Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 100

2021-01-23

Chapter 100 See Tricks & Tricks
When Winters and Andrea rack their brains on red sulfur island When building credibility, the two armies facing each other in Tacheng broke out several small-scale battles around the corridor.

William Kidd only had light artillery in his hands, not enough to destroy the tunnel at long range. After finding that the effect was not good, the defenders quickly stopped shelling.

That night, nearly 100 Union cavalrymen quietly gathered outside the city under the cover of darkness.

When the cavalry of the Federation led the warhorses out of the city gate, the Veneta sentries outside several hundred meters were unaware because they could not see the movement of the city gate.

The Tanirians built a temporary triangular fort in front of the city gate. This triangular fort obstructed the view of the Veneta army and prevented the siege party from observing the opening and closing of the city gate.

It wasn't until the thunderous sound of horses' hooves reached their ears that the Veneta Sentinel noticed that the Tanirians were attacking.

The Veneta Sentinel had just sounded the alarm, and the Union cavalry had already rushed to the front of the corridor. The riders did not enter the corridor to kill the Veneta barracks, but stayed on the edge of the corridor, moved towards the wall and threw hook ropes.

They didn't come to rob the camp, but to tear down the wall.

The hook ropes used by the riders are modified from the hook ropes used in the sea jumping gang battle. One end is an iron hook like eagle claws, and the other end is tied to the chest strap of the war horse. It was easy to drag the basket full of earth and stone from the wall.

However, when the riders were working hard and struggling to scrape the wall, William Kidd, who was watching the battle on the Triangle Fort, found that something seemed amiss... There seemed to be some bushes moving on the east and west sides. .

"Shoot the cannons! Get them back! Quick!" William Kidd was suddenly startled and shouted in a panic, "Let them come back!"

The gunner beside him immediately From the charcoal stove, the red-hot iron rod was pulled out and inserted into the fire door.

In the silent night, the roar of the cannon was clearly audible even from a distance.

When the sound of the cannons arrived at Veneta's camp, Leighton was laughing until he couldn't breathe, and he laughed heartily ordered: "Hid your ass? It's all been discovered! Signal! Let the battalions on both wings come over immediately!"

A sorcerer officer got the order, raised his hand and catapulted a signal into the air dozens of meters high. The green flares exploded in midair, which is much more efficient than firing a cannon.

On the east side of the battlefield, Lieutenant Colonel Field, who was hiding and maneuvering, saw the flare, jumped on his horse, and shouted with amplifying technique: "Don't hide it! The second battallion, Come with me!"

With that, he put on his helmet and headed towards the federation's cavalry, shouting the name of Veneta's patron saint, "San Marco!"

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The soldiers of the second battallion of San Marco Legion were stunned for a moment, then shouted the battle cry of "San Marco" and rushed to the enemy following Field.

The same goes for another battallion on the left.

Two battallion infantry were encircling the federation's cavalry from the left and right flanks like arms.

A large number of long halberd hands also poured out from the front corridor. Before the knots of more than a dozen Union cavalrymen were untied, they were dragged from the horse by Veneta's long halberd hands and killed. They even forgot that the hook can be cut with a knife.

"William Kidd is too stupid. Not only is he stupid, but he also thinks others are as stupid as him..." Layton still hasn't let up his breath, he laughed With tears in his eyes, he said to Antonio, "...Are we fighting this kind of stuff?"

For Antonio and Layton, two veteran professional soldiers, William Kidd The idea is as simple as clear water.

If the bombardment fails, then the night attack is too straightforward. Of course, Antonio and Layton will be prepared.

Originally, Layton thought that the Tanies would not be in trouble tonight, because "William Kidd is not stupid enough to attack us. He wanted to sneak attack us that night, right?"

didn't expect the cavalry of the federation really came.

"I can't figure it out, too." Antonio shook his head with some doubts and some helplessness: "It's like a different opponent."

"I want to say William Kidd is actually at this level. He is just a pirate, what do you think of him? A person who has never learned the knowledge of martial arts in the system, can hold these thousands of people together and not fall apart, which is already a super-level performance." Layton shrugged off Antonio's doubts, and didn't know whether he was belittling Kidd or praising Kidd.

Antonio thought about it for a while, and actually felt that what Layton said was quite reasonable.

Over thousands of years, warfare has evolved from a primordial tribal rivalry to a sophisticated technology industry.

A fool can also learn how to distribute troops and arrange formations after being trained as a system officer. And a smart, untrained man, no matter how smart, cannot organize an army by instinct.

That's the purpose of training, not to make smart people smarter, but to make stupid people not look stupid.

From Antonio, Layton, to Field, Moritz, to Winters, Bud and Andre, they all went through full military command training, they didn't get smarter, But they know how not to make mistakes.

And the commander of the Tacheng garrison made a big mistake tonight: underestimating his opponent.

The infantry battallion on the left and right flanks cooperated with the long halberd hand on the front, and were rapidly closing in and encircling.

