Following Kublai's order, the Slavi army, which was barely maintaining its forward posture, began to speed up, walk quickly, or even run forward in small steps. otbnkotgt However, they did not participate in direct siege.
Instead, as a musketeer, they provide projectile firepower and help other infantrymen maintain the front line.
No matter how outrageous Salida Khan is, he will not devote the truly important main force to a bloody siege with no chance of victory from the beginning.
Go to war.
At the same time, the Centaur communications troops quickly sent Kublai's request for help to the other side of the Vistula River.
"Do we need archer troops?"
Salida Khan pondered for a moment, and then made a decision immediately: "Just send two centaur archers from the Thousand-Man Team."
Following Sarida Khan's order, centaur archer troops equipped with heavy compound bows began to cross the river.
At the same time, the Slavi infantry, nomadic cavalry and artillery units assisted by the dark elves also resisted the opponent's artillery bombardment and crossed the inconvenient tidal flats.
The speed increased again.
"The opponent's artillery is about to enter the range, William."
Next to William, Shalomi looked slightly nervous: "Should you avoid it?"
"No need."
William shook his head: "They are all light infantry cannons.
There is no problem.
The fortress can handle them."
"Yeah."
After hearing what William said, Shalumi nodded, and then said: "Then let's move back a little bit."
"Then stay back a little."
Originally, William wanted to stand on the front line to boost morale.
But after thinking about it for a moment, there is no need to do such a thing in this situation.
Then he nodded and agreed to Shalumi's words.
Slightly farther back, away from the top of the wall, because the top of the parapet is a sloping trapezoidal structure.
After leaning back a little, you can completely hide your body behind the protective wall.
So William and Shalomi can be said to be absolutely safe.
In addition, the solid masonry and cement structure of the sloped fort is strong and thick enough to withstand the bombardment of large-caliber fortress artillery.
Not to mention Tartaria's light infantry artillery Although the female sultan of the dark elves hopes that Salida Khan will cause some trouble for William.
But she doesn't want to breed tigers either.
She will not provide Tartariya with larger caliber and more advanced artillery.
However, this was enough for Sarida Khan.
Five hundred meters away from the fortress.
Hundreds of artillery pieces formed a semi-encirclement formation, surrounding half of the fortress.
Firepower and artillery were evenly distributed across the entire semicircular arc.
Originally, it was generally better to use artillery in a centralized manner.
But Salida Khan and Kublai Lai and his son had their own plans.
They knew that light infantry artillery could not defeat the strong walls of the river mouth fortress.
They had never thought about the tactic of using light artillery to blow down the protective wall.
In their tactics, artillery was merely a support weapon.
It was only hoped that the firepower of the artillery could suppress the Mestian army at the head of the city and provide firepower support for their infantry to attack the city.
Within a range of five hundred meters, the dark elf gunners operated the artillery, raising the barrel to adjust the trajectory, and then directed the Slavians to load the cannonballs and gunpowder.
Amidst bursts of thick black smoke, the roar of hundreds of light infantry cannons rang out, intertwined with the roar of the fortress artillery at the top of the city.
At the top of the city and below the city, hundreds of artillery pieces of different calibers were constantly spitting smoke, flames and hot metal projectiles.
The most terrifying scene in the era of hot weapons was undoubtedly revealed on this day.
Metal hail flying into the air and black gunpowder smoke exuding a pungent smell obscured the sky.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of sulfur, which made William feel very uncomfortable.
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In front of him, the soldiers of the Mystian New Army and the mercenary musketeers of various mercenary regiments were huddled behind the battlements of the protective wall, avoiding the opponent's shelling.
Under the opponent's artillery attack, the fortress's protective wall trembled slightly, but the shaking frequency was not too high, so there was no need to worry.
In addition, occasionally a cannonball would be too high, fly over the parapet, fall into the fortress, or just hit the parapet.
In this case, one or two unlucky people will often be hit.
Although the artillery used by the Tartarian army is "light", this light weight is only for artillery of the same level.
The projectiles they shoot are still extremely powerful for humans.
The unlucky ones who were hit either lost their lives directly or had their hands and feet broken.
He fell to the ground wailing and screaming.
The smell of blood they gave off immediately mixed with the smoke.
It adds a lot of cruelty to the battlefield atmosphere die. die.
Death and death.
Before the official siege battle began, the shelling from both sides alone caused hundreds or thousands of deaths.
The entire tidal flat is full of mess.
It was under this circumstance that the centaur archers entered the shooting range, about 200 meters away from the fortress.
The centaur archers raised their compound bows and fired handfuls of arrows towards the city.
