Iron Power And Sorcerer

Iron Power And Sorcerer Chapter 60

2021-02-28

Chapter 60 Duckbill

Duckbill Fortress is located in Duckbill Point of Haidong Bay. named. This headland is shaped like a duck's bill, and is also a natural anti-wave lift, like an arm outstretched from the land sheltering Haidong Bay.

The artillery fort is set up on Duckbill Point. Externally, it can guard the narrow entrance and exit of Haidong Bay; internally, all ships in the port are within the range of the artillery. If necessary, pull up an iron lock on Duckbill Point and the opposite bank, which can block any enemy from the sea.

It is precisely because of the terrain conditions of Haidong Bay blessed by heaven that the Veneta Navy will build a special pier here, making Haidong Port the home port of the entire Veneta Navy.

But now, the port is lost. Heavy artillery on the duckbill fort is turning, naval ships moored in strikes harbor.

And the army officers were ordered: Take this back.

In the dark night, a group of cavalry is running wildly. A total of more than 100 officers got the news and assembled in the Dongda Camp. Admiral Zio sent them all out in one breath, and a colonel led them to Haidong Port.

Winters crouched on his horse, closely following Lieutenant Colonel Field ahead. The imposing manner of the hundreds of war horses running together was astonishing, and the sound of the hooves was like the roar of war drums.

But Winters was not infected by this imposing manner. At this moment, the moonlight was blocked by dark clouds, and nothing could be seen on the road. It is very risky to ride a horse on this night road, and if you are unlucky, you will lose your horse.

Sometimes along the way, people fell off their horses and were carried to the side of the road to be rescued by the people behind.

I don't know how long I have run, and the sound of gunfire can be heard vaguely ahead, which means that Haidong Port is in front. This is Winters but seeing someone swinging the torch ahead, he slows the horse and stops.

In a clearing by the road, the officer who arrived before him was resting.

Although the cavalry team consisted of only more than 100 people, when running at full speed, the marching troops were stretched to a length of one kilometer. Several lieutenant colonels who led the team decided to set the position where the gunfire could be heard as a sortie position, and sent three officers to reconnaissance ahead while waiting for the entire team to gather.

The sound of gunfire coming from the front can be clearly heard at the location of the rally point. dong, dong, dong, there was a dull sound in the air, this is the roar of heavy artillery.

Lieutenant Colonel Fields handed a water bladder to Winters: "Drink a little, follow me later, don't run around."

Winters pulled out the stopper and smelled just about to drink it. There was a pungent smell: "Is it wine?"

"Of course it is wine."

Winters nods and puts the stopper back again. He doesn't feel paralyzed by drinking spirits. What good will your own nerves do in combat.

The wait before the battle was long and torturous. The officers did not know who the enemy was or how many there were, but they had to fight against these unknown enemies with a single order. Neither was very comfortable.

Field and a few other officers gathered in small circles, smoking their pipes, chatting in low voices, and laughing from time to time. Winters didn't smoke, so he couldn't participate, so he just found a rock and sat, silently playing with the two steel cones in his hand. He was going to the club tonight to play, so he only brought three steel cones in total.

Moritz took a blanket out of his saddlebag and laid it on the ground hu hu to sleep, the major would not miss any chance to doze off.

One person came over with torch, and sent orders one by one: "The people who went to reconnaissance are back, Colonel Kara asked everyone to come to a meeting."

More than 100 people surrounded It is not easy to send orders to more than 100 people at the same time. Colonel Kara who was in command was not a sorcerer, so he had to stand on a large rock in the crowd and shouted hoarsely:

"The duckbill fort has been confirmed to be lost, and now the attackers are using cannons to strike the navy ship. . The place where the fighting is fiercest now is the pier, where the rest of the navy is fighting the attackers." Colonel Kera sneered: "But it has nothing to do with us. The order given to us is to take back the duck-billed cannon. The base, now the navy has attracted the attention of the enemy, this is our good opportunity. Don't make a sound, go straight to the base, everyone follows their commanders, disband!"

The officers scattered Going back to find their own horses, they have never trained together, and they are not all cavalry, so it is difficult to organize into any difficult formation.

Therefore, Colonel Kara's tactic was to take advantage of the enemy's lack of attention, riding a fast horse and rushing past, rushing into the artillery base to fight hand-to-hand combat. For this batch of military academy officers who have several sorcerers at the same time, cold weapon fighting is more advantageous than firearm shooting.

