Chapter 59: Cannon Barrier
The entire raid was surprisingly smooth, and the officers and cavalry team easily seized the artillery gate without any casualties.
In fact, the cavalry in the second half of the charge sequence was almost just following them, which gave Winters an illusion that it seemed like a farce.
Field took two subordinates into the interior of the cannon base from the other direction. In order to prevent the open flame from igniting gunpowder, the three spellcaster officers took turns to maintain the light technique.
Field walked in front and carefully inspected each warehouse. He opened a small crack in the door to determine whether there was any fire in the room. However, the lieutenant colonel did not find the gunpowder warehouse, only the empty warehouse and the terrified mouse.
Winters was actually skeptical about the theory that Lieutenant Colonel's "The gunpowder depot must be at the farthest from the cannon". He didn't even see a shadow after checking a row of warehouses, and he was a little lazy.
But Field still did not relax his vigilance and carefully opened the penultimate door. The wooden door was creaking and a small crack was opened, and the lieutenant colonel suddenly froze in place.
He turned around and nodded slightly to Moritz. The major who was maintaining the light technique understood and stopped casting. He took out a handful of silver coins from his pocket and shook it at the lieutenant colonel.
Field nodded again, stood in front of the door and took a deep breath, kicked open the wooden door hard. Then he instantly hid next to him and used a loud sound to shout.
The loud shout, blessed by magical power, was not as deafening as Moritz's sound storm, but it also scared Winters, and it was obvious that the people in the room were also shocked.
Elite musketeers can suppress their instinctive fears, and even if the enemy rushed in front of them, they could wait for the commander's fire order without blinking.
But the people inside obviously don't have the ability.
The gunshots rang out, and two lead bullets flew out of the door and smashed into pieces on the stone wall of the cannon.
Major Moritz saw that the person inside had already opened fire, and flashed to the door, and three silver coins flew out of his hand one after another, which was a simple but deadly flying arrow technique.
There were several collisions of heavy objects falling to the ground in the door.
"Didn't you say you want to catch the living? You can't hit the shoulder or something?" Field complained to the major and took out a copper rod to inspire the light technique.
Moritz shrugged and said nothing.
The cold weapons and armor in the room reflected the green light emitted by the light technique. This should be the arsenal of duck-mouthed cannons. Winters saw two corpses lying on two combs, and behind the corpses were neatly scribbled wooden barrels, as well as shells stacked on racks.
"The naval management level is really poor." The lieutenant colonel did not forget to comment at this time: "The arsenal and the gunpowder bank are together, isn't this waiting for an accident?"
Winters is now used to Lieutenant Colonel Field's personality of criticizing everything he sees. The Lieutenant Colonel actually has no malice, just a big mouth. Just ignore him at this time, so he and Moritz pretend to be deaf and mute.
The lieutenant colonel was also used to this cold violence, and he smacked his lips boredly, squatted on the ground and began to examine the body.
"Did you see something?" Moritz spoke out rare.
"I didn't wear a uniform, my nails were dirty, my teeth were rotten - but these are all very common characteristics, and I can't tell who it is." Lieutenant Colonel Field replied casually, his attention suddenly attracted by the weapons carried by the deceased: "But this knife... isn't this cutlass?"
The lieutenant colonel pulled out the scimitar from the dead and waved it twice: "This is the scimitar used by sailors... Ha, it's a bit interesting. Let's see if we catch the scimitar there."
The attackers' hand-to-hand combat was no match for the officers, and even the number was a disadvantage. The officers quickly cleared the entire cannon base at the cost of four people being slightly injured. The injured person in hand-to-hand combat was not as many people injured because of riding horses at night.
The remaining few alive enemies were dragged to the open air in the middle of the cannon building like catching chickens, and knelt down tremblingly. The school officials sat beside bragging, and the lieutenants were responsible for the dirty work, and one body after another was dragged out of the cannon building.
"Before that bastard could react, I went up and cut off half of his shoulder with one knife, and the knife was curled..." Colonel Kara was obviously very satisfied with the raid and was laughing with several peers and boasting about his bravery.
What will the warriors do after winning the battle? They can brag. This is the universality of all mankind. This is undoubtedly a beautiful victory. Colonel Kara, as the commander, is also qualified to brag about himself.
Seeing his subordinate approaching him, Colonel Kara put away his smile, raised his head at his subordinates, and asked, "Have you finished counting?"
The young officer nodded: "Count forty-seven corpses, but some of them are the defenders here, so they can't tell..."
"Don't worry about that." Colonel Kara interrupted the other party: "Let the navy identify themselves, we..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a loud sound like an iron hammer hitting a big rock.
Accompanied by the howling of shells and the heavy muffled sound of high-speed iron projectiles hitting the stone wall, the outer wall of the duck-mouthed cannon was smashed to pieces.
Some gravels even flew into the open space in the center of the artillery, and several shells flew over the officers' heads.
Judging from the sound, at least a dozen cannons were firing at the duck's mouth.
"Who is firing at us?" Colonel Kara asked angrily.
"A warship is fired at us in the east bay of Haidong." An officer ran over with his hat covering his head and reported: "It should be a navy ship. They may not know that we have regained the duck-mouthed cannon base. Should we inform us?"
"Tell me a fart!" Colonel Kara glared at the other party: "Let him fight, the navy's ships hit the navy's fort, it's up to us? We're just waiting on the backside and it hit us?"
He ordered loudly: "Listen, no one is allowed to approach the artillery position. If you are injured by accident, you will go to the navy to ask for medical expenses. Our mission has been completed. I order, everyone! Guard the gate! Wait for reinforcements to respond."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Another artillery colonel pulled Colonel Kara aside and asked quietly: "The pier is still fighting, isn't it good for us to watch the fire across the river?"
"Brother, our more than a hundred people are all officers. Who can I command?" Colonel Kara said helplessly: "You are also a colonel, and I am also a colonel. If I had not commanded General Zio, I could command you? The general's order was to regain the artillery base and we completed it. The general used us as a commander, and it was a blessing that there was no death. There was no need to turn our juniors in for the sake of the navy, right?"
"I understand what you mean. Of course it is not worth saving your life for the navy, but you can support them in a safe way." The artillery colonel explained: "I looked at the cannon position of the Duckbilly Fort and actually adjusted the angle. Some heavy cannons should be able to cover the dock. The general ordered us to regain the cannon base, but it must also play a role when it is regained. Otherwise, why are we wasting such great efforts? Just for these broken stones?"
Colonel Kara couldn't say that the other party was not allowed to move, so he nodded. The two were both colonels, and it was a great respect for the artillery colonel to come to Kara to discuss. But he was still worried and asked: "The navy's ship is still hitting us, so be careful."
"Don't worry."
After the night shift was sorted out, Colonel Kara took two other school officials to the kitchen for interrogation. The scene was probably not very good. The artillery colonel took some officers from the artillery department to fiddle with the cannons. Several lieutenants were standing at night guard, and the rest were all resting.
The warship drifting in the Haidong Bay continued to fire at the Duckbilling Fort for several rounds of volleys. After the duck-billing cannon, which was originally shooting against him, suddenly became silent. It was probably because of some incident and stopped shooting at the Duckbilling cannon.
Of course, it may also be because they lost the guidance of the fire when the duckbill cannon fire. The moonlight was dim and they couldn't see where the duckbill cannon was.
The duck-billed cannon suddenly returned to peace. Winters first settled down. Qiangyun recently liked to fight with other stallions, which he did not make up casually. The other officers' horses were not opponents at all. They were frightened by Qiangyun and tried their best to stay away from this irritable horse, and several reins were torn off.
Qiangyun has a chew in his mouth and cannot bite the other person, which is also very anxious.
Winters had no choice but to smash a stake in the corner of the open space and tied the heroic fortune alone to a place far away from other war horses.
"You little brat, you really don't worry!" Winters patted Qiang Yun's forehead. The Lucia horse was not ashamed of the owner being scolded by several school officials. He looked at Winters with big eyes blinking, and his pink tongue stretched out long to ask for candy.
Winters was angry and laughed, and grabbed a few candy pieces and fed them to Qiangyun: "Eat, you will know how to eat."
Originally, Winters wanted to remove the harness for Qiangyun and felt comfortable, but noticed that the other officers did not remove the harness for the war horses. It was obvious that everyone was guarding against emergency situations. So Winters just took off the chew of Qiangyun and got some hay and water for it.
"Montane!" Someone was calling out to Winters, it was Andre. He stood happily at the door and was waving at Winters.
