King of Mercenaries Chapter 280

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:16:38 AM

Chapter 280: Artillery
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"I ... I ... I want ..." The Duke of Saxony was speechless, but he stood on the platform with his fingers and directed the soldiers to slogan Marin.

"Master Duke, what do you want?" Asked Baron Dunnitz, Duke of Saxony.

"I'm going to kill the Marin boy!" Shouted Albrecht, Duke of Saxony.

"Sir, don't you promise that the emperor will only arrest him and give it to her?" Dunnitz, the deputy of the Duke of Saxony, naturally knew some inside information.

"I don't care, this boy is so humiliating to me, I can only use his blood to wash away the shame. As for the emperor's meaning, let him go to hell!" The Duke of Saxony had already filled the entire brain at this time.

"Okay, as you wish!"

命令 "Command the knights to immediately charge, defeat the enemy, and catch Marin's little **** alive. I will put him in the dungeon and use a whip to pull him a thousand times a day! A thousand times!" Said the Duke of Saxon.

Dunnitz was a little embarrassed, didn't he just say he was going to kill? Why did you change to live torture?

At this moment, the Duke of Saxony was stunned by the loud insults, and he didn't know what he was talking about ...

Alas, Dunnitz wasn't dizzy. So he grabbed the Duke of Saxony who still wanted to fly:

"Master, in my opinion, don't send cavalry to charge first. The opponent's battle line is very neat. At this point, even if you win, you will lose a lot ..."

"Huh? What do you say?"

"Master Duke, we still have artillery!"

"Oh, yeah, we still have artillery, I'm all confused by that little bastard. Hurry up, let the car carrying the artillery behind come to the front, and we will use the artillery to disrupt their formation first ..." Duke Saxon ordered Road.

The Saxon artillery did not have a turret, nor did the French use fixed ears for the artillery. Their artillery was transported on horse-drawn carriages, with only barrels.

The carriage was last when crossing the river. Because the carriage with artillery is very heavy, you need to be very careful when crossing the river. Because a pontoon is not a real bridge. The real bridge is fixed, and naturally there is no problem passing the carriage. The pontoon is easy to sway from side to side and is very unstable. When a horse-drawn carriage crosses a pontoon, special care needs to be taken to pass slowly. For this reason, they usually line up across the river at the end of the army.

So, the carriages with artillery were the last to cross the river, and they arrived relatively late. When Marin was scolding there, the carriage carrying the artillery completely crossed the river.

After a while, the carriages carrying artillery began to drive in front of the Saxon army, about 180 meters away from the Marin square. Then, a bunch of gunners and other sergeants helped lift the bronze gun barrel from the carriage and dig a pit in the land before the battle.

Because of the strong recoil of the artillery, when using the artillery, you must dig a hole in front of the battlefield and fix the bottom of the barrel to allow the earth to absorb the powerful recoil of the artillery ...

Marin saw that the other party was setting up artillery, and quickly ordered his artillery commander:

"Gao Qi, quickly order the artillery unit forward. Attention, our artillery must face the opponent's artillery position, the purpose is to kill the opponent's artillery as much as possible!"

"Yes, Earl!"

Soon, the 50 front-mounted three-pound cannons that were originally hidden in the square array were successively drawn to the front, facing the position of the Saxon artillery position ...

"What?" The Duke of Saxony, who was watching the enemy's situation, was taken aback. He came here this time with a total of 50 bronze guns, another pound gun, two pound guns, and three pound guns, all of which were bronze "Front guns". The reason for bringing so many artillery pieces was to explode the battle line of the Marin army.

公 The Duke of Saxony is not an incompetent. Instead, he is talented. After deciding to go to war, he sent someone to inquire about Marin's tactics in the earliest serving in Marin's original mercenary regiment.

Former members of the Huffman Mercenary Regiment who returned to their homeland after participating in the Italian War briefly introduced to the Duke of Saxony the method of their formation. Thus, the Duke of Saxony knew that Marin's best was the disciplined infantry square. Such a square array, the plate knights rushed up, will indeed suffer a lot of losses. So he brought over most of the infantry guns of the Principality of Saxony. He wanted to use the artillery to tear a gap in Marin's square, disrupt the opponent's formation, and then let the knights launch an attack to completely defeat the enemy. .

Then, what surprised him was that Marin also pulled out 50 artillery ...

公 The Duke of Saxony is still in a daze, but his aide, Dunnitz, is panicked:

"Master Duke, please come back to command!" Dunnitz changed his face after seeing Marin's artillery move out. Because at this time, the two armies were about 180 meters apart. He and the Duke of Saxony are now standing within the range of each other's artillery ... if they are hit by the other's shells ... Dunnitz can't think of it ... so he pulls the Duke of Saxon and wants to retreat ...

公 Albrecht, Duke of Saxony, knew what Dunnitz meant a little. As a treacherous duke, the Duke of Albrecht did not want to die under the fire of the other party. As a result, he retired from the streets with Dunnitz into the middle of the Saxony army.

But Marin felt danger on Marin's side too. Although the Saxon artillery has a short range, it also has a range of 200 meters. Standing at the forefront is absolutely within the range of enemy artillery. So he also wanted to step back. However, he didn't want his people to see that he was afraid, so as not to affect morale. So he winked at Kohler next to him. Kohler reacted quickly and immediately came to persuade:

"Master, the other side has artillery. It is dangerous before the battle. Please go behind and direct it!"

"No, I don't leave, I will face the dangers together with the soldiers!" Marin shouted shamelessly ~ www.novelhall.com ~, and moved the soldiers who heard him. However, they didn't know that Marin was just doing it.

不 "No, Earl, your safety is the most important priority for East Frisian. Therefore, you are the best choice in the middle of town!"

"But my brothers ..." Marin looked at the musketeers around him with a "full expression", full of emotion ...

"It doesn't matter, Lord Count, please go back later. You are a noble, it is not good to be hurt!" At this time, there were front-line gunners who took the initiative to rescue Marin ...

Marin still had to do something, but Kohler was impatient, and directly copied Kahn and beckoned. Then, Kahn threw away the mace, carried Marin directly, and strode back.

Stinging on Kahn's shoulder, Marin is still "struggling":

不 "No, I want to go back and fight with my brothers and die together ..."

After a short performance, Marin retreated to a safe position. The musketeers and gunners in the front row were moved by Marin's performance. You know, in this era, civilian lives were as cheap as grass, and noble lives were very valuable. Marin has repeatedly stated that he would live and die with these cheap lives of civilians. It really touched many soldiers ...

After a while, Marin's artillery, which was later deployed, was better prepared than the Saxon artillery. Because Marin's artillery is flexible and pushed by wheels, it is very convenient. The Saxons deployed the artillery, and had to dig and dig.

Therefore, Marin's 50 three-pound cannons first roared:

"Boom-boom-boom-" The iron ball howled, flying towards the Saxon artillery position ...

Alas, artillery took the lead in the dialogue between the two armies ...

Chapter end

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