Chapter 60 Great Vine Tower(1/2)
Although two claw shots were taken, in Winters and Andre's view, several heavy cannons towards the bay were still shooting thirty-two-pound iron balls at the dock without any accuracy.
Rather than providing firepower support to the naval sailors, it is better to say that it is a cheering for artillery. It is mainly to let everyone hear the sound and notify all parties that the artillery has changed hands.
After a period of silence, when the cannons with duckbills roared again, the naval officers who were commanding the sailors to attack the docks keenly noticed that the situation of the battle seemed to have changed.
The duckbill cannon was originally firing at the cannons on the water, but now they turned around and began to shoot the naval dock.
Although the shells hit the attacker and the naval sailor at the same time regardless of the enemy, it made people wonder if it might be because the attacker's artillery was not good. But there is another possibility - reinforcements came and the artillery base was recaptured.
The morale of more than 400 sailors organized temporarily was on the verge of collapse. If the naval officers had not retained more than 30 crew members as the supervisory team, the group of mobs would have thrown away their weapons and ran away.
The naval officers knew very well that this group of mobs could only fight with the wind. Now they had decided that they could not win, so they would turn around and run away whenever they encountered any resistance.
Sailors are not soldiers, sailors are first and foremost sailors, and second, the navy. The work on the ship is extremely heavy, and the sailors do not have the time or energy to receive land combat training. Therefore, the battleships are specially set up to fight hand-to-hand combat.
Similarly, the naval officer is a captain. He can gather sailors to counterattack in chaos, and he really has no ability to lead this group of mobs to retake the dock.
Therefore, the naval sailors were about to collapse when they hit the dock several times. They turned around and ran away and everyone ran back. The naval officer was anxious to watch from behind, but they could not help.
The naval officer was overjoyed to find that the artillery may have been taken back by reinforcements. A captain left behind to take care of the depressed sailors with the supervision team. The naval officer took several guards around the dock and headed straight to Duckbilly Point.
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Above the high wall, officers on the night stand found a rider approaching the cannon gate in the dark, and the sound of horse hooves at night was particularly clear.
A highly nervous officer pulled out the iron rod that was burning red from the carbon basin and stuffed it into the ignition trough of the cannon without saying a word.
A shell roared out of the chamber and flew into the darkness, not knowing where it was going.
Before the sound of the gunshot finished, the gunner slapped hard in the face.
"Who [swear words] made you fire? Can't you hear the sound of horse hooves? Only one person! What can you fire?" The official of the Shixing cursed angrily, and slapped the gunner with his backhand.
Winters and Andre, who rushed over after hearing the sound, were silent, fearing that they would cause fire.
The rider was not scared away by the shell. He soon arrived outside the gate, but did not inform him of his identity, but just shouted to see the person in charge of the cannon.
No matter what, the other party looked like a messenger from Dongdaying. Several Yegang officers exchanged their eyes and grabbed the muskets and started loading the bullets. Winters also took out the steel cone.
"We are the Venetta Army, inform you of your identity!" The star-value officer replied to the other party.
Unexpectedly, the rider outside the wall heard this and turned his head and ran away without saying a word. He left several army officers on the city wall who felt inexplicable.
A few minutes later, the run away rider brought the naval officer to the outside of the artillery tower again.
It turned out that as the outline of the artillery was getting clearer and clearer, the naval officer became more and more nervous. In the end, he decided to be careful and send guards to explore the situation first. After knowing that it was the army's people who took back the artillery, he hurried over to ask for help.
But the happy naval officer didn't even enter the fort gate.
The star officer refused to open the door to him without the orders of the senior officer. When Colonel Kara received the report and came to the wall, he said to the naval officer directly: "If you have anything, just talk outside."
In desperation, the naval officer raised his neck to explain his purpose, but Colonel Kara refused: "The order given to me by General Zio is to regain the artillery base. Before we get further orders, we must stick to this place. I am not allowed to distribute personnel to support you."
