The duck-billed cannon is named after the duck-billed cape located in Haidong Bay. This headland looks like a duck-billed cape, and is also a natural defense, like an arm stretched out from land to protect Haidong Bay.

Set up artillery barricades on the Yajimai Point, which can protect the narrow import and export of the Haidong Bay from the outside; internally, all ships in the port are within the range of the artillery. If necessary, a lock is drawn on the Yajimai Point and the other side to block any enemy from the sea.

It is precisely because of the unique terrain conditions of Haidong Bay that the Venetta Navy built a special dock here and set Haidong Port as the home port of the entire Venetta Navy.

But now, the port is lost. The heavy artillery on the duckbill cannon is turning its direction and bombarding naval ships anchored in the port.

And the army officers were ordered to take back here.

In the dark night, a team of cavalry was running wildly. More than 100 officers got the news and gathered in the Dongdaying. General Zio sent them all out in one breath, led by a colonel to Haidong Port.

Winters leaned on the horse and followed Lieutenant Colonel Field in front of him. The hundreds of war horses were running together with amazing momentum, and the sound of horse hooves roared like war drums.

But Winters was not infected by this momentum. At this moment, the moonlight was blocked by dark clouds, and the road was so dark that nothing could be seen. Riding on horseback on this night road is extremely risky, and if you are not lucky, you will lose your hooves.

People fell off their horses from time to time along the way and were carried to the side of the road to wait for the people behind to rescue them.

I don’t know how long I ran, but gunfires could be heard vaguely in front of me, which meant that Haidong Port was right in front. This was Winters, but he saw someone waving a torch in front, so he slowed down his horse and stopped.

On a clearing field beside the road, the officer who arrived before him was resting.

Although this cavalry team had only more than 100 people, the marching queue was pulled to a kilometer long when running at full speed. Several lieutenant colonels led the team decided to set the position where the guns could be heard as the attack position, and sent three officers to reconnaissance in front, while waiting for the entire team to assemble.

At this location of the assembly point, you can clearly hear the sound of guns and cannons coming from the front. Dong, Dong, Dong, and there are dull sounds in the air, which is a roar that can only be made by heavy cannons.

Lieutenant Colonel Field handed Winters a sack of water: "Drink a little, follow me a little longer, don't run around."

Winters pulled out the plug and just wanted to drink it but smelled a pungent smell: "Is it wine?"

"Of course it's wine."

Winters nodded and stuffed the plug back. He didn't think drinking spirits would be beneficial for fighting.

The wait before the battle was long and tormenting. The officers did not know who the enemy was or how many enemies there were, but they had to fight these unknown enemies with an order, which made everyone feel uncomfortable.

Field and several other officers gathered in small circles to smoke pipes, chatting quietly, and laughing from time to time. Winters couldn't smoke and couldn't get involved, so he just found a stone to sit and played with the two steel cones in his hand. He was going to the club tonight, so he only brought three steel cones for spare.

Moritz pulled out a felt from the saddle bag without anyone else and slept on the ground. The major would not miss any chance to take a nap.

One person walked over with a torch and sent orders one by one: "The person who went to the scout is back, and Colonel Kara wants everyone to come and have a meeting."

More than one hundred people formed a large circle, and it was not easy to convey orders to more than one hundred people at the same time. Colonel Kara, who was in charge of command, was not a spellcaster, so he had to stand on a large rock in the crowd and shouted at the top of his lungs:

"The duck-billed cannon has been confirmed to be lost. Now the attackers are bombarding the navy's ships with cannons. The most intense battle is the dock now. The rest of the navy are fighting with the attackers on the dock." Colonel Kara sneered: "But this has nothing to do with us. The order given to us is to regain the duck-billed cannon. Now the navy has attracted the attention of the enemy, which is our good opportunity. Don't make a sound, just insert the cannon base, everyone follows their commanders and disbands!"

The officers scattered back to find their horses. They had never trained together and were not all cavalrymen, so it was difficult to organize into a difficult queue.

Therefore, Colonel Kara's tactic is to fight hand-to-hand combat after taking advantage of the enemy's inattention, riding a fast horse and rushing into the artillery base. For this group of officers who came from military academy and had several spellcasters at the same time, cold weapon fighting can actually give full play to their advantages over firearm shooting.

The officers were roughly lined up in two columns, Winters was in the middle, ahead of him was Major Moritz, and further ahead was Lieutenant Colonel Field. At the front of the team was Colonel Kara, who had to rush to command this cavalry team composed purely of officers.