The federation's riders heard the signal to retreat and began to flee towards the city wall in a swarm. Seeing this, Field immediately changed direction and plunged straight into the gap between the Union cavalry and the city wall.

There were several roars of artillery again, and the artillery that William Kidd had arranged on the city wall in advance began to move towards the Field battallion, trying to cover his cavalry.

But Field battallion ignored the flying shells and firmly inserted into the escape route of the Union cavalry.

The Union cavalry, who were only looking to escape, had lost their command, and everyone just wanted to run back to the city as soon as possible. In this case, the officers could not reach everyone's ears.

Seeing a large number of lances blocking the front, some of the cavalry turned their horses in a panic and moved towards the east and west to escape.

This is exactly what Field wanted. His battalion was completely out of line. He rushed at the front, and the last soldier was still 300 meters away. He was not here to encircle and destroy the cavalry, but to drive these fearful riders to flee east and west.

In fact, this kind of infantry that has lost its formation is not a threat to the cavalry. If the command system of the federation cavalry is not incapacitated, they can bypass the obstruction of the Field battallion as long as they turn a corner, and maybe even Can directly overwhelm the field battallion.

But it's useless to say anything now, this group of riders who just wanted to go back to the city lost their minds and only had the instinct to survive, which was driving them towards the less crowded. place to flee.

Most of the riders turned their horses to run east or west, and the farther they ran away from the city gate, the further away they ran. The Venetas are so drained from the siege of the tower that they will eventually find themselves going nowhere, with the battallion of the Great Veneta Legion and the other infantry battalions of the Legion of San Marco waiting for them.

I don't know if it's too smart or too stupid, there are still some riders left who can't avoid it, and they moved towards the Tacheng city gate and rushed.

The two teams of men and horses collided head-on, Field crouched on the horse's back, and stretched the straight sword of the cavalry in his hand with all his strength.

The moment the two horses crossed, he stabbed the oncoming rider, almost raising upwards from the horse, while nimbly avoiding another swinging machete.

But after the collision, in addition to the enemies that Field killed, most of the remaining riders who moved towards the run still broke through Field's battallion.

Because Field's soldier formation had disintegrated on the run, after losing coordination, few two-legged men could block a four-legged horse.

Felder gave the order to retreat until he was within the firing range of the muskets of the Triangle Fort. Looking at the enemy's back, Field couldn't help but think angrily: "If only you could bring me cavalry battallion..."

The fighting in other positions continued, fleeing to the joint east and west The cavalry encountered more Veneta soldiers. Except for five or six people who fled to the edge of the moat and returned to Tacheng along the moat, the other Union cavalry who were driven away either surrendered or were killed on the spot.

The result of the overnight melee was that the Veneta soldiers ate horse meat on the second day and took a few prisoners by the way.

After interrogating the captives, Antonio and Layton determined that the top commander of the garrison in the city was the former Captain William Kidd—now General William Kidd (a term that Layton hears contemptuously). sneered).

There are about 4,000 Tanirian soldiers in the city now, a number that startled both Antonio and Layton. They originally thought that there were less than 3,000 defenders in the city, but according to the captives, a group of mercenaries from the Federation entered Tacheng in advance three weeks ago before the Veneta came.

Layton was skeptical of this information, but several of the prisoners had similar speeches after being individually interrogated.

Antonio concluded at the COSI: "That means either they're telling the truth, or they don't know the truth."

As for the truth. The captives had no idea how much food was left in the city. All I know is that William Kidd confiscated all the grain reserves in the city into the original count tower, and was guarded by his most trusted soldiers, and no idlers were allowed to approach.

Severe food rationing is being implemented in Tacheng, and the morale of the soldiers is generally low.

"Without the warhorse, the food in the city can be eaten for a few more days." At the information meeting, Layton rubbed the stubble on his chin and said jokingly: "The idiot has some unexpected harvest. It's a pity that horse meat is too unpalatable."

In the following days, Vauban began to preside over the construction of more corridors, and the earth and stone corridors extended like tentacles from the siege barrier moved towards the city wall.

The fastest one has even been repaired to about 200 meters away from the city wall. The beards of the defenders on the city wall can be clearly seen in the corridor.

And the defenders were not idle. Although the first night's massive raid suffered a tragic failure, the Tanirians did not seem to be discouraged, but began to frequently dispatch smaller commandos. Destroy the corridor.

And as the corridors get closer to the city wall—even closer to the city wall than to the Veneta wall, it becomes more difficult to defend those corridors.

The Tanirians defending the tower city tried all kinds of methods. First, they sent a small group of soldiers to carry gunpowder to blast the tunnel. However, Antonio was very happy to exchange the earth wall for the defender's gunpowder. If it is broken, it can be repaired, but the gunpowder used by the defenders is a little less.

The demolition work of the defenders was carried out only a few times, and then they began to set up simple trebuchets on Half Moon Fort, and then used the trebuchets to throw smoldering sulphur at the corridors.

