The light blue fog in the morning seemed to be dissipated by this thunderous roar in an instant, all the perching birds in the woods jumped up at the same time, and the birds neighed in the unclear sky.
The Legrand soldiers sounded the horn of death harvesting life.
"what is that?"
The tower heard the squire Duna beside him ask in horror, the loud noise of artillery fire in their ears, and flames lit up in the shadows of the valleys and trees on both sides.
The iron bullets came through the air, and the knights tried their best to control the war horses, while struggling to raise their shields to seek this strange attack. The neighing of the horses and the screams of the knights mixed together, and the entire narrow valley was in chaos. The knights of the Eternal Knights fell one by one from their warhorses, and one after another, blood splashed up in the smell of sulfur and saltpeter.
"They were lured by demons! These heretics!"
Someone in the Eternal Knights roared in horror.
The sky was dark blue, and metal bullets staggered down from the jungle with a huge whistling sound. The sturdy plate armor and the exquisite and expensive chain armor appeared to be more fragile than the knights in front of these loud noises. their imagination. They brandished their swords in vain trying to fend off attacks from both sides of the valley.
"Holy Lord, Legrand's hand cannon... Is that still a hand cannon?!"
Tari couldn't believe his eyes and judgment.
Hand cannons, like cannons, have appeared sporadically on the battlefield even earlier. [1] Tari also once saw hand cannons in the hands of military merchants along the coast of the Hopeless Inland Sea. But the hand cannon that was nearly one meter long was only regarded as a "novelty" by the nobles at that time.
The Lord is above! Isn't a hand cannon inferior to a longbow and a crossbow on the battlefield? Everyone knows that it is useless except to scare the enemy!
However, at the moment, the hand cannons that appeared on both sides of the valley showed a completely different side from the previous impression. Tongues of flame belched from the clunky muzzles mocked by traditional knights, and with each flash of fire, knights fell one by one.
The fire of the muzzle illuminated the faces of the Legrand soldiers buried here, and the muscle lines on each of their faces were stretched like iron and steel. The soldiers in the front row, after firing the first round of mixed iron and lead bullets, immediately retreated to the back to make room for the soldiers in the second row.
The projectiles are intertwined to form a tight fire net.
The Eternal Knights, whose retreats were blocked by giant trees, did not charge without organizing the knights to launch a counter-offensive, but they were greeted by icy iron bullets accompanied by a loud noise. The sound of hundreds of hand cannons firing together almost shattered people's eardrums. The horses feared this never-before-seen nightmarish attack even more than humans. The cavalry broke up before they could reach the hillside.
Tari had to shout, let everyone dismount, gather together, and form a defensive circle with shields and corpses of comrades in arms.
Almost all the eternal knights subconsciously stretched out their hands and pressed on the cross coat of arms on their chests. These soldiers who had launched cruel and cold-blooded slaughter against the heretics again and again were almost dissipated at this moment.
Except for Tari, almost everyone is convinced that the Legrands must have accepted the invitation of the hell devil. Only with the help of hell devils can they use terrifying and evil means to transform the hand cannons that were originally dotted on the battlefield into ferocious death scythes.
"The accuracy is still too bad."
The Rogers Brothers who were identified by the Eternal Knights as "conspiring with evil" and Mr. Raul, the Minister of Military Design, stood on a higher ground with a wider field of vision.
Minister Raul holds the witch glasses, and the Rogers brothers write and draw with pen and paper.
Minister Raul clearly observed the battlefield in the valley with witch glasses.
Legrand's first military-industrial division moved out of Hell before the official war between Hell and Angels. Despite the help of the skeletons, the military-industrial sector was too short-lived. In a limited time, their improved hand cannons and cannons only had enough time to arm a small group of elites.
"The chamber is not stable enough, and the trajectory of the bullet is difficult to grasp."
While judging various data, Minister Raul quickly pointed out the shortcomings of the current batch of gunpowder weapons.
"The stability of your newly developed No. 3 gunpowder is worse than that of No. 2, but the power of the hand gun using No. 3 gunpowder as a filler is ten percent stronger than that of No. 2... The 'Lizard' hand gun exploded once, and the gun There is a problem with the arc of the bore..."
When the two brothers, the Minister of Military Design and the chemist Rogers, faced the flesh-and-blood battlefield, they were rich in treasures and made various records frantically. The king was also examining the entire battlefield.
The Eternal Knights are worthy of the elite Knights of the Holy Court. They quickly built a temporary protective wall for themselves with the corpses of warhorses and companions. Coupled with the shield's resistance, the power of the hand cannon, which has not been completely improved at this stage, has obviously begun to decline.
For this result, the king knew what to do.
The hand cannon at this stage is not enough to cause truly terrifying damage on the battlefield. Even if the valley is not too narrow, the back and forth have been cut off by the king, and the large number of the Eternal Knights are forced to gather together and become a natural target that even the blind can hit, then the hit rate of the hand cannon will drop by five. into the above.
