Chapter 601: Battle of Mordan (3)
Heavy siege artillery, its so-called heavy is not only in the barrel.
First of all, although the barrel of the heavy siege gun belongs to a kind of cannon, if it is measured according to the barrel of the later cannon, the heavy siege gun has reached 54 pounds or even 64 pounds, of course, this kind of cannon is definitely not comparable to the monster cannon of the Ottoman in the original world; Secondly, the shells of heavy siege guns are not comparable to ordinary siege guns; In addition, the heavy siege artillery was also outstanding in many aspects, such as the large stone base and the large amount of black powder loaded in each occurrence......... So if you want to describe a heavy siege artillery, there are only two words: fierce enough, bulky, and you have to put it in front of you.
"The defenders of Fort Berranni are all focused on our scorpion crossbows." Seeing countless javelins and stones flying towards the area where the scorpion crossbow was located, and the sun never set on the engineering soldiers' side also used the accuracy of the scorpion crossbow to shoot at Chen Qiang's city defense equipment, at the same time, the Kodo beast wearing iron armor also transported the last cart of cannonballs to the front and back of the giant siege artillery, Andelt said to the flag hand beside him: "Tell the engineers that they can now reload the orc warriors, and at the same time, I ask them to make sure that I have a hole in the outer wall of Fort Berranni within 5 hours." ”
"Boom ........." With a roar, before all the residents of Fort Berandan and the Mordan soldiers on Fort Berdanie could react, a sensation like an earthquake came from the feet of all the Mordans. Although the outer city of Fort Berranni is extremely strong, the tremor will not stop spreading because it is strong, so almost at the same time as the tremor is heard, many Mordan soldiers lose their balance, and those who are lucky can still hold on to the battlements next to them after falling to catch their breath, and those who are unlucky even accidentally fall from the wall more than ten meters high and turn into flesh.
And as the commander of the Mordans in Fort Berranni. The soldier who had been standing on the gate of the city looked down at the ants in the distance with a sneering and disdainful countenance, and after the tremor came, he also unfortunately fell backwards and flipped a few times, and knocked down two other Mordan soldiers on the way to the ground, and was finally crotched by a box full of arrows.
After getting up in disgrace, the fragile and frightened Moldan commander immediately grabbed a Moldan soldier beside him and asked, "What happened?" Could it be an earthquake? ”
"Your Excellency, this seems to be ........." Just as the Moldan soldier who was caught by the Moldan commander and shook him several times was dizzy and slugging, a Moldan soldier who was running in a panic and could even use the word "rolling and climbing" to describe his running posture ran in with a frightened face and said to the Moldan commander: "Your Excellency, Commander! No, it's not good! Something big happens, outside, outside............"
Maybe it's because I've calmed down my emotions. Perhaps because he didn't want to lose face in front of his own soldiers, although the Moldan commander who was called was still a little dusty in his hair, he said to the Moldan soldier who ran into the city gate tower in a panic at this time: "Speak clearly, don't forget that you are a soldier of our Moldan Kingdom, what kind of panic are you like like this?" Now I'm going to make it clear word by word. What the hell is going on, and what's going on outside? ”
"Boom." After swallowing saliva. A Mordan soldier who had warned himself in his heart to calm down, although his chest continued to rise. But at least his emotions had calmed down, and he began to say to the Mordan commander: "Your Excellency, I, I may not be able to tell .......... words about the situation outside, please go out with me to take a look, I think the situation outside can only be understood by you, Your Excellency Commander, who is lightly present." ”
Although the Mordan soldier's statement puzzled the Mordan commander, the Mordan commander did not question the Mordan soldier's claim. He didn't directly object, but after pondering in his heart for a while, he called a few guards who followed him, explained some things to them, and left a few to continue to sit here. To the men who had come in in a panic, the Mordan soldier said, "Okay, then you lead the way." ”
Then, the Moldan commander slowly walked out of the city gate tower to the city wall, surrounded by the Mordan soldiers who were still in a state of panic and the inhabitants of Fort Berzanni with the Mordan crossbow in their hands, which made the high-ranking Mordan commander show a look of disdain and even a hint of disgust, and in this case, he ignored the anxious wave of the Mordan soldier leading the way in front of him, and began to slow down his pace to show his composure.
But as his gaze began to turn to the front, where the Mordan soldier was to take him, the expression on the face of the Mordan commander gradually changed, from initial composure to astonishment, then to uneasiness and finally to panic, and at the same time to change the speed of the Mordan commander's steps, and when he was about to reach the place where the Mordan soldier was going to take him, the Mordan commander's movement had changed from walking to galloping.
"W-What's going on?" Looking at the dozen or so smoke-emitting holes in the walls of the city wall below, several of which were inlaid with black iron balls, and the obvious cracks around these holes, the Mordan commander found for the first time that his head could not imagine anything in a short period of time.
And when an iron ball embedded in the city wall fell from the city wall to the ground, and the figure that hit the ground made a panicked sound from all the surrounding Mordans, he reacted from a momentary blank state of mind, and at the same time felt a strange feeling coming from the palm of his hand.
"This is .........." When the Mordan commander raised his hand, and saw that the crack under him had somehow extended to the battlement, and under his own gaze, it extended to his left foot, and at the same time found that the crack seemed to have the possibility of continuing to extend, the Mordan commander, whose head was blank, finally reacted, and turned to all the Mordan people around him while his face changed drastically, and shouted: "Run.........."
It's a pity that this Mordan officer is destined not to make the sound of running, it's not that he doesn't want to pronounce it, in fact, he has already made a sound and the sound lasts in the air for 1 second, but the problem is that when this Mordan soldier makes the sound of running, the fuse at the tail of the heavy siege gun on the side of the sun has also been burned, which means that the second round of heavy siege guns has launched the giant black iron ball in the barrel at the same time and blasted it towards the city wall, and the accompanying roar also covered the roar of the Mordan commander.
"Oooo Contrary to the frightened expressions on the faces of the Mordans, after seeing that the place had been set fire twice by heavy siege artillery, one of which still smashed on the wall and dragged a trail of blood to the interior of Fort Berranni, the cheers of all the soldiers present who never set sun became louder as a huge stone fell from the city wall with countless pieces of rubble.
"I didn't expect the power of this heavy siege cannon to be so powerful, and after only two rounds of fire, the walls of Fort Berranni were smashed." Looking at the situation on the city wall in the distance, Andert, who was observing with a telescope, said with excitement and confusion: "Strange? Why does it look like some of the soldiers on Mordan's side are messing around? Their commander was too dishonorable.......... it couldn't have been the smash from the top of the wall that had hit their commander just now, right? This luck is too rebellious, but no matter what the situation is, anyway, as long as it is beneficial for us to not set the sun, the flag speaker, tell the engineers and orc warriors that they are doing very well this time, and they must continue to maintain it! If I smash a gap in the outer wall of Fort Berranni today, I will personally give them a celebration tonight! ”
"Yes, Your Excellency Commander Andelt." After the flag speaker passed Andert's words to the nearly 100 soldiers and orc warriors who operated heavy siege cannons, these people also operated the cannon more vigorously as if they had been stimulated, and the orc warriors holding the barrel cleaning brush quickly and quality cleaned up the iron filings and gunpowder ash in the barrel, and then an orc warrior used all his strength to pick up an iron ball larger than his stomach and fill it into the barrel, and then after the human engineers finished adjusting the angle, After all the heavy siege gun operators had chosen a representative to ignite the fuse and run towards covering their ears, the huge iron ball rose into the air with 19 other companions and smashed into the outer walls of Fort Berranni again.
The Mordans who are now guarding the outer walls of Burranny are not only suffering the unfortunate death of their own supreme commander, but also because of the presence of artillery, both those regular Mordan soldiers and the civilians of Fort Berdan, whose morale was higher than that of Mordan's soldiers, have left indelible wounds on their hearts.
Of course, this wound was not caused by the roar of artillery, but because under the bombardment of artillery, the never-ending spiritual sustenance of Fort Berranie in the hearts of all Mordans was shattered, although there was no gap in the huge outer wall of Fort Berranie at this time, and there were 2nd and 3rd layers of boulder walls behind these people, but the outer wall that was rapidly falling off stones told all the Moordans in Fort Berandan that there was no hope at all. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )