Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 109

2021-02-03

Chapter 109 General Attack
Both Veneta and Tanirians can clearly It felt - the last moment was coming.

The arduous siege was a huge torment for both the offensive and defensive, and everyone was looking forward to the end, but also feared the final moment.

For the first time, the battlefield was so quiet. The night before, the thunder that had never stopped was silent for the first time. But it was clear to everyone that the temporary tranquility heralded more blood.

Wheel and blade and sword collide, sparks flying in all directions, Venetas grinding their weapons over and over. Musketeers are also grinding their buckshots grain by grain so that they fit the barrel just right.

The defenders on the city wall were also frantically preparing, tirelessly bringing stones, brimstone, bundles of arrows and barrels of asphalt to the top of the city all night.

In the early morning of the second day, the Veneta began to assemble, and the meat supply was put into the hands of each soldier for the first time by human hair.

Believers, devout and ungodly, all knelt down in front of the military priests to pray and receive blessings. The priest of the army walked past the soldiers and sprinkled holy water on all of them.

The massive shelling has been going on for eleven days.

During the period, the defenders tried every means to reduce the damage of the shells to the city wall:
Sprinkling lime and mud plaster on the outer surface of the city wall, trying to add a layer to the city wall Protection;
Hanging wood, bags of wool, and even precious tapestries outside the city wall, hoping to absorb the impact of shells;

Put up mounds behind the city wall to disguise the city Thicken the wall;
Fix the gaps in the city wall overnight with palisades, dirt and stones, and use the dirt-filled barrels as battlements.

However, none of these moves helped, and the city wall was inevitably falling apart.

The Veneta imitated the attackers in the siege of Constantinople, and improved the artillery bombardment method, so that the impact points were distributed in a triangle: first, they blasted two horizontal holes eight or nine meters apart with cannons. Finally, use the heaviest artillery to complete the finishing blow.

When the thirty-two-pound iron ball whizzes and hits the city wall, a chain reaction is formed, creating a larger crack on the basis of the previous two bombardments.

This kind of damage will cause the connected part of the wall to bear the tensile stress exceeding the limit, just like a tree that has been cut with a V-shaped notch, accompanied by a terrifying cracking sound, originally invulnerable, indestructible. and impregnable walls collapsed.

From the fourth day of the massive shelling, the city wall was destroyed faster than the defenders could repair it. Even if the Tanirians were able to fill the gap, they could not clear the soil under the city wall under the guns of the Veneta.

Although piling soil behind the city wall can slow down the speed of the city wall's damage, once the city wall collapses, the soil behind the wall collapses. The outflowing earth and stone will form a gentle slope in front of the gap, and instead become a helper for climbing the city.

The Veneta army continued to launch tentative attacks on various gaps, one of which even planted the battle flag at the head of the city, but in the end, the troops who reached the city were still the defenders who arrived. out of the city wall.

The Veneta soldiers sighed, but the high-level officers remained unmoved.

Only with the tenacious fighting spirit shown by the Taniriya defenders, no one expects to take Tacheng through such a small-scale attack, and no one expects to put the military flag on the city wall to win the city. Can make Tanirians demoralize.

None of the exploratory attacks could take down the city wall, but Antonio and Layton would always unswervingly launch the next exploratory attack, using this method to drain the fighting spirit and energy of the defenders. and soldiers.

Perhaps it was the brutal performance of the stake execution that deterred the defenders, or maybe they had no more strength, and William Kidd no longer sent people to attack the artillery positions of the Veneta Army at night.

On the sixth day of the massive shelling, two Hundred Men Squads that circled the mountainside successfully intercepted the volcanic crater lake flowing into Tacheng, cutting off the defenders' water source.

On the seventh day of the massive shelling, the defenders had almost given up on repairing the city wall. At night, Veneta soldiers can swagger to the city wall and use a long pole with iron hooks to pull the barrels that act as battlements off the city wall, and at the same time recover the shells under the wall.

The Tanirians...look exhausted.

Twelfth day after the massive artillery bombardment, the twenty-eighth day of the siege, Winters set foot on the thirtieth Nine Heavens on Red Iwo Island, the general attack on the last stronghold of the Federation forces on Red Iwo Island ,coming soon.

After praying, being blessed, and receiving communion, the Veneta, armed, began to enter the sortie position. The Tanirians, who had not slept all night on the city wall, listened to the sounds outside the city, first noisy, and then deadly silent.

This is a sign of momentum.

Everyone clenched their weapons.

At dawn, signaled by a full artillery salvo, the Veneta simultaneously launched a full-line attack on seven gaps in the city wall amid the sound of drums and bugles.

The horrific cries of the Veneta charge made every living person in the city shudder.

Covered by cannons, muskets, and crossbows, the Veneta crossed the ditch and rushed to the gap in the city wall with ladders.

