While Yi Britain and France were waiting for news from Ireland, an earth-shaking offensive and defensive battle occurred in Dublin, Ireland...
After Richard Bohr led an army of 20,000 to the city of Dublin, he was stunned when he saw the large iron gates in Dublin. Originally, he brought a batch of artillery and wanted to have a way to bombard the city gate and bomb the gate. However, after trying for a few rounds, he found that the iron ball shells could not deal with the large iron gate at all, so he gave up directly.
Then, under the command of Richard Boer, the 7 thousand long bowmen began to shoot at the city. Suddenly, dense arrows poured into the city like rainstorms. However, because of the reminder of the spy from the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, Earl Edward's men not only replaced the half-body armor, but also prepared door panels for other troops...
Yes, door panel! Earl Edward saw that Jonathan, the representative of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, blew up Wicklow's city gate with the door panel, so he loved the door panel shield. After receiving the news that the British army gathered longbow soldiers from all over the country, Earl Edward sent people to cut down all the trees around Dublin. First, he would let the carpenters in the city process the door panels to resist bows and arrows. Second, it would also prevent those trees from becoming materials for the British army to make engineering equipment.
As an English nobleman, Earl Edward was taught the great military achievements of the English longbowmen since he was young until he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Therefore, Earl Edward attached great importance to the English longbowmen. When the English longbowmen began to shoot in turn and hit the defenders on the city with arrows, "door panels" were erected everywhere on the city...
Although the English longbowmen are powerful, they stand far away from the city wall to shoot. The further distance the arrow is, the lower the kinetic energy of the arrow. What's more, the thrown bow and arrow shot from the ground to the head of the city. Because the height is different when it falls, the kinetic energy has not been released, so the power is greatly reduced. Originally, long arrows that can penetrate the mail cannot penetrate the door panels...
In desperation, Richard Pole had to order the longbowman to move forward and plan to take the close-point shooting. In this way, the arrows can lose less kinetic energy and the arrows can penetrate more powerfully.
However, unexpectedly, when the longbowmen approached the city wall within a hundred meters, many musketeers in plate armor suddenly stood up on the top of the city...the musketeers...
Before, the English longbowmen were too far away for the musketeers to aim. So they simply sat on the ground on the top of the city without showing up, and waited quietly.
But as soon as the English longbowmen were found to have entered the range, the 2,000 musketeers in half-body armor stood up and aimed at the longbowmen in the front row...
"Ba—ba—ba—ba—ba—ba—ba—ba—b”
After a burst of gunfire like fried beans, although the musket hit a low point, many English longbowmen still fell to the ground and began to scream...
The combing gun provided by Marin to Edward has a relatively small caliber and a bullet weight of 30 grams, which is about the same as the bullet weight of the British standard flintlock rifle "Brown Bass" flintlock rifle. This bullet weight is very reasonable and is enough to attack those "iron cans" in plate armor.
The 30-gram lead bullet can even be used to fight iron cans, not to mention those English longbowmen who only wear some chain armor at most? So after a few rounds of shooting, hundreds of English longbowmen in the front row fell down.
Moreover, the hundreds of people who fell down were all seriously injured. Because the spherical lead bullet can easily cause rolling after being penetrated into the human body, causing the wound to become large and blood sprayed out. Often, although a 30-gram lead bullet with a diameter of less than 20 mm, it can cause a large bowl of injury, which looks very serious. Of course, it is indeed very serious.
It can be said that the warriors who were hit by arrows and those with stronger will can continue to fight. However, it is difficult for those who were hit by a 30-gram lead bullet to continue fighting...
In other words, the more than 100 English longbow soldiers who fell down in the front row, except for the dozens who were directly killed, were sure that they could not return to the battle. Even if they survived without taking the lead poisoning, such a big scar would easily make those longbow soldiers say goodbye to the battlefield completely.
At first, Richard Boll didn't care. However, when the musketeers on the city had loaded the second round, they made another three-stage shooting. Then, more than a hundred and dozens of British longbowmen were shot and fell to the ground, and screamed.
