Chapter 63 Building a low wall
For ordinary people who run quickly with small steps, a distance of 200 meters is nothing.* But if they face the constant wave of shells on the battlefield, then this is the place to test their courage. Fortunately, the Arabs here are not as good as the European knight culture. When the two armies face off, they often let the other side attack first. At this time, the Arab soldiers kept jumping up and advancing in the command of "lying down", and finally allowed them to reach a position 200 meters away from the city.
At this time, it was not the distance between the muskets and the firearms, but the continuous and dense bullets made the muskets under Azam Tulansha Sultan so that the people on the city could not raise their heads. It was necessary to ask the people behind to send materials and build a forward base to assist in the attack.
Looking through the rifle's ruler box, the figure on the city wall is like an ant. Although the musket is a smoothbore gun, its accuracy is quite poor. However, with modern sights, the accuracy is still greatly improved compared to ordinary smoothbore guns. In fact, in the musket era, the power of the musket was not bad at all, and even bullets at a distance of 800 to 1,000 meters still have lethality. However, due to the lack of rifle and other restrictions, the musket bullet hit the target 200 meters away, which was like a big fortune.
In fact, the new sights made this situation much better. When the first row of guns rang out, the defenders on the walls of Bershallo faced the white smoke from the barrels. The clever ones immediately hid under the battlements, and those who were unknown were often hit in dense bullets.
The huge kinetic energy brought by the bullet was like someone hitting his body. Although he was wearing heavy armor, his feet were still taken away from the ground by the impact. When the person who was shot was lying underground, a large amount of blood poured out of the wound, and the corners of his mouth finally twitched. The corners of his mouth with blood foam didn't know what else to say, and then he lost his life.
The fierce bullets not only hit the people behind the city wall, but also attracted the attention of the musketeers. This forced Zhao Xu to leave the window and dared to observe the situation under the city after the gunfire.
At this time, the situation under the city was getting worse. The musketeers who had reached the range stopped in groups, and many carriages were running from the camp behind them, carrying some sandbags as they had been packed. In addition, there were more infantrymen running forward with the carriages, and these sects were about to carry out the most dangerous thing-building a low wall to hide.
"You can't let them build the walls and stop them with raindrops!"
Obviously, if the low wall was built, then the enemy's musketeers would probably be stationed here for a long time, and it would not be easy to drive them away at that time. Although the enemy did not block other city gates, Zhao Xu estimated that although the other party did not block the city gates in several other directions, he would definitely use cavalry to harass him. At that time, the only way to transport supplies from the river was to block the river. However, if the other party's things like "Pi Li Cannon" block the river, the situation on the entire battlefield would not be optimistic at that time. At this moment, Zhao Xu no longer cared about his face. He only hoped that Sanniang could quickly urge Shu Yuer to solve the offensive of Azam and Tulansha Sultan.
Hearing Zhao Xu's loud order, he was immediately passed on by the messenger. The soldiers who had already loaded medicine on the city wall fired the first batch of shells towards the rushing carriages. The possibility of shotgun hitting the target was more likely. Several carriages were parked halfway because the horses pulled the carriage were killed, but more carriages still leaned towards the line of fire in front.
When the Raindrop Cannon wanted to fire the second shot, the muskets loaded with bullets under the city began to attack again. Many gunners of the Raindrop Cannon were hit by bullets under such attacks, which made Zhao Xu feel a little desperate. Just then, the "Pi Li Cannon" who had just received the order fired the first wave of projectiles, and explosions exploded on the road where the carriage came.
Carriages are not as easy as infantrymen to avoid artillery fire. The tall war horses neighed in pain in the explosion of shells. Some carriages' wheels were broken, and as they ran, the carriages fell to the side. Seeing this scene, soldiers who were suppressed by muskets on the top of the city cheered. More soldiers started shooting bows and arrows at the muskets under the city.
The distance of 200 meters is not too far for the pulley bow. Especially the simple sights on the pulley bow also make the arrows shot from the city more accurate. Although the musketeers under the city were wearing armor, the armor on their arms and legs was obviously more defensive to the bows and arrows. Some soldiers fell to the ground while groaning. However, this time the officers under the city no longer asked the soldiers to "lie down", but let the soldiers keep firing at the city head at the fastest speed.
Finally, one of the two carriages arrived at the squad of the musketeers. The soldiers who had been following the carriage did not bother to take a breath, so they immediately unloaded some of the installed wooden boards from the carriage to serve as the initial barrier. These wooden boards also come from Huaxia Island, and they are similar to the materials used to make shields. They are all wooden boards with fine wire cloth imposed. They are glued layer by layer and become solid bulletproof products.
They were placed in a row on the ground and supported by diagonal support behind them. Although such wooden boards were of no use to the attack of shells, at least there were not many arrows that kept shooting from the city.
The musketeers were invisible behind the wooden boards and began to load their own ammunition, and the infantry also began to load new sandbags and filled them behind the wooden boards. When these sandbags were filled in the future, the people on the fire would be like a single bullet with raindrop cannons.
As time went by, the low wall at a distance of 200 meters below the city of Bersalo extended one meter. Soon after, all infantry could hide and load, and then appeared and fire. At this time, the shooting became messy and unordered, but as many as 10,000 musketeers still maintained quite dense firepower and continued to suppress and shoot at the city.
The people on the top of the city also became more and more aggressive as the firepower of the muskets under the city continued to increase. Before night came, a continuous low wall had been laid out. Except for some reserved gaps, everyone could feel at ease to stand up and walk behind the wall.
Chapter completed!