Chapter 283: Dublin Offensive and Defensive Battle (II) (Moe Master +5)

Seeing that the British artillery had run clean, Sahi pouted helplessly. www.biquge.info Since the artillery, which posed the greatest threat to the city, had run away, Sahi began to look for a new target.

With a sweep of his eyes, Sahi suddenly saw Richard. Pol's handsome flag, as well as surrounding Richard. A vote of heavy cavalry of Bol.

"It's a big fish!" Sahi got excited. As a veteran of the Battle of Lyle, Sahi knew the key points of victory and defeat in that battle. In that battle, the Saxon army failed because the high platform where the Duke of Saxony Albrecht was standing happened to be broken by a cannonball, and the banner fell. Although the Duke of Albrecht was not killed by the shells, Marin took the opportunity to spread rumors that "the Duke of Saxony is dead", and then the Saxon army collapsed......

"If I can kill the British commander with one shot, will the British army also collapse?"

So, Sahi asked his French artillery to turn the muzzle and aim at the British flag. Sahi took out the plumb and restarted the positioning, making sure that the muzzle and the target were in a vertical direction. Then, Sahi, commanding the French artillery, began to shoot ......

After a few school shots, the shell finally approached Richard. The small phalanx headed by Pol. This time, it was the unlucky one who was at the front of the line......

I saw that the 12-pound iron ball instantly hit the knight's chest. Although he was wearing sturdy plate armor, he was as soft as bread in front of a fast-flying 12-pound iron ball. I saw that the sturdy steel plate armor quickly smashed the originally protruding breastplate armor deep under the impact of the iron ball cannonball. At the same time, there was a cracking sound in the knight's chest - apparently, the knight's sternum was smashed......

The 12-pound iron ball didn't seem to be satisfied, and after smashing through the front breastplate, it hit the back breastplate and removed a huge bulge. Then, the knight's body was thrown up by the huge impact of the cannonball, and smashed into a group of infantry on the side, until it knocked over several infantrymen......

"No, Chris!" Richard on the side of the handsome flag. Pol shouted in fear when he saw the knight flying. Because, the knight named Chris, is his own nephew......

Richard. Pol hurried to the knight's side and asked with concern:

"Chris, how are you?"

The knight opened his mouth to answer, but, with one mouth, spat out some broken bones and internal organs:

"Uncle, I'...... I'm afraid I can't do it, please, help take care of my mother and sister......" After saying this sentence with the last bit of strength, Knight Chris tilted his head and hung up. However, even when he died, his mouth was still bleeding, and the blood was mixed with fragments of shattered internal organs......

"No—" Richard. Pol shouted in pain. Richard's sister is married to an ordinary knight, and Chris is their only son. Today, Chris follows Richard. Pol came to participate in this battle, obviously gilded. Unexpectedly, he died in Dublin.

At this time, the knights on the side were in a hurry, and they hurriedly persuaded:

"Your Excellency, enemy artillery is aiming at us, so please retreat. If you are hit by enemy artillery, the consequences are unimaginable! ”

Richard. Pol grieved, but he knew his men were right. So, he took his nephew's body and withdrew back......

Seeing that the enemy commander had escaped, Sahi was not convinced. But he didn't know that the French artillery around him had already regarded him as a god.

Although there were many French artillery, the French artillery did not install a lookout hill behind the gun body. Therefore, they aim mostly by sight and experience. And the lead vertical line aiming method used by Sahi, although not so accurate, at least does not offset left and right. Next, it was time to adjust the elevation angle of the gun and the adjustment of the charge.

Although there is a big gap between the graduates of the literate artillery academies of later generations who can use rulers and protractors to calculate, the aiming method used by Sahi is much more accurate than that of the eyes of French artillerymen, and the charge avoids lateral errors. Therefore, those old French artillerymen wanted to worship Sahi as a master.

What they didn't know, however, was that Sahi, seeing the situation, had already understood that his artillery aiming method had been leaked. So, he was already planning in his heart to find a way to kill these French artillerymen after the war, lest they bring this simple aiming method back to France......

As the banner moved backwards, the morale of the British army also dropped greatly. Seeing that things can't be done, Richard. Pol simply ordered the whole army to retreat, pulled it to a safe distance beyond the artillery bombardment, and began to set up camp.

Over the next few days, Richard. Bol made several tentative attacks, only to be cleanly beaten back by the musketeers at the head of the city. Until one day, it suddenly rained......

On this day, the defenders of Count Edward, both muskets and artillery, were dumbfired......

Finding out about this case, Richard. Bol's morale was boosted, so he began to give the order for an all-out siege of the city. However, there were not many defenders in the city. Although the British army bravely climbed the city wall, they could not escape the fate of being knocked down in the end.

But at least, the British were able to compete fairly with Ireland on a rainy day, instead of being slaughtered unilaterally...... As a result, the two sides began to fight back and forth......

However, when the rain stopped, the British army fell again......

In this way, the British army and the defenders of Earl Edward fell into such a strange circle that whenever the wind and the sun were good, both sides exercised restraint and ignored each other. Because, in such weather, the British army is destined to suffer.

And in the rainy weather, the British army was like a chicken blood, frantically attacking the city. Every rainy day, the head of Dublin will shout and kill, and the city walls are full of stumps and broken arms, and blood mixed with blood flows down.

However, no matter how hard the British tried to get rid of Earl Edward's defenders, they couldn't completely take care of Earl Edward's defenders. Because, although the British army came with 20,000 troops, the 7,000 longbowmen were only good at archery. Therefore, the main force of the real siege is another 13,000 people.

However, the defenders of Count Edward in the city, in addition to the previous 8,000 men, also had 2,800 men sent by Marin, and there were 10,800 veterans. Coupled with the two or three thousand conscripts in the city, the main battle force was not at all less than that of the British army. Without numerical superiority, the British army simply could not break through the city defenses of Dublin.

It's just, Richard. Bol didn't know it yet, and thought there were only 8,000 people in the city. Excluding the 2,000 musketeers, there should only be 6,000 soldiers. But what he didn't know was that the enemy actually had two thousand eight hundred more men than that, and that wasn't counting the two or three thousand levies. Although the strength of the levies is not strong, relying on the strong city walls, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. In this way, the two sides are at a stalemate......