Although weapons like bows and arrows seem a bit backward in this era when gunpowder weapons are prevalent.
But this also depends on who is using it, and how to use it.
The two-hundred-meter, extremely powerful, and extremely long arm span Centaur archers, after being equipped with a special long compound bow, the range of their bows has completely exceeded that of modern muskets.
It can calmly fire bows and arrows to assist its own infantry units from a distance of two hundred meters.
But of course, although these bows and arrows have a long range, their lethality is not very strong.
For the Mystian army, all equipped with iron helmets, it can only have a harassing effect.
Especially when the opponent's shelling has not yet ended and all the Mystian soldiers are huddled behind the protective wall.
"But this situation will be over soon."
William thought to himself.
"Yes, it's almost over."
On the other side, forward commander Kublai Lai had much the same thoughts as William.
After that, the artillery fire from Tartaria stopped almost at the same time.
The new Mestian army and the mercenary musketeers jumped up and began to load the matchlocks or flintlocks in their hands.
The Slavi soldiers were close enough that the New Army soldiers stopped and began to reload their ammunition.
At the same time, the old-style Slavi soldiers, in addition to the projection troops equipped with bows and muskets, accelerated for the third time, carrying their crudely made ladders, and launched a charge towards the protective wall.
"Muskets, muskets, volley" shouted the junior officers, warrant officers or second lieutenants separated by the protective wall.
The new army and mercenary musketeers beside them aimed at the crowd rushing towards the city and pulled the trigger.
At the same time, in each fort, the commanders of the fort shouted orders "Reload Shotgun Quickly Load Shotgun" As the new Mystian army tensed up, busy but orderly preparations for shooting followed by a hoarse "fire" from each section of the parapet.
In each fort, all kinds of muskets and artillery of various calibers fired almost at once.
Thousands of musket pellets, ten times more in number, and even more shotgun blasts were blasted out instantly, crushing the crowd on the opposite side.
Nine times out of ten, almost 100% of the strongest, bravest and strongest Slavi warriors who rushed to the front either had their skulls opened, their brains and blood flying everywhere, or their chests were hit by heavy hammers. , the heart or other internal organs were crushed to pieces by soft lead bullets.
There were some even more unlucky guys whose whole bodies were beaten into a hornet's nest, and blood spurted out like a shower for free.
In one volley, the Slavi army lost thousands of soldiers “Keep loading, keep loading” were the roars of officers from all sections of the parapet.
The soldiers continued to load ammunition in an orderly manner.
At the same time, among the Slavians below the city, the officers were also shouting similar things at the top of their lungs.
"Move forward, keep attacking, keep going" At the same time, the assistance efficiency of the centaur archers has also been improved.
After the Mystian army emerged, people continued to be hit by arrows in the door, and then screamed and fell from the city top, or fell limply on the city wall.
People will be quickly pushed away by the friendly troops behind them, and then the soldiers behind them will take their places.
Because of the addition of centaur shooters, the casualties of the Mystian army increased significantly.
The Slavi army was still thirty meters away from the wall, and the Mystian army had no time to fire a second round.
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Usually, these matchlock guns take forty seconds or even longer to load one round.
"Speed up and rush to the top of the city," the Slavi officers roared excitedly.
According to their experience, it was time to enter the stage of hand-to-hand combat at the top of the city.
It was strength, head-to-head, close combat with punches to the flesh.
In this regard, the Slavs are confident that they will never lose to the Goths "But you are wrong."
William heard the Slavians shouting excitedly, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, showing a nasty smile.
The distance of thirty meters is exactly the weapon of the new Mystia army, the best throwing range of wooden handle grenades.
Before the war, after confirming that Salida Khan was "serious", William packed the whole box.
Hand grenades were distributed all over the parapet.
And taught the mercenaries how to use this weapon.
William knew that as this war ended, this weapon would spread to the entire human world because of the mercenaries involved.
Even Slavis, Centaurs and Dark Elves may have access to these weapons.
But he did not regret that Sarida Khan was a terrible enemy.
If he doesn't go all out when dealing with him, then William may not have a chance to regret it.
"throw" After entering a distance of thirty meters, although some confused or overly excited officers forgot about the grenades, more officers still remembered these gadgets issued by William before the war started.
With a do-nothing mentality, he gave the order to his soldiers to throw grenades.
In an instant, the sky was occupied by thousands of wooden-handled grenades dropped one after another.
Within ten seconds, these grenades exploded among the enemy group, shrapnel flew down, and a large number of Slavi soldiers died tragically within the shortest distance of thirty meters from the fortress160420oshow7: