Chapter 285 135 Bombardment

Chapter 285 -135- Bombardment

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

From the hills, the mighty coalition forces were divided into five military formations by Baron Angus, marching towards the rebel camp in a "2+3" herringbone formation.

The coalition forces' formation was not as good as Charlotte imagined, and it was even worse than the medieval military formations she had seen in movies and TV series in her previous life. From a distance, it looked like five huge, gray-black rectangles that were constantly deforming and moving slowly, and at most they could barely be seen as military formations.

If it weren't for the nobles at the front of the military formation maintaining a relatively neat formation, Charlotte really doubted that such a large military formation might have become chaotic while walking.

But there was nothing that could be done about it. Castel's coalition forces were not well-trained standing forces. In the final analysis, they were just a group of nobles, noble private soldiers, and conscripted peasant soldiers gathered from all over the country.

Maybe many conscripts were still working in the fields or hunting in the woods three months ago, and their training time was only more than a month at most. They can have such discipline and execution now, which is due to the efficiency of the northern nobles and the ability of Baron Angus.

Of course, even so, the sense of crisis of the army approaching still enveloped the entire rebel camp. Relying on the excellent eyesight of the vampires, Charlotte could clearly see that after the sound of Castel's horn, the soldiers in the rebel camp quickly took action.

Archers rushed up the wooden walls and towers, and the crossbows and small stone cannons on the sentry towers also moved slowly under the operation of the soldiers, aiming the crossbows and muzzles at the distant army, while more soldiers poured out of the tents, lining up and gathering under the orders of the nobles on horseback.

After being stationed in the original place for two or three months, the camp has been built into a fortress of considerable scale by the rebels, and even Charlotte has to praise the rebels for their efficiency.

In the other world with extraordinary power, the efficiency of many things cannot be compared with the 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 town with a wall, and now it was only further transformed by the rebels on the original basis.

The coalition army moved slowly, like a giant wave approaching gradually.

The vanguard troops stopped when they were about 500 meters away from the rebel camp.

A slightly low horn sounded on the battlefield. Charlotte saw the nobles leading the two front formations took action. They raised their swords and ordered, and the soldiers in the formation moved to both sides, and the black gun barrels were pushed out by the soldiers.

That was a stone cannon, which was also a weapon for siege in the Miria world. Even though they were facing only a temporarily reinforced wooden fortress, these firearms were still brought by the coalition army, a total of 20.

The main providers of stone cannons were Charlotte's direct jurisdiction and the Len-Castel family. The noble families with smaller siege weapons could not afford it.

As an early artillery, its barrel is short, usually made of bronze or iron, sometimes made of copper and brass, while Castel's stone cannon is about 5m long, 500mm in caliber, and the stone bullets it fires weigh 700 pounds.

The firing of these stone cannons is not very accurate, and the initial velocity is also extremely low. In order to improve the effectiveness of the cannon, the cannon body is engraved with corresponding magic inscriptions. The adjusted 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 of low-level mages.

The stone bullets they fire are not entirely stone bullets. Depending on the situation, the bullet body will also be engraved with inscriptions. Especially in the first few rounds of firing, expensive enchanted stone bullets are usually used, and the [Demon Breaking] effect is added to destroy extraordinary powers.

Seeing the cannons being pushed out, the soldiers in the rebel army obviously became agitated, but were quickly suppressed by the officers.

Another low horn sounded, and white smoke burst out from the muzzles of the twenty stone cannons on the battlefield. After a few seconds, Charlotte heard the rumbling of cannons.

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

That was the shield of the mage.

The flowing shield blocked all the stone bullets, and those stone bullets seemed to hit a sticky corrosive liquid. First, the speed quickly decreased, and then the body of the bullet lit up with a fiery red glow, melting like snowflakes.

However, one round of bombardment was obviously not the end.

Three minutes after the first round of stone bullets was blocked, the second round of bombardment began.

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

However, because the walls of the rebel camp were not high, most of the stone bullets did not hit the walls directly, but flew over them at low altitude and fell into the camp like meteorites.

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

But that was all.

Miria's current artillery was still too weak.

Although the stone bullets with the [Demon Breaking] effect could severely damage the caster's defense, they could only kill with kinetic energy, without the explosion effect of Blue Star's later artillery.

But pure kinetic energy plus the special effects of [Demon Breaker] are already the strongest force on the battlefield to restrain spellcasters.

Six minutes later, the third round of bombardment began.

This time, the rebels' spellcasters obviously did not have time to rebuild a large spell shield, and the meteorite-like stone bullets were almost not resisted and smashed into the camp.

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

In addition, several stone bullets fell into the rebel team assembled in the camp. The soldiers who were hit were shattered on the spot, including their armor. The stone bullets that fell to the ground bounced several times by inertia, causing further casualties among the rebels and causing commotion and panic.

However, this was not the biggest victory. The biggest victory was that a stone bullet finally hit the wall of the village, and the wooden wall was obviously unable to compete with the artillery after losing the magic protection, and was directly torn open.

This further caused confusion among the rebels.

The rebels reacted faster than Charlotte had imagined. After a gap was made in the wall, soldiers carrying large shields quickly rushed over to further strengthen the defense.

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

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

Although two of them were blocked by the magic of the suspected entry, three of them still hit the wall. After the first gap, three more gaps were made.

On the front battlefield, the wall of the rebel camp was already shaky.

"Woo--!"

A horn sounded that was much louder than the previous horn.

This was the order for the soldiers to attack.

Castel's coalition formation moved again. The nobles and elite private soldiers in the front raised their shields one after another, and the peasant soldiers in the back carried ladders and rushed towards the rebel camp...

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