Tome of Blood - Chapter 285

Chapter 285-135-Bombardment

As the horn sounded, Castel’s coalition forces also began to move slowly.

Looking from the hills, the mighty coalition army was divided into five army formations by Baron Angus, marching towards the rebel camp in a “2+3” formation.

The formation of the coalition army is not as good as Charlotte imagined. It is far worse than the medieval army formation she saw in movies and TV dramas in her previous life. From a distance, it looks like five huge formations that are constantly deforming slowly. The gray-black rectangle that moved could barely be seen as an army formation at most.

If it weren’t for the nobles at the front of the army formation to maintain a relatively neat formation, otherwise, Charlotte really suspected that such a large army formation might cause chaos as they walked.

But there is no way around it. Castel’s coalition army is not a well-trained standing force.

Maybe many conscripts were still doing farm work or hunting in the forest three months ago, and the training time was only more than a month. To have the current discipline and execution ability, we have to sigh the nobles of the Northland Efficiency and Baron Angus’ ability too.

Of course, even so, the sense of crisis of the army’s pressure still enveloped the entire rebel camp. Relying on the excellent eyesight of the blood race, Charlotte could clearly see that after the sound of Castel’s horn, the soldiers in the rebel camp were very angry. Quickly acted.

Archers rushed up the wooden walls and towers, and the crossbow machines and small stone shooting guns on the sentry towers also moved slowly under the operation of the soldiers, aiming the crossbow bolts and muzzles at the army in the distance, and more Soldiers poured out of the tents, lined up and assembled under the orders of the horse-riding nobles.

After being stationed in place for two or three months, this camp has been built into a fortress of considerable size by the rebels, and even Charlotte has to boast about the efficiency of the rebels.

In a different world with extraordinary power, the work efficiency of many things is simply not the same as that of Blue Star in a similar era in the previous life.

Not to mention that after communicating with the local villagers, Charlotte learned that the camp where the rebels were stationed was originally a small town with walls, but now it was only further transformed by the rebels on the original basis.

The allied forces moved slowly, like a huge wave approaching.

The forward troops stopped at a distance of about 500 meters from the rebel camp.

A slightly muffled horn sounded on the battlefield. Charlotte saw the leading nobles in the two frontmost formations start to move. They raised their swords to order, while the soldiers in the formation moved to the sides. A black cannon barrel was pushed out by the soldiers.

Those are stone-shooting cannons, and they are also a powerful weapon for siege in the world of Myria. Even though they were only facing a temporarily reinforced wooden fortress, these firearms were brought over by the coalition forces, a total of 20.

The main providers of stone-shooting guns are the Charlotte Territory and the Leon-Castel family. Noble families with smaller siege weapons can’t afford it.

As an early artillery, its barrel was relatively short, usually made of bronze or iron, and sometimes made of copper and brass, while Castel’s stone-shooting gun was about 5m long and had a caliber of 500mm. The stone bomb weighed 700 pounds.

The firing of these stone-shooting cannons is not very accurate, and the muzzle velocity is extremely low. In order to improve the effectiveness of the cannon, there are corresponding magic inscriptions engraved on the body of the cannon. After adjustment, the effective range can generally reach 500 meters, which greatly exceeds the range of bows and crossbows, and far exceeds the range of less than 100 meters for low-level mages. meter range.

The stone bullets they fire are not entirely stone bullets. Depending on the situation, the body of the bullet will also be engraved with inscriptions. Especially when firing in the first few rounds, they usually use expensive enchanted stone bullets, and add [Devil Evil] Effect, used to destroy superpowers.

Seeing the artillery being pushed out, the soldiers in the rebel army visibly became agitated, but they were quickly suppressed by the officers.

There was another low-pitched horn, and bursts of white smoke burst out from the muzzles of the twenty stone-shooting cannons on the battlefield. After a few seconds, Charlotte heard the rumbling of the cannons.

Accompanied by a series of loud noises, stone bullets fell into the rebel camp, and translucent ripples appeared around the camp, like flowing water.

That’s the mage’s shield.

The flowing shield stopped all the fired stone bullets. Those stone bullets seemed to be smashed into a viscous corrosive liquid. First, the speed decreased rapidly, and then the bullets glowed fiery red, melting like snowflakes.

However, a round of shelling is obviously not the end.

Three minutes after the first round of stone bombs was blocked, the second round of shelling also started.

The shields of low-level mages are obviously not enough to compete with the stone bullets with the effect of destroying magic. After weakening more than a dozen stone bullets, the translucent shield has almost reached its limit and then shattered.

However, because the wall of the camp of the rebels was not high, most of the stone bombs did not hit the wall directly, but flew over at low altitude, hitting the camp like meteorites.

Most of these stone bombs missed, but two hit the target, one of which shattered a tent, and the other hit a sentry tower and directly penetrated the tower of the sentry tower.

But that’s all.

Myria’s artillery in the modern era is still too weak.

Although the stone bullet with the effect of [Breaking Demon] can severely damage the caster’s protection, it can only kill with kinetic energy, and it does not have the explosion effect of Blue Star’s later artillery.

But pure kinetic energy plus the special effect of [Breaking Demon] is already the strongest force to restrain spellcasters on the battlefield.

Six minutes later, the third round of shelling began.

This time, the rebel casters obviously had no time to re-build a large spell shield, and the meteorite-like stone bullets were almost unresisted, and all of them smashed into the camp.

Charlotte saw that after this round of shelling, two more tents in the rebel camp were smashed.

In addition, several stone bullets fell into the rebel army gathered in the camp. The soldiers who were hit could not even find their armor broken on the spot, and the stone bullets that landed were ejected several times due to inertia. , causing further casualties among the rebels and even more commotion and panic.

However, this is not the biggest result of the battle. The biggest result is that a stone bomb finally hit the wall of the village, and the wooden wall of the village was obviously unable to compete with the artillery after losing its magic protection, and a hole was directly torn out.

This further caused confusion among the rebels.

The reaction of the rebels was faster than Charlotte had imagined. After a gap was smashed in the wall of the village, soldiers with large shields rushed over to further strengthen the defense.

A few minutes later, the fourth round of shelling began.

After the calibration of the previous three bombardments, the accuracy of the stone bullets became more accurate this time, and a total of five stone bullets hit the wall of the village.

Although two of them were blocked by the magic of the suspected enterer, three of them hit the wall of the village, and three more gaps were made after the first gap.

On the frontal battlefield, the wall of the rebel camp was already crumbling.

“Woo-!”

The horn sounded much louder than the horn just now.

This is an order for soldiers to attack.

Castel’s coalition array moved again, the nobles and elite private soldiers at the front raised their shields one after another, and the peasants and soldiers at the rear picked up their ladders and rushed towards the rebel camp…

Make up for last night, update normally tonight.

(end of this chapter)