Sulfur mining is the pillar industry of Tacheng. It is not difficult to imagine that William Kidd now has a large amount of sulfur ore in his hands.

Not to mention, the first use of this trick really surprised the Veneta.

The Veneta soldiers who were busy working only saw a blue fire roaring towards them. After the blue fire landed, the flame splashed, and it could directly burn through the flesh when it touched the body. The resulting smoke was so choking that it was impossible to breathe.

Like a demon crawling from hell to earth, the smell of sulphur is everywhere, and the Veneta people are frightened and flee.

It was Lieutenant Colonel Vauban who put out the fire in an emergency. After taking samples on the spot, Vauban quickly understood what these "blue fires" were - in fact, sulfur.

The defenders in the city first smashed the sulfur ore, set it on fire, put it into the crock, and finally threw it towards the corridor with the counterweight trebuchet.

The gas from burning sulphur is particularly pungent and denser than air. Therefore, when a "blue fire" hits the tunnel, the smoke generated will settle in the tunnel, and it will not dissipate for a long time, making it impossible for people to breathe.

A blue fire smashed in, and a section of the corridor would not be able to treat anyone.

Rao is Antonio and Layton who have been in the army for many years and have never seen such a strange poison mist weapon.

Seeing that this move was effective, the Tacheng defenders immediately moved towards the corridor and threw blue fire, which interfered with Veneta's progress.

However, the blue fire soon became less effective. If William Kidd thought that he could hinder the Veneta Army in this way, then he underestimated the man who once defeated the Emperor's Guard. Veneta people.

Engineer Lieutenant Colonel Vauban quickly found a solution. He found his way of thinking from the "Effects and Countermeasures of Poisonous Smoke Technique" in the "Army Tactics Manual", and put the militias of the various republics back then. The tactics of dealing with court mages under "Mad Richard" in the Sovereign War were moved to Tacheng.

Lieutenant Colonel Vauban's response method is very simple and effective:
The first is to improve the design of the tunnel, leaving a vent every one meter on the ground floor to ensure the ventilation of the tunnel, so that the smoke can disperse naturally ;
Secondly, in the Sovereign War, the militiamen discovered that the poisonous smoke of the court mages was very soluble in water, so Lieutenant Colonel Vauban also used it now, pouring water into the tunnel, and maintaining five About centimeters of standing water, and pour quicklime into the water at the same time. In this way, the poisonous smoke that settles to the lowest point is quickly absorbed by the water, and the toxicity of the poisonous smoke is neutralized by the quicklime;

Finally, Vauban distributed a large number of wet bedding for the engineers . Once the corridor is hit by the blue fire, cover the blue fire with a wet quilt as soon as possible, which can prevent the generation of poisonous smoke to the greatest extent. At the same time, if someone is unfortunately ignited by a blue fire, they can also use a wet quilt to put out the fire as soon as possible.

The glowing Vauban in the siege battle made Leighton more and more pleasing to the eye. This subordinate earned him too much face, and Leighton spoke louder in front of Antonio by three points.

In the eyes of other officers, it was a sure thing for Lieutenant Colonel Vauban to become Colonel Vauban after taking Tacheng.

However, at the military intelligence conference, Vauban reported to the two major generals worriedly: "But even with all kinds of coping strategies, the "Blue Fire" still caused a lot of trouble to the Veneta people, dragging them out. The progress of the fortifications has been slowed down."

Vauban even said with some fear: "Fortunately, the geological conditions of Tacheng cannot dig tunnels, and this weapon that can quickly turn air into poison qi is used in tunnel warfare. ...I don't know how many people will die..."

But anyway, the corridor is still getting closer and closer to the city wall every day.

Soon, the defenders also realized that the blue fire was failing, and the Veneta gradually mastered the method of dealing with the blue fire. After the blue fire flew into the corridor, the Veneta no longer ran away, but quickly extinguished the blue fire in some way.

At this time, the tunnel has generally been repaired to the center line.

In other words, the distance from the Tacheng defenders to the attacking corridors started to be shorter than the distances for the Veneta to support the corridors.

So the battle turned back to hand-to-hand combat, and William Kidd frequently dispatched a small group of elites to attack the Veneta sappers and migrant workers who were building the tunnel. And Antonio also set up ambush many times to counterattack the Union soldiers who left the city.

After several confrontations, Antonio confirmed that the morale of the defenders was still high, otherwise the soldiers would have mutinied by William Kidd's frequent dispatches out of the city.

The attacking and defending sides have been fighting each other's wits and courage in the open space in front of the city wall of Tacheng, but there has been no real siege battle.

The Veneta never tried to attack the city wall, but the Tanilians were also locked in the city wall.

William Kidd may have thought his efforts were causing a lot of trouble for the Venetas. Part of the Veneta officers also think so, such as the third Legion fifth battallion Sarah second lieutenant.

But it didn't take long for Lieutenant Sara to understand why Lord Corps Head said, "Time is not on their side."

The Veneta cannons have arrived at the Tacheng front. .

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