Richard Pole immediately realized something was wrong. He saw that the enemy musketeers on the top of the city could not do anything to them because they were wearing plate armor, but they could hurt the longbowmen... This was a loss...
Moreover, it takes more than ten years to train a longbow soldier... So the longbow soldier immediately retreated...
Next, Richard Pohl sent sword and shield soldiers to set up the siege ladder, intending to forcibly climb the city head. However, for musketeers, those wooden shields that can withstand bows and arrows are vulnerable in front of musketeers. Musketeers first destroy the wooden shields, and then can damage the sword and shield soldiers. Moreover, the shield of sword and shield soldiers is not the shield of the shield soldiers, and can only protect the chest part, and cannot block the head and legs at all. When the sword and shield soldiers climb the city wall, the distance between the musketeers and them is only ten meters. At this distance, the musketeers can basically aim calmly...
Then, with a series of screams of "Ah", "Ah", "Ah", "Ah"..., the sword and shield soldiers fell down from the siege ladder like dumplings. The musketeers defended the city were so invincible. What's more, these musketeers even put on half a set of plate armor, which was simply a cheat...
Looking at the bodies of hundreds of swords and shield soldiers under the city, Richard Poll wanted to cry without tears. However, he was not an incompetent person. At this moment, he suddenly remembered the cannons that were originally intended to bombard the city gate...
The range of the cannon was farther than that of the muskets, and the musketeers in plate armor could not withstand the bombardment of the cannons. So he set up the 30 light cannons that were originally intended to be used to bombard the ball and aimed at the top of the city...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom" After a burst of cannons, there were indeed several unlucky musketeers who were directly hit by the iron ball shell and were completely destroyed.
However, at the same time, on one side of the city wall, Marin sent Sahi (Jonathan), a blaster in Edward's army, was taking a group of French artillery to deploy the 20 heavy artillery given to Earl Edward by Marin, aiming at the British artillery positions...
In this era, in addition to East Friesland, France probably had the most artillery and artillery. In order to support the confrontation between Earl Edward and the British army, Louis XII not only sent a large amount of gunpowder and shells, but also sent a group of experienced artillery soldiers to support Earl Edward's army.
Taking advantage of the British artillery's power, Sahi, who knew how to aim the artillery, used the simplest line drapes to make the direction of the artillery's muzzle and the enemy's artillery position in a straight line position. Then, he began to adjust the angle and charge of the artillery up and down...
At the beginning, the only one cannon was fired at the school, and the British army did not care. But after the school fired at the same angle and charge, the power finally exploded...
20 12-pound front-mounted bronze cannons suddenly roared. 20 iron balls smashed hard at the British small cannon positions...
At this time, the British artillery was still focusing on the front wall. However, the musketeers were not stupid. After being taken away by a few shells in the first round, they all squatted down. With the city walls, the iron ball shells were unable to do anything to them.
Just as the British artillery was thinking about how to attack the enemy on the city, 20 12-pound cannons on the side had already aimed at them. Moreover, Sahi was very cunning. He only used one cannon when shooting, and the other cannon barrels were placed on the city head and did not set up. Therefore, the British army ignored that cannon. But after the calibration, the other 19 people set up the barrels according to their positions, then positioned the straight line with plumbing, and adjusted to the same angle and charge as the first cannon. Then, the strikes on the British artillery positions followed one after another...
What does it mean to hit a 12-pound iron ball? It's really a corpse! Before a few British artillery soldiers could react, several 12-pound iron balls roared over, some of which were hit on the head, and then the head flew away. After a while, blood was sprayed upward from the chest.
Some of them were smashed through their chests, which was so big that they could transmit light. Then, everyone saw his internal organs...
Some unlucky guys were directly smashed to their arms or legs. The victim was stunned at first, and then screamed with earth-shaking screams under the stimulation of severe pain. At the same time, blood sprayed wildly at the position of the arms or legs...
After several rounds of shooting, more than 30 British artillery soldiers were killed. Moreover, there was a 12-pound iron ball that directly penetrated three artillery soldiers, which was very terrifying.
Chapter completed!