Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 101

2021-01-23

Chapter 101 Triangle Fort

It was a moonless night, for those who were on the night watch at Triangle Fort For Union soldier Ceclas Delbroke, it was just another ordinary night in the siege.

Cekras-Delbrooke is the youngest son in the family. His father couldn't love this little son, so he begged the priest to give the little son a name of Saint as a Christian name.

However, this name is too long and tongue-in-cheek, and few people can call it Lisuo. Because his face was full of freckles, other federation leaders simply called him "Pocky".

As the son of a homesteader, Mazi chose to be a soldier for a simple reason - his father had very little land, but his father had many children.

Mazi has four big brothers and three elder sisters. His father and mother only passed away two children. This is extraordinary luck and extraordinary misfortune.

So until Mazi was sixteen years old, his eldest sister Zoya still couldn't get married.

Zoya is not only a good worker at work, but also has a beautiful life and a gentle personality. There are almost too many young men who were driven away by her father with a stick.

However, the several marriages that were discussed for her ended up blowing up, because Mazi and Zoya's father had no money to buy a dowry for their daughter.

Mazi's father only has more than ten acres of fields, and they are not connected at the corners.

For this reason, Mazi's parents wake up early and stay up late every day. Even though he was so laborious, he was barely able to raise his eight children, and his father really had no spare energy to save his daughter's dowry.

The eldest sister Zoya has become an old girl and always secretly wipes her tears in the yard; her parents frown, sigh and complain to each other all day long.

These are things that Claas-Delbrook sees.

So, two weeks before the age of sixteen, Ceclas-Derbrook gave the elder sister the dowry and left her hometown with the union's recruiter, becoming a "pocket". .

Although the direct purpose of enrolling in the army is to buy a dowry for the elder sister, it is also because Mazi doesn't want to spend his whole life in the soil like his father, and his father's land is not enough for Mazi and his brother. , Mazi also wants to see the world outside.

But right now, on the triangular fort outside the city wall of the tower, under the siege of Veneta's army, Mazi feels very homesick now.

"What are my parents doing now? Should they be sleeping?" As Mazi tried hard not to fall asleep, he thought groggyly, "I don't know who Zoya married, and the big brother also Get married soon..."

Mazi was trying to recall the house and road in her hometown when she heard "xiu" and "xiu" in front of her. He woke up suddenly, but before he could react, three stubby crossbow bolts had already flown to his side.

The two crossbow arrows hit the breastplate on Mazi's body and made two "ding" and "ding" sounds. The arrows penetrated the breastplate but failed to penetrate completely.

The third crossbow arrow hit Mazi's face, penetrated the eyes and bones, and the arrow stuck in the soft brain, causing fatal injuries.

Mazi fell softly to the ground, his consciousness quickly annihilated, and his memory disappeared along with everything in his memory.

"Good shot!" Field, who was lurking not far in front of the Triangle Fort, punched his knee excitedly, but before he could order the attack, the night was greeted by the shrill whistle and The alarm bell pierced.

Another secret whistle on the Triangle Fort first heard an abnormal noise, and then saw Mazi fall back straight, and immediately sounded the alarm.

"[Furious swear words]!" Seeing that his success was almost complete, Field was fiercely cursed, and said angrily: "Anyway, I didn't expect to be able to sneak attack! Blow the whistle! Power attack!"

Inside the Triangle Fort, the Union soldiers woke up from their sleep, groped for their weapons in a panic, and immediately ran towards the fort after getting the weapons.

The defenders in Tacheng also heard the alarm bell, the braziers on the city wall were lit one by one, and the defenders resting in various parts of the city ran to the city wall one after another.

As the low-intensity siege continued for a long time, the defenders in the city had more or less slack and contempt for the Venetas outside the city.

The panic and fear when they were initially surrounded by the army gradually dissipated, and many Union soldiers began to think "What? Veneta is also merely this, except for building walls, they are building walls."