"The pirates will not come to the duckbill cradle again, their ships have all run away. This is a stone, a big dead stone!" The navy captain shouted in grief and anger: "Do you want to watch the pirates burn all our warships?"
Winters, standing behind Colonel Kera, caught several keywords: pirates, ran away. Winters was a little suspicious of his ears: "Where are pirates who dare to attack the home port of the Vinetta Navy? Or did I hear it wrong? Or did the 'pirates' not refer to the kind of pirates I thought?"
But Colonel Kara was unmoved. He pointed to the lonely ship on the sea and said to the navy: "It is enough for your sailors on your ship, plus the people now, to regain the dock."
"That's not our ship! That's the ship of the oath-carrying man! They won't help us." The naval officer rushed back angrily and begged in a low voice: "Help us, the pirates have taken away our four big ships. If they are asked to burn all the ships in the dock, the fleet will not be able to recover for several years."
His words were so sad that even the sarcastic Colonel Kara could no longer treat him coldly: "The number of cavalry under my command is too small and it is useless. Two brigades of infantry are driving here and will arrive soon, and they will help you defeat the enemy."
"It'll be too late to wait until they arrive!"
"It's too late! No matter what it is in your dock, it's now burned into charcoal. I won't let the officers die for charcoal, please go back."
After saying that, Colonel Kara turned his head and turned around and left ruthlessly.
The naval officer stood outside the fortress for a while, and rode away in a daze.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! As the back of the conscientious naval officer gradually faded away, the officers on the fort felt a little uncomfortable. The joy of winning a battle was also diluted, and everyone turned around and left silently.
"Look at what's there?" Andre suddenly shouted.
When the officers heard the sound, they turned to see that on the continent connecting Hailan City and Haidong Port, the black bushes were moving - a marching queue. With the sound of drums, the soldiers advanced in an orderly manner in eight columns. From a distance, the super long spears were moving like a forest, moving in a sequential manner.
Major General Antonio Serbiati arrived with the Third Legion - "Grand Vinetta"!
A black dot separated from the queue, bypassed the dock, and approached the cannon base. The cavalry officer rushed to drive the war horses and galloped outside the cannon base gate.
The war horses spitting white foam, and the messenger shouted: "Where is Colonel Kara?!"
"I am!" Colonel Kara returned to the city tower.
"Transfer the order of Major General Serbiati: I ordered your troops to cooperate with our troops to attack the enemy entrenched in the dock!" After saying that, the messenger pulled the reins and galloped away without stopping.
There was no explanation or explanation, only orders. The officers on the cannon were a little confused and involuntarily focused their attention on Colonel Kara.
Colonel Kara was stunned for a moment, and soon returned to his coldness. He glanced around and said, "Didn't hear the order? Wake everyone up! The minor wounded stay here, and the rest attack!"
The naval shipyard is connected to the north, and the land is separated by a circle of stone walls from other port buildings. The attackers used this stone wall to block several attacks by the naval sailors.
The attackers arranged a large number of musketeers by the chest wall and dragged several short cannons from the renovated ship.
Navy sailors will be hit by a convex gun within fifty steps, and after the person in front is knocked down, the timid will turn around and run away.
Some individuals' behavior of escaping at the last minute cannot be stopped, which has led more people to escape. The attacker bombarded the attacker for a round with a short-barrel cannon equipped with a shotgun, and the morale of the attacking party will completely collapse.
In the end, the navy sailors dared to stand sixty steps away and fired a fire from a distance with no pain in the attackers.
But this time the person who came was not the sailors, but the most elite Venetta standing legion.
The configuration and tactics of the Alliance Army have not undergone any major changes since the end of the Sovereign War. Marshal Ned improved the Duke of Aryan's phalanx long spear tactics, and retained a part of the sword and shield hands to restrain the Duke of Aryan's phalanx, and at the same time replaced the crossbowman and the archer with the musketeer.
In the Battle of Butchers, Marshal Ned used this improved spear phalanx to defeat the Duke of Ally's troops in the field. The composite system of super spear, swords and shield hands and musketeers has been used until today.
