Chapter 843: Attack

Amid the rapid drumbeats, the artillery officers’ palms and soles were sweating.

They mechanically directed the gunners and orderly workers to install the mainspring chamber and shells, loading them strictly in accordance with the artillery operating manual.

But he had clearly practiced the loading action countless times and almost never made any mistakes.

At this moment, small mistakes were constantly made on the battlefield.

Either the hand slips and the cannonball hits the toe, or the screws in the mainspring chamber are too tight to make it difficult to change quickly.

Standing on the triangular artillery fort, Little Hart, ignoring the arrows flying in the air, still stretched his neck and looked at the battlefield ahead.

It must be said that these Red Knights were indeed powerful. The Wolf Soldiers, who were indomitable in field battles, were actually killed and partially collapsed in positional warfare.

Especially in the middle section of the breastwork, more and more red knights rolled in, like tons of red ink pouring into a black pool.

Under these red knights, even the imperial knights seemed to be just their foils.

The corps commander of the middle section of the city wall has already raised the flag, preparing to retreat to the third line under the cover of the second line of defense.

In the gaps on both sides of the middle breast wall, on the narrow path reserved for the spear monks to charge, there were also hundreds of imperial knights and red knights.

Under their fierce attack, at least a thousand greatswordsmen and armored sergeants in the rear advanced towards the breastwork under the protection of tower shield guards.

It seemed that the entire position would be easily broken through by the Leia army at two points within a few hours.

He couldn’t help but clench his fists. Little Hart had much more feelings for the Wild Wolf Regiment than Jeshka.

He has been here since the early days, and until now, this place is not only a stepping stone for his advancement, but also an existence second only to his family.

Seeing that the middle section of the first layer of defense was about to be breached, he couldn’t help but feel anxious.

“Are you not ready yet?” He waved his sword to deflect the flying arrows, walked up to the officers and asked loudly.

These artillery officers were not Little Hart’s subordinates, so they naturally ignored him and instead kept their eyes on the temporary command post not far away.

The red and green flags were waved in the hands of the messengers, which meant “It’s time to go.”

“Clockwork assembly completed!”

“Cannonball loading, complete!”

“Calibration, complete!”

“The Second Artillery Corps has completed all preparations!”

“The Third Artillery Team has completed all preparations!”

“fourth……”

As flags and drumbeats conveyed information, all the intelligence was gathered here by Jeshka.

Old Jessica held onto the upper edge of the parapet, his one eye fixed on the red knights who were subconsciously attacking the narrow path.

The Knights of the Imperial Order, realizing that something was wrong, were trying their best to pull, and even many of the devil horses, sensing something was wrong, were biting the tails of the horses in front of them.

But when the horse’s hooves stepped over the white line painted with lime, over the wooden fence of the second breastwork defense line –

“Ring the bell, press the lever, and the Holy Spirit will be pleased!”

Attacking both sides of the narrow passage, a total of twelve clockwork cannons loaded with shotgun shells roared at the same time.

The orichalcum spring, compressed to the extreme, stretched from a curled state to a loose state in an instant.

Without the control of the escapement, all the energy explodes in an instant.

A thousand 20g iron sand lead bullets mixed with glass fragments rushed out of the muzzle. The iron sand swirled, whistled, and collided randomly in the air.

Just like Myrcella in the Gospel summoned a sandstorm to annihilate the sand lizards in the south, the sandstorm composed of iron sand and lead had already swept across the narrow military path.

Like raindrops falling, lead and iron sand broke through the armor and clothes and penetrated into the body of the Red Knight.

Hundreds of red knights in the front row were shocked as if they were swept by the invisible scythe of the god of death.

The imperial knights at the rear saw a strange sight: a cone-shaped column made of blood rushed out from behind the red knights.

In these dense lead bullets and narrow passages, they had almost nowhere to hide and were immediately beaten to pieces. They were literally to pieces, with pieces of flesh and bones flying everywhere.

The devil horse fell to the ground in despair, spitting out foul-smelling blood foam from its mouth.

Even these red knights were thrown into confusion for a moment.

No matter how strong their willpower was, they could no longer use their martial arts or stand up.

Because the iron sand and lead had cut off his nerves and crushed his muscles.

All the messengers are dead. No matter how strong the general’s willpower is, he can’t control the army.

Among the knights of the imperial decree not far away, a black-robed monk raised a golden trumpet.

When he blew the flute, no sound came out, but all the red knights paused.

The next second, they all tried to turn around and leave this narrow path that was like hellfire.

But Jieshka was unwilling to give them this opportunity. He kicked the stunned little Hart on the tail: “What are you doing? Organize an infantry counterattack team, or they can run away!”

“Yes, yes!” Little Hart immediately turned into a wolf and wagged his tail excitedly.

“Still questioning my decision?”

“Don’t question it. Am I annoying? If you think I’m annoying, I’ll disappear immediately!”

“Asshole.” Jeshka cursed, “After the six-pound cannon is fired, you will charge immediately. I will have the Holy Gunners cover you.”

“clear.”

Little Hart turned around and tried to leave, but Jeshka grabbed his furry arm and said, “Why are you running? You still have something to say.”

“You say.” Little Hart turned his head very humanely.

“See if we can catch one alive. These red knights are very fierce. We must break their limbs and knock them out.”

“Yes!”

The Imperial Knights tried to retrieval the Red Knights, but how could the Holy Gunslingers let them succeed?

Just like Horn handed over the operations at the chapter level to the chapter master and never interfered himself.

As the commander of the regiment, Jeshka naturally handed over the tactical decision-making power in corps-level operations to officers at that level and never interfered in other people’s affairs.

The knights who were desperately trying to respond to the Red Knight’s orders suddenly heard a series of creaking noises.

Hearing this sound, the knights who had just experienced the attack of the holy gun lay down on the back of the horse as if subconsciously.

With a whizzing sound, lead bullets flew past like locusts. Nearly two hundred holy musketeers from the upper and lower lines of defense fired holy winds at the same time.

It was visible to the naked eye that nearly a hundred Knights of the Imperial Order Company were trembling all over, and it was estimated that there were many casualties.

Taking advantage of the time when the Holy Gunners were rotating, the knights turned around and left the range of a hundred meters.

However, this tiny difference in time caused extremely serious consequences.

The wolf soldiers stepped on the breastwork and ran on all fours, knocking the unsuspecting red knights to the ground.

However, the Wild Wolf Soldiers did not want to fight, and retreated calmly under the cover of the holy guns and halberds.

Because the next moment, as if to boost morale, all the Wolf monks heard Jeshka’s voice under the encouragement of a Wolf sergeant’s loudspeaker.

“Ring the bell twice, inject holy power, and praise the clockwork angel in unison!”

“Praise the Holy Thunder! Praise the angels!” the artillery officers shouted excitedly.

Four six-pound sand sculpture cannons fired at the same time, and the thick iron balls rolled on the ground, gnawing at broken bones and hitting flying limbs.

The iron ball rolled over and over, creating a tragic alley of flesh and blood among the Red Knights.

Especially those devil horses that had nowhere to hide, they almost screamed and dodged, but they were still too late to be pierced through the horse’s belly and their legs were broken.

As for the red knights who landed on the ground, what was waiting for them were the rotating holy guns and the staggered attacking halberds and spears.

(End of this chapter)