Unless the hand cannon is officially transformed into a more convenient gun after a longer study, the kill value of a single weapon of the hand cannon in this era is actually lower than that of the bow and arrow. [2] However, even the most primitive hot weapons have natural advantages that cold weapons cannot match.
After the bow and arrow hit the enemy, unless it could, like the Keya archer, hit the enemy's throat with each arrow, killing him on the spot, it would take some time to cause a depleting internal bleeding. However, bullets made of iron and lead hit the cavalry at close to the speed of sound, not only able to penetrate the hard plate armor, but also shatter the metal armor, and the fragments of the armor will form new jagged wounds in the human body , making the knight instantly incapacitated. [3]
Seeing that the lethality of the hand cannon to the Eternal Knights gradually decreased, the king issued a second order:
"fire."
The gunners, who had been trained for a whole month, stood in front of a large-caliber gun made of bronze, the only supplies they carried in this rush. Now is the time for this bronze cannon, named "Blood Rose" by the Minister of Military Design, to show its prowess on the battlefield.
The "Blood Rose", which was supposed to be used for siege like a trebuchet, was used by the king in this valley ambush battle.
As the fuse was burned out, the gunpowder in the bronze cannon was ignited, and the sound of cannons that shook the mountains and forests sounded in everyone's ears. "Blood Rose" is like an ancient beast, and this beast On the stage of the world today, it made its first roar full of war against the old times of the past - as if the entire mountain forest trembled at that moment, the leaves rustled, the birds dispersed, and the hearts of the people were chilled. .
The bronze muzzle spewed dazzling and dazzling flames, and the heavy artillery shells jointly developed by the madmen from the Military Design Department and the Gunpowder Research Department dragged the firelight and gunpowder into the defensive circle formed by the reunion of the Eternal Knights.
The Eternal Knights with their iron shields didn't even realize what was going on—
Their ears buzzed at the moment the cannon sounded, and their heads were dizzy.
They almost subconsciously searched for the source of the ancient beast's roar, and the moment they looked up, they saw a "meteor" that was dragging its flame tail and fell towards them.
The "Blood Rose" exploded the moment it smashed into the center of the Knights' crowd.
Dust, shards of iron armor, blood, human stumps...
All these things were thrown up high, as if a flirtatious and bloody rose bloomed in the valley.
What kind of lethality will a shell that can blast through a thick city wall fall in a crowd
This question Tari didn't know the answer to before, but at the last moment of his life he did.
It was a horrific massacre like hell on earth.
At this moment, the city wall composed of flesh and blood was torn apart mercilessly, the cannonball exploded in the middle of the crowd, and the entire defensive camp disappeared in an instant. Where the shells fell, the ground turned bloody, and the people standing there had turned into broken corpses, and blood and ink were splashed on the ground.
If the previous hand cannons only made them feel scared, then the "Blood Rose" blooming in the crowd completely destroyed the cognition and reason of the Eternal Knights.
They don't even know what's going on right now, and their proud courage and force are worthless at this moment. They feel that this is the Lord's punishment for them!
These knights who were able to set fire to heresy country towns and villages could no longer maintain their defensive formations. They either collapsed like crazy, or threw away their swords, fell to their knees, and surrendered loudly.
Moore looked at the king.
The iron cannon itself and the shells are very heavy, and they couldn't carry more when they rushed to help Jolin County this time. The few just now were actually all the "Night Rose" shells they carried this time. In addition, after the Eternal Knights did not gather together as before and began to flee, the aiming of the hand cannons also became a problem.
The sun rises above ground level.
The sun shone through the woods and fell into the valley of blood and dust.
Facing the rout and surrender of the Eternal Knights, the king drew the sword from his waist and pointed down.
The Legrand cavalry, who had blocked the ears of the war horse early, appeared from both sides of the valley. Under the dazzling sunlight, they surrounded the Eternal Knights, who had suffered heavy casualties. Whether it was a rout who did not want to fight again, or a surrenderer who put down his sword, they all met the murderous cavalry and the icy blade.
Horses trotted past, swords rose and fell.
This is the king's answer:
- Legrand refuses to accept the surrender of the Eternal Knights.
A tooth for a tooth.
eye for eye.
The author has something to say: [1] Regarding the use of cannons and muskets in the early Middle Ages, there was an explanation in the military industry department of hell, you can look up.
[2] American scholar Dupuy calculated the theoretical index of lethality of weapons in different eras. The values of arquebus and musket are 10 and 19, respectively, far lower than 33 and 36 of crossbow and longbow. The performance of musket technology determines that its shooting target on the battlefield is not an individual, but strafing a dense group.
[3] Zhang Yang. A Preliminary Study on the Development of Gunpowder Weapons in Europe in the Late Middle Ages [J]. Journal of Capital Normal University (Social Science Edition), 2009(S1):185-190.