However, there is obviously no need to deal with the enemy in front of you. Amid the sound of drums, the two brigades of infantry spread out smoothly into horizontal lines. The spearmen put the spears on the ground, drew their swords, and lined up behind the sword and shield hands.
The musketeer stood at the front of the queue at two steps intervals, pulled out the push rod, and began to load the convex gun.
The enemy in the dock felt unprecedented pressure, and this time the attack was no longer the mobs waving the sailor's sword and shouting courageously.
The infantry of the Third Legion stood a hundred meters away, and the formation was as neat as a knife, but as quiet as hell. On the battlefield, the sound of lead bullets being pushed into the barrel could only be heard.
The musketeers loaded gunpowder, pushed the lead bullet, inserted the push rod back into the empty groove under the barrel. They poured the gunpowder into the fire trough and fastened the lid. Finally, they clamped the smoldering fuse, and calmly completed the entire loading process under the gaze of the enemy.
The officer in charge of commanding the musketeers flew past the front and confirmed that all the musketeers had completed loading. He stood up in the stirrups and waved three battle flags hanging on the spear.
Antonio behind the array saw the flag waving and nodded at his flag-holder.
The spellcaster officer walked forward and shouted with the blessing of the amplification: "Big Vinetta!"
The soldiers also yelled and responded: "kazar! [Long live]"
“Great Vinetta!”
“KAzar!”
“Great Vinetta!”
“KAZAR!”
Three battle crys were more and more amazing. Not only were the enemies in the shipyard frightened, but even the naval sailors behind them were frightened and their legs were trembling.
A musketeer behind the stone wall pulled the shooting pole in fright. The gunshot sounded, and the lead bullet hit a dirt pit on the ground. Then more than a dozen gunshots were heard, and the others subconsciously opened fire.
The officers lined up outside the artillery tower heard these three battle cry and understood that the Third Legion was about to attack.
Time waited for no one, Colonel Kara pulled out his saber and ordered loudly: "Arrow formation, the school officer is in front, the young man goes to the back, I will stand first."
"What are you thinking about?" Colonel Bozukhov slapped forward, tugged Colonel Kara's back with the back of his knife, and cursed with a smile: "Why are you standing in front alone?"
After three battle crys, Antonio turned his head and whispered to the adjutant beside him: "Let's start."
Accompanied by a "forward" order, the drumbeat sounded, and the musketeers were at the forefront, and the Third Legion began to advance.
The soldiers of the Third Legion approached the shipyard step by step like an unstoppable tsunami. When they marched more than 60 steps away, another musketeer inside the fence could not bear the psychological pressure and fired at the army soldiers who were getting closer and closer.
This time, not only a dozen people fired the gunshots, but all the musketeers with gunpowder in the chamber pulled the shooting pole. The gunshots were like beans, and even the short-barrel guns fired.
Dozens of grape-sized shotguns ejected from the muzzle, forming a barrage.
Among the gun and artillery shells, more than 20 musketeers were instantly knocked down, with four or five blood holes on their bodies.
Being beaten to death was a kind of kindness, and most of the death was accompanied by cruel pain. A musketeer who was pierced through his lungs, his blood flowed back into the trachea, and the alveoli were squeezed out of his mouth. However, he had not yet died and was lying on the ground sobbing helplessly.
But the soldiers of the Third Legion still walked forward firmly, and the musketeers looked ahead, not even looking at the knocked comrades. Not only the musketeers, but also the sword, shield and spearmen behind them.
The soldiers ignored the bodies and the dying people on the ground, and walked past them like a piece of wood that fell to the ground.
After moving forward to about fifty steps, the human wall stopped moving with a "stop" command.
"The gun is on the shelves!"
The musketeer inserted the support pole into the ground and set up the mesh rope.
At this time, their enemies were busy loading.
"Prepare!"
The musketeers blew a lightly at the fuse and opened the lid of the gunpowder tank.
"aim!"
To be continued...