On October 1st, 218 of the New Caesar's Calendar, the Battle of the Wasteland Pass, after the prologue was sung, finally entered the main drama.
Amidst the rumble of artillery fire, Dane's artillery formation and the city's defense forces at the barren land pass clashed fiercely and lively.
If nothing else, this should be the most intense artillery battle that Schindler has had over the years. In the past years, no warlord could have a field artillery team comparable to the current Dane, and no warlord dared to push the artillery to confront the rich Yim under the city of the wasteland pass .
Only Dane has such confidence.
This kind of artillery battle was very soul-stirring at first.
However, after two days of confrontation between the two sides, the scene became a little too good-when the two sides confronted each other, the distance between them was too far away.
The alchemy artillery in the Orodic world is not cheap to manufacture, and the shells are relatively powerful, but the distance the artillery fires is really not flattering. A distance of more than a thousand meters is almost the limit.
But at present, when the two sides are bombarded with artillery in the past two days, the distance between them is even greater than a thousand meters.
At this distance, the huge wind and sand in the desert already made it difficult for observers to aim at the target. Not to mention, at such a distance, the shells fired may even float. Even the best and most experienced gunners can hardly predict where the artillery they blast will hit. .
The same is true of the Yim gunners on the top of the city.
In addition, Dane's artillery line, in order to avoid being estimated by others as a fixed bombing angle and distance, is constantly changing its position. The artillery is dragged by horses and manpower. After a few bombardments, it will quickly move away . In this way, although the casualties of one's own side can be greatly reduced, it will become difficult to recalculate the distance and angle of the bombardment after the target is transferred, which also caused Dane's artillery formation to The results that can be obtained are not very satisfactory.
As a result, although the fight between the two sides was very lively, the results achieved by each party were not as many as the shells thrown.
After two days of bombardment, Dane lost ten artillery units, and the losses suffered by the barren land pass on the opposite side were basically the same as him.
When the gun crews were bombarding each other, Patience and some other senior officers had come to Dane and wanted to ask for a fight. These guys have a relatively clear view of the current situation, and they also know that this battle cannot be delayed for a long time, and it is best to settle it quickly.
But it was precisely because of this that they couldn't understand Dane's decision to let the artillery formation go to engage in long-range artillery battles with the defenders at the wasteland pass.
This kind of confrontation, I really want to decide the winner, it is estimated that it will be more than ten days, or even half a month. And at that time, even if Dane's artillery formation could blow up the defense measures on the barren pass to pieces, the army of the Earl of the Bull, Waterman, might have already arrived.
This is bound to go against the original intention of making a quick decision.
However, including Patience, Dane rejected all the requests from senior officers. Dane didn't explain anything to them, just let them go back to restrain their troops and wait for further orders.
No one can go against Dane's order, they can only go back where they should go, and then watch Dane's gun crew, and the city defense force on the barren land pass set off a grand fireworks, feeling anxious .
This anxiety lasted until the third day and then came to an abrupt end.
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On October 3rd, at ten o'clock in the morning, Dane's artillery position received a direct order from Dane: "Advance 500 meters!"
This order is exciting!
Moving forward by 500 meters means that the artillery formation will enter the most suitable distance to attack the enemy. This distance is enough for Dane's artillery formation to maximize its destructive power!
Of course, this also means that the artillery formation also has to bear the most violent firepower from the enemy.
But the proud gunners don't care, they firmly believe that they will be the victor in the upcoming firepower duel.
However, if this order can be regarded as Dane finally figured it out and wants to fight the enemy to the death, then the next order makes people feel a little unclear.
He not only asked the artillery formation to press forward, but at the same time, he also issued a request that the pure swordsmen of the wing behind the artillery formation also press forward with the artillery formation, and asked them to move forward as quickly as possible. The speed, press into the position close to the enemy's city gate, and then wait for the opportunity to move.
This order was opposed by that Alexandrina.
The former head of the pure sword mercenary group, who later surrendered to Dane, has now become the deputy head of the White Wolf Fort Legion, and a woman with the rank of major general questioned Dane's order.
"My lord, I don't understand why this is the case. When our artillery formation is engaged in a firepower duel with the enemy's firepower, the pure swordsmen can't help at all. The process of their charge forward is to go through The range of the enemy's firepower, isn't this letting them die in vain?"
Alexandrina rarely spoke like this in front of Dane. But, after all, there are thousands of soldiers in that pure swordsman regiment. Many of the officers and veterans in it are from the pure sword mercenary regiment. In other words, they are all veterans of Delina. underlings. Delina didn't want to see these people go to die, and Dane's order was indeed a bit unbelievable, so she questioned it, which was not incomprehensible.
But Dane didn't have the heart to explain so much to her, he said very stiffly: "Follow the order, major general!"
Delina intends to continue arguing a few more sentences, but under Dane's clear attitude, she has no way to change Dane's mind.
Under such circumstances, she could only go down to appease her old subordinates.
It has to be said that Dane's army does have the spirit and spirit that an elite army should have.
Although Dane's order made people feel a little strange, and even seemed to die in vain, so that after receiving the order, the captain almost felt that he was going to leave forever.
But in the final result, these more than a thousand pure swordsmen, from officers to soldiers, still followed Dane's order on time, followed the artillery formation, and started to move forward with the determination to die.