When the Veneta people outside the city built the corridor to about 200 meters from the city wall, they no longer built it forward, but began to extend parallel to the city wall, as if they just wanted to build a closer siege wall.

Some Tanirian veterans who have been in the army for many years pretended to be esoteric and said to the new recruits: "Vinetas are so hard at building the wall, which is a good thing for us soldiers."

The recruit stupidly asks: "What's so good?"

The veteran replies triumphantly "The harder they build the wall, the less they want to attack and just want to trap us. In this situation, wait. If you don’t want to surrender after eating the food, you have to surrender, isn’t it a good thing to not have to fight?”

However, the defenders of the Federation, who thought they were safe, didn’t expect that the Veneta would suddenly attack tonight, and Once there is a movement, it is like the sound of Thunder in the dark night in front of the city wall, first a sharp whistle sounded, and then hundreds of whistle blowing at the same time.

After hearing the whistle representing the attack, the Veneta officers in the corridors and fortresses blew the whistle and ordered the torch to be lit.

In an instant, hundreds of torches lit up in front of the city wall, as if a magnificent army with thousands of men and horses were moving in the dark. Accompanied by the shaking of the torch, the successive screams of Veneta soldiers beat the spirit of the defenders like waves.

Frightened defenders frantically loaded their muskets and cannons, wound crossbows, and searched for arrows without thinking.

The officers of the Confederation also ignored the order to save the gunpowder, desperately urging the gunner to fire as soon as the reload was complete.

For a while, they didn't know how many bullets the defenders shot at the torch and silhouette in the distance. They just kept repeating the process of loading and shooting.

Fear is contagious, and the Veneta's thunderous momentum made the defenders fall into fear, and only moving towards the enemy's fire can make them feel a little bit more secure.

Under the cover of shouting, fire and gunfire, a large number of Veneta soldiers are pouring out in the corridor facing the city gate and the triangle fort. These soldiers do not shout or torch , carrying a ladder in groups of three, led by officers without night blindness, quickly rushed to the Triangle Fort.

Lieutenant Colonel Field and a few other crossbowmen who had quietly approached the Triangle Fort were waiting for them.

The defenders on the Triangle Fort immediately noticed the abnormality. The brazier beside them made them unable to see the open space in front of them, but the footsteps in front were clearly audible, getting closer and closer.

Although the east-west direction is huge, it can be seen clearly from the angle of the triangular fort: the torch is not used close to the city wall, it just moves repeatedly from left to right.

Captain Sanogela, who was in charge of defending the Triangle Fort, realized that the east and west sides were just feints, and he desperately shouted to warn the city wall, but the defenders on the city wall had fallen into a frenzy, It's useless even if a few people notice him.

Sanogella had no choice but to send someone to run back to the city from the suspension bridge between the Triangle Fort and the city wall for help.

However, it was too late, and a large number of Veneta rushed out of the misty night, letting Sanogela sucked in a cold breath

The defenders shot bullets and killed them The first row of Venetas fell, but every time someone fell, more people rushed out of the night.

This temporary triangular fort in front of the city gate, like the city wall, lacks the protection of trenches. At the same time, in order to resist the attack of artillery, the main material is soil, and the height is only about five meters.

The triangular structure makes it have no dead ends of firepower, and the rear city wall can provide full coverage of firepower support. The low and thick main structure can not only absorb the force of the shells, but also enable the city wall behind the triangular fort to shoot beyond.

This is a new age fortress, and Antonio will break it tonight with old age tactics.

Because there was no trench for protection, the Veneta soldiers carrying the ladder rushed under the triangular fort wall in a spurt of energy, put on the ladder and started to climb.

The imposing manner of Veneta's life-threatening manner terrified Sanogella, who shouted and directed the defenders to counterattack.

The defenders of the Triangle Fort drop their muskets and throw boulders at the Veneta. The Veneta who were hit were all killed on the spot.

Before the asphalt had time to boil, it was splashed under the wall. The Veneta who were poured over their heads by the scorching asphalt let out a wailing like a ghost, and then a few more torches fell from the city wall, turning them into burning men.