The charge started with a slow walk. After the cavalry distanced between them by two or three meters, Colonel Kara issued a command to run a small step.

Winters didn't know which direction he was going, nor did he need to know which direction he was going. Although the column charge was weak, it was agile and could quickly adjust the direction. As long as each cavalry ran with the cavalry in front, he could maintain his formation.

The cavalry team, who were running small steps, left the road and entered the forest. The branches whipped on their bodies as painful as a whip. After walking through the forest for a few minutes, fire began to shoot in between the cracks of the trees.

This means that we are about to leave the woods, Winters took a deep breath and pulled out the saber with his knees with a scabbard.

After passing through the deliberately cut down forest line, he suddenly realized. Less than a kilometer ahead was the duck-mouthed cannon base, and the navy and the attackers were fighting fiercely on the dock on the left.

Major Moritz, in front of Winters, suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the cannon base like an arrow from the string. Winters followed him, stabbed the spurs hard at Qiangyun's ribs for the first time, and launched a charge.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is no shouting or trumpeter in this charge, and the officers drove the horses silently. Winters saw Qiangyun showing his heroic posture at running with all his might. Major Moritz's horse was surpassed by him, and finally he ran with Field's dark horse.

One kilometer distance arrived in an instant, and more than a dozen attackers who were going to support the dock from the artillery barracks to support the pier were not yet understood what was going on, and they were chopped over by the roaring cavalry halfway through. The officers in front had no chance to wield the sabers for those behind. Winters only saw a corpse with his head cut off.

Killing these dozen enemies was just a good idea. The entire cavalry did not slow down at all and continued to rush towards the artillery base in a straight line.

The duck-billed cannon building is not a bastion. This cannon building is to guard against enemies on the water, not on land. So it is just a square cannon building made of stone and mortar, clumsy and solid. The Half Moon Fort was built at four corners, but the overall structure has not changed, and there is still a gate entering and exiting without trenches.

This is actually a gamble. If the attacker closes the door, then these 100 cavalrymen have no way to use this stone fortress with an outer wall that is eight meters high, because these temporary light cavalry teams have no means of siege and can only climb the wall.

Colonel Kara bet that the attackers would not have thought that someone would come to support so soon, nor did they think that reinforcements would not go to the rescue port, but head straight to the Duckling Mouth Fortress.

Admiral Zio received news from the attack on Haidong Bay and gathered troops to support him. It took less than three hours in total. Before the attackers could solve the defenders in Haidong Bay, this light cavalry, composed entirely of officers, had already arrived here.

The gate of the duck's mouth is closed.

But there is no latch!

The dozen people just came out and just closed the door, and the attackers did not have enough manpower to defend the duck-mouthed cannon base.

The man who rushed in the front pried open the crack of the door and pushed open the door hard. The cavalrymen behind him entered one after another and rushed into the open space inside the artillery barracks.

At this moment, the attackers in the artillery tower were still unaware of it and were still busying the artillery tower.

Colonel Kara turned over and dismounted, shouted, "Catch a few live ones." Then he kicked open the wooden door with the sound of artillery, and rushed in with a sabre.

Winters did not expect that the attacker's defense would be so slack. This was the blind spot of the attacker's thinking. They only thought of attacking others, but never thought that they might be attacked. With an unexpected advantage, the battle was already half won.

Colonel Kara took the lead, and more than a dozen officers rushed in with their sabers without hesitation. Screams came from the door, and the muffled sound of metal hitting the bones wrapped in meat.

But Winters didn't move, and he and Moritz were waiting for Lieutenant Colonel Field's orders.

"Don't follow them, it seems that there are not many enemies here." Lieutenant Colonel Field calmly made a judgment: "Let's go to the powder depot, I'm worried that these guys will be desperate to jump over the wall and fight with us."

As he said that, Lieutenant Colonel Field stopped two more people in the uniform of the lieutenant: "You two guard the gate, and when our people come in, the gate will be tied. No door is allowed to be opened to anyone without the orders of the colonel-level officer."

The two lieutenants originally wanted to follow Colonel Kara in and fight with real guns and exert their anger, but were stopped by Lieutenant Colonel Field halfway, but unfortunately, they were crushed to death by the first level of official position.

Lieutenant Colonel Field led Moritz and Winters to follow the main force, but walked in the other direction.

"You also know where the gunpowder depot is here?" Winters was curious.

Lieutenant Colonel Field snorted: "The gunpowder depots of the fortress are all the same - the farthest from the artillery."
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