Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 541

[Chapter 541 The Contest of Artillery]

“What a big battle.” Chang Wei slowly put down the binoculars, a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

Mo Yu stood beside Chang Wei, “Beidi is sure to win Yanguan this time, and he doesn’t even care about the plague.”

Chang Wei nodded, “Mu Lehong is really shrewd, even if Beidi’s army is infected with the plague, death is nothing. Half of them, it’s worth it to win Yanguan, but if they miss this opportunity, more than half of the casualties will be lost, and they may not be able to win Yanguan.”

“Indeed.” Mo Yu agrees with Chang Wei’s statement, “In this case, the next Let’s fight it out.” In

war, the combination of righteousness and strangeness is often used, which is a conventional method of warfare.

Resisting Beidi’s attack on Yanguan this time is a frontal confrontation and attracts the enemy’s attention.

Oddity is a trick, and the army attacking from the sea is part of the trick, which will catch Beidi people by surprise.

After observing the layout of the Beidi camp for a while, Chang Wei and Mo Yu inspected the city walls, especially the bastion-style outer walls outside the old city walls.

These outer walls were built at the end of the Northern Expedition.

The triangular outer wall protrudes twenty meters from the old city wall.

There are turrets cast on both sides of the outer wall, and the artillery on it is aimed at the two sides, so that the entire outer wall has no dead spots for shooting, and can attack enemies from any direction.

After the battle broke out, soldiers stationed on the outer wall and cooperated with the artillery to kill and wound the enemy soldiers.

“Your Highness said that this outer wall cost a lot of money, this time let the Beidi people taste the power of the bastion-style outer wall.” After walking from east to west, Chang Wei smiled coldly.

Mo Yu always had a calm smile on his face.

In this way, the outer wall of the bastion is combined with the firearms of the royal army.

Even if he has only 30,000 people, he is confident that he can stop Beidi’s army.

Sixty thousand people is simply more than enough.

After inspecting the military camp in the city, Chang Wei called the generals to discuss the matters that need to be paid attention to in the next battle.

For example, when the enemy is attacking the city, how to use the outer wall of the bastion to attack the enemies climbing the wall, how to guard against sneak attacks at night, and so on.

next day.

As the sky was getting dark, Chang Wei was called out by Mo Yu.

Beidi people officially attacked the city.

When he came to the city wall, Chang Wei found soldiers pouring out of Beidi’s camp.

These soldiers lined up in a loose formation and stopped 500 meters away from Yanguan.

The soil is then excavated and sandbags are used to build walls of earth.

There is still a gap every five meters in the earth wall.

Witnessing all this through a telescope, Chang Wei frowned, “Beidi’s artillery was frightened by them, or they were instructed.”

Because the artillery of the royal family has a distance advantage over Beidi’s artillery.

When they build artillery positions, they only need to find a suitable place and pull the artillery over.

But in the military school, King Yan also talked about how to build artillery positions when artillery has no advantage over the enemy.

This is to use things like sandbags to build temporary earth walls, protect the artillery and artillery within the earth walls, and leave only space for shooting at the muzzle position.

Obviously, Beidi is doing this right now.

“I’m afraid I was instructed. Your Highness said that there is a missionary from Ross Kingdom in Beidi.” Mo Yu said, “You can see that their movements are very skilled.”

Chang Wei continued to observe.

When building artillery positions in the east, Beidi also built artillery positions in the west.

An hour later, Beidi soldiers pulled the artillery out of the camp and entered the artillery positions one after another.

“Tang Qing, can you destroy their artillery position?” Chang Wei called Tang Qing, the artillery captain.

As an artillery general, Tang Qing noticed the actions of the enemy artillery immediately. He said, “It is possible, but it is a lot of trouble.”

The artillery positions built by Beidi are equivalent to putting armor on the naked soldiers.

Although it can also kill the opponent, the time and ammunition consumed will increase a lot.

In this way, their soldiers will be exposed to enemy shelling for a longer period of time.

Chang Wei and Mo Yu looked at each other.

Beidi is making progress in the use of artillery.

However, although he was a little surprised by Beidi’s new tactics.

But they were not affected much.

As Tang Qing said, it’s a little troublesome, but it can be solved.

The artillery of the royal family’s army surpassed them too much in terms of power and range.

In a contest within 500 meters, the difference in artillery strength between the two sides is like that of an adult and a ten-year-old child.

It’s just that, for him, this is not a very good signal.

The method of casting Beidilian artillery can be handed over to the powerful clan.

Will you share the experience of using firearms on the battlefield with the clan in the future?

If this is the case, the future civil strife in Dasong may be more cruel.

“Boom boom boom…” The

two of them were thinking about it when bursts of fire and thick smoke burst out from Beidi’s artillery positions.

Black shells flew towards the outer wall of the bastion like raindrops.

“Dodge!”

The moment Beidi shelled, the generals on the city wall immediately shouted.

The soldiers immediately hid behind the walls.

“Boom boom boom…” The heavy shells hit the outer wall of the bastion and made muffled noises.

But the shells only left shallow dents on the surface of the wall before falling to the ground.

The range of the Beidi artillery is only eight or nine hundred meters, and the effective range is only five hundred meters.

At this distance, the shells of Beidi’s artillery are not very powerful, and cannot cause any damage to the outer wall of the bastion made of concrete.

Even the wall stacks on the outer walls of the bastion can withstand the attack of shells, unlike brick walls, which will be knocked down by shells.

After a round of shelling, there were no casualties on the city wall.

The soldiers stood up with even more confidence on their faces.

When the Beidi artillery attacked Yanguan, the Beidi soldiers in the camp moved.

Siege equipment such as ladders, crash cars, and siege vehicles came out of the camp one after another.

Beidi soldiers pushed the siege equipment and kept moving towards Yanguan.

“Tang Qing, get rid of their artillery.” Chang Wei ordered, “Pull out some of the artillery and bombard their siege equipment.” The

Beidi artillery was obviously covering the infantry’s siege.

When Chang Wei gave Tang Qing the order, Mo Yu was letting the soldiers enter their positions as they practiced every day.

The artillery was in place, and soldiers with rifled guns entered the front wall and the protruding bastion wall one after another.

At their positions, gravel, logs, and fire oil were all prepared in advance, and the defense materials were sufficient.

“Boom boom boom…” Another burst of cannons resounded through the sky.

This time it was the artillery of the royal family’s army.

They had a clear division of labor. Some attacked the Beidi artillery positions in the east, one side attacked the Beidi artillery positions in the west, and the other attacked the siege equipment in the front and violently bombarded them.

This time Beidi brought 360 artillery pieces.

Yanguan has only 272 cannons.

But these two hundred and seventy artillery pieces are all improved artillery pieces with reduced bores.

When these artillery shells flew towards the Beidi artillery position, they immediately threw up bursts of smoke and dust.

A shell hit the sandbag on the front of the Beidi artillery, and directly overturned the sandbag. The remaining momentum of the shell remained undiminished, and directly hit the Beidi artillery.

Before they even had time to scream, the Beidi artilleryman flew upside down and landed on the ground with a deep dent in his chest.

(end of this chapter)