The next morning, the artillery and baggage finally arrived. In addition to the 20-pound Kohn mortar, there were 10 three-pound cannons.
The 24-pound Kohn mortar is naturally used to smash the city walls and gates. As for the three-pound cannon, it is used to suppress the enemies on the city.
After the artillery and baggage troops arrived, Marin did not order an attack immediately, but instead asked the subsequent troops to have lunch first and then took a while off.
After the lunch break, the artillery troops carried artillery and began to arrange artillery positions in front of the formation. The baggage troops were responsible for building tents.
Last night, most of the soldiers made do with it all night and didn’t sleep well. Because there were not enough beds. Although many houses were snatched away for rest, the beds were limited and many people slept against the wall. Fortunately, it was the end of June and the beginning of July, and it was summer. If it was winter, people would have to freeze to death.
Of course, even if a tent is built during the march, there is no bed, it is just a military floor, but it is much more comfortable to sleep on the wall.
Then, throughout the afternoon, in addition to building a military camp, Marin only arranged artillery troops to arrange artillery positions and adjust the firing angle...
The guns of this era had a very low hit rate and did not have optical and electronic aiming equipment. Therefore, it is very difficult to adjust the angle of the gun. Before shooting accurately, you need to make multiple shootings until you hit the target. Of course, multiple shootings are only suitable for land combat. Because the targets of many land combat guns are fixed, especially city walls and fortifications. Therefore, the attacking party can make multiple shootings. If there is a naval battle, the enemy ships will not move continuously, there will be no chance of shootings. Therefore, the hit rate of naval battles is quite low.
The 20 24-pound Kohhorn mortars and 10 three-pound guns were fired for a whole afternoon, and many shells were knocked down, which made the quarantine officer very distressed.
But Marin didn't feel sorry for it. After all, Columbus just pulled back 300 tons of saltpeter and had a total of 400 tons of gunpowder. Moreover, a large amount of egg white was used, and it was pinched into strips and cut into granular shapes.
Each shelling, the 24-pound Kohn mortar consumes only 255 grams of granular gunpowder, which is not much. Even if the purity of the gunpowder is not enough, 280 grams is required, the consumption is not much. After using the granular gunpowder, the charge amount of the three-pound gun is similar to that of the Cohn mortar.
However, it is easy to get a three-pound gun and the shooting is completed after a few rounds. Because the three-pound gun is a direct gun, as long as the Wangshan behind the barrel is facing the target. At most, consider the problem of descent during the flight of the shell. With a little adjustment, you can hit the city.
So, the three-pound gun was the first to complete the shooting...
As for the 24-pound Kohon mortar, all of them were concentrated by Marin to bombard the south gate. All 20 cannons were fan-shaped and required to be aimed only at the south gate of Yevre Castle.
After all, the south gate of Yevre Castle is made of oak. Even if it is made very thick, it can't help but smash the 24-pound iron balls...
After adjusting for an afternoon, the 20 Kohhorn mortars were completed. Marin could not ask for more of these gunners. Because it was really difficult to schedule the artillery. Not to mention those artillerymen, even Marin himself did not know how to calculate and estimate the angle and distance of the artillery curved artillery... So, let the artillerymen explore it themselves... Anyway, the ammunition is enough...
Early the next morning, soldiers who had a beautiful sleep on the marching floor in the tent got up and gathered together to continue besieging the Castle of Jeffer.
Marin still did not order a strong attack because the strong attack suffered a great casualty. As a time traveler, Marin was most afraid of casualties. For this reason, the battles that Marin fought were mostly sneak attacks and ambush wars. Because of these two tactics, the soldiers on this side suffered the lowest casualties. If they were facing the enemy head-on, although they were passionate, the casualties would be severe.
If you shoot against the enemy's musket, the casualties will be horrifying...
Fortunately, the musket equipment rate of European troops in this era is very low. Even if they are right against Marin's army, they are still attacking the opponent. Therefore, in the battle of Lair County, the Saxony army, which lacks long-range firepower, suffered a great loss, and the casualties between the two sides are extremely unequal...
In order to reduce casualties, Marin does not intend to attack for the moment, because the tactics of climbing the city walls were very high. Therefore, although the army surrounded Yeffer Castle, Marin allowed the 30 artillery fires that had been fired yesterday afternoon. 20 24-pound Kohon mortars bombarded the south gate of Yeffer Castle. And 10 three-pound artillery bombarded the city at the south gate of Yeffer Castle and attacked the opponent's defenders...
It is easy to aim the three-pound cannon. The three-pound iron ball emitted by 10 three-pound cannons whizzed past the city. Several Jeffer defenders who were bold and observing were directly hit by the three-pound iron ball, which frightened the Jeffer defenders on the city.
So, after several rounds of shooting, there was no Yevre defender on the south city.
The 24-pound Kohhorn mortar bombarded the city gates with a progress made a little slow. After all, even the city gates were made very thick.
Moreover, at this time, behind the south gate of Yevre Castle was filled with bricks and stones and tree sticks, which were pressed against the south gate. Not only that, Edor and Baron Wilmken, the military and civilians in Xiaming City, also brought more bricks and stones and tree sticks to fill the south gate.
But shelling is not useless. At least, after each shelling, wood chips will fly across the outside of the oak city gate...
Because the 20 24-pound Kohhorn mortars were smashed at one door, the destructive power was quite great. Each round of artillery fires had 20 24-pound iron balls that hit the oak city gate, which were strong and powerful. It can be estimated that within two days, the door would be smashed...
Marin's artillery position was 600 meters in front of the city wall. Originally, Marin had a big new enemy artillery counterattack. However, he fired many rounds, and the other party had no artillery, not to mention artillery, and there were only sporadic counterattacks with bows and arrows, but he could not shoot the artillery position at all.
So, Marin removed the shield soldiers who were originally blocking the artillery, allowing the artillery to shoot the city gates and walls with confidence...
"Bang hard for me, don't save ammunition! I'm a rich man, so I don't need this ammunition! Hurry up...bang hard!" Malin yelled beside the artillery.
Because of the sufficient gunpowder and the steel plant produces so much iron every day, it is easy to use sand casting to make iron ball shells. Therefore, Marin ammunition is very sufficient and not afraid of waste. In fact, this practice of not afraid of wasting ammunition and attaching great importance to soldiers' lives, and it has the style of later Americans...
All day long, Marin's artillery was bombarding the Castle of Yevre. Except for the time when the barrel was cooled, the other time was still shooting.
In the evening, Marin saw through the telescope that the south gate of Yevre Castle was already full of holes. I guess if I work harder tomorrow, I will be able to open the door.
Chapter completed!