Chapter 281: Charge is equal to death

In the era of battles before the era of fighting, artillery bombardment was a very cruel process. Because the armies of both sides stood in a dense formation, which is very suitable for cannonball killing. This is why Napoleon's "artillery doctrine" shines.
When Marin observed the telescope on the high platform in the rear, he saw the terrible results immediately after the artillery fired ...
At the beginning, Marin's artillery was still adjusting, so the first round of artillery was not effective. But even so, it brought terrible killings to the Saxon army ...
Because, a three-pound iron ball flew into the Saxony army formation, although the first round was very poorly aligned. However, the 20,000 Saxon army was so densely packed that unlucky eggs were hit by shells ...
So, in Marin's telescope, there was a horror scene of the Saxon army's front row knights, who were suddenly penetrated by three pounds with four horses ...
Because Marin's artillery is all flat-fired, and it uses powerful powder gunpowder. If used to strike infantry, 15 people could be penetrated. However, the body of the war horse is very long. When the cannonball passes through the body of the war horse, the long body of the war horse has greater resistance to the cannonball than a human. Therefore, a three-pound iron ball that can penetrate 15 people can only penetrate 4 horses.
But even then, the Saxony Cavaliers were frightened ...
A three-pound artillery ball screamed and rushed to the front of Saxony. A cannonball could penetrate 4 war horses. After the war horse was penetrated, he began to choke for a moment, and then the blood hole that was smashed spit out warm blood. Then, the war horse fell to the ground in wailing, threw down the riders on the horse, and rolled on the ground ...
Some artillery with a higher firing angle hit the knight on horseback by chance. Although the knight was wearing a full set of plate armor, it was useless. In front of the fierce three-pound iron ball, an unlucky knight, with his helmet on his head, was directly hit by the three-pound iron ball. Then, without the neck of his head, a lot of blood spewed out and splashed the knight around him ... This is not just the shells that continued to fly, but also hit the next knight, smashing its plate armor and killing him instantly ...
可怕 This terrible sight scared the Saxony knights who saw him, afraid that the next unlucky one was themselves. They wanted to steer the horse aside to avoid the artillery strike. However, due to strict military discipline and the glory of the knights, they bite their heads and continued to stay in place, praying that the shells would not find themselves next time. Instead, the knights who were killed and fell to the ground, panic rushed to the rear of the battlefield to find horses. However, these people also made up their minds-the horse change must be delayed, it is best to delay until the end of the artillery battle and then return ...
Next, the attention of Marin Artillery was more focused on those artillery opposite. Because artillery commander Gao Qi said that attacking the opposing artillery is the main task of the artillery. Because the enemy's artillery can also bring great danger to itself.
After the adjustment, the gunners loaded the shells, and the artillery responsible for aiming squatted down to observe the mountain behind the gun, so that it was facing the opponent's artillery. Of course, Wang Shan aimed at the head of the enemy artillery. But when the shell flew past, it had already lowered to the chest position ...
After the observation, another gunner raised the wooden stick tied with the fire rope and blew the fire rope, which made the fire rope more powerful and ignited the fuze on the fire hole ...
"Boom-boom-boom-" 50 three-pound guns roared one after another ...
The artillery's firing accuracy is quite good because there are more flat firing exercises. All of a sudden, the Saxon gunners who were still adjusting their gun positions had dozens of artillerymen killed by iron on the spot. Either my head was smashed, or my arms and legs were smashed by iron ... Anyway, I can no longer use artillery ...
After being so frightened, the Saxon artillerymen shrank in fear. However, under the command of the officer, loading and firing began ...
The Saxon artillery is different from Marin's artillery. Marin's three-pound guns are all front-loaded guns, which have a better air tightness, but have a slightly slower rate of fire. Generally speaking, Marin's artillery can only fire a gun in 45 seconds. The Saxons used a "Fran machine gun" with multiple "children", and the rate of fire was relatively fast, with an average of 20 to 30 seconds to fire a gun. However, Marin's artillery uses granulated gunpowder glued and treated with fish skin glue, while the Saxon artillery uses ordinary powdered black powder. Therefore, the power of the Saxon artillery is naturally smaller than that of the Marin artillery.
However, the length of the barrel of Saxony's artillery is longer than 1 meter. For Marin's three-pound gun, the barrel length is only 0.65 meters. In general, the longer the barrel, the longer the range. However, the Saxon artillery has a gap between the rear armor and the barrel, and the air tightness is not good. Plus powder powder is used. Therefore, in the end, the effective range of the Saxon artillery was only 200 meters. Marin's three-pound cannon has an effective range of up to 365 meters and is more powerful.
After three rounds of Marlin's artillery fired, Saxony's artillery finally began its artillery ...
But the Saxon's artillery did not look at the mountain and it was inconvenient to aim. Therefore, although the Saxon artillery aimed at the Marin artillery as much as possible, it was still not quite accurate. However, after several rounds of shooting, Marin still lost a dozen artillery. But during this time, Marin's artillery caused dozens of casualties to the opponent's artillery. Because Marin's artillery is expected to be aimed at the mountain, it is easier to aim at the opponent's artillery.
As the bombardment continued, many people on both sides died under the shells, and their deaths were miserable. However, Marin's artillery, because of its great power, has a stronger "piercing" effect and brings greater damage. When the Saxon shells hit the Marin square, the kinetic energy was insufficient, and they penetrated two or three people in the front row at most. After that, it won't be worn. And Marin's three-pound cannonball, when it smashed, could either penetrate a few horses or a dozen people ...
看 The Duke of Saxony had a look—it's okay, just bombard it like this, and the final casualty must be himself. So he ordered the artillery to be suspended, preparing to send the knights to attack Marin's artillery position, killing Marin's artillery first, then ...
As a result, thousands of knights, under the direction of the Duke of Saxony, began to gather and began to accelerate slowly ...
Seeing that the other party can't hold his breath, Marin is also very happy. He ordered loudly:
"The gunners continue shelling, the musketeers are ready!"
Then, a few loud voices passed Marin's order in front of the earth horn ...
The musketeers have clipped the head of the fire rope wrapped around their left arm to the musket trigger system. As for ammunition, it has been loaded for a long time, just waiting to fire. When ready, the musketeers laid their muskets flat on a wooden stand in front of them to facilitate aiming ...
However, without order, they cannot shoot without authorization ...
When the Saxony Knight rushed to a distance of 50 meters, the shooting was more secure at this time. As a result, the Musketeers commanders shouted:
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
Uh ...
"Pop-Pap-Pap-Pap-"
The gunshots kept coming and going, and before Marin's army, white smoke was emitted, and the pungent smell of sulfur burning ...
After the shooting was completed, the musketeers in the first row quickly retracted the rifle guns and retreated to the rear to start loading. The shooters in the second row put the muskets that had been prepared on the front arranged brackets and began to aim ...
In the first round of shooting, there were seventy or eighty Saxony knights, who were shot by horses weighing 50 grams. Some were seriously injured on the spot, while some were not seriously injured, but they were also hit by a huge impact, and they fell into the sight of Venus.
Soon, the second round of shooting came again ...
一次 This time because of the closer distance, the accuracy of the Musketeers is higher. In a round of shooting, more than 150 Saxon knights were dismounted ...
Then the third round of shooting ...
In this round, 200 Saxon knights are dismounted ...
Of course, at this time, the Saxony knights also rushed to the front of the Marin army ...
However, they could not have thought of killing them. On the seemingly flat ground, there were two trenches filled with traps and maliciousness ...
So, the remaining less than 600 Saxon knights, the first row of people, even led horses and fell into the pit together. Many war horses' bellys were directly inserted with wooden stakes ... and many Saxon knights happened to happen Injured by a wooden picket ...
Alas, when the knights rushed up, they couldn't stop the car at all. Even if the knights in the back row saw the people in the front row fall into the pit full of wooden spikes, they had no time to restrain the war horse, so they had to fall with them ...
Even the luckiest knight ~ EbookFREE.me ~ is only because of his own steed, stepping on his comrade's steed or himself, did not fall into the pit. However, under the two large pits, the knights lost their balance and fell outside the pit ... Finally, no knight could cross the two trenches. Even if there were war horses, they crossed two trenches and still could not escape the tragic end of being blocked or even stabbed by the wooden sharp stakes obliquely inserted in front of the Marin array ...
For a moment, most of the 1,000 Saxon knights and their steeds in the first round of charge lay in or near two trenches, and looked miserable ...
However, this is not the worst ...
The musketeers in front of the Marin formation, some of them with a lot of strength, picked up the long-handled sledgehammer that had been placed in front of the formation, and across the wooden stakes, began to smash into the two trenches next to the Marin formation. Saxon Cavaliers ...
The dull sound of "bang ---" came frequently, and many Saxon knights were not stabbed to death by wooden stakes or fallen, but they were killed by sledgehammers ...
This is not enough. After seeing that there are no living people in Erdaogou, the musketeers holding hammers backed off, and returned to the front line of the first row of musketeers who had retreated at the earliest and had been loaded. Before, I began to aim at a Saxon Cavalier lying near a ditch ...
"Pop-pop-pop-pop-" Once again, a lot of unlucky Saxon knights ...
Uh ...
In this way, the first batch of one thousand Saxon knights who came over easily damaged the Marin side, and not much survived. In the end, those who survived were the first and second batch of injured knights who were shot and dismounted by the muskets ... As for the more than 500 knights who burst into the front, most of them were killed on the spot. Even if alive, under the impact of the hammer and musket, he was seriously injured, not far from death ...