"Sound down." Winters walked over: "What's so happy?"
"Don't ask, just follow me." Andre replied mysteriously.
He led the way in front, and Winters followed behind, and after turning a few turns. Andrei bowed and made a welcome gesture: "Please allow me to offer you the treasure of the Navy!"
After saying that, he lifted a wooden board on the ground and exposed a basement.
The lights in the basement were bright, laughter and joy came out, and more than a dozen people were crowded in the small space. Winters saw many familiar faces, as if they were warrant officers of the same period.
"Did you find the wine cellar?" Winters understood what was going on and asked Andre with a smile.
Andre said proudly: "Of course, my nose is more flexible than a dog's nose, and I found it by following the taste. Alas, it's a pity that the 'priest' is not here, otherwise I must drink him down tonight."
"Prince" is the nickname Andre gave Bard a new nickname. Bard did not participate in this operation tonight because he did not have a war horse, and even if he received the news, he could not arrive at Dongdaying to gather in time.
"You guys have to play, I have to stand at night guard." Winters found an excuse to walk away. In fact, he didn't know how to drink and didn't like this carnival atmosphere.
Tonight's raid was like a farce for Winters. He was inexplicably called to the Dongdaying to gather and set out in a daze to deal with a group of enemies who didn't know where they came from. He did nothing in the entire battle. He really didn't have the mood to celebrate.
Winters paced to the top of the cannon base, where heavy cannons were arranged in a solid fortress, and small-caliber artillery was arranged in the open air.
He sat on the low wall, and the sea surface under the moonlight showed a deep black, and a lonely warship was drifting on the sea. The warship was the ship that had just fired at the duckbill gun, but for some reason she didn't support the battle on the dock.
The dock is now filled with flames. Haidong Port, as the home port of the Vinetta Navy, is not only a supply port, but also the location of the Vinetta Navy shipyard.
The buildings in the port were engulfed by flames. In the flames, Winters saw only one ship docked in the berth and was burning. The attackers were setting fires to the docks and burning the paved keels and repaired warships.
Gunshots came from the dock, and Winters watched as the Navy sailors gathered several times to retake the dock, but they were all broken by several rounds of volleys and then retreated.
Blood was bleeding in the dock, and just six hundred meters away from the Duckbilly Fort cannon, the warrant officers were drinking and caring, and most of the officers had found a place with a ceiling to rest. The battle was over, and the entire cannon was in a strange tranquility and tranquility.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Andre also came to the top of the cannon pile with two bottles of wine, and said to Winters indifferently: "It's boring to be there alone, come and accompany you."
He bit the bottle with his teeth and handed the bottle to Winters. He bit open another bottle and took a sip: "The wine in the officer's cellar doesn't feel special."
Winters took the bottle but didn't drink it. He pointed to the dock and said, "There's a lot of fighting there. If we go to support them, we will hit them in front and back, will you say you can win?"
Andre looked carefully at the situation on the dock and sneered, "If these attackers were all of the people in the cannon, there would be no need for naval people, and we can defeat them with just one charge. But after we have been in military academy for so many years, will you be willing to die like this?"
Winters was speechless, and Andre sincerely and cruelly expressed everyone's selfishness - not worth it.
A stray bullet, a flying arrow, or a spear can easily take away a person's life. People who are not afraid of death will not go to Dongdaying tonight to gather. Leading the soldiers to die on the way to charge is OK. But it is not worth dying like an ordinary soldier.
"Don't think about it, we are two warrant officers, the most unworthy officers. We will do whatever we ask us to do, and we don't have to think so much." Andrey brought up his tool man theory again. He excitedly approached Winters, poked Winters in the waist, and asked in a nervous tone: "How many are you tonight?"
"What kind of?" Winters didn't understand what Andre was saying.
"Oh, don't you understand?" Andrey gestured with his arm and cut down: "How many of these?"
Understanding what the psychopath in front of him was asking, Winters said helplessly: "No one."
Andre laughed and raised three fingers: "I'm three tonight, and we're five points each now, tied... But to be honest, the quality of my five points is still higher. The Padres' zero points, hahaha."
Warrant Officer Montane sighed: "Brother, no matter what you say, you won."
Andre replied one sentence, but Winters only saw the movement of his lips, and the roar of heavy artillery drowned Andre's words.
Chapter completed!