Four-pounders and eight-pounders loaded with a dozen or so walnut-sized iron bullets moved towards the Veneta, each firing a storm of flesh and blood.

The cannons and matchlock guns roared incessantly, the dying screamed send cold shivers down one's spine, the smoke billowed and the fire burned, as if the entire world was about to be destroyed.

But even if the defenders resisted stubbornly, they still could not stop the momentum of the Veneta attack.

Tonight, Antonio and Layton used two battallions to attack the two waists of Triangle Fort at the same time.

The two battallions in charge of the main attack are elites selected from the two Legions, the Colonel Great Captain is now commanding from the fort wall, and each Hundred-Men Commander is the first to go up with his saber. climb.

After paying a lot of casualties, a small number of Veneta soldiers soon climbed up to the Triangle Fort and began to fight hand-to-hand with the defenders of the Triangle Fort.

Lieutenant Colonel Field saw it in his eyes, anxious in his heart. Tonight he could not grab the main attack task, the task given to him is to command the Musketeers to cover the main attack battallion.

However, the speed of the passage of troops was limited, and the two musketeers of the Hundred Men Squad fell behind, and the musketeers did not arrive until the Veneta soldiers in front had already climbed to the Triangle Fort.

"[EXPLETIVE]! What are you doing! So slow! [EXPLETIVE]!" Field glared at the Musketeers' Hundred-Men Commander.

The two Musketeers, Lieutenant Ryman and Captain Philip, Hundred-Men Commander, did not dare to defend themselves, nor did they bother to defend themselves.

The two Hundred-Men Commanders commanded their musketeers, the Hundred Men Squad, to quickly spread out in front of the Triangle Fort and began to suppress the defenders on the Triangle Fort with matchlock guns
Long-range weapons aimed at the defenders on the wall. The suppression was immediate. More than a dozen Tanirian soldiers who leaned out of the wall, threw stones and poured asphalt and oil, were shot to death and fell from the wall screaming.

The rest of the Tanirian soldiers were too frightened to come forward and could only reach out from behind the parapet. As soon as the imposing manner of the defenders of the Triangle Fort was released, the killing efficiency also began to decline, and the pressure of the climbing Veneta soldiers plummeted.

However, the Union defenders on the city wall finally woke up at this time. William Kidd, who received the request from the defenders of the Triangle Fort, sent a large number of signal troops to the city wall to convey orders.

The defenders on the city wall were ordered to immediately rush to the city gate to support the Triangle Fort.

The cannons on the two Half Moon Forts also adjusted their firing angles and started moving towards the Veneta people under the Triangle Fort walls.

The design of the fortress in the new era finally shows its fangs. The shape of the triangular fortress causes the bullets fired from the city walls on both sides of the rear to be unobstructed and have no dead ends. Every shell is a terrifying side. firepower.

A cannonball fired from Fort Half Moon on the east side killed all the Veneta soldiers in a line, and ended up bouncing off the hard Fire Mountain Cliff, smashing two ladders and sinking into the triangle in the walls of the fort.

Lieutenant Colonel Field saw this and sent two teams of musketeers to suppress the enemy shooters on the city wall behind the Triangle Fort. However, he understood that the musketeers who suppressed the enemy had little effect, and the enemy's real killer was the side-firing artillery mounted on Half Moon Fort.

Field roared loudly in his heart: "Fire! Fire!"

The god of artillery heard his summon, "dong", "dong", "dong", "Boom", the dull artillery rumbling sound resounded throughout the battlefield.

But this time it wasn't the cannons on the city wall that were roaring.

Several stone bullets flew out from behind the newly built fortress by the Veneta people, most of the shells were skewed, and only one shell hit the target, hitting the eastern half-moon fort heavily. .

The stone bomb collided with the wall, the rubble collapsed, and the smoke and dust were everywhere. All the gunners in Taniglia on the Banyue Fort were killed and injured by the gravel, and the main shooter's chest was sunk by the gravel, and he was exhausted on the spot.

