the years, they could barely be used under the repairs of the craftsmen.
"Strike!"
Luoan also roared fiercely at the same time, and suddenly, the raised hand pressed down forcefully
The cavalry behind raised their spears and lighted torches, and let out a deafening roar, "The glory of marching belongs to us!" The five thousand cavalrymen of the army leaped on their saddles and leaped on their horses. The far barriers of war, the sound of horses’ hoofs roared like thunder, the smoke and dust in the sky, the black cavalry, like an avalanche, like crazy forward,
"Stay steady!"
Located behind the meat grinder war barrier, the Istanbul Army has three teams with 37,000 people.
are all veterans with extremely rich combat experience. Because of the shortest distance, they are the most able to feel the terrible aura of the oncoming team. The Istanbul army following the war barrier suddenly changed, with countless long spears. The infantry quickly moved forward, three sections of vertical guns, the entire film of rapid command sounds, and uniform movements. The pikemen in the front suddenly squatted down, the tail end of the spear in his hand was deeply inserted into the soil, and the spear was angled forty-five degrees. Lifting up, the second row of spears firmly pressed the spears in their hands on the shoulders of the first row of squatting pikemen, and the third row of spears pressed on the shoulders of the second row of pikemen, but in just ten seconds, The dense forest of guns in the front completely blocked the possibility of cavalry approaching the barrier of war
"The first team follow me!"
Luo An shouted, the entire row of cavalry pressed on like crazy beasts.
Papa, the long spear of the Istanian infantry pierced into the vest of the horse, and was also broken by a strong reaction force. "Boom..." The front line of the collision suddenly burst into an indescribable wave of red blood. The nemesis of Istan’s three-stage spear formation cavalry, the horse stabbed by the spear will not immediately fall, but because of the strong inertia, it continues to move forward, or kicks wildly under severe pain,
The knight on the horse was thrown off heavily, fell into the gun formation in front, turned into a piece of blood exploded in the air, or was smashed heavily on the ground, and then trampled to death by Ranma,
The Istanian infantry in the first two rows, their blood and flesh, are like sparks that burst between a giant hammer and iron felt, almost unavoidably avoiding the inevitable rush of cavalry. The horses were forcibly squeezed to death, and the second row of cavalry behind took the opportunity to violently throw the torch in their hands to the meat grinder that was less than 20 meters away. Their goal was not to light the baffle of the meat grinder, and countless still inserted them. The squeaky and burning arrow clusters on the scene have proved that this method is not feasible. They just threw the torches densely. Soon, under the meat grinder on the battlefield, the torches ignited the withered grass on the ground and formed a fire zone. In the early spring, the fire used this wind to ignite the wooden board under the meat grinder on the battlefield, where there is no fire protection layer, plus the kerosene on the torch, it burns almost at a point
"hu" once the flame has opened the gap. It immediately became a huge fire snake. The flame first burned from the bottom of the meat grinder on the battlefield~IndoMTL.com~ and then spread upward, the tongue of fire burned out from the fire felt, and the huge battlefield ground meat The machine is like a super torch that is quickly ignited and flared,
"Asshole! How could this happen!" The governor of the East of Istanbul, Hayala, punched the saddle with an angrily look. There were a total of five battlefield meat grinders, and one was reimbursed for this kind of thing. Sex is very difficult, even the best craftsman in the army only dare to repair some small parts
"Good job" Luo An! "
At the rear, the Duke of Andia excitedly watched his cavalry embed in the ranks of the Istanbul people like swordsmen, and the Istanbul troops were forcibly squeezed away.
Infantry and cavalry have never been cheap in close combat. This is not an empty vernacular. Cavalry is the king of close combat arms in this era. Even the best northern infantry can only achieve the ratio of ⑴ヅBattle damage,
When the formation of ordinary infantry is complete, it’s amazing to be able to keep three infantry in exchange for one cavalry,
Most of the infantry formations were directly destroyed by the impact of the cavalry. Amid the eye-sweet and soft bones, the Istan infantry was like clusters of green and dripping wheat seedlings, facing the sudden shock. The giant scythes wielded by the gods of death who switched to farming, they smashed apart and lie down like dominoes, and the only thing they could do was to use dazzling and coherent blood. To accuse the fragility and ease of life. (To be continued) [This text is provided by the Qihang Update Team Mengmengda Xiaoqi@慕景祺] If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. )