The officers formed roughly two columns, with Winters in the middle, Major Moritz ahead of him, and Lieutenant Colonel Field ahead. At the front of the team was Colonel Kara, who had to be at the forefront to command this cavalry team composed of purely officers.

The charge began with a trot, and when the cavalry had opened a distance of two or three meters from each other, Colonel Kara gave the order for a trot.

Winters didn't know which direction he was going, and he didn't need to know which way he was going. Although the impact of the column charge is very weak, it is agile and can quickly adjust its direction. As long as each cavalry runs with the cavalry in front, it can maintain the formation.

The trotting cavalry team left the road and entered the forest, the branches hurting like whips. After walking through the forest for a few minutes, fire began to shoot through the cracks in the trees.

This meant leaving the forest soon, Winters took a deep breath and pulled out the saber with the scabbard between his knees.

After passing through the deliberately cut down tree line, it suddenly became clear. Less than a kilometer up ahead was the duckbill fort, and the navy and the attackers were fighting on the left-hand pier.

Major Moritz, who was in front of Winters, accelerated sharply and charged towards the fortress like an arrow from a string. Winters followed behind him, charging hard for the first time with his spurs into the strong ribs.

This charge had no shouts, no trumpeters, and the officers drove the horses in silence. For the first time, Winters saw Qiangyun show his heroic running with all his strength. Major Moritz's horses were overtaken by him, and finally kept abreast of Field's dark horses.

The distance of one kilometer was approaching in an instant. A dozen or so attackers who were going from the artillery fort to support the pier didn't understand what was going on, and were chopped down by the howling cavalry on the way. The officers in the front didn't give those in the back a chance to wield their sabers at all, and Winters only saw a corpse with its head chopped off.

It was easy to hack these dozen or so enemies to death.

The duckbill fort is not a bastion, this fort is for protection against surface enemies, not land enemies. So it was just a boxy cannon made of stone and mortar, clumsy and solid. Later, the Half Moon Fort was added at the four corners, but the overall structure has not changed. There is still a gate to enter and exit, and there is no trench.

This is actually a gamble. If the attackers close the gate, then the hundred cavalry will have nothing to do with this stone fortress with an outer wall of eight meters high, because these makeshift The light cavalry team did not have any means of siege, and could only climb the wall.

And Colonel Kara bet that the attackers would not have thought that someone would come to support so soon, much less that the reinforcements would not go to the rescue port, but go straight to Duckbill Fortress.

After being attacked from Haidong Bay, Admiral Zio got the news and assembled troops to come to support. It took less than three hours in total. Three hours later, before the attackers could finish off the defenders in Haidong Bay, the light cavalry, composed entirely of officers, had already arrived here.

The gates of the duckbill fort were closed.

But not latched!

The dozen or so people just came out and just closed the door, and the attackers simply didn't have enough manpower to defend the duckbill artillery base.

The person at the front pried the crack of the door and pushed open the door with all his strength. The cavalry in the back filed in and rushed into the open space inside the fort.

At this moment, the attackers in the fort were still unaware, and were still manipulating the artillery in the fort.

Colonel Kara got off his horse and shouted, "Catch a few live ones." Then Fiercely kicked open the wooden door where the sound of artillery was heard, and rushed in with his saber.

Winters also didn't expect the attackers' defenses to be so slack. This is the blind spot of attackers' thinking. They only think about sneak attacking others, but they never thought that they might be sneak attacked. With an unexpected advantage, the battle is already half won.

Colonel Kara took the lead, and a dozen officers rushed in without hesitation with sabres. There were screams from the door, and the muffled sound of metal hitting the bones wrapped in meat.

But Winters didn't move. Both he and Moritz waited for Lieutenant Colonel Field's orders.

"You don't have to follow them, it seems that there are not many enemies here." Lieutenant Colonel Field calmly judged: "We will go to the gunpowder library, I am now worried that these guys will jump over the wall and kill us."

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Having said that, Lieutenant Colonel Field stopped two more people in lieutenant uniforms: "You two, guard the gate, and lock the gate when we all come in. No one is allowed to open the gate without the order of a colonel-level officer. ."

The two lieutenants also wanted to follow Colonel Kara into the real thing to fight, and let out their anger. However, he was stopped halfway by Lieutenant Colonel Field, but unfortunately, the official University Level 1 crushed him to death.

Lieutenant Colonel Field took Moritz and Winters instead of following the main force, but moved towards the other direction.

"Do you also know where the gunpowder library is here?" Winters wondered.

Lieutenant Colonel Field snorted: "The gunpowder vaults of the fort are all in the same location - the one furthest away from the guns."

(end of this chapter)