The artillery on the east side of the Half Moon Fort suddenly misfired.

"Cannons? Where did the cannons come from?" At the head of the city, William Kidd grabbed the officers beside him with a grim face, and roared and asked, "When did the Veneta bring the cannons up? Why didn't you tell me when you saw the Veneta people set up cannons? [Pirate swear words] I'll kill you!"

As he said, he reached out and drew his sword.

"Your Excellency...No...I didn't see..." The officer who was caught by William Kidd was so frightened that he almost cried, he trembled and replied: "We have nothing. See ah...simply no one saw the Veneta carrying the cannon."

"Ah!!!" The furious William Kidd fiercely slashed on the parapet, sparks radiate all around.

About 200 meters away from the city wall, parallel to the city wall behind the Venetian tower wall-these walls are built by tunnels extending horizontally after 200 meters away from the city wall-in the sappers Colonel, no, it is now Lieutenant Colonel Vauban of the Artillery Corps, while observing where the shells landed, while ordering: "The No. 1 and No. 2 artillery groups, adjust at the right moment. The No. 3 and No. 4 artillery groups, reset."

Beside him, the gunners were busy loading the four short, stubby guns.

There is a wall between the artillery and the tower city defenders, and the defenders on the city wall can't see the movements of the Veneta gunners behind the wall at all.

These four artillery pieces are Vauban's secret weapon, a secret weapon that will not be discovered even if it is deployed under the eyes of the defenders. They are not ordinary barrel artillery, but - mortars, mortars dismantled from warships.

Ordinary artillery requires emplacements and firing ports.

The artillery on the city wall is condescending. Once the defenders find that the Veneta people deploy artillery, the Veneta people's artillery positions will be shelled immediately.

The high-throw projectile of the mortar is curved fire rather than direct fire, so it can be deployed behind the wall and kill the enemy on the city wall through the wall.

It's a little less accurate, but it's the only way to be surprised. Moreover, the Guzhi Road connecting Tacheng and Chisulfur Port has not been fully repaired, and the heavy artillery cannot be delivered. The Veneta people can only temporarily move a few light mortars for emergency.

When the four mortars commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Vauban suppressed the artillery of Half Moon Fort on the east side, Winters, who was waiting on horseback at the exit of another tunnel, finally waited to attack.

There are very few people around Winters, including Winters, there are only sixteen riders in this squash.

And it was the old acquaintance of Winters, Major Moritz, who was in charge of leading this squad of cavalry.

Yes, all sixteen riders are sorcerer officers. And except for Major Moritz, all were lieutenants.

Major Moritz changed his usual lazy appearance, looked at the lieutenant sorcerers, and ordered sharply: "Don't stop, don't linger, fast in and out, and withdraw immediately after completing the task!"

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"Yes!" the fifteen sorcerer lieutenants answered in unison.

Moritz glanced at Winters, nodded, and yelled, "Get on the horse!"

Sixteen riders galloped out from the east side of the battlefield. Winters didn't care to cherish the horses.

As they rushed to the side of the Triangle Fort, Moritz yelled, "Throw!"

The fifteen lieutenants, the sorcerer, removed the smoke bombs hanging from their chests and used After the fire spell is activated, move towards throwing between the Triangle Fort and the city wall with full force.

The highly skilled sorcerer also used the arrow technique at the same time to throw the smoke bombs farther.

The "Excited Portable Activated Alchemy Matter Smoke Generator" exploded in the air, and the thick smoke blocked the sight of the defenders on the city wall on the east side, preventing them from seeing the people behind the smoke who were climbing the Triangle Fort. Veneta soldier.

After the smoke operation on the east side was completed, the sorcerers turned to the west side and threw all the remaining smoke bombs.

Winters had never used spellcasting materials so lavishly in their life, and the two Legions handed half of the smoke bombs in their arsenal into their hands. For this small triangular fort, Antonio and Layton are determined to win.