The soldiers in front climbed up the top of the city on ladders, and the soldiers in the back tried their best to dismantle the temporary wooden fence that blocked the gap.

In the dark night, two armies fought together.

The stone was thrown from the city wall, and the stone that hit the Veneta soldier directly took away a life. The stone that didn't hit the person was bounced off the slope of the wall, and the Veneta soldiers vomited blood.

A cannon loaded with cannonballs can take a dozen lives with each roar, and an iron ball the size of a walnut can pierce one person and kill another.

Burning oil, burning sulphur and bubbling asphalt were poured down from the top of the city, and there was a cry of "send cold shivers down one's spine".

The Veneta people on the Triangle Fort were also cleaning the city wall, and the cannons and muskets hit the Tanirians on the city wall to blood.

The troop climbed the city by sticking out the ladder from the triangular fort and placed it on the top of the city. The sword and shield hand in heavy armor strode into the city wall and slashed and killed each other with the defenders on the city gate.

The roar of cannons and muskets, the warning bells of the Tacheng church, the crisp sound of the collision of weapons, and the screams of dying warriors mixed together.

The fire of the muzzle of the gun is like lightning, the mixed sound is like thunder, and the gods will be shocked by the cruelty displayed by human beings today.

There were fires in many places, and the stench of asphalt, burning sulfur and the terrifying aroma of burning people permeated the city wall.

The smoke from the fire on the front and the white smoke from the guns fired and the smoke billowed. The thicker and thicker smoke covered the whole city. In the end, the two armies could not see each other. I don't even know who I'm hitting.

The Veneta and the Tanirians are just hacking and slaughtering each other in a small space - no, there is no such difference between the Veneta and Tanirians, there are only A person struggling to survive.

While the Veneta army and the defenders fought fiercely, Winters was anxiously waiting for the signal.

At his side were Major Moritz and seven other lieutenants. All members of this special squad have another identity - the sorcerer.

The best weapon against a magician is another magician, and the generals of the Veneta Army know this all too well.

The enemy may be aided by legendary court mages, but the Veneta now have their own sorcerer.

Antoine Laurent initially believed that the alliance sorcerer could not reach the single level of the court mages in the short term, so he suggested that the potential spellers be admitted to the military academy and trained sorcerer officers to provide spell support for front-line operations.

However, this idea eventually went wrong in practice: the sorcerer's status became an officer's promotion rank, and the sorcerer officer was promoted as soon as he was old enough, and quickly became a colonel.

So how can a sorcerer who has left the front line provide spell support? How can a busy military officer still have the energy to insist on spell exercises every day?

In the end, a strange circle was formed: the more senior Veneta's sorcerer spell level was, the worse the sorcerer's battle strength was.

Antoine Laurent also made a mistake, but unfortunately he has no way to correct it.

So in the end, Major Moritz was assigned to take charge of the "counter" squad. Can't transfer the military chiefs of each battallion? Besides, it's hard to say how much of those people's spell abilities are left.

On the contrary, Moritz's spell water, who has been sitting on the bench for many years, is normally better.

In addition, as a sorcerer with a small number of actual combat experience, although not a formal officer, Winters was also transferred to Moritz's anti-magic unit.

Major Moritz is not important in the army for various reasons, and he doesn't care about what others think, on the contrary, he enjoys leisure. But at this moment, Antonio and Layton can only rely on the sorcerer who is recognized as the strongest battle strength in the army - Moritz van Nassau.

"Why hasn't anyone signaled yet?" Lieutenant Kirk paced anxiously under the parapet.

In the face of an unknown enemy, everyone in the Moritz Squad became a little neurotic: Captain Lelo checked his weapons over and over; Major Moritz played with the Steel Cone - Today the major doesn't think about portability anymore; Winters is sitting in his seat, his hands on his knees, as much of his brain as possible.

The entire squad of officers now wears soldiers' uniforms.

Not just them, all the sorcerer officers in the Veneta Army today have taken off the sorcerer insignia.

The Hundred-Men Commander and Great Captain on the front lines also took off their striking officer armor and helmets and replaced them with soldiers' armor. Although it will reduce the efficiency of the command system, it is also a helpless move in extraordinary times.

"No signal is a good thing." Major Moritz took off a delicate silver jug from the back of his belt and threw it to Lieutenant Kirk: "I'll give you a drink."

Lieutenant Kirk took off the plug suspiciously and put it in front of his nose to smell it: "Is it wine?"

"It's a special wine, I added some potions to suppress the sorcerer's emotions and make the sorcerer feel better. It's easier for the sorcerer to get into a spellcasting state."

Lieutenant Kirk, hearing this, took a swig and returned the silver jug to Major Moritz.

"Winters." Lieutenant Pisani couldn't help patted Winters' shoulder.

Blank Winters conditioned reflex to stand at attention.

"Sit, don't get excited." Pisani was also taken aback, patted Winters' shoulder: "I have something to ask you."

Pisani is only taller than Winters For two years, the relationship between the two was very close when they were still in Jade City, and Winters naturally knew everything.

"You're the only one of us who's ever killed a magician. You're idle, let's talk about your experience." Pisani asked Winters around the neck.

Hearing Pisani's words, the others couldn't help but prick up their ears. It is rare for an older person to ask a younger person for advice, and this is the first time Winters has been asked about his "killing experience".

"But I'm not sure that man is magician," Winters said with a wry smile.

"Come on, let's stop talking nonsense between us." Pisani gave Winters a dissatisfied punch: "Just tell me, what is the battle between the sorcerers like?"

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"I think about it..." Winters thought for a while, then replied, "If I have to say it... I feel like eggs are smashing each other with hammers."

"Eggs hit each other with hammers?" Major Moritz laughed. "That's an interesting analogy."

"I think that's it... A battle between two sorcerers is that eggs hit each other with hammers. Smash." Winters said solemnly: "No matter how powerful the spell is, the sorcerer's body is as fragile as the ordinary person. He will bleed if he is stabbed with a knife, and he will die if he is shot in the head. Therefore, in the battle of the sorcerer, whoever fights first will survive, whoever will survive first. Expose who dies."

"'Whoever strikes first will live, and whoever exposes first will die'?" Pisani looked thoughtful.

"And...there is absolutely no way to capture the sorcerer alive—unless it is a voluntary surrender." Winters said some decisive Danger Land: "Senior, don't leave your hand in battle today, and don't take it lightly until the opponent is dead. .Even if the opponent is dead, we must cut off his head to be safe."

This is the conclusion that Winters came to after the first battle of the battle: it is impossible to capture the sorcerer alive.

The limbs are tied with ropes and can be interrupted, as long as the brave warrior can be subdued at any cost. But how to bind the third hand? What about interrupting the fifth limb?
Spell comes from consciousness, even if the magician is cut into a stick, he can continue to use the deadly spell. Even if the magician can be knocked out temporarily, once the magician regains consciousness, it becomes extremely dangerous again.

In the battle of artillery base, that god secret technique division has almost killed Winters. However, the opponent was only disturbed by Hestas for a few seconds, and Winters, who was almost dying, killed him.

The eggs are smashing each other with hammers. If they don't smash each other completely, they may be killed. This is the brutal battle between the sorcerers.

After listening to Winters' explanation, the officers were dumbfounded.

"That's why this stealthy, fast weapon is used?" Lieutenant Lalo murmured, holding Winters' modified pistol in both hands.

Winters' improved short guns have become standard for the sorcerer officers in Legion, and the sorcerers who have seen Winters' demonstration immediately fell in love with this "spell firing gun".

The biggest problem in the use of firearms is how to fire, the matchlock is dangerous and troublesome, the structure of the spring wheel is complex, and the reliability is poor. Using magic to ignite the gunpowder in the chamber is a brilliant idea, not only reliable. And because there is no need for a firing mechanism, the weight of the firearm is also reduced.

In order to make up for the "only one shot" problem, Winters changed one barrel to three barrels, and the sorcerer can be fired sequentially or together. In theory, more barrels can be stacked, but considering the weight of three barrels is already the optimal solution.

Major Moritz certainly doesn't need this thing, but not everyone has the major's skills in kinetic spells.

Many sorcerers who are good at fire spells and shock spells lack the ability to kill the enemy deadly, so this kind of firearms that can be used only with the lowest fire spells is well received.

Many sorcerers couldn't help but regret that they didn't think of this idea, which made Winters very blushed with shame, because he also had the idea when he saw the mysterious sorcerer firing the cannon through the barrel.

"Don't worry so much, maybe that person simply won't show up today." Pizarro patted Winters' shoulders and said with a smile, "That person can take action or not, Tacheng I will definitely be conquered today. If I were that person, I would definitely hide in the soldiers and wait to surrender, and I won't come out to die."

Before he finished speaking, the sentinel on the Triangle Fort lost one's head out of fear from The top floor ran down and shouted: "Signal bomb! red! East side city wall!"

The property of stone, a covalent material, is that it is resistant to pressure but not tension, and can bear weight but cannot be used as a beam. Therefore, the span of the stone pillar of the temple in ancient Greece was very small, and it was only after the advent of the vault technology that there was a large-span structure like the Roman Pantheon. Another example is a reinforced concrete structure, because the tensile stress is resisted by the steel bars, so it does not matter if the concrete has cracks.

Therefore, once a V-shaped gap appears in a pure stone building, it is easy to collapse. Making a triangular gap on the city wall was a real tactic in 1453. It is said that the Hungarians gave the Ottomans an idea.

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