The smoke wall completely blocked the view of the Tanilians on the city wall. There was no wind tonight, and the smoke wall continued for a long time.

William Kidd yelled angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

Although the artillery on the Half Moon Fort has been calibrated for the firing angle, the accuracy of these artillery pieces is still greatly weakened because of the loss of sight aiming correction. The gunner simply does not know whether to hit or miss, let alone. Correction.

Not to mention the musketeers on the city walls, who are now shooting blindly into the smoke.

Following the mission, the sorcerer quickly retreated to the sortie position.

In front of the Triangle Fort, Lieutenant Colonel Field, who was commanding the Musket Team, saw what he was praying for—a Veneta flag was planted on the Triangle Fort.

"Urrahhhh!!!!!!" Field yelled frantically.

The musketeers who realized what had happened also shouted excitedly: "Urrahhhh!!!!!!"

"Hahaha! Attacked in!" Layton, who was watching the battle from the rear, slammed his fist on the parapet with a wild laugh: "Good job!"

"According to the original plan, the sappers battallion and the reserve team are now leaving." Antonio calmly ordered the other officers Order.

There are more and more Veneta soldiers on the Triangle Fort. The Tanirians kill one and climb up to two. The defenders had already started to retreat uncontrollably, and it was useless no matter how Sanogella stopped them.

When the thunderous battle cry resounded through the Triangle Fort, the morale of the Tanirians completely collapsed, and they began to flee into the city along the drawbridge between the Triangle Fort and the city wall.

The armored elite of the Federation sent to support the Triangle Fort was blocked by the fleeing soldiers at the bridge and could not move forward.

During the pre-war briefing, Layton and some high-level officers believed that if the enemy did not cut down the drawbridge, they would directly attack the city wall through the drawbridge and destroy the city in one fell swoop.

However, Lieutenant Juan, who climbed up the Triangle Fort, suddenly realized that because the speed of the Veneta people could never catch up with the Tanilians, so not only could they not be able to use this suspension bridge, but the enemy could pass through it. A drawbridge continuously sent reinforcements to push the Veneta people off the Triangle Fort.

Second Lieutenant Hu An, who was shocked by the incident, shouted to his Hundred Men Squad: "Suspension bridge! Suspension bridge! Cut the suspension bridge!" Ann Hundred Men Squad heard the order and moved towards the drawbridge attack.

William Kidd, who rushed to the front of the city, was furious when he saw the deserters on the bridge running into the city, the reinforcements going to the Triangle Fort, and the two sides squeezed impossible to move even a little bit. He cursed: "Trash! Push all the deserters down! Hurry to the Triangle Fort!"

After receiving the order, the Union soldiers in armor began to push the fleeing Triangle Fort defenders under the bridge push.

On the bridge, Sanogella, the commander of the Triangle Fort, who was crowded by the crowd, shouted angrily: "Why? Why?!"

No one paid him any attention, one after another The defenders of the Triangle Fort were pushed off the bridge, and fell to the ground screaming.

Lieutenant Juan had already rushed to the edge of the suspension bridge, raised his saber and began to chop the cables of the suspension bridge.

Several soldiers also rushed to help.

Finally, the suspension bridge was cut down.

Losing one end of the fixation, deserters, reinforcements, and Sanogella fell from the bridge to the ground.

After taking heavy casualties, the Triangle Fort is now Veneta's...for now.

6,000 words, half of them were written yesterday and half of them today, some of them are too kaleidoscopic and their hair is bald.

In fact, this battle to seize the Triangle Fort also has a prototype. Some readers may have seen that the prototype is actually the battle for the Triangle Fort in the Fort Saint-Amour during the Siege of Malta. "The cannons and matchlock guns roared incessantly, the dying screamed send cold shivers down one's spine, the smoke billowed, the fire blazed, as if the entire world was about to be destroyed." These are the exact words to describe the battle. . Of course, because the geographical environment is different